Humans are gifted with the ability to create by the power of ' intention' or thought. We can attract anything in our lives both good and bad. Whatever we think of consciously or unconsciously, will get attracted to us and will get manifested in our lives.
There is nothing right or wrong, positive or negative about it. This natural law works without value judgment. It works to manifest in reality, whatever the human mind focuses on.
There are times when we don’t even want something, we don’t even intend it – but if we fear it and think about it a lot – it starts manifesting in our lives. Why? Because that is what we have been thinking about, that is what we have been focusing on !
When we watch news or movies and read news papers / magazines – when we are bombarded by a certain kind of news, we start thinking about it without conscious effort. We should not be surprised then if these things start showing up in our personal lives. Whatever we focus on, will manifest.
So, what you have to do is to choose. Yes, you have to choose and select what you want rather than what you don’t want. Once you consciously focus on something – even if you are only imagining it – your subconscious mind picks it up as if it is real. And it is in the subconscious mind where the real power lies, to connect to the universe and attract to you, what you really want.
This process works in our lives in a peculiar way. You observe what you currently have and are currently receiving in your life. You call this your “reality.” You respond to what you observe with a feeling, positive or negative, which then gives off that vibration to the universe. The law of attraction comes into force - universe then responds to this vibration and brings you more of what you were vibrating. This keeps the cycle going over and over, until you choose to change it through the exertion of your will.
It is important to focus on what you want rather than what you don’t want. You must state it in the positive and filter out the words don’t, not and no.
Remember, your mind works in pictures and if you say I don’t want to be mad, you are creating the picture of what mad is and thus the vibration of being mad.
You must create the opposite of what you don’t want. Your job is to create a vibrational match for something which you say you want to have. That is, how would you be feeling if you already had those things—the perfect job, the perfect relationship, the amount of money that you want to have?
Your job is to identify what makes you feel good and do more of it, then learn not to tolerate your negative feelings.
What will help you get focused on what you desire? Affirmations are an important component in raising your vibrational level to what it is you want. Simply release your affirmation, your vibration, and your feelings to the universe to take care of your “request” or “order”.
Your brain is the most powerful electromagnetic processing tool ever created, and if you use it wisely to choose positive thoughts, everything you desire will start to move towards you and materialize in its physical shape. The more you focus and concentrate on it, the faster and more potent the frequency gets.
You have to abstain from any doubts. If you doubt in any way that you can have it, then you are not allowing it. You are pushing it away and you end up with contradictory messages to the universe. What happens is you get your emphasis off of what you want, and therefore, off of the lack of what you want - and you hold yourself in a place of allowing all good things to come to you.
It is only when the contradictory thoughts, talk, and images are removed that your desired results will manifest. The faster you remove your resistance, the faster your dreams can be realized.
While trying to learn law of attraction and how it works, you should be saying "I want to learn the Law so that I can hold myself in a place of Well-being" - and not " I'll learn how to deliberately create, so that I can get this stuff that I don't have, or so that I can fix this or that"
The law of attraction does not respond to the words you use or the thoughts you think. It simply responds to how you feel about what you say and how you feel about what you think.
Conscious and the power of unconscious
Our conscious mind is limited by our senses – sight, hearing, smell, tasting, feeling etc. But our unconscious mind is not limited – it is linked to the creative force of the universe and can attract anything to us, good or bad.
This unconscious mind does not differentiate between real and imagined things. It follows whatever the conscious mind is focused on. That creates great responsibility for the conscious mind – i.e. to choose what to think about. Because whatever we will focus on with our conscious mind – will be picked up by the unconscious, which is linked to the creative power of the universe. So, the first step is to clearly understand what we want and then to focus on it.
A clear and detailed description of intended result
If you really want to achieve something – you must create a clear and consistent picture in your mind of what you want. If you keep changing the picture, it will be like going to a restaurant and ordering something and then changing your order every minute. Your order may never arrive or may take too long to come.
The gurus recommend that we write down what we want – in detail. And add a lot of emotions and feeling to this picture. For instance, if you want a certain kind of house, write down in detail – what kind of a house it is, where it is located, what kind of facilities it has. Dream about it, live in it, enjoy the pleasure of it.
This is not day dreaming – this is using the power of your intention to start the creation process – knowing fully well that this works because it is in accordance with a universal law. It is acting on the knowledge that this process will manifest in your life, what you want.
When a seed is sown you can not see the plant coming out of ground immediately, but you have the confidence in laws of nature that the seed will grow as a plant and a tree, if you take care of required conditions. So you prepare the soil, sow the seed and water the ground and one day the plant manifests itself.
Similarly, you have to take care of your part to activate this natural law of attraction to work for you.
You have to start the process by creating a clear intention in your mind. You have to provide the details. You have to add the feelings and emotions of what will happen, what will you feel when you achieve what you want. As you go along doing your part, the law of attraction will come into play and your desire will manifest from either an expected source or the most unexpected source imaginable.
Internalize not intellectualize
From our childhood we are taught to learn the intellectual way. We go to schools and colleges and learn from books and teachers. There is no harm in this way of learning, except that we start believing it to be the only way to learn.
And when we wish to change a behavior, we think that understanding it intellectually will solve our problem. What we fail to realize is that conscious mind only controls intellectual learning – but it is the subconscious mind that controls our behavior. It is not enough to only understand, but it is more important to internalize that knowledge – make it part of our subconscious.
No matter how many principles of success we learn, no matter many how many books we read, no matter how many gurus we talk to, we will not be able to change our behavior unless we are able to internalize our new beliefs. What is needed is a change at the very root level of our mind.
If during your childhood you have developed a low self esteem for any reason and that has become part of your subconscious – then that low self image (I don’t deserve good things in life) will continue to control what you do – no matter what we desire at the conscious level.
In this situation, merely reading books on the subject can not help us. What will work is that we first create a healthy and realistic self image and then make it part of our subconscious – replacing our old beliefs with the new ones.
And what is the way to do that? How do you internalize? A lot of experts agree that auto suggestion and affirmations (repeatedly saying certain positive phrases to ourselves) is a very effective way of doing it.
This has been proven true over and over again : what is consistently repeated by the conscious mind becomes part of the subconscious and starts changing the behavior effectively and easily.
The best time to do this is considered before going to sleep at night – we what you hold in our conscious thought then, becomes part of the unconscious mind more easily while we go to sleep.
The 17 second technique
It has been measured that a thought reaches a combustion point at 17 seconds of pure undiluted focus. It draws another thought to it and it is exponentially more powerful.
At the end of another 17 seconds, 34 seconds total, the next thought combusts, and by Law of Attraction, evolves to a higher level of energy.
Again another 17 seconds to 51 seconds continues the process, and finally, if you can continue a pure thought for 68 seconds on any given subject, it will be on its way to manifestation.
The key word is pure, meaning positive focus, strong energy, no resistance; to not slip into thinking about lack of what you want.
You will notice that the average person rarely finishes a single sentence without contradicting their energy, as in "I want a new car . . . but it is too expensive."
Most of us haven't had much experience with ever feeling the combustion of thought that comes from 17+ seconds of pure thought
In talking about the leverage of 17+17+17+17=68 seconds of pure thought, the gurus say that if we can learn to offer pure thought energy for 68 seconds at a time, action becomes INCONSEQUENTIAL!
How to Get to 17 Seconds of Pure Thought
Some people find that the discipline of speaking or writing helps - to keep other thoughts from being too distracting.
If you are going to do it in writing, you may often put in the form of a letter to a friend from the vantage point of already having accomplished what it is that you want. Then you can describe the feelings and details of your new place of being, and really get into the sense of actually being there.
You can also play the "68 second game" out loud, with some friends. The person who facilitates gets to pick a subject, then everyone contributes to his or her 68 seconds. And you know that if you are in a place you don't want to be emotionally, you can call any member of your group and ask them to do 68 seconds with you on what you are wanting in that moment. It really helps to have some partners to do the process with you.
Start with Less Important Issues
Nothing is more important than your feeling good. It is not necessary to focus on feeling good about oneself, but focus on feeling good itself. It is not necessary to feel good about your body, or about your financial situation; find thoughts that make you feel good.
It is recommended that you spend the first week writing 68 seconds about things that you don't care much about, such as blue glass, butterflies, feathers. Because you will attract those things. This exercise will teach you two things: one that you can focus for 68 seconds; two, that the universe does respond to a pure vibration. When you have a level of confidence in the universe, then you can tackle your main issues.
You should every day, twice a day, write your 68 seconds about all areas in your life, relationship, abundance, house, job, etc.
You will find it very easy to do. For instance, on your house, appreciate how convenient it is. Appreciate the thermostat that keeps the house at the perfect temperature. Appreciate the sewage system and the plumbing in your bathroom. Appreciate the comfort of it. Know that this house will be temporary, that you will have many others closer to the dream house you want, but meanwhile appreciate it. You see, there was 68 seconds.
So, in the next 30 days, write as many 68 seconds as you can. And do it deliberately.
Think about it! 68 seconds isn't hard to find. Throughout your day, you have thousands of opportunities to do your 68 seconds. Even if your work schedule doubled, you could still find plenty of 68 seconds?
Who would want to bang things into place, when they know that they can spend 68 seconds and have the universe do it for them? Nobody, yet it is what the majority of you do. You would rather jump into action than do your 68 seconds. You would rather jump into action than align up your energy.
Go beyond merely thinking about what you would like, to do or be or create. Go ahead and experience it in detail with all that you are. In your mind's eye, with your emotions fully engaged, surround yourself with the richness of whatever you envision. Fill your awareness with the sights, the sounds, the feelings, and the texture of it all. Allow yourself to experience the pure joy of the best life you can imagine. Let that feeling penetrate to the very depth of your being. Make it real within you, and you'll begin to make it real in the world around you.
WHY you want something, defines the essence of the WHAT you want, and the Universe always delivers to you the vibrational essence of your desire. When you think about WHY you want something, you usually soften resistance; (this is key!) But when you think about WHEN it will come to you or HOW it will come to you or WHO will help it to come, you often add resistance…
This is a hard part for most of us humans: we want to predict details or dates or the source. Release all expectations of HOW you will get it. Only focus on WHY you want it, and the essence of WHAT you want. That's it.
Attracting financial abundance in your life
Do you want to attract more financial prosperity into your life? Then remember that abundance is a feeling or a vibration, not a dollar amount in your bank account. No "facts" about the economy or your profession can limit your income unless you believe them.
Most of us were taught that as long as you work hard, you will be rewarded. But the truth is that plenty of people who work extremely hard do not get financially rewarded. The missing link about financial reward is found in your vibration about money, about your life, and about your daily moments.
If you want to attract more success and abundance into any area of your life, you need to change your vibration first. Your vibration must be lined up with (or "match") your desires (money, a relationship, a stronger body) in order for emotional and physical results to follow and show up in your physical life.
What is your vibration? Your vibration represents your current emotion, the essence of how you are "humming", or the "level" of your mood and feeling about any topic.
Changing your feeling from despair to hopefulness or from resentment to peace would do wonders for improving your vibration. When your vibration is "higher" or lighter or more appreciative, you are naturally more tuned in to the desires you want in your life. And while anger, hurt, resentment or bitterness are all legitimate feelings, when experiencing these emotions repeatedly, you are vibrating in a place that will NOT attract what you want into your life.
Most people want to attract a significantly higher annual salary, but what they are actually focusing on is what they can't do NOW because of the limitations to their current income. They are inadvertently focused on their lack, scarcity, the problems in their life because they don't yet have enough money.
Others talk about their huge expenses or how the economy is falling apart - as reasons why they want to and need to attract more cash. This confuses the Universe with its mixed messages about what they want. They are in essence saying "I want more money" and at the same time, focusing on "I don't have enough. Law of Attraction will offer" you what you focus on.
It is important to ask some questions regarding emotions towards finances - to help you formulate your real goals.
Why do you want more money? Why is it important to you? What are you going to do with it? What feeling will it give you? How will your life be different when you have enough or more than enough money? How might you change?
When you can answer these questions honestly, you are closer to feeling the vibration of the positive feelings you are moving towards, rather than being focused on the lack of money. Your goals will also be clearer.
People don't simply want more money. They want it for specific reasons…maybe to feel powerful, to feel free, to have options, or to be able to make different choices.
Let's say you are looking for the freedom you will feel when you have "plenty of money". You need to focus on that thrilling feeling as if it has already happened, as if you are already there. Focus on the feeling you want and that you hope to feel when you have more money. What is it that you are really looking for? How glorious will it be when you get there?
The Law of Attraction is always working, but we fail to see our blocks that cause us to magnetize the "wrong" situations or destructive relationships into our life. When we are focused on what we are frustrated with instead of on our goals and how good we will feel when we get there, Law of Attraction will still work perfectly. The only problem is you have aimed it at the wrong target (or fed it the wrong information). The Law of Attraction is turned on 24 hours a day, but it's our job to direct it towards our goals.
When you clear your blocks, the Law of Attraction will bring you opportunities and experiences you have been wanting, without much effort. Just remember: Your Vibration Comes First. You won't make progress in your life unless your vibration is positive, focused and clear, and you are "lined up" or in synch with the vibration of your desires –whether you want more money, better relationships, perfect business opportunities, or a healthier body etc.
This isn't about denial of the negative. This is about choosing your focus on the positive. You must be excited and expectant about the prospect of meeting the right business partners, attracting the right clients, reaching your goal weight, rather than on which relationship you can't wait to leave, what situation you hope to rid yourself of, or what debts you are trying to pay off.
The Law of Attraction is fueled by the emotions generated by what you are focused on. It is actually quite a mechanical recipe. What you are FEELING is what you are vibrating or communicating to the Universe. Your words don't matter if your vibration is communicating something different. Our work is to change our vibration first, then what we want can flow into our lives.
Excerpts from some of the great minds ,who have written about the universal law of attraction and power of intention . . .
Wallace D. Wattles – (The Science of Getting Rich - 1910)
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created
THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance. The stuff from which all things are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought of form in this substance produces the form
In creating, the Formless seems to move according to the lines of motion it has established; the thought of an oak tree does not cause the instant formation of a full-grown tree, but it does start in motion the forces which will produce the tree, along established lines of growth
We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.
You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself. You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impress the Thinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and misty concept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become. It is not enough that you should have a general desire for wealth "to do good with"; everybody has that desire.
When you try to impress your wants upon Substance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you must know what you want, and be definite. You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture, but no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind on a thing which he really wants; it is the things you do not really care about which require effort to fix your attention upon them.
Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it out in tangible expression. And behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering FAITH that the thing is already yours; that it is "at hand" and you have only to take possession of it.
Live in the new house, mentally, until it takes form around you physically. In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time; see yourself as owning and using them. Make use of them in imagination just as you will use them when they are your tangible possessions. Dwell upon your mental picture until it is clear and distinct, and then take the Mental Attitude of Ownership toward everything in that picture. Take possession of it, in mind, in the full faith that it is actually yours. Hold to this mental ownership; do not waiver for an instant in the faith that it is real.
Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life, and to get these desires arranged into a coherent whole; and then to impress this Whole Desire upon the Formless Substance, which has the power and the will to bring you what you want.
You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make it by holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and with steadfast FAITH that you do attain it. The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
The science of getting rich does not require you to apply power or force to any other person, in any way whatsoever. There is not the slightest necessity for doing so; indeed, any attempt to use your will upon others will only tend to defeat your purpose. Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you want than you are to get it. To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself.
Use your mind to form a mental image of what you want, and to hold that vision with faith and purpose; and use your will to keep your mind working in the Right Way. The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly you will get rich, because you will make only POSITIVE impressions upon Substance; and you will not neutralize or offset them by negative impressions.
The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by the Formless, and permeates it to great distances, - throughout the universe, for all I know. As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward its realization; every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yet uncreated, are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want. All force begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to move toward you. The minds of people, everywhere, are influenced toward doing the things necessary to the fulfilling of your desires; and they work for you, unconsciously
It should be the work of your leisure hours to use your imagination on the details of your vision, and to contemplate them until they are firmly fixed upon memory. If you wish speedy results, spend practically all your spare time in this practice
If you want to become rich, you must not make a study of poverty. You must not try to eradicate poverty in any of the conventional ways. Put poverty behind you, and put all that pertains to it behind you, and "make good." Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor.
What tends to do away with poverty is not the getting of pictures of poverty into your mind, but getting pictures of wealth into the minds of the poor.
The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends them a loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them an entertainment to make them forget for an hour or two; but inspiration will cause them to rise out of their misery. If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting rich yourself.
Frances Larimer Warner – ( Our Invisible Supply - 1907)
We all draw to us, through the law of attraction, all the good and all the error that we experience.
Spirit is substance which forms itself according to your demands, and must have a pattern from which to work. A pan of dough is as willing to be formed into bread as biscuit. It makes as little difference to Spirit what we demand
It is purely scientific that "Out of the imaginations of the heart, cometh the issues of Life." This is a mighty occult secret known to the adepts for hundreds of years. They hold steadily the vivid mental picture of the object they desire to manifest, and with them it manifests at once, seemingly from empty space.
Begin right now to see vividly your desires for a better environment and more congenial work already fulfilled; as the urge of life which presses upon the consciousness as desire, is always urge, and as a consequence must be followed with fulfillment
If we plant a seed in the ground we know that the sun will shine and the rain will water, and we leave it to the Law to bring about results. We do not see the process in nature, do we? Well, the desire you image is the seed, your occasional closing of the eyes in imagery is the sun, and your constant, though not anxious, expectancy is the rain and cultivation necessary to bring absolutely sure results, because relying upon Law. Of course, the ideal is the first requisite toward attainment
Every possession I now have came as the result of my active faith, and not through the work of my hands in uncongenial work, or even through the work of my brain. I began just taking God at His word and seeing myself in possession
"How can I lack any good, since mind is causation and I can think as I please?" "The power to create one's own self, to manifest as one chooses and as one pleases is a tremendous right and privilege
I was without a home for years and since the Law knows no great or small I decided that it could give me a home as easily as it could give me an ice cream soda. I began seeing myself in my home, would image myself about the house and grounds, and in fact in possession of all that heart could desire, and in less than a year it actualized into my outer environment— all that I imaged and more.
When a child asks money of the father, he does not know where or how his father gets his wealth or how he is able to give him what he asks for and he does not question as to that, he just believes that his father is wise and abundantly able to give what he asks of him. We absolutely must become as a little child, trusting where we cannot see, and ask, or rather give thanks, for having already received; then act as though God meant what he said. "He who believeth not God, maketh him a liar"
Joe Vitale – (Spiritual Marketing, The Attractor Factor – 1999, 2005)
Because we are all connected on this "behind the scenes" energy level, we can put requests into the universe at large and, if we're not too attached to the outcome and we are open to receiving the outcome we request, we will receive it or something better. The people involved in manifesting your request will feel your energy on an energy level. (We're all connected, remember.) They will be nudged by their own spirit within to help you achieve your goals
. . . we seem to create our lives out of our perceptions. If we focus on lack, we get more lack. If we focus on riches, we get more riches. Our perception becomes a magnet that pulls us in the direction of where we want to go. In that regard, most of us are on auto-pilot. We simply haven’t realized that we can take the controls. Knowing what you want helps you aim your life in the direction you want to take it.
What you hold in your mind with energy and focus will tend to be created in your reality. It takes a little longer to experience results because we keep changing our minds. Imagine going to a restaurant and ordering chicken soup. But before it arrives you change your order to won ton soup. And before that arrives you change your order back to chicken soup. You’ll sit there and complain, saying “I can never get what I want!”, when in reality you are the reason your soup is late. Most of us do that every day. Our indecision makes manifesting what we want nearly impossible
Begin to write out how you want the situation or condition to be. Get into the joyful feeling associated with having or doing or being the thing you desire. Really immerse yourself in this good energy. Describe the situation the way you want it to be, and paint this wonderful picture so completely that you can feel it as you write it.
The more you can fall in love with this new image and these new feelings, the faster you will manifest them
Emotion has power. Emotion also has the power to create what you want. Find within yourself what it will feel like to have, be, or do the thing you want, and you will begin to manifest the thing you want. The energy in the emotion will work to pull you toward the thing you want while also pulling the thing you want toward you
Just imagine that you already have what you want and write out a scene that describes it. Describe in such detail that you can feel it. Pretend you are a movie director and write a script for what you want to experience. Really get into it as you write it. Feel it. Sense it. Experience it. Again, when you think it and feel it, it comes to be
Napoleon Hill – (Think and Grow Rich – 1937 )
Thought impulses are forms of energy. When you begin with the thought impulse, DESIRE, to accumulate money, you are drafting into your service the same "stuff" that Nature used in creating this earth, and every material form in the universe, including the body and brain in which the thought impulses function.
As far as science has been able to determine, the entire universe consists of but two elements—matter and energy. Through the combination of energy and matter, has been created everything perceptible to man, from the largest star which floats in the heavens, down to, and including man, himself.
You are now engaged in the task of trying to profit by Nature's method. You are (sincerely and earnestly, we hope), trying to adapt yourself to Nature's laws, by endeavoring to convert DESIRE into its physical or monetary equivalent. YOU CAN DO IT! IT HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE!
TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects
Before we can accumulate riches in great abundance, we must magnetize our minds with intense DESIRE for riches, that we must become "money conscious" until the DESIRE for money drives us to create definite plans for acquiring it.
Only those who become "money conscious" ever accumulate great riches. Money consciousness" means that the mind has become so thoroughly saturated with the DESIRE for money, that one can see one's self already in possession of it. If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance
We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment. Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to ORDER
Taking inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self confidence. This handicap can be surmounted, and timidity translated into courage, through the aid of the principle of autosuggestion. The application of this principle may be made through a simple arrangement of positive thought impulses stated in writing, memorized, and repeated, until they become a part of the working equipment of the subconscious faculty of your mind.
Here is a most significant fact—the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind.
Following the preceding statement, consider the possibility of playing a perfectly legitimate "trick" on your subconscious mind, by making it believe, because you believe it, that you must have the amount of money you are visualizing, that this money is already awaiting your claim, that the subconscious mind MUST hand over to you practical plans for acquiring the money which is yours
Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.
Generally speaking, an idea is an impulse of thought that impels action, by an appeal to the imagination. All master salesmen know that ideas can be sold where merchandise cannot.
