Recently, a patient of mine got out of bed, prepared herself for work, and proceeded to step outside the door only to find that there were sheets of ice covering the driveway. She immediately thought, "This is going to be a bad day". She was right. It was. Everything that happened that day went against her, in fact the whole day was like that and it wasn’t just about the weather! Each time something negative happened she got more and more upset. Why does this happen? The answer is actually quite simple - we get what we ask for. Did she ask for a bad day? Yes, she did. She made a statement about the future, she felt it inside, and then she began to perceive the things that happened to her that day in a negative way to the extent that she drew more negative experiences towards her.
We often don't realize how much power we have over what happens to us. We think that life just happens to us and that we have no control over it. Yet the most powerful principle that guides our life is that of the principle of attraction. We attract things to us by paying attention to them. The more we pay attention to them, the more we get of the same. It’s like tuning in to a certain frequency on your radio dial – you can only hear what is being broadcast on that frequency unless you change the dial. Have you ever been in a movie where you are totally focused on one of the characters, and when you leave the movie you feel like that character? I know that I have to be careful whenever I leave the theatre after a James Bond movie. I know that when I get into my car that I'm going to drive it more like an Aston Martin than a Subaru Forester. Fortunately, it doesn't last long!
What is important to understand about this process, so that we can become more consciously and deliberately focused upon what it is that we want in life, is that we must focus on what we want and not focus on what we don’t want. This is more easily said than done, because frequently our language gets in the way. For example, if I say "I don't want to be sick", then in that negation I really ask for sickness. The unconscious mind (that’s the habit/automatic mind that we have) generally doesn't process the word "not". It can conjure up an image of "sick", or it can hear the fear of illness in your mind when you speak that sentence. But because the unconscious mind processes images, sounds, touch, smell, and taste and it doesn't understand the word "not" -- it just doesn't get that you don't want to be sick – it just gets the “…want to be sick” part.
So is it just a question of thinking positively? Is it just a question of saying, "I want to be healthy"? Well, in some ways the answer to that question is yes. The trick is that you have to feel the health for example, and really bring it to mind when you say it. In other words it's not just the words, but the total sensory, vibrational experience that you bring with the statement. See what you want in your mind, hear yourself saying it, and feel the feelings that go along with it. If you really want something, and you just haven't been getting it, then it's a good idea to practice re-phrasing what it is that you want, so that you eliminate any ‘nots’ in the language. Really focus, feel, and experience what it is that you want for yourself in the future.
Try it out, and see how your life changes bit by bit, so that when you get out of bed in the morning and you've been practising this idea, then you begin to notice how easy your day can become, whether there is ice on the driveway or not. Every single moment of the day we are making choices and the more deliberate and conscious we can make those positive choices the more power we have to get the outcome we want.
There has been a lot of talk lately about a new movie and book called "The Secret". The movie is a docu-drama about attracting what you want into your life. Basically, it says in one and a half hours what I have said to you in this 5 minute blog and the movie is a bit repetitive; but it's an important concept so it bears repeating. Also a Canadian by the name of Michael Losier has written a book called "The Law of Attraction" which talks about some of the same things. If you want much more information and exercises to help you, then it’s a good book to get.
Have any questions about this? Remember, you can always email me at Ste. Anne’s –
MD@steannes.ca ©Edward Leyton MD 2007
©Accessing Resources for Empowerment™ 2007
14/03/07
We often don't realize how much power we have over what happens to us. We think that life just happens to us and that we have no control over it. Yet the most powerful principle that guides our life is that of the principle of attraction. We attract things to us by paying attention to them. The more we pay attention to them, the more we get of the same. It’s like tuning in to a certain frequency on your radio dial – you can only hear what is being broadcast on that frequency unless you change the dial. Have you ever been in a movie where you are totally focused on one of the characters, and when you leave the movie you feel like that character? I know that I have to be careful whenever I leave the theatre after a James Bond movie. I know that when I get into my car that I'm going to drive it more like an Aston Martin than a Subaru Forester. Fortunately, it doesn't last long!
What is important to understand about this process, so that we can become more consciously and deliberately focused upon what it is that we want in life, is that we must focus on what we want and not focus on what we don’t want. This is more easily said than done, because frequently our language gets in the way. For example, if I say "I don't want to be sick", then in that negation I really ask for sickness. The unconscious mind (that’s the habit/automatic mind that we have) generally doesn't process the word "not". It can conjure up an image of "sick", or it can hear the fear of illness in your mind when you speak that sentence. But because the unconscious mind processes images, sounds, touch, smell, and taste and it doesn't understand the word "not" -- it just doesn't get that you don't want to be sick – it just gets the “…want to be sick” part.
So is it just a question of thinking positively? Is it just a question of saying, "I want to be healthy"? Well, in some ways the answer to that question is yes. The trick is that you have to feel the health for example, and really bring it to mind when you say it. In other words it's not just the words, but the total sensory, vibrational experience that you bring with the statement. See what you want in your mind, hear yourself saying it, and feel the feelings that go along with it. If you really want something, and you just haven't been getting it, then it's a good idea to practice re-phrasing what it is that you want, so that you eliminate any ‘nots’ in the language. Really focus, feel, and experience what it is that you want for yourself in the future.
Try it out, and see how your life changes bit by bit, so that when you get out of bed in the morning and you've been practising this idea, then you begin to notice how easy your day can become, whether there is ice on the driveway or not. Every single moment of the day we are making choices and the more deliberate and conscious we can make those positive choices the more power we have to get the outcome we want.
There has been a lot of talk lately about a new movie and book called "The Secret". The movie is a docu-drama about attracting what you want into your life. Basically, it says in one and a half hours what I have said to you in this 5 minute blog and the movie is a bit repetitive; but it's an important concept so it bears repeating. Also a Canadian by the name of Michael Losier has written a book called "The Law of Attraction" which talks about some of the same things. If you want much more information and exercises to help you, then it’s a good book to get.
Have any questions about this? Remember, you can always email me at Ste. Anne’s – MD@steannes.ca
©Edward Leyton MD 2007
©Accessing Resources for Empowerment™ 2007
14/03/07