Attracting Good or Ill into Our Life with Our Thoughts

A really interesting concept is the idea that whatever we think, will come to us. It is called the law of attraction. "That which is like unto itself is drawn."

When we focus on positive things, we attract positive things. When we focus on negative things, we attract negative things.

Some examples of bringing in negatives:

1. All you can think about is how somebody is "a pain in the neck" or "a pain in the butt." Pretty soon, you've GOT a pain in your neck or a pain in your butt!

2. You constantly focus on your doctor appointments and your sicknesses. Pretty soon, you really ARE sick.

3. You constantly talk about how poor you are. Pretty soon, you really ARE poor!

Some examples of bringing in positives:

1. Your goal is to learn how to play the piano. You say to yourself, "I can do this. I am going to practice diligently at least X number of minutes every day. Whatever I work at long enough, I can do. Every day I am going to succeed a little more. I am going to share my successes with uplifting people. I am going to be a piano player." Pretty soon, you find interesting music to play, and you're playing it for your friends.

2. You want to have a good day tomorrow. So tonight you make a long list of all the things you're grateful for today. This gears your mind to pick out the good things of the day and forget the not-so-great ones that happened. Tomorrow morning, you say, "This is going to be a great day! I can handle anything that comes my way. I feel great. I am so happy to be alive. I am grateful for everything." You visualize and affirm a happy outcome, and it happens.

Norman Vincent Peale wrote: "...it is a fact that if you expect the best, you are given a strange kind of power to create the conditions that product the result you want."

To get exactly what you want, do this:

1. Decide exactly what you want.

2. Strongly believe that you will get it.

3. Be a major player in making it happen.

4. Accept it wholeheartedly when it comes.

William James, a psychologist, said, "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

"Mind is the master power that molds and makes, and man is mind and ever more he takes, the tool of thought, and shaping what he wills; builds a thousand joys, a thousand ills. He thinks in secret and it comes to pass. Environment is but a looking glass." James Allen