Make the first move

“Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.”
— Christiane Northrup, M.D.

We say we want love, yet we are afraid to give love for fear of getting hurt. We say we want friendship, but we forget to be kind to those around us. Personal relationships are as important to us as the air we breathe. We all need friends, lovers, companions, people with whom we can share our joys, sorrows, fears, and successes.

These relationships help us grow at our deepest levels and yet often we remain distant and detached from one another, unable or unwilling to reach out and make meaningful contact. We need to take the risk and explore the possibilities that exist in human interaction. Make the first move. Treat others the way you want to be treated and you will find that like will attract like.

Trust in yourself and the universe

“Though I didn’t know where to begin, I felt this constant, insistent inner knowing that somehow I would be guided. So, all I could do was TRUST.”
— Brandon Bays, The Journey

How much do you trust yourself, trust your instincts? Maybe when things are going well, it’s a little easier to feel like you know what you are doing and you feel in control. But when things go wrong, what then? Do you question your thoughts, your decisions?

My advice — let go. Let go of trying to control the situation and figuring out the exact direction you need to be taking. Often you will have a flood of emotions taking over your senses during stressful or trying times that don’t allow you to “think” it through. So the best course of action is to let it come to you.

Trust that the right answers will come your way. Trust that the answers that your head thinks are not right, might be right. Sometimes your life path might not be what you chiseled out in stone long ago or promised yourself when you were a little child. You just don’t know it yet, but you will be guided to the right path for you at the right time for you if you just let go.

Living thanks

“You see, when you’re grateful for what you currently have in your life, it focuses you on the best. And that puts you in a vibration (feeling) to attract and receive more of the best. When you have a lack of gratitude in your life, you’re focusing on the worst, and that puts you in a vibrational feeling that attracts to you more of the worst.”
— James Arthur Ray

Do you focus on what you are thankful for in your life? And then continue the habit to create a lifestyle of living thanks?

Why? Well, when you think about a person, other than you of course, who is constantly ungrateful. Perhaps they complain a lot and talk about their problems, their aches and pains. Do you want to be around them for long? How about helping them? Well, if life is anything like the corporate office, you would duck behind the desk dividers when you see that person coming — right?

On the other side of the coin, you have someone completely different. They are grateful and appreciative for all they have in life. When they ask for a favor, are you wanting to help them? Probably, because they are also the ones that are there for you when you need a helping hand.

So, start a new trend in your life, if you haven’t already, and focus on everything you are grateful for every day.

See what is great

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
— Anne Frank

Whether it is a person, a house, a job, a country, you name it, I recommend that you see what is great. It is so easy to slip into the mode of seeing only the things that need improvement, or that are no good about each one.

There is usually one thing we could do to improve and work on. People are not perfect, houses need repairs, jobs have their up and down moments, countries go through trying times. However, I feel that it is so much better for us to focus on what is good already.

Doesn’t it make you feel better when you think about all the things that are already working out? And when you focus on all the good things, it increases that “happy” vibration and attracts more “happy” things to focus on. Yes, be aware of the other side too, but rejoice in what is already great.

Time to commit

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!””
— W.H. Murray

How easy is it for you to commit to things or people in your life? It’s usually easier to commit to something when it is free of challenges. The true show of commitment comes when things aren’t that easy. Commitment has to apply to the good times and the not so good times.

It doesn’t really matter what we are working with — marriage, raising children, careers and businesses, spirituality, weight loss, health and well-being. They all require commitment and they all can present us with the greatest challenges of our lives.

When you truly commit to something or someone, the universe does respond to that vibration and things will begin to happen in your favor almost by magic. The key is to remain firm and unwavering in your commitment. Keep the message strong and clear to the universe that this is your direction no matter what. That is the type of commitment that will survive the day-to-day reality and reap the best rewards.

Be bold and go for the gold because that is where the genius, power, and magic will be found.

The Law of Cause and Effect

“The Law of Cause and Effect is uninfringeable and no one escapes from it. This law operates in every situation, in every place, at any time within the created Universe, at every level of creation.”
— source unknown

With karma, desire is taken into consideration for the Law of Cause and Effect. So are emotions such as anger, hatred, envy, egoism, jealousy. These can lead to negative reactions in your life. So keep in mind that physical, emotional, verbal, and mental actions (and thoughts) have repercussions.

To take this one step further to understand karma, certain students of the Law of Cause and Effect would clarify that it is also our omissions that become part of our destiny. The things we “should have done” but did not do may trigger reactions that we could consider negative.

To put the Law of Cause and Effect together with the Law of Attraction, it would then be best to keep all thoughts and actions as positive and giving as possible to attract the same into your life. And to counter the negativity of omissions, live your life to the fullest by taking the chance on things your heart calls out for you to do — live your passions and good things will happen.

The Power of Giving

“And when you give, don’t do it with a heart of fear, but with a heart full of gratitude. You will be amazed at how it all works out. Open the gates of affluence in your life by giving a bit of what you have to those in need. As the great Teacher said, ‘Give and it will be given unto you.’”
— John Harricharan

The concept goes like this: Give time and you’ll get time. Give products and you’ll get products. Give love and you’ll get love. Give money and you’ll get money.

According to Joe Vitale in The Greatest Money-Making Secret in History, there are a few things to be aware of for this powerful concept to work. 1. It is giving without expecting return from that person. You will get something in return, but it most likely will come from a different source. 2. Give with your heart and with feeling. If it doesn’t feel good to give, you will only be attracting more stuff that doesn’t feel good to you. 3. Give what you want to receive.

Have fun and test it out. If you follow rule number two, even if nothing does come back, you will be left with great feelings for giving when you feel good about doing it.

Power of Thoughts

“Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.”
— Bryan Adams

Creative Visualization, Power of Your Subconscious Mind, The Law of Attraction, all very good books that deal with the power of your thoughts. You have thousands upon thousands of thoughts that influence your direction everyday, whether you realize it or not. Your thoughts form habits and your habits create your circumstances.

Have you ever really paid attention to the direction of your thoughts. Even as I write this message, I can note several different thoughts that pop in and out. What am I going to make for dinner? I have to remember to pay those bills. I wonder how my sister made out at the home show. Boy, is my back sore…Sometimes there are so many it is not easy to remain focused on my task at hand and process it all at the same time.

Thankfully, most of those random thoughts were fairly neutral (except for the one about my back). When we maintain a habit of positive thoughts, and focus on our goals, we will begin to see the opportunities in life unfold.

The Feeling Power

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
— John Bunyan

I had often wondered as a young adult if there was really any point to praying. Over the years though, I have come to realize that there are many ways to accomplish the real power behind “prayer” (or mediation, focus, affirmations, etc.). And it’s also now clear to me why so many prayers have gone unfulfilled: Too many of us have not done it the right way.

When I was little, I was taught the words to certain prayers and I recited them. But the power of prayer isn’t about the words; it’s about the feeling behind the words. How many of us have been taught to memorize and recite the words, which we so diligently do; but by focusing so much on the prayers we’ve memorized, we have totally forgotten (or they were never explained to us in the first place) the feelings the words are meant to provide.

So I may not still formally pray like I was taught growing up. My intentions however are strongly reinforced with my feelings. When I sit in meditation and visualize something, I add the feelings that are associated with the visions. Feel the power of prayer and you may just notice a big difference in what you are praying for.

Living worry-free in a time of challenge

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened”
— Winston Churchill

I dug up this old quote because I keep hearing so much about fears these days. A lot of people are in the middle of a worry-fest and really need to release their fears around the situation. Why?

First because we don’t even know what we are dealing with yet, and therefore worrying is expending a lot of energy on something that we can’t even put a real name to, let alone do anything about right now. Secondly, it is a complete waste of her time to focus any of our thoughts into such an unknown territory. As this anonymous quote points out well, “Worry is like a rocking chair—it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” And we all have plenty of better things to do and bigger places to go. Remember, “energy flows where your attention goes”. If you focus on negative outcomes (worry) you will attract negative outcomes. If you focus on solutions, you will attract solutions.

So my advice for those who fall into the common habit of worry; keep living and solve the issues when they come up, because if they aren’t real enough to fix right now, they may not exist at all.

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