What if the Universe has your back?  

By Lori Hammond

Coach and Professional Hypnotist. Giving you simple tools to stop overwhelm and harness joyful forward momentum.

I feel like I just moved into a living, breathing art exhibit. 

 

I’m in a trance…

Right in the middle of my living room…

Just zoning out and watching the leaves twirl and spin

their way to the ground. 

As you imagine that picture, imagine the gentle, whimsical sound of the  neighbors wind chimes.

 

They’re the non-annoying wind chimes that sound like fairy wings. 

When I woke up here for the first time on Friday morning, I looked out the window with my head still on my pillow and felt overcome with gratitude. 

Time Out

I’m interrupting this story to speak directly to you.

A few years ago I unfriended someone who always posted her travel pics on Facebook. 

Every beach-side pic just reminded me how stuck I felt in my non-traveling reality. 

I never ever want my stories to make someone else feel that way.

As this story progresses, please know that the only reason I’m telling it…

The only reason I tell any of my stories…

Is to let you know that my story can be your story. 

Maybe you don’t want to travel…

 

Or live in a house like this one…

 

But there’s probably SOMETHING in your life that you wish you could have but don’t have now. 

So before you read on, ask yourself this question…

“What if Lori’s story can be my story? 

“What if I can go from the discouraging situation I’m in…

To a breakthrough, that lets me have my biggest desire?”

 

 

Ok, back to Friday morning… 

 

Looking out the window as the sun was rising…

I felt deeply emotional. 

This is my favorite home ever. 

I’ve thought that twice before and both of those homes were taken from me due to circumstances outside my control.

This home is more awesome than both of those places put together. 

So as I lay looking out the window yesterday morning, I felt grateful…

And scared…

And happy…

And unworthy…

All at the same time. 

What if this gets taken from me too?

What if I don’t deserve something this nice?

I found myself intuitively speaking out loud…

In my most self-soothing voice.

(Thank goodness I’ve learned to be nice to myself… most of the time.)

 

 

“I deserve this.

Thank you. Thank you.

I’m so grateful.

I’m worthy of living an excellent life.”

 

Because here’s the thing. 

I think there might be a teensy-tiny possibility that I’ve somehow attracted the circumstances that caused the other 2 homes to go away.

No, I didn’t burst the pipe that flooded my last home and destroyed all my belongings.

But WHAT IF there is something to this law of attraction thing?

(I’m not saying there is. I’m just asking, “What if?”)

What if part of me said “This is too good to be true"?

Several years ago, when I first started pushing my way out of the cocoon of depression and despair, I would say to myself...

 

“It’s ok to be happy. It’s ok to be happy. It’s ok to be happy.

I'm allowed to feel good.

 It’s ok to feel good.”

 

 

Over and over

and over.

Even though I didn’t totally believe it. 

That simple mantra paved the way for me to go from chronically SAD to contagiously GLAD. 

Now I’m using a similar mantra to send my unconscious mind the memo,

“You’re not a broke single mom anymore!”

Because I absolutely know that if my mind and body don’t line up with the abundance that’s flowing to me…

I might sabotage it.

What’s your point, Lori?

 

Here’s what I want you to know. 

Eight months ago - after I lost my home and belongings in a flood - it felt like things were never going to be ok again. 

Then, the instant I walked into this home… where I’m living now…

I KNEW it existed just for me. 

What if…

(And I am NOT saying this is true)...

But what if the Universe allowed me to go through all the crappy stuff  I’ve been through this year….

So I could end up in a place (figuratively and literally) SO. MUCH. MORE. AWESOME than anything I could’ve planned by myself?

What if... even though I felt unworthy... there was something Higher than me

(and I don't claim to know who/what that is) orchestrating life to show me how

to EXPERIENCE WORTHINESS?

Cathy, if you’re struggling right now, I want  you to know...

You WILL get to the other side of this. 

 

 

I promise, promise, promise there IS hope. 

Listen to me.

YOU. ARE. WORTHY of an excellent life. 

If you’ve been hypnotized to believe something else, I invite you to try the following mantra (here comes the “Cheat Sheet” portion of the email).

 

 

“WHAT IF… I am going to be ok?

What if…I’m allowed to have a good life?

 

What if… something amazing is just around the

Corner?”

 

You don’t need to believe it. 

Just try it on. 

Say it out loud (in your kindest, most soothing voice) and notice how your body responds to your self-kindness. 

WHAT IF that mantra… spoken over and over and over….

Becomes the catalyst to a life more awesome than anything you could possibly dream up right now?

I double dare you to try it. 

You could even grab a pen and paper (don’t try to get fancy) and write the mantra down then put it on your pillow so you see it just before you get in bed every night. 

I’m cheering for you.

Love,

Lori