HOW TO USE THE EGS

The following is the basic list of emotions, beginning with those that hold the least resistance, all the way own to those that hold the greatest resistance. Whenever emotions have very similar vibrations, we have indicated them on the same line. These emotions rang from the extremes of strongly allowing of your source energy to strongly disallowing of your source energy, and they are indicated by the words of Empowerment or Joy, on one end of the scale, all the way down to Depression and Powerlessness on the other end.

Joy / Knowledge / Empowerment / Freedom / Love / Appreciation

Passion

Enthusiasm / Eagerness / Happiness

Positive Expectation / Belief

Optimism

Hopefulness

Contentment

Boredom

Pessimism

Frustration / Impatience / Irritation

"Overwhelment"

Disappointment

Doubt

Worry

Blame

Discouragement

Anger

Revenge

Hatred / Rage

Jealousy

Insecurity / Guilt / Unworthiness

Fear / Grief / Depression / Despair / Powerlessness

The words, or titles, that have been given to these emotions are not absolutely accurate because different people feel different about emotions even when they are using similar words, however, the universe is not responding to your words, it is responding to your vibrational offering that is accurately and always accompanied by your emotions. So, finding the perfect word to describe the way you feel is not essential to this process, but feeling the emotion in important, and finding ways to improve your feeling is even more important. In other words, this game is strictly about discovering thoughts that give you feelings of relief.

Here is the way we would apply this powerful process:

When you are aware that you are feeling some rather strong negative emotion, try to identify what the emotion is. Consciously think about whatever is bothering you until you can pin point the emotions that you are feeling. Considering the two extreme ends of this emotional scale, you could ask yourself: Do I feel powerful? or do I feel powerless? While you may not actually be feeling either one of these emotions precisely, you will be able to tell which way your emotional state of being is leaning right now.

So in this example, if your answer is powerless, then shorten the range that you are considering and ask yourself: Does it feel like powerlessness or frustration? Still more like powerlessness, then shorten the range still further. Does this feel like powerlessness or worry? As you continue (there is no right or wrong approach to this), eventually you will be able to state with accuracy what you are really feeling about the situation you are addressing.

Once you have found your place on the emotional scale, your work is to try to find thoughts that give you a slight feeling of relief from the emotion you are feeling. a process of talking out loud, or writing down your thoughts will give you the best reading of the way you are feeling. As you make statements with the deliberate intention of inducing an emotion that gives you a slight feeling of relief, you will begin to release resistance, and you will be able to move up the vibrational scale to a place of feeling much better.

Remember, an improved feeling means a releasing of resistance, and a releasing of resistance means a greater state of allowing what you really want.

So, using the Emotional Guidance Scale, and beginning with where you are, look at the emotion that is just about where you believe you are, and try to fashion some words that lead you more into a slightly less resistant emotional state of being.

For example: A woman found herself in a state of tremendous resistance and pain because of the death of her father. Even though he had been seriously ill, and his death was expected, when it happened she found herself in the deepest depression. She felt powerless and grief stricken in response to her focus upon the uncontrollable death of her father. During the days before her father's death, this woman had barely left his side, but he slipped into unconsciousness during one of the rare times when she was not with him, and he did not awaken again before he died.

As she thought about not being there to have just one last conversation, tremendous thoughts of guilt washed through her, and while she did not consciously recgonise the slight improvement in the way the guilt felt, it was a very important vibrational transition for her. Then her thoughts to turned to powerful anger. She focus on the woman who had been with her father when he had slipped into unconsciousness, and she felt rage that this woman her father such a strong dose of medication (for the purpose of making him more comfortable), and then she blamed the woman for having deprived her of her last conversation with her father.

She did not realise it at the time, but the feelings of guilt, rage, anger and blame, were each definite improvements of her grief stricken vibrational sense of resistance. She did feel better in her blame, much better in fact, at least she could breath, and she was now able to sleep. Of course, it is always better when you achieve the improved state of emotion deliberately, but even in this case, when the improved emotions were discovered naturally and unconsciously, each improvement now gives you access to something even more improved.

Once you find the relief that anger and blame can offer from those suffocating emotions of powerlessness and grief, you can move even more quickly up the vibrational scale. And while it may take a day or two to move up even one vibrational level (from grief to guilt to revenge to anger to blame), you can reclaim your connection to your source and to your feeling of empowerment in a much shorter time than almost anyone realises.

Here is an example of conscious statements that this woman could have offered to improve the way she felt"

- I did everything I could think of doing to help my father, but if wasn't enough (grief)

- I miss him so much, I can't stand him being gone (grief)

- How will I be able to soothe my mother? (despair)

- Every morning when I awaken, the fist awareness that I have is that Daddy is gone (grief)

- I shouldn't have gone home to shower (guilt)

- I should have stayed right there so I could have told him good bye (guilt)

- I should have realised how close he was to going (guilt)

- I was thee day and night, day and night, and I still didn't get to say good bye (rage)

- The woman who was with him knew very well what was happening (rage)

- How would she like it if the shoe was on the other foot and I put her father into a coma (revenge)

- She has seen many people die, and she should have warned me that it was close (anger)

- I think she knew and didn't want me to be there (anger)

- She gave him more medication than he needed just to make it easier for her (blame)

- I wish I could have said good bye (disappointment)

- There are too many details to attend to, and I don't really feel like doing anything (overwhelment)

- I've been neglecting so many things in my life; I need to regroup and get oganised (overwhelment)

- The health care professionals are insensitive to the families of sick and dying people (frustration)

- They're more concerned about picking up the oxygen tanks than about how I feel (irritation)

- It will be good to spend some more time with my own family (hopefulness)

- It will feel good to get back into the swing of things at work (positive expectation)

- I know that in time I will get to a better feeling (positive expectation)

- I don't know if I will ever feel the way I felt before, but I know I will feel better in time (positive expectation)

- I am so looking forward to smiling, and meaning it, and laughing and really feeling it (positive expectation)

- I appreciate my husband so much, he's been helpful in so many ways (appreciation)

- I do appreciate all of those people who have cared for my father and my mother (appreciation)

- I appreciate my sisters, we all love our parents and we love each other (appreciation / love)

- All things considered, we have lived and are living really wonderful lives (appreciation / love)

- Death is a part of life (knowledge)

- Since we are really eternal beings, there really is no such thing as 'death' (knowledge)

- Daddy is not gone, because there is no such thing as 'death' (knowledge)

- He's in a place where sadness doesn't exist (knowledge)

- That is truly a wonderful place to be (joy)

- I love knowing that he's in a place of utter joy and understanding (joy)

- I adore this glorious earth experience (joy)

- I love knowing how all this fits together (joy)

- I loved having this wonderful man as my father (joy)

- This has all been good (joy)

- This is all good (joy)

Remember, you do not have access to emotions that are far away from where you are currently vibrating. Although you might spend an entire day beating the drum of the emotion of where you are, on the next day, try to establish a different set point even if it is only a slight improvement. If the negative emotion you are feeling is only slight, you will quickly move up the emotional scale. If the negative emotion you are feeling has begun only recently, you will quickly move up the emotional scale.

If you are experiencing something extremely serous, or if it is something that you have been living with for many years, it is conceivable that you could spend 22 days moving up this emotional scale, each day deliberately choosing the improved emotion just above the one you are currently feeling. 22 days from Powerlessness to Empowerment is not a long time at all when you compare it to people you know who have been in a state of grief, insecurity, or powerlessness for many years.

Now that you understand that your goal is to reach for a better feeling emotion, it is our expectation that this process will free you troubling negative emotions that you have been experiencing for years, and as you gently and gradually release the resistance you have unknowingly gathered, you will begin to experience improvements in your life experiences, in all troubling areas in your life.

From the book: ASK AND IT IS GIVEN - ESTHER AND JERRY HICKS