When I want my computer to support what I need it to do more easily, I open up the “preferences” pane and customize how it behaves. I love this feature. The only time I need it is when I am frustrated by something. For example, when I open a new word document and the font has to be changed, I can tell the computer to change it automatically for me the next time. I like that I have the option for my “preferences” on my computer. It makes my computing experience more fun and personalized. Did you know that you have your own set of “preferences” in your vibration too? Here’s how it works, in a nutshell: You live your life, some things go really well and some things don’t go quite as well. In both cases, you set your vibrational preferences based on your experience. Your “good” events help you ask for more of the same, and the events that feel bad help you ask for the opposite of the experience. If someone treats you badly, it’s like you open up the preferences pane and set your system to “I want people to treat me nicer.” When you run out of money, you set your preferences automatically to “I really want more money.” Life causes you to want, and you send out your preferences automatically to the Universe where it is heard by your inner being and Source energy.
You might wonder, then, why your experience doesn’t change every time you define your new preferences. When I set a new font on my computer, you might say, it stays changed until I change it again. This is true for your computer, and it is also true for you…sort of. You see, you are not an “on and off/black and white” device. You are a vibrational being that is always experiencing what the Law of Attraction is lining you up with. The LoA is responding to the most practiced thoughts you have been thinking. When you set a new preference for more money, you are setting more money into motion for you immediately. It’s like ordering from the internet. The deal is done as soon as you order it. But it takes time for the order to be picked, handled, put on a truck, and delivered to your door. For the Law of Attraction (or the US mail in this case) to bring it to you, you simply have to stick with your preferences and NOT cancel the order! Can you image how silly it would be to order, say, a pair of shoes on line, and then call to cancel it, and then reorder it, and then cancel it, and then reorder it…and then blame the company for not bringing it to you quickly? That is pretty much what you are doing sometimes if your preferences are not manifesting for you over time. Once you set a new preference, love the fact that you have set it into motion, and then get excited about how it will arrive. See it coming to you, and don’t entertain thoughts for very long that may cancel your “order.”
I love to define my preferences, and I love knowing that the Law of Attraction is the delivery system I can count on to bring it to me. I have preferences set for my job, my mate, my art, my car, my pets, my living spaces, my body, my friends, and the list goes on and on. It’s fun to get to decide on all of these. When something isn’t working anymore, I get to imagine it in a better light, and I get to enjoy the coming improvement. I get what I prefer as long as I don’t cancel the order. How FUN! What are you ordering from the Vibrational Universe today? What do you prefer your life to be like? Put that order in and have fun today while the order is processed. Before you know it it will be on your door step. Thanks for reading. Let me know if you liked this post! Lisa-GP
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I would like to start a series of posts about using optimism to your advantage. Optimism is a key tool in harnessing the full power of the Law of Attraction, and it is nothing more than being picky about the thoughts you choose to think. Each person has a vibrational range, and this range is determined by the average feeling or vibrational content of the thoughts you have been thinking. If you haven’t read the GP post on Using the Emotional Scale, you may want to read it first by clicking HERE. You only have access to thoughts that are close to your vibrational range, so trying to feel optimism when you are feeling doubt is next to impossible to do. But I like optimism as a default “go to” vibration for several reasons. Even if you are in the vibrational range of doubt, your job is to find the best thought that you have vibrational access to. Instead of having to remember what emotional label is above doubt (in this case it is disappointment) I reach for “an optimistic thought” in my range, which might move me into a little higher vibration. I find this easier to do (at least for me) than trying to feel disappointment. I reach for “optimistic doubt” and I land in something that feels better than doubt. From there, I do the same thing again and find some thoughts that could be called “optimistic disappointment,” even if I don’t use that label.
I believe that optimism is especially powerful because it includes a reference to both sides of the issue: the glass is half full, or it is half empty. It helps you choose to focus on the side of the issue that tells a better story. It looks objectively at something and makes the most out of it. It is a launching pad for climbing the emotional scale on any issue. It recognizes the choices you have with two distinct paths, one that leads you closer to where you want to be, and one that leads you away from your desired emotional destination. It is the opposite of delusional; it is grounded and realistic while still being a reach on the vibrational scale. (Incidentally, you can make a good case for the concept of being delusional too, forgetting about “reality” completely and giving thought only to your goal. Many successful people call this “being focused.”)
Do you consider yourself to be an optimist? I know some people that pride themselves on being a self-described “devil’s advocate” and finding the fault in any idea, plan, or brainstorm. They feel that they play an important role in the conversation by bringing everyone down to a realistic level. But they actually do themselves a disservice by lowering their own emotional set point of vibration, which inevitably keeps them feeling worse and worse. The “important role” of pessimist keeps them from manifesting their desires and askings, and their Source will never take a pessimistic view of anything…so they live out of alignment with their own inner being.
Notice today what your thoughts and words feel like. Are they optimistic or pessimistic? Do your thoughts and words lead you to feelings that feel better or feelings that worse? Just notice. If you find that you inject part your day with pessimism, acknowledge that optimism is a choice, just as pessimism is also a choice. Each can be practiced just as easily as the other. In every moment you can choose to see the best, or the worst. You can reach for the best thought you can find, or you can reach for the worst thought you can find. It’s all up to you, and by paying attention you will be empowered to choose more consciously today. I truly believe you will do great things today, and I know you will feel better and better as the day goes on. May you find joy in every moment in this most amazing day! Chris-GP
There are many times when we feel “right” about an issue or topic, and we may feel a need to get others to agree with us about it. But haven’t you noticed that convincing another person to agree with you on something can, at times, be a difficult task. I have come to a point where I like to listen to others express their point of view, and I am honored when they are interested in hearing mine. I have come to accept that we are all different and that we will always have our own unique perception of the world, our place in it, and our goals as human beings. In fact, it is the variety and diversity that keeps the Universe expanding, and it’s what makes being here so exciting and worthwhile. Having agreement on a topic with others can feel really good too, especially when it births new ideas and creative angles to the issue at hand: thought is taken beyond that which it has been before…very cool.
But although it is wise to abandon worry about what others think about your ideas and opinions, it is in your very best interest to get Source Energy to agree with them. But Source is not a person, so how does that work, you ask? Source Energy is a never-ending stream of pure positive energy that can’t be stopped…only resisted. The part of you that exists in pure positive energy is the larger part of who you are. You are a spiritual being having a human experience. So when I refer to Source, I am really referring to YOU as you exist right now in pure positive energy. This larger part of you is communicating with you constantly through your dreams, intuitions, and inspirations. So what you really need to do is get your larger, Source energy-focused part of you to agree with your thoughts, feelings, and actions. Or do you?
Is all YOU, so this seems weird…but instead of trying to get your Source self to agree with you, you are WAY better off getting yourself to agree with Source’s opinion of you. If you have read some of the other GP posts about contrast, and how contrast helps your greater self expand and grow, you know that your Source self has already literally become everything you have wanted to be up to this point. That’s right…everything you have imagined for yourself that you can say right now that you want and have asked for has already manifested for the part of you that is Source Energy. It is the literal expanded version of YOU. That being said, you are best off trying to be in vibrational harmony with your expanded self so that you can allow it all to manifest on planet Earth through the Law of Attraction. But how do you know what Source thinks about you? How can you align with the views and opinions of Source Energy? Here are some of the things we KNOW about Source Energy:
Source Energy loves you.
Source Energy knows you are precious.
Source Energy knows you are worthy.
Source Energy sees you as the perfect expression of “youness.”
Source Energy appreciates everything you are, everything you do, and everything you desire.
Source Energy knows that you are in the perfect place, at the perfect time.
Source Energy guides you to be the best you can be.
Source Energy sees the best in others.
Source Energy never puts you or anyone else down.
Source Energy feeds your intuition and inspiration and urges you toward what it has already become.
Source Energy doesn’t doubt you EVER, and uplifts your unique journey.
The list could go on for a very long time. If you don’t agree with Source, or if Source doesn’t agree with you…you will know right away because you will feel bad. But if, on the other hand, you and your Source are of one mind, you will feel joy, inspiration, love, gratitude, appreciation, and many other very connected feelings. When you live in the vibration of Source, you are, as Abraham-Hicks calls it…in the Vortex. The Vortex is the place where you and your Source are in vibrational alignment, and it is the place where all the magic of the Law of Attraction can manifest. Another way to say this is that when YOU and your larger YOU agree through your thoughts, feelings, and actions, you MUST become, right now, the best manifested version of YOU so far. (You know the YOU with great health, money, the relationship, the toys…or whatever you have allowed your Source to become through your vibrational asking.) No one may ever agree with you, but it is your number one job for YOU to agree with your Source! Let that be your goal today, to feel more and more agreement with your Source. Notice how you feel, and may you have a joyous, blissful, connected, loving and most amazing day! Chris-GP
I have been noticing some cool things recently about my own vibration. Everything seems to go in cycles and patterns of connection and contrast. I have been in a cycle of connection recently and I want to share a few moments of gratitude with you. This is my little list of things that have gone well. Maybe you can add to this list too:
My dreams have felt especially restful and fun.
I’ve been waking up with the feeling like it must be morning, but instead I have hours of decadent sleep left to enjoy.
I have been eating well, and I feel light and strong.
There has been little or no traffic on the freeways in the directions I have needed to travel.
I have found a parking place on the first try every time at work.
People seem to be especially cheerful and smiley lately.
Watching Stephen Cobert made me laugh out loud this morning.
I had a call for some extra work (unexpected income).
The copy machine didn’t jam at all this week, and I made a LOT of copies.
I got all my work done in the time I had to do it. I worked fast, but it all got done in perfect timing.
Can you think of ten things that went well for you recently? I know I could make a top ten things that didn‘t go well recently…but not at this moment. Right now I can’t think of one, which is exactly how I like it to be. Your point of attraction will equal your most practiced thoughts, and I love feeling good. Law of Attraction is bringing me more to match my top 10 list. The more I make lists like this, the more lists like this I will be inspired to make. I am grateful…I am appreciative…I am alive…I am living in Love. Be.Love, Hannya-GP
Anyone with a cell phone has had the experience of having it ring in a place where it should be turned off. Places like concerts, funerals, meetings, and meditation sessions are good examples of times that you really need to shut off your ringer. Having your phone go off in a bad time and place is annoying to you, and to the people around you too. Still, some people don’t want to take a chance that they might miss an important call. For some, a missed call represents a lost opportunity, a possible permanent disappointment they will never live down. I, on the other hand, don’t care if I miss calls. If it’s important I know they’ll call back. You have probably felt different ways at different time on this one.
Source Energy is calling you. Did you know that? You asked the Universe to change your life in a very important way the last time you experienced an uncomfortable experience of contrast in your life. You sent a huge request for your life to be better, more fun, expanded, and more joyful, and the Universe heard you, and Source is now calling you forward to receive it. Can you hear this call? Is it a good time for you to take this call? Is your ringer off? Do you think Source will call back?
The Law of Attraction has been organizing people, events, and circumstances to aid in the perfect unfolding of your asking. Let’s say you asked for a new job. Your present job, in all it’s crappiness, caused you to say “I want a better job. I want a great boss and fun and fulfilling tasks to play with all day.” Great! Then you did your best to align with the new vibration by enjoying the work you already have as much as you could. Great! You didn’t tell your old story, but you began telling your new story more and more, to the point that it feels like the true story, more than the “real” one. Great! So why aren’t you taking calls from “Source?” Source Energy on line one!
You might be being called to do little things that seem to make little difference, but can you hear the call? What might these calls sound like? In this example for a new job, the words being transmitted to you might sound like “wait for the next train” or “talk to that person” or “call that number you saw on the poster” or “visit that website” or “take a long walk right now” or “make that vision board” or “be kind to that person” or “attend that event” or anything that feels like a call to inspired action. If you aren’t taking these calls, you might never even hear the meaning of the feeling behind the inspiration. If you just ignore it, you might hear the words, but write them off as silly, like “I never do that.” Source will call you toward the perfect circumstances that Law of Attraction has organized for you, but you have to respond to the call. Turn your ringer on.
The beauty of all of this is that you can’t stop Source’s call to you. You can ignore it, but the call continues, consistently and constantly. It never gives up. So when you are ready and willing, pick up on this calling, and let the magic of your inspired life blossom fully into your awareness. Be Well, Marie-GP
Back in December I wrote a post called “Why Wait? Live It Now!” If you haven’t read this post, you can read it first by clicking HERE. You might remember that I referred to something called “an allowing manifesto” that my wife and I made when we were creating our new beach-front living space. Today I will explain just what this is, and how you can use this tool to help you allow and enjoy the life you want and deserve. We use the term “Manifesto” because we like the feeling of declaring our intentions clearly and publicly to give us even more focus and belief. Here is what the word means in the strictest sense:
manifesto |ˌmanəˈfestō|
noun ( pl. -tos)
a public declaration of policy and aims, esp. one issued before an election by a political party or candidate.
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Italian, from manifestare, from Latin, ‘make public,’ from manifestus ‘obvious’.
We call our document “An Allowing Manifesto” because is doesn’t represent a list of things to accomplish, but rather a list of manifestations that we expect to welcome in to our experience. It’s not a “To Do” list at all, and knowing this will help you ask for what you really want. Remember that when you understand and work with the Law of Attraction, the rules of getting things done are slightly different than what you may have done in the past. With Law of Attraction you allow your wellbeing in, and you look for the things you are wanting to see. You do your best to appreciate the new condition is if it were already here in your present moment. You let the Universe work for YOU, managing all the minutia in magical ways that you could never stay on top of with just your personal human effort and attention.
This Allowing Manifesto is kind of like a Vision Board (for more on this you can search for Gratitude Planet posts about Vision Boards in the “search” function in the tool bar). Both are creations that you make using words and images. Both help create a feeling and vibration of the new condition. Both help you clarify your Universal asking by making you choose the details and feeling-tones of the desires. But an Allowing Manifesto is more about the words than the images, probably as much as a Vision Board is more about the images than it is about the words. Here is how you would go about making your own manifesto:
Alone or with someone you are co-creating with (wife, husband, S.O., business partner, etc.) have a discussion about what you would like to create and allow in one year’s time. Don’t be limited by what you think you can do by your action alone. Be open to asking for anything that feels good, and for anything that you feel would increase your daily joy. You may find this list easy or difficult to create, but stay with it until you have a list of things that you are feeling good about. Only you know what this list should be, but for a jump start consider better health, more prosperity, more friends, better focus and clarity, a romantic relationship, a new job, a new car, growth in your business, a career change, or anything you can connect with emotionally.
Get a piece of paper, or open up a word processing or drawing document, and put the following at the top: “Next Logical Step: An Allowing Manifesto, January 24, 2010“ We use the words coined from Abraham-Hicks “the next logical step” because we want this to feel easy, natural, and in perfect timing. In other words, the intention is for the new condition to seep into your awareness throughout the year so that it doesn’t feel like a wave crashing in, but rather like a slow fade to a new and more thrilling color wash on a theater stage.
Next write or type: “We (or I) set the intention to allow and manifest the following into our (my) experience by January 24, 2011:” You don’t have to use the one year time frame. We choose it because it feels right to us, but you can decide for yourself if six months, eighteen months, or two months feels best. We have done three Allowing Manifestos so far, and the first one was completely manifested in seven months, and the second one is almost complete in thirteen. The newest one is 24 days old and is already well on the way to manifesting. The vibration around the asking will guide you to set the proper time frame for you.
Next, write the number “1“ and make a heading of the first thing you will allow. In our ’07 Manifesto, we set out to allow a new ocean-front living space. Because we live in Southern California, it didn’t feel right at the time to ask that we would actually own it, but we also didn’t want to limit ourselves by saying we would necessarily rent it either. So we just called it “1. An ability to afford an ocean-view living space, including:”
Once you have your first heading, make a list of specific things that you intend to manifest. If it is a new romantic relationship, describe what he/she might look like, the hobbies they might have, or the way they smile when they look at you. If it is a new car you are wanting, describe what color it will be, as well as the make and model if you know it already. Our detailed list looked like this:
A. at least 2-bed, 2-bath
B. two secure parking spaces
C. the real sound of the real ocean
D. bright, sunny and open, yet private
E. ocean breeze with large windows and doors facing the ocean
F. easy commute to places of employment
G. ample storage
H. at least 1,000 square feet of living space with a kitchen that is a joy to prepare food in.
I. easy access to the friendly walking-swimming beach
J. nice place to sit outside, grill, and entertain
K. walking distance to shops and restaurants and entertainment
L. quiet street and friendly neighbors/neighborhood
M. dog-friendly community
N. perfect timing and ease finding and securing the living space
O. pet-safe balcony that you can see through
P. hardwood or tiled floors that are easy to keep clean
Q. gas fireplace that works
Next, write the number “2“ and make a heading of the second thing you will allow. For us, we set an intention to create more income so that we could afford the increase in rent that allowing number 1 would entail. You can word it any way you want. We decided to use these words: “2. Additional income totaling $25,000 (gross) from sources TBA. It will feel like the following:“ Here’s a big tip with working with the Law of Attraction. We didn’t specify how the money would come, but instead how it would feel as the money came. Here is what we put under number two:
A. easy to manage
B. effortless and inspiring in the
energy leading up to the
manifestation
C. activities that draw us forward
D. a journey of joy
E. activities that help people
F. easy to attract people with connections and expertise who can help us, and be part of the unfolding
Next find a few images that support the allowing vibration of the Allowing Manifesto. You may need to search a while to find these, or you may know immediately what you want the images to be. Paste these onto or into your document, and sit with it for a while. Does it feel good to look at? Are you ready to open your life to these new things? Are you thrilled by what you have asked for? Can you feel the excitement behind the fact that this is all coming to you right now? Love it, and feel the joy behind it.
Next, put it in a place where you will see and read it on a regular basis. We use the fridge, or the bathroom mirror. I like having an electronic version on my computer so that I can print out copies of it in various sizes. I will put copies in the medicine cabinet, on the dashboard of my truck, on a cork board above my desk at work, and even as a screen saver on my laptop if I choose to use it there. The point is to revisit it and enjoy the fun of including these things into your thinking every day. If you live with these images and intentions in joy every day, when they begin to manifest in small ways you will smile and say “I saw that coming. Yippee! It’s all on the way!”
Don’t be afraid to tell people who are close to you about the things you are creating in your life. We would say “We are excited that by next year we will be living on the ocean.” Friends would say, “Oh really…where?” We would counter “Oh, none of those details are known yet. But it’s all coming, and we are so excited about it. Law of Attraction of working on it as we speak.” If you don’t have friends who are ready to hear you talk about it like that, visualize yourself doing it to friends you will meet. It can be just as powerful to imagine it in terms of how Law of Attraction works.
That’s it! An Allowing Manifesto forces you to be specific, set a time frame, and spend time with your own joyful desires on a regular basis. If you chose to use this fun and easy tool, please let everyone at Gratitude Planet know about it. If you have done this, or something similar, in the past…tell your story in a comment post, or send it to us via the “Contact Us” tool bar. We will edit it and post it for everyone to benefit from and be inspired by. Enjoy this most amazing day! Chris-GP
Hello Everyone! This is my first post for Gratitude Planet. I have been subscribing for a while and decided to write something to share. (You can do this too! See the tool bar for the “Become a GP Contributing Author” for how to do it.) I hope you are all having a great start to your new year. I just want to tell a quick story to show how what you eat can change the way you feel. I have been honoring my New Year resolutions, and so far I have done pretty good. Changing habits can be like changing the direction of an ocean liner because first you have to STOP what you are doing so that you can get a new direction. If you are like me, I had some pretty intense momentum behind the habits I had. None of my resolutions were about eating differently, or losing weight (but we all have our list, right?). And I was changing what I did little by little with some small lapses, like most people who want to make a change in something. Here’s my story…
I was having a great day a few days ago and was on a gig, and then I noticed a huge spread of food and treats in the green room. Without much thought, I sampled a few things including a chocolate cupcake, some cookies, and some crunchy bar snacks. It was yummy. Later as the day went on I felt really cranky. I wasn’t inspired to do the things I said I would do to change my habits. Eating the sugar treats was fine, but I think it actually set me up for failure when it came to changing the things that I wanted to change. I didn’t think much more about it. I figured, “everyone has good days and bad days. I’m just snarky today.”
The next day I had a day off and was running all over town doing the things I had to get done. The day was much the same in many ways. I pulled in to the grocery for dinner food and an afternoon snack. First, I went to the bakery and feasted my eyes on the baked goods. (I have a real sweet tooth, can’t you tell?) But then I had an inspiration (call it guidance from Source?) to choose differently. I listened and followed my inspiration to the other side of the store, to the fruit section. There I found two things that sounded good to me in the moment: a green apple, and an 8 oz bottle of 100% carrot juice. I finished getting dinner food and got in the car to drive home. I snacked on my apple and carrot juice, which tasted really good ’cause I was really hungry. It was yummy! Again I didn’t give this too much thought in the moment.
Later that day, I had absolutely no trouble finding inspiration to follow my new year’s resolutions. I had good energy, and I was flying high on the emotional scale! (like up in the “Enthusiasm/Eagerness/Happiness” range) I have always heard that “you are what you eat” but I never wanted to be an apple or a bottle of carrot juice! Joking aside, eating real food for energy made a big difference for me, and this is affecting my eating choices today too. Gaining weight is not a worry for me, but feeling good is. Maybe YOU can try eating a little better today. See how it makes you feel. See if feeling better makes you do the things you want to do with even more ease. You might be really surprised by the difference it can make. In Joy and Appreciation, Christina
We are getting ready to launch a couple new pages here at Gratitude Planet: A Story Zone, and a Virtual Reality Zone. The Story Zone will be a place for you to share stories of your success using the Law of Attraction. You will be able to inspire others through the life you have created. In the Virtual Reality Zone, you will get to tell stories that aren’t true…yet. We’ll tell you even more about these when they are ready, but in this post I want to say a few things about “stories.” People love stories. Stories are how we put perspective into the experiences we all have on planet Earth. Telling stories is a technique for teaching others, and we all while away countless hours enjoying stories told to us through books, Blogs, spoken word, movies and television. Everybody loves a good story, and most people love a happy ending to their story.
What is YOUR story? How would you narrate the plot of your life so far? It seems like our individual story is set in stone up to this point: what has happened is done, and what hasn’t happened is unknown. Yet, past and future are but illusions that are always viewed from the present. (Wrap your mind around THAT one!) So how we view and describe past and future through our stories can be perceived as a fluid, changing thing. In essence, we are not ever limited by our past and future unless we choose to be. Isn’t it freeing to know that you are limitless, unbounded, and open to all that is good, right now? But the stories you tell about your life do have the potential to limit, bind, and close you off as well. Here’s why…
Source Energy always agrees with you…always, always, always. When you give your attention to something you include it in your vibration, and you get more of it through the magic of the Law of Attraction. This includes anything you give your focus to, including your stories of “reality.” Many people constantly repeat stories of events going poorly for them, mostly because someone will listen, and also because it is “true.” But I’m here to say that “truth and an audience” never stops Source Energy from agreeing with you. Your stories always reinforce the energy behind the story, happy ending or no happy ending. So if you tell true stories without a happy ending, what do you get? You guessed it, more real, true, and contrasting unhappy endings to your present experiences. Why would you want to do this? Good question.
Every thought, word, feeling, and point of focus creates your “story.” Your story is constantly unfolding in an ever-present NOW. Because your story creates your point of attraction, your story also creates your reality. Knowing this, why wouldn’t you want to have a happy ending to your story? Why wouldn’t you tell the story you want to hear, rather than the one you have been telling? Why wouldn’t you create your story like your favorite heroic or romantic plot line? Your story is real…your story is what creates your reality. Listen today to how you tell your story through your thoughts, actions, and spoken words. Does it sound like the plot line that you want to live…that leads to your happy ending? Better yet, does it describe your happy ending as if it were already here? (Then you know you really are on to something!) Here are a few of my favorite quotes about this topic:
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986)
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments. Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Start telling the story you want to hear, and be ready to enjoy the best chapter of your life. Be Well, Marie-GP
Like some of you, I am a freelancer, so most of the work I do is done on a varied schedule. I basically work for myself, dig up my own jobs, and get to be thrilled and terrified by it all at the same time. Sometimes the work piles up, and sometimes it goes MIA for a while. When I have big jobs or shows I will often hire some temporary help to assist me with making it a success. I try to be a good manager, and I usually succeed. When I feel overwhelmed, I long for someone who can be counted on to do what I need them to, on time, and exactly the way I would do it if I had the time. This kind of manager is very hard to find, especially when you are as picky as I am about my business. But there is one manager you can always count on to work for you, all day, every day, and with consistent outcomes every time: The Law of Attraction!
Sure, you can’t “see” this manager, and you can’t “fire” this manager, but LOA is on the job 24/7, weekends and holidays. LOA hears your call and brings you the people and resources and circumstances that you alone couldn’t possibly work hard enough to arrange for yourself. So how does this manager behave, and how do you supervise LOA most effectively to do your work? Here are some insights into how I have learned to use this powerful Universal manager in my life.
Law of Attraction behaves consistently. When you live, think and feel, you create a kind of signal, or better said an average vibration, and LOA reads this signal and immediately puts you in the vicinity of people, events, and circumstances that match that vibration. LOA never says “but you don’t really want that, do you?” Instead, it always says “OK boss, I’m on it right now” and relentlessly brings more and more to you. Unlike a human manager, with their human inconsistencies and inevitable miscommunications, the LOA hears your vibration clearly every time and brings you more of the same every time. If you have something go poorly, don’t blame LOA. That would be a mistake. Instead, ask yourself what kind of message you have been sending out through your vibration. If you can’t blame LOA for your results, then you have to look in the mirror and find the source of the issue! Let me explain this a little more.
Law of Attraction is reading your vibration even when you wish it wouldn’t. When you criticize, complain, worry, get depressed, fight with others, watch scary movies, see murders on TV, and read bad-feeling headlines, LOA is on the job working to give you more of the same. It’s as if you were actually putting in an order for how you want your life to be. In this case you are saying: “People hate me and I hate myself, things never work out for me, things are never good enough, I’ll never be successful, people always argue with me, there are bad people out to get me, I can be killed today, and the world has gone mad. Yes, please bring me all of this, and even more…please.” We assume that LOA is smart enough to know that we don’t really want more of these things. But LOA can’t tell the difference between things you want and things you don’t want. It just responds to anything you give your attention to. Whatever you focus on becomes included in your vibrational average, and that alone determines what you get more and more of based on the LOA. Whatever your life is right now is an exact reflection of your average vibrational asking.
So I use LOA to my advantage by including things in my vibration that feel good to me. I read the Gratitude Planet “Good News” section every day, and I look for TV (when I have time to watch) that feels good when I watch it, which means murder and crime shows are not on my list. I look for opportunities to uplift others with my words and actions, and I am sure to appreciate and be grateful for myself, my family, my friends, my coworkers, and even strangers I meet every day. I use visualizations, meditation, yoga, and my painting to center my thoughts on good-feeling topics. I tell the story of my life the way I want it to be, because LOA can’t figure out what is real and what is just my imagination. I try to give clear directions to my universal manager, the Law of Attraction, and then I look to see what I get in my life every day. When I have been feeling good, things seem to work out best, and when I give my focus to things that feel bad, I seem to have a bumpier ride for sure. You probably have noticed this in your life as well. Nice to know that we are the boss!
Be your own boss today, and take charge of the office. Let Law of Attraction work for you! Thanks for reading. Let me know if you liked this post! Lisa-GP
Law of Attraction Tips for Wellness and Prosperity
Reading Chris’ post on the Emotional Scale made me think all day about how important paying attention to how you feel really is. I spent the day brainstorming tips that I hope help people use this tool even more effectively. Here they are:
If you feel good, just ride it and enjoy what you are doing.
When you first feel yourself becoming irritated, or whatever, just take a few deep breaths and see if it will melt back into a better feeling.
If a few breaths don’t do the trick, make a few statements about how you feel in terms of the emotional scale. Say, for example, “I feel frustrated right now.” (If that feels right) Take a glance at the scale, and see what a higher vibration is above it, and reach for it with another statement like “I doubt that this stuff really works.” (Pessimism)
Notice the relief it brings. Don’t expect to feel good…only the relief of feeling just a little better.
Now ask yourself, what other statements can I find that feel true? Maybe “I’m tired of doing the same thing over and over again” is the best you can do. OK…that’s boredom! You have moved up again.
Don’t worry if the thought you find feels worse, and you move down the scale. You can always begin again and reach for another better-feeling one.
As Chris said, the words don’t matter. Only the feeling matters, so if it feels better, no matter what you call it, it is moving you up.
Don’t let others tell you how you should feel. If you move from revenge to anger, and some person gets upset at your anger (and tells you to be “happy”)…please don’t use that as an excuse to go back to revenge. Tell them “my anger is a pit stop, not a rest stop!”
Give yourself the OK to experiment. No one can feel for you. Only you know how your feelings feel. Be easy about your relationship to you. You are lovable…and loved!
Your Source (Inner Being) loves you, and is constantly calling you up the Emotional Scale. There is energy and momentum built in to get you there. You just have to point your thoughts there, and it will be easier than you think. I guess 17 seconds of reaching is all you need on any level of the scale to get a feeling of relief.
I hope these tips help you understand the Emotional/Vibrational Scale a little better. I like reading the comments you all have been leaving, and I look forward to seeing a few from our newest visitors too. Be.Love, Hannya-GP
If you have browsed our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section, you know that the number one goal of Gratitude Planet is to help you feel better. When you feel good, the Law of Attraction lines you up with the very best of what you are asking for, bringing it to you in a natural, easy, and often thrilling way. But when you don’t feel good, the Law of Attraction is just as busy lining you up with less than pleasant experiences. When you feel bad or disconnected, it can be difficult to feel good. Our goal is to help you feel better as a result of visiting us, regardless of how you feel when you arrive. We say “feel better” for an important reason: everyone has a “vibrational range” that is changing all the time. You can only find thoughts that are in your vibrational range, and so it is important to be aware of how far-reaching your range is. To help you focus on how you feel, the use of the Emotional Scale (or Vibrational Scale) can be very helpful.
The Emotional Scaleis a sliding scale of emotional/vibrational indicators, grouped in order from the worst feeling (bottom) to the best feeling emotions (at the top):
For the source material for this concept, refer to the book “The Vortex: Where The Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships” by Esther and Jerry Hicks. The Emotional Scale is not set in stone in terms of the emotional descriptors, and how you feel personally is what really matters most. But the concept remains true that you only have access to emotions that are near what you are presently feeling. This explains why some people get really frustrated when they first learn about the Law of Attraction, especially when they “try to feel good” all the time. It’s not about feeling good, it’s about feeling better.
To illustrate how you might use the Emotional Scale, imaging that you can change the colors of the scale with a vertical slider. What you are presently feeling will be (for this discussion) yellow, while the emotion directly above will be green, and the emotional descriptor just below will be red. Suppose you were feeling discouraged. Your scale would look like this:
In this example, you have a vibrational range that dips as low as anger, and as high as blame. When you feel discouraged, the best thoughts you have access to feel something like blame (which I know doesn’t feel good…but it does feel better). You also can find thoughts that feel like anger. But worry and revenge are not in your range, and you will not be able to honestly talk to yourself in either of those emotions. But here is the key to using the scale: If you focus on thoughts that feel like blame, for as little as 17-40 seconds, your emotional midpoint will readjust on blame, and it will look like this:
Your deliberate focus has caused you to vibrate out of the range of anger, and into the emotional vicinity of worry. But worry doesn’t feel very good either, you say. Yes, that’s true, but it feels better than blame. So now turn your attention to thoughts that feel like worry. Yes, give yourself the permission to worry for a few minutes. In as little as 17 seconds, your range can shift yet again and center on worry, giving you access to doubt:
As you begin to use this tool to focus your attention on your emotional guidance system, you will be able to tell where you are at all times, and what the best feeling thought that you have access to is at all times. Before long you will have a midpoint that might look like this:
The worst-feeling thought in your vibrational range feels like optimism. Not too bad, eh? Once your range resides in this area for most of your day, the Law of Attraction can assemble people, places, and perfect timing for you all day. SourceEnergy begins to flow freely when you enter the range between hopefulness and optimism. The things you have been asking for vibrationally can come into full and magical manifestation in your life. You will radiate your connection to Source to everyone you interact with, and you will see the best in them as well.
The frustration I mentioned above is created when a well-meaning person tries in vain to find thoughts that are outside of their vibrational range. You simply can’t jump from discouragement to Positive Expectation/Belief in one step. So if you try to pretend you are feeling positive when you really only have access to blame and anger, you will probably end up in anger. Yes, you can move down the scale too, and just as easily. If you make anger your emotional set point (or midpoint) then you grant yourself access to, you guessed it, revenge. Life is a continuous cycle of movement up and down the emotional scale. Don’t try to jump around (because you can’t anyway) but just do your best to find the best feeling thought that you have vibrational access to. Soon you will master this technique, and you will feel good most of the time. And when you don’t, just reach and feel and reach and feel some more. Feel ALL your emotions, and don’t beat yourself up for feeling any of them. If you feel better through your focus, you are on the right track every time.
I actually created a real sliding emotional scale as a gift for the staff members of Gratitude Planet for them to use as they choose. As we go through our day we feel and adjust the slider. When it dips below a certain point we give some special focus to the green area, and less to the red area. I have found it to be an excellent way to help me feel good most of the time. You can see from the photo that I wanted a single word for each emotion, and that the words you choose don’t matter as much as the feeling behind each word. Feel free to make one for yourself, and see how you can train yourself to be in a good-feeling place even more of the time. Enjoy this most amazing day! Chris-GP
There are times when I really yearn to be more spiritual, what ever that really means. I will meditate more often, and use my power to visualize more effectively. When I feel an urge to be a human having a spiritual experience, I adjust my behaviors to what ever degree feels right. There is always some point, however, where I feel like I fall short…when I think I should work harder, focus more, or try to be better, regardless of what I have done. It appears to me in those moments that I am chasing something unattainable, and that being “spiritual” is not the end goal at all. We often think of ourselves as humans having a spiritual experience…yet we are really spirit (Source Energy) having a human experience! This way of stating it changes the goals and focus just a bit for me, which I will explain next.
Before we choose to enter into this life of form and contrast and expansion, we are one vibration with Source Energy. This energy has been described as pure, positive energy, and it is the energy that creates and sustains the Universe. It is pure, inexhaustible, free-flowing, always available, and it is the source of everything that exists. It is a stream of energy that flows naturally to and through you. You can resist it, but you can never stop it completely. When you are born into your human form, you emerge on the “outer edge” or “leading edge” of experience, and you gain something (and you lose something too). You gain the ability to create personal preferences for what you want to be, do, and have. You are given the gift of creating new reality with your thoughts. You are given opportunities to sift through multiple ideas so that you can desire, expand, and grow. You are presented with contrasting experiences that help you know what you don’t want, so that you can be clear about what you do want. But what you lose is your perfect vibrational synchronicity to Source Energy. When you were not in human form, your vibration and your inner being’s vibration were one vibration. But from that vantage point (as one vibration) there is no growth, and no contrast exists to hone desire for more. You came here and became Source Energy as a human on planet Earth: you became Spirit having a Human experience.
The most important thing to note about all of this is that you exist for a very important reason: you are helping the Universe to expand. When you were part of pure, positive energy before you were in human form, your experience didn’t create expansion. Now that you are here, your experience creates desire, and that desire is felt by Source. The moment you desire something, Source expands to the outer limits of that desire. In other words, if you want it, Source immediately becomes the full vibrational manifestation of that desire. You might be thinking, “ya, but so what? What does that mean to me here in this life right now?” It means everything.
When your Source expands because of your experience on planet Earth, you and Source are way out of vibrational alignment. When this happens, you can tell because you don’t feel good. The discord is felt through your emotions, and you become slightly cut off from the free flow of your life force from Source. Because Source has taken the expansion that YOU asked for through your personal preferences, you will not feel good until you also take the same vibrational expansion. When you DO take the vibrational expansion, you will feel emotions like gratitude, belief, happiness, passion, appreciation, and bliss.
I am so appreciative that we always know where we are in relation to our alignment with Source Energy. Our number one job is to allow ourselves to be in alignment with the expanded version of ourselves! Source, by the way, will not retreat to a lesser vibration, so until you come up to speed with the new you, you won’t feel very good. Let your emotions be your guide, and know that you are a unique and important part of the expansion of the Universe. You are on the leading edge of thought, and everything you are matters to the eternal unfolding of everything. You are important, worthy, significant, and irreplaceable. Enjoy this most amazing day! Chris-GP
Hi Everyone. I would like to offer a list of very “true” and maybe somewhat obvious reasons for you to love your day today. May it be an inspiration for you to be feeling good and allowing your wellbeing throughout the day!
Today is the only day I will live today…I’ll make the most of it.
I can breathe deeply into my lungs…and air is free and abundant.
My body recharged overnight, and I had a safe place to sleep.
I will eat some good food today that will feed my body and fill it with energy.
I love the opportunity this day brings to do something new, and think something new.
I appreciate that there are people I love, and that love me too.
Law of Attraction is on the job today, and everyday, managing all cooperative components of my experience.
I love that the Earth keeps spinning in its perfect orbit, changing the seasons and keeping us thriving.
I love that in places where contrast is being experiences, more and more wellness is being created that will bloom and manifest over time.
I love that we can never get “it” done, so I will do the things on my plate today. My timing and unfolding will be perfect today.
Love this day, and love yourself today. You will never be in a better place than this moment, because this moment is all there will ever be. Live fully in this day! Be.Love, Hannya-GP
I just love the Law of Attraction, and I love knowing that what I give my attention to is magnified and manifested over time. I know that what I see, and the experiences I find in my NOW today are a perfect match to what I have been attracting through my vibration. I like paying attention to how I feel and adjusting as the day goes on. I also like the idea that Chris wrote about yesterday, because if there is only inclusion, and things can’t “get me” that I don’t invite in, then I really am in control of my experience. This feels good.
But with the oh-so-good- feeling of ultimate control in my life comes the responsibility to guide my experience. I can’t simply look to others to tell me what to do, because they can’t feel what I am feeling. They haven’t walked in my vibrational shoes, and they can’t possibly be feeling my guidance as strongly as I can. (Actually, I don’t think they can feel MY guidance at all…only their own!) Each person must be their own vibrational compass on the churning seas of their own personal reality. This is probably why some people resist ideas like the Law of Attraction…it’s seems less complicated to just “follow the rules” of parents, teachers, or social institutions who are more than willing to tell you how you should behave. I get it, and it is a responsibility I gladly take on…with joy and bliss, and purpose!
OK, so I have this charge to guide my experience, and I know that I can be, do, or have anything that I can achieve vibrational harmony with. As I said, I have fun observing what I am getting and then adjusting…but how do I more carefully and consciously create a specific experience, with obvious manifestations that I can recognize when they arrive? I have struggled with this in the past, because when I get to the point of deliberate focus, I’m not always sure what I should ask for! I have friends who can blurt out the things they want, no thinking at all, just here’s my list. Jealous. I know that contrast creates desire, and I don’t really need to worry too much about all of this. When I experience contrast it helps me ask for something else, and then the “asking” is done. But I am ready to move into a new level of asking…deliberate, focused asking.
Here is one method I used for finding out what I want. I asked myself if I am keeping myself from wanting because I don’t really believe I am allowed to ask for certain things. What I mean is, I might really want a new car, but I might be afraid to want it too much because I might not believe that I can afford it. So my belief in not having the money to buy a car could be keeping me from asking for it. OK, so I got a piece of paper and wrote “Money is no object for me. What do I want?” I had to be willing to let the first sentence sink in, because I could feel myself resisting the outlandish concept that money didn’t play into the equation. But once I let the money block go, my imagination began to take wings. This process uncovered other blocks to my brainstorming that I wasn’t even aware of. As I shed each limiting belief, at least for the exercise, I found no end to the things I was willing to draw to me…things that felt great to me while thinking about them.
What keeps you from asking for what you want? Do you have the “I don’t know what I want” block too sometimes? Remove your “ya, but” thinking and just put it on vacation today. See what comes up. You can have anything, be anything, and do anything that you achieve vibrational harmony with. Vibrational harmony is achieved when you move into hope, optimism, expectation and belief on the subject. I found this game thrilling for me, and I play it as often as I can. Try it and let us know what happened for you. Thanks for reading. Let me know if you liked this post! Lisa
It’s fun to be living on planet Earth, having a human experience and honing preferences for the experiences we want to attract and create. Every time you have an experience that makes you say “No, I don’t want to have that experience again” it is as if you reconfigure a “preferences file” with the Universe. Through this contrasting experience, the Universe hears your asking (vibrationally) and expands to match your asking, and then it becomes the new vibrational version of you…waiting for YOU to align with the expanded version of YOU. (If this sounds really confusing, read this post right now and see if it helps.) All day, every day we are sorting through our individual preferences for what we want, and when we say “no” we really, really mean “NO!” It’s OK to feel grateful and appreciative for our ability to say “no.” The word “no” puts the expansion of the Universe into motion.
But for the Universe, there is no such thing as the word “no.” When you say “no,” the Universe only hears “yes.” But how can this be? This is because we live in an inclusion-basedUniverse. The Law of Inclusion dictates that anything that you give your attention to becomes part of your vibration, and then the Law of Attraction gets to work to give you more of it. In other words, you can’t push anything away from you and your vibration…if it has your attention in any way, you are magnifying it and attracting more of it toward your personal experience. In an inclusion-based system, trying to stop anything (drugs, crime, disease, poverty, etc.) only serves to intensify the vibration, no matter how well-meaning you are. So how do we address these problems, you might say? If you focus directly on the problem, there will always be the problem, and bigger problems like it. (The Universe hears “This is a problem” and agrees with you, and sends you more of it because you gave it your attention.) Instead, focus on your mind’s highest image of a solution that does not include the problem. That last sentence is worth reading again. Remember that you can’t think about the problem without including, intensifying, expanding, and drawing more of the problem into your personal experience. So the key is to give your attention to thoughts and ideas of clarity, peace, wellness, and prosperity, rather than trying to rid the planet of drugs, crime, disease, and poverty.
But if no one works to rid the world of drugs, crime, disease, and poverty, won’t these things get out of control and multiply? Not in an inclusion-based Universe. The problems will dissipate and lose their energy as connected people all over the world act on their inner wisdom from connection to Source, and follow their intuition to promote clarity, peace, wellness, and prosperity. What are you for, and what are you against? Now that you are more aware that you are actually for the things you thought you were against, how might you refocus your attention today? Just notice today, through your experience, what you have been asking for by observing everything you are getting. You have been saying “yes” to all of it, even when you shouted “no” at it. Be easy about it, and when you must say “no” just get off the thought and turn to something you can say “yes” to as soon as possible. Be for things from now on, and let them flow to you effortlessly over time. Enjoy this most amazing day! Chris-GP
Reading Chris’ post yesterday made me think a lot about how we create our story every day. Life is a kind of movie set where we get to decide on so many things (really everything!). I want to take his ideas another step forward and illustrate a bit how you might play the Director role. Law of Attraction responds to your vibration and gives you more of what it hears you saying. So when you experience something that doesn’t jive with your preferred version of your movie, it is time to yell “CUT!” and shoot a different version of the scene. I’ll give a few examples here of what I mean.
Leading Lady: Wakes up in the morning in bed, jumps up, stubs toe and says “ouch! I am so clumsy! One of there days I’m going to really hurt myself!”(Law of Attraction hears “I am asking for more pain today. I deserve it. This happens all the time. I am ready for a serious accident”)
Director: “OK, CUT! That was well-acted, and quite dramatic, but the line is ‘ouch! Well I can tell I’m not dreaming anymore. Today I’ll get all my clumsies out right away. It’s gonna get better from here, I can tell.’” (Law of Attraction hears “I am expecting this to be my last accident today. The day will get better and better. All is well”)
Leading Lady: Walks into the bathroom and looks in the mirror, evaluates appearance and says “This diet isn’t working at all! I look like a fat slob. Diets never work for me. I’m going to die fat!” (Law of Attraction hears “I am fat. I suck. Don’t bring me anything else except what I have. I am unworthy. No matter what I eat, don’t send me any evidence of progress. Death will be my only resolution to this problem.”)
Director: “OK, CUT! We already shot that scene over and over again. This is the plot twist where she realizes that things are going to change. The lines are ‘I don’t see a huge change, yet, but I know this new diet is working. I feel thinner, and I know every cell of my body is letting in the new, thinner me! I can’t wait to see myself tomorrow. Soon everyone will be able to see what I am feeling right now. Look out world, the new me is here!’” (Law of Attraction hears “I am expecting this diet to work. I will see a manifestation soon. I am on track to allow what I want. People will tell me I look thinner today.”)
Leading Lady: Interacting with someone in the grocery checkout line. Notices that the cashier is nervous and making mistakes. Speaks these lines to the person in line: “Look at this cashier. Is she stupid or what! Why don’t they train them better? How come when you are in a hurry you always get in a line with an incompetent cashier? I mean really, I need to see the manager. This is ridiculous!” (Law of Attraction hears “Bring me stupid cashiers. I attract untrained cashiers to me. I always shop in stores that don’t care about the customers. I’m ready for a big fight with someone, and the sooner the better. Bring me someone to unload on, please.”)
Director: “OK, CUT! Those are the lines of the person in the next aisle in another movie. This scene sets up the leading lady meeting her soulmate in the parking lot in the next scene. Can you play it a bit easier? Your lines are ‘Look at that cashier. She seems a bit nervous. I don’t recognize her. I bet she is new on the job. I remember when I got my first job, and I remember how it took me a while to come up to speed. She is doing the best she can. I appreciate that they have those scanners. It makes the whole process go by so much faster. I found some good sale items, and I am glad it will ring up with the sale price automatically. In a week I bet she’ll be zipping through customers. I always get in the right line, just by intuition. My timing is perfect today.’” (Law of Attraction hears “I am always in the right place at the right time. I appreciate people for where they are in life, and I give myself a break as well. All is well. You can bring me everything I want right now. I am ready and willing to give my love and gratitude to everyone, and I see and draw to me others who vibrate like me.”
The scenes are ongoing in your experience everyday, in every moment. Law of Attraction responds to your vibration and not your words, so it hears what you are feeling, and simply agrees with what you feel. Are you satisfied with the message you are sending to the Universe, which is being constantly matched by the Law of Attraction? If not, take control and redirect your scenes. You choose it all. Be Well, Marie
In his famous play “As You Like It,” William Shakespeare (1564–1616) wrote: “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” Though the meaning of these words has been interpreted in various ways, the essence of the text suggests that we play many roles in our lives, from birth to death…starting out toothless and helpless, and returning there again before we die. But there is also an interpretation where we can envision the great playwright and poet commenting on the illusion of this reality, suggesting that it is no more “real” than a night at a theatrical performance as it unfolds in real time. It is especially interesting in light of what we know about the Law of Attraction and how this Universal Law affects our “reality.”
You are the leading character in the constantly unfolding story of your life. You are also the playwright. You decide on the scenery, and you determine the costuming as well. You have the ultimate say in the plot lines, the conflict resolution, and the “drama,” comedy, and “tragedy” in the production. And it’s not like you “get to” do all this. You are doing all this, even if you don’t realize you are. As vibrational human beings on planet Earth, we are all constantly sending out a signal to the Universe, and the Law of Attraction is matching it. Your signal is never turned off. It transmits constantly as you think, talk, observe, and imagine. In this morning’s analogy, then, you are writing your life’s story in every single moment you are breathing! So the real question is, what is YOUR story about, and what kind of production are you creating?
Some people love drama. The leading man (or lady) always has to struggle for everything. Against all odds, they strive to make everything better and live happily after. We all feel like this sometimes. Others love to create comedic roles for themselves. Each day has a multitude of events worth laughing about, and then they improvise more comedy in each moment. They smile, laugh, and don’t take themselves too seriously. You can probably think of times where you have been this character too. Every life will have some tragedy as part of the plot, because life always includes some contrasting events, which are events that help you clarify what you want by experiencing something that you don’t want. You are the master of your production, and you are constantly creating your role. Do you like the story so far?
If you like the plot of your story, keep directing it the way you have been. When your story is fun, interesting, and your leading actor is moving through the story with grace, bliss and ease, just sit back and enjoy the show. If not, ask yourself what your production needs to make it closer to your ideal story. Do you need more comedy? Does the leading lady need a leading man? Are you focused on tragedy? No matter what you decide, start telling the story you want to tell. Take charge as the creator of your life’s story. When you think, talk, visualize, and observe, let it be about the story you want to live and not about the story you are living. As soon as you start telling a new story, the Law of Attraction will start assembling all the supporting roles and circumstances to reinforce the new story. Before you know it, your story will have a brand new chapter, and your life’s stage will be transformed! Notice today, through your thoughts, feelings and actions, what kind of story you are creating. Let the words that flow off your tongue reflect what you want your story to be. If you must speak lines that move your plot away from what you really want, shorten the scene and move on to the next act. You get to decide. Be grateful and appreciative that you are the star of your very own movie…a movie that YOU are also producing and directing for all to see. Enjoy this most amazing day, and your best theatrical perfoemance ever! Chris-GP
I decided that today I would go on a rampage of happy appreciation for the amazing role that Law of Attraction plays in all of our lives. If you are new to the concept of LOA, you can search through some of our earlier posts using the search function at the top right of the page. See if you can relate to any of these.Law of Attraction ROCKS because…
1. Whatever happens to me is a reflection of my previous thoughts and vibrations (nothing by chance).
2. I get to choose how I focus my thoughts, so I am empowered.
3. I choose happiness, because I can.
4. I know that “contrast” helps me create new desires, so “bad things” create good things in my life.
5. LOA is consistent, fair, and always working to bring me more of what I focus on.
6. I’ll never git “it” done, so I can always begin again.
7. LOA works fairly and consistently for everyone, so I don’t have to manage any other person’s experience.
8. I always have time to redirect my thinking before thoughts manifest in my experience, so I need not fear my thoughts.
9. I can do, be, or have anything…and I can be living the essence of any dream I can hold in my vibration.
10. I am always asking the Universe for new experiences, and my best days are always unfolding right NOW.
11. My job is to decide what I want, and then relax and allow it. LOA does all the “hard” work for me.
12. There is no assertion into my reality, so nothing can be my experience that I do not allow in vibrationally. Therefore, I give my full attention to things that feel good when I think about them.
I would guess that there are WAY more than 12 things to appreciate about the Law of Attraction. If you can think of one, leave it as a comment below. Be.Love, Hannya
Law of Attraction Tips for Wellness and Prosperity
You surely remember the old saying “It is better to give than it is to receive.” I heard that phrase very early in my life, and I have always been interested in giving to others when I can. I think we all occasionally struggle with how much giving and receiving we should do, and at times I have been better at one or the other while trying to balance both. Back in October there was a GP post about giving and receiving, and I want to expand on that post a bit today. Another GP post in October by Hannya also related a great giving-receiving story. You may want to read (or re-read) these before digesting today’s topic if you have the time.
When you give freely, and when you feel good about your giving, you set up an expectation within your vibration that Law of Attraction matches: you feel worthy and ready to receive. When you understand this give-and-take of energy and see it play out a few times, it can be tempting to work to give a lot so that you can be worthy to receive a lot. The problem with this approach is twofold. First, you are already worthy to receive, and your worthiness is never in question. You can feel more worthy or less worthy, but you ARE worthy. Secondly, receiving (or allowing) Source Energy and wellbeing is natural and not dependent, necessarily, on how much you give. You don’t give to earn your right to receive, and no one keeps score in some far-away vibrational database. The energies of giving and receiving are intertwined, but not in a “weight and balances” type of equation. But there does seem to be, in my experience, a direct benefit to giving and receiving freely as the opportunities arise. The key is not to give to make something happen, but rather to give because it feels good to give. Law of Attraction works its best magic when you feel good…so timing your giving can be important. Feel good first, and then feel better through your giving.
When I take my morning walks along the beach, I usually visit a coffee shop about three miles into the walk. It’s a Starbucks in a grocery store, and sometimes there are some very needy people near the store. Occasionally they will ask for change, but other times they just keep to themselves. This situation represents a great opportunity to see how I feel in the moment about giving. If I feel resistance to giving money, I don’t. If I feel open and connected, I do. On several occasions I started my walk and decided that I would buy some food at the grocery and give it away to the first hungry person I encountered. On each occasion, I couldn’t find anyone to give it too, and one of those times, I swear, the guy vanished. I realized that I was trying to do something that was not a natural unfolding, and I felt worse walking home with the food in my arms. Now I wait to see what opportunities the day brings to give and receive, and I move ahead when I am inspired, knowing that I will be in the right place at the right time always.
Finally, giving is not just about money and food. Giving freely can include giving compliments, smiling, holding a door open for someone, noticing a kind gesture, leaving an uplifting note, singing a song, answering an email, and a million other possibilities. Receiving freely might include being grateful and appreciative for compliments, smiles, doors held open for you, kind gestures, uplifting notes, songs you hear, emails you receive, and a million other possibilities. Giving and receiving are ways you live, not things you do. Expand your vibration to give and receive freely and often today, and enjoy how great you will feel all day. Enjoy this most amazing day! Chris-GP
Like most people, I have a few New Year’s resolutions to align with in 2010. I hinted at some of my top five resolutions in a recent post, and you were encouraged to make your own top five list that felt the best to you. I was taking my walk today and realized that I have another resolution. (We all probably have stated and hidden resolutions roaming in our consciousness.) It wasn’t a new idea for me, but the connection I made relating to wellness and Law of Attraction felt brand new in the moment. Though I was resolving to drop ten pounds of body weight by exercising more and eating less, I realized in the moment that this manifestation was completely connected to my ability to let go of the past. Somehow I knew that dropping the weight was impossible if I held onto old ideas and beliefs. I made a Vision Board recently showing images of what I want my body to look like in a month, and I have been looking at it most every day. Yet now I know, it can’t manifest unless I change my thinking by letting go of who I have been to some degree. Some teachers refer to this as ego death, and I have come to trust the process and believe in the freedom that letting go of the past can bring. Then I came to realize that old ideas weigh us down and keep us from getting easily to where we want to be. Wow! Then I knew it was time to shed some extra vibrational weight. It felt really good to know that if I take the thinking journey and let go of any extra baggage I have created in my thinking, I can much more easily allow myself as a ten-pounds-lighter person.
What are you wanting to allow into your reality? What do you have to change to make room for it in your vibration? Don’t be afraid to change the way you think, and to shed the extra weight of your outdated thinking patterns. You will move ahead into the new year with grace and speed, and you will more easily allow everything you want into your life. Enjoy this most amazing day! Chris-GP
At Gratitude Planet, we pride ourselves on being helpful to our readers, and we strive every day to make a positive difference in the quality of life on planet Earth. You can find a whole lot of posts on Gratitude Planet about the Law of Attraction (L of A), as well as tips on allowing and enjoying the life you want, deserve, and are manifesting. But there haven’t been a lot of specific posts on GP on the “prosperity” part of “Law of Attraction Tips for Wellness and Prosperity.” I would guess that many of our readers would like to expand their ideas and beliefs around money, and would like to have more of the green stuff in their wallets, checkbooks, and college funds. There is nothing wrong with wanting to attract and allow more money into your experience, and using the L of A to improve your focus is a great way to become more prosperous. There are several questions tied to this discussion:
1. What is prosperity, and how will you know when you have it?
2. Why do you want prosperity, and what will you do with it?
3. What will being prosperous feel like?
Question one has a simple answer on the surface: prosperity is money, and I’ll know by the bottom line on my bank statement. It is true that prosperous people are often monetarily rich, and it is also true that it is hard to think of prosperity apart from income. But haven’t you met some very rich people who feel poor? Haven’t you observed happy people who have next to nothing? It can be said, then, that feeling prosperous is a relative thing indeed: for some people, no amount of money will make them feel prosperous enough to be happy. Maybe prosperity comes in other forms as well, and perhaps prosperity can be better defined as being happy with what you have, while expecting more to flow to you. Maybe prosperity consciousness is all about being rich in thought, action and feeling, and allowing the riches to flow through many varied channels. You will know you have it because you will be living a life that is rich in gifts, and you will be open to happily receiving these gifts in each moment.
Why do you want to be prosperous, and what will you do with it? This is a harder question for many people to answer. Can you answer it off the top of your head? From a young age we have been conditioned to chase after money, and many of us can’t even say what we want the money for. Sure, you can pay bills, buy a better car, and live in a better house…but when all this is done, then what? Why do you want it? Will you help others with it? Will you give some away? Will you will it to your kids? There is no right answer, but what ever your answers are will give you insight into the motivation behind your pursuit of monetary prosperity. Focusing on the good that the money can ignite can help it flow to you more easily into your experience. Broadening your definition of “prosperity” to include any gift that makes your life richer can also help more of it flow to you effortlessly.
What does it feel like to be prosperous? I immediately think of the word “freedom.” I think many people want to be rich so that they can be free to live as they choose. But as I stated earlier, there are many “rich” people who do not feel free. In fact, big dollars often come with problems that are just as big. Some very wealthy people have no time to enjoy their money, and they constantly strive to arrive at a place in time where they can finally relax into their prosperity. There are also unhappy poor people, I know. But the saying that “money can’t buy love or happiness” does hold some truth. I believe that true prosperity feels like fun, excitement, richness, joy, love, passion, and bliss. If you are rich in thought, action and feeling, you are receiving prosperity in a multitude of ways: in the eyes of children…in the smiles of friends…in the job you do…in the beauty of music and art…and even in the majesty of a sunrise. A prosperous person feels rich and free, and they expect it to continue. A prosperous person knows that all is well, and if they want more green stuff too, the Law of Attraction can easily line them up with more money as well. It’s always about how you feel. Feel rich…become rich…in every area of your experience!
This post was inspired by the AMAZING sunrise I witnessed today outside my house. I gave great thanks and appreciated the light show, and it felt like a living work of art was unfolding before my eyes. I wondered how many other people who were watching the sunrise were feeling as prosperous as I was. Just being there and receiving the gift of the moment, I felt like the richest man on the planet. It didn’t change my bank account necessarily, but it filled up my appreciation and gratitude tank to full for sure. I am grateful for the prosperity that allows me to live fully and love fully. What are the gifts of prosperity that are already in your life right now? Do you perceive them? Are you open to receive them? Do you give thanks for them? If you are, then you are rich indeed. Enjoy this most amazing day! Chris-GP
Here are some pictures of the sunrise over Long Beach this morning. Enjoy!
The Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu (604 BC – 531 BC) is credited with saying: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” This is a great quote for helping you to allow everything you want through the Law of Attraction. I know that I am ready to ramp up my allowing in the new year, and today I took a nice long gratitude walk with my two dogs along the beach and through the marina. It was fun and relaxing, and I had a good chance to think about the new year, what I want, and how I am going to get there. The problem with defining what you want, at least for me, is that I tend to shoot for the stars and ask for things that are a stretch from my present vantage point of reality. It feels so good to visualize it, and to imagine having it now. However, when the visualization is done it is so easy to doubt the asking and fall into a “ya, right, like that’s really going to happen” pit.
When I felt this less-allowing vibration begin to soil the fun of my new year’s visualizations, I suddenly became inspired by Lao tzu’s quotation. It isn’t my job to manifest everything today. In fact, trying to manifest it immediately will only make me more aware of the absence of what I am creating. Instead, I affirmed that my gratitude walk was all I needed to do today. My job was to define, enjoy, visualize, savor, and be. My steps today are lining me up with everything I am asking for. I am right where I am supposed to be right now. I am well on the way on my thousand-mile journey, and all is well. Loving the journey will make it more fun, and before I know it, I’ll be there…ready for another thousand-mile journey…and then another one…and then another. There is no there to get to. I am just totally grateful and appreciative to be taking steps forward in joy and love. Enjoy this most amazing day! Chris-GP
You probably have been thinking about how 2010 will be better than 2009, and in the process you have likely been making a few resolutions lately. Here are our top five wellness statements to start off the new year!
1. I will pay even better attention to how I feel.
2. I will make the best of every situation I encounter.
3. I will enjoy each day even more by living fully in each moment.
4. I will create more wellbeing by giving my full attention to people and things that I appreciate and am grateful for.
5. I will relax and remember that all is so very well, and that I am perfectly equipped to expand my joy and allowing in every moment of every day.
I encourage you to just jot down the first five things that come to your mind concerning your new focus for 2010. See if your list resembles this one, or of you come up with things that match your specific intentions more closely than this list. Be easy about it, and enjoy the amazing opportunity to be refreshed and reborn in the new decade. Enjoy this most amazing day! Chris-GP
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