🌈 The Abraham Hicks Emotional Guidance Scale

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Rainbow over green mountains representing Abraham Hicks’ Emotional Guidance Scale—the rise from darker emotions to light and clarity.
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✨ Quick Answer

The Emotional Guidance Scale = a step-by-step climb from heavy to light.

Don’t leap from fear to bliss. Move one notch lighter at a time: Neutral → Curious → Optimistic → Enthusiastic. Your feelings are precise guidance—follow relief.

  • Choose the next truer, softer thought—that’s alignment, not fake positivity.
  • The color scale below shows 22 levels, lightest at the top → darkest at the bottom.
  • Hover to preview a tone. Click a level to pin its label on the graph.
See the Scale ↓

The Ladder of Emotion: How You Climb Back Into Alignment

Abraham Hicks teaches that your emotions are not random moods—they are the vibrational compass of your soul. Each feeling is feedback from your Inner Being, revealing whether your thoughts harmonize with your higher truth or drift away from it.

The Emotional Guidance Scale is a map of this vibrational terrain—from despair to empowerment. You don’t teleport from fear to bliss. You ascend step by step, by choosing thoughts that feel a little better each time.

The journey from darkness to light isn’t an act of denial; it’s an act of precision. Your emotions are instruments of divine calibration, teaching you to trust the rhythm of relief.

This article is part of the Abraham Hicks System of Alignment. If you’re new, start here: Abraham Hicks: Law of Attraction & Alignment

🧭 The Inner Compass Explained

Each emotion represents a measurable distance between you and your Source:

  • Despair whispers, “You’ve forgotten who you are.”
  • Anger says, “You’re remembering your power.”
  • Hope hums, “You’re re-tuning to possibility.”
  • Joy sings, “You’re in full resonance with Source.”

Abraham often says, “You cannot get there from there.” Meaning: don’t force yourself to jump from hopelessness to joy—climb the scale gently.

The secret is emotional honesty. From anger, aim for frustration. From frustration, reach for optimism. Each rung on the ladder lightens the load, allowing energy to flow again.

✨ Practice: The Art of Moving Up the Scale

When resistance hits, use this 3-step micro-ritual:

  1. Name it kindly. (“This is frustration, and that’s okay.”)
  2. Find the next softer thought. (“Maybe things can change.”)
  3. Let relief—not perfection—be the goal.

Every incremental shift is a spiritual victory. You’re not faking positivity; you’re remembering alignment.

🌈 Abraham Hicks Emotional Guidance Scale

Press a color to preview the emotion and hear a tone. Press several colors and you can make music to lift your emotions. :) Click a level to pin the label on the graph.

Top is light; bottom is black. Click a level to pin its label on the graph.
  1. Joy / Knowledge / Empowerment / Freedom / Love / Appreciation
  2. Passion
  3. Enthusiasm / Eagerness / Happiness
  4. Positive Expectation / Belief
  5. Optimism
  6. Hopefulness
  7. Contentment
  8. Boredom
  9. Pessimism
  10. Frustration / Irritation / Impatience
  11. Overwhelm
  12. Disappointment
  13. Doubt
  14. Worry
  15. Blame
  16. Discourage­ment
  17. Anger
  18. Revenge
  19. Hatred / Rage
  20. Jealousy
  21. Insecurity / Guilt / Unworthiness
  22. Fear / Grief / Depression / Despair / Powerlessness
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Abraham Hicks FAQ — The Emotional Guidance Scale

It’s Abraham Hicks’ step-by-step map from heavy emotions (fear, despair) to lighter ones (hope, joy), showing you how to rise by choosing the next thought that feels a little better.
Because emotions are precise guidance, not switches—your nervous system climbs in increments. Relief is the bridge: frustration → hopefulness → optimism → enthusiasm → love.
It’s deeper. The scale teaches accurate alignment: choosing the truer thought that feels lighter. You’re not forcing positivity; you’re calibrating to your Inner Being.
Go for neutral first (slow breath, no story). From neutral, reach for curiosity. From curiosity, optimism is within reach—and momentum takes over.
Sometimes, yes. Anger can feel more powerful than fear. If it provides relief, it’s “up the scale.” Then aim for frustration, then hopefulness. Keep choosing relief.
Shrink the move. Reach for a thought that’s just 2% lighter. Change state (walk, shower, nap). Relief often appears when you soften your grip on “fixing it now.”
You’ll feel literal relief: more breath, less tension, softer thoughts. Then ideas, timing, and next steps start “clicking.” That’s alignment re-establishing itself.
Hope is the inflection point. Once hopeful, your RAS (reticular activating system) starts surfacing confirming evidence—and momentum lifts you into optimism and enthusiasm.
No—honesty is step one. You meet the feeling, name it, and then choose the next lighter truth. It’s radical honesty guided by relief, not bypass.
Neutral Ladder: 1) 3 slow breaths. 2) “What thought feels slightly softer?” 3) Take that thought. 4) Repeat for one minute. Track the first hint of relief—then keep going.
They sit at the top—full resonance with Source. The paradox: when you stop chasing them and start choosing relief, they arrive on their own.
Yes—beautifully. Use the scale to reach neutrality/hope first, then enter SATS or meditation. A calmer baseline makes imaginal scenes “take” and stabilize faster.

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