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The Law Of Non-Resistance

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

The ‘Law of Non-Resistance’ is the first in the series of ‘The 11 Forgotten Laws’ that should expand our understanding of the Law of Attraction. “Whatever you resist, persists”. When you resist something, you actively give it energy. We have talked before about how the Universe deals with absolutes – in other words, there is no distinction between ‘I want’ and ‘I do not want’. You always get the thing in question. That is why the Universe can’t tell the difference between you actively trying to attract something versus you trying to resist something. In either case it’s coming your way.

Does that mean you cannot have undesirable things around you? Not at all. We live in a complex world that we share with other people. As long as you are dealing with other people, you’ll come across desirable and undesirable people, events, and circumstances. The lesson here is not to try to push away the undesirable. Just let go and let it be. Give your energy to what you want.

Until next time,

V

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The Law Of Attraction

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

I have heard people claim that the Law of Attraction does not work for them. It’s a really bizarre statement, since how can a law work for some and not for others. If it is a law, then it must by definition work each and every time, for every person, in every situation. What could be happening is that it works differently to how people expect it to work.

The basic premise is that you attract into your life whatever you are aligned with in terms of your thoughts (conscious and non-conscious) and feelings. You are always attracting things into your life, but you may be attracting things that you don’t necessarily want. That being said, there are other laws in the Universe that have not been popularized to the same extent as the Law of Attraction through the movie The Secret.

I came across some material online by Bob Proctor where he talks about the ‘11 Forgotten Laws’ that relate to the Law of Attraction. The way Bob Proctor put it was that the Law of Attraction is a single ingredient in a cake, but you need other ingredients to make it. Over the next little while I’ll cover the different laws, which will hopefully give you some useful information.

Until next time,

V

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Never Expect What You Don’t Desire And Never Desire What You Don’t Expect

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

This is one of those phrases that sounds nice and playful, yet contains a lot of power and wisdom. I’ve talked in the past about the vital role that expectations play in our lives, and this phrase, which I heard in a Bob Proctor program, puts it rather eloquently. The idea is pretty simple – your true expectations will create your experience. It’s not what you want, not what you wish for, but what you truly expect that becomes your experience. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had countless situations that reflect that very principle at work.

So, ‘never expect what you don’t desire’! Pretty simple, right? In theory yes…in application it can be more difficult. If it wasn’t we’d never get what we don’t desire. But seriously, if you don’t desire something, why in the world would you expect it? It’s a logical statement, but we are not very logical beings. The same holds for the other side of the equation – ‘never desire what you don’t expect’. If you desire what you don’t expect, you simply will not be able to bring that into your experience. If there is something that you desire, work on expecting it in your life.

Now I’ve got to go work on the lesson in this phrase myself…

Until next time,

V

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“Amateurs Compete – Professionals Create”

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

This is a concept that I heard on a Bob Proctor tape many times in the past, but something about it really grabbed my attention recently, and resonated with me on a whole new level.

There is an awful lot of talk about competition in the business circles – how that competitor is advertising, what this competitor is doing, and how that other competitor is innovating. The beauty of it all is that if you truly create something, competition will be largely irrelevant. Out of all the companies out there, Apple is probably the one that demonstrates this concept best. Last I heard, Apple had a 95%+ market share in the mp3 player market – a point where an iPod is synonymous with an mp3 player. Do you think they care much about the competition? Not really. Apple instead focuses on innovation and development of better products, which forces competition to essentially follow. All the competitors can bend over backwards, but no company can be better at being Apple than Apple! Think about that statement long and hard!

This is an extreme example, but it demonstrates the point rather well, don’t you think? If there is money to be made, there will be competition. The question is, how much will that affect your business? If you take a ‘create’ position like Apple, your competition will worry a lot more about you, but if you take a ‘compete’ position like Microsoft, then it will be the other way around.

Until next time,

V

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What Would You Do If…?

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

1. Your monthly income became your weekly income?
2. Your annual income became your monthly income?

Bob Proctor asks these two questions in one of his seminars, and the interesting thing is, most people cannot answer them with any amount of detail or clarity. When he asked a couple of people, they responded with “I don’t know…”, mainly because they never really thought about it. And to be honest, when I first heard him ask those questions, I had no answer ready in my mind either.

So here is another question for you. Is it at all surprising that people who do not give much thought to what they would do with drastically increased incomes, never actually increase their incomes significantly?

I gave it quite a bit of thought and figured out exactly where I would channel the increased flow of abundance. I found that exercise quite a lot of fun. If your answers to the above two questions are unclear, I would encourage you to give it a much thought and figure it out. And when you do – when your picture is clear – you will be able to open yourself up to the opportunities to make it so.

Until next time,

V

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95% / 5%

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

We have about 70,000 thoughts every single day. Over 95% of those thoughts are subconscious, meaning that you are not even aware of them. The subconscious mind is truly the driving force behind your experiences, which is why addressing the deep-rooted beliefs is such a powerful exercise. I mean, think about it, if every thought has a frequency associated with it, and every frequency attracts to it things, events, and circumstances of the same vibrational frequency, then 95% of what you are attracting, you are not even aware of.

I believe that the subconscious thoughts are responsible for majority of our lives and for all those things that make you say, “I never thought about that, so why is it showing up?”. The subconscious thoughts attract into our experience things that seem to be totally random and not connected to our conscious thoughts. But remember, it is not just out conscious mind that creates our experiences, it is our entire consciousness. And that is one of the most powerful distinctions that I have ever made for myself.

But since only 5% of our thoughts are conscious, does that mean that we can never truly be in control of our lives? If I had only 5% share in a company, it would be very difficult to take the company in the direction that I want it to go. Thankfully the fact that we are only aware of 5% of our thoughts, does not mean that we can only have 5% control. But more on that later!

Until next time,

V

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Clarity vs Limitation

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

I had a discussion with a friend of mine about whether defining the result that you are after with precision provides clarity or limitation. And this is something that I would love to get your feedback on. The background for the discussion is as follows. The Universe responds to your intentions by presenting you with a quickest and most harmonious way to your goal. The trick is that you need to pay attention and actually notice the opportunity. It’s like Bob Proctor said in one of his seminars, that in retrospect he has been in the right place at the right time many times, it’s just that in that moment he was not aware that he was in the right place at the right time. Another thing to note is that the Universe does not always respond in expected ways – there were many times that I did get to my goal but not in the way that I thought it would happen. Our role is to know ‘what’ we want while the ‘hows’ are the domain of the Universe.

As an example, let’s talk about about goal relating to relationships, but you can pick another goal. When we talk about a goal, we can be very precise or very general. For instance, you can say that you seek a connection with another human being, or you can say that you want to have friendship, or a romantic relationship in general, or you can describe your ‘ideal mate’ in a lot of detail. As you can see, as we go from the connection to the description of an ‘ideal mate’, we get more and more clarity while, at the same time, putting more and more restrictions.

So I wonder, what is your view on defining what you want at great length? Is it clarity or limitation?

Until Monday,

V

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Focus On What Works

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

So I would like to get the year rolling by making up my mind that I will do certain things differently. I would hallucinate that most of you feel this way around this time of year, setting all kinds of resolutions. The trouble is that we feel like this every year, do things differently for a few weeks, and then go back to our usual patterns. I see this every year at my gym where during the first 2-3 weeks of January, the gym is packed.

Last year I wrote a post on changing only one thing this time around – it will not feel as daunting of a task meaning that you may actually stick to it. Bob Proctor offers an interesting exercise by asking three questions:

1. What are you doing?
2. What works?
3. What does not work?

Now, stop doing the things that do not work and focus on the things that do. The 80/20 rule applies well here. There are just a handful of activities that you are doing that are bringing you most of your results. Just focus on those activities! Sounds like common sense, but common sense is not common practice. It is so easy to get sucked in to the 80 percent of activities that keep us occupied, yet are pretty much fruitless.

So, what works for you?

Until next time,

V

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Is Making A Lot Of Money A Sin?

Monday, December 21st, 2009

As I mentioned last Thursday, this week is dedicated to the topic of money. I wanted to start off by addressing a concept that many people have engraved in their minds about how it is sinful to have money, especially A LOT of money! Usually 5 minutes do not pass before the person I am talking to brings up ‘the money is the root of all evil’ line from the Bible. I do not use the Bible as a reference book for my life, but I do know enough to suggest that the person go and re-read their Bible. The actual line is that ‘the love of money is the root of all evil’, while ‘the money is the root of all evil’ crap is something someone made up, in my opinion, to suppress ambition and to keep people in line. Do you notice the difference between the two?

Money is simply a tool that facilitates the exchange of value between people. It is not mean to make you happy, though it can make you comfortable. So in the words of Bob Proctor, if money does not make a difference in whether you are happy or not, might as well have it, so that if you are miserable, at least you can be miserable in comfort.:o)

So, if money is the exchange of VALUE, it must mean that you have to offer VALUE in order to receive money. So the more money you have, the more value you must have provided! And this makes me want to ask you the following question, “Is being poor as sin?”, since it means you have not provided a lot of value! Now if the things I have said before did not ruffle your feathers, that one must have pushed you over the top!

Now you may say that you are volunteering and obviously providing value, but are not getting money in return. While that is a valid point on the surface, it is flawed because value does not have to come from the very same source. Maybe you are getting a lot of perks and other benefits, which can also be considered as VALUE. Or maybe your volunteering experience puts you in a position to get a job with a much better pay than you may have had otherwise, so that money comes from a different area. You may also bring up an example of a drug dealer who makes a lot of money but destroys lives of his or her customers. Again, you are forgetting a simple fact that the drug dealer is providing VALUE to drug users. Yes, drugs are bad for us, but so are many things, the only difference being their legal status and the speed with which they destroy us.

I hope that this will help you look at money a little differently. Your thoughts?

Until next time,

V

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Pursuing Your Passion

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Are you doing what you really want? Most people’s answer is ‘No!’ and is followed by a whole bunch of reasons (read: excuses) for why that is the case.

Bob Proctor said in one of his seminars that there are things that people know how to do, things that people think they can do, and things that people want to do. The vast majority of the population shifts between doing the things they know how to do and things they think they can do. People do what they know how to do, but it is not fulfilling and is not giving them the results they are after. So they get motivated and shoot for what they think they can do. But that is a somewhat challenging and is a bit of a stretch, and since it is not what they want to do, there is no passion there and no energy to break through the barriers, so they go back to what they know how to do. Then the cycle repeats again.

If you go for what you want to do, you will have the passion at your back and the energy to face the challenges and the roadblocks that come up. It’s like that saying about how to break through the fear of failure – you need a goal that is worth failing for. What a profound statement! One of the things that can help you with doing what you want to do are affirmations. If you do not know what it even is that you want to do, you can write a few affirmations around that; if you already know what you want to do but are afraid to take action, you can structure your affirmations around that. In the month that I have started to talk to everyone about Affirmation Triggers, I have had two people share their carrier related stories with me of getting the job in the field that they really wanted to work in that they attributed to using Affirmation Triggers.

Are you up to the challenge of doing what you want?

Until next time,

V

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