Tuesday, 7 July 2009

How to make the law of attraction work fast

How to make the law of attraction work fast is a common question that is often born out of frustration. Yet, unwittingly, we may be the cause of our own frustration. Here are four questions designed to help you get the results you desire more quickly:

1. Are your visualisations real?
Make sure that when you are visualizing already having achieved the object of your desire that your mental movie is vivid and clear. This way you will communicate more effectively with your subconscious mind. It is your subconscious mind that is in communication with the Universe.

2. Are you cancelling out your desires?
You must be consistently positive in your thoughts. Don't let any negativity or doubts creep in as these will cancel out all of your positive thoughts.

3. Do you believe in the law of attraction?
Belief that the Universe will deliver the object of your desires is essential to your success. Your belief in the universal law must be absolute. Use positive affirmations to reinforce your faith.

4. Are you thinking in the now?
Are you acting and thinking as if the object of your desire has already been manifested to you. Do not think in the past or the future. There is only now, so stay in it.

Use your answers to these four questions to see where you might be holding yourself back from achieving the object of your desire with the law of attraction.

Monday, 6 July 2009

Basil turns his desire into reality

The laws of attraction do not respond to wishes, but the universal law will fulfil your desires if you go about it in the correct way. Let me give you an example from real life. The characters are real and this did happen.

Some years ago when I was employed by a large organization, I worked for a while with a very nice, polite, quiet man called Basil. He was quite a bit older than me. He never spoke ill of anybody nor did he join in the office gossip. he just got on with his job, the same job he had had for years. He was always punctual. Then one day all this changed. He resigned from the job he had done for years.

The boss gave him a leaving party, which Basil's wife was invited to attend. After the usual polite words of thanks for his service to the organization, Basil was invited to say as few words. We all expected a few polite words of thanks, but Basil stunned us all.

For years it has been the burning desire of him and his wife to become crofters in Scotland. They had mentioned this to no one, not even their family. They had been searching for a suitable farm for a long time, but nothing suitable had become available. Then, one day he got a letter informing him that a suitable property was to become available soon thereafter and asking him if he was interested in buying it. Basil seized the opportunity.

He and his wife had quietly saved enough money to buy a croft in a part of Scotland to which they were particularly attracted. They had acquired all the farming knowledge and skills they would need; and they had sufficient capital left over to support a modest lifestyle until they had established their farm.

Basil made a plan and he worked his plan to turn his desire into reality. He never gave up on his desire, and he received the object of his desire when it was presented.

Former colleagues who visited Basil on his croft reported meeting a "Basil" they had not known before. Notwithstanding the hardships of crofting, they found a very happy, contented man doing what he had a burning desire to do.


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Tuesday, 16 June 2009

The Law Of Attraction In The Thought World

By James Napier

The Law of Attraction is not a concept that has suddenly been discovered. A century ago many Americans embraced The Law of Attraction, said their daily affirmations, visualized what they wanted, and waited for the universe to deliver it to them, thanks to the writings of William Walker Atkinson who believed it was a "mighty law that draws to us the things we desire or fear, that makes or mars our lives."

"Our thoughts, we must realize, are not just things - they are FORCES," William Walker Atkinson declared in his book Thought Vibration: The Law of Attraction in the Thought World, a Law of Attraction classic written nearly a century ago.

When we replace thoughts of anger, hate, envy, malice, jealousy with positive, optimistic thinking," Atkinson says "A strong thought, or a thought long continued, will make us the center of attraction for the corresponding thought-waves of others....The man or woman who is filled with Love sees Love on all sides and attracts the Love of others....And so it goes, each gets what he calls for over the wireless telegraphy of the Mind."

Born in Baltimore, Maryland December 5, 1862, Atkinson, around the turn of the 20th Century, moved to Chicago and became a prolific writer. He wrote numerous new thought and positive thinking books under his own name, as Theron Q. Dumont, 13 books as Yogi Ramacharaka , Swami Panchadasi, Theodore Sheldon, The Three Initiates, Magus Incognitus and probably many other names not yet identified. Often he would quote these "expert writers" in his own books, all of whom were himself. Atkinson was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1903. It's not clear whether he ever practiced, but his Yogi Ramacharaka and Swami Panchadasi books became far more popular than his new thought writings. Today, a new generation is discovering his writings about the Law of Attraction.

Atkinson claims in Thought Vibration that "Many of the 'stray thoughts' which come to us are but reflections or answering vibrations to some strong thought sent out by another. But unless our minds are attuned to receive it, the thought will not likely affect us." Birds of a feather do not always, however, flock together since "There are, of course, widely varying degrees of positiveness and negativeness, and B may be negative to A, while positive to C." So, one of the benefits of affirmations, along with the fact they establish new mental attitudes in us, is that "They tend to raise the mental keynote so that we may get the benefit of positive thought-waves of others on the same plane of thought."

Atkinson insists "It is a waste of time to fight a negative thought-habit by recognizing its force and trying to deny it out of existence by mighty efforts. The best, surest, easiest and quickest method," he writes, "is to assume the existence of the positive thought desired in its place; and by constantly dwelling upon the positive thought, manifest it into objective reality." There may be a time to make a mighty effort, especially when the will and imagination are co-operating and in agreement. This becomes a great time for Desire to spring into action.

We draw to our aid and assistance the great volume of similar thought waves with which the universe is filled when we focus on such affirmations as "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better," or "My life energy is high," or "Nothing is too good to be true. Nothing is too good to happen. Nothing is too good to last."

We set into motion what Atkinson refers to as the great Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction should make us realize there is no value to thinking of all the possible things ahead of us, which might upset us and our plans. "When the mind is full of worry thoughts," Atkinson writes, "it cannot find time to work out plans to benefit you." "More than half the people of the world are slaves of every vagrant thought which may see fit to torment them," Atkinson says. Our minds were given us for our own use, not to use us and he encourages his readers to "Wake up and display a few signs of life!"

Positive auto-suggestion - and I use a phrase from Atkinson - "impresses upon us the importance of passing on to the subconscious mind the proper impulses, so that they will become automatic and 'second nature.' Atkinson asserts that "If you are confronted with the question: 'Which of these two things should I do?' the best answer is: 'I will do that which I would like to become a habit with me." Our mind, he says, "has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Every afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease - unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines. And the creases are habits; every time we make one it is so much easier for the mind to fold along the same crease afterward. Let us make our mental creases in the right direction."

Atkinson also points out in Thought Vibration that it is an axiom of psychology that "Emotions deepen by repetition." Each indulgence, we discover, makes a habit more at home. All too often we fancy that our emotions are who we are, which is far from the truth. "It is true that the majority of the race are slaves of their emotions and feelings, and are governed by them to a great degree," Atkinson observes. "They think that feelings are things that rule one and from which one cannot free himself, and so they cease to rebel. They yield to the feeling without question, although they may know that the emotion or mental trait is calculate to injure them, and to bring unhappiness and failure instead of happiness and success." Our emotions are not the way we are in the sense that we're made a certain way and have no choice in how we react.

Atkinson says that "one positive thought will counteract a number of negative thoughts," which I've found to be the case with the French healer Emile Coue's "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better," a phrase that became popular in the 1920's. We soon find our body "acting out" - responding to these thought forces - in so many beneficial ways! "...say to yourself: 'I like to do so and so,' and then go through the motions (cheerfully, remember!) and act out the thought that you like to do the thing." In other words, take an interest in it; become absorbed in your task until it creates for you what Joseph Campbell refers to as timelessness.

"In order to attain a thing it is necessary that the mind should fall in love with it," Atkinson writes. "The mind works on the subconscious plane....along the lines of the ruling passion or desire." If we scatter our thought forces, "the subconscious mind will not know how to please you, and...you are apt to be put off from this source of aid and assistance." According to Atkinson, "the man whose mind is full of a dozen interests fails to exert the attracting power that is manifested by the [person] of one ruling passion, and he fails to draw to him persons, things, and results that will aid in the working out of his plans, and will also fail to place himself in the current of attraction whereby he is brought into contact with those who will be glad to help him because of harmonious interests."

Atkinson says he turned around his life and business when "I simply began to realize what a good thing I had, and how much people wanted it, and how glad they would be to know of it and all that sort of thing, and lo! My thought seemed to vitalize the work and the seed began to sprout." His advice? "Keep in love with the thing you wish to attain...see it as accomplished already, but don't lose your interest!" Why is love so important? "Nothing but intense love will enable you to surmount the many obstacles placed in your path. Nothing but that love will enable you to bear the burdens of the task." Love then enables us to direct the power of our Will [which is in full agreement now with our imagination] toward the desired end with "invincible determination."

Here's where the power of belief comes into play. "So long as there exists in your mind the last sneaking bit of doubt as to your right to the things you want," Atkinson says, "you will be setting up a resistance to the operation of the Law [of Attraction]....Stop this crawling in your mind," he writes. And when it is time to toss away the playthings of the past, do not cry and mourn because, to move forward, its time to leave our playthings behind us, even though we enjoyed, at the time, the game of getting them.

"A state of discouragement is not the one in which bright ideas come to us," Atkinson writes. "Men instinctively feel the atmosphere of failure hovering around certain of their fellows." The Law of Attraction, whether we believe in it or not, is in full operation. We're at total liberty to oppose it and produce all the friction we want (it doesn't hurt the Law!) or co-operate and bring our desires into harmony with it.

"If you set your mind to the keynote of courage, confidence, strength and success, you attract to yourself thoughts of like nature; people of like nature; things that fit in the mental tune," Atkinson says. "Your prevailing thought or mood determines that which is to be drawn toward you - picks out your mental bedfellow. You are today setting into motion thought currents which will in time attract to you thoughts, people and conditions in harmony with the predominant note of your thought....and you will be attracted toward each other, and will surely come together with a common purpose sooner or later, unless one or the other of you should change the current of his thoughts."

Atkinson ends Thought Vibration by encouraging his readers to "Get the best that is to be had in the thought world. The best is there, so be satisfied with nothing less. Get into partnership with good minds....You must be tired of being tossed about by the operations of the Law - get into harmony with it."

So, Atkinson believed our thoughts to be real forces. They go forth from us in many directions in search of like thoughts - forming combinations - going wherever they are attracted and "flying away from thought centers opposing them. And your mind attracts the thought of others, which have been sent out by them conscious or unconsciously."

What, we may ask, am I sending out from my inner world every day and what am I receiving back?

William Walker Atkinson writes in Thought Vibration: "Worry could content itself with wringing its hands and moaning, 'Woe is me,' and wearing its nerves to a frazzle, and accomplishing nothing," William Walker Atkinson writes in Thought Vibration or The Law of Attraction in the Thought World. Desire acts differently. It grows stronger as the man's conditions become intolerable, and finally when he feels the hurt so strongly that he can't stand it any longer, he says, 'I won't stand this any longer - I will make a change,' and lo! Then Desire springs into action."

From our powerful desires, which spring from knowing exactly what we want - which he said the majority of the people of his era were unsure of - Atkinson believed we set into motion the attractive forces of a powerful principle which he refers to many times in his writings as the Law of Attraction.

His vigorous, forceful style of writing reads like you're holding a newly released book in your hands. "I have tried to infuse my words with the strong vital energy which I feel surging through me as I write out this message of strength to you," Atkinson wrote toward the end of his 1912 classic Mind Power: The Secret of Mental Magic. "I trust that these words will act as a current of verbal 'electrons,' each carrying its full charge of dynamic power...and thus awaken in you a similar mental state, desire and will, to be strong, forceful, and dynamic - determined to assert your individuality...which the universal Creative Will and Desire is hoping that you will be and do," which then Atkinson believed would activate the positive aspects of the Law of Attraction and draw into your life what you truly desire.

It is a romp to read Atkinson who told his readers, "I send to you this message charged with the very dynamic vibrations of my brain, as it converts the Mind-Power into thoughts and words."

Atkinson died November 22, 1932 in California, to the end a believer in what he called the "great Law of Attraction."

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James Clayton Napier worked as a TV news anchor, talk show host, and feature story reporter in Texas for thirteen years. James interviewed thousands of people during his career from the highest and mightiest to those whose lives were so quiet they might never have been noticed had he not decided to tell their stories. He has also taught TV news reporting and speech communication at three universities. Learn more about James' current projects at http://dollarsloveme.blogspot.com


Friday, 29 May 2009

The universal law of attraction: fad or secret power?

The universal law of attraction has received a lot a lot of publicity recently, but is it just a fad that will soon pass from memory like the last temporary craze or is it a secret power as some have claimed?

Is the universal law of attraction really a secret power?

When pared down to its constituent parts, the universal law of attraction is a set of principles. The correct application of which can have a dramatic and powerful effect. Although some people have claimed great and rapid results by the application of these principles, for most practitioners the results take longer and are less spectacular.

If there is a secret to successfully applying the universal law of attraction to your daily life, it is in how its principles are applied. But like many of the best kept secrets, the answer has been hidden in plain sight for centuries. It is just that in previous times only the enlightened few knew the real meaning of what they saw and read. Illiteracy and indolence kept this knowledge from the mass of people, but it has been in front of their eyes all the time. That this knowledge is not more widely known in our society can no longer be blamed on illiteracy.

Is the universal law of attraction a fad?

If you have not discovered its true nature or have not learnt to apply its principles correctly it can be easy to dismiss the universal law of attraction as a fad. But that is not correct. This universal law is not a new idea. It has been known for at least two millennia! Its principles are contained in the teachings of Jesus Christ, which have been in the English language for at least 400 years. Its popularity may wax and wane a bit over time, but the universal law of attraction will be with us for a very long time to come.

Which is it then, a secret power or a fad? It is neither of these. It is just what its names says it is; it is the universal law of attraction.

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Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Better than expected thanks to the law of attraction

The law of attraction often works in ways that are not immediately obvious.

Our previous temporary setback caused by the ploughman delaying starting work had meant we changed crops from that we originally intended to plant. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise. 

Today we harvested our first crop ready for market tomorrow. The yield was better than expected. The current market price for the crop is also a little higher than anticipated when we sowed the seed. What now seems to be a minor setback has become quite a significant achievement, all thanks to the law of attraction.

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Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Applying the law of attraction got my land ploughed

I use the law of attraction in my every day life and I'm getting some significant, if not spectacular, results.

Let me give you a case in point. My wife and I have a small plot of land that has been derelict for many years, which we wanted to bring back into cultivation. Its about 5 acres so it is too big to do on my own. We wanted the land cleared and ploughed.

We have a strong desire to cultivate the land and to earn some money from it. In fact the land is part of my wife's deceased parents' farm which has been divided up between her and her brothers and sisters. So our desire was strengthened by the wish to return this part of the farm to productive use.

I envisaged the lines of neat furrows in the good earth. I could see in my mind's eye the big blue New Holland tractor going about its work. I could hear the sound of its powerful diesel engine and I could smell its exhaust fumes.

I had faith that the land would be plouged and I was grateful for it being done.

The trouble was, although the ploughman had agreed a price, he just would not do the job. he was always just finishing off a job and would  be with us in a couple of days. This had gone on for weeks. The ploughman was not answering our phone calls and the end of the planting season was upon us. If we did not get the land ploughed very soon we would miss this year's crop.

The wife was all for giving up, but I continued to apply the principles of the law of attraction and maintained my faith that we would receive the results we wanted.

Just after 7am this morning we were awoken by the telephone ringing. It was a call from my brother-in-law, who farms the adjoining land, who called to say the ploughman had turned up and was ploughing the land as we spoke.

We hurried to our plot of land. There was not one, but three bug blue New Holland tractors busy clearing the land ready for ploughing.

Watching the ploughment going about their work my wife commented that although we had missed the planting season for our chosen crop, she had decided to plant other crops. Ones with a shorter growing season and a better resulted on investment.

Our temporary setback resulted in us receiving something better than expected. All thanks to the law of attraction.

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Friday, 27 March 2009

11 Forgotten Laws Review.

The 11 Forgotten Laws, a comprehensive online learning course that goes beyond the law of attraction, was created by Bob Proctor - one of the master teacher’s of The Secret.

Proctor says that there are really 11 universal laws and the law of attraction is only part of the wider picture. His proposition is that in order to truly master manifesting your desires you have to understand and integrate all 11 of the universal laws into your life. The 11 forgotten laws are:

  1. The Law Of Thinking
  2. The Law Of Supply
  3. The Law Of Attraction
  4. The Law Of Receiving
  5. The Law Of Increase
  6. The Law Of Compensation
  7. The Law Of Non-Resistance
  8. The Law Of Forgiveness
  9. The Law Of Sacrifice
  10. The Law Of Obedience
  11. The Law Of Success

He has named these laws The 11 Forgotten Laws, because he believes that, other than the law of attraction, few people know about them and fewer actually practice them.

What do you get for your money?

As seems to be the fashion these days, the sales page makes some bold claims for the $97 price tag, but can those claims be backed up? And what do you get for your money?

The ordering process is slick and easy to use, and what now seems the norm, there is an up sell product. In addition, there is a premium membership site for an addition $27 per month. I have looked at neither the up sell product nor the premium membership site.

A wealth of information

Once your order has been confirmed the entire package is available for download. There are 95 audio tracks in the programme containing a great deal of information and which come in mp3 format. These are easily loaded onto your mp3 player for convenience.

There is also an online workbook to track your progress and transcripts of each lesson. I found this useful and it helped to me to more quickly understand and assimilate each lesson.

I have read widely about the law of attraction, but I have yet to come across anything that comes close to what this product offers.

The benefits of the 11 Forgotten Laws

I have been working with the principles set out the 11 Forgotten Laws for some time and I have been pleasantly surprised at how much progress I have made. The results are nothing like the claims of some of the testimonials on the sales page, but my income has increased. There is still some way to go, but I’m getting there faster than I imagined was possible.

Who is this product for?

Be under no illusion, to receive the maximum benefit from this programme requires commitment, effort and an investment of time. It takes time to listen to all the audio tracks and then to fully integrate the principles into your life.

If you are unwilling or are unable to invest the necessary time and effort to learn and apply the lessons being taught in this programme or if you think that simply listening to the program is somehow going to magically change your life, this programme is not for you.

On the other hand, if you are serious about transforming your life, I highly recommend the 11 Forgotten Laws.>