This is an emotional guidance scale from Abraham Hicks, it is founded from intuition and spirituality. David R. Hawkins also has a similar consciousness scale founded from science, you can find it in the book Power vs. Force.
I find each one totally legitimate, but the Abraham Hicks one isn’t as complex so I’m using it as the example.
Here is how it works.
The best and most enlightened emotions are at the top. This is what we are always striving for to live the best life possible. These emotions are high vibration and profoundly affect everything and everyone around you positively.
Only 1% of the population can sustain them on a regular basis, so don’t get down on yourself if you aren’t that guy because most of us aren’t. But we can aim for it.
The bottom emotions are the most painful to us. We don’t want to remain in this space for very long. These emotions affect everything and everyone around us in a negative way.
You can typically move up the scale by one or two steps at a time.
For example, if you are feeling revenge it is impossible to jump right to contentment. Anger is better than revenge and not too much of a leap, so try to get there first. Once you get there, try to move to discouragement and so on working your way up.
This has helped me so much.
Before I knew this scale existed, I would to get so down on myself if I was feeling anything from about no. 12 and down. I always wanted to jump right up to the top, and if I couldn’t, it would only compound my negative emotions.
But once I knew that it was better for me to feel jealous than it was to feel insecure, it gave me an easy and attainable goal, and I knew I was doing a little bit better when I got there…which also added the tiniest bit of hope to the mix.
The other perk? It has kept me more conscious of what I was feeling so I wasn’t just reacting to everything all over the place like a crazy person. It has helped me to control my reactions by keeping a goal in mind.
After all, they say life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.