By Jerry Lopper
Overheard recently, "Why is all this stuff coming into my life?I don’t want any of this. And don’t tell me I brought it onmyself. Why would I do that? I don’t want any of this in mylife. I’d have to be crazy to want this."
Have you ever heard this conversation? Maybe you’ve had asimilar dialogue with someone-perhaps with yourself. Sometimesthe things that come into our lives seem the exact opposite ofwhat we want. We feel powerless, and all the talk that we cancreate whatever we want sounds like rubbish. Is it?
It can be frustrating and painful to face a string ofdisappointing life circumstances. When you intend to create acertain life, it feels like failure when something else results.It’s so much easier to blame someone or something else; then, atleast, you’re not a failure-a victim, but not a failure.
Let’s go back to basics. The Law of Attraction states that likeattracts like. There are many popular sayings reinforcing theLaw of Attraction: birds of a feather flock together, what goesaround comes around, do unto others as you would have them dounto you, the world is a mirror, and many more.
The attracting force is energy. Positive, high frequency energyattracts more of the same; likewise, negative, lower frequencyenergy attracts more energy that is negative. Emotion addsintensity to this energy; the stronger the emotion, the strongerthe attraction. If I feel down in the dumps, depressed and blue,despite wishing to feel better, and thinking I’d like to feelbetter, the energy I give off will continue to attract more ofthe same-depressing, negative life results.
We’ve all seen the Law of Attraction in action; we know theworld works this way because we can often see the results—inothers. We cannot see it as easily for ourselves. A universallaw doesn’t just work some times; it works all the time. Gravityalways works. Water always converts from ice to liquid to steamat appropriate temperatures. Energy can neither be created nordestroyed, only altered in form-always.
Then why does it seem the Law of Attraction fails to work whenyou want to create a certain result in life? That’s the questionthat baffles and frustrates. But it’s the wrong question. If youassume the universal law isn’t working for you, then it isn’t auniversal law. Instead, you should assume the opposite-the Lawof Attraction is working perfectly. When you accept that thecombination of your thoughts and beliefs, emotions and feelings,and subconscious intentions and yearnings are generating yourlife results, you gain the power and perspective to change.
Once you accept that your life is the result of your thoughts,beliefs, emotions, and actions, you are ready to take the 8steps necessary to attract the life you do desire.
1. The first question to ask is this: do I really want differentlife results? Be sensitive to how you feel about the area oflife you believe you want to change. Are there mixed feelingsthere? Do you wish for greater career success whilesimultaneously feeling terrified of making the changes requiredto attain it? Is career success even your desire? Or is it asuccess prescribed by others? The energy projected by acombination of conflicting thinking and feeling will continue toattract more of what you’re now experiencing. Clearly confirmingthe life change as your true desire allows you to move on to thenext seven important steps.
2. Clarify what you want. Visualize the thing you desireand-this is important-feel the resulting emotion. Emotion-astate of being-is what we really desire. The things we think wewant are only a means to an end-the end being an emotion. Wethink we want money, but we really want the emotion of security,abundance, or some other emotion/state of being which money willbring. We think we want a life partner, but what we really wantis to love and be loved, to be intimately connected to another.
3. Identify any negative emotions associated with what you want.We often fear some aspect of what we believe we desire. Thisfear will diminish our powers of attraction, probably resultingin more of what we now have. Pursue these negative emotions,what do they convey, what are you avoiding?
Do you desire to write a book, but fear it, too? The energyprojected from your fear will offset the positive energyprojected from your desire to complete the book-you’ll continueto attract the inability to complete the book.
4. Identify what you don’t want and why. Visualize what youdon’t want, and note associated emotions. List these emotions.Next to each negative emotion, ask yourself what belief youmight hold, or what experiences you might have had that causethat emotion. A negative emotion is always associated with afundamental belief, perhaps buried deep in the subconscious.
Taking the book example again, assume you realize what you don’twant is to invest a huge amount of time and energy writing abook which few people read-a waste of your effort. As you thinkabout this, you feel unimportant, insignificant, as if you’venothing to contribute. Insignificance is what you really fear,and this is what is preventing you from achieving the completedbook.
A belief you hold is sponsoring this fear of insignificance. Inplain, harsh words, you might believe the following: "I havenothing of value to offer the world." Perhaps you subconsciouslyhold this belief because of harsh criticism from parents,teachers, or employers. As long as you hold this belief, youwill continue to attract life experiences directly or indirectlysupporting the belief.
5. Carefully examine each belief you identified in step 4.Accept that each belief has been true for you up until now, butneed not be true in your future. Decide to discard the belief,realizing that broad generalizations are oversimplifications.Look for exceptions to the belief. Look for examples in yourlife disproving the belief. Perhaps you find you enjoy writing,and others enjoy reading what you write; therefore, you do havesomething of significance to offer.
6. Convert each belief to a form that will help you. Start bywriting each belief identified in step 4 on a new line. Nowrevise the belief to form a positive affirmation supportingforward movement. For example, assume you’ve identified thefollowing belief as a source of your fear associated withwriting a book: I am not a brilliant writer, so a book that Iwrite may be laughable to others. This belief, if sustained,will continue to sabotage your authoring desire.
Make the following change to turn this into a belief that helpsyou: The book I write will be the best book I can write at thistime, and my satisfaction and reward will come from doing myvery best, rather than from the opinions of other people.
7. Transfer your list of modified beliefs-these are nowpositive, supportive affirmations-to a clean sheet of paper.Read each affirmation slowly and carefully twice each day,morning and evening. As you read each affirmation-each newbelief-feel the emotion associated with it. Live within thereality of each affirmation, savoring your feelings andemotions.
8. Reinforce a positive orientation by calling forth otherpositive emotions each day. Make a habit of allowing onlypositive thoughts. A good way to do this is to think of threethings you are grateful for having in your life. Hold each inyour mind and feel the emotion of it. Do this upon waking eachmorning and before going to sleep each evening.
When something negative happens-as it will-look carefully for apositive aspect to hold in your mind. A traffic jam on your wayhome may slow you down, but also gives you an opportunity torelax and think of pleasant evening activities. A harsh critiqueof your book will sting, but may provide valuable information.
Will you always attract the life you desire by following thesesteps? I wish the answer were a resounding yes. For those whoare life masters-or close to mastery-the answer is a consistentyes. Masters consciously create exactly what they desire.Unfortunately, most of us fall short of mastery, so the best wecan do is strive for our life’s desires using this process,accepting that we may fall short at times. The important thingis to continue to work through these eight steps, recognizingthat today you are creating tomorrow, whether knowingly or not.
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