Thoughts

Just as the quality of food we eat has an effect on our physical bodies (we are what we eat), the quality of our thoughts determines our mindset, which also has an effect on our material abundance. What has your “mental diet” looked like for most of your life? Have you been feeding your mind heaping portions of “junk food” in the form of pessimism, negativity, and limiting beliefs? Have you become heavily invested in the limitations that others have placed on you? If so, you should find that gradually improving the quality of your mental diet will help you to become much more than you currently are - and everything around you must shift to match who you are.

Imagination

Many people approach the manifestation process backwards, by trying to obtain or achieve something on the outside, which they believe will make them feel better on the inside. However, we do not need to seek wealth, or success, or happiness outside of us; they are already here. We simply need to claim them and become the person who has them. How do we do this? By mentally shifting our awareness to encompass the existence of the things we want to experience. In other words, if we want to have more abundance, we need to BE wealthy now. Feel as if we are already wealthy. Act as if we are wealthy. Speak as if we are wealthy. Anything else will contradict our belief that we already have it and continue to push wealth away from us.

Expectation

There’s no doubt about it; our expectations hold great power. Simply setting forth a strong intention can often be enough to set energy in motion and create dramatic changes in our lives. Unfortunately, this same power of expectation can often work against us if we fail to use it deliberately. For example, how many times have you prepared for the worst even though you were hoping for a positive result? How often have you abandoned a goal or dream because there seemed to be no way to make it happen? Every time you do this, you are saying, “Let there be,” and intending the very outcome you do not want. Instead, begin saying frequently, “Let there be abundance! Let there be success! Let there be joy!” and allow the universe to help you make it happen.

Helpful Abundance Affirmations:

I feed my mind with thoughts of love, success, abundance and ease.
I choose to be happy, healthy and wealthy now.
I expect only the outcomes I want to experience.

Step One: Create Rather Than “Fix”

When trying to attract better circumstances, it’s important to keep in mind that it’s easier to attract a brand-new condition than it is to fix or remake something that already exists. The circumstances of your life are here because of your past thoughts and beliefs, and you cannot change the things you thought and believed in the past.

What you can do, however, is begin thinking and believing differently today. As you think and believe in a new way, you will begin forming new circumstances that better suit your current desires. Even better, remember that your current circumstances were probably created by default. Now that you know how to choose something better, you will have much more control over what appears in your life in the future.

Step Two: Practice Makes Perfect

It’s easy to forget that people who appear to be talented have usually devoted an extraordinary amount of time and energy into developing that talent. Focusing your attention on something for an extended period of time helps you to understand and assimilate the knowledge more easily. Over time, that task or activity becomes like second nature and seems almost easy to do, simply because you’ve done it so many times before.

The very same process is used to master your ability to create your life circumstances consciously. Once you understand that your thoughts, emotional state and beliefs all work together to attract corresponding events and experiences, you know exactly what to do to create the kind of life you want. First, however, there must be a practice period that allows you to develop your talent and keep working at it, until eventually it will get easier and easier.

Step Three: Detach From the Outcome

Detachment is a crucial part of the attraction process that is seldom discussed, and unfortunately it is one of the things that many of us struggle with daily. The ego mind does not like to let go because it fears being deprived of the things it thinks it needs to feel happy. Each of us has an ego mind, and it is this part of us that often throws a wrench into the attraction process and causes unnecessary delays.

Training yourself to let go is important, and the reason why is simple: The more tightly you cling to something, the stronger signals of “need” and “lack” you are communicating to the universe, which can only create more instances of need and lack. On the other hand, when you let go and trust, you communicate a sense of all being well, which the universe will also replicate in your life.

Regrets

One of the biggest challenges in learning to use the Law of Attraction deliberately to attract prosperity is having the presence of mind to focus on something other than what we are living right now. Rather than focusing on financial lack and struggle, we need to retrain our minds to see abundance, believe in abundance, and imagine having abundance.

However, doing this can also tempt us to negate the positive aspects of our past and present experiences. Our past and present experiences may not seem to be all that great at times but they have provided opportunities to learn and grow, and therefore hold great value. Rather than trying to deny our past and present, a better balance might be to focus on creating a better future while also choosing to feel happy and grateful for what we have now, and the past experiences (both good and bad) that have helped us to become who we are.

Failure

Most of us have been conditioned to see failure as a bad thing, but we often don’t realize that it is actually the surest path to success. The more we try and fail, the more we strengthen our own abilities. The process of attracting greater prosperity into our lives is no different. It takes practice to keep our thoughts and beliefs aligned with what we want to experience, rather than what we are already experiencing. It takes practice to strengthen our mental focus and consistently turn away from negativity. Every time we do these things we move one step closer to achieving true mastery over our lives, inside and out.

Perfectionism

Have you ever felt like you were walking on eggshells when trying to attract prosperity? Do you ever fear that you may be “doing it wrong,” or that a few minutes of negative thinking can undo all of the progress you’ve made? It’s important to remember that you cannot get this process wrong. The Law of Attraction does not see things as right or wrong.

Instead, try to see this process as a continual unfolding of your dominant focus. The more you practice, the easier it will be to stay in a state of joy and gratitude. The more you work at aligning your thoughts and emotions, the better your circumstances will get. And if you have a rough day now and then, don’t worry that you’ve messed up the process. Simply get back to the basics and continue taking one step at a time. As the old saying goes, strive for progress, not perfection.

The true gift of a positive mindset is the ability to better handle life’s irritating details. Our reaction to those details is what often determines the final outcome. Reacting with anger and frustration only fuels the negative energy and keeps it going. Keeping our composure and staying positive, on the other hand, is often enough to inspire creative solutions and contribute to the formation of pleasant surprises later.

The Art of Mental Transformation

If you are like most people, you try to avoid suffering at all costs – but you can also use unpleasant circumstances as a great starting point for creating something better. One of the best ways to do this would be to use your moments of suffering (frustration, fear, pain, and so on) as an opportunity to focus your thoughts on something better that you would like to attract.

For example, if your financial situation is stressful right now, you can use those feelings as a starting place for what you would rather experience. Instead of fighting against your feelings you might say, “Right now I feel frightened and frustrated, but I would much rather feel peaceful and secure about my finances.” Then focus on feeling peaceful and secure for a few minutes. Over time you will begin to shift your dominant focus and attract circumstances that will keep reinforcing your feelings of peace and security.

Let Go of Blame

As you look at your current life circumstances, do you feel tempted to blame their existence on other people, companies, or forces beyond your control? Like most people, you may want to resist believing that you are the only one who has created these conditions. However, there is an easy way to accept this possibility without blame or self-recrimination: By reminding yourself that the creation process is largely subconscious for the majority of us.

Now that you are learning more about the way your thoughts and feelings affect your physical reality, you are in a much better position to consciously create your life from this point on. But you cannot berate yourself for not knowing better in the past. Taking responsibility for your life is not about self-blame. Instead, see it as an opportunity to choose something better because you now have the knowledge and strength to do so.

The Gift of Clarity

One of the most important things to do when trying to attract better life circumstances is to get very clear on what you want. This may seem simple, but it can be difficult because so many of us are heavily conditioned by our loved ones, society, and even our own limiting beliefs. Often we won’t allow ourselves to acknowledge what we REALLY want because we don’t believe it’s possible for us to have it.

Take a moment to think about your existing goals right now. Are those the outcomes you truly want? If you had no limitations whatsoever, are those situations and experiences what you would choose – or have you been limiting yourself according to your beliefs or other people’s perceptions about what is possible for you? You can create virtually anything you like – but first you have to decide what you’d like to see there.

The Gift of Time

Do you ever struggle to find the time to meditate, journal, visualize or otherwise work on attracting the things you want? It seems that as we keep getting busier it gets more and more challenging to set aside time for ourselves. You may be pleased to know that you don’t need to spend hours in meditation to create a better life for yourself.

Merely setting aside 10 or 15 minutes daily to clear your mind, visualize something wonderful, or keep a gratitude journal can go a long way in improving your state of mind. You can also perform mini-visualizations as you go about your daily activities. Simply muse and ponder a pleasant scenario for a few minutes, like having plenty of money in the bank, paying your bills with ease, and so on. You are still emitting positive vibrations out to the universe and attracting corresponding experiences!

The Gift of Laughter

Humor is one of the most powerful ways to attract more abundance into your life, but sadly most of us do not deliberately seek opportunities to laugh and feel good. Do you spend most of your days focused on work and other obligations? Does it sometimes feel like you’re stuck in a rut of boredom or stress?

The key is to seek humor that you find funny. We are all different because we have such unique life perspectives. Think about the kind of movies, books, and activities that lift your spirits and make you laugh, and then set aside time each day to enjoy yourself. If you start making laughter a priority in your life, you should find that your mood improves, which improves the signal you send to the universe – which should also return abundance and many good things back to you.

Do You Love Money and Abundance? – It is said that love is one of the most powerful forces in the universe, and this is especially evident in our state of financial wellness. When it comes to money, most of us have created a powerful love/hate relationship. We want more money to come to us, but often don’t appreciate the money we do have. We love the thought of having financial freedom, but we resent the people who appear to have it already. One effective way to neutralize this love/hate energy in your own life is to start blessing and affirming every positive expression of abundance you can. Mentally bless wealthy people and feel happy for their good fortune. Give thanks for every penny you have, and love the possibility of more arriving soon.

Who is Influencing Your Mindset? – There is a popular theory that we are the sum total of the people we spend the most time with. The problem with this theory is that most of us do not have access to the kind of people we want to emulate. We can’t simply pick up the phone to invite Bill Gates or Donald Trump to dinner. What we can do, however, is use the power of imagination to create these beneficial associations. We can imagine playing golf with Tiger Woods, working on a charitable project with Oprah Winfrey, or doing a fun cooking show with Rachel Ray. We aren’t limited to “real” people either - we can just as easily create imaginary successful people and envision ourselves working and playing with them each day. The more we do this, the more our minds will be exposed to images of success, wealth and progress, and begin replaying them in our physical reality.

Do You Avoid Taking Action? – Do you ever take action for the sheer joy of doing so, or are the bulk of your actions taken simply because they will (hopefully) move you forward? Most of us have been trained to see action as a means to an end. If we want to be wealthy and successful, we must take the actions that will bring about the result. The problem with this approach is that we don’t allow ourselves to feel happy until we have reached the goal. What if we were to begin seeing action itself as a way to be happy? What if we began to take action simply because it makes us feel purposeful and productive? What if we let go of the belief that we can’t be happy unless this or that happens? Not only would such an attitude virtually guarantee a positive outcome, it would make the entire journey much more enjoyable.

Can You See Opportunities in Challenges? – Often it seems that just when you’re starting to make progress, a crisis will arrive and create great upheaval in your life. This is especially true when you begin altering your existing beliefs about money and abundance. The circumstances of your life are built upon your existing beliefs, and changing that foundation can often trigger what appear to be negative events. However, when you look a little closer at these supposed negative events, you may realize that they are paving the way for even better circumstances later. In order to make room for the better conditions you desire, you may need to first endure the falling away of limiting or unhealthy situations that no longer serve you. Choosing to see these experiences as opportunities to grow and become stronger can enrich your understanding and make the transition much easier.

Give to Others What You Want to Receive

There’s no doubt about it; giving to others makes you feel good! And when you feel good, you automatically begin attracting good things into your life. Even better, you can use this process to attract specific qualities into your life by finding a way to share those same qualities with others.

If you want to attract more money, start giving money to causes that are important to you. If you want to attract a loving relationship, start sharing your love more freely with others. If you crave more meaning in your daily life, find ways to make the lives of other people more meaningful. Even if you don’t have a lot of time, money, or energy to share, remember that small gestures can still have a very large impact and create a strong attraction for goodness to flow back to you.

Dare to Dream Bigger

Have you ever held yourself back from setting bigger goals because you were afraid you might fail to achieve them? After one or more painful failures early in our lives, most of us decided to squelch down our dreams and settle for “safer” endeavors so we never have to feel that way again. Unfortunately, such a habit only keeps us feeling dissatisfied. If you want to expand your perceived limitations in a fun and easy way, try the following exercise.

Grab a notebook and pen and find a quiet place to be alone. Clear your mind and then try to imagine the biggest, grandest goal for your life that you can. Make it big enough that you have no idea how to make it happen, but still realistic enough so that you can see yourself living it. Write this goal down in detail, ask the universe to show you how to make it happen, and then stay alert to any insights or nudges you may get about actions that would move you toward achieving it. By expanding your realm of possibilities in this way, you minimize any fear of failure and make success much more likely.

Build Your Belief

Low self-worth is a chronic problem for many people – and the most challenging thing about it is that we may not even realize we have it! The good news is that there is an easy way to tell if low self-worth may be hindering your ability to attract what you want. Right now, think about something you want and have been trying to attract.

Then grab a sheet of paper and write down, “I deserve to have (fill in your desire here).” Read that statement to yourself a few times, and notice how you feel. If you really do believe you deserve it, you will feel calm and confident about it. If you are holding any resistance to that belief you will feel a twinge of guilt, doubt, uncertainty, or fear pop up. This is a clear sign that you need to work on strengthening your belief that you deserve the things you want.

Purpose

There is great power contained in an even exchange of energy. When we conceive a strong purpose and take action to make it happen, we pour our energy into activities that promote goodwill in the world. One of the easiest ways to do this is to devote ourselves to helping other people as passionately and completely as we can. As we do so, that energy comes back to us in the form of joy, satisfaction, and yes, abundance. There is a catch in using this method, however, and that is to hold the right intention while engaged in the exchange. Our minds cannot be focused on receiving while our hands are busy giving. Doing that only creates contradiction in the energy flow. Instead, we must give with all of the joy and love we can muster. The more intensely we focus on sharing and giving, the more powerfully that energy can be returned to us in the form of increased abundance.

Intuition

One common mistake people make when using the Law of Attraction is to decide on an outcome they want, and then come up with action steps they believe will make it happen. Unfortunately, those action steps are usually unpleasant or draining in some way, which communicates a strong message of dissatisfaction to the universe – which cannot create a positive outcome. A better approach might be to decide on an outcome you want and then allow the universe to lead you to joyful actions that you will truly love taking. Be willing to let go of rigid thinking where your goals are concerned and avoid trying to force things to happen in specific ways. By doing so, you create an opening for universal forces to work on your behalf.

Happiness

When trying to attract greater abundance it is easy to get stuck in rigid thinking about the right and wrong ways to achieve our goal. We are told that we must visualize daily; we must give to receive; we must recite affirmations, and so on. All of these activities have merit, but they are really secondary to the main goal: improving the quality of our “frequency.” Improving the quality of the frequency we emit to the universe is as simple as thinking positively more often than we think negatively; feeling happy instead of angry; focusing on abundance more than we focus on scarcity. Even if we never recited a single affirmation or visualized a hefty bank balance, simply thinking, speaking and acting in more positive ways would be enough to attract a generous flow of abundance through our lives.

We can choose to make wealth attraction an easy process just as easily as we can make it hard on ourselves.

Emotional Balance

More often than not, the things that cause us the most pain are not the situations and experiences of our lives, but our reactions to them. In our attempt to fight against, struggle with, and overcome our problems, we end up exacerbating them! Rather than fighting against our problems, we can use the Law of Attraction to rise above them and shift smoothly and easily into better circumstances.

Are you currently struggling with a situation or condition that is causing you pain and suffering? Decide right now that you are going to release it and rise above it mentally and emotionally. Rather than trying to fix the situation or force things to go the way you want, simply turn your thoughts to a better condition and imagine that it already exists.

Imagine that you can attune to it simply by dropping the struggle and adjusting your focus. Then watch in awe as seemingly insurmountable obstacles are dissolved and the path before you becomes clear again.

Self-Respect

Self-respect is important when it comes to your ability to attract greater abundance into your life. Have you ever allowed someone to take advantage of you? Do you often acquiesce to the demands of others even though they conflict with your own preferences? Are you asking for abundance and then acting in ways that tell the universe you don’t believe you deserve it?

Developing a strong sense of self-respect can trigger some surprising and welcome changes in your life – especially when it comes to expressions of abundance. When you refuse to accept mistreatment from others; refuse to settle for less than you deserve; and believe in your own value and worthiness, the universe will deliver experiences that mesh with your inner perception.

This can include more money, meaningful relationships, better health, and much more.

Natural Motivation

It’s never too late to change direction – no matter how far we have traveled upon our current path. Have you ever set a goal and begun working toward it, only to realize a short time later that you weren’t enjoying the process and you were quickly losing the motivation to keep going?

Forcing yourself to push forward despite a lack of passion is like forcing yourself to finish reading a dry, boring book. Today, take a few minutes to examine your existing goals closely. Do you still feel as excited about them as you did at the start? If not, perhaps you can modify them or set completely new goals to get your creative juices flowing again. When you feel passionate about what you’re doing, motivation comes naturally.

Clarity of Intent

As you work on attracting greater abundance into your life, it’s important to keep in mind that your efforts should focus on the quality of energy and intention you put forth, not just the number of activities you can squeeze into your day. Many people are under the impression that by using techniques like affirmations, visualization, and vision boards they are doing everything needed to attract better conditions in their lives, but that is not necessarily true.

If they use those tools halfheartedly or scatter their energy too much, their results will show it. Remember that those tools are designed to help you create the right intensity of focus, which is what really triggers positive changes in your life. You can make more progress from 10 minutes of highly focused visualization than from weeks of scattered, halfhearted efforts. Action is important – but your clarity of intent is even more important.