What Goes Around Comes Around
My dad had a few sayings that he liked to throw around – one of them being, “What goes around, comes around.” Based on context, I think that was his understanding of karma. However, I was just watching a video with Esther Hicks and Abraham speaking to Dr. Wayne Dyer about the Law of Attraction. Abraham was saying that the Law of Attraction comes through our thoughts and brings more of the same to us – that within 68 seconds we can have a single thought, positive or negative, and if we continue to ruminate on it, our energy will bring us more of the same.
This is when my dad let me know he’s hanging out nearby, because this saying (what goes around comes around) popped into my head out of thin air after months or longer of not thinking about it. I’m imagining an old wooden wagon wheel that ran over a pile of poo. That poopy spot will keep going around and around as long as that wheel is in motion. The wheel is going around, and the poop is coming around. As soon as the wheel stops, it can be cleaned off and move forward without the stink.
The same with our thoughts.
If we start our day with a positive thought and continue for the next minute or so thinking more positive things, we have set our wheel in motion to attract things that make us feel good. Conversely, if we start thinking about all the things that bug us or cause us dread, we have just gotten the wheel of negativity in motion, calling toward us more things that make us feel that way.
How do we circumvent the negative bulldozer from coming our way?
Would affirmations help? Wellllll..yes, and no. If when we say affirmations, there is a part of us feeling like they are baloney, our energy is actually attracting the opposite. Affirmations work when our energy matches our words, so it’s important to feel (or imagine how it would feel and take that imagination as reality) as if the affirmation is true when saying it. The way to get there is by interrupting the negative loop with positive truths.
For example, I’ve been frustrated and a tad irritable over the last 24 hours, give or take. The more I think about, talk about, and ruminate over the thing that has made me irritable, the more things seem to make me irritable, and the less pleasant I am to be around. The longer I stay here, the less people will have tolerance for my mood. In order to change this, I must stop the wheel of negativity. This isn’t to say that my feelings aren’t valid. However, my feelings are perpetuating a misery that I don’t choose to live in.
To find peace, what will help me most is to change my perspective. This thing that is making me miserable doesn’t have to be the center of my thoughts. I can acknowledge it and focus on something that brings me joy.
What brings you joy?
Focus on that – because what goes around, comes around. You have more control than you think.
