Archive for July, 2006
Monday, July 31st, 2006
The other day I stumbled onto a frugal living website. I’ve always had a leaning toward reusing, recycling, and reducing waste wherever possible. I’m not fanatical about it, I just try to do my small part here and there where I can.
As I browsed articles on this site, I started thinking about the Law of Attraction again. Isn’t frugal living kind of in opposition to the Law of Attraction in some ways?
Think about it. If we’re always focusing on how NOT to spend money, guess what we’ll start having less of? Money! Personally, I’ve never been one to bargain shop or clip coupons. Not because I don’t believe it’s possible to save money that way, but because it takes too much of my time. I’d rather pay more for something if it’s more convenient or gives me more of my most precious commodity - time.
As far as the Law of Attraction goes, shouldn’t we be focusing on attracting/creating more money so we don’t HAVE to live so frugally?
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that we can’t reduce waste and protect our planet’s resources if we practice the Law of Attraction. We can, and we should! There’s nothing wrong with recycling, or keeping your own garden, or using solar power to heat your house (actually I love that idea!). We should certainly keep a household budget and a savings account, make long-term investments for our future, and so on. In fact, the savings and investments aspect is wonderfully in line with the Law of Attraction because “like attracts like.” If we save money, that money attracts more money. That’s a good thing.
I’m referring more to the “lack mind-set” of frugal living rather than the activities themselves. The belief that there “isn’t enough” so we have to be careful how we use our limited resources.
Why should we focus on getting by with less when we could be attracting more and eliminate the struggle altogether? Not just for ourselves either, because the more we have, the more we can help those in need.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this one! 
Wendy
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Diane wrote to me with some awesome questions about the Law of Attraction, and asked if I would give my view on them. Keep in mind that I’m still learning along with the rest of you, so I’ll answer based on the knowledge or insights I think I have so far. 
Does one bad day ruin all our hard work?
“Does one bad day, from either being in pain or wanting to have a pity party (I’m not having a pity party, but am in pain today and cannot get my thoughts to vibrate more lightly) ruin days/weeks/years worth of vibration work? In order words, do we have to start fresh the next day, all over, or do negative thoughts/emotions take a while to deplete the energy work we’ve built up around us? I seem to find conflicting info on this.”
That is a great question! No, I don’t think one bad day can ruin the progress we’ve made. From my own experiences and the information I’ve read on this, it takes time to “build up” the energy one way or another. As much as I do believe that we have control over our thoughts, I also think it’s unrealistic to expect ourselves to feel joyful and happy ALL the time. Sure, we should strive for that, but if we have a bad day, or we’re in pain, we should acknowledge that and be okay with it rather than beating ourselves up for not being perfect enough, etc.
Probably the best and healthiest approach to a situation like this is to be gentle on ourselves. We could have a nice little talk with ourselves and say, “Okay, I don’t feel well, and my day seems to be going downhill no matter what I do, but it’s okay. It won’t be like this forever, so I’m just going to do the best I can and tomorrow will be much better. I still choose to attract more positive experiences into my life, even if it takes awhile for them to show up.”
I think taking a positive outlook like that DESPITE the negative stuff can be much more powerful than denying our feelings or trying to run away from them without dealing with them.
Chemically-Induced Altered States
“Any idea why when I take my pain medication it puts me in a higher vibration feeling, an altered state sort of like meditation? I wonder what Abraham would have to say about that.”
Hmmm! Very good question. I haven’t gotten too far reading Ask and It Is Given, so I can’t say for sure what Abraham would say about chemically-induced altered states. Somehow, I don’t think it would be good. Don’t get me wrong, you should take the medication if you need it for pain, obviously! But taking it just for the altered state I think achieves the opposite effect we’re going for, and here’s why I think that.
Any type of mood-altering or mind-altering substance (like alcohol, drugs, caffeine, sugar, nicotene, etc.) disconnects us from our higher self. It puts us into an altered state that *seems* like the state we achieve through meditation, but it’s an illusion because we’re partially shut down or tuned out from our inner wisdom. The drug works by numbing our pain sensors so we feel better, but it’s not a NATURAL state of well-being.
Having said that, I do know that many ancient cultures (and even some modern ones) used mood-altering and mind-altering substances (like mushrooms or various herbs) to attain altered states. It was believed that this helped to remove inhibitions and fears, and elevate them to a heightened spiritual state. I can believe this works, I’m just not convinced that it’s necessary or healthy if done too much, simply because of the effect these substances have on our physical bodies.
It’s a complex situation, for sure. Maybe there are benefits that I’m not aware of, but my gut says we can develop a much clearer and stable spiritual connection through meditation and mind-strengthening alone! But others may feel differently on the subject.
Wendy
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Lately I’ve been trying to explore the key factors of the Law of Attraction in more detail, and today I found myself thinking about expectations and how powerful they are.
Why are they powerful? Remember that our thoughts are simply a form of energy, and all energy gives off a certain vibration or frequency. It’s long been believed that positive thoughts have a higher vibrational frequency than negative thoughts. Try a little experiment to prove this to yourself by repeating different statements aloud. A positive statement like, “I feel so wonderful today!” makes you feel lighthearted and happy, even if you didn’t feel that way beforehand. A negative statement such as, “I’m really struggling today” makes you feel tired and weighed down.
Expectations are simply unspoken thoughts of a certain frequency. If we hold negative expectations, we give off a lower level of frequency than if we hold positive expectations. And as I’ve written about many times before, like attracts like! So, in a very real sense, our expectations are powerful enough to attract corresponding circumstances into our lives.
Hmmm, it really makes you think, doesn’t it? How many times have you set new goals or went after something you wanted, but deep in your heart you doubted you would be successful? How many times have you said, “With my luck, it will all fall apart” and it did?
This is one way we get ourselves stuck in a rut of negativity. We hold negative expectations, have negative experiences, which only seems to reinforce our expectation that things will go wrong, which makes more things go wrong, etc.
It takes a leap of faith at the beginning, but we can learn to hold positive expectations in any situation. We can choose to say, “I don’t know exactly how, but everything will work out wonderfully.” This will begin to attract better circumstances into our lives.
However, it’s NOT an instant thing. And here’s where the tricky part comes in. Because it takes time for our expectations to attract what we really want, we might be tempted to go back to our negative thought processes when it doesn’t work the first few times. It would be really easy to say, “See? I knew that positive thinking stuff was a crock.” And because we believe it’s a crock, it does become a crock. And that’s the most important point of this post: We create the reality that reinforces our beliefs.
Change your beliefs (expectations), and you change your reality. There’s your heavy thought for this nice Wednesday afternoon.
Wendy
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
Once in awhile, a film comes along that opens your eyes in powerful ways. For me, the most recent movie to do this was “Cinderella Man.” If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll give a quick overview without giving away anything important to the story line.
James J. Braddock was a boxer in the 1920’s and 1930’s, during the Great Depression. With employment opportunities so limited during that era, boxing was the primary means for Mr. Braddock to provide for his wife and three children. But even that was touch and go, and he had several difficult years just struggling to survive.
After a streak of bad luck, he was given a second chance to make a comeback, and he took full advantage of it, fighting with all he had. Yet, he still had moments when he faltered, when his confidence was threatened, and he had to remember exactly what he was fighting for.
During one poignant scene in the film, Braddock took a hard punch in the head and he was stunned for a few seconds. His strength began to wane, and he was on the verge of surrendering to his opponent — when suddenly he saw images in his mind of his wife and children going hungry, having no money to pay the bills, and he knew that losing wasn’t an option. He gathered his strength and will, and won the fight.
Later, during a press conference, a reporter asked him what changed his streak of bad luck and made his comeback so strong. James said softly, “This time I know what I’m fighting for.” When the reporter inquired about what that was, James said, “milk.” His family’s survival was a powerful motivator for him, as it would be for most of us.
This movie was incredibly inspiring for many reasons, but one major thing kept jumping out at me, and that’s the importance of having something worth fighting for. Isn’t it true that a certain level of comfort breeds complacency, while hardship ignites a fighting spirit?
Most of us are not fighting against a live opponent in the ring or economic depression. But our battles are still very real. The problem is that our opponents are less visible than Braddock’s were. Instead of a man with gloves, we fight against our fear, our doubts, our temptation to give up when it gets too hard. But if we have a strong goal in mind, something that’s vitally important to us, we will continue to fight for it. Giving up is simply not an option.
Think about the goals you’ve had in the past - the ones you didn’t achieve. Be honest with yourself about why you didn’t achieve them. Did you give up because you thought the battle was hopeless, or were those goals just not important enough to you?
I know that some of you still hold your unrealized dreams close to your heart. You haven’t totally given up on them, but you’re no longer actively working toward them. All I want to ask you is: are they worth fighting for? Even if the fight takes months, years, decades?
If you can answer yes to that question, I urge you to take up the battle again. Don’t worry about “how” you’ll achieve your goals, no matter how impossible they may seem. Just lace up those gloves and dance into the ring, letting your determination glow hot and bright. It just might be the key that unlocks the door to the future you dream of.
Wendy
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