Look no further, this is it.

[surfsucks]

A few days ago, an article was published in my local newspaper written by an "attraction coach" It has helped me immensely already. Its long, but it picks up toward the end. I hope this helps.

"My neighbor doesn't believe in what I do for a living. If pressed, he'd say that not only is life coaching a ridiculous industry, but that trusting in the law of attraction is irresponsible and wishful thinking.

He's polite enough that he won't come right out and say it exactly like that to me, but he's not alone in his perspective. Plenty of people believe in order to get what we want, we have to go out and make it happen. That we have to roll up our sleeves and pay our dues to earn our reward; that sitting around talking about it, exploring our feelings about it and visualizing it is simply a waste of time. They would argue our thoughts aren't what make the difference - action is.

The latest research is beginning to show, however, that our thoughts are things that play a role in what happens. Author Lynne McTaggart compiles many of those studies in her book "The Intention Experiment," which raises eyebrows among even law of attraction skeptics.

THOUGHT VS. ACTION

Hard core proponents of the law of attraction tell us action isn't what makes the difference in getting what we want. They believe all that matters in what manifests in our life is what we vibrate. They take the opposite stance of my neighbor, saying that to make your dream come true you must simply find a way to achieve vibrational alignment with it, which is when the Universe delivers it. You don't have to figure out how to make it happen - you just vibrate it and it will happen.

In the middle of the road are other metaphysical practitioners who believe that thought alone won't get you anywhere, but that the combination of thought and action creates powerful change in our lives.

Who's got it right? Folks who believe action is what makes things happen? Those who believe thoughts alone create everything? Or those in between?

Well, we all do. Because we each create our own reality. We experience what we believe. But we each have the opportunity to choose our experience.

Those who believe we have to work hard and take action to get what we want will experience that. (Which is the law of attraction in action. "As you think, so shall it be.")

As an Attraction Coach who has worked with people from a wide variety of beliefs on the interplay of thought and action, I've learned much about what works and doesn't work in achieving our goals and desires.

Let's look at the role of thought and action to leverage what's possible for living the lives we want.

1. Everything in the Universe is made of energy (including me and you and our thoughts).

2. Energy vibrates.

3. As we vibrate, so we attract (like attracts like).

In summary, everything vibrates, and like vibrations seek each other out.

With that in mind, how do thought and action work in our world? How can we best use them to easily and swiftly achieve our dreams?

The role of action

Let's look at the example of someone who wants to experience financial abundance. Most people who want more money have been trained to believe we have to earn it, and that getting more money means getting a raise, working more hours, picking up a second job or getting more clients. Some resort to reducing expenses, while others sign up for training or education to be more valuable in the work place. Still others rely on chance by participating in the lottery or visiting Wendover.

Are these actions effective? Is there a right or wrong way to approach financial prosperity? Although plenty of experts would sell you their formula for financial success, there is no absolute right or wrong action. Some things work for some people and not for others. That's because it isn't the action itself that makes the difference. It's how you feel about the action that matters most.

Which means your results in life aren't dictated as much by the actions you take as they are about your feelings about the action you take. The important question then becomes how does this action make you feel? No one can know that but you. Some people pick up a second job and feel empowered and on track; others pick up a second job and feel desperate and spiraling downward.

What we feel is what matters. That's what makes up our vibration, which is what the Universe answers. We're not awarded happy endings as a result of a price we pay or the amount of effort we expend or how much we've suffered in order to deserve it. It's simply a matter of getting what we vibrate.

So if we're going to rely on action to get what we want, at the very least we want to ensure the action we take allows us to vibrate alignment with our end goal. Otherwise, we're actually holding at bay the results we want.

The power of thought

Let's look at it from the standpoint of relying on thought (or vibration) alone in order to get what we want.

Some practitioners of the law of attraction have been taught we'll be handed all our dreams and desires if we simply believe them real. We're told the brain doesn't know the difference between what's real and what's imagined, so if we just imagine strong enough and long enough that we are rich, the Universe has to make it so.

And we need never leave the comfort of our couch in order to let it happen.

The problem for most of us is that it's a nice concept, but we've been so conditioned to believe action is required that believing in the power of thought alone is a little far-fetched. If we don't believe we can manifest money "magically" into our lives, it's not likely to happen. (But for those who DO believe - oh my! What fun they have!)

My experience with most people is that although we might want to believe we can think something into reality, we usually hold an element of doubt and disbelief about it. That doesn't mean it's not possible; it just means many of us haven't played with it enough to be there yet.

Combining the two

Which is when it comes in handy to combine the power of thought with our reliance and belief in action. When we leverage thought to create a vibration aligned with the results we desire, and we take action that enhances that vibration, our creative power shines. That's when it looks to outsiders as if we were favored by the gods, living a charmed life where everything goes our way.

Taking the action we think will serve us often triggers an aligned vibration. For example, getting my dream job is easier for me to believe after I've distributed a resume, rather than just lying in bed fantasizing about my new career. That doesn't mean the action is what matters. It's what I'm vibrating that's key. But the action made it easier for me to vibrate alignment with what I want. And that's how I get it - achieving vibrational alignment.

In fact, very often deliberate creators find once they get their vibration lined up (by holding proper thoughts and feeling aligned emotions), they don't even have to take action before good things start happening.

For example, once my girlfriend changed her expectation about being dateable by deliberately reinforcing good thoughts about herself, she was asked out by a fellow student in her class. No action needed (other than showing up to class).

My ex-boyfriend's plumbing in his new house kept backing up every couple of weeks. The plumber reiterated in each of his half dozen visits (in as many months) that the problem wouldn't be permanently solved until he replaced the pipes. My ex changed his vibration to "perfect pipes" five months ago and hasn't had a problem since.

Another friend was struggling with his manager at work. As soon as he changed his mind about the situation and began deliberately feeling peaceful, appreciated and supported, he experienced an immediate and complete change in their interactions. Nothing changed but his energy. (He said it was spooky.)

WHAT'S POSSIBLE

Many of us approach our dreams backwards. We think we have to "figure out" what to do in order to get what we want. We think action is required and that's what we focus on. But if we never check in on how that action feels, we spin our wheels frustrating ourselves to the point where we often give up - or at least go at it the hard way.

Things go much smoother and manifest more quickly when we first get our vibration lined up (by thinking right thoughts and feeling good) and then taking inspired action. Have fun playing with your energy, getting it lined up with what you want first, and then check in on what feels good to do next. Combining the power of right thought and inspired action allows for really cool manifestations in your life. Have fun with it!

Jeannette Maw is an attraction coach and founder of Good Vibe Coaching in Salt Lake City. Free LOA resources are available at loaplayground.blogspot.com."

[Max Power]

The real challenge within PD is to know the limits of what thought (energy) alone can do. Essentially it does everything and the limits are self imposed to allude to a dense physical reality where you're not the only energy being.

If you're the only energy being here, then everything is of your creation via thought. If you consider others are part of the energy being then you're working with others to build reality and if you believe you're not the energy being on any level, then the whole thing is created for you and you just play around in it.

How you believe it works will dictate how it works.

Max

[Konfucius]

I liked this article. Good read.

-K

[cylon]

Regarding the part about resumés and different jobs. If one wanted financial freedom, and to be indepenedent, you would have to feel abundant, set the intention to have financial freedom, and watch for abundance coming your way.

But if you currently have a job you don't like, the first thought would be to send out resumés. But what if your abundance is coming, but it DOESN'T take the form of a new job? It's hard to imagine. What I'm working on now, is visualizing the abundance, yet my past conditiong still says "you can only do that with a job".

I believe that I have to start sending out resumes at this point. I don't want to tell the universe how to do things, but it seems the shortest point between the current work situation I have outgrown, and a better lifestyle.

You have to get specific with the desire, but we can only see so far based on our previous experiences.

[jeff3]

I've read a lot of Jeanette's stuff, she is pretty sharp.

[jeff3]

Originally Posted by cylon

Regarding the part about resumés and different jobs. If one wanted financial freedom, and to be indepenedent, you would have to feel abundant, set the intention to have financial freedom, and watch for abundance coming your way.

But if you currently have a job you don't like, the first thought would be to send out resumés. But what if your abundance is coming, but it DOESN'T take the form of a new job? It's hard to imagine. What I'm working on now, is visualizing the abundance, yet my past conditiong still says "you can only do that with a job".

I believe that I have to start sending out resumes at this point. I don't want to tell the universe how to do things, but it seems the shortest point between the current work situation I have outgrown, and a better lifestyle.

You have to get specific with the desire, but we can only see so far based on our previous experiences.

good observation, I think it's prudent to 'do what works' until you find a better way. I can attest (from personal experience) that quitting a job to rely on your manifesting skill can get you broke real fast. The key is to keep in mind that there is a better way and it is a skill that must be learned, you do what needs to be done while you learn, kinda' like sacking groceries while you go to college, you know the day will come when you will quit sacking groceries.

[Lil Chris]

Focus young lad... Focus.

[4Mind4Life]

Great article!

[cylon]

Originally Posted by Lil Chris

Focus young lad... Focus.

Word. But you know how freaky the foucusing can be.

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by cylon

Word. But you know how freaky the focusing can be.

Tru Dat...! (i've been listening to the rap again)

Perhaps I should say Focus Smartly

[Brutha]

Originally Posted by surfsucks

Jeannette Maw is an attraction coach and founder of Good Vibe Coaching in Salt Lake City. Free LOA resources are available at loaplayground.blogspot.com."

There is no reason to talk about yourelf in the thrird person. That appears as inauthentic on a webforum.
A forum is a place where people talk with each other, not a top-down professional enviroment.

[aabbcc]

I really enjoyed this article. Thank you for posting it.

[surfsucks]

Originally Posted by Brutha

There is no reason to talk about yourelf in the thrird person. That appears as inauthentic on a webforum.
A forum is a place where people talk with each other, not a top-down professional enviroment.

Im not Jeannette Maw.

Originally Posted by surfsucks

A few days ago, an article was published in my local newspaper written by an "attraction coach" It has helped me immensely already. Its long, but it picks up toward the end. I hope this helps.

[Good Vibe Coach]

Thanks for posting my article, Surfsucks! Glad you liked it enough to share. (I usually write shorter pieces for the net - Catalyst likes them longer.)

Cylon, you're way ahead of the game to KNOW what your current belief system is ("you can only do that with a job" - regarding creating abundance) and to work WITH that rather than against it.

Some blindly ignore what their present conditioning is and hope for the best while they visualize away - I don't think that's the most powerful approach we could take.

Conversely, others ignore the energy they're flowing while they post for new jobs - that's not a powerful approach either.

Managing your energy and taking action that feels good to you can't be beat for getting what you want.

I DO know that applying for a new job while you're fighting against the current one isn't likely to bring the results you want. Making peace with what is is a good first step in letting the goods in - no matter what we're after.

I read this from Mandy Evans' "Emotional Options" last night: "The choices you make and actions you take when you are afraid lead down a different road from the choices and actions you take when you are happy. The solutions you find to a problem when you feel guilty will not be the same ones you come up with when you feel at peace."

If you believe sending resumes will serve you, it will. Taking that action with the energy of what you WANT instead of the energy that's present in your current work circumstances will serve you even better.

Here's to your abundance, Cylon!

[cylon]

Thanks Coach! Needed that this morning.

I agree if you're running from something, you'll always be running. My mission lately has been to make peace with my current situation that I have outgrown. I accept that I've learned much from the job, and have gone as far as I can go, and that's OK. The only thing that kept me here is fear of the unknown. But now I realize that I AM the "goods", and just being myself in fact is the service I provide. I've outgrown the outgrowing.

(btw, kind of funny, as I was writing my job intention I used the term Good Vibes in regard to the atmosphere a few times, lol).

[Brigid]

I can't thank you enough for sharing this!!

I have discovered that my own old scary programming, keeps resurfacing, and I have needed to read this, hear this, again, and again, and again in order to really get it inside me! I am now able catch myself often when an old thought, with a 'not good' vibe attached to it tries to sabotage the new thought and feeling. Kinda of like being dumped out of the hammock just when you start to fully feel relaxed!!
I intend to keep playing with this energy and focus and action, and just going with the flow. Because truly, as I stand back and look out, consciously or unconsiously, with love ot with hate, the entire world and all its inhabitants are already operating that way. Wow...

Originally Posted by surfsucks

A few days ago, an article was published in my local newspaper written by an "attraction coach" It has helped me immensely already. Its long, but it picks up toward the end. I hope this helps.

"My neighbor doesn't believe in what I do for a living. If pressed, he'd say that not only is life coaching a ridiculous industry, but that trusting in the law of attraction is irresponsible and wishful thinking.

He's polite enough that he won't come right out and say it exactly like that to me, but he's not alone in his perspective. Plenty of people believe in order to get what we want, we have to go out and make it happen. That we have to roll up our sleeves and pay our dues to earn our reward; that sitting around talking about it, exploring our feelings about it and visualizing it is simply a waste of time. They would argue our thoughts aren't what make the difference - action is.

The latest research is beginning to show, however, that our thoughts are things that play a role in what happens. Author Lynne McTaggart compiles many of those studies in her book "The Intention Experiment," which raises eyebrows among even law of attraction skeptics.

THOUGHT VS. ACTION

Hard core proponents of the law of attraction tell us action isn't what makes the difference in getting what we want. They believe all that matters in what manifests in our life is what we vibrate. They take the opposite stance of my neighbor, saying that to make your dream come true you must simply find a way to achieve vibrational alignment with it, which is when the Universe delivers it. You don't have to figure out how to make it happen - you just vibrate it and it will happen.

In the middle of the road are other metaphysical practitioners who believe that thought alone won't get you anywhere, but that the combination of thought and action creates powerful change in our lives.

Who's got it right? Folks who believe action is what makes things happen? Those who believe thoughts alone create everything? Or those in between?

Well, we all do. Because we each create our own reality. We experience what we believe. But we each have the opportunity to choose our experience.

Those who believe we have to work hard and take action to get what we want will experience that. (Which is the law of attraction in action. "As you think, so shall it be.")

As an Attraction Coach who has worked with people from a wide variety of beliefs on the interplay of thought and action, I've learned much about what works and doesn't work in achieving our goals and desires.

Let's look at the role of thought and action to leverage what's possible for living the lives we want.

1. Everything in the Universe is made of energy (including me and you and our thoughts).

2. Energy vibrates.

3. As we vibrate, so we attract (like attracts like).

In summary, everything vibrates, and like vibrations seek each other out.

With that in mind, how do thought and action work in our world? How can we best use them to easily and swiftly achieve our dreams?

The role of action

Let's look at the example of someone who wants to experience financial abundance. Most people who want more money have been trained to believe we have to earn it, and that getting more money means getting a raise, working more hours, picking up a second job or getting more clients. Some resort to reducing expenses, while others sign up for training or education to be more valuable in the work place. Still others rely on chance by participating in the lottery or visiting Wendover.

Are these actions effective? Is there a right or wrong way to approach financial prosperity? Although plenty of experts would sell you their formula for financial success, there is no absolute right or wrong action. Some things work for some people and not for others. That's because it isn't the action itself that makes the difference. It's how you feel about the action that matters most.

Which means your results in life aren't dictated as much by the actions you take as they are about your feelings about the action you take. The important question then becomes how does this action make you feel? No one can know that but you. Some people pick up a second job and feel empowered and on track; others pick up a second job and feel desperate and spiraling downward.

What we feel is what matters. That's what makes up our vibration, which is what the Universe answers. We're not awarded happy endings as a result of a price we pay or the amount of effort we expend or how much we've suffered in order to deserve it. It's simply a matter of getting what we vibrate.

So if we're going to rely on action to get what we want, at the very least we want to ensure the action we take allows us to vibrate alignment with our end goal. Otherwise, we're actually holding at bay the results we want.

The power of thought

Let's look at it from the standpoint of relying on thought (or vibration) alone in order to get what we want.

Some practitioners of the law of attraction have been taught we'll be handed all our dreams and desires if we simply believe them real. We're told the brain doesn't know the difference between what's real and what's imagined, so if we just imagine strong enough and long enough that we are rich, the Universe has to make it so.

And we need never leave the comfort of our couch in order to let it happen.

The problem for most of us is that it's a nice concept, but we've been so conditioned to believe action is required that believing in the power of thought alone is a little far-fetched. If we don't believe we can manifest money "magically" into our lives, it's not likely to happen. (But for those who DO believe - oh my! What fun they have!)

My experience with most people is that although we might want to believe we can think something into reality, we usually hold an element of doubt and disbelief about it. That doesn't mean it's not possible; it just means many of us haven't played with it enough to be there yet.

Combining the two

Which is when it comes in handy to combine the power of thought with our reliance and belief in action. When we leverage thought to create a vibration aligned with the results we desire, and we take action that enhances that vibration, our creative power shines. That's when it looks to outsiders as if we were favored by the gods, living a charmed life where everything goes our way.

Taking the action we think will serve us often triggers an aligned vibration. For example, getting my dream job is easier for me to believe after I've distributed a resume, rather than just lying in bed fantasizing about my new career. That doesn't mean the action is what matters. It's what I'm vibrating that's key. But the action made it easier for me to vibrate alignment with what I want. And that's how I get it - achieving vibrational alignment.

In fact, very often deliberate creators find once they get their vibration lined up (by holding proper thoughts and feeling aligned emotions), they don't even have to take action before good things start happening.

For example, once my girlfriend changed her expectation about being dateable by deliberately reinforcing good thoughts about herself, she was asked out by a fellow student in her class. No action needed (other than showing up to class).

My ex-boyfriend's plumbing in his new house kept backing up every couple of weeks. The plumber reiterated in each of his half dozen visits (in as many months) that the problem wouldn't be permanently solved until he replaced the pipes. My ex changed his vibration to "perfect pipes" five months ago and hasn't had a problem since.

Another friend was struggling with his manager at work. As soon as he changed his mind about the situation and began deliberately feeling peaceful, appreciated and supported, he experienced an immediate and complete change in their interactions. Nothing changed but his energy. (He said it was spooky.)

WHAT'S POSSIBLE

Many of us approach our dreams backwards. We think we have to "figure out" what to do in order to get what we want. We think action is required and that's what we focus on. But if we never check in on how that action feels, we spin our wheels frustrating ourselves to the point where we often give up - or at least go at it the hard way.

Things go much smoother and manifest more quickly when we first get our vibration lined up (by thinking right thoughts and feeling good) and then taking inspired action. Have fun playing with your energy, getting it lined up with what you want first, and then check in on what feels good to do next. Combining the power of right thought and inspired action allows for really cool manifestations in your life. Have fun with it!

Jeannette Maw is an attraction coach and founder of Good Vibe Coaching in Salt Lake City. Free LOA resources are available at loaplayground.blogspot.com."

[qed]

Originally Posted by surfsucks

The problem for most of us is that it's a nice concept, but we've been so conditioned to believe action is required that believing in the power of thought alone is a little far-fetched. If we don't believe we can manifest money "magically" into our lives, it's not likely to happen. (But for those who DO believe - oh my! What fun they have!)

This is total marketing hype and utter b.s. What ever manifested out of nothing? Even when it "seems" to manifest out of nowhere, it is still not magic. It is just that you couldn't figure out how it happened.

Animation (change, flow, etc) is part of "outer" reality. Things lead to one another in some kind of interlinked and often logically hard-to-follow type of unfoldment. Therefore, it is often hard to see what caused what which led to what else...

So then you need to setup multiple paths -as many as possible- leading to your desire. Example: Steve doesn't just wish, pray, intend, hope for financial abundance. He has his blog and he creates many many avenues for money to reach him. He has many sources of income and each possibly gives him more ideas and opportunities to create more streams of income. His life flows through all these paths and create the financial abundance he seeks.

There is no magic even if it seems like magic! The fact that you can't explain it makes it look like magic, but it is not..

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by qed

What ever manifested out of nothing?

EVERYTHING...

[Brigid]

Originally Posted by qed View Post
What ever manifested out of nothing?
EVERYTHING...
__________________
“The real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”
– Marcel Proust

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"

Absolutely..................and when the above happens..IT"S MAGIC!!
See Dan Millmans "The Way of The Peaceful Warrior" as an example.

And thanks again, all of you, seems my mind was using me instead of me using my mind...lol
If you know what I mean