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• Tapping Away Disallowing 
• The Art of Allowing is Not Disallowing, Five Easy Steps* 
• EFT With The Law Of Attraction To Allow The Feeling Of Abundance 
• The Law Of Attraction For Skeptics 
• Using Meditation To Assist In The Art Of Allowing 
• The Power Of Positive Imagining 
• The Five Steps To Feeling Good When You’re Feeling Bad In Less Than Five Minutes 
• The Amazing Power Of Gratitude 
• Who is Neville Goddard and is He Relevant Today 
• Four Steps To Attracting More Of Anything You Want 
• How To Improve Your Ability To Imagine and Visualize 
• Can You Create Your Own Reality 

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Tapping Away Disallowing

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Disallowing, getting in the way of our own allowing, is often a function stuck beliefs. These beliefs can be that we have to work hard, be busy, deserve what we get, or any number of other things. Many times, without being consciously aware, we become so involved with disallowing that we simply fail to allow.   

EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) or Tapping is a great way to release the energy around disallowing and to simply let the allowing happen. Allowing is our natural state and it is our blocks that have us disallowing. 

What follows is a Tapping sequence which can help release or dissolve the energy around disallowing. In using the following script, and without going into the details of how to do EFT, the tapping points are noted in parentheses. You should tap these points while speaking the phrases shown out loud. Speaking out loud and with emotion do improve the effectiveness of the technique. 

Note that results may vary from person to person.  If you are unfamiliar with Tapping, you can get a great background online by just looking up Emotional Freedom Techniques.    

Here is the script...before beginning, check in with yourself. How strong is the feeling that you are unable to allow? Rate that strength on a scale from 1 to 10, where 10 is a feeling that couldn't be any stronger and 1 is barely perceptible. 

(Side of the Hand)-Even though I just can't seem to allow my desire, 

-I deeply and completely love and accept myself, 

-Even though I just can't seem to allow my desire, 

-I deeply and completely love and forgive myself, 

-Even though my desire just won't manifest, 

-No matter how hard I try, 

-And I am feeling frustrated, 

-And I am feeling worried, 

-I really need this manifestation, 

-I know that the Universe responds to my thoughts, 

-And I have been thinking about this for a long time, 

-And I really want it, 

-But I just seem stuck, 

-And I can't allow this desire to come around, 

-It seems like the more I want it, 

-The further away it is, 

-So, I feel stuck and I don't know what to do, 

-But, even though I just can't seem to allow my desire, 

-I deeply and completely love, forgive and accept myself, 

-And anyone, or anything else that may have, 

-In any way contributed to this. 

(Eyebrow Point)-I just can't seem to allow my desire, 

(Side of the Eye)-I just can't seem to allow my desire, 

(Under the Eye)-I just can't seem to allow my desire, 

(Under the Nose)-No matter how hard I try, 

(Under the Mouth)-I just can't seem to allow my desire, 

(CollarBone Point)-And now I am frustrated, 

(Under the Arm)-Now I am worried, 

(Top of the Head)-Because I really need this desire now. 

- 

(Eyebrow Point)-I know that the Universe hears me, 

(Side of the Eye)-I know that, according to Abraham, 

(Under the Eye)-If I can desire something, 

(Under the Nose)-It can be manifest for me, 

(Under the Mouth)-So why is this so hard, 

(CollarBone Point)-Why can't I get this thing, 

(Under the Arm)-What am I doing wrong, 

(Top of the Head)-Because I really want it. 

- 

(Eyebrow Point)-I know that if I had my desire, 

(Side of the Eye)-It would make me happy, 

(Under the Eye)-It would make my life better, 

(Under the Nose)-It would make other people's lives better, 

(Under the Mouth)-I would be so grateful, 

(CollarBone Point)-I could relax and really enjoy it, 

(Under the Arm)-I could have fun, 

(Top of the Head)-I could be at peace. 

- 

(Eyebrow Point)-But I just can't allow it, 

(Side of the Eye)-Maybe I am just working too hard, 

(Under the Eye)-Allowing does mean allowing, 

(Under the Nose)-It doesn't mean forcing, 

(Under the Mouth)-And maybe I am pushing a little hard, 

(CollarBone Point)-Maybe I am wanting too much, 

(Under the Arm)-But I do want this, 

(Top of the Head)-But maybe I need to relax a little. 

- 

(Eyebrow Point)-Maybe I need to really believe in the Universe, 

(Side of the Eye)-Maybe I need to let the Universe deliver, 

(Under the Eye)-I could try just breathing deeply and enjoying myself, 

(Under the Nose)-I could just accept that my desire is sufficient, 

(Under the Mouth)-And that the Universe does hear me, 

(CollarBone Point)-And that the Universe does deliver, 

(Under the Arm)-The Universe never misplaces an order, 

(Top of the Head)-And I placed my order. 

- 

(Eyebrow Point)-Since I placed it, 

(Side of the Eye)-Maybe I just need to wait for the delivery, 

(Under the Eye)-And not spend so much listening to my doubt, 

(Under the Nose)-Listening to my left brain chatter at me, 

(Under the Mouth)-Maybe I could be peaceful and happy, 

(CollarBone Point)-Just knowing that my desire has be fulfilled, 

(Under the Arm)-My order is filled, 

(Top of the Head)-It is just on the delivery truck now. 

- 

(Eyebrow Point)-Maybe I have been so busy trying, 

(Side of the Eye)-There has not been any time for the delivery, 

(Under the Eye)-So maybe I should try less, 

(Under the Nose)-And just listen for the doorbell, 

(Under the Mouth)-I can make some space in my life for my desire, 

(CollarBone Point)-I can listen to the quiet and wait in peace, 

(Under the Arm)-I can try less and be happy, 

(Top of the Head)-I can be happy while I wait. 

- 

(Eyebrow Point)-That truck will arrive soon, 

(Side of the Eye)-And in the meantime, 

(Under the Eye)-I can be grateful for such a perfect system, 

(Under the Nose)-I can be grateful for my life now, 

(Under the Mouth)-I can be grateful for the contrast that I experience, 

(CollarBone Point)-That lets me want this, 

(Under the Arm)-I am excited about my desire being here, 

(Top of the Head)-I am gratefully and joyously allowing my desire now. 

- 

-Take a deep breath. 

Now, check in with yourself again. How strong is your feeling of disallowing now? Did it come down from before? Feel free to repeat this sequence as needed. 

Tap your troubles away. 

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The Art of Allowing is Not Disallowing, Five Easy Steps

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It has been said that it takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.  (I did a little more research on that and these numbers may not be exactly right, but there is a good principle here in any case.)  It seems that we spend time and energy being unhappy rather than simply relaxing and being happy.

In her book, “My Stroke of Insight”, Jill Bolte Taylor talks about recognizing the “little voice” in the left brain that just keeps making up stories, and she speaks of the need to quiet that voice.  Eckhart Tolle talks constantly about simply being in the present, or the now, because there are no problems in the now.  All problems exist only in the past or in the future.  Abraham (from Esther and Jerry Hicks and the Abraham-Hicks material) says that our only goal needs to be to “be happy now.”

We do live in a loving Universe.  We live in a Universe that is prepared to meet our every need and grant our every wish.  When we desire something, it is available to us.  Once we express a desire all we need to do is focus on it, and then allow it to enter our existence.  So why is it that we do not see continual and constant manifestation of all of our desires?  The short answer is that we do.  Everything in our experience is a direct result of our own thoughts.  As far as experiencing the things that we want to deliberately create, we simply fall down on the allowing end of the spectrum.

Allowing is like the proverbial smile.  It takes fewer muscles, and far less action, to allow than to disallow.  We are action and worry oriented though.  So we prefer to try and work our desires into reality.  The harder we work, the more frustrated we get.  The more frustrated we get, the more unhappy we get.  As we get unhappy, we work harder and pretty soon the allowing is lost in the noise and the buzz that we are generating.  We end up focused on the lack of our desire…and so, we manifest precisely our focus…the lack.

We can break out of this cycle of frustration and lack…and it requires much less effort than staying in this cycle…although it does require a new focus.  Here are the simple steps to allowing, and more importantly, to stop disallowing.

1)      Be clear on what you desire – Write it down.  Write it down a few times.  Commit a simple desire statement to memory.

2)      Be happy with the outcome of your desire – Make sure that you feel good when you think of your desire being manifest.  You should be able to envision your life with your desire manifest and feel joy…not just feel the absence of lack.  This is a key distinction.  Make sure you understand and feel your desire being joyous and not just as another band-aid to stop the current trauma.

3)      Ask for your desire – Spend five to ten minutes in a quiet place and ask God, Source, the Universe, whatever your name for the Universal Power is for your desire, and give thanks for receiving it.  Focus on the desire, the positive feelings when it is received and gratitude you feel for where you are now.

4)      Stop pushing and stop asking – The Universe never loses an order and it never fails to deliver.  Continual asking is a statement of lack and is the wrong focus.  Take action only as you feel the gentle nudges of the Universe…not as a series of desperate measures to try and force your desire into reality now.  Spend time focusing on the “gaps”.  Quiet your mind often and simply relax into the joy of the Universe.

5)      Watch your desire manifest – Once you stop doubting, stop changing your order, stop making yourself crazy with all the “left brain” stories, relax and use a few muscles to smile, your desire will simply move naturally into your world.  There are no exceptions and no limitations.  This works every single time.

The only reason we don’t see immediate manifestation of our desires is because we take action out of doubt and fear and lack, and so, we focus on disallowing.  Stop the disallowing and the allowing appears.  It really is as easy as that.

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EFT With The Law Of Attraction To Allow The Feeling Of Abundance

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EFT or Emotional Freedom Techniques (often referred to as tapping) can be a great aid in getting to the feeling you want so that the Law of Attraction can work for you.  Tapping was developed by Gary Craig and is based upon ancient Eastern healing traditions.

We will not cover the entire history of or rationale for EFT here.  Suffice it to say that the body consists of energy fields and in a well functioning (spiritually, emotionally and physically) body there is a natural and unrestricted flow of energy in, around and through the body.  The energy flows along paths called meridians.  When the energy flow is obstructed for any reason, any number or combination of maladies may occur.  Acupuncture used needles inserted at key points along the meridians to help release energy blockages.  Tapping uses the fingers of one hand tapping gently on key meridian points while speaking focusing, framing and releasing phrases to re-orient, release and refresh the energy flow through the body.

There are many great online sources for detailed information about EFT and how and why it works.  The success stories are too numerous to mention.

When trying to allow a feeling of abundance into our lives as a precursor to living an abundant life, which is the proper sequence if we are to allow the Law of Attraction to work properly, we often find ourselves blocked.  Our left-brain chatterbox voice continually kicks in and reminds us of what we don’t have, how much is lacking, why abundance is bad or selfish or simply not for us.  We get stuck in a frustrating loop of, on the one hand, desiring abundance while, on the other hand, sending out a message of lack of abundance to the Universe.  This is just old beliefs and stuck energy at work…and is exactly what EFT is great for releasing.

What follows is a short tapping sequence to help release the energy blocks and to allow the feeling of abundance to flow freely.  In using the following script, and without going into the details of how to do EFT, the tapping points are noted in parentheses.  You should tap these points while speaking the phrases shown out loud.  Speaking out loud and with emotion do improve the effectiveness of the technique.

One other disclaimer here; I am not a medical doctor nor a trained practitioner (there no longer exist any formal EFT certifications); results will vary by individual (although I believe that EFT always helps-and it cannot hurt); the specific ways in which EFT is employed vary widely, and all have been shown to be effective.  Approach this with a spirit of joy, fun, gratitude and expectation.

The tapping points are (and it doesn’t matter which side of the body you do these on): Side of hand – The karate chop point; Eyebrow Point – End of the eyebrow closest to your nose; Side of Eye – The corner of your eye, on the bone of the socket away from your nose; Under the Eye – Directly under the eye on the bone of the orbit; Under the Nose – Directly under the nose, above your lip roughly at the level of the top of your teeth;  Under the Mouth – The cleft between your mouth and chin directly below your mouth; Collarbone – There is some variance here, I prefer tapping directly below the chin on the point where the two ends of the collarbone join; Under the Arm – Directly below the armpit approximately four inches down; Top of the Head – Directly on the crown of the head and tap in a small circle.  The tapping should be hard enough to feel but not so hard as to cause pain.

With that as background, we can try a tapping sequence to help our energy flow around the feeling of abundance.

(Side of the Hand)-Even though I can't seem to feel abundant,

-I deeply love and respect myself.

-Even though I can't seem to feel abundant,

-I deeply love and forgive myself.

-Even though I can't seem to feel abundant,

-I just can't let go of the feeling of lack,

-I can't stop worrying about my bills,

-I can't stop thinking about what I don't have,

-Every time I look at my bank balance it gets worse,

-I worry about having enough food,

-I worry about having enough money,

-I worry about being taken advantage of,

-I worry about losing everything that I have,

-And even though I want abundance,

-I want abundance in all areas,

-I am afraid that I am sabotaging my abundance,

-With all my worries,

-And so,

-Even though I can't seem to feel abundant,

-I deeply love, respect and forgive myself,

-And anyone and anything that may be contributing to this.

-

(Eyebrow Point)-I can't seem to feel abundant,

(Side of the Eye)-I can't seem to feel abundant,

(Under the Eye)-I can't seem to feel abundant,

(Under the Nose)-It's not just that I can't feel abundant,

(Under the Mouth)-I am not abundant,

(CollarBone Point)-And that worries me,

(Under the Arm)-I want to be abundant,

(Top of the Head)-But I can't feel abundant.

-

(Eyebrow Point)-I have to get the feeling before I can get the thing,

(Side of the Eye)-The Law of Attraction says that,

(Under the Eye)-So I have to feel abundant,

(Under the Nose)-And I just can't.

(Under the Mouth)-I can't feel abundance,

(CollarBone Point)-Because I can't get past all my worries,

(Under the Arm)-And my worries are legitimate,

(Top of the Head)-Just look at the checkbook.

-

(Eyebrow Point)-But, maybe I am overreacting, just a little,

(Side of the Eye)-I do have a lot of things,

(Under the Eye)-In a lot of the world, I would be viewed as a king or queen,

(Under the Nose)-Sure times are tough now,

(Under the Mouth)-But they have been tough before,

(CollarBone Point)-And I have survived,

(Under the Arm)-And even if they seem worse this time,

(Top of the Head)-I'll probably survive this too.

-

(Eyebrow Point)-Maybe I can just be grateful for the little things,

(Side of the Eye)-And there are still a lot of little things to be grateful for,

(Under the Eye)-Maybe I even have an abundance of little things,

(Under the Nose)-So I can be grateful for that abundance,

(Under the Mouth)-I can be abundant in little things,

(CollarBone Point)-And once I am abundant in little things,

(Under the Arm)-I'll bet I start seeing bigger things.

(Top of the Head)-And then I can get to the feeling of abundance.

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(Eyebrow Point)-I am breathing and my body is working, at least a little,

(Side of the Eye)-And I have a computer, or access to one,

(Under the Eye)-My brain is working,

(Under the Nose)-I do know what I want, and what I don't want,

(Under the Mouth)-I want to feel abundant,

(CollarBone Point)-And I can feel abundant, because I am,

(Under the Arm)-I am abundant in the most important ways right now,

(Top of the Head)-I accept my abundance with joy and gratitude.

-

-Take a deep breath.

Now, hopefully that helps, at least a little.  Feel free to do it again.  Play with the words.  Make it fun.  Tap and tap and tap your way to abundance and true allowing.

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The Law Of Attraction For Skeptics

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Do you know anyone who is skeptical about all this “Law of Attraction stuff”?  If you talk about it publicly, I am sure you do.  Maybe it is even you.

What is it you hear?

·         Oh, if the Law of Attraction worked I wouldn’t have all this bad stuff…this certainly isn’t anything I want!

·         I have been focused on getting rich all my life…and look where I am now…nope, this doesn’t work!

·         I am dying from this disease…I would never attract that!

·         And on and on and on…

Sound familiar?  Sound maybe too familiar?  Maybe these are words out of your own mouth.

Let’s take a look at the Law of Attraction in action.  Are you a sports fan?  Have you ever seen a quarterback who just can’t complete a pass, and the more he tries, the worse it gets?  Have you ever watched a golfer needing to hit across a water hazard reach into his bag a pull out a scarred “water ball” – and hit directly into the water?  Still with golf, have you ever seen a golf pro get “into a zone” and sink every putt he tries?  What the about the pitcher who can’t hit the strike zone, or the one who can’t miss?

Not into sports, well just listen to these Law of Attraction based phrases:

·         Bad things come in threes

·         Birds of a feather flock together

·         The worse it gets the worse it gets

·         If it weren’t for bad luck, she wouldn’t have any luck at all

·         Everything he touches turns to gold

These phrases and thousands more like them did not just come into our language by chance.  The sports examples above cannot all be coincidence.  These attraction based figures of speech and observations are evidence of the existence of the Law of Attraction.

Imagine how peculiar the Law of Gravity must have seemed when it was first observed.  Sure, apples fell from trees, but birds flew and boats floated.  When you dropped something, you could not predict with perfect accuracy where it would land.  When you shot an arrow, you knew that putting some arch in it actually increased the distance that it went.  What did all of this mean about gravity?  It simply meant that there were multiple forces at work, and while gravity always worked, the other forces influenced our observation of it.

So it is with the Law of Attraction.  Sometimes we really are not focused on what we say we are.  We may say we want money, but we are really focused on the lack of money (and so it is the lack of money that we get.)  Our attitudes, beliefs, concerns all effect how we observe the Law of Attraction.  That said, with sufficient analysis, there is simply no evidence that the Law of Attraction does not work.  Every single thing we have, we attract.

Maybe it’s time, as with gravity, that we stop resisting and start understanding.

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Using Meditation To Assist in The Art Of Allowing

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There are three Universal Laws: The Law of Attraction; The Law of Deliberate Creation (sometimes referred to as The Science of Deliberate Creation), and; The Law of Allowing (also referred to as The Art of Allowing).

The Law of Attraction is very simple…that which is like unto itself is drawn.  This is the most powerful, all-encompassing of the Universal Laws.  It is the Law to which everything that happens can be attributed.  We have no influence over the operation of the Law of Attraction.  Like gravity, this law is always at work.  Just as “what goes up much come down” is a persistent, ubiquitous consequence of gravity, the manifestation of those things upon which we focus is always the outcome of the Law of Attraction.  While we cannot change the Law…we can change the things that “we throw up”, or the things we focus on, and in so doing we change “what comes down”, or the manifestations that we experience.

The Law of Deliberate Creation says that we create that which we think about.  If we can deliberately focus our thoughts on that which we desire, we can create any outcome that we want.  If we can focus on a pure desire for 68 seconds, we can begin the manifestation of that desire. 

The Law of Allowing states that when we are in vibrational alignment with our desire, it will, at that point, come into our existence.  The “trick” to allowing is to give up the needing, the fear, the want, the control and simply allow our expressed desires to be delivered by Universal Power.  As physical beings, we tend to be “wired” to be control oriented.  We want to influence the way something happens.  We have a need to worry something until it happens-or not.  Unfortunately,  most of our worry focuses on the absence of something, or on the presence of a desired something and while our stated desire may be for what we want, our alignment is with that which we do not want…and so we get stuck.

It is important to recognize that our ability to desire something ensures that we can have it.  Once we have expressed our desire, it goes into vibrational escrow until we allow ourselves to feel good and come into vibrational alignment with the positive expression of our desire.

It can be a challenge to “not think about something” and while we can force ourselves to focus on the affirmative side of our desire for periods of time, that is difficult while we are in our conscious state, since we are continually reminded about what we do not have.

Meditation quiets the mind.  It stills the active, conscious thoughts and allows us to stop resisting.  Active, guided meditation can provide us with focused periods of pure thought about our desire, without the tendency to drift back to the “side”.  Passive meditation allows the simple quieting of the mind…and so allows our vibrational level to rise naturally to the level of our desires.

In passive meditation, one simply sits quietly for 15 or 20 minutes, breathes normally and focuses on one’s breathing.  When thoughts drift in, and they will, they are simply released and focus returns to the breathing.  It may be helpful to use quiet music or sounds of nature in the background.  Today it is also possible to find binaural beat or brainwave entrainment audio accompaniments to meditation which very effectively help draw the mind into synchronized theta levels (which are the same as those when we are in the dream state) and allow very effective quieting of the buzz of conscious thoughts.  Doing passive meditation once or twice a day will be of tremendous value in the Allowing process.  During these quiet moments the pure value of our desires are allowed to manifest without the confusion of conscious thought, and so manifestation can come much more quickly.

Active, or guided meditation takes the form of holding an intent to think about a specific thing, like our desire, as we go through the meditative process.  Now, instead of focusing on our breathing, we focus on our desire.  This is very powerful.  Again, it is possible to find audio aids which can, in semi-hypnotic ways, guide you into meditative relaxation and the absence of conscious noise and facilitate the focus on a specific desire.  Exercising this form of pure thought powerfully influences the manifestation of desires. 

Meditation helps us escape from the conscious blockages that impact our ability to effectively allow that we are trying to deliberately create by capitalizing on the Law of Attraction.  Anyone who wishes to take control of their “manifestational life” should begin an active, daily program of meditations.

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The Power of Positive Imagining

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When  Norman Vincent Peale wrote “The Power of Positive Thinking”, he was a addressing a very important problem that we humans all tend to suffer from to a greater or lesser extent while in physical form.  He was talking about self-confidence and belief in oneself.  The opening sentences of his book are,  “Believe in yourself!  Have faith in your own abilities!  Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.  But with sound self-confidence you can succeed.” 

Just a little further on, he continues, “It is appalling to realize the number of pathetic people who are hampered and made miserable by the malady popularly called the inferiority complex.  But you need not suffer from this trouble.  When proper steps are taken, it can be overcome.  You can develop creative faith in yourself – faith that is justified.”

Norman Vincent Peale was right, of course.  His book should be mandatory reading for humanity.  But a strange thing has happened over time.  People have lost sight of what his concept of positive thinking was all about.

Today, with our “make it easy”  mindset, we have tried another path of least resistance.  “Thinking” has become just words, mind-chatter, and maybe affirmations repeated endlessly.  We have lost sight of the true power and force – emotion.

The difference between simply thinking and imagining is emotion.  When we think, we talk to ourselves, most often clinically, sterilely and with every effort to be objective.  When we imagine, we get in the feeling of what we are thinking.  When we imagine, we move for a time, into the place that we imagine.  We can touch, feel, hear, smell, taste the thing we imagine.  Of course, the thought of the thing is there, but it is accompanied by emotion.

When we positively imagine our life, we make changes.  When we see our life as we want it to be and feel that life, we create that life.  As Neville Goddard has said, when we “live in the feeling of the wish fulfilled”, we are on our way to manifesting that wish.

More than positive thinking, more than positive sounding words or pleasant mind-chatter, real change comes from positive imagining.  Living with all the good the feelings of the thing we are thinking and dreaming about.  Of course, positive thinking is better than negative thinking anytime…but when change is what you want, put emotion into the thought and turn it into positive imagining.

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The Five Steps To Feeling Good When You’re Feeling Bad In Less Than Five Minutes

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It happens to everyone.  Sometimes things happen, life conspires, events occur, and even though we may know intellectually that we are 100% responsible, we feel bad.  Bad could be scared, it could be upset, it could be angry, it could be worried, it could be some of all of them…but whatever it is, we feel bad.  Then we try and use our “spiritual knowledge”, take 100% responsibility and we find ourselves in an even faster downward spiral.

We can turn it around…and we have to.  The Law of Attraction says that the worse it gets, the worse it gets.  Feeling bad attracts more feeling bad.  The most important thing we can do is to feel better and feel better now.

Once you know you are feeling bad and you acknowledge that you want to feel better, you are really already started…and here is how to get to feeling good.

Step 1 – Say Thank You.  You may not be feeling particularly grateful at the moment, but that doesn’t matter.  Say Thank You to the Universe.  At the very least you can be grateful that at least you can feel something.  Feeling is the emotional guidance system at work and just knowing that your system is working as it should is a great start.  There is also a lot more to be thankful for…no matter what is happening, you have a miraculous life going on just existing in your physical body and the entire world is working exactly like it ought  to be…so feel grateful.

Step 2 – Now that you have got a little gratitude going, it is time to recognize that you are responsible for whatever you are getting in your life.  You did it, you made it, your life is your creation and so, whatever it is you are feeling bad about is something you created.  Now that you recognize that, you should feel pretty good about your ability to create.  You powerfully created your experience, and if you created the one that you are feeling bad about, you can create one to feel good about.  That knowledge in and of itself should give you at least a little wry smile.  Take advantage of that and smile.  Smile for a full minutes, 60 full seconds.  Do you know how hard it is to smile and feel bad at the same time?

Step 3 – The emotional turn-around has started now, so take advantage of it.  Ask yourself the question, “What do I want?”  Something has made you feel bad and you can identify what that is, and you know  that you do not want that.  So, turn the bad into the good by asking yourself, “What do I want?”  If someone made you angry, perhaps you want to feel good about the person.  If you can’t pay your bills, you might want a quick, easy and effortless flow of money.  Whatever it is, identify what you do want and focus on that.  Spend a minute just thinking about having what you want.

Step 4 – Use the Law of Attraction to your advantage (you use gravity to your advantage all the time, so why not Attraction).  According to Abraham in Esther and Jerry Hicks’ book, “Ask and It Is Given”, “…the Law of Attraction is so very powerful that when you hold a thought for as little as 17 seconds, another thought like it will join it…if you manage to stay focused upon any thought for as little as 68 seconds, the vibration is powerful enough that its manifestation begins.”  So, take what you do want and phrase it in the present tense as though you now have it.  If you want a quick, easy and effortless flow of money, then your statement would be, “Money is flowing to me quickly, easily and effortlessly.”  Once you have that statement, take a blank piece of paper and handwrite that sentence with your dominant hand (your right hand, if you are right handed, your left hand if you are left handed) ten times, and then with your other hand (penmanship does not count) five times.  You will now have been focused on what you want for at least 70 – 80 seconds.  You should be feeling pretty good.

Step 5 – End where you began, with gratitude.  Give thanks for your new better feeling.  Give thanks for a perfect Universe and a perfect creation where your feelings are your guide and where you can guide your feelings.  Just be grateful.

Once you have mastered this little five step process that takes much less than five minutes you will find that you feel bad a lot less often and for a lot shorter period of time than you used to.  You may even welcome the occasional bad feeling, since it is just your guidance system at work, and it will always lead you to a better feeling and the beginning of the manifestation of something you really want.

So, no matter what, you can feel good now!

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The Amazing Power Of Gratitude

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There is no greater power in the Universe than gratitude.  Being sincerely thankful is the demonstration of universal love.  There is nothing that you cannot be, do or have once you learn to grateful for everything in your life.

It is easy to be grateful in good times (although it is also easy to forget), but I can hear the objections:

·         “How can I be grateful for those bills?”

·         “I am getting divorced and I hate it, what’s to be thankful for?

·         “My best friend/spouse/parent/child just died, and you want me to be grateful.”

Gratitude does not mean that we have to be excited about negative events.  Gratitude means that you are honestly able to find the joy and peace in any situation.

Buddha wrote, “You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.”

So what about the death of a loved one?  Perhaps it prevented them from suffering.  Perhaps it is simply an opportunity for personal growth.  On the “Happiness and Peace” website, an article submitted by Larry has the following:

“Before my son's illness, I was consumed in the material world. I went to work to make as much money as I could, to buy material things that I would soon become disappointed with. And the cycle would start anew. I did not take time to appreciate all that I had. Not a single moment. I was seeing happiness in how much I could achieve, acquire and consume.  

My son Matthew’s death opened my eyes and changed my life forever. I began to see life differently. Matthew showed me how to appreciate every moment of life. I enjoy every new day, every sunset. I appreciate those lives I encounter. It was by slowing down and appreciating, that I found the greatest gift of life- gratitude!”

Gratitude is possible in every situation, every circumstance.  Once we realize that and learn to look for the gratitude opportunity, our lives change forever.

There is even more than simply being grateful in the “reality of the moment.”  According to Wallace Wattles, “People who can sincerely be thankful for things which they own in imagination have real faith.  They will get rich; they will cause the creation of whatever they want.”

Our ability to be grateful for both what we have and for what we imagine ourselves to have and for all that we desire is the power that allows us to create our own realities.  Once we can be grateful in all moments, the Universe will respond by giving us more to be grateful for.  Once that cycle begins, we cannot help to have the life we want, for we will be loving the life we have.

Practice gratitude and that practice will bring you joy, peace and the very life that you desire.

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Who is Neville Goddard and is He Relevant Today

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In order to get whatever it is you desire, you must “live in the feeling of the wish fulfilled,” taught Neville Goddard.

Born in 1905 and leaving this physical plane in 1972, Neville was born in Barbados, West Indies and moved to New York when he was 17.  After working in department stores and then studying drama, he moved on to lecturing and presenting on what some call mysticism, some refer to as New Thought and other label Spirituality in 1932.  His body of work, most preserved in written form and some as recordings is immense.

“Imagining creates reality,” he said.

During one lecture he said, “Learn to use your imaginal power, lovingly, on behalf of others, for Man is moving into a world where everything is subject to his imaginal power.”

Napoleon Hill, who said, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve,” lived from 1883 – 1970 and published Think and Grow Rich in 1937.  There is no evidence that Neville and Napoleon Hill ever met or even heard about each other, but they would have had very important core agreements.

Neville said, “I ask you to take me seriously. Imagination will fulfill itself, so do not limit yourself by anything that is now happening, no matter what it is. Knowing what you want, conceive a scene which would imply you have it. Persuade yourself of its truth and walk blindly on in that assumption. Believe it is real. Believe it is true and it will come to pass. Imagination will not fail you if you dare to assume and persist in your assumption, for imagination will fulfill itself in what your life becomes.”  He also said, “Every fact is a dream made visible, so I invite you to live as though your dream were already a fact! I am convinced that every dream (desire) I have dared to live in the now has gradually and unnoticed blossomed into fact in my life.”

Again, there is no reason to believe that Esther and Jerry Hicks with all of their Abraham-Hicks work, beginning in the mid-80’s  were directly touched by Neville…but it is clear that Neville’s muse was closely related to Abraham.

It is becoming abundantly clear from a wide number of disparate sources that we hold the power to create our own reality…in fact, more than the ability, we can’t help but create our reality…or only choice is whether we are in control of that creation.

Neville understood this.  He spoke eloquently and passionately about creating our desires by using our imagination.  He had the answers through his entire life.

Is Neville relevant today?  Only if we chose to create our own reality as we are empowered to.  He provides a critically important perspective on our own creative ability and is well worth significant study.

"The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which every man should aspire; for supreme power, supreme wisdom, and supreme delight, lie in the solution of this great mystery.”

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Four Steps To Attracting More Of Anything You Want

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 Having whatever you want may sound like quite a stretch…but it is really not as hard as it seems. Of course, when you don’t have something you want, or maybe something you NEED, getting it may seem impossible. In this infinitely abundant Universe, nothing is impossible.

As Napoleon Hill said in Think and Grow Rich, “Our only limitation, within reason, lies in the development and use of our imagination.”

There are four steps to attracting and manifesting anything that you desire.  By virtue of the Universal Laws (The Law of Attraction, The Law of Deliberate Creation and The Law of Allowing), if you follow these steps faithfully, you must attract whatever it you want.  You can be, do or have anything.

Step 1 : List Your Desires – By this time in your life you probably have a long laundry list of desires.  Some will say that they don’t know what they want…well, that is just wrong.  That is just fear speaking.  So in this first step take a blank piece of paper and write the numbers 1 through 20 down one side.  Now, very quickly, take less than two minutes, write down a list of the things you want to be, do or have in your life.  Do it now.

Step 2: Prioritizing Your Desires – You can have any of the things that you wrote down.  Through Esther Hicks, in Esther and Jerry Hicks book, Money And The Law Of Attraction-Learning To Attract Wealth, Health And Happiness, Abraham says, “If this time-space reality has within it the ability to inspire a desire within you, it is absolute that this time-space reality has the ability to yield you a full and satisfying manifestation of that same desire.  It is Law.”  So, your desire is sufficient proof that you can have it. 

Since we do have some limiting beliefs, and we do get stuck sometimes, while there is no true reason for this being so, we find it easier and more effective to focus on a single desire at one time.  This means that we have to pick one desire from the list of twenty that you just made.  This won’t be hard either.

First, just go through and cross out the ten least important…again, do this quickly, take less than a minute, just listen to your heart.

Beside each of the remaining ten, write a number from one to ten, where ten is the desire that you want most and one is the desire that you want least and use every number only once.  Now next to that number write a second number from one to five where five means that you can actually see that desire happening somehow (don’t worry about how) and one means that you can’t even envision the miracle that it would take to get that desire.  You can use any of the numbers one through five as often as you would like.  Move fast, the Universe likes speed.

Now, total the two numbers that you just wrote down.  Look at the desires with largest totals next to them and pick the one that your heart tells you to choose.

Step 3: Looking At Your Desire The Right Way – Desires can be driven from want or from joy.  You cannot manifest from want, you can only manifest from joy.  (Don’t worry if you feel unhappy right now…we’ll get past that.)  The point here is that you have to look at your desire and focus on what it will bring you, not what it will help you avoid, get you out of, or get rid of.  If your desire is to “Have all my bills paid in full,” and your motivation is, “Because I hate the stack of bills sitting on my desk,” you are actually focusing on the pile of bills and all you can get are more bills.  If you can begin to shift your focus and have your desire be because, “I feel good when I satisfy all my obligations to others, and it feels good to know that I have sufficient money flowing easily into my life.  Having my bills paid allows me to spend more time having fun and doing the things I enjoy and paying my bills is the right thing to do,” then you are moving to right end of the vibrational spectrum.

Take the single desire that you have chosen, and on a new, blank, piece of paper, write that desire on the top.  Now, under that write, “I want this because,” and start writing all the reasons why you want this thing.  Before you start, set an intention to find all the positive, uplifting reasons why you want you desire.  Now take as long as you need to create you positive statement as to why you want to be, do or have this particular thing.

Step 4: Live In The Feeling Of The Wish Fulfilled – Now for the most fun step of all.  Neville Goddard said, “I ask you to take me seriously. Imagination will fulfill itself, so do not limit yourself by anything that is now happening, no matter what it is. Knowing what you want, conceive a scene which would imply you have it. Persuade yourself of its truth and walk blindly on in that assumption. Believe it is real. Believe it is true and it will come to pass. Imagination will not fail you if you dare to assume and persist in your assumption, for imagination will fulfill itself in what your life becomes.”  He also said that the way to make something happen is to “live in the feeling of the wish fulfilled.”

So, now that you have your primary desire and you have gotten positive about why you want, take one more blank sheet of paper (and if you have been cheating and have not yet written anything down, do write this down, it is the most powerful step you will ever take) write across the top, “Now that I am or have my,” and fill in your desire.  Make sure you are stating your desire in the present tense.  Then continue with, “I feel” and write how you feel.  Write what you are doing now that you have your desire…now that it is here and you have fully manifested it.  Then, write down a telephone conversation with your best friend describing how your life has changed now that your desire is here.  Next write down a description of something that you are about to do now that your desire is manifest.  Finally, write another statement about how you are feeling with your desire accomplished.

Read what you have written, take a few deep breaths, close your eyes and sit for a few minutes savoring these feelings of your desire fulfilled.  Repeat this process as often as you can until, as if by magic, and it will seem so natural it will catch you unaware, you truly are living in your desire fulfilled.

That’s all there is to it…have fun.

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How To Improve Your Ability To Imagine and Visualize

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A common misperception among many people is that they can’t visualize. The truth is everyone visualizes and everyone has an active imagination. 

If you have caught yourself daydreaming, then you know that your imagination works.   If you have ever thought about something that you don’t have yet, you can imagine and if you can imagine and if you can imagine, you can visualize. 

What seems to throw people off is the belief that visualization means having a crystal clear picture in their mind, like looking at a television screen.   Some people can do that…most cannot.   For most people, visualization is a feeling, a sense…it may include odors, tactile sensations, sounds…and it is often some combination.    All of it is visualizing. 

The following exercise will help to strengthen both the belief in your ability to visualize and the process itself. 

First, read the rest of this article all the way through…maybe a couple of times, until you have the instructions and the exercise clearly implanted in your mind.   Once you have done that, sit comfortably, close your eyes and take three very slow very deep breaths…these breaths should start all the way at the bottom of your lungs and fill them all the way to the very top until you can feel your shoulders stretching.   Breathe in through the nose, hold the breath for a couple of seconds and then gently exhale through the mouth. 

At this point, you should feel comfortable and relaxed. 

Then, remember this exercise and begin. 

Remember your ability to imagine, to daydream, to have fun with your thoughts and with the eye of your mind.  

As you relax and rest comfortably, eyes closed, breathing easily, picture the room around you.   See the objects in the room.   In your mind and only in your mind, get up, and walk across the room to the first object that attracts your attention.   Pick up that object.  

Stick out your tongue and touch the object with the tip of your tongue.   How does it taste?   How does it feel in your hands?   Now, gently, you don’t want to break it, set it down. 

With your body continuing to relax comfortably right where it is, leave that object and walk out of the room.   Go to another place you like to be.   Once you are there, look around.   What do you see?   How does this place feel?   Sit down.   How did your body feel as you sat down? 

Now spend a few minutes, sitting, relaxing, enjoying being in this new place.   Just rest and enjoy. 

Without standing up, using only your mind, look back into the room where your physical body is resting comfortably and enjoying this experience.   Look at yourself.   Smile, be happy at the miracle of your physical body.   Be happy at your mind that allows you to do all these amazing things. 

Now, in the room where you are sitting, stand up and leave.   Go back to where your physical body is resting…and rejoin your physical body. 

That’s all there is to it.   You did it.   Do this often and you will become very comfortable with your ability to visualize and imagine.   Play with the exercise and change it up.   Leave the building where you are.   Go far away. 

One key element though, is to always, at some point in the exercise, be sure to check back on your physical body while you are in another place.   It is this ability to place yourself somewhere else so realistically in your mind that you can look back on yourself which will ultimately allow you make miracles happen. 

Enjoy your imagination. 

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Can You Create Your Own Reality  

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Certainly you have heard about creating the life you desire, or about making a miracle for yourself…and, if you are like most people (including me) you were skeptical. Well, I decided to do the research.

In Esther and Jerry Hicks book, Ask and It Is Given – Learning to Manifest Your Desires, Abraham says, “ You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life-and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them. You can literally script any life that you desire, and the Universe will deliver to you the people, places, and events just as you decide them to be. For you are the creator of your own experience-you have only to decide it and allow it to be.”

In their book, Money, and the Law of Attraction-Learning Wealth, Health, and Happiness, Abraham says, with absolute clarity, “If this time-space reality has within it the ability to inspire a desire within you, it is absolute that this time-space reality has the ability to yield you a full and satisfying manifestation of that same desire.  It is Law.”

Abraham describes the three universal laws:

1)            The Law Of Attraction – That which is like unto itself is drawn.  However you are feeling about all the situations of your life, all of your desires, creates in you a vibration and the Universe responds to that vibration.  This law is always at work and there is nothing you can do about it.  You cannot influence the Law of Gravity and you cannot influence the Law of Attraction…it simply is and it always works.  Abraham says (in The Law of Attraction), “That which is like itself is drawn. The more you come to understand the power of the Law of Attraction, the more interest you will have in deliberately directing your thoughts--for you get what you think about, whether you want it or not!"

2)            The Science of Deliberate Creation-The Law of Attraction attracts to you according to your vibrations.  Through Deliberate Creation you create better feelings about your life about those things you have and those things you want and move into vibrational harmony with those things, so that you gain control of your life in accordance with the Law of Attraction.  Also in The Law of Attraction, Abraham says, “That which I give thought to and that which I believe or expect -- IS. If you will pay attention to the way that you are feeling, then a monitoring of your thoughts is not so necessary. Whenever you are feeling good, know that you are, in that moment, speaking, thinking, or acting in accordance with your intentions -- and know that whenever you are feeling bad, you are not aligned with your intentions. In short, whenever there is negative emotion present within you, you are, in that moment, MISCREATING, either through your thought, your word, or your action. And so, the combination of being more deliberate about what you want, more clear about what you intend, and more sensitive to the way you feel is, in essence, what the Deliberate Creative Process is all about."

3)            The Art of Allowing – If we could just be the pure Source connected energy that is a part of all of us, we would naturally allow, and our desires would naturally manifest.  We would allow ourselves into vibrational harmony with our desire and the Law of Attraction would visibly work immediately.  We have learned, however, any number of ways to keep ourselves, because of our physicality, vibrationally out of alignment or harmony.  The Art of Allowing is the way we allow and help ourselves to continually move up the emotional vibrational scale and move into vibrational harmony with our desires.  Abraham says it (much more clearly), this way, “I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are. Rather than trying to get the world to all do the same thing, or to do the things that YOU like, it is a much better plan to put yourself in the position of accepting that everyone has the right to be, do, or have whatever they want; and that you, through the power of your thoughts, will attract unto you only that which is in harmony with you."

These laws are all there is, and they cover every eventuality.  Now, a number of teachers have created what they claim to be other “laws” that have to do with taking action, how long it takes a desire to manifest, and any number of other things.  There are no other laws…there are a lot of other beliefs.  Not all beliefs are bad, not all beliefs are limiting…some beliefs can be inhibiting however.  And, in my view, there is no reason to complicate life.  When you concentrate on the three Laws (with a capital L), everything else takes care of itself.  The actions will follow as inspired action coming as a consequence of our alignment and harmony and not as acts of desperation trying to influence our alignment. The time it takes desires to manifest will be natural and comfortable. The Universe will take care of the rest.

So, not only can you create the life you desire, or manifest your burning desire, the Universal Laws make it clear that you are, whether you want to or not.  Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone were right when they said, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

The moral…go make a miracle today.

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