Hi, first time poster here
This article reminds me a lot of a book that I recently read, which I believe is a popular title among people who are familiar with the law of attraction
The Master Key System by Charles Haanel, published by a company called Kallisti Publishing
the first few chapters describe an exercise which is really similar to what you describe Steve
From the book :
from Chapter 1 :
44. Now make the application: Select a room where you can be alone and undisturbed.
Sit erect, comfortably, but do not lounge. Let your thoughts roam where
they will but be perfectly still for fifteen minutes to half an hour. Continue this
for three or four days or for a week until you secure full control of your physical
being.
From chapter 2:
30. Last week I gave you an exercise for the purpose of securing control of the physical
body. If you have accomplished this you are ready to advance. This time you
will begin to control your thought. Always take the same room, the same chair,
and the same position, if possible. In some cases it is not convenient to take the
same room. In this case simply make the best use of such conditions as may be
available. Now be perfectly still as before, but inhibit all thought. This will give
you control over all thoughts of care, worry, and fear, and will enable you to entertain
only the kind of thoughts you desire. Continue this exercise until you gain
complete mastery.
from chapter 3:
29. For your exercise this week, I will ask you to go one step further. I want you to not
only be perfectly still, and inhibit all thought as far as possible, but relax. Let go.
Let the muscles take their normal condition; this will remove all pressure from the
nerves and eliminate that tension which so frequently produces physical exhaustion.
and from a later chapter - chapter 4
29. Now, go to your room, take the same seat, the same position as heretofore, and
mentally select a place which has pleasant associations. Make a complete mental
picture of it—see the buildings, the grounds, the trees, friends, associations,
everything complete. At first, you will find yourself thinking of everything under
the sun, except the ideal upon which you desire to concentrate. But do not let that
discourage you. Persistence will win, but persistence requires that you practice
these exercises every day without fail.
It goes on, and at the end of each chapter the writer describes exercises that take the process further, and in the end you are supposed to think of anything you want, hold the image long enough and clear enough and it will urge you to obtain it/make the forces of the universe deliver it to you.  |