Manifesting with the Law of Attraction

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in October. I was cleaning the horse stables with a front-end loader. This large piece of farm equipment was familiar to me, having operated it for years on the farm. So, it was rather surprising when the engine blew up in flames, completely filling the cab with fire. Intuition caused me to reach for the only small opening out. I climbed up and out of the opening, jumped over the moving wheels, and crashed onto the gravel road, face first.

What do I remember when the flames engulfed me?

Asking what was going on. Feeling a mental affirmation that everything would be okay. Quietness. And, taking the stance that God is my life.

I was taken to the emergency room. The emergency room doctor reviewed my X-rays and came to tell me, “Your liver is bleeding, which generally is fatal. I need to find a surgeon to operate on you.”

While the surgeon was being located, I mentally reaffirmed that my life is connected to the undamaged Spirit, the source of spirituality.

The laws behind spirituality have proven to be a vital force in my human experience. And, that October afternoon, spirituality guided my consciousness to focus on the qualities of appreciation and honesty. This precluded me from thinking based on fear and dread.

The surgeon came to my room and introduced himself; he examined the monitors, reading my vital signs. With happy amazement he told me, “Your liver is stabilizing.” This actually allowed more time for them to get the operating room ready and also allowed me more time to digest the food in my stomach so it would be empty for the operation.

The operation that was never necessary!

Spirituality was already painlessly operating in my thought. Spiritual ideas from a book I regularly study, “Science and Health,” by Mary Baker Eddy, were being verified as legitimate. A few main ideas are that Spirit is all-in-All, our infinite source of being, and people are spiritual beings. Our spirituality can be, and is, discovered to be supreme, positively influencing human mortals to heal and experience the truth of undamaged Spirit, God.

Physically, I was unable to do anything on my own. A catheter was put in. I had fractures, a useless arm, a badly injured eye that was swollen shut, and I had second degree burns on half of my face (the side I landed on the gravel road with). However, metaphysically, I was active. I was honest with the surgeon. He realized that meditation was a significant factor in my life. Yet, from a practical standpoint, if fear ever blocked me from praying and my body began reverting into danger, we would reconsider our actions.

I sincerely appreciated the nurses who carefully and compassionately removed the gravel from the burned side of my face. The nurses cleaned my face in intervals, instinctively supporting the fact that mind and body work in unity. The nurses never pushed my mind into the realm of painful irritated thinking and my body healed quickly. The body could not help but conform to mind; to their compassion and my appreciative thought.

Pain relievers were unnecessary the entire time, throughout all the care, cleaning, and healing. After the second day, I was taken out of the ICU and put in a room of my own.

My husband took me home on the third day. Within three weeks I was taking care of my family, working, and even took a snowmobile out for a ride on the weekend. There is no scarring from the burns.

During this particular healing, it became solidly evident to me to revise “Science and Health,” first published in the year 1875. This book contains timeless, universal principles that are available to everyone throughout time. Therefore, the next ten years were filled with research, meditation, work, and spiritual growth. The result of this interesting work is “21st Century Science and Health.”

The energy of our tremendous cosmos mimics the energy of spirituality, advancing and expanding human beings into the possibility of non-intrusive healing. Affirmation of the ideas found in “21st Century Science and Health” are useful. We recognize, and can substantiate, more humaneness, more enlightenment, and our undeniable, undamaged spiritual nature.

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Author Resource: Cheryl Petersen practices spiritual healing in Washington State. Her revision work, “21st Century Science and Health,” is available online www.healingsciencetoday.com

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So often, when something bad happens to us, it appears to be purposeless suffering. But what if our most difficult experiences are actually rich with hidden purpose. A purpose that we ourselves planned before we were born? Could it be that we choose our life’s circumstances, relationships, and events?

In my research for my book Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?, I found that the answer to this question is a definite yes. Working with four of the most gifted mediums and channels in the country, including one who is able to hear the conversations people had with their future parents, children, spouses, friends, and other loved ones, I’ve examined the pre-birth plans of dozens of individuals. These people planned such challenges as physical illness, having handicapped children, deafness, blindness, drug addiction, alcoholism, losing a loved one, and severe accidents.

Why do we plan to experience challenges? I found four primary reasons. First, challenges allow us to balance karma from past lives. For example, someone who was physically ill in a previous incarnation and the one who took care of that person may decide to switch roles. What makes this life blueprint so difficult is that once in body, neither soul will remember the plan.

Second, we plan challenges in order to heal. For example, Penelope, the deaf woman in the chapter on deafness and blindness, planned to be born completely deaf because in a past life she had heard the gunshots that killed her mother. In this lifetime, she sought to focus on self-healing and wanted to make sure that her healing would not be hindered by a similar trauma.

Third, we plan challenges to be of service to others. In the chapter on physical illness, I write about Jon, a homosexual man who planned to have AIDS so that he could teach tolerance to humanity. Jon is not someone to be judged, but rather someone we may thank for having the raw courage to plan such a bold mission.Lastly, life challenges allow us to know ourselves as love. By this I mean not simply that we are loving, although certainly that is true, but that we are quite literally made of the energy of love. In our nonphysical Home, we experience no contrast to ourselves and therefore cannot fully understand our nature as love. On Earth, in a realm of duality and stark contrast, we often encounter a lack of love. As we choose in the face of such experiences to give and receive love freely and unconditionally, we remember who we really are.

Tags: experience, Life, life challenges, self healing

At the beginning of each semester, Dennis P. Kimbro gives his Clark University students an assignment that, while simple to complete is as critical to their long-term success as acing their most complex exam. “Bring me the brochure for your class rings,” he demands. That’s it? It sounds almost ridiculous. But he’s dead serious.

“And while you’re at it, bring me a picture of the outfit you want to wear on graduation day and the list of people you want to invite. Do they know where they’re sitting or staying while they’re here? You need to know. So write all of that down for me. Draw me a diagram, if necessary. But see it–all of it. Keep seeing it, and you will see your way there!”

Welcome to Kimbro’s first lesson in the art of visualization, which is an absolute requirement for all of his classes. “Whenever I interview professional athletes who have won major championships, they tell me they did it for the ring,” says Kimbro, the renowned motivational speaker and author of What Makes the Great Great (Doubleday, $13.95). “So, I tell my students, do it for the ring. But don’t stop there. See every detail, every day until you’ve done it.

“I tell them all the time, `Whatever thou see’st, that thou be’est.’ I’ve never met one successful person who didn’t incorporate visualization into his or her life.”Visualization is the process of mentally creating detailed pictures of yourself achieving a desired goal or outcome and focusing on that image until you achieve your objective. It is a performance-enhancement technique practiced by high achievers in the performing arts, sports, business, and beyond. Visualization, a teaching tool used by coaches and instructors, is also promoted by health practitioners as a way to help their patients enhance health, cope with disease, overcome addictions, and change unhealthy behaviors.

Like meditation, visualization has been used over the years to reduce stress and increase self-awareness. So how does it work? Creative visualization exploits the connection between your thoughts (experienced as messages or imagery in your mind), your emotions (how thoughts make you feel), and your actions (the choices you make in response to your emotions). Patterns of thinking result in moods or emotional states, which produce patterns of behavior or habits that can affect everything from your effectiveness on the job, to the quality of your relationships, to your level of physical fitness.We react to visual imagery all of the time, whether we are conscious of it or not. For example, you probably respond to a movie (a combination of imagery and sounds resulting from the visualizations of others) with terror, joy, or sadness (and sometimes all of the above) as if you are actually experiencing it yourself. The key is making a regular, at least daily, habit of focusing and directing your thoughts. With creative visualization, you create the “movie” you want to see (hear, feel, smell, and taste), constantly editing and rewriting the “script” and deciding how you want it to end in your own mind. As a result, you literally program your mind to move toward desired outcome.

Experts maintain that visualization is a powerful–and often underused–tool for success. Why underused? Perhaps because we tend to be so busy. We commit our time to classes to improve our technical or intellectual preparedness, or go to networking events to enhance our public profiles and contact lists. But how often do we make time to connect with ourselves and our goals-and simply focus mental–not just physical–energy on those images? Not often enough, says Kimbro.”If you raise your level of vision, you will raise your level of play,” says Kimbro. “Start with making the time to be still and quiet for 20 to 30 minutes a day, focusing on your vision, on your goals, your dreams, your plan.”It may sound a lot like meditation, but there’s at least one critical difference. Meditation often involves getting still and clearing your mind. In visualization, instead of clearing your mind, you become laser-focused on your goals and dreams. You create a vision and then gradually and methodically clarify it down to the most minute detail.”We are at our best when we’re chasing a goal,” says Kimbro, “and, the truth is, everything happens to us twice: first on the inside then the outside. After all, where do your dreams and goals come from? From within. So, to the extent that you can control what goes on within you, you’ll be better able to control what goes on outside.”We tend to think of that old saying, “I’ll believe it when I see it,” referring to the physical, the tangible. Well, Kimbro and others insist that we should embrace that saying at face value. In fact, as with his students, Kimbro challenges you to test it. “Try telling yourself, `Until I see something clearly in my mind’s eye, I’m not going to achieve it,” he says. “Then start to visualize and watch the transformation in your life.”
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Caroline V. Clarke is an editor-at-large for Black Enterprise magazine. She is the author of Take a Lesson: Today’s Black Achievers on How They Made It and What They Learned Along the Way

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