So, How did your assignment on the Law of Attraction (Pt. I) go last night? {Am I sounding too much like a teacher? – Sorry!  Habits are hard to break! }

So, how did it go?  Were you able to write down things you don’t want in some area(s) of your life and THEN cross them out one by one as you rephrased them in terms of what you DO want?

If you followed this step GREAT!  Next, step 2 from Michael J. Losier’s book “Law of Attraction:  The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don’t”. 

Step 2 is basically: Give your desires attention.  Now, I’m not going to go into all the details here (you can read Mr. Losier’s book for that).  However, I am going to give you a quick summary and focus on the specific part of topic that really caught my attention.

Basically, the Law of Attraction works on the principal of what you’re currently focusing on you attract more of.  It doesn’t matter if this focus is conscious or unconscious. 

Just when we think the Law of Attraction ISN’T working to get us what we want – it really is – we’re just sending the wrong message without even realizing it!

How is this possible?  Well… we’ll go into a LOT of detail on this in part 3, but what’s relevant now is how a particular statement of desire actually makes you FEEL – sending out feelings/emotional responses is what the Law of Attraction really reacts to.

For example, I would love to lose about 40 pounds.  So, my desire might be stated as “I have a healthy, toned, lean body.” (By the way – note the present tense used here – this is very important.) 

The problem is that when I read those words I have a tendency to retort “Yeah right, lean body.  What me?  This marshmallow?”  Unfortunately, this is how I REALLY feel and this is what the Law of Attraction reacts to – bringing me more of the same “marshmallow-me”.

To quote directly from Mr. Losier’s book pg. 58, “A positive affirmation can have a negative vibration [feeling/emotional response].  Most affirmations don’t work because the Law of attraction doesn’t respond to words – it responds to how you feel about the words you use.”

Boy!  Is this ever me!  So, Mr. Losier then goes on to suggest that since this affirmation isn’t really true to me – it brings on that statement of negativity and doubt – then I need to rephrase it to MAKE it true.

His golden key is:  Use the phrase “I’m in the process of ______”.

So, my desire/affirmation statement would be better phrased as “I am in the process of having a healthy, toned, lean body.”  Then I find myself responding, “Yes, I AM in the process of having this body – it’s not here yet, but I’m working on it!” (And, more importantly, the Law of Attraction is working on the right thing, too.)

Mr. Losier also takes the readers through a very thorough worksheet of creating Desire Statements and raising your awareness/attention toward what you really desire.

So, your homework for step 2 is to think of other ways to state what you desire so that it is in the present tense and is TRUE for you now.

Tomorrow – Step 3:  Allow It to Happen

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