Don't Just Change Your Diet-Change Your Thinking

You cant solve a problem with the same mind that created it - Dr. Wayne Dyer

How often have you found yourself in the same old thinking that gets you no where? Your life feels like constant turmoil. You want to join the neighborhood gym, but the $30.00 per month membership means you will have to scrimp somewhere else in your budget like the Mega Channel Cable TV package you have. Maybe you are limiting your You Time to a daily shower and wonder why you feel stressed all the time. You want to change jobs but there is just no place thats a perfect fit for you, so you stay stuck where you are.

We have read and heard that change begins with within ourself, and its true. Researchers say that we have about 60,000 thoughts swirling around in our heads each and every day. Many of those thoughts are negative coming from our egos, from fear or from past experiences. Your Aunt Lilly said you would never be able to support yourself as an interior decorator. With a thought like that recycling in your brain, guess what you will never be able to support yourself as an interior decorator. Sure, this is just an example, but put your own dream occupation in place of interior decorator. Are you able to make changes in your life and move in the direction of your dreams? Or, have you been unable to move towards that dream because of thoughts like your ego saying its a lot of work and you will be a failure or maybe youre afraid that others will think you are not good enough. Or, maybe you think Aunt Lilly was right. You have the power to change all this.

When you change the thoughts that you carry around with you, you can change your life. Your thoughts are creating your life. Think of yourself as a magnet. If you believe your job is lousy, its lousy. If you believe that your relationships are awesome, they are awesome. If you believe that you are stuck in a life situation, you are stuck. If you believe that you are loved, you are loved. These are truths based on the law of quantum physics and the law of attraction.

You can change your thinking. You do not need to let negative thoughts control your life. Like any good habit, it just takes some time and practice. You need to exercise your mental muscles. Read a book, play a game or attend a class that will work your mental muscles to know you have the ability to change your thinking. For example, here is an exercise for you - take a moment to hear the thoughts in your head before responding. Are they positive thoughts that will move you forward as a loving individual, or are they negative thoughts that will hold you, and the people around you, back from reaching their full potential? For example, your co-worker Bob has just asked you once again to cover for his shift. Your usual response is to just say yes without thinking. You never say No. You just want to please him and get over any conflict. After the fact how do you feel? Do you really want to work for Bob? How did that feel?

Now stop for a moment before you respond to Bobs request. This is your practice leading to good habits. Ask yourself when was the last time you said No to someone, anyone? Why cant you say No? Are you always a compromiser to keep everyone happy except yourself? Think of what is best for you right now. Is it best to help Bob out again, or is it best to help yourself out by not working his shift and following your own plans even if it was to have dinner with yourself. Now practice in your thoughts saying No to Bob. How do you feel? Empowered? If Bob would not take it well, that is not your fault and you cannot take it personally. If you said yes would it be for the right reasons? Perhaps you could use the extra money and Bob knew that. In either case, there is no wrong answer and whatever answer you give, you give from love for yourself and Bob. Now, how did that feel?

Here is another example, when you give a gift are there always conditions and expectations or are you giving only from love? Are you a classic underachiever, or the victim or always expecting the worse to happen? Guess what, that is what will happen until you stop to hear your thoughts before you respond to others. Determine where your thoughts are coming from and change them to respond only from love and in spirit.

Next, practice looking at other people from love. When we focus on another persons negative traits, our thoughts are judgmental. There is no way for us to know that other person unless we live in a science fiction movie and can literally jump into their head. The only way we truly know that person is through our own thoughts. If you only see the negative side of a person, then that is the relationship that exists between you. However, if you change your thoughts to focus on the positive the love in another individual you have changed that relationship just by changing your mind.

See how simple this can be? This year, dont just change your diet. Change your thinking and you can join that gym, move to a different job and say No when you need to. It just takes practice to create new habits. Practice changing your thoughts and you can change your life. Joyce Kinde is co-creator of Shift Circles. Shift Circle workshops are a unique tool using the board game Shift helping people recognize what is holding them back from reaching their full potential and how a shift in thinking will shift their lives. Shift Circle Workshops are being used by corporations and organizations to promote wellbeing and focus for their employees leading to better business practices. To learn more about Shift and the location of Community Shift Circles go to

How To Get Everything You Want Using The Law of attraction

It is February 21, 2011 as I sit here writing this article.I wanted to state the date so I could put into perspective the speed at which the Law of attraction works.But before I go any further, I want to preface this article with a story of how I became fascinated with the Law of attraction and what I have gained from it in just a few short weeks since I began using it to my benefit.

True Story

We were two weeks into the New Year and I had already caved on my main resolution of giving up junk food that is typical of Chicago hot dog stands.I had just finished eating an Italian Beef sandwich smothered in juice and topped with peppers when an old friend of mine pulled up in the parking spot next to me.We talked for a few minutes and I let on about feeling guilty for sneaking out to get this sandwich.He laughed and understood what I was putting myself through but told me that getting the sandwich was inevitable because I was thinking about it and attracted it to me.

At first, I thought I led myself into some philosophical Zen conversation but then my friend told me about the Law of attraction and where he learned it.He told me about this book that has changed his life in every aspect.He's lost nearly 75 pounds, married a wonderful woman, built his dream house, drives his dream car, and has his own successful photography business.These are all great things that happened for him but I was skeptical and told him, they probably would have happened anyway if he put his mind to it.EXACTLY!He exclaimed and then reached into his back seat and pulled out a book for me.It was The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.He told me to take the book and read through it and that it would put things in perspective for me.I thought it was very generous considering that we really weren't that close of friends, but I took it and did as he suggested.

I have heard of the book for several years but never really put much stock into it, that is until now.This book was first published 5 years ago and I can't believe I let so much time pass me without picking up a copy.The book may be short in length, only 198 pages, but it contains wisdom that the most successful people throughout history have enjoyed and this wisdom is put into perspective by some of the greatest modern day teachers.

Law of attraction

So what exactly is the Law of attraction?It's based on a simple statement that -like attracts like,- but even deeper than that, its based on the concept that everything in this universe is constructed of simple energy and all energy vibrates at a certain frequency.

Our thoughts have energy too and when the frequency of our thoughts align with material objects or even other thoughts with the same frequency we attract it to ourselves.For example, in my meeting with my friend he told me that I was thinking about that Italian beef sandwich and I was but I was also thinking about breaking my resolution to get that sandwich and I did.You see, the law of attraction can not discern good or bad, wrong or right, only what is and what is not.

So, in order for me to use the Law of attraction for my benefit I had to change the way I was thinking.If I kept thinking -I'm never going to lose this weight,- or -I'm never going to have enough money,- or -I'll never find happiness,- then guess what?I would never lose weight, never have enough money, and never find happiness.It's as simple as that.Now I make it a habit of telling myself -eat healthy and exercise,- -I have more money than I need,- and -I am happy.-

How it's working for me

Don't get me wrong, it takes time to rewire your thinking. But once you start thinking in the right way you will immediately see results. The universe will listen and you will receive whatever you are attracting. Money, a new car, a desired vacation, a healthy body and mind, it's really up to you and there is no limit.

I have been practicing what I have learned from The Secret for about 6 weeks now and in that time I haven't eaten any junk food and I exercise 5 times a week. I've lost 14 pounds and feel healthy. I tell myself every day that I am healthy and I want to exercise.

Winter is my slow season for work and since I am self employed it means low revenue. But I tell myself every day that I have more than I need and nearly every day for that past several weeks I've gained a new client, my offline and online revenue has grown way more than I ever expected and I'm quite confident that it will all continue to grow.

Also, many weeks ago, my girlfriend and I were in a rut and everything started to feel monotonous and heading downhill. But now that rut has been plowed over and we are doing more things and going more places and feel like our love have been renewed and we are stronger and happier than ever.

Some of you might be thinking, sure all that would have probably happened anyway if you put your mind to it. And I would say. EXACTLY!!!

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Addiction and the Law of attraction Insight into the focus on lack in addiction

Could the Law of attraction, that massively popular metaphysical teaching that erupted around the globe after the phenomenal success of the film , have anything to teach us about the phenomenon of addiction? I think so.

Law of attraction teachers such as Esther Hicks and her channeling of the entity as well as Rhonda Byrne who made the film and brought the whole host of present days teachers to the forefront, do one thing very well. Beyond the movie, they repeatedly present the idea that we attract not only what we think about, but more importantly that we attract what we feel strong emotions and desires about. They emphasize that you cant bring in the abundance youre seeking if your thoughts are programmed with negative and limiting beliefs. For example, Abraham will point out that people who talk the most about illness, have the most illness. Its attraction alright: negative attraction. People that are focused on their lack lack of money, relationship, and well-being tend to keep up a cycle of lack because thats what they are looking at, thinking about, obsessing on, or believing to be their bad luck or unchangeable fate.

Anyone who doubts that the simple premise of the Law of attraction, the like attracts like, is real, think of the negative ways we see this played out in the world. Did you ever know someone who says something like, How come every man I get involved with turns out to be an alcoholic or have some other addiction? Well, its likely an unconscious attractor-factor at work in someone who experiences that repeatedly. Perhaps shes an addict too, or a co-dependent just magnetizing to help or reform the next addiction-laden man she meets! Or how about someone that replaces one addiction with another? Its a well-known phenomenon in AA and other 12-Step Programs. Its the reason that particular type of recovery emphasis the need for a spiritual approach to recovery, and why it emphasizes a need to re-program oneself. And its the very thing that turns off folks like Charlie Sheen. But the spiritual approach has in it many similarities to the teachings of the Law of attraction. A complete new way of thinking is needed.

When I got to thinking about some of the parallels to creating a new life, with what in AA parlance is called The Promises where just by thinking differently and doing the right thing life begins to change for the better, I saw how this Secret, which has been around forever but just not well-known on the mass scale it is today, was operating at the heart of a spiritual recovery program from addiction. The Promises refer to a life now lived with ease, intuition and well being, just by unplugging the bad neighborhood that the addicts very way of thinking had become and plugging into personal responsibility and taking certain steps toward honesty and amends.

Because heres the thing that struck me: An alcoholic, a drug addict, a gambling addict, or any other kind of addiction is absolutely focused on LACK when in the grip of addiction. There is always the anxiety, the fear, that there wont be enough. The bottle is getting near empty and there wont be any more! The drugs may run out! The gambler fears running out of money to bet, and the food addict hordes food under the bed in case the food in the fridge runs out. The more the addict focuses on lack, which gets programmed by the addiction, the more lack and fear they experience, going to desperate lengths at times to get the fix needed.

Have you seen the new movie ? Its the story of a designer brain-boosting drug creating a whole new dependency along with the constant fear of lack, of running out. When lead character Eddie Morra (played by Bradley Cooper) is focused on the lack, he becomes very sick and hopeless. The movie leaves unanswered where Morra really goes for success: constant supply or weaned off? Its a typical addiction story, and the laws, as it were, are playing out in the drama.

In recovery, the person is brought around to seeing what they have: they have their life, number one; and health in recovery a life able to be rebuilt. And funny thing: ever notice that when in the grip of the addiction, its amazing how alcoholics attract other alcoholics wherever they go. One woman said to me, I could walk into a room of 500 people. Within minutes I would have zeroed in on the one drunk in the room, and become best friends. Law of attraction. But once the focus is changed, and new life, not lack, is the focus its amazing how an alcoholic will no longer attract other addicts. In fact, theyre no longer very interesting or attractive at all to people in the grip of addictions or codependency. Instead, theyre attracting some really, well, attractive people, places and things. Law of attraction in action.

So yes, the Law of attraction does provide some insight into both the nature of addiction, and the pathway out it: a spiritual path with a mind focused more on what we have than what we dont have; more on whats right and good; and more on loving oneself and doing the right thing from a place of love and appreciation for life. Thank you to those who understand and teach this metaphysical path to the love and happiness humanity was created to experience.

A Basic Understanding -- Law of attraction

The Law of attraction truly cannot be defined by any single definition. It has to do with energy and a force that's so powerful and so mystifying that words wouldn't do it justice.

Some definitions refer to the law of attraction as karma or the golden rule. You may have heard people say, "you get what you give what goes around, comes around karma do unto others and a host of others.

They're all right.

However, when I'm asked, "What is the Law of attraction?", I like to summarize it in two 3-word phrases: "Like Attracts Like" and "Thoughts Become Things."

Like Attracts Like

Everything in the universe is composed of energy. If you were to take a peek inside your body, you'd see that you're made up of organs. With magnification, you'll see that your organs are made up of tissues. With even more magnification, you'd see that your tissues are made of cells; your cells are made of molecules; and your molecules are made of atoms. You may remember this from science class.

These atoms are made of even smaller 'components' called electrons, neutrons, and protons. Here's where science class got a little fuzzy for me. At the time I learned this, we were taught that the electrons, protons and neutrons were the smallest units of matter and this is where things stopped. What they didn't tell us is that these 'units of matter' are made of energy. More accurately stated, they ARE energy.

So in short, everything is made of energy. The computer you're using, or the newspaper you're reading this in...everything. And what's amazing is that these different energies have their own vibration resonance. For this illustration, we'll call vibration resonance "frequency" just like a radio station frequency.

So as this energy is emitting its frequency, there are other energies that are on the same frequency and they tend to draw towards one another.

If you were to tune your radio to 101.9 you would only be able to hear what's on the 101.9 frequency, which is being emitted from the 101.9 radio tower. It's the same with energy.

Have you ever sat next to someone and you 'just didn't feel right'? There may have been nothing 'wrong' with the person, but for some reason you just felt uncomfortable. It was because at that time, your energy was on a 'different frequency' as the person sitting next to you. Your energies clashed and it made you feel uncomfortable.

You will attract to you what you embody or what you are "like," in other words. If you're gloomy, you'll attract gloomy people. And if you're happy and cheerful, you'll attract happy, cheerful people (or at least, they'll become happy and cheerful because of YOU).

If you feel broke, you'll attract more of being "broke," because it's a match to you, to your energy. And if you feel prosperous, you will attract situations to help you be prosperous.

Thoughts Become Things

The other thing about the Law of attraction is that thoughts really do become things.

This can also be summed up more scientifically by the expression, "Energy is neither created, nor destroyed." So rephrasing the aforementioned statement, "If you put a loving a caring energy into the Universe, that same energy will be returned to you.

So the thoughts (energy) you put out will be returned to you (or 'created' in your reality)

Everything starts as a thought. That computer you're reading this on originated, at its essence, as the thought of Conrad Zeus, who invented the very first working programmable computer in 1941. Others, like Steve Jobs, believed computers could be accessible to anyone in their homes. And Zeus and Jobs began to manifest those realities for themselves before most thought they were "possible."

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How to Make Your Wishes Come True

One approach to making your wishes come true is based on a theory called the law of attraction. The law of attraction is a force wherein we attract to ourselves whatever we give our focus, attention or energy to. If you are constantly down on yourself about being out of work, alone and poor, and you believe your thoughts, you will continue to attract more unemployment, loneliness and poverty into your life. Luckily, according to this theory, the reverse is also true. If you focus your mind on achieving your dream job, marrying the person of your desire and being rich, you will attract just that into your life.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1)Visualize the wish that you would like to manifest. Close your eyes and make it tangible in your mind's eye. Clearly see yourself in that new car or working at your dream job. You have to believe that you deserve this wish for it to come true.

2)Put your visualization into words by creating an affirmation such as "I am on a great cruise vacation in the Bahamas." You want to express the affirmation in the present. Do not add the word "will" because that implies the future. The affirmation has to be stated in positive terms. Saying "I am no longer alone" is negative. Saying "I am with the woman of my dreams" is positive. Make your affirmation short and specific because the subconscious mind cannot understand long statements. Repeat your affirmations in the morning, right after you get out of bed, and in the evening, before going to sleep. You can also write your affirmations on sticky notes and place them in visible places to remind yourself to repeat them throughout the day. The more often you repeat your affirmations, the faster your wishes will manifest. Involve your emotions by adding emphasis to your affirmations. Repeating them in a monotone, repetitive way will not work as well. You really have to mean what you say.

3)Meditate or use guided meditation CDs to put your mind into the theta brainwave state (see Resources). Your mind naturally goes into this state when you sleep. While in theta your mind is more relaxed and more open to subliminal programming, so it is best to repeat your affirmations once you have been meditating for a while.

4)Act upon the ideas that come to you when stating your affirmations. Repeating affirmations alone will not manifest your wishes; at some point you have to act.

5)Express gratitude for whatever happens to you during the day. Whether it is walking past a garden of flowers or getting a raise at work -- big or small -- express gratitude often by saying "thank you," smiling or bowing at the object of your gratitude. Start a gratitude journal; in it, write down as many things as you can remember at the end of the day to show gratitude for them. In your gratitude journal, write the letters from A to Z. Express something you are grateful for that starts with the letter A and go all the way to Z as fast as you can write. Practice a random act of kindness every day. Look for ways to express genuine praise to people you are close to (family) or people who serve you (grocery store clerk). As often as possible, thank the universe for providing the food, air and water to sustain your life.

Feng Shui Expert Taps Into Law of attraction

Ever since The Secret was exposed on Oprah, millions of people have been attracted to... attraction. The Law of attraction, that is. The phenomenal film and book by Australian producer Rhonda Byrne has gained an increasing share of popular attention, culminating in two recent episodes of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Yet the secret has been around for centuries - and millions of people put it to work in their environments through the ancient practice of feng shui.

Linda Binns, a nationally known expert in feng shui and holistic health, says that feng shui masters have incorporated the Law of attraction into their practice for centuries. We use it all the time in feng shui, she says.

In her recent book, Feng Shui for Your Relationships: Changing Your Environment to Create Better Relationships, Binns writes: The power of feng shui involves making changes 'with intention...' As you work with feng shui and focus on enhancing the energy around you, you will find that you attract positive relationships.

Binns suggests that anyone interested in changing his or her life, whether in terms of wealth, health, professional achievement or relationships, must begin by determining exactly what needs to change. Visualizing the ideal outcome of change is an important step to success, she says. In fact, she advises feng shui clients and students to pause before making any changes in the home or office and set a clear intention. You can't just move your furniture around and wait for something magical to happen. You have to proceed with a specific outcome in mind, she says.

People often don't believe that they already have everything required to live the life they choose, she continues. But feng shui practitioners recognize that we do have all we need. The secret to feng shui, Binns adds, is simply knowing how to maximize the flow of positive energy in the environment in order to help our best lives emerge, once a clear intention is set that helps define what that life will look like.

And what sounds a bit new age is actually a proven scientific phenomenon, based on the physical existence of molecular energy. Binns agrees with the sources quoted in The Secret regarding the fact that energy frequencies are physical manifestations of human intention. I've seen feng shui work wonders in people's lives, she says. But the most successful individuals are the ones who truly know where they want to go and are open to a variety of experiences and paths in reaching that goal.

Principles for Using the Law of attraction Part 1

Here are the first 6 of the 12 universal principles which form the basis of all success generated on the planet.

Being universal means that they apply to you whether or not youre aware of them, much like gravity. However, knowing the principles is the first step to increasing your choices and raising your game in health, wealth, love and happiness, so read on, youre in the right place.

1. Law of Thinking: thoughts are catalysts, shifting dreams into form. Using thought every second of every day, each of us is the creator of our own life experiences, our own reality. So if we change our thoughts, we change our world.

"What we think, we become" Buddha

2. Law of Abundance: There is infinite supply for each of us to create our dreams materials, people, resources, power, energy, knowledge, passion and wealth. More for someone else doesnt mean less for you. Body, mind, heart and soul will thrive in this life when we embrace the true meaning of abundance. If you can think it, you can create it.

"When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you" Lao Tzu

3. Law of Expansion: Change is a constant and through it the universe intends for growth. Each of us has a unique purpose in the short time we exist in this physical form. You can choose to engage with personal progress or at any time to sit it out neither is better than the other. Expansion happens you in an infinite number of ways; deep thinking, experiencing, mediating, praising, sharing, collaborating, acknowledging, intending, reading, writing, coaching, mentoring forever.

"All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward" Ellen Glasgow

4. Law of attraction: thoughts, feelings, words and actions produce energies which vibrate out from us, then in turn, attract like energies towards us. What we focus on we attract. By paying attention to what is inspiring, positive and affirming, we attract back those same energies in various forms.

" Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable if something is excellent or praiseworthy think on these things" Philippians 4:8

5. Law of Responsibility: to experience success, take 100% responsibility for everything in your life, positive or challenging. Give up blaming and complaining. Think. Work out what has to change, then change it. Only when you make decisions from a place of 100% responsibility can you take charge of the future youre designing for yourself.

"I am the master of my soul: I am the captain of my ship" William Ernest Henley

6. Law of Action: life requires our participation. To manifest on earth we must translate our thoughts into action. Even the smallest action towards our goal counts a conversation had, a compliment given, a form completed, a piece of research filed, a cup of coffee well made, a gathering of like minds, a ticket booked, an article written, and email sent all inspired action whether to further our career, health, relationships or knowledge is increased by the universe under the law of expansion.

"The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step" Confusious

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