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Harness the Law of Attraction

Start with the End in Mind

Imagine yourself taking a trip in your car.  You have your GPS device installed and maps at your disposal.  You get into your car, buckle your seatbelt, start the engine and press on the gas pedal.  There’s only one problem.  You have no destination, so you drive along and just avoid obstacles that get in your way.  This seems like a silly scenario doesn’t it, but most of us never learn the power of intention and so we live our lives on autopilot hoping that no obstacles get in our way…until one does!  So what would you do if you were planning a real trip?  You would first decide on a destination,  wouldn’t you?  Once you decide on a destination, then you would plug in that address into the GPS device so that it could guide you on your way.  In order for you to heal your chronic pain, you must “plan” the journey as well.  Your destination, in this case, is your health and your ideal vision of it.

In the book, The Intention Experiment, Lynne McTaggart, an investigative journalist by trade, shares the results of scientific research from all over the world about how powerful our thoughts can be in shifting reality.  In some of these experiments, thoughts could change the pH of water, skew the results of a random event generator (sort of like an electronic version of a coin flipper), or make plants grow faster.

What is most clear from these experiments is that in order to create a particular result, the intention, also known as the outcome, had to be very specific and clear.  One of my favorite wealth trainers, T. Harv Eker, is known for saying that “people don’t often get what they want because they don’t know what they want”.  The same is true for healing your chronic pain.  It may seem obvious that your intention is to get rid of your pain.  That’s fine and dandy.  But believe it or not, that might not be specific enough.  In this chapter, I’m going to stretch your imagination so that you can use your mental abilities to dream up your ideal outcome. 

The law of attraction is a law you may or may not have heard of.  It has been popularized by the movie, The Secret, and if you haven’t already seen this movie, I highly recommend it.  Another great movie to watch is The Cure Is, which shows us the power of our minds to heal ourselves.  The law of attraction states that what you think about you bring about into your existence.  Another movie, What the Bleep Do We Know, is also a great resource to learn about the law of attraction.  The attraction is literally on the level of the quantum field, so it doesn’t refer to magnetic attraction, yet it is just as real as the law of gravity.  The law of attraction uses your thoughts and feelings as fuel for the attraction.  The Universe (called The Field in Lynne McTaggart’s books) responds to your thoughts by giving you more of what you are focusing on. 

So if you are focusing on wellness in your thought processes and with your emotions, you’ll get more “wellness”.  Unfortunately, most of us are focused on the opposite when we’re feeling bad.  The good news is that as we go through the exercises in this chapter, you’ll begin to neutralize the negative thoughts that may be contributing to your experience of chronic pain.  Before we do that, however, let me give you a couple of concrete examples of how the law of attraction works if we focus mainly on what we don’t want, rather than on what we do want. 

Trish has rheumatoid arthritis.  She is terrified of becoming permanently disabled.  Much of her time is spent fighting with insurance companies and researching all the side effects of drugs and complications of her arthritis.  She focuses solely on what’s going wrong with her body.  The more she focuses on the negative, the more negative circumstances she seems to attract into her life.  Now the good news to this story is that once we balanced her brain with LifeWave Y-Age Aeon patches, her whole attitude turned right around, and now she is a woman who sees possibilities where she used to only see limitation.  If you’ve had trouble with recurrent negative thoughts and emotions (evidence of intense stress), I’d highly recommend patching your head acupuncture points with the Aeon patch.  I’ve seen miraculous results just using this simple energy tool.

Here’s another example of negative manifesting.  Dave thinks he has a lot of debt.  He worries about the debt and about how he might not be able to pay his bills.  He works hard at his job and tries to save as much money as he can, but no matter what he does, he piles up more debt.  Approximately ninety percent of his worries are about debt.  He thinks about it day in and day out.  He talks about it.  He complains to his friends and family about it.  He blames the government and corporate America.  The more he thinks about debt, the more debt comes knocking on his door.  Just as he pays off one credit card, a disaster happens to his house and he has to go into debt again just to repair it.  Success coach, Bob Proctor, one of the stars of the movie, The Secret, would say to Dave, “Set up an automatic debt repayment plan and the focus on prosperity!”

 

How to Set Intentions

One of the best ways to get the law of attraction working in your favor is to create a clear intention.  The way I teach people to do this is to first pretend that you have a fairy Godmother and she can grant you whatever your heart desires.  Make a big list of what your healing will look like.  Writing one sentence like, “I want to be out of pain” isn’t good enough.  Ask yourself what you would be doing and enjoying in your life if you weren’t in pain?  What new things would you try?  What would you pursue if pain weren’t limiting you at all?  What passions do you have that you have put on hold because of your health?

Write as many things down as you can in a journal or on a piece of paper.  One of the secrets to harnessing the law of attraction is to understand that if you don’t have a big enough “why”, then you won’t attract the resources to you that you’ll need to get better.  In other words, if you are just going to sit around all day and watch television, it isn’t a good enough reason to ask for vibrant health.  Does that make some sense to you?  Compare someone wishing to become a millionaire.  If the only thing on her wish list is to buy all her favorite clothes from Macy’s department store and nothing else, she isn’t going need a million dollars.  Clothing doesn’t cost that much.  On the other hand, if she listed reasons like wanting to enjoy a second home in Vail, Colorado where she loves to ski during the winter, being financially free so that she can travel to Europe and learn eleven languages, learn surfing in Hawaii, and set up a foundation for needy children in Haiti, then maybe becoming a millionaire makes sense.

After you have made your list, then what I want you to do is write everything in the positive sense.  In other words, if you wrote, “I don’t have pain”, then re-write it as “My body is flexible and comfortable”, for example.  Because I want you to focus on the positive and because the Universe doesn’t register the words “don’t” and “not”, this step is rather important.  Secondly, rewrite your sentences as happening now or has having happened already instead of writing them in the future tense.  In order to practice this, I want you to re-write the following intentions in the positive sense and the present tense:

1.        I don’t have cancer.
2.       My arthritis will disappear.
3.       I will be out of debt.
4.      I become pain-free.
5.       I’m not being criticized any longer.
6.       I’m not depressed.
7.       I will lose weight.
8.      I’m not working for minimum wage any more.
9.       I’m no longer addicted to diet soda.
10.    I don’t have diarrhea and stomach cramps.
11.     I’m out of this horrible relationship.
12.    I am married to a non-alcoholic.

 

So how did you do?  It’s not as easy as you think.  I’ve done this exercise in workshops with groups of people and much of the time, people can’t help but insert negative terms into their intentions.  It’s not the end of the world if you do, but words have significant power, especially if you say them out loud as a declaration.  It is this power that you are purposefully taking advantage of to help you manifest your good health.  It takes practice shifting your perceptions, so be patient with yourself.  Here are some of my answers for the above.  Yours may be very different, but that’s okay.  That’s what makes us unique.  I’m hoping that some of my answers will inspire you to stretch your imagination and “upgrade” your intentions list.

1.        I have vibrant health.
2.       My joints feel strong and flexible.
3.       I am financially free.
4.      My body is comfortable and strong.
5.       I am being appreciated and loved.
6.       I am joyful. 
7.       I am slim and healthy.
8.      I’m earning $500 an hour coaching self-development clients 20 hours a month.
9.       I crave healthy food.
10.    My intestines are working perfectly.
11.     I am enjoying my life with my soul mate.
12.    I am married to a happy, health-conscious man.

 

Imagine Your Ideal Life

The second exercise in this chapter is super fun, or at least I think it is.  Most of my coaching clients love doing this exercise.  Don’t worry, it isn’t hard at all.  You’re going to be using your imagination to write the story of your future life.  The only catch is that you have to use your imagination and you have to write it in the present tense.  The paragraph should read like a short story and it should feel fun.  Use your list of intentions from the first exercise as material for this one.  Remember to make things as specific as possible and to keep the wording positive and in the present tense.  First I’m going to give you an example of a story that is not very specific; then I’m going to give you an example of a story that is.

Story #1: I am enjoying vibrant health.  I am enjoying exercising.  I have a great job and am earning lots of money doing what I love.  I’ve found the love of my life and we live in a big house in the woods.  I have great neighbors and my kids are happy and well-adjusted.

Now there is nothing wrong with Story #1 and if your story reads like that, it’s still good!  Notice that everything was written as being positive and there were no negative phrases.  For some people being less specific feels more relaxed for them and so if you’re one of them, you can stick to more general intentions and let the Universe fill in the gaps.

I, for one, like writing stories that are more specific, based on Lynne McTaggart’s findings, but if you try writing one and you get more anxious than you get excited, then maybe you’ll want to stick to generalities until you get your “intention” muscles trained.  Here’s another story for you to compare with Story #1.

Story #2: I am enjoying vibrant health.  I wake up each morning with lots of energy and spend the morning meditating and doing yoga after which I eat a scrumptious breakfast prepared for me by James.  James and I train at least five hours a week at the rink and we win a gold medal at the next Adult National Figure Skating Championships.  We also win a gold medal at the Adult International Figure Skating Championships in Oberstdorf, where we have our best performance ever.  We get a standing ovation!  We inspire other adult skaters to take up pairs skating.  I’m thoroughly enjoying directing my brand new eco-designed wellness center that has a nice big dance studio/workshop space.  I see patients a few days a week, while my book reaches number one on the bestseller list.  I’m the “go-to” expert on healing chronic pain in my profession and I have a blast on the Dr. Oz show where I brain balance people and get them out of pain with the LifeWave patches.  My business expands exponentially and requests for interviews and television appearances flood my email.  I’m helping thousands upon thousands of people heal their lives through my books and workshops.  I am enjoying financial freedom - I work because I choose to, not because I have to.  I take a week off from work to unwind every six weeks or so and am thrilled to be enjoying vacations visiting the most beautiful ice rinks and eco-vacations spots in the world with James and spending quality time with my family! 

So what do you think?  How did you feel when you read my story?  Did you judge it as being “over the top” or fantastic?  Did the thought, “She’s too greedy” enter your mind?  Or did it inspire you to stretch your imagination more?  Whatever your reaction, it will give you a clue about whether you have any mental blocks that might be holding you back from healing your body and your life.  Your reactions are a mirror to your subconscious, so if you judged my story harshly as being too extravagant or outrageous, then you have a subconscious story that runs your life in a way that tells you that you can’t really have what you want.  On the other hand, if you read my story and got as excited as I did writing it (and yes I got very excited!), then your subconscious is biting at the bit to be reprogrammed to help you manifest your dreams.

Just in case you’re wondering, my expertise in harnessing the law of attraction first came from practicing how to manifest my ideal love partner.  After my divorce, my number one wish was to manifest the perfect skating partner.  Details about how I did this (using the method I am teaching you) can be found on my law of attraction website: www.LawofAttractioninLove.com.  I can’t say that I’m an expert in manifesting abundance in all areas of my life yet.  However, as I practice on a daily basis, I witness dramatic shifts that are like signs showing me that I’m on the right path.

Take some time to write out your ideal story.  Normally, mine take about five revisions until I can read them out loud without stumbling and with full unadulterated enthusiasm.  If you have read your own story and you are not one bit inspired, then try again.  The energy or inspiration is vital to harness the law of attraction to do your bidding.  And if you are having trouble, balance your brain first, then try again after a few days.  If you are brave enough, read your story out loud to a couple of trusted friends and get their honest feedback about whether this story rings true for you.  Let them know that this story is supposed to inspire you, and ask them whether it inspired them to hear it.

 

Your Story as a Meditation

The last exercise in this chapter uses your energy field to create a pattern by which the Universe can bring you what you have intended.  The law of attraction states that like attracts like.  When your energy field is vibrating at the level of having already been healed, you will attract similar vibrations to create that reality for you.  This stuff isn’t rocket science, but it takes discipline and openness to becoming more conscious. 

One of the most powerful mental exercises you can do is meditation.  In this case, it isn’t just mental because you’re going to use your entire body to feel the reality of the story you wrote in the last exercise.  If you like music, you might want to play inspiring music as you do this meditation.  Here’s what you do.  Sit quietly in a comfortable chair or on a cushion so that your spine is upright and your posture is good.  Alternatively, you can do this lying on your back if you are comfortable this way.  Or, if you are like me, you will dance around the room.  Close your eyes and start to imagine your story coming to life.  Use all of your common senses: sight, smell, sound, touch, taste to imagine what you would experience if your story were happening right now in the present moment.  Feel the entire experience in your whole body. 

Often people report that they feel waves of energy permeating their bodies as they do this mediation.  My intuition teacher, Laura Day, author of The Circle, calls this exercise Embodying Your Reality and she instructs you to feel your new reality extending out from your core, out through your pores into the Universe. 

If you aren’t feeling anything in your body, don’t worry.  For many people, being energetically “in” their bodies is very foreign since they live in their heads most of the time.  People who bump into walls or who have a lot of accidents are people like that.  Be compassionate with yourself.  You will get better at sensing your body with more practice.  Practice this mediation daily.  It may take you five minutes or twenty minutes.  You can just take a piece of your story and use that for meditation if you don’t have much time and if you have a detailed story like mine.  The point is to really enjoy your meditation.  You should feel exhilarated. 

I remember that when I used this technique to imagine winning my first Adult National Figure Skating Championships, it was so real that tears were streaming down my face during one meditation session.  After the meditation, I felt as if I had already won and didn’t need to skate the following week!  It was that real to me.  If you can convince your subconscious that the pictures it sees in your mind (and feels in your body) are real, then you can harness its abilities to manifest the realities you want rather than the ones you don’t want.  I’ve used this meditation to win several gold medals since.

 

Chapter Summary

         To heal yourself, you first have to create your desired outcome through intention-setting
         The law of attraction responds to your predominant thoughts and emotions and brings similar vibrations and experiences into your reality
         Be creative in imagining your ideal healthy life because enthusiasm helps to fuel the manifesting process
         Keep your story positive and in the present tense as if it is already happening right now
         Use a daily meditation practice whereby you experience your ideal reality with your entire body and make it feel as real as possible
         If you’re having trouble with these exercises, use the brain balancing techniques in Chapter 6 for a few days or weeks before attempting them again