Why? Why not?!

The best way to predict your future? Create it!

I have recently been looking more into the Law Of Attraction. It was something I was familiar with already. Mainly because I had been practicing it for as long as I can remember, without knowing what it was or what to call it. My best friend and I used to call our drive and belief in ourselves and our goals 'crazy faith'. It was the same thing, and it was innate. Knowing what we wanted, seeing it in our minds, believing it wholeheartedly (no matter what naysayers would say!) and living it. Not to mention working our behinds off towards it.
Sadly, the last few years have caused my crazy faith to diminish. It would rear it's head every so often, I would try to believe (with all my might!), but heart of hearts...my heart wasn't in it. And the reason? I let the negative voices and opinions of others infiltrate til doubt crept into my mind. Doubt took a good look around, decided it was comfortable, bought the land and started to build. From one room it expanded its sneaky ways to an entire hotel complex in my head. Once you let it in and listen to it, it tends to stick around. Very closely followed by lack of self confidence and sadness, who rented rooms in the hotel and made themselves very cosy!
But, there's nothing like getting everything bulldozed down in your life to get you rebuilding. Rock bottom is a perfect, solid foundation with which to start. The blueprint is being formulated as we speak!

So back to the Law of Attraction...
I had been introduced to The Secret about 3 years ago but for some reason, it didn't resonate within me. I never made it through watching it as I felt it was very materialistic and I just wasn't buying the goods at the time. Plus, I was very into reading the works of Eckhart Tolle (still am, but that's another blog entry!) and it seemed to go against his ideas. Ideas that I believed in.
But recently, my best friend happened to watch it again and told me to give it another shot. She really felt like it would speak to me given my current circumstances. So I did. And she was right. It wasn't materialistic. And it did actually work in line with a lot of my beliefs. But the beautiful part is that I tested it out - and it worked! I started with small things and built up. I projected when trains would arrive at my station, certain outcomes with situations I had with people and also how much money I would make that week (and I aimed pretty high!). It all worked EXACTLY how I created it in my mind. The tricky part is that you have to really believe. So whatever it is that you want or need, it has to be realistic to you.
I've passed on the techniques and ways of thinking to other people and they are getting very similar results. So try it!!

But the bottom line to this post is what I shall get to now. At times, it is very hard to keep the faith, to really believe, and to project what you want. But one thing I have noticed about practicing the Law of Attraction is just how often I can have a negative mindset. And just how often I play out dramas in my head. As I talked about in my 'trust' post earlier, we can all get pretty detailed and dramatic with it. So now I am ALWAYS aware of it. And the idea that I am shaping my own reality with my thoughts makes that a scary concept at first, and then an empowering one because I can simply decide to change my mind. As simple as that - I CHANGE MY MIND. I choose happiness over sadness, I choose the outcome I want from a situation instead of the fixating on the thing I don't want and going to town with it in my head.
That was the most beautiful thing about the Law of Attraction. I realised that you can truly choose to be grateful and happy at ANY GIVEN MOMENT. You can choose. It's up to you. And if there's nothing else you gain from it, isn't that happiness and peace priceless?
For some unknown reason I was conditioned to always expect the worst, especially in intimate relationships. So guess what always happened? But a simple shift in thinking has changed everything. Why should the worst case scenario happen? Why should things not work out? Why are we conditioned to expect the same from our future as we have from the past? If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome (thank you Einstein) isn't it time we changed our minds?
So expect good things. Expect positive outcomes. Expect miracles.

"Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right."
- Henry Ford

"Some [wo]men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
- Robert Kennedy

"If you don't ask, you don't get."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Seriously??!!

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