Several years ago, a friend of mine felt totally stuck. He was considering a business opportunity that seemed like an ideal situation for him and it promised to be very lucrative as well. However, he had hit burnout several times during the course of his association with that business and he had to admit that something did not feel right about the whole thing. He took two weeks off from communicating with the parties involved, believing that if he had some space he would find the answer that he needed, in order to know how to proceed. But at the end of the two weeks, he felt just as confused as he had been earlier, and did not know whether to proceed with a partnership or pull out partially or pull out entirely.
He went away to a nearby resort to try to clear my head and find the answer. After two days and nights he still was had no clear idea of what to do. He was trying so hard to figure everything out with my mind and my rational mind was not helping at all. Finally, in desperation, in the middle of the night he wrote:
"I need a new framework; a completely new way of looking at my life and making decisions."
The next morning, he plugged in a cassette tape a newfound friend had sent him. Though the tape was of poor quality, he heard something that has become his new framework:
“You have within you a god-given vibrational meter that tells you what is good for you and what is not good for you. That vibrational meter is your emotions. If something feels good, then it is good for you. If something does not feel good, then it isn't.”
He knew immediately that this business proposal was NOT good for him, because he did not feel entirely good about it. In fact, he was making himself sick trying to make it feel right when it was not.
What a relief it was to have this new framework from which to make decisions.
He had clarity and peace about not preceding with this business partnership AND he immediately wrote out a list of characteristics that he WANTED in a business partnership. Within a few days, he met his current business partner who is an absolute perfect match to that want list.
With the realization of this vibrational meter, you never need to make decisions with your mind. You never need to rationalize or justify your decisions. You simply need to recognize that "that doesn't feel good" and "that feels good" and "that feels great!" to know what is right for you.
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