So, you have now created that perfect and wondrously
clearly
defined
ideal
in
your
imagination.
Congratulations. You have just thought something into
being. You are becoming an envisioneer and a conscious
creator of the circumstances of your own life.
The creative power of intentional thought is the most
important discovery ever made by humanity; and, when
an individual human being makes the decision to begin
to think on purpose, she begins the process of self-
mastery which will take her from being a mere creature
of event and circumstance to becoming a creator of event
and circumstance.
You should know, however, that, as important as your
thoughts are in the creative process, your emotions are
even more important.
Your emotions and feelings are important for two
reasons: the first is that they are a guidance system that
tells you if you are on track; the second is that the
creative power of thought is multiplied many times when
a specific and strong emotional current is attached to the
thought or ideal.
Let’s deal with the second aspect first (just for fun).
When a profoundly held, passionate feeling is attached to
an ideal (which is just a consistent thought form held in
mind), one of the most basic laws of the universe begins
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to act on your behalf. That natural law, which is always
in operation, is usually called The Law of Attraction.
This law defines that “like energy is attracted to like
energy.” You can easily recognize it in action in the
physical universe as the forces called gravity and
electromagnetism. Both are invisible forces. Invisible they
may be, but without them, our universe would not exist.
That is how important and powerful they are. As
invisible and intangible as the energy of emotion may be,
it is also extremely powerful.
Your passionate desire for your ideals and goals will
attract the people and resources you need to effectuate or
make real your ideal. You should already have seen and
recognized that passionate people attract other people to
their cause. (Because there is also a Law of Polarity,
sometimes these ideals also repel people… those who are
not aligned with their ideal and would not, therefore,
contribute to its realization.)
You may not, however, have yet consciously recognized
that resources are also attracted to a passionate desire
combined with a clear ideal. Resources like money,
systems and opportunities are also drawn to the
harmonious energetic output called passion. Sometimes
it seems like magic how those people who have the drive,
the desire, the ideal are lucky enough to fall into
situations where it all comes so easily to them. Now you
know why. It is The Law of Attraction in action.
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Now, you may not yet know that your emotional output
is energy and that you broadcast this energy at all times;
but nevertheless, it is a scientific fact. You have even
recognized or felt this energy. Have you ever walked into
a room where there was an extremely angry person?
Even before they said anything, you felt the bad vibes.
They are broadcasting this energetic output like a radio
station broadcasts radio waves. Have you ever been at a
rock concert and felt the waves of energy flowing
between crowd and performer? Same thing: emotional
energy being emitted by people.
Like energy is attracted to like energy. That is the way
things work. You stay on this planet, even though it is
spinning at 1,000 miles per hour and produces a huge
amount of centrifugal force entirely because “like energy
is attracted to like energy”. (Your mass is attracted to the
Earth’s mass. They are vibrationally and energetically
alike).
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The things that show up in your life show up because
of what you think and what you emote. What you think
and how you feel is your energetic output. It is really
simple: you attract what is most alike or in alignment
with how you are being energetically.
Have you ever noticed that people who are afraid of
being victimized end up being victimized? It is the same
Law of Attraction in action. Fear is powerful; so powerful
that wolves can smell it and sharks can sense it from
miles away. You may fake being brave, but your fear is
pouring out of you like a big signal from one of those
super radio stations. It attracts that which is attracted to
that form of energy, what is most aligned with it. You’ve
seen it in print before, “What you fear shall come upon
you.” Fortunately it is not fear alone that creates results.
The four most consciously powerful ways of feeling that
will bring to you those things that are held ideal in mind
and dear in heart are: Desire, Passion, Gratitude and Joy.
In fact, the secret of enacting The Law of Attraction to
work on your behalf is to:
1- Attach a fervent desire to a clearly defined and
consistently held ideal
2- Be passionate about your life and your ideals.
3- Feel grateful for the multitude of blessings you
already have and that you will have in your life.
4- Be joyful. Enjoy being alive. Enjoy having the
things you have.
Desire is the metaphysical equivalent of gravity. It draws
things of like vibration together as surely as gravity
draws hydrogen molecules together to form stars and
holds planets in orbit around stars.
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Unfortunately, many people are incapable of allowing
themselves to feel the intense desire necessary to enact
the Law of Attraction in any discernible way. We have
all been cultural trained to suppress our desires rather
than express them. In Western civilization desire is
treated as a sin. In Eastern cultures desire is said to be the
source of all suffering. Both of these erroneous memes or
paradigms serve to prevent individuals from becoming
the powerful creators that they are capable of becoming.
Your capacity to feel intense desire is a divine
characteristic. Your ability to attach desire to an ideal
amplifies your personal creative power.
The sub-quantum wave form of potentiality is collapsed
into an actuality by the energetic output of the
observer/participant. You become a creator of your own
reality by collapsing the infinite potentialities inherent in
universe by your energetic output, which is composed of
the combination of thought and emotion. Create the ideal
and make it as clear and precise as you can, attach the
desire and make it as intense as you can and you
empower yourself to transform your world.
Desire engenders passion. Passionate people are exciting,
charismatic and attractive. Passion is both infective and
effective. Passionate people enroll other people into
assisting them in achieving their ideals. Be passionate
about your life and your ideals and others will support
you just to feel your passion, your energy, your
enthusiasm, your fire.
Passion is the fire that lights your path and fuels your
commitment as you walk into a future of your own
creation.
Passion also enables you to feel more alive. In fact, you
are more alive when you are passionate about something,
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such as that ideal you have envisioned for yourself. A
life without passion is not a life, it is merely an existence.
Envision that ideal. Become passionate about it. If the
ideal you have set for yourself does not engender your
profound passion, it is not the right ideal. Choose or
create another one that does kindle your passion to ignite
and burn bright.
I’ll talk about gratitude and joy in other chapters at some
length, so I’ll skip those other two aspects of using
feelings to utilize the Law of Attraction for now.
Let’s look now at that first reason why your feelings are
so important to the creation of your ideal.
Your feelings are an internal guide that tells you if you
are following the right path. If what you are doing feels
enjoyable, then you are on track. Keep going. However, if
what you are doing feels distressing, then you have
allowed yourself to become distracted from what is
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important to your personal fulfillment and success and
have strayed from your path.
Yes, occasionally, you may feel frustrated or
uncomfortable as you pursue your ideal. I love to hike up
mountains and there has been many an occasion when I
felt that I had reached the limits of my endurance and felt
like quitting; but when I forced my mind to focus on the
ideal (the top of that ridge) and remembered that
awesome feeling of exhilaration that comes from being at
the top, I was able to continue on and reach the top. It
was the thoughts of quitting that saddened me. As soon
as I re-focused my attention on what was important,
rather than the tired legs and lungs, I was able to feel
good again about the strenuous effort.
So, when I say that your feelings are your internal guide
that informs you if you are on your right path, I am not
speaking about momentary and fleeting emotions, but of
those pervasive feelings of despondency or uselessness
or malaise that last hours or days. These feelings are clear
indications that you are not on your true path to success,
happiness, fulfillment and prosperity.
Remember that I define wealth as a holistic and
harmonious blend of physical, emotional, mental,
spiritual and material well-being. If your emotional well-
being is quite obviously not there, then you need to do
some serious self-examination to determine how it is that
you have gone astray and then figure out what you need
to do to get back on track with being in sync with your
defined ideals.
The title of this chapter is Falling In Love. I think you can
see now that one of the major secrets to consciously
creating a successful and fulfilling life is to learn to fall
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in love with your ideal, having an intense desire for its
actualization and being hyper-passionate about its value.
Moreover, your life will be so much more rewarding and
filled with ease and success if you learn to fall in love
with life itself, with you yourself and with the enormous
potential you have to continuously self-actuate and
create whatever you can imagine and believe in as real
and true.
Both ancient proven metaphysics and modern quantum
physics tell us that our personal vibratory output
influences how things unfold in our reality picture. Your
thoughts and your feelings are, like everything else in the
physical universe, energy as defined by vibration. Your
personal vibratory output (a mix of thoughts and
feelings) interacts with the pre-existing background
matrix of universal vibratory output to create an
interference pattern. That interference pattern is what
you perceive with your consciousness (your attention)
when you look at your world.
Since you can consciously choose what to think and how
to feel, you can change your personal vibratory output
and hence change the interference pattern that is created
when your vibratory output interferes with the universal.
That field of influence is relatively small in the universal
scheme of things, but it is big enough to actually
determine how the events and circumstances of your life
unfold.
Although there is a huge variety and subtlety to human
emotional experience, all emotions are a subset of two
primary ways of feeling. One is fear and the other is love.
Both are extremely powerful and creative. Desire and
passion, along with joy and gratitude, compassion,
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happiness, etc are aspects of the emotion of love. Distress,
worry, hate, anger, anxiety and disgust are aspects of the
emotion of fear.
Both fear and love work to attract to you the thing that
the emotion is attached to. Hating war creates conflict.
Loving peace creates harmony. Unfortunately there are
also some people who love war and that passion creates
more war. Also, unfortunately there are some people
who also know how to engender fear in the populace in
order to control their responses and limit their ability to
be self-reliant and consciously creative. If you have
learned to prefer security over freedom and safety over
opportunity, you are motivated mostly by fear. Is that
truly how you wish to live?
Anxiety about debt creates more debt. Passion for
prosperity creates more prosperity. Fear of failure leads
to failure. Love of success leads to success.
Just as you are not normally aware of 99% of the 60,000
thoughts you think each day until and unless you decide
to pursue personal mastery and begin examining how
you are thinking and why you think what you think, you
probably do not normally pay attention to how you are
feeling in most moments and whether or not that feeling
is one of love or fear. To help you achieve some clarity, I
have listed the most common feelings.
If you are feeling any of the things in the following list,
then you are coming from the emotion of love: adoration,
affection, fondness, liking, caring, compassion, desire,
passion, joy, bliss, delight, gratitude, gladness, happiness,
ecstasy, pride, zeal, exhilaration, pleasure, contentment,
hope, optimism, enthrallment, amazement, euphoria,
jubilation or rapture.
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If you are feeling any of the things in the following list,
then you are coming from the emotion of fear:
aggravation, annoyance, anger, rage, outrage, fury,
wrath, hostility, ferocity, irritation, exasperation, disgust,
revulsion, contempt, envy, jealousy, hurt, anguish,
despair, gloom, grief, sorrow, misery, dismay, guilt,
shame, regret, remorse, isolation, loneliness, rejection,
defeat, insecurity, humiliation, insult, fright, horror,
panic, anxiety, tenseness, apprehension, worry, dread or
distress.
And just so you know… I did not make up this list; it was
adapted from a psychology textbook titled, Emotions in
Social Psychology by W. Gerrod Parrot.
Hormones and other chemicals produced in your body
and brain by the feelings associated with the emotion of
fear cause illness and distress. Hormones and other
chemicals produced in the brain and body by the feelings
associated with love cause health and well-being.
Create that ideal, fall in love with it; fall in love with life,
with yourself and with your ability to be creative and
you will live longer, be happier, healthier and more
successful.
The following paragraphs may offend some readers and
befuddle some others; but in order to provide some
further elucidation about what level of desire I am
talking about and why there is so much power in
attaching that desire to your ideal, I must clarify what
real desire and passion is all about.
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In his seminal book, Think & Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill writes about the transmutation of sexual energy into
creative energy.
The kind of desire that carries real power is exactly like
the passion you feel when you are in love or in lust with
another person. This is the type of “tear your clothes off”
feeling that you are aroused to when you desire to make
love to your partner.
The truly empowered person is one who has learned, as
Hill says, to transmute much of that sexual energy into
creative energy and not squander it in vain physical
pursuits.
We have, culturally, so many moralistic assumptions and
beliefs about sexual energy that we prevent ourselves
from fully understanding what it is and what it is capable
of achieving when applied to a specific purpose.
Just as sexual energy can be used to awaken the power of
Kundalini through Tantric ritual, so too can sexual energy empower you to become your most creative.
Sexual energy is also closely related to charisma and
charisma attracts not only people, but wealth and power.
So, learn to lust after your ideals. Fall in love. Be
passionate. Imagine that your ideals are the sexiest thing
in the world.
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Quick Review:
Passion is the fire that lights your path and fuels your
commitment as you walk into a future of your own
creation.
Desire is the metaphysical equivalent of gravity. It draws
to you the things, people and circumstances that you
need to effectuate your ideals.
If the way you are feeling is not pleasant, then you are
not acting in tune with your ideals. You are out of
harmony. It is a sign that you need to change how you
are being.
Direct Action Steps:
Spend ten minutes at the beginning of each day focusing
your attention on your ideals. Imagine how it feels to
have these as your reality.
Work yourself up into a fever of lust a few times a day
about the things that you are in the process of creating in
your life.
Whenever you find yourself feeling those feelings that
are a subset of fear, stop, breathe and focus on your ideal
and begin to feel loving.
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"To me, there is only one form of human depravity -
the man without a purpose."
~ Ayn Rand
“In the works of man as in those of nature,
it is the intention which is chiefly worth studying.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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