ARE YOU GRATEFUL?

Good day and I hope you are having a great day.  I have been taught, have experienced, and teach that gratitude is the greatest and fastest way to get what you want.  Yet I still find people who ask, A.J. how can I be grateful when everything is going down the toilet? As I am writing this, the U.K. exited the EU, there are floods in South Western part of the United States, AND The Dow Jones industrial average has lost over 600 points. Do you know what else I saw? I saw an exert of Anthony Robins’ seminar where he said if you are living in the United States, you are in the top 1% of the all the earners in the world. Did you hear that? In the world.

He was NOT  talking about the Donald Trump, or Bill Gates. He is talking about the average American.  We may think that we have it tough and I am not by any means making light of the plight of many people who are suffering, but when you think about it in the global scale, there are millions of people who live in conditions and situations that are really unthinkable.  Imagine living on $1.40 per week. That would not even cover your coffee at McDonalds, let alone Starbucks.  

Why am I bring up what looks like doom and gloom? I am not. I am setting up the context to show you  that where ever you think you are now, and how bad it maybe, there are millions of people around the world that do not have the fraction of the comforts you have, and yet are more grateful for those little things that we are here in the U.S. with the freedoms, and conveniences that we have.  I am also not intending to make you feel bad. Because we all know when we send out the vibration of feeling bad we attract more of the opportunities to feel bad. So I want you to stop right now, and write down 3 things you are genuinely grateful for.  Stop and get into the feeling of gratitude for just 2 minutes.  Take something important. The fact that you have eyes to read this blog is a really good one.  The fact that you have internet. The fact that you are healthy enough to be here.  The fact that you have loved ones.  The fact that you love someone. All these things are wonderful examples of things we can really feel great about.

Most people think MISTAKENLY  that The Law of Attraction (LOA) AND  Success journeys are a straight line process from start to your goal. It is not.  That is a good thing too.  You will be taken thought filters to make sure what you want is actually what you want. The process also makes you a stronger and better person at the end of it.  Be grateful for the ups and downs you go through visualizing your desires.  Many people go up and down for nothing at all and you, by the mere fact that you know about LOA are learning and gaining from it. 

I hope this makes sense to you and please feel free to share this week’s brief post.  I have written about Gratitude before, and I want to remind you that there is nothing more important and nothing is easier to get you on the higher vibration.  So practice gratitude often, and pass it forward by teaching people to be grateful.

Comment on my Facebook page or Twitter feed about the this post and let me know what you think. I will answer all posts and tweets.  Have a great week, and until next week, to your success.   

MEANT IT BE OR NOT, DO YOU CARE?

Good day and I hope you are having a great week. Today I wanted to go deep into being a deliberate manifestor using The Law of Attraction (LOA).  As such I will discuss the supernatural or divine interference, whatever it might be that gets people stuck when it comes to success.

Let’s get something straight from the beginning. The Law of Attraction or LOA as it is commonly referred to is a right, and blessing bestowed on the human race by the Creator, God, The Grand Architect of the Universe, Source, Energy, or however you feel comfortable referring to  what manifested us. Do not get hung up on what the background is.  Just know that you as a part of the human race have this tool. You can choose to use it, or you can choose to ignore it. It does nothing to others or the source that gave you this gift if you do not use it, or do not believe it. BUT KNOW THAT THE UNIVERSE WORKS BY THIS LAW WEATHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. You have heard it put this way before, just because you choose to not believe in gravity does not mean you can fly off the building and not get crushed. In fact it is the knowledge of gravity that enables you to use it and to manipulate it to your success, riding a skateboard, doing free running, gymnastics, acrobatics, or even flying a plane. It is not the ignorance of it, or pretending that it does not exist that allows you to use it. 

Let’s now consider the divine intervention.  I personally am spiritual, so I choose to believe in one God.  But that does not mean that if you do not want to go there, you cannot use The LOA to succeed.  It has nothing to do with your beliefs in who or what is working it. The HOW of this equation is not your job. You do however, have to have faith in your ability to manifest whatever you want, and the belief that you can succeed in getting your desires. 

Sometimes though what you want does not happen the way you expect it.  Even advanced, and long term student of LOA, sometimes forget this.  Remember the how is not yours, and that sometimes will include the timing of what you desire.  Let’s say you have worked diligently on the visualization and have cleared all the resistances and are good to go and yet what you want does not happen. You have heard me say this over and over that if something you want and have concentrated on does not happen, the reason is that, the course of action you have chosen is NOT TO YOUR ADVANTAGE AND SOMETHING BETTER IS ON ITS WAY.  But let’s just dive deep into the energy surrounding our emotions and see what is the best course of action for you, BECAUSE you will be disappointed, or question if this stuff really works, or wonder what you did wrong?  Let me put your mind at rest that you are not doing anything wrong.  It is just what it is. You are being protected.  If however, you start to let the emotions control your subconscious relating to the issue, you are going to be sending out the vibrations that will continue to prevent the BETTER results from coming as well.

Recall your basics (if you don’t know what I am talking about please click on the lower left hand side where there are some beginning posts for those of you who are not familiar with the law of attraction basics), your feelings, and vibrations you sent out will attract to them more opportunities to feel the way you feel. That means that if you are disappointed about not getting what you want you will be attracting more opportunities to feel disappointed and that is not what you want.

Take the advice of many wiser teachers than I, and desire, visualize and then let it go. If it does not happen know that something better is coming along, and give thanks for the opportunity of getting something better. It is very natural to feel disappointed, but you need to nip that in the bud. Do not allow the vibration to escape. It takes only 17 seconds for your vibrations to start attracting to YOU the opportunities. If you did not catch it within the first seventeen seconds though, do not feel bad. As soon as you realize, change your emotions and thoughts towards something that feels just a little better, and keep at it till you are on the positive vibration side. 

I hope this helps. Share this with anyone who can benefit and make sure to comment on my Facebook and Twitter feed.  Till next week, to your ongoing success. 

WHY IS IT DARKEST BEFORE DAWN?

Good day and I hope you are having a wonderful week. This week I wanted to give you a clear explanation about The Law of Attraction’s (LOA) explanation behind parables, or cliché that “it is always darkest before dawn”, or “opportunities are just one step beyond the point where a person quits”, or “the sun will always shine tomorrow”,  or however you have heard it and whatever you may believe.

I am going to explain this to you in very simple terms, and I hope it will help you to achieve more success using The LOA once you know the knowledge and can then apply this knowledge to the negativity that usually arises and sabotages your goals.  Just like when you first learned about The LOA, you started to notice things happening like getting parking spots, or cups of coffee, I am confident that when you know the reason, you can get through the rough times to achieve your desires. 

When you are desiring something, you are usually expanding your comfort zones.  You are expanding because your current status of what you want, are not a match vibrationally to the ideal.  You are rising your vibration mentally, but you are not there physically.  When you start reaching for something that is better, your subconscious is already stuck in a comfort zone.  So reaching for desires and shooting for success will immediately bring up erroneous thoughts of negativity, doubt, and protective mechanisms that I have explained in a different blog post entitled 66,000,000 Year old Curse of Human Kind, which is ingrained in our DNA to protect us from the dinosaurs, and the Saber Toothed Tigers.  Those erroneous beliefs and subconscious incorrect thoughts attracted to them increased amount of negativity when compared to not reaching for a new desire.  Because when you reach for a desire these negative thoughts will suddenly come up to try to “protect you” as I explained in the video blog before.  These negative thoughts are usually not conscious, so they will attract to them a brief period of negativity and darkness which  if you are not aware of the root cause can last longer and longer and cause you to give up.

It is  therefore imperative that you realize that when you are reaching for a new desire, there will be a brief time where you are seemingly hitting your head against the wall, or perhaps you seem to have hit a lot of obstacles, or you are the poster child for the cliché “when it rains it pours”.  Realize that these are because of those erroneous subconscious beliefs that are ingrained in your comfort zone, and now you are challenging them. You are causing a “threat” to the status quo.  What you need to do is to maximize your affirmations, maximize your gratitude for the things that you have, and reestablish the faith that you will achieve what you desire.  It is extremely important to once again 1) reestablish your affirmations towards this desire, 2) give gratitude for your current condition, and 3) establish your faith and belief that what you are desiring is yours.  The good news is as you get used to this, it will happen less and less because your subconscious will start to realize that it is part of the process so you will not be sending the vibration of fear. 

That is the key to sailing through the storm that is attracted to you because of the subconscious thoughts that are in your comfort zone when you desire new and better things.  Having this knowledge, you can now look at those dark moments as very real signposts that you are about to reach your desires.  Now you know these difficulties are arising and you can handle them properly, reaffirm your belief and reach your goals faster. 

I hope this makes sense and helps. If you have questions, please use the Facebook links and post them on my Facebook page and I will answer them, or send me a tweet on my Twitter feed. Till next week, to your success. 

THE BEST SECRET FOR SUCCESS

Good day and I hope you are having a great week. This week, I have make a video blog for your viewing pleasure that will give the most important secret of using The Law of Attraction (LOA) for success. It is simple, and yet it is not easy. Take a look at the video and as always share it with anyone who can use it, and comment on my Facebook page under this post's link or on my Twitter feed. Until next week, to your success. 

https://youtu.be/WGm_X7Iw1UE

RITUALS

Good day and I hope you are having a great week.  This week, I want to talk to you about rituals. What are they? A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence. Why am I spending this week’s blog post on this subject? Because as part of the mission to teach you to  use of The Law of Attraction (LOA) more effectively, it is important to use rituals.

You see you can write your affirmations, and lists, and even read them over and over quickly every day, but even though that is better than doing nothing, there is something missing.  When you do the same thing, bring up the “reverence” of the action, take time to feel the feelings of what you want, and do this over and over in the same place, you are amplifying the vibration you send out to the Universe.

Think about it, is it better for me to take my time every morning, and go into a set place, calming myself, bringing the joy, and feeling of gratitude, and then sit and visualize what I want, taking the time to imagine how I feel when I have it, hearing the sounds, and feeling the feelings? Or jump out of bed and haphazardly write 10 things I am thankful for, and then run off to read my e-mails for the day?

I am deliberately making a drastic contrast here to make a point.  Many times when I am asked about why The LOA has not worked for people, I have to ask deep question about how the person is using and practicing The LOA.  Often times, when people first stumble or deliberately study The Law of Attraction, they are gun ho about doing the visualization and feeling the feelings, and doing it in a setting of being calm, and at peace. If you have been introduced to LOA at a seminar or event, you are surrounded by like-minded people, who have now added their energy to yours. The environment is conducive to well-being.  Then you go home and for a few days, maybe few weeks, do the process with the residual energy from the event still motivating you, and when you don’t see anything happening you either give up or do not put any effort into their process. Then people may just do things like machines.  Machines, and animals do not utilize the Law of Attraction because they do not have the control over their emotions.  You can tweet that one if you want. As humans we have the ability to DIRECT our thoughts, and by extrapolation we can DIRECT and control, with practice, the EMOTIONS that those thoughts elicit.  The process of rituals is seen as sacred but it does not have to have  a religious connotation. It just has to have an emotional component to it.

As long as you give it the attention you would give any kind of ritual, then you will gain a better result from your manifestations. The keeping of a set place is discussed in previous (see Sanctuary)

posts and will give you a boost as you and your subconscious will associate the place with the feeling of getting into manifesting “ritual” so as you practice it more and more your body and subconscious will get more and more used to it and you can reach your vibration and be in “the zone” quicker and quicker. 

I hope this post was helpful and provided you with an additional step to make your manifestation practices highly productive.  As always please feel free to share this and comment on my Facebook page and send me Tweets on my Twitter page.  Till next week, to your success.

BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

Good day and I hope you are having a great start to the week.  This week I am going to explore the reason behind the fact that it usually takes many people to hit rock bottom before they manage to succeed. This is just my opinion and based on extrapolation of the Universal Facts of The Law of Attraction (LOA). I think at the very least it will make you think about success in different terms.

           

We know that the LOA works weather we happen to know about it or not or weather we believe it or not.  It is a Universal Law. Like gravity and electricity it is just there to be used or abused. If you have been a student of the LOA you also know that Thoughts will lead you to express Emotions that will attract to them opportunities for more of that emotion to manifest.  Another words FEELINGS tell the Universe what we WANT and what we attract. How does this jive with the fact that many of the greatest and most successful people in the world have come from humble beginnings, and rock bottom circumstances? Why do we keep on reading and hearing about rags to riches stories? Stick with me and let’s dive into the simple way that LOA works.

Abraham-Hicks teachings make it really simple by explaining that the key to our success and getting what we want is not to try to go from misery to joy, but rather the trick is taking small steps and reaching for what feels a little better.  Humans can take an immense amount of abuse, and torture.  Yet there is a certain point where we just cannot tolerate anymore. There is an absolute bottom for each person, where we say enough. At that point there are only few options. To fight back or to give up.  It is rare for people to reach that level under normal conditions in Western society.  Even with nothing, there are infrastructures in place to help.  That is why rags to riches is rare. There are plenty of opportunities which allow people to just tolerate their circumstance.

Once the bottom is reached however, something clicks.  When you cannot tolerate anymore, you change your vibration. Change directions from the feelings that are negative to ones that feel a bit better. Of course when you are at the bottom everything SEEMS negative, but from the Universe’s perspective, anger is better or higher vibration than depression.  So as you hang on to those feelings that make your feel more empowered, or a little better and keep on changing them for better and better, you ride the manifestation of more and more opportunities to get better and better. Many people do this unknowingly.  They get pissed, then they find blame, and  hope, then they have positive expectation, then they have optimism, etc. until they succeed. 

More often though we get stuck in a one-step forwards and two step back situation.  A depressed person gets pissed. They start to feel a little better, but how does society react to anger?  The feedback from their “real WORLD” is “don’t be angry, or anger is bad”. So they go back to being depressed, and now hopeless.  At some point though most people will have enough and will start to reach again for something that feels a little better.  Depending on how they work with this gradual shift in their feelings, they can either get out of the slump and even succeed or go back and forth with frustration.  If the person can continue to reach for better and better feelings, they will accidentally touch upon the GREAT SECRET OF THE LAW OF ATTRACTION.  At some point they start to give gratitude, and start to think about other things i.e. visualize, and that will bring feelings of excitement. If they have support, or if they are strong enough or even if they are just fed up enough they will break the chain of negativity and continue to ride the feeling up to better and better manifestations.

The awesome thing is that good feelings do NOT HAVE A CEILING.  How cool is that? Just like gravity.  If you had told me 30 years ago that people would be literally walking up walls, I would tell you, you were smoking something. But Google parkour or Free-running and you will see what the human body is capable of doing.  The only ceiling on the success you can achieve is placed there by you, as you grow and react to new challenges.  So how are you going to react? More importantly are you going to wait until you can’t take it anymore to start to change your feeling for ones that feel just a little bit better?

I hope this makes sense or at least got you to think about it. As always share this with anyone who may benefit from it and leave me comments on my Facebook page and Twitter feed. Till next week, to your success. 

NO RIGHT TO CRITICIZE, BAD JU JU

Good day and I hope you are having a great week. Recently I saw on my Linked In news feed a video of a young lady with the heading “millennial rant goes viral”. While I thought the message was well articulated, it got me thinking about what we are concentrating and sharing.  This is the topic that I want to call your attention to this week. Do we have the right to criticize? Should we, even if we do? And What are the Law of Attraction (LOA)  implication of criticism?

Let’s start with the  bottom line premise of LOA. 100% personal responsibility. Remember that the concepts, teachings, and the tools we use in the Law of Attraction are based on the energy we send out for our own personal manifestation and desires.  We cannot want or apply the LOA for others, or to others.  We can only guide people to seek and use it for themselves. I have noticed it has always been easy to criticize people.  It is not a Millennial, GenX, GenY, Baby boomer, or any other generational tendency. Sometimes it is meant well. At other times it is a defense mechanism to mask shortcomings.  I also want to be clear, when I am talking about criticism, I am talking about the unsolicited feedback.  I am not talking about the time when you reach out to a mentor or trusted advisor and ask for help.  I am talking about sharing our unfounded, often poorly researched or thought-out comments about people in an attempt to be humorous, or for a topic of debate. I personally have to work on stopping this type of action. It is sending out the vibration I do not want around me.

It does not matter what I may be criticizing.  If I have not accomplished, or dealt with the issue I attempt to criticize, I most definitely am not qualified to criticize it.  Let’s use the Presidential elections. Regardless of what I think about the candidates, I have not been in their shoes running for the highest office of the nation, therefore even though it is my right to vote for my candidate based on my values, and thoughts about the future of my country, I do not have the right to criticize them.  I would go and say even voicing comments on the negative is something I want to get away from.  Why? Let’s break it down.

I attract whatever I give attention to.  Unsolicited criticism is coming from a place of insecurity and lack.  It is saying I am better than you, or I know more than you, or I am afraid of what you will do. Even if this is true, the vibration of the message is negative.  It is far from gratitude.  In essence it will attract opportunities where I can feel better than someone else, or fearful, which is manifestation of something that does not feel good and  is not what I want. If all was well and I had my desires I would not have the NEED to feel like I am better than someone else.  The whole point of “I have to be better than someone else” is the competitive scarcity mentality. 

It does not matter if I think someone is lazy, or feels wrongfully entitled, or is rude, or crass, or will be ruining my country. All of these will attract to me situations where I will see lazy, entitled, rude, crass, and ruin for my country. By giving the situation the attention of criticism I am attracting more opportunity to criticize which is usually something I DO NOT WANT, otherwise why would I criticize.  Why in the world would I want to attract the crap into my life just for the opportunity to criticize????

Do you now see when I titled this Bad JU JU, what I meant?  You may mean well, but you are only setting yourself up for more disharmony by criticizing.  Envision the world and your day as you want, and not the way you don’t want it.  Go about visualizing and concentrating on the things that make your heart sing. Pay gratitude for the wonderful things in your life, your community, your country and the world.  It really makes no difference who becomes the President, unless you want to give that your attention.  If you are running for President, then yes that is a big deal for you.  Otherwise, for most of us it really is a matter of wanting the best for our country, and visualizing and concentrating on the good and not trying to FIGHT THE BAD, because fighting the bad will only attract more stuff to fight. Do you see the negative feedback loop? I hope so.

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I hope this made sense to you. Use your social media platform for giving attention and strength to what you want, and not what you don’t want. You have a tremendous amount of power to elicit emotions with social media. Use that power responsibly.  Comment and share your ideas on my Facebook page and Twitter feed.  With love, and gratitude, I wish you success till next week.