Making the Law of Attraction Work For Your Benefit

Making the Law of Attraction Work For Your Benefit
By Jim Patterson

The Law of Attraction is undoubtedly one of the most powerful natural phenomenon in the Universe. With the runaway success of the movie and book The Secret, it has become one of the most highly studied natural laws as well. And yet it is also still one of the most misunderstood.

At it's most basic level The Law of Attraction states that "like attracts like". As a result, if you put out anger you will attract anger from the universe, and the individuals in it. If you put out thoughts about being short of money, then you will attract situations that make you short of money. If you make yourself a source of abundance, then you will attract abundance from the Universe. And so on...

We are therefore all interacting with the Law of Attraction every moment of every day. The question is whether you are making the Law of Attraction work for you, or against you! If we are to have any success at all in directing our energy in a way that allows us to manifest what we want in our lives utilizing the Law of Attraction, then it is not just necessary but vital to grasp certain core principals that govern this natural law. And make no mistake about it, this is just as much of a natural law as is gravity.

We use the principals that govern the natural law of gravity to our benefit every day. We do this when we pour a cup of coffee by placing the cup below where the flow of coffee will exit the spout of the coffee pot when we tip it. If we didn't do this, we would have a mess resulting from our own failure to understand and use the law of gravity accurately.

This is exactly why you may have difficulty making the Law of Attraction work for you. Meditate on these Law of Attraction principals and you will progress to utilizing Attraction Techniques as beneficially and as easily as you pour that cup of joe!

• The Law of Attraction will respond to the energy from the entirety of the energy you emit in relation to what you are trying to manifest. You simply cannot separate out your end desire from your motivation. Doing so will have unintended consequences. If your motivation for manifesting is to harm another, then the energy you are sending out if of a malevolant nature and malevolance is what will result even if you do in fact receive your goal situation.



• The Law of Attraction is also The Law of Abundance. Manifesting in a competitive manner carries with it an attempt to stifle the flow of the energy so abundant in the Universe and what you are manifesting is a restriction of that abundance. That is what you will get back. A lack of access to that abundant energy.



• Successful Manifestation using Attraction Techniques requires accurate assessment of the current situation. You cannot direct a beneficial change in situation if you do not acknowledge what the actuality of that situation is. This is why we each need to start our journey towards manifesting by taking stock of what is, and being present with it. Being "present with what is" means accepting that this is the situation at the present moment. It does not mean accepting that as a judgment for all time. Be at peace with what is, so that you are not identifying with a situation that is undesirable. Identifying with it sends out energy that the Law of Attraction will respond to and return.

There are a great deal more principals that make the Law of Attraction react in a manner not beneficial to our purposes when we set out to manifest our desires, but the above are some of those that most commonly affect people that feel the Law of Attraction is not working for them. It is interacting with each and every one of us at all times, either beneficially or detrimentally. It is up to use to identify how and why.

Jim Patterson

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The Power of Now - Awareness and Acceptance Go Hand in Hand

The Power of Now - Awareness and Acceptance Go Hand in Hand
By Jim Patterson

I was talking with a long term client the other day, and was discussing his desire to lose twenty pounds. When I asked what his weight currently was his response floored me!

"Oh, I won't get on a scale so I really don't know!"

This raised a whole new arena of questions due to the conflicts inherent to the specific situation. Having a specific goal to lose twenty pounds while refusing to acknowledge ones current weight is self defeating from the word go, but that is not even the part that was most important to address.

A large part of what I try to help people to achieve is centered around Awareness. Awareness of and presence in The Now. Living a life of presence in this moment, not looking forward or backward. Eschewing all of the folderol that accrues when we live our lives to be happy/content/relaxed "As Soon As..."

To do this in any full sense means also being aware of what the current moment is. And being aware of it means also accepting what is. To it's fullest extent this includes being at peace with what is. That may seem a bit much to expect to many people with serious challenges in their life, but it is achievable for all...

My client wanted to change his situation without really knowing what his situation was. Anybody see a problem here? If you cannot accept your situation (what is) then you have no real hope of changing it. In actuality, willful ignorance of a situation he didn't like was keeping him from not just changing the situation but also from real peace and joy right now!

How so? Well let's consider what happened next!

I trotted out my faithful bathroom scale and literally forced him onto it. The result? He weighed more than he hoped but less than he feared. He was also only 18 pounds from his goal wieght. Having become aware of his actual current weight, he was able to stop the inner stammering dialog that happened every time someone inquired about his weight, whether that was his wife, a friend or even just himself...

So one less thing had the ability to take him out of the present moment and toss him back out of Awareness of The Now!

The importance of this can not be overstated. Every time we overcome one of these issues and take away that ability we gain greater understanding and skills that will allow us to maintain a life of Awareness and Connection with the Dynamic Energy of the Universe and it's Creator.

Awareness then leads to Acceptance as we acknowledge the reality of a situation. This is key to our accomplishing any desired change in that situation we may want. But how do we come to be at peace with a situation that we are at core unhappy about.

All situations fall under one of three categories.

1. Situations that we have no control over.
2. Situations that we have control over.
3. Situations that are a mixture of things we cannot control, and those we can.

When faced with something that falls in category one, we can legitimately give ourselves a pass. Accepting that the situation was not of our making doesn't always mean there is nothing we can do to change things. So if we allow for things that we had no control over, but take what action is available now we have the perfect basis to be at peace with what is...

Categories 2 and 3 are closely related, because if we had any culpability at all in the actuality of What Is, many people just can't seem to let themselves off the hook! This is a forgiveness issue, and will also usually be affecting people's ability to offer forgiveness to others. This will further hinder the achievement of joy and peaceful living in Awareness of The Now.

Let's face it, most things fall into these two categories as we can almost always affect a situation by our actions. With whatever we are faced with that we are not pleased with, we either did not take action, or our actions were not effective.

The first step to overcoming negative feelings about this aspect of What Is consists of meditating on that old NLP affirmation: Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources available to them.

This includes each and every one of us. I challenge anyone to really meditate on this and not come away being more at peace with What Is; In The Now.

Whatever we have or have not done that added to our current predicament occurred while we were faced with other complex situations. By no act of will can we separate out the influences of those past moments in time. To even go back and try is to take ourselves our of the present moment. Acknowledge this, and you are most of the way to a peaceful acceptance of your own culpability and present situation.

Am I saying that retrospection is always a bad thing? That we should never try to learn from our past mistakes and errors of omission? Absolutely not, but I am saying that to do so in even a slightly obsessive way is not only counterproductive but dangerous, and toxic to our Awareness and Presence in The Now.

Be Aware of all aspects of your situation without denial or obfuscation. Accept whatever your own role is in any aspect that is not to your liking, and forgive yourself. Acknowledge that you were "Doing the best you could with the resources available to you."

This will allow you to accept what is openly and take appropriate action while still enjoying a peaceful existence in the present moment at all times.


Jim Patterson

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Living Life in the Now - What is Good and What is Evil?

Living Life in the Now - What is Good and What is Evil?
By Jim Patterson

If you read books, watch movies or television you know that many people think that we are in the middle of a universal struggle between Good and Evil.

You see it in the news, in politics, in discussions about religion, in the wars being waged across the globe, and on the streets of our cities, in the business world...

Just about everywhere. It is so pervasive that it makes people more than a little obsessive about their belief systems. It causes people to get so entrenched in dogma and their own rigid and frequently narrow viewpoints, that the actuality of life in this universe gets missed in the hysteria.

Having said that, you may be surprised that I do believe that this struggle is being waged, and is at a crucial point as we speak...

The only way to understand the nature of this struggle however, is to understand what actually is Good and what actually is Evil. And the shocking thing is that to understand the nature of this struggle and really take part in the most important issue facing mankind today is to put most of your own personal belief structure aside!

Huh?!

The fact of the matter is that the real nature of this battle is tied directly tho the greatest Good in the Universe: Awareness or Consciousness, Presence in the Moment, and Connection to the Universe and it's Creator.

Which means that the greatest Evil is being Unaware or Unconscious, Living Oblivious to the Present, and being Isolated from the Universe.

As you can see, this means that most of what people are centered on, and spend their lives and energies fighting about and either for or against, is immaterial to the real battle being waged. And this is the misdirection that goes on each and every day, not only robbing people of the happiness they could be experiencing in their lives individually, but also halts the progress of humankind as they seek to progress as a race.

No, I am not oblivious to the issues facing the world, creation as a whole, and humankind today. I just see these issues as all related to this far greater issue, and subservient to it...

The only hope we really have of overcoming war, hunger, poverty, disease and the host of other ills running rampant across the globe has no political, activist or military solution. So how can these be addressed? For that matter can they be addressed?

The only way they can or will be addressed is when the rising tide of Conscious, Aware and Connected individuals sweep away the inert masses of the inert population that have bought into the old and established ideas about what is necessarily Good or Evil by nature.

Let's be clear! I am not advocating or predicting a military action or violence against those choosing not to align themselves with my own view of what constitutes Good and Evil. When I say that the inert masses will be swept away, what I mean is that their inertia, their lack of Awareness, Consciousness and Connection will be swept away and mankind will flourish as a result.

The battle will be won by Good without a doubt. It is only a matter of time. Why?

Because the most powerful force in the Universe can only be accessed through connection with the Universe and it's Creator. Becoming Aware. Becoming Conscious. Becoming Connected with the very source of dynamic energy is the quickest avenue to a better life for each of us as individuals, and for humankind as a whole.


Jim Patterson

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The Power of Now Helps Provide the Peace That Passes All Understanding

The Power of Now Helps Provide the Peace That Passes All Understanding
By Jim Patterson

Throughout my life I would have described myself as a spiritual person. A voracious reader, and particularly about anything to do with the human condition, I was also given to a great deal of introspection. And yet...

The kind of serenity described by Paul at Philippians 4:7 as "the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds" eluded me.

Like many people I took seriously the scriptural admonitions to constantly examine myself, and the secular ones as well: "the unexamined life is not worth living."

And still the "peace of God" was nowhere to be found.

Time passed, and while my own studies continued and I learned much it wasn't until I read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle that I came to understand that the manner that I carried out that self examination had a good deal to do with my lack of peace and serenity. The constant replaying of events to see if I was overlooking some flaw in myself or if I was unfair to someone else was in and of itself a dysfunction that was actively stealing the very state I was seeking.

I read this book far before Mr. Tolle's webclass with Oprah Winfrey, and am so glad I did. This allowed me to absorb the words, tenets and principals for myself without the filter of the bruehaha that erupted when these were broadcast to such a huge audience. And frankly I didn't find the naysayers very convincing.

Frankly it was a bit entertaining to hear the followers of the man who asked that they disown themselves and follow him loudly decrying Eckhart Tolle's admonition to abandon the ego. And of course, that wasn't what he was doing at all. He was saying that the ego was out of balance, and that this preoccupation with and identification with the ego's stances, positions and ensuing drama was unhealthy and harmful.

People that have read my work before are familiar with my statement that "The longer I live the more often the answer to my questions is Balance!" So I was quite ready to accept the idea that an out of balance ego was sure to be a source of trouble. Just as it would be detrimental for someone to abdicate all thought of self as without a balanced amount we would lack food, sleep and shelter. So I came to understand Tolle's words to advocate a release of the out of balance ego that centers so much of it's identity with life's content as opposed to our true identities comprised of our consciousness.

Once I embraced these concepts, I almost immediately began to experience the promised peace and serenity. Not the absence of emotion predicted by Tolle's detractors but a feeling of satisfaction from letting go of all the folderol that had kept me out of the present moment. To put it in a way we have all heard, but few actually experienced: "Grass was greener, the sky bluer and food tasted better." Of course, the actuality was that my consciousness was actually finally free to experience colors, sounds, tastes and textures more fully than I had experienced since I was 8 years old...

The peace that passes all understanding is actually freedom from the tyranny of that unbalanced ego. It is freedom from the constant inner dialog as we rehash how wer were wronged, or even perhaps how we had wronged someone else. It makes it possible to release grudges and forgive what we may have previously thought to be unforgivable.

Most importantly, that peaceful serene tranquility gives all that reach for it a whole new life...

Jim Patterson

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Law of Attraction Manifestation Techniques Require Awareness

Law of Attraction Manifestation Techniques Require Awareness

By Jim Patterson

People ask why I have held off writing directly about the Law of Attraction. I've done so because of the prevalence of information on the subject that makes the LOA sound like a Cosmic ATM!

Visit any forum on this subject and you are bound to find threads by people looking for help manifesting new cars, luxury homes and stacks of cash. And this by people who have no interest in the more basic forms of manifesting that deal with day to day issues of peace and harmony within their lives.

The Law of Attraction is a natural law, like gravity. And you ignore it with the same degree of danger you would have if you ignored gravity. This means that if you want to harness this power, it is necessary to experience it as it occurs in everyday life as an observer before you even attempt to steer it with your own thoughts and energy. Even with the Law of Attraction you need to be able to crawl before you try to run a marathon...

We have each already observed the Law of Attraction at work whether we realized it or not. How often have we seen someone put out negative energy in the form of anger only to get anger back? How often have we seen that some people never seem to have a problem with anyone due to their own calm demeanor? In each of these cases, the party with the greatest strength behind the type of energy they are emanating will prevail. With one seeming exception, which we will get to later.

So each and every one of us are manifesting through the energy we emanate through our thoughts, words and actions. You are already interacting with the Law of Attraction by thinking, speaking and going about your business every day just as you are interacting with gravity by failing to fall off the planet!

What we want to do though, is to learn to interact with the Law of Attraction in a beneficial way. And when we say beneficial, we mean beneficial to all. When we seek to manifest in a way that is harmful to others in order to benefit ourselves, our efforts with fail. They will fail because by definition they are in conflict with the Law of Attraction. To attempt to manifest something that is good for the manifestor at another's expense is a selfish act and will attract selfishness from others, hindering the desired results across all aspects of the manifestors life. See how this works?

So the first thing we need to develop in order to begin even the most basic forms of Law of Attraction manifestation is to develop Awareness. What is meant here by Awareness is first of all to be Aware of one's own identity as opposed to the over-identification with one's own positions, and identification with the content of life that is so common today. Awareness also includes being cognizant of everyone else as something other than competitors. The best way to accomplish both of these is to meditate on the following affirmation:

Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources available to them.

This helps to build our empathy with the condition of others and eliminate our feelings that we need to overcome others. Awareness is key to success in your efforts to use Law of Attraction manifestation techniques. This is one of the reasons that I have given more attention to writing about The Power of Now issues as they help to overcome the out of balance ego that the majority of the world struggles with.

Awareness is also the energy that tips the scales in the favor of the Aware. Remember the one exception to the rule that the one manifesting with the most energy will prevail? Awareness trumps all. You can come up against the angriest of individuals with their yelling and cursing, and overcome them with far less energy as long as you are acting out of Awareness. This is because the energy that Awareness brings is of such a higher order, that it trumps just about everything it comes up against.

I will be writing further about the Law of Attraction and Manifestation techniques. It will be with an understanding that to even begin working to use LOA techniques as a steering mechanism, you have to start by developing Awareness as a baseline within your life.

Jim Patterson

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Renaming The Law Of Attraction

Like most people that have even the smallest exposure to it. The Law Of Attraction has had a tremendous impact on my life. And yet, there continue to be commentaries on it that are both insightful, and necessary.

I think you will enjoy this one: Renaming The Law Of Attraction

Personal Development Resources I Found Useful

Personal Development Resources I Found Useful

You probably spend a lot of time reading,
like I do and trying to assimilate all that
you take in into your life.

One of the conundrums of this life is the
nature of time. And the way that the more
important anything is to us, the less time
there is to spend on it.

Well, I have made my own journey toward
greater personal and spiritual fulfillment a
major priority in my life, and so am always
looking for ways to get the most from the
time that I spend in pursuit of this.

I just came across two sites that are huge helps
in this regard. If they do not seem so to you,
that is okay too.

But if they seem to click with you like they did
with me, then grab all of the resources you can.
Most of it seemed of good quality and not just
BS commercial stuff.

You may have to look at some of it from the
inside to see what you think. Fortunately it
won't cost you anything to do so.

1. Self Growth Giveaway.
The Mind Mapping software is intriguing.
Anything by Joe Vitale is always welcome as
well. The package is really quite large, so take
some time to see what all is here.

2. Motivator Software Giveaway.
I actually came across this one first, and you
will no doubt notice that this software is included
in the first bundle of titles. There are some useful
items that you get as unadvertized bonuses when
you sign up here so go ahead and sign up here too.

I know that my own efforts at personal development
and enlightenment have been aided by these items,
and I hope they'll do the same for you...

Eat a peach!

Floyd Bogart

Richard Abanes Refutes Eckhart Tolle - Sort Of

Richard Abanes Refutes Eckhart Tolle - Sort Of

Author and journalist Richard Abanes has written
a book responding to Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth"
and "exposing" his teachings as... What?

Well, from the press release on PRWeb, his book
"A New Earth, An Old Deception" he effectively
refutes several of his own interpretations of Mr.
Tolle's teachings. Unfortunately (IMHO) he has
them all wrong.

Here are a few of the things purported to be debunked:

• Who or what is God--and is God separate from us?
• Does Tolle accurately interpret the Bible?
• Is everyone essentially "One" with all that exists?
• Is evil real, or do we only perceive it as real?
• Are all religions equally false/true and do they all teach a single core Truth?
• Is suffering just an illusion of our mind?

Quite frankly my own Christian faith neither wants
nor desires for Mr Abanes to expose anything about
what Eckhart Tolle teaches. If he does not find the
content to be helpful to his own spiritual journey,
he is free to move on.

In my experience, this kind of closed minded critique
is really unnecessary for those able to reason for them-
selves. I cannot say that I agree with all that Mr Tolle
holds to be true, but have found much to be instructive
and quite useful. None of this has been any kind of
threat to my Christianity.

Evidently a response to Mr. Tolle was deemed necessary
(or perhaps profitable) due to the huge sales of "A New
Earth" as well as "The Power of Now". And no, I have
no more of a problem with Mr. Abanes making money
from his books than I do with Eckhart Tolle getting his
royalties. Perhaps next time Richard Abanes could
earn his offering something of his own, instead of just
panning a work that at least attempts to assist people
with their own spiritual journeys.

Read the PRWeb Press Release HERE
and then make up your own mind on his
works merits.

Because as always, all of this is just MHO...

Eat a peach!

Floyd Bogart

Observations On Internal Application

Observations On Internal Application

There has been so much response to my last post
that perhaps more needs to be said about the
internal application side of personal development.

So much about true growth hinges on understanding
that this journey is at heart a solitary one. The path
that leads to a truly satisfying and rewarding existence
can not be dependent upon other's cooperation, aid or
complicity.

Likewise, our search for enlightenment must encompass
all aspects of ourselves. One of the reasons I have
enjoyed reading Dr. Teri Speed's book (see the sidebar)
is her attempt to grapple with bringing the three aspects
of ourselves together in a unifying whole. Mind, body
and spirit...

Like Dr. Speed, I am at heart a Christian, but I expand
my knowledge of this existence beyond my (extensive)
study of the bible as well. What this means to me is that
as more information comes to me in my search it must
fit into a certain framework of beliefs.

Does this mean that my faith is rigid and inflexible?

Not at all! It simply means that frequently as something
reveals itself to be newfound truth to me, that if it
seems to be in conflict with something within that
framework of beliefs held that it must be resolved...

Sometimes this comes about easier than others. In some
cases, it comes about as fuller understanding of already
held concepts become more fully formed. Other times
it will turn out that my previous understanding of some
scripture was of a more all encompassing principle than
a further study of more biblical texts would support.

The point here is that for anything to be a useful tool
of instruction in this life, it needs to be dynamic in
nature allowing for the kinds of everchanging
circumstances that this life provides so abundantly.

Expect your horizons to expand beyond your wildest
dreams, and you will have just begun to grasp what
you can expect from an extended journey of self
exploration.

Bringing together the three previously mentioned
aspectsof our natures (spirit, mind and body) is no
small thing, and thus cannot be limited to any single
author or teacher. Lately Eckhart Tolle has become
quite prominent, and rightly so as he has quite a lot
to offer in our search, but even he cannot be our sole
source of growth. Soon I will be doing some work
online with Dr. Speed and look forward to learning
more of her concepts as well.

However it is vital not to allow ourselves to become
centered on any one individual. To do so would
bring us out of balance, and therefore threatening
our progress.

Grappling with the issues regarding the nature of
human existence is an amazingly rewarding experience
that can expand our understanding and experience in
ways that will stretch all aspects of life, if we manage to
juggle this aspect of balancing our existing belief
structures and keeping our perspective on those that
we are learning from.

More soon!

Think Universally - Apply Internally

The title of this post is a reworking
of the Green Movement's mantra of:
"Think Globally - Act Locally"

Much has been written, both online and
off about carrying this out in our
efforts to address the crisis that this
planet is in. Considerably less has been
said about this concept in our "spiritual"
development as a species, and as individuals.

Don't get me wrong, Mr Tollle, Mr Chopra
et.al. are addressing this in their own
ways, but implementing this as individuals
takes some thought and occassionally some
interaction with others on their own journeys.

Eckhart Tolle is definitely the most visible
personality currently in the Self-Actualization
"movement". He speaks and writes about the
gradual enlightening of us as a species and it's
implications long term for the very nature of
our existence.

While I can't say I agree with all of his
conclusions, I would agree that something will
fundamentally change as this type of inner
directed progress becomes more and more prevalent.

This conclusion does not ignore the fact that
there is probably just as much written, spoken,
posted and shouted declaring Mr Tolle to be an
AntiChrist as there is in exploring what he
actually has to say. Can you name one single
time when real progress was not met with
opposition if not open hostility and resistance?

And yet we have radio, television, an accurate
globe for our map of the world, as well as a
basic understanding of how we function as an
organism. I say basic, as this whole area of
our "spiritual" side and how it interacts with
our physical selves is still mostly a mystery.

Dont' get me wrong, I see the amazing things
being accomplished in this realm. It is obvious
to me however, that the really cataclysmic type
of advances are all in front of us.

The type of sharing and coaching that is now
being done, such as Mr Tolle's webclass with
Oprah Winfrey makes the journey more accessible
for many, but this is still mostly a solitary
journey. One which will happen for each individual
at a different pace, and in no set order.

This is why I say that it is important to Think
Universally and yet Apply Internally.

If you seek confirmation of what you have been
experiencing on your path, you will more often
than not be frustrated, and in come cases
ridiculed.

Our spiritual selves are definitely in a state
of evolutionary flux. This is true for us whether
we acknowledge it or not. Railing against it is
as fruitless as complaining about the tide. It
will just roll in anyway...

It probably shouldn't surprise me so much that
most of the resistance to this comes from what
passes as "Christianity". The very things that
are shouted down due to "faith in the Bible" can
be directly linked to things that Jesus spoke
and taught about regularly.

On the other hand, the Bible speaks frequently
about the importance of cleanliness, and yet at
one time the "Christian Church" forbade bathing.

Just remember that all or your most important
accomplishments in this arena will occur with
no witnesses. The satisfaction that you draw
from them must also come from within. This is
not to say that they cannot be shared to a
certain extent. Just don't be disappointed if
you are unable to get the magnitude of what you
experienced across. Your accomplishment remains.

And your accomplishment adds to that of us as
a race as well on some level. So continue to
Think Universally but remember that you must
Apply Internally...

Eat a Peach!

Floyd Bogart