Using The Law of Abundance

"To have a true abundance mentality is to believe that you are entitled to all the great things that life has to offer in the form of whatever brings you joy, fulfillment and happiness." - Dr. Steve G. Jones

One of the more difficult laws of success to understand is the Law of Abundance. The Law of Abundance says that there is no such thing as scarcity. In other words, there is more than enough for everybody to have what they want; all a person has to do is to participate with the universe and their true desires will be manifested.

However, people have a hard time with this idea. They look at their bank balance, which is limited, and go "I do not have enough." They look at their relationships, their careers, their living environment, and say "Where is this abundance you are speaking of? I don't see it."

The reason for their difficulty is that they have not manifested their desires. Since it has not happened yet, they figure their desires cannot be manifested, and they are stuck with what they have now.

The Law of Abundance is not about your present circumstances; it is about the potential of future circumstances. What you have right now is the result of your past thinking and actions. To use the Law of Abundance, you need to change your thinking onto what is coming, not what has arrived.

Activating the Law of Abundance requires three things on your part. First, you must be grateful for what you do have; this gratitude generates the positive energy needed for the universe to manifest desires. Second, you must focus on what you want, not what you have. What you have now is simply the current situation, and the current situation can change. Start thinking of the desires you wish to manifest, so the universe can determine what needs to be manifested. Third, have faith in the lawful behavior of the universe. Faith is the belief in what cannot be seen; you must have faith that the universe can and will manifest your desires.

Remember, the manifestation may not just appear. There may (and probably will) be actions you need to take to further the manifestation process. However, these actions will be made clear to you, as long as you are looking for them. As you start working with faith, belief, focus, and gratitude, you will begin to see the path to your desires, including the necessary actions.

Evidence for the law of abundance is all around us. Think of a tree, growing from a seed. The universe grants the tree the sustenance it needs and the tree adds manifestation to the universe. Think of the financial resources created by a company; the product or service generates income that did not exist before. Think of a child, born of the love of two people, who adds immeasurable value to world as he grows into an adult. The abundance of the universe is all around us.

Understanding the law of abundance is not about having everything you want right now. It is about believing that anything is possible, and that you are as worthy for success as anyone else. Believe in the universe, and the universe will provide.

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How to Take Advantage of Your Positive Vibrational Energies

When you give out good vibes, the Universe accepts them and returns them 10-fold to you in the form of a manifested burning desire on your part. So what are the high forms of vibrational forces that bring your desires to reality? Read on to find out.

Love is the highest form of vibrational force that exists in this universe. It remains a mystery how it actually works in reality, but loving yourself and others from the core of your heart always helps. But it's not easy most of the time because your inner critic is there to bring you down most of the time. So are there toxic people all around to put you in low spirits. So you need to be strong about your emotions of love despite all the negativities. You need to train yourself how to love yourself and the good people in your life all the time. The inner critic and the toxic people will get tamed with time. That's the basic secret.

Love's twin sister is gratitude because they carry the same level of vibrational forces. When you pray, say thank you to God/Divine Source/Higher Power for all your blessings. When someone does you a favor, say thank you. Thank all the people who are contributing to your life, big or small. Showing gratitude to all those who are deserving naturally raises your vibrational energy.

If you have difficulty about working on love emotion, you should try working on gratitude because it should be easier to handle and its twin will follow. Try and start practicing from now itself. Good news will follow for sure.

Another way to raise your vibrational energy is to spread the laughing gas. Cut jokes with the people around and make them laugh. Watch comedy movies with your family and laugh together. Instantly all of you will be radiating positive energies in a good kind of way.

How do these vibrational energies come to your advantage? As I mentioned in the opening paragraph, the Universe can give you something positive only if you give out something positive. This is where the twins, love and gratitude, and laughter come to play. When you work on any of them, you send out positive vibrational energies and the Universe accepts them, rewarding you with the gift of your fervent goal(s) being manifested in real life. So remember, dear reader, to work on one of the vibrational forces all the time, whichever comes naturally to you and you will be blessed. I promise you.

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Do Affirmations Work? Only If You Say So

Think positively! Look on the bright side! This can be downright annoying if you're having a hard time and can't see a bright side. If you consider pessimism to be a much more realistic approach to life, you've probably never tried using positive affirmations. You have, however, been successfully using negative ones, without even realizing it. They work just as powerfully, bringing you whatever you believe you deserve and keep affirming through your pessimistic view of reality. You're not wrong, of course. You're every bit as unsuccessful, unlucky, unloved or hard-done-by as you say you are, and you've powerfully manifested all the evidence (people, situations, circumstances) to confirm it, leaving no doubt in your mind that this is how things really are.

Can I prove to you that positive affirmations work and that you can change your whole worldview? No. But you can prove it to yourself, if you're willing to challenge some of your beliefs and to allow for the possibility that you can use the power of your mind to orchestrate your own life.

But it's not just about thinking positively and being in denial about whatever challenges you face. For affirmations to generate the positive outcomes you seek, you must understand the principles that govern our reality, and then apply a process that incorporates them.

Re-program your mind

Not surprisingly, positive affirmations only work if you actually use them, every day, for at least two weeks. Talking about them won't change anything, and doing them once or twice won't be enough to re-wire your subconscious mind with positive beliefs, while dissolving the deeply engrained negative ones that you've lived by for so long. Most importantly, though, you must start to embody and practise the words and actions that match your positive affirmations. Affirming a deeper truth, yet failing to speak or act in accordance with that truth, just creates more internal conflict, exaggerating the gap between the way things currently are and what you're affirming. Your actions will always win out over your thoughts. So, if you're affirming that you're attracting more clients or your ideal partner, but you're acting and speaking as if your business is going to fail and you're never going to find your mate, your affirmations cannot work. Your words/actions will reinforce your negative beliefs more powerfully than your positive affirmations can cancel them out, and you'll end up confirming your worst fears.

Have fun and keep it light

I've had fun with affirmations. I remember one period of my life when I affirmed that money was coming to me in unexpected ways. In the space of two weeks, I found $80 on the street, as I was running home in the pouring rain; I found money in my clothes when I took them out of the dryer I shared with my neighbours, yet no one claimed it (and it wasn't mine); and I received an unexpected insurance payout for a claim I'd made almost a year before and had given up on ever getting. Since then, I've made a habit of affirming that there's always more money coming from somewhere, and that the more I take care of me, the more I'm taken care of, in every way. It proves true, every time. Going on holiday, for example, always seems to trigger some big win, such as a new opportunity in my work, an editing assignment, new clients and other nice surprises.

What's stopping you?

There are some impediments to affirmations (and life) working for you, and it's important to bear these in mind, if you decide to start affirming how you'd like your life to be.

1) You don't actually believe what you're saying. This, of course, is why you're doing the affirmations in the first place. You're affirming a deeper truth (an ideal reality that you don't know how to create) so that your mind ultimately accepts it and works to make it a reality. Dismissing them as rubbish won't help. You'll not only be depriving yourself of an easy way to make some breakthroughs, but you'll also be reinforcing your negative beliefs about yourself, and making your challenges even more challenging.

2) You don't believe that your mind works that way or that you have that kind of power. For cynics and pessimists, seeing is believing; but for optimists or those who believe in the power of their minds, it's a matter of believing and then seeing. Which one would you prefer to make true?

3) You don't believe you deserve to have the ease, success, wealth, love or dream life that you desire. Our early programming shapes our sense of self, determining how lovable/worthy/important we believe ourselves to be, and setting us up for a certain kind of life, with certain expectations, fears and insecurities -- all of which determine how much love, money, ease, success and fulfillment we have. How's that working for you? Would you like to change your mind about what you believe is possible?

4) You're building a case against yourself. If you maintain that affirmations don't work, it's not the affirmations that you're rejecting; it's the power of you. (And affirming that they don't work is something you can keep proving to yourself -- thereby, ironically, confirming that they do, in fact, work.) The negative circumstances in your life are the result of your negative beliefs, and they serve as evidence of the validity of those beliefs. This creates a circular, self-defeating argument, keeping you locked into the blinkered belief that this is how life is, regardless of what anyone says. Affirming that affirmations don't work is the same as affirming that YOU don't work, even though your subconscious mind is designed to bring you people, opportunities and challenges in accordance with how it's been programmed.

The great thing about affirmations is that the more you do them and see them working, the more they work and the more you believe in them, and the more you integrate them into your life, which creates a never-ending positive-snowball effect.

Some of my faves

Here are some of my favourite affirmations, based on the principles that govern our reality:

• The more I take care of me, in healthy, practical ways, the more I'm taken care of.

• When I make myself a precious commodity in my own life, I enhance my value and I attract the rewards and recognition I deserve.

• Being fully, fearlessly me is the most powerful thing I can do to create the life I want.

• Everything's unfolding exactly as it's meant to, in my best interests, at exactly the right time.

• The more I actively love, respect and validate myself, the more I attract others who do the same.

But don't forget to embody and practise the things you're affirming-for example: if you affirm that you're taken care of, you must replace worry and self-doubt with optimism and affirmative action; if you affirm that you're regaining your health, you must talk and act as if you're getting healthier by the minute; and if you affirm that your life is full of exciting new opportunities or a new relationship, you must actively engage with others so that those magical connections can be made.

Act the part

Part of the magic of manifestation involves feeling and acting as if the good stuff has already happened, given the impact that our moods, energy levels and intentions have on our circumstances. But that doesn't mean you should suddenly move to the Caribbean after a week of affirming that life in the tropics is blissful. It takes time for your affirmations to manifest in physical form, and the timing is always perfect, even if you don't necessarily think so, at the time.

Your life is in your hands and, even more powerfully, in your mind. You can decide who you want to be and how others will treat you, by virtue of the self-worth you embody in your own life. Make it true in your mind and it becomes true in your life. And changing your mind about you changes everything.

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5 Scientifically Proven Ways to Conquer Your Worst Business Enemy: Fear

How do you conquer the enemy, when the enemy is your own fear?

We have all heard it. Heck, I've said it: Fear is the enemy. Mahatma Gandhi put it this way: "The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is fear."

We know in corporate America that one of the biggest challenges facing us is our seeping, creeping fear of the unknown:

Will I lose my job?

Will I ever find a career that makes me happy?

What will that new boss be like?

What if my new business fails?

Will I ever make enough money to pay my employees? Myself?

How do I save enough for my bills, house mortgage, kids' education, retirement?

The list goes on and on. And sadly, even though we may try to read all the self-help books, chant reaffirming mantras, and listen to the best logic that trusted friends and respected colleagues can offer, it often doesn't stop the acid from continuing to drip onto our stomach linings.

Fear happens in the brain, but it's manifested in your body. It is caused by a chain reaction that starts when an external stimulus signals to your brain that something is stressful. It ends with a release of chemicals that cause your heart to beat faster, palms to become sweaty, and stomach to feel queasy and nauseated.

So what is the antidote for your fear? Here are five scientifically proven steps to get rid of the monsters looming in laptop bags and briefcases.

1. Take Two Minutes to Do This

When you start to get anxious, you may not know it, but your breath becomes quick and shallow. The best way to quickly calm yourself is to take longer, deeper breaths. I use the "7-11" method. It's as simple as it sounds. Breathe in for a count of seven and then breathe out for a count of 11. I try to do this for two minutes. You'll be amazed at how much better you feel.

2. Step Away

Sometimes escaping the situation is a good way to get much needed perspective. Going to see a movie with an uplifting message (think The Blind Side, Forrest Gump or The Lion King) can be incredibly powerful. Movies are the ultimate escape, a chance to get immersed in a story that helps you forget about day-to-day worries. Other ways to escape include getting a good night's sleep, taking a long walk, or running.

3. Uncork the Bottle

Sometimes the best way to address fear is to let it out. Speaking to a friend or even writing about it in a journal are great tools. I personally use the journal method. When I am feeling anxious, I will write--sometimes pages and pages. I let every negative thought and irrational fear out on paper, and I always end up at a better, more positive place.

4. Get Real by Asking the Extreme Question

Ask yourself, what's the worst that can happen? If you lose your job, will you be unable to eat? Will your spouse leave you? The reality is this: Many working professionals I meet can live on less than what they make without the threat of sleeping in their car. I realize that is not true for everyone, and I don't mean to make light of desperate situations, but much of the fear we carry with us does not involve a live-or-die situation. Addressing this question and honestly answering it is a great way to see the big picture and begin to feel better.

5. Get Perspective

Earlier this week, I was feeling more than a sense of fear and dread as contractors cut a large (I mean a very, very large) hole in my living room ceiling to find the source of a water leak. As my mind raced thinking about potential mold and the large check I would be writing that was originally earmarked for a sunny vacation next spring, the phone rang. It was a friend of mine, who recounted a story about a 17-year-old who was staying at the Ronald McDonald house because he needed a new heart. That was a reminder of what a genuine life-or-death scenario looks like.

That heavy dose of perspective made the five pounds of drywall and plaster ceiling on my living room floor seem trivial. Actually going out and helping others who are less fortunate is a great way to get perspective on a situation.

Bonus! 6. Take Action

One of the main reasons we get fearful about our work is because we sometimes don't feel in control. One of the best ways to conquer anxiety is by taking action. If you don't like your job, identify new possibilities. If you aren't making enough money to make ends meet, resolve to identify skills you could learn to become more marketable (and valuable). The point is this: Action can help you get into a head space full of possibilities. To that end, I think Dale Carnegie said it best:

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

http://www.inc.com/anita-newton/five-specific-ways-to-conquer-your-worst-business-enemy-fear.htm

Here’s Why Dwelling On Your Past Makes You Repeat The Same Mistakes

Fear, anger, uncertainty, discomfort, shame, guilt and many other emotions we perceive as negative are often our compass towards growth. It is our resistance to our past and our interpretation of how our experiences should have manifested which define our expectations for the future. How people remember past behavior affects their choices in the present, according to a new study that suggests the relationship between recall and self-control is more complicated than previously believed.

Research on self-control often suggests recollecting past mistakes as a way to avoid making them again. For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people with food addictions reflect on past lapses to keep from overeating. But Vanderbilt University professor Kelly Haws thought there might be more to the story, so she and her team designed several studies to test the nuances of recall. Haws and colleagues found that focusing on past behaviors is not always a good idea.

Every mistake we make in life is an opportunity to grow and learn. Through our mistakes we learn what we value and what we require in our lives to allow us to grow stronger in our experiences.

“Be very careful when you ask anybody to dig up the past,” said Haws, an associate professor of marketing at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. “That can be a very ineffective way to change future behavior for the better.”

In one experiment, Haws and colleagues divided subjects into two groups: they asked one group to remember self-control “successes” –say, buying shoes from the sales rack rather than shelling out for new Jimmy Choos. The other group was asked to remember examples of poor choices, or “failures.”

Then the researchers added a twist –they wanted to see how the ease of recall affected self-control. To do this, they used a well-known method in cognitive psychology –they asked some subjects to remember more examples than others.

The method works because it’s generally easier to call up two past examples than ten. Therefore, the thinking goes, people asked to remember two instances of smart spending might think they make great choices, since the recall felt easy.

On the flip side, people asked to remember ten examples of good financial decisions might doubt their self-control.

“You start to use that difficulty you’re having as a cue for who you are and what you’re like,” Haws said.

Mistakes are only harmful if we keep repeating them, but if we look at specific situations and reflect what we have learned, we can take actions and the steps required to adjust our path.

Haws gave participants a budget, then asked them how much they would spend on an item they couldn’t afford –a pair of shoes, a handbag or a video game.

Study participants asked to remember few instances of success, on the whole, spent within their allotted budgets. But those asked to remember more good examples exhibited poorer self-control –they tended to splurge on items they couldn’t afford.

The results highlight several interesting elements of the relationship between recall and self-control. Perhaps the most surprising, Haws said, is that searching through the past can negatively affect behavior, depending on the ease of recall, even when past examples are positive.

We are constantly rewriting the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves –that’s what makes recall an unreliable tool for improvement.

Instead of dwelling on the past, Haws said, her research into behavior suggests that setting goals for the future can positively change present behavior. We don’t buy the $700 boots because we want to go on that trip to Europe. We study instead of party because we want a good score on the test.

In short, if we want to have better self-control, “Look forward,” Haws says. “Don’t look back.”

The World Health Organization estimates that about 350 million people worldwide have some form of depression which is often rooted in our perception of regrets and mistakes that have past. When we can recognize our mistakes and acknowledge that they don’t define us, we can create a present and future that doesn’t involve the baggage of emotions that characterize guilt and regret. This opens up our lives to so much gratitude for what we are and what we have become.

http://themindunleashed.org/2015/09/heres-why-dwelling-on-your-past-makes-you-repeat-the-same-mistakes.html