I realized today that I was hitting a speed bump with my LOA visualazations. I have been, for some of them at least, in the wrong perspective. In my visualizations I see thing happening in third person omescent, like I'm reading a book or watching a TV show. Some of you might be having the same problem and not even realizing it because it didn't dawn on me until a moment ago. So short post today with the question:
What's your perspective?
In order to get LOA working at full speed we should be visualizing in first person as if we are really there and the things we want are happening right at that moment. This is pretty vital because we need to feel that we are there, we need to believe we are there, so that our realities can shift over to what we want because when we believe we now expect for our reality to be a certain way and so therefore it must be that way. Another quick note- make sure you're putting emotion into your visualazations. For example if you are visualizing getting your dream job and you see yourself going to the interview, nicely dressed, talking with the employer and then you get the job! Well, keep the visualazation going, don't end there. Imagine yourself going out to the parking lot and and doing a little dance or getting in your car and screaming! Heck even loose a scream or a jig as you imagine yourself doing it. GET WORKED UP! Positive emotions are energy and the more energy you get behind your wants the faster and more surely they will come to you.
Happy LOA-ing!
Thursday
Creating Conflict
Well, it's been a while. I hope you've all been doing well on your resepctive LOA journeys and wanted to bring some food for thought to the table. I hear a lot of complaints from people saying that the LOA just doesn't work or that they aren't able to apply it to their daily lives. I've had my own successes and , yes, my own failures even. And the times when I have failed I have noticed two things in common.
1. I make my goals and my wants too big.
2. I become conflicted with different wants.
Now as to the first there really isn't anything too big for LOA. But there can be something that may be too big for you. And by this I mean that if you can't imagine it, taste it, feel it, hear it, and smell it - then it is too big. If you can't wrap your mind around something then you won't be able to put forth the energy needed to create it. You should take a step back and re-evaluate what it is you want to find what is stopping you from getting it. You create your own friction with the universe. For example: I have my dream house mapped out. I have pictures of every room on my dream board and I can picture myself living there. But I can't feel myself living there. When I think about it I know I want it but something about it doesn't get me excited. And therefore I can't summon the positive energy need to create it. And for me it's a BIG it. Because it's not just a house. To have that house everything in my life would have to change. I would have to make a lot more money, which would be a good thing. I would have to possibly move away from my family. I would have to quit my day job. There are so many things that would have to change. I have been getting caught in all these snags along the way where I want something but I stop and go- wait but if I had it then.....
I have come to the conclusion that it is just too big for me. I am much better at smaller wants. So I took my dream house and broke it down into a plan of things that would need to happen before I could have it. Not terribly detailed plan mind you because you have to leave the LOA some avenues for which to bring it to you, but just a basic sketch of current roadblocks that need to be dealt with first. And now the goal seems so much more attainable to me that it did before because I can focus on one small thing at a time rather than one BIG thing.
As to the second, conflicting wants. People ,myself included, often have problems with LOA because they are conflicted about what they want. We decide we want something, and we start working towards getting it. We do our daily meditations imagining it and living like we have it, only to decide we want something else before we even get close to getting what it was we wanted before. Another example: My original dream house was this large affair. Two stories with huge rooms, lots of luxury, big backyard with a pool and hot tub and faux waterfall, a big circular drive way lined with palm trees, just totally extravagant. But I found myself conflicted between this house that I wanted and the house I've always dreamed of having. I have always dreamed of living in a little quaint cottage with a forest for my backyard. I was stopping myself from getting either one of these because I was conflicted in what I wanted. I was like a scale tipping back and forth trying to decide on one or the other. Once again I had to step back and re-evaluate what it was I really really wanted. In the end the cottage won out. Of course I still wanted the big luxurious mansion, who wouldn't? But what I really wanted was the cottage. Because the cottage wasn't just a house to me it represented the lifestyle that I really want. Simple.
So when you're frustrated with LOA or even everyday things that are going on in your life, take a step back. Re-evaluate the situation and find the problem. This might take a while. It's probably not going to be instant so don't get even more upset if after five minutes of thinking you still don't have an answer. Give yourself time to reflect and examine. And more importantly, be honest with yourself. If you are not happy in your current reality than you can change it. Take some heart in that fact while remembering that you are the only one who can change it. So we circle back to a previous question:
How bad do you really want it?
1. I make my goals and my wants too big.
2. I become conflicted with different wants.
Now as to the first there really isn't anything too big for LOA. But there can be something that may be too big for you. And by this I mean that if you can't imagine it, taste it, feel it, hear it, and smell it - then it is too big. If you can't wrap your mind around something then you won't be able to put forth the energy needed to create it. You should take a step back and re-evaluate what it is you want to find what is stopping you from getting it. You create your own friction with the universe. For example: I have my dream house mapped out. I have pictures of every room on my dream board and I can picture myself living there. But I can't feel myself living there. When I think about it I know I want it but something about it doesn't get me excited. And therefore I can't summon the positive energy need to create it. And for me it's a BIG it. Because it's not just a house. To have that house everything in my life would have to change. I would have to make a lot more money, which would be a good thing. I would have to possibly move away from my family. I would have to quit my day job. There are so many things that would have to change. I have been getting caught in all these snags along the way where I want something but I stop and go- wait but if I had it then.....
I have come to the conclusion that it is just too big for me. I am much better at smaller wants. So I took my dream house and broke it down into a plan of things that would need to happen before I could have it. Not terribly detailed plan mind you because you have to leave the LOA some avenues for which to bring it to you, but just a basic sketch of current roadblocks that need to be dealt with first. And now the goal seems so much more attainable to me that it did before because I can focus on one small thing at a time rather than one BIG thing.
As to the second, conflicting wants. People ,myself included, often have problems with LOA because they are conflicted about what they want. We decide we want something, and we start working towards getting it. We do our daily meditations imagining it and living like we have it, only to decide we want something else before we even get close to getting what it was we wanted before. Another example: My original dream house was this large affair. Two stories with huge rooms, lots of luxury, big backyard with a pool and hot tub and faux waterfall, a big circular drive way lined with palm trees, just totally extravagant. But I found myself conflicted between this house that I wanted and the house I've always dreamed of having. I have always dreamed of living in a little quaint cottage with a forest for my backyard. I was stopping myself from getting either one of these because I was conflicted in what I wanted. I was like a scale tipping back and forth trying to decide on one or the other. Once again I had to step back and re-evaluate what it was I really really wanted. In the end the cottage won out. Of course I still wanted the big luxurious mansion, who wouldn't? But what I really wanted was the cottage. Because the cottage wasn't just a house to me it represented the lifestyle that I really want. Simple.
So when you're frustrated with LOA or even everyday things that are going on in your life, take a step back. Re-evaluate the situation and find the problem. This might take a while. It's probably not going to be instant so don't get even more upset if after five minutes of thinking you still don't have an answer. Give yourself time to reflect and examine. And more importantly, be honest with yourself. If you are not happy in your current reality than you can change it. Take some heart in that fact while remembering that you are the only one who can change it. So we circle back to a previous question:
How bad do you really want it?
Friday
LOA in action
Sorry for the utter lack of posting to all my readers, but I have some very good news! The LOA is stong and moving in my own life. I have started my own ceramics buisness, a passion of mine for some time now. It's named Clay Maiden, www.claymaiden.com , and it has been keeping me quite busy. If you've read the information on the free links you'll have read a lot about following your gut and how this is one of the ways that LOA communicates with you and guides you on the path towards the things that you want. And this is exactly that, a gut feeling.
On my visualizations of how I intend my life to be, without even realizing it, I saw a large studio in the back of my house and saw myself there working on different pieces and commissions. I saw this for some time before it finally clicked. And so that's how Clay Maiden was born, from repressed longings to work with clay that I didn't even know I had. And now it's like I've been set on fire and I am loving every minute of it.
So, a question for you. What is your passion? What do you really want to do? Not what you "think" you want to do or should do. What does your gut tell you? One of my favorite quotes from The Secret to Getting Rich is, "It is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it."
Mull that over for a bit and start broadening your horizons. Do creative and fun things just for the fun of it and you might be surprised what comes out of it! And truly think and consider where you want to be in life and what you want to be doing. And once you know what you want take affimative action to make it happen! Hope you are all doing well and having pleasant LOA journeys along the way, I know I am!
Oh and one last thing.... A late merry christmas and soon to be happy new year!!!
On my visualizations of how I intend my life to be, without even realizing it, I saw a large studio in the back of my house and saw myself there working on different pieces and commissions. I saw this for some time before it finally clicked. And so that's how Clay Maiden was born, from repressed longings to work with clay that I didn't even know I had. And now it's like I've been set on fire and I am loving every minute of it.
So, a question for you. What is your passion? What do you really want to do? Not what you "think" you want to do or should do. What does your gut tell you? One of my favorite quotes from The Secret to Getting Rich is, "It is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it."
Mull that over for a bit and start broadening your horizons. Do creative and fun things just for the fun of it and you might be surprised what comes out of it! And truly think and consider where you want to be in life and what you want to be doing. And once you know what you want take affimative action to make it happen! Hope you are all doing well and having pleasant LOA journeys along the way, I know I am!
Oh and one last thing.... A late merry christmas and soon to be happy new year!!!
The Law of Attraction and Me
So how did I come to learn about the LOA? Well, my husband works in retail and one day he had a very lucrative customer come in and he sold him several things. The man asked him why he was working the store he was because he was a very good sales person and the man thought he could do much better. He continued to tell my husband a little bit about himself and his new company and mentioned something called 'The Secret'. Well my husband was so intrigued by the whole event he came home to tell me about it. Now, I'd never heard of 'The Secret' so I did some research on it and was really interested to see what it was all about. So I ordered a copy of the book online.
Now the LOA was working and I didn't even know it at the time but looking back on the following events always boosts my belief in the LOA.
I had ordered three books in total from the site online. The following day I received an e-mail that said two of my books were getting ready to be shipped but there was a problem with 'The Secret'. The seller I had bought it from had already sold it and forgot to delete the online listing. So I had to order a another copy. I was really bummed because this meant 'The Secret' could be delayed up to a week since the order needed to be resubmitted and I would have to sait the 3-5 days for shipping. I really wanted this book, it's all I thought about for the next day. Well the following morning I went and checked my mail, and guess what greeted me... The Secret.....
It wasn't supposed to arrive for another two days at the very least, but here it was. It even beat my other two books that weren't delayed. I immediately took it home and started reading.
It got me to thinking about my life and what I wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a novelist and it is something I work on in my free time, but at the time I hadn't written anything in months, I just had no inspiration. Well, I started thinking about writing again and I really wanted to get back to my novels. I was online one day about a month later and I stumbled across a site called NaNoPubYe. It's a site for writers, much like NaNoWriMo if you've heard of that. I'd actuallt signed up on Pubye about six months earlier but had comepletely forgotten about it. I started a few threads and was introduced to a wonderful group of people who got me writing again. I got halfway through the novel I was currently on and started another one on top of that. I was writing again.
Now, this may seem like small things but I can look back on them and see the LOA working. I can see the things that it brought to me and the things it continues to bring. I don't claim to be a LOA master, i'm just starting out with it and I'm learning through a sort of sense of trial and error.
But really look back on things that happen in your life- and you can see the LOA at work. Even on bad things! I can look at my debt and see how I manifested it through my thoughts. The LOA is very obedient, but we need to learn how to make it work in favor of us! If you haven't checked out any of the recommended reading, I encourage you to. But there's more coming from me detailing the process of LOA and what has worked for me- and what hasn't, so stay tuned!
Now the LOA was working and I didn't even know it at the time but looking back on the following events always boosts my belief in the LOA.
I had ordered three books in total from the site online. The following day I received an e-mail that said two of my books were getting ready to be shipped but there was a problem with 'The Secret'. The seller I had bought it from had already sold it and forgot to delete the online listing. So I had to order a another copy. I was really bummed because this meant 'The Secret' could be delayed up to a week since the order needed to be resubmitted and I would have to sait the 3-5 days for shipping. I really wanted this book, it's all I thought about for the next day. Well the following morning I went and checked my mail, and guess what greeted me... The Secret.....
It wasn't supposed to arrive for another two days at the very least, but here it was. It even beat my other two books that weren't delayed. I immediately took it home and started reading.
It got me to thinking about my life and what I wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a novelist and it is something I work on in my free time, but at the time I hadn't written anything in months, I just had no inspiration. Well, I started thinking about writing again and I really wanted to get back to my novels. I was online one day about a month later and I stumbled across a site called NaNoPubYe. It's a site for writers, much like NaNoWriMo if you've heard of that. I'd actuallt signed up on Pubye about six months earlier but had comepletely forgotten about it. I started a few threads and was introduced to a wonderful group of people who got me writing again. I got halfway through the novel I was currently on and started another one on top of that. I was writing again.
Now, this may seem like small things but I can look back on them and see the LOA working. I can see the things that it brought to me and the things it continues to bring. I don't claim to be a LOA master, i'm just starting out with it and I'm learning through a sort of sense of trial and error.
But really look back on things that happen in your life- and you can see the LOA at work. Even on bad things! I can look at my debt and see how I manifested it through my thoughts. The LOA is very obedient, but we need to learn how to make it work in favor of us! If you haven't checked out any of the recommended reading, I encourage you to. But there's more coming from me detailing the process of LOA and what has worked for me- and what hasn't, so stay tuned!
Tuesday
Recommended Reading
I will go further into How to Apply the LOA into your everyday life but if you desire to read further on the subject here are some FREE materials that I recommend you check out. Different people do have some different theories and ideas on LOA, it was only through my eclectiveness that I was able to find my own way to use the LOA.
- The Science of Getting Rich : can be found at The Secret's website http://www.thesecret.tv/secret-treasures-ebooks.html . This is a free download you only need to have Adobe Reader installed to view it.
- Steve Pavlina : This is a blog about self improvement with several posts pertaining to the LOA, http://www.stevepavlina.com/
- Wealth Beyond Reason : Wealth Beyond Reason is a program that can be bought from Bob Doyle, I'm not telling you to actually BUY it but the intro page does explain LOA well, http://www.wealthbeyondreason.com/
- Affirmations for Success : This is a site that features a blog, poems, e-zines, and much more. One I especially recommend is the Success e-course, it is free and guides you to have a success mindset in only seven days (see the tab on the left hand side labeled Free Success e-course), http://www.affirmations-for-success.com/
- Qualified Life Coach : Another website with several articles on LOA, Manifesting, Meditation, I highly recommend downloading her free guided meditation tracks specifically the Creating Your Ideal Life track which will help with visualization, the main page http://www.qualified-lifecoach.com/ and the page to download the guided meditations http://www.qualified-lifecoach.com/Free_Life_Coaching_Products.html
- The Scienece of Getting Rich: Yes, I know I am repeating myself. This is actually a seminer kit from Bob Proctor and Jack Canfield but they offer free lessons on the LOA go to this link, http://thesgrprogram.com/special.php?a_id=7a6d73d6 , enter your name and e-mail in the right hand column and click the button that says claim free lessons. E-mails will be delivered every few days or so to your inbox with links to the lessons. These lessons are quite good and have contributions from my favorite LOA speaker, Jack Canfield, as well as draw on many of the previous mentioned resources in their teachings.
This page is always being updated as I find resources that I think will help you along your journey. I always try to find FREE things as well, so if you know any that aren't stated here that you would like to share with fellow readers please e-mail me the links!
The Law of Attraction for Dummies
I am going to keep this as simple as possible. When I first was introduced to the Law of Attraction, it just seemed so complicated. So here is the simplifed version of the Law of Attraction for the everyday person.
What exactly is the Law of Attraction? Well, simply put the Law of Attraction states that what we think about we attract into our lives.
Now, hold on, before you start clicking away and making devil signs at me just listen for a moment.
So, according to the Law of Attraction (which for all intensive purposes will be referred to as LOA from now on) everything that you think about you attract into your life. So ask yourself this....
What do I think about?
Do you think about Debt?
Do you think about not having enough money?
Do you think about fights with your significant other?
Whatever it is, take a few moments and write down some things you think about, good or bad. And there is no wrong answer to this, this isn't a test, merely a tool for you. Here's what my list looked like when I first did this.
I think about my debt, I think my car might break down, I think that my husband and I might get in a fight tonight, I think there are going to be bills in the mail, and the list goes on and on.
Ok now that you've made your list, take a look at your life and check off everything that is in your life that you think about.
I think about debt.... Am I in debt, YES!
I think my car might break down... Did my car break down, YES!
I think my husband and I might get in a fight tonight...Did we get in a fight, YES!
I think there are going to be bills in the mail...Were there bills in the mail, YES!
All these things happened because I thought about them, because I focused so much energy into worrying over them that they had to come into my life because according to the LOA, we attract what we think about.
So how do we attract these things? Well, first lets break things down. What are we made of?
We're made up of energy, and so is every single thing on this planet. We are all masses of energy. Everything is made of atoms and atoms are made of... you guessed it, ENERGY! Ok, so now that we have established that, then we know that the things we think are also, energy. This can actually be measured as a wave. We can measure thoughts, kind of nifty, isn't it?
So when you think a thought you emit waves of energy, now these waves permeate everything around you and eventually go to the Universe. Now the Universe is what I call it but you can call the being that your thoughts go to anything that you want, another popular name for the Universe would be God. Once the Universe receives our energy waves they will send back to us waves of energy that mirror the ones we sent out. This creates the LOA, what we think about (the energy we emitt) we attract into our lives (energy that matches the energy we sent out takes form in our lives)
This is why when you think about debt... you get more debt. When you think about bad relationships...you get more bad relationships.
The LOA is not partial to wants or dont wants, it only knows what you think about most, it only knows the energy that you emitt. Here's where we have a bit of a tough pill to swallow. Everything you see in your life right now, even the things that you aren't so hot about (the debt, the people, the job, the house, the car, etc.), you have put there. Take this in, then let it go. This is not meant to be a guilt trip for you to begin blaming yourself for things that have happened. Because most likely your thoughts are running on auto-pilot right now. You think that the world outside of you affects what happens to you when it is the other way around, what is inside of you affects everything that is outside of you. We make our own realities. So don't play the guilt game, take responsibility for your current state and make an affirmation to change. Do it now, right now!
Get another piece of paper and write on it in big bold letters, I AM GOING TO CHANGE MY LIFE. Post this somewhere you can see it everyday, the fridge, the mirror, etc. As you go through using the LOA you will likely gather more bits of paper with different affirmations but this is a good one to start with, this was my very first affirmation. Ok, so you have taken responsibility for your current state and now that you have made the choice to change your life, how exactly do you do that? Well, simple...The LOA says what you think about you attract into your life, so in order to change your life think about what you want.
Well, at least it sounds simple. I won't lie to you, I'll be brutally honest, this is the hardest thing I have ever done in my whole life. The reason it is so hard is because you have to reprogram you brain, so to speak, and completely erase your current habits of letting your thoughts run amok in the forest of your mind. I'm not saying you have to control every single thought, that would be impossible, but when you notice yourself thinking about things you don't want you must shift your attention to what you do want.
After a while though you'll habituate the ways to use the LOA and things will become smooth sailing. So welcome to the beautiful journey of your life. This is your chance to take control, to have the life you've always wanted. Some might shrug this off as 'I can't do it' or 'I don't understand this' or 'It will never work, it's too good to be true'. First of all, YOU CAN DO IT, every single person alive has the ability to use the LOA. And you use it everyday whether you are aware of it, whether you believe it, or not. Give it a try, how can you say it doesn't work if you never try to make it work, and when I say try I really mean try. I'm telling you flat out- it's not easy and don't expect instant results. But this can and will change your life.
How bad do you want change? Ask yourself that and be honest. If you're content with where you are in life, or if you don't want to put forth the effort it takes to make positive changes in your habits and way of thinking- then this isn't for you. But if you are ready to take control of your life, to have the dream job, car, house, spouse, the life of your dreams- then this is for you. Stick with it, you won't be sorry and just remember, I NEVER SAID THIS WOULD BE EASY!
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