Using Contrast To Achieve Success

I am currently visiting Canberra – the cold Capital of Australia – and thinking about how contrast helps to achieve success. In the week that I have been here the temperatures have bottomed out with the coldest September day for 40 years and snow falls just 30 kilometres away ranging up to a very warm 24 degrees yesterday.  I am used to a fairly stable tropical temperature of 20 to 30 and have now realised just how that has left me with little variation.  Now don’t get me wrong, I love the tropics.  However I have discovered once again that contrast is pretty exciting.

But how do you use contrast to achieve success? Most of the elite writers about personal development, whether writing from their own experience or channeling the wisdom of others, write about contrast or duality as it is sometimes called.  Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch is deals with this subject throughout the series.  These writers are referring to the learning gained from knowing one side and then the other of an experience.  So how can you know happiness if you have never known sadness.  How can you know courage if you have never known fear.  The way that I am thinking this through at the moment is that it is very much about feelings and getting familiar with your own feelings; being able to detect constantly how you are doing.

Feelings have a great deal to do with the path to achieve success. Esther Hicks writings on the Law of Attraction and almost any book that you choose to read on this subject will refer to the ability to get to know and understand your feelings and the ability to change those that you do not like.  My own professional colleagues use this on a moment by moment basis.  Feel something that they do not like – they simply reach for a better feeling thought.  Getting used to and interacting with contrast/duality is one way of experiencing your feelings on that particular situation.  This week I have found that the deep contrast in the weather has heightened my sense of feeling around a number of matters and reminded me to welcome such contrast into my life.

So instead of finding the weather a nuisance, I am now looking at it as a beautiful way to experience contrast and therefore my feelings. I am sort of back in the zone a bit, dragged away from the constancy of business and back to the real business of life.  If I use this experience well, I will be in a state of great vibrations and definitely attracting into my life those things that I desire.  Still in the zone to achieve success.

Do you have any special tips and tricks that keep you in touch with your feelings and the way that you are vibrating at any given moment?