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Mind Alchemy Day 11

Welcome to Day 11 of Mind Alchemy.

Today we are following up on yesterday’s relaxation theme, as I think it is that important.  However rather than just give you a written guide on how to relax, I’d like to take you on a journey, whilst at the same time you are re-affirming your outcomes and sending them out into the world.  This is by way of a guided visualization.

Guided visualization

A guided visualization, for anyone who has never tried it, is someone guiding you through a scene in your mind to facilitate change in your thoughts.

This guided visualization is one that I have used in the past with readers of CYT, and it’s one which is particularly powerful in eliciting strong emotions.

Don’t get too caught up with the language in this visualization.  Sending out an intention to the universe is another way of saying, sending a thought of your outcome to your subconscious mind.  When you do this you are instilling a feeling of certainty about something you want in your life.  It’s a way to keep you focussed on what you want so you can take more action towards making it happen.

Todays Exercise

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This is something you can use everyday, or find other relaxation music, or guided visualizations to listen to.  Make it a part of your daily ritual as part of your relaxation daily routine, which we discussed yesterday.

The music in this is taken from the amazing album ‘Apollo’ from the genius Brian Eno.  The two tracks used are called ‘Deep Blue day’ and ‘An Ending Ascent.’

As ever it would be great to discuss how you felt after listening to this.  So share your thoughts in the comments below.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow we will be looking at letting go to get what you want in life.  Until tomorrow my fellow Mind Alchemists……..

Action follows a thought…

This course is about taking action, and to become pro active in changing your life.  Take time to do this exercise and really think about it throughout the day.  You don’t need to wait until tomorrow to take steps to improve your ‘Wheel of Life’, but with the support and encouragement from all the members we can help each other and support each other, but ultimately ‘you have to bring something to the table!’

Your thoughts

As always it’s good to talk about your experiences and share it with the rest of the members of the course, so let us know how this exercise went for you and if you gained any insights or had any revelations about yourself or your life.

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I have used the principles of the law of attraction on a daily basis and do see a huge difference in my life. However I have noticed a few things along the way which hinder my progress. When you know these five forgotten rules you can speed up the power of your intentions.

The five forgotten rules

1. The more you use it the more it works – A few people have said to me that the LOA doesn’t work for them. when asked what they are doing they inevitably tell me they have tried the ‘visualization thing’ for a few days and it doesn’t work for them. I have asked them how long would they play the lottery before expecting to win anything, some said a lifetime, some said a few years, and various other answers were offered. LOA is akin to the lottery and it’s rules. First of all you have to buy a ticket before you can win it. Secondly you have to buy a ticket every week to increase your chances, however slim, of winning anything.So it is with LOA: You have to practice it everyday to gain anything from it. Unlike the lottery you always win, whether it be attracting all your goals, decreasing your stress levels through visualization, increasing you mental abilities through visualization, meeting new people along the path to your goals, you always win.

1. Juice your intentions up with emotion – I have discovered that if I simply state an intention and visualize it and forget about it, it doesn’t come to me. If I visualize it and give it real emotions and do this everyday my goals will happen. Giving your intentions emotions are giving them energy, when you create the energy you have momentum, when you have momentum you create a power, when you have the power you are listened to, when you are listened to you will achieve your goals.This is perhaps the biggest single barrier to not achieving your desires. You have to give your desires and visualizations energy and to create the enrgy put some emotion into it.

1. Give out more than you take – I believe that LOA is about balance in all it’s forms. If you achieve your financial goals give some back to charity or the community or offer your services free. If you achieve you goal of finding your perfect partner show gratitude by treating your partner and their family the right way. If you achieve your goal of passing your university exams make sure you use the degree wisely.

1. Show gratitude – The reason you are here today, reading this article, is that you believed you would wake up today safe and well. A lot of people don’t have that luxury. We all get mixed up in our own worlds, and we all take our world for granted. Why not take five minutes a day to show we are grateful for the world we have.
2. Only tell people about your success when it has been completed – This is a strange phenomenon I have noticed with the LOA. For example I had a goal to make a success of affiliate marketing and I was doing great until I started telling people about it. I wrote a post on it, I told some friends and family and almost overnight the sales stopped. And this has happened a lot in my life.I have thought about this a lot and I have come up with a reason for this:When you have an intention you work toward it and keep working until it is achieved. When you are in the middle of working toward it and you tell people about it’s current success you mind has decided you have reached your goal and therefore the energy of the intention disappears.Taking the affiliate marketing example. I worked for months studying affiliate marketing, tried a few things and failed a few times. Then I finally had some success and was making money. At this point I hadn’t told anybody about it and had a lot of drive and energy to continue making it a success. However as soon as I told someone about it my drive dropped a little, my mind energy was a little depleted with the goal and the success stopped overnight. It’s because the mind energy for that goal has lost it’s power as it already thinks you have achieved your goal as you are telling everyone how much a success you are.

   So, if you have a goal of getting £5000, don’t tell anybody about it until you have the £5000. Don’t tell them you are nearly there with £3000. read the ‘Silent Power’ to further explain this.

I have added a podcast for this post which you can play above or go to the Podcast Page and click on the playlist to see an updated list of all the podcasts.

Spiritual seeds

I have read many people complain that the problem with the law of attraction is that it simply doesn’t work. Disbelievers have tried it just to say they have tried it, sceptics have tried practicing the law of attraction only to give up after a few days or a few weeks, even believers have given up or become doubters because they have tried it and it doesn’t work for them.

Let me ask the disbelievers this: If you plant a tree how long do you wait before you say, that tree is not growing?

If you have a desire and you truly want it there is a process to manifesting that desire.

1. You have to know what you want first.
2. You then plant a seed in your imagination for your desire
3. You nurture your desire, you think about it often, you imagine it every day.
4. You take action toward your desire, even a little every day.
5. After you have done all this let go of the outcome.

Take the analogy of planting a tree. You think about which type of tree you want, is it a perennial, is it deciduous, what height does it grow to etc. You then plant the tree. You feed it often, make sure it is growing straight, check on it every day. Once you have let go you no longer check on it, you expect the tree to grow, you don’t worry that it is not going to grow, you don’t worry that it is not growing quick enough, you just let it go and enjoy the tree for what it is.

This is the same with the law of attraction. You follow all the 5 steps above and then let go of the outcome. You don’t know how you’re going to get it you just trust that it will come as long as you have the passion and take a little action every day.

If you think ‘I want to earn 1 million dollars’, it’s never going to happen of you don’t have the passion and don’t take action toward it.

In our world of lightning fast delivery we get impatient when our desires are not manifested within a few weeks, we give up too quickly.

Let me ask you this: If I said to you ‘you will have (input your desire) this time next year, however you have to take fifteen minutes every day to imagine your desire and take a little action every single day’. Would you do it? I bet you would meditate for fifteen minutes every day and take small steps to your desires.

Small steps

When I talk about taking small steps I mean just that. When you are thinking of your desire every day it will be inevitable that ideas will come to you about how to attain your desire, that’s a natural part of problem solving: The more you think about something the better your chances of solving a problem. The same with your desires, the more you think about it the more you will come up with ideas on how to attain it.

Taking action could be as simple as getting a contact for a company you are thinking about working for, or gathering numbers of potential clients, or writing an ad for you local paper to advertise your services. There is a million little small steps you can take to reach your desire.

It might only take 100 small steps to attain your desire, it might take 10,000, the point being is that you take a step each day. Taking 1 step each day will mean in 1 week you are seven steps away from someone who took no steps.

Let the seed grow.

As long as you have the passion for your desire and you are taking action every day there is no need to constantly worry that it is not coming quick enough, there is no point in thinking it’s never going to happen, it’s useless it doesn’t work, just keep going and watch the results.

The problem with the law of attraction

The trouble with the law of attraction is that it sounds like a religion and it sounds like new age crap, I am the first to admit that. There are a thousand personal development speakers out there banging on about the same thing using the same language which smacks of a religion, it’s almost as if they are trying to brainwash us. However I don’t give a shit what it sounds like as long as it works, I have seen the results for myself, I know it works and I will try and help anyone who want to hear about it.

Give the seed time to grow and your desire will sprout eventually. This will lead you to plant other seeds and pretty soon you will own a farmyard full of desires.

Blockages

There will come a time when you will block the progress to your desire simply by being inactive, or not imagining it, or thinking negative thoughts about it.

This is a natural part of the process, but it is also a time when a lot of people give up and say ‘This is a lot of crap, it doesn’t work’.

Imagine giving up on your children just because they are going through a difficult stage in their lives. I wouldn’t say to my son, ‘listen, you’ve you’ve failed your exams I worked with you hard on this I am now giving up on you, goodbye.’. There is no way this would happen. This is true with your desires, never give up on them, always think they will happen eventually, take the small steps every day and your desire will come. There will be periods when nothing seems to happen but trust, have faith and keep taking action.