Practicing the Laws of Attraction

Imagine that you had all the money you could ever want and you are still generating passive income from home like clockwork everyday. You had great relationships and perfect health. Imagine you spent your life in peace and joy. If you practice the Laws of Attraction, these things can come true for you. The first thing you must do practicing the Laws of Attraction is to embrace a feeling of gratitude. Be thankful for everything that you have. Focusing on the good things in your life will help you key in on positive feelings.

These positive feelings will translate into a positive energy, according to the Laws of Attraction. When you send out this kind of positive energy, you will see good things come back to you in return through the Laws of Attraction. You can concentrate on the positive things by holding some kind of talisman in your pocket, for example. This will help you remember to be thankful every time you touch it.

Another thing to do in practicing the Laws of Attraction is to become aware of what kinds of thoughts you are having. Most people go through the day with thoughts flitting in and out of their heads. They pay them little heed. If you are aware of the Laws of Attraction, you can monitor your thoughts to a certain degree. You can get a feel for just what direction your thoughts are going. Are they leading you toward a negative situation? If so, it's time to use the Laws of Attraction to change all that.

Figure out what it is that you want. Don't limit yourself to easy things to get, either. The universe gives out no different effort to give you a little thing than it does to give you something that is fantastic. So, go for your dreams. The Laws of Attraction can supply them.

Maybe you don't really know what you want. You've been told for so long that you can't have it that you've stopped wanting it. It's time to do some soul searching and really find out what you could get through the Laws of Attraction that would please you. Look through catalogs and go to showroom floors and model houses. You might get some ideas. Once you become excited about something, your positive energy will become all the more powerful through the Laws of Attraction.

Once you know what you want, it's simple. Just ask for it. Say it, write it, and believe in it. Think of it as if it has already happened. Imagine that it has, using the Laws of Attraction. Don't do this in a whimsical, "gee wouldn't it be swell" way, but actually close your eyes and visualize it. Don't expect to know the method by which your dreams will come true. The Laws of Attraction don't work that way. You just need to trust that a good thing will happen, and leave the "how" up to the universe.

Knowing the Laws of Attraction can change your life. It takes a certain mindset to work with the Laws of Attraction, but it is not hard to master. It just takes some time, patience, and most of all, a lot of faith.

How to Eradicate Fixed Karma?

The Pali term Karma literally means action or doing. Any kind of intentional action whether mental, verbal, or physical, is regarded as Karma. It covers all that is included in the phrase "thought, word and deed". Generally speaking, all good and bad action constitutes Karma. In its ultimate sense Karma means all moral and immoral volition. Involuntary, unintentional or unconscious actions, though technically deeds, do not constitute Karma, because volition, the most important factor in determining Karma, is absent.

The Buddha says:

"I declare, O Bhikkhus, that volition is Karma. Having willed one acts by body, speech, and thought." (Anguttara Nikaya)

Every volitional action of individuals, save those of Buddhas and Arahants, is called Karma. The exception made in their case is because they are delivered from both good and evil; they have eradicated ignorance and craving, the roots of Karma.

"Destroyed are their germinal seeds (Khina bija); selfish desires no longer grow," states the Ratana Sutta of Sutta nipata.

This does not mean that the Buddha and Arahantas are passive. They are tirelessly active in working for the real well being and happiness of all. Their deeds ordinarily accepted as good or moral, lack creative power as regards themselves. Understanding things as they truly are, they have finally shattered their cosmic fetters – the chain of cause and effect.

Karma does not necessarily mean past actions. It embraces both past and present deeds. Hence in one sense, we are the result of what we were; we will be the result of what we are. In another sense, it should be added, we are not totally the result of what we were; we will not absolutely be the result of what we are. The present is no doubt the offspring of the past and is the present of the future, but the present is not always a true index of either the past or the future; so complex is the working of Karma.

It is this doctrine of Karma that the mother teaches her child when she says "Be good and you will be happy and we will love you; but if you are bad, you will be unhappy and we will not love you." In short, Karma is the law of cause and effect in the ethical realm.

Read more at:
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/karma.htm

Om Pra Ma Ni Da Ni So Ha - Ksitigabha Bodhisattva Tibetan Mantra for Eradicating Fixed Karma. Click here to listen to the mantra of Ksitigabha Bodhisattva

An inspirational story about W. Mitchell

There is a Serenity prayer from Alcoholics Anonymous that goes like this: “God grant me the Serenity to accept things I cannot change, the Courage to change things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference.”

It seems like knowing exactly what you can change and what you cannot change will give you peace of mind. Recognising things that are changeable allows us to change them immediately. And recognising what is unchangeable will give us another gift, the gift of acceptance.

Some things we just cannot change.

More times than not, it‘s very difficult to change other people it’s easier to change ourselves. More times than not, we cannot change the reality that we see around us but we can change our perception of that reality. And when we change those
perceptions, things around us start to change themselves.

Sometimes people who are dealing with terminal illnesses know that it’s not as easy as recognising that “If I change my internal state I will get well.” Sometimes that happens but it involves change at deeper levels than we currently understand.

To illustrate this there is an inspirational story about W. Mitchell who in his book “It’s Not What Happens To You, It Is What You Do About It That Makes The Difference,” talks about being accountable for everyone of his actions. He talked about where he was in several accidents and in all of these accidents he had to under go many operations and approximately 2 years of medical recovery, after which he went on with his life. Even though now he was called “ugly” and disfigured, he told people that he had forgotten how unacceptable he was and he forgot that there was anything wrong with himself. Because he had
forgotten that he was ugly, other people did too.

“You see what I learnt,” he says “during those two years that it took to me to fully recover, to learn to dress myself again, to drive again and yes to even fly an airplane again, what I focussed on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can’t do and of how much time there is to do it, isn’t that what I get every time?

And when I think about how powerful I am and when I think about what I have left to contribute and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet then that is what I get. You see I recognise that it is not what happens to you, it’s
what you do about it.”

Now W. Mitchell is a giant of a man and a very important teacher. But his story does not end there at all. He talks about when he was in his second major accident and lost the use of his legs permanently, that when he was tying to learn to use his new wheelchair, he met a young man that wasn’t doing too well emotionally and physically. This former athlete’s world ended when he lost the use of his legs. Confined to a wheelchair, he could no longer ski or climb mountains.

Mitchell decided to talk with this fellow patient of his and this is what he said: “One day, while trying the best I could to think of something to say that could help him, that might make a difference, I went over to him. I told him that before I was paralysed, there were ten thousand things that I could do. Now there were nine thousand. Sure I could dwell on those one thousand things and spend the rest of my life doing that or I could focus on the nine thousand that I have left. If, in my lifetime, I am able to do a few hundred of those things, I’ll be one of the most remarkable people on this planet. You see, it’s not what happens to you, it’s what you do about it that makes the difference.”

And like most winners, Mitchell spent most of his life looking for the learning in everything. His philosophy is very simple:
“The only losers are the people that don’t get into the race. The only losers are the people who don’t stand up to be countered. The only losers are the people who don’t try to make a difference.” Mitchell Official Website: http://www.wmitchell.com

So getting your life to hum starts from within you. Shape or be shaped by the environment, the choice is yours and now is the perfect time. Where you are is the perfect place. All that you have, is all you need…….for now.

Self-worth, Self-esteem and Happiness

There is an illusionary triangle that happens between the idea of self-worth, self-esteem and happiness. We seem to spiral downwards into depression whenever we are missing one of these and whenever we’re not happy it is because our self-esteem is a little low.

If our self-esteem is low, we are not happy. We feel our self-worth dropping down as well so we don’t hold ourselves in very high esteem. Sometimes this may happen because of moods and a bad mood is often the resason for blaming others. Very often, however, blaming others causes bad feeling to us as well and the more we blame others, the worse we feel.

So one of our most common and widespread prejudices is that every person has a fixed and special characteristic that they are
kind people or evil people, clever people or stupid people or cold people or hot people. But people are not like this. We can say of a person, only that he is more often kind than evil, more often cold than hot, more often clever than stupid.

We always divide people like this but this is no less wrong. If there is animosity between 2 people, both are to blame. Any number that is multiplied by zero, however big will equal zero. So if there is animosity then, it is the animosity of 2 people towards each other and it exists in both of them. So if you are in a self-deprecating system, in other words you are fighting with yourself what happens is that you are trying to tell yourself that you are no good. You are trying to tell yourself that you are not worthy of all the good things that you want to receive from life including love, not just material things but things that may involve emotion from other people as well.

This includes respect. So we deny ourselves even the gifts that are within ourselves, the treasure that is within ourselves. We are like many-faceted gemstones. Each side represents a different aspect of ourselves. We have our emotional sides with different feelings and responses, we have our competencies and strengths, our hopes and desires, our destructiveness and negativity, our selfdoubts and resentment. We also possess a drive for power and knowledge, a desire to serve and a wish to connect with others.

So our spiritual side requires that we know our many sides. We need a working relationship with our thoughts and feelings so that they can be appreciated, respected and understood. So when we tell our stories to each other, as friends, we let them know and we get to know ourselves even better and that is where a community of likemindedness serves to empower us as well and that’s where friends and family become very important. So choose very wisely who your friends are and who are the people you want to discover yourselves through. Whether you are with them in meditation or playfulness or physical activity or people you simply have conversations with.

In that way you become more amd more honest and more yourself. It is human to make mistakes and feel incomplete. Perhaps if we were all smooth like glass we can perfection of ourselves. But each person is actually a process. We are not things but events and happenings and the events are still unfolding and these are creative and spiritual adventures in life. We have somehow learnt that openness to criticism is dangerous and perhaps we thought someone would not like us if we were wrong or that we would get hurt or belittled. So when we live with our higher power, we can stand up for ourselves and a person has a right to make some mistakes obviously. We grow more if we allow ourselves to leeway(?) or simply being in process. Tell yourselves that you will not ask to have the power of perfection, you will only ask that you will not be alone in the process of living your life.

Places And People That Heal

Sometimes we come across people who are kind and gentle. They are in effect, living angels, coming at the right time, when you needed them the most. If you meet these people along the road of your life, the way to recognise them is this. They’re not looking to prove their point, they’re not looking to change your point of view, they’re looking to enhance you. They’re looking to make you feel better about yourself.

These people ask more questions about you than they are answering questions about themselves.

It’s almost as if they’re angels in disguise. There are places like that as well, places that are flooded with these people who are everywhere. Some people find them in places like Arizona, India and Northern Nepal or at the foothills of a mountain, they could be anywhere. Some people have even gone to Indonesian islands like Bali to find places that heal.

Wherever you find a healing place, you will also find that suddenly, without any apparent reason, that part of you that had been tense on the inside starts to melt and you start to feel a little sleepy. That’s the body’s first reaction in calming you down and beginning the process of healing, it makes you feel a little sleepy and allows you to finally do a little bit of
resting.

Sleep is body’s best natural antidote to the toxins generated by stressed muscles. In the presence of healing individuals, the sleepiness is also felt and then translated into a warm subconscious comfortableness with that individual. These people are rare, unique and they are hard to find. They do not often reveal themselves. When you find such a person, try not to hurt them and try not to let them go.

Around them, people make dramatic progress in life and in spirit. They leave you with little or no choice but to grow. Dead giveaways are ‘something’ in the resonance of their voice that is ‘attractive and calming’, children love them, their eyes seem to penetrate into your soul and they love to play and have fun.

Do Souls Cry?

Listening is such an important part of human activity. In fact, it improves communication between husbands and wives, friends, parents and children. We need to listen to several other things too. We need to listen, not so much to what other people say, but to the emotions behind the words. So I caution you now, don’t listen to the words people use, listen to the emotion behind the words. Don’t take the words to heart.

How many times have you said something in the heat of anger that you didn’t really mean? And how difficult it was later to
take those words back! In fact, you couldn’t. That’s the same with other people as well. They’re talking through a cloud of emotions and not everybody can speak clearly.

So you’ve got to listen to:

1. Your pain. What you are feeling in terms of pain inside. Sometimes your body speaks to you with a stomach cramp, it could speak to you by feeling empty inside, maybe you’ve been hurt by someone. Instead of blocking that pain, you need to look forward and understand what you need, to fill yourself and make yourself happy.

2. You need to listen to the pain of others. When people are in pain, they sometimes express it in the form of anger. When people are angry at you it is nothing more than a cry for love, a cry for acceptance, a cry to reach out. So don’t misinterpret the anger. Sometimes it’s the only way that people know when trying to express their need for a hug or caring or love.

3. You need to listen to God’s pain. That sounds strange doesn’t it? God’s pain? That brings up a number of questions. Do souls cry? Let’s think about that for a minute. We think about Life from a single lifetime’s perspective. In this very short and narrow lifetime, we start to make judgements on what should and shouldn’t be. We make value statements about the unjust death of a child, starvation in Africa, war in the Middle East, etc. and think to ourselves that God must have a purpose. Well think about how God sees everything for a second.

Imagine that you were a soul that lived many lifetimes and you had not a one lifetime perspective, but a twenty or even a one hundred lifetime perspective.

You would see everything from a soul who had been living twenty or a hundred lifetimes. You would see the intricate linkage of how one life affects another, how one thought affects another and how, within all this complexity of lifetimes in a linear fashion, there’s also the cross effect, where your being alive actually affects the lives and lessons of someone else.

Maybe, by you not being alive in this lifetime, you may affect negatively the circumstances affecting your family for instance. This nowhere made more apparent than in the movie “A Wonderful Life”. A man was given the opportunity to take a look at what life would have been like if he were not present in that life.

Yes, all of life is not meant to be easy, but at the same time, it’s meant to be a learning experience and never a struggle. The struggles are generated by our own notions of self-worth, fairness, guilt and fear. Learning can be fun depending on your perspective of it as well. By recognising that everything is temporary to begin with and nothing lasts forever, it makes you appreciate the ‘learning’ a little bit more. At least you will begin to understand that we cannot take things for granted anymore. That the best way to approach people and circumstances in our lives would be with an air of Gratitude.

Words of Encouragement

We need to use lots of words of encouragement, not only for other people but for ourselves as well. With all of our negative self-talk and being surrounded by mostly negative people, someone needs to get the ball rolling in reversing the negative flow, if not stemming it altogether.

These words of encouragement may encompass several lists of word that we’ve used on ourselves, they could even be our affirmations, sometimes we see them in our journals as well - words and phrases that we wished our parents had said to us when we were younger.

These could be words that you are putting together for your niece, nephew, son or daughter. These are words that you need to say to other people a lot. The amazing thing about a lot of other people is that they’re just like you, they need to feel accepted, they need to feel appreciated and they need to feel recognised for who they are. Maybe you could help them become more manageable by making them feel good about themselves.

I’ve changed the words of Confucius just a little bit but the implications are profound if you put this into your daily practice, "Say unto others what you would have others say unto you."