No longer a secret …the law of attraction

A simple Google search on ‘the law of gravity’ yields about 265,000,000 results in 0.54 seconds. A similar search on ‘the law of attraction’ yields about 383,000,000 results in 0.58 seconds. The picture painted by such a trend is ironical. Even with fewer search hits, the average person gets to hear about the law of gravity earlier than they get to hear (if they ever do), about the law of attraction. Why would such a crucial law, with direct impact on quality of life, be taught or self-taught, if ever, long after the other laws of the universe?

According Rhoda Bryne, such a state of affairs has been by design, not by default. The law of attraction has been SECRETELY passed down through the ages, highly coveted, lost, stolen, and bought for vast sums of money. It has been understood by some of the most prominent people in history: Plato, Galileo, Beethoven, Edison, Carnegie, and Einstein along with other inventors, theologians, scientists, and great thinkers. But that is not the case in our time, the law of attraction has been revealed to the lovers of knowledge to pursue and put to test.

WHEN YOU FOCUS YOUR MENTAL POWERS ON SOMETHING, NO MATTER WHAT IT HAPPENS TO BE, WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS, YOU ARE CALLING IT INTO EXISTENCE.

Like other laws of nature, the law of attraction is impersonal and it does not see good things or bad things. Right from Wrong. True or False…

When you focus on the things you don’t want, you are calling the very things you don’t want into existence…

WHEN YOU FOCUS ON THE THINGS YOU WANT, YOU ARE CALLING THE THINGS YOU WANT INTO EXISTENCE...

The complete order of your life is determined by the law of attraction.  Everything that comes into your life and all you experience is so through THE MAGNETIC POWER OF YOUR THOUGHTS. Through the Law of Attraction; THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS, and LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE. The law of attraction is the law of creation, creating after the pictures you display on the screen of your mind. WHATEVER YOU PICTURE IN YOUR MIND WILL FEATURE IN YOUR LIFE. WHERE YOUR THOUGHT FLOWS, THERE YOUR LIFE GOES. Each time you engage in a chronic way of thinking, you are engaging the creation process. So make those chronic thoughts noble, good, and healthy. Begin to cautiously and consciously choose thoughts that empower and uplift you, and soon, the very things you thinks about you will bring about! 

THAT IS NO LONGER A SECRET!

BESTIR your S.E.L.F!

Today YOU must BESTIR your S.E.L.F 
...by PLACING A DEMAND on YOUR POTENTIAL
By making WHAT you KNOW you SHOULD DO be what you MUST DO... 


Today YOU must BESTIR your S.E.L.F
...to REACH THE DEPTHS OF YOUR POTENTIAL ...
to REACH DOWN TO THE WEALTH OF YOUR PERSONAL POWERS 
...to awaken those talents in you that lie in you latent...

Today YOU must BESTIR your S.E.L.F
... For only you can TAKE YOURSELF TO THE HEIGHTS OF ALL YOUR ASPIRATIONS...
Only YOU CAN PUSH YOURSELF TO THE PINNACLES OF ALL THAT IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU...

Mental barriers are stronger than metal barriers !

As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.

He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”

The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were.

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?

Failure is part of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life.

Your word, your bond

When with excitement I picked Michelle Obama’s current top selling book ‘Becoming,’ I expected real serious content from a woman who, at the time of this post, is the world’s most admired woman. Well, I wasn’t disappointed. And whereas I am still reading this book that has defied gravity (because I can’t put it down), one thing came out so simply yet strongly. KEEP YOUR WORD. As we daily make commitments to ourselves and others, we must be conscious to follow them through; it is part of integrity, earns you respect, and shows you respect the other person too.

It is always better to under-commit and over-deliver than over-promise and fall short…

In the current world of cutthroat competition in all spheres, the greatest currency is when others can trust you to keep your word. Whether in business or in relationships, nothing beats trust. People want to be with people they can trust, people want to do business with people they can trust even before they think about quality they can trust (but then you can’t do a low quality job and hide behind trustworthiness). People are willing to pay more and do more for people who they can trust. A VERBAL PROMISE IS A MORAL OBLICATION. People who are trust worth command some level of respect, they have a bounce in their step, authority in their utterances…

Your ability to or not to keep your word soon affects your world

And so, the million dollar question; CAN YOU BE TRUSTED to do what you said you will do, to give what you said you will give, to call back when you say you will, to pay up when you said you will, to respect others and yourself by respecting your word? Before you make a promise, ask yourself if you can keep it. As the Gaelic goes, THERE IS NO GREATER FRAUD THAN PROMISE NOT KEPT. The reason why your word is your bond is because you are under bondage until yo have kept your word, only after then are are you free!

“Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.”

-Richard Paul Evans

IMAGE-IN, IMAGE-NATION, IMAGINATION

In one of his witty posts, Gilbert Amatta wrote; “The word 'bed' looks like an actual bed.” This sentence might be mistaken for another quip of a status update, but it got me thinking. We think in pictures, past and present, but what is more important is that we should evolve to a state where we LEARN HOW TO THINK IN CLEAR PICTURES OF THE FUTURE NOW.

The things you imagine, soon begin to emerge

“Where do you see yourself in the coming years” is a classic question, but unfortunately one that never to spark our imagination once it is posed. Yet, our answers every time that question is thrown our way only expresses our fear filled hopes, our vague aspirations, and desperate ‘prayers’ but rarely a clear picture of the future we want. Our challenge is that while we hope for the best, we keep ‘seeing’ the worst that could happen, and we wonder why it keeps happening. One of the greatest messages I listened as a young man was a speaker who stood up, closed his eyes and in the calmest yet confident voice began; “I AM SOMEWHERE, SOMEWHERE IN THE FUTURE, AND I LOOK BETTER THAN I LOOK NOW” Can you do that?

I ascribe to the wisdom of the eyes being useless if the mind be blind!

The ability to imagine, or rather IMAGE-IN the future in its details, colours, emotions, joys, the people in it, the scent, environments, is an ability that draws us faster to our dreams and aspirations. When you can synthesise experiences in your mind about spaces you have never occupied, but wish to, places you wish to go, but never been, things you wish to have but never had, you begin to create such experiences, and soon they manifest. Imagination is KING, and if I was a millennial, I would say imagination is bae! Refuse to depend only on the two eyes that see what you are facing when you have a mind that can see places you have never been.

You are an artist, your imagination is the canvas. Make your best impressions of the life you want on that canvas, and do not hold back, epic living is possible for you …yes YOU!

When ‘LOGIC’ gets in the way of LIVING…

The time between the idea and its implementation is very crucial. When there is too much ‘logic’ loaded on it, enthusiasm runs out, negative self-talk kicks in, and soon you begin to justify why you couldn’t do it to the very people you had enthusiastically told your brilliant idea. Then one day flipping through the TV channels or the pages of the newspaper, you find someone doing exactly what you had in mind. You come to this point where, the only claim you have to the fame of the greatest innovations, inventions and ideas, is that you thought about them first, but then on second thought, talked yourself out of your own brilliant ideas.

A swimming instructor once mentioned to me that it is easier to train a child how to swim, than it is to train an adult. His explanation was very simple; adults think too much about everything; drowning, embarrassment, being seen by expert swimmers in the same pool as novice, without remembering that every novel began as novice, and the bulldog was once a puppy! …but not so children. When you tell a child what to do, they don’t put much analysis into it, but trusts that it would work, and jump into it, and especially for the fun of it. This reminded me again of what one coach mentioned. That most adults suffer from the Paralysis of Analysis. They over-analyze everything before they try it, and by the time the analysis results are out, someone else has already done it.  

So we shouldn’t think through our ideas? That is not the spirit of this article, but rather that MOST OF THE ‘THINKING’ WE PUT INTO OUR BRILLIANT IDEAS IS INFLUENCED BY OUR PAST CONDITIONING (our past failures or other peoples failures, experiences, learned but never proven theories), ANXIETY AND STRESS AND OR/WORRY ALL OF WHICH ARE MENTAL STATES THAT NEED TO BE OVERCOME BEFORE WE BEGIN TO MISTAKE THEM FOR LOGIC, then they get in the way of our living!

Another shot at life ...give yourself another chance

In this one lifetime, shift happens, and often, the ‘f’ is silent. Yes, life happens. And when you thought the worst had happened, ‘BANG’ and the little that was left leaves you only with sweet memories of how amazingly great your life used to be; Hearts are broken, betrayal happens, we fail an important exam or interview, a marriage breaks, a business runs down, an investment leads to debt, the termination letter finds its way to your mahogany desk …and the list of the tragedies that strikes our one life existence is as long as there are humans. So the question is not whether or not things will go wrong, the question is, how do you handle things when they go wrong, because at some point, even after we have done better than our best, things just seem to flow south.

When things go wrong, don’t go with them (Elvis Presley)

I have learned two things: First, even when things go south, it helps to keep eying north. The good thing with hitting rock bottom is that at that point, you are left with only one place to look – UP! And there are high chances of heading in the direction you are facing. And as Les Brown puts it, “If you can look up, you can get up.” Second, even when in the darkest of rooms, it helps to keep your eyes open. Keeping your eyes open even when you can’t see helps keep you in balance as you find your way. The idea here is, do not give up looking for a way out even when there doesn’t seem to be a way out.

Keep asking, keep seeking, and knocking, and one day, an unimaginable door will swing open before you …just don’t give up asking, seeking, knocking…

You see, I have met men and women who have given up on God, education, the government system, relationships, business, adventure, name them; but when you feel like giving up, just spare this one person, the guy in the mirror, and whatever you give up on, NEVER GIVE UP ON YOURSELF. For as long as you still have YOU, you can give another chance to relationships, business, faith, trust, and all the things that may have frustrated you before …it is time to GIVE LIFE ANOTHER SHOT!