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		<title>Future Visions, Thoughts Are Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How is your future vision? How well can you see the things that are to happen in your life? Does that sound like a crazy idea?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div class="shr-publisher-2039"></div><p>By <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Michael_Griffin">Michael Griffin</a></p>
<p>How is your future vision? How well can you see the things that are to happen in your life? Does that sound like a crazy idea?</p>
<p>Napoleon Hill, who was perhaps the greatest success writer of the 20Th century had this to say:</p>
<blockquote><p>Thoughts are things.</p></blockquote>
<p>Wayne Dyer, who wrote many success books, put it this way:</p>
<blockquote><p>You will see it when you believe it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Wallace Wattles, who wrote &#8220;The Science of Getting Rich,&#8221; the book behind the movie &#8220;The Secret&#8221; put it like this:</p>
<blockquote><p>By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.</p></blockquote>
<p>When the mind is open and expecting a thing held in vision it finds new connections and notices things and ideas related to the thing. If you allow your mind to put these ideas and observations together, it will begin to suggest things for you to do. Things that may or may not seem related to the vision. But these things, when integrated this way, will begin to form and bring to you the object of your future vision.</p>
<p>If you want anything &#8212; you must first think it. How can we think of the good things we want if our mind is polluted with all the negativity around. Are you a news junkie? Most of what is in the news and on the news channels is what other people want you to think about something that has happened. You don&#8217;t need that to overshadow your life. You need to form clear ideas and visions without the interpretation of others. When you create a future vision you must care for it and nurture it while you are bringing it about by holding the vision.</p>
<p>Some have described how this process works using quantum physics. Others relate it to an intelligence in the universe: that the universe contains a thinking substance that produces in kind after the pure thought held in it. Wallace Wattles, quoted above, is one of those who put forth this theory. I don&#8217;t think these two theories exclude each other so just take the one that is easiest on your head and begin to play with future vision.</p>
<p>Hold the vision of what you want in your mind with as pure a thought as you can. Practice this morning and night and write the ideas that spin off, write down the plans that come to mind &#8212; then act on these things.</p>
<p>Your vision creates the result, your actions bring it into your hands. This is what Wattles is saying.</p>
<p>Whether you have read &#8220;The Science of Getting Rich&#8221; or not you&#8217;ll want to experience it in a new way. You&#8217;ll want to experience it as delivered and interpeted by Bob Proctor with some help from Michael Beckwith and Jack Canfield. You will learn to use <a href="http://therealmikegriffin.com/sgrp/" target="_new">The Science of Getting Rich</a> as your own secret weapon and as your key to success and creation.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m Mike Griffin, and I invite you to learn about these success secret weapons by visiting: <a href="http://therealmikegriffin.com/sgrp/" target="_new">http://therealmikegriffin.com/sgrp/</a></p>
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		<title>Law of Attraction Techniques &#8211; How to Catch Hold of the Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of books about the law of attraction and law of attraction techniques: yet the law is simple and you can grasp it in minutes. Like so many good things the law may mean a profound change in the way you think and see life.]]></description>
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<p>By <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Michael_Griffin">Michael Griffin</a></p>
<p>There are lots of books about the law of attraction and law of attraction techniques: yet the law is simple and you can grasp it in minutes. Like so many good things the law may mean a profound change in the way you think and see life. Try these ideas on:</p>
<ul>
<li>You must only ask to receive</li>
<li>Believe it before you see it</li>
<li>Your thoughts are things</li>
<li>What you think is shaping reality</li>
<li>Everything is energy and it is attracted or repelled by you.</li>
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<p>None of those ideas are difficult and they underpin the Law of Attraction. Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard them from various Guru&#8217;s, you may have learned them in Church, many scriptures state the law of attraction, or aspects of it, in different ways.</p>
<p>If you recognize that the law of attraction has everything to do with the way you think, then what do you do about all the negative thoughts that swirl around in most peoples heads. The law of attraction says see the outcome you want and yet most of us have been conditioned to look at the worst things happening so we live a life of fear. The law seeks to empower you, to show you the best things happening, to let you live your life in a state of happiness and courage. So how to deal with these negative thoughts?</p>
<p>This is where the whole thing pivots. What you want is possible, believe that first. Learn to see and feel the possible in your minds eye &#8211; visualize.</p>
<p>Learn to create feelings of well being, happiness and gratitude. And the gratitude is for not only what you already have, no matter what it is, but for the thing that is possible, that you are now being grateful that it is here.</p>
<p>While you are doing this, play the Pollyanna game. Go rent the Disney movie and see how Pollyanna does it. There is something good in everything just learn to find it. If this sounds crazy, that&#8217;s OK, be crazy like Pollyanna and see the good in things, in people, in events, and in your life. You will create a positive energy and momentum in your life that will return more of the same to you.</p>
<p>On The Abby Road Album The Beatles sang, &#8220;And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.&#8221; Love is the positive energy that comes along with the law of attraction.</p>
<p>What is the best law of attraction technique? You must only ask and receive. You will find that both simple and complex as you wrap your mind around all that it means.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.TheRealMikeGriffin.com" target="_new">The Law of Attraction</a> is working in your life right now. The question is, is it operating randomly or by your deliberate intention? I invite you to visit <a href="http://www.TheRealMikeGriffin.com" target="_new">http://www.TheRealMikeGriffin.com</a> and pick up the free audio books in the sidebar.</p>
<h2>Law of Attraction Seminar (Alan Ross)</h2>
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		<title>Notes On As A Man Thinketh Chapter2: Effect of Thought on Circumstances &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Griffin Jan 9th 2009 Podcast How To Your thoughts create and control your circumstances Can you see yourself a year from now, walking on the beach &#8211; the beautiful blue ocean out before you. The water is so clear you can see the fishes, small ones, larger ones, and some big ones. It [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div class="shr-publisher-983"></div><p>By Michael Griffin</p>
<p><strong>Jan 9th 2009 Podcast</strong><br />
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<h3>How To Your thoughts create and control your circumstances</h3>
<p>Can you see yourself a year from now, walking on the beach &#8211; the beautiful blue ocean out before you.  The water is so clear you can see the fishes, small ones, larger ones, and some big ones.  It is a wonderful day, perhaps you&#8217;ll take a swim later but now you are just taking it all in.  You are here because a year ago you got some ideas and you immediately took action and put them to work in your business, in your life &#8212; now you are here on the beach on  a perfect day.</p>
<p>Do you get that?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Thoughts + action taken = results</strong></p>
<p>This is the underlying theme of &#8220;<a title="As A Man Thinketh" href="http://www.therealmikegriffin.com/as-a-man-thinketh-by-james-allen/#Circumstances">As A Man Thinketh</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>What kinds of thoughts is your mind churning out?  It probably depends on what has gone into your head.  Are you hearing how business is bad and no one has a chance.  Perhaps you heard it on the news or even from some marketer who wants to use scare tactics and have you believe that his product is the only way out of your business dilemma.</p>
<p>The fact is the human mind is the most powerful goal seeking system on the planet.  A question properly phrased, an instruction to find the answer, and the understanding and underlying belief that the result will come.  In the case of the news and the marketer, information was planted in you mind by someone other than yourself.  In the case of the marketer he had in mind actions that he would like you to take.  In the case of the news report, perhaps a reporters bias of the facts, or a government agency, or something that is just wrong, has skewed the report causing confusion and inaction.</p>
<p>You have to take control of the information that feeds your mind.  You have to examine what has gone into your mind that is driving the decisions you are taking today and that those decisions are driving your tomorrow.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad<br />
thoughts and actions can never produce good results</strong>. This is but<br />
saying that <strong>nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from<br />
nettles but nettles</strong>. Men understand this law in the natural world,<br />
and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral<br />
world (though its operation there is just as simple and<br />
undeviating), and they, therefore, do not co-operate with it.</p>
<h3>Could your thoughts bring such great results to your life?</h3>
<p>Allen says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it<br />
loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its<br />
cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened<br />
desires,–and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives<br />
its own.</p>
<p>A person must come to a decision about his life that he (he or she) is responsible for it.  At that point he must begin to examine his thoughts and recognize the powerful goal seeking system that is his mind.  He must look at the beliefs that would have him not make that extra sales call, or watch three or four hours of TV instead of looking for ways to produce the income that will give him the perfect days at the beach, that will insure his future.</p>
<p>TV wasn&#8217;t a part of the picture when Allen wrote As A Man Thinketh but there have always been plenty of ways to &#8216;sew nettles&#8217; in the fertile field of the mind.  The point is what beliefs are running your mind and therefore your life that would cause you to spend so much time in a way that will cause you to be only a very ordinary person?  Earl Nightingale discusses this very issue, he calls it &#8220;<a title="Earl Nightingale" href="http://www.therealmikegriffin.com/2008/12/earl-nightingale-the-strangest-secret/" target="_blank">The Strangest Secret</a>.&#8221;</p>
<h3>How They Laughed When I Said &#8211; my thoughts create and control my circumstances</h3>
<p>What is it that you want to do that you&#8217;ve had on the back-burner so long that you hardly think of it at all anymore?   Perhaps you bought a course quietly, to study in private, so people wouldn&#8217;t see you reach for the stars?  So people wouldn&#8217;t laugh?  Where did that thought &#8211; that people will laugh &#8211; come from?  Is it your thought or is it just one of those thoughts generally held that keep people mindlessly doing the same thing as everyone else and causing them to trail down the road of life one-after-the-other like cattle to the slaughter?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">
<h3>New Thought Will Help You Put the law of attraction to work in your life, bringing you the things you want rather than what society has for normal people.</h3>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at<br />
the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions<br />
of his life.</p>
<p>If you direct your mind &#8211; if you tell it to seek the things that you want by holding a clear and definite  picture of the outcome you want, then it will begin to target that result and not the results that people all around you are getting.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Nature helps every man to the gratification of the thoughts, which<br />
he most encourages, and opportunities are presented which will most<br />
speedily bring to the surface both the good and evil thoughts.</p>
<p>Remember that your mind is a powerful goal seeking system.  Unless you want to wind up somewhere else &#8211; you need to take over what goes into it yourself, you need to be the programmer.  Allen has also, without saying so, introduced the law of attraction into the mix.  This is a step beyond the simple cause and effect relationship that we spoke about in part 1 of this post and have continued until now.  &#8220;Nature helps every man&#8221; and from the previous quote: &#8220;rapid transformation.&#8221;  These are acknowledgments of the larger force at work as we have been discussing in Wallace Wattles &#8220;<a title="Wallace Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich" href="http://www.therealmikegriffin.com/the-masters-of-motivation/wallace-d-wattles/">The Science of Getting Rich</a>.&#8221;  We will develop the idea more as we examine the later chapters of the book but will not focus too much on it for now.</p>
<p>The Effect of Thought on Circumstance &#8211; As A Man Thinketh &#8211; This is the message, take charge of your thoughts and you will take charge of your life.</p>
<p>Next time we&#8217;ll pick up with chapter 3 of James Allen&#8217;s &#8220;As A Man Thinketh.&#8221;</p>
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