Law of Attraction: Unlocking the Power of Prayer
If you are talking about using your mind to get what you want in life, you are either talking about the Law of Attraction, or Prayer. Of course, whether you are talking about Prayer or the Law of Attraction, you are really just talking about how to use your thoughts to influence or change your experience. Thinking is thinking; and, you are either doing it effectively or you’re not.
3-Reasons The Secret Isn’t "Working for You"
The Secret, or The Law of Attraction, isn’t "magic." It isn’t really even a "thing." The Law of Attraction is simply a way of talking about or describing how things seem to come together, or manifest into form from the world of the un-formed. The Law of Attraction is a law, not a tool; it isn’t something that works sometimes, or for some people, and not other times, or for other people. If you don’t think the Law of Attraction is working for you, it is almost certainly because the Law has brought you grief, loss, suffering, debt, unhappiness, or some other misfortune instead of something you think would be "better." The Law is "working" perfectly.
Attracting What You Want
Everyone wants something. If you’re like me, you probably have two or three categories of wants – something like: Things I truly wish to experience (Peace, Health, etc…); Things that would be nice or even great to experience (Luxury, Expensive vacations and things, etc…); and maybe a BIG container labeled “Things I Definitely Don’t Want.” A “don’t want” is actually a “want” for an experience that lacks, or doesn’t include, this “negative” thing we have judged and are now focused or fixated on. Do you know what you want? If you know what you don’t want, turn it around; make a positive out of it, or you’ll find yourself continuing to attract versions of what you don’t want, or, “the things you greatly fear.”
Attract Your Desires By Visualizing Them
Visualization, meditation, prayer, hypnosis, self-hypnosis, guided meditation, mental imagery, and many other terms, are all used to describe one thing - thinking. Particularly, these terms all refer to an act of "tuning-out" the external world and going inside your self in order to "speak" and "listen" to God, or whatever each individual believes is available in the way of Creative guidance. We ask for help, listen for answers, seek guidance, salvation, and instant riches, but in most cases we do so with no real "vision," or plan, for the future. In life, we tend to follow natural laws; this is because we are in nature, and made of the same stuff as nature, and are thereby subject to the laws of nature. If we continue to ignore the fact that we pray, or do any of the above practices, because there is some belief that our thoughts influence our reality, then we may forever lose the power of prayer.
Two-Rules for Attracting Anything You Want - The Secret, Simplified
You can be, do, or have anything you want. Whether you want peace and seclusion, or fortune and fame, you can have it - if you know how to get it. The good news is that there are only two simple things you need to know. The bad news is that, no matter how simple, this wisdom will continue to elude most people. "The sick and the poor," they say, "will always be among us." But, if you can understand these two things, you don’t have to be among the sick and the poor - unless you want to be.
Create the Life of Your Dreams - In Your Sleep!
Practically anyone can conjure up the image of a child saying their prayers before going to sleep at night. "Now I lay me down to sleep," were the first words of prayer I can remember using. Thinking about your day before getting out of bed is a variation of the same principle. Do you take the time before getting up in the morning to imagine what your day might hold for you, or plan the things you want to do? You should; they say, "A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to come unraveled." But why do so many people pray in the morning and before bedtime? Does it really matter when we pray?
Thinking About Attraction - There’s More To Thinking Than Meets The Eye
Many people complain that The Secret, or The Law of Attraction, just doesn’t work for them. They exclaim, "But I am thinking about what I want; and I DID try to believe in it — but nothing happened!" Well, there’s more to thinking than meets the eye. Most people spend most of their time thinking about things they see and hear; while people who actively create the things they want in life tune-out most of the "external noise" from their environment, and think about the things we will see in the future — things they will create. Imagine the Wright brothers knowing they could fly while everyone else knew that machines couldn’t fly. There were no textbooks on aeronautical engineering, and no working, physical models for the Wright brothers to copy; yet they "saw" their airplane long before it was built — in their mind’s eye, with their imaginations. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, "The future belongs to those who Believe in the beauty of their DREAMS."
What Kind of Days Are You Attracting?
Do you wake-up in the morning dreading the day, or looking forward to it? Do you tell yourself, "It’s going to be a great day;" or, "Great, it’s another crappy day! Why did I even bother waking-up?" The way you approach your day, and the kinds of things you say about your day, and your experiences, determine a great deal of what you will experience — and the kinds of people and circumstances you attract.
Spirituality Simplified: Cause and Effect
The principle of Cause and Effect is more commonly known by the axiom “what you sow is what you reap,” and is also referred to by the slang saying, “what goes around, comes around.” It essentially means that every effect that you see or experience in the world had to have a cause. While at first glance this may appear to be a very simple and obvious concept, it has profound implications for every human being. What it means is that literally every single thought and feeling you experience is a cause that sets into motion an eventual effect. This insightful passage from Lynn Grabhorn builds upon this point:
"Every time we think of anything, we’re flowing some kind of positive or negative energy (feeling) toward whatever it is we’re thinking about, and the litany never changes: as we think, we feel; as we feel, we vibrate; as we vibrate, we attract. Then we get to live the results."
How Do I Make "The Secret" Work for Me?
The Secret isn’t a new idea; and it really isn’t even a secret. Everyone knows this: "As a man thinketh, so it is done to him." In every religion, culture, and philosophy, this is a fundamental truth; and, even science has come full-circle in its understanding of what they call, "the Observer Effect" ("Seek and you will find."). Not only do our thoughts create our experiences, our health, and our bodies; our thoughts and beliefs filter our perceptions and color the way we perceive and think about our experiences, health, body, and life in general. But consciously controlling your thoughts, and remaining conscious, are two different things; and you have to do them both — along with some other things — in order to really make "The Secret" work for you.
Thinking can be tricky business sometimes; and controlling your thoughts can be even more so. You might think you are thinking about getting money to pay debts, but all you seem to experience is more and more debt. Is your focus really on "more money," or is it on getting rid of "DEBT?" How much time do you spend thinking about what you want, as opposed to what you DON’T WANT? What you are thinking about matters; but so does HOW you are thinking, and WHY you are thinking it. Your feelings are much more important than you might have been told. Thinking about money while feeling stressed, for instance, will bring you a money-experience that makes you feel "stressed."
There are basically three-things you need to know about how those who teach the Secret (Law of Attraction) make it work for them:
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The Belief Formula
