E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality (23 page)

Lab Report Sheet

The Principle:
The Fish and Loaves Principle

The Theory:
The universe is limitless, abundant, and strangely accommodating.

The Question:
Is my focus on the negative keeping me from seeing reality?

The Hypothesis:
If I change my outlook and make a concerted effort to look for goodness, beauty, and abundance, it will show up in spades.

Time Required:
48 hours

Today’s Date:
__________
Time:
__________

Number of kind, beautiful, good things:
__________

The Approach:
I’ve heard the old adage “What you appreciate appreciates.” So I guess I’ll give it a whirl. Who knows? Maybe expressing gratitude is more that just some mumbo-jumbo Pollyanna/Oprah thing. Willie Nelson, after all, said that when he started counting his blessings, his whole life turned around. Like Willie, I’m ready to bet on the probability of peace, bliss, and joy. Consequently, I will actively seek goodness with a vengeance.

Research Notes:
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“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”

—T
HICH
N
HAT
H
ANH
, B
UDDHIST MONK AND PEACE ACTIVIST

AFTERWORD

Lift Each Other Up

“It is good to come together for the purpose of co-creating.”

—A
BRAHAM
-H
ICKS

High fives! Fist bumps! You made it through the book, and hopefully through the nine experiments. You’ve bravely cast your hat into the ring. That means the hardest part is over. But if you quit now, you miss the best part of the whole adventure. This is where the payback begins.

What I’d like to suggest is that you form a group in your hometown or home church or even Home Depot (although don’t tell them I sent you) with other readers of
E-Squared
.

Even though the FP is always with us, always guiding us, sometimes it helps to have real human bodies to remind us. And heaven knows, we could use the company.

That’s why it’s vital to find partners in crime, other spiritual warriors who are willing to listen, to cheer, and to remind you just why you’re doing this. As Abraham-Hicks likes to say, “When you get tuned in to the energy that creates worlds, the Universe will match you with others with similar vibrations.”

It’s almost like a cosmic dating service. These “teammates” will enter your vibrational sphere (like attracts like), and together, you’ll be able to “square” the energy until it explodes exponentially into a juicy new world and delicious new way of being. Number one guideline? Play and have fun. That is and always will be the ultimate energy generator.

Create a protective circle so each of you will feel safe and valued. It doesn’t require a four-hour commitment. Maybe you’ll do it over the phone. But it’s important to enlist others with whom you can share the results of your experiments—others who are also experimenting.

Share stories. Inspire one another. Make up new experiments. My group proposes a different experiment each week. These can be anything from calming the energy in a busy, hectic room (works like a charm; you just radiate peace and stillness and watch how it changes the energy in, for example, a restaurant or a highly charged meeting) to changing the tenor of a relationship in which you hold automatic judgments and conclusions. My group has a ball reporting back about our successes and about the times we failed to move out of “old-school” conditioning—both powerful lesson plans.

In these circles, it’s imperative to talk about and focus on life the way you want it to be, not about how it may appear. Instead of asking “What’s wrong?”—probably the most repeated question in the entire English language—focus on “What’s right?” That’s the only question that really means anything. The answer is the new, more joyful story you’re endeavoring to create. During every get-together, share examples of how your life is improving and growing.

And as always, appreciate, embellish, affirm, and dream as you keep these three things in mind:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’ve heard it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it also takes one to produce a book.

The “village people” for
E-Squared
includes, but is not limited to:

All the coolios at Hay House: Alex Freemon, Shannon Littrell, Christy Salinas, Pam Homan, and Stacey Smith, who went to bat for me from the beginning. Thank you, Stacey! And thank you, Christy, for expediting this amazing cover.

Alex, I balked when I first saw all your comments and corrections, but now I bow to your insight. You were an answer to a prayer.

Jim Dick, who is one of the top three most patient people on the planet; Kitty Shea; Joyce Barrett; Betty Shaffer; the Fusion Sisters; my fellow Wednesday-morning Spiritual Entrepreneurs; my Vortex group; and, of course, Taz.

Book-Club Discussion Questions

1. Pick an experiment and have the group work with it. What were the results? Try a different experiment each week, and see what happens.

2. Do you really believe that there is an invisible force field or field of infinite possibilities (FP)? What are some of your own beliefs? Do you feel that you have a strong faith, or are you more skeptical?

3. In the book Pam says that she appointed God as the CEO of her career. How hard is it for you to let go of the wheel and have some faith in a force in the universe that is working in your favor?

4. This book takes the premise of the popular 2006 book and movie
The Secret
a little further by giving us exercises to do that
prove
the existence of a power or force greater than ourselves. Do you think that this energy has an intelligence?

5. We draw from the field what we are looking for. Do you find yourself often expecting the worst? How do you deal with this?

6. Pam says in the book, “Don’t give any airtime to the reality from which you’re trying to escape.
Tune in only to your intent
”. Do you find yourself focusing more on what you
don’t
want than what you
do
want? What do you do to try to shift this?

7. What do you think of this statement: “Misery loves company”? When you start to pay attention, do you notice more and more people focusing on the negative or what’s wrong with their lives?

8. Pam says that training your brain is like housebreaking a puppy. If you keep pushing yourself to be aware of your thoughts over and over, it will become a habit. Do you have a thought habit you would like to change?

9. In Experiment #1 Pam asks us our impressions of God and what we think that is. Has your notion of God changed from when you were a kid? What were some of your ideas back then?

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