I just want to say that I am feeling grateful today for the many people in the world that choose love as their focus. When you decide to choose love, you will see and feel more love. You will look for it, and it will find you. Love means being open to helping others. It means being patient when you are restless. It means giving the benefit of the doubt to others, letting them be who they are and not needing to change them. Love is the answer to life’s all-perplexing questions.

When I need a reason to love, I look at my dog Suki. She is always in love with life. She never questions if life has thrown her a curve ball, or if there is fairness in the world. She knows that life is a game of fun and joy, and she tells me this with a single look. If I feel bad, I just look at her and stare at her for a few moments. Then my restlessness melts away and I remember that well being abounds. She is a great teacher of life’s greatness, and she does it without being aware that she does it. She just lives well being, and she radiates it at the same time. This is one of the best ways to teach…by example.

Perhaps you have a pet or a favorite person that can help you find the feelings of connection when you are a little shaken. It need not be a person because it can also be a TV show, or a favorite band or album. Give your focus to the things that feel good to you, and let yourself be in the loving arms of Source Energy more often. When you feel good, you lead by example. Thanks to this day, to the Universe, to Law of Attraction, and to those small puppies that help us feel better and better. Thanks for reading. Let me know if you liked this post!  Lisa

Your life, right now, is a perfect reflection of your vibration as you have created it in the recent past. Make a list of the things you are grateful for, and also the things that you would like to change. You attracted everything on BOTH lists! “But wait,” you say. “There is no way I asked for all that crappy stuff! Why would I ask for stuff that I don’t like?” The answer is simple: You asked for it by giving your attention to things that invited it into your experience. Another way to say this is that you opened a vibrational door, even if you didn’t know you were doing it. But that is the best news of all. No one put this unwanted stuff in your experience…YOU did. And you are the one who can make the changes necessary to attract something more wanted into your experience.

Let’s say, for example, that you have attracted debt and bills that you can’t pay. One way you might have done this is by “pushing against” bills and debt. You can do this by thinking about NOT having bills and debt, and thus including the concepts of bills and debts into your vibration. Pushing against anything makes you include it in your vibration. One way to turn this around is to be in favor of riches and prosperity in your experience. Note the difference: You are not against debts, but are rather in favor of money and expanded prosperity. As you focus on what is wanted, you will begin to attract more and more of it. It works for any subject. Instead of trying to lose fat, be in favor of allowing more thinness. Another way you might have attracted bills and debts is by feeling, in a general way, poor and not prosperous. Perhaps you feel that you don’t deserve to have prosperity, or that being wealthy is a sign of a weak character. No matter how you got to allowing a vibration of lack, you can turn it around in a powerful way…and in 30 days or less!

So how can you start allowing more of what you want? Here is the recipe for you:

1. Make the list of the things you are manifesting right now. One list can be “wanted” and the other list “unwanted.” Be honest and include everything you can think of.
2. Be grateful and appreciative of the things in the “wanted” column. Bask in the fun of these manifestations.
3. Make a third column. Call this list “things I’m attracting now.”
4. Translate your “unwanted” list into an allowing list by changing the wording of each item. If you wrote “I’m in debt,” write “I allow wealth and riches.”
5. Take time each day to be grateful and appreciative of the items in the “things I’m attracting now” column. Bask in the fun of these manifestations. Enjoy them as much (or more) than the ones you have already manifested. Be easy about it. Have fun.

Once you make a habit of focusing on the things you want, rather than pushing against the things you don’t want, you will see a shift in your life that will amaze you. Things you have been wanting for years will pop up and appear “out of nowhere.” Your timing will be perfect, and you will align with events and people in a powerful new way. Keep your focus on that third column, and let yourself relax into the new vibration. If you stay focused on this new list, you will see the evidence of new manifestations in only days, and magical changes in less than 30 days! Give this exercise a try, and then let everyone at Gratitude Planet know about it. Enjoy This Most Amazing Day!  CHRIS

Recently, I have been asking for more clarity. I want to have thoughts that feel pure, actions that feel worthwhile, and inspirations that have a clear drive toward creative actions. I looked around my apartment and noticed that my surroundings reflected a present reality that was anything but clear and pure. There were things in piles, piles in corners, and corners that were unusable. This all happened over time, and I never even noticed how I got to this place of clutter and confusion. But once I recognized my desire for clarity, I had to acknowledge that my surroundings were a perfect reflection of the inner clutter I was experiencing over a long time. Of course, the desire for clarity came from the experience of the clutter…the contrast created the new desire, and so it’s all good. That’s how life unfolds.

Now I could have meditated on the clarity and pictured my living space in perfect organization until Law of Attraction inspired me to take action to change the environment. That works. But in this case, I decided to take action right away. In a sense, I was inspired to take this action, because I felt a strong desire to take it. Yet, in this case I really felt that changing the outer environment would help me stay focused in the new vibration of clarity. To be sure, putting the cart before the horse vibrationally is less fun than waiting for the inner vibration to completely align first. However, I felt I was well on the way to clarity with my vibration, and I decided to give my vibration a jump-start in the outer realm. I started working on the clutter.

Going through a house or apartment, for me, is like traveling through a time warp. Every item seems to hold an important spot in the history of my life, and letting go of anything requires an inner letting go as well. But I braved the clutter and allowed myself to make space for the clarity. I released a bunch of things that had been hanging around for years. I kept telling myself that I was creating space for my clarity. After a while, I got a momentum and got through the entire living space. It felt easy by the end. I had several huge bags of trash and a car load of items to donate to Good Will.

Now that things are uncluttered, my environment does not contradict my inner desire for clarity. It’s even easier for me to focus on my vibration, and the Law of Attraction can assist me more powerfully. I can feel the expansion of my desire, and I have an even stronger belief that I am manifesting my new-found clarity in every aspect of my life. I am grateful for the exercise of clearing out the clutter. You can do it too. Clear you vibration by clearing out the clutter in your living space. Start with a junk drawer. Do anything that feels right. Every little bit helps. Be Well and Focused and Clear! Marie

paradox

When you become a student and practitioner of the Law of Attraction, you come to realize that there are easy parts to accept, and also that there are parts that take some faith to accept. For example, if you want proof that Law of Attraction works, focus on feeling better for 30–60 seconds, and notice how you gain access to thoughts that feel even better. Focus on something for a day, and notice yourself finding unlimited thoughts that support the topic. Give a topic your full attention for a week, and you will feel it building and multiplying in your vibration. Focus your undivided attention on something for a month and see how it manifests in your life in multiple ways. The proof is in the changes you see and feel, and you gain momentum the more you do it.

But sometimes we all get stuck, and it feels as if nothing is changing. This is the paradox. If you give your undivided attention to something you want, you will see proof of progress in somewhere between 30 seconds to 30 days. But if you have something you have been wanting for much longer, you may have been missing a key step to manifesting everything you want: imagining that you already have it right now!

But wait, you say, how can I feel like I have something that I don’t have? And that’s the key…if you feel like you have it, Law of Attraction can deliver it to you in a real-life manifestation in 30 days or less. So if you think about the thing, and then feel bad that you don’t have it, and then desire it even more, and then feel worse that it hasn’t come to you yet, you get into a cycle that feels like being stuck in the same place. What you have to do is take a leap of faith: feel the joy of having it right now.

Let’s take weight loss as an example of this paradox. If you have decided that you want to lose some weight, then your first step is to simply notice what you say to yourself in your thinking on the topic of your weight. If you have been trying for a while to lose weight, then your thinking will have some contradictory vibrations. Sometimes you will feel optimistic about losing weight, and sometimes you will hate thin people, and you will feel guilt, shame, and even sadness around your present weight. Law of Attraction responds to all of this, and you get into a “two steps forward, two steps back” cycle. It seems like nothing is changing. Once you catch yourself in this cycle (and you will), just laugh at your thoughts and remember that they are simply thoughts.

Your goal is to reach for a thought that feels true, but that also allows Law of Attraction to work in your favor. The thought “I am exactly 120 pounds” might be too much of a stretch. But the thought “I am attracting my perfect weight” might have a ring of truth for you in this moment. Love the thought in this moment. Eventually you will find thoughts that feel true, and that reinforce the reality of the condition you are manifesting. You might think “my clothes fit so well, and I look great. People treat me like a very healthy person.” If you hold this kind of thought it will manifest in 30 days or less. It’s feeling good NOW that matters, and also staying in a good-feeling place on the topic.

The paradox is simply stated: If you want something, feel good about it now, as if you already have it. Experience the joy of it now, in your vibration. Don’t focus on NOT having it…feel like it’s yours already. When Law of Attraction hears “this is my reality,” it agrees every time and brings it to you quickly and expertly. Be well, feel great, and enjoy this most amazing day!  Chris-GP

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

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-based Universe. 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

The Law of Attraction is not difficult to understand or harness, but there is so much information out there that is geared for different kinds of people. It appears to be much more complicated than it really is. Today I will give you an easy way to summarize the Law of Attraction, and then I will give one example of how I have used it effectively to create something I wanted.

Law of Attraction is a universal law that deals with energy and vibration. Like attracts like. You are like a radio station that is constantly sending out a signal, and the Universe is broadcasting right back at you with the same signal! What ever you broadcast vibrationally as you live your day is matched, enhanced, and expanded by Law of Attraction. If you want change, you have to change your vibrational broadcast signal first, and then the Universe will change to match it. Waiting for the Universe to change YOU is a recipe for disconnection and frustration. I hope you are grasping the amazing truth in this: You have at your fingertips, right now, the ability to harness the energy that creates worlds…and it is constantly working to match and attract to you anything you broadcast. WOW!

A few years ago my wife and I moved to Southern California from the Midwest. We decided to live near the beach, and we found a great apartment just three blocks from the ocean. In only a few weeks we decided that we wanted to be not just close to the ocean, but we wanted to live right on the ocean! It would have been easy to find a million reasons why this would be impossible, but we understand the Law of Attraction, and we set out a course to allow this desire into our lives. The key is to get aligned with your desire, and to live it right now. Yes, you have to live it right now! But, you say, you didn’t live on the ocean. You only lived near the ocean. You were fooling yourself. And I say, sure, we were fooling ourselves…right into a place of feeling good about our desire, and right into broadcasting a signal that the Universe could match. We talked about how great it was to live on the water, and we bought books and magazines that had pictures of the ocean, I set up an electronic picture frame with hundreds of ocean-front images that I found on line, and we even slept every night, all night, to the sound of ocean waves on the iHome iPod dock next to the bed. We made vision boards with pictures of the beach. We also created “an allowing manifesto” for this manifestation of ocean-front living. (More about that in a later post). I found myself spending many hours of inspired time looking at real estate listings, all the while enjoying the feeling of living on the water. Yes, we “fooled” ourselves into broadcasting this signal to the Universe: “we live on the beach, we have the resources to purchase a home, and we love living here.” By not contradicting our own vibrational desire, Law of Attraction had no problem attracting to me a real estate listing that caught my eye. I immediately called the agent and set up a showing. It matched our list of criteria, and we were soon living there. But in our minds, we were already living there. Moving in was the last step, not the first step!

You can do this too. Look at the things you have been asking for. Have you been sending a signal that you already have it? Can you enjoy the feeling of living it right now? If you can do this and love having it now, you will be in the right place at the right time to have it flood to you through inspired action. I would love to hear your stories about your successes. Enjoy this most amazing day!  Chris-GP

If you have friends that have never heard of Law of Attraction, then explaining it can be very confusing for both you and for them. Here is one relatively simple way to attempt to explain it, and if you like it you can try it out on a friend. Let me know if it works:

Law of Attraction is a Universal Law that is much more powerful than the Law of Gravity. You don’t need to believe in it…it just is. It works all the time, even if you don’t know it is. You are always attracting things into your experience through the Law of Attraction. Everything you see, touch, taste, smell, and hear comes to you because you are attracting it to you. Job offers, relationships, parking spaces, and everything in your experience is the result of your personal vibrational attraction. Think of yourself like a huge magnet that can focus and attract anything you want. Instead of attracting metal objects, you attract your personal reality. You can (and often do) attract by default however, pointing at all kinds of things that you don’t necessarily want. When these things come to you it feels like someone or something inserted them into your experience, because you didn’t consciously want those things…you just attracted them without realizing you were doing it. Once you awaken to the knowledge that you are always attracting with the Law of Attraction, you can start pointing your reality magnet toward the things you truly want. By giving your full attention to what you want to attract, you will see a shift in your life, and what you have been attracting will shift too. Doors will open that were once closed, and experiences you once dreamed of will snap, little by little, into your daily reality.

And if this explanation still seems too wordy and complicated, try this one instead: Law of Attraction works by giving you more of whatever you habitually think about.

The essence is the same. Enjoy creating this most amazing day!  Chris-GP

Law of Attraction

When I don’t have something that I think I want, I try not to get too worried about it in the present moment. Instead, I enjoy taking the following steps that give me fun and relief in the present. You can do this too:

1. I identify with more clarity what it is that I want. If it is, for example, more money, then I write down the phrase “I am attracting more money to me.” I become clear in my asking.
2. I then think about how I will feel once I have this money. Will I feel complete, prosperous, and generous? If I think I would, I spend quiet time alone reaching for the feelings of prosperous, generous and complete.
3. I then give attention to the desire in my waking, everyday life in small but important ways. I leave bigger tips, give money to people in need, and look for opportunities to help others with my money. Giving 45 cents more on a tip helps me reinforce a feeling of generosity and gratitude. Giving a dollar to a person in need feels prosperous and makes me feel good and complete. Neither costs very much money, but the feeling of prosperity, completeness, and generosity feels good. My attention puts me in an allowing vibration.
4. I then talk to myself about my wonderful expanded prosperity. I tell myself how much I love having enough money, and I bask in the fun and relief of knowing I have plenty…enough to meet my needs and to give some away too.
5. I then talk to others about how well things are going for me, and how I know there is plenty of prosperity to go around. I even look for little but true stories of things coming to me, like checks in the mail, or unexpected dividends or bonuses. Even someone giving me a penny they have found on the ground is an opportunity to tell a story of how money flows to me.
6. I then give myself the intention to dream about expanded resources and riches just before I sleep. I assure myself that my dream will expand my desires, and that I will be in a receiving place when I awake.

When you give this much energy and attention to a subject, and when you let Law of Attraction do the heavy lifting for you, you will soon have the essence of what you have wanted. Your constant attention to the desires summons a powerful Vortex of Attraction that aligns events and circumstances, creating a glorious manifestation of prosperity in the present. You will have attracted new wealth, and you will have summoned this experience to you by the Law of Attraction.

Once you prove to yourself that this really works, you will have no limits as to what you can attract to yourself consciously. You will no longer be a creator by default, and you won’t expect the world to change to make you happy either. You will gain the knowledge and skill to make your life amazing and fulfilling. You will learn to attract anything you want, simply by giving your attention to the subject…and by feeling good while you think about it. Life is supposed to be fun, and what greater fun is there than to have unlimited possibilities in front of you? I can think of only one thing more fun: having the ability to manifest those possibilities, if you choose to do so. Try it and see for yourself. What you think about becomes your reality…it’s really just that simple. Enjoy this most amazing day!  Chris-GP

Once you come to the realization and conscious understanding that your life results parallel your thoughts, feelings, and actions, you can start noticing what you think, feel, and do on a daily basis. What are your habits of thinking? Do you tend to think like an optimist or a pessimist? Do you justify pessimism in your thinking by labeling it “realism?” What if “realism” is just your habit of thinking, and what if optimistic outcomes could become “real” for you instead? Would you change your patterns of thinking to look for the best in things? What are your habits of feeling? Does it feel normal for you to feel sad, irritated, frustrated, or dis-empowered on a daily basis? Are mad at everything including your spouse, boss, or your government? Your feelings are always justified, by the way. But you have a choice in the ways you focus your attention, and as your focus of attention changes, so will your habits of feeling. What are your habits of doing? What activities do you give your time and focus to, and do you enjoy these activities? Are you bored by the things you do, or do you feel a calling toward these activities? How you answer these questions will help you clarify your point of attraction, which is the vibrational signal you broadcast in all directions, and the signal that Law of Attraction reads, matches, magnifies, and aligns you with to create your “reality.” Your signal never stops, but it can change with your attention to your thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Imagine being a master chef in a well-stocked commercial kitchen. You can make any dish you choose to make, and you have all the required knowledge and resources at your fingertips. What will you make? The first thing I would make would be my favorite Indian meal, Saag Paneer! I would get the spinach and cheese ready, and I would savor the smells and tastes, and I would enjoy the process of creating the meal. Sitting down to this meal would be like the results of Law of Attraction in my life…I would get a great result based on my focus of energy and desire for specific tastes. But what if I decided to use the first ingredients I found near the stove instead? What if I decided to use literally anything I noticed? The result might be a soup with a really weird combination of tastes. It might be salty, sweet, and bitter at the same time. When I sit to eat this soup, I get to decide if my focus gave me the results I wanted. Most likely, I will enjoy the Saag Paneer much more than the haphazard soup, because I got to decide what I wanted to include more carefully, and I had a recipe to follow that I knew would lead to a successful outcome.

What, then, is the recipe for creating and attracting a successful life? Be like a master chef. Live your day looking for the ingredients that will make your life feel and taste good as you live it. Look for reasons to feel grateful and appreciative. Tell stories about how well things are going for you. Look for evidence of wellbeing in others, and make it a point to tell others the good you see in them. Make the best of every event. Choose to change your habits of thinking, feeling and acting so that you judge things by how good you feel, rather than defaulting to the most practiced experience or emotion. Choose the ways you express your life as if you were creating the best meal you can imagine, and refuse to include things that spoil the taste for you. Take others’ opinions of what you are creating with a “grain of salt,” realizing that YOU will be the only one eating and experiencing this masterful culinary experiment. You are the chef. You get to choose. Yea!

I hope this image helps you see your life as an amazing opportunity to create anything you desire. Every time you reflect on how things are presently going for you, see yourself eating the meal you have crafted over time for yourself. If it tastes great, savor the flavor and keep doing what you are doing. If you crave a different diet, simply change your habits of thinking, feeling and acting until the meal takes on a new flavor and spice. You always get to choose, so choose well today. Enjoy this most amazing day!  Chris-GP