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How to Use the Secret and the Law of Attraction to Achieve Prosperity: A Primer

Background:

If you haven’t seen The Secret, you may want to rent a copy and watch. It’s a good explanation of the Law of Attraction and very interesting.

Basically, the Law of Attraction holds that like attracts like. In other words, good attracts good; less good attracts less good.

You’ve had the experience of a bad day getting worse. You started the day like any other, then something happened. Maybe the toast got burnt or you missed your bus. Whatever, something happened and you reacted negatively. It seems reasonable, but ‘reasonable’ is not the point.

You reacted negatively and then the negatives began to multiply. You dropped your handbag or book into a puddle. Pages flew from your folder. Your food dripped onto your shirt or blouse. And so it went.

Your mood worsened and the events of the day kept right up with it.

You may have had the experience of golden days in which you were firmly in the flow. Everything went beautifully for you! Perhaps you had your favourite breakfast food or noticed that your clothes fit especially well. You caught your bus and got the seat you like. You dropped pages and had a delightful exchange with the person who helped you collect them. And so on.

You started positively, reacted positively, and enjoyed a wonderful day.

This is the Law of Attraction in action. What you send out comes back to you. Send out happy and positive energy, and you experience events that are happy and positive. Send out negative, disgruntled energy, and you experience events that are negative and unpleasant.

Yes, you say, but it’s hard to feel positive when bills are due and the money isn’t there!

That’s true - IF you continue thinking about the bills and lack and other unhappy thoughts.

In fact, if you are in that situation, you can’t afford to think about the bills if it makes you worried, anxious, unhappy, gloomy, etc. The more lack you experience, the more imperative it is for you to stop thinking about it and start generating some positive energy.

Our culture is a highly judgmental one. If someone is in financial struggle, society rather demands that the person stress and strive until they achieve security. Dancing around the house when one is in such need is viewed as irresponsible.

When one considers the Law of Attraction, however, one can easily understand that such stressing and striving will create only experiences that incite feelings of stress and striving, right? Dancing around the house, however, feels fabulous - and will create more fabulous experiences in your life.

Look at it this way: whatever you give your attention to, expands.

If I pay attention to feelings of pain, say arthritis, the pain increases. As I feel worse, I pay more attention to the discomfort. As I feel greater discomfort, I may get grumpy or unhappy and depressed. The feelings of grumpy unhappiness creates new experiences to make me unhappy, and the pain grows and grows. My response supported the arthritis, rather like fertilizing the weeds in your garden.

If I pay attention to something joyful, however, the pain recedes from my consciousness. The result is that I feel less pain. Feeling less pain, my joy increases. The increase in joy creates new good in my life and a different, happier cycle begins.

So what do you do when you have a pile of bills and a much smaller pile of money for their payment? Here are a few suggestions.

1. Bless the money you have on hand. Give thanks for it, reflecting that there are others in even worse financial straits than you are experiencing.

2. Share the money you have on hand. Give a few dollars to the kids collecting for their school or drop some into the food bank donation jar at the grocer's. When we create a vacuum in this way, the Universe rushes to fill it.

3. Bless your bills. Give thanks for the creditors who have provided you with the goods and services their bills represent. Send angels to bring them new good. Pay what you can serenely, offering something to each of the creditors. Put it all away and do a clearing or cleansing of any anxiety or fear you perceive. Affirm your prosperity.

6. Dance! Put on music that makes your heart sing and give yourself over to it, dancing till you can’t help laughing.

7. Sing! Play songs you love, vibrant songs that make you happy and sing along. Sing loudly. Use a fat marker as a microphone and ham it up. Have fun with it.

8. Do a rain dance. Sing or chant your favourite prosperity affirmations, and stomp around the house. Increase the tempo and volume till you can’t get the words out fast enough, then release the energy you have raised.

9. Dream! Create a mental movie of your bills paid with lots left over. Make the colours bright and the action happy. Play it again and again, throwing yourself into your happy ‘daydream.’ Enjoy it - that’s the most important part. Don’t make a movie of how you get the money; make your movie focus on the having it.

Note: When you put yourself into the movie, view everything from your own perspective instead of the way you watch a home movie of yourself. See what you would see - your hands but not your face, for example.

10. Connect! Meditate, just for the pleasure of connecting to the Divine. Meditate, and then just bask in that delicious feeling of union.

The more you enjoy feelings of happiness and joy, the more your life experiences will change to bring new happiness and joy into your life. It may begin small, but as you remain faithful to the practice, the good will expand into better health, greater satisfaction in life and, yes, greater financial security!