When it comes to the law of attraction, I’m neither a staunch resister or a dreamy-eyed fan boy. While I’ve used it with some success, I refrain from using my vibration as a reference point for everything in my life. This is mainly due to lack of experience. As time goes on, I’ll probably move either towards or away from intention manifestation (I suspect towards), but in the meantime, even in my state of semi-doubt, I know this: the law of attraction is powerful.
There are a lot of reasons why, but I’m not going to go into all that here. I’m going to give you advice that, when I first read it, blew my mind with its simplicity and profundity.
“In order to manifest something, you have to feel exactly as though you would if you already had it, even if you don’t have it yet.”
The advice is a direct quote straight from the mouth (hands) of Melody, one of my favorite law of attraction bloggers. Click the link to go directly to the article with the quote.
I want to delve farther into exactly what Melody is saying, and why it makes so much sense, even in areas that you wouldn’t suspect.
The Universe Obeys Your Vibration
And by your vibration, I mean the sum total of your attitudes, thoughts, beliefs, and so on. The truth is, it’s not like you’re issuing a command to the universe when you sit down to do some law of attraction work – you’re just changing what you are causing to be manifested – and we’re always manifesting. It’s called a law for a reason.
Think about the law of gravity, which, at least on this planet, means that things fall towards the ground at 9.81 m² per second, every single time. There are no exceptions. The law of attraction is very much the same. Your vibration will determine exactly what type of “chance” occurrences and opportunities come into your life, every single time.
That’s why it’s so important to watch all the crap that goes on in your head, or at least to check in on a regular basis and see what you are creating. And of course, that’s why Melody’s quote makes so much sense.
Why Lying to Yourself Is a Wonderful Idea
Haha, well, you’re not exactly lying to yourself – you’re just pretending that you have everything you want right now, in this moment. So it’s more of a brief delusion, but man is it powerful. Why? I’m glad you asked.
Basically, by feeling exactly as you would if you already had what you want, you are aligning all of your energy up at once towards the thing you want, which challenges all of your old beliefs in the process, which reprograms your mind and vibration in general
As you can probably already see, this is not only a powerful intention manifestation system, but a powerful psychological one as well. Doing this will lead to behavior change faster than just about anything else I know. In addition, it retrains your mind (and vibration) so well that the universe can’t help but give you what your new vibe attracts.
So, without further ado, here’s the most effective way to lie to yourself. 
Visualize Your Future Success in Your Mind Now
Oddly enough, this is what I described in my article about the book Think and Grow Rich. It’s amazing how many different things seem to click and fit together in the personal development world, even when they are from drastically different sources.
So, you’re just going to sit down and use your imagination. But this requires your active participation. Remember the quote – you really need to feel like you are already living the life of your dreams. To do that, try asking yourself some of these questions during your visualization:
- How does it feel to see various aspects of my goal coming true in my imagination?
- How do I feel when I know that I am literally creating that reality right now?
- How does having everything I want make me feel?
- How does my vibration right now differ from the vibration that I usually have?
Pay particular attention to that last question. That’s pretty much the law of attraction in a nutshell. Your life is the sum total of what your vibrational frequency brings to you. When you’re imagining all your dreams coming true, you are becoming attuned to that new vibration. The difference between your old and new vibe is the difference between your old and new life. Never forget it.
Now it’s time to visualize! Just remember to really believe that you already have what you want. That will take care of everything else, and more.
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Hi Fred,
That’s really interesting. I’m able to do a little bit of visualizing but not to the extent that I would like. That’s my problem.
For example if you were to say visualize a banana then that’s no problem because I know what it looks like. Although I know certain things I want to happen in my life, I don’t have a clear vision of what I want my life to look like. For instance say I want a new home. I have no idea what kind of house I want let alone what it would look like.
Now if I have driven by one or saw something in a magazine I really want that would be different but that’s just not the case with me. Any suggestions on how to get around that? I’ll take any help I can.
Thanks Fred, I enjoyed reading about this subject.
~Adrienne
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Hey there Adrienne, thanks for the comment.
No worries, we were all born with incredibly vivid imaginations, and just like anything else, we can get it right back if we try.
I see what you’re saying. Basically, you can recall information pretty easily, but when it comes to creating new images and such, you have a problem.
I think this one just comes down to a matter of practice. I wouldn’t worry about manifesting your new house just yet, in fact, sometimes it can be better to keep the details to a minimum so the universe has more to work with.
With that in mind, let’s work with something smaller. Instead of a new house, how about, say, a new room. And instead of manifesting it, let’s assume it’s something you can do yourself, right now. What process would you go through if you wanted to entirely redecorate one of your rooms? That’s basically a smaller version of creating a new house.
So in your mind, you would simply hold picture of your room in your mind. I actually recommend keeping your mind pretty silent during this process, and maybe even meditating beforehand. I find that that’s the state that is most conducive to creativity for me. So, in your very aware and still state, just hold a picture of that room in your mind, and watch what follows. Don’t worry if nothing comes for a while. If you’re sitting there for a couple minutes and still don’t have anything, try inserting certain ideas that you know you’d like and see if anything comes up. I know that, at least for me, visualization is a very associative process, so I usually have to throw in a few things to get the ball rolling, then it’s easy peazy from there.
All in all, I think the initial startup process is the hardest. Once you’re in an imaginative state, coming up with tons of stuff is easy. As a bonus, it will get easier every time. Hope that helps!
Thanks for your comment Fred, I appreciate that.
Yep, the new house was just an example. Not something I want but I would like to remodel my current home. That’s my problem, I have absolutely no idea what I want. I can’t imagine things in that way. I’d have to bring someone in to give me suggestions so that I can start visualizing from there. I don’t know why I have such a hard time with this. Darn it!
I’ll try what you suggested though. I can see where maybe I’ve seen something I liked and maybe with time I can picture that in my space. No harm in trying right!
Thanks Fred, I appreciate you taking the time to help me with this. Every little suggestion is helpful.
~Adrienne
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Feeling-related work can be amazing. Working on the level of feelings is a whole ‘nother universe, one that I’m barely into myself but have my feet wet.
One item of resistance I think many will encounter – comfort. If you’re really comfortable – it’s hard to summon the energy for great change. Extreme discomfort, on one hand, motivates change. On the other, it’s committment to a goal or vision (that may or may not arise out of discomfort).
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Hey there Louis. Great point about discomfort. Often times, the most extreme changes arise out of the most extreme suffering.
There’s a whole ‘nother (haha, I spontaneously used the same phrase as you) realm of motivation though, and I find that it’s much more helpful to access this one than suffering, if you can. I’m talking about pure joy and aspiration.
For example, I mentioned that we should feel as much is possible when manifesting our new reality, that’s when you should come up with as many great feelings about what you’re doing as possible. Even though suffering will make anything else feel great, relatively speaking, it’s still possible to live in an okay reality but generate lots of good, universe-friendly vibes toward something. I think the main thing is that we really have to want what we are trying to manifest. And I don’t mean really have to want as in NEED, because that starts creating negativity and pushes away what we want.
A really good thing to keep in mind what manifesting is to be playful. if you’re vibe is playful and fun, then you should be fine.
As someone who is relatively new to feeling work as well, I can definitely relate. Hey, you should post on this too!
You know, I’ve got to explore that angle – the “pure joy as motivation” angle. A lot of my previous motivation has been to move away from suffering, as opposed to moving towards joy. It’s an entirely different approach.
You know that spiritual feeling when you’ve just realized something new, and it feels like you’ve discovered a whole new room in your house you didn’t know was there? That’s how I felt after reading your reply. Thanks for that
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That is awesome!
Wow Fred. Thanks for the shoutout. I’m not sure I’ve ever been quoted before (at least not to my knowledge…) Now, if only you could visualize more FB followers… XoD
Hugs!
Melody
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Hahaha, yes, you are welcome Melody.
I think you wanted more Facebook followers. I was just, ya know, helping you manifest.
Of course, if I had won, I would be saying something completely different!
Great post on LOA Fred. I was first introduced to this Law from Abraham/Esther Hicks. There are a ton of YouTube videos featuring Abe Hicks and I found them to be the most beneficial to learning about LOA.
I know the Secret was all about LOA. Abraham/Esther were in the Secret but for some reason they had a disagreement with the films producer Rhonda Byrne and all of their appearances in the secret were edited out.
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Dr John Demartini told a simular story ( He was part of the Secret too) where a lot of his idea’s about positivity are edited out. He also stated that Rhonda was depressive just before starting the movie.
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Hmm, that’s weird. Oddly enough, I’ve never seen the movie. I do have the book though, thanks to one of my fantastic readers. Speaking of, I need to get to reading it soon.
Yeah… I wonder why they were edited out? Sounds scandalous.
I am going to try the imagine exercise every day for a month and let you know how it goes. (I need to tell someone fairly frequently or I won’t remember to do it. I know you want to hear from me…)
The answers I got in one minute imagining, in order:
Awesome,
Skeptical,
Awesome,
Vastly improved.
That was a minute well-spent!
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Oh, well, I GUESS you can e-mail me. I’m going to have to start charging you for all the, uh, personal attention you’ve been getting. ;D
Also, consider making up your own questions that really resonate with you. Those are just some I came up with off the top of my head. Doing this every day for a month sounds quite powerful. Definitely keep me updated.
Checking you out now.
Great post about LOA, Fred!
I believe you capture the real essence and that is awesome. Associating a great feeling with the imaginary world which you love to have.
And it is true that you can perceive this act of imagination as a lie – but it is much better and more helpful lie than creating a imaginary world that we are afraid of and that exactly what we do to become afraid of something.
Thanks for sharing!
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Definitely. Haha, lying to ourselves! For some reason, I can’t help but be a smartass. I think it’s genetic.
One thing of notice about this is that it’s just plain fun to do. Sitting down and visualizing the life of our dreams, not in a needy way, but in a fun way is it that has already happened, is so cool to do!
Take care marc.
Hey Fred, looks like you’re already good enough to manifest a different gravity than most of us do – it’s 9.81m/² on our side!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation#Earth.27s_gravity
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Lol! … I put 9.2? I actually did a search my article for “9.8″ because that’s what I swore I put. I must’ve been tired I wrote this. But I had no idea it was 9.81. I guess my first physical science class had me rounding the number to the nearest tenth.
Good catch.
hi Fred, i am a regular reader of your blog and i am from India. but this is the first time i am ever commenting on your post. 3-4 days back i was watching the movie ‘The Secret’ for the second time as i was feeling low. after watching it i just thought about your views on it and wished that may be soon i come to know through your blog. it was not like i was deliberately using LOA but i was simply wishing it with all my heart.
And now see i get your post about LOA in my mail today. i can’t express how amazing and surprised i felt at that moment. it was like law of attraction manifests. Amazing!!!
Haha, that is awesome! You know, when I chose to write on the subject, I didn’t have to do much thinking. It just felt intuitively right. Maybe I was a synchronicity for you after all. I’d love if you would share some of your thoughts and challenges thus far on LOA.
Take care.
Yo Fred,
You write about so many of the things that I believe that I’m starting to think we’re long lost brothers (although from your pic I hope not).
I really believe in LOA and the concept that what you think about clearly and with faith, you manifest it into you life. The only issue I have with the law is the way it’s presented to people. I was never a fan of the book the Secret, I didn’t like the way was sold to people with the fancy book cover and all that. It kind of sold the Law as a magic pill, in that you could attract the things into your life just by thinking about it and that’s all you had to do. For example you can’t just sit in your room all day and wish for a ferrari, then one day it’ll fall on your lap.
The LOA works indirectly in that it programs your subconscious mind that you already have the things you want. What then happens is your conscious mind says ‘Hey where’s all this cool stuff I think that I have?’ and then you begin to get the urge to work and take action to bring those things you pictured into your life. It’s not enough to sit and just dream. I think this is quite an important distinction to make (which you did make in the article).
I don’t know what do you think? Am I actually talking about another phenomenon that isn’t the LOA? Perhaps I’m talking about visualizations/autosuggestion and have never got the LOA!?
Interesting though.. vely vely interlesting.
Super post as usualy Fred!
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Lol, perhaps we are long-lost brothers. I noticed that your latest post is about The Power of Now. That is the single most important book I’ve ever read. I wrote an article on it here, if you’re interested. we will definitely have to discuss it.
Okay – I’m definitely reading/watching The Secret. Apparently, I’m the only person in the world who hasn’t seen/read it. And here I am writing on the LOA.
Hmm, yeah, what you mentioned about programming your subconscious mind create desires that make you go out and work for things reminds me of autosuggestion and all the psychological benefits of LOA, which are not to be overlooked.
There are a lot of different ways to look at it, but I favor understanding it as Melody does. The way she explains it really make sense to me.
In a nutshell, there is a vibrational/energy aspect alongside the psychological aspect as you described. The way it works, is that basically, everything in reality is attracted to you because of your vibration. It’s an energy thing. When you shift your energy, using methods like the one I mentioned here, the universe can’t help but bring you things align with your new energy. That’s why it’s called a “law” – because it’s always functioning. We are always attracting things to us via our energetic footprint in an almost mystical sort of way. Except that isn’t mystical, it’s actually kind of common sense.
in the coolest part is that we don’t even have to “ask” the universe. We are always manifesting, whether it be good or bad. The key is to line up your energy with what you want so you can receive it. That’s why imagining that we already have exactly what we want is so powerful. It perfectly lines up our energy with exactly what we want.
So, to use your example, if you were to sit in your room all day and wish for a Ferrari, chances are that you actually push it away. This is because sitting in your room all day implies that you are being needy, which is focusing on the fact that you LACK a Ferrari
To get it, you have to line up with the energy someone who can actually own a Ferrari – a feat that is hard to do for most people. I find that these “quantum leaps” – just as Melody calls them – are pretty difficult to pull off. It may be a lot easier to manifest something closer to your vibration, and slowly move it up. Although, if you have strong visualization skills, I suppose you could pull off.
To make this make more sense, recently I started a new job. As it turns out, I can’t wear my regular shoes to work, so I had to wear my running shoes, which hurt my feet pretty badly when I’m standing on them all day. And, because I work outside half the day, this winter was going to be particularly rough. I needed shoes that were comfortable, warm, and waterproof. I considered buying some, but held off for no particular reason.
Lo and behold, my dad is getting free shoes from his work. since he already has some new ones, he offered to get them for me. As it turns out, they are warm, comfortable, waterproof boots. Did I do anything to manifest this? Well, no. I just went on with my daily business. But apparently my energy was already in place that certain needs could be fulfilled for me. I also joked with my dad that “so I’m learning here that if I do nothing for myself, it will be done for me. Thanks guys!” Haha
Anyway, it could all be a coincidence, but this kind of stuff keeps happening so much that I can’t help but utilize the power of LOA. LOA doesn’t care if you believe in it or not, it’s not a real entity, it just operates on certain principles that we can learn to understand and use for our benefit.
WOO!
Hi Fred,
Between the energy going on right now and way it has become so easy to truly enjoy the exact (interesting) things that are coming around and insisting to be done and noticed, this has sure been one fascinating year. The cool part about it is that once you are in the flow, the stream comes by more quickly…and even the things you wish you hadn’t manifested are passed more quickly. Even the lessons about the less than stellar parts of our nature or personality are popping out to be noticed and take a place in our past.
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Naturally crazy, isn’t it? Actually, I’m curious about what you said here, about manifesting not-so-good things
Can you elaborate on that? How does it work? Is it as simple as focusing on something bad and having a negative vibration?
I never thought of the law of attraction in terms of what I might be unconsciously manifesting. It’s actually a bit scary.
Well, every single thought we have produces our reality. I have never studied LOA, per se…but what I do know is that if I hold a negative, worried, aprehensive, repetitive thought about something failing, for instance, even if it’s YOUR business and not my own, it influences the business. Nathan just wrote a good article about this recently over at A State of Mind if you want to read more. But basically that is why you have to monitor ALL of your thoughts. They influence your outcome and other people’s outcomes. If you act, think, or feel something less than stellar, then guess what? The universe says,”Hmmm…guess Fred wants more of that.” So it is important to pay attention to what you are thinking, doing, and feeling and say,”Cancel that!” and replace with a good thought, act, feeling. Eventually you can do it almost without effort. Did that make sense?
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It did make sense, thanks Julie. I know what you mean about not necessarily studying the mechanism behind what’s happening, but instead experimenting with it and seeing what you get. It had a lot of the same kinds of situations that you describe. Essentially my reality almost always follows my thoughts.
Like if I’m a super good mood, everyone else around me tends to be as well. It really makes you think about how much we affect other people with our attitudes, on more than just a social level. It’s pretty crazy if you think about it.
Thanks for letting me know about a state of mind, I’ll have to check out.
Wow. You literally wrote out a comment that could be another whole post.
I definitely hear what you’re saying and I get the whole vibrational thingy so I’m cool in that respect. One of my favourite ‘motivational’ videos I always watch is a one hour seminar by Jack Canfield (who is mentioned in the Secret)on the LOA so I am a supporter of the whole notion.
By the way Fred, I recommend you watch that seminar, if you want it give me a buzz and I’ll get it to you some how…. or perhaps you can manifest it yourself through the LOA.
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Lol, whenever someone comments on my site and asks a question, I figure they deserve my full and undivided attention, for however long it lasts. In this case, it lasted a while.
I’ll keep that seminar in mind. Thanks for letting me know.
Fred,
You have really made LOA very easy and simple to apply. I must admit that I have struggled with it quite a bit because of my irregular thoughts process. I should also be doing it more.
One thing LOA has done for me is that it has definitely open my eyes to a lot of things that could empower our lives. Like having purpose in life, goal setting, emotional management and giving back. These were never in my life before. Now I actively seek these.
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Irregular thought process? That’s interesting, what do you mean?
I know, definitely. It’s so empowering, and I like the idea of being able to change my reality by changing my inner world.
Hi Fred,
What I mean by irregular thought process is that I try to think positively to invoke LOA, but on many occasions, the mind just unconsciously go back to negative thoughts. It is a back and forth thing like something irregular happening. How can we improve this?
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Oh, I see what you mean. Sorry for my long absence – I had no Internet!
Anyway, it seems that your question here is – oddly enough – answered by my most recent post. Go figure!
Fred,
I really enjoyed this post. I feel that there’s been a huge shift in the energy of manifesting since The Secret came out. Not that I’m a huge fan of the film- I think it focused too much on the material aspects but, it expanded the consciousness of the world and that has made it easier to manifest than ever before!
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Bah, I still need to see that movie! Anyway, even if they didn’t do the movie as well as they could have, it’s still good that they did it, like you said. Making it easier to manifest stuff is definitely a good thing.
I love the lying to yourself headline. It was funny but true.
Life isn’t easy. We almost will always have something we COULD worry about. And if we chose to, our lives would be fairly miserable.
I tend to rely more on faith than attraction, but Melody and several others have proven its results.
I think the logic in my mind makes me doubt too much to ever be super effective at this stuff, but it was certainly interesting to read.
Bryce
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Yeah, I tend to be logic driven rather than faith or feeling driven myself, yet it seems like I’ve gotten some real results from intention manifestation and so on. Such a strange thing, but I think science will eventually prove its truth. Either that, or we will all learn just how crazy we are!
Interesting perspective. This law is pretty easy to dismiss as complete bullshit, personally I think it is a map of the world that, though not completely accurate, provides some really important lessons, like taking responsibility for your own thoughts and knowing that they have impact. One trap to watch out for however is that you also have to take responsibility for your own actions and start building a life. Thoughts are important but you cant expect everything to fall into your lap just by imagining it.
Great post as always
Hey Martin. Do you really think it’s total BS? I think there is something to it, although I can’t exactly pinpoint it.
I like what you said about actually taking action though. I agree that we at least have to meet the universe halfway. We can’t expect everything to follow through for us just by thinking happy thoughts, although that’s more than half the battle.
Oh no I don’t think it is complete bs, I think there’s something to it although it could be explained with more psychological concepts instead of the universe (like focus). What I meant is that it is pretty easy to fall into the trap of not having an open mind about these things
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Hi Fred,
I wonder why you mentioned the doubt element, let me help you with this, and also that you dont need to lie to yourself but rather you can say that you play with your mind to manifest your desires, let me tell you how this works:-
Number One: The power of Sub conscious mind:- when you keep on visualizing something and hold the thought in your mind, the sub conscious mind picks what is constantly imposed on it, through words, belief and thoughts, since it cannot rationalize as the conscious mind can, so thats the reason most of the books refer to positive thinking and words that have a great power amongst all.
Number 2: Belief, As Napoleon Hill says:”All that mind can conceive and believe it can achieve” meaning if you dont believe in something you can never get it thats pretty simple, now the question is what is belief: you must have heard about some superstitious beliefs too, let me tell you how it works? anything that you keep on repeating that becomes a belief for example: if you say i am not got at Maths, trust me you will either flunk or score low, but if you tell yourself that i am learning and will score good marks or something positive you will see that you succeed with flying colors, why because your sub conscious mind picked the idea that you will score good marks so it will bring you to a situation where you get what you want, choice is yours either move things your way by being positive or being negative, now lets talk about the vibrations.
Number 3: Vibrational frequency: See when you visualize you dont day dream you put yourself there in the visualizing screen and hold that thought, the most dominating thought is picked up by the sub conscious mind, thats the reason you said as most books say visualize as much as you can, everyday or so, to get your desired outcome, in the beginning its difficult but with time that thought or image becomes a part of who you are, and then you can even see your images without closing your eyes, so eventually there comes a stage when you are ready to receive, hold on to your desires, and keep belieivng in yourself now lets come to manifestation.
Number 4: Manifestation: This hapens when the frequency levels of the vibration that you are sending matches with the vibration level of the joyous outcome that you are expecting, when you are ready to receive the universe will provide you, as it says “Your wish is my command”, when you desire something so strongly with the faith that you have recieved it and you have the joy inside of being with it the universe will respond to the clear thoughts and vibration that you are sending, this requires patience, there is no defined time let the Universe decide the best time for you, but you will get there for sure.
For example: this happens mostly in sports and love, even when practically things doesnot seem to happen, you see at the last moment the game takes a shift, this happens because the desire is so strong with the belief that the universe had to respond in anyway, in the same way sometimes when you love someone or something it might take alot of time but if you keep on believing that they are just a part of you or may be you start living with them (in case of a person or a material thing) in your visualization the sub conscious mind will bring you to a situation where you will be with them sooner or later.
The way the law of attraction works is primarily “What you give, comes around” , if you want love, give love, if you want respect give respect, if you want money spend money, associate a good feeling to everything that you give and do that whole heartedly not for the sake of getting it back, so if you send negative emtions like anger, hatred, jealousy or so, you will get the same in return, so thats the reason the humanity is that you give love even to those who hate you, not because of anything else but merely because you are love as the idea of your “BEING” is, you are LOVE and give love to attract more love in your life, and make your life the best in all aspects.
Hope this helps.
Keep visualizing and believing in yourself, and spread happiness and love with everything and to everyone !
Regards,
Maleeha Yousuf
Wow, thanks for this profound comment Maleeha. And sorry I haven’t responded so long, I haven’t had Internet lately.
I really like what you said. Especially about achieving a state of being where the vibrational frequency that you’re sending out matches exactly what you want. That seems to be a key that I see everywhere. So I’ll have to internalize it more.
I’ve actually been slacking on my visualization lately. Reality has been a little hectic, so unfortunately I’ve allowed possibly the most important part of it (the inner type stuff like this) to slip a little. Time to get back on track.:-)
Having read Think and Grow Rich, I like what you said about the subconscious mind in particular. Autosuggestion is an incredibly powerful tool. I think it should be taught hand-in-hand with law of attraction type stuff for maximum manifesting power.
Anyhow, I’m glad to communicate with you again!
When I first started studying the law of attraction I was hearing a lot about self-talk also called “autosuggestion”, however, if one just repeat any given statement all day long but, forgets to put some emotion with it, it won’t work.
“Emotion” is a HUGE part of the “law” of attracting what you want. Visualization and autosuggestion both need to be carried by emotion.
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Definitely. When I read Think and Grow Rich, that was one of the things Napoleon Hill emphasized most. It’s all about coupling your desires with strong, positive emotions. Anything less and your subconscious mind will not listen to it.
Oddly enough, I’ve been considering re-reading that book. With all the talk of autosuggestion on this article, I may have to do just that.
Thanks for the comment.
Hey Fred,
Great post here! Been a while since I’ve read other blog posts. This is a good start! Love the message you are sharing here. It’s definitely important to visualize what we want in life. We can’t just visualize tho, it’s important that we do everything we can and make it happen!
I simply love the power of visualizing. Just a few days ago, something funny happened. I’d like to share it with you guys. I brought my mom, grandma and brothers to some pizza. We ordered the usual a 13 inch pizza. Then in the menu, I saw that there is not an 18 inch pizza but comes in 4 different flavors. I asked the waitress if we can keep it to just one flavor and she said no. So I decided to ask the manager directly. He said sure thing the only problem is our previous order was done already. Well, I asked the waiter to hold it for 5 minutes and see if anyone will order it. I kept visualizing and remained positive that someone will. To my surprise, the manager walks in smiling and said that someone ordered it. We ended up enjoying the night and got everything we wanted. Our thoughts are definitely powerful. It’s even more powerful if we act upon it. Great post Fred! Keep it up!
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Haha, cool! I like the story. It’s funny how stuff like that keeps happening, once you open up your mind to this particular realm of possibilities.
LOL, how did you decide to talk to the manager? I’m imagining you making a really angry face and asking the waitress to “give me your manager!” Hah, I doubt that is what happened, but it would be pretty funny.
Visualization is, as you said, important, but we must remember that we have to take action too. Profound words, good sir.
haha thanks! Actually I was pretty calm and confident that I’ll get what we wanted lol The manager was really nice and without hesitation said yes. Lol The power of our thoughts! Just amazing!
You got it! I made a post on this story actually lol
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Great points, Fred. I often like to say the we are all marvelously made and
destined to win at whatever I set my mind to… we can win at losing or we can win at winning… it is all about the vibration we are emitting. The law of attraction is downright dangerous to folks who have no knowledge of their counterfeit self and its sabotaging ways. Understanding that we are marvelously made, combined with the knowledge of the counterfeit self, gives us the attitude we need to have the Law of Attraction, attracting in right direction.
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“We can win at losing, or we can win at winning.” I think I am going to quote you on that, Rob. Thanks.
Hey Fred,
This is a really interesting post. I’ve actually been wanting to study the law of attraction more in-depth for a while, because it’s just an awesome subject.
Your post actually reminded me of something I read in Steve Jobs’s biography (just a phenomenal read if you ever get the chance).
He used what his employees called a “reality distortion field” in which he told them to do something that seemed impossible, and pushed them until they did it. Meet thought-to-be impossible deadlines, do things other companies weren’t, etc. etc.
Throughout his time building Apple from the ground up, he used the “distortion field” to motivate people to create amazing products. And some of the engineers at Apple actually credited him, because without him essentially lying to them and telling them it can be done, they realized they would have never done it any other way.
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Wow, what a concept! I like that – telling people to do something that is impossible, I believe in them until they actually achieve it.
It reminds me of David Hawkins book Power versus Force, where he explores the idea that everything that we do is essentially aligning with a field of energy. People who do new things that we thought were impossible, like breaking world records and so on, create new fields of energy (called M-Fields if I remember correctly), which then makes it easier for everyone else to go out and do the same thing, energetically speaking.
It sounds like the principles he utilized would be one of the key driving concepts behind our continual evolution as human beings. What a profound technique. I’ll have to pick up that book, thanks for letting me know about it.
hehe hi there, For a while i did think if everything was alright with you since you never took so long in replying.
I have read “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hills it is also one of my favorite books, but for sub conscious mind i would rather recommend that you should read Joseph Murphy’s “The sub conscious mind”, i have been a little too much into all this stuff so read a couple of books.
You see its more about faith and believeing that you have got already what you wanted, there are various techniques you can apply for your sub conscious mind to manifest your desires, sometimes a thought is enough to get you the required result, sometimes the visualization, some people believe on their dreams much, i guess it works differently for everyone, even when you read “A new Earth” it talks about something different of getting to know “who you are”, i guess life becomes much easier when you reach the stillness stage and inner peace too, things start happening which is beyond thoughts and emotions, I am still waiting to hear your comments on the book i just referred to.
Nonetheless, not many many people agree to the principles that we discussed, some people still call me crazy hehe
but its actually a real fun to be honest.
And if you keep on updating the same kind of posts i will always leave a comment for sure !! Cheers
TC
Whew! Just today I am getting back to where I can regularly put lots of time to my website. Life has been crazy!
Hmm, I will have to check out that book when I get some time. The subconscious mind. Well, if I could judge a book by its cover, I’d say it has to do with what were talking about, lol. I’ll give it a read.
I see what you’re saying. I don’t know that I’ll release an entire post dedicated to A New Earth, just because it seemed to me to be so similar to The Power of Now – except that he applies the stillness to everyone, and how the world would be and how we’re consciously creating it. Actually, maybe I’ll go read-read it eventually and make a post. But I do something of that nature, it will probably be based on my own thoughts of where we are going. It’s still a really great book tho.
Lol, some people call me crazy too. Oh well! It is fun. And, as far as I can tell, effective. It’s great to hear from you. I’ll do my best to get back to my e-mail today as well.
Thanks Maleeha!
hmm Well we should not read a book by its cover lolx, but anyways yes thats the reason i mentioned about that book here, since we were already talking about it.
And as regards to “A new earth” i think there is alot different than “The Power of Now” although yes i agree not many many people would understand the details mentioned in that book reason being, only those understand who go through that situation, i lately wanted to write something about what it refers but just couldnot manage life becomes yes quite busy nonetheless, let me help you with this, i will write a note on the same and send it to you, you can post if you agree and it makes sense, just give me a day or two.
Alright, i will be waiting for your email
TC Cheers
Regards,
Maleeha Yousuf
Hmm, that’s cool idea. You could write a little blurb about it and I’ll include it in an article. And that is a roundabout way of getting me to write a post about A New Earth – you are sneaky, lol.
Sneaky how come?
Because, even though I originally intended to not write an article about A New Earth, I might just do that because of what you said.
I was teasing.
Now this is surprising Fred, you in the very beginning of our comments on The Power of Now, said that you will soon write a note on “A New Earth” and i have been waiting for the post since then, just that i am quite inspired by Eckhart Tolle and his various books, if you dont want to write anything on that … it is perfectly fine, you dont have to do anything just because i want to man …..
Regards,
You are a silly goose. ;D
Nice :0)