Some
days it is difficult to feel bright and chipper. In fact, sometimes that
feeling of hopelessness sticks with us for long periods of time. If you find yourself getting stuck in negative
thoughts, a good place to begin is to review all of the things that are
currently being attracted to you. Are they negative or positive things?
The Universal
Law of Attraction is always working, so chances are if you are feeling
hopeless, you are allowing negative thoughts into your mind. The T-tool can be a very useful tool to help
you work through your experiences and determine what you don’t want in your
life, and more importantly, the things you do want in your life.
The
T-tool is really just a comparison, or positive/negative inventory of your
experiences. All you need is a piece of
paper and a pencil or pen. Take the
paper and draw a line down the middle. Near the top of the page, draw a line
across the paper--hence the letter “T”.
In
the top left box put “things I don’t want” and in the top right box “things I
do want.” In the left column under the
top box, list out all the things you are attracting into your life that are
making you unhappy, or that you do not want.
After
you complete that column it is time to begin thinking about each thing or event
you have written down. Now think about what you do want in your life. If you can’t put what you want into words, then
think about what you don’t want. Ask yourself, what is the opposite of that?
What opposite thing or event would bring you joy and happiness? Write down that thing that you do
want in the right hand column of the paper, opposite the thing you do not
want.
The
T-tool is a great way to clarify the things that make us feel uncomfortable or
cause us resistance. This tool also helps to magnify, or clarify the things
that we really want in life that will make us feel good.
Doing
it once is rarely enough. This exercise should be repeated often because what
we earnestly want can change as we continue to learn more about ourselves, our
thoughts, and our feelings.
As
we get better at listening to our internal guidance system, we begin to notice
more things in our lives that make us happy, or, we may start to have greater
insight into things we think make us feel happy but actually do not. The T-tool helps you take inventory of what
is happening in your life now, and helps you focus in on what you want to
happen in the future.
