If anyone heard them out of context, they might question my sanity.

(Or a client’s, for taking it on.)

But when it comes to managing our vibration, sometimes strange things are the perfect remedy.

Take, for example, Todd (not his real name) who found out the hard way that his fiance was having a relationship on the side.

With his landlord.

(Not that it feels any better when it’s a total stranger, but still …)

Todd, who was very law of attraction savvy, knew that dwelling in anger and resentment would just attract more negative results into his life.

So he was doing his very best to practice acceptance, understanding and forgiveness.

Until I got my hands on him.

I asked him to entertain a couple of satisfying revenge fantasies before he picked up acceptance and understanding again.

My request was met with confused silence.

“Don’t you just want to see them really regret their actions?” I asked.  Still with the silence.

“Wouldn’t it be delicious to see her realize that screwing up this relationship was the biggest mistake of her life?”

“And to have an absolutely drop dead gorgeous girl on your arm – who’s wearing an even bigger diamond than she got – next time you run into her?”

Silence now interrupted by an irreverent giggle.

“And that their sex life is in the toilet once it’s not ‘naughty’ any more?”  Now there was full on laughter.

That’s what we’re looking for.  Relief!

Not noble aspirations and nice lip service to the “right” vibes – but something that truly helps us feel better right now in real life.

(And in real life, revenge fantasies work surprisingly well.)

For those of you who can get straight to understanding and acceptance, hats off to you!

For the rest of us, entertaining anger or holding vengeful thoughts or feeling deep resentment is perfectly appropriate and immensely helpful.  We’re not going to live there, just using it as a stepping stone for our vibrational progress.

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Then there was the client who worried about losing her business through bankruptcy.  She’d hired me because she believed an alternate outcome was possible if she could just wrap her mind around something different and better.  She was just having trouble getting there on her own.

In our launch session I asked her to get okay with bankruptcy before she started entertaining new possibilities.

“What?!” she exclaimed (with the tone of a person who just realized she hired a crackpot).  “That’s exactly what I don’t want, exactly what I can’t stop worrying about, and exactly the reason I hired you to help me get a new result in mind!”

And everyone knows, she went on to tell me, that you get what you think about – so why in the world would she purposely think about bankruptcy?!

I suggested that as long as she strongly didn’t want this particular outcome, she was on a direct collision course for it.  We needed to make peace and clear the negative charge before she could turn that magnet off.

“I hire you to avoid bankruptcy and you tell me to get okay with it.”

Yep.

“That’s going to help me avoid it?”

Well, only if you really get okay with it, I told her.

You can’t pretend to get okay with it in order to avoid it – you have to really truly make peace with bankruptcy.  When you’re there, then we have a clean slate to start creating with.

(Hey, I don’t make the rules!  I just work with them!)

(And one of the biggest rules is that what we resist, persists.  So when we resist feeling angry, when we resist going bankrupt, – well, we know what happens next.)

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But one of my favorite unconventional homework assignments is for someone who is intent on creating an ideal relationship with a particular person who isn’t responding well.

(I’m laughing just thinking about it!)

That assignment is to go date a smokin’ hot someone else.

That one works for so many reasons I can’t even list them here!  ha ha

Another one of my most cherished vibrational remedies (that isn’t often well-accepted) is to give up on what you want.

That one’s reserved for someone who has really got their panties in a twist about their desire.  It is a last ditch effort, but it works wonders when we’re able to truly embrace it.

(And yes, I have practiced each of these remedies personally.)

I suspect I don’t have the corner on non-traditional vibe shifts.  What have you all practiced that we might not find in typical LOA 101 textbooks?