LOA - FAQ / Best Practices & Information

[Lil Chris]

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Definitions:

Intention -
* Pronunciation: \in-ˈten(t)-shən\
* Function: noun
* Date: 14th century

1 : a determination to act in a certain way : resolve
2 : import, significance
3 a : what one intends to do or bring about b : the object for which a prayer, mass, or pious act is offered
4 : a process or manner of healing of incised wounds
5 : concept; especially : a concept considered as the product of attention directed to an object of knowledge
6 plural : purpose with respect to marriage


Manifestation -
* Pronunciation: \ˌma-nə-fə-ˈstā-shən, -ˌfe-ˈstā-\
* Function: noun
* Date: 15th century

1 a : the act, process, or an instance of manifesting b (1) : something that manifests or is manifest (2) : a perceptible, outward, or visible expression c : one of the forms in which an individual is manifested d : an occult phenomenon; specifically : materialization
2 : a public demonstration of power and purpose

Common Questions & Answers:

So What exactly is Intention Manifestation?

It's quite all-encompassing, really. The way it operates ranges from the very mundane to the very bizarre. A manifestation is basically anything that appears into your reality. Many people on this board try to intentionally manifest things, situations, events, into their reality, thus the term "Intention-Manifestation".

It simply means that you intend, or decide on what you want (for example: a new job or a new car, or a new relationship, etc.) and then you use manifestation techniques to bring it into your reality.

What's the difference between LoA (Law of Attraction) and IM (Intention Manifestation)?
The Law of Attraction is a proposed operating law of nature and, being treated as a principle or fundamental law of nature, is something that exists (or does not exist) regardless of what people say about it. On the other hand, Intention-Manifestation includes the belief structures and techniques that people use as a conscious application of the Law of Attraction, the principle in theory of which it is based, with the validity and/or effectiveness of IM varying from person to person.

Subjective, Objective & Solipsism Realities:
In philosophy, an objective fact means a truth that remains true everywhere, independently of human thought or feelings. For instance, it is true always and everywhere that 'in base 10, 2 plus 2 equals 4'. A subjective fact is one that is only true under certain conditions, at certain times, in certain places, or for certain people.

Subjective Reality (SR) - Here’s the way I’m using this term: Subjective reality is an integrated belief system where consciousness and awareness are primary. They are the container in which everything else exists. And I do mean EVERYTHING. (subjective reality Q&A) & (subjective reality simplified)

Objective Reality (OR) - is the perspective that you’re the character in the dream world, and the dream world is solid, real, and objective. An OR person wouldn’t normally think of the physical world as a dream at all — they accept the (socially conditioned) notion that the dream world is reality itself. The objective world itself is seen as the basis for knowledge. Note that there can be no proof whatsoever that this is how reality actually works; it’s one giant unprovable assumption. It’s also not falsifiable.

Solipsism Reality - is the perspective that you’re the character in the dream, and the dream world is either a projection of you, some other kind of illusion, or simply unknowable. Other people are not real in the same way you are. Your own mind is the basis for knowledge. Even though it’s impossible to prove it wrong because solipsism is not objectively falsifiable, many philosophers dislike solipsism because they see it as a philosophical dead end. I tend to agree. If you want to learn more about solipsism, the Wikipedia entry on it is quite thorough.


Here are a few examples, in the "experiential ability" sense:

1. Abraham talks about how you can create, if you simply hold the relevant thought for 68 seconds. Actually, it can be difficult to hold the relevant thought for even 20 seconds. Concentration is one of those abilities that can be developed with practice, but ... practice is needed.

2. Going to alpha is another skill that needs to be learned. Some people won't really be able to do this consistently, that is, maybe they succeed 2, 3 or 4 times out of 10 tries. Other people will have difficulty staying awake and alert in alpha - they may doze off or daydream randomly.

3. Doubt naturally arises, when you mentally try to do something which strikes you (to a lesser or greater degree, and due to your past conditioning) as unlikely, improbable or inherently impossible. Eg, visualizing yourself as slim, when you're actually very fat; or trying to mentally contact a long-lost friend, or holding a conversation with Jesus etc etc. Again it's a skill to be able to suspend that doubt.

4. Identifying your own limiting beliefs is another skill that needs to be learned. Many LOA beginners aren't actually very able to identify their own limiting beliefs; because they keep mistaking their own limiting beliefs for parts of an "objective" reality.

5. Managing your emotions is yet another skill. Many people are really just captives to their own emotions. If X happens, they feel happy; if Y happens, they feel sad; if Z happens, they feel angry. And so on.

6. Even visualization is a skill that needs practice and cultivation.


Tools For Intention Manifestation:
(coming Soon)


Recommended Multimedia Materials - Videos For Intention Manifestation:
AbrahamHicks & The Law of Attraction - All five parts of the Abraham-Hicks workshop presentation on "The Law of Attraction" running 40 minutes total.


Recommended Reading Materials - Books For Intention Manifestation:
The Science of Getting Rich - Wallace D. Wattles (google search)
The Nature of Personal Reality, Jane Roberts
The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, Deepak Chopra
Power, Grace and Freedom, Deepak Chopra
Creative Visualization, Shakti Gawain
Personal Power Through Awareness, Sanaya Roman & Duane Packer

(if you have any other recommendations please PM me)

[Lil Chris]

Part 01: -Definiteness of Purpose

Part 02: -Master Mind

Part 03: -The Habit of Going the Extra Mile

Part 04: -Applied Faith

Part 05: -A Pleasing Personality

Part 06: -Self Discipline

Part 07: -A Positive Mental Attitude

Part 08: -Enthusiasm

Part 09: -Personal Initiative

Part 10: -Overcoming Adversity and Defeat

Part 11: -Creative Imagination

Part 12: -Accurate Thinking

Part 13: -Cosmic Habit force

[Lil Chris]

Harvard's study on broken ankles and surgical wounds:

Harvard Gazette: Hypnosis helps healing

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A study which shows that if you simply visualize yourself exercising in a gym, you'll indeed attain greater muscular strength.

BBC News | HEALTH | Physical training in your dreams

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This study could be the beginning of a body research showing that one person can actually send positive healing thoughts to another person, resulting in a measurable change in the physiology of the receiving person.

Elsevier

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Masaru Emoto's original experiment (about thoughts affecting water crystals) keeps getting re-performed under stricter and stricter conditions ... and keeps getting positive results. Here's the triple blind version of the experiment:

Entangled Minds: Water crystal replication study

The pilot study:

The effects of distant intention on water crystal formation

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A review of various approaches in healing:

Visualization, Affirmation and Prayer in Healing

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Allergan's Botox has significant positive results for people who get migraine headaches, reducing the number of headaches by nearly eight each month. Most insurance providers won't cover this treatment, however, because the placebo group in the study experienced a decrease of over six headaches each month.

Why does the placebo work nearly as well as the drug for migraine headaches?

Allergan's Botox reduces migraine headache days | Reuters

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The placebo effect: Just thinking that a medicine will relieve pain is enough to prompt the brain to release its own natural painkillers. Research from the University of Michigan:

Thinking the pain away?

The study abstract:

Placebo Effects Mediated by Endogenous Opioid Activity on {micro}-Opioid Receptors -- Journal of Neuroscience

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The placebo effect: This study looked at a nutritional treatment for benign prostate enlargement. "Whereas progression of prostate enlargement occurred in the placebo group . . . the prostate did not enlarge in the lycopene group. Symptoms of the disease, as assessed via the International Prostate Symptom Score questionnaire, were improved in both groups with a significantly greater effect in men taking lycopene supplements."

Why did symptoms improve in the placebo group, even while the physical disorder was getting worse?

Lycopene inhibits disease progression in patients ... [J Nutr. 2008] - PubMed result

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In this study, musical sound had a highly statistically significant effect on the number of seeds sprouted compared to the untreated control over all five experiments. Healing energy also had a significant effect compared to an untreated control.

Measuring effects of music, noise, and healing energy (J Altern Complement Med. 2004)

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Can the power of thought stop or reverse aging?

BBC News - Can the power of thought stop you ageing?

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Surgical wounds heal faster under hypnosis:

Harvard Gazette: Hypnosis helps healing

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Teacher expectations have a significant effect on student success:

Expectancy | in Chapter 15: Social | from Psychology: An Introduction by Russ Dewey

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Injections of hyaluronic acid help relieve symptoms of knee osteoarthritis. The study authors examined the effect of dietary supplementation with hyaluronic acid on pain and quality of life in subjects with osteoarthritis of the knee. Twenty subjects with knee osteoarthritis participated in a randomized double-blind controlled trial. Ten subjects received the HA supplement and 10 placebo for 8 weeks. Both groups had statistically significant improvement, although the group taking HA did better.

Effects of dietary hyaluronic acid supplementation on arthritis

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Specially-coated peppermint oil capsules are very effective at decreasing symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. The coating delays the capsules from being digested until they reach the intestines. Although this study shows that the capsules typically achieved results in twice as many people as the placebos, the placebos did pretty well too.

Figures for the placebo group were: 21 patients (43%) with reduced pain (4 were pain-free), 14 (29%) with reduced distension, 16 (32%) with reduced stool frequency, 15 (31%) with fewer borborygmi, and 11 (22%) with less flatulence.

The pain-free figure was a lot different with the peppermint -- 29 people rather than 4 were pain-free with peppermint. Yet nearly half experienced reduced pain from taking a placebo.

Peppermint oil capsules in the treatment of IBS

(More to come)

[Lil Chris]

Excellent post provided by: TractusVicisLiberatio
There is a discussion thread here (if you're interested)

The purpose of this thread is to provide tips and techniques regarding manifesting your dream life.

The first two things to always remember are:

1) Anything and Everything is possible. Literally. The only blockades are the ones that you yourself create. If you find yourself approaching your desire as "impossible", just realize you are making it impossible by continuously choosing to view it as such. It's not impossible. Nothing is. Take a breath, remember anything is possible. Anything.

2) You are manifesting 24/7. There is never ever a time when you aren't manifesting. Reality is the mirror for your consciousness. Whatever state your consciousness is in, is reflected in your reality. Paying attention to your attitude, your thoughts and your feelings will allow you to see that your reality is in fact reflecting everything, everything going on inside of you. Always.

FIGURE OUT, EXACTLY WHAT IT IS THAT YOU WANT/WANT TO BE

You may already know, you may not already know. Sometimes the best way to figure it out, is to pay attention to the negative judgments you make about yourself and your life. Write down absolutely everything you want in a journal. Do it from the positive. Don't write "I don't want to be fat anymore!" Write "I have a great body!" Don't write "I don't want to be socially awkward!" write "I am a fun, social person". Figuring out exactly what you want is the first step to controlling your life and getting the life of your dreams.

DAY DREAMING vs VISUALIZATION

Day dreaming is picturing your desire happening in the future. This is not what you want to do. As we've already established, reality is the mirror for your state of consciousness. Seeing it in the future will only reflect exactly that back to you: Your desire existing in the future! And not now! And the longer you do that, the longer your desire will stay in the future! You want your desire right now don't you?

"Want" will also be reflected back to you, as you "Wanting" your desire, meaning that you don't have it.

Visualizing is different. The purpose behind visualization is perceiving yourself to already BE exactly what you want to be. It's perceiving yourself as having right now exactly what you want to have. Your mirror will then reflect that back to you! PLAY PRETEND for 15 minutes a day. Pretend to already be that person, right now. FEEL IT! Pretend to already have those things that you want, RIGHT NOW. Feel it to be real right now! What would it feel like if you had that one million dollars right now? There'd be no worries about whether or not it was coming your way, because you'd already have it! Those worries regarding your intention wouldn't be there, because you'd already have it. And your mirror will reflect this.

The best times to do this, are in the morning immediately after waking up, as you're falling asleep at night, and after meditation, while you're still in that meditative state.

CELEBRATE YOUR MANIFESTING ABILITY

Spend 5 minutes a day, having a little mini celebration for how terrific of a manifestor you are. Even if you are only manifesting negative things into your life, CELEBRATE manifesting, and you're amazing manifesting powers. Do some activity purposely designated for celebrating your manifestation powers. Once a week, do it on a larger scale. Treat yourself to something, like a glass of wine, or something that you enjoy, and remember that you are doing it to celebrate your manifestation powers. This will super charge your manifesting, because like we've established, reality is your mirror. Celebrating how awesome you are at manifesting will be reflected back to you, especially if you are the type of person that is used to beating themselves up for your desires not manifesting. Celebrate it!

PREPARE FOR YOUR DESIRE'S MANIFESTATION

Be like an expecting mother, arranging her unborn child's bedroom. Painting the walls, building a crib, filling the room with stuffed animals, hanging cartoon paintings on the wall..you get the idea. Prepare your environment and yourself for your intention to manifest. What can you do to make space and to prepare your environment for your desire? If you are trying to manifest a new car, clean out your garage. Are you trying to manifest one million dollars? Well, how about researching different banks? Go down to the mall, and find all the things you are going to buy as soon as your "baby" arrives.

Actions like preparing your environment for your desires arrival act as triggers for your desires to manifest in the physical realm. Literally, any action could be used as a trigger for your intentions, as long as you believed in what you were doing. You could hop up and down 25 times after telling yourself "Hopping up and down 25 times will trigger the manifestation of my desire." As long as you believe in it fully and confidently, that action will be a trigger. I personally find it's best to keep the action tied to the desire some how, because it's easier to be confident in the action. So go clean that garage! Your new car is coming and it needs some space! Go research what banks would be best to hold your large sum of money!

FACE YOUR FEARS

We sometimes harbor fears towards our desires and the manifestation of our desires. Classic LOA material has convinced us to ignore those dirty negative feelings/thoughts and stay focused on our desires. But this doesn't help. Ignoring our negative thoughts and feelings does not make them go away, it simply keeps us willfully ignorant to their existence. By facing, and paying attention to those fears and negative feelings/thoughts, we gain understanding as to why exactly we have that fear, and we begin to understand how that fear has been manifesting into our reality. Feeling it dissolves the feeling, sheds light on the conditioned thought cycles that created and sustained that feeling, and it allows us move beyond it. Ignoring the fear will not get rid of it, nor will it stop it from manifesting into your reality, it only serves to keep you ignorant of your fear.

Spend some time thinking about your desire, and see how it feels to you. If you desire money, meditate on "money" for a little while and pay attention to the feelings focusing on "money" produces. The way you feel towards money, is exactly what your experience of money is. So figure out how you really feel about money, and why you feel that way. This will help you bring to light thoughts that may be contradicting your intentions, and therefor keeping them from manifesting. Remember, anything is possible.

Let's say you want to manifest money. If you find yourself worrying where the money is going to come from, it's because you are afraid the money won't manifest, so then it won't. If you want to win the lottery, and you avoid checking the results of the drawings, it's because you are afraid of being let down by not winning. If you want a girlfriend/boyfriend but you are afraid to ask anybody out, it's because you're afraid they will say no. These fears make us stand in place in regards to manifesting our desires. The only way to break on through, is to face those fears, as scary as it might be. Meditate on them, pay attention to them, feel them, bring them from the darkness and into the light and dissolve them! You can't fight your fears! You have to face them if you no longer want to lug them around, and have them reflect back to you in your mirror.

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[Lil Chris]

THINK FROM THE STATE YOU WANT TO OBTAIN

A) THINK FORWARD FROM YOUR DESIRED STATE OF BEING
This goes back to visualization. Let's say you want to manifest a new car. So you do the visualizations of having it right now and already being there. A helpful visualization exercise is to think and make plans FROM that state, of having a new car. Think about what you would say to your friends or family about your new car, and events that would immediately follow you getting that new car. Who are you planning on driving around? Since you already have that car, what do you plan on doing with it? Any road trips? If so, where to? Think forward FROM the state of being that you desire. Feel that state of being as being real, right now, as having already obtained it, and make plans FROM that state.

B) THINK BACKWARD FROM YOUR DESIRED STATE OF BEING
A good technique for visualization, is to see yourself right now as having your complete dream life, then "remember" things that led up to that moment. Try and remember talking to the car salesmen. What did he/she look like? Start from your dream life, and remember backwards to your state now. Some of these invented memories, will actually be the way things happen when your desire manifests. How does it feel to be sitting in your dream car right now? Now think backwards FROM there. "Remember" being at the dealership, seeing the people there. Let's say you're intending for a new house. See yourself as having it RIGHT NOW, then think backward. See the realtor who helped you find the house, remember taking a tour of it....think backwards and build memories.

DIG DEEP

How do you really view reality? I'm not asking how you want to view reality, I'm asking how do you really view it? There is a massive difference. It's very easy to want this subjective reality stuff to be real, so you convince yourself that you believe it when you actually don't. This goes back to facing the fear, because what's happening is you are just covering up your actual beliefs and feelings. When you think about subjective reality/LOA/IM, how does it feel? Does it feel comfortable, or does it feel desperate? Our conditioned views on reality don't go away by covering them up with what we hope to be true, what we desperately want to be true.

Pay attention to how you actually feel towards all of this. What are your true feelings towards reality? Is it a stone, an unchangeable object that exists outside of you? Are you afraid of truly committing to LOA/SR in fear of being crazy, or judged by the people in your life? If deep down, you don't believe reality to be malleable, then your reality will always reflect that back to you, regardless of how much desperate dirt of wanting SR to be true, you shovel on top of it. You will never get anywhere if you delude yourself into think you believe something that you actually don't.

Pay attention to how you actually believe reality to be, and feel the feelings associated with it. This turns that stone rock into sand. Refusing to pay attention to your actual feelings keeps them solid, and in place. Having the strength and the will to face them will help you get past them. Pay attention to how it feels, and once you feel better about it all, let it go! See it for the illusion that it is, and choose to see reality the way you truly want to. Face that fear of being judged and let it go! A wave of peaceful euphoria rushes over me when I do this, and I can calmly choose a new perspective, that doesn't feel desperate, or as if I am trying to force it to be true, because there aren't contradicting beliefs existing beneath it anymore.

This alone will help super charge your manifestations. Seriously, you want see some immediate results when you examine your actually beliefs on reality and decide to let them go, or transform them, or whatever you'd like to call it. When I had first done this, it was literally like BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! just a series of manifestations, that allowed me to truly see that infact these old, stale believes were in fact holding me back.

INTEND FOR YOURSELF

Sometimes while intending and manifesting, we might intend for a desire to manifest that includes other people. Sometimes this works, but a lot of times it doesn't, and will only hinder your manifestation. Well, why is that? Look at your perceptions of the people in your life. You see them as having their own lives, goals, and desires, correct? Now, if we are intending to start a successful business with all of our friends, this might not manifest. Why? Well it's because we know inside, that Tom is actually a painter and he has aspirations of spending his life painting and going in that direction, and Jill loves penguins and she wants to go and spend time with penguins and do work there. So intending to start a business with Tom and Jill won't manifest, because in our minds, we know they have a different path to take, even though we may really really want them there with us. Sometimes your intentions are just that...YOUR intentions. Not Jill's, not Tom's. You are doing this for you. You want to start that business and the more dependent this desire is on other people, whose life path's contradict your intention in your mind, the longer you will wait for it to come into fruition.

Realize this is your path, and sometimes we have to walk our paths alone. While it might be fun to have all 42 of our friends working in a bakery, the reality is we perceive 38 of those 42 friends to have different desires, different intentions, and different destinies than we have.

"Well what about those 4 of the 42? Can we still intend for them to be there with us in that bakery?"

Yes and no. It truly depends on where you personally view those 4 people going with their lives. The best way to manifest this type of desire, is to intend it solely for yourself, not for them but for you. Always remember that just because you are intending it solely for yourself, doesn't mean that you can't tell them about it, and invite them to join you once the wheels start moving. But this is your life, you manifest for yourself. Making your manifestations dependent on others is not a good idea, especially if your views of those other people contradict your intention right from the get-go. This isn't a selfish idea. You can still invite Tom and Jill to run that bakery with you, but don't make your entire intention DEPENDENT on it happened to you and all of your friends, or your family, because it won't manifest. You make the decision in your head that this is what you are doing. You are starting that bakery. You are moving to Buenes Aires. You are going to start a band. You are going to be a millionaire. Be independent and now where you are going. Decide that your intention is what you are doing. It's harder to do this when that intention is wrapped around 42 other peoples' lives, who each have their own paths to take. This is your path. Take it.

And you can always invite your friends and family along later, once it's happened.

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

Practice all of this on stupid, little, insignificant, things that you don't really care about. Intend to manifest something small that you don't care about. For instance, I manifested a really rare film, that I hadn't seen in a while. I didn't care if it manifested or not, so there wasn't much "trying" to get it to work. There were no desperate feelings attached to the film, and whether or not it would manifest. I didn't care if it did or not. I flipped on the television guide, and turns out that film, which hadn't been on television in a long while, was starting right then and there. The craziest, eye opening part of this all, was that the time wasn't on the hour or half hour. It was 6:45, and the film was starting at...6:45. An awkward and rarely used time for programs to air on television, right? Seeing the stupid little things manifest will boost your confidence for the "bigger" things to manifest.

So spend time intending for small stupid things to manifest. A certain drink or soda, a specific song, a book......you get the idea. Just something dumb that you don't really care if it manifests or not.

YOUR DESIRES ARE AS HARD TO MANIFEST AS YOU BELIEVE THEY ARE

If you constantly view your desires as "big" or "hard" to manifest, they will be. If you change it up and decide it's easy and no sweat, than it will be. This is true with everything. If you're playing basketball against another team, they will be as hard or as easy to beat as you believe they will be. If it's all no sweat, than it'll all be no sweat! These words "big" "small" "easy" "hard" are simply labels that don't really exist. You give these words their meanings. Nothing is ever hard, or easy, but we simply choose to view them that way. Start becoming more aware of the way you actually view things!

Every time you think "I can't", you make it true. Every time you think "This is a big desire, it's going to be hard to manifest" you make it true. Every time you think your desire will take a long amount of time to manifest, you make it true.

Be aware of your reactions and judgments of things in your life!

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[Lil Chris]

THE KEY

The key to all of this is consciousness, because manifestation is simply the transformation of your consciousness. You are choosing a different state for your consciousness to assume, and your reality reflects that. The key to understanding your consciousness is honesty. You can't live in delusion, you need to be honest with yourself. That's how you succeed in this game, by being honest with yourself. By being honest with yourself, you allow yourself to see your own psychological make up, and how that is constantly reflected back to you by your reality. You need to be able to truly let yourself feel what you are honestly feeling. You need to understand what thoughts are in your head. You can't lie to yourself and say "I think I'm a millionaire!" when you have countless thoughts in your head that say otherwise. This isn't about delusion. This is about being 100% honest with yourself, to promote greater self understanding, personal growth, and taking the reigns of your life by understanding the thought cycles that hold you back, and transforming them into cycles that guide you where you want to go.

BE HONEST! It's easy!

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF RIGHT NOW?

SUPER CHARGE TIP:

Pay attention to how you feel about yourself right now. Not in a day dreamy type of way, but honestly. Are you happy with yourself? Do you judge yourself? In what ways do you judge yourself? What aspects of your life do you struggle? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF?!!?!?!?!?!

Pay attention to it, and realize that you can feel great about yourself RIGHT NOW, so do it! Warm up to who you are! You are awesome. When we feel about about who we are, it changes the way our energy oscillates (you never lose or gain any energy, just change the oscillation of it). When you feel great about you, your reality changes drastically for the better to reflect that!