What you’ve never been told and should have.

. Appearances, appearances, they can be so deceiving. Don’t let your life only be guided by what you see. Wallace D Wattles, the man I’ve quoted before, is very keen on this. He is adamant that you should not be distracted by what you see.  As you can tell by now, I love this man’s thinking and if you can get this, it is a very powerful way to live your life.

Using the low tide to pick tuatuas.

I understand it like this. 
Life happens, it goes up and it goes down, it has good times and bad times however we normally spend a lot of our lives being stuck, very stuck or living in fear by only concentrating on the bad and down times.

It’s so true. 
I too have spent a lot of my life feeling unnecessarily miserable because I only saw one side to my life and that was the bad side, at that. 
I’m happy to say that I no longer do this and the difference this has made has been huge.

Of course I haven’t always been this capable. 
Even now I can slip back, but as soon as I start to feel anxious or fearful, I know I’m caught up in believing the negative side of what’s happening and I immediately correct myself. 
The one that still throws me off balance every time is my conversation and thoughts around money.  
I only have to go into town, see the newspapers, hear the horror stories and vroom . . . my mood changes and goes downhill pretty fast. 
Before I know it, my thoughts turn to scarcity and even the supermarket turns from an ’abundant, happy’ place into a nasty temptress, out to get my money. It’s like being in a bad fairytale.  

When I am in this state, I cling to Wallace D. Wattle and his explanations, like a toddler holds onto it’s Mum for dear life.  
I tell myself that Wallace has warned me that creating thoughts according to appearances is not to be encouraged. 
Although it’s understandable why I start thinking that money is scarce and begin worrying about my bank account balance, the very best thing that I can do is to try with all my might not to think that way.
Shut down these thoughts at once
I need to do some rethinking that money is abundantly available. 
In the beginning when I didn’t get what Wallace D Wattles meant, all I could say was; “but, but, but . . . money is scarce, I’ve got heaps of proof for that.

But slowly the penny dropped.
Everything in life is a flow, right?
Nothing is permanent and things come and go.
People, jobs, homes, holidays, good and bad hair days AND tides at the seaside.
It was the tide example that did it for me.
Let’s imagine that one day you go to the beach and you don’t know a thing about tides, it’s never been explained to you.
So when you get there the tide is out, and you think; “What the heck is this, no water, where is that darn sea gone to?”
Annoyed you turn around with your boogie board and never to return to that stupid beach without water ever again.
Instead you drive to another beach that is a lot further away or you forget about going to the beach altoghether. Either way you miss out on using an opportunity that is right under your nose because of an appearance you never bothered to investigate further.
Well this is exactly what Wallace refers to when he explains the danger of what happens when I only look at appearances as they were presented to me.
Life is full of appearances that I take as gospel and on that fickle data I base important decisions on.

Now let’s go back to money. 
Money is actually not different from the tide.
Money flows.
Money flows in and out and when it flows out I panic. 
I panic, I get annoyed as I don’t see what’s really going on.
Like the beach, it only means the tide is out, but eventually it will flow in again.
It is of course unfortunate that the timetables of the money tides are not as predictable as the tides of the sea.
But the main thing is that there is a tide and that for a long time I didn’t have a clue that there was one and that could have influenced my decisions in a very negative way.
Like at the time I could have decided not to go to Vietnam with my daughter for her 21st birthday, because on appearances there was no money for it.
Luckily John encouraged me as he understands the money tide better than I do. And then of course once I choose, the Universe chipped in and had my brother contribute the money!

However until I really thoroughly get that everything in life is a flow and nothing’s how it appears, I live in danger of living unhealthily in fear and anxiety, focusing on the bad things and thinking that it would always stay that way.

But thanks to Wallace, no more, not me, I see things for what they are, flowing from empty to full again.
So I am riding the tides and am no longer deceived by fickle data.