Law of Attraction and Manifesting Your Desires

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

Tags: affirmation, Cheryl Petersen, experience, God, healing, intuition, Meditation, Spirituality

Larry King, Ellen Degeneres, and now Oprah have gotten turned onto the Secret that’s not such a secret any more. Now everyone’s excited to hear about this Universal principle that says we can have, be and do whatever we want by simply changing our thoughts and feelings. The Law of Attraction tells us that since like attracts like all we have to do to get what we want is align vibrationally, by expressing gratitude and focusing on what we want versus what we don’t want. Sounds great - but how do you start?

There are lots of ways to make this simple practice of deliberate creation difficult, but that defeats the purpose of what the Law of Attraction makes possible. Instead of doing life the hard way, knowledge of this principle allows you to make your dreams come true without selling your soul or breaking your back.

Simple Start
Here’s a simple way to start practicing the Secret to get the life you want. Before tackling the big dreams of winning the lottery, creating the body of an Olympic athlete, or marrying prince charming - start with something smaller this first time around.

Choose a practice project where you develop your manifesting muscle without high stakes at risk. By starting small you’ll achieve success more easily and quickly, building your confidence in your creation skills and allowing you to tackle bigger ticket items with more trust in the process.

Pick something out of the ordinary that would delight you to see or experience. Common practice projects include a flower bouquet, a particular animal, rare cars, a specific song, movie star, call from an old friend, etc. Choose something that’s not out of the realm of possibility, but unique enough you’ll know it didn’t appear by chance. It helps if you can have some amount of pleasant emotion associated with this item.

Now Visualize
Once you’ve got your practice project in mind, simply visualize experiencing this thing you’ve chosen. Imagine your delight when you see it. Hold the thoughts and feelings in mind you’ll feel when it happens. No need to overdo it, just a half minute will do.

Repeat your visualization a couple times throughout the day over the next few days. Then keep an easy eye out for it. Within a week or so you’ll likely have run across your practice project in one form or another. Be open to how Universe delivers it. It may be in a magazine, a commercial, on the freeway, at work, in your email, overhearing a conversation, etc.

For example, if you’re manifesting flowers you may have a bouquet delivered personally, or you may visit an art gallery that happens to focus on flower paintings, or you may hear a friend talking about flowers, or you may sample a new perfume at the mall that happens to be named “Eau de Fleur,” or your charity group may be conducting a fundraiser by selling flowers. You get the point? It can show up a wide variety of ways, so pay attention.How It Works

As you imagine getting this thing, you send out a vibration to the Universe. The Universe answers by sending a matching vibration back to you. That’s how this process works. You put in an order with your thoughts and feelings (called your vibration), and the Universe responds with a like vibration.Once you learn the power of your vibration, you become much more deliberate about what you think and feel, and thus attract into your life! That’s when you become a powerful creator.Have fun with your practice project, and don’t be discouraged if you don’t achieve each one with 100% success. Give it time to work, be easy on yourself as you build your manifesting muscle, and let the Universe surprise and delight you with its creative ability to answer your command!

Tags: deliberate creation, dreams, ellen degeneres, experience, gratitude, larry king, Law of Attraction, Manifesting, oprah, thoughts and feelings, universe, Visualize, winning the lottery, wish

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