Manifesting with the Law of Attraction

Mental clutter, hyper-mind, head on overdrive — we’ve all been there. Here is some soothing relief. Try these simple suggestions for slowing things down. Your concentration and memory will improve, you will gain greater perspective on your life, and you’ll be able to think more clearly and with less effort.

Learn to relax your mind as you relax your body, to reap the benefits of less stress, and gain a more calm and mindful awareness of the present moment. You will be surprised how easy it can be.

1. Witness your thoughts. No one can stop thinking entirely; it is impossible. If you start trying not to think, you only end up thinking about how to stop thinking! What you can do, however, is to withdraw from your thoughts and become more of an objective spectator.

2. Picture your mind as a blank canvas or a dark sky. Allow your thoughts to come and go, but resist the urge to follow each one. Your brain will eventually slow down and you will feel less pressured.

3. Count. If you find it difficult to let go of your thoughts, try counting slowly as you breathe. Watch your thoughts and try to resist following them. Turn your attention to the count as you breathe out.

4. Pay active attention. As you work and think, try to keep your attention on the task at hand, Be strict with yourself, and each time your mind wanders, return it to the task. As you keep refocusing your attention, your “mind stillness”? will improve.

5. Still your body. One sign of fragmented attention is fragmented movement. For example, when you are at the theatre, it is easy to tell if others around you are fully attentive to the performance. People who sniff and sigh, move their heads this away and that, and wiggle in their seats are having some difficulty concentrating. Rapt attention is usually accompanied by still body posture.

6. Find a comfortable position and don’t allow yourself to move. Concentrate on what you are doing or watching, drawing your attention away from physical distractions, and focus your thoughts on your task. After a while, you will notice that you fidget less and feel less physical discomfort. You are now channeled into mental exertion.

7. Interest your mind. Try to find interest in projects to help you concentrate. Taking up a new hobby can be a tremendous help. You should also try to find something interesting even in the dullest chore. If you are at a gathering, find someone and start a conversation. Be inquisitive and you might discover you have similar interests.

8. Open the mind. Just as strength, stamina, and flexibility must be incorporated in your physical routine, the mind needs new and absorbing challenges to give it a change from its everyday journey. Notice something new on the same way home that you might not have noticed before. Buy a magazine on a subject you normally wouldn’t look at, read it, and open yourself to new possibilities.
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Margo Valentine Lazzara from The Healing Aromatherapy Bath.

I have read once that the best prayer is a prayer of thanksgiving. I wholeheartedly agree. Our normal form of prayer is a prayer of petition or asking something. Christians are familiar with the line “Ask and you shall receive” therefore it never wrong to ask. However, if we keep on asking for the same thing over and over again, it only means to us that we are not receiving what we are asking or otherwise we will not be asking for it anymore.

John 20:29 says “Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”

Voltaire said “Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.”

Claude M. Bristol said “Faith is believing what we cannot see.”

It therefore takes your FAITH in God or Universe or however you conceived that power to be, to say a heartfelt prayer of thanks for granting what you have asked. Indeed, there is already a need to be thankful for at the moment you asked the mechanism for its materialization is already at work. So instead of saying, “Lord, I desire this or I want that” change it to “Lord, I thank you for this or for that”.

Copyright (c) 2007 Joann Ang. All rights reserved. The article above may be distributed, reposted on websites or printed on ebooks as long as the author’s resource below is included. All links must NOT be altered, must be functional and must point to the author’s site.

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Joann Ang. She discovered the Law of Attraction by asking a question. Since then she has become an eager student of the lessons of the universe. She owns the website Manifesting: Life Magick and publishes the weekly ezine iManifest iMeditate. Through her website & her ezine, she hopes to empower people to achieve abundance, manifest prosperity, love, & good health. Visit her website to submit articles or get good contents.

Self-acceptance is essential to our physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being. One powerful way to practice self-acceptance is to let ourselves begin again whenever we need to. Like the snake, we can shed the old skin and be green again, letting go of the past instead of carrying it around with us.This simple, short meditation is designed to help you let go of whatever mistakes you have made and whatever wrong was done to you by other people, and allow a fresh start.Here are the easy directions:Give yourself about ten minutes for this meditation. This can be done alone, with a friend, or in a group.

3. When you slowly open your eyes, take a few minutes to journal your experience. What did you shed in the old skin? What did you feel as the old skin was shed from your body and you saw yourself green and new? What does it mean for you to begin again, now?

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by Julie Tallard Johnson from Teen Psychic. In Teen Psychic, award-winning author Julie Tallard Johnson provides a fun, meaningful process for developing your intuitive powers, as well as practical guidance in applying those powers to your personal spiritual journey.