Manifestation, Law of Attraction

I’ve listened to Abraham tapes for over twelve years now. Before that, I worked with Gay and Katie Hendricks for years using their Quantum Therapy practices designed to release unconscious blocks to abundance and joy in every area of life. I’ve watched “The Secret.” And now, since starting this blog last month and wanting to find out what’s out there on this subject, I’m discovering whole blogs that focus on how to create money with the Law Of Attraction. As a student of Life, I am curious about how others use LOA, interpret it, incorporate it on a day to day basis. These reflections and mirrors are some of the ways I use to learn about myself.

I guess I’ve been using Law Of Attraction to do just that- create money. I created a livelihood for myself that “shouldn’t” have worked out for me for a variety of reasons. But when I look more deeply as to how I’ve used Law Of Attraction as it pertains to money, I think I’ve been using it backwards from how I’m hearing it used these days (which doesn’s surprise me in the least, because I do most things backwards).

Money is a symbolic expression of energy. We assign arbitrary value to things and jobs based on a number of factors having to do with economics and the belief systems that created them. I don’t care to waste much space on here talking about them right now. To me, our world economy is all illusion, a co-creation that we continue to support and perpetuate.* And if you don’t believe that, go learn how the really really beyond rich people use money. It’s surreal…but I digress….

My Life Intention is to be connected to Inner Source, be connected to joy, love, happiness and flow, The All. It is everything for me and has been at the base of everything I have done my whole life. Money has been more of a barometer for me, an energetic measure of how I was doing internally with with this intention. Money is one tangible expression of my vibration in all things rather than the reason for lining my energy up.

What’s important to me is not to be rich just for the sake of being rich. Or that money isn’t flowing so that means I’m poor and can’t buy a designer handbag. It’s that IF having money is important to me and if I don’t have the amount I want, what is this telling me about myself, my relationship with my higher self and my connection to The All? Where am I not feeling worthy? Why would I create lack….what are those beliefs? Why would I hold myself back from the life I want and envision? What am I afraid of?

I know that Abraham talks about not having to understand all this stuff, not having to know the why’s of things to change. I also know I am who I am, and part of how I soothe and realign myself is by conscious self talk to remind myself that I don’t have to hold onto a particular belief because it’s not true. For me, and only me, bringing those beliefs into the light helps me let them go and believe something new. If I don’t deal with the unconscious “stuff” I’m not starting “where I am.” I’m just putting a smile on my face and pushing all that unconscious stuff down. If I’ve learned anything in the practical application of LOA and watching my outer world responses to my inner world, it’s that when I finally and fully embrace where I am right now, I move through this manifestation to what’s on the other side.

I’ve watched money come and go repeatedly over these years. I can say with certainty that every time I get afraid and worry, fret, or question life and myself, my financial situation reflects that back. Every time I’ve made a quantum leap in trusting that all is well, no matter what it looks like on the outside, my financial situation reflects that back to me in unexpected, magical ways.

So I continue to look at money as a Teacher for me, something which informs me of my energetic alignment with my Higher Self, letting me know when and where I want to trust more. No judgment– it just is what it is. In the end, through the different cycles, I have learned that if I discover what it is that holds me back from everything I want and work it through, return to trust in life’s ebbs and flows, that I can learn to feel OK again, even though nothing has changed in my outer world. I let go, bask and give thanks for the abundance I know is mine, the abundance that is right in front of me, if even temporarily forgotten.

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The movie The Secret has been creating ripples across the world. It features some of the world’s greatest teachers, philosophers, entrepreneurs, scientists, doctors, authors and financial advisors and presents the concept of the Law of Attraction in a manner that anyone and everyone can understand.

The trouble with The Secret, or rather I should say with people’s comprehension of The Secret and the Law of Attraction, is that many people only half get it.

They think to themselves, “Oh! If I just wish for something then I’ll receive it.” If only life were that simple. Also, you know they just might get away with it if they decided what they wanted and held that image steadfastly in their mind.

However, they may say they want something but continually look at their current circumstances which do not support what they want. They worry about how they will actually achieve what they want. They doubt themselves and the Universe repeatedly and then, as time passes by, they become even more jaded in their thoughts and their thoughts become increasingly negative and self-defeating.

Genevieve Behrend in her book Your Invisible Power wrote,

“When your understanding grasps the power to visualise your heart’s desires and holds it with your will, it attracts to you all things requisite to the fulfilment of that picture by the harmonious vibration of the Law of Attraction.”

Thoughts become things. So the thoughts we have become manifest whether they are positive or negative. The Universe always delivers.

I like to explain this concept to my clients using a jigsaw puzzle. It’s something I’ve stolen from Robert Allen though I’ve expanded it. Imagine you are given a jigsaw puzzle to put together. It could be a relatively simple puzzle with just a few hundred pieces or it could have thousands of pieces. The problem is you haven’t been given an image of what the finished puzzle will look like. Could you complete the puzzle?

Take a second scenario where you have been given an image but it is incomplete or the image is faded and difficult to make out. How easy would it be to for you to complete the puzzle?

Take a third scenario where you are given an image for the puzzle but the image keeps changing. You look at it and one minute it represents this, then that. How easy would it be for you to complete the puzzle?

Obviously, the best conditions to complete the puzzle are where you have a clear, sharp, well-defined image. Unfortunately, it is the former scenarios that we often present to the Universe – no image, broken image or continually changing image and then we wonder why things don’t turn out the way we say we want them to.

The key then is to create an image with as much clarity and detail as possible and hold onto to that image but this is not enough.

Recall the second part of quote I mentioned by Genevieve Behrend, or as she expresses another way,

“The conscious use of this great power [visualisation] attracts to you multiplied resources, intensifies your wisdom, and enables you to make use of advantages which you formerly failed to recognise.”

Some people think that visualisation alone will do the trick and get them the things they desire. No. It’s like arranging a date with someone, agreeing to meet them at a particular rendezvous and then you stay at home.

The Universe will move towards you. You must respond by moving towards the Universe and taking advantage of the opportunities that the Universe brings to you in order to achieve that which you desire. Darn! Yes, you have to do some work.

I love this quote by Winston Churchill:

“During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened”

And that is exactly what happens. The Universe will make available numerous opportunities to help us achieve our goals yet we often fail to recognise them or take full advantage of them. There’s a saying “Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.” Having goals is important but more important it is what we become as we achieve a particular goal.

Of course there will be obstacles. That’s the whole point of this game called life. Would you play any board game or computer game if there were no obstacles or rules to make the game more challenging? Of course not, that would be so boring. Why then do we expect the biggest and best game of all to be any different?

So dream, dream big and hold on fast to your dream. Embrace every challenge that comes your way; brush the fear of failure aside and embrace the expectancy of success. You might not get what you want; you just might get something even better. As Joan Curcio puts it:

“Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.”

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The more folks struggle to make money, the further away from money they seem to get…

Think about what happens when you struggle – you are in a state of resistance. You resist the state of allowing. So what would happen if you were in a state of acceptance or allowing, and had a continual flow of money and riches in your life?

Doesn’t that sound better than struggling to get rich?

And the flow can be mastered. You have the ability to create an unending flow of riches into your life. It begins by creating a new relationship with money, and feeling gratitude for the financial riches and spiritual riches in your life. It doesn’t matter
what your current financial situation is, you need to feel gratitude for all that you truly have, so that you can attract and manifest more things in your life to feel gratitude for.

What Is Being Rich, Anyway?

Let’s talk for a moment about what it really means to be rich. Most people perceive wealth or riches as the ability to be financially secure.

However, true riches offer an even greater benefit than financial security. Imagine doing what you want, when you want, with whom you want, where you
want, for as long as you want, without ever having to answer to anyone…A person who is truly rich knows they are truly rich when they have achieved the
most valuable asset of all: PERSONAL FREEDOM!

Let me ask you a question. How would you know if you were “rich?”

That may seem like a stupid question. You would probably reply, “I would know if I was rich if I had no bills, or I had a lot of money in the bank, or had
income producing investments or business, or I could buy whatever I want without having to go into debt.” If you gave any of the above answers you
would be partially correct. This is how I define true wealth – having the complete freedom to live life on my own terms.

When I did not understand the principle of personal freedom, I focused on money. I wanted money, and I wanted lots of it! That was my goal. And because we get what we focus on, I attracted more money. But then one day I realized that what I really wanted was the freedom to live life on my
terms.

First, it’s important to know when people see how I live and conduct my business, they often say that, “It’s easy for you, you earn a lot of money, you’re famous, you’ve got a huge demand for your books, training programs, etc.” But they miss the point. I purposely designed my life this way when I had no
money. This was my dream. This was my intention.

Living this way is the basis of what I teach in my books, audio programs, seminars and personal counseling. What you get in life is determined by what you focus on and the actions you take. In other words, you get the outcome of personal freedom by focusing on it and practicing it. It is both the cause and the effect or the outcome.

I choose freedom to do what I like, when I like, where I like, with whom I like in both my personal life and in my business. For example, I do not carry a mobile phone with me unless I am traveling. When I am at home, which is ninety percent of the time, I don’t carry one with me. My reasoning is that I am just not that important that I must annoy everyone who comes into contact with me by constantly and incessantly talking on the phone. If you feel you have to carry a mobile phone with you everywhere and answer every call, you are not free – you are a prisoner.

In addition to not carrying a mobile phone with me, I do not take any unscheduled phone calls. Even my personal coaching clients who pay me tens of thousands of dollars must make advance appointments to talk with me on the phone – and those calls are kept to a minimum because I prefer getting emails. As a result, today, I work only with people I enjoy working with. No exceptions. If I have a troublesome client, I fire them!

I live pretty much as I choose. If I want to take a day off to go out to the races, watch the horses run and have a bet, I do. If I want to travel anywhere, I do. If I want to be with someone, dine anywhere or go when I want, whenever I want, I do.

My peace of mind and my freedom to live my life on my terms is why I am truly rich. Yet, I want to quickly emphasize, this has nothing to do with the amount of money I earn. This just helps to support my lifestyle of freedom. But here is the point: I created this at a time when I could not afford it. I didn’t wait until I had to money to do it. It was my core desire. I believe anyone can live this way of they choose.

People tell me that because of their circumstances it is not possible for them to do this. I tell them “horse pucky.” You can do anything you want if you set your intention and follow through. This is true wealth. You can have it your way regardless of what you do for a living, regardless of the business you’re in, where you live, your current income, wealth or lack thereof, regardless of any variable you can possibly name.

If you will deliberately get in alignment with creating freedom, you can have it! When you are in alignment spiritually, mentally, emotionally, strategically and behaviorally with a lifestyle of personal freedom, you can enjoy the results of your wealth. This is the position you want to get into, as quickly as possible.

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Dr. Robert Anthony, the acknowledged inspiration behind The Secret has spent the last 30 years unraveling the mysteries of “success” and how the mind holds the ultimate key to peak personal performance in all areas.

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The law of attraction states that what we focus on expands and we get more of it. Period. It doesn’t matter whether it is right or wrong or good or bad. If you focus on it you’ll attract it.

So many of us say we want something different from what we have, however as long as we keep on focussing on things other than those things we say we want, we will never manifest our desires.

A few days ago I found a great website, actually 2 websites that allow you to download Youtube videos for free.

Why do I think this is great? Because Youtube is a treasure chest of resources for anyone who wants to master the law of attraction and manifest their desires. If you watch the videos online, you would normally have to wait a while for the video to load, especially if you have a slow connection.

However, these websites allow you to download the videos to your computer, so you can watch your favorite videos including those that show you how to do EFT over and over on your PC and improve your life.

So when I found these websites I picked the one whose download link takes a little longer to expire (this comes in handily if you have a slower connection). Great was my surprise then when one of my subscribers emailed me back and suggested that I sent her to an x-rated page and that she was not interested.

For a moment I felt guilty that I might have send my subscribers to an x-rated page. I then clicked on the link to go see what she was talking about. And what I found was an advertisement at the bottom displaying a scantily clad woman. As long as you don’t scroll down you’ll only see the head of the woman.

When I looked at this page the first time I barely even noticed this picture and service, because I was clear on what I wanted and I was focussed on it. Hence whatever else was there barely registered in my mind. As far as I was concerned I found a great tool that allows me to bring me closer to my dreams.

The point I’m trying to make here is. Your life will never change as long as you allow yourself to be distracted by everything that happens in your experience. The only way you’ll change your life is by,

1) knowing what you want (identify what you want),

2) focussing on what you want

3) doing whatever it takes to make it happen.

So if you have been trying to manifest your desires for a while, but seem to be stuck then look closely at where your attention is. Most likely you’ll find that it is on the things you are experiencing in your life right now.

Also check out this post Allowing your good to come to you as it is closely related to this post.

“The Law of Attraction Secret of ALL Secrets:  Stop chasing the THING you want and start experiencing the ESSENCE instead.  (If you’re frustrated on any level – The ONLY way to shift from lack to fulfillment is to give up on what you want and instead FOCUS on the one and only thing that can actually give you what you REALLY want.”

I know this sounds crazy but I can add ‘Weather Wrangler’ to my list of law of attraction victories.
It rained (correction – it POURED) the entire day before our trip to Schlitterbahn.  And, the rain pummeled my car the entire 200 mile trip from Houston to New Braunfels, Texas.  Naturally, I was concerned that the park would shut-down and we’d waste 8 hours in the car plus $200+ bucks.  I knew what the weather prediction was: “85% chance of severe thunderstorms.”

So, about 6:30 that morning I gave my sweet children the news.  Then, I gave them the option.  I said, “You two get to choose.  Do you want to chance it and risk the rain and the park closing etc.?  Or, do you want to postpone our trip to the end of the week when the weather is supposed to be good?”

Parker scoffed, “Mom! (As in ‘what’s wrong with you, mom?! Don’t you know the answer to this, mom?!)” He said, “Well, of course we should go and we’ll just create a sunny day.”  (Duh!?!?)

What’s an LOA mom to do?!?  So, I said, “But… but… but…Uh!!! <big sigh>  Okay! I said it was your choice, so let’s do it!”

We got into the car and immediately starting creating.  We began doing spontaneous living visions and talking about what a wonderful, sunny day we had just had at the water-park!  Then they reminded me of one of our favorite tricks.  (I call this a belief booster.) I spoke out loud to God and said, “God – do you hear my children’s creation?  Please smile brightly today.”

Parker and Ashlyn started proclaiming, “Mom, haven’t you always said that we’re God’s favorite children?  And, if we’re your favorite children, then we must also be God’s favorite children.  And, if we are God’s favorite children, then of course He would want us to have a fantastic day at the park.  And, of course it will be sunny and beautiful all day.  And, of course there will be minimal people there because they all thought it was going to rain!  So, instead of waiting in lines for the rides we’ll barely stand in line just long enough to rest between rides!”

I was recently reminded of this belief booster while reading Sasha Xarrian’s Outrageous Mastery trilogy.  So, I immediately started sharing it with my children again:

“We are all Divine Children of God and therefore, if God is our Parent and loves us with all His/Her being – then He/She would want us to have everything we desire.”

We had a marvelous time creating.  We felt empowered and confident in spite of the fact that it literally rained big-fat-cats-and-dogs up until the very moment we pulled into Schlitterbahn’s parking lot!  The moment we arrived the clouds turned white and there wasn’t so much as a wisp of rain until 5-minutes before the park closed – (As we were walking to our car, we began to feel the drops – the glorious, wonderful, delayed raindrops!)

There’s something more important about this experience than the fact that we created a sunny day.  Listen carefully because if you aren’t focusing at this moment – you’ll miss the entire POINT.

We didn’t create a sunny day with our words, ‘sunny day-sunny day’.  We attracted this experience with our emotions.  We were able to find the feeling place – the essence of what a sunny, glorious day at the waterpark would feel like.  We were able to live and revel in the thought and emotions of being God’s favorite children to such a degree that it literally did NOT even matter that it was raining.  In fact, even if it had rained all day long, there was a knowingness within us that ‘as God’s favorites’ we would HAVE to have a wonderful day no matter what the outcome.    We were so consumed with the essence of joy and the essence of delight that we forgot ALL about the rain around us!   And, thus, we were able to part the skies.
I’m reading Abraham’s latest book: Money and the Law of Attraction and  wouldn’t you know it – I have the perfect Abe quote (paragraph) to illustrate the point ‘ Stop chasing the THING you want and start experiencing the ESSENCE instead.

“Through your process of living life and noticing things wanted and unwanted, you have created a sort of Vibrational Escrow, which in a sense, holds for you those wanted things you have identified until you become a close enough Vibrational Match to them that you allow yourself a fully manifested receiving of them.  But until you find a way to feel good about them even though they have not yet manifested in your experience, it may seem to you that they are on the outside of a door that you cannot open.  However, as you begin to look for more positive aspects regarding the things that occupy your thoughts- and you deliberately choose the more positive end of the stick of possibilities regarding the subjects that dominate your thought processes – that door will open and everything that you desire will flow easily into your experience.”   (Jerry and Esther Hicks from Money and The Law of Attraction)

I believe that had we focused on the end result only: “A wonderful sunny day,” our vibration may or may not have been aligned with the outcome we really wanted.  After all, it’s most difficult to imagine the sun when you can’t even see out of your windshield.  However, we were able to raise our vibration to be a match to our ‘vibrational escrow’ by more fully focusing on the essence of what we wanted – ‘The experience of God’s Divine Inheritance’.

I find this to be one of the more challenging leaps of faith that conscious creators must take.  When what you want is not happening for you – rest assured it’s not because the LOA isn’t working correctly.  It’s because you are not aligned with the vibrational equivalent of that which you desire.

Imagine that your goal is in the glass room in front of you. You can see it, taste it, smell it and enjoy the view.  Thus, when you are using creative visualization you feel empowered and excited about ‘one day experiencing more than just the view.”  However, when you stop ‘visualizing’ and go about your day, you notice that you are still looking into the glass room from the outside.  You notice that you are not really tasting the nectar of your dream but instead you are just ‘wishing’ you were.

I want to impart to you that it’s essential to masterful creation to let go of the ‘thing’ you want and focus instead on the ‘essence’ that that ‘thing’ will give to you.  When you feel it – moment-by-moment- even though you still have no physical evidence of it – that’s when you’ll manifest it.

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Everyone develops “energy habits” during their lives, which determines how we respond to the world. If it is a dark filter through which we view life, then we react to stimulus in a negative fashion. If, however, we view the world with trust, hope and optimism; we act on these positive emotions and will attract positive results. Changing your “energy habits” will change your life.

Do you know a complainer or person that erupts with little provocation? Are you subjected daily to someone always depressed who constantly focuses on the negative side of a situation or gossips without relent about others?

These negative energy habits have consequences:

- They attract to the sender negative relationships, ramifications, and a general state of poor health and unhappiness.

- Negative energy emissions poison the Earth’s Energy Bank, contributing to a world poverty, dread, loathing and strife.

Because emotions and thoughts are actual energy emissions, transmitting negative or positive energy imprints our future on the Universe. Today, quantum physics is proving that our emotions and thoughts have a powerful influence on the future. What we think is manifested, thus we are Consciously Creating.

It is essential to construct positive energy habits if you want a happy, healthy, empowering existence. More importantly, positive energy habits create a world of abundance, peace, compassion, love, and environmental balance that we all desire.

So how do we create positive energy habits? Here are some suggestions:

- Be aware of instinctual thoughts and reactions, and how those thoughts and reactions will likely return to you. On a sheet of paper list all of your negative energy habits. Then go back and identify positive energy habits to replace the negative. Now make those positive energy habits your default trait.

- Note the energy habits of others. Emulate the positive ones and use the bad to remind yourself of how you don’t want to react.

- Catch yourself in the act of emitting energy, and then decide if that habit is one you want to continue. If positive, change to the new habit — and pat yourself on the back the first couple times you execute the new trait. Be sure to also forgive yourself if you fall back occasionally to old ways.

- Diplomatically help others eradicate negative energy habits and institute positive ones.

- Notice how your positive energy habits impact others. Don’t be surprised if new, uplifting friends come along, and old chums are happier around you.

You’re on the path to manifesting a better future. Just think how your new way of thinking positively impacts the Universe, planet and all its inhabitants! Your new positive energy habits are like a balm on the world …a soothing ointment making everything better.

About the Author
Jackie Lapin is a writer, speaker and visionary who is educating and uniting the planet’s people to manifest a better, healthier more peaceful and joyful world. To join or receive the daily vision email, visit http://www.unitedworldhealing.org