Everything in this universe is encoded with feelings. We open doors to new realities with each emotional key we select.

You can gain a sense of how you open doors to new realities with your feelings, by noticing how your memories are encoded in emotions. See if you can recall complete memories of an event (such as a surprise birthday party) without being in the same emotional state you were in when the events took place. For example, you will probably find you cannot clearly remember what happened at your surprise birthday party unless you first recall the intense feelings of shock and surprise you felt that day.

You've probably seen many people who glumly sulk their way through life, or who complain about all the things that are going wrong around them. You've probably also seen people who somehow keep a joyous attitude of love and gratitude no matter what may be happening in their lives. Even a man who has been exiled from his country and people, like the Dalai Lama, can find joy in every moment.

We shine more brightly and things go our way as reality shifts around us whenever we are in a state of loving ecstasy. Even so, we may still often rely on outside influences to bring us to that state of ecstasy, because we don't remember how to achieve this blissed-out emotional state on our own.

I have enjoyed the BEST days by waking and CHOOSING my attitude for that day.... and then letting the day unfold. I open the day with the key in my heart - the love that I feel. Specifically, I wake up feeling blessed - worthy of adoration, reverence, and divinely or supremely favored. A blissfully happy and contented feeling accompanies this sense of being blessed, and in my meditation I bask in this feeling of Love for as long as I can.

Sometimes people are slow to realize the power of feelings, and can mistakenly attribute their emotions to what's happening to them. "I'm having a bad day", someone might say, indicating how obviously the bad day is giving them permission to whine and complain... and simply feel awful.

Consider how this universe would behave if instead of being passive receivers we were ACTIVE observers who chose how our days unfolded by opening the day with the emotional key required to unlock the best possible day? Appreciation, gratitude, thankfulness and feeling blessed with love are emotions that allow us to live our most enjoyable days. We can feel loved by choice... entraining our hearts with the universal probabilities of a loving day.. the MOST loving day... thereby opening the door to that reality.

I was fortunate to witness a real-life reality shift that drove this point home to me. I was getting ready to go to dinner with a friend one day, when he noticed he was locked out of his car and couldn't find the keys. We looked everywhere for his keys. He even went inside and looked everywhere inside the room, going so far as to take off all his clothes and check the pockets and seams... all to no avail. He then recalled he had put the keys with his wallet in the trunk of his car, which he had then locked. Only upon looking in the ignition lock, through the right hand window of the car and not seeing his keys there, did he exhaust his last hope of finding them in an accessible place. Then he gave up. I saw him just standing perfectly still next to the front window of the passenger side of the car, staring inside the car. My attention was focused completely on my friend, as I wondered what the best way to unlock his car would be. As I continued to gaze at my friend in contemplative meditation and love, I suddenly saw the keys miraculously appear out of thin air and materialize just under his hands in front of him before falling straight down. I saw the keys drop out of nowhere and land with a jangle on the ground! My friend heard them drop and land, as he was still looking through the right front window to check one last time to see if they were in the ignition. I'd never before seen something materialize like that out of thin air, except in magic shows... and my friend was not doing magic tricks. In fact, he later recalled he had definitely locked those keys in the trunk of his car with his wallet in a small zippered bag.

This idea about our emotional attitude being the key to life isn't just a nice theory, it's something you can try out for yourself. All you need for this experiment is the set of emotional keys you already possess... your own memory of feelings. You can start each day with a meditation of love and feeling blessed, and see for yourself whether your days proceed any differently. Keep a journal, to record your observations, and then start each day by hugging and holding yourself with love. At every opportunity throughout the day, say, "How good can life get?" and feel the deepest feelings of love and appreciation you are capable of. You are summoning the best possible experiences to you by doing this, provided you counter any unconscious negative self-talk that bubbles up.

I have been doing this exercise for the past week more intensely than ever before, and the number of things to be grateful for seems to multiply exponentially as I continue my morning meditations of love! I find parking spots where and when I need them, meet long-lost friends unexpectedly, get wonderful news in the mail, and am surprised to find things I've long wished for coming into my life as if by magic. It's simply awesome!

But don't take my word for it. Try this yourself at home!

© Cynthia Sue Larson, October, 2000

Cynthia Sue Larson holds a bachelor's degree in physics from UC Berkeley (1982), earned in conjunction with her pursuit of a more complete understanding of reality. Following completion of her MBA degree in 1984, she worked as a project manager at Citibank for seven years at the California Data Center. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical World.

Cynthia currently writes articles for Magical Blend and Parabola magazines, and Enlightenment.com, Conscious Creation Journal, and Themestream on the Internet about reality shifts. She teaches teaches reality shifting workshops and has been interviewed by Elliot Stein for his Stein On-line talk show, and Charles Grotsky on the Technology Trends television show. Cynthia's passion is helping people realize how we all create reality, and that we can consciously improve our lives and the world around us to make our favorite dreams come true. Check out Cynthia's website at www.realityshifters.com, where you can subscribe to her fascinating RealityShifters News monthly ezine.