What is that factor?

It is your subconscious mind and the thoughts stored in it. So you have to ask yourself: Is my subconscious mind working for me or against me? Now your subconscious mind isn’t a separate entity with its own plans and designs. It is present in every part of you. It is within your entire being. It is your energy and your deep seated beliefs. It is the part of you that governs all those processes that we don’t ever have to think about like breathing, digestion etc.

It is also our connection to infinite creative power, limitless energy and timeless wisdom. It is entirely on our side and work for us 24 hours a day. So how then can it be stopping us from reaching our objectives in life?

The subconscious is very sensitive to impressions from our environment and has been since we were brought in to the world.  During our development as human beings we were exposed to all manner of influences that our ‘conscious mind’ hadn’t yet learned to discriminate against. These influences come from parents, family, friends, social beliefs, world beliefs, and economic beliefs and so on.

Much of this input is positive, constructive and sets us on the road to becoming productive individuals. However many ideas and concepts that we are exposed to have a tremendous negative impact upon us and are driven into our subconscious mind where they become deeply ingrained and powerful.

As the mind is creative and very efficient, it will set about creating the circumstances which will support the ‘faulty belief’ systems that we have unknowingly allowed into our lives. Eventually, we end up creating, building and becoming attracted to a reality that supports these unhelpful beliefs!

Why do we allow this?

Unfortunately we are not taught about the power that exists inside ourselves. This is the power of choice. This is the power of being able to choose what enters our life and how it enters. This is the power to create exactly the type of life we desire in order to fulfil our highest destiny.

In general, we are taught the opposite; that we do not have the power of choice.  We are taught that we are slaves to circumstance. We are taught that factors outside of ourselves govern our life. We are taught that the economy, the stars, other people or the environment has more power over the course of our life than we do. This is false.

Our external world is reflection of our mind and beliefs. It is a reflection of our subconscious mind. One is the perfect mirror of the other. If we change the content of our subconscious mind we change our world. We can create the life we desire by influencing, directing and commanding our subconscious.

Once implanted, the subconscious mind and its negative or unhelpful beliefs are hidden deep and can be removed only through an alternative powerful emotional experience or through consistent emotional work on ones attitude using positive techniques. It is good to know though, that our negative thoughts can always be changed, improved or banished altogether and positive beliefs put in their place, permanently.

Discovering the inner workings of your subconscious means becoming aware of what and how you are thinking on a day to day level.  It is the small thoughts and seeming inconsequential thoughts that we have all day long that indicate to us the deeper attitude or belief at work.

How can we find out which thoughts are influencing us?  Let’s take an example of a faulty belief system that most of us have to fight against at some point in our lives; our attitude about money.  Money is the classic example of misdirected thoughts.

Beliefs about money include:

• ‘Money is hard to find.’
• ‘It’s hard to get a job.’
• ‘I’ll never have enough money.’
• ‘I’ll never be rich.’
• ‘Having money isn’t for me. It’s not who I am.’

Money is an energy that is positive and always flowing.  With a healthy, positive mind you should have a plentiful supply circulating in your life.  If you always have money troubles or never have enough it is a good bet that you have some deep seated, unhelpful attitudes about it in your deeper mind.

For instance, if we see something that we would like to buy and our first thought is: “I’ll never be able to afford that”, then, at once, we know that at a deep level we must be feeling limited in a financial sense. We most likely have a negative belief working here. Perhaps at a young age we may have been exposed to great poverty or limitation or some constricting financial situation which left a deep impression or possibly there are guilty feelings associated with ‘having money’.

This negative belief will then work against you in subtle ways. It may result in feelings of unworthiness, dissatisfaction around career issues, difficulty obtaining a promotion, fear of running out of money, paying bills, always being in debt etc.

In order to reach our highest potential we need to change whatever unhealthy attitudes we have inside ourselves. We must become more aware of the patterns and types of thoughts that we hold whether they’re about how good we are, money, health, the world or humanity in general.

Begin to become aware each day of exactly what you are thinking and its nature. At different times during the day, ask yourself:

• Is what I’m thinking positive or negative?
• Is this constructive thinking or destructive?
• Is this helpful or unhelpful to me?
• Does this make me feel good or bad?

It can be quite a revelation to find out exactly what you have been thinking.  When you have begun the process of bringing these thoughts into conscious awareness you can then begin to develop a strategy to deal with them or replace them with something better. Once we begin to change our minds, our reality will soon follow.

Sometimes it can be awfully tricky to make those hard decisions in a short time and there is always the nagging doubt that we may have taken the wrong road. Is there another way to cope with this situation when it appears other than hair pulling, lack of sleep and grumbling at our loved ones as they try to be encouraging?

Well there is another way but it requires a level of trust you might not have yet. It requires asking your deeper mind for its wisdom and letting it give you the answer when it is ready – but, rest assured, it will always be the right decision and at just the right time.

By “deeper mind” I am talking about the subconscious mind and our intuition. Everyone has intuition even though they might not think they have. The subconscious has stored within it an enormous amount of information gleaned from the world around you and it can make connections in ways your conscious mind would never be able to so why not take deliberate advantage of that. Most people do rely on their intuition or gut instinct probably more than they realise but did you know you can get an answer from it whenever you want and not just by chance.

How do you get an answer from your subconscious when you need it? The best time to seek or ask for an answer to your question or a solution to your problem is right before you go to sleep. Concentrate on the problem for five minutes all the while asking for an answer. Try to let go of any anxiety or bad feeling as it isn’t good to dwell on this. You want to maintain a positive frame of mind before sleeping. Ask out loud if possible, something along the lines of, “give me an answer to this question” or “how can I achieve so and so…” and so on. Just word it in a way that makes sense to you.

The key here is desire. The more you desire an answer to your question, the quicker it will arrive. The more passion we can generate around the issue, the more important our mind will assume it is and the quicker it will produce the solution. It may take one night or a couple but if you trust in the process you will find exactly the information you seek coming to you at just the right time.

Here are some practical ways to do this and get back to the present:

1. Practice watching your breath for a few minutes at a time. This simple exercise practise. several times a day can really help you calm and clear the mind of distractions
2. Be conscious of where you walk with every footstep. When you are walking to and from work or home, narrow your thoughts into your steps and become aware of the weight of your step, the ground beneath, your toes leaving the floor. Keep one eye on where you’re going though
3. Spend one minute concentrating on any thought or object to the exclusion of all else. This is a great one for the desk or travelling home, just shut your eyes and let go of the days hassles.
4. Stand outside in nature and simply watch the world around you without judgement. Let go of your critical self just for a little bit (give it a lunch break) and look at everything with a fresh and forgiving eye. Too much overly critical thought uses up a lot of mental energy leaving you drained.
5. Several times a day ask yourself where you are? “Am I here? ” is a fine way to determine whether you are in the present moment or whether you are dreaming of the future or thinking about the past.

Trying some of these simple exercises can release us from unhelpful and negative thought patterns and allow the energy and power of being in the moment to return.

Please DO NOT spend your money on every EBook out there that promises to give you:

“secret techniques to attract all the wealth you ever dreamed of”

…or something like that.

Most of these e Books are just rehashed and plagiarized material from other law of attraction authors, such as ‘Wallace Wattles’, and other old books on the ‘Science of Mind’, ‘New Thought’ and so on.

I should know, I’ve bought most of them!

They will often have a long page of key buzzwords to entice you and draw you in as well as an enormous amount of free (everyone likes freebies right?) giveaways worth $500 dollars, $275 dollars etc and so on.
Now, for the most part many of these books and their writers are ok and well-intentioned and there may be a few nuggets of information inside that are useful. You could probably find most of that on the web from websites such as this. But many are just cleverly marketed pages designed to excite you and take your money in return for average ‘copies’ of information you have read before!

Ok, I’ve finished ranting! How, then, do you find out which materials are worth investing your money in?

Well, there are a couple products that I would recommend as the best and I promote them here on the site. I do this because I know they worked for me. They have worked for me in small ways and in BIG ways and they have contributed immeasurably to my own personal growth. I wouldn’t be able to recommend them otherwise. I couldn’t recommend something which I knew didn’t work; its not my way and I would be creating too much bad karma for myself. Nothing is worth that.

More importantly than this though, I feel the teachings and the teachers themselves have real insight into the fundamental truths of subjects like the ‘Law of attraction’ and ‘manifestation’. I believe this can really help us to create more happiness and more success in our lives.

I believe you can tell this when you read something truthful. You can feel it inside you and you know this is right. You get a sense that what this person is saying is so true you can almost feel the power of the knowledge beginning to resonate inside you. When you get this feeling then, for me, it is a sign of real integrity, authenticity and understanding. This is rare with so many so called law of attraction teachers and e-book sellers.

There are three products and teachers that I recommend and they are:

The Wealth Beyond Reason program
Bob Doyle lives and breathes the law of attraction. He was recently featured in the movie ‘The secret.’ I found his writing and easy to follow explanations, not only inspiring and uplifting, (like an injection of pure, positive mental attitude) but also very simple to put into practice. There is an awesome amount of material on his site from downloadable written stuff, audio and online lectures. He is a teacher with real passion and integrity. If you want great results with the ‘Law of Attraction’ and ‘true abundance’ on an energetic level, you need to listen to this guy!

Revolutionscape: A happy pocket full of money
This e Book took my understanding of all things quantum to a whole new level. Again easy to read and understand but incredible in its simplicity and power. It makes you think about time and our mental states and how to almost flick a mental switch between poverty and wealth. Amazing. You have to read this book if you haven’t already. If you are lucky enough to already have it in your life then you well done; go away and read it again now! You can follow the link aboveto the ‘Revolutionscape’ site where you can buy the book on its own or get it as part of a bigger wealth fundamentals package!

The Super Manifesting program from Enlightened Beings
This ‘manifesting’ program has incredible exercises for generating everything from ’showers of money’ to whole new career paths, relationships and massive personal growth. Many of the detailed visualizations I have used to incredible effect on a regular basis. If used consistently just one of the visualizations will rocket your ‘vibration’ to a higher level and keep it there. As well as this, there is a complete ‘ninety day plan’ for increasing the level of wealth, joy, satisfaction, personal power, health in your life and being, to the point where nothing will ever be the same again.

These three systems each allowed me to see things in a significantly different way and opened my eyes to new perceptions and I wholeheartedly recommend them. Like I said above, I have used these three systems on a regular and consistent basis in my life for the last three years and I can vouch to their effectiveness.You will find links to the websites and the material through the site.

All the best,

Michael.

Wealth Beyond Reason
The Truth about the Law of Attraction

‘Wealth Beyond Reason‘ provides you with the mental and emotional tools to overcome the financial problems and obstacles in your everyday life!

The program takes you STEP-BY-STEP through how you look at your life to how you change for the better vibrationally and energetically. Bob Doyles’s teaching is about your own power to attract everything you want almost effortlessly. Effortlessly because when you start attracting the right opportunities for you, following up those opportunities becomes more like play than work; the way it should be! No complex theory, just eye-opening and effective tools and techniques you can start implementing immediately. With Wealth Beyond Reason you get instant access to videos, downloads and literature. I really recommend it if you feel you should be getting more out of life, more money, more abundance and more wealth!

As I mentioned on the page about ‘E books’ and ‘what you should know about them’, Bob Doyle’s teachings are some of the best around and that’s why I’m so enthusiastic about this stuff.

“Do not be surprised now when the outstanding truth unfolds to you that your consciousness is the all power and the only power acting upon your affairs, controlling and maintaining your health, revealing to you the intelligence and direction necessary for your success in any and every walk of life”
(Joel S. Goldsmith, 1992, p122)

“When your mind thinks correctly, when you understand the truth, when the thoughts deposited in your subconscious mind are constructive, harmonious, and peaceful, the magic working power of your subconscious will respond. It will bring about harmonious conditions, agreeable surroundings, and the best of everything. Once you begin to control your thought processes, you can apply the powers of your subconscious to any problem or difficulty. You will actually be consciously cooperating with the infinite power and omnipotent law that governs all things.”
(Joseph Murphy, 1997, p7)

“If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story. For by the powerful law of attraction, it must be!”
(‘Abraham’, 2008, p206)

“Carry any kind of thought you please about with you and so long as you retain it, no matter how you roam over the land or sea, you will unceasingly attract to yourself, knowingly or inadvertently, exactly and only what corresponds to your own dominant quality of thought.”
(Swami Sivananda, 2004, p21)

“If you wish to demonstrate prosperity, begin to think and talk about it and to see it everywhere. Do nothing that contradicts this thought either mentally or physically. The world is full of good; take it and forget all else. Rise above depression and be glad that you are saved from adversity; the human mind needs to be cleansed from the morbid thoughts that bind through its false beliefs.”
(Ernest Holmes, 1987, p23)

The physical laws of the universe are actually this whole process of divinity in motion, or consciousness in motion. When we understand these laws and apply them in our lives, anything we want can be created, because the same laws that nature uses to create a forest, or a galaxy, or a star, or a human body can also bring about the fulfilment of our deepest desires.”
(Deepak Chopra, 1994, p5)

References:
Chopra, Deepak, (1994), ‘The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success’, Co-published by Amber-Allen Publishing and New World Library, California, USA.
Goldsmith, Joel. S, (1992), ‘The Infinite Way’, Devorss Publications, California, USA.
Hicks, Esther &Jerry, (2008), ‘Money and the Law of attraction’, Hay House Inc, California, USA.
Holmes, Ernest, (1987), ‘Creative Mind’, Sun Publishing, New Mexico, USA
Murphy, Joseph (Revised by McMahan, I.), (1997), ‘The Power of Your Subconscious Mind’, Simon and Schuster UK Ltd, London, England.
Sivananda, Swami, (2004), ‘Thought Power’, Divine Life Society, India.

The deliberate and regular practise of a few simple relaxation techniques enables us to exercise a greater control over our ‘autonomic’ nervous system and, consequently, the parasympathetic nervous system which governs our fight or flight response. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to manage our emotional reactions in a whole host of situations that we presently find stressful or hard to deal with and react the way we want? This a primary benefit of relaxation. The secondary benefits of practising relaxation are often increasing peace of mind and greater calmness and confidence throughout all aspects of our lives.

“The soul that moves in the world of the senses and yet keeps the senses in harmony…finds rest in quietness” – The Bhagavad Gita.

Our state of mind can be directly controlled our internal attitudes and choices rather than being at the whim of external unpredictable conditions and circumstances! Relaxation is the foundation for this control and learning it is one of the key skills we need to master in order to bring about greater degree of personal success.

Often we don’t realise just how stressed out we are with tension building in different parts of the body. For some that could be in the shoulders, others the stomach, the neck and so on. Before you know it you have an ulcer, a bad back, a stiff neck or a host of other niggling ailments. Relaxation is an incredibly effective tool for allowing us to spot this tension before it accumulates and therefore neutralise some of the harmful effects on our bodies.

One of the simplest ways to begin to practice deliberate ‘relaxation’ is the following muscle tensing/contraction technique which involves:

• Slowing your breathing
• Starting with the lower body – the feet and begin to contract your muscle groups
• Maintaining your breathing evenly and calmly

Initially, you should be lying down as this way the body is supported evenly but eventually you will be able to practise this technique wherever you are.

Beginning with the toes and feet and working your way up the main muscles groups and limbs of the body start to contract the muscles holding the contraction for 3-5 seconds. Then let go of the contraction and the muscles will relax naturally.

As you become more familiar with the exercise and the sensations in your body you can alter the amount of pressure you use i.e. how hard you contract the muscle but don’t strain too much in the beginning.

You will want to pay attention to how your body feels as you go through the routine. Becoming body conscious will in the future help us recognise when we are feeling stress and in what area of our bodies.

Go through all the parts of your body, squeeze and hold then release:

1. Feet and legs: One at a time, lift each foot off the floor by about an inch and tense.
2. Buttocks: Squeeze your buttocks together as you raise your hips slightly off the floor.
3. Chest: Lift the chest of the floor as you tense the muscles keeping the head and hips on the floor.
4. Shoulders: Raise them up against your neck tightly and release.
5. Head: Roll you head gently from side to side.
6. Face: Squeeze all the muscles in your face, really scrunch it up and then open your face up wide.
7. Hands and arms: As with the feet lift each hand from the floor, make a fist and squeeze then release.

After a round of this routine your body should feel a great deal looser than when you started. You can do as many rounds as you wish. Decide before hand how long you practice; ten to twenty minutes is a good amount of time. Allow at least five minutes after the contractions to use a little auto-suggestion such as:

• I am relaxing more and more
• I am relaxing more and more every day
• My body feels better and better
• It is easy for me to relax
• I am getting better and better

These help to prepare the mind for further sessions making it easier and easier every time. Alternatively use whatever affirmation you are currently working with.

Relaxation when practised regularly can be very effective at countering the stress in our lives, reducing anxiety and helping us focus on our goals. If you haven’t yet, try it for a few day and see!

Recognising these attitudes is the start of thinking positive. Whatever the root of these feelings is we can overcome them. And it is simple. It just means we haven’t yet convinced our deeper minds that every opportunity, every success is available to us. We have to fill our mind with the idea that there are limitless possibilities and limitless abundance for everyone.

Every possibility that is in line with our highest destiny can be attained. By that I mean some of us are not destined to bet the thing that we have been chasing or working towards. Let me use an exaggerated example. Most of us will not become the ‘President’ or ‘Prime Minister’ of our countries no matter how hard we try. But every reward or satisfaction we think we would get by becoming that ‘ideal’ of President is available to us; only it will come through our own unique path and in its own way. The more we try to crowbar our way into a path that wasn’t meant to be, only means more obstacles will be put in our way. That means more frustration and dead ends and more likelihood of those unhelpful feelings coming up and making us feel bad when we here of other’s successes.

Hold on a second! Isn’t it the case that we can do what we want and be what we want? Well yes it is, but I couldn’t be a ‘President’ now even if I put my mind to it. Too much has happened and I don’t have the skills or training. I could put my mind to it but my heart wouldn’t be in it for the long run. If your heart isn’t in it in something, i.e. if you don’t have the emotional power and desire for that goal, you won’t get there.

Feeling wealthy is partly about accepting who we are and our limitations and moving in the right direction. Yes we do have limitations but if we follow the right path there are no-limitations and we can go as far as we would like because it excites us and we feel good.

Creating a life where you think positive, a life without negatives, involves discovering and following our true destiny.

Stress is also allowed to diminish almost by itself when we naturally relax. We begin to realize that our quality of life can be very dependent on our state of mind and the attitudes we hold about ourselves.

Therefore, if we follow this train of thought it makes sense to be as good to ourselves as is humanly possible. This doesn’t mean having distorted thinking about who we are or what we can achieve but it means letting forgiveness and tolerance toward ourselves be the priority in our day to day existence. After all, if we aren’t kind to ourselves why should anyone else be?

Be good to yourself. Be kind on yourself. Don’t be so hard when you don’t get things just right. Be patient whilst waiting and working toward your goals! Be less resistant to situations you find frustrating, all the while knowing that you deserve better because of your inherent abundant nature. When we have time for ourselves we find more time for others. Consequently, when we don’t feel good about ourselves then the opposite is equally true. So remember:

• Try to forgive yourself for not having achieved
• Always be kind to yourself when you make mistakes
• Practice releasing guilt that you feel over things that happened in the past
• Use forgiveness toward yourself and others.

Indeed, what could be better than awaking every day and knowing exactly what you had to do without question? Imagine being so sure of what you need to do and not because someone is telling you to do it, or because it is part of your job, but knowing this is what you must do because it comes from a place of complete certainty deep inside you? This is possible, believe it or not, even if you have no way of seeing how that way of life could come about any time soon! The secret to achieving certainty like this is finding a strong purpose in life.

Clues to our purpose often lie in what you enjoyed when you were younger and more carefree. Think back to what you wanted to be when you were younger, there are always signs there. Did you like animals or looking after people or children? Did you enjoy sports, messing about with building blocks or playing Doctor? The information is always there somewhere. You need to remember the times when you felt that great excitement about something you were doing, something you felt you wanted to do all the time. Was it something that was fun to do, something that grabbed you and gave you those butterflies in the stomach? It may not have been in your childhood. It could have been much later. Did it feel like “yes, I really love this” or “this feels so good?” Whatever it was and whenever it was that you had these feelings, you were very likely close to expressing the essence of your ‘purpose’ in life.

Those moments of ‘joyful excitement’ are great indicators, like the needle of a compass, indicating a direction for us to follow and a potential source of true and lasting contentment. But, without this excitement and this passion, you can get led in the wrong direction and down dead ends. That’s why it is so hard to sustain motivation for targets, goals and jobs that we don’t have our heart in. They’re just wrong for us.

Trying to think of a purpose in life for the sake of it will not work. It has to come from inside us, from our intuition and we have to feel it in our stomachs! It comes back to having that excited feeling. You could say that someone who is constantly flitting from one unsatisfying career or scheme to the next isn’t really listening to themselves… yet.

If inspiration is particularly hard to find then meditation is a very good tool for finding out which way your path lays. Start by asking yourself what it is that would give you the most satisfaction and feeling of fulfilment. You may already have an idea but pushed it aside thinking it was a pipedream or way beyond reach. Well this idea will start to rear its head in strange ways giving you clues and signs. It will try and get your attention. This is the deeper wisdom inside you trying to guide you into the right path, as it always does if we listen closely enough. Mediation and quiet contemplation will enable you to raise the volume on this interior guiding voice.

You may get the call to action. This is when you are inspired to try something new. This is really a call to take up the quest for a better life and better existence. If you ignore the call or refuse it two things can happen. The voice will fade as this opportunity’s presence is taken over by other events. Don’t forget that synchronicity plays an important part in the arrangement of all the elements that make up this possibility for you. They will exist for a time but then will have to re-arrange themselves back in the harmony of the universe. Then you will have to wait for the next opportunity. There will be others. Don’t despair. There will always be others. The door is never closed because you failed to take action but it might become ‘temporarily jammed.’ If you refuse the call, you may consign yourself to a further period of frustration and dissatisfaction but the universe is a forgiving place…always.

The other possibility is that the call will become so loud and in your face that you will be forced by circumstance to jump in and ‘go with the flow.’ This is dramatic and feels like you are in a bit of a roller coaster – just hang on. It may seem like you are being thrown into the deep end , that you don’t have the experience, don’t feel safe etc. you are being pulled out of your comfort zone but this is probably the best thing that could happen to you. There is sometimes a period of upheaval, perhaps, emotional, and spiritual but it will always be for the best in the long run.

Finding certainty and true purpose is one of the most important goals for us as human beings. Only then do we begin to express ourselves at the highest level or reach our highest potential, creating harmony and peace in our own lives and our relationships as well as finding our greatest success.