Activating the Law
of Attraction
to Live the Life
You Love
Jack Canfield
is the founder and co-creator of the billion-dollar book brand
Chicken Soup for the Soul. A life coach, he is well known as
"America’s Success Coach". Here he shares wisdom and
advice for getting yourself on the track to living the life you want.
The first step to
using Law of Attraction as presented in the movie The Secret is
to clarify exactly what you want. Remember-determine, write down and
talk about what you do want, not what you don’t want. Be as
specific as possible. Once you have clarified what you want, do the
following each and every day.
1. Morning
Intention, Visualization and Releasing
As soon as you
wake up in the morning, take about 5 minutes to focus your mind on
your desires, goals and intentions. Start by sitting in a comfortable
position, closing your eyes and visualizing your desires and goals as
already being fulfilled. Spend 30 seconds to a minute on each of your
core desires and goals. You can also take a few moments to visualize
your day going exactly as you would like it to.
When you do this,
you will often find negative limiting beliefs that are the result of
negative programming from your childhood will come up. You may hear
thoughts like “I could never afford that,”
“there’s no way I’ll ever get that,” or “who
am I kidding?” coming up. If you do, use one of the many
releasing techniques that are available (see the list below) to
release the negative thought. Don’t fight or argue with the
thought; just release it.
Remember to also
spend several moments feeling the feelings you would feel if you had
already manifested your desire in your life. The intensity of the
feeling is what fuels the intensity of the attraction.
Powerful releasing techniques:
The Sedona Method
by Hale Dwoskin: http://www.sedonamethod.com
The Work by Byron
Katie: http://www.TheWork.com
The Emotional
Freedom Technique: http://www.emofree.com
2. Use External
Images to Keep you Focused on Your Desires and Goals
To keep yourself
focused on what you want to manifest surround yourself with visual
images of the things and experiences you want to attract into your
life. There are many techniques you can use for this.
1) Cut out
pictures of the things you wish to own (like your ideal car or home)
and pictures that represent the experiences you want to have (like
the perfect relationship, your ideal job, perfect health, being at
your ideal weight, more joy, inner peace or balance in your life)to
remind yourself of how you want it to be. Tape them up where you will
see them every day-on the mirror, the refrigerator, or your bulletin
board. You can also scan them into your computer and make them into a
screen saver or a continuously running PowerPoint program.
2) Combine your
pictures and words that you cut out into a collage on a large piece
of poster board.
3) Make a Dream
Book by putting the pictures into a 3-ring binder pasted onto the
pages or slid into plastic page protectors.
When you look at
any of these pictures, do what Bob Doyle, who is featured in The
Secret teaches- think the thought, “THIS IS MINE NOW! THIS IS
WHO I AM!”
3. Think a Better
Feeling Thought
Start paying
attention to the many times during the day that you have emotional
responses (to other people, experiences, or your own thoughts) that
are not in alignment with having or producing your desires. Pay
special attention to when you feel disappointment, resentment,
frustration or anger about your experiences and circumstances.
Remember, it’s
your feelings (which are created by your thoughts, opinions, and
beliefs) that are attracting your current circumstances. You must
make a vibrational shift by changing your thoughts to ones that make
you feel better (i.e., raise your vibration). Remember that you must
become a vibrational match for the things and experiences that you
want to attract into your life.
It is especially
important to focus your thoughts and behaviors on things that cause
you to feel joy. Focus your thoughts on thoughts that bring you joy
(your lover, your best friend, your grandchildren, your favorite
vacation spot) and your actions on doing the things you love to do
(pet your cat, work in your garden, listen to your favorite music).
4. Have an
Attitude of Gratitude
It is critical to
take time each and every day to focus on what you are grateful for.
Some people do this in the morning before or after they visualize
their desires; others prefer to do it in the evening. Focus on all of
the things in your life (most of which you take for granted) that you
are grateful for-your health, your children, your job, the nice
weather, electricity, running water, a nice stereo system, your
flower garden, your pets, your friends).
No matter what
your situation, there are always things to be grateful for. The more
you focus on what you are grateful for, the more things and
experiences you will attract to be grateful for. You may wish to
carry a “gratitude rock” like the one Lee Brower talks
about in “The Secret.”
5. Take Action
There are two
kinds of actions you can take. Obvious actions are things like, if
you want a better car, going to test drive all of the models you are
interested in and choosing the exact car you want to have, and saving
10% of your income in a “car account.” If you want to be a
doctor, apply to medical school.
There are also
what I call “inspired actions.” Once you begin to do the
things described above, the universe will start responding by sending
people, resources and opportunities you need to manifest your desired
result. You are going to find that you have inspired ideas; you must
act on them. You must follow those gentle proddings from the
universe. Often these intuitive impulses will have no seeming
connection to achieving your goal, but if you follow them, they will
lead you down a path of wonderful fulfillment.
Here’s a
quick way to know if the actions you’re taking are taking you
closer to the fulfillment of your dreams and desires. If you are
feeling joy while you are doing them, then you are on the right path.
Remember, joy is your internal guidance system, just like the GPS
system in a car, telling you are taking the right actions. Follow
your joy.
6. Acknowledge
That it is Working
If you start to
see something change for the better, acknowledge that it is
happening. Appreciate it. When you find the perfect parking space,
acknowledge it. When you get the table you want in the restaurant,
acknowledge it. When you receive unexpected income, acknowledge it.
When you meet someone who can help you achieve your goal, acknowledge
that Law of Attraction is working. The more you acknowledge that
it’s working, the more it will work. It’s that simple.
If you are
attracting things into your life that you don’t want, remember
the Law of Attraction is still working. Instead of thinking or
saying, “It’s not working,” ask your self, “What
am I focusing on, thinking about, talking about, feeling or doing
that is attracting this into my life?” If you want to know what
you are thinking about, notice the results you are producing in your
life. To change those results, you will first have to change your
vibration by changing your thoughts and feelings.
While there are
many techniques that are variations on these themes that you can
apply, there’s nothing else you have to do.
© 2008 Jack Canfield
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Article by Jack
Canfield, America’s Success Coach, the founder and co-creator of
the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul and a leading
authority on Peak Performance. If you’re ready to jump-start
your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you
do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: http://www.FreeSuccessStrategies.com.
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