Where do you begin?

So what does that mean? Let’s say a person is fairly miserable because their life isn’t going so good. They might say to themselves, “Well, that’s all fine and dandy but what does that mean to me? What am I supposed to do? How do I make that happen in my life?”

Find out what you want

The first thing you have to do is figure out what you really want. What is it you desire? If you had an Aladdin’s lamp and you could rub that lamp and have whatever you want, what would it be? If you had a magic wand, what would you change about yourself? What would you have, what would you do, who would you be? Of course we’re talking about staying within the realm of possibility, meaning a leopard shouldn’t wish that he had stripes or a zebra shouldn’t wish he had spots. It’s not going to happen. But within the realm of possibility, what is it that you want?

Spend a day to dream, ponder, pray and think about what your true desires are. Make notes and brainstorm. Go off by yourself and design the life you truly want.

Define it in great detail

If it’s a house you want, don’t just say I want a house. Figure out where you want to live, what that house is going to look like, how many rooms it has. If it’s an amount of money you want to be making then figure out exactly how much money you want to make. If it’s a character trait that you want to have then define exactly what that character trait is and what a person who has that character trait would be like.

When you’re defining what you want, you want to do more than just write it down or make a brief description. You need to be very detailed and thorough in your description. This is like an architect designing a building or a ship captain charting his course. It can’t be vague or general. You are creating a blueprint of your future life.

Review it daily

Once you have this picture of who you want to be, what you want to have and what you want to do, then you can begin. The idea is to review this blueprint every day. Imagine that you are already that person and that you already have these things. What you’re doing is spending time focusing on your end result. Let’s talk about how to do this.

You need to have a daily session where you spend time by yourself, preferably in a quiet room. Perhaps it’s in the morning or maybe it’s in the evening. Maybe it’s at noon. Find the best time for you to spend time alone where you can review in great detail your future life. Dim the lights, relax, get comfortable, close your eyes and start imagining. See yourself as that person, being that person, having those things and accomplishing what you would like to accomplish. See it, feel it, experience it. Feel the emotion.

If you want to learn to sail, experience yourself in the sailboat, at the rudder, the smell of the salt, the mist of the waves splashing against the boat, the wind in the sails, the rocking of the boat. Be there and experience it. If it’s a character trait you desire to have, see yourself possessing that character trait. See yourself acting and behaving as if you were already that person. The idea is to picture and experience in great detail and with great emotion those things that you desire.

Take action

But that’s not all. You can’t just be wishing and dreaming all the time. You need to be doing things and taking action. You need to arrange your life to be able to receive these desires of your heart. You have to start acting and behaving like that person, like you already have these things.

Final thoughts on the Law of Attraction

This series of articles have explored many aspects of the Law of Attraction. I’ve really only scratched the surface of this subject but I hope that what I have shared with you has been helpful in seeing the Law of Attraction in a different light.

Wallace D. Wattles said it so well:

The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by the Formless, and permeates it to great distances-throughout the universe, for all I know. As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward its realization; every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yet uncreated, are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want. All force begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to move toward you. The minds of people, everywhere, are influenced toward doing the things necessary to the fulfilling of your desires; and they work for you, unconsciously.

Look at the world around you. Look at your present circumstances. Look at who you are. Then realize that you have been the creator of it by what you have persistently desired over time through the thoughts and yearnings of your heart. If you don’t like what you see then use this great law which says that we can alter our destinies by altering our thoughts.

Thank you.

Copyright © 2008 Garold N. Larson

You can read the first five articles in this series here:

The Law of Attraction Part 1 – My Take

The Law of Attraction Part 2 – It’s No Secret

The Law of Attraction Part 3 – Examples

The Law of Attraction Part 4 – Two Creations

The Law of Attraction Part 5 – Is It Science?

What Are Thoughts?

When you think about thoughts, what are they really? They can put electronic measuring devices on individuals and measure the electrical impulses of their minds and they can detect different frequencies and impulses depending on what thoughts the person is thinking. There is energy there.

So they can measure thoughts – big deal! So what does that mean? When you think about everything in the universe and what it’s made of, you start to understand. As was illustrated in The Secret DVD, in this universe there are galaxies. Within galaxies are stars. Circling those stars are planets. On this planet there are living things, such as people. Within people there are functioning organs such as the heart and liver and kidneys. The organs in turn are made out of cells. Each cell is made from molecules. Each molecule is made from atoms. When you go deeper than that, what are atoms made of? At the deepest level we see that every atom is made up of energy. Einstein wrote out an equation: E=MC2 meaning all matter is energy and all energy is matter. So at the deepest level everything in this universe including yourself and what you are made of is energy.

Thoughts Are Things

The idea and the concept is that our thoughts are energy. Well if energy is matter then our thoughts are real things – they are made up of matter. As we think, we think in frequencies or waves – energy waves. Everything in this universe is made up of energy waves. If you examine a simple rock at its deepest level you find that it is made up of atoms and those atoms are moving. There is energy in there and it’s moving and it’s moving at a certain frequency. Everything moves at different frequencies.

The idea is that when we think we create different kinds of frequencies and these frequencies have the ability to go beyond our brain, beyond our physical body and transfer through the air, through the expanse of the universe. Is there a limitation on where it can travel or how it can travel? I don’t believe there is.

Can Thoughts Travel?

I happen to believe in prayer. When we pray to God what is it we are really doing? We are thinking thoughts. We are exerting mental energy. We are generating, feelings, visions and emotions and directing them to God. This is just as scientific as any other law of nature. We can communicate.

When people talk about the Law of Attraction they refer to the Universe or Infinite Intelligence. There are many names they have given to God, the creator of all things, the one who holds all knowledge, the one who is aware of every particle and every atom in this universe and what is happening with it. There is nothing that happens that escapes God’s attention. He has the ability to see all, to comprehend all. He is aware of all things. So if we pray we are generating thoughts and sending them out to the universe and in my estimation we are sending them out to God. I said earlier that God created all the natural laws that we abide by – the laws of physics, of chemistry, of gravity, etc. They were all created by God. He is aware of those laws. He put them in motion and He enforces those laws.

What I’m trying to say is that when you think you generate energy at certain frequencies and that energy goes out into the universe. God is aware of it and following God’s laws which He cannot alter and which He Himself must follow or He would cease to be God, you receive what you think about.

Let’s Explore the Possibilities

Perhaps I can illustrate. When I talked earlier about thoughts and how they are vibrations of energy and that they emit a frequency and can travel outside our bodies, you may have had your doubts. You may have thought, “Yes, but the level of energy is so small and so imperceptible that how could a thought really go out even beyond your own brain? Can it really be possible?” Those are serious challenges to these ideas.

We’ll look at one example. In 1977 NASA launched two space probes named Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Their mission was to explore Jupiter and Saturn and was intended to last five years. The mission was more than a success and the spacecraft continued to travel into space well beyond five years. Now, 30 years later, they continue to probe the universe on their unprecedented journeys. The Voyager 1 spacecraft is currently the farthest man-made object from earth. Its current distance from the Sun is 9.7 billion miles and continues to travel into space at the rate of 1 million miles per day.

So why do we care about this? Just ponder for a moment the fact that people on earth are communicating with a spacecraft billions of miles from earth. How is that possible? Each Voyager spacecraft uses a high-gain antenna that communicates with earth using a 23-watt transmitter. 23-watts is less than ¼ the power of a common 100-watt light bulb you use in your house. By the time the signal reaches earth it is so weak that a modern-day electronic digital watch operates at a power level 20 billion times greater. Yet we are able to decipher that signal and communicate with these spacecraft and send and receive trillions of bits of information. It’s almost incomprehensible that an intelligent being here on earth can communicate with and direct and control a device so far away. Yet we do it every day.

Your Personal Communications System

If puny Man can do that with his technology, what can God do with His technology? I submit to you that your God-given personal communications system is vastly superior to anything Man has come up with. I encourage you to not doubt that these things can be. The technology we have today would have been seen as magic and miracles and impossible to people only one-hundred years ago. Let’s not be so amazed at things we don’t fully understand now. Let’s learn from it and use it to better our lives today.

Thank you.

Copyright © 2008 Garold N. Larson

You can read the first four articles in this series here:

The Law of Attraction Part 1 – My Take

The Law of Attraction Part 2 – It’s No Secret

The Law of Attraction Part 3 – Examples

The Law of Attraction Part 4 – Two Creations

When you read the Bible and you read about God creating the universe, it talks about how the word was spoken and it came about. When you speak a word you have to think about it first. It exists in your mind first. Therefore the universe and this world were first created in the mind of God before the elements were ever brought together to create this world physically. So a picture or vision of this world, this universe and everything about it was created in the mind of God first. Thus there were two creations – the mental creation and the physical creation.

Can we relate that on the human level? Is that how humans create? We know it is. Anything that was ever created by man was created in his mind first. Look at the Golden Gate Bridge. It was designed and drawn out and completely thought through before they ever began to dig to lay the foundations for that bridge. The same with the Empire State Building. The same with the house you live in. The same with everything that man has created – it was created in the mind first through thoughts. Then it was created physically. There are two creations – the mental creation and the physical creation.

Let’s look again at the definition of the Law of Attraction. Many have explained it using the term “Like attracts like.” In my reading there is another concept that is very much related to it. It’s perhaps another way of saying it with a slightly different slant in meaning. Instead of “Like attracts like” we change it to “Like begets like.” What it means is that everything reproduces itself. Are the two ways of saying it the same thing? One talks about attracting something and the other talks about creating something. So really, we could say it as “Like creates like.”

When you dwell on something you desire are you attracting it into your life? Does it mean that it already exists and it moves closer to you? Or are you creating it? Are you causing circumstances to rearrange themselves and come about in your life, that relationship, that mood, that type of health that you have, be it good or bad? Was it created? Was it “Like begets like?” If you plant a corn seed, grass doesn’t come up, corn does. Nothing you can do is going to change that. That’s a law and it’s throughout all of nature. It’s throughout the universe.

Maybe I can back up a little bit and explain my thoughts or my understanding of what this means. Part of it is the idea that our thoughts are real things and therefore the kind of thoughts that we have, the kind of feelings, emotions, visions and pictures that we have in our mind are what we produce, are what we create.

Let’s say you’re struggling and your life isn’t what you want it to be and you never seem to be able to move forward. You never seem to be able to accomplish what you desire to accomplish in your life and you can’t figure out why. You keep going around and around dealing with the same problems over and over. It’s very frustrating and very discouraging. You can’t understand why other people are able to make things happen in their lives, are able to move forward, progress, have success and joy and you are struggling with the same things you were struggling with ten years ago. Why is that?

It’s simply the law that says that what you produce in your mind eventually manifests itself in your physical world. The seeds you are planting in your mind can only produce themselves in reality. The first creation is happening in your mind which eventually will be followed by the second creation – your real world. When you understand this concept you will then understand the power you have to change your world by changing your thoughts!

Later in this series we will delve into the actual application of these ideas so you will know what you need to do on a day-to-day basis. Until then, start now paying attention to your daily thoughts and realize there are two creations, the mental followed by the physical. That is the source of what is happening in your real world and you can change your real world by changing your thoughts. Thank you.

Copyright © 2008 Garold N. Larson

 You can read the first three articles in this series here:

The Law of Attraction Part 1 – My Take

The Law of Attraction Part 2 – It’s No Secret

The Law of Attraction Part 3 – Examples

Example 1 – Health

Have you noticed that the people that are ill or sick on a frequent basis are usually the ones who are continually talking about illnesses and sickness? It’s on their minds – look at their bookshelves. You’ll find all kinds of books about medicines, about diseases, about cures for every ailment known to man. That’s where their mind is – it’s on their health problems. They are constantly thinking about it and constantly talking about it. You can hardly sit down with them and have a conversation with them without them telling you about what pain or ailment they are suffering with that day or that week.

I guarantee that you know somebody like this. Am I right?

When you talk to healthy people, people who have energy, who seem to just radiate with good health – what do you experience them thinking about and talking about and doing? Is it any of the negative stuff? No! Usually they’re eating healthy food, they’re talking about the next race their going to run or their latest workout – it’s always positive and good things. Therefore they have attracted that in their life. We are drawn towards what we think about. We create in our lives what we think about.

Now you might think, well is it the chicken before the egg or the egg before the chicken? Which came first? Maybe they became unhealthy and therefore that’s what they talk about. The healthy person, because they are healthy, that’s what they talk about and maybe that’s how it came about and not the other way around. Maybe so, but I intend to prove it otherwise.

Example 2 – Wealth

We talked about health. Let’s talk about wealth. When you talk to a person who is struggling financially, who never seems to be able to make ends meet, what do they generally talk about and what do you think are the images and thoughts in their mind? Well, I know people like that also. When I’m with them they continually talk and complain about how bad things are, about how they never have enough money, how their spouse always spends all the money they have, how they need a better job, how they need to earn more money and on and on. And guess what-they continually have those same things in their life.

When you talk and associate with someone who has wealth, what do they talk about, what do they think about? Is it continually on negative things?

You might say, “Well of course they’re not going to talk about negative things, they don’t have any negative things in their life.” Well, I’m suggesting to you that the reason that they don’t have those negative things in their lives, those negative experiences, and the reason they have wealth, is because they think about wealth, they think about what they want, what they desire and they have positive thoughts, positive vibrations that are sent out and that is what is created and attracted to them.

Example 3 – Relationships

I know a couple that has an extremely negative relationship. They can’t stand to be with each other. When you are with one or the other what is it that they are talking about? What’s on their minds? What visions do they have in their minds? It’s always about the other person and how bad their relationship is, how awful they are, the things they don’t do, how miserable they are and on and on. You can scarcely get them to talk about themselves because they continually talk about this other person who is making them so miserable.

Yet I know another couple, a very happy couple. They are in their eighties. I was just with them the other day and I watched their interaction with each other. I listened to the way he talked about her in front of me and I was amazed at how loving, how kind, how gentle he spoke about her as if she was a queen. He talked about her “amazing” talents and how wonderful of a person she was. She was sitting right there and she was simply glowing. And she talked about her husband in the same manner. Guess what kind of relationship they have. An amazingly loving and wonderful relationship.

Now again, is it the chicken before the egg or the egg before the chicken? Do they talk that way and feel that way about each other because they have such a great relationship or do they have such a great relationship because they talk that way and feel that way about each other?

I submit to you that they have that kind of relationship because that’s the way they think, that’s the way they talk and that’s the way they feel about each other.

People have wealth because that’s the way they think, that’s the way they talk and that’s the way they feel about wealth.

People have health because that’s the way they think, that’s the way they talk and that’s the way they feel about their health.

I believe the evidence is clear. I believe I can look at anyone’s life, their health, wealth or relationships and determine what kinds of thoughts they entertain on a regular basis. My challenge to you is to pay attention to what you are thinking about. What are your dominant thoughts on a day to day basis? Then change them to correspond with what you truly desire and you will literally change your destiny by changing your thoughts. Thank you.

Copyright © 2008 Garold N. Larson

Read more about this topic in my first two articles:

The Law of Attraction Part 1 – My Take

The Law of Attraction Part 2 – It’s No Secret

Today I want to take on the idea that the Law of Attraction has been some big secret throughout the ages and only known by a few select people. I knew that wasn’t so. To prove it I did a simple thing and went to my own personal library at home. I examined a number of my books looking for references to the Law of Attraction. I was amazed at what I found. If the Law of Attraction was a secret it certainly was one of the poorest kept secrets I have encountered.

What follows are a sampling of the books I came across in my library that referenced the Law of Attraction either directly or indirectly. I put them in chronological order starting with the Holy Bible. Along with the book information I included the actual reference from the book. Read them and see what you think. I think you must come to at least two conclusions-first that the Law of Attraction is not and has never been a secret and second that there must be something to it for this many people to write about it. Enjoy:

The Holy Bible
King James Version

“For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” (Gal. 6:7)

“Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matt. 7:20)

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Prov. 23:7)

“And the Lord said, if ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.” (Luke 17:6)

“For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.” (Mark 11:23)

As A Man Thinketh
James Allen
Published 1902

Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of this life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires-and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.

This Mystical Life of Ours
Ralph Waldo Trine
1907, George Bell & Son

If one holds himself in the thought of poverty, he will be poor, and the chances are that he will remain in poverty. If he holds himself, whatever present conditions may be, continually in the thought of prosperity, he sets into operation forces that will sooner or later bring him into prosperous conditions. The law of attraction works unceasingly throughout the universe, and the one great and never changing fact in connection with it is, as we have found, that like attracts like. If we are one with this Infinite Power, this source of all things, then in the degree that we live in the realization of this oneness, in that degree do we actualize in our selves a power that will bring to us an abundance of all things that it is desirable for us to have.

The Science of Getting Rich
Wallace D. Wattles
1910, Elizabeth Towne Publishing, New York

The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by the Formless, and permeates it to great distances-throughout the universe, for all I know. As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward its realization; every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yet uncreated, are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want. All force begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to move toward you. The minds of people, everywhere, are influenced toward doing the things necessary to the fulfilling of your desires; and they work for you, unconsciously.

Training for Efficiency
Orison Swett Marden
1913, Thomas Y. Crowell Company

Nature is a great one-price storekeeper who hands us out what we ask for if we pay the price. Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions.

There is a tremendous creative, producing power in the perpetual focusing of the mind along the line of the desire, the ambition. It develops a marvelous power to attract, to create the thing for which we long.

The Master Key System
Charles F. Haanel
1916, Psychology Publishing, St. Louis and the Master Key Institute, New York

But we shall find that there is a vast difference between simply thinking, and directing our thought consciously, systematically and constructively; when we do this we place our mind in harmony with Universal Mind, we come in tune with the Infinite, we set in operation the mightiest force in existence, the creative power of the Universal Mind. This, as everything else, is governed by natural law, and this law is the “Law of Attraction,” which is that Mind is creative, and will automatically correlate with its object and bring it into manifestation.

Within You is the Power
Henry Thomas Hamblin
Published early 1920s

IT is a metaphysical truth that the outward life is a reflection of the thought life. Our life is affected by our habit of thinking and attitude of mind, in two ways: first, all our actions are unconsciously influenced by our thoughts, thus helping to bring into manifestation, or attracting to us, an environment that corresponds to our thoughts.* Secondly, we discharge or emit an influence, silent and invisible, that no doubt affects other people. They are probably not aware of it, but they are either repelled or attracted by this silent influence. Thus, if our thoughts and mental attitude are of the wrong type, not only are our actions affected thereby, but also we exert a silent influence that assists in driving the right type of friends, opportunity, success and every possible good away from us. The reverse also is equally true. By right thoughts and a correct mental attitude we naturally attract to us all the good of which our present life is capable.

Every Good Desire
Ernest C. Wilson
1948, Unity Classics

Like attracts like. Our habitual consciousness continually draws to us that which is like itself. . .

What we give out comes back to us increased and multiplied. This is the spiritual law of prosperity. That which we are and express binds to us as with invisible hoops of steel its likeness in the world about us. . .

There is a constant relationship between the world within us and the world about us. An old maxim of Hermes says, “As within, so without; as without, so within.” This is the true basis of enduring demonstration. What we attract from the world about us as the response to what we are radiating from within ourselves is bound to us by ties that are sturdy and strong. 

Ye Are Gods
Annalee Skarin
1952

Visualize the thing you desire to become, hold it in your mind continually. Never let doubts and fears come like vile, noxious weeds to crowd out and kill your crop. Cultivate it. Believe it, and you shall receive it. This is THE LAW-the unchanging, eternal law of God. There are not many laws-just the one-the law that everything shall produce after its kind. The fulfilling of the law is the planting-the cultivating-the waiting-and the harvest. It is the same whether it be grain, stock, or thoughts sowed within one’s soul. It is the one eternal law.

TNT The Power Within You
Claude M. Bristol and Harold Sherman
1954, Prentice-Hall, Inc.

That’s the theory of all life, as old as the world itself. Like begets like-tap, tap, tap! I’m repeating that statement, and I don’t care how many times you’ve heard it before. Perhaps if I repeat it often enough-tap, tap, tap!-you’ll never forget it. Like begets like. A laugh brings a laugh, a good deed calls for a good deed, riches beget riches, love, love-you go on from there! It works! It’s contagious! The old law of attraction never fails.

This is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong, clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you-attracting to you the things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured!

Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
1959, Beacon Press

Man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.

A New Design for Living
Ernest Holmes and Willis H. Kinnear
1959, Prentice-Hall, Inc.

We are all familiar with such sayings as “Birds of a feather flock together,” “Like attracts like,” and “As you sow, so shall you reap.” There seems to be something that brings together similar things. The mind of man seeks the Mind of God. There definitely seems to exist a Law of Attraction.

The more a man seeks out the creative Power of the universe the more It seems to be attracted to him. The more he desires congenial friends the more he is surrounded by them. The more he seeks, in thought and action, health, success, or any other experience, the more are such experiences attracted into his life. The Law of Attraction, in other words, means that we attract into our experience conditions and situations corresponding to the nature and content of our thought. The action of mind is like a magnet, drawing to itself all things of similar content.

Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
1960, Ballantine Books

The human mind is constantly attracting vibrations which harmonize with that which dominates the mind. Any thought, idea, plan, or purpose which one holds in one’s mind attracts a host of its relatives, adds these “relatives” to its own force, and grows until it becomes the dominating, motivating master of the individual in whose mind it has been housed.

The cause may be found in the fact that all impulses of thought have a tendency to clothe themselves in their physical equivalent.

The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
Catherine Ponder
1962, Prentice-Hall, Inc.

I agree with Emerson that it is time the law of compensation was emphasized as life’s basic law. I like to think of this basic law of prosperity as radiation and attraction: that what you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life and affairs. But you cannot get something for nothing.

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Dr. Joseph Murphy
1963, Prentice Hall

In the ancient world, Hermes Trismegistus had the reputation of being the greatest, most powerful magus the world had ever known. When his tomb was opened, centuries after his passing, those who were in touch with the wisdom of the ancients waited with great expectancy and a sense of wonder. It was said that the greatest secret of the ages would be found within the tomb. And so it was. The secret was:

As within, so without;
As above, so below.

In other words, whatever you impress in your subconscious mind, that becomes expressed on the screen of space. This same truth was proclaimed by Moses, Isaiah, Jesus, Budda, Zoroaster, Laotze, and all the illumined seers of the ages. Whatever you feel as true subjectively is expressed as conditions, experiences, and events. Motion and emotion must balance. As in heaven (your own mind), so on earth (in your body and environment). This is the great law of life.

Norvell’s Dynamic Mental Laws for Successful Living
Anthony Norvell
1965, Parker Publishing Company, Inc.

Man’s mind has the same ability to create and to shape the invisible atoms of the universe as the Infinite Intelligence which works under the Law of Cause and Effect. Your Mind is a cause, from which issue all the effects of your future life. If you wish to project certain effects in your life-like greater prosperity, more money, a better job, a happy marriage-all you need do is know how to form these creative ideas in your own mind. Then, through the law of Mental Projection which we shall study in this lesson, you can send those creative ideas to the invisible spiritual protoplasm that fills time and space, and shape the events and the destiny that you desire.

These various conditions, events, and persons or things that you wish to attract represent a fixed pattern in your mind first, before they are projected to the outer world and become a reality.

Success! The Glenn Bland Method
Glenn Bland
1972, Living Books

You are the sum total of your own thoughts. If you think in negative terms, you will achieve negative results, but if you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results. Wise men and philosophers throughout the ages have disagreed about many things, but they are unanimously in agreement on one point: “We become what we think about!”

The Instant Millionaire
Mark Fisher
1990, New World Library

Your thoughts are alive. The more specific your portrait, the better the chances are for it to materialize. Details are very important. In mysterious and unexpected ways your thoughts, nourished regularly, bring about the circumstances that allow them to become reality.

The Book On Mind Management
Dennis R. Deaton
1994, MMI Publishing

I repeat what is vital to remember: Life is a creation. And you create it in your thoughts. What you allow to become dominant in your mind, not only drives your body, it creates your world.

One of the hardest things we do is to see ourselves and to recognize what we are generating in our internal world. And it will remain forever difficult until we accept that the world we experience-that which shows up all around us-how the world treats us-is the creation of our own minds.

Well, there you have it. The big SECRET is out. The Law of Attraction, or whatever name it is given, is real and working in your life and mine whether we know it or not. Let’s use this great power to make our lives the best they can be. Thank you.

Copyright © 2008 Garold N. Larson