Timmo789, Author at The Law Of Attraction Sceptic

Deliberate Creation Exercises

There’s a number of deliberate creation exercises which anyone can use to become more purposeful about what you consistently hold in your mind. The “fluffy” answer to deliberate creation suggests thinking positively instead of negatively. While this may be true, this doesn’t tell you how to do this, and we will often default back to our habitual ways of thinking and doing things, once our exercise period is over.

To deliberately manifest the life of your dreams takes some work. Don’t expect massive results from small actions. The key to deliberate manifestation is to do small things regularly. Over time they become your habits. With your habits you can create more and more and as you do so, you’ll realise the real power you have over your circumstances.

Deliberate Creation Exercises – Getting Clear

If you sit and “deliberately create” in one instance, while simultaneously running old programs of worry and fear the next, it’s like driving with your brakes on. The key to deliberate manifestation is to become more conscious about the things you do on a daily basis. Over time, you’ll discover the many ways in which you’re manifesting things you don’t want. Once you realise this, you’ll adjust and change your habits and align more and more with what you really want.

Meditation

Getting clear is the first step towards deliberate creation. If your mind like is a stormy sea, it will be difficult to put an intention into the waters to bring forth a result. Without clarity, you can’t see beneath the surface of the waters. Sitting quietly and learning to be the silent watcher of your thoughts is a powerful exercise which can serve you for years to come. Meditation doesn’t need to been some far out esoteric practice which is out of reach. Anyone can just sit quietly and become the silent observer.

Sit somewhere comfortably where you won’t be disturbed. Notice your breathing and just watch it go in and out. Notice your thoughts but don’t enter into them or engage with them. If you get caught up in your thinking, just bring your awareness back to your in and out breath.

Deliberate Creation Exercises – Stalking

Here’s another exercise which is great for observing what is already going on inside you. Before you start putting ideas and intentions into your mind, it’s a good idea to notice what is already there! Stalking is a strategy discussed in Carlos Castaneda’s books about his training in shamanism. In his book “The Teachings Of Don Carlos” Victor Sanchez explains how to stalk yourself and notice where your energies are going.

Stalking

You’ll need a timer and a notepad for this exercise. Your timer should be set to go off at intervals throughout the day. Ideally a repeat timer is what you want. The intervals shouldn’t be predictable though. So an hourly timer won’t do. Set a repeat timer for 1.5 to 2.5 hourly intervals throughout the day. When the timer goes off write down three things:

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

Stalking is a fantastic exercise which shows you whether your thoughts and actions are lined up and where you mind is going throughout the day.

Visualisation

Now you’ve done the work on clearing and realising what’s already going on inside your mind, you can start introducing ideas and visions that you’d like to create. Creating from a busy active mind which has many conflicting influences is much more difficult than creating from a space of peace and calm.

Visualisation is a great exercise which should be enjoyable and relaxing. If you find yourself not enjoying a visualisation, stop doing it! You shouldn’t have to force your visualisations, it should be an enjoyable process.

Get somewhere quiet where you won’t be disturbed and relax your mind with some breathing exercises of meditation. Imagine you a living your new life just how you want it. Use colours, sounds and feelings to vividly imagine how your perfect life is, who will be with you and what you will be doing.

The more emotion you can bring into your fantasy, the better. Visualisation is like day dreaming a pleasant fantasy. Spend as long as is enjoyable creating a visual interpretation of what you want to create in your minds eye.

This can be about any aspect of your life: money flowing into your life, a new relationship, a new career or anything you desire to manifest into your life.

Deliberate Creation Exercise – The Storm Of Appreciation/Gratitude Journal

The storm of appreciation is a great exercise for deliberate creation. Take a notebook and write down something which you’re grateful for. This can be anything you currently appreciate in your life. Go into detail about why you’re grateful for this thing or situation. As you do this exercise daily, you should find new things you’re grateful for.

As you write, your awareness expands and you find new things you love about your life. This is a powerful exercise which trains your mind to focus on gratitude and thankfulness for what you already have. Most people are focused on the things which they don’t have and as they give more attention to what they don’t have, it grows in their awareness.

You can read more exercises like this in Esther and Jerry Hick’s Ask and It Is Given.

Deliberate Creation Exercises – Unblocking Yourself

Another useful tool for deliberate creation is the Ho’oponopono technique. See what is ho’oponopono process.

Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian forgiveness practice where the practitioner uses four phrases to return themselves to the “zero state” of pure creativity. Most of us are running old programs which don’t serve us. We re-live old personal history in the form of memories and difficulties which become our present day stories. Ho’oponopono is a strategy for clearing our old baggage and becoming free to live from creativity without this heavy baggage from the past.

Ho’oponopono and Money

You can use ho’oponopono in a number of areas of your life. Whatever area you want to improve, look at your early experiences which relate to these subjects. For example if you want to create more money, look at your early experiences which relate to money.

Think back to experiences which may have had an impact on your current story. As you do, use ho’oponopono to clear and negativity around those stories.

Deliberate Creation Exercises – Clearing Your Personal Space From Clutter

To create you need a clear canvas. If our personal space is cluttered, our minds become cluttered too. Have a look around you right now. How much clutter is in your personal space? How about your home and your car? Does this reflect how you currently feel about your life.

Our inner world is reflecting our outer world, without exception. So to clear out our current experience, we need to change the way we cling to the old. Unless we let go of the old, there is never any space for the new. Start by clearing your personal work space, car and home. Get rid of things you don’t use anymore. Make space for the new which you want to bring into your life.

Strong Emotional Attachment – Clearing

Your strong emotional attachments have a powerful influence in your life. Most of us are attached to emotive subjects in some way or another. Unless we can release these, they can stop us from living a more enjoyable and fruitful life. Money is typically an emotive subject for many people. Unless we can allow money to flow, we can cut ourselves off from it. This can often be due to an old story around money, or emotional attachment to some powerful emotive relationship to money in our life.

To start a new relationship with money, you need to uncover the old stories and emotions which you are attached to. Start by noticing what comes up regarding money and go back through the Ho’oponopono exercises with these old stories. See also money and the law of attraction.

What Is The Ho’oponopono Process?

What is the ho’oponopono process? Ho’oponopono is a Hawaian forgiveness technique which centres around four phrases:

I love you
Please forgive me
Thank you
I’m Sorry

But what do these phrases mean, what do they do and why are they so significant?

What Is The Ho Oponopono Process? – Hawaiian Forgiveness Technique

In 2006 Joe Vitale wrote an article about a therapist called Dr Hue Len entitled The World’s Most Unusual Therapist. As the story goes, Dr Len cured an entire ward of criminally insane patients without actually treating any of them professionally.

He used ho’oponopono instead and looked within himself instead of working on his patients. He claimed that by ‘cleaning himself’ with the mantras: I love you, please forgive me, I’m sorry, thank you, he was in fact curing the patients.

The thinking behind this is that everything in your life is your responsibility. Therefore if people within your experience are causing you problems, your experience is caused by your inner self reacting to them and and therefore it’s your responsibility.

This is explained further in Joe Vitale’s book Zero Limits.

What Is The Ho’oponopono Process?

The process of ho’oponopono is simply saying the four phrases to yourself:

I love you
Please forgive me
Thank you
I’m sorry

The act of doing so is to clean your memories and personal history so you’re acting from a point of complete emptiness, void or “zero”. Without doing so, you’re always acting from the point of ego: of personal history. You can’t make decisions and act from a pure awareness, only from the point of view of judgement, blame or from living in your past. By “cleaning” as Dr Hue Len calls it, you “take the Universe of your mind back to zero”.

At zero, you can act from divine intelligence. Unless you are constantly “cleaning”, your ego gets in the way and you act out your personal history instead. You can’t serve two masters at the same time. Most people are living from their history, not from complete zero.

What Is The Ho’oponopono Process? Mental Chatter and The Creation Process

Your inner mental chatter or “inner world” will always be a perfect representation of your outer world. Your excuses and reasons for all the choices and decisions you have made and are making come from your inner world.

Ho’oponopono gets straight to your inner world with its four phrases which can be repeated as a mantra:

I love you
Please forgive me
I’m sorry
Thank you

“You have to constantly clean, clean, clean, you have to clean on anything and everything, as you have no idea what is a memory and what is inspiration. You clean to get to a place of zero limits, which is the zero state. ” – Dr Hue Len, Zero Limits

The Science Of Deliberate Creation is about the law of attraction and understanding that creation comes from inside of us. Our constant chatter and internal dialogue is a dialogue about the world outside.

But really our inner world is creating our outer world. If we are holding on to memories and problems from our past, these problems are relived in the form of this creation process. One way to shortcut past many of these repetitive cycles is by using ho’oponopono to get to a point of clarity.

Simply chanting the phrases “I’m sorry, “I love you”, “please forgive me”, and “thank you” can help you do this.

Zero Limits – Inspiration Not Recapitulation

So what does it all mean. Does chanting these words really make a difference, and if so why?

This is how Joe Vitale explains in in his book Zero Limits:

By saying “I’m sorry” “Please Forgive Me” you are telling the Divine that you want forgiveness inside yourself for whatever brought the problem into your awareness. You’re not asking for the Divine to forgive you, you’re asking for help to forgive yourself.

From there you say “Thank You” and “I love you”. When you say “Thank you” you’re expressing gratitude. You’re showing your faith that the issue will be resolved for the highest good of all concerned. The “I love you” transmutes the energy from stuck to flowing. It reconnects you to the Divine. Since the zero state is one of pure love and has zero limits, you’re getting into that state by expressing love.

Whatever happens next is up to the divine. You may be inspired to take some action of some sort. Make sure you do it.

The Science Of Deliberate Creation

The science of deliberate creation is also referred to as the law of attraction although one term seems to imply more conscious awareness than the other. With the science of deliberate creation, we are consciously creating our lives. The law of attraction works regardless of our conscious awareness, and we create whether we are conscious of it or not.

Being deliberate about what you create requires far more awareness than most people have. Thoughts, imagination, words and actions all imply intention, which ultimately creates our individual “universe”. But most people create with at least some unconsciousness, regardless.

Being fully conscious all the time can be pretty exhausting, and perhaps not much fun either! “The unexamined life is not worth living”, is a famous statement which was apparently uttered by Socrates at his trial. Conversely the over analysed life is perhaps not worth living either! Overthinking can be a curse as much as it may be a gift.

But if we are to be in control of where our lives are going, it will pay us dividends to become more conscious of the creation process.

The Science Of Deliberate Creation – Thoughts

Everything starts with thought. Houses were built with the idea first, a blueprint, plans and finally the bricks were put in place, after the foundations of course! But ultimately, there is evidence all around us that thoughts produce things. Imagine a man made structure without thought going into it. It just doesn’t exist.

Most people will think multiple thoughts throughout the day. They aren’t necessarily attached to a plan. In most cases they are simply the tiny micro-trickles of intention. Over a long period of time however, they form ideas and beliefs. These ideas and beliefs form a self image. With self image, we project the idea of ourselves into the world. This can limit us or set us free, depending on how we see ourselves.

Becoming more conscious of the thoughts we give our attention to therefore, is the first stage in becoming a more conscious creator. If we let our thoughts grow wild, the circumstances in our lives will be of a similar nature.

“Man has been so created as to have absolute control over the thoughts which reach his subconscious mind” – Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich (See law of attraction pdf)

Hill goes on to say that most people don’t exercise this control. He likens the subconscious mind to a “fertile garden spot”, in which “weeds will grow in abundance, if thoughts of a more desirable nature are not sewn therein”.

Practical Exercise: Start a meditation habit of 5 minutes a day, simply watching your thoughts without attachment. See law of attraction meditation.

The Science Of Deliberate Creation – Words

Words have power.

“And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (KJV) John 1:14

But most people are offering words in a very unconscious fashion. We complain and blame. Our words betray our dearest wishes and we conflict ourselves with contrary words and intentions. We say we want this or that to occur in our lives, but when things show up to make it happen, we complain and turn away, holding on to our view of the world , comfort zones and blaming others or an unfair situation.

To become more conscious we must pay attention to our words and what we say about ourselves. The self image has huge control over what we allow in our lives. And this is ‘fed’ by what we think and say about ourselves. See Maxwell Maltz Psycho-Cybernetics.

Practical Exercise: Spend a week listening to others speak. Notice what they say and how they talk about themselves. Don’t judge just observe. See alsolaw of attraction Techniques.

Visualisations – The Science Of Deliberate Creation

A visualisation is a pleasant daydream in which we fantasise about our dearest wishes and events or circumstances which we would like to manifest. But in times of stress and worry, we can also unconsciously create unpleasant circumstances and situations by re-living past traumas and visually creating conflicts, difficulties and bad circumstances through giving our attention to the unpleasant.

Getting clear about what you want and focusing more on this than what you don’t want in your life is key. See the the key to the the law of attraction. Many people try and resist what they don’t want by pushing it away and fighting with it. This creates mental images of arguments and conflicts which of course creates those events. Becoming more conscious means simply not focusing at all on the things you don’t want to actively attract.

Trying to push something away by saying “no” to it is still giving it attention. And what you focus on expands in your own unique “universe”, or your personal “world”.

Practical Exercise: Notice when you’re visualising something. focus only on those things you consciously want. Pay close attention to your daydreams and fantasies which draw things to you by programming the subconscious mind

Goal Setting: Bringing Thought Into Real Life

Until you bring pen to paper, all of your thoughts, words and fantasies are theory. They might stay in the ethereal world too unless you make a plan. Much like a house that remains an idea until a plan or a blueprint is made.

Goal setting or writing out a plan is a must then if you want to create anything in the physical world. This depends on what you want to achieve of course. Things can manifest over a short or longer period of time and require different levels of planning according to their levels of difficulty.

If you have a giant plan for your life, such as meeting your soul mate, finding your dream career and getting a dream house, this will take a long time. If your plan is to meet someone or find a job, this might be a little easier.

One of the best books I’ve read on goal setting is Stuart Lichtman’s How To Get Lots Of Money For Anything Fast. In it, he explains what he calls the cybernetic transposition technique. Stuart uses his technique to transpose a real life event and use the memories and images to create a ‘meta-story’ which relates to your goal.

This strategy engages all parts of the brain so that they work together in the achievement of your goal. Most goal setting strategies don’t work because there are competing parts of you which want different things. By getting clear and setting a goal which is congruent with all parts of your mind, you can be clearer about what you want. Your meta story successfully conveys the goal to your unconscious mind so your subconscious mind stays focused on it, even when you consciously forget it and go about your daily life.

Why The Law Of Attraction Does Not Work

There’s a few reasons why the law of attraction does not work. In most cases, it comes down to awareness. After watching The Secret (several years ago), I was convinced that my life would suddenly and dramatically change very quickly. But I didn’t understand the law of attraction and how to apply the law of attraction effectively.

I thought I could just do some meditation, think about what I wanted, and wait for miracles to unfold in my life. They did of course, but I lacked the awareness to see myself as the barrier to new and good things. Change happens slowly and when you let go of the old. If you maintain a consistent view of the world which is unbending, you’ll keep attracting and manifesting much of the same.

Why The Law Of Attraction Does Not Work

For me the law of attraction didn’t work because whenever I was presented with new opportunities to grow out of my comfort zone, I blocked myself from taking action for some made up reasons which were essentially based in fear.

The result? I would maintain the status quo. The payoff? I maintained life as it was, in my comfort zone! At the time, my comfort zone was more important to me than change, even though I didn’t realise it.

I suspect this is the main reason why the law of attraction doesn’t work for most people. Oh and belief. Belief is a main reason!

Why The Law Of Attraction Does Not Work – Belief

“Whether a man believes he can or he can’t, he’s right” – Henry Ford

For starter if you don’t believe in the law of attraction, or you have your doubts, that’s not going to help!

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

Those “weeds” are your doubts and fears. Give them attention and they grow. The law of attraction does not work for many people because they are too busy giving attention to their doubts, fears, excuses and problems. As you focus on those things, they grow and become bigger.

After my first watch of the film The Secret, I was filled with enthusiasm. I began to focus on what I wanted. But soon came the doubts and fears. “How would I attain these things?”. “Perhaps it was too far fetched?”. Within a month or two, I had forgotten about the film and moved back into my old habits of moaning and complaining.

Checkout a few books on building belief here: law of attraction pdf.

Why The Law Of Attraction Does Not Work – Habit

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken” Warren Buffet

We all have habits in our lives which are difficult to break and change. Our habits rule us not our thoughts. Motivation gets you started but habit keeps you going. Our thoughts are only the tiny droplets of intention which, over time create beliefs. We then act out our lives based on these beliefs.

Because our habits are so engrained into who we think we are, it’s difficult to change habits of a lifetime, especially over a short period of time. This is why the law of attraction does not work for many. People think they can magically create a life of their dreams, but without any actual change in who they are.

After watching The Secret I was inspired and uplifted. But a month or two later, I had fallen back into my old habits and thought patterns. My daily habits hadn’t changed. I was simply entertained by a movie, but took no action!

Two of the best books on creating new habits are The Morning Miracle by Hal Elrod and Mini Habits by Stephen Guise.

Who You Surround Yourself With

Who do you surround yourself with? It’s fact that you can get a good idea of someone by the people they hang around with. Your income, for example, can usually be determined by taking the average of your 10 closest friends. So, who you are surrounded by has a massive influence on you. We judge ourselves in comparison to others.

If the law of attraction isn’t working for you, perhaps you need to look for better influencers? Are your friends helping you to succeeds and thrive, or do they hold you back.

Of course your friends and family want the best for you, don’t they? But they can only help you achieve the results in life which they, themselves have managed to achieve. If you want something more, they are more likely to have doubts and fears and worry you’re being led astray. This is because they are operating from their comfort zones, beliefs and attitudes.

If you want to use the law of attraction to attract something new, you’ll have to step outside your current comfort zones. This can mean looking outside your current zone of influence for more positive role models.

Two great resources for a positive influence:

The Miracle Morning Facebook Group:

And this online Business community: Access free video series to learn more.

Taking Responsibility – Blame, Victimhood and Entitlement

When we are inspired we can believe in concepts such as the law of attraction. But when we are low, depressed and things aren’t working, things seem tough. Ultimately we are creating all the time, not just when we do our affirmations or visualisations about what we want.

Our lives come about from our circumstances and opportunities but also from how we feel and what we believe.

Without taking 100% responsibility for our lives, we can easily blame others, our parents, bad circumstances and lack of opportunity for our situation. If we make this blaming a habit, it becomes a default “go-to” when things get tough.

Taking responsibility for every aspect of your life gives you the power to make appropriate changes and take the necessary action. With an attitude of blame or entitlement, we can become victims. This mentality disempowers us and puts our lives in the hands of someone else.

We can’t wish for something without taking an active role in attaining it. If our personality is one that’s a victim and looks to blame others, this is the first thing we should change if we want to make positive changes in our lives.

How To Apply The Law Of Attraction Effectively

There’s a lot of buzz around the law of attraction after the release of the film The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, but many are still wondering how to apply the law of attraction effectively.

I was definitely taken in after watching the film and thought my life would suddenly take a dramatic turn for the better after applying some visualisations. The trouble was, I had already been ‘applying’ those visualisations in my life for many years – although unconsciously for the most part. My life was already the result of my previous thinking, beliefs, visualising and actions I had taken. It wasn’t going to suddenly change overnight.

How To Apply The Law Of Attraction Effectively – Belief

What you believe will always ‘trump’ what you are wishing for. So don’t expect that which you don’t desire and don’t desire that which you don’t expect.

Both expectation and desire are two strong attracting forces. Unless they are aligned with each other, you will often be disappointed. If you find yourself saying things like “That’s typical, this always happens to me”, well that’s an expectation, and you’re attracting more of it by what you say.

Check those beliefs because they are pretty powerful. If you’re desiring a new life but expect things to remain the same, chances are good that you’re not actively making preparations for change, nor do you believe it. Your subconscious mind is in more control than your superficial thoughts, even though those thoughts are the “trickles of intention” which “feed” the subconscious mind with ideas, beliefs and attitudes.

How To Apply The Law Of Attraction Effectively – Words and Thoughts

Listen to yourself! No, I mean really listen! You need to get conscious with your words and thoughts, instead of running a dialogue without awareness. Most people live their whole lives without understanding that they, themselves are the creators.

By your words and thoughts, you create outcomes in your life. “Yeah sure”, I hear you say! But I want a new bike! Getting a new bike as a child might be as simple as throwing a tempter tantrum (or asking for one). As an adult, this strategy doesn’t tend to work very well for things like more money, relationships and houses!

But over a course of sometimes years and decades, things will change. Whether they change for the better or worse is in your hands and that of your beliefs, attitudes, desires and expectations.

Most of someone’s attitudes can be noticed by listening to them speak. So as a starting exercise, start listening more. Just be the observer.

Exercise: For the next 30 days, just listen to those around you without judgement or expectation. Notice their thoughts, judgements and attitudes. Where do you think these ideas will take them over a decade of thinking that way?

How To Apply The Law Of Attraction – Thoughts

Words are powerful indicators to a persons intentions and beliefs. In addition to listening to the words of others, pay close attention to what you are saying. Particularly when you talk about yourself. These are key indicators to how you feel about yourself. This is a big part of the law of attraction. You can’t build a skyscraper on the foundations of a cottage. If your thoughts and feelings about yourself don’t correspond with the life you want, you’ve little chance of building it.

Thoughts are pretty much with your your whole life. When you are alone you’re thinking. When you’re with others, you’re thinking. Thoughts are powerful indicators too about where your life is going. You’re either thinking yourself up in a positive way, or thinking yourself down in a negative way! Make sure it’s the latter.

exercise: start meditating daily. Just spend 5 minutes in silence without distraction noticing your breathing. watch your thoughts without entering into them. See Law oF Attraction meditation.

How To Use The Law Of Attraction – Visualisation

The law of attraction is always working. You are always thinking and processing those thoughts. Or doing things which take you out of your thinking. It doesn’t just work when you decide to sit down and think about what you want. It’s also working when you’re upset and tired, unhappy and demoralised. You’re living in every moment of your life, even those ones you don’t notice.

Your life right now is the result of years of this already. You can’t turn around an ocean liner on the spot. It takes some time. Turning your thoughts around, your words around and your life around will take some time. Remember your whole identity is caught up in how you perceive your self and your life right now. So you’ve a lot invested in the current “you”!

Using visualisation is something you’ve already done. Even if you think you haven’t. Most people will daydream about something whether they notice or not. Visualisation is just the process of choosing a ‘daydream’ which you really want, rather than one you don’t want.

We can often daydream about things we don’t really want, like arguments and problems. This is when we use the law of attraction to manifest problems into our lives. The payoff can often be a ‘poor me’ self image or it further consolidates your “I told you so” attitude! “These kind of things always happen to me”. Perhaps it makes you feel important, or validated by someone, or something.

Exercise: think of something you would like to bring about. Some kind of experience or event which you would enjoy. think about it often and ‘daydream’. Make this a daily habit but choose something thats enjoyable to imagine

Gratitude – A Major Key To The Law Of Attraction

Without gratitude, we can’t for long sustain a level of satisfaction with the way things are. We must always therefore seek something ‘else’, unless we practice gratitude.

By grounding ourselves in the feeling of gratitude, we draw more things towards us which are in sync with this vibe. We can then let go of constantly wanting something ‘else’, and simply trust things will come. If they don’t, we can practice gratitude anyway and it instantly feels better than misery!

Anyone can practice the ‘feeling’ of being grateful, no matter what their circumstances are. Be grateful for your body, your health, or the shirt on your back. Be grateful for your memories or relationships and so on. The death bed exercise helps us look back on our life with more gratitude. Imagine you’re on your death bed. You re-live your life and look back on the people you loved. Look back on the things you have to say good bye to.

Exercise: Spend 5 minutes and think of the things you will miss from life when you have to say good bye to it. Be grateful for those people in your life right now. Start a journal of daily gratitudes.

The Key To Using The Law Of Attraction Effectively

So we’ve gone through some tools about how to use the law of attraction effectively:

Become observant of how others and yourself speak – think about how their attitudes will affect their lives over a decade
Start noticing your thinking – learn meditation and practice quieting the mind on a daily basis through 5 minutes practice. See law of attraction meditation.
Choose some pleasant visualisations and daydreams to practice daily – things you’d like to happen and enjoy thinking about
Practice the feeling of gratitude daily by focusing your mind on those things you’re grateful for already in your life right now. Start a gratitude journal.

Make these habits a part of your daily routine and over time extend the time period of your meditation. Become more conscious of your thinking and speaking and make more conscious decisions based on what you really want to say, think and do.

Goal Setting And Actions

If you have a particular goal in mind, or something you would like to accomplish, you can’t just send out ‘happy thoughts’ and expect it to come calling. This has been a criticism of the film The Secret for many, perhaps by omission rather than deception.

Using the law of attraction successfully to attain something you want can also mean a lot of planning and hard work. But first you need to decide on a course of action. Without a direction, goals are hard to define. Once you know what you want, create a plan and work hard to achieve it.

“Maintain unwavering faith and put forward extraordinary effort in the direction of your goals. ” – Hal Elrod – The Miracle Equation

I hope you’ve enjoyed this article on how to apply the law of attraction effectively. Please comment and share this article if it’s been helpful! Happy manifesting!

How The Law Of Attraction Led Me To An Online Business

How the law of attraction led me to an online business was through a lot of frustration and financial hardship. I knew there was a better way that what I was doing.

I had already used the law of attraction unwittingly to become a stuntman and work in the film industry. See my article on it here: how I used the law of attraction to become a stuntman. This had taken a number of years to accomplish of course and things weren’t going swimmingly when I looked for another income stream.

On a trip to Sri Lanka for The Good Karma Hospital

It was the nature of the work than meant I was unemployed for a number of months throughout the year. Some years I didn’t work at all. So I took a number of jobs in-between getting the stunt work.

By my late 30’s I was pretty tired of this pattern. When I worked it was feast, but when it was quiet it was famine! I worked in a number of jobs to cover the lean times including office work, HGV driving, TV extras work and whatever I could find. But I was growing weary of it and things didn’t seem to be getting any better.

I was trapped by the income from the stunts, but tired of the pattern. I didn’t know how to escape the cycle.

How The Law Of Attraction Led Me To Start An Online Business – An Idea

I had also used the internet to subsidise my income from the film industry. On a number of occasions I had bought and sold items to make a small profit and I thought I could turn this into a reasonable income. It was worth a try but after several months of buying and selling online, I was nowhere different!

Looking through eBay one day, I bought an ebook which showed a strategy for making money on eBay. I share the strategy in my blog post here. But it was the ebook itself which lit a spark in me! It was the same spark that I had when I heard about a local stuntman (in Morecambe UK) while working as a lifeguard so many years earlier.

What struck me about the ebook was that the sale was automated and it was written by someone with a simple idea. I bought the ebook instantly. I realised that this was the future! Selling digital downloadable products over the internet. It meant I could make income without physically being there! It was a passive income source and globally scalable!

The Law Of Attraction Business Success Stories

Once I got searching online for online businesses, I was inundated with success stories of how such and such internet guru made so many millions etc. etc. My inbox was full of junk from all the internet guru’s who claimed they had some magic formula!

But this was slightly later on. At first I tried (in vain) to create my own ebooks. I did one on how to be a stuntman. This didn’t go down well at all with the stunt community! So I abandoned this idea!

After several attempts I decided I didn’t know what I was doing. I needed help. So I joined a number of online training courses which promised riches within a few months!

Law Of Attraction Business Online

Well, believe it or not a few months went by and nothing much happened. I had tried a number of strategies and built several websites. Why wasn’t I a millionaire yet! I has seen a tiny tickle income from one of my websites but it was nothing to write home about.

Over the next few years I bought various courses and tried various strategies. Luckily I was able to pick up stunt work which always managed to bail me out just when things got difficult financially. I worked a few jobs in between too.

My best results were a small trickle income from a website, an affiliate sale from an article I had written and a number of sales from a paid advert I had run before Google shut down my account! Something always managed to come up when things were working. Google wouldn’t reinstate my Adwords (paid advertising) account so I turned to the organic strategies and started again.

If you’ve ever tried to rank content on Google organically, you’ll probably know how hard it is. Particularly in the competitive niche of affiliate marketing. If you don’t know about affiliate marketing let me explain. Simply put affiliate marketing is an online business model which allows you to sell other people’s products to make commissions. With digital products you can earn up to 40% of the cost price of an item too!

And since this strategy seemed to give me the best results early on, this is where I focused my attention.

Another Online Course!

I had gone through many of these online courses so far. Some of them I had gleamed some wisdom from, and some not so much. Mostly though I was down financially, even after all the work I had put in. I had over 100 websites by this point, most of which earned nothing!

But I knew this was the answer for me. So I stuck at it and decided I would die before I quit!

I joined another course called The Keyword Academy which claimed to teach keyword strategies and building authority sites to rank on Google. I followed this strategy but would get easily distracted back then by the shiny objects (internet courses) which promised a fast buck and less work! They worked for the owners anyway, if not for me! They just needed a mug like me!

After abandoning many of my websites, which weren’t performing, I went through a number of stages of defeat and gave up a few times. Despite my resolve never to quit.

And Finally!

You’re waiting for the success story at the end with the affiliate link in it aren’t you! This is just another sales page isn’t it?! Well I am an affiliate after all!

My scepticism and cynicism were at full power after all the times I had tried and failed. But I found another course and carried on. This time it was going to work (I told myself).

This time was different though. Through the years I had done many courses online but I was always working on my own. There was never anyone else to help me. This time I met people in the real world.

After I was referred to this company by a guy named Oliver, I was still pretty sceptical. But I went through the course material and Oliver actually helped me make a few sales by running a co-operative advertising pool himself. My first high ticket sale came in and it was a great moment.

I went to a physical training day too in London and my layers of scepticism slowly dissolved.

Things Weren’t Easier – They Were Clearer

Building an online business isn’t easy at the best of times. But with people on hand to help and encourage me, things were so much better. Rather than struggling away on my own in the dark, I had found a number of already successful online entrepreneurs who were actually showing up, in person and online.

I’ve been able to make a number of high ticket sales and gain a lot of clarity through joining The SFM (Six Figure Mentors). It’s still a work in progress but if you’re thinking of taking the entrepreneurs path, I definitely recommend joining this community.

You don’t need any experience to do so and all the training and software you need is on one place. If you think you’re too old, or lack the technical skills don’t worry. Many of the skills I learned years ago are now completely redundant such as website building because new software has made it far easier to build an online business from scratch.

Having a group of mentors to go to for answers is so important for an online business. Otherwise it’s easy to make mistakes and get frustrated with the learning process. If you want to find out more, sign up on this website for the free workshop videos below (or on the side) of this article.

Law Of Attraction Starting A Business

How the law of attraction led me to an online business was through a desperate need for more financial stability and purpose. I knew also that there was a better way to live and work. An online business gives you the freedom to work around your interests and passions and prioritise your life according to your needs rather than your employers.

An online business can allow you to stop trading all your time for money and getting caught up in the necessity for a job which doesn’t bring satisfaction and happiness. For me, being a stuntman was the ultimate job. But over time I was caught up in it while needing it for the freedom it gave me. I didn’t know it but I was trapped by the golden handcuffs of the career I once wanted!

How the law of attraction led me to an online business was through frustration and hardship. But my journey to building an online business started with belief.

If you’re serious about building an online business from scratch, access a community of affiliate marketing mentors and get the help you need.

How I Used The Law Of Attraction To Become A Stuntman

This is a story of how I used the law of attraction to become a stuntman. It’s also a true story! Yep that’s me hanging from a helicopter over a castle in Wales in the UK with my trousers round my ankles. I’m doubling Jack Whitehall in his awesome film Bad Education.

When I got the call I had Lee Majors in mind when he hung from a helicopter. I don’t think his trousers were round his ankles though!

But let’s back up a little. A long time before this, I was sitting on the sofa watching James Bond movies with my Dad and brothers. I was always amazed by the way he escaped certain death. I was also a big fan of The A-Team too and particularly liked all the action. Who didn’t at that age!? I told my Dad I wanted to be an actor to which he replied “You don’t want to become an actor!”.

By the time I was a teenager, I was pretty heavily into the martial arts. Watching Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan films I become a big fan. I used to watch Bruce Lee films over and over again and rewind them to see the fight scenes and so I could replicate the moves.

Standing in my bedroom watching Bruce Lee in Fist Of Fury I would replicate his actions as he was fighting! I imagined fights in my mind, and found a few by doing so!

How I Used The Law Of Attraction To Become A Stuntman – The Trail Of Bruce Lee

Everyone around me was telling me to get a job by the time I was in my early 20’s. I had dropped out of education and felt lost and directionless. One thing I had was training in Karate and this seemed like the only thing which I really loved.

When I moved city I had switched martial arts styles a couple of times since I couldn’t find a Shotokan Karate school to continue my training. I wanted to know how Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan were so fast and fluid in their movements and nothing I was doing was really like the moves and techniques they did on screen. So far though I had only trained in Judo, Karate and Tae Kwon Do.

Little did I know but I had found a school which taught Bruce Lee’s original style of Wing Chun. Not only that, but my teacher was one of Ip Chun’s representatives – at the time, one of only 13 in the world regarded good enough to do so! Co-incidence or the law of attraction?

How I Used The Law Of Attraction To Become A Stuntman – Meeting A Stuntman

Bumming around after failing my A-level results I was looking for an opportunity larger than the typical low paid jobs I could find. I “up-skilled” whenever I could and had just got my bronze medallion lifesaving certificate in order to get a job as a lifeguard.

While chatting to another lifeguard he mentioned that his tae kwon do instructor was a stuntman! This moment changed everything because suddenly it became possible in my mind to do so. This was what I had been waiting and wishing for!

I went to meet his instructor and he told me everything I had to do to get qualified. In the UK there’s an extensive list of qualifications you need if you want to join the British Stunt Register.

I had no choice. I had to do it. Everything felt right and it was meant to be. I had already put a lot of intention towards, fighting, martial arts and had a passion for movies. I found out what I needed to do and set about doing it. This took a number of years to do however and wasn’t easy by any means. The main ingredient was my belief that it was the right course of action and I wanted to do it!

An Unstable Income

The stunt industry can be harsh. For two years after qualifying I was still driving taxis and in a lot of debt. My first job was on a film doubling Rhys Ifans hanging from a hot air balloon. After that I was expecting to get a call based on the previous job. Unfortunately for me, it didn’t work like that! I was back to driving!

Doubling for Stephen Tomkinson on Truckers

This pattern continued and although I had several good years, work was always unreliable and sporadic.

In my late 30’s I realised that I needed to make some changes. I was working in a builders yard and making minimum wage; still waiting for the phone to ring! I had sacrificed a lot for this dream job, but it wasn’t working any more!

I started my own Kung Fu school in 2010 and still run four classes a week. In 2014 I started an online business to learn online marketing for my school.

I soon realised the huge potential in the online world and began to focus on this business.

Why An Online Business Beats Being A Stuntman

I originally started looking to the internet as a means to make a living several years earlier. I had tried many different strategies and techniques and found a business model known as affiliate marketing. With affiliate marketing, you can earn commissions based on sales of other people’s products.

It was originally something I could do in between the stunt work. Over time, I realised it had huge potential.

I was lucky enough to find an online business community which was genuine. I went to seminars and events and met the founders Stuart and Jay. If you want to make some changes in your life, take more control and learn the strategies of building an online business, check out the free video series on this website by signing up on the form below or at the side. That’s how I started, by signing up to some videos.

I still love the stunt work when it comes in. But now I can work on building more financial stability into life without the risk of injury or the instability of uncertain work patterns! Stay safe!

What is the law of attraction and how does it work? I definitely used the law of attraction during the years before I met a stuntman and a Wing Chun instructor. It can’t be coincidence! It was also a lot of passion and hard work though which made it possible to become a stuntman and a Wing Chun instructor.

Law Of Attraction Meditation – How To Use It

The law of attraction meditation in this video, will teach you powerful habits to reprogram your mind and creatively visualise anything you desire. As you listen, pay attention to any resistance you might have to the suggestions that are made. These are clues to the resistance you hold in your mind to the life you truly want to have.

Law Of Attraction Meditation – Manifesting By Habit

We are all powerful creators who can manifest much more than we realise. The problem is we manifest things by habit, not by design. As we go though life we pick up negative and unwanted behaviours, thoughts and beliefs about the world, who we are in it and what is possible for us.

Just listening to the above meditation video brought a lot of resistance up for me. I resisted some of the suggestions and noticed some uncertainty. Perhaps you found the same? Often part of the problem is not knowing what we want. The other part is the resistance to what we want and the beliefs we carry around which limit our potential.

Start with deciding what you want though, since this is 90% of the work!

Meditation – The Key To The Law Of Attraction

Is meditation the key to the law of attraction? Some say it is. If you can learn to meditate, you can gain a better understanding of what’s going on for you in your inner mind.

When you notice the thoughts and emotions which are running as programs in your mind, you are able to see much more clearly why you are creating the things you already do. In fact, much of what your life is about will be running as a dialogue in your mind.

Sit quietly and notice your thoughts for a few minutes. Close your eyes and concentrate on your in and out breath. You should notice the ‘chatter’ of your mind. Learn to become the ‘observer’ of this chatter, without identifying it as ‘you’. This is done through practicing meditation regularly.

What You Focus On Expands

What you consistently focus on expands in your experience. So if you focus on the inner voice continually chatting away, eventually you identify with it as who you are. This is the path to madness! The inner chatter is just your ego making itself more important than it really is.

If you focus instead on the gaps between thoughts, you expand your awareness of this part of you. Notice your thoughts as the detached observer, not as if they are you. As you do so, they will lose power over you. The dramas and insecurities that come with the ego, constantly needing reassurance, will slowly move out of your experience.

Your awareness of a deeper level of your being will expand.

The same can be said of visualisation techniques. The things which we constantly imagine and visualise, grow into our experience by virtue of the attention we give them. Whether we are conscious of what we are giving attention to or not is irrelevant.

Awareness & Using The Law Of Attraction

The first step in bringing those things into our experience which we want, is to become more aware of what we are currently attracting. Meditation is a great strategy to do this.

Without this awareness, we can be creating things we don’t want while trying to create things we do want. At best we get a mixture of both. Getting clear on what you actually want is therefore pretty important. Out minds are constantly active, chatting away and creating things while we go about our daily business.

Taking the time to sit and meditate allows you to notice what’s going on inside. With this new awareness, you can become clearer on those thoughts you have already been giving a lot of attention to.

Then you can decide whether this is something you really want! As you become more aware through daily practice, you can notice were you mind is drawn and make more conscious decisions about what you want to give attention to.

A Basic Meditation

Here’s a basic meditation practice to do on a daily basis if you’ve never tried it before.

Sit comfortably somewhere quiet where you won’t be disturbed. Get comfortable so you can stay still for a good period of time. Ideally have your back straight and not slumped. Don’t lie down as this will make you want to drift off to sleep.

Choose a spot on the wall to stare at. You can place a drawing pin, mark with a pencil or use a piece of blue tac there to help you focus. Set a timer for 5 minutes.

Count from one to five in your mind while looking directly at your chosen spot. Keep going back to one when you get to five. You will find your mind drifts off and you forget to count. When you notice this, just start again at one.

Over time, you will be able to concentrate for longer periods of time. Increase the daily time period over time but start with something small like 5 minutes to get into the habit.

You can also just close your eyes instead of looking at a spot on the wall. Or focus on your in and out breath instead of counting. I like to just simply watch my breathing and notice my thoughts coming and going. Imagine them as clouds passing by in the sky. Don’t attach to them by be the passive observer.

Notice when your mind gets caught up in thinking, or wanders off from the practice. Then just remain calm and bring your attention back to your practice.

Checkout this website for more information on how to meditate:

How to Meditate

The Law Of Attraction And Self Love

The law of attraction and self love are intricately linked. Without self love, you’ll stifle the law of attraction when you try and manifest something into your life because either you don’t believe you’re worth it, or you don’t honour yourself enough to achieve it.

Self love, and honouring yourself should therefore be a large part of who you are becoming if you are intending to create more in your life.

The Law Of Attraction And Self Love – Your Relationship With Yourself

Your relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have in life. You are always there, even when nobody else is. So how do you spend your time when alone? What kinds of things do you say to yourself? These are big clues as to how you think about yourself.

If you constantly berate yourself, or look upon yourself as ‘never enough’, chances are you’re using the law of attraction to attract outcomes which match these kinds of thoughts. If you are your own best friend when alone, congratulations! You’ve mastered the art of self love!

Most people can be a little down on themselves from time to time. No matter how good they are at looking after themselves. But if you’re not enjoying these moments, or you match yourself against levels of achievement and attainment which are far beyond your current circumstances, you may be sabotaging your efforts with a negative self image and bad self talk habits.

The Law Of Attraction And Self Love – How You See Yourself

Self love isn’t a narcissistic trait where you love your ego. It’s deeper and more meaningful that that. Self love is how you communicate with yourself deep in your soul/spirit, not how you communicate with your ego.

If you’re caught up in the ‘not getting’ and ‘not having’ side of the law of attraction, you just create more of it by focusing your mind on that which you haven’t got. You reflect on yourself as a ‘failure’ and the process feeds from its source – how you see yourself in a bad light.

On the other hand if you look on yourself with love and compassion, and see yourself as loveable and worthy, despite your difficulties, you create a different outcome.

Remember that we spend all day with ourselves. The law of attraction is working and your subconscious mind is listening to how you think. It delivers circumstances which relate to how you think of yourself. So the fastest way to change your circumstances is to think of yourself in a different way – with self love and compassion and as if you are worthy – which you are of course!

Your Subconscious Is Listening

Your subconscious mind is listening to every word you say and believes what it hears! To become more self loving, start listening to how you talk to yourself on a regular basis. See law of attraction techniques for some simple techniques and mindfulness exercises to tune in to your thoughts, emotions and regular (perhaps unconscious) visualisations.

How To Be More Self Loving

When you become more aware of how you talk to yourself, you might see some room for improvement. Are you punishing yourself on a regular basis? Are you living in the past, or reliving old emotional wounds? How do you treat yourself on a daily basis?

Choose to do things which you love and enjoy more, not the things which you think you ‘have’ to do. Enjoy your day more and learn to listen to your own needs rather than the needs of others first.

You may have responsibilities but you still need to ‘fill your own cup’ in order to be able to give to others. In what ways do you “fill your own cup” on a regular basis? How can you change this?

Honour Your Self

In what ways do you put yourself last and dishonour yourself. Do you allow others to dishonour you in any ways?

Start noticing the times when you dumb down and put others needs first. When do you bite your tongue in order to keep the peace?

In certain situations and circumstances, being humble is required. But if you do this too often, you may be damaging yourself self worth and self esteem.

Honouring yourself is another way to love yourself.

Is Lack Of Self Love And Self Worth Halting Your Progress?

If you’ve been using the law of attraction to manifest a better life, you may have found that a limited amount of self love is holding you back. Practice positive self talk and learn to be loving and compassionate with yourself.

It’s funny that what we say to ourselves can be very negative and critical. We wouldn’t tolerate anyone else talking to us the way we often talk to ourselves. Cut yourself some slack and learn to switch that inner critic for a loving, compassionate voice for a month and you’ll see miracles happening in your life!

Here’s a great post I found on the subject of self love:

https://mistysummers.com/selflove

The Danger Of The Law Of Attraction

What is the danger of the law of attraction? The LOA can be a great way to empower yourself and become more conscious of the thoughts and beliefs which you hold in your mind. However, it can also be a dangerous thing too. The law of attraction can hold us captive slaves to our desires. We can get ‘stuck’ in trying to think in a perfect way and becoming overly conscious of what we’re thinking and doing to the detriment of our happiness.

The danger of the law of attraction is that we prioritise it to the detriment of all else in our lives. Remember the law of attraction should be a good thing. But when we become too obsessed with creating our ‘perfect’ life that we can forget what’s really important: happiness.

The Law Of Attraction Teaches Wanting

It’s ok to want things but not to the detriment of your peace of mind. That defeats the purpose. When you put the ego in charge, and make everything about attaining materialism, you can find a lot of pain and suffering.

If you focus your mind on the things you want, you create an imbalance. You’re no longer grounded in reality and content with what you have. So you can create an ego fuelled desire for attainment which causes a lot of pain and frustration. See law of attraction anger.

The Danger Of The LOA – Chasing Happiness Away

With a lot of wanting, your mind is placed in the energy of desire. Without gratitude, this can lead to endless suffering. When you look at your life and decide you’re not happy with what you have, you fill your thoughts with everything you don’t have.

This produces a feeling of dissatisfaction which leads to more of the same. What you focus on grows. So focusing on lack feeds more feelings of lack and draws more of that feeling into your life.

Buddhism And The Law Of Attraction

Buddhism teaches that all suffering is caused by desire. But we do have desires, even if it’s to get into a better situation than the one we’re currently in.

That’s not to say that goals and dreams aren’t a good thing. Just that a whole life can pass in this constant state of unfulfilled desperation – leaning towards things you don’t have. Far better to ground yourself in gratitude and be happy now, despite your external circumstances.

Overthinking The Law Of Attraction

If you’re trying desperately to change your life for the better using nothing but the law of attraction, you can easily fall into the trap of over thinking. You can’t just focus on things in your mind to manifest everything you desire into your life. It takes effort too, sometimes years of effort in a single direction.

The Secret film has made the law of attraction very popular. But with the more widespread knowledge of the law of attraction comes a lot of confusion. The basis message of the film is that thoughts become things. But if we try to control our thoughts and overthink every one of them, we can easily get stuck and caught up in our heads.

This can lead to a lot of problems and even become an obsession. The purpose of understanding the law of attraction is to live a happier life, not get stuck in the overthinking of it.

The LOA And Desire – Future Paced Happiness

Getting caught up in desire and the law of attraction places our lives always in a future situation where we have everything we want. But the ego is never satisfied. So happiness becomes future paced and you live your life in a state of constant wanting, at the expense of the present.

We can live our whole lives this way. Many report on their death beds that they wished they had worked less, had more fun and loved more. Not many think about their wealth and possessions at the end of their lives.

What’s The Answer?

I love the idea of self empowerment with greater insight into your thoughts, intentions and desires. I love the idea of growing your beliefs around those things which you previously thought impossible and out of the realm of possibility for yourself.

But, the danger of the law of attraction is that it can also be a puzzle from which you can’t escape. Overthinking or getting too attached to outcomes can be your downfall. You can lose your sense of reality if you get too caught up in your desires.

Use the law of attraction but remember the goal is to be happier, as well as anything else you attach to it. By getting yourself in a constant state of desire, you lose your ability to be grateful and at peace with the moment.

So remember to be light with it! Remember to be happy! If you’re placing all your happiness in the future, you miss out on now! But you also spoil the present moment by filling your mind with things you don’t have. You spend life leaning towards desires rather than appreciating the present circumstances, people and events in your life.