Elaine Grundy: looking for Urban Enlightenment

Change your Mind, Change the World

Law of attraction states that whatever you focus on you attract.  People can often mistake this as purely material, “I focus on a red Ferrari”, “I want more money”, “I want to be a size 10” but in fact it is easier to notice how this works in life if you look at it as accessing different levels of awareness.  When you are operating primarily out of fear or anger then you get that coming right back at you, when you operate out of joy or optimism, then you get that vibrating back at you.

Take for example five different days when you walk down a dark alley and you see a homeless man sitting next to a dumpster.  Imagine you have had a particularly fearful day or you are in a very fearful mood – the world seems dark, foreboding and unkind – disaster is lurking at every corner (you just watched the news!).  Walking down this alley is already filling you with unease, you spot the homeless man and notice the likely thoughts running through your mind. “He’s going to mug me” ,“He’s going to rape me”.   Notice the level of stress and anxiety running through your body.  Notice how tense and upset you feel when he reaches out his hand to you.  Likely you turn and run down the street away from him.  Imagine the story you would tell your friends and family about your ‘narrow escape’.

Now imagine you have had a terrible day with people you despise, you are in a rage and you feel like you are about to explode you are so angry.  Same alley, same homeless man.  This time you look at him and what are the thoughts coming to you now – what is the thinking you are now accessing?  “Good for nothing”, “Lazy, incompetent, parasite”.  He reaches his hand out to you.  Do you hit him, kick him – in your mind maybe, if not in reality.  There is violence in your thoughts and violence in your environment.  You can imagine how that life would pan out if you continued to sit in anger day after day.

Next mood, you’ve had a disappointing day, you’re feeling deflated and hopeless.  Overwhelmed and unhappy with life.  Feeling small and insignificant – ‘nothing goes my way’.  You walk down the alley and see the man.  Maybe you burst into tears, see him as a total summary of your life, a sign for how low you’ve also sunk.  He holds out his hand and you just shrug – you feel as poor and hopeless as him, what can you possibly offer him?

Shifting up a gear now, you walk down the alley in an optimistic mood.  Life is good, you feel happy, optimistic and enthused by life.  You feel the universe is kind and loving and you feel very blessed and excited about life.  You see the homeless man, what do you do? Sit next to him and chat awhile, share your lunch with him, share a touch of kindness with him?  He holds out his hand and you give him ten bucks, or fifty.  You smile and it feels good.

Finally, imagine you are in total joy, vibrating in truth and love, empowered.  You walk down the alley, you see the man.  He holds out his hand, don’t you give him everything you have?  Don’t you hold him, hug him, touch him with your love?  You walk out and you have blessed another human being with your love.  You have gone from me me me to service. 

This is the way to change the world, this is the way to make a difference – through your own vibration and not through fear or anger or raging at the world and what it has or hasn’t done for you, to you.  Notice the same man in all these scenarios, just a different you.  This is a microcosm of your life, you react to every single incident in your life based on the level you are vibrating at, what you are feeling and thinking and your filters.  Minute by minute, day by day – your life really shouldn’t be any surprise to you, you created it.

You can change it too by simply focusing on your vibration, how are you feeling today and how do you feel better.  There are so many amazing techniques in both law of attraction and the Work of Byron Katie to help you shift up and up in your energy and in so doing in experiencing a totally new level of life.

Law of Attraction Evening is here!

Many of you are familiar with the success of the book "The Secret" and many of you no doubt have read it and follow some of its precepts.  In this evening I am introducing concepts from the book "Ask and it is Given" by Esther Hicks which includes a crucial component to the LOA mix - the part of emotion.

This evening will provide you with tools to play with and although simple, they will begin to shift you antennae away from what you don't want, and towards what you do want.  This simply recalibration will have a fundamental impact on what begins to show up in your life.

If you have already read and enjoyed Law of Attraction this is an opportunity to practise the concepts and gain a deeper understanding to what the next steps might be,  even if you are a newbie to Law of Attraction concepts, this evening is fun, inspiring and if nothing else, you'll figure out what you would do with $10 million dollars :)  Enough said!

Wednesday September 30th, 7.30-9.30pm, $30
booking@elainegrundy.com

The Power of Intention

Less than two years ago I signed onto a service on tut.com to receive daily ‘inspirational’ emails – I highly recommend it, they are brilliant, uplifting and always give me a giggle.  When signing up, they ask you to put down your dream, and every now and again whatever you wrote pops up in the daily reminder email, cleverly weaved into the text of the message.

When I was signing up I hummed and hahed about what to write, at the time I was newly arrived in Singapore, just started teaching Reiki again and not really thinking about my work with two young children still at home.  But I figured I had nothing to lose so I wrote ‘a flourishing Reiki Centre’, and had a giggle every few months when an email popped into my inbox asking me how I was enjoying my ‘flourishing Reiki Centre’.

Well two years is a long time in terms of Attraction, especially when you are honing and practicing – manifesting becomes speedier and easier with every try.  Two months ago I set the intention to sell What Therapy.com an internet business I had set up to provide directory and information services on Natural Therapists in Singapore.  The day I made the intention public, I found a buyer.  That’s speedy!

Since that day, another email popped into my inbox, reminding me again of my ‘flourishing Reiki Centre’ and this time I was in a position to say ‘YES!’ to that reminder and promptly changed my business name to The Reiki Centre Pte Ltd.  Who knows what will come of this, but now when those reminders pop into my email I’ll be reminded to go into my settings and tick the ‘received’ box and change my dream to the next BIG one :)

Not only has this process reminded me of the effortlessness of attraction, but also the importance of keeping the reminders going and of focusing on the WHAT’s and not the HOWs.  Once the WHAT you want is clear and positive and exciting to you, the HOW takes care of itself in strange and mysterious ways!  Wish me luck on now creating the ‘flourishing’ part!

Looking at Solution Focused Coaching!

I’ve just completed part 1 of the Solution Focus coaching certification run by the Academy of Solution Focused Training and I LOVE the concepts. I have been using them at home and on unsuspecting passer-bys with great success!  The general idea is extremely simple: to start with the end in mind.  Is that a massive revelation to you?  Probably not very earth shattering, but if done very specifically, it is amazing how many of your problems disappear when you start to shine the torch on what you want, as opposed to what you DON’T want.

This is Law of Attraction at its finest, which is another reason I love this type of coaching, it refocuses you on what is working, and pretty much ignores what is not working.  It’s not what we’re used to, and not what feels particularly natural, but when you persevere, its remarkable the results that fall out of this type of enquiry.  Take my daughter for example, she’s 5 years old and terrified of bedtimes – she has bad dreams.  So every night she lies with me and panics about all the bad dreams, monsters, and horrid lurking things about to attack her, obviously not a very good way to get to sleep!  She is 100% focused on what she doesn’t want, her language says it all “I don’t want to go to sleep cos I’ll have bad dreams”. I don’t like bedtime because I’ll have bad dreams”, I don’t want to have bad dreams anymore!”  Is all I get when I use general questions on her like ‘what’s the matter?’, ‘what’s the problem’, ‘what do you want?’. 

So with my Solution Focus hat on I ask her the Goal-focused question which is ‘what do you want instead?’  She pauses and then says, “I want to dream about Princesses!”  ‘What else?’ I ask her, “Fairies!  And rainbows, and flowers, and unicorns…”  And so we go on, and very soon she is fast asleep with a big smile on her face. 

So simple = too simple?  Try it on anything, any problem you are struggling with, ask yourself these few easy questions:

1.   What do you want instead?

2.   How will you know when you have what you want?

3.   How will things be different for you?

4.   What actions will you be taking that you are not taking at the moment?

Here’s a recent example from a client of mine:

Problem “I look at things so negatively, I always start to worry about things that haven’t even happened yet and probably won’t, it’s so draining -  I can’t sleep at night, I want to stop all this!  I don’t want to worry anymore.”

1.   What do you want instead?

I want to be happy; I want to be positive about life.

2.   How will you know when you have what you want?

I’ll wake up after a good night’s sleep with a smile on my face, I’ll look forward to getting out of bed and starting my day, I’ll be excited about my day and what I have to do.  I’ll feel enthusiastic but peaceful.

3.   How will things be different for you and your loved ones around you?

Oh that’s easy, I’d be much more pleasant to be with!  I’d be smiling more and have more time for my family, more time for myself, at the moment I just lurch from crisis to crisis.  I’d be calm, more focused – the smiling is a big one!

4.   What actions will you be taking that you are not taking at the moment?

I’d definitely be taking better care of myself, my diet and probably doing more exercise – that always makes me feel great.  I’ll have all my tasks organized so that I know what I have to do in the day instead of muddling through like I do at the moment, I’d probably actually have a planned schedule instead of this chaotic mess I have right now!  I’d make sure I have some treats planned in my week to look forward to, like a spa treat or meeting friends for lunch – that’s an obvious thing that would start my day well….

Amazing, just by gaining more clarity on what you actually want, the steps for getting there also become really clear.  After all, we all know what we need to be doing; we just get distracted by shining the torch in the wrong direction, often missing the obvious solutions sitting right under our noses.

What is after the Law of Attraction?

I’ve been a massive fan of Law of Attraction for several years, but I have to admit…I think I’m outgrowing it.  Yup, it’s a great tool, but it’s only that – a tool.  And once you’ve reached a certain level of understanding then this tool can become a hindrance for growth to the next level.

When I first came across LOA I was in a pretty grim place emotionally, I thought my life sucked and I thought I sucked even harder.  I seemed to find myself in this mind space that I hadn’t been in since I was an angst ridden teenager, and it was really really uncomfortable.  LOA came along at just the right time and within a very short period of time I pulled my socks up and learnt how to deal with the negativity and how to shift it to positivity, and boy!  did it make a difference to my quality of life.

Now I’ve been cruising for several years in the high emotional contentment/ happy end of the scale and its really really cool but I am now wondering if there is even more to squeeze out of life and also asking myself, ok I know what Happy feels like, so how about Bliss? Joy? Peace?  And in this arena, in my humble opinion, LOA needs to give way to the next tool…

Law of Attraction in a nutshell says ‘what you think, you get’.  So the ‘angst teenager’ phase was thinking extremely destructive thoughts like ‘I really suck at this’, ‘I can’t do…’, ‘I feel tired/terrible/sad/overwhelmed/angry/frustrated at…’ and so hey presto, my life looked exactly like that!  Now in my ‘I’m happy’ phase of life I think things like ‘wow I can really manifest whatever I like’, ‘gosh how cool is life right now’, ‘everything I need is right here, right now’, and hey presto this is what my life looks like right now.  However, the crux of Law of Attraction still revolves around thoughts and beliefs – ie the better you think your life is, the better it actually gets.  You can access ‘happy’ thoughts via a constant stream of corrections and checking and also through physically raising your vibration through practices like Reiki (that’s another blog!). 

Frankly, it can be quite exhausting and as a result it can have varying effects as you yoyo from happy to doubtful to happy again.  Especially when inundated by negative influences from every angle, every day.

So how do you rise above the ‘thinking’ vibration and access the deep peace that resides underneath the monkey mind?  Is it possible to circumnavigate this process completely? 

I think so; by questioning the basis of each thought as it comes in.  Ouch!  Isn’t that even more exhausting?  Actually it’s no more exhausting or disciplined then checking whether your thought is positive or negative, but instead of replacing it with yet another thought, you disengage from the thoughts one by one until they have no impact on you anymore (or at least that’s the theory!).

The result is that you live more in the present and less in your head.  For example the thought ‘I am tired’ in Law of attraction speak would become ‘I am still coping fine’ to ‘I am ok’ to ‘actually I have more energy than yesterday’ to ‘every day I feel a bit better’ to ‘I have more and more energy coming to me’…etc until you get to ‘I am vibrant’ or whatever outcome you are seeking.  But the point is, you are still operating out of your head – you are actually limited by what you can think of, what is the top of your scale that you can reach for.  Can you believe the thought ‘I am intoxicated with bliss’?  Your mind actually becomes a hindrance once you have reached the top echelons of your imagination.

If we circumnavigate beliefs and thoughts we question them as they arise – so the thought ‘I am tired’ gets questioned.  I go inside and feel my body, I connect with my heart, I ask all my cells, I sit quietly and try to reach inside as deep as I can go, I ask my breath…”Is it true, am I tired, right here, right now?” And, if I sit quietly enough, I reach a place under the thought which laughs at me and say “Are you kidding me?  You are 100% fine, can't you feel the pulse of the Universe driving your breath?!” (my innards have a fairly weird sense of humour).  The great thing is, the next time I think the thought ‘I am tired’ I start laughing and it flips all on its own.  One down, 100,000 to go….

To reach beyond your imagination, to reach beyond your mind requires dropping beliefs and thoughts so that you can actually feel and experience beyond the mind, to the spirit or soul or whatever you believe to be ‘greater than mind’.  There are several tools for disengaging with limiting beliefs, the Sedona method designed by Hale Dwoskin is a good, and Byron Katie’s enquiry is another excellent system. Of course Reiki and meditation and other systems designed to get you into Alpha state give you a direct experience of what is 'beyond mind' so that too is very helpful in connecting you with source.  Combining several systems is always my route of choice!

I’ll be going through the Katie Enquiry system on Wed 27^th from 7.30-9.30pm at the Studio in River Valley, so hope this entices you to attend and test drive it for yourself!

Power vs Force, Recallibrating Thoughts vs Controlling Them

I picked up the book "Power vs. Force" by David Hawkins, MD PhD, to read again a few weeks ago, and was blown away by the 'newness' of the information.  It was as if I had never read it before (this is the THIRD time I have read this book).  This revelation alone is prompting me to go back over my bookshelf and pull out other books I read over a decade ago to reread them too!

Of course it makes perfect sense that this book comes at me from a totally new direction, after all the book is all about the 'levels of consciousness', so it goes without saying that as I progress and grow, so my level of consciousness also changes and I have access to a totally new level of understanding.

At my last Reiki class we had a lively discussion around thoughts, the question was 'how do we control our thoughts'.  According to Hawkins and also new scientists such as Rupert Sheldrake (http://www.sheldrake.org/homepage.html) thoughts are actually always present in the universe - a bit like the entire internet and millions of mobile phone conversations are continuously drifting past and through our heads - the only difference between thoughts and mobile phone sound waves, is that we cannot consciously tune in to mobile phone sound waves.  However, the idea is the same.  Depending on what 'frequency' we are vibrating at, we will be able to tune in to different 'packets' of thoughts.  If you think of a time when you were joyful and happy and felt on top of the world, it would have been very difficult for you to have accessed an abundant number of depressing or morbid thoughts, same goes if you are feeling miserable and depressed - the higher and more joyful thought forms are out of your range.

The way to 'control your thoughts' is really to work on shifting your vibrational level so that happy thoughts automatically get accessed.  It is actually impossible to control your thoughts, because they are not technically yours.  However if you focus on feeling good and doing things that make you feel good, the appropriate thoughts will follow.  Try it next time you are feeling low, go and do something (anything) that raises your vibration (ie something that is good for you not reaching for the double chocolate muffin!), go for a walk barefoot, drink a veggie juice or herbal tea, do 5 mins of deep breathing and just watch your thoughts shift gear.

Hawkins' 'level of consciousness' chart is uncannily similar to Abrahams Hicks (speaker on the Law of Attraction) scale of Emotional Guidance Scale and as with Abrahams; Hawkins recommends focusing not on the top level, but on moving up the scale one step at a time.  For example, if you are near the bottom, and suffering from depression, deep rage or permanent frustration, trying to reach for total joy and bliss is not only unrealistic, but also mildly ridiculous (and your brain knows it).  So when in depression, try some anger instead.  At least anger has an action component to it which means your energy is beginning to move out of the soporific inertness of depression.  Any movement, even angry movement, is good at this point.

Of course once you get to the next level your focus is then to move to the next and the next so that very quickly you find yourself climbing out of the negative vibrations altogether and into the positive emotions and therefore the positive thoughts.

Can you do it the other way?  Can you focus on positive thinking and automatically shift your entire level upwards?  Well yes you can as many positive thinking philosophies and trainings attest.  This is because it is all linked, but you cannot reach from 'I hate my life what's the point of even trying' to 'I love my life and I live in joy' in a single bound.  Again it is a matter of reaching for a thought at the top end of your spectrum (perhaps 'I hate my life and I am need to change it') and from this top end of the spectrum you can then reach for the bottom end of the spectrum of the next level eg 'my life could be better, I need to do something about it'.

A double pronged approach is obviously the fastest for change to become permanent - watching your thoughts and reaching for a better one, and watching your emotions and shifting to a better one.  It does all take work, you need to be vigilant, disciplined and willing to do the work in order to see results.  Seems pretty obviously but amazing how many of us are still happier to blame it all on 'out there'.

That's just another low vibration belief! 

This video is long, but extremely interesting!  Its Sheldrake explaining his theories in person:

Choose Freedom over Righteousness

Ever wonder why some people react to outside influences so differently to you? Ever wish you could just 'relax' and 'be yourself'? Do you sometimes even wonder who that 'yourself' is?

Over our lives we become indoctrinated with beliefs from birth - we listen to the opinions of others, we take on our parents worries and fears, we belief what they say when they say 'the world is not safe', 'money doesn't grow on trees', 'cake makes you fat'. We go to school and we believe what our teachers say when they say 'you need to work on your weaknesses', 'without hard work you will never amount to anything', 'you are bad at maths'. Then we listen to our friends, our peers, our bosses, the media, the government, our culture, our religion....and we wonder why we end up with no clue what we really believe, or how we really feel about things.

The great news is that, actually, we do know exactly how we feel about something. We have in our bodies an early warning system, and that's called 'stress'. When we align with beliefs and goals that are in flow with our being, we feel happy and centred. And when we misalign, we feel stressed. Simple.

This workshop is also very simple, we go through and dissect our beliefs, we dig and find out what our limiting beliefs are (be prepared for some surprises) and we learn an easy Four step process of enquiry (from Byron Katie) for eliminating them, one by one.

The morning is about discovery, uncovery (;)) and recovery. By the end of it you will feel more freedom, less stress, more control, less fear, more peace, less frustration, more centredness, less chaos, more happiness, less anger. Join us for an extreme make-over!

Who should come:
• Anyone who feels stressed, angry, frustrated, irritated or anxious!
• Anyone who wants to discover what is holding them back in life.
• Anyone who would like to feel true freedom.

Wednesday 27th May, 7.30-9.30pm, $30
booking@elainegrundy.com
282D River Valley Rd

Read also the related post What is After Law of Attraction?

Writing your 'Ideal Scene'

Several years ago I was on a year long Law of Attraction course with Eva Gregory, Attraction Coach Extraordinaire.  I learnt lots of fantastic tips from her and the rest of my year long coaches but my favourite is the 'Ideal Scene'.

Its so simple and so effective.  The first time I wrote this I was living in Long Island, New York.  To be honest I wasn't in a very good space mentally, physically or emotionally.  I had spent the past 3 years at home with my two babies, and was exhausted, and certainly not in flow.  It was a desperate lurch to get myself back into the groove and out of the funk I had allowed myself to sink into, so I had an 'all or nothing' approach to it, and with hindsight I think that's why the first year was so phenomenal for me - I had a huge list of things I wanted to turn around including the continent I lived in, the work I was doing, my relationship with my kids, my husband, myself, my diet and well-being, my emotional state, my community....a pretty long list!

So I just went for it, I figured, I have nothing to loose - its only paper and ink :)

What you do is write the date a year ahead at the top of the page, ie Jan 1st 2010, then you begin "What an incredible year its been!..." or something similar.  Then you write about all the different aspects of your life that you would like to see change, it could be your 'perfect home', your 'perfect relationship' or your 'perfect job' and ideally should cover all aspects of your life that are important to you - run into several pages and make it as rich and juicy and exciting as you dare!

Here's the synopsis of how much stretch I put into mine: (bear in mind I was living in the USA at the time I wrote this and we were settled in a home we owned, my husband was working for a multi-national, and Singapore was nowhere near our discussion list, neither was leaving the US)

1. I wanted to live in Singapore
2. I wanted to celebrate my 40th birthday in Bali with ALL my family, and siblings
3. I wanted to be teaching regularly again
4. I wanted to be doing something worthwhile with my brain again
5. and a whole bunch of personal emotional and relationship balance stuff.

In one year, I achieved all that.  Some aspects were different to what I had imagined, and some took slightly more than a year to actualize, but in all cases I saw massive progress.  So you can see why I now do this every year!

I think part of the magic is in focusing yourself on what you want, and being honest about what aspects of your life are far from ideal.  For example, if you write 'I had a wonderfully nurturing year with my husband and our relationship just grows from strength to strength' and you choke on your tea as you write this - then you know you have some work in this area!  The same goes for anything you write, 'my job fulfills and excites me, I created so much value this year with my projects and connections with my team that my boss gave me a substantial raise! I can't wait to see what this year holds for me'...etc.  Just go for it, whatever makes you excited, passionate, whatever would make you deeply fulfilled and happy, get it all down on paper and create some energy around it.

Eva asked us to be very specific, eg, my boss gave me a raise of $20,000! but I have to say that personally I find such specifics limiting, I prefer words like 'huge' or 'substantial' or 'bigger than I could imagine!'  I also focus more on the kind of feelings I want, rather than the type of 'behaviour' I want, eg. I would prefer to write "my children and I continue to develop a loving and fulfilling relationship based on deep respect for each other" as it helps to be my guiding light - when I am shouting at my kids to 'hurry up' I can do a quick check, is this 'loving' or 'fulfilling' or 'respectful'?  This is much more effective at changing behaviour then writing 'my children are incredible, they are so polite and obedient all the time' which sort of sets you up for failure right there and then :)

Once you have your Ideal Scene,then just move towards it, one step at a time, you'll be amazed at what you can achieve in a year!

Law of Attraction - how to get more of what you want!

I just completed a 'Dreams Alive' course in collaboration with ILC and was struck again by how easy - yet how hard - applying the Law of Attraction really is. In essence it is the simplest thing in the world – ASK for what you want, give your ATTENTION to it, ALLOW it to come to you. What could be easier?! The difficulty is in every step – the difficulty is in asking correctly, giving it the correct attention, and finally allowing it fully and without reservations.

1. Let’s take the asking bit. Firstly most of us ask for what we DON’T want:

• I don’t want to be in debt! should be I want to be prosperous!
• I want to lose weight should be I want to be slim
• I don’t want this illness should be I want to be in perfect health

Often we make the mistake of focusing on what we don’t want, and unfortunately, with the Law of Attraction, this just guarantees we get more of it! The more we don’t want to be in debt, the more energy and thought we give to the idea of being in debt – the more debt we get! Yikes!! The more we focus on our weight, the more attention and thought we give to our weight – the more weight we get!! Etc. So the first difficulty with getting what you want, is actually knowing what it is you want, then asking for it in a positive way.

2. Giving what you want your full, positive, highly attractive attention! Here’s the stumbling block for many and the embedded Abrahams-Hicks video if a superb example of this. Most of us focus on the negative, we focus on the lack of what we haven’t got and we rarely spend time daydreaming about how fabulous it will be when we have it.

Let’s say we want peace and contentment – yet most of the time we focus on the fact we are so stressed and out of balance. Law of Attraction will keep giving us what we focus on, so we will get even more stress and imbalance. Focusing on what you want means spending time ‘practicing’ peace and contentment. The more you practice, the better you get, the better you get, the more you get! It seems so obvious (which is why I said it is SO simple, yet so hard) but to us it seems mildly ridiculous to pretend something we are not. All the experts agree however, the more you practice something, the better you become. 5 minutes a day practicing peace and contentment soon turns into 10 into 20 etc. Soon you life may still be in total chaos, yet you will remain in peace – law of attraction in action!

3. Finally, allowing. Why is this so hard? Well, think about what you truly want, deep in your heart – then think – do I really believe 100% that I can a. have it and b. deserve it? You’ll be amazed. Michael Losier author of ‘Law of Attraction’ says the speed of your manifestation ie. How quickly what you want comes into being, is directly related to your level of doubt. If you have zero doubt you can have something it comes to you immediately. If you have some doubt if you can have something, it may take a while. If you have 100% doubt you can have something, you never will.

Personally I think this is the key to using Law of Attraction – remove all doubt, and you will manifest immediately. However, as this is a stretch for most of us the great thing is, by making small changes in our use of words and our thoughts we can make big changes in the way we attract good things into our lives.

If you’d like to know more, let me know, I run courses on this and more to help you unlock your flow and reach your dreams!  Please also visit www.youtube.com/whattherapy for a favourites list of other great videos!

The Answer by John Assaraf & Murray Smith

I picked up this book last weekend and read it in about 2 sittings.  It was a REALLY interesting read and I especially liked the way Assaraf used his knowledge of the science of the brain to bring together the esoteric ‘Secret of the Law of Attraction’ and how the brain actually functions.

Of course I especially liked it because it’s what I’ve been saying for years

“You’ve heard the old expression “I’ll believe it when I see it.” But that’s not really how it is.  The truth is more like this: You’ll see it when you believe it.  In a very real, concrete sense, your beliefs don’t simply reflect your reality, they create your reality.”

He then goes on to very convincingly tell you exactly why the Law of Attraction is so real, and so effective.  But what I liked most was the continual call to ACTION.  I like this because I’ve seen this so many times with people looking to achieve their goals and dreams – a whole lot of day-dreaming, not a lot of action.  People come to Reiki and they are so happy because it’s such an easy thing to learn, but then so unhappy because they have to spend an hour a day, so they don’t do anything, and they wonder why they get zero results.

For me, in Reiki and in anything you want to achieve in life – the first and foremost action is to DREAM big and extend your dreaming above and beyond yourself – what my brother Roger calls the Law of Expansion.  From this very real yet imaginary world view you then need to take daily and consistent ACTION on a physical level.    It’s a bit like a mountaineer – you ask any top climber and they will tell you they have climbed the mountain 1,000 times in their dreams, going through the visioning every day until it becomes so real it’s as if they’ve already done it.  But the reality is – they HAVEN’T done it, of course you know that.  They actually have to go out and put one foot in front of the other, AND they have to train daily on and off the mountain.  Attraction and Action, hand in hand.

I also loved the FIVE MUSTS of major success; very very true:

1. You must find something that stirs your soul.
2. You must become excellent at it.
3. You must recondition your mind to believe you can have it and achieve it.
4. You must understand how to make money at it.

You must take daily action When I look at this list I have to agree whole heartedly – if anyone was doing all these things, there is no way they WOULDN’T be successful.  To me it would be a foregone conclusion because I truly believe whatever we can dream, we can achieve.