In CHAPTER 8: Thinking in The Certain Way, Wattles says,

“In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want.”

Why did he put it like that? Why didn’t he say, “Force yourself to think of what you want.”? Or, why didn’t he say, “When you think of being rich or some other thing you want, make it so that it will seem really hard and unpleasant and a big problem.”?

It’s obvious, right?

Well,… with some of the posts on this board, I imagine the reader must have read a different version of SOGR than me. I imagine the version they read said:

“Enter at once into a really painful picture of the things you want.”

Or, “When you think of what you want, get to where you feel defeated, overwhelmed, drained and frustrated. Think about what you want so that it will surely seem impossible to you.”

Or simply, “When you think of what you want, really make yourself god-awful pissy miserable.”

Hmmmm,…… interesting version.

Consider how you’ve been feeling about what you want.

When YOU think of something you want, how do you feel? Are you at least getting closer to feeling it joyfully?

“In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want.”

Just a thought.

Phil

"Just" a thought? I'd call it a real hum-dinger!

The explanation, it seems to me, is that most of us read SOGR not through rose-coloured glasses, but through dark brown ones covered with a film of dirt, ie the message gets filtered through all the negative garbage that has been building up in our minds ever since the midwife said, "What an ugly baby!"

That is one reason why Mr Wattles urges us to read only SOGR and to "lay aside all other concepts of the universe..." We need to study it with a truly open mind; in other words, without qualifying its teachings, consciously or unconsciously. Then we can benefit from the simple practicality of the program as Mr Wattles intended.

Wishing you peace and prosperity.

Polly.

"What an ugly baby! hey have been looking at my baby pictures ?????

I am aready living the life,In my heart.but not in the real world.here lately I havn't had time for it just to many thing coming my way...

realy it's all in the way you look at it.
just relax and dont read to much into this.it works you know it and I know it.other wise you would have quit this forum already.

peace too you

Right on, Phil!

Part of the process I teach in my music classes is to be happy before, during and after practice.

Doing anything, especially in the physical realm requires repetition in order to train the muscles. First consciously and then unconsciously.

Unfortunately for many people, repetition beyond the number one is perceived as extremely boring and/or unnecessary as they already 'get it' and are anxious to move on to the next step without having a firm foundation.

When encouraged to do more repetitions, people quickly become UN-happy. And as we SOGRs all know, feelings magnetize and attract their image and likeness. So, while you grudgingly could be doing the work, it's the spirit behind the work that delivers the results.

The trick is to teach people to love the entire process; to make them realize that repetition is a vital component and that they can learn to see repetition as a strong friend they can trust and depend on.

I have devised fun (and sometimes outrageously silly) games when working with my students where they actually end up asking ME if they can 'do it again'!

This is the true test of any goal. Will you love the process of getting 'there', wherever there might be for you?

Jim Rohn says that we should all strive to earn a million dollars, not so much for the goal but for what we will become in the process.

So, the goal is really insignificant, whether you are learning to play music or become a millionaire. That's the way I approach my students - to teach them how to become what they want to be through the study of music.

And everyone I know wants to BE HAPPY!

I want to thank you guys so very much for your insights, encouragement and positivity. I do not have a computer at home, so I leave home early and get to work about an hour to an hour an a half ahead of time so that I can make checking this site and reading you all's questions, comments, experiences, joy, peacefullness, wisdom my entre to the day. Believe me it really helps a lot as a beginner in SOGR. So I just wanted to express my gratefulness to you all. And I wanted to share an experience that I had yesterday.

I read Phil's posting on being happy and decided that I would make a choice to be happy despite anything. Several situations which could be viewed as negative, but I will choose now to call them simply experiences, occured during the course of the day. Because I made a commitment to be happy, those experiences did not affect me the way they would have normally --sad,angry,afraid. It took me to another level of what SOGR is about and which Phil was able to convey so perfectly (at least to me personally). Throughout the days I do my best to be focused on what I want (By the way, I know for certainty that I have it. I'm just working on how to receive it -- I have really asked largely!) In any case, during the day I was cleaning out some files and came across a folder that contained some information on some workshops I had done a couple of years ago which had benefited me financially. I said to me, myself and I (but clearly the universe was listening) boy I wish I had the opportunity to do this again. As the day was ending and I decided to check my e-mail for the last time and I had received an e-mail from the organization that had given me that opportunity a couple of years ago asking if I would be able to help them out by doing more workshops for them. Thank you, thank you, thank you GOD, Universe, Thinking Stuff and thank you SOGR Forum participants.

Many Blessings to all.

Hi Phil

Thanks for this. More food for thought.

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I imagine the reader must have read a different version of SOGR than me

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They probably have, everybody has a very different starting point, but we all get there in our own way and in our own time.

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“In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want.”

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No Problem! Make It So!



Many Blessings

Adrian

Way to go JoJo and thanks for sharing! And just think...that was only one day. What is you live your whole life that way, eh? The possibilities are endless for success, happiness, and joy...AND...the best part is you spread it to others.

Life is sweet.

JJ

Phil - great post....

I am SO thankful that I came across SOGR, because even in a few short months the difference has been measurable!! I am in agreement that sometimes I wonder if we're all talking about the same thing. But I remind myself that we are starting from different places. If you are more of a glass half full person to start with, it'll may be easier believe in all of the SOGR concepts/teachings.

To answer your question....when I think of the things I want, the things I'm coming into, I SMILE. I smile because I KNOW....

Make it a great day!!

Hi Phil

Interesting thoughts!

I know several people who do it exactly as you described. Although they are very rich it never sounded so attractive to me. It would be a lot of stress. Force ourselves! Imagine!

Therefore I so much love the SOGR. The energy is so different. It is all about being creative, increasing life, not being competitive anymore, adding more in use value than in cash value to persons and enjoying life. No stress anymore!

Dr. Wattles even says we should never hurry. What a relieve!

Feeling of what I want makes me happy and light and full of smiles and sunshine.
Every time I feel on what I want is a very good time in my life.

Thanks for all your observations!
We are learning!
Warmly Hollie

Your Future Is On Automatic

Dr. Robert Anthony (and multi-millionaire John Assaraf, metaphysician and teacher Neville Goddard – of whom Mark Victor Hansen has said, “He’s my idol,” Joseph Murphy, Stuart Lichtman and Wayne Dyer, amongst others) all seem to agree with this idea.

When we focus ourselves in our present moments so as to experience joy and well being with the things we have and the things we want we cause ourselves to align with having these things, and we will, we MUST have them.

When we don’t, we don’t.

Positive changes are the results of positive causes. The causes of positive change are the constructive, uplifting thoughts, beliefs, feelings and actions we engage in now, in our present moments.

There is no other time to do this than now, in our present moments.

The future is on automatic. It will be an automatic result of how we use our eternal present moments.

Phil

Dear Phil,

thanks for these two posts and for the timely reminder which they bring. I am grateful to you for challenging us as usual to be the best we can be.
One thing I was just discussing with some friends is that for 2005 I want to begin to enjoy NOW. And stop trying to always get to the next place or to get the next thing. I feel the urge to be here now and enjoy, in fact, to Savor each precious moment Now.
Again, thank you for sharing.
Abundant Blessings!
debbie

Phil, what a wonderful thread you've started, and what wonderful replies. THANK YOU.

After posting this, I had a thought. If you read the book the first few times and you start imaging and imagining what you want, and at first you don't feel joyful, there are two things to do:

1. DON'T BEAT YOURSELF UP and compound it. Just acknowledge that you've got some attitude and/or belief changing to do - and set to it. If you make part of your mental image that you can enjoy your mental image, then the formless will bring you what you need to be able to do that.

2. Just recognise that you are peeling away some layers of old thinking and that you are getting to the point where you are in tune with the formless.

There was a thread on 'what results have you got since joining' a while ago, but I didn't really have time to answer properly. So I'll make up now and give a list.

I have attracted two wonderful people who have helped me immeasurably. One is a fantastic mentor who patiently answers my questions and stays with me even when I'm temporarily off the path. The other is a complementary healthcare professional who is probably a perfect role model for SOBW. These two people have helped me enormously very recently and I have now started to attract new opportunities for working. Most importantly, I KNOW that I'm now resonating very differently from three months ago. And it is getting easier by the day. That is a fantastic feeling.

I just wanted to bring this post back up for Annie*

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Jim Rohn says that we should all strive to earn a million dollars, not so much for the goal but for what we will become in the process.

That's what's up.

alright alright....no more forcing myself to be happy...not in the moment....not in fantasyland...if its sending me to mental breakdown, i probably am not doing it right.

i get that part.

Do you think this will work with current relationships? I mean I have been dating someone who is really closed and shut down and won’t let anyone in. Can I create a CMI of how I want the relationship to be that should work right? I know there are so many variables and people free will but if its good for both it should work shouldn’t it?

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Originally posted by CaptJack:
Do you think this will work with current relationships? I mean I have been dating someone who is really closed and shut down and won’t let anyone in. Can I create a CMI of how I want the relationship to be that should work right? I know there are so many variables and people free will but if its good for both it should work shouldn’t it?

Hi Capt,

Just thought I'd throw out a couple ideas.

It sounds to me you’re thinking from at least one false premise.

It’s good for both of us; therefore it should work.

Can you really know the exact particulars of what is really good for another person?

Actually though, I believe that EVERYTHING any person experiences is potentially good. So, if it’s ‘something good’ you’re looking for, then just examine EVERY experience you’ve had or are having, and find the good that’s in it. Goodness is the underlying aspect of everything we experience. How can I say this?

Well, God is goodness. Isn’t this so? And God is everything. Isn’t this so? So, anything we experience MUST essentially be a part of God’s creation. Isn’t this so? So, goodness must be part of it.

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare

“…,you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think. This is the first step toward getting rich.” From Chapter 4 of SOGR

For example, what’s good about your friend being “closed and shut down”? Well, to me, at least one good thing about it for you is, it’s showing you what you DON’T want, which also helps to clarify for you what you DO want.

(But then, another question that occurred to me was: Is she “closed and shut down” to EVERYONE? Or, is there something about you that she closes and shuts down to? For example, would she be “closed and shut down” to someone who was at least as attractive and kind as you, but had MANY MILLIONS? Just wondering, because money seems to be at least a ‘hidden’ factor in relationships,… not that it’s a good thing, but it seems to be there for many.)

But all the above aside, I think the thing that you could focus on that would improve either this relationship, or attract to you a better one is,… simply get into what it would feel like to have a really wonderful, mutually beneficial, loving and pleasing relationship, where each of you is deeply attracted to the other, with each of you effortlessly inspiring the other to be more of the persons you really want to be, not by what you say or do necessarily, but simply out of love for yourself and the other.

“In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want. “Whatsoever things ye ask for when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them,” said Jesus. See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time. See yourself as owning and using them. Make use of them in imagination just as you will use them when they are your tangible possessions. Dwell upon your mental picture until it is clear and distinct, and then take the mental attitude of ownership toward everything in that picture. Take possession of it, in mind, in the full faith that it is actually yours. Hold to this mental ownership. Do not waiver for an instant in the faith that it is real.

It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects, and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.” - Wallace Wattles ‘The Science of Getting Rich’

In other words, practice feeling what it'd be like to have a truly loving, mutually satisfying, encouraging, kind, warm, strong, inspiring and uplifting relationship. And be open,... it might be the woman you're with, or it might be another.

Just some thoughts. You don't have to agree with them.

Phil

Abraham Hicks also tells us that no one else can tell us what we want or what feels good for us. (paraphrasing) I just reread that today. It was refreshing. I wouldn't think we can know what is good for another in any relationship.....even our kids, which is sometimes hard for parents.

I agree with Annie and Phil.

The SOGR controls YOUR experience -- not that of anyone else. It does NOT change other people -- except in so far as it changes your perceptions. Your job is to focus on what you want and to notice when any part of it is given to you. The rest will take care of itself.

Love and blessings,
Rachel

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Originally posted by annievt:
Abraham Hicks also tells us that no one else can tell us what we want or what feels good for us. (paraphrasing) I just reread that today. It was refreshing. I wouldn't think we can know what is good for another in any relationship.....even our kids, which is sometimes hard for parents.

A-H also says that parenting is over rated. I love that. Really, if parenting were that mysterious would it be so blinking easy to become a parent?


Rachel