Where are you on the Emotional Guidance Scale? Your emotional state is both are reflection of where you are going and also of what is coming to you. In Ask and It Is Given Abraham tells us that your emotions are a guide to you, telling you whether you are on the right soul path. If your emotions are somewhere low on the scale, then you might consider either changing the direction on your path or changing your thinking about it or both. This is what your emotions are guiding you to do. Abraham also teaches that ever your emotional state you draw to you more of the same. So if you are in anger (for example) then you will draw to you more of that which your anger is focused around. If you are in love or abundance, then that which you ask for in those states will come to you.

We are always asking for things, relationships or states of being - it is human nature. When we ask, the universe aligns itself to deliver to us. However, if we are not in an empowering emotional state we may not be able to receive the gift the universe is giving us. Maybe because our dis-empowering emotions repel it or we are too busy with our dis-empowering emotions to see it. Either way, the more time you spend being inspired and empowered the more you will gain from your life.
Be careful as you analyze your emotions. Our conscious, analytical minds tend to like to categorize things as good or bad. The "Emotional Guidance Scale" is not a scale of good and bad emotions but rather a scale of empowering to dis-empowering emotions. You are not bad or wrong for feeling dis-empowered, rather the emotions are just trying to tell you to change your thinking or actions. Just know that the more you can move to the more empowering emotional state the more you will receive that which you have asked for.

It is not always possible to shift your emotional state immediately from a state low on the empowerment scale to one high on the empowerment scale. You may have to take it one step at a time. For example, if you are in anger, give yourself the opportunity to experience it so that you have full understanding of the anger and its cause, without ruminating over it. Then, see if you can reach for a more empowering emotion such as blame. Who or what can you blame for your anger. I know you were taught that blame is a negative emotion that you shouldn't have but it is more empowering and feels better than anger AND you aren't planning on staying here for too long. Now feel and experience blame for a little while (Again if you catch yourself ruminating or repeating your thoughts over it then it is time to move on.) Once you are clear about blame try to reach for worry, doubt, disappointment, overwhelm, frustration or impatience. One of these emotions will feel like the next step. And it will feel just a little bit better. Once you can get to pessimism you are at a point where you can see a better possibility than that which caused your anger. When you see that possibility begin to focus on it, passing through whatever emotions you need as you move up the emotional guidance scale toward positive expectation, and empowerment.

Every journey up the emotional guidance scale will be unique and will take its own time. Be patient and accepting of yourself and your process, it will alway it to go more smoothly and quickly.

Each moment pay careful attention to your emotions and which direction on the scale you are going with your thoughts. Reach for joy!