Living by Life’s Playbook – Week 5

13. Game Emotion Scale

Game-of-Life-Emotion-Scale

The following chart adapted from ABRAHAM-HICKS is a scale of emotions ranked by frequency with the highest frequency at the top and the lowest at the bottom:

 EMOTION FREQUENCY SCALE

+7.  Joy, Love, Freedom, Knowledge, Appreciation, Empowerment

+6.  Passion

+5.  Enthusiasm, Eagerness, Happiness

+4.  Positive Expectation, Belief

+3.  Optimism

+2.  Hopefulness

+1.  Contentment, Satisfaction, Replenishment

 0 —Release-Trust-Let-go––boundary—

– 1.  Boredom, Stagnation, Stuck

– 2.  Pessimism 

– 3.  Frustration, Irritation, Impatience

– 4.  Overwhelmed

– 5.  Disappointed, Dissatisfied

– 6.  Doubt 

– 7.  Worry, Anxiety

– 8.  Blame

– 9.  Discouragement

– 10. Anger

– 11. Revenge, Judgment, Righteousness

– 12. Hatred, Rage

– 13. Jealousy

– 14. Insecurity, Guilt, Unworthiness

– 15. Fear, Depression, Powerlessness, Grief, Despair, Helplessness

 

HOTEL PROFILE

     I imagine the emotional scale as the profile of a European hotel with level zero as the ground floor at street level. The better-feeling emotions are on the upper, positive-numbered levels. They have windows that let in the sunshine that signals I am on the route to things I desire. The level seven penthouse is where I want to be!

 

Game-of-Life-Emotion-Scale-like hotel

     

      Sometimes, I realize I am on a negative-numbered basement parking level. My unpleasant emotion means I have a low-frequency vibration, am off my path, and attracting unwanted things. The deeper the level, the farther off my path and the farther I must climb to get up to the daylight, the joy, and the things I desire.

     Emotions are indicators that tell where we are so we can decide what to do next. If we enjoy an emotion, we can keep the thought that generated it and attract more. If we aren’t enjoying an emotion, we can change our thoughts to generate a more pleasing emotion.

KEEP-OR-CHANGE-THOUGHTS IN GAME-OF-LIFE

   

     It is normal Gameplay to find oneself on occasion in the basement, off our path. We get back on our path by replacing the thoughts that caused the emotions with thoughts that stimulate better-feeling emotions. Climbing back up to thoughts that trigger good-feeling emotions is a Game skill we can learn. Our Inner-Spirit is always coaching us to do so.

 

   My journey to understand the role of emotions in Life’s Game did not come easy. My training had taught me to stuff my emotions, especially anger. After Dona passed, I entered a period of grief healing and found Grief Yoga, a yoga routine with added body moves to release emotions.

 

   Besides releasing grief, the yoga made me aware of the anger I had never acknowledged. Though not writing prose or poetry at the time, inspiration led me to write this poem following one of the yoga workouts:

Anger? None I Thought!

   Duncan Tooley, 2015

Anger? None, I thought!
I have no anger about my loss.
Not at her; not at doctors, not at God.
Not at life; not at death; not at me.
No. Not at anyone; not at all!
 
Grief Yoga they call it.
Boxing, gardening, trash removal, sanitation
Tuned to heartbeat, breath, vocal vibration.
 
Anger? None, I thought!
Then I found
  a tiny insult here,
  a small disappointment there,
  a minor refusal,
  a petite withdrawal,
  a lack expressed,
  a lie,
  a layoff,
  a credit denial,
  a love request rejected.
  
A stream of little angers
Discounted, swallowed, buried taut,
Broke the dam,
The flood belied
Anger? None I thought.
 
Yank, pull, toss.
Weed, groan, eject.
Laugh, nonsense-speak.
Vibrate, twirl, breathe.
 
Cry, clear, heal, forgive.
Grow, realize, restore.
Move, twist, expand, breathe.
Tears release yet more.
 
De-anger, de-grieve.
Forgive myself, breathe.
Do it on a yoga mat.
 
Anger? None, I thought!
Now…….
Anger?
Less, I know!

   Growth began. I started to identify and accept my emotions as beneficial information.
   I keep the LIFE Emotion Frequency Scale handy for reference when I check how I am feeling. I tell my coaching clients to keep a copy of the scale where they will see it daily as their reminder that emotions are gauges that tell:

  • How aligned their thoughts are with their Inner-Spirit’s
  • The quality of their Gameplay at that moment.
  • What will be manifesting in their future: things they will like or things they won’t like.

  

 

     NOTE: The positions and positive/negative numbers on the Emotion Vibration Scale are assigned to show the vibrational frequency of each emotion relative to the others. No emotion is negative in the sense of BAD. All emotions are beneficial (GOOD) because they clarify your vibration level, thus enabling you to choose to adjust your thinking and play a better Game.

     Download a copy of the Emotion Frequency Scale as a handy reference to monitor Game performance:

Download Emotion Frequency Scale

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14. GAME of LIFE RULES

GAME-OF-LIFE-Jumpers-sunset     Games have rules and referees to enforce them. While no player has any choice about laws, players are free to play by the rules or to violate them, to observe them or break them. Breaking the rules invokes consequences enforced by the referee. In addition to the four laws, the Game of Life has three rules.

 

► GAME of LIFE RULE #1: Accept and love myself.

 

     My Inner-Spirit is a droplet of the Divine clothed in temporal flesh. The Divine is all love, all good, and so is every Game-Player as a participant in the Divine. As such, we all deserve everything the space-time world has to offer. We are worthy and deserving of health, wealth, companionship, freedom, all good things.

     Every player in Life’s Game gets the freedom to choose to love themself and accept the divine creature they are. If they put themself down or think they are not good enough, they tell themself an enormous lie. Each of us is divine, worthy and deserving of everything life offers.

     We all came to play Life’s Game. Bumps in the road, stumbles, and mistaken turns off our path are all learning experiences of normal Gameplay. Those do not negate our goodness and worthiness. My Inner-Spirit loves the human part of me, no matter what I do. That’s true for every player’s Inner-Being.

     The Game of Life referee is built into the Law of Attraction. If someone were to break the rule to love themself, they would emit low-frequency vibes attracting more low-frequency, unpleasant emotions back to themself. They would feel like they were in an emotional spiral downward. If they lingered there with similar thoughts, things they don’t like would start arriving because they don’t like themselves. They might even feel they deserved the unpleasant things happening to them, but that is never true.

 

     Each of us is liquid love in a physical body, the vessel through which Divine Source Energy flows. We are that Divine Energy. The only difference between ourselves and the Divine Creator is that we are created; we did not create the Divine Source.

 

15. Game of Life Rule #2

 

►  The Golden Rule: Treat others as you want them to treat you.

 

     The second rule depends on the first because it asks that we treat others with the same dignity, care, and attention that we have for ourselves. If I do not love and respect myself, it is impossible for me to spread any love and respect to anyone else.

     Everyone has just as much right to play their Game the way they choose as I have to play my Game the way I choose. The Law of Diversity means each person deserves the freedom and respect of being on their path even if it is different from mine. Many may be dramatically different. I must treat others as I want to be treated.

GAME-OF-LIFE-GOLDEN-RULE

     Am I playing Life’s Game by the rules? Am I loving, respecting, and taking care of myself? When I am with other people, am I asking myself: “How would I like to be treated in this situation?”

     When a Game player breaks either rule, the Law of Attraction is the automatic referee. It delivers to the player, as it always does, things, people, and events that match the frequency the player is radiating.

     Those who radiate the energy of love and joy get the energy of love and joy coming back to them (Heaven-on-Earth). Those who radiate the energy of hate get the energy of hate coming back to them (Hell-on-Earth). Those who do not love themselves and treat their neighbor without love will get the boomerang absence of love back.

GAME-OF-LIFE-GOLDEN-RULE boomerang

     Reward and penalty are automatic and guaranteed because they are built into Life’s Game. The popular motto confirms the obvious Game result:

Game-of-Life-Law-of-Attraction-boomerang

What goes around, comes around!

16. Game of Life Rule #3

Game of Life Rule #3 Have fun

 Rule #3: Have FUN!

 

Have as much fun as possible.

The Game of Life is all about FUN.

Every player came for FUN.

 

Game-of-Life-FUN

     

     Have fun by following your interests, curiosity, passion, inner urgings, and intuition.

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