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The Law of Attraction in Your Power Circle

A circle of power, as it relates to the Law of Attraction, is a group of like minded individuals, who have purposed in their hearts, along with you, to meet regularly to join forces in your directional focus towards positive power and energy. The number in your circle may vary, and only you can decide what the ideal number may be. The Bible tells us that where two or more are gathered, God is there among them. The number 3 is often looked upon as a powerful number, as is the number 7. You may choose to not even set a fixed number, and may be open to fluctuations in your circle. The masters of this principle, however, do show a significant increase in focus and energy among those groups who decide to be committed to each other, at least for a season.

Set a time and day for regular meetings of the master minds in your group. People at or above your level of understanding of the Law of Attraction. Be strict about promptness, and attendance. If a member is chronically late, or absent, considering asking them to step down from their position in your circle, as the negativity that could breed is potentially very damaging to the positive energy you are looking to build upon.

Make every effort to free your meeting place from distractions. Play some instrumental music, or other CD you find empowering, such as ocean sounds. Light a candle. Lower the lights, and place a `Please do not knock, or ring door bell' on your front door. Now that the setting is arranged, as the host of the power circle, it is your responsibility to prepare your heart prior to your partners arriving. Give your self enough time to decompress from whatever your day has brought. Ask your Higher Power to help you clear your mind, and protect this time you have set aside. Be especially careful to notice if there is any area of your heart cast in darkness. Unforgiveness, bitterness, ungratefulness. These negative feelings, and any others, will hamper your ability to reach higher ground spiritually, and therefore your positive connection to the Law of Attraction will be diminished, also.

Begin the power circle session by asking of your group to discern for themselves any negativity they may have carried with them to the meeting and as it is brought to mind, dealt with. Practice accountability in the circle, gently encouraging each other to be constantly striving for balance in all areas of life.

Be aware that the forming of a circle physically when you meet is very empowering. The circle symbolizes completion, continual movement, and is representative of eternity, having no visible beginning or end. As part of the discipline you are learning, your consciousness will begin immediately to be altered towards relaxation and deeper focus, as you assume your positions around the circle. Your mind leaves the worrisome and mundane, and allows serenity to give way to an expectant joy.

Begin your circle time with a deep, cleansing breathe, and then, after a moment, one by one, verbally express your thankfulness for all that the Law of Attraction is doing for you. Understand the power of the Law of Attraction stands outside of our limited concept of time, so when you are purposely communicating with it, you, also, must be grateful for all that was, is and will be, in the present tense.

As each participant speaks their thankfulness for the successes to come, their partners around the circle will affirm and edify the positive statements being made. Each time you gather, these simple acts will become more enriching to each member of the circle, and as victories within the partner's lives are shared and celebrated the power of your circle with grow dramatically. 

Manifesting the Means

When attempting to manifest your desires, it’s easy to get mixed up between what you really want and the means for obtaining what you really want.  After all, that’s why so many of us focus on money, isn’t it?  You don’t care about green paper!  You want financial freedom, the ability to travel, and freedom from financial struggles.  It’s important to focus on our desires and not the means, for the means themselves are more difficult to attract.  When focusing on attracting our desires, the means will naturally occur to allow us to reach our goals.  Let’s look at why.

We think, generally, in a very logical fashion.  We’re not used to jumping from A to C.  We’re accustomed to moving through B.  The problem is that when C is where we want to be, but we focus on attracting point B, we are not generating all of the emotional excitement and energy we could be using to attract our desire.  Because of this, we have far more difficulty attaining our goal, and the process can be long and frustrating. 

Have you really tried visualizing loads of money?  Doesn’t that get boring fast?  It’s difficult to do!  That’s because the act of holding money isn’t that interesting.  However, sailing on our yacht while sipping martinis is a far more exciting visual, is it not?  If you paint yourself laid back on the yacht, you naturally imply freedom from struggle.  By focusing on your end result, and attempting to manifest it, you will naturally attract all of the money you need to do so!  This could be a very swift process indeed.  However, this isn’t what most of us do.  We fall into the typical old trap.  We try to manifest the money.

The interesting thing about the Law of Attraction is that it can bring you anything you want.  Regardless of how difficult it may seem, how impossible or how unlikely, you can have what you want!  Since our minds are used to taking logical points, we are used to working our way from where we are to where we want to go.  Listen up, because here’s the magic.  Focus only on where you want to be in the end.  Focus all of your attention, emotion, and visualizations on your end result.  Sit and determine what it is that you truly want first, so that you know that you are on track.  Don’t try to manifest the money – manifest the mansion!  Since the natural progression of our physical world demands that you buy a mansion with a butt-load of money, guess what the Law of Attraction will bring to you?  A butt-load of money, of course.  The money, or the means in any case, is not important.  The means will be there.  You need to worry only about the ends.

Let the universe and the Law worry about the how’s.  You worry about the what’s.  By releasing the medium ground and allowing the Law to operate of its own accord, you free yourself of having to go slowly and painfully from point A to point B, then again from B to C.  If you visualize C, B will happen naturally.  Good luck and happy manifesting!

How Grateful Are You For the Law of Attraction's Power?

To express thankfulness is to appreciate that someone other than yourself is, in some part, responsible for your current pleasure, comfort, or success. Should a gift be bestowed upon you, and you express no gratefulness, how soon do you think the giver will rush to please you once more? Sometimes when we ourselves send a gift, we do want an acknowledgment of it, if only to ascertain that the gift did in fact arrive. I often wonder where the courtesy of a thank you note has gone. I suppose in these times it could at least be a thank you email! Should not the child, who has received a gift, be taught to take some time and thank the giver?

How then, if we ourselves appreciate a mention of thanks when we give a gift, do we not take the time to express heartfelt gratitude to the Power that causes all true gifts to be received? An attitude of gratitude must be cultivated if we wish to maintain an open line to the Law of Attraction for receiving greater and more numerous gifts.

Do you go through your day barely noticing the wonderful little miracles that come your way, or chalking the ones you do notice up to coincidences? Please realize, there are no accidents! To a Power that is infinite, such as the Law of Attraction, measuring miracles is futile. Begin to notice, and especially appreciate, each and every lovely event that enriches your life. A series of green lights, a great parking space, running into a long lost friend, all these and countless others occur regularly to those who are in tune with the positive, and thankful for it.

Allow me to paraphrase a beautiful quote from Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1758-1768: `He who is thankful for the common things will enjoy many great things. A grateful mind is a great mind.' How true. Don't brush past the sweet, albeit small, successes in your daily life.  Adopt an attitude of gratitude, and discover the boundless good that waits to carry you onto greater delights day by day.

`When gratitude overflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings.'

This quote, from George Lillo, moralist playwright  from the early 1700s, really sums it up. Be grateful for the small, and begin to receive it all!

The Law of Attraction, Coming Soon to a Life Near You!

As you read this, someone in your sphere of contact, is going to begin, very soon, a journey on a path of imaginable joy and fulfillment! What are you going to be doing today, that can't give way to join in this incredible life experience. Work? Family responsibilities? I realize the list can seem insurmountable of reasons why you can't devote yourself to a brighter future today, however if you allow daily stress and struggles to have control over your life, your future will never be what it was meant to be. Your tomorrow, when you are going to have the time to really look into this `Law of Attraction' phenomenon will never occur. The years will go on, but positive change will never materialize for you.

Stop swimming upstream! Everything you are trying to accomplish in your life, from finding your car keys to becoming the next `American Idol' is as close as your next breath. Imagine owning one of those beautiful stainless steel and glass refrigerators. There are special drawers and temperature settings for every type of food and drink. It has every feature you ever dreamed a fridge could possess. You go to the store and buy all your favorite items, the freshest produce, chesses, eggs, and meat. You can't wait to experience how terrific this new fridge is going to serve your family in preserving your food. You fill the fridge, and go out for the day. When you come home that night, prepared to serve your family a great meal from the items in your terrific new fridge, you are dismayed to find everything in the fridge is spoiled, and is of no value. Now imagine you continue to do this every day, for years on end, never wondering what is wrong, and wasting all the resources you put into the fridge every day. If only someone had told you to plug this amazing new fridge in!!!! Well, silly as that sounds, that is exactly what you are doing each day you try to succeed in life without being  `plugged in'. All your efforts, resources and  labor has no effect on what you are trying to achieve. You feel as though your job is going nowhere, your health is fair at best, and your family and friends don't appreciate  all you go through each day, just to survive.

Isn't it time to stop surviving, and begin thriving? When will you take the power of the universe and claim it as your own? Will today just be another day of barely getting by, or will today be the start of a lifelong adventure of soaring with the eagles? Do you want to run and not grow weary? Do you want to walk and not feel faint? Mount up to fly with wings of eagles. The eagle does not thrash about, attempting to fly, he majestically soars. There are no struggles for those who do what they were meant to do. You were born for greatness, for a time such as this we must stop trying to operate without the power to do so. Plug in to the Law of Attraction, and never again feel as though no matter what you put into your efforts, nothing good comes out. If not today, than when? Why not now!!!

The Gratitude Dance

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Gratitude and New Beginnings

Few things in life can bring up a sense of sadness and loss than endings.  Whether the ending involves the dissolution of a marriage, the termination of a job, a forced residential change or anything else, we are thrust into a state of disconnection and emptiness.

Part of this feeling is caused by the disruption of our normal routine, but the biggest part of it stems from our reliance on  the lost situation(s) as part of our identity.  We don't know who we are without them, and we struggle to find a foothold in our lives again.

One way to make life transitions smoother and less disruptive is by using a gratitude focus.

Gratitude can help you remember that along with the darkness of every ending comes the dawn of a new beginning.  Gratitude can smooth the sharp edges of any painful experience and usher in a more gentle transition that contributes to your personal growth.  Finally, gratitude can help you shed the burden of unhealthy situations in order to clear a space for something better to arrive in your life.

Below are a few simple steps to help you turn any negative situation into one of healing and growth:

1)  Open a notebook or journal to a clean sheet of paper and write, "I grieve the loss of this situation because ___________."  Write the reasons why you feel sad about your loss, how you feel without it, and how you think it will affect your quality of life.

2)  Turn to a new sheet of paper and write, “I value these things that I received from the existence of this situation in my life: ____________.”  In this space, write all the good things that came from the situation you are now releasing. 

3)  Finally, turn to another clean sheet of paper and write, “The release of this situation from my life now provides an opening for __________.”  Think of how the release of the old situation has provided an opportunity for something better to come along.  For example, if your marriage has ended, one possibility is that you can now invite in a healthier relationship that will better fit the person you are becoming.  Likewise for the loss of a job, and so on.  Find some positive things that will eventually happen because you are releasing the old situations/people/experiences.

No matter how terrible a loss may seem at first glance, there are always hidden blessings within it - if you're willing to look for them.

It's important to understand that it may take time to see obvious benefits from your gratitude exercises.  Remember that there is a grief process involved when transitioning through life phases.  Allowing yourself to feel the sadness of your loss will help you move more quickly through the grief.  At the same time, giving more of your focus to the formation of something better can make the process seem less devastating.

Do these exercises as often as you feel necessary to help shift your mind-set from helplessness to optimism and healing.

One Day of Gratitude

Has adopting an attitude of gratitude been a challenge for you?  Do you start each day with the best of intentions and then find yourself losing focus as you encounter more and more negativity?

The problem stems from trying to change the habits of a lifetime in one fell swoop!

If you've spent a large portion of your life not focusing on gratitude, you can't expect yourself to change your whole mind-set immediately.  (Most of us always try though, don't we?)

But can you do it for one day?  Can you commit to adopting a grateful focus no matter what happens during the course of one single day?  You'd be surprised how easy it is to do something for one day.

Here's how to start:

First, select a trigger object to keep with you on the day of your gratitude experiment.  It can be a special piece of jewelry, a rubber band around your wrist, a special baseball cap, your lucky shirt, or anything else you feel would help you remember.

On the morning of your "one day of gratitude", spend a few moments holding your reminder object.  Bring up a feeling of gratitude in your heart while you do.  When you are fully immersed in the emotion of gratitude, recite an intention something like this:

"Today I choose to feel grateful for every experience I have.  I will find a positive focus for every challenge I face, every moment of frustration, and every person I meet.  I will make a conscious effort to stay rooted in the present moment so I am aware of the temptation to slip from this grateful focus and I can bring my thoughts and emotions back on track immediately.  This (object) will serve as a powerful reminder that I can choose to be grateful about anything and everything today, and I will exercise this freedom of choice during my one day of gratitude."

Put on your trigger object, and then go about your day.

Don't fool yourself into believing that your day will be smooth sailing just because you performed your little gratitude ceremony!  (You didn't really think it was going to be THAT easy, did you?)  Anything is possible of course, but it's more likely that you'll find your patience and focus being tested repeatedly throughout the day.

Believe it or not, that's a good thing!  The more opportunities you are given to choose and strengthen your focus, the better you'll get at developing a true attitude of gratitude.  Go with it.  If you find yourself getting mired in anger or frustration, simply return your focus back to gratitude again.  Make it your mission to find something positive about every situation and keep working on turning your thoughts around as often as necessary.

By the end of the day you should be feeling very proud of yourself!  Even if you didn't manage to keep a steady focus on gratitude, you were probably able to focus on it more than you have in the past.

Now, lather, rinse and repeat!  Keep doing this exercise one day at a time, over and over again.  Before long you will find that you don't have to work so hard at staying focused on gratitude, and it starts becoming more natural.

As author Annie Dillard once said, "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

Start with one day, and everything can change.

Improve Your Attitude With Gratitude

Few things can affect your overall quality of life as powerfully as your attitude can.  Your attitude affects your career, your relationships, your hobbies, and even your financial status.  Most people discover that when they improve their attitude, everything else in their lives seems to improve also.

A daily practice of gratitude is one simple way to give yourself a painless attitude adjustment because it reduces your temptation to focus on more "negative" mind-sets.  When you feel grateful it is nearly impossible to feel frustrated, sad, empty, or disconnected.  A negative focus and a gratitude focus cannot co-exist!  They are opposites and will repel each other.

Here are a few suggestions for using gratitude to improve your attitude:

1)  Use gratitude to blot out unproductive feelings.  Sometimes we just get into a "funk" without knowing why.  We wake up one morning and realize that we've lost our zest for life and a numb disinterest has taken its place.  To turn this around, find something to be grateful for.  Just one tiny thing is enough!  Begin focusing on this thing as often as you can during the day, but most especially when that feeling of boredom or disinterest comes over you.  Let a feeling of strong gratitude flood through your body, and you will shift to a more positive attitude almost immediately.

2)  Begin expressing gratitude for the people around you each day.  Is your co-worker getting on your nerves?  Find one thing about her you can be grateful for, and focus all of your attention on that when you start to feel annoyed.  Remind yourself that everyone has both positive and negative personality traits - and you will encourage more displays of whatever you focus on!  Focus on the positive traits of the people you encounter daily and watch as it transforms your interactions into mutually beneficial connections.

3)  Become an optimist with the help of gratitude.  Do you find yourself in the habit of always expecting the worst?  When you become aware that you have shifted into a pessimistic mind-set, consciously choose to shift into grateful optimism.  For example, if you catch yourself saying something like this, "My boss doesn't appreciate anything I do so I probably won't get a raise this year" - stop and turn that thought into something like this:  "I always do my absolute best for the company, and my commitment to excellence will reap great rewards.  I'm so grateful for the opportunity to shine every day."

The results you get from these exercises may not be too obvious at first, but as you keep up with them you should begin to see a big difference in your attitude.  You'll find yourself feeling lighter, happier, and automatically finding things to be grateful about all the time. 

The Miracle of Gratitude

A miracle is traditionally defined as an extraordinary event by divine intervention, but we also use the word to describe an occurrence that was previously thought to be impossible.

Gratitude can be one of these miracles in your life if you let it.  How?  By giving you the power to turn any difficulty, any challenge, or any heartache into a blessing.

The thing about miracles is that you have to be willing to see and acknowledge them.  If you wanted to keep a pessimistic or cynical outlook, you could easily ignore what appears to be a miracle.  We see this all the time!  A person with a supposedly terminal illness is told he only has 3 months to live, and he's still going strong 10 years later.  A woman who is told she can never conceive a child decides to adopt, and finds out she's pregnant shortly after.  There are endless stories like this, where the impossible suddenly became possible - in other words, a miracle occurred.  Yet, some people choose to see these events as "coincidences" or merely random flukes.

Any miracle can be explained away if a person has a vested interest in remaining cynical.  The question to ask yourself is:  do you have such an interest?  Or are you willing to allow a gratitude focus to perform miracles in your life?

Take a moment and consider any "impossible" situations in your life right now.  Why do you believe they are impossible?  Are you willing to believe in the possibility that a miracle could occur?

If you answered yes to that question, here is how to use gratitude to invite miracles into your life.

1)  Never say "never".  How many times have you been absolutely certain that something couldn't happen, only to find out later that you were wrong?  It happens a lot!  Begin to open your mind to the possibilities and believe that what you think is impossible may not be so at all.  Just because you can't see any possible way for something to happen doesn't mean a way doesn't exist!  Express gratitude for the possibilities you are aware of, and also those you haven't even considered yet.  Open your heart and mind to gratitude for the miracles that might be coming your way.

2)  Even if something does appear to be totally hopeless by all the laws of physics and tangible reality as we know it, allow gratitude to turn it into a miracle through the grace of acceptance.  Embrace what you cannot change.  Let it become something that blesses you rather than hinders you.  Even better, let it become something that blesses others.  Use your impossibility to change lives and by extension, the world.  A way exists if you open to it.

3)  Apply gratitude to every hardship, challenge, obstacle and pain in your life.  Be thankful for the ways they help you grow in wisdom and inner strength.  Love your illnesses, your heartaches, your struggles and your enemies.  Bless them for imparting deeper meaning and richness to your life.

Through love and gratitude, ANY situation can be healed.  Perhaps the healing will not come in the form you expect or in the exact timeline you hope for - but healing will come.  Simply open to it and embrace it, and you will have created your very own miracle.

The Reflective Nature of Gratitude

Have you ever heard that the people and situations in our lives mirror back what we project out?  You can probably remember plenty of times when this seemed to be so.

For example, perhaps you awoke one morning in a grumpy mood - and then proceeded to encounter one grumpy person after another during the rest of the day.  Or you felt overwhelmed with problems - and seemed to attract dozens more problems, both minor and major.

This type of "instant attraction" can be unsettling to say the least!  However, just as it can work in a negative fashion, you can also learn how to turn this mirror effect to your advantage through the practice of gratitude.

Try this little experiment for starters:

When you wake up in the morning, spend a few minutes reciting an affirmation like this:  "I am so grateful for the kind and generous people in my life!  Everyone is so supportive and nurturing and I feel blessed to be surrounded by so many great people."

Really allow yourself to get into the feelings of gratitude for the great people in your life.  Stay with these feelings for several minutes, letting them soak into your mind and heart. 

Then, as you go about your daily routine, imagine flowing a strong feeling of love and gratitude toward everyone you encounter.  You can do this with both people you know and strangers.  Find something appreciative to say to the people you know.  You might compliment your co-worker on her problem-solving skills, or tell your friend you enjoy his sense of humor.  Make it a genuine compliment without expecting anything in return.

As you focus on this little experiment, you may be surprised to notice that other people act more kindly toward you also.  You might receive spontaneous compliments, offers of assistance when you need it most, or any number of other pleasant surprises.

Here's another experiment:

Do your best to find something positive about every situation and experience you have during the course of a day.  This might be challenging if you are used to looking at the negative side of most situations, but keep working at it until you can think of at least one blessing in every situation.

Don't try to fake it!  If your car blows a tire on the freeway, you can't mutter through gritted teeth, "I'm really grateful for this" over and over and expect good things to come from it.  You're really NOT grateful at that moment (few of us would be). 

Instead, find an aspect of the situation that you really CAN be grateful about.  For example, you might decide to feel grateful that your blown tire didn't cause a serious accident.  You might feel grateful that you happened to be in the slow travel lane instead of the fast lane when the tire failed. 

Whatever angle you choose to focus on, be sure your feelings of gratitude are genuine - and watch how that quality is reflected back into your life in a myriad of ways.