Your Built-In GPS: How to Use Your Emotional Guidance System Without Setting Your Life on Fire
Chandra Eden, The True Me Yogi
The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent
Author: Esther and Jerry Hicks
"Your thriving will be immediately enhanced in the moment you understand and begin to utilize your own Emotional Guidance System.
Through your continual exposure to life experience, you are stimulated to constant awareness, which means that you are focusing upon something all day, every day, and that focus is causing an activation of vibration within you. Most people do not realize that they are Vibrational Beings living in a Vibrational Universe, and most are not aware that they are vibrationally attracting their own reality. And so, most people make little or no effort to deliberately focus thought."
Your Built-In GPS: How to Use Your Emotional Guidance System Without Setting Your Life on Fire
Here’s a mildly uncomfortable truth wrapped in a friendly tone: you’re broadcasting vibes all day long, and your life dutifully mirrors them back. Not because the universe is your concierge, but because attention shapes perception, behavior, and outcomes. Translation: your focus has a funny way of turning into your reality. The quote calls this your Emotional Guidance System (EGS)—and once you understand it, thriving stops being an inspirational poster and starts being practical.
Let’s unpack this without incense or a lecture.
What the heck is an Emotional Guidance System?
Think of your emotions as a dashboard. Not moral judgments. Not proof that you’re winning or failing. Just gauges telling you how aligned your current thoughts are with what you deeply want and value.
Pleasant emotions (ease, curiosity, enthusiasm): Your thoughts are on a channel that supports your well-being and goals.
Unpleasant emotions (tightness, dread, agitation): Your thoughts are arguing with your desires, your values, or reality itself.
That’s it. Your emotions aren’t the problem. They’re the signal. The problem is what we do when we don’t like the signal: ignore it, numb it, or sprint in the opposite direction with a cart full of distractions.
Vibrational Beings? Really?
Before you roll your eyes, let’s translate “vibration” into something you can test.
Vibe = focus + meaning + state. What you focus on, how you interpret it, and how your body responds form your “signal.”
Your signal influences what you notice (confirmation bias), how you show up (tone, posture, choices), and what you attract (because people and opportunities respond to your signal).
No crystals required—just awareness. If your inner radio is tuned to “Everything Is Going Wrong For Me,” you will notice every minor inconvenience like it’s a headline. If you tune to “What Can I Influence Right Now Radio,” your brain starts serving up options instead of panic.
Deliberate focus: the secret most people ignore
Most folks let the loudest thing capture their attention: notifications, someone else’s mood, the latest mini-crisis. Then they wonder why their reality feels chaotic. Deliberate focus is choosing your signal on purpose—again and again—until it becomes your default.
This isn’t about pretending everything is fine while Rome burns. It’s about directing your attention toward thoughts and actions that move you toward what you want, instead of doom-scrolling your inner world.
How to tune your Emotional Guidance System (without becoming a robot or a monk)
Try these practical drills. They work whether you’re spiritual, skeptical, or just tired of your own drama.
Name the station you’re tuned to
Ask: What am I focusing on right now? What meaning am I assigning to it? How do I feel?
If the feeling is off, don’t swat it away. It’s feedback, not a personality flaw.
Run the alignment test
Is this thought useful? Does it move me toward what I value?
If not, reframe to a truer, kinder, more effective version:
From “This will never work” to “I don’t know how yet, but here’s my next test.”
From “They don’t respect me” to “I haven’t set the boundary clearly—time to fix that.”
Adjust state first, then solve
Your body is part of your signal. Shift physiology to shift clarity:
90 seconds of box breathing
A brisk 5-minute walk
Cold water on wrists/face
Then tackle the problem. Calm brains make better moves.
Set a daily signal on purpose
Three-minute morning practice:
Intention: What quality do I want to broadcast today? (e.g., steadiness, play, focus)
Focus: What actually matters today? (3 priorities)
Feel: Visualize one scene going well. Feel it for 30 seconds. Lock it in.
Use emotional “yellow lights”
Create a list of your personal yellow-light feelings (tight chest, snarky replies, compulsive scrolling).
When they show up:
Pause. Label the feeling.
Ask: What thought is creating this? What’s a 2% better thought I can believe right now?
Take one tiny action consistent with that better thought.
Upgrade your inputs
Your signal is snackable. Feed it better snacks:
People: 10 minutes with someone grounded beats an hour in a complaint spiral.
Media: Curate a “signal playlist” of voices that pull you upward, not inward.
Environment: Tidy one square foot at a time. Clear space, clear head.
Make decisions with the Emotional Guidance System triangle:
Truth: What’s actually happening?
Values: What matters most here?
Energy: Which option makes me feel lighter, more capable, more honest?
Pick the option that checks all three—even if it’s less dramatic.
Close the day with a signal tune-up
Two-minute evening reset:
Wins: 3 things that went even slightly right.
Reframes: One sticky thought you upgraded.
Tomorrow: One intention you’ll broadcast when you wake.
Common mistakes (so you can stop making them by lunch)
Mistake: Chasing good feelings at all costs.
Fix: Aim for honest alignment, not constant bliss. Integrity feels better than pretending.
Mistake: Treating bad feelings as emergencies.
Fix: They’re indicators, not indictments. Investigate; don’t catastrophize.
Mistake: Trying to leap from despair to euphoria.
Fix: Reach for the next believable rung: from despair to anger, to frustration, to curiosity, to possibility.
Mistake: Outsourcing your signal.
Fix: Others can influence you; only you can tune you.
What thriving actually looks like
Not perfection. Not manifesting a yacht via wishful thinking. Thriving is a felt sense of traction: clearer choices, fewer self-inflicted detours, and a daily experience that matches what you say you want. When your EGS is online, you stop arguing with reality and start collaborating with it.
Try this 7-day experiment
Morning: Set your signal (intention, top 3, 30-second visualization).
Midday: Yellow-light check. Adjust state, reframe, tiny action.
Evening: 3 wins + 1 reframe + tomorrow’s intention.
Track how your mood, focus, and outcomes shift. Spoiler: they will.
Final thought (slightly irreverent, very true)
You’re a vibrational being whether you believe it or not, the way you’re subject to gravity whether you enjoy physics or flunked it. Your Emotional Guidance System is already humming. Learn its language, tune the dial, and let your life pick up a better signal. The universe isn’t your butler—but it’s an excellent mirror. Choose what you want it to reflect.