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The Law of Attraction - and Why Your Thoughts are the Key!
By A M Caffrey
February 4, 2008

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny." Tyron Edwards.

For many of us, the message that what we think about, we bring about or that we can manifest anything we desire just by the power of thought can be a little unbelievable. It might appear to work for others, but too often we just don't see it happening in our own lives. The new car, the big house and the cash windfalls can be maddeningly hard to attract. It would appear to be the case only the lucky few have intuitively aligned themselves perfectly with the Law of Attraction. After all, the only difference between you and say, a self-made millionaire is in how you each apply your thoughts to the objects you desire. Countless successful business people and entrepreneurs started in life with no external advantages over their peers. In fact many came from what is often termed disadvantaged backgrounds.

Therefore, we have to accept that success in achieving one's goals in life is primarily a question of what is going on inside our heads.  Our thoughts are the only differentiating factor.

We may bemoan our restrictions and lack of opportunity. But let's take the successful entrepreneur, strip him of his wealth and place him in exactly your circumstances. Will he sit around feeling sorry for himself? Or will he brush himself down and become a success yet again? There are no reasons - just excuses.

As Robert Collier succinctly put it: "If you don't make things happen, then things will happen to you."

So, how do we use our thoughts in a controlled way to manifest our desires?

The first step is to run a quick brain scan on your day-to-day thought profile.

What sort of thoughts do you allow to occupy most headspace?

Worry, regret, annoyance, dwelling in the past, resentment, bitterness, revenge etc etc... all of us entertain some of these non-useful thoughts from time to time.

However, if, any of these have taken long term residence in your mind, then they are taking up valuable headspace and preventing you from using the power of your thoughts effectively. Of course there are often powerful emotional drivers behind these thoughts and they may be hard to shift.

But, the first step is to honestly assess how much time you give over to non-useful thoughts. If it is a significant amount of your thought power, then taking steps to address that will be hugely beneficial for you. Remember, only you can control your thoughts. The first step is AWARENESS, the second is CONTROL.

So, what is meant by control, what should you be thinking?

The golden rule is to think always of the solution - never the problem.

Bob Proctor said - "Most people have a goal of getting out of debt. That will keep you in debt forever....I don't care if it's get out or get in, if you're thinking debt you're attracting debt."

Going back to the list of negative thoughts above, all of these thoughts can be turned on their head if you are determined to do so. It may involve forgiveness, letting go, rising above a person or situation, maybe making the first move to reconcile, or just acceptance of a person or situation. Take whatever is causing you most negativity in your head, meditate on how you might improve that situation. If you must think about this negative thing, steer your thoughts away from dwelling unproductively, instead focus on a positive outcome.

It's not always an easy task. But, the key is to make sure that you are in the driver's seat and not allowing someone else to drive you mentally where you really do not want to go.

Why is all of this so important in using the law of Attraction?

Here's why.

Our thought patterns - over time - become ingrained habits. A habit is what develops when the conscious decision to think a specific thought gets bypassed. We are designed such that conscious decisions are only needed at first - before our subconscious sees the pattern and continues it effortlessly for us - thereby enabling our conscious minds to focus on other thoughts.

The simplest example of this 'handover' from conscious to subconscious is when we were learning to walk. At first, our movements were forced consciously, we had to remember to put one foot ahead of the other, while keeping our balance and lookingstraight ahead. It took us months to get it right, but once learned through repetition, the pattern for walking became hard wired into our subconscious. Now, we can walk and not have to 'think about it'....except perhaps after one or two drinks too many!

That same handover from conscious to subconscious happens whenever we persist in a particular thought. Eventually, that thought becomes hard wired into our subconscious. The result is that we fall into a daily habit of, for example, worrying about our finances or feeling ongoing resentment towards some circumstance in our lives. As an extreme example, we might be seeing some one in work every day who automatically triggers negative feelings.

In that kind of example, just becoming aware of the cycle is the first step to breaking it.

Otherwise, our lives can be at the mercy of feelings that we don't consciously control, tossing us from worry to anger to sadness to regret, while we feel powerless to change.

"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel." --Tyron Edwards.

But habits aren't all bad.

In essence, the Law of Attraction is all about training ourselves to form beneficial thought habits and discard the non-useful ones.  We do this through consciously thinking about a positive outcome.  When we persist in doing this, allowing no negativity or doubt to creep in, the subconscious eventually hard wires it.

This is the tipping point.  When a vision is formed in our mind repetitively, it becomes 'real' to our subconscious.  The inner reality must then manifest in the outer world.  That is the Power of the Subconscious.  All our external 'realities' must first develop as internal realities in our subconscious.  This is the mechanics of the Law of Attraction.

 
 
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