I just had to share this because it’s a perfect demonstration of the power of visualization!
I mentioned recently that I’m in the process of attracting some pretty big things into my life (bigger than I’ve attempted before, anyway), and one of those things is a large sum of money to be used for specific purposes.
One of the things I’ve been doing religiously for the past couple of weeks is visualizing money coming to me in fun, unexpected ways - like a lottery win, among other things.
There are a lot of opposing viewpoints on whether it’s possible to use the Law of Attraction to win the lottery. Some people say you can’t do it because that would be restricting the universe on “how” abundance will come into your life. Other people believe that you can manifest a lottery win as easily as anything else. My own viewpoint falls in between those two, but I’ll go into that in a moment.
First, back to my story. The most I’ve ever won in the lottery was $100, about 18 years ago. My grandmother bought me an instant scratch ticket for my birthday, and it was a $100 winner. Since that time, I’ve won only small amounts here and there, anywhere from $1.00 to $15.00 at a time. (In fact, I laugh about that because somewhere along the way I developed a belief that “I never win much on lottery tickets…” — it’s not too surprising that I rarely won more than a few bucks at a time then! )
WELL, ever since I set this new intention to attract a larger sum into my life a couple weeks ago, I’ve been visualizing myself winning a large sum of money in the lottery. Sometimes I visualize winning a big jackpot in the twice weekly drawings, and sometimes I see myself winning on a scratch ticket. I don’t focus on the dollar amount specifically, I just see myself whooping and hollering with excitement as I win, and get myself into that feeling place of excitement and joy. (It’s a ton of fun, try it! )
Yesterday when I stopped at the store, I felt drawn to a specific scratch ticket that was hanging on the rack behind the clerk. It cost $10, but I remembered that I had a $5.00 winner in my purse from the last time I bought tickets. So I decided “what the heck,” and I turned in my $5 ticket plus another $5 and bought the ticket that was calling my name. YES, it was a winner! I started scratching it when I got home, and was thrilled to see I had won $50.00!
But I wasn’t done scratching yet. I kept going and revealed another spot that was a $50.00 winner. Then another. Then ANOTHER!
Yes, this ticket was a $200.00 winner! That’s less than the full amount I’m in the process of attracting - but I was overjoyed because this ticket was confirmation that my visualizations are WORKING. I swear, it felt like the universe was sending me a Happy Gram to keep me focused until the full amount manifests - and I know it will!
So if you have ever doubted that it’s possible to attract a lottery win, take this as direct confirmation that it IS POSSIBLE.
However, I want to point out a couple of important things here:
1) First, I’m not ONLY visualizing money coming to me through the lottery. I’m not “stuck” on the lottery alone, and I think that’s very important.
Sometimes we get it into our heads that there is only one way to accomplish something, when the universe actually has limitless resources to draw on. So, even though I won this smaller amount, it doesn’t mean that the bigger sum will come through the lottery too. It could, but it might also come in other ways. In fact, it might come in smaller increments the whole way! Anything is possible.
So, if you want to visualize winning the lottery, it’s okay to do that - but also visualize other possibilities, and be OPEN to other possibilities, even if you can’t imagine what they might be. In addition to lottery wins, I’ve been visualizing my business income increasing, unexpected gifts and opportunities coming my way, and more. But I don’t get STUCK on any one way. Do the same thing and you’ll be open to many, many possibilities!
2) Also, I think it’s VERY IMPORTANT to enter into the visualizations with the right intent. In this recent post, I shared a little bit about what Abraham says about the power of pure thought vs. physical action.
If you watched the video, you may also remember them saying: “Sometimes our friends will say, ‘Well here I stand, while this is where I would rather stand . . . oh, and Abraham has given us a process so that we can get from here to over here. I’m going to offer this visualization to get from here to over here.’ And what happens is, as you are offering any process to get from here to here, what happens is, you’re vibrating in both places. So you can’t move from where you are; nothing changes for you. So you can make much faster progress if you say, ‘I’m offering this visualization not to get from here to over here, but I’m offering this visualization for the pleasure of the visualization…’”
If you missed that, go back and watch the video again - it’s a powerful insight! I know in the past I’ve caught myself trying to . . . how do I say it - PUSH things to happen by infusing my visualizations with a lot of energy and intention. But when you do that from a standpoint of trying to DRAW something to you, you’re also reaffirming that you don’t yet have it!
In fact, remember what Dr. Joe Vitale said in the Secret movie? When you do visualization right, it’s such a HOLOGRAPHIC experience that you feel like you don’t even need what you’re trying to attract, because you feel like you ALREADY HAVE IT.
That’s the type of focus your visualizations need to have if they don’t already! That’s what I’ve been doing - just creating really fun, uplifting “mind movies” of myself winning money in the lottery, among other things. And it’s working. I’m seeing lots of evidence that I’m shifting into an ever-higher state of abundance and wealth attraction, and it’s totally effortless.
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So YES, let this experience stand as a testimony that it IS possible to win the lottery by using the Law of Attraction. Of course, that will depend on whether YOU think it’s possible for yourself too.
P.S. I’ll let you know when I hit the big jackpot!
I finally broke down today and installed SPAM Karma on this blog. I had to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress anyway, so I figured why not try something new and pull my hair out for a few more hours?
But surprise, surprise - it was a SNAP to install! Bless your heart, Dave the SPAM Karma King! Come to think of it, upgrading Wordpress was a SNAP too. Maybe I’m finally getting to be more technical in my old age….hmmm?
Anyway, SPAM Karma is supposed to run quietly in the background and eat up automated blog SPAM (you can see the number of SPAMs eaten at the bottom of the page! ) — BUT please let me know if any of you experience problems posting comments. I only briefly skipped through the settings and they looked okay, but I might have to adjust them as I go along. So just drop an email (see my About page in the right column) if you have trouble.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some more heavy duty blog updating to do….*flexing fingers and cracking knuckles with a chip on her shoulder…* Why am I so jokey on a Tuesday? No ideas. LOL
I recently purchased an audio CD from Abraham-Hicks that is awesome! It’s on Money & Manifestation, and there was one part in particular that I found fascinating! And that is the concept of pure thought vs. action hours.
On the recording, a seminar participant asked Abraham about something she’s trying to create in her life, but she isn’t able to take much action on it because she’s got a lot of responsibilities (kids and whatnot). So she feels like she’s not getting where she wants to be fast enough.
In part of Abraham’s response, they said, “People will say to us, ‘I can’t just quit my job and go sit on the beach and meditate. Or I can’t stop what I’m doing and just imagine. I have children to feed or dishes to wash or things to do.’ And we say, we are not encouraging you to stop the action part of your life. We are encouraging that you act just a little bit less and that you envision just a little bit more.”
Then they went on to explain how much power there is in pure thought vs. the equivalent amount of action hours you would have to take to achieve the same burst of energy. It’s mind blowing!
Basically, 17 seconds of pure thought (meaning, no contradicting thoughts interrupting) is equivalent to 2000 action hours. So the results you could achieve by taking 2000 hours of focused action, you can also achieve with 17 seconds of pure thought.
But it gets better! Because energy attracts like energy, that first 17 seconds of pure thought will attract another thought of the same vibrational equivalent. And when those two thoughts come together, there is an explosion of energy that multiplies the effect times 10.
Equivalent = 20,000 action hours. The next 17 seconds, times 10 again = 200,000 action hours. On and on it goes!
Can you see why this is so powerful?
I’ve never heard this before. I don’t think it’s mentioned in the two Abraham books I have - or if it is, I completely missed it.
But it clears up something for me regarding physical action vs. visualization.
For most of my life I only knew how to create results through taking physical action. (Like most of us, I imagine!) I’d get an idea about something, work my butt off, and make it happen through sheer determination. And yes, I achieved some decent results doing that . . . sometimes.
Unfortunately, more often than not I would feel like I was on a treadmill. Taking action after action and not really getting where I wanted to be. And it’s so clear to me why! I was taking constant action, but at the same time I was emitting a contradictory vibration that prevented my desires from being manifested.
But THIS is why visualization is so powerful, because of the energy it generates. That doesn’t mean action is never necessary; of course sometimes it is. But the action is a complement to the energy you’ve already released through pure thought (visualization).
Anyway, I browsed around the Abraham-Hicks website this morning to try to find a written transcript of this audio, but I couldn’t find anything. But then I was led to one of their videos on YouTube, and that led me to another video and another - and suddenly I found a clip of that exact recording I just quoted above! Ask and you shall receive.
So here you go. Watch, absorb, and then go visualize your heart out!
Oh boy, I’m in trouble now. I came across a GREAT site for MP3 self-hypnosis downloads: Better Living With Hypnosis.
I was initially looking for some good meditation downloads and found these instead. Decided to try one, and WOW! They are fantastic - very high quality, I’m impressed!
(A few years ago I bought a stop smoking hypnosis CD from Amazon.com, and was pretty disappointed - it sounded like the guy had recorded it in his garage with the leaf-blower going. Not worth the money to say the least!)
The one I got yesterday (for weight loss here) is AWESOME! First, the hypnotist (Steve G. Jones is his name) has a great voice, very soothing and comforting somehow, like you’re being wrapped in a hug.
But what impressed me the most is that the audio quality itself is nice and clear, obviously professionally recorded - and there are other sounds too, like gentle ocean waves and soft music in the background. (At least on the weight loss recording there are; I haven’t checked out the others yet.)
The whole session was around 40 minutes long and I have to tell you, it was a very experiential experience! He walks you through some visualization exercises to help you relax before the hypnotic suggestions and he really kicked my imagination into overdrive! I felt like I was really there; all of my senses were engaged - FANTASTIC experience!
Better still, you can download the MP3 files or have a CD mailed to you. (I just downloaded mine and put it on my MP3 player.)
So if you’re looking for some good meditation(ish) downloads, there you go! He’s got over 100 to choose from!
And by the way, hypnosis can be a POWERFUL tool when it comes to using the Law of Attraction deliberately. It’s designed to help you bypass limiting beliefs, fears and blockages in your subconscious mind - and replace those limiting messages with something more positive and empowering. That means you have less RESISTANCE to the things you’re trying to attract into your life. To quote Martha Stewart, “That’s a good thing!”
So check it out and let me know if you try some, I’d love to hear your experiences! I’ve got more to say on the weight loss thing, but I’m running short on time right now - we’ll pick up with that later.
P.S. HAPPY EARTH DAY! Beyond all the physical actions you can take to honor the earth today, why not also spend a few minutes visualizing a healthy, abundant earth? Send out positive energy to bless the planet and all who inhabit it. A little goes a long way!
When things like this happen to Law of Attraction practitioners, their first response might be, “How am I attracting all of this? I’ve been keeping my thoughts and feelings in alignment with GOOD things, so what’s going on?”
In my experience, this is usually the result of residual negative energy.
Remember that we are always living the residual results of our PAST thoughts, feelings, beliefs and actions. So even if you’ve been “good” with your focus for weeks, it’s still possible to experience some negative things for awhile until that old negative energy plays through. I like to call it a “burning off” of the old to make way for the new!
When I look back through my journals over the past few years, I can see very clear PATTERNS in my life’s manifestations! Here’s what it usually looks like:
1) I start with a negative situation.
2) I set an intention to attract something better.
3) I begin improving my thoughts, feelings and beliefs.
4) Things start to get better and I feel like I’m making progress.
5) Out of the blue, things start to go wrong again - sometimes in very bizarre ways!
Let’s stop here for a moment, because this is a pivotal stage. Depending on how I react to these “things going wrong,” different outcomes will ensue.
6a) If I slip back into my old, negative ways of thinking and feeling in reaction to these negative events, I will continue on a negative slide until I’m right back where I was in the original negative situation.
6b) BUT - if I refuse to invest energy and focus into the new, negative events and continue with positive thoughts, feelings and beliefs, the “bad stuff” eventually plays itself out and dissipates (usually within a few days, or sometimes weeks) - and I am suddenly thrust into MUCH better circumstances, usually through events that seem almost miraculous the way they come into my life.
Has this ever happened to you? I know it does happen to other people, but I don’t see it mentioned a lot. But it’s SO IMPORTANT to understand, especially if you’re new to working with the Law of Attraction.
When things start to go wrong again, it would be easy to think, “This stuff doesn’t work; I’m just wasting my time!” And if you do that, you’ll reverse all the positive energy you’ve sent out toward better circumstances. You need to keep pushing forward with your new, positive ways of thinking and being in order to fully burn off that old, negative residual energy.
How does this residual energy manifest? It can appear in any number of forms, but here are some of the forms I’ve experienced before:
And more - basically there are endless ways this negative energy can come through into your physical world, and sometimes it will happen in more than one way simultaneously! Like your car will break down AND you’ll lose your job around the same time. Or you’ll get sick AND your boss will demand that you put in a large amount of overtime - when you’d rather be home resting! Or your washing machine will break down, followed by your microwave, and your furnace! Yes, this negative residual energy can hit in more than one place at a time and pose a real threat to your new positive state of mind.
However, the important thing is how you REACT to these new, seemingly negative events. If you go back to thinking and feeling negatively, you’ll only exacerbate the problems. But if you can stay emotionally detached and just deal with them the best you can while still keeping your positive focus, the bad stuff will finish burning off and you’ll find yourself moving forward MUCH more quickly and easily!
That’s where I am now. The weird experiences have stopped, my husband was able to fix the brakes on his truck at minimal cost (it was a brake line that cracked and broke open, spilling all the brake fluid out onto the road!), and some wonderful things have been happening that convince me I’m nearly ready to break through to the next level I’ve been focusing on. Soon I’ll be sharing those details with you, but not quite yet!
If you’ve been experiencing some residual negative effects, HOLD TO THE PATH! You’re almost there! As long as you don’t get all freaked out and “emotionally invested” in the negativity, it will pass sooner than you think. Stay positive, stay focused, visualize and believe you already have what you want - and it will come.
In one of Diane’s private emails to me more than a week ago, she mentioned that her husband was due for a big promotion in the next 1-2 years, but “maybe it will come through early or something . . .” She mentioned this very casually, and then we moved on to talk about other possibilities.
WELL - she and her husband recently got the news that it is indeed very likely that his promotion will be happening early!!! Nothing is written in stone yet so they’re just taking it a day at a time, but I was hopping up and down in my chair when she told me that!
Do you see the beauty of the Law of Attraction in this experience? She wasn’t hooked on the possibility as a solution. She didn’t start plotting ways she could make it happen. She just considered the possibility and then let it go and let the universe work out the details. I love that!
One of the most difficult things I’ve had to learn as I’ve begun to master conscious use of the Law of Attraction is LETTING GO.
I admit it; I’ve always been a bit of a control freak. Not just a control freak though - more like a MARTYR! My thoughts always sounded something like this: “It’s all up to me; no one will help me out, I have to help myself. No one else will give this the same attention and focus that I will, so I guess I have to do it myself. Other people are lucky, but not me. I have to work hard to get anywhere in life; it’s a fact I’ve come to accept. Oh, woe is me, woe is me…” LOL I’m joking on some of that, but not really! Overall, those are exactly the type of thoughts I’ve had for a large portion of my life.
And of course, with that type of focus, what do you think I experienced more often than not? Little help from the universe (or anyone else), and the need for me to do everything myself!
Even when I would set intentions and try to attract certain experiences or qualities into my life, I’d try to FORCE them to happen on my own by coming up with an elaborate plan - which almost never worked out the way I hoped.
Ah, but when I started learning how to ALLOW, the universe began working on my behalf. That doesn’t mean I never take action; I definitely do. But I take action when and how I feel PROMPTED to do so. If I don’t feel that inner nudge to move in a certain direction, then I simply wait patiently and KNOW that my desire is being formed and delivered by the universe.
In fact, I’m working on something pretty exciting right now. I’m attracting something that’s bigger than I’ve ever attempted before. I’m not going to say what it is quite yet, but I’ll share the details when it arrives. But this time I’m purposely NOT taking action. I’m visualizing every day, feeling the feelings of having it now, and waiting excitedly to see what the universe will do for me. And over the past couple of days I’ve been getting some really neat synchronicities popping up in my face - almost like the universe is saying, “I got your request and I’m working on it; keep visualizing!” Okey dokey!!!
Anyway, my point is - letting go and allowing should be a VERY big part of anything you try to manifest. You’re not supposed to conceive a desire and then plot and plan possible ways YOU can make it happen on your own. There’s nothing wrong with doing that, really - but then you’re not using the Law of Attraction; you’re using the law of ACTION. Big difference.
P.S. I almost forgot to mention that Diane has other good things happening too! She’s decided to definitely move back to her true love, writing - and she’s already getting offers of jobs and other opportunities. She and I are even going to collaborate on a project very soon. Needless to say, I think she’s moving in the right direction and taking ALL of the right steps to make her lost job seem like a teeny, inconsequential blip on the radar of her life! You go, Diane!
Just wanted to share a fabulous treasure with you! The Secret website has a section of success stories from people who have used the Law of Attraction to change their lives.
The last time I was there they had only a handful of stories, but now they have HUNDREDS! There are stories about people attracting sums of money both big and small, as well as improving or growing their business, relationships, health - even stories about the power of gratitude, successful goal setting, and much more.
Very inspiring! Once I got in there and started reading, I had to forcefully pull myself away. LOL
I was just browsing through some videos at YouTube and saw this one from the Secret. It’s short, but still inspiring - and it goes along with our previous discussion about attracting prosperity, so there you go!
Here’s another one that doesn’t focus on money necessarily, just overall abundance and joy. Very uplifting!
I just had to share this because it’s a perfect demonstration of the power of visualization!
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Anything is possible.
Oh boy, I’m in trouble now. I came across a GREAT site for MP3 self-hypnosis downloads: 
Not worth the money to say the least!)
In my experience, this is usually the result of residual negative energy.
Just wanted to share a fabulous treasure with you! 
