Ask Avalonne

What if there was one little thing that most of us do dozens of times per day — one little thing that you could change, and thereby improve every aspect of your life?

The not-so-little thing we’ll be looking at here is a popular activity called complaining. What’s wrong with complaining?

Let’s look at the “payoffs” of complaining first. What do we gain — or hope to gain — by complaining? Complaining may get you some sympathy (for a while). It can be used to establish a sense of bonding with another person or a group (a lot of break room gossip is based on this). We may think that complaining will motivate another person to improve their behavior (it usually has the opposite effect; see below for some clues to why this is so).

But these supposed “gains” come with a high price tag. Let’s look more closely at this seemingly innocent practice:

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Here’s a surprisingly powerful way to turn your circumstances around. At first glance it may appear too “simple” to work, but if practiced consistently and with sincere intent it can have a transformative effect on any “problem” condition:

Ask yourself “What’s going RIGHT in this area?” And then write out as many things as you can think of that are working, even a little bit, in this area of your life. Here’s an example to get you started:

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To all aspiring Miracle Makers:

How are you doing with the blessing exercise that was introduced to you in this post? Have you found yourself resisting it? Or has it been somewhat difficult for you to bless other people who are enjoying the kind of good that you are seeking for yourself? That’s OK… if you keep going. Please read on:

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Over the past few days we’ve focused and tuned in to our desires by capturing the emotional essence of what it would feel like to have them fulfillfed. And we’ve turned up the power and “fanned the flames” of our intentions by practicing finding and blessing examples of this kind of good in the world around us.

Now we are at the point where we start to act as a group and to really take advantage of the power of multiplied deliberate intent. If even two people agree to project the same intention, their power to actualize that intention is greatly increased. And the more people who positively project that intention, the greater the power to manifest it.

So, for the benefit of other members of the group as well as for our own increased results, we are going to spend a little time each day holding a sincere intention for everyone’s highest and best results.

Most of the participants are choosing to remain anonymous and keep their intentions private, and this is just as well. In order to ensure the best possible results, we’re going to keep the positive intentions that we send out for each other fairly general.

Let’s give the Universe plenty of room to upgrade all of our intentions, for even when we think we know exactly what we want, we are frequently mistaken in at least some of the details.

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