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.

The law of attraction is always working in your life whether you know it or not.   The question is are you controlling it or is it happening at random?

The Law of Attraction says to live in the knowledge that you are getting what you want.  It may seem like a feel-good philosophy and nothing more.  You might think it is worth considering, but not something that exists in nature.  However, the Law of Attraction is based upon the science of physics.

If you are feeling down, it will supply you with a companion in despair.  As the two of you spiral down, you will be better off if you decide to let the Law of Attraction work for you instead of against you.  Find ways that your frequencies can vibrate in harmony in a positive way.  This will strengthen and lengthen friendships like nothing else.

Relationships and The Law of Attraction

Once something becomes important to you, you will develop an
excitement about it.  That excitement will turn into a power that is
greater than any you can drum up by simply repeating words about
what you want.  The Law of Attraction works in relationships as
well as it does in anything else.

The Law of Attraction has been an important source of discussion
for many years.  Before it was ever thought about in the way it is
now, it was referred to by great leaders for centuries.  There is an
abundance of people willing to speak of it now.  So, it is certain
that the concept will live on for generations to come.

The law of attraction can help you build your life.

Let The Law of Attraction Work For You

“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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I collected the next two quotes and picked the tittle for this post several months ago.  As I flesh the piece out it has taken a somewhat different direction.  It is not obvious to me why I should leave these quotes on this article and not move them to a new one and yet, I think they and the title belong here.  Pardon my incongruous words and enjoy it anyway.

“God speaks to all of us every hour, if we will only listen.”
–George Washington Carver

Dr. Carver made that statement when asked why he didn’t patent many of his inventions.

Trust yourself – And you won’t be disappointed when vain people let you down.
–Bob Dylan

Do you believe enough in yourself to make a decision and press on?  Do you value yourself that much?  Society teaches us to always trust others and that is important but the lessons that say: trust yourself – where are they?

Learning to trust yourself is like waking up to the truth.

Fear and uncertainty, if they are pervasive in your life, are simply a lack of trust, a lack of faith in yourself.  Taking it further, if you have religious convictions, they are a lack of faith in God (however you perceive God).

You can restore faith and eliminate fear by seeing your outcome.  See the end from the beginning (as Denis Waitley so elegantly puts it), see the end and know that you have overcome that problem that may seem to have you down right now.  See the end and when you are discouraged buck yourself up with it.

Science tells us that the body experiences the same sensations from an imaginary vision as from the same thing happening in reality.  This is why Olympic and other athletes are taught to visualize success – to see the end from the beginning.  This causes several things to happen…

First there is real training that happens in the body.  Basketball players who see themselves making the shots improve about the same amount as those who actually do the physical practice.  Second because this instills belief inside – when problems and situations come up, when obstacles are in your path you are more likely to have the conviction to continue, to look for other ways to the same end than if you just come up against it and have no expectation of success.  And third, if you believe (or even if you don’t believe) the law of attraction kicks in and helps you attract that outcome.

So there it is: trust yourself, see the end from the beginning, and keep moving in the direction of your dreams always trusting that the answer for that next challenge is there.

About Denis  Waitley And How I Came To Know His Work: I had discovered Napoleon Hill and Robert Collier in the late ’60s, Maxwell Maltz and Earl Nightingale in the early ’70s but while I was intrigued by the information it took “The Psychology of Winning” by Denis Waitley (mid ’80s) to put it in a form that made sense to me.  He put it in a more useful form – I must have listened to his tapes 100′s of times.  I hear Dr. Waitley’s quotes all the time in my head now.

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It takes a great vision to see a world without poverty. Yet this is what Wallace Wattles was about in The Science of Getting Rich. Muhammad Yunus has a vision of bringing the world into a state of harmony and empowerment such that each of us has such freedom of mind and life that he/she can pull themselves into the much deserved good life. Muhammad Yunus envisions a world where poverty can only be seen as an artifact in a museum.

This is a great story about empowering people with banking. Empowering people to do business and create a life worth living.

Revolutionary economist Muhammad Yunus’s new book “Creating a World Without Poverty” outlines his vision for an original business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world — and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank, a pioneer of microcredit — an economic movement that has helped lift millions of families around the word out of poverty — and the author of Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty.

A world without poverty, an inspiring vision that we should all catch.

Today is Sunday, a day of renewal, a day of beginnings and a day for a fresh look at The Science of Getting Rich.

There is no limit to the supply of Formless Stuff, or Original Substance. The universe is made out of it; but it was not all used in making the universe. The spaces in, through, and between the forms of the visible universe are permeated and filled with the Original Substance; with the formless Stuff; with the raw material of all things. Ten thousand times as much as has been made might still be made, and even then we should not have exhausted the supply of universal raw material.

If you watch the news regularly, if you are out of work, or under-employed it is easy to see a world of lack around you.  It is easy to see the circumstances and let them control what you are thinking.  To let the circumstance spiral your state of mind down.

Emerson says: “God enters by a private door into every individual.”

Wattles teaches that the supply is limitless.  He is not alone in this teaching, if you are Christian or Jew your Bible says: “Before you call I will answer…”  That says your answer is here, you just need receive it.  If you are Muslim your Holy book says: “Which of your Lords blessings would you deny…”  I’ve always found that profound.  I have no experience with Hindu or other religions scriptures but I am certain that they too contain this timeless truth, that your needs are taken care of.

Let me switch for a moment.  Masard Emoto* had got advice from his mother after he nearly drowned in the ocean when he was a young boy, he flailed had around and was sinking and taking water in before his rescue:

…she gave me some advice based on her ability to swim and float in water: “you can float if you just give in,” she said.  She said if I let the water lift me instead of trying to resist it, it would pick me up and carry me.

Emoto talks about this advise coming back to him as he tries to gently flow in the direction he wants his life to take.

Emoto’s mother’s advise is good to think about in challenging times.  When you are in a constant state of struggle and resistance and fighting the circumstances then you are in the same act of resistance that Emoto was in as he was drowning.  You must come from that into a state of trusting.  Trusting that you will be lifted, that you will be carried to safty by the currents of life.

This is not to say that you do nothing, far from it.  The great faiths would have you pray.  And they would have you end the prayer in gratitude.  The stories of faith talk of inspiration and then the recipient of the inspiration acting out of it.  This is not struggle but it is being directed into the flow of life.

Jerry and Ester Hicks, and Abraham talk of going with the flow and not resiting by trying to go up stream.  But if you are constantly fighting and fighting then you are not with the flow and you are not getting the best from life.  When Esther Hicks channels Abraham they are always talking about the best for you being down stream and not where the struggle is.  When you are in harmony you will find your best.

The law of attraction is about these great truths.  Whether you accept any of the faiths mentioned or none, the truths they discuss are real.  So begin to trust, as if you were in water and could not touch bottom, trust that the water would lift you, that it will carry you.

There really is a limitless supply, begin to trust, visualize, collect ideas, take action on them in the spirit of trust.  Whatever the situation, don’t be the drowning man flailing aimlessly reaching for this, then that and never able to connect with any of it.  Trust – see the thing you want to see, hold it in the formless substance, turn it round in your mind.   Allow the ideas to come.  Take steady and thoughtful action.   Per Wattles: by thought the thing is created, by action it is received.

So consider the vision you want.  Consider what it would be like if you could be in that vision, the peace and gratitude.  The law of attraction teaches that you have just created the thing and to receive it you continue to hold the vision and the gratitude and you will get the ideas that will allow you to take the right action to receive it.   You do these things by being in the flow not by being in a constant state of turmoil and unbelief.  Believe….   See yourself and the things you want in the flow of your life.  As you trust and flow and believe these things become a part of your reality.  Your thoughts affect your environment…  this is faith.

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*The Secret Life of Water copyright 2005 by Masaru Emoto.  Emoto became well known when his work on the affects of thought and prayer on the formation of water crystals was featured in the film “What The Bleep Do We Know.”  An earlier film about some of the same ideas as “The Secret” and which put forth the ideas of Quantum Physics as an explanation of the law of attraction.

“The key to managing crisis is to keep an eye on the long term while you are dancing in the flames.”

Juan Enriquez explains the root of the econmomic mess and why it will all work out OK. Not your gloom and doom but a great and funny and smart presentation about growing up and running the country as if we were adults. Meanwhile the tech wave is in the wings and promises … Juan will fill you in.

Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot — or in the stock exchange. It’ll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are going to be … different.

“Thought and character are one”
James Allen

Jan 5th 2009 Podcast

As a Man Thinketh, Gettting Your Mind Into The Law of Attraction

As A Man Thinketh is a great little book published in 1902 by James Allen. Allen arrived at the philosophy of the book through observation and meditation. Allen was profoundly impacted by Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he… Allen argues that a man who works on himself inside first will soon see the changes reflected in his outer world.

As A Man Thinketh is a powerful philosophy that will help you achieve by changing and purifying your thoughts. The book will show you how to transform your thoughts into concrete actions that will result in the achievement of anything that you deeply desire in your heart.

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen argues that a man is his dream: that what a man thinks about is what he becomes. In the book, readers are introduced to effect of thought on circumstances; effect of thought on health and body; thought and purpose; thought factor in achievement; vision and ideals and serenity. It is another statement of the law of attraction.

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In this post you’ll find the complete audio book and links to the text also on this site. We’ll be providing a download with the complete audio and also will include the chapters in the podcast. Likewise we will be providing a download of the EBook. Keep watch in the resources section for these items.

Throughout this week we’ll have posts about this book and will resume our regular podcast.

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Foreword

Thought and Character

Effect of Thought on Circumstances

Effect of Thought on Health and the Body

Thought and Purpose

The Thought-Factor in Achievement

Visions and Ideals

Serenity

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This Book Is Sometimes Called “As You Think” by James Allen

As A Man Thinketh or As You Think, both titles refer to the same great book by James Allen.