23. Pivot from Feeling Bad to Feeling Good
Everyone wants to feel good, but most people believe that everything around them needs to be
pleasing to them before they can feel good. In fact, most people feel the way they do in any moment
in time because of something they are observing. If what they are observing pleases them, they feel
good, but if what they are observing does not please them, they feel bad. Most people feel quite
powerless about consistently feeling good because they believe that in order to feel good, the
conditions around them must change, but they also believe that they do not have the power to
change many of the conditions.
However, once you understand that every subject really is two subjects—what is wanted and lack of
it—you can learn to see more of the positive aspects of whatever you are giving your attention to.
That really is all that the Process of Pivoting is: deliberately looking for a more positive way—a
better-feeling way—to approach whatever you are giving your attention to.
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When you are facing an unwanted condition and are therefore feeling bad, if you will deliberately
say, “I know what I do not want . . . what is it that I do want?” the vibration of your Being, which is
affected by your point of focus, will shift slightly, causing your point of attraction to shift, also.
This is the way that you begin telling a different story about your life. Rather than saying, “I never
have enough money,” you say instead, “I’m looking forward to having more money.” That is a very
different story—a very different vibration and a very different feeling, which will, in time, bring
you a very different result.
As you continue to ask yourself, from your ever-changing vantage point, “What is it that I do
want?” eventually you will be standing in a very pleasing place—for you cannot continually ask
yourself what it is that you do want without your point of attraction beginning to shift in that
direction. . . . The process will be gradual, but your continued application of the process will yield
wonderful results in only a few days.
24. Am I in Harmony with My Desire?
So the Pivoting Process is simply: Whenever you recognize that you are feeling a negative emotion
(it is really that you are feeling the lack of harmony with something that you want), the obvious
thing for you to do is to stop and say, I’m feeling negative emotion, which means I am not in
harmony with something that I want. What do I want?
Anytime that you are feeling negative emotion, you are in a very good position to identify what it is
that you are, in that moment, wanting—because never are you clearer about what you do want than
when you are experiencing what you do not want. And so, stop, in that moment, and say: Something
is important here; otherwise, I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want?
And then simply turn your attention to what you do want. . . . In the moment you turn your attention
to what you want, the negative attraction will stop; and in the moment the negative attraction stops,
the positive attraction will begin. And—in that moment—your feeling will change from not feeling
good to feeling good. That is the Process of Pivoting.
25. What Do I Want, and Why?
Perhaps the strongest resistance that people have to beginning to tell a different story about their
own life is their belief that they should always speak “the truth” about where they are or that they
should “tell it like it is.” But when you understand that the Law of Attraction is responding to you
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while you are telling your story of “how it is”—and therefore is perpetuating more of whatever
story you are telling—you may decide that it really is in your best interest to tell a different story, a
story that more closely matches what you would now like to live. When you acknowledge what you
do not want, and then ask yourself, “What is it that I do want?” you begin a gradual shift into the
telling of your new story and into a much-improved point of attraction.
It is always helpful to remember that you get the essence of what you think about—whether you
want it or not—because the Law of Attraction is unerringly consistent. Therefore, you are never
only telling the story of “how it is now.” You are also telling the story of the future experience that
you are creating right now.
Sometimes people misunderstand what the Process of Pivoting is, as they incorrectly assume that to
pivot means to look at something unwanted and try to convince themselves that it is wanted. They
think that we are asking them to look at something that they clearly believe is wrong and to
pronounce it right, or that it is a way of kidding themselves into accepting some unwanted thing.
But you are never in a position where you can kid yourself into feeling better about something,
because the way you feel is the way you feel, and the way you feel is always a result of the thought
that you have chosen.
It is really a wonderful thing that, through the process of living life and noticing the things around
you that you do not want, you are then able to come to clear conclusions about what you do want.
And when you care about how you feel, you can easily apply the Process of Pivoting to direct your
attention toward more of the wanted aspects, and less of the unwanted aspects, of life. And then, as
the Law of Attraction responds to your increasingly improved, better-feeling thoughts, you will
notice your own life experience transforming to match more of those wanted aspects, while the
unwanted aspects gradually fade out of your experience.
When you deliberately apply the Process of Pivoting, which means you are deliberately choosing
your own thoughts, which means you are deliberately choosing your vibrational point of attraction,
you are also deliberately choosing how your life unfolds. Pivoting is the process of deliberately
focusing your attention with the intent of directing your own life experience.