It is day 4 of the JOL Law of Attraction Challenge and I am having a marvelous time as I take more control over what is manifesting in my life experience!  One thing that has been incredibly beneficial since I’ve started the experiment is my activity before bedtime.  I have completely eliminated any television shows that stimulate negative thought for me.  I have created a rule for myself that has had an amazing affect at shifting my attractive vibration:  My last media exposure of the day must make me laugh.  I love comedy and find that when I am engaged in a comedy act or funny movie I am able to completely forget any negative aspects happening in my life.  It’s a healthy way to check out and begin a shift in vibration.  When I decide to turn in, I put either relaxing music or an affirmative recording on.   I really love Louise Hay’s “101 Power Thoughts” and “Morning and Evening Mediations.”  As I hear the positive affirmations or music in the background, I think about all of the things I liked about the day and journal them.   I now have a strong sense of well-being as I fall asleep. 

The immediate benefits I have enjoyed as a result of this new routine are sounder sleep through the night, more positive dreams and a wonderful feeling of invincibility in the morning.  This has been such a simple thing to do, yet it has completely shifted by vibration upon awakening.   I have discovered the true meaning to “getting up on the right side of the bed!”

 ~Abraham-Hicks, Authors of “Ask and it is Given”

What a powerful message this is…a reminder of the absolute control each and every one of us has to create the life we have always wanted.   Just choose the right thoughts and watch your life unfold into the glorious experience you have always dreamed of.   It seems simple enough, but there is so much more to the story.  The fact is, we love the idea of thinking our reality into being, but how many of us really consciously do it? How many of us really practice the principles that make this law work for us?

I have a strong core belief in the Law of Attraction.   When I learned of it through Jerry and Esther Hicks and their non-physical friends Abraham, it felt like absolute truth.  It felt like relief.  It felt like a knowing I had carried with me for eternity and had simply forgotten about.  It felt like a re-discovery of my own personal power, which I had relinquished to outside circumstances and events for so long.  It helped me to adjust my perspective in ways I never thought possible.  I have no doubt that the Law of Attraction works, from a spiritual perspective, but also because it has worked in my physical life—for and against my desired outcomes.

I have had many wonderful manifestations appear as a result of my focus, charged with positive emotion around my desire, and I have had miserable experiences manifest as a result of my focus, charged with negative emotion around my longing for something absent, or my observation of a reality I didn’t want to live any more.  What I have come to understand about the Law of Attraction, is that there is a commitment and some effort that must go into the process of “vibrating” your reality into being through thought.  Most of us are very lazy in the sense that we just keep doing what we’ve always done and expecting a different result.  I am guilty of it.  I think most everyone is.  The principles of the Law of Attraction are so counter to what most of us have been conditioned to believe, that it is not easy to change habitual thinking and behavior overnight.  There is a discipline required to reach that higher place.  Tending to our attractive vibration must be the first order of business in our lives if we want to manifest the wonderful experiences we have dreamed of.

We are so trained to be productive, work hard, and get it done.  It is our belief through all of our years of conditioning that nothing good comes to those who don’t toil and suffer.  Rarely have our school teachers or parents talked about the importance of energy alignment in our day to day living.  Our lessons and examples have been primarily about taking action.  Abraham, through Esther and Jerry Hicks, has taught me that action taken without aligning energy first is futile.  In other words, if you want success to come from a particular action, yet you approach that action feeling defeated or frightened of defeat, you cannot achieve success.  You can’t start your day feeling lousy and experience anything other than lousy.  Imagine if you set out each day with an expectation of success and good experiences what your life would look like.  But wait…what will happen if we decide to spend more time aligning energy than engaging in physical action??? Will our lives fall apart as we shift our emphasis from action to energy? I say, let’s find out.

Being an expert multi-tasker myself, it takes a conscious decision to stop and align my energy before doing.  I have spent years doing, doing, doing–being busy, busy, busy.  In between, I have managed to consciously create my reality some of the time, but I am now ready to take it to the next level.  I am ready to commit to a new way of living:  energy alignment first and everything else I have time to do second.  What a radical way to live!

What this means is I’ll be taking time to enjoy things more…I commit to make myself feel good before taking action of any kind…I’ll appreciate and expect good things more….I’ll make lists of things to feel good about….I’ll “go with the flow.”   

I want to prove how powerful this law really is.  I want to practically demonstrate the immense value of energy alignment before action.  Would you like to join me? Are you ready for some amazing changes in your life? If so, then please come with me on this journey over the remaining days of this year.  I’ll be blogging about my experience and invite you to post comments about yours.  Let’s set an intention to create the life of our dreams using energy alignment today!

JOL LAW OF ATTRACTION EXPERIMENT- 8 BEST PRACTICES:

1. Read or re-read “Ask and it is Given,” by Esther and Jerry Hicks.  I consider this book to be the most pure source of information on the subject.  For more than twenty years, Jerry and Esther Hicks have been sharing Abraham’s message directly from source through this and other wonderful books.   Many of the terms and concepts I will be discussing are inspired by this life-changing book. I recommend you refer to it and re-read it frequently, to refresh your perspective.  (To purchase this book, click on the red Hay House banner at the top of this page). 
2. Wake up to gratitude.  Before getting out of bed each day, ponder the many things you have to appreciate in your life, from the sheets on your bed to the breakfast you’re going to eat. 
3. Morning Journal.  Journal how you are feeling before getting started with the day’s activities.  Include anything you can remember about the dreams you experienced during sleep.  Take the time necessary to get it all out on paper and notice what emotions are predominant. Make a conscious effort to reach for thoughts that bring emotional relief on the subjects you wrote about.
4. Abraham Processes.  Use the 22 processes from the book, “Ask and it is Given” to raise your vibration, based upon your “emotional set point.” (To purchase this book, click on the red Hay House banner at the top of this page). 
5. Visualization and or Mediation.  Spend 15 minutes per day visualizing the reality you want to live or meditating to improve your vibration.
6. Bedtime Journal.  Before turning in for sleep, journal about your day with particular emphasis on all of the things you liked about it.  Include any experiences that you believe are a result of your newly focused energy or higher vibrational set-point.  Make it your utmost priority to, at the very least, feel relief.   
7. Play.  Allow yourself to engage in “non-productive” activities that feed your soul and make you feel good daily, simply for the experience of it. 
8. Act when inspired.  When an idea or urge comes to you and you feel enthusiasm or passion, don’t delay—DO IT! Inspiration is a result of energy alignment and your action vehicle to let your desired outcomes manifest.

So you think this is a lot of commitment.  Well, if you think it is, it is.  If this seems like a lot of work and you don’t feel good about it, don’t do it.  If you aren’t excited about engaging in these activities, this is a waste of your time.  If, on the other hand, you are exuberant or even just hopeful about what you have read here…it is an intuitive signal that you may have stumbled on to something that can result in amazing manifestational results for you.  Remember that this is an individual process, and to “be easy about it,” as Abraham says.  What’s right for me or anyone else isn’t necessarily right for you.  If you do feel inspired to participate, and you fall off the wagon, no big deal….just get back on at the place that feels best for you, where you are in the moment.  There is no perfection in this…just a conscious striving for a feeling of emotional relief and an effort to look for things to feel good about.   

Over the coming weeks I will be sharing my experiences, discussing these best practices in detail and providing tools to make this experiment fun and effective.   I will point in the direction of JOY and use my “emotional guidance system” (Abraham) to stay on track.  I have great anticipation and enthusiasm for what’s to come, and I hope you do too. Now, let’s get on with the business of consciously creating our reality!

I admit it…I just didn’t get Twitter in the beginning.  I really wasn’t interested in the when, where and why details of my tweeting  friends ‘ coffee orders or random thoughts.  Today I am missing Twitter, as it has been down for over 2 hours now. 

Twitter has now become part of my daily routine…much like brushing my teeth, eating breakfast, and exercising.  Not a day goes by when I miss my appointment with the toothbrush.  Now I don’t miss a day without “tweeting” either.

Now I get it.  As I am missing Twitter, I realize what I am really missing is my connection to the many people who have become my friends, whom I now I communicate with daily.  In the same way I can’t remember life before cell phones or email, I dare say I am almost feeling the same way about Twitter.  There, I said it.

As a result of today’s outage, I embrace Twitter as the important touchstone it is in keeping me connected to my fellow man.  But there’s more, and it’s big:  Twitter is a Universal connector of energy on a scale never experienced before.  It is an awe inspiring example of the Law of Attraction at work…like is attracting like, as people with ideas and inspiration connect to people who are seeking ideas and inspiration.  The right people get the right information at the right time and forward it to the right people.  The energy duplicates itself and expands rapidly, gaining momentum as more people connect, and then connect to more people, and…………………… you get the idea.

I am now appreciating Twitter for the wonderful tool it is, but also for the remarkable reminder it has become of how powerful the Law of Attraction is.

 ~ Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss…..such wonderful words.  Inspirational as they are, these words also reveal a very important tenet to making the Law of Attraction actually work for you.

If you are among the many who marveled with joy and anticipation upon discovering this most powerful universal law–only to find yourself discouraged and disillusioned by the seeming lack of results from all of your visualizing, dream boards, and affirmations, you could be missing this key element.  Finding your bliss or joy is not the result of the manifestations; rather it is the rocket fuel that actually creates the results. 

Most LOA enthusiasts have this backwards.  They think if they visualize something it will come.  And when it comes, they will be happy. The truth is nothing wanted can come if there is an essence of “later” in the equation.  This is a literal universe, and if the attitude of “I’ll be happy when…” is in the mix, the resulting manifestations will continue to hover in the “later” zone.  What’s more, happiness will continue to elude you, first because you’re waiting on the manifestation that will never come and second, because you have placed a condition of happiness on the outcome of that manifestation…a dead end cycle.  Unless and until you transmit the attractive dual signal that you are actually experiencing the manifestation now AND feeling joy, love or appreciation now, the manifestation cannot come.

Here’s the thing…if you observe what is in your current experience as your reality, it will continue to be your reality.   Visualize your reality as you want it to be and do whatever it takes to get to the feeling place of what that manifestation will mean to you.  Get to the feeling place before you visualize.  Live the feeling place as much as you can.  Make a decision that you will deliberately choose thoughts and actions that lean in the direction of joy.  Do things that bring you joy and don’t feel guilty about it.  Create and frequent environments that bring you joy.  Remember events that have brought you joy in the past.   It doesn’t matter how you get there.  Just get there.   When you get there, do everything you can to stay there. 

Transmit your state of bliss as your predominant state of being and watch the universe match your new “reality” with an even better one.

We speak of unconditional love….the face only a mother could love, the forgiveness extended to the murderer of one’s son, the pure love a dog shows us day in and day out, even after we’ve just yelled at him moments earlier.  The idea of unconditional love is critical to the process of manifestation and getting what we want in that process.  Why is this so? Because placing conditions upon life’s circumstances and how others must behave so we can love them is a form of resistance, a lower vibration that is akin to the frequency of suffering.  Parked at this frequency, nothing we want can come to us.

We have to love all that is, even the things we wish not to experience,  in order to allow the wonderful things we have attracted to manifest in our lives.  Question:  Do you love “God” or “Source” unconditionally? Really think about your answer.  If you’re picking and choosing what to love about life’s circumstances, you’re picking and choosing what to love about God.  If you like the title, “All That Is” for your “Source” or “God,” the literal equivalent is all that is currently manifested in your experience and those around you.  All that is, IS “All That Is” in the divine sense of the words.

We all have the capacity to love unconditionally, but sadly many don’t utilize that capacity.  It is a choice to shift perspective from what is unlovable to what is loveable about a person, place or condition.  It is a choice that is not always easy, but when made results in a massive energy shift.  It is a view through the lens of All That Is, and what follows is a release of resistance resulting immediately in relief.  Relief is always the immediate goal, reaching for a better feeling place,  in order to allow the marvelous manifestations you have attracted that are lingering within your reach.

 Vibrationally speaking, the concept of “Unconditional Joy” is one in the same as “Unconditional Love.”  It is the highest vibrational frequency, the divine domain of miracles.  Unconditional Joy says that one can choose to be joyous no matter the circumstances.  Pollyanna is it may sound, looking at life through “rose colored glasses” is not only a beautiful way to live, but a way of focusing one’s attractive energy toward all things wanted.  When you get to this place folks, and you can stay there most of the time, you are in a position to truly have it  all.  As Wayne Dyer says, “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” 

You say, “How can I be joyous when I’m broke, sick, tired, lonely or all of the above?” Firstly, shift your attention away from whatever condition is causing you discomfort or negative emotion.  Then, think of a time you were absolutely filled with joy and the happiest you can remember being.  Feel those feelings intensely.  When you begin to feel the heart based emotion of those feelings, focus them on anything and everything you can appreciate in your life at the present time.  Anything and Everything….the bed you sleep in, running water in your home, the new capabilities and connections technology has brought us, the way your body unconditionally loves you regardless of what you do to it, the ability to focus, the freedom you have, the people in your life, the people coming into your life….you get the idea.  Abraham-Hicks would call this a “rampage of appreciation.”  A “rampage of appreciation” sure sounds better than a “rampage of the crap I’m dealing with today,” and it certainly feels better. 

This is what manifesting and the Law of Attraction is all about—feeling better to allow what you have attracted to manifest into your experience.  Oh and there’s that added bonus of feeling better for the sake of feeling better itself.

Feel better.  The better you decide to feel, the better it gets!