Law of attraction works. It is a law of nature. I find myself saying that over  and over again because I want to reassure people that they are dealing with a valid body of knowledge that explains a principle of the quantum world. But then someone who calls herself [...]]]>

Specificity doesn't work in law of attraction.

Law of attraction works. It is a law of nature. I find myself saying that over  and over again because I want to reassure people that they are dealing with a valid body of knowledge that explains a principle of the quantum world. But then someone who calls herself a law of attraction teacher posts the following statement, and I want to scream!

She said, “When you make a request to the Universe, be as specific as you can. You’ll be amazed at what transpires!”

This is not at all true, for more reasons than I can elucidate here and mostly what will transpire is nothing. When I see statements like this by supposed law of attraction teachers, it makes me wonder if they actually understand much about law of attraction. Statements like this give law of attraction, and those of us who teach it, a bad name. Being specific just flat out doesn’t work all the time. It is a recipe for frustration.

Consider that being specific sometimes makes people feel depressed. Often times, as people get more specific, their thoughts and beliefs that this can never happen become stronger. Their feelings of unworthiness kick in. This statement doesn’t address that.

Suppose being specific makes a person get into their head about ‘how’ what they want will come about? We who teach law of attraction in ways that work tell you to never think about the how. Wondering how something will come about is an easy way to derail all your efforts.

What about those who don’t know how to be specific because either they don’t know what they want or they can’t imagine it in detail? Does that mean these folks are doomed to never have their desires to manifest? Of course not. There are different and better ways to manifest than specificity.

What about the teachings of Abraham – the leading teachers of law of attraction on the planet today – who say that specificity is almost never required, and when it is, it is only under limited, particular circumstances?

Specificity requires thought – it puts you into your head, planning and thinking. Law of attraction responds to feelings. Where is the feeling of joy, the feeling of having that thing you want? Specificity and feeling can almost be complete opposites. They use different parts of your brain.

Being specific can bring up worry – “what if it doesn’t happen?” Feeling as though you have it only brings up joy. Which would you rather have?

Specificity is a method used by goal setting, success theorists. This is partly why ‘success theory’ doesn’t work for most people. Success theory puts all the burden on the ego mind and completely leaves out Spirit or inner guidance.

Specificity leaves out the grace of the Universe. If you are too specific and too focused, the Universe cannot give you something better.

One last thought, specificity can bring you exactly what you ask for sometimes. But what if you ask for the wrong thing? What if you leave out some qualities that you really want, but you forgot them?

Here’s is a little story, a true story, about one of my law of attraction students. Howard wanted Suzy. He didn’t know her very well at all, but he had a big crush on her. Suzy did not know he existed. I asked Howard: suppose Suzy is married already – do you still want her? Suppose Suzy has 12 children by 12 different men– do you still want her? What if she has drug or alcohol problems – do you still want her? Suppose she has anger issues, or can’t commit to any one? Suppose she hates men? Do you really want Suzy? Or do you want a happy, loving relationship with a woman who is really compatible with you, who is as into you as you are to her? Who shares your values and wants what you want? Who makes you feel good? Which would you rather have? Howard now has created a wonderful relationship with a woman who is not Suzy!

Your comments are welcome. Let me know what you think.

As you are moving through your day, participating in the wide variety of activities which make up your physical experience – BE SENSITIVE TO THE WAY THAT YOU ARE FEELING. As long as you are feeling positive emotion, know that you are creating toward those things that [...]]]> HERE IS THE TECHNIQUE FOR CONTINUAL, DELIBERATE, POSITIVE CREATION:

As you are moving through your day, participating in the wide variety of activities which make up your physical experience – BE SENSITIVE TO THE WAY THAT YOU ARE FEELING. As long as you are feeling positive emotion, know that you are creating toward those things that you are wanting. But if you feel negative emotion – fear, doubt, anxiety, stress, anger, guilt, loneliness, jealousy . . .  stop, immediately, in the moment that you recognize that you are feeling the emotion, and ask yourself what thought or word or action brought forth that emotion.

And if you will respond in the moment that you are feeling the emotion, you will very quickly be able to identify what thought, word or action has brought it forth -for as you recall it, the negative emotion will be intensified. As soon as you identify what thought, word or action has brought forth your negative emotion, ask yourself,  ”What is it that I want?” Make your positive statement of what it is that you want. And then make strong statements that will lead you from your current state of negative thought and negative emotion to your desired state of positive thought. We will call it building a bridge from where you are to where you are wanting to be.

Do not try to build a very long span (or bridge) for your conscious thinking mind will resist that. It has had enough life experience that it is not so “gullible” as to make a very wide jump, but if you will take small spans, making one statement after another, you will find yourself arriving at the positive position that you are wanting and you will find yourself feeling positive emotion at the same time.

Once you have made the transition from negative thought and negative emotion to positive thought and positive emotion – you will then be creating in the direction of that which you are wanting.

Here is an example of the bridging process that we have just spoken about: You have begun this day by writing upon your separate pages those dominant intentions that you are currently holding, and among them you have intended to acquire a new red car. You have been very specific about your car, and as you made your list of what you want and why you want it, visualizing yourself as the owner of this car, you felt yourself filled with strong, positive, excited emotion.

And as you are moving through your day, thinking about various things, your car is on its way to you, for you have set it into motion, and you have done nothing to stop its motion toward you. And then, as you are driving, not focused or thinking about anything in particular, you see an automobile very much like the one that you are wanting, driving next to you. As you look over at it and you feel happy or excited, then that positive emotion is an indication to you that,  in that moment, the thoughts that you are thinking, regarding the creation of your new red car, are in harmony.

But, if, as you look over at that car, you feel depressed or dissatisfied, or you are unhappy and anxious because you do not have it yet, or you feel jealous that the other driver does have it and you do not – then know that the negative emotion is an indication that you are creating against your desire, and in the time that you are feeling those negative emotions, you are pushing your car away rather than attracting it to you.

Because you are sensitive to the negative emotion that you feel, you are now aware that you are pushing your car away. You may stop that negative creating, immediately, by bringing yourself from your negative thought and negative emotion to positive thought and positive emotion by building the following bridge:

“I want a new red car like that one. By making this statement of intent, I have set the creation in motion. Now I have only to allow it to be, and it will be. My Guidance System has alerted me that, for a moment, I was pushing the car away, but I have stopped that now and am again attracting it by my strong desire. It is a beautiful car. I am excited when I think about having and driving my new red car. Circumstances or events or others cannot prevent me from having my red car. Only my own thoughts might push it away. But now my thoughts are again attracting the car. I know that, because I feel positive emotion.”

As you begin to apply this exercise, you will get very good at it. You will find yourself responding to the negative “warning bell” emotion in the very early, subtle stages before other negative thoughts are attracted. You will have far fewer negative experiences experienced by you once this process is understood, for most negative experiences start out with a small and subtle negative thought and negative emotion, and then, by the Law of Attraction, blossom into something much bigger and more painful.

There is great value in recognizing, at the early stages, that you are upon a negative path, so that you may divert it and by your deliberate decision create in the direction of that which you choose, instead.

NEGATIVE EMOTION IS OF GREAT VALUE, FOR IT ALERTS YOU TO NEGATIVE CREATION, BUT IF THE NEGATIVE EMOTION GOES UNNOTICED, AND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION ENHANCES IT, SO THAT IT BECOMES LARGER AND LARGER – THEN YOUR PHYSICAL APPARATUS IS DAMAGED, AND WHAT IS WANTED IS PUSHED AWAY.

A very high percentage of those who are experiencing physical deterioration or illness, in your time, are experiencing it because the  ”warning bell”, or negative emotion, has been ignored.

Abraham – A New Beginning, Volume 1

We have all heard this said many times but probably few of us realize, even slightly, all that it implies. It means that you can only live in the present. It means that you can only act in the [...]]]> Has it ever occurred to you that the only time you ever have is the present moment?

We have all heard this said many times but probably few of us realize, even slightly, all that it implies. It means that you can only live in the present. It means that you can only act in the present. It means that you can only experience in the present. Above all, it means that the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

When some students hear this statement they may think, “Oh yes, I know that. I have known it for years”; but the chances are that they have not yet understood it thoroughly. When they do, remarkable results will follow.

All that you can know is your present thought, and all that you can experience is the outer expression of all the thoughts and beliefs that you are holding at the present time. What you call the past can only be your memory of the past. The seeming consequences of past events, be they good or bad, are still but the expression of your present state of mind (including, of course, the subconscious). What are all the future things that you may be planning, or things that you may be dreading – all this is still but a present state of mind.

This is the real meaning of the traditional phrase, The Eternal Now. The only joy you can experience is the joy you experience now. A happy memory is a present joy. The only pain you can experience is the pain of the present moment. Sad memories are present pain. Get the present moment right. Realize peace, harmony, joy, good will, in the present moment. By dwelling upon these things and claiming them-and forgetting during the treatment, all other things-the past and future problems alike will take care of themselves.

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good reports; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”  Philippians 4:8.

From The Writings of Dr. Emmet Fox

Our sweet Jerry made his transition into Nonphysical last Friday. How sweet the Vortex is feeling to him today!

Jerry said to me when we came together over 30 years ago that given the difference in our ages that it was likely “that I will cut out on you early,” to which I replied, “I [...]]]> Dear, dear Friends,

Our sweet Jerry made his transition into Nonphysical last Friday. How sweet the Vortex is feeling to him today!

Jerry said to me when we came together over 30 years ago that given the difference in our ages that it was likely “that I will cut out on you early,” to which I replied, “I don’t mind.” His joy of life and continual new discovery of purpose kept his life feeling fresh and we shared such joyous eagerness for life.

Over the years, Abraham has consistently insisted that there is no death. Again and again they have reminded us that there is only life and more life and more life. It has taken me some time to understand this, and I honestly must say I have not yet fully come to terms with it, but I do believe that in what we are calling Jerry’s death he is discovering the next logical step of life that Abraham has always been talking about. And at times I am catching a glimpse of the bigness of what Jerry is feeling and while I am still pretty mad at him for not sticking around longer to surprise and delight me in all the ways he has been doing throughout our 30 years together I accept fully that the next logical step of joyous life for Jerry was to be found in his re-emergence into Nonphysical.

Since 1985 it has been Jerry and Esther and Abraham and I believe with everything that I am that that has not changed. I know that Jerry will continue to be the third powerful point of the triad of Energy that makes up the Abraham experience and I am certain that his new vantage point will be, as it has always been, of advantage to us all.

I know for sure that Jerry will help me, in time, release my own personal resistance to physical death, because I will not be able to maintain that resistance and also play easily with him. And my desire to continue not only my Abraham experience but also my Jerry experience I am certain he will be the catalyst to help me do what Abraham has been trying to help us all do all along.

Once again, Jerry is out there leading the way for me. But the difference this time is that I must find the way. I am not there yet, but it is my absolute promise to myself that I will find the way, because it is the most natural thing in the world to do and because Jerry has provided for me the reason to do it.

I am eager about what is ahead and while I cannot begin to explain or even imagine the details of how it is all going to play out, I am certain that it will be fun.

I am such a fortunate girl, to have been able to play with Jerry and Abraham and all of you for so many wonderful years and I am so eager to continue doing more of the same for many more years to come. I feel certain right now that not only has nothing gone wrong, but things are going especially right. It will be different, for sure, but it will also be very, very good.

I’m feeling such love for you all, and for Abraham and most of all for Jerry. And as I have said to him a thousand or more times through the years, “Well isn’t life just a kick in the pants?”

Love,
Esther

My name was Marshaba. We lived wherever [...]]]> [Seth:] I was once a mother with twelve children. Ignorant in terms of education, far from beautiful, particularly in later years, with a wild temper and raucous voice. This was around Jerusalem in the sixth century. The children had many fathers. I did my best to provide for them.

My name was Marshaba. We lived wherever we could, squatting in doorways and, finally, all begging. Yet in that existence, physical life had a contrast, a sharpness greater than any I had known. A crust of bread was far more delicious to me than any piece of cake, however well frosted, had ever been in lives before.

When my children laughed I was overwhelmed with delight, and despite our privations, each morning was a triumphant surprise that we had not died in our sleep, that we had not succumbed to starvation. I chose that life deliberately, as each of you choose each of yours, and I did so because my previous lives had left me too blasé. I was too cushioned. I no longer focused with clarity upon the truly spectacular physical delights and experiences that earth can provide.

Though I yelled at my children and screamed sometimes in rage against the elements, I was struck through with the magnificence of existence, and learned more about true spirituality than I ever did as a monk. This does not mean that poverty leads to truth, or that suffering is good for the soul. Many who shared those conditions with me learned little. It does mean that each of you choose those life conditions that you have for your own purpose, knowing ahead of time where your weaknesses and strengths lie.

In the gestalt of my personality, as in your terms I lived later richer lives, that woman was alive again in me as, for example, the child is alive in the adult and filled with gratitude comparing later circumstances to the earlier existences. She urged me to use my advantages better.

So in you, your various reincarnational existences in a large manner concur. Using the analogy of adulthood again, it is as if the child within you is a part of your own memory and experience, and yet in another way has left you, gone apart from you as if you are only one adult that the child “turned into.” So the people that I have been have gone their own way, and yet are a part of me and I of them.

Orally your rigid ideas of time and consciousness make these statements seem strange to you. All of these connections therefore are open. All psychological events affect all others.

~ Seth Speaks Session 589, August 4, 1971

She says, “A great post C – . . . I have placed [...]]]> This little post was on one of the blogs I read, and I just had to comment. Please comment below and let me know your thoughts after you read this. I’d love to know what you think of my rant . . .

She says, “A great post C – . . . I have placed a zero tolerance on swearing in our home which everyone has agreed to. I want my home to be a peace haven exuding love. This has also included dvds and tv programmes with offensive language in it. Since this ‘ban’ was imposed I have noticed a huge change in the demeanour of the adults I share my home with. A much lighter and uplifting atmosphere prevails and the creativity and motivation is flowing. It starts with us, at home teaching others and being a demonstration of what we want to see in the world.

The next issue I am working on is to have zero tolerance on complaining. Whenever we share meals together we have a gratitude session around the table including children – this is a very humbling experience – food for the soul.

M -”

This was one in a bunch of posts of folks talking about having exclusively happy thoughts and exhorting each other to never say a negative word. I had to respond.

Hmmmm . . .I have read all the comments above and I have to say, with all due respect, I’m glad I’m not hanging out with any of you. I want to be real and I want to be free to be myself! People who are self-appointed “positive police” make me want to scream and run!

As an international law of attraction teacher since long before The Secret, (just putting a bit of my credentials in here) I tell you unequivocally that law of attraction is not about putting a happy face on when you are feeling miserable. It is not about denying your real feelings, M -. People sometimes feel angry, cranky, crabby, annoyed and other intense emotions and it is natural, and appropriate, in many situations to feel this way. Law of attraction attracts by how you FEEL, not by what you say. I always tell my students, the universe does not speak English. It is abut how you FEEL. Speaking happy words does not make you feel happy if you aren’t. And speaking happy words only makes you resentful if they are in conflict with what you are really feeling.

Repressed emotions, when unexpressed, ferment and percolate and attract according to their kind. It is so much more effective – and I can’t stress this enough – to cuss, scream and yell if necessary to GET IT OUT! Then and only then can you move toward feeling better. Repressing feelings – like having zero tolerance for negative thoughts or statements – only keeps them in growing and bubbling in the dark so they can erupt later. Brief expressions of negative emotion are therapeutic and do not attract significantly in our lives if they are not held on to. We attract from our dominant emotions (and attitudes, thoughts, beliefs and expectations) – not from brief expressions of anger.

As long as our dominant emotions are positive, we are OK. We don’t need to be 100% positive, 51% is enough to attract our good to us. Followers of Abraham will remember their analogy of the gas tank. If you are upset that your gas gauge is telling you that the tank is empty, putting a happy face sticker over it does not solve the problem . The issue has to be acknowledged and dealt with, or else it gets worse – you find yourself stranded without gas. The gas gauge is an indicator, just as are our emotions. Reading the indicator and acknowledging what it is telling us gets us a lot further than ignoring it.

The idea of everyone having a life purpose sounds like destiny or fate, to me. What if I never ‘find’ it – am I doomed to a life of unhappiness? It sounds like an assignment given to us by somebody.

The idea of having a life purpose and the concept of free will don’t mesh. If [...]]]>

The idea of everyone having a life purpose sounds like destiny or fate, to me. What if I never ‘find’ it – am I doomed to a life of unhappiness? It sounds like an assignment given to us by somebody.

The idea of having a life purpose and the concept of free will don’t mesh. If I have a life purpose, who gave it to me? Was it given to me to do by God? That smacks of traditional religion dressed up in a spiritual concept. It is still traditional religion with an undercurrent of ‘God’s will.’ What if I never ‘find’ it? Am I doomed to a life of unhappiness?

Perhaps having a life purpose is something I decided on for myself before I was born. Then what happens if I change my mind now that I’m here? When people say “I want to know my purpose,” or “I have to find my life purpose,” that presupposes that there is a purpose to each individual life, something meaningful we each have to do. The idea makes me cringe.

Suppose there isn’t? (See my article on Do We Have to Give to Receive?)

Seth, a late 20^th century channeled being, said we are here to learn to use our creative power. Abraham, a contemporary channeled being, says our only purpose is to have fun. Many ancient teachings say we are here to learn to mold energy to our will, our desires and thoughts. Synchronistically, quantum physics now tells us we bring the world into existence by our attention. Literally.

New thought – ancient wisdom tells us there is a substance that WANTS TO BE made manifest, and we bring this substance into physical reality by our thoughts. This substance, this stuff, says ‘yes’ to our every thought and is always there, waiting for us to use it. Suppose we are just children with our hands in the clay of creating our own reality?

There is a theory making the rounds now, that earth is the amusement park of the universe. This is where we come to actually experience the results of our thoughts in the “jungles of time and space,” as Mike Dooley calls it. As we think about pain and suffering, we live it. As we change our thoughts to love and service and joy, we live that. As we observe the effects of our thoughts, we learn to focus on the highest and the best.

We all have a choice about what makes our lives meaningful. And we have the freedom to let that choice change and evolve, and even to give it up for something we find more meaningful, if we want to. Suppose we don’t have a life purpose to fulfill? Suppose our only purpose is to have fun while learning our full spiritual capabilities; learning our god-nature?

Isn’t that more freeing?

1. Falling in love.

2. Laughing so hard your face [...]]]> This is a list of 50 things you can use to get you into the Vortex of Attraction. When you feel good, you are attracting everything that makes you feel good. Use these to shift your mood and raise you up.

1. Falling in love.

2. Laughing so hard your face hurts.

3. A hot shower.

4. No lines at the supermarket

5. A special glance.

6. Getting mail. Snail mail. Handwritten.

7. Taking a drive on a pretty road.

8. Singing loudly to your favorite song.

9. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.

10. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer.

11. Chocolate milkshake (vanilla or strawberry).

12. A bubble bath.

13. Giggling.

14. Fuzzy animals.

15. The beach. Anytime.

16. Finding a 20 dollar bill in your coat from last winter.

17. Laughing at yourself.

18. Looking into their eyes and knowing they love you.

19. Midnight phone calls that last for hours.

20. Running through sprinklers.

21. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.

22. Having someone tell you that you’re beautiful.

23. Laughing at an inside joke with friends.

24. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.

25. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.

26. Your first kiss (either the very first or with a new person).

27. Making new friends or spending time with old ones.

28. Playing with a new puppy.

29. Having someone play with your hair.

30. A spa day.

31. Hot chocolate.

32. Road trips with friends.

33. Swinging on swings.

34. Making eye contact with a cute stranger.

35. Beauty. Anywhere.

36. Having your friends send you homemade cookies. Yum!

37. Holding hands.

38. Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change.

39. Giving a gift with no expectations.

40. Watching the sunrise.

41. Flowers.

42. Knowing that somebody misses you.

43. Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply.

44. Knowing you’ve done the right thing, no matter what other people think.

45. Watching the sunset over the ocean. Or anywhere.

46. Little kisses that show they care.

47. Acting like a child.

48. A smile from a child.

49. Learning something that makes you go, “Ah’!

50. Doing well at something.

(and 51 – can anyone look at this picture and not smile?)