Lesson # 2

Thoughts Become Things

The Law of Attraction and Facing Responsibility For Who and Where You
Are Today

In Lesson 1 we explained that you are more than just a piece of organic matter.
Your very essence is one of a spiritual nature - with the ability to attract into your
life that which you focus your attention on.

The problem is this...

Very few human beings realize the latent potential they have to alter their own
lives. They walk in blindness, complaining about outside forces - debt, bad
relationships, lack of opportunity - while remaining clueless to the power they
already possess, the power that can alter their current reality.

The much-revered Indian saint, Vivekananda, who lived over 100 years ago -
explained it beautifully...
All the powers in the universe are already ours
it is we who have put our hands before our eyes
and cry that it is dark.

We are what our thoughts have made us

so take care about what you think
words are secondary
thoughts live, they travel far

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind

it is transformed into an actual physical
or mental state

We reap what we sow

We are makers of our own fate
none else has the blame, none has the praise

There is no help for you outside of yourself

you are the creator of the universe
like the silkworm
you have built a cocoon around yourself
burst your own cocoon
and come out as the beautiful butterfly
as the free soul

Then alone you will see truth

In one word this ideal is that you are divine

God sits in the temple of every human body

Swani Vivekananda, 1863-1902

You are DIVINE. This is the core message in Vivekananda's words.

So the Big Question is:

How Then, Do We Begin to Get Ourselves Out of Our Current Situation and
Claim the Abundance We Seek?

The Law of Attraction

This is how Bob Proctor explains the Law of Attraction:

We all work with one infinite power. We all guide ourselves by exactly the same
laws. The natural laws of The Universe are so precise that we don't even have any
difficulty building spaceships; we can send people to the moon, and we can time the
landing with the precision of a fraction of a second.

Wherever you are - India, Australia, New Zealand, Stockholm, London, Toronto,
Montreal, or New York - we're all working with one power. One law. It's the Law of
Attraction!

The Secret is The Law of Attraction!

Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's
attracted by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're
thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind, you are attracting to you.

To understand the Law of Attraction, let’s first understand its underlying

counterpart, The Law of Vibration. The Law of Vibration states that EVERYTHING
vibrates (everything moves). Everything ever created from the smallest atomic
particle to the largest skyscraper is in a constant state of energetic motion. What
looks solid is not. Even concrete, glass and steel is energy in constant motion.

We live in an ocean of motion!

What this lesson teaches us is that you have a power within you that is far superior
to any circumstance or situation around you – you have free will over what you
want to think. And these are the very thoughts that are in charge of directing power
to whatever you choose in your lifetime.

But here is the thing you need to understand...

Unconscious Attraction and Conscious Attraction

Whatever you think about, whether it's good or bad - you attract into your life.

Whether you want it or not is irrelevant - think about something you DON'T WANT
and you attract it into your life.
Unconscious attraction is what happens when we let our uncontrolled thoughts run
free.

Worry about getting out of debt - and that's what you attract - MORE debt.

Worry about getting old - and you'll start experiencing the effects of old age.

Worry about whether or not he or she loves you - and you attract uncertainty into
your relationships.

Every worry just serves to bring to your reality that which you think about.

Worry and you'll be sorry.

Now, this may sound scary...the idea that every unconscious thought you have
attracts that which you think of into your life.

But don't worry...because the reverse also happens.

Every happy, joyful thought is also attracting into your life the positive thing you're
thinking about.

Now here's the best part. There's a simple formula we want you to understand:

Thought + Emotion = Attraction

What this formula means is that your thoughts, magnified by the EMOTIONS behind
your thoughts, equal the things that you attract into your life.

Emotions are powerful. Thinking about a goal that you're only half-excited about is
not going to help you manifest that goal too fast. But think about a goal that really
makes you excited...makes you weep with joy because the excitement of attaining
it is so wonderful - NOW you're adding power to your thoughts and really using the
Law of Attraction.

If your thoughts are a vehicle to move you towards your goal - your emotions are
the fuel that power this vehicle.

So the good news is that your positive thoughts, because they excite you so much
more and often have much more emotions attached to them - tend to be a lot more
powerful than your negative thoughts.

It is easier to attract the good than to attract the bad.

Accept Responsibility for Where You Are Today...Or You'll Be Powerless to

Change

If the Law of Attraction is as simple as that, why aren’t more people wealthy, even
gratified about the state their lives are in?
Well, most people don’t take personal responsibility for their present results. They
honestly believe the cause of their current results lies outside of themselves, due to
conditions or circumstances they have no control over.

Most people are ignorant of the Law: You attract into your life everything that is in
harmonious vibration to you.

The key to mastering the Law of Attraction is to understand that you are
responsible for everything in your life. EVERYTHING. At some level - consciously or
unconsciously, you attracted every person, every job, every idea, every illness,
every joy and every bit of pain into your life.

This leads to some interesting questions...do communities that are victims of crime
waves or war attract these things into their lives? The answer is YES - but we'll
discuss that in more detail in lesson 3 when we talk about "Group Manifestation"

Once you Accept that You are the Maker of Your Own Reality, You Will See
that You Have the Power to Change That Reality into Anything You Wish

We generally let our outside world control our inside world. We have to reverse this.
Our thoughts dictate what we attract! We’ve got to let the inside world take charge
of our outside world!

What you Think

And What You Feel
And What Manifests
is Always a Match
No Exceptions

~ Esther Hicks,
author of The Law of Attraction

How to Use the Law of Attraction in Your Favour:

Let's take a good look at your results in your life. As you read these questions,
make a mental note of the answers in your mind:

•What kind of relationships do you have?

•Are you in love?

•What are your friends like?

•How do you communicate with family members?

•What is your income?

•What is your business like?

•How about the health of your body?

•What do you THINK of your body?

 •How do you communicate with family members?

•What is your income?

•What is your business like?

•How about the health of your body?

What do you THINK of your body? The thoughts you just thought . . . the answers
that surfaced before you could stop them . . . are responsible for programming your
current results!

If you don't like the results in your life, you need to change your thoughts. That's
ALL that the Law of Attraction is about.

This is an orderly universe. Nothing happens by accident. The images you plant in
your marvellous mind instantly set up an attractive force, which govern your results
in life.

You are a living, breathing magnet. As you read this article.... Things ... Conditions
... Circumstances and People you know – and even some you don’t know – are
marching to you like obedient soldiers to aid in the manifestation of your images.
Wouldn’t you prefer those soldiers helping you with your positive images?

Take a few moments each day to monitor what is going on in your mind ... What
are you thinking about? How are you feeling? If you’re not feeling the way you want
to feel, begin, instead, to visualize what you want rather than what you don’t want.
Your vibration will instantly change. And when your vibration changes, your results
follow that upward flow.

Your circumstances right now are ONLY your current reality.

And current reality CAN CHANGE.

Getting Out of the Current Reality Trap

We tend to spend an overwhelming amount of attention on our current situation.

We think about things the way they ARE - rather than the way they SHOULD BE.
Because our dominant thoughts are on our current situation - these thoughts tend
to be about daily worries, current lifestyle, how much money we currently have, the
state of our current relationship, and so on. These mediocre, passive thoughts do
nothing for us!

All these thoughts do is simply keep in our lives our daily worries, current financial
situations and current relationships. This is why CHANGE comes SLOWLY for most
of us. We get obsessed with the way things ARE rather than the way things COULD
be.

And so we remain "stuck" in our lives - year after year - observing the same things.
No growth, no abundance, no new wonderful discoveries or ideas - nothing. This is
called the Current Reality Trap.

The sad thing is it does not have to be this way. You do not have to stay stuck in
mediocrity. We are powerful, amazing beings - but sadly, many of us do not realize
our own beautiful potential.

This is the difference between mediocre people and successful people. Mediocre
people dwell on the present. Successful people look excitedly to what COULD be.

We've all heard of millionaires who suddenly went broke and lost everything. The
amazing thing about these people is that they usually, with remarkable ease, gain
back their wealth. This is because while their physical wealth may have been lost
through bankruptcy or bad investments - their mindset - their INNER wealth - is
focused on riches. And so riches pour back to them quickly. It's the Law of
Attraction at work.

A Simple Technique to Begin Escaping the Current Reality Trap

We want to share with you a simple exercise you can do to help correct your
thoughts and move you towards more abundance.

Jane earns a decent income - but she's not happy. She still has car payments, she
wants to send her kids to a better school, she needs to save up for her graduate
level education. But no matter how hard she works, she just never has enough. And
to top it off - she owes the credit card companies tons of money.

Odds are - you know someone like Jane.

Most of us in Jane's situation will start to focus on what we DON'T have. But the
problem is, when you fuss and complain about not having enough - you attract
more bills to pay.

Jane might set a goal to get out of debt. This, too, is the wrong approach ...the goal
of getting out of DEBT - keeps you forever in DEBT. You're thinking debt, debt, debt
- and that's exactly what you attract into your life.

This is how Jane would change her mindset once she attains mastery of the Law of
Attraction.

First she would change her goal. Her goal would no longer be "get out of debt." Her
goal would be "absolute financial freedom." Now she's focusing on a positive. She
would spend a few minutes every morning just day-dreaming about what she's
going to do once she attains financial freedom.

The next thing Jane would do is auto-correct her negative thoughts. Her initial
thought might be:

I'm so badly in debt - I don't know what to do.

I don't have enough to get the things I seek in life for myself and my family.
Slowly, she'd start correcting these thoughts:

I have a home, my kids are happy. I have a loving family.

I have a nice job with an opportunity for a raise.

I am healthy.

I shouldn't feel so bad - many people don't have a house or a loving family.

My debt will be paid off - when I start saving just a little bit every month.

There are people far worse off than I - 1 billion people worldwide have to survive on
less than a dollar a day.

I'm grateful that I have a job and a middle-income lifestyle.

I like the idea of being rich.

I'm grateful that I have a car, nice clothes, can eat 3 meals a day, and can take the
occasional vacation - most people cannot afford this.

I can believe that more money and multiple streams of income will open up to me
in the near future.

So, by gradually changing her view of her circumstances, Jane corrects

herself from negative thinking to positive thinking.

Slowly, her thoughts and dreams get bolder:

I believe my talents will help me earn more income soon.

I will soon have a business for myself.

I can see myself owning a 6-bedroom home by 2012.

I will have one million in the bank within 5 years.

Jane has started shifting into a mindset that lets the Law of Attraction flow
freely in her favour - rather than against her.

Notice that her thoughts essentially shift from:

I'm so badly in debt - I don't know what to do.

to:

I will have one million in the bank within 5 years.

It's a gradual shift, with small incremental boosts in your self-belief. But once you
get started, you'll notice that the positive thoughts begin to come faster and easier
as you go along.
Tiny coincidences will begin to happen. Maybe Jane will get a small raise, or she'll
learn a way to control her debt from a chance meeting with a financial advisor. New
ideas and opportunities will start flowing her way - this stream of coincidences is
The Law of Attraction at work.

Watch out for them, embrace them and follow them - these tiny signs from the
Universe will help give you the motivation and belief to keep moving towards
greater and greater things.

The current results you have in your life are based on your current belief. Your
present income is based on your belief of what you’re capable of earning. As you go
through this program, you are going to re-evaluate what you see as truth … what
you believe. When you re-evaluate a situation, you will find that your results will
change.

Stay tuned for the next lesson. We're in for an exciting journey.

In Lesson 3:

•The First Step to Activating the Law in Your Life

•How to Set the Right Goals

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