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What is the Law of Attraction? (LOA) The LOA is the most powerful law in the universe. It is simple in concept but practice is necessary. But once you “get it”, _ there is no looking back. The simplest definition of this law is “like attracts like.” _ Other definitions include:

You get what you put your energy and focus on, whether wanted or unwanted. The Law of Attraction is neutral.

All forms of matter and energy are attracted to that which is of a like vibration.

You are a living magnet.

Energy attracts like energy

What it says is; all your thoughts, all images in your mind, and all the feelings connected to your thoughts will later manifest as your reality. In other words; everything you have in your life now has been attracted to you through your mind.
This means that both the things you are happy with and those you are not – are your own creation.

Most importantly it means from now on you can create your life consciously. You can start attracting only those circumstances that creates happiness for you – and leave out those you do not desire…

Being Guided by Feeling Good, Joyous and Free

Feeling joyous, free and just generally good is the key that unlocks your fortune in the universe with the LOA. All you need is to relax and have an intention. This means that you have a clear vision of the future which you are very clear about achieving or having it manifest in your life soon. You don’t need to know the details or how it’s going to happen exactly. It’s enough to know that you are clearly visualizing your desires and sending our the energy vibrations to attract those things in the universal mind which will cause them to be made manifest in your life. Know this and be at peace about it. Don’t allow negative thinking, worry or reaching too hard or too greedily to interfere with the flowing process.

Deep inner peace and joy will guide your attraction energies. When you are feeling these things, you will notice the good that currently is flowing into your life and you will pause and be grateful for it. On the other hand, constant fretting thoughts about how far away you are from reaching your goals makes you feel bad, which does not serve you well in using the LOA. Stick to visualizing the desires you wish to see made realities and focus on how you will feel when they are in your life. Don’t forget to feel the gratitude you will feel.

Remember to Be Grateful

Be grateful for what you already have when you are attracting more. If you wish more money, for example, pay attention to the money you already have. Focus on money coming into your life from earnings and unexpected money through winnings, gifts, windfalls, old insurance policy pay outs, rebates, found in odd places, etc. Don’t view it as money just for bill paying. It was unexpected, right? Have some fun with it and enjoy living abundantly. Buy yourself some gifts or buy some for someone else. This kind of prosperity consciousness is like priming the pump for more wealth to be attracted to you through the LOA.

Action and the LOA: Using Affirmations With the LOA

The relationship between action and the LOA confuses a lot of people. Are we supposed to be so relaxed and confident about receiving our desires that we do nothing but sit around and wait for them like we would wait for the mail carrier to bring our mail? You do need to take some action, but it needs to be the right kind of action, inspired action. That is action that goes with the flow. You are not struggling just affirming.

Once you have made your intentions clear, you need to set some time aside each day to affirm them. Repeating positive affirmations, and feeling them strongly as you say them, benefits you in several ways.

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is,” it says in the Book of Proverbs (23:7). Affirmations are short, positive thoughts that we program ourselves with to change our consciousness as well as our reality. They help the LOA work for you.

You can use the simple tool of positive affirmations to replace negative thoughts and beliefs to change your reality from negative to positive. An affirmation is a declarative statement, a reinforcing of a strong belief or something that you want to become a strong belief.

Positive affirmations are used in many religious, spiritual, intellectual groups to bring positive change. They help us reprogram our mind to expect and accept our desired goals. You attract the things you want in your life by repeating them regularly and with feeling. This occurs on the cosmic level, but the results are very real. New wealth is found, new health is experienced, more love does come into your life and much more. You get what you affirm.

Put some strong positive emotion into the speaking of the affirmation, even if you only speak it in your mind. Be passionate. Think how you will feel when the affirmation is 100 percent totally true. Be grateful for what is occurring as a result of the affirmation.

Visualize yourself and/or your friends and loved ones with the positive outcomes of the affirmations. See it clearly in your mind.

If negative self-criticism creeps in, substitute a positive affirmation that is appropriate for dealing with it. For example substitute, “I will never be self-supporting;” with “Life’s riches come to me as I require or desire them, and my life is wonderfully abundant.”

Don’t outline how your good should come to you. The universe is far more creative than you, and it will choose exactly the right channels to bring your good to you.

Create your own affirmations. Begin with the statement, “Today I choose…” Fill in a quality or entity that you want into your thinking. Repeat it during the day. Use it to guide your actions so they will be directed to your goals.

We build confidence and attain our dreams by using positive affirmations. We raise our vibrations to the frequency of the qualities we want to attract. Remember, in the LOA like attracts like.

Here are some examples of affirmations you may want to use:

I live abundantly and claim my good now.

I prosper everywhere I go because I love life.

I freely give my money and possessions to others with my love and goodwill. I
have abundance.

I deserve all the abundance I receive.

I visualize powerful images of my good coming to me now

You can write your own powerful positive statements. Just be sure that they occur in the present and that they are positive and speak as though your good has been manifested.

Write them on 3X5 index cards and take them with you when you leave the house in the morning. Take them out and re-read them with feeling throughout the day. You will very soon notice positive action on them occurring in your life.

Pay Attention to Synchronicity

The LOA is constantly working in your life whether you are aware of it or not. If you want to experience more abundance in your life, you will need to harness its power in a more conscious way. Sitting around greedily dreaming about wealth beyond your wildest dreams doesn’t produce money in your bank.

Instead, you need to pay attention to the synchronicity that will appear in your life and inspire you with actions to take that will produce results. You might, for example, be inspired to attend a certain event that ends up altering the course of your life in a positive, lucrative way. You might “accidentally” bump into someone who turns out to be important in getting your plans moving. You might read something that grabs your interest and sends you down a whole new path that you never imagined but that you now know is right. This type of natural inspiration followed by the right action is how the LOA works.

Money Alone Doesn’t Buy Happiness

Remember always that money by itself doesn’t make anybody happy. Those who pursue money for its own sake either fail and stay poor, or end up having to suffer, compromise themselves and experience pain to get it. You need to focus on the good that money can bring you, and realize that money is simply a tool which will enable you to do the things you desire. With the right attitude, money brings happiness and fulfillment. The freedom and the power it can bring are a great blessing. Money is not evil in itself, but it will never lead to lasting happiness on its own.

The Universal Mind and the Subconscious

All the great spiritual teachers have said that there is only one intelligence, the Universal Mind, and we are each manifestations of that intelligence. Our individual minds are to the Universal Mind as a drop of water is to the ocean. They are made of the same stuff.

Our subconscious mind is the center where everything happens. It is open to conscious thinking, directing mind. At the same time it is open to the Universal Mind. Our conscious mind’s job is to think. Our subconscious mind’s job is to actualize those thoughts and bring them into reality. It does this by accessing the Universal Mind. Our thoughts and beliefs are the key to creating our life experiences.

We cannot control the process. We can work hard to achieve results, but we cannot engineer Universal Mind. All the coincidences, synchronicities, the people turning up in your life at just the right moment, all the luck and serendipities, all of that is the work of the Universal Mind. Let go and don’t try to manage the process or you will only get in the way. Let the universe handle the details.

Affirm your intentions in your thoughts. When you plant a seed in the ground, you don’t keep digging it up to see how it’s progressing. You just need to tend the soil, water it and it will grow. Just keep tending your intentions with positive thoughts, and leave the rest of the process to the Universal Mind working through your subconscious.

Esther Hicks claims that non-physical entities called Abraham speak through her, and that her teachings (referred to as Abraham–Hicks teachings) are based on this experience. The basic tenets of the teachings include that we create our own reality through our thoughts, that our emotions are constantly guiding us toward where we want to go, and that life is supposed to be fun. Abraham Hicks says that as soon as we believe something it is ours. Our most important work is remove the barriers which are preventing it from flowing into our experience. Abraham calls this the art of allowing. We do it by being open minded and feeling good. Bring an open mind and not a set of expectations. Always focus on feeling great.

“Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth–that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.”–Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If we don’t make up our minds and make a decision, then how can our higher power and the universe line up behind us and start the synchronicity needed to make everything fall into place for a good manifestation of our desires? It’s a simple question. Indecision is a weak person’s game. It accomplishes nothing. It is a total waste of time and energy.

Decision-making is a muscle we build with practice. We make better decisions when we make more decisions. How else can we learn to trust the still, small voice within and our rich intuition if we never let them out for a trial run? Failure to make a decision is based on fear, doubt and weakness. It lets those negative characteristics paralyze us and keep us from moving forward. It is no way to live. You will never receive your desires at that rate or make your dreams come true. You will not succeed in life. You will only know failure.

Many fearful people use procrastination as a method of sabotaging their decision-making processing. Here’s how you put an immediate stop to that. Get a kitchen timer and put it next to you. Now decide how long it reasonably should take you to make a specific decision you’re having trouble with. Say fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes to come to a decision? Set the timer for that amount of time. Then weigh the pro’s and con’s knowing that you have within a deadline that you must stick to. When the buzzer goes off you are through. What’s your decision? Get in the habit of making all your decisions with the timer until you are a strong enough decision-maker to go without it.

There is also a solution that many spiritually mind people use. It’s called “Let go and let God.” And that’s all you do. You give the decision to God or to your Higher Power in prayer or even simply say “Take It.” Then you are done with it. You become merely an observer, and you watch which way things develop. You will soon find out what the decision is. Then go along with it and do the action steps, and all will work out well.

Other people, risk-takers, suggest that when you cannot make up your mind between two courses of action, simply choose the bolder one. It keeps things interesting and exciting. No gamble, no gain they say.

The dictionary defines decision as “The act of reaching a conclusion or making up one’s mind.” Another word for decision is choice. One definition of choice is alternative.

We always have a choice. Even if we feel we are being pushed into a corner and only have one option, we still have a choice. You might not see it clearly that day or be fully aware of it at the time, but you always have a choice.

William James, the famous American psychologist said, “When you have to make a choice and you don’t make it, that itself is a choice.” And that’s often a tragic one. When you could have exerted your will to change a consequence and make it favor you, and you were too weak and fearful to do so it’s your loss. Then you have to live with the unhappy consequences, and you have no one to blame but yourself.

Fear, uncertainty and doubt can back many a fine, but weak person, into a no-exit corner of non-resistance causing them to say yes when they wanted to say no.

An example is buying a dress because your shopping companion said it would look good on you and you didn’t want to disappoint her or make her think that you didn’t trust her taste and judgment. You ended up never wearing the dress, and finally giving it to Goodwill years later.

Letting a car salesman talk you into buying a vehicle that you didn’t really want because he went on and on about what a fool you’d be to pass up such a good deal. It was just not the car you wanted. You’re still driving it five years later, and you still regret buying it.

Staying in a bad marriage or relationship because you don’t want to be the one to pull the plug and create the scenes, the angry outbursts, and take the responsibility for the breakup. Also, you need the household money to live. A better decision would be to get a job to support yourself so you could move out and start healing from the experience.

Anthony Robbins, author and motivational speaker, says there are three decisions that control your destiny. He says they are:

*1. Decisions about what to focus on.
*2. Decisions about what things mean to you.
*3. Decisions about what to do to create the results you desire.

If we don’t make these decisions consciously, we will pay a major price. Your challenges today were no doubt created by some bad decision making prior to their creation. That’s the way it works.

Use what life gives you in the moment. The universe and your Higher Power do look after you. Synchronicity runs deep. Check around and feel which way the wind is blowing. Sniff the air. Take a few deep breaths. You just might find some signs to let you know which way to go.

Just remember if you really are to succeed you need to focus on the long-term and not onimmediate gratification. Be true to your highest personal qualities and on who you aim to become, not the moment of weakness you may be in presently and your lesser qualities.

When you decide to commit to long-term results and skip the short-term fixes, it’s as important of a decision as any you’ll make in your lifetime. You may suffer financial, societal or great personal pain otherwise that you didn’t even see coming. Always take the high road.

Remember the power of decisions: They can change your whole life. The hardest step in achieving anything is making a real commitment. Learn from your decisions.

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”–Helen Keller

“I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.”– Donald Trump …

Here is something you need to know about being able to think big: Our worst fear is not that we are we are losers and will fail. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We don’t know if we’re worthy of all that success, prestige, wealth, power, love, and joy. Here’s the thing: You are worthy of all that and more. And you can have it anytime you’re ready. Be ready today.

Dust off those dreams or imagine some new ones, and get busy making them come true. Thinking big is the only way to travel through an abundant universe that is just waiting to give us all our desires when we request them. If our thoughts haven’t let the universe know what we want, we can’t blame it for not manifesting our destiny.

Can you move out of your squalid little comfort zone and start getting really comfortable surrounded by your heart’s own desires? You know about the Law of Attraction don’t you? You know it can’t work if your energy doesn’t pair up with that of what it is you want made manifest. You must think big and you must believe. You are not merely wishing. You are commanding the universe, and it is waiting for your commands.

First of all, write down all of your big ideas/dreams. Keep writing until you actually can’t think of any more. Read them aloud with feeling. Be positive about them. Think of them in terms of already having received them–that they have all come true. Think how you would feel. Be grateful to the universe. Share them with a trusted friend, life coach, mentor or advisor. Never expose them to someone who will try to tear them down.

Remember you must overcome your life-long conditioning. We are all conditioned in this society to think small–to not expect anything so we won’t be disappointed, to not be greedy, to not think above our station in life. We have been victimized by a puritanical way of thinking since the day we were born. It’s time to dare to dream, and to think like the child of the rich father in Heaven which we are.

Do you know that some psychology researchers did an experiment where they put two classified help-wanted ads in the paper? These ads were for the same job, doing the same work for the same hours. One of them offered a salary that was many times what the other offered. And imagine this: About ten times more people applied for the lower paying job. People think small. They think that’s where they fit in. This is why they fail in life.

Are you afraid to think big? Afraid to be successful? Afraid to be too powerful or too wealthy? Do you prefer the dreams of these things to the real possibility of the reality of them? Can you be committed to being rich, being successful, being powerful? Can you work towards those things with everything you’ve got until they are realities?

Then set your goals. Goals are how we apply overwhelming force to the process of obtaining the things we want in life. You make a written plan and break it down into bite-size steps to use your intelligence, intuition, skills, talents, money, family, relationships, reputation, assets, environment, education–in short–all you are, to assist you in getting what it is you want.

You review these goals on a daily, or at the very least, weekly basis. You step up progress where it needs to be stepped up. You check off the steps you have completed. Before you know it you will have completed your goals and attained some dreams.

Always ask for more. Life expands if we’ll let it. Overcome your life brain-washing to want less, to be less. That kind of thinking is a tragedy. It leads to a wasted life. There really IS enough to go around. The universe has enough wealth, enough success and enough power to keep you and many, many others supplied with them. It never runs out. It just makes more. And the beauty of it is that the more you get, the bigger of an inspiration you are to others and the more you can share with them. The more you receive the more you can contribute and enrich the world.

You are a child of God. Your seeking to be less than you are doesn’t serve God. You are meant to manifest the glory of God. Don’t worry about making others feel insecure. Bring them with you by your example and generosity. We each are meant to let our own light shine. Remember it says in the Bible not to hide our light under a bushel basket?

Be free of your fears. They serve no purpose. They only concern the two days you can do absolutely nothing about: yesterday and tomorrow. For today be self-confident. Have faith. Think of the power of the universe which is made manifest in you and in your life. Your freedom from fear liberates others from theirs. You are a role model for those still living in fear. Watching you live, they realize they can step into the light of love and let go of their shackles.

Remember to dream those dreams that come from thinking big. Visualize them. Affirm them. Don’t seek validating from others. Be willing to take risks and to step our of your comfort zone. Write the dreams into goals and the goals into action steps you can take on a daily basis.

Be cheered by the words of this man who who definitely thought big: “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” — Walt Disney, Entrepreneur and Dreamer