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I have been reading several books lately about manifesting. They all point to the same technique. In fact a couple books have a Christian bent and talk about how faith and belief and a positive attitude are upheld in the Bible.

I am very familiar with the Bible, having read through it at least 4 times. But for some reason my upbringing instilled in me a ‘holiness’ to poverty. These books are telling me the opposite. So I am going to work my way through the Gospels and record all the places where a reference to having faith, believing and good coming to you are stated or even implied.

This may take a while but should be very interesting. I am using this to counter all the ‘lies’ I was brought up with.

God, at least my God, is a God of abundance and all powerful. What I had been taught was God wanted you to deny your material property (sounds like a past life monkish existence) and live in scarcity. This does not make sense. How can you help the poor by becoming one of them? Why would you throw back into God’s face what he is lovingly trying to give you? Sounds like a very rude thing to do.

When I give someone something, I love it when they gush and accept it with gratitude. Don’t the people who can’t take a complement drive you crazy? Makes you not want to give one. I was always one to believe that you should graciously accept, and don’t throw a complement back, at least not immediately because that make you sound like one-up-man-ship.

Getting back off my soap box, I will title the post with the Bible verse involved and the post will explain how it supports manifesting.

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I have been reading Wallace D. Wattles book “The Science of Getting Rich”. This is the same book that Rhonda Byrne’s daughter gave her to read that lead to her producing “The Secret” movie (you can download an e-copy of Wattles’ book there). There are some interesting correlations between what this 1910 publication says and modern discoveries.

A key idea that is often quoted in the book is “There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imagined by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.” This correlates with some astronomical discoveries made in the last 10 years or so; the existence of dark energy and dark matter.

Scientists believe that dark energy exists because of its effect on bodies that are visible; like the belief in subatomic particles because of how particles act and react under certain conditions. Scientist believe that the dark energy condenses into dark matter. It is the dark matter that condenses further into the physical bodies that we see in space. It is said that only about 5% of the energy available has actually created all the physical things we can see. This includes all the galaxies, all the solar systems, all the planets and everything on each planet such as the chair you are sitting in and yes even your body. That leaves a lot of energy floating around out there.

How do these ‘things’ get created? I believe mainly through the mind of God. The first thoughts were God’s and since we have been created in the image of God, I believe that means we are creators also. Often our creating has taken a more tangible form such as taking hammer and nail to cut-up trees. But even that has to start with an idea.

Could we be more powerful than we give ourselves credit for?

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If you could manifest anything, would you? I have heard of some ‘masters’ in India who can create out of thin air. The things they create can be quite valuable, gold items, exotic gems etc and all of these they give away. Yes some of the items created have been tested and found to be of the highest quality.

I don’t believe any of these people live a life of opulence. Even though they can create what ever they want they don’t create much of anything for themselves. That in itself seems to give them less credence in our materialistic world. I can hear it now “If they are so great and can create what ever they want, why don’t they live in a palace?”

Think about it a little. If you could create what ever you wanted, when ever you wanted, would you be in any hurry about creating any more than you really need. I don’t think I would. The pressure would be off. I would know I could have food, housing, clothing anything I needed whenever I wanted it so I would have no need to create it right now. I would have more fun creating ‘trinkets’ for others and giving them away, just like these people do.

There is so much material available concerning manifesting and the law of attraction. Much of the material is being rediscovered from published works in the early 1900’s. It does seem that what the masses concentrate on comes about. This makes me wonder if more and more people will be able to manifest what they want at will. Maybe this is the great change that the December 2012 date is pointing toward. It is interesting to contemplate. The whole dynamics of society would change.

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I ran across a quote the other day that I really liked. “Attitudes are more important that Facts” by Dr. Karl Menninger – psychiatrist.

Last year I did an experiment where I noted my attitude then noted how life was going. I discovered that the facts of my life, if life was being difficult or easy, followed my attitude changes. Not the other way around! I may have been feeling good about life and what was going on and then I would let my fears for the future creep in. It was after I started to feel fearful that life started spiraling downward, money started getting tight, unexpected bills started arriving. I would then pull myself together and force a more optimistic outlook and then my money situation would start to shift.

This year I am making a major effort to stay focused on optimism. I have rediscovered faith; Faith in the future, Faith in ultimate good, Faith that God has my best interest at heart, and Faith that the Universe will provide. So far that has worked well. I went through some shaky fights with fear until I decided to release it. That was about two months ago now and I have been relatively fear free since. This is amazing to me as I have had fear all my life!

From talking with others and reading personal stories I have discovered that releasing the fear is the first step to manifesting the life you want. Fear stands in the way of life’s energy. It is the flow of energy that brings things to you. Since releasing the fear, so much information has come to me about positive attitude and manifesting what you want it almost feels surreal at times. I have had moments where I have felt overwhelmingly optimistic, that nothing was impossible. This feeling causes me to feel very light of body, almost a tingly sensation. I wonder if this is a feeling of higher vibration? I can’t wait to see what happens next.

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One of the original speakers on “The Secret” was Esther Hicks. We were so impressed by what she said that we bought several of her books one of which is Ask & It Is Given.This fits with my theme for the week on positive thinking.

This book provides a way of increasing your vibrational frequency by improving your emotional outlook. There is a nifty scale about half way in the book that starts at the lowest emotion of “Fear/Grief/Depression/Dispair/Powerlessness” and moves up the scale through Anger and Worry through Frustration and Pessimism then into what we judge as the more positive emotions such as Contentment, Optimism, Enthusiasm and at the top is “Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation”. What makes this book such a keeper are the useful suggested exercises to help you move up the scale to a higher vibration.

Most of us lump all negative emotions into one group as being bad. But there are degrees. For example, the year I was depressed, I lost the depression when I became angry. Anger is higher up the scale from depression (which is at the very bottom) so anger was an improvement. Our society tends to view anger as one of the worst emotions, but it is not at the bottom. Anger can lead to much needed social change. Anger can cause a person to find a better way. But anger is still one of the lower vibrations and it is best to work your way up the scale from that.

Paul was so impressed with the suggested processes that he wrote them down on index cards and carried them around for a long time.

The purpose of the book is to get you to a place where you feel the Life Force in you and around you. It is the Joy you feel in life. A quote I like from the book is “Success is about a happy life, and a happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people do not allow the happy moments because they are so busy trying to get a happy life.” So true. Our emotions are there as a barometer to tell you how far away from your true self you are. When you are feeling bad you are not in your true power. As the book says “Life is supposed to be fun–It is Supposed to feel good!”

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Yesterday I wrote about how saying certain words out loud with enthusiasm can make you feel better. Then I wrote about how your facial expression can lead your feeling, in-other-words, your feelings don’t have to lead your facial expression.

Today I want to throw in another possibility. If you can change your attitude by changing your facial expression does that also work with other characteristics that are expressions of who you are? The one that comes to mind is graphology, or handwriting analysis. The way you write can tell a lot about you. It can say if you are honest, if you are hiding something, if you can keep a secret, it can even tell someone if you have a bent toward wealth. If you can change your handwriting, can you change your characteristics? I believe you can.

This world is very symbolic. That is why if you tend to see the negative in things, more will come to you that is negative. If you are feeling stuck in some area of you life, you toilet starts clogging or the garage door starts to bind and get stuck. Your hand writing is just another symbol of your life.

It is not easy to change your handwriting. I have tried. I have practiced making certain letters a certain way but I tend to fall back to my normal writing when actually using the letter. When I allow myself to feel the emotion associated with that letter formation, I do make the letter easier. I think there is some basis to this but just like in yesterday’s blog with the man learning the facial muscles and expressions; it takes a lot of concentration and work. I will keep working on it and see if that one change takes place in my writing and in my life.

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As promised, today is how the commandments 4-10 relate to the law of attraction.

The rest of the commands have to do with how we treat each other. If we are truly living in abundance and in the law of attraction we will not do any of these because that would be like doing it to yourself. What goes around comes around. Be good to others and good will come to you. Let’s take a few and look closer.

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy’. You don’t have to work your tail off. Take some time off and recuperate. Have faith, expect that good will come and let it come. This can also be expressed as take time for gratitude which is very important in the law of attraction.

“Honor your father and your mother”. Ok who hasn’t had a dysfunctional childhood? Congratulations, move to the next paragraph. The rest of you keep reading. I am going to use the big “F” word: Forgiveness. I know it is hard, but your mom or dad or who ever wronged you had a crappy childhood too. More than likely they did not wake up each morning thinking of ways to make your life miserable. For the few who had parents that did, remember you are grown up now and can break those ties for your own good. They don’t have to be in your life any more, I give you permission to never see them again! Thank them for what they taught you, because you did learn from them, then move on. Those lessons may not have been pleasant but they formed you. Now you know what you do not want to be like. Remember you are forgiving them, not their actions. But if you can’t bring yourself to forgive, work on the issues involved with EFT or one of the other meridian tapping methods. (Go to www.naturallyresilient.com to learn more). Lifting the weight of the issues from your shoulders will help you tremendously.

The next several are no-brainers; don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie. This falls under what you think about comes about. If you do something to someone else then that is the way you view the world. If you view the world as unfriendly that is the kind of world you will get. I have heard it said that the most important decision you will ever make is to decide what kind of a world you live in; a friendly one or an unfriendly one.

What about the last one; you shall not covet. This is beyond just wanting what they have. In the law of attraction, you can attract the same thing into your life if you want it. You do not have to take from some one else to have it, there is plenty to go around. This is beyond just wanting because I also see this as rejoicing with your neighbor for what he has accomplished. Be glad that you neighbor has figured out how to attract good things into his life. This is like love, just because you love one of your children that doesn’t mean there is less love for the other children! Rejoice and be glad and expect just as good for yourself.

These tenants are great ones to live by and can enrich anyone’s life no matter what culture they live in.

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Most all cultures have something similar to the 10 commandments. What is so interesting is how theses commands and the law of attraction go hand-in-hand.

The first three pertain to what you value the most in your life. This is where you rest your hopes and your faith when you are out of options; although this should be the first place we go it is often the last. (Then again even if it is the first it will still be the last because it is our end of the road, faith stops here option.)

To really have life abundantly, you have to rely on something outside of yourself, something that is bigger than yourself. Some people call this God others call it Universal power, others may have different names but I think they are all the same. God is too big for any one person to truly know. The analogy of the blind men and the elephant fits here. We all see or feel a different part of God and may call it different things but the main thing is that God is all good and is bigger than you. Have faith in the abundance that God or the universe has for you, rely on it.

God is good, no matter that some religions try to tell you otherwise. Unfortunately, religion has given God a bad name. Don’t be burned out on God, if you have to call this power by a different name, do so. Just allow there to be something bigger out there than your mere, mortal flesh and blood body. This gives you something to rely on.

Another technique I use is to talk to my Angels and Guides. You can do the same. Tell them what you need; they can only act if you ask them to.

Thursday I will get into the rest of the commandments.

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The Jackrabbit Factor: Why You Can by Leslie Householder is an inspirational book with an easy to read entertaining style. I have found the ideas in this book keep popping into my head as I read other books on manifesting the financial freedom most people just dream about. What makes this book such a good compliment to the other books such as The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles (which can be downloaded for free from www.thesecret.tv) and Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, is that The Jackrabbit Factor puts a rather abstract idea into picture form; kind of like a dream that takes your emotions and puts them into symbolic pictures. This book also has that same surreal quality as a dream does.

Richard, the main character in the book, enters into a ‘dream’ type world where people race around looking for sandwiches. The sandwiches represent W-2 jobs. Some bags contain a fat juicy tuna sandwich others may contain a thin cheese sandwich and some contain more than one sandwich. But people are racing around trying to find these sandwich bags, or trying to protect these bags or even getting into fights over the bags when there are actually plenty of others to choose from.

Richard is then introduced to another way of feeding the family. It involves getting off of the main road and collecting jackrabbits. The jackrabbits are elusive until Richard meets some one who is willing to teach him about catching jackrabbits. I won’t tell you how to catch jackrabbits; you will have to read the book for yourself.

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I have a neighbor who is always dwelling on how bad things are and how she just can’t get ahead with her finances. I really don’t care to listen to all these complaints as I am trying very hard to live a positive life. I have found that this person does not come around as much as she use to. I think it may be because I am sending out more positive energy waves which repell her negative one.

Last year I did an experiment where I noted when my emotional state changed and then noted what manifested in my physical life. I can tell you the emotional change occurred BEFORE the physical manifestation. When I started feeling down and woe-is-me the lack soon started coming into my life. When I decided to give myself a talking to and be more positive, things started picking up and money started to flow again.

This year I am doing another experiment. I have decided to be as positive as I can as much as I can. I have found that new information and help keeps coming my way to keep me on track. Some of the things that have come my way include: a friend starting a group called “Mindful Happiness” which is a support group for us trying to live a more positive life, I have also rediscovered some books that have helped me, each one coming when I needed to go a little deeper or concentrate on a different area.

What am I experiencing on a more tangible level? For one thing, the monthly bills are being paid even-though no major invoices have gone out since March!

I will keep you informed of any major changes. Let’s stay positive!

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