Posts Tagged ‘Law of Attraction’
Dear Ariel,
I have started listening and appreciating classical music more lately with the expansion of my consciousness, where as before it was strictly heavy guitars, punk etc.
What is going on with me?
Thanks,
SM
Generally speaking, classical music is at a higher level of consciousness (higher vibing you could say) than heavy guitars or punk. There’s always exceptions, sure, but it’s a general rule of thumb.
Classical music tends to make one feel peaceful and joyful while music like punk has a tendency to make one feel angry and frustrated.
As you start to vibe higher and raise your level of consciousness, you’ll tend to enjoy music, activities, and people who match your frequency of vibration. You attract that which you are, hence the sayings “The world is your mirror.” and “Your inner world creates your outer world.”
Thanks for your question.
Your capacity for awareness is an innate aspect of your true Self.
A baby fetus is aware of its surroundings, even if it doesn’t have the capacity to mentally language its experience. Awareness is prior to all thought, yet people tend to believe that thoughts are who they are, as if they couldn’t exist without thought.
The ego is reborn every morning. If you’ve noticed, when you first wake up, the very first experience is simply conscious awareness. As the ego slowly returns and identifications reappear, one next starts to realize ‘where’ they are, but they don’t know what day it is. The sense of space returns, followed by the sense of time. A person’s name and identity then return as well into their conscious experience.
In that very first moment when you just wake up, notice you still exist without an ego, a sense of “me.” It is possible to exist sans ego, but we’re generally not used to functioning in such a way.
Let’s talk a little bit more about this.
A useful exercise is to pretend that you have no memory.
By setting aside memory (it’s not you anyways, it’s simply stored experiences and programming), Self-inquiry is much easier. In this moment, without a memory, who are you?
This leads to the discovery that there is no ‘who’ there, only awareness of this moment.
The Self actually has no memory whatsoever. Every moment is experienced as a magnificent and glorious awe-inspiring wonder of the grandeur of life, like the very first time you stepped up to the edge of a massive canyon or gazed upon a fiery sunset. It leaves one utterly speechless. It’s like a newborn child who looks around the world in amazement. This is the perspective of the Self. Read More …
One school of thought says that to be spiritual and always focus on the good, you mustn’t focus on anything evil. After all, what you focus on expands and if you want to create your reality so that it includes only that which you decide is “good,” then you shouldn’t focus on anything called “bad.”
Eeeeehhhhhh. (Buzzer sound) Wrong.
If you notice war happening, it’s alright to notice that there’s war happening.
When two people fall in love, they often overlook each other’s flaws. “Love is blind,” as the saying goes. People see only what they want to see and in some situations, it can come around to bite them in the butt.
Now, it is true that what we focus on expands, yet we don’t want to be blind to our reality. Being honest with ourselves is very valuable. So what do we do?
The key here is non-attachment.
We all know about bacteria, for example. We are aware that there are germs all around us which can make us sick. Nevertheless, most of us don’t spend all day in fear worrying about germs. (Sure there are people with OCD, which is basically just a strong ego, but here we’re talking about your typical person.) Since we are all aware of bacteria and the possibility of getting sick, we make sure we wash our hands before eating, especially if our hands are dirty.
We have awareness of bacteria and we handle it accordingly, then we effortlessly move forward with our lives. We don’t get “stuck” on dealing with bacteria.
It’s the same thing with anything else. It is the attachment or aversion to something that typically keeps us focused on it. Pretending a problem doesn’t exist doesn’t fix the problem. It just doesn’t work that way.
The key to handling all of life’s problems is non-attachment.
One of my favorite tools for letting go of all attachments is The Sedona Method.
When we get attached to something and want to hold onto it, we are saying that we lack the ability to get enough of it, we lack the ability to control it, and want to hold onto something once we obtain it, lest we lose it. It’s an overall feeling of lack.
On the flipside, when we have an aversion to something, we are constantly pushing it away. We are experiencing the energy of fear. Pushing something away only further solidifies the negative experience of it in our reality. Case(s) in point: The War on Drugs, The War on Terrorism, The music industry suing its own customers for downloading music, etc.
Instead of fighting what is, pushing against what is, or desperately going after what you want, let go of all attachment whatsoever.
The more you can accept what is, the more you can move into action to have things be the way you choose.
Allow yourself to call a spade a spade. If you see something in your reality, notice that it’s there without any emotional attachment or struggle. Be the nonjudgmental observer. From this place of lightness and ease, you can then start applying the techniques taught by The Law of Attraction and much more easily and effectively create your reality.
As you begin to let go of struggling with what is, you open yourself up to new ideas and possibilities that you never would have seen had you been so focused on the negative, or deliberately trying to limit yourself and stare at the positive.
Motivation is seeing something you don’t like and thus having a reason to move away from it.
Inspiration is having an idea in mind and heading towards it.
Instead of moving away from something you don’t like, or even pretending that it doesn’t exist, know exactly what it is you wish to experience in your life and move towards that.
Being “spiritual” does not in any way imply that you are unwilling to notice something that is evil. “Evil” is simply something that is sourced in ego, like all suffering. “Good,” the way we’ll call it here, is something sourced in Divine Love.
Judgments aren’t necessary. We’re simply making observations.
Observing something “evil” doesn’t create more “evil” in your life experience. It is only the judgment and emotional resistance to it, in the form of attachment or aversion, which cements it in your reality.
So allow yourself to observe life as it is, then focus your attention on what it is that you do want to see and you will see more of it.
Question:
Dear Ariel,
I was reading through this site, and found that it goes against the “law of attraction”. because in law of attraction, thinking is good when I can direct them in a positive way. it is not just an ego. If I think, “I am confident that I can do this job and have lots of money doing so.” Then it is a positive thing to think about according to law of attraction.
Another thing is that the imposer article states that incarnation after incarnation brings only suffering.
Law of attraction says that we were not forced to incarnate but rather so eager to jump in again and again because there is so much joy in life.
So, I stopped reading the thing, but the book says that my ego will always come up with ideas so that I don’t have to read the book.
Did my ego mudding my thinking?
Or do I have some valid points?
Thanks, S.
My response:
S, excellent points, but yes, that is your ego looking for an out. 
The two concepts do seem to butt heads a bit.
Enlightenment: Thoughts have no basis to know absolute truth and are therefore not real.
Law of Attraction: Thoughts help create your reality and can be used for good.
The main “problem,” if you will, is that people have lost their conscious connection to Source. They have become completely identified with their ego, their thoughts, and physical reality. Instead of life being a place where they could bring down their connection to Source and create whatever they choose, people forgot about all this and got stuck in physicality as if it was the only reality. This is what the Buddha meant when he said that life is suffering. Life, when identified totally from the ego, IS suffering for the ego itself is the source of all suffering through resistance and judgment.
So we learn that thoughts have no absolute truth, yet any reality (and I mean any reality) can be believed to be true and thus made experiential. Read More …
There is this theory floating around our world today, the theory of LACK.
It says that there are finite resources on this planet. There is not enough for everyone and thus we must struggle with one another and compete for what there is not enough of.
Who gets the resources? Why, the strongest of course! It’s survival of the fittest, a natural by product of evolution. “It’s how things work!”
This is the way things work when people are cut off from their true source within and are trapped in pure egoic consciousness.
The mind of the ego can be likened to an animalistic mind, just purely survival and reproduction based. It can not see beyond itself, beyond physicality. Thus it sees only what it has and recognizes that sometimes what it wants is here, but other times it’s not.
So what it wants is limited and since other people are also trying to take what it wants, it must compete with others for what it wants.
This is the current state of many people in this planet, particularly where we see the strong elite dominating the majority of people who live in poverty and lack.
The reason this mentality is able to thrive is because people have cut themselves off from the inherent source of creation which allows them to create MORE of that which they want.
Grow more food, create more money, share with people more freely, give what you have extra of, even give what seems to be lacking because you KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that you abide in abundance and there is ALWAYS more where that came from.
There is always more where that came from.
You see, as more people start raising their consciousness by connecting to the Source of All That Is (and thus entering the kingdom of God), they will begin to realize, both intellectually and experientially, their own inherent powers of Creation.
People will begin to further develop their skills of manifestation, of being able to create something out of thin air!
Isn’t that what growing food is all about? You nourish plants and animals, give them food, water, sunlight, a healthy atmosphere, and food is created from the loving ingredients of Source.
Same thing with everything else. When we nourish certain mindsets, beliefs, and understandings in the right way, we allow them to flourish.
We welcome views of abundance and act upon these states of being and thus make them real here on earth.
Evolution is not just about the strongest surviving. Evolution also entails continual expansion, growth, becoming MORE! That’s what Creation is all about. It’s about becoming more, about experiencing more, about having more, about appreciating more, about loving more, about sharing more.
Not because you’re trying to gain more in order have more and hopefully fill a void within.
Quite the opposite. It’s because you BECOME more that you then experiencing HAVING more, more abundance, more love, more unity, more peace.
So it truly comes down to us becoming more as people and raising our levels of consciousness to being open to abundance, open to all having enough to survive, and open to building the underlying foundation which allows each and every one of us to not only survive, but to THRIVE!
Abundance, Abundance, Abundance. That’s what it’s all about.
We must choose it for ourselves. It is totally up to us. Your abundance is totally up to you.
As you begin to acknowledge the Source of Creation within you, call it God, Existence, Christ, Allah, Spirit, Consciousness, whatever you wish… as you acknowledge that all Creation flows through us and ultimately IS us, you’ll find that you truly ARE the source of All Creation.
Emotion and feeling are often confused as one and the same, thought to be interchangeable. However, the two are actually quite different and serve different purposes.
Emotions are used for creation. (manifestation)
Feelings are used for communication. (intuition)
Emotion:
Emotion is the power which attracts. Your emotions are created by your thoughts.
If I say “Be Happy,” notice you can grin, but it won’t actually make you happy. You need to think of an event which makes you happy and THAT will lead to an emotional response which we call happiness.
Thought itself is pure energy. Every thought you have, have ever had, or ever will have is creative and produces energy. E-motion is energy in motion. It is the by-product of those thoughts.
This energy you create goes out into the universe and because like-attracts-like, you attract more of the same frequency of energy. When enough “clumps” of like energy come together, they form matter.
This is the essence behind the Law of Attraction. Read More …
