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Well, if we were in the movie "Wayne's World" I guess the appropriate phrase at this point would be…

Now that the Law of Attraction concepts have hit the mainstream, both the believers as well as the non-believers are coming out of the wood work.

A search on Google for the term "law of attraction" brought back well over 2 million websites, although it also won't take you long to find plenty of people who who think it's all a bunch of nonsense. Check here, here, and here if you would like some examples.

Now, any regular readers of this blog know my views on this whole concept, and this post is not meant to discuss my personal ideals, but rather to plug some of these concepts into a typical life scenario to see if they actually hold water.

To that end, I picked 3 specific practices that are commonly used by the LOA believers, who also call themselves "deliberate creators" since they believe that via these practices they can literally create their existence here on planet Earth.

So, whether you are a believer or a skeptic, if you truly feel that your point of view is the correct one, then you shouldn't mind a little bit of close scrutiny to see if these concepts are worth considering.

If they are, then here are 3 possible ways to use them. If they are not worth considering, then you now have 3 great examples of the uselessness of these tools that you can use in your on-going crusade to debunk this whole affair. Here we go…

One of the primary weapons of mass abundance that the teachers from the movie 'The Secret' endorse using in order to invoke the law of attraction is visualization. In fact, Joe Vitale goes even further to say that you should use "holographic visualization" which is basically the art of both mentally and emotionally putting yourself inside your vision of success. You experience those moments so precisely in your mind that it seems that you are actually there.

Proponents - From a believer's standpoint, this type of visualization will send actual vibrations out from the visualizer into the Universe, and will in turn attract similar vibrations. Done consistently over the course of time with a high level of emotion and belief, and the vibrations will all coalesce into a series of circumstances, people, events, or inspired actions that will eventually lead to the visualizer actually being in the situation that they visualized.

Opponents - People who do not believe in this concept simply say that there is no scientific basis for this idea, and that there is no way to prove that doing this will be anything other than a complete waste of time. They believe that if you want to have an experience in your life, you need to take whatever action is needed in order to marshal the resources that will allow you to have that experience.

The Benefit for Non-Believers - Believers in the LOA do not need any further convincing of the validity of this practice. However, for non-believers, the act of visualizing has one very, very important side effect that has nothing to do with the Law of Attraction, and that benefit is FOCUS.

Even if you do not believe that some magic genie is ripping around town on a magic carpet finding ways to turn your daydreams into reality, any reasonable and logical person will agree that staying focused intensely and consistently over the course of time on any particular goal will bring about positive steps toward that goal.

Those steps may come in the form of financial or career maneuvers that will lead to the goal, or they may come in the form of the simple ability to keep from getting distracted by things that would normally take the person off track. Taking your eyes off the prize runs the risk of delaying or preventing the attainment of whatever it is that is being focused on.

A simple example of this is weight loss. It is a common belief that if you eat a lot of junk food, you will not have a body like a super model. If your goal is to have a body like that, and you consistently visualize yourself having that body, it is going to be very difficult for you to believe that scarfing down an entire pepperoni pizza all by yourself is a good idea.

Will your weight loss be "magic" or will it be a result of you continually taking part in healthy exercise and eating habits as a result of having a super model picture of yourself that is playing over and over again in your head? Well, once you have that super model body, who cares HOW it actually happened?

Affirmations come in many shapes and sizes, but in a nutshell, it is the act of writing down what you want to have in your life, and then repeatedly saying it either out loud or in your head for the purpose of changing your mental point of view regarding those desires.

Proponents - Believers in the power of affirmation basically think that by continually repeating something to oneself, that thing will eventually become a reality. Where the LOA comes into this part of the equation is that the common belief behind conscious creation is that the vibrations that are sent out into the Universe are acted upon in order to bring our goals into existence.

However, as most people carry around years worth of self-limiting beliefs, the only vibrations they are sending out are those of NOT having whatever it is that they want. By consistently practicing affirmations, the vibration is changed to one of confidence and belief, thus attracting the object of desire.

Opponents - Non-believers in affirmations once again cite the fact that there is no evidence to support the belief that anything less than taking action will bring about goal attainment. They may even go so far as to say that by repeatedly talking about something that you don't have will actually only serve to make you even more convinced that you'll never have it.

The Benefit for Non-Believers - By repeatedly affirming that you want something, you assign the task of finding a way to bring that thing into your existence to your brain and your subconscious mind. In order to do this, though, you must ask for solutions, not affirm non-existent realities. For example:

"I am independently wealthy and I never have to work another day in my life."

vs.

"How can I create a situation that makes me independently wealthy so that I never have to work another day in my life?"

The first example stated something that wasn't true, and by continually saying that statement over and over again, you may not activate the amazing power of your subconscious mind in order to help find a solution.

However, by continually asking yourself that question over and over again, your mind will be constantly looking for a solution as you go about your day to day business. Eventually - maybe sooner or maybe later - you will get slapped in the face with a great idea or the beginnings of a plan of action that will lead you to that life of riches and relaxation.

This is probably the oldest and most well-known tool that is in the bag of tricks that believers in the LOA carry around with them. Long before today's gurus were touting the power of positive thought, yesterdays authors and visionaries were extolling the benefits of this practice.

Proponents - People who believe they can activate the Law of Attraction by living in a constantly positive state of mind will once again point to the power of their vibrations as the catalyst for attaining their desires. By staying in a constant positively-charged state of mind, they also maintain a constant positively-charged emotional state. In so doing, they will only attract vibrations that are in resonance with theirs, thus attracting "fuel" that will drive their machines of success. That fuel may come in the form of intense coincidences that are in line with their desires, or they may take the form of opportunities or circumstances that will eventually bring forth their dreams.

Opponents - Non-believers in the power of positive thinking will say that just thinking about good things will do absolutely nothing to bring those things into your existence. They will point out the fact that everyone wants health, wealth, and happiness, so if just thinking good thoughts about those things was the key to having them, everyone would already be living happily ever after.

The Benefit for Non-Believers - Having a positive mental attitude is something that can - and does - benefit everyone. Even if you don't believe that your positive state of mind will help you to actually attract good things into your life, at a bare minimum, keeping a good attitude will help you to enjoy life more.

This could fall under the umbrella of what people call "managing their expectations" or it could simply be called being "mentally prepared" for any given situation.

For example, if your job is lame, and you know that it is lame, you can't simply "think" yourself out of having to go there. However, by setting your mental set point to one of being prepared for the experience, you will help yourself to not be as miserable as you otherwise would be. On the other hand, if you just sit around thinking about how bad your job is, there is no way that you are going to see anything but how bad your job is when you get there.

Another example is finances. You could sit around thinking about how much you don't enjoy watching prime time on your 19" television with bad reception because you can't afford cable and a big flat-screen TV, or you could turn the situation around to actually be glad that you have that opportunity. In order to do so, just consider how bad it would be if you couldn't even afford your own home or apartment, or if your electricity had been turned off because you couldn't pay the bill.

You can apply that same formula to any situation in your life in order to receive the benefit of positive thinking. By simply taking on the habits of mentally preparing yourself for a potentially negative situation, or by showing gratitude for the fact that things aren't worse (and they always could be), you will slowly but surely pick up the habit of being happy about situations that in the past made you miserable.

Now that you have seen some common ways that the LOA is used by people to "magically" manifest the lives that they want, you should also see that there is really no magic to it. The same practices that the believers are using to bring success into their lives will help non-believers to improve their quality of life as well.

Also, there are 3 potential benefits that a non-believer gets from this whole process:

1. All of this is completely free of charge. You don't have to spend a dime to visualize, affirm, or to keep a positive attitude.
2. Each of the practices that were discussed will have a positive impact on your life, even if you are just using your copy of 'The Secret' as a coaster or a Frisbee
3. What if it works? What if the Law of Attraction actually works, and you stumble upon that truth by practicing LOA techniques, even from a non-believers standpoint?

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Goal SettingAfter all, not only are these techniques free, but no one even has to know that you are doing them. How cool would it be to achieve some amazing success in your life without having to admit to anyone - even yourself - that you ever considered whether or not the magic actually works?

Something to think about…..

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Success in a nutshell: The Hidden Secret in Think and Grow Rich!

The very connotation of improving one’s life has “it’s all about me” written all over it. Truth be told, though, you can create a glorious life for yourself and lead others to victory at the same time.

The industry jargon seems to point to a perfectly selfish course of action. SELF improvement, SELF empowerment, PERSONAL development. To be sure, you can hard wire yourself for success on every imaginable level using every imaginable system.

However, suspend your own needs and desires for one moment and think about how wonderful life would be if you led the people in your circle of influence on a quest for success at the same time that you create that success in your own life.

Let’s start by identifying a few habits that are shared by most successful people:

• Willingness to go the extra mile to attain their dreams
• Ability to consistently apply effective success strategies
• Open to continually learning and applying new concepts
• Flexible enough to roll with the punches when things don’t go as planned

That is a short list, but if you have achieved any measure of success in your life or if you know of people who have, you will recognize those types of traits as common among successful people.

In order to double the return on your personal development time and financial investments, why not practice great leadership by helping the people around you to achieve success as well?

You are probably familiar with the negative effect that “energy vampires” can have on your life. Even if you are keeping a positive and energetic outlook on life, people around you who are not on track to personal or professional success can suck the life right out of an otherwise positive situation.

However, everyone loves a good success story, and by becoming that success story, the people around you will often want to emulate your behavior so that they, too, can experience success. Consider the following examples:

If you have decided to lose weight or start cleaning up your health, you will inspire the people around you to do the same when they start to see you achieving results.

On the other hand, if you tell people that you are going to start leading a more healthy lifestyle, but then you don’t do it, why would they respect the things in the future that you claim you are going to do?

Finances fall under the same umbrella, especially in the home environment. Whether you have a family or if you live with roommates or friends, by making an on-going and dedicated effort to stop living outside of your means, the people around you will at least respect that, if not pick up the habits themselves.

Oppose that scenario to one where you tell your spouse or your partner that you are going to start saving money, but then you squander hundreds or even thousands of dollars on non-critical expenses such as recreation, material possessions, etc.

This concept could even be applied to something non-tangible like keeping a positive attitude. Actually keeping a bright and cheerful demeanor in the home or in the workplace will have an almost domino-like effect on the people around you. Even people who are normally very negative will at the very least start avoiding you, if not actually cheering up themselves.

I’m sure that you can think of many similar examples where this type of thinking could come into play, and the takeaway point for you to remember is that it is only by doing that you will become a Leader who will actually inspire the people around you to start achieving success.

You can talk, talk, talk all day long about how you are going to lose weight, get rich, or stop living your life in a funk. However, talk is cheap, and no one is buying it.

If you truly want to inspire the people around you to succeed, then you have to succeed! Nothing less than proof positive that your ideals are solid will get the people around you to consider following in your footsteps.

Does all of this mean that you need to become a great leader in order to achieve your own desired levels of personal development? Absolutely not.

Personal development and self improvement do not require you to help anyone but yourself. However, before you put the “it’s all about me” cap back on, take a few minutes to think about how great it would be if the people around you started picking up some positive habits.

At the very least, it would keep them from constantly trying to drag you down to their level of negativity!

When you consider the prospect of controlling your health with the power of your mind, do you scoff at such an idea, or do you think something more along the lines of it being a possibility, but you would like to have some proof?

Well, just like every other aspect of the human existence, it is your belief system that serves as the foundation for your results. For that reason, don’t even start considering the details of how such a thing is done if you are not even willing to consider it as a possibility.

It will help you to bridge the “doubt gap” by embracing the very real fact that every single thing that exists is made up of energy, including your body. The actual form that something takes is simply a matter of the speed at which that thing’s energy is vibrating.

So, in a universe that is made up of vibrating energy, learning to control those vibrations is the key to creating or destroying all things that are in your existence - including your own body.

The amazing gift that we all have as human beings is the ability to exert conscious control over our emotions, which are also just another form of vibrating energy.

So, if everything is energy, and we can control the vibration of our energy, then we can use the Law of Attraction to bring into our existence only the vibrations that we wish to have - including those that are consistent with vibrant, long-term health.

The thing to realize in order to excel at this process is that although you will probably attract people and circumstances that will be a part of your good health, it will always and only be the vibrations of your own body that ultimately manifest health or illness into your existence.

For example, it is a common understanding that mental stress causes negative physiological responses in your body, and likewise, you can create positive physiological responses by experiencing emotions that you perceive to be happy, uplifting, nurturing, etc.

In short, by consciously being aware of your vibratory frequency, you then become a conscious creator of good health by only sending out vibrations that are consistent with good health. Here are the 3 steps for doing so:

1) Identify specifically what you want. What is good health? What does that look like in your mind’s eye? You can’t just put a vague intention out there that you want “good health” without identifying exactly what that means to you.

That would be like giving someone $50,000 and telling them to go buy you a new car. Without knowing the make, model, color, etc., that you wanted, there us no telling what kind of car you would end up with!

So, if you want to lose weight, you would define how much weight you want to lose.

If you want to be free of arthritis, then your goal would be to live pain free, or to be able to do whatever it is that your arthritis is keeping you from doing.

If your goal was to heal a damaged or diseased part of your body, then again you would need to define what “answer” you are looking for, such as being free of cancer, having full use of an injured leg, breathing freely without the labor of asthma attacks, etc.

2) Focus on your desired end result. ONLY focus on the end result! This is a common mistake that people make with the Law of Attraction, regardless of what they are wanting to manifest.

You have to free yourself of the incorrect belief that you need to be able to see HOW you are going to get whatever it is that you want, and focus only on the end result instead.

If you have a serious medical condition or if you have never had success at losing weight, then it is not possible for you to “see” the path that will take you to your desired end result.

Some of your solution may be in actually changing the vibratory frequencies of the cells in your body. Part of the solution may come in the form of a new medicine, technology, or artificial replacements for damaged tissues - there is no way to know for sure.

It is simply not possible for you see the straight line between your condition and the solution. If you focus on trying to see a line that it is not possible for you to see, you will meet with very limited success, if any success at all.

3) Take action. This may seem like “standard” information for anyone who has ever gotten involved in any sort of self improvement program, but it is standard information for a reason - it’s a necessary part of the process!

When it comes to using the Law of Attraction for health, this step is just as important. Again, by realizing that it is not possible for you to see the entire journey that is going to take you from where you are now to the level of health that you desire, this step becomes even more critical.

As the Universe lines up both the internal forces as well as the external forces that are going to marshal together for the benefit of your health, your job is to take whatever action you are inspired to take.

Most people would say that getting enough exercise is a good health practice, and that eating nutritious food is also part of the process.

For specific disease or injury situations, there will also likely be some well-known or doctor prescribed practices that could be part of your solution.

However, although it is possible and even likely that “standard” practices will be part of you manifesting the level of health that you want, be on the look for other things as well.

The Universe will often tap you on the shoulder to send you in a direction that doesn’t seem to make sense, but that will ultimately lead you down a path that will take you to your desires. See ‘Did you Feel that Tapping?‘ for more information on that concept.

In closing, the takeaway idea that you need to remember is that using the Law of Attraction for health purposes is just like using it for anything else.

You have to decide exactly what you want, focus frequently on the feeling of having it, and then take action consistently over the course of time whenever you are inspired to do so.

That is the winning equation for any situation, and now you know that you can also apply those principles in order to live a long, healthy life!

This is Volume 3 of the Self Improvement and Law of Attraction Link Love series. This series will be published weekly and will be comprised of links to quality blog posts that have proven to be extraordinary in their ability to assist, inform, or empower the reader. Enjoy!

1) Brian Kim - The Dangers of Motivational Hype As someone who prides himself on being able to write empowering and motivational texts, I will give 2 thumbs up to this piece by Brian Kim about recognizing and acting on both the motivational side as well as the take action side of personal development.

2) Scott Ginsberg - 17 Reasons to Write a FREE Ebook If you do any kind of business on the Internet, this post is a must read. However, even if you don't, the author gives away a GREAT colorful and easy to read eBook that I highly recommend you get your hands on!

3) Breathing Prosperity - Law of Attraction: Why Aren’t You Constantly Creating Your Life? Excellent take on the fact that not only do people's "problems" continually recreate their problems, but on the fact that a lot of people wouldn't even know what to say if they weren't complaining!

4) Seth Godin - I'm Not Surprised This one is more of a business perspective (and a great one, at that), but I see where this concept could be applied to your personal life as well. I'm a firm believer in people being anything but normal!

Big props go out to Wendy Piersall over at eMoms at Home for allowing me to be a guest blogger on her site. Thanks, Wendy! And then more major gratitude to Steve over at The Fast Lane for his wonderful words about me on his site. You totally rock, Steve!

5) Technacular - List of Icon/Graphic Generator Sites Unique stuff for anyone who wants to get in touch with their artistic/brand-building side. Also some fun sites for making silly signs, etc.

6) CopyBlogger - Are You Leaving Your Readers Out of the Conversation? ~ and ~ Let Cicero Build You a Sticky Blog Both great riffs on sending the right message with your blog, as well as doing so for the right reasons.

That's it for this week! I hope you enjoyed, and look for the next volume in a week or so!