Lesson # 6

The Power of Desire, Belief and Expectation

How to Get in the Right Mindset to Manifest Your Intentions

In the last lesson you learned a technique to help you properly apply the Law of
Attraction into your life to draw towards you the things, events and circumstances
you seek to build a life you desire. The technique involved spending a few minutes a
day in meditation and creative visualization.

Learning the technique is the first step. But how do you approach your goals AFTER
you come out of your daily visualization session? What attitudes, feelings and
emotions do you need to maintain or create?

To make your intentions come into your life with greater frequency and consistency
it's important to understand the three forces of power, those forces are -- desire,
belief, and expectation.

Before anything that you want to happen can happen, you have to have a desire
that it will happen. You have to believe that it can happen. And you must expect it
to happen.

• Desire
• Belief
• Expectation

Sounds simple? Perhaps. But there is a lot more to it.

In this lesson we'll explore each force of power in detail and understand how you
can apply these forces into your life.

The First Force of Power - DESIRE

Your right to life means your right to have the free and unrestricted use of all things
which may be necessary for your physical, mental and spiritual unfolding - in other
words, your right to be rich. We have the RIGHT to choose, we have the POWER to
choose what we’re going to have … "Ask and it will be given." … Our problem is - we
don’t really believe it.

And so we are often content to stay in the current reality. We don't attempt to push
for or indeed achieve anything new. In short - we don't DESIRE much more than
what we already have.

Let’s think about this in regard to earning money … Although the differences in what
you’ve earned over the last 12 months and what you choose to earn over the next
12 months might be great, the change in your personality is usually very small …
it’s all a matter of CHOICE – you'll simply change your thought patterns.
Burt Goldman shares the following story

Consider the story of the disciple who went to his guru one day and asked, “Master,
how do I achieve enlightenment?” The wise old guru directed the disciple to the
bank of the Ganges River and had him kneel with his head over the water. Then the
guru put his hand on the young man’s neck and pushed his head below the surface
of the water. After a minute and a half the young disciple was frantic. He pulled and
heaved and flailed his arms, but the grip was like iron. He could not get his head
back out of the water. After two minutes, when it seemed as though his lungs would
burst, the grip was released.

The young man’s head jerked out of the water and he took great gulps of air into
his tortured lungs. The guru smiled. “Tell me,” he gently asked, “ what was your
greatest desire just then?”

“To breathe,” the young disciple stated emphatically.

“Ah,” the guru said. “When you desire enlightenment to that degree, it shall be
yours.”

The first key to attracting good things in your life - is to DESIRE them.

Here are Some Ways to Build and Maintain Desire

Think About How Others Will Benefit

Think about what you can do with the money you earn to benefit the world. Perhaps
you're environmentally conscious, pro-peace, caring about education for under-
privileged kids...think about what you can do with the money you earn to promote
and fund these causes.

Use Reminder Tokens

Want a new car? Your desire may be high when you first set the goal, but like many
people, it may wane as time goes on. This of course, does not help with the Law of
Attraction.

To keep the thought of the new car constantly on your mind try creating reminder
tokens. Get a set of keys made - generic keys - and carry them in your pocket.

These simple reminders help keep the thought of the new vehicle fully fresh in your
mind.

Another common technique is using a mock check. Tear out a check from your bank
book. Make a check out to yourself, writing to yourself the amount of money you
wish to manifest into your life.
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Daily Focus

Yet another way to keep desire strong is by practicing the manifestation process we
outlined in Lesson 5. The daily practice of visualizing your goals and feeling the
positive emotions associated with them will help keep the desire strong and flowing.

The Second Force of Power - BELIEF

After you have built up your desire to attract something into your life the next step
is to strengthen your belief system.

Why is Belief so Important to the Process?

Your thoughts, when directed towards a certain thing - will bring that thing to you.
But the reverse also occurs - if you worry and experience anxiety about getting
something, in other words the thought of lacking something, this has the effect of
pushes it away from you.

This is why belief is so critical. If you do not believe you can attain something, your
worries and anxiety will counter any positive thoughts you have of the goal and
neutralize the workings of the Law of Attraction.

The man I want to become,

if I BELIEVE myself to be,
I will become

~ Gandhi

Whatever you seek to achieve MUST be within the realm of what you believe to be
possible.

Belief is a powerful tool and doctors are still often astounded by what belief can do
to a patient's health

In the summer of 1994, a surgeon named J. Bruce Moseley conducted an amazing

experiment. Doctors had long been aware of the 'placebo effect' - the idea that you
can give a patient a placebo, a fake pill, tell the patient that this pill is real and will
cure their pain, cough or sore throat. Sure enough, because the patient believes the
pill to be real, they often end up cured.

Mosely wondered just how strong the power of the placebo effect could be. Would it
work on something more than pills for minor aches and illnesses? Would it work for
more serious medical conditions that involved surgery?

Moseley had 10 patients scheduled for an operation intended to relieve the arthritis
pain in their knees. The patients were middle-aged men. All 10 were wheeled into
an operating room at the Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center. They were
draped, examined and anaesthetized. They went through all the elaborate
procedures designed to make them BELEIVE that they were about to go through a
serious medical operation. They were then dispatched to the recovery room and the
next morning sent home, equipped with crutches and a painkiller.

But there the similarities ended between all 10.

For while two of the men would undergo the standard arthroscopic surgery for their
condition -- the scraping and rinsing of the knee joint -- and three would have the
rinsing alone, five would have no recognized surgical procedure at all. Their surgery
would be a placebo, a make-believe surgery designed to fool the patient.

The result: All 10 patients reported that their arthritis has been considerably
healed.

Mosely's experiment was repeated by a team of surgeons in Texas on 180 patients

with osteoarthritis in the knee. Two-thirds got the actual surgery. But for a third,
the surgeons faked it – they went through the motions of giving a tranquilizer,
making three incisions and pretending to do the surgery.

According to the New York Times

"The researchers found patients who underwent the placebo surgery were just as
likely to report pain relief as those who received the real procedure. It seems for
osteoarthritis patients, the relief is all in patients' minds."

Belief is a powerful thing. And it can be channelled to do more than help you
recover from serious illnesses.

Belief, when combined with Desire is a powerful tool to help you use the Law of
Attraction to draw to you events and circumstances you wish to bring into your life.

Without Belief, you simply will not be able to properly use the Law of Attraction. The
lack of belief will cause thoughts to emerge in your head that are counter to the
events you wish to attract.

This means that if you're currently broke, setting a goal to be a billionaire within 5
years may be too tough on your belief system. You may desire a billion dollars, but
you may not honestly believe you can acquire it so fast. Without that belief that
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goal is pointless.

It takes a strong soul to be able to channel so much belief into huge goals. But
anyone can TRAIN their belief system to grow and become stronger.

You can start by setting a goal that excites you, that you strongly desire, yet is also
something you believe is possible. Going from broke to a billionaire may be too
much of a stretch. But aiming to go from being broke to having $10 million in the
bank is certainly within the realm of possibility. If you can believe it's possible - it is.

You'll know if the goal you're setting is right based on your inner feelings. If you feel
a certain amount of dread or worry - you might be too far away from your current
belief system. But if you have positive feelings of excitement and possibility then
you're setting the right goal.

The beauty of this process is that once you hit your goal, you boost your belief
system. Having hit goal after goal time after time - your belief system will expand
more and more. Eventually you may get to a stage where you can believe 100%
that one billion dollars is within your grasp.

Fortunately, we humans keep breaking new boundaries in our belief systems every
year. In 1952, Roger Bannister, an athlete in England decided that he would set a
new world record for running a mile in under 4 minutes. No athlete prior to
Bannister had ever run a mile in under 4 minutes. It was a big goal, seen by many
to be in the realms of the impossible. Roger Bannister hit his goal in the spring of
1954. He completed a mile in 3 minutes 59 seconds.

But Roger has set more than a world record. He has also raised the realm of
possibility for thousands of other runners, many of whom had once thought that
running a mile in under 4 minutes was impossible. Just 46 days after Bannister hit
his goal, another runner John Landy of Australia ran a mile in 3 minutes and 58
seconds. And within one year, as many as 30 other people had completed the 4
minutes mile.

Roger Bannister showed the world that it was possible - he raised the belief systems
of thousands who were inspired by him.

The Law of Attraction did the rest.

Positive Expectations

So you desire something big and you believe it's within your reach, you've already
started to get the Law of Attraction working for you.
But here's the third and final step.

You should now expect what you're asking for to come to you.

Desiring and believing something is possible is not the same as expecting it to

occur.

The following example might clarify the difference.

You loaned money to a friend. It's been 3 months and he's yet to repay you. You're
asking for the money but you just don't seem to be getting it back.

You certainly DESIRE the money to come back to you.

You do BELIEVE your friend could and is capable of paying you back.

What's missing is expectancy. Because you don't expect him to pay you back you're
causing the Law of Attraction to act against your favour. You get stressed; feel
angry at his lack of appreciation and integrity. These negative feelings hold you in a
state where you're pushing away the money.

Now imagine what would happen if you suddenly got a call from your friend saying
that he's come around and has decided to repay the money. He tells you he's
mailed you a check using FedEx. To ease your doubts, he faxes you a copy of the
check and the FedEx delivery receipt. You now have a changed attitude. You now
EXPECT the check to come. As the saying goes, you can relax because "the check is
in the mail".

This is what we mean by expectation!

When you've developed a proper degree of expectation, you're able to relax and
allow the Law of Attraction to work for you and not against you.

As the late Sam Walton, at one point America's richest man said:

"I expect to win. I go into tough challenges always planning to come out victorious.
It never occurred to me that I might lose, it was almost as if I had a right to win.
Thinking like that often seems to turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy."

Let's provide another example of how this works. This is an actual example from a
student of Bob Proctor's. John from New York ran a small business with his wife.
They built websites for clients. One day, Andrew, an old friend of John's approached
them and asked them to invest some money in a potential business idea. John was
intrigued so he signed the papers and made the investment of $12,000.
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John thought he was buying into a great idea but in reality the business was
unsound and the so-called friend had no intention of returning John's investment.
John felt betrayed and cheated. He had just lost $12,000 - he and his wife had been
saving up for their future plans.

John had been chasing his friend Andrew for months to no avail. John DESIRED the
money. He BELIEVED Andrew could return the money. But he just did NOT EXPECT
it to come to him given Andrew's character.

What would John do in a situation like this?

After studying the Science of Getting Rich John said "The answer hit me like a brick.
Because I had been CHASING the money, I was placing myself in a state of mind
where I simply pushed the money away. I saw myself as someone who had LOST
$12,000."

John knew he could not change Andrew's character so he decided to try a different
way of earning his money back. He decided "I was going to make up mind to earn
$12,000 within a month. I knew I deserved the money. I opened myself up to the
possibility of the money coming to me - almost like a gift form the Universe - but
through other sources. In my daily meditation - I saw myself receiving a check for
$12,000. But I did not care where that check came from. I just desired it, believed
it was possible and expected it to come".

John reported that within 3 weeks of changing his mindset he received a pleasant
surprise. A particular client commissioned a project that was much larger than
normal for John. John had to work 2 days on the project. But his payout was far
greater than normal. Coincidently - the payout was EXACTLY $12,000. Prior to this
John had never received a check of that size.

Coincidence? Perhaps. But that's exactly what you'll start to notice happening in
your life once you begin to apply the Law of Attraction.

Desire, Belief and Expectation --- these are the 3 forces of power than you must
learn to harness to allow the Law of Attraction to work for you.

Get in the habit of thinking big and desiring wonderful things for yourself and for
your fellow man.

Believe that it's possible. Build your belief system by aiming for bigger and bigger
goals each time you accomplish something new.

Finally, expect good things to happen. As you apply the lessons here you'll notice
streams of beautiful coincidences pushing you in the directions you seek. Your
expectation of good things will grow and blossom.

And when all three are aligned - good things will certainly come to you in numbers
and magnitude far greater than you might ever imagine.

Stay tuned for the next and final lesson .