Attractive Attraction

Grocery shopping is hard work. With so many artificial additives in food, you have to scrutinize the gobbledegook on labels to be sure of what you’re getting.

Have you ever bought something you thought was meat and then discovered upon closer inspection that it wasn’t meat at all? What in the world is a byproduct, anyway? According to Webster’s Dictionary, byproduct means an outgrowth, offshoot, or consequence of something else. What is an “outgrowth” or “consequence” of meat, and should we be eating it?

It’s important to read labels on the backs of packages because what’s on the front is often misleading. Unsuspecting parents buy so-called fruit snacks for their kids, thinking they are a nutritious alternative to junk food. In reality, they are 99 percent sugar with imitation fruit flavor and a bunch of chemicals thrown in, which I can’t even pronounce. Why not just give your kid a banana? Advertising for juice drinks is just as misleading. Mostly water and sugar, they aren’t even close to being real juice from a real fruit.

The problem of confusing labels and deceiving wrappers extends beyond the grocery store. In life, as well as on the pantry shelf, things wrapped in pretty packages often contain stuff that’s not good for us and may even be dangerous. Likewise, what is good for our character sometimes doesn’t look appealing at first glance.

Do you want to be strong and resilient, able to persevere and emerge victorious? These traits come from suffering through trials. Want to be patient? It’s a result of waiting and waiting and trusting while you wait some more. We live in a world that focuses on instant gratification, so we are often so focused on the outside wrapping that we miss out on the gift inside.

Your desire is to be happy, but happiness usually comes after we develop attributes like strength and endurance. We often whine when these gifts come our way because we don’t like the way they’re wrapped.

Things may look awful to us, but there may be a very good reason for them to be happening. It just hasn’t become apparent yet.

Trust that God has a great gift for you inside that unattractive wrapper.

Marsha Jordan
Author of “Hugs, Hope, and Peanut Butter”
hugsandhope@gmail.com
www.hugsandhope.org

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Imagine being able to actually shape your life the way you want it to be so that you can achieve anything you set out to achieve. Well, you know what? It’s really possible. And thousands, in fact, millions have been doing it and are really successful in their lives so there’s no reason why you cannot be one of them.

The way I’ve lived me life for a long time now is based on the Law of Attraction. Of course, when I was a kid, I hadn’t come across this concept before although I knew I was living it when I heard about it. The Law of Attraction simply states, “You get what you think about.”

Think back to a time when you were doing something, maybe focusing on the lack of money you have, how did you feel then? What kept happening? Did you keep thinking of the lack of money and finding that more wealth was coming your way? Or did you have to change your thoughts about money, making them positive vibrations for the universe to respond to you so that you can experience the abundance of money flowing to you?

Here’s how it works, and here’s the process that has given me so much success in my life in terms of opportunities, love, finance, relationships, etc. Whatever thought you are focussing upon send out a vibration into the universe and the universe responds to it by giving you more of that particular vibration. There are only two types of vibrations - positive and negative, and these are determined by what you are focussing upon.

I can hear you saying, “Kavit, is it really that simple? You mean if I just focus on my desire, it’ll just appear?” Yes that’s right, but one thing that is crucial in order to manifest your desire is to have no resistance in the alignment of your vibration with your desire. What that means is that there should be no inner critic, or what we term as Self 1 doubting your desire otherwise that also sends out some negative vibrations which then makes the Universe respond with nothing - keeping you stationary.

So you can see that in fact that’s the real simple strategy for you to manifest your desire. But before you can manifest it, you really have to get clear on what you want to achieve, and we’ll look at how to get clear about what you want to achieve in the next issue!

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Within hours after posting A Dose of Caffeine for Your Consciousness, I went downstairs and saw that my wife was watching a movie. She was watching Mystery Men, which is about a group of inept but well-intentioned superheroes. This was a movie we’d seen when it first came out in 1999 but not since then it just happened to be showing on cable (USA channel). As I walked into the room, the scene that just happened to be on the screen was the one where Invisible Boy finally gets to show off his power the power to become invisible, but only when no one is looking directly at him. He uses it to bypass a deadly machine. That’s a fascinating interpretation of one of the concepts I just wrote about.

The movie that came on right after that one on the same channel was The Hulk, which is about a powerful superhero who comes to possess great powers which he’s unable to control. Hmmm A warning message?

Then later in the day I stumbled upon this article about an 8-year old Korean physics prodigy who’s entering university and says he wants to invent anti-gravity cars that can fly. I just happened to notice it on the del.icio.us popular list today. Another example of something I was just writing about this morning.

Then I happened to be watching The Matrix Reloaded during lunch (must be movie day here), and a scene came on where Neo and another character in Zion were discussing how little they slept just a few hours a day. Alrighty then

I interpret these kinds of things as bounceback reflections of my thoughts rippling through external reality. At first I would dismiss such events as my brain’s reticular activating system (RAS) at work, which can predispose us to notice what we’ve been thinking about. For example, you buy a new car and then see that same make and model everywhere on the road. But I became curious to see if I could push beyond the RAS explanation and start manifesting coincidences that would be really hard to explain merely as the result of subconscious programming. Letting go of that limiting belief seemed to have a big effect, and now I notice strange synchronicities happening almost every day, many of which require a serious stretch for me to explain purely as a result of subconscious action or random coincidence.

Then I started trying to consciously create such synchronous experiences by intending for them to manifest with greater abundance and intensity. Now I experience this kind of thing nearly every day, and sometimes there’s an avalanche of them within a compressed period of time (like 30-60 minutes). The coincidences described above are among the mildest.

Since I started this blog last year, these effects have been magnified tremendously. I think that may be due to the fact that via my writing, I’m able to influence the thinking of thousands of others. I suspect that when thousands of people think a certain thought within a short period of time (like 24 hours or so), it creates stronger ripples through reality than when just one person thinks the thought. So that may explain why when I write about something, I see a greater surge in synchronicities, even if I discount those that seem to be a direct result of people reading the blog and sending me feedback.

If this is indeed how reality works, then it means I need to be very cognizant of the thoughts I’m putting out into the world. I’m OK with accepting that responsibility because I’ve been consciously committing myself to serve the highest good of all and to develop a deeper understanding of what that means. The ability to influence the thoughts of thousands of people each day isn’t something I take lightly. I feel grateful for the privilege, and I’m dedicated to doing the best I can. Such a privilege can easily be abused though if one succumbs to fear-based thinking, as Adolf Hitler once did with his communication skills.

I think everyone has this innnate ability to use their thoughts to create ripples in external reality, but they don’t normally notice it because they mostly use their thoughts to recreate their past in the future. Most people think the same thoughts they did yesterday, so their experience of reality appears more rigid and less flexible. I will tell you that it’s been a major challenge for me to learn how to think consciously and proactively instead of merely reacting to external reality, to choose my thoughts instead of having them dictated by my environment. It took years to be able to do that with any consistency. Reactionary thinking is a hard habit to break.

This is Greatest American Hero territory, where we seem to possess some sort of curious power but lack the instruction manual. I’m deeply fascinated by the opportunity to explore such territory. I hope you find it equally fascinating as you continue to grow more conscious and aware.

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Steve is intensely growth-oriented. He trained in martial arts, ran the L.A. Marathon, and graduated from college in three semesters with two degrees. He can juggle, count cards at blackjack, and make damn good guacamole. Steve is also a polyphasic sleeper, sleeping just 2-3 hours per day and only 20 minutes at a time. So chances are good that he’s awake right now.

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