HOW TO STOP BEING A CRANKY LITTLE GREMLIN: Abraham Hicks’ Emotional Scale, Segment Intending, and Why Journaling is Basically Sorcery

✨ Content is free—but crows like snacks.

Alright, listen up, sparkle zombie.
Ever woken up feeling like a can of expired soup?
Like, "I don't know why I'm mad, but if the wind blows wrong, I’m gonna throw hands at a mailbox"?

Congratulations.
You’re not broken.
You’re just stuck on a lower part of the Emotional Scale.

Yeah.
There’s a whole scale for your madness.
And no, you’re not supposed to launch yourself from "I hate everything" straight to "I’m grateful for sunsets and bird songs."
(That’s not how any of this works, featherbrain.)

✨ What the heck is the Emotional Scale?

Straight from the mouth of Abraham Hicks:
Your feelings = your inner GPS.
If you're pissed, sad, anxious, or ready to fight a tree, it doesn’t mean you're bad at life.
It just means you're pointed somewhere you don’t wanna go.

And here's the kicker —
You can’t go where you’re not looking.

You gotta climb it the mood ladder.
Like... one tiny, stubborn emotional step at a time.

Instead of:

"I love everyone!! I am light and goodness and my chakras are glittering!!"

Try:

"Okay, I hate everyone slightly less than I did ten minutes ago. Progress."

That’s the game.
That’s winning.

So what does this emotional ladder even look like, Loui?

Glad you asked, sparkle zombie.

Here's the thing — Abraham Hicks didn’t just throw random vibes in a blender.
They mapped it.
They gave us the cheat codes.
They showed us the natural order your emotions tend to fall in — from absolute dumpster-fire despair at the bottom all the way up to feeling like you could personally outshine the sun.

And once you know the steps, you can climb them.

Slowly. Clumsily. Imperfectly.
Maybe flipping off a few of the rungs as you go.
That’s fine.

The point isn’t to sprint.
The point is to know where you are,
so you can actually move.

Here's the sacred GPS they handed down:

🪶 Official Abraham Hicks Emotional Scale:

1. Joy / Appreciation / Empowerment / Freedom / Love

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. Overwhelment

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
    
    

    
    ✨ Why You Can’t Get There From There (and Why Tiny Steps Work Better)

    Okay, sparkle zombie, real talk:
    You can’t just teleport from "I'm a rage dragon" to "I’m a beam of divine light" because emotions are like gravity.

    If you're standing at the bottom of an emotional pit — in Fear, Anger, or Depression —
    and you try to force yourself to "just think positive,"
    your brain doesn't believe it.
    Your body doesn’t believe it.
    Your energy DEFINITELY doesn’t believe it.
    (It’s like trying to slap a smiley face sticker over a volcano and hoping it’ll stop erupting. Cute. But nope.)

    You can’t get there from there.
    The jump is too big.

    Instead, you climb the emotional ladder the way you’d climb a real ladder out of a deep, muddy hole:
    one small, wobbly, messy step at a time.

    👉 Feeling Angry? Great. That’s higher than feeling hopeless.
    👉 Feeling Frustrated? Even better. You’re moving.
    👉 Feeling Bored? Bored is a freaking miracle after months of despair.

    Every little move upward is a victory.
    Even if it feels lame and slow.
    Even if you still secretly want to punch a cloud.
    (Especially if you want to punch a cloud.)

    Your energy needs believable steps, not fake leaps.
    That’s why the ladder matters.
    That's why you climb.

    Not because you have to "be positive."
    Because every small emotional upgrade makes it easier to breathe, think, create, receive, and LIVE.

    One rung.
    One wobble.
    One tiny crow-flap upward.

    That’s how you win.

🌈 Segment Intending: Pre-Game Your Freaking Life

Now — if you're not actively steering your vibe, guess what?
Life's gonna drive you like a drunk raccoon on a golf cart.

Enter: Segment Intending.

Fancy words. Stupid simple idea:
Before you start ANYTHING, decide what you want it to feel like.
That’s it.
That’s the hack.

Going into a meeting?
"I'm gonna stay centered and calm even if Doug breathes too loud."

Walking into Target?
"I'm finding exactly what I need without impulse-buying $90 of chaos."

Talking to your weird aunt?
"I'm grounded, funny, and unbothered. She can swirl in her tornado alone."

It’s like putting an emotional helmet on your head before you jump into the day’s demolition derby.

Segment intending is you saying, "Hey, Universe? This is the vibe I ordered. Don’t screw it up, thanks."
And the Universe — because she's a people pleaser at heart — usually goes, "Okay, boo. I got you."

📖 Why Journaling Isn’t Optional If You Wanna Survive Your Own Drama

Let me rip the Band-Aid off real fast:

If I hadn’t journaled, this website wouldn’t exist.
If I hadn’t journaled, I’d still be thinking I’m a bad person.
If I hadn’t journaled, I’d be trapped in someone else’s emotional swamp thinking it was home.

Writing. It. Down.
Saves. Your. Life.

Journaling isn’t just "dear diary" garbage. You learn a lot about yourself when you write it down and see it.
It’s alchemy.
You dump the chaos out of your brain and onto the page.
You SEE yourself without all the noise.
You realize, "Oh, maybe I’m not doomed. Maybe I’m just really, really tired and dehydrated and have been trying to fix my life with doomscrolling and passive-aggressive snack binges."

Journal = mirror.
Journal = flashlight.
Journal = crowbar out of the funk.

And no — it doesn’t have to be perfect.
It doesn’t even have to make sense.
You just have to move the energy somewhere. I cant tell you how many times I wrote “I don’t know what to write” over the first year.

✍️ Here’s Your "Stop Being a Cranky Potato" Journal Workout:

1. Where am I ACTUALLY right now?
   (No lying. No "I’m fine." You’re not fine. You’re salty and weird and half-feral. Say it.)

2. What would feel EVEN SLIGHTLY better than this?
   ("Slightly" is the magic word. Not "perfect." Not "healed." Slightly.)

3. What’s the next 5 minutes about?
   (Segment intend it, baby crow. Even if it’s just "make a sandwich without existential dread.")

4. How can I cheerlead myself right now?
   (Even if it’s just, "I’m doing the best I can." while you take a deep breath.)

🧹 Final Pep Talk From Your Monday Cheerleader Crow:

Life isn’t about winning the whole emotional scale before breakfast.
You can’t.
(And if anyone says they did, they're either lying or about to have a very loud meltdown in public.)

It took me years to break my set point off the bottom of the scale —
I lived around level 22 for as long as I can remember.
That train had a lot of momentum.
It took a lot of molting.
A lot of wreckage.
A lot of starting over.

I’ve heard of people shifting faster.
I just had to molt in my own damn time.
And that's okay.
That was sacred, too.

These days?
I hover mostly between numbers 1–5.
Sure, sometimes I tumble into Overwhelm or Doubt for a minute.
And yeah, sometimes Anger still stops by for coffee.

But now I see it differently.
I’m learning to honor my anger —
to feel it cleanly,
to recognize it as passion still burning inside me,
instead of proof that I’m broken.

And that's why it's not my set point anymore.

This isn't about perfection.
It's about noticing where you are.
Wiggling half an inch toward better.
Taking the emotional equivalent of a slightly less feral breath.
Writing down your mess with a glitter pen like a majestic chaos crow.
Setting your vibe like you actually matter.

Because you do matter.
And the second you start caring how you feel,
the whole Universe starts reshuffling reality to match it.

No guilt.
No panic.
No fake smiles.

Just a little more true you every day.

💔 What pain or struggle is this blog addressing?
Feeling stuck, frustrated, anxious, overwhelmed, or hopeless without a clear way to shift.
People who are tired of being told "just be positive" when they can barely put pants on.
The struggle of emotional self-sabotage and the hopelessness loop that comes when you don't know how to steer yourself out of a bad vibe.

🔮 What’s the sacred transformation or takeaway?
You don't have to be perfect.
You don't have to "fix" your life today.
You just have to care enough to wiggle your way one emotional step higher — and THAT tiny shift can open entirely new timelines, better days, and real momentum.
Journaling, segment intending, and emotional awareness can literally rebuild your entire life if you let them.

🎉 You’re doing better than you think.
🪶 Keep flapping, Crowheart.


🪶 For more like this subject, check out: Rise and Whine: The Magick of Waking Up Without the Grump