Timmo789, Author at The Law Of Attraction Sceptic

Overcoming Scarcity Mindset

Overcoming a scarcity mindset is something you must absolutely do if you want to change your life in terms of abundance. No matter how hard you work and what you do, a scarcity mindset will always work against you.

So what exactly is a scarcity mindset? Do you ever have thoughts that you’re not enough? Or do you ever feel like there’s something wrong with you? Do you always feel as though you don’t have enough money? Worries, limiting beliefs, past programming and life events can all help to create a scarcity mindset.

If your mind is focused on lack and limitation, whatever you do to improve your financial situation (on the outside) will likely be undone by your limiting thinking working against the creation of abundance.

Overcoming Scarcity Mindset

The first thing you can do to help in overcoming scarcity mindset is to notice your thinking and emotions. If you’re caught up in a poverty mindset, you’ll likely be focused on the negative. You may be thinking about your debt, or pain and suffering from the past. By doing so, you’re re-affirming the negative. To change this you need to shift your focus to higher levels of frequency.

At first this may take some time. Shifting your vibration from a low energy level such as grief, straight to joy just isn’t realistic; especially if you’ve already spent a lot of time there.

Instead you’ll need to slowly shift your emotional state going up the scale of emotions. Here’s an excerpt from the book above Ask and It Is Given – Esther & Jerry Hicks.

To move up the scale of emotions, you need only shift a small step at a time. Look for better feeling thoughts which help shift you out of the lower levels of vibration and into more pleasing emotions.

Overcoming Scarcity Mindset – What To Say To Yourself

One of the reasons you could be trapped in a scarcity mindset is the story you tell yourself in your head. Often a feeling of scarcity comes from your history or your self identity. If you have associated yourself with someone who is “just like that”, it can work against you until you tell it something different.

So one of the best strategies to switch your inner dialogue is to learn to notice your thoughts. Meditation can help with this (or simply sitting still and observing your mind). At first you’ll probably fall into the habit of becoming your thinking. Your mind will distract you and you’ll enter into talking to yourself. Once you notice this, you can go back to observing your thoughts without attachment. This is a powerful exercise which will help you detach yourself slightly and identify less with your thinking processes as the real “you”.

Start with a few minutes each day and build up over time.

When you start to see the stories which go on in your head, you’ll see that some of them relate to scarcity. Perhaps you’ll make excuses as to why your life is the way it is. You might relive situations and circumstances too. Once you realise that what you’re saying is controlling your paradigm around money and scarcity, you’ll want to look for better feeling thoughts.

Choose thoughts which are empowering not belittling. Notice especially those thoughts which relate to how much you earn, how you feel about yourself and emotional pain and/or trauma from the past.

Overcoming Scarcity – Self Image

It’s important to create a positive self image which allows you to grow and develop. If you think of yourself as a failure, it will be so much more difficult to attract the circumstances of success, whatever that means for you.

Self image is an important barometer for someone’s self worth and a poor self image typically goes hand in hand with scarcity.

You can work on your self image by learning to speak to yourself in a different way (see above). Most of what you believe about yourself is what goes on inside. No matter how many people tell you how much you are loved and appreciated, it always comes down to you to believe it or not!

Think about how you treat yourself. Does this reflect a poor self image or a positive one?

Clearing Negativity

To shift a negative scarcity mindset, you want to move through the emotional scale all the way up to abundance. When your mind is chattering away and you’ve got a negative voice in your head, this can be very difficult. To help clear the way it can be useful to focus on a mantra which distracts your mind and stops the dialogue of negativity from running the show.

One mantra I’ve found useful is the Ho’oponopono one. Ho’oponopono is the ancient Hawaiian practice of forgiveness. By reciting four phrases, you alter your mental chatter and direct the subconscious mind in another direction. This can be very powerful give the time, especially if you’ve been reciting negativity to yourself for a while before.

The four phrases you repeat are:

“I love you”

“Please forgive me”

“Thankyou”

“I love you”

Repeat these four phrases over and over in your mind. This helps you focus on something which stops your mind chattering about whatever it was chattering about before!

Worried About Money?

If you’re coming from a scarcity mindset you’re probably worried about money. This is a self fulfilling feedback loop from which you need to escape. The worry comes from a scarcity mindset which keeps telling you to worry about money. Therefore you create more money worries. You can’t escape the situation with a mindset which is focused on worry and scarcity.

Coming from an abundance paradigm, you would have a different thinking process about money.

A good way to start the shift from scarcity to abundance is to practice gratitude. Gratitude is a completely different vibration and emotion to worry. You can’t do both simultaneously! Try being worried and grateful at the same time! It’s impossible! So learn to practice gratitude to shift your energy around worry and scarcity.

Start by writing a gratitude diary every day and focus on all the things you’re grateful for in your life already.

the abundance paradigm - overcoming scarcity mindset

Negative Beliefs About Money

Money doesn’t grow on trees. Rich people are greedy. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. I shall not want. Money is the root of all evil. Money is not important. I don’t want money. The rich get richer the poor get poorer. Money is limited. Money doesn’t bring happiness. An on and on it goes. It’s very difficult not to have picked up some limiting beliefs about money in your life.

The beliefs about you, and your worthiness, are also linked to your ability to earn money. Rest assured the negative beliefs are keeping you in poverty. Your beliefs about money are most definitely a factor in your ability and desire to earn and keep it. So if any of these ideas about money rings a bell for you, you should weed it out if you want to attract more abundance into your life.

Weeding Out negative Beliefs

When you catch yourself talking against abundance, or money is any way, you should stop and pay attention. You are halting the growth of wealth and abundance in your life by speaking against it.

When you start to notice your self talk and speech about how you relate to money, you can do something about it. Until then, you’re beliefs will remain unconscious and you’ll carry on as you always have.

C.G. Jung — ‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.’

Once you have found some negative ideas around money, you can see what beliefs your scarcity mindset is built on and begin dismantling the foundations. Observe them and then stop giving the the same attention. Use mantras which promote abundance, not poverty. See money mantra to become rich.

Money mantras are things like:

“Money comes easily and frequently”

“I get paid for being me”

“Money comes to me in increasing amounts through multiple sources on a continual basis”

So when you catch yourself thinking or talking against abundance, repeat a positive mantra instead. Over time you’ll reprogram your subconscious mind to look for money opportunities and welcome money, rather than repelling it.

Why Does Nothing Ever Work Out For Me?

I always wondered “why does nothing ever work out for me?”. No matter how hard I tried at things, it was always the same. Nothing seemed to work.

But lets think about that statement before we go any further. “Why does nothing ever work out for me?”

It’s a belief and an affirmation. It may very well be true, but it also affirms an idea: “Nothing ever works out for you”. Repeating such an affirmation is self fulfilling.

Why Does Nothing Ever Work Out For Me? – Ask Better Questions

The question you are asking may very well feel true for you the moment you ask it. It’s affirming a sense of struggle and pain. This may stem from an earlier time and you may be repeating this pain through other experiences until you can let go of it.

I had an early life trauma. My brother died in front of me on a Judo mat at age 10. It was to cause a string of events throughout my life. Pain and trauma has a way of doing this. It leaves an unconscious scar. Carrying the pain through life without knowing it can cause you to find more and more problems in life. Perhaps you’ve had a traumatic experience too, or are still grieving something in your past?

Ask better questions. If you catch yourself asking “why does nothing work out for me?’, ask yourself if this statement is entirely true. It may be that some things actually do work out for you. Think about what does work in your life.

A roof over your head, food on a daily basis? Family? a home? A healthy body? When you concentrate on the things which cause pain, you’re reliving that pain over and over. To shift this feeling which grows and grows when you focus on it, learn to focus on gratitude. Ask better questions such as “what does work in my life?” “How can I change my situation and become happier?”

Questions elicit responses. If you ask negative questions, your mind will look for negative answers.

Why Does Nothing Ever Work Out For Me? Using Gratitude

When you ask yourself “why does nothing ever work out for me?”, you make yourself a victim. You can reverse this habit by focusing on things which you are grateful for. see deliberate creation exercises. This can take some time of course but when you focus on the things that go wrong, more things go wrong. It’s the law of attraction working in your life!

“For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”— Matthew 25:29, RSV.

This is known as The Matthew Effect and can be observed throughout life in many forms. One of the commonest expressions of this is “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer”.

When you’ve experienced pain in life, you find reasons and outcomes which reflect back to you what you already believe about life. Life is hard, money is always a problem, there’s no happiness or satisfaction. You probably say a few things like this to yourself too, don’t you?

Why Does Nothing Ever Work Out For Me? – What You Tell Yourself

We go through life with many teachers and mentors who may try and help us. But ultimately the person who you spend more of your life with is you! You are the one who determines what goes on inside your mind. You tell yourself stories based on what you believe and have picked up in life. They might not always be the most empowering ones or even the truth. But you believe what you continually say to yourself and repetition is key.

So if you’re telling yourself over and over “why does nothing ever work out for me?”, you’re training it into your subconscious mind. Guess what? It responds by creating the suggestion as a belief. Therefore nothing works out for you! Things go wrong for you because you keep telling yourself they will. You’re planting seeds into your subconscious mind all the time with your thought patterns, beliefs, attitudes and especially repetitive sayings!

Stop Doing Things Which Cause Pain

I tried at many things and no matter how hard I tried, I considered myself as a failure. This is the crux of things. How you see yourself is a big part of making life work for you. Until I realised this I kept walking into more and more problems.

Your self image either works for you or against you. If you keep saying to yourself “why does nothing ever work out for me?”, your self image could be sabotaging your best efforts. You may be trying really hard at things, harder than some who simply float through life, right? But somehow there’s always something standing in your way, stopping you make that breakthrough.

Your self image may be the culprit. Self image is a deep ingrained part of who you thing you are. No matter what you do on an outside level, your self image is going to trump all your efforts. That’s because it’s the little voice in your head which never stops talking. Until you learn to control that voice, and change what it has to say, you’ll likely repeat the same problems you’re encountering time after time.

Retrain Your Brain For A Change

You can reprogram you mind to focus on things which are more pleasing and enjoyable. When you focus on the pain, you create more of it. Of course you still have to pay the bills and go to work and this can bring up problems; especially for people who are carrying emotional scars from their past traumas.

The first step towards changing your life for the better is just to observe what’s going on in your mind. If your constantly saying to yourself “why does nothing ever work out for me?”, you’re probably saying a bunch of other negative things too.

Make time to sit and notice your internal dialogue for at least 5 minutes to start with. You don’t have to get into the full lotus position or cross your legs! Meditation can be just about sitting comfortably and noticing your mind without attachment to it. At first you’ll get drawn into the dramas playing in your head. But over time and with practice, you’ll be able to distance yourself from them and see them as thoughts and not actually you.

You can also write down some of your most common beliefs which keep coming up and get them out in the open. When things are running in your head, you tend to just believe them. But when you start dissecting your inner dialogue, you can stop attaching yourself to it.

Create Some New Mantras Instead

Your old mantras are the things you tell yourself which perpetuate your current situation. If you no longer want to live a life filled with nothing ever working out for you, you need to change what’s going on inside. This can start with another mantra which you’ll repeat to yourself in your head.

Now your previous mantra will probably have been going on for years, even decades. “Why does nothing ever work out for me?”, you say (in your head). “Why does nothing ever work out for me?”, “Why does nothing ever work out for me?”, over and over.

To change your belief you’re going to need to spend some time repeating an alternative mantra many times over and over. Here’s one which you can use:

“things work out easily and effortlessly”

“everything works out perfectly for me”

Of course you may have problems at first repeating such a mantra when your ingrained belief is just the opposite of this. If so, just be a little gentler and use one like this:

“some things do work out for me, just fine” or something like that!

So whenever you hear yourself repeat your old saying “why does nothing ever work out for me?”, repeat the new mantra “actually somethings do work out for me, just fine”.

Cybernetic Transposition

Stuart Lichtman, an MIT professor has studied what he calls cybernetic transposition. This is a strategy to change belief and create amazing results in your life.

It is based around the repetition of a daily mantra which is tailor made to you, for your own specific preferences and difficulties. What this takes into account is you own personal desires and expectations for what you want to achieve.

If you’re currently struggling with life and hold the belief that things don’t work out, you may want to test it first with a small goal. You can access Stuart Lichtmans book here.

Why Does Nothing Ever Work Out For Me? – Self Love

So you’ve now discovered self talk, gratitude and mediation to help you reverse those pesky old mantras and beliefs which are keeping you from the life of your dreams. Stop telling yourself those negative things and start changing the way you talk to yourself.

These strategies have worked wonders for me but they take time and some dedication. Think about how long you’ve been telling yourself those same negative stories about how nothing ever works out. You need to spend time and effort to change your paradigms around whatever is holding you back.

Self love is another thing to work on too. It’s something which has helped me dramatically. If you’re carrying old trauma in your pain body, you’ll keep feeding it with unhappy circumstances and problems. Then it keeps growing and your old negative mantras keep feeding the same beliefs which create them; over and over. A quick way to the route of the problem is to focus on self love.

With self love you go to the heart of the issue! If you’re carrying grief and pain, you need to heal it. Your decision making process is impaired and you’ll keep attracting problems unless you love yourself.

If you loved yourself would you keep creating problems for yourself? No, you wouldn’t unless it was to wake yourself up! But once you’re awake you don’t need to keep making life hard for yourself. So just learn to love yourself. Ask yourself whether your actions are those of someone who loves themselves in every situation.

Repeat a daily mantra “I love myself”, over and over in your head.

The Ho’oponopono Process

Another great technique is called the ho’oponopono process. This is a technique whereby you repeat the phrases:

” I love you, I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you” over and over inside your head.

This is a great mantra for clearing old negative thought patterns out of your mind and subconscious mind. While repeating these phrases, over and over, it’s going to replace existing thought habit patterns while creating new more positive ones.

Learn more about ho-oponopono in Joe Vitale’s book Zero Limits.

Law Of Attraction Rules

To make the law of attraction work better and faster for you, you need to know the law of attraction rules. Everyone hates rules though right!? Maybe you’re not a fan of rules, but you do want to create something worthwhile in your life. So it’s worth understanding how the creation process works; so you can make it work better in your life.

The basic rules of the law of attraction are that you get more of what you give your attention to. This means if you spend a lot of time complaining and worrying, guess what: yep, you’re creating more of that! More things to complain and worry about! You can’t just do a half-hour manifestation ritual and then go about business as usual. If business as usual means complaining, moaning and focusing on the bad stuff, your half-hour ritual won’t make up for it!

Law Of Attraction Rules – Rule 1

Rule 1 of The Law Of Attraction is ask. To ask for what you want means imparting the thoughts, feelings and emotions of having already received what you want on the subconscious mind. This is usually a natural wishing and wanting exercise which we will do without thinking. As children we were always excellent at manifesting. We would visualise what we wanted and imagine it in every way – using all our senses and believing with was real.

Unfortunately this natural ability is usually knocked out of us by the time we have become adults. We’re told to wake up and stop being day dreamers!

So rule 1 of the law of attraction is to re-learn the skill of day dreaming and fantasising about what you really want. Don’t imagine what you think you can achieve. Go all out and start believing in what you can imagine.

Visualisation is a great tool to impart your creative genius on your subconscious mind. Then let your unconscious mind deliver the right steps to move forwards and start taking some action steps. See law of attraction steps. Dreaming and visualising should be enjoyable and fun. If it’s not, don’t do it!

Once you have created a great visualisation regarding what you want, don’t then sabotage it by talking against it or thinking counterproductive thoughts. Trust in it and work towards it.

Rule 2 Believe

Two of the largest attractive forces of the law of attraction are desire and expectation. So you shouldn’t desire something you don’t expect, and you shouldn’t expect something you don’t desire. Doing so would be unproductive. Don’t aim for something you don’t believe you can make happen. And don’t expect the worst either. If you expect something and desire it as well, both these attractive forces are lined up and you’re on to creating a great affirmation.

Belief is as important as your desire to achieve something. Unless you believe you can attain something, you’re unlikely to follow through with it. In fact, if you don’t believe you can achieve something, you’re unlikely to even start. So believing in your goal, yourself and your ability to achieve it is a must.

Pick a target you score ten out of ten for in both desirability and achievability.

Believe in it and in yourself and take the appropriate steps to achieve it.

Law Of Attraction Rules – Receive

The third rule of the law of attraction is to allow it. Although this sounds like an easy part, it’s often where people have difficulty. This can come down to holding thoughts of unworthiness or not being “good enough”. Believing you deserve what you want and that you’re worthy of having it is massively important.

Imagine having what you want right now. Visualise everything working out just how you want it. Whatever you’re wanting – the house the partner the perfect career, just sit with it in your mind and play it out.

Do any thoughts of conflict come up? If so they are major keys to what’s holding you back.

Receiving what you really want also means becoming the person you need to become in order to receive it. What kind of person must you be to have everything you dream of having?

Jim Carrey Law Of Attraction

Jim Carrey is a huge advocate of the law of attraction. During his Opera interview he talked about how he wrote a check for $10 million several years before achieving it (after acting in the film Dumb and Dumber). He gave himself 3 years and dated it thanksgiving 1995. Just before thanksgiving 1995 he found out he was going to earn $10 million.

He visualised having directors interesting in him and his peers admiring his work. In 1987 he had nothing and was a broke struggling actor. In his interview he stated that he used visualisation just to make himself feel better.

Jim Carrey was a massive self help fan and used to read books from the self help section.

“You can’t just visualise and go eat a sandwich” – Meaning you also need a practical plan and to do something when you know what it is

Jim Carrey Law Of Attraction

“You get it when you believe you have it, and that’s the key” – Jim Carrey

So many people want to use the law of attraction to manifest but get this backwards. They focus on what’s right in front of them, rather than what they can imagine! By starting with the feeling of already having what you desire, you impress your intention on your subconscious mind.

Jim Carrey not only had the intention and regularly visualised his dream check and working with people he admired, but he also had a plan – to achieve it through “acting services rendered”.

Jim Carrey Law Of Attraction – What Goes Wrong With The Law Of Attraction

“You get it when you believe you have it, and that’s the key” – Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey hit the nail on the head with this comment. You get it when you believe it! There’s many things which can halt your progress with the law of attraction. If you don’t believe you can achieve something, you won’t work towards it’s attainment. If you don’t really want something bad enough, you won’t keep striving towards it.

Two vital ingredients then for the law of attraction to work are: belief and desire.

Belief And Desire

Jim Carrey had both belief in himself and what he wanted. Plus he had the desire to achieve it by working as an actor.

If you don’t really want it, you’ll sabotage your efforts. If you don’t believe in attaining (what you say) you want, you’ll give up sooner or later too.

The main law of attraction steps are:

Ask
Believe
Receive

Ask

Asking means deciding on what you want and continuing to visualise and plan to make it happen. Deciding what you want can be the biggest problem and if you’re unsure, you should get clear on this first.

Believe

Believing in your dreams is huge. Unless you believe in what you really want, and believing you can attain it, you’ll be whimsical in trying to attain it.

Receive

Receiving is another part of the law of attraction which many people get wrong too. Despite thinking that you’re happy to receive, consider having everything you desire right now. What comes up in your mind? Sometimes you’ll find obstacles are inherent in your thinking process just by imagining your desired outcome right this minute. What blockages prevent you from fully imagining and appreciating the good which is coming to you?

Tuning Into What You Really Want

Knowing what you want can be the toughest part of using the law of attraction. Getting clear on this will save you a lot of time and effort. Jim Carrey knew what he wanted.

To help you tune into what you want you can use affirmations. Start by writing out a single intention which meets your main criteria. For example:

“Money comes to me easily and effortlessly”. This is a nice simple affirmation. Perhaps you’re not that money focused and already have plenty. Maybe you’re looking for something else like your soul mate or a partner:

“I’m so happy and grateful to be with my partner”

As you write out goals and intentions, you’ll get clearer on what you really want. Here’s a useful resource to help getting clarity on your goals and intentions:

55×5 Manifestation

What is the 55×5 manifestation and what does it do? The 55×5 manifestation is a strategy to program your subconscious mind to work with you, rather than against you.

Most of us are blissfully unaware of how powerful our subconscious minds really are. We say we want something (consciously); but offer up many conflicting stories, ideas and desires to the subconscious mind. It is so inundated with conflicting desires, emotions and ideas that it usually doesn’t deliver what (we say) we want. But actually it does! We say we want one thing but our behaviour tells the subconscious a different story. Often too we will contradict ourselves with our personal “stories” by blaming and complaining, rather than relaying a congruent message (to the subconscious mind).

In terms of the unconscious mind, it responds to the underlying feelings, emotions and continual repeated messages which it receives. That’s where the 55×5 manifestation comes in.

55×5 Manifestation – Repetition

The 55×5 manifestation is a manifesting method of using repetition to program “grooves” into the subconscious mind. By choosing an affirmation which you want to make a reality, and repeating it multiple times a day (55 times), you are reprogramming your subconscious mind to focus on what you want.

By having a congruent message to tell the subconscious mind, you not only direct it in a certain way, but you are also not telling it other messages which might contradict what you really want! Other conflicting messages can lead to a confusion in the manifestation process. For example, you say you want to lose weight, but you also want to eat whatever you want and not exercise! You say you want something more, but you doubt and question your ability to achieve it when talking to yourself.

Learning to listen to your self talk is a good way to observe the mind and see the current messages you’re projecting on to the subconscious mind. Once you see this for yourself, you’ll see why you aren’t currently getting the results in your life which you really want! See law of attraction subconscious mind.

Using The 55×5 Manifestation Ritual

To choose a positive affirmation think about what you really want. It might be a better figure, to lose some weight or to make more money and/or get a better job. It’s important to choose something which is not completely unrealistic for you, but which is also something that excites you. Choosing something mundane which you trust you can achieve but don’t really, really want isn’t a good idea. You’re unlikely to have the motivation to keep going with your 55×5 manifestation for long.

Saying that it’s also important to choose something you believe is attainable too. Choosing something which is far beyond anything you can realistically attain may reduce your belief in your mantra. If you don’t really believe you can achieve something, chances are good you’ll give up and not put the effort in.

Here’s a few examples of what your affirmation could be:

I’m happy that I’m making and extra $1000 a month from my online business

I’m so happy and grateful now that I’ve found my perfect partner

I’m so happy and grateful now that I’ve lost 2 stone in weight

I’m grateful now that I’ve moved into a new house in the suburbs

I now make $2000 a month from my laptop

Money comes to me in increasing amounts through multiple sources

Using Gratitude in Your 55×5 Manifestation

I like adding the “I’m so happy and grateful now that” part for a couple of reasons. For one it acts as a sort of insurance policy. Usually you choose an affirmation because that’s how (you think) it will make you feel – more grateful. However, in some cases I’ve chased a goal only to find it hasn’t helped me in life and not brought me what I really wanted: true happiness and gratitude.

Adding the gratitude part also helps because gratitude is a powerful attractive force. You’re going to be repeating your mantra 55 times a day and writing it out. If your affirmation isn’t completely congruent with what you want, you’ll soon experience some conflict.

For example, if you’ve written your affirmation out 10 times and already you’re doubting it, you may need to change it a little. You should aim to have an affirmation which is a 10/10 on desirability and a 10/10 on believability. If you lack desire, or don’t fully believe in your goal, you’ll give up too easily.

Writing Out Your Affirmation – 55×5 Law Of Attraction

The 55×5 manifestation is so named because you’ll be writing it out 55 times for 5 days in a row. Yep! Does that sound like a lot of work? You bet it is! In fact if you want a faster result you could even double this number! The more times you write it out, the deeper the grooves you’ll create in your subconscious mind. You want to get your conscious mind and subconscious mind together working as a team!

Because you’re going to be writing out your affirmation so many times, you’ll probably want to make it short. A shorter affirmation can also help you get straight to the point of what you want to manifest.

Why Repetition Works

Remember at school when you used to have to write out your times tables over and over? Or you wrote your spellings out repeatedly? This is because repetition works. You’re literally creating neural pathways in your brain as you do it.

The main problem with manifesting what we want is that our brains are wired with many pathways which contradict our desires and dreams. We doubt we can attain what we want and so stop trying.

Self Talk – Your Secret Weapon For Manifesting

Who do you listen to most in your life? It’s yourself. You talk to yourself in your head repeatedly over and over. You tell yourself what’s possible and what isn’t. You probably have a story you tell to others too about who you are, what’s important to you and why your life is exactly the way it is, right?

That’s your story because it’s what you’ve been programming yourself with over the years. To change your life, you need to change your story! Everyone’s life will be an exact match to their story. So to change your life you must change your story. That is, change what you tell yourself on a daily basis.

Cybernetic Transposition

Stuart Lichtman created what he calls cybernetic transposition. This is a manifestation technique where you take a story from your past and adjust it to use for a manifestation.

This is very powerful because your old story is a real memory. As such you can recall images, feelings, sounds and vibrations from the real memory.

You then create a story based on the old memory but altered into what Stuart calls a metastory. This is a new story about what you want to achieve – your affirmation.

You then use this affirmation, and the real memories around it, to program your subconscious mind for an amazing achievement.

This is similar to the 55×5 manifestation idea but in much more depth.

The exercises in Stuart’s book (below) will help you to fine tune your affirmations so that they are congruent to what you really want, and what you believe is possible right now. As you get better at training your subconscious, you’ll be able to move on to bigger and more difficult attainments.

Law Of Attraction Exercises

There’s several law of attraction exercises which can help you overcome limiting beliefs, focus on your goals and tune to what you want and what’s already working in your life:

Affirmations – Affirming what you want and removing old limiting affirmations which no longer serve you
Meditation – Calming the mind and observing your thoughts
Visualisations – Imagining your perfect outcomes and situations
Stalking – Watching your thoughts and words
Gratitude – storm of appreciation
Self Love Mantra

Law Of Attraction Exercises – Affirmations

Many of our affirmations aren’t working for us because we affirm the negative unconsciously. “I’m no good at this”, “I’ll never achieve that” etc. Noticing your current recurring patterns of thought is a good way to weed out negative affirmations which are holding you back from the life you deserve. You can start doing this just by observing but meditation is another useful practice which can help.

Weeding out negative affirmations and replacing them with positive ones to “feed” your subconscious mind is one of the most important law of attraction exercises. See law of attraction affirmations.

Meditation

Meditation can help you relax and calm the mind. You can also access a much better state of mind than you’re normally used to. In our busy lives we can easily create a poisonous atmosphere in our minds. We re-run negative circumstances and situations over and over. Meditation helps you escape this trap and become more conscious of the thoughts you give energy to.

It’s very difficult to communicate what you want to your subconscious mind if your mind is whirling storm. Meditation can help you quiet the mind so that you can create a good mental state and communicate ideas more clearly to the subconscious as well as hear messages which your subconscious mind is attempting to deliver. See law of attraction meditation.

Visualisation

Visualisation can help relay images and feelings of what you want to manifest to your subconscious mind. We are born as daydreamers and school teaches us to forget how to do this. Remind yourself how to create through visualisation by taking time each day to day dream about something you really want. Imagine it vividly and fantasise about how you want your life to be.

Law Of Attraction – Stalking

In the Carlos Castinada books, Don Juan Matus teaches his apprentice the strategies for stalking his own mind. One practical application is explained in the book below (The teachings of don carlos). In it, Victor Sanchez explains a strategy to understand the inner workings of the mind. See law of attraction techniques for more on this.

This involves taking a notepad and a timer. Set the timer to go off at random intervals throughout the day. Each time, take out the notepad and write down 3 things:

What you were thinking
What you were doing
Do you want this?

Do this exercise for at least a couple of days.

The Law Of Attraction Exercises – Gratitude

I found this exercise in Ask and it Is Given by Esther Hicks. The book has a number of law of attraction exercises and is highly recommended.

The storm of appreciation is a great law of attraction exercise. Take a notepad and pen and write down some of the things you’re grateful for. Take some time over this. Look around you and notice things in your house which you love. Describe in detail what you like about things and focus on those things more and more. Do this exercise daily and you’ll start to notice things in your life which you truly love and appreciate. This is a magical exercise and the more you practice it the more you’ll notice in your life which you love.

You can also create a gratitude journal in a similar fashion. Write in it daily about the things you’re truly grateful for. Over time, gratitude will become your natural state and you’ll draw in more things to be grateful for.

Law Of Attraction Exercises – Self Love Mantra

Like affirmations, a self love mantra can work wonders using the law of attraction. The more you love yourself, the less you’ll tolerate (and focus on) the unpleasant and difficult aspects of life. They will simply fall away if you practice this exercise regularly and for long enough.

“I love myself” – repeat this again and again throughout your day.

The key is to create some new mental grooves which will ultimately replace some of your old, negative beliefs thoughts and ideas. Just this one concept can work wonders if you run with it and do it for long enough.

As you practice this mantra regularly, you’ll start to notice some of your old, competing beliefs coming up. Just notice them and carry on with the practice.

Law Of Attraction Steps

The basic law of attraction steps are “ask“, “believe” and “receive“. First you must ask for what you want. Next we must believe we are worthy of receiving it and finally we must allow ourselves to receive what we truly want. Receiving for some is the biggest obstacle, especially if they don’t feel worthy of having something good.

Most people don’t know what they want and many don’t really believe they can have it either. So how can we learn how to focus on what we want, build our belief in it and become capable of receiving without resistance?

Law Of Attraction Steps – Asking

What does it mean to ask for what we want? Is it simply a case of thinking constantly about the outcome? And how can we be sure of what we want anyway? Life “schools” us to decide what we truly want over a number of years. Good times and bad give us contrast and experience. What we want as children will be vastly different to what we want as adults.

Asking for what we want is easier as a child than as an adult. As children we often had a better focused ability to imagine things and daydream. As adults this function has been largely kicked out of us over the years!

Asking means tuning in your focus and daydreaming. It also means making a plan and setting goals. If your desire is whimsical and distant, how can your unconscious mind bring it about if you don’t even know what it is?

Getting clear about what you really want is the most difficult part of the law of attraction steps.

Law Of Attraction Steps – Believing

Do you really believe you can have what you want? Or, are you limiting your dreams to match what you think you can afford? Believing is powerful. If you don’t believe you can have something, you’re unlikely to pursue it. If you really want something you’ll do anything to get it; unless you don’t believe it’s possible.

Wanting and believing need to go hand in hand to properly use the law of attraction to get what you want. Two powerful attractive forces are desire and expectation. So don’t expect something you don’t want and don’t want something you don’t expect.

Think about what you want and choose something which you also believe is possible for you and worthy of you. Without belief you won’t even try. You won’t imagine your perfect life if you don’t believe in it.

Law Of Attraction Steps – Receiving

Receiving is another common obstacle to manifesting with the law of attraction. We say we want things but get in the way of receiving them. Perhaps we don’t believe we’re worth it? Maybe we don’t feel worthy of what we want? Receiving is a large part of the law of attraction process. How do you hope to receive though if you don’t believe you’re worth it or halt its delivery in some way. Many people do this.

To become a good receiver you need to feel worthy enough to receive. You need to feel good enough about yourself to allow things to come to you. Often a low self esteem, poor self image or trapped emotions can underpin a life of holding yourself back from what you truly desire and deserve.

Law Of Attraction Steps – How To Ask

Asking means communicating with your unconscious mind and letting go of the outcome. Wanting is an emotional state of desire. You’re literally leaning out of a better state by reaching into some future time and place. This means you’re not truly present in the emotion of peace and gratitude. Some people spend their entire lives in the state of wanting. And it’s not a pleasant state to be stuck in.

A little wanting is ok. You’re communicating a need to your unconscious self. But you also need to remind yourself of how you want to feel when you “arrive” at the place of having received what you asked for. This is a state of gratitude. All of the books on the law of attraction talk about gratitude.

Asking for what you want should be done by daydreaming. Most people have forgotten how to day dream consciously, but do so unconsciously. Imagine yourself in the perfect scenario, whatever it is. What does it feel like, what sounds can you hear? What is your environment like? The more senses you bring to your fantasy the better.

The subconscious mind talks in pictures and feelings (when you dream). So create a nice day dream which encompasses your ideal scenario and think about it often.

How Not To Ask

Many people do the opposite of this. They think about things they don’t want. They imagine arguing and fighting. You can’t manifest a life you love by focusing on all the things you despise. This is a common trap because the feelings of struggle and disharmony are very emotive. They encompass many emotions and feelings and it’s easy to start associating these feelings with your own identity.

To change your life, you must change! This will mean leaving the old you behind; whatever that means for you. For some this will be very difficult; especially if the old them is a version built on the idea of pain and struggle. (see the law of attraction and the pain body).

Focusing on what you really want and taking your attention away from things you don’t want is a good place to start asking.

Belief – The Key To Your Current Experience

It’s hard to believe (or maybe it isn’t) that your beliefs underpin your current experience. There’s so many people in the world and everyone is experiencing it differently. How can your version be the only right one? For many, belief is about being right. What are you trying to be right about? Would you rather be right or be happy and create your perfect life?

Henry ford said “whether you believe you can or you can’t, you’re right”.

But your beliefs also mould you in other ways too. What do you believe about your ability to make money, hold down satisfying relationships, find love and enjoy your work/life balance? Listen to your answers because they hold the key to your current reality.

Changing Your Beliefs

You can change your beliefs around certain topics if you want to create better outcomes. In what areas of life are you feeling the most pain and dissatisfaction? Love, money, relationships, fun, pleasure? To change your beliefs around a certain topic takes a little introspection. Listen to your stories around the topic of your choice. What do you tell yourself or others about this part of your life?

Tell Yourself A Different Story

Telling yourself a different story and changing the record can help shift the grooves in your mind. Your thoughts have power when they are repeated over and over and your life takes the shape of what you continually tell yourself. Start by noticing what you think and say around certain topics. Are you running an old program which isn’t helping you create a better life?

Receiving – You’re Worth It

Do you believe you’re worth the result you desire? Really? If there’s any doubt then that’s holding you back too. Remember that what we are holding in our minds will create our future. If you’re focusing on doubt and fear that’s what you’ll create more of. Focus on love and happiness and likewise you’ll create more of it.

Most people aren’t happy in their lives because they are focused on the bad things rather than the good. A life long habit of this tendency will lead someone to a cup which is half empty rather than half full! If you’re suffering from a low self esteem or a poor self image you can turn this around with self talk. See recommended book above.

You must believe you’re worth it to have it, otherwise you’ll look for ways to reject it.

Law Of Attraction Steps – Summary

The basic steps to use the law of attraction to create something are:

Ask – Get clear about what you want and focus on it regularly. (see law of attraction visualization). Write goals and set deadlines. Your daily habits should line up with long term goals. (Here’s a great book on goal setting)
Believe – Believe you’re worth it. Choose a goal you really, really want and which is worthy of your time and effort and which you believe is possible for you.
Receive – Learn to let go of always striving. Remind yourself of your worth and value. Work on self love. Imagine yourself with everything you desire and practice feeling gratitude daily.

Law Of Attraction Weight Loss

The law of attraction weight loss strategy involves using your mind. Most of us have a lot of different competing parts to our psyche. One part of us wants to hit the gym and another part of us wants to drink a bottle of wine and eat cake! These competing parts of our mind don’t surface at the same time. At the start of the New Year we might be gunning for the gym and aiming to make it happen and lose that weight. But come Friday and there’s a chance for socialising, we’ll happily knock a few drinks back, forgetting about our best intentions.

The question isn’t whether we want to lose weight or not. It’s how much do we want change? Do we really want it or is it just a fad? Are we filling our time and lying to ourselves. Because real change, the kind that lasts involves changing our self identity.

Law Of Attraction Weight Loss

Are you a “fitty” or a “fatty”? How do you see yourself? To lose weight this must change first. No amount of fad diets will help you if you’re not willing to work on yourself by working “in” yourself.

Working on yourself doesn’t just involve buying the new Fitbit watch and joining a gym. This might keep you motivated for a while, perhaps a month or so. But before long you’ll have fallen back into your old patterns of behaviour. Why? Simply because that’s how you see yourself. Your self image will always trump your will power.

Think about that. Your mind is talking to you almost non stop (inside your head). To make a change on the outside, you’ll need to change on the inside too! This means giving yourself a new story about yourself. No longer are you “only” this or “just” that. From now on you’re an athlete!

Law Of Attraction Weight Loss – Identify Your New Self image

Identifying as an athlete is different from segmenting your life into parts: going to the gym and laying off the booze. Most people start a diet and begin to exercise more and perhaps eat less. But what they miss is the inner game. They still identify with themselves as the same person. That means eventually, their self talk will win over their will power. It’s not that you’re weak or don’t have what it takes. it’s just that your self image is more powerful than your will power.

Even with a well disciplined work out pattern and a strict diet, you’ll end up telling yourself that it’s not worth it. You deserve that bottle of wine. After all, you’ve been working hard all week, right?! But if you change your identity and identify as an athlete, or a runner, or a swimmer you’ll reconsider. Why? Because athletes are focused on their next event. They continually tell themselves that they are athletes. They become so focused on the event, their time, their position in a race or an event, that there’s no room for slacking off!

Law Of Attraction Weight Loss – Why Self Image Is So Important

Plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz noticed that many of his out patients still carried doubt and low self esteem with them even after a successful surgery. Despite having the work done that they thought would change them, they still suffered. So he investigated what he discovered was the route cause of this dilemma: the self image.

Before taking new patients for surgery he worked with them and their self image to help them overcome low self esteem and be happier without surgery. Many of his patients no longer required the surgery they once were desperate for. Maltz discovered that the self image was a major part of someone’s makeup.

Will Power, Habit & Self Image

The law of attraction works because of your consistent beliefs and thoughts. One of the most constant of your underlying belief creators is your self image. Think about it. Your self image runs the show, not you! Your self image is there with you 24 hours a day, telling you whether you can or you can’t. It tells you who you are what you’re capable of and who you can become!

Will power on the other hand is much more limited. You only have a certain amount of will power each day. Habit is much more powerful. So the answer to law of attraction weight loss is to combine small daily habits you control with will power and creating a new self image.

What Weight Loss Plans Miss

Weight loss plans focus mostly on reducing the calorie intake you eat and increasing your daily exercise. But that’s not always a sustainable plan; especially if you’re lazy and like food a lot! How long will you be able to sustain it for given that it’s not your usual set of habits? Probably not very long. To sustain a given change in behaviour for longer periods of time is difficult. Most people’s behaviour doesn’t change that much.

To change your behaviour over the long term, you’ll need a new self image and a basic mini goal which you never deviate from. Why is this important? Most people set goals and habits which are unsustainable. Setting a smaller mini habit is more sustainable on the days where you don’t feel like it.

Over the longer term, mini habits are much more sustainable. Don’t set goals which are too hard because you’ll probably drop out. Set smaller, more achievable goals instead.

Why Set Smaller Goals?

Smaller goals have a huge knock-on effect over the longer term. because they are small, easily achievable goals you’re also more likely to sustain them. With a mini habit you can easily sustain it even when you’re feeling ill, off colour or not at your best.

Achieving a small mini goal gives you a natural boost. You can hit a mini goal every day, without much effort. Over time it become ingrained in your brain to do those things without thought. They become unconscious habits.

Unconscious habits are the things which usually work against you in any given weight loss plan. By using your will power to create one or two simple daily mini-habits, you can reverse this trend.

Changing Self Image

Changing your self image from a “fatty” to a “fitty” will take some time and effort! You can start the process by telling yourself some new lies. I say new lies because your current beliefs about who you are are all lies! All beliefs are lies. How can so many people think so differently and all be right?! Perhaps there’s some truth to what you tell yourself, you may think. But the things you say to yourself have the most power over the results you are creating. In order to use the law of attraction weight loss strategy, you’ll need to tell yourself a different story.

This starts with a new set of mantras. You’re already telling yourself things about what you are. So tell yourself something different. See law of attraction affirmations.

Again, much like mini habits this will take some time. You’ll have to undo years of inner programming which has been telling yourself a certain story. This story must change of you want to change.

Simple Affirmations

Listen first and notice what you tell yourself. Perhaps you run a story justifying the food and drink you consume. You’ll probably tell yourself a story about exercise too and who (you think) you are. These are clues to your current self image.

I’m overweight – could become “I’m not at my most desirable weight yet“

I hate exercise – could become “I choose to exercise so I am able to enjoy my food without regret”

I’m disappointed with my figure – could become “I’m a work in progress and working towards a new goal”

Affirmations don’t have to be outright lies. Your conscious mind will most likely reject outright lies you tell yourself anyway. If you don’t believe you’re fit and in good shape, it might be a stretch telling yourself you are, if you don’t believe it. But you can choose words (and thoughts) which support a new you!

Law Of Attraction Solutions

What are the law of attraction solutions to your everyday issues? Can you really use the law of attraction to solve your problems? For some the law of attraction is some phoney new age get-rich quick scheme. But many people have already changed their lives because of Rhonda Bryne’s book The Secret and the attention she has drawn to this intriguing idea.

Whether you’re a secret sceptic or a believer, you have to admit that the law of attraction has changed people’s lives. Whether this is through placebo or some real law (if there’s a difference) is up to you to believe. But as we know belief is the driving force of our lives, so why be a sceptic?!

Does the law of attraction actually work? You decide. But if your beliefs actually manifest your life in some way, it’s a good idea to believe in what you really want, not in your doubts and fears.

Law Of Attraction Solutions

So what’s the solution to money problems, relationship issues or dealing with heavy emotional pain. Can the law of attraction really deal with debt and divorce, alcoholism or drug addiction? The law of attraction is the idea that your thoughts become your reality. This doesn’t happen immediately of course but over many years. Small things you can manifest quickly, like a cup of coffee. Large things take much longer; such as a soul mate, a dream job or a large sum of money.

What law of attraction solutions are there to hating your job, for example? Hating your job is a common one and applies for many people. Being in a constant state of negativity can have a knock-on effect for the rest of your life too; so it’s a good idea to do the things which make you happy. In the film the secret, Joe Vitale talks about feeling good. Good things come out of feeling good. When you’re in a state of bliss things naturally work out much better for you than when you’re in a state of misery, anger and/or helplessness.

Meditation – A Simple Solution

Meditation is a simple solution to everyday problems and can help you escape a negative state of mind. In the short term it can lower you heart rate, slow down your breathing and put you in a calmer place. If you practice meditation regularly, you’ll find your life improving as a result. Your mind can be your best friend or your worst enemy. For most people their mind works against them at least some of the time. When you practice mediation you learn to calm the mind and get into a more positive state.

Doing so regularly will slowly change your outlook. You’ll look for ways to keep yourself in this calm state. Feeling anxious, depressed and unhappy won’t feel right and you’ll start creating a happier more positive state of mind as your default. But it starts with building the practice into your life. Start with a 5 minute meditation which you practice daily and build it up gently. But practice every day.

Loving Yourself

In Joe Vitale’s book Zero Limits he talks about the Hawaiian practice of ho’oponopono. This is another practice which helps you change your thought processes and general outlook. It’s also about taking full responsibility for your life and everything in it. Loving yourself as a practice is probably one of the most powerful things you can do to change your life. If you fully and completely love yourself, how would your life be different? How would you work? Would you put up with the things in your life right now?

A good practice is to create a mantra around loving yourself and repeat it daily. Whenever you notice your thoughts run wild, practice the phrase “I love myself” over and over. This might seem difficult at first, especially if your thoughts are contrary to this idea. But over time you’ll notice you will avoid negativity and create a new life from within. Your patterns of thought are based around your story so far. Change that story for a better one based on self love. See the law of attraction and self love.

Law Of Attraction Solutions

Sometimes we search so hard for the solution to life that we forget that we are the creators of all of our own problems! Therefore we can also solve them too! A solution to a problem you think exists may only be there because you’re creating it! Depressed people may simply not be taking enough exercise. Anxious people don’t have enough to do. Overweight people eat too much and don’t take enough exercise. Some law of attraction solutions are simple. In the search of something more meaningful we can often forget the simplest solutions to our problems – doing something different.

Fighting The Old

Fighting the old can often be a cause of much calamity too! The past is gone but so many of us still live there! Is your mind focused on the positive you want to manifest or the old battles which you’re still fighting? Can you remove yourself from a situation which is causing you difficulties? Perhaps you can remove a problem by thinking of it in a different way.

Many times I’ve struggled in my mind when there was no problem there in reality.

The Teachings Of Don Juan

In Victor Sanchez’s book The Teachings Of Don Carlos, he explains several useful strategies for stalking your own mental patterns of behaviour. One simple exercise in the book is to take a notebook and pen and use a recurring timer. Throughout your day set your timer to go off at intervals that will catch you off guard. When the timer goes off, take a note of your actions, and thoughts and note down on a scale of 1-10 how much you want what you are thinking and saying to yourself. Do this simple exercise over the course of several days. You’ll learn a lot about your mental thinking processes – many of which will be completely unconscious and have been built up over a number of years.

Escaping this pattern is perhaps what led you to this article. Good luck!

Law Of Attraction Scam

Is the law of attraction truth, or is the law of attraction scam mongering!? Since the release of Rhonda Bryne’s film the Secret in 2006, millions of people were inspired to change their lives. The Secret film alludes to a secret law which governs our lives. This “secret” can be harnessed to increase our levels of abundance, happiness and satisfaction in life. The “secret” is the law of attraction. But is the LOA a LIE?

Law Of Attraction Scam – What Is The LOA?

The first known usage of the term the law of attraction was in 1877. It was found in a book by Helena Blavatsky, in a book about esoteric mysteries. Since then, there have been many books written on the subject including books such as:

Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
The Science Of Getting Rich – Wallace Wattles
Working With The Law – Raymond Holliwell
The Strangest Secret – Earl Nightingale
As A Man Thinketh – James Allen
Plus many more.

See Law of attraction pdf to access some of these and other titles on this topic.

So, Rhonda Bryne’s book and film “The Secret” is definitely not the first time the phrase has been coined. But it’s the first time many people have been told that there is some mystical reason why their lives suck so bad! For many, this was good news. They were inspired to make changes and take a different route. But most people found nothing major happened in their lives. Is that because the law of attraction scammed them? Or was it because they didn’t understand the secret in any real depth?

What Does The LOA Say?

In essence, the law of attraction says that what we think about and give attention to grows in our experience. “What we think about and thank about we bring about“. So, if we think about possibilities and outcomes we would like to create in our lives, we can create more of them, or come up with solutions to how we might create them. If we only think about our current circumstances, or about grievances from our past, we’re likely to get more of those too!

But there’s a lot more to it than just that of course. Your upbringing, your beliefs, attitudes and opportunities will have a huge say in what you can manifest using the law of attraction. But you can be pretty sure that if you do nothing, you can’t expect the world to fall at your feet and give you everything you want.

The LOA And Belief

Are you unhappy with your current situation and circumstances in life? Do you believe you are worthy of more? Here lies the starting point of the law of attraction. Whether you believe you are worthy or not, of something you want, is a large precursor to what is coming. If you don’t believe you are worth it, you surely won’t take the time to work out how to get it! If it comes, you’ll reject it for some reason you have predetermined. Perhaps it’s too good to be true!

Is “The Secret” too good to be true? Whether you believe this or not will lay the foundations for your results when using the law of attraction. You can’t dismiss the LOA out of hand and expect your results in life to change too!

In Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich, he talks about the subconscious mind being a “fertile garden spot”, “in which weeds will grow in abundance, if seeds of a more desirable nature are not sewn therein”.

This simple sentence explains very succinctly how the law of attraction works. Flowers grow steadily towards the sunlight. They don’t doubt themselves and throw a tizzy like we do!

Is The Law Of Attraction A Scam?

It’s easy to see how people have decided the law of attraction is a scam when they don’t see evidence of it working for them. But their justification of their position in life is the law of attraction working! Those are the very “seeds” they are planting! The results they see in their lives are the fruits which are borne from their thinking and acting in a certain way.

Behaviour doesn’t change for most people. They generally work in the same jobs, see the same people, and their lives map out in a predictable way. For the law of attraction to really work, you have to change your behaviour. The Secret is looked upon by many as a scam because they misunderstand it. For your life to change, you must change. You can’t alter your life by much without changing your behaviour. And behaviour doesn’t often change because people are rooted in their beliefs from an early age.

Law Of Attraction Scam – Self image

Behaviour doesn’t change mostly because people have bought into a self perception of who they are. Self image is a strong indicator of how well a person will do in life in terms of love, income, and satisfaction. Most people have a well engrained self image which is difficult to change. One of the best books on this subject is Maxwell Maltz’s psycho-cybernetics.

Maltz worked as a plastic surgeon but realised that many of his clients were unhappy even after they had facial corrective surgery. He discovered that changing the self image was far more important than changing someone’s outward appearance. in some instances, his clients didn’t want facial surgery after their self image was changed. They no longer needed to change the “outside” of their appearance.

So Is The Law Of Attraction A Scam, Or Is It Real?

Whether you believe the law of attraction is a scam or real is up to you. But be aware that your thoughts are the “seeds” which are growing your future. In the words of Henry Ford, whether you believe you can or you can’t, you are right”.