Mar 21st 2009 Podcast

“The more you think about this law, the deeper you will see it goes. It literally hands you a blank check, signed by the Maker of Universal Law, and leaves you to fill in the amount—and the kind—of payment you want!” –Robert Collier

This morning I read a post on the Zen Habits blog (btw, a great blog) about the law of attraction: Why the Law of Attraction is Wrong, But Why It Still Works. The bottom line of the post is that the steps that the law of attraction spells out work but the law itself is wrong. If you state what you want, keep it in mind, and take action it works but, he says, the law of attraction is wrong. Well, OK.

But… those steps are the law of attraction plain and simple, no more, no less.

What the author is really taking issue with is all of the theory’s that have grown up around the law as to what is causing it to work – not the law. Confusion of the theory with the law. Let me say this: had confusion of the theory of electricity occurred with the electric light then maybe you would be sitting in the dark just as many who are trying to use the law of attraction may be. More on this later.

The big theory at the moment involves quantum physics and our thoughts actually affecting matter. And I say: “Interesting I like the idea of the theory, but who really knows?” Ultimately does it matter about a theory? The rules work, that is the law works so we use it.

Wallace Wattles in 1910 wrote The Science of Getting Rich. The book details the law of attraction, doesn’t even call it the law of attraction and yet every word tells you exactly what you should be doing to bring important changes to your life by attracting the things you want in.

How can you ever have something other than what everyone else has if you don’t know what it is? So you visualize it, you turn it round in your minds eye and begin to think about exactly how you want it. As you go through your day you allow the idea into mind to encourage you on but obviously you are working and you need your prime focus on the activities at hand.

These first steps will begin to activate subconscious thinking and according to Wattles and most LOA writers actually cause it’s formation (it doesn’t matter what you believe is causing the formation). The third part is the kicker. Ideas will begin to enter your consciousness about how to go about getting your thing — as you get them take action. That is what Wattles describes, those are the core ideas of the law of attraction, that is the law of attraction and every other writer has said so.

The problem is we fill up the pages with all sorts of reasons why things are the way they are to help others relate. It can distract from the main idea.

Here is the same thing again: a girl sees boy she likes and thinks about him. She has the vision and her mind begins to work, perhaps she gets ideas from friends on how to get him, maybe she reads a book, but her mind automatically starts gathering ideas…it’s how we humans work. She gets the idea that she should make her self as pretty as she can and begin to talk to him. So she primps, begins to smile at him, and says hi.

And there it is: vision, the action ideas come, action taken. If she doesn’t get that boy, another boy will find her because she is more attractive and it stemmed from the vision.

The law of attraction is basic, simple, we use it intuitively and yet we miss it for the big areas of our lives because so much crap gets in the way of our clear thinking and belief .

Break it down for yourself very simply and begin to believe. If a particular theory helps you believe then that theory is great, I consider theories more like analogy’s they help me understand but may or may not be the truth.

Merriam-Webster says that a theory is: a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation b: an unproved assumption : conjecture c: a body of theorems presenting a concise systematic view of a subject.

So enjoy the discussion but don’t be put off anything by the theory behind it. Theories are just tools.

My background is in electronics. Electronics is built on theory and when I started learning – I had the worst trouble because all of the discussions of how circuits worked involved these long discussions of the theory behind it, very confusing. Later I learned to set the theory aside and just note what happens – do this and get this effect. When you apply voltage to a light bulb it comes on*. Do I really care about electrons (invisible particles that flow through solid matter) and the atomic theory of conductors and insulators? No, just give me cause and effect and maybe I’ll come back for the other stuff later. So it is with the law of attraction, just use it.

The steps that Wattles discussed, that Rhonda Byrne put into The Secret, that Ester Hicks channels with Abraham and reveals… All of these boil down to vision, idea formation, action. Just get it. Set the theory aside, set the part about getting a boost from the universe aside if you want … This stuff is part of you … it works … just get it, just use it.

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*Even Thomas Edison had things wrong about the most basic laws of electricity, he said current flowed from the positive terminal of a battery and through the circuit to the negative terminal. Now, “We Know,” (wink, wink) that the invisible electron current flow really goes from the negative terminal to the positive. Even if this is true, does it really matter to most people? It didn’t matter to Edison and he was the most successful inventor of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Do you think Edison practiced the law of attraction? Just read Think And Grow Rich.

“Peace, be still!”

Serenity

The result of applying the principles of As A Man Thinketh. Of recognizing that your thoughts are the creators of your world. James Allen writes:

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the
result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is
an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary
knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

The things that you think about are what you become. If you think empowering thoughts, if you see the result that you want, then not only will you have achieved but you will gain serenity. Allen in As A Man Thinketh echo’s many of the same ideas that Wallace Wattles expressed in The Science of Getting Rich. The idea of thoughts controlling your experience in the world is a common theme in the books. These two books go together in putting your mind and actions in harmony with the law of attraction.

Earl Nightingale expressed it as: “you become what you think about all day long.” Earl has a wonderful presentation called “The Greatest Secret” that also picks up the theme and echo’s Allen’s words. Earl talks about the heard mentality that exists whereby we do the same things we see the other guy do. At the end of it all we have passed through life but haven’t really contributed to it. We grow old watching TV after a hard day at work. Not much to show for 80 or so years of life.

So in what way should we turn, James Allen says it all comes down to your thinking. Examine your life and think about what you want to accomplish. Really examine it. Remember what Socrates said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Examine your life and it’s trajectory. Perhaps you want to pick a new target, start visualizing that target and being grateful that you have already hit it.

The belief that it is already done will give you confidence to take the action you need to take and lead you to the serenity that Allen writes about in chapter seven. He ends the chapter with the words of Jesus, “Peace Be Still.” Words to keep in mind when the storms of life hit. Words that Jesus used to still the waters, words that have been handed down to you still energized with power. Serenity is yours: “Peace Be Still!”

by Michael Griffin

Feburary 2, 2009 Podcast

Visualize The Life You Want

There is an article on this site about Life Mapping. It’s about your goals in life and creating a vision of those things and of the person you want to be. What you bring to the process now and how you can grow those good things in your life by having objectives. And this is an important process to go through – have a look at the article.

The law of attraction suggests the life mapping process will help you move forward because your focus moves to the places you want to go to rather than something that may be sitting in your path in this moment, or something you see in your path a little way down the road. Life mapping is a tool that can help with the law of attraction because it focuses on where you want to be and sets aside limits.

Keep The Vision Fresh

Can you keep this vision fresh everyday when you look to it? Life mapping helps you formulate the outcomes that you use in your visualization and meditation.

From Vision To Inspiration

Allow your life map inspired vision to take on a life of it’s own. This is inspiration as the vision moves from your thoughts to changing on it’s own. Inspiration happens when there is stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity. Inspiration is divine guidance or influence exerted directly on the mind and soul of humankind.

Life mapping is an essential part of stimulating the mind in the direction you’d like to go. As you are formulating your mind map you need to let go of limits. Recall at one time no one believed that the four minute mile could be broken and now it’s done not just at the college level but also high school. The false belief has been removed and along with it artificial limitations. Clear yourself of such false limitations in order to allow your vision to take form and be truly inspired.

States of Joy

As you unleash visions based on your life mapping just know it’s a perfect day as you begin. You don’t need to know why, only that it is. If you know why – that’s fine – but that it is a perfect day is all you need.

Joy comes from gratitude and appreciation. Can you maintain a state of gratitude, can you appreciate where you are in life or do you just notice the things that aren’t quite right. Often when people make goals they stop there. If you’ve stopped there you have probably just spent a lot of time reviewing everything you don’t like about your life and want to change. I weigh too much, I don’t make enough money, and any number of other items where you don’t feel you measure up to the person you want to be. The danger is two-fold. You are focusing on your problems, you are making a lot of work for yourself. It is important to change this around a bit.

Instead of setting goals by looking at your short comings look out to that perfect day in the future where everything is right in your life. Look out and be grateful that you are that person – can you appreciate that this accomplished person is you? And that accomplished person is grateful for the good things, that person looks back at you and smiles and you see love and feel a connectedness unlike you have known. Make life mapping work for you – go into the vision and reach back to yourself now and share the joy and gratitude. Pass back the good things that you feel and enjoy them now.

Connecting To The Future

In your heart you get the message coming to you. This great accomplished person is connected with you now and loves you in a profound way and appreciates all that you are doing now because your actions have created this perfect day. And as you look to yourself and you look back you experience that moment now, you share the joy with yourself. It is the gratitude and appreciation flowing both ways on the time line that is your life.

Out of this gratitude faith comes and with faith and belief all things are possible. Don’t make yourself do anything, see the vision, see that person who is you on one of what will be many perfect days and this thing that you are considering doing, how does it connect you to this perfect day, does it have a connection, is it something that will help take you there? The joy of this perfect day and the activity you are considering, aren’t they really one? Can you do the activity with the gratitude of the person you are on that perfect day looking back and giving thanks that you did the things that are necessary to get there? It is you today who has built that life – can you enjoy that now?

And when you need some encouragement can you look out to that person, smile, and reconnect to that bond – that energy between the two of you?

Connecting To Your Past

Your life is a wheel and you sit in the hub, look down any spoke and see yourself past, present, and future. Look back the other direction from that perfect day and see the kid back there. Was he struggling or was it good. Smile back at that little person and communicate the good to him. Let him know that he is valuable and important and thank him for all he is doing – it is important and even if he has made some mistakes you’ve learned from them and he has set the foundation of your success. Go back to him often and help him see those things that he may not be aware of that will move him in the direction he needs to go.

Life mapping can help you connect with your visions in a way that will inspire you. As it does reach back and connect with that part of you in the past that also wanted to achieve and succeed. Pass some of that joy back to him and can you see that he will pass it back forward to you now and increase the joy, and resolution, and drive that is within you? Your bad memories will clear and the joyful memories will take their place, new heights of possibility and achievement will overtake you. Life mapping with the visualization that empowers the law of attraction will take you to new levels of joy, empowerment, gratitude, action and success.

Guy Kawasaki is one of the huge success stories from the ranks of Apple Computer. In this presentation you will learn some great ideas for marketing. This has everything to do with The Science of Getting Rich, you have to be able to share your vision in order to make it happen. This is part of the ‘Action’ that Wallace Wattles insists on.

A big part of successfully putting a software product in the market is generating a big buzz – in other words evangelism. It’s also called: USP – Unique Selling Proposition – a necessary part of doing business because usually if you ‘build a better mousetrap’ they won’t beat the path to your door. The won’t unless you do what Guy is talking about — evangelize it.

I’d love to be able to sit home and ‘Ohmmmmm’ (replace that with your mantra of choice) my way to success. Make no mistake it’s an important component – getting your head in the game. The visualization – holding the thought in the ‘thinking substance’ it all works together to bring your success. But you need the action part too. Napoleon Hill deals more with it in Think and Grow Rich. Charles Schwab evangelized a group of Eastern bankers and brought US Steel into being (chapter 3). You can listen to the story here:

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The idea was born to Schwab but if he hadn’t evangelized it there may have been no U.S. Steel, perhaps the Carnegie foundation wouldn’t be so well endowed, perhaps there wouldn’t have been so many Carnegie libraries around. This idea not only made Schwab, J.P. Morgan, and the investors a lot of money. It also increased Carnegie’s wealth. Without the libraries and the good works of the foundation, what might not have happened? Would we be missing something that benefited us. Who can measure the far reaching impact of that speech – that evangelization?

Evangelism is not a religious word but rather a word from the Greek meaning bring the good news. This is a video about marketing, about selling a product and providing value in the marketplace.

Activate The Law of Attraction, Start Off Your Day By Listening To:

The Science of Getting Rich

“The Science of Getting Rich” is an interesting book. At one point in my life I would have scoffed past it without paying attention to it’s message. After all the language is somewhat stuffy and the examples are from the turn of the Century but today more powerful examples could be taken than the steel and rail businesses or retail. There are many examples of people from modest means creating companies like Microsoft, Google, and YouTube and making fortunes in practically the wink of an eye. All of that said, you will find no finer discussion of the law of attraction.

Don’t ever wallow in self-pity and think that the last song has been written, that there are no more, or the last industry, or business niche made, or that everything has already been invented. Or likewise that we are running out of oil, copper, gold, or whatever it is. The three software companies mentioned in the last paragraph literally came from sand. There is so much sand. Those industries are based on computer chips which are made from silicon – a principal component in sand. But that’s not quite true either. These companies are software companies. Their products are not physical at all – they are manifestations of the mind – they do not truly exist in the physical world but the fortunes from them do. As you listen to The Science of Getting Rich you will hear Wattles discussing what must have been a stretch to think about in 1910 – an airline industry that people should think about getting into, what insight.

So what are you going to do? See the vision of your life and be thankful that you have it. When the thoughts come act on them. See the vision as big, that way you know it’s from God, or the Universal intelligence, or however you choose to view it. Physics have come up with some good theories about how matter is formed from energy and how thought is energy. Use the model that you feel good about. In reality no one understands exactly what the process is but only that there is a law that attracts those things to us when we hold them in mind and impress them on “The Formless Substance.” Wattles is talking about the law of attraction.

The Science of Getting Rich

There you have it a free audio book of The Science of Getting Rich. Think of it as the law of attraction bringing you the resources you need to use the law of attraction. The Science of Getting Rich has trancended time and will provide you with great insights to life as you meditate on it, as you listen again and again and make it’s ideas a part of you.

 The desire for increase is within all men and women.  It is normal and it is yourself seeking fuller expression – a more abundant life.  Go with it, expect it, it is your birthright.

Download your free audio chapter 14 –> The Impression Of Increase: The Science Of Getting Rich Chapter 14

From Chapter 14:

You are a creative center, from which increase is given off to all.

Be sure of this, and convey assurance of the fact to every man, woman, and child with whom you come in contact. No matter how small the transaction, even if it be only the selling of a stick of candy to a little child, put into it the thought of increase, and make sure that the customer is impressed with the thought.

 Keep it real.

Going forward with faith, gratitude, and an expectation.  Chapter 13 is all about getting into the right business.

Download your free audio chapter 13 –> Getting Into The Right Business: The Science Of Getting Rich Chapter 13

Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and begin to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.

We hope you are enjoying the book, here are chapters 6, 7, and 8 of the audio book – Download the free audio here by right clicking and selecting save as:

How Riches Come To You The Science Of Getting Rich Chapter 6

Gratitude The Science Of Getting Rich Chapter 7

Thinking In The Certain Way The Science Of Getting Rich Chapter 8

Pay particular attention to chapter 7. Gratitude is your link to the infinite abundance that is the thinking stuff. The Secret also laid a particular importance on genuine gratitude.