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The Lesson in the Gardenia

"The birth of every action is in thought."

The depth of this statement is astounding for me as I begin to peel back the layers of the onion that is the Law of Attraction. Not only does it apply to the obvious similarities thinking negative and positive thoughts it also applies to opinions, judgments and thoughts that we give seemingly no attention to as they appear and re-appear in our minds.

A good friend of mine, Bill Condaxis, with whom I've shared many conversations about the mind in general as it relates to golf and life, has on many occasions commented that;
"most people think that they have opinions about this or that. What's mostly true is that their opinions have them!"

I have found this to be true for me. My opinions even control what actions I will take and won't take. An opinion no less! With every opinion, a decision has been made, a judgment has been made and therefore your actions are affected. The opinions I have held have OWNED me and limited my ability to achieve and reach some of the goals I've set for myself.

I have found for me that being empty of such thoughts is the pathway to being as I was created and born; open and unlimited.

In the Tao Te Ching, part 3 it reads;

"......The Master leads by
emptying people's minds,
filling their bellies,
weakening their ambitions,
and making them become strong.
Preferring simplicity and freedom from desires,
avoiding the pitfalls of knowledge and wrong action."

I've found for me that the more I empty my mind of limiting beliefs, the more spiritual power I have. The more spiritual power I have the easier my life seems to be. Shed the ego and the rest will follow.

Now what about that darn gardenia?

I have this 20 x 20 foot space in my front yard. I've never liked it (thought) so consequently, I didn't do much about it while in my indecision about what to do with this space. My wife finally said "honey, remember about the front yard? Can we do something about that?" That prompted me to begin to clean out the space and formulate plans to create there. I cleared out all but one lone gardenia plant.

I love gardenias. I wore one when my wife and I got married. I didn't want to destroy this plant as I love it not to mention there was an irrigation line underneath it and I didn't want to rupture it.

I dug a hole to transplant the gardenia...and waited...lol..I couldn't decide about the hole. I mired myself in indecision about the entire process...then...

I began to look at the space. I began to create images in my mind about the nice little sitting patio I wanted to create with decorative bricks. I saw moving the dirt in my mind and leveling it out (there is a bit of elevation change there) I then began to imagine a new border in front, new plants and then how nice it would feel seeing it everyday when I woke up, came home or while I was out mowing the lawn. I went to Home Depot, priced bricks and picked up some additional tools I would need. I began, as a result of this exercise, the get excited about what I wanted to create. Then it happened...

I got into action because of this image. I blessed the gardenia and thanked it for all the beautiful blossoms it shared with my family, dug it up and disposed of it. Now the space is taking shape in my spare time and it's going to look great. I became enthusiastic because of my thought about it. I got away from the doubts, the fear of breaking something and moved into action to create something that I really wanted. My enthusiastic thoughts created positive actions!

This process can be repeated for anything! This is the "Secret" to attracting into my life the things I want. I empty me and create the image in my mind then let action take it's course.

Pick something, give it a try, get enthusiastic about it and that will create your image before you.

The Master Key

My first Law of Attraction Course went very well. While we didn't attract as many people as we had seen, it will get better as will the course. I'm excited.

I've been studying the Charles Haanel work "The Master Key System". Actually this is our second time through it and I'm sure we'll go through it many more times. I've got a Master Mind group established and we cover a wide variety of topics, books, etc. to help us to become more aware of what is necessary to attract what we want into our lives. After all, that is what most people are looking for; getting what they want.

I believe, after referencing this off of several texts that I've happened upon the "Master Key" to the law of attraction. It was right in front of me the entire time but eluded me none the less.

In part 1, #3, he says that "The attitude of mind necessarily depends upon what we think. Therefore, the secret of all power, all achievement and all possession depends upon our method of thinking."

Then in #4, he says "This is true because we must "be" before we can "do", and we can only "do" to the extent which we "are" , and what we "are" depends upon what we "think".

Now at first glance, to most LoA students, this may seem like...ok, yeah, I get that..and I was the same way but then I started to look around to see what I am. I didn't have to look far. "By their fruits you'll know them." Some famous guy said that...I seem to remember..lol

Needless to say, I didn't like what I saw but being an optimist, I know I can change it. I KNOW IT!

James Allen says in his book, "As A Man Thinketh" that "Circumstances (and conditions) don't make the man; they reveal him to himself." Also he writes that "we don't get what we want, we get that which we are."

So, as my results didn't correspond with my wants, I began a brief investigation into other texts that showed that the method of thinking that must occur to get what you want is to first become the type of person that will be able to acquire that which you want then it will be attracted to you. We have to become the change we want to see in our own lives.

It is simply not enough to want something. You've got to attune yourself with it, get into the spirit of it, feel what it would be like to have that and become the type of person who can attract it.

After this realization, I began to go into my silence a bit differently. Before my meditation time, I sat down and wrote out how I want my life to be more importantly, WHO I wanted to be. This is the critical step.

When studying the lives of successful people, you begin to notice a pattern that helped them to be successful in whatever endeavor they chose. These qualities are now what I choose to focus on for myself, the qualities that have made others successful. These are proven to work for all who use them.

"Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill is, in my mind, one of the best works on the subject. Study, know it, live it!!

Law of Attraction Course

Law of Attraction Course

If you've seen my ad in the Roseville Press Tribune, welcome! I will be conducting a class that will cover in detail the Law of Attraction and how to use it deliberately to create your life as you'd like it. Anything that you can see in your mind, you can hold in your hand. If you're really wanting something with all your heart, I can show you how to get it! The LoA is always working and you may as well be using it deliberately, creating what you want rather than leaving it up to chance.

Would it be ok if your life improved as a result of taking this class? Did you enjoy "The Secret"? Think of being in the same room with others who share your enthusiasm for this information. I can tell you from experience, it's incredible. I'm offering 6 hours of this information, handouts PLUS email access to me all for a very reasonable, introductory price. Courses similar to this cost many times this amount.

The 1st of 4 classes will begin on May 1, 2007 and will be held at the Victorian in Roseville. The cost for all 4 classes is $149 and I'll be limiting the class size to 35 people so as to be able to have plenty of time for question and answers as well as practical exercises. Each class will begin at 6:30 pm and finish at 8 pm. Of course, if we need more time, we'll take it! As you might imagine, sign ups are going well so please feel free to call or email me at 916.532.7653 or rob@loa-coach.com.

If you are here from my recent talk at Pulte Homes, welcome to you as well! I so enjoyed sharing some of this information with you! Your questions were insightful and your enthusiasm for this subject was very clear to me. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to speak to your group!

I do offer talks of varying length depending on the needs of the company. If you're interested in this please contact me.

Now let's start DELIBERATELY ATTRACTING only those things that you truly want!

"The road to success and the road to happiness are two lanes of the same highway and the toll you must pay is being true to yourself." Unknown

Law of Attraction Moment

I was preparing for the talk on Friday morning at Pulte Homes in Roseville. I was told that usually there are about 30 people in the meeting so I thought about it a bit and I received guidance to create 35 handouts for this talk which I did. I gave the stack to the first person who passed around the handouts. After my talk, it occurred to me that I hadn't seen any additional handouts. I thought perhaps there weren't enough to go around until I counted the people in the room. There were exactly.........yep, you guessed it....35 people in the meeting! What a coincidence!

All the Powers of the Universe are Already Ours,
It is We Who Have Put Our Hands Before Our Eyes and Cry that it is Dark!

~ Vivekananda (1863 - 1902)

"For as a man thinketh in his heart, so it he"

The biblical proverb "For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" is the cause of all results in our lives. Everything begins in thought, there are no exceptions to this. Your success or failure begins in your mind.

In James Allen's masterpiece "As a Man Thinketh" he points out that this proverb is "so comperhensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts."

Man is literally what he thinks about. If your life isn't going in the direction you'd like, you have no further to look for causes than in your own mind. While this may be hard to accept at first, the realization of it gives you tremendous power for life change.

The thoughts that we accept with our conscious mind are passed along to the subconscious mind and are then expressed through the body. Our actions represent the sum total of the paradigms that we hold. Paradigms, or collections of ideas, dictate our self image and how we view the world. It is through this that we see everything and attract that which we experience.

We have the ability to choose our thoughts. I found this a particularly difficult thing to accept when I first began but as I got more involved in the study of the numerous books on the subject, I could clearly see it was true. How could I be creating the "hell" so to speak that I was experiencing in my life? Why would I do that to myself? Those answers came but it was clear there was a lot more work to do!

As I began to learn how to change my thoughts, my results shifted and I learned that the paradigms that had ruled my behavior came from sources outside of me. My parents, society, friends whom I trusted all unknowingly contributed to the thoughts I chose to accept and accounted my "conditioning". The conditioning was what the problem was and I knew it needed to change. I needed to view things differently, experience a heighten awareness for my life to change. It all started in the space between my ears.

And so it is with us all. Our life is the sum total of our thoughts. Nothing more or less.

The thing about life is that it isn't supposed to be a struggle. Life is abundant in all ways. Just look out your window and search for lack and limitation. Do you see any? I don't think so. Nature and life are obscenely abundant, largely abundant and in all ways, abundant. Then why are we all abundant? Why do we struggle?

The good news is that we can all change right now. Begin to follow your passion and move toward any good that you desire. NOW! You don't have to wait. Begin today to visualize and imagine what you want your life to be then move in that direction.

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, either way, you're right."

Henry Ford

Book Review: "The Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't Want" by Michael Losier

Recently, I purchased this book on the recommendation of a MasterMind partner of mine who has a subscription to Michael's website and sent me a mp3 of a teleclass that he held.
I found it to be very entertaining and informative as I did the book.

The book is a practical guide to using the law of attraction to help you to, well as the title suggests, get more of what you want a less of what you don't want. That is what we are all looking for and this book is a very basic "manual", if you will, for accomplishing that goal.

In the book, Michael refers to the 3 step process of creating: 1. Identify your desire 2. Give your desire attention and 3. Allow your desire to manifest.

He addresses this subject with such clarity, makes it so easy to understand that, no matter what your background might be, you can understand this and apply it to your life.

I've studied the Law of Attraction for many years and have read books from the very esoteric to very practical and I would rank Michael's book as one of the most practical and basic descriptions of the process that I've ever read.

Buy this book! It will help you to apply the Law in your own life and get those things that you truly desire.

http://www.lawofattractionbook.com

When what we desire stays away

Inevitably, when a discussion about the Law of Attraction comes up, it's mentioned that while a specific desire was held, what was desired did not manifest itself in the world of the person holding the desire. I've had this happen too and there is a very clear reason for it but the trouble is that it can be a very subtle distinction from knowing and believing that what you want is coming or already here and just merely hoping. Belief and faith is the key that unlocks the power and helps you to "help yourself".

Belief and faith in the ability to manifest in our lives all that we desire, in some cases, most cases, goes against what we have been taught. Paradigms have been established (paradigms being an idea or group of ideas that have been passed along to the subconscious mind and make up our "conditioning") that may be in opposition to this idea or premise that we can attract things. Consequently, we get an auto response to any idea that is not in line with this paradigm something to the tune of "ahh, snake oil!" or "if it were that easy, everyone would do it!". While these examples are designed to be extreme, I think you get the picture.

Building belief and faith in the idea of the Law of Attraction, for me, wasn't easy even though I had been using it unconsciously all my life. I would just think of something I wanted, see it coming and within a short time, it would present itself to me, perhaps not clothed as I thought it would come but none the less still there. It always amazed me. I began to study this idea in order that I could build belief and faith and therefore begin to use this power, which is available to everyone equally with no distinction, more deliberately. (In the unconscious process, I was also creating things that weren't good for me in the short term. It was later that I realized that everything that happens has a positive side and I am grateful for the good and otherwise)

This is what did it for me. There is a patterned plan of growth in the universe that is always operating, always becoming more of what it was. It never stays the same. It's divine nature is always for expansion and fuller expression. I am part of this patterned plan, not separate from it but part of it. The following quote, which I memorized, helps:

"My mind is a center of divine operation. The divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression and this means the production of something beyond that which has gone before, something entirely new, not included in past experience but proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the divine cannot change it's inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner in me, consequently, in my world of which I am the center, it will move forward producing new conditions and circumstances always in advance of any that have gone before."

The evidence of this is everywhere. Even those things in disintegration are for growth and expansion of other things. It's really something.

I realized, through study, that this is what we are meant for. We are not meant for suffering or strife. We are meant for continuous, progressive and positive growth as it's the patterned plan of the Universal Mind or God.

Not being religious, as I mentioned, having faith in something wasn't easy. Now I think its the cornerstone of all acheivement whatever the desired object or thought may be, material or otherwise.