by Michael Griffin
True hope is one of the most motivating emotions going for you. I used the word emotions to describe hope, but there is more to hope than that. Hope is a real thing not just an emotion.
Hope is not wishing, often people use the word that way but a true understanding and appreciation of the word will bring a power to you that you won’t otherwise have. Often when people give up they say to themselves “I hope things will get better.” Here “hope” is used synonymously with “wish.” Wish carries no power behind it, hope on the other hand in it’s true sense does have power. I am talking of using hope as a verb where it means to look forward to something with desire and reasonable confidence.
Why should you hope when there is no evidence? This sounds almost like a subject for church, doesn’t it. And when taught correctly in church, hope is an active and real force in your life. Many churches fail to teach the power of such things as hope and faith and wind up putting them in the realm of wishes and fantasy.
We know that Wallace Wattles had a religious background and if you read The Science of Getting Rich you will see this. But Wattles, correctly, recognizes that hope and faith are not just things for church but are active forces to use in your life. In the same way that he doesn’t use the words “law of attraction,” he doesn’t push hope and faith and yet the precepts are there in every chapter.
Hope and Faith when used correctly are forces at work in everyone’s life, not just for those who are religious. These are not religious terms. Consider:
“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust (Math 5:45 KJV).
Hope and Faith are the same, just like the sun and rain, they are forces in our lives that work for all, for the just and unjust (whatever you consider just and unjust to mean).
Wattles talks about holding your vision of the thing you want in the formless substance, to see it, to visualize it, to get your emotions into the visions. This brings you into vibration with the thing (or desired outcome) and attracts it to you. Your mind will collect data and at some point you will know what to do and then you should act.
This “Law of Attraction” is of the same stuff as described by a proper use of the terms “faith” and “hope.”
Hope, actively hope, and have faith – a calm assurance, that the things you are looking for, that you are holding in the unseen substance are yours and you have received them. Soon they will catch up to you in the physical world.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Edward Litors // Jun 22, 2009 at 10:43 pm
I see your point. But I think that the word HOPE is embedded in most subconsicous as a “Wish” simply because that is how we were taught to know that word to mean. So it can still be a hinderance to a person’s life unless they can somehow reprogram their subconscious to believe that hope doesn’t mean wish. But that takes some deeper reconditioning than just words. Feelings have to be involved.
2 Mike Griffin // Jun 22, 2009 at 11:07 pm
It is unfortunate that most do use the word hope as if they have already given up. “Will things get better? I certainly hope so.”
The fact is we must come to recognize the forces actively at work in our lives – hope being one of them. And as you say condition ourselves to understand the truth of it all. There is a similar problem with the Law of Attraction. People view it as wishful thinking until they get their minds wrapped around it and begin to se results. A true use of hope means that you are using the Law of Attraction.
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