Today my blog is a continuation of the one from the past 2 months – about the Law of Attraction.
Dr. Wayne Dyer, one of the greatest promoters of the Law of Attraction, stated: “You’ll see it when you believe it.”
When we open our minds, we open our hearts and our lives to receiving. When we repeat these new positive patterns over and over [they may be thoughts, actions and/or beliefs], we literally change the neural pathways in our brains.
We give circumstances meaning by how we perceive or choose to react to those circumstances. We, therefore, understand that it’s all in how we look at things and that every choice, every decision that we make, and every thought that we focus on now, creates our future life. In other words, we construct our own world, and we manifest our own wealth, our own health, and our own relationships.
A few years ago my wife Bonnie and I were guests at a timeshare resort owned by a couple of our friends. It was a gorgeous place up in the Muskokas. Bonnie decided, then and there, that she wanted our own week up there at that resort. Well, it was way out of our price range, but Bonnie persisted in visualizing and not worrying about the cursed how’s. A year or so later there was a $99 sell off of unused time share weeks. We struck gold! The Law worked for us again.
So, what we think about ourselves and our world becomes the truth for us. Our lives become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Each one of us creates our experiences by our thoughts and our feelings. Put another way, our subconscious mind accepts whatever we choose to believe and then it becomes true for us. The Universe accepts us at our own value and then, like a mirror, it reflects our beliefs back to us, creating our lives.
The Law of Attraction can seem mysterious and daunting when someone first discovers it, but it’s really quite simple. It’s the application of its principles to achieve positive results that is not easy. To make the Law work for us, we cannot just send our desires out to the Universe and then sit back and wait.
We have to take action – consistent action. Just by taking baby steps, one at a time, no matter how small they are, we need to move in the direction of our dreams. We need to “Do what we can, with what we have, from where we are”. We need to act, with gratitude, as if we already have what we want, then allow it to happen, and be prepared and willing to receive.
Any action is better than none, even if we are not sure how it will help to achieve our dreams. A flight to the moon, for example, involves a series of redirections and corrections to the rocket’s flight path, and we too will make needed adjustments as we move towards our goals. We don’t just sit back and expect the Universe to do all of the work in bringing us the things, people, places, and events to fulfill our dreams. We need to make some changes, give the effort and do our share!
Remember the story of the person sitting on top of his house as the waters rise during a major flood? He calls on God to save him.
Along come 3 opportunities for safety – a guy in a rowboat, a couple in a motor launch, and a helicopter He refuses help each time, claiming that God will save him. And so he drowns.
When his spirit arrives at the Golden Gates he complains that God had forsaken him and had not saved him. St. Peter looks at him in disgust and says – Three times God sent help to you and you refused to accept it each time. What do you expect? You merely had to do your small share of the work.
So, how can we do the work and make the changes that we need to make to improve our lives?
Well, by identifying our limiting beliefs, we can locate the invisible obstacles that are holding us back from achieving what we want. There are various methods available to help us rewire our neural pathways, to reprogram our minds, and to eliminate or change our confining ideas, views, and notions. The intent is to weed them out and replace them with a positive mindset by implanting empowering beliefs, thoughts and habits.
The brain has the ability to change as a result of experience – it is called neuroplasticity, and since the brain cannot distinguish between actual or imagined experiences, we can, for example, like Olympic athletes, help create our successes by visualizing or picturing them.
This Visualization process is but one practical method we can use to make a change to our mindset and to help us manifest the life of our dreams.
Other methods include: mindfulness meditation, affirmations, prayer, gratitude journals, forgiveness lists, EFT, self-hypnosis, and the list goes on. We just need to pick and consistently apply that or those methods that most resonate with us.
Now, to make a lasting shift in how we view our world, in our belief system, we need to remember what the great Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said: “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”.
In closing this 3 month blog on the Law of Attraction, I’ve probably left you with many more questions than answers. There’s a lot more to the Law than what I’ve touched on today.
As Mike Dooley says: “The bottom line is that if presently we are lacking abundance, health, or harmony, the problem lies in our own thinking and thoughts. If there is a problem with our thoughts, it’s because there’s a problem with our beliefs…”
So, to make the Law of Attraction work for us, let us continue to work on changing our core beliefs – particularly beliefs about ourselves.
If interested in getting my free e-book, click here. Also, don’t forget to check out the AbundanceTogether Facebook page for your daily inspiration here.
Keep manifesting good things 🙂 Tony