Because our thoughts and feelings influence our reality of what we experience, we can create a better experience for ourselves if we anticipate and prepare for our day before it gets started.  I know we can’t anticipate every event that will happen in our day.  But, we can identify how we want want our day to go, and how we want to feel.

   Abraham-Hicks call this pre-paving, and its an easy and effective way to have things run smoother.    And, its a quick process.  When you get up in the morning, settle into bed for a few more minutes, and imagine what you want to and need to do for the day.  Imagine everything going well,  for example, imagine a smooth commute, or getting a project you are working on finished. By imagining how you want your day to go, you will start your day calmer and more centered,  and you will be influencing your day with your expectations.

 You can also repeat this process at the end your your day, reviewing and affirming what went well for you, and preparing for a good night’s sleep, and your intent to awake well rested the next day.  The pre-paving technique is one that can help you train your mind to focus on your desired outcome, and it will assist you in consciously influencing your reality.

    When we want something, or have an outcome we want to achieve, often our first step is to turn to action.  We do something to get what we want.  While action has its appropriate place, the cycle of creation places action as the last step in manifestation.  As Abraham-Hicks phrases it, “by lining up our energy” first, we can rely less on action, and see results more quickly and easily.  Today I’m going to discuss the first two steps in the creative cycle.

The first step in the creative cycle is the inspiration or intuitive step, we have an inclination or an a-ha moment that comes to us when we realize we want something.  This often comes without any conscious thought or decision on our part.  By processing what is going on in our environment, we constantly come to conclusions about what we want or don’t want.

 The next step, and where we should spend more of our time, is how we feel about what we want.  Do we feel excited about getting it, or are we bitter, and feel disappointed that we don’t have it yet?  By juicing up our excitement, and good feelings toward what we want, it will come to us much easier.  I think this is such a key concept, and I think much of our ability to create what we want hinges upon us gently transforming our feelings toward our desire.  I highly recommend Abraham-Hick’s book: Ask and It Is Given, because they give individual activities that can help us make that transition with our feelings and expectations. 

If there is something you want but it hasn’t come to you yet, review your actions, and cut back on any that don’t feel good, or don’t seem to be effective.  Slow down and move to the feeling place.

Many times, we are just a thought or two away from manfesting what we want.  But, if we continue with the same thought patterns, our desires may be suspended in mid-air.  If you have a specific desire you feel you are close to manifesting, you may want to put some additional feeling, energy, and thought focus  on your desire, just a few minutes everyday, so you can tip the balance and create what you want.

A great way to do this is to set aside 5 minutes each day and focus on the feeling of already having what you want. Feel yourself enjoying the result, and  getting charged-up and energized.  Don’t spend any time of this 5 minutes thinking about where it will come from, or why you don’t have it yet.  By putting in a time investment each day of dedicated focus, you are aligning yourself more and more with the energy that is what you want.  And it will manifest that much sooner.

We’ve come a long way over the years.  As humans, we have evolved from having little or no control over our environment, to living lives where we exercise much more choice over our daily experience.  Of course, everyone has different circumstances, but the ability to choose is available on a much larger scale than in the past.

That is part of the reason why humans are now ready and more interested in learning more about and using, the principles of the  law of attraction.  We have arrived at the place where we realize we have much more control over our lives than was previously thought.  Humans have explored not only the world around them, but their inner world of thoughts, feelings, motivations, and hopes. 

 What is exciting and invigorating about our modern times is how our inner landscape interacts and influences our outer landscape.  This information, which used to be in the realm of mystics and magick, has now become available to everyone who want to know.  If we are ready to ask, and hold our selves open for answers that feel good and resonate with us, we can ask our way to anything we want.

At times,  some of the concepts of psychology and counseling do not serve those of us who work consciously with law of attraction.  Within the realm of psychology, we are often fixated on the past, and parceling out blame to our families, our friends and ourselves, with the focus being on the why.  Once we have identified ourselves by our past, we then join groups with the same history, and keep the focus on what we felt went wrong in our lives, and where we or other people in our lives made mistakes.

 With law of attraction, we don’t need to continually dwell on the past or the reasons for what may have happened.  In fact, if we continue to do so, that is where we are placing our focus, and what we will continue to bring into our lives.  By defining ourselves as victims, we hold the victim energy in our vibration, and may continue to experience feelings of victimization in our lives.  But, by holding our focus to where we want to be, we guide ourselves to that place. 

Past evidence does not have to be a predictor of our future.  People reinvent themselves more to their liking everyday.  We do not have to live our lives based on outdated concepts about ourselves, or other peoples’ image of us.

Think of one thing you would like to experience, have, or do.  What is truly holding you back?  Is it your judgements about your past experience?  Discard anything that does not serve you, including your self-imposed limitations. Start today with something small, but worthwhile.

Working with law of attraction is a gradual process, and one that is always in motion.  It takes time to change our thought groove, and what we attract into our lives based on that groove pattern.  If you are wanting to create more prosperity by using law of attraction principles, keep in mind the old axiom about how to eat an elephant: one bite at a time.

 The more resistance we have, the more difficult it is for us to climb out of that resistance.  Money and wealth are issues where we hold deep values, and often these values can be difficult to change overnight.  While you can continue to enlarge your belief system, you can also create wealth within the belief system you already have of what is possible.

If you want to start attracting more wealth, start small. Choose something its easy to think you can have, and then, when it comes, you can show yourself proof that law of attraction works, and go from there.

An easy and fun thing to start with is loose change, or pennies.  Have an intent to find some pennies, or other types of loose change laying around.  By having a small request, and seeing the universe meet your request, you’ll be inspired to ask for more. 

Another fun method is to think of something you’ve been wanting that you could easily buy for yourself, and open yourself up to getting it in as many different ways as possible.  For example, if you would like some new boots, ask the universe for them, and be open to the many ways you might receive them. Perhaps a friend of family member will give them to you, perhaps you’ll find them so deeply on sale they are almost free, or any other number of possibilities.

Your belief in what is possible directly relates to what you can create for yourself.  By starting small, you can create what you already believe you can have, and show yourself that law of attraction works, and that you can go on to create even bigger things.

One way to figure out what your attracting into your life is to look at what you’ve already created.  There is a lag time between what we spend time focusing on, and when it actually manifests into our lives.  When things actually manifest and then remain in your life, there was a lot of focus and energy put toward that area.

 If you’d like to create more of what you want in life, a simple method is to try to feel good more often.  Our feelings let us know if what we are focusing on is something that we want, or what we don’t want, but are attracting,  regardless.  If it feels good to think about, than it is a positive thing,. But if spending time thinking about it makes us feel bad,  its not helping us to create what we want.

That doesn’t mean that we should deny or reject our feelings.  Its just once we’ve identified and processed them, we should move to better feeling thoughts.  For example, you may feel hurt that someone criticized you.  Identifying the hurt can help you identify that you would like to feel better, and then you can direct your thoughts accordingly.  Of course, how you do that is completely up to you, but if you feel better, its working.  For example, you could dwell on what a mean person they were to criticize you, or you could think, that they didn’t know better, and they were being thoughtless, not mean.

 The more you can spend your everyday time feeling good on a variety of subjects, the more all areas of your life will improve.  Your feelings, and not anyone or anything else, are what guide you toward creating the life you desire.

Welcome back to www.wealthbythought.com.  You may have heard the term, “the law of attraction,” this phrase has become a buzzword recently.  With the popularity of the movies The Secret, and What The Bleep… there has been a surge of interest and writing around this subject.

 The law of attraction is a universal law, in the sense that it is a fact of life, like the law of gravity on our planet.  It works independently, whether we humans believe it or not.  However, once you understand the law of attraction you can choose to align yourself with it, instead of struggling against it.

 I think the abraham-hicks teachings put it most succinctly.  “That which is like unto itself is drawn.”  One way to understand this is to think about wave transmission frequencies, particularly with sound.  There are many sounds out there, but we can only hear and tune into the ones that are on the same frequency as us.  The ones that aren’t on the same wavelength as us,  can’t be experienced by us,  unless we change our wavelength.

 Whatever wavelength our thoughts and feelings are, that is what we are tuning into. On each subject, we are only able to access the range of thoughts and feelings that we are at right now.  So, if we have stressful, negative, or unhappy thoughts or feelings, that are triggered by a specific subject or event in our lives, that tends to be all we can access, and those thoughts, feelings, and eventually outcomes, are what manifest in our lives around those topics.

 Of course, this works the opposite as well, we can ride the wave of our positive feelings and thoughts just as easily. By applying deliberate focus, we can amplify positive things in our lives and give them more power.

In my next post, I’ll discuss ways we can do this, and also dispel the negativity that may be present around a subject in our lives.

Thanks for joining me here today.  I would like to mention some extremely helpful books and resources that can assist you in creating more wealth and abundance in your life.  When I was really ready to find answers, I was lead to a lot of different information.  Some stuck with me, and some of it didn’t, but I realized that I wasn’t stuck, and that there was a lot of guidance available to me.

 One of the first books I read was Creating Money, by Sanyana Roman and Duane Packer.  This is a wonderful book that clearly and concisely explains the energy that is money,  and how we can work with that energy in a more positive way.  The book also discusses common misconceptions about wealth, and clearly outlines steps we can take to prepare for and create more wealth in our life. 

If you are ready to absorb some easy to understand information, and to do some easy guided meditations, you will get a lot out of their book.

 The other book I want to mention is Ask and It Is Given, by Jerry and Esther Hicks.  Their work has been the biggest influence on me, and they speak and write exclusively on the Law of Attraction, and how to create the life you would like.  They do workshops around the country, and have audio transcripts you can listen to if you would like.  They speak from the greater perspective, and their work has a strong spiritual component.  The above book is a clear introduction to the basic concepts of The Law of Attraction, and they also include many easy and fun activities that help you create wealth.  You may also want to check out all of their books and material at www.abraham-hicks.com

If you truly want a blueprint for creating a wealthy and positive life, their teachings are, in my opinion, some of the most powerful and comprehensive available.

 Please feel free to post any comments, or to share your own inspiring material.  With my next post, I’ll be discussing some of the specific laws and how they work.

   About four years ago, I was in a place I did not want to be in almost every part of my life.  I was depressed, in an unhappy relationship, and had little financial stability, hopping from one job to the next.  I realized that something had to change.  I knew, looking back at my circumstances, that while there where some negative influences, the person who had the most say about my life was me, and if I had gotten myself stuck, I could get myself unstuck.

    This led me down a path that would change my life forever, with major improvement in a relatively short period of time.  My depression has lifted.  I am much more financially secure and stable, working toward real wealth.  And I’m in a happy marriage with the love of my life.

     Now, I’m still not finished, and there are always things I’ll want and will be creating.  But, I know understand much more how we create the circumstances in our lives, both wanted and unwanted.

And it all has to do with what we observe, our feelings about our observations, and the thoughts that come out of our feelings when we dwell on them.  We don’t have to change our feelings, and we don’t want to pretend to have certain feelings we don’t, or to pretend that we don’t have the ones we do have.  That leads to avoidance and repression. 

But, by changing our focus on what we observe, and by most importantly, changing and refocusing our thoughts, we can create the type of life we want, on all levels.

I called this blog wealth by thought, because we can achieve anything in life with ourselves.  In fact, we created the world we live in today.  Once you realize that you create your life, you can start making choices to more consicously create what you want, instead of creating by default.  Which is what I did for most of my life.

A lot of this can be overwelming, and its not for people who are not ready to hear it.  But if you know that life could be better, and you want to make improvements, there are many places to start.

On my next post, I’ll be discussing some readings and resource material that help us apply the universal laws.  These laws help explain why our world is the way it is, why things happen the way they do, and provide the framework for creating what we want to in life.