Do You Practice Feeling Rich?

It seems to me, one of the fundamental points of SOGR is, one needs to practice FEELING what it is like, to be living the life one wants, in order to have that life manifest in agreeable ways. This concept seems to be the main point of Chapter 8 wherein it says:

“enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want,…”

Immediately following, Wattles put the quote from Jesus saying:

“Whatsoever things ye ask for when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them,”

So the point is clear, isn’t it? We are supposed to imagine what it’s like to HAVE what we want, and we are supposed to do this REGULARLY and with FEELING. (How ‘regularly’? Also in Chapter 8 Wattles says, “Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture.”)

Why do I mention this? Well, I am a long-time student of SOGR, and I’ve had many successes with it, but I noticed that I OFTEN don’t do what Wattles tells us we must do. So, I thought I’d share the reminder.

But now I want to deviate slightly from SOGR because I’m wondering ‘WHY’. Why, if I want some things very much, do I NOT regularly practice feeling what it’s like to have what I want? Is it for lack of desire? I don’t think so. I think I want these things very much. When I DO remember to think about them with feeling, I experience wonderful feelings, like great feelings of freedom, and ease, and delight, happiness, safety, security and peace of mind, and the feeling of how wonderful it is to be able to freely choose to have virtually anything I want.

So, again, why do I forget to do this practice? Is it disbelief? Do I believe it makes no difference? No. I believe it DOES make a difference. In fact, I’ve read rich people state this over and over and over. For example:

“The important thing is that you actively put yourself in the vibration you must for your desired outcome to be created.” - Multimillionaire John Assaraf, from p. 168 of his book ‘The Street Kid’s Guide To Having It All’

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind." ~Gautama Buddha

“All you have to do is get into vibrational harmony with your desire, and your desire must be given to you - and the Universe will find endless ways of bringing it to you.” Abraham-Hicks

“Tending to your own thoughts and feelings and letting yourself become the perfect match to your desires brings you joy and peace. And I promise you that your own joy and peace are the keys to everything -- EVERYTHING -- you want, for yourself and others.” Rebecca Fine

I’ve even read scientific research that confirms the efficacy of this kind of mental-emotional practice. I’ve read the studies that confirm that our subconscious mind does NOT know the difference between an actual physical reality and one imagined with feeling. (A simple example is the one where you can just think about sucking on a lemon and you’ll start to salivate.) So, when we imagine a scenario with feeling, our subconscious responds to our imagining as if it’s REALITY (like the lemon example) and we actually begin to change, even at the cellular level.

I’ve read the research that demonstrated that groups that just practiced imagining getting better at a skill (golf, basketball) improved their skills, sometimes almost as much as those who practiced physically. I’ve read how Olympic athletes have used their imaginations and feelings to help them succeed, some even saying that it was this very practice that made the biggest difference in heightening their skills.

I’ve read the stories from people in business who have said this practice seems to have strengthened their inner grasp of the right choices to make – i.e., their intuition – and again, it’s made all the difference to their success.

And in my own life, when I reflect on it, I know that imagining with feeling the outcomes I’ve desired seems to have somehow smoothed the path to those very outcomes, over and over and over again.

So, again, why do I forget to do this practice?

Not yet sure, really. Maybe it’s that I don’t believe it ENOUGH yet. I think that might be it. But then, it seems to me, the thing I need to do is put up reminders to do it. I think I’ll need create reminders to practice this “enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want,…”

Maybe it’s like the now-mundane things we’ve learned to do, without much thought. For example, we bathe and brush our teeth, or even walk, drive and read without much thought. But weren’t these also habits or abilities that we had to form, so that now we can do them without thought?

Maybe an affirmation specific to this would help:

“I easily remember to imagine and feel what it’s like, to be living the Dream Come True life I want.”

“I love thinking and feeling what it’s like to be living my Dream Come True life and lifestyle.”

“I love thinking and FEELING rich, and I do it often.”

Phil

Hi Phill,

Thanks for this post and many other of your posts on this forum.They are alway enlightening.

This topic aplies to me quite often despite the fact that I've made tremendous progress since starting this course but I still find myself strugling with the the FEELING thing.

Upon reflection I discovered that my struggle is always with the OLD me- never wnat to change.

I quite agree with your affirmations and have decided to print and keep them in my wallet,dashboard,my bedside and every other places that could easily be accessible to me.

I know a lot has been posted on this topic but any other idea will help me and others in my situations.

Once again, many thanks and remain blessed.

Goke.

Hi Phil

Great article, and it touches on a point that really had me beat during the time I did the course.

I found and encountered many times when I just could not get into really feeling, how I was going to feel in the future, because the pesky present, kept winning. lol

I found it helpful, to stretch my situation, and physically put myself into the actual world of the wealthy. I would treat myself to coffee at the top coffee shop, ( funnily enough it was not always the best coffee lol) and also stretch myself a bit when I was buying things.

This I found was a way to escape the scarcity thinking. It was always the thought of lack down the track that evoked my decision, even though I actually had enough money to afford it at the time.

Initially I felt a bit strange, buying what I wanted, instead of what I THOUGHT I could afford lol.

It may be fun to start a thread of affirmations relevant to this topic.

My affirmation would be.

"I enjoy treating myself now now, to things that will be commonplace in the future."

Obviously, this is something that worked for me, and I would be interested to hear other peoples comments.

Abundance to All

Croz

Yes, I do believe that practicing FEELING what it's like looks like an interesting approach.

Only I do think that there is a good chance that you run into 'automatic bounderies' because of possible excisting frames of reference. For example at some point there might be things that you simply can't imagine because you don't know about it.

For example because I do have a little frame or reference in receiving money because of creators revenues, earing reports and received payments I am able to imagine those to be impressive long lists. Only since I don't yet have a whole departments that I could for example instruct to produce a weekly Newsletter for my customers, I am not very inclined to already have such things up and ready in my frame of reference.

O.K. while writing this I must admit that I do think that this kind of thinking is 'paving the way' for the future just nicely because I realise that for the time being you can currently read my 'Weekly Newsletter'
on line on my Blog. Creating lots of extra resources to give it great use value.

At the time my huge 'Fan Base' begins to buy a lot of the products I might be able to first buy a 'Canned Newsletters' combined with a little bit of myself before I have a whole department producing Newsletters and Magazines

I must admit it's kind of FUN imagining about this and I do think that you will automatically find bounderies that eventually will give new insights.

All the Best,
To your Happy Inspiration,
HP

HP's Happy Home Business Blog

Phil Thanks for this post. I feel this way often that I am not doing all I can or in the right way. I have thought a lot about this and maybe I just am not doing it enough.

Croz thanks for sharing about when you were trying to understand all this and you described an obstacle that you over came.

I have been trying to figure out a way to discuss my situation without sounding like I am looking for sympathy or like I’m telling my same old story. I have had thoughts that when you guys are giving advice or sharing what you know that you don’t understand what I personally am going through or it’s easy to say what you say because you have the money to take care of day to day stuff. With these posts it reminds me that you have gone through rough times too and it’s not easy at first for everyone.

I am having a very hard time also feeling what I want to feel because of the pesky present. I wonder if it’s just not feeling good enough long enough. I also wonder if it’s seeping into my subconscious because I keep having obstacles.

This month I had the worst commission checks I have had in 4 years. Now with all the creditors knocking at my door I am not totally panicked. I start to feel less than good and I stop and say somehow it will all work out. I have a lot of trouble of feeling really good but most of time I can feel neutral. I have been trying to watch movies that make me feel good and make me laugh too.

I just keep trying.

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I do believe that practicing FEELING what it's like looks like an interesting approach.

Only I do think that there is a good chance that you run into 'automatic bounderies' because of possible excisting frames of reference. For example at some point there might be things that you simply can't imagine because you don't know about it.

A way around that dilemma is to understand that, though you may not know what your success looks like, you always know how you want to FEEL. And, from what I understand, if you just get good at feeling how you want to feel, you will be attuned to and attracting the conditions that match your good feelings.

"The Universe is responding to how you feel." Esther Hicks

Phil

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Originally posted by CaptJack:
Phil Thanks for this post. I feel this way often that I am not doing all I can or in the right way. I have thought a lot about this and maybe I just am not doing it enough. ...

I just keep trying.

CaptJack,

Abraham-Hicks talk about mainly using ‘emotional leverage’ to create what we want:

“One who is connected to the stream is more powerful than millions who are not. So if you take the time to do the big thing of aligning, it's like a big wheel and here's this hub in the center of the wheel and you are just turning it a little bit but it's turning the wheel really far out there on the edges. So as you are dealing with the energy alignment you are facilitating yourself in terms of action in a very powerful way. It's huge, huge leverage.

“Your action has nothing to do with your abundance! Your abundance is a response to your vibration. Of course, your belief is part of your vibration. So if you believe that action is part of what brings your abundance, then you've got to unravel that.”

“Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.”

“When you don't take the time to line up your energy, then you are out there on the raw and ragged edge and now you are depending on the paltry benefit that action can give you and we want you to understand the benefit that "action only" can give you is paltry.”

I think A-H are correct, though most people can’t fathom the idea. For example, there was a famous story told after Jim Thorpe, the famous American Indian Olympian, won the decathlon. It was said that on the boat over, he would be seen lying on one of the deck lounge chairs, while his teammates ran round the ship’s deck. Team members complained and finally the coach asked Jim what he was doing. He said (something to the effect,… I don’t remember the exact quote), “I’m practicing winning my events.”

I’ve read the same about other top notch athletes. Now, does this mean they never physically trained? No, But it does mean they put an emphasis on experiencing BEFOREHAND what it was like to win in their event(s).

Here’s how Arnold Scwharzeneggar spoke of it:

"When I was very young, I visualized myself being and having what it was I wanted. Mentally I never had any doubts about it. The mind is really so incredible. Before I won my first Mr. Universe, I walked around the tournament like I owned it. The title was already mine. I had won it so many times in my mind that there was no doubt I would win it. Then, when I moved on to the movies, the same thing. I visualized myself being a successful actor and earning big money. I could feel and taste success. I just knew it would all happen." - Arnold Schwarzenegger (from John Kehoe’s website http://www.learnmindpower.com/)

Excerpt from a 1976 interview between a Mr. Chandler and Arnold Schwarzenegger: Chandler asked Arnold what he was going to do after he retired from bodybuilding. "I'm going to be the number-one box-office star in all of Hollywood," he calmly responded. Remember, this was when few people outside bodybuilding knew he existed.

Chandler had to fight to keep a straight face as he was asking how he planned to do that. Arnold's explanation seemed "ridiculously simple," but Chandler never forgot it: "What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true."

“What I am most happy about is that I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly in front of me when I daydream that it's almost a reality. Then I get this easy feeling, and I don't have to be uptight to get there because I already feel like I'm there, that it's just a matter of time." Arnold Schwarzenegger (courtesy of Chuck "lycoming260" lycoming260@excite.com)

In your situation, I think you’d have to study to thoroughly learn the various aspects of your business. I think you've pretty much done this. But along with that, it seems to me you have to practice feeling what it would be like to succeed and achieve the ends you want, until those successful (peaceful, happy, relaxed) feelings become an integral part of who you are.

Phil

Hi Capt Jack

It is good that you can acknowledge that initiating these teachings is sometimes not a walk in the park.

I can identify exactly how you must feel, but there are no different rules, because you feel that your situation is worse than someone elses.

Wally says that where ever you are, or whatever your circumstances, as soon as you start living in the 'certain way' things start to change.

You must also accept, that the universe does not have the ability, to distinguish things on size, colour, costs, etc.. They just are.

It is us humans that have put values and scarcity on them.

You must by now realise how perfectly the universe is responding to your thoughts, I suspect that you thought you would get the lowest commission cheque this month, and 'voila' there it is.

When I was in your situation, I worked out that imagining what could happen, created long periods of trying to solve imaginary situations, "What if this happens?", "What if that happens?" etc.and that is one of the causes of stress and anxiety, trying to solve problems, that do not actually exist.

Every single situation that appears, that is a real situation, can be solved, however bad it seems. We see horrific disasters, where people perform super human acts, because it is a REAL situation. When asked afterwards where the bravery or energy came from, you nearly always here them say they don't know, but something just appeared and gave them the strength and the ability to deal with it.

Can you see now how futile it is, trying to solve these situations that do not exist, the universe cannot help you, because it cannot give you the tools, to deal with something that exists only in your head.

The conundrum then becomes, that you start to believe that these imaginings are actually real.

Being perfectly blunt, however hard it is, if the bailifs do actually come, there are no grey areas, they do what they have to do, and you have to react accordingly, you are not given the option of imagining a different result. You have to deal with the new reality.

During my times when I was trying to make sense of this bit, I wrote the following to position my mindset to cope with the interim period, where I was worrying about something that was only my assumption of what might happen.

Here it is:

Have I done everything I can?

Is there anything else I can do?

If you can honestly answer YES and NO to those questions in that order, then forget the situation, until something appears that is real and you can deal with it.

I can hear you saying, yes but my problems are real, and I can answer, all the problems that exist in your life now will be solved, however difficult it is, or seems, because that is how things occur. It is your mindset about the future that is causing the problems.

I wrote yesterday, about not buying things that I wanted, because I thought I could not afford it, in case I needed the money in the future. Although I had the money, and it was not allocated to any particular expenditure in the future, I still did not do something because of what might have happened.

I was not buying what I wanted, because I THOUGHT I could not afford it.

It would be good to hear Capt Jack, how you could solve your situation, if you could just create a solution.

This is a great thing to do, because most of my students and clients, have other people solving their situation, with either lottery wins, people offering help, unexpected windfalls etc, but I have rarely heard anyone say I would do such and such.

It seems that when we spiral into this state of fear((False Experiences Appearing Real) we start to lose our initiative and drive, and hand things over to just accepting what happens.

That my friend is when things really go wrong, when we just accept whatever is thrown at us.

The cold hard facts are that until you change things, nothing will change, the good thing is, that however bad you feel, if you change your mind you change everything.

This may sound a bit harsh Capt Jack, but I have been through a very similar situation, except I think I may have fallen a bit further than you. Check out some of my posts from the past lol.

I sincerely hope that there is something here that will switch on a new mindset, and allow you to turn things around.

Abundance to All

Croz

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I have had thoughts that when you guys are giving advice or sharing what you know that you don’t understand what I personally am going through or it’s easy to say what you say because you have the money to take care of day to day stuff. With these posts it reminds me that you have gone through rough times too and it’s not easy at first for everyone.

I hear you, CJ. So, maybe hear it from someone who's got possibly a bit more adversity:

Nick's Life

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This month I had the worst commission checks I have had in 4 years. Now with all the creditors knocking at my door I am not totally panicked. I start to feel less than good and I stop and say somehow it will all work out. I have a lot of trouble of feeling really good but most of time I can feel neutral. I have been trying to watch movies that make me feel good and make me laugh too.

Good, I think. You're making an effort to feel better. I'm thankful for that. And, I can imagine a God in heaven is thankful for that too.

“We create our own heaven or hell. Your thoughts can imprison you or set you free. Complications, conditions or people do not upset you, but the way you think about them causes your upset. Freedom is not possible until we discipline and retrain our minds.” - p. 124 of Choose To Live Peacefully by Susan Smith Jones, Ph.D.

“If you say, “I just can’t help the way I feel,” you will only make yourself a victim of your misery ~ and you’ll be fooling yourself, because you can change the way you feel.

If you want to feel better, you must realize that your thoughts and attitudes--not external events--create your feelings. You can learn to change the way your think, feel, and behave in the here-and-now.” - from The Feeling Good Handbook by Dr. David Burns

Phil

Croz I don’t think that is harsh at all. I totally understand everything you are saying. I understand it’s a internal shift or a light going on and I am working on that sort of shift.

It’s funny you mention that I must have thought I would have a bad commission check and the truth is yes and no. Here is what I mean. I coached football this fall and started in August. In late August I had to close my office for a week because the people who agreed to cover didn’t show up. So I was a little worried about getting a good commission check and I thought of a dollar amount that I wanted from one of my companies and I visualized that amount. Well when commission checks came out I got a little more than I expected was great. Same thing in September I visualized what I wanted and got about what I had visualized. So end of October comes and I have a thought I cant do it 3 times in a row can I and I feel a sense of panic people that is not what I wanted to think. So I start visualizing and I cant totally get that thought out that I might not have a good check.

I can see at times where this stuff works and when it does work its not earth shattering but it works. When it doesn’t work now I am fighting just to survive. I totally understand how I feel will create what I want and I get so frustrated that I keep letting not so good feeling in.

Croz I really want to have a successful business and I want to build a good producer base. I have signed up over 70 people but they haven’t done any work what so ever. I 3 months ago made a deal with a producer who’s father owns a office building where she uses my companies and we get the office rent free for awhile so all I have to do is pay for phone and internet. I have worked with her a lot and tried to show her what she needs to do to be successful. She hasn’t even made enough money to cover the phone bill except for November. The opportunities I have keep showing up I just can’t as of yet convert them into money.

I applied for a second job after this one just to try and get some hourly money coming in and I was thinking that I need to go back and revisit my whole work process. See where I am spending my time and see if its working or not. I have visualized and tried to feel what its like to have the business run the way I want it too and have been doing that for several months and still business is slow.

Hello CaptJack,

A Producer Base?

You have signed up, over 70 producers?
Makes me wonder what Business you are in?

I can hardly imagine that you could
ever need that many producers other
than that you have a different
definition for what you
consider to be a producer.

All the Best,
To your Happy Inspiration,
HP

Hi HP

I sell insurance and I had an idea to help me grow my business and help other people out as well. I solicited people who had an insurance license to sell insurance for me from their home. By using emails and post cards I sent out over 18,000 post cards or emails.

I signed 70 people to sell insurance for me. 90% of those people didn’t do anything and the rest did very little and it opened me up to a lot of liability and I had one person doing unethical business.

I cut all but like 4 and now I only have 1 writing any business.

I was thinking big lol. If they produced I would be a millionaire by now.

I also want to apologize if I sound like I am always complaining or bringing negativism to the forum. I am just trying to overcome what I feel is blocking my progress.

I think I also when confronted with a perceived problem I don’t handle it very well.

I am keeping a chart of when I feel not so good what am I doing or what was I doing or thinking just prior to the not so good feeling kind of like an Idea note pad. I also am doing the same thing as when I feel good. I am looking for patterns or causes.

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I am keeping a chart of when I feel not so good what am I doing or what was I doing or thinking just prior to the not so good feeling kind of like an Idea note pad. I also am doing the same thing as when I feel good. I am looking for patterns or causes.

Hi CJ,

To me, the cause is always the same, and so, the pattern is always the same: It's simply Cause & Effect.

How you FEEL about something is always the outcome or result of how you THINK about the thing. Your thoughts or beliefs cause your feelings, what you feel.

If you can find a thought that is less damning or downcast about something, you will automatically feel better.

If you find you feel BETTER about something, and you’ve recorded how you previously thought about the thing, and compare it to how you think now, you will find it’s your thoughts about the thing that have improved. Maybe you’re seeing the thing in a broader way, and realize it’s not the end of the world. Maybe you’re thinking more constructively, or less judgmentally, or a combination of both.

However you think about things determines how you FEEL about them. (This, of course, also applies to how you think about you or others.)

If you think this is incorrect, please let me know.

But, to me, one of the major KEYS to getting yourself to feel better is: You have to make it a very high PRIORITY.

For me, it’s a very high priority, because I basically believe the following:

“The Universe is responding to how you feel.” Esther Hicks

“Your feeling [belief] that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will of themselves bring you contentment or happiness, is a misunderstanding. No person, place or thing can give you happiness. They may [seem to] give you cause for happiness and a feeling of contentment, but the joy of Living comes from within.”

“Whatever you think and feel yourself to be, the Creative Spirit of Life is bound to faithfully reproduce in a corresponding reaction. This is the great reason for picturing yourself and your affairs as you wish them to be as existing facts (though invisible to the physical eye), and live in your picture.” Genevieve Behrend, from ‘Your Invisible Power’
http://www.ontrackoptions.com/...nvisible%20Power.pdf

“Your feelings create the pattern from which your world is fashioned, and a change of feeling is a change of pattern. The subconscious never fails to express that which has been impressed upon it. The moment it receives an impression it begins to work out the ways of its expression. It accepts the feeling impressed upon it, your feeling, as a fact existing within itself and immediately sets about to produce in the outer or objective world the exact likeness of that feeling. The subconscious never alters the accepted beliefs of man – it out-pictures them to the last detail whether or not they are beneficial.

To impress the subconscious with the desirable state you must assume the feeling that would be yours had you already realized your wish. In defining your objective you must be concerned only with the objective itself. The manner of expression or the difficulties involved are not to be considered by you. To think feelingly on any state impresses it on the subconscious.” Neville Goddard in ‘Feeling is the Secret’

"It is never too late to find a good feeling place about anything. Things will constantly change to match the feeling you have inside." Abraham-Hicks

Phil

For what the producers is concerned, that explains it, now I understand that your talking about a totally different producer, I was thinking about an Executive Producer for some Huge Movie Production having several producers

Anyway,

I totally agree with Phil that what your THINK determines how you FEEL. I also totally agree with the fact that Feeling Good is a Top Priority. This is also the reason why I frequently go Jogging and things like that.
(BTW I actually created a special Healthy Lifestyle Blog
to study feeling good.)

This morning I realised how I was thinking and consioussly was looking for thinking that could make me feel better. Since sales don't go as well as I had hoped for, and I was thinking the momentum for really making any real progress was gone and away and felt like it might never come back again.

A thought that didn't exactly excite me.

So I created an other more exciting thought, that now with all the new experience I have build up over the years, and all the Blogposts I created that I have created a Body of Work that can help me to create much more momentum than ever before! A thought that FEELS a lot better.

All the Best,
To your Happy Inspiration,
HP

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When I DO remember to think about them with feeling, I experience wonderful feelings, like great feelings of freedom, and ease, and delight, happiness, safety, security and peace of mind, and the feeling of how wonderful it is to be able to freely choose to have virtually anything I want.

I do this a lot in my free and alone time. Perhaps I need to make more free and alone time so I can do it more. But my goodness, it gets to be feeling amazing. I do not even notice what is going on around me. I am so good at fantasizing, its like I am really there. But I guess I have to work on blocking out the people and interuptions that take me away from my happy places. If I could stay there (in my cmi)all day, maybe it would start to make an impact.

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But I guess I have to work on blocking out the people and interuptions that take me away from my happy places. If I could stay there (in my cmi)all day, maybe it would start to make an impact.

Wally tells us to start where we are now, do all that we can today without doing tomorrows work today; and contemplate our CMI's in our leisure time. But we can get to a point where we enjoy (feel good about) the people and the interuptions! When we do that we are feeling good all the time!

This morning I Practiced Feeling Rich by imagining that I would have an 'Inhouse Team Coordinator' that I could instruct 'my cleaning staff' to make my bed and clean my office.

To experience this I made the bed and cleaned (and re-organised) my office myself.

(since currently my staff
is on..., euh...., on 'Vacation')

Anyway,

I got rewarded for it, because I did find several books that I can write reviews for to put on my HomeBusiness Book Ideas Blog

All the Best,
To your Happy Inspiration,
HP

I realized now how central gratitude is to the certain way of thinking when upon daily reading of SOGR this paasage from the chapter on gratitude stood out for me in extraordinary fashion

"The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, the ordinary, the poor, the squalid,
and the mean — and your mind takes the form of these things.Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to the formless. And the common, the poor, the squalid, and the mean will come to you."

Everytime we think of what we desire, we are feeling good, and giving thanks for where we are NOW, we get results faster and more rapidly. If we think we are contemplating our CMI and at the same time feeling unhappy or helpless about the situation we are in, we have just sabotaged our efforts. This is what I think Wally is saying about efficient action. If we are fueling our desires by visualizing it, but at the same time, we are feeling unhappy about where we are NOW, we are putting our power in one place, and acting in another place and time, seperating the power from the actions TODAY.

So, do think about this whenever you are feeling unhappy about your current situation. You are simply pushing yourself furthur away from what you desire. Instead, give thanks for where you are NOW,and accept that that the change can happen NOW, and it can haappen only when you are willing to let go of the resistance to feeling good as it is NOW.

Just some thoughts

Great post Kevin

The long and the short is that if your thoughts do not get aligned with your core beliefs there is no action.

This is one of the biggest hurdles, thinking and believing in harmony. So many of us fool ourselves by trying to convince ourselves that things are in harmony, yet DEEP down we know that the faith and the belief is missing.

Once we genuinely believe in these teachings and rely on the universe to do its work, things start to happen at an alarming rate.

Unfortunately it is like a personal trainer, however hard he exercises you will get no fitter, unless you do it too. No one can do this work for you, so look around, see the evidence, get your faith and belief on board then see how different things are.

I can only relay "what worked for me', I cannot actually make it work for you, only you can do that.

I try and answer as many questions as I can, that will give you that faith, it is just our old programming forcing us to reject the information.

Hope that helps

Abundance to All

Croz

Awesome comments everyone!

I can so agree with what you are saying Kevin and Croz.

If have found myself focusing on what I want yet have inner beliefs that contradict what I want to come to me.

I sometime choose to focus on the problems instead of staying consistent with my thoughts about what I truly want. And lots of times these negative thoughts don't stand out--they're just there somewhere inside my head. That old thinking!

Today I realize that it is a CHOICE. And I do have the power to make a different choice.

To stay in gratitude for the life I have and for all of the wonderful things and experiences that I am living NOW!

It's a great space to be in!

Thanks everyone!

Brian