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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.

If you have been using the law of attraction in your life, you’ll know sometimes that it might not work as well as you would want. Why is this?

Speaking from my own point of view, as I cannot say what your experiences will be like, there are 3 components to the law of attraction. I have read lots of articles and a few books on the Law of Attraction and they all give more or less the same advice. However I have tweaked all the information and experimenting I have done on my own and come up with thefollowing three three components:

The intention

Your intention is literally a statement of intent, something you want to achieve or have in the future. When I make my intentions I state the intention in the present tense while looking into the future. For example one of my intentions is to become a professional blogger so I would word it:

‘I am now a professional blogger, I have my own blog training business, I teach and write articles every day and love it and get paid for doing it’

Whilst saying this statement, internally or out loud, I visualise myself working as a professional blogger. I see myself teaching other people blogging, I see myself giving seminars. I see myself sitting at home during the day and writing my articles and talking on the phone with other bloggers.

Another important aspect of the intention is to clear any resistance to the intention. With my previous example I still have resistance as I know I have to help provide for my family so my current job needs to be kept on. This is a blockage and a major blockage but I am working on it bit by bit.

The power behind the intention

This is another important aspect that a lot of people miss and it is the power or the force behind the intention. Before setting your intention gear up toward it and muster as much energy around the intention as you can. When I muster up the energy I delay the intention and build it up to such an extent as to have an excited feeling in my stomach that needs to be released. The only analogy I can think of is that feeling when you are absolutely bursting on a pee and you have to hold it for a few hours and then at the moment you go to the toilet and pee, it’s a fantastic feeling of release and pleasure.

When you know roughly what your intention is and you can see it in your mind, make it clearer and get excited about it. Do this during the day when you are working, think about it, don’t talk about it, but think about it all day or for a few days.

When you are ready to release the intention plan 15 – 30 minutes alone and release your intention and make it focused and visualise it, hear it, sense it, smell it. Give it all your five sense and release it and let it drift out to wherever it goes to manifest.

The action toward the intention

In the past I have stated the intention and let it go and thought about it occasionally. I didn’t like this way of doing it and have now come to a more powerful way, for me, of achieving the intention. I work toward it and think about it often.

Right now I am working toward my dream of becoming a pro blogger. I am going into affiliate marketing, I am blogging for other people, and I am making more money with AdSense, all in the hope that I will make enough money
to either pay off the mortgage or make a lot more than I can working for a living.

I have found this a much better way of manifesting my intentions than the old way I was using of simply stating the intention and then letting it go.

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Experimenting

There are lots of different ways of making your intentions come into alignment with the present. Experimenting with lots of different ways is a good way to get to know what works for you. The more you do it the more you will get to know the blockages that may be hampering your efforts. Don’t give up with it and it can take some time to release those blockages. I found the biggest blockage is belief. I have chosen to believe in this way of thinking as I have seen it working for me.

Of course if I wanted to I could find other ways of explaining the events that have happened in my life without the intention-manifestation model. You can find proof of anything in life depending on the way you are inclined. So it is with the law of attraction.

I am a logical man and question everything and I questioned the law of attraction for a long time. When I started trying it and seeing results I tweaked it and then installed the new belief that it works for me. You have to do the same. Tweak it or leave it.

Your stories

Let me know of any interesting stories you have with the law of attraction and your experiments with this or if you think it is all a lot of rubbish, either way it would be good to hear from you.

I suspect most people would like to attract more money into their life, but are you ready for it? Mentally you’ve got to be ready to receive money. I am noticing more and more in my life that the law of attraction really does work especially since I downloaded my intentions onto my iPod, I wrote about it here. Money has been coming into my life ever sinceI removed the blocks in my mind about money. I used to believe that I would never be able to make money, I didn’t have any special talentsto make money, I had failed in the past etc etc. These thoughts definitively hindered my progress in making money and as soon as I dropped them and believed I deserved money in my life and believed it would come, it did.

There is a great way to change your thinking about money and attract more of it.

Put some money in your wallet! Esther Hicks wrote about it in ‘Ask and it is given’. I have started carrying more money in my wallet and believe it is a catalyst to me receiving more money.

How the hell does putting money in your wallet attract more money?

Okay try it. Put £100 ($150) in your wallet and do not spend it. If you need to buy something at the shop do not use the £100. Whenever you see something you like you can say to yourself I can buy that if I wanted to. Resist the temptation to buy it, but say to yourself I’ve got the money to buy it. Do this for a few weeks and see what happens.

You are mentally preparing yourself to receive more money into your life. If you try this for a few weeks your mind has fewer blocks about money coming into your life as you have spent that £100, mentally, 100 times. In your mind you have spent £10,000. You might have passed a clothes shop and said ‘I could buy that if I wanted to’ and you could, you had £100 in your pocket. You might walk past a computer shop and see that iPod you wanted and say to yourself ‘I could buy that if I wanted to’. Your mind goes from lack of money to lots of money.

I really do believe that what we think about is what we attract in our lives. I have seen the transformation in my life and I have seen more money than ever coming into my life. If I am being completely honest I have had to slow the amount of opportunities coming my way as I do not have time to take on the jobs I am offered. However the amount of money coming into my life that I have not worked for can continue ‘til the cows come home.’

As an example I used to run a small book dealing business which I stopped in September 2005. I filled in all my tax returns etc and thought I was up to date with everything. 5 days ago I was at a hall helping some of my clients fill in benefits forms and get advice on benefits and child tax credit etc and someone was there from the tax office. I casually asked if I would be due any rebate. After explaining to me that the tax office would eventually get around to issuing a rebate it would be better to ask for it and I could receive it quicker. She asked my to write a quick letter and she would hand it in. 3 days later (yesterday) I received a cheque for £543. Now if I hadn’t seen the girl from the tax office I wouldn’t have asked the question about a tax rebate. The tax office might have issued it eventually but I hadn’t received anything so far.

Try it

If you are open to receiving money you will receive it. If you don’t believe this rubbish that I am talking try it for yourself, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. If you have a deep seated belief that this will not work it may take longer to start attracting money. If you are open to this you will manifest money a lot quicker.

If you don’t have £100 in your pocket try it with £50 and work up or try it with £20 and work up.

Everybody deserves abundance in their lives and that includes you and there is more than enough to go around.