Good day , and I hope you are having a great day.
Today I want to talk about a topic that may seem counter
intuitive at first. The other day in Los Angeles I happened into a small used
book store and bought a book called The Spiritual Laws of ECK by Harold
Klemp. It is very similar to the teachings of many works on The Law of
Attraction. As I am reading it I came across The Law of Reversed Effort. It states the definition as “The functioning
of the imagination by negation which draws into the external that which one is
trying to avoid” ( Klemp p.71). It
states that this law is for man only because man is the only animal that can
use the power of imagination.
This law applies to our thoughts. “The more you try to put
your imaginative powers upon something in concentrated effort, the less you can
do it.? (Klemp p.71). The detail explanation of this law delves into something that
is very familiar to practitioners of the Law of Attraction. The key factor in
making real what is imagined lies in the feelings. Recall, or read the earlier
posts on the Law of Attraction that the thoughts by themselves have very little
effectiveness on our reality. It is the feelings that we associate with them
that gives them the power.
In my book
Road Map to Life: A real world lesson I use
the analogy of a steering wheel of a car. If the thoughts are the steering
wheel of the car, the feelings are what connects the steering wheel to the
tiers. Without the feelings it is difficult to make the car go the way we want
it to go. In the book I was reading it gives an example: “…if a man tries to
walk across a small plank from one building to another at the tenth floor, his
mind would be on falling and not on the walking. What you image must have
feeling—therefore the negative imaging is more likely to be effective than the
positive imaging because the negative has feeling with it!” (Klemp p.72).
I started to thing about this and it bothered me for a
while. From the time I was little I was told to “try hard”, “concentrate”. Then the subtle part of the explanation of
the law hit me like a brick. “We should never try to force results. We should stick
to our task and finish out the race, but never knock ourselves out doing it”
(Klemp p.71). Suddenly things started to make sense from the LOA point of view.
Let me sound it out here. When we are faced with a task
that we are having difficulty with or
are unfamiliar with, we concentrate and if we cannot achieve success, we start
to get into the defensive mode. Very few people, at least in the Western
society will take a break and go and do something else and calm down and come
back with a fresh perspective. It is ingrained in us to “get it done”. So we
try harder, and harder. We get frustrated and we get angry. It is like the
person walking on a plank between two buildings on the tenth floor. If he is
not an experienced acrobat, then the fear of falling is a strong emotion. No
matter how much he tried positive imagery the fear is the stronger feeling. Without practice and discipline it is
difficult to bring positive feelings where there is fear.
Now think about the last time you were trying to get
something (mental task) accomplished and things were not going your way. What
emotions did you experience? When we start to concentrate for the sake of
FORCING THE ISSUE we are actually counterproductive. It makes perfect sense from the stand point of
LOA. When we are sending the feeling vibration of frustration and anger then by
the law we will get back the situation and opportunities to experience more and
more of those feelings. Because that is the universal law and it gives us what
we ask for. It does not understand words
of negation and it responds to our feelings. Whatever feelings we send out,
those same feelings are coming back to us. When we take a break and take the
time to relax and refresh our thoughts and thinking, then we are at a better
set point. We are sending out the vibrational thoughts of relaxation and at the
very least, neutrality. There is no innate resistance in the thoughts we are
concentrating on.
It is even better if we take a break and come back positive that
we will accomplish our task. Beware however, not to come back with the predetermined
mindset of “oh crap I have to do this thing again”. Remember your thoughts will dictate what you
experience. Perhaps you can use the Segment Intending example I gave in the
post on 8/28/12, to delve back into your task. There is a saying that “what we
resist, persists”. The key is to keep on going but not force the issue.
It is difficult to conceptualize this in our Western
society. We have been so accustomed to doing things fast. Game shows with time
limits and buzzers are all over our media. Even in our schools we are taught to
accomplish tasks in a certain amount of time. Pressure, pressure, pressure. The
quicker you do the task the better you are. That is so different from the
perspective of Eastern society. Where sometimes it is just good to do something
for the sake of doing it. When there is emphasis placed on taking time out and
meditating. What a novel concept. Actually taking time out of daily life to do
nothing at all. Even though the concept of meditation is taking hold in our
Western society it is not a comfortable practice. Most people will get to
meditating when they have time. Very few people set scheduled time to meditate.
Do you know what is interesting however? The people who do
set scheduled time to meditate or take a break each and every day no matter
what their schedule looks like or what crisis happens to have come up are some
of the most successful people in our society. Something to think about ha? If
you want to have something, find someone who has it and do what they do. It is
an old and true advice that very few people (including me) put to practice routinely.
So I hope this post has opened your eyes to forcing your
concentration. The mind is not designed to be forced. When you try to force
concentration there is something that rebels and that is just the Law of
Attraction doing what it does. The next
time you are getting frustrated with a task, remember that you are asking for
more frustration. Take time, and use a tool like Segment Intending or
meditation to relax and come back to the task with positive energy and fresh
perspective and do not force it. It will be accomplished faster if you don’t
force the issue, as counter intuitive as it may sound.
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