by Michael Griffin

Hope and faith are necessary parts of the law of attraction.

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.

Wallace Wattles use of hope and faith

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.

Use hope and faith everyday in your life by seeing the things inside that you are creating outside in your world.

By Michael Griffin

There is a great old book called “The Science of Getting Rich” written in 1911 by a man named Wallace Wattles. The book was the inspiration for “The Secret” a movie all about the law of attraction. Although “The Science of Getting Rich” is about the law of attraction, it never calls it that, even so this book is perhaps the best reference about using the law and putting it into action in your life.

Basically using the law of attraction boils down to setting up a daily cycle in your life.

Steps To Success UsingThe Science of Getting Rich

1. Visualize an outcome – see the result
2. Take note of the ideas that come to mind
3. See the world in the context of this vision
4. Notice new things, create a mindset that appreciates things rather than discounts them
5. Add in these things to your vision and let the vision morph
6. Take action in anyway that you can on these ideas and on your vision
7. Repeat morning and night every day

In The Science of Getting Rich, Wattles states:

“You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea before you have it yourself. You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impress Thinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and misty concept of the things they want to do, have, or to become.”

If you close your eyes right now can you see a picture of what you want in your life? Can you step into it and feel, smell, and hear? Wattles says: It is not enough that you should have a general desire for wealth “to do good with” everybody has that desire.

The Science of Getting Rich talks about a sensory rich vision as the first step. This is a vision powerful enough to inspire and motivate you to take action to make the vision a reality. How can you have something if you don’t really know what it is. Vague or general ideas are no different from seeing something on TV and then the next day trying to describe the show to a Friend. You have some of it but much of the detail is gone.

Future Vision The Science of Getting Rich Style

In your vision the only way to fill it in is to go through it over and over, perhaps take some notes. Include in your notes how it makes you feel? What do you hear? Who is there with you? Is the scent of sandalwood in the air? Experience it all, put it all down and on successive days fill in the details and intensify the vision. Spend time contemplating this picture.

As you go through the day find moments to bring your vision to mind just long enough to appreciate it and be grateful for it.

Continue this process as the first step of the law of attraction daily cycle.

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“All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea!”

Napoleon Hill and Wallace Wattles

Napoleon Hill ends the author’s preface of Think and Grow Rich with the idea above.  Why?

Wallace Wattles in Chapter 11 of  The Science of Getting Rich says:

“By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.”

If you read Think and Grow Rich you will find a system of cultivating the idea until it becomes a white hot desire and you begin to act on it.

If you read The Science of Getting Rich, likewise you will find techniques to enhance your desire for the idea until you begin to act on it.

What do you do or don’t do with your idea is what causes most people to fail.  How do you nourish the idea and make it come alive, how do you get it to bring the results you want into your life?

Along the way, the desire creates an awareness of things around you that are related to the idea.  This will be things you see, ideas you notice, and other manifestations.  The bottom line is you are noticing and attracting this information.  If you don’t discount it, if you respect your own thoughts and desires – then you will automatically begin to act on it to produce a result.

Unless you are sleepwalking through life you will begin to compare what you are seeing with your new sensitivity to where you are and where you want to go.  This will cause other ideas and other observations and you must pick and choose your way through to your goal.  Some of the ideas will tell you to give up, maybe they’ll tell you to go to the casino and bet your capital – these are the weeds that you must root out of your thinking.  The other ideas, the ones congruent with your desire you continue to cultivate.

So how do you weed out an idea and how do you cultivate one?

Ideas that you want to keep and cultivate you need to write down and review.  Then begin to weave them into your vision, see how they fit in to the direction you want to go and continue with them.  Notice that if they are good ideas but are not with your desired end you should just write them down for possible use later.

Ideas that you don’t want, thoughts such as: “this is a waste of time” you must cast down.  The best way I have found to do this is to just replace them with another thought.  This is a place where some quotes you may know will be useful.

When you find a counter-productive thought replace it.   The thought response to “this is not good enough” might be “I’d rather see a crooked furrow than an un-plowed field.”  After all if this is some new thing you are doing you are not out of the box going to be doing it as well as those who have been in the field for years.  The important thing is to begin, to get something going.

The often given example of if your young child tries to walk for the first time and falls down do you declare, “he’ll never walk” and then buy him a wheel chair.  No, you cheer his effort, you encourage him, and help him whenever he wants to try.  So he tries more and everyday he gets better and better.  It will be the same with you and the thing you are trying to do.

“I’d rather see a crooked furrow than a field un-plowed” -  I’d rather see my child try to walk than just crawl around for his whole life.

Trying leads to the first unstable steps and those lead to walking across from mommy to daddy which leads to running around the house and having the fun of great motion never before possible for that child – and his world opens a little more.

Your trying leads to successful action and the new things you can see from this new range of motion that you have achieved and your world opens a little more.

Your issue in getting to your desired end comes with being shut down by your thoughts.  The same mind that thought the thoughts to get you going can shut you down unless you are cultivating your thoughts all the time.

Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale in “The Power of Positive Thinking” goes deeply into the idea of cultivating your thoughts.  Putting good thoughts in and replacing the dis-empowering thoughts with good ones.  Many may have passed up Peale’s books because of their religious roots.  This is a mistake.  Peale teaches when the bad thoughts come replace with a thought you have ready.  Discouraging thoughts can be replace with: “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.”  A Bible quote and if you are a believer a good one to use.  If you are not a believer then find something to encourage you that you can substitute.  Peale himself says that the ideas that he presents in his books will work for Christians and non-Christians alike.  It is The Power of Positive Thinking.

If we cultivate our thoughts this way we can have a huge success crop.  If we fail to do that we just may find ourselves gleaning the left overs in another mans field.

Peale also has a book about visualization, Positive Imaging, which is a gem.  Like Hill and Wattles, Peale teaches you to see your desired results without shooting it down with negative thoughts.  See the vision and cultivate the thoughts it generates.  Then become inspired to action because you will receive actionable ideas.

And so it goes, these are timeless mental technologies that will work for you.  The thing is recognize where your thoughts are coming from and pick the ones with your desired outcome.  Cultivate the thoughts that come with the visions and begin to take action.  Each action will raise you a little higher and you will see a little farther.

See your vision as if it is here now.  Feel the feelings that you will feel when it is real.  Cultivate your thoughts – think the thoughts that serve you.  This will help keep the desire hot until by your actions you receive it.

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