A recurring theme from teachers, practitioners and learners of the Law of Attraction is the difficulty of ‘allowing’ or ‘receiving’ the results of the request.

The basics of the ‘receiving step’, as Abraham-Hicks likes to call it, is the process of ‘getting yourself into alignment’ with what it is you want. You use your ‘emotional guidance system’ to do this. If a thought ‘feels good’, then you will generally like what manifests from that thought. Conversely, if a thought does not feel good, the physical manifestation of that thought will likely not be a joyous experience.

I know that this is the hardest area for me to get control of. Our ways of thinking have become so habituated over the years that it takes a great deal of conscious effort to break free of the limiting beliefs and rules that are causing the manifestation of unwanted events and circumstances.

For most of us, our daily experience is filled with negative emotion: anger, frustration, disbelief, hopelessness, resignation, and worry. We look around at our circumstances and do not experience exhilaration, excitement, and joy. We see what is there, and respond to it.

To one who wants to be a deliberate creator, this way of spending the day is deadly to the effort to create positive events and circumstances. Time may be spent in meditation and goal-setting, but as soon as that state of mind is released, when one goes ‘back out into the world’, the effects of that deliberate time are diminished or negated entirely.

What needs to be done, then, is to condition the mind toward the ‘good’ end of the emotional spectrum. Yes? How can that be accomplished? The teachers of LOA mostly say that as you progress in your deliberate creation, the well-being feeling will become more prevalent, in incremental stages. My question is can we ‘jumpstart’ this process?

I think the answer is ‘yes’. It seems to me that by using NLP techniques, NAC (Neuro-Associative Conditioning, from Tony Robbins), time-line therapy, or even EFT we can hasten the mental conditioning necessary to using the LOA more effectively.

I’ll be working on implementing this, and on finding more information. I’ll keep you informed of what I find.

I have been immersed lately in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to whom I have not paid much attention before now. Like the young adult who finally realizes that his parents actually knew what they were talking about, I’ve been awakened to Emerson’s wisdom.

Before I go overboard, though, here is a quote that I like the best:

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Living, Learning, and Experience

Life is a never-ending experience, a chain of events that we can either choose to endure or to enjoy. There is not much to be done if the choice is to endure. That choice in itself speaks of a life philosophy of victimhood, of being afloat on the sea of life, rudderless, becalmed, completely at the mercy of the fates.

I don’t buy into that.

So I choose to enjoy. This is, so you all will know, a relatively recent choice for me. Call me a slow learner, I suppose. I choose to enjoy, and to take positive lessons from my experiences, instead of negative, unempowering ones.

I also choose to examine what I think I’ve learned–because what I have thought I’ve learned up until now may not be the truth as I need it to be today.

What are some of the things I’ve learned? I’ve learned that:

• sometimes I’m the pigeon, sometimes I’m the statue. That’s what showers are for
• life is good days and bad; without the contrast, there would be no distinction
• never complain, never explain
• that people are basically good. Yes, there are bad apples, but they are rare, and they don’t spoil the whole bunch, because people rarely stay around bad apples long enough to be afflicted
• enthusiasm is contagious
• pessimism repels
• Pollyanna had it right
• worry is destructive–especially so because within the realm of attraction, what is intensely worried about tends to manifest
• I learn more from listening than from talking
• I should not to tell people my troubles. Of those I tell, half don’t care, and the other half are glad I have them…
• there is no spoon

A Ralph gem:

Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured,
From evils which never arrived!

Von Goethe said, “The magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” Claude Bristol wrote a whole book about belief: The Magic of Believing. Napoleon Hill: “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or not, you are right.”

What good does a whole list of goals, painstakingly thought out, do if a person does not believe they are possible? Why would one expend mental and physical effort to do a thing that is thought to be undoable?

I think that if there is any one key to success, it is belief. An idea is a dream, nothing more, until it is acted upon. Action will not happen until one believes the successful fruition of the idea is at least possible.

“I can’t do that.” “I’ll never be able to do that.” “That’s just not me.” “What?! You’ve got to be kidding. That’s not something I can do.” “That’s impossible.”

Do you think that someone who uttered any of the phrases above would have a snowball’s chance in Miami (gotcha!) of succeeding? Unlikely.

Belief. Belief in yourself, believing that you’re worthy, believing that you have what it will take, knowing, believing, that you will do or be whatever it might take. When you have that level of belief, of conviction, you will open yourself and your world to the power of the universe. What you want will become. Belief will connect you.

Without belief, without conviction, you will observe life as if from the outside of a glass wall, looking in. Life will pass you by; the things you want to be, have, and do will float on the other side of the glass, out of reach, just ethereal fantasies to taunt you.

Until you believe. Then you know that there is no glass wall. The glass wall was within you, holding you back from having, being, doing.

Believe! It is magic, and with it, anything is possible.