by Karen Williams

Created on: February 08, 2009

Let's hear it for perfectionism!

To clarify, I'm not referring to the kind where a person goes berserk if they don't make straight A's in school, if they gain a pound or two, or if someone spills Kool-Aid on the carpet. I'm not recommending that sort of perfectionism. (Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, but it had some lint on it.)

I'm recommending a perfectionism that will work wonders and will serve as great substitute if you happen to be locked into that old, freak-out-when-things-go-wrong kind of perfectionism.

I'm recommending that we spend time every day creating our concept of a perfect world - in our minds.

This can be fun. This can be easy. And, as icing on the cake, our "real" lives will start to move in the direction of our "perfect" envisioned world.

But we're not really doing this little exercise to make anything happen. We're doing it for the sheer pleasure of it.

Throughout the day, these days, I pause to envision my perfect vacation, adding details here and there each time I return to this subject. As I do chores around the house and yard, I visualize how I would love for my house and yard to look, given the perfect budget. I envision all sorts of perfect moments in my relationship with Mark. I envision my kids being perfectly happy and fulfilled in their busy lives. I even envision world peace, or at least whirled peas, as the funny bumper sticker recommends.

As I use my imagination in this way, I find that my image of "perfect" continues to transform and expand, as I think of new aspects I'd like to add to my perfect and getting-ever-more-perfect life. Thus, perfect isn't an end-point but rather a feel-good place to explore. And it works wonders because it distracts me from all the perceived imperfections in the real world. All those aggravations and concerns begin to affect me far less, for I can slip into this other wondrous world I'm creating in my mind at the drop of a hat.

In due time, that imagined "perfect" world can become nearly as real to us as the tangible, every day world. At that point, incidentally, our deepest desires will be plopping into our laps, one after another.

That brings me around to one of the most important ingredients of the Abraham-Hicks teachings: We did not come into physical expression to create through action. We came to create through this process of imagining what we want.

We came here, Abraham asserts, to create through choosing our thoughts deliberately and to then use physical action to simply enjoy what we created.

The extreme difference between how we ordinarily do life, primarily through action, and the smooth, easy way that Abraham recommends that we do life (using our mental focus) hit me with such intensity one day this week that all I could do was babble about it, perhaps incoherently, to Mark. (He's used to it.)

He and I are starting a class here in our home this afternoon in which we plan to share the basics of the Abraham teachings with others. This will be in addition to our Abraham discussion group meetings. I suggested that we might call the class, "Use Your Noggin."

Use your noggin (mind) day in, day out to create that perfect, wondrous world you desire. And one of these days, you'll notice that you're increasingly living the very aspects of that world.

But it almost - ALMOST - won't even matter, because you'll be having so much fun reveling in that glorious inner world. And that's exactly the way you intended it, way-back-when.

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