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ricky · 03-08-2007, 04:16 AM

There's been a lot of confusion over Law of Attraction and Visualization and need for action and so on. I have found that the best way to learn something is to try it yourself. I have been experimenting with this for the past few years. Check out this scenario:
You have a pile of dishes to do and you do not feel like doing it. You are watching your favourite tv show or something else that you'd rather be doing than doing your dishes.
For this experiment, you start to see the dishes all done and nicely stacked in the dishrack while the sink's looking nice, empty and clean. You keep focusing on that image of the dishes done. Do not let that image slip out of your mind. Do not worry about making the image crystal clear or involving all your senses. Just focus on that image. Eventually, it'll become too much for you to keep focusing on one thing and keep on doing something entirely different. Assuming you have kept your focus on that image of the dishes completed, you'll get a strong urge to get up and do the dishes and before you know it, the dishes will be done.
Step #1 is to know what you want: dishes completely done and stacked in the dishrack etc.
#2: focus on the image of your goal achieved i.e. dishes done
#3: if you'll listen, you'll get this strong urge to get up and go towards the kitchen and start doing the dishes (this is the inspired action)
#4: goal achieved

Obviously if you have a dishwasher, then it'll be a little different but you get the idea.

03-08-2007, 04:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
ricky Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 129	Here's a simple experiment to show how visualization works There's been a lot of confusion over Law of Attraction and Visualization and need for action and so on. I have found that the best way to learn something is to try it yourself. I have been experimenting with this for the past few years. Check out this scenario: You have a pile of dishes to do and you do not feel like doing it. You are watching your favourite tv show or something else that you'd rather be doing than doing your dishes. For this experiment, you start to see the dishes all done and nicely stacked in the dishrack while the sink's looking nice, empty and clean. You keep focusing on that image of the dishes done. Do not let that image slip out of your mind. Do not worry about making the image crystal clear or involving all your senses. Just focus on that image. Eventually, it'll become too much for you to keep focusing on one thing and keep on doing something entirely different. Assuming you have kept your focus on that image of the dishes completed, you'll get a strong urge to get up and do the dishes and before you know it, the dishes will be done. Step #1 is to know what you want: dishes completely done and stacked in the dishrack etc. #2: focus on the image of your goal achieved i.e. dishes done #3: if you'll listen, you'll get this strong urge to get up and go towards the kitchen and start doing the dishes (this is the inspired action) #4: goal achieved Obviously if you have a dishwasher, then it'll be a little different but you get the idea.