Hi Shmou, thank you very much for your warm welcome. I appreciate it a lot.
Hi Uplift, I agree with you on everything you said. I want to elaborate more on the 'law of attraction' you mentioned. It works, but it works even better if one shifts their inner reality to match the wishes they want. If they don't shift their awareness to match the energy of their wishes, it will just become wishful thinking.
Hi Charlie, I would like to further add to what I said before taking an example from my own life. As you may have guessed I am from India (and I am a Hindu, it is probably relevant to the story I am about to tell you). Since I moved to the USA in 1991, everything was great until the 9/11. After that great calamity, I felt that people's true colors came out, at least some people's anyway. I was discriminated (you can imagine a tall, brown, handsome guy, with emphasis on brown :-) ), but not too badly. I would just get doubtful stares. If I traveled by air, the flight attendants wouldn't treat me well. I started to really hate the air travel because of the expected bad treatment. In a while even the people who worked in the local supermarket started giving me doubtful looks. Suddenly, one day it dawned me. I had been blaming everybody mistreating me, but what about my thinking process. I constantly kept thinking that someone was discriminating me. May be I am just projecting my own inner reality on to others and then interpreting their looking at me to be doubtful of my motives. I decided to experiment. On my next travel, I decided not to judge anybody as being bad to me. I decided that I am just going to be myself and not be uncomfortable around anybody, and not interpret anybody's gaze or speech or anything else towards me in anyway. I went with a mindset I had prior to 9/11. Things went smoothly. Flight attendants were very nice to me. I attracted a few very nice people around me who I chatted with on the journey. So, what made my experiences bad? Reading in papers or seeing on TV that innocent people were discriminated in the airports possibly had a subconscious effect on me. And, interpreted others through those thought patterns. But, as soon as I consciously dropped those thought patterns and shifted my inner reality, my outer reality fell into place. As inside, so outside. Now I even have a nice beard now. :-)
I hope that it is not too presumptuous of me, if I gave links to a couple of articles on Fear and Attraction that I wrote. See if they give you any information you need.
Fear | I am My Own Master - Desika Nadadur . com Ways to Attract Abundance and Whatever You Want into Your Life | I am My Own Master - Desika Nadadur . com
Thanks,
Desika