Archive for August, 2008

When we lived in Washington state, we had a kind of cabin colony with about seven friends who lived close together. We were all studying about manifesting, quantum physics, and the law of attraction. And we were practicing the principles we were learning as often as we could.

One night in the fall, Karen decided to make homemade pizzas for the group. She had almost everything she needed, but no Mozzarella cheese. So she made the rounds of everyone’s homes to see if anyone had Mozzarella cheese. We all dug through our refrigerators, hunting for the cheese.

No luck. So she made the pizzas with other cheeses, and they were great.

The next day we decided to dig up the carrot bed in our raised bed garden. The carrots were mature and were just waiting there for us to harvest. We headed over to the garden with our pitchforks and dug in.

After a few forkfuls of dirt and carrots were turned over, the next pitchfork stab uncovered a 2.5 pound block of Mozzarella Cheese buried under the carrots. The block of cheese was fully wrapped with thick plastic, as if we had picked it off the supermarket shelf. And the expiration date was still a few months away.

So what really happened here?

Did we accidentally plant the 2.5 block of cheese deep in the dirt when we were planting the carrot seeds in the spring? Is there any way we might have accidentally dropped the cheese into the dirt and not noticed it when planting?

Did one of us run to the store to get the cheese, and then sneak out and put it under the carrots in the night?

Did it just appear out of nowhere in response to our attention to it and desire for it?

Who really knows for sure. We all swore that we didn’t sneak it into the garden in the night, and somehow bury the cheese under the mature carrots without disturbing the ground. And we couldn’t imagine being so braindead that we would have accidently planted it deep in the dirt under the carrot seeds the previous spring.

But there it was — the cheese Karen had wanted and had us all searching for in our refrigerators the night before. Right there before our eyes.

Strange, right? And wonderful. The world is full of mysterious things.

When you use these principles, remember to leave room for the mysterious and unexpected. And plan to be delighted!

To Your Wealth,
Mynders & Deb

This common mistake happens almost without your awareness. You put aside time every day to visualize what you want to create and to focus on what you want to feel. You keep your thoughts on what you want, not what you don’t want. You spend time looking for evidence of the availability of your desire. You tell the story of what your life will be like when you have your desire, and why you want it.

You are doing so much right! But your creation still hasn’t arrived. What’s up with that?

If you could listen to a recording of all of your thoughts and comments during a day, you would be amazed.

Even though we intend to be positive and focus our attention, thoughts and feelings, it just isn’t that easy. Much of the time it is as if our thoughts think us, instead of the other way around.

Thoughts and feelings become habits, just like the order in which you put on your socks and shoes. They just show up, unbidden, and run a constant background commentary about your life.

And until you can change those habitual patterns, you’ll need to be extra vigilant.

Your thoughts need supervision and direction…and in some cases, full-on training! And they need that 100% of the time in the beginning, when you are trying to make changes.

Sure, those big events in our lives are the ones we remember best. The day you got married, graduated, got a raise, won the lottery. Or that horrible car accident, when you broke your leg, the fire at the office. And they certainly affect your life.

But it’s not those big events, or even the daily 15 minute positive visualization time, that have the biggest impact on your creations.

It’s the small, constant everyday thoughts, feelings and actions that have the biggest impact. Your habits. And chances are, you don’t even know you are doing them.

But when you become aware, and then make steady small changes to shift from negative and upsetting thoughts to more positive and hopeful ones, that’s when you will really see positive change in your life.

This common visualization mistake is all too easy to commit. This is because it just happens so naturally, with the full support of the Law of Attraction.

There is a reason that people say “the better it gets, the better it gets” and “the worse it gets, the worse it gets.” They really are true sayings, and I’ll bet you have tons of evidence of the truth of these sayings in your own life.

Have you ever had a day where you woke up cranky, spilled your coffee all over yourself, and then locked your keys in your car? One of those ‘the worse it gets, the worse it gets’ days? Well, join the club - we’ve all had them.

And how about those middle-of-the-night disaster binges, when you wake up for some reason at 2AM and then can’t get back to sleep. And while you lie there, your mind takes a trip down all of the possible ways your life could turn to crap. One negative or worried thought starts it, and then a whole bunch of worries come rolling in after it.

And I’ll bet you’ve also had the opposite - ‘the better it gets, the better it gets.’

You wake up to birds singing and sun shining, your partner has made a great breakfast, traffic is great and you get to work early, just in time to swoop into a parking space right in front of your office. I could go on and on, but you know what I mean.

And aren’t those days GREAT?!

And I’ll bet you have also had days that started out really good, only to have someone else give you information that turned your day the other way. A coworker comes up and tells you a story about some upsetting incident, then you both speculate on how that might affect you. Someone else wanders over, shares their concerns, and off you go! Focusing on negative thoughts that do a fantastic job of attracting other negative thoughts and events.

Thankfully it can work the other way as well. Your day starts out tough, but when you get to work, you find a letter from a customer on your desk. They thank you for your help, and inform you that they have also sent a letter of praise to your boss. A few minutes later your boss calls you in to tell you about this letter she received and compliments you. You glow with the praise. Then when you leave the office, a coworker asks you why you look so happy. You share, and your coworker reinforces the compliment. Ahhhhh.

When you recognize that this is how it works, then you stop those negative thoughts as soon as you are aware of them. Force yourself to think of something positive - think about something you want and expect. About good times you have had. Or about similar situations that were easilyl and successfully resolved.

And if you can’t find the positive right then, just distract yourself. Do whatever it takes to break that negative thought chain.

When you can do that, then you’ll have mastered the on-off switch for ‘the better it gets, the better it gets.’