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How to Accelerate the Law of Attraction - Part 2

This is Part 2 (Part 1 is here) of our interview with author and Law of Attraction expert, Denise Coates.

In this interview Denise talks about how to accelerate the Law of Attraction using visualization.  She'll teach you techniques on how to visualize what you want in a way which will "trick" your mind into thinking you already have those things.

This interview isn't theory and actually gives you the exact tools you need to manifest your dreams. Denise will give you techniques you can use in your life right now. 

For more information on Denise Coates, visit FeelingIsEverything.com.

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How to Accelerate the Law of Attraction - Part 1

Here is latest interview in our "Abundance Series."  This one features author and Law of Attraction expert, Denise Coates.

In this interview Denise talks about how to accelerate the Law of Attraction using visualization.  She'll teach you techniques on how to visualize what you want in a way which will "trick" your mind into thinking you already have those things.

This interview isn't theory and actually gives you the exact tools you need to manifest your dreams. Denise will give you techniques you can use in your life right now. 

For more information on Denise Coates, visit FeelingIsEverything.com.

Listen to the interview below...

Download the interview here.

NOTE: This is Part 1 of 2. Listen to Part 2 here.

Empowering Your Visualizations With Meditation

Did you know that you could have far more success with the Law of Attraction if you learned just a little bit about meditation?  Would it be worth it to you to find yourself becoming more and more successful with your manifestation efforts?  All you need is a small amount of time each day for a week or two, and you can learn to meditate.  When visualizing from a meditative state, you will get vastly greater results.

First of all, this simple meditation I am describing is little more than learning to consciously enter a light trance.  In a light trance, your brainwaves slow down to alpha levels, your body slows down a bit and relaxes greatly, and your conscious and subconscious minds merge ever so slightly more so than in your normal waking state.  Being in this state will allow you to have more success with the Law of Attraction than you may be used to.  So beware, learning to visualize from a state of trance might just change your life for the better!

In fact, it has been proven that many creative people move into an alpha state when they are being creative, be that by writing, playing music, painting, etc.  Getting into an alpha state is not difficult.  It’s something that happens to you many times each day.  Whenever you “zone out” or “get into the zone” or were “entirely focused on what you were doing”, you were most likely in an alpha state.  The trick is to learn to move voluntarily into that state and to use it in a productive manner.

The cool thing about altered states is that once you learn to go into them and practice a little, you will be able to put yourself into them almost immediately.  Begin by relaxing your body, part by part, for about 10 minutes.  Relax your toes, relax your feet, relax your legs.  Relax your stomach, relax your chest, relax your neck.  Relax your upper arms, lower arms, and hands.  Relax your facial muscles.  Feel yourself becoming more and more relaxed.

At a certain point in relaxation, you will feel a very subtle shift as your body and mind slow down.  You will feel very pleasant, and very relaxed.  This is the alpha state.  You can reach this state with eyes open or shut, but you may want to practice with your eyes shut so that your senses’ ability to distract you is minimized. 

Practice entering this state for a few days, and before long you will find yourself able to move into it at will.  When you are in this state, many activities will be enhanced.  Creative activities, like art or music or writing, are greatly stimulated in this state.  More important to us right now though, visualization for manifestation is enhanced.  By using the alpha state, your manifestation efforts will yield fruit more rapidly than when you attempt to visualize in your usual, hectic waking state of mind.  Give it a try and log your results.  You will find that the difference is enormous!

Creating a Private Space for Manifesting

It can be difficult to find the time and place for daily visualization.  Between your job, your friends, your partner, and your kids (or any applicable combo thereof) you may find that you don’t have the time (or perhaps just the private space) to conduct Law of Attraction visualizations.  Perhaps there are some times/places you haven’t thought about, though.

1) The Bath/Shower - this is an excellent time to work on your manifestations.  Think about the bath or shower.  One common cliché is that people sing in the shower.  Why, instead of singing, couldn’t you visualize?  Water is very powerful and contains wonderful healing energy.  This energy also can assist you in your visualization process.  By cleansing your energy as you are visualizing, your intent will be clearer and more powerful.  Plus, most of us aren’t bothered too often when taking our morning bath.

2) Your Lunch Break - sure, it’s nice to eat out a time or two each week, but you can easily turn 20 minutes of your lunch break into a great visualization session.  Find somewhere that you won’t be bugged.  This could even be outside as you walk laps around your building.  Use this time twice a week to visualize your desires.

3) Your Smoke Break - I know, these are often social events.  However, think about how many times each day you smoke (this of course is only for smokers).  Could you not cut one smoke break away from everyone else?  Non smokers at work, could you not cut a 15 minute break for yourself as well?

4) Bedtime - Often the quietest time of day for a parent is the small window of time between the children going to bed and the parents going to bed.  Perhaps there is a window in here for you to visualize?  Or perhaps you could do it as you lay down, after you’ve told your spouse good night.  There are no rules against visualizing with your eyes closed, you know...

The point here is that there are many small time slots throughout the day where you can slide a 10-15 minute visualization session in without being distracted.  Sometimes we need to stop and really think about when we are going to work on manifesting our desires.  If you never cut out time to work on your desires, how will you see them met?  Remember, your desires being fulfilled will not only be a blessing to you, but also to everyone you care about.  So for their sake as much as your own, find a time, mark it off, and enjoy the fun of visualizing!

Overcoming Manifestation Problems - Linguistics and Submodalities

The Law of Attraction states that what you focus on, think and believe will be attracted into your life.  Sometimes it is still difficult to manifest your desires.  Our world, as we perceive it, is not reality.  It is merely a representation of reality formed by the senses.  We define this reality and the elements in it using language. 

There are some important points to note when discussing language and the Law of Attraction.  First and foremost, when you “want” something, you lack it.  This is a common way of expressing a desire, and yet by use of the language alone, prohibits it from manifesting.  So long as you “want” something, you will not have it.  This has to do more with the literal ways in which the subconscious processes language.  This is also why visualizing having what you want in the present is so important. 

Next, note the language you use to describe your visualizations.  Because visualizing is just imagining, it will be different in each person.  Note the sensory words you use: I “see” a beautiful house; I “feel” that I am free; I “hear” the birds chirping.  Each of these demonstrates a different sensory clue.  Do your mental pictures work primarily as visuals?  Kinesthetics?  Sounds?  These are the three most common primary senses.

Now, using some tricks from NLP (Neuro-Linguistic-Programming), let’s take your visualizations and make them stronger.  This will empower your manifestation efforts greatly!  Using what is known as submodalities, you can make your visualizations far more effective than ever before.  You can also mix these across all senses to really power charge your imagination. 

When you are visualizing a movie or pictures, treat the movie/pictures as a TV screen in front of you.  Make the screen bigger.  Bring it closer to you.  Turn up the brightness knob.  Turn up the volume.  Allow feelings to get stronger.  What?  Did nobody ever tell you you could do these things?  It’s your mind; you should be able to work it any way you like.

The magic of using submodalities in NLP is that you can begin to elicit far more powerful feelings from your mental pictures.  And as you know, the feelings are the energy that actually put the manifestation in motion.  Learning to use these simple NLP tricks, you can manifest far more powerfully than ever before.  Remember to be aware of the language that you use in manifesting.  Want for nothing; experience everything.

When You’re Having Trouble Visualizing...

Sometimes, when learning to visualize, you may experience difficulties.  There are many reasons for this, none of which (I guarantee you) are that you just can’t visualize well.  Visualization is a skill that all humans possess and have perfected before even learning to talk.  Here are some helpful hints to think about.

First of all, most of us visualize externally.  We visualize with our eyes open all the time.  Think about the last time someone asked you a question.  You had to access the answer in your mind.  Depending upon the question, you most likely shifted your eyes up and to the left, or just up, or possibly even to the right.  Are you aware that you’re doing that?  Are you aware that everyone in the world is?

We humans visualize almost everything we think about.  A person with a photographic memory is merely someone who is able to visualize a clearer picture.  There are some tricks you can learn to help you to sharpen your picture and make visualizing a snap.

First off, because most visualization occurs externally, you must become consciously aware that the limits of the room are not the limits of your mind.  If you are making a large mental picture and you are in a small room, you may simply feel you can not visualize.  In fact, you only need to become aware of the fact that you are boxing your visualization into spacial reality, when this is not necessary for mental pictures.  You can visualize right through the wall, but so many of us don’t. 

Secondly, you can zoom your mental pictures in and out.  If they are too close, zoom out.  If too far, zoom in.  You can pull them closer to you and push them away.  You can make them larger or make them smaller.  You can turn up the brightness or make the picture darker.  You have control over all of these things, and you didn’t even know it!  Why didn’t they teach you this in school?

As you play with learning to get your mental pictures and mental movies set up the way you like, you will find even more cool things.  Mental pictures of something you belief or know firmly may appear on one side, and pictures of things you are unsure about may appear on another.  What happens if you take something you are unsure about and move that picture to the “sure” area?  What happens if you take a limiting belief and move it to the “unsure” area?  These are powerful maneuvers that drastically affect consciousness and thought patterns.  You can literally repattern your thoughts overnight with these techniques.

Try playing around with these.  If you have trouble visualizing in a small room and can’t seem to break the spacial bounds, move to a larger room.  If you can’t see the mental picture well, make it bigger and brighter.  In NLP these are called submodalities, and they are incredibly useful in conjunction with the Law of Attraction.  You should now have all the tools you need to have success with visualization.  Happy daydreaming!

You Are What You Think

You’re probably familiar with the old saying, “you are what you eat”.  Today I’m here to tell you, you are what you think!  There are several modes of thought.  There is concentrated thought, where you stop for a minute and work on a problem, actively seeking a solution or understanding.  There is unconcentrated thought, which you do during the day when you are also engaged in other things.  You generally don’t recall much of that thinking, it’s just background chatter.  There is transmitted thought, where you are thinking loudly enough for others to perceive.  You may notice this when someone starts singing a song out loud that you were singing in your head.  And there is receptive thought, where you are actually receiving thoughts broadcast by another.  Some psychics are able to tune into this at will.  You do it too, but don’t realize it.

So with all these modes of thought and almost constant thinking going on during your daily life, you naturally will fall into patterns of thought.  This happens unconsciously and changes from time to time.  For some of us, once patterns are set they are difficult to change.  Others find that any new pattern is easy to lock onto.  These patterns may occur because of something that happened, is happening, or is about to happen.  If you meet someone fantastic you may shift from a more negative pattern of thought quickly to a positive pattern of thought.  If things start going wrong you may shift from positive thought patterns into negative thought patterns. 

These patterns of thought are what we are most concerned with.  Our thoughts are what generate our feelings.  Stop for a moment and think back to the last time you had a loved one die.  If you focus on that for a moment, you will begin to feel sad.  You became sad because of thought.  Think forward to something you can’t wait to happen.  This should make you become excited.  You became excited because of thought.  The Law of Attraction works by way of energy.  Like attracts like.  When you are emanating a positive, happy energy, like circumstances and people are drawn to you.  Likewise, when you are emanating a negative, unhappy energy, like circumstances and people will come your way.  The energy you give off is mostly emotion, which is far more powerful in an energy sense than thought alone. 
This is why it is so important to develop a positive pattern of thought.  You will never control 100% of your thoughts!  But that doesn’t matter, because only the overriding pattern is important.  If your primary pattern is positive, your normal emotions will be positive, and these will be constantly broadcasting a powerful positive signal to magnetize positive circumstances in your life.  Because of this, you are, in fact, what you think! 

Begin by noting any negative emotions in your daily life.  What caused them?  What were you thinking about?  Take a moment and change your thinking to try and bring your emotions back up.  After a few days of this, note whether positive or negative emotions seem to be more common for you.  If positive, good work!  Just keep on working at improving your positive patterns of thought.  If negative, then begin working harder to keep your thoughts more positive.  When things come about in your daily life that bring you down, try to let them roll off your back.  Step back and look at the big picture of your life.  If there is trouble at work, remember that work is not your life.  If there is trouble at home, remember that you love your family and things are usually better. 

By changing your patterns of thought you will change your life.  Literally!  You are what you think, so if you’re not happy, think better thoughts.  Happy thinking!

The Ultimate Video Game: Life

Imagine the most detailed video game world you can imagine.  The creators have created an entire universe full of stars, planets, humanoids, animals, plants, and all manner of life.  All of the physics have been perfected.  Enough complexity has been built into the minds of the life forms to create an infinite number of complex stories as any two or more life forms interact.  Now, the game has been released, you have bought it, and you are getting ready to play.  However, for this game, you actually attach a wire directly into your brain and become a part of the game.  You see what your character sees, feel what your character sees, hear what your character sees, etc.  For all intensive purposes, once you start playing this game, you are in the game in every imaginable way.  Your brain is hard-wired into the system, it is entirely real to you, and your normal life outside of the game is completely left behind until the game ends.

As you play, you become lost in the endless complexity and detail of the game.  All of the endless possibilities swirl around you, and you find numerous ways to entertain yourself, as well as find things that you aren’t so fond of.  As you play and play, the sense of time distorts your reality, and everything outside of the game fades back into your mind, forgotten, unneeded.  You become your character, and the game becomes your reality.  After long enough, you forget that there is a reality outside of the game.  The game is all there is, and you begin to form beliefs and expectations within the game.  Furthermore, you become very busy, with the multitude of activities necessary for survival.  The longer you invest in the game and in your character, the more important to you it is to survive, and the more violently you will fight to stay in the game.

Finally, due to built-in restrictions, your character ages, becomes more and more useless, experiences less pleasure, is unable to do the things it enjoys.  One day, finally, your character dies.  All of your beloved in-game friends and family gather around and mourn your loss.

Suddenly, in a room somewhere, you open your eyes back to reality.  As images of your game-lifetime flash before you, you remember who you really are and where you came from.  You pull the wire out of your brain, sit back, and contemplate the game you just played.  You think about all of the parts you enjoyed, and all of the things you could have done better.  After awhile your friends call you up – they’re back out of their games too.  You all discuss the game you just played, and then decide to all go back in, creating new characters and trying again. 

Soon after you re-enter the game, you begin to forget your reality outside of the game again.   Even though you try to remember this is only a game, you can’t help but forget.   But that’s all this is – one massive, incredible, amazing video game that we souls love to play.  And no matter what happens inside this game, we will always wake back up at the end of our lives, back into our true reality. 

Give some thought to this analogy – it may be more literal than you think…

Visualization and the Law of Attraction

The old adage, `You don't need to be a rocket scientist' actually does apply to quantum physics! Your thoughts are things! Does that information stagger your consciousness? Your thoughts are actually creating your life! You, as the owner of your thoughts, feelings, emotions, are designing your reality every moment, awake or not. What you experience on a daily basis is a mirror reflection of that which you are focused on.

You do not need to travel to a high mountain in India to receive enlightenment, it already exists in your conceptual self. What you will need to do is discover for yourself the vehicle that most easily enables you to  visualize your dreams, and ultimately causes them to be manifested in reality. There are numerous tools available for your visualization needs. Power wheels, victory boards, and even a simple river rock can all help you deliberately direct your positive energy towards the life you desire.

The power wheel resembles a pizza, if you will, with a circle in the middle. In that circle you write down, or place a picture of, the desire you will be manifesting into actuality. Around the circle, in the `slices' write down descriptions, or place more pictures of people who are already experiencing this specific type of success. Don't generalize! If you are envisioning a home with a rock fireplace in the 1500 square foot master bedroom, do not allow your energy to wander vaguely! The Law of Attraction is extremely precise, as is any absolute truth, and it will not give you exactly what you want if your thoughts are less than concentrated. As you dwell devotedly on your power wheel be thankful for the home that will be, as if it already is. Imagine yourself decorating the home, entertaining in it, and especially experiencing the tranquility that only creating your own personal sanctuary can bring.

A victory board will generally be less structured than the power wheel, but with equally influential results. Purchase a poster board, or a bulletin board. Write extremely descriptive plans regarding your goal, and post these, along with photos or drawn images that coincide with your intentions. This visualizing tool is very similar to the power wheel in concept, but just as there are many different dreams, there must exist different tools that enable your positive energy to be funneled in the right direction, also. It is not important which tool you avail, it only matters that you have one, and you are faithful to the concentration of your emotions towards that ultimate objective.

How can a lowly river rock help you achieve wildly ambitious aspirations? Quite simply, you carry it with you consistently, and whenever you feel it in your pocket, remember to visualize your dream. Anything that keeps you focused, keeps you energized, and helps to maintain your joyful expectancy is worthy of your efforts as you discover for yourself which tool or tools work best for you. There is no right or wrong way to call the Law of Attraction into action on your behalf, there is only doing it, and beginning today!