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I wanted to say a few words today about how powerful the simple things in life can be. I am particularly aware today of how we can send out the positive and get it back in spades.

For instance, I have been working recently on taking deep breaths and enjoying the world around me- even as I go through what is usually a very busy, almost hectic day. As I do this I see a marked difference in how people respond to me, and in how the world brings more of the good to my life. As I have been noticing this phenomenon, it has reminded me of the reason that I now am doing the job that I love. And it was all due to the very simple act of sending a thank you note... It is quite a powerful story and I invite you to read the article "Sending a Smile and Getting My Dream Job" at www.lawofattractionenergy.blogspot.com   Then come back and tell me what similar things have happened in your life. Let's create a dialogue of how the law of attraction works in the world, and a template that we can all follow to the life of our dreams.

Namaste and happy reading!

There is a lot of criticism recently about the movie the Secret. The Secret was a movie that was very impactful to me-and I think to a lot of people- because it opened up a conversation and put into words a whole new mindset. Now it is true that many of the ideas in The Secret date back thousands years, and strongly rely on the ideas that were put together by the famous philosopher/thinker Abraham Hicks. But still one cannot deny the power of the tool that finally made these ideas common among the population.

http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/new_workshop/lawofattractionenergy

This is an excerpt from my latest article on Money and The Movie The Secret, presenting the idea that money is NOT the root of all evil. The article is called Money and the movie The Secret: Two Great Tools For a Great Life and I hope you can read it at my suqidoo lens above.

I would also love for you to read about my newest experiment in manifestation at my hub at

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Manifest-Anything-You-Want

Here is an excerpt from that article:

Day 1- Manifesting MY Lean, Mean, Money Makin' Machine

Here is my premise...The physical universe, including our bodies and the things that happen to us, are completely at the mercy of our thoughts, feelings, and energy. This is true whether we are thinking positive or negative. What we think, feel, and believe will become reality in physical space, time, and form.

Happy reading.

In another article on Squidoo entitled On Spirituality, Religion, and Creating Our World, which you can visit at my I was discussing the teachings of Jesus and how they relate to Manifesting. Now I will continue the discussion, and talk about the concepts of Heaven and Hell, and how they relate to The Law of Attraction Energy.

Let us consider that Jesus’ point was not that we become Christians, then get the prize- which is the Kingdom of Heaven. After all there was no such thing as Christianity at the time, so how could he be discussing that. So instead let us suppose that the point Jesus was making was that we become CHRIST-LIKE. The point was that we follow the light of God within us, as taught by Jesus. (And coincidentally as also taught by Ghandi, Buddha, Martin Luther King Jr., and many other great spiritual leaders.) Let us suppose that when we become CHRIST-LIKE, regardless of our religion, we have found eternal life. Because being CHRIST-LIKE, in its highest sense, encompasses our light, and our love, and all that is good and beautiful. And GOD is the life/light/love force in the universe. So he, and we, are eternal.

So to follow this thought further, consider that you can't get away from the God, because God is within. You can't snuff your light out. It is impossible, because God cannot die. But you can hide your light under a bush. And you might do this for quite some time. But no matter what you do, the wick is still there, ready to be lit. Now all of us are made in the image and likeness of God, so all of us, like Jesus, have the ability to come back from the dead and take on other forms. (See my other article mentioned above.) And though it may take many lifetimes to light a particular candle- eventually everyone’s will get lit.

Or said another way: Yes it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than it is for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven. But in GOD’s world- it is easy for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. For God, this is just as easy as walking on water and feeding thousands of people with 7 loaves of bread. So it is easy for a rich man, and for anyone else, to get to heaven because they are in God’s world, and in fact have God within them. So it follows that everyone will get to heaven. It is easy, but Jesus made the good point that hankering for money, and various other vices, all hinder the process.

So then let us discuss ‘judge not that ye be not judged.’ Is there a GOD on high who sends half his children to a burning inferno because of some infraction, or because they did not pay sufficient homage to him? If so, he is unlike any loving father that I know. And in fact this like a pretty archaic idea of GOD- a fear based version that harkens back to the days of sacrificing humans on an alter. No, this is not a divine interpretation of God, but a fear-based, human one. GOD is divine and all-compassionate, so HE does not do that. HE is above such petty meanness. So then who judges all of the various nasty actions and words that humans are prone to?

I put forward that we ourselves, or the God within use, judges us. The God within us- who at some point of resurrection feels and knows our errors and atrocities, is our highest judge. This self-inflicted judgment then becomes a living hell that our loving, peace seeking spirit must somehow wrestle itself out of. Otherwise our spirit will not find peace, or said another way it will not find heaven, it will be in hell.

Can you imagine, for instance, someone like mass-murderer Ted Bundy when he died. Picture him suddenly coming face to face with the spirit of God within him, which he had operated so fully against. Consider that his spirit of God, hidden and dormant in life, came to the forefront when he died. And consider that this God within had full ability to judge his actions- or rather to finally have him see what he did as opposed to the God that is within him. Can you imagine the torture, the torment, and the tearing of his soul? Can you picture the agony, that no outside force needs to administer? There would be no hell, no inferno to match this. For where can a mass murderer find peace?

But I believe that peace does finally come to everyone, some day when we have atoned for our past, and done what is right. Someday peace comes, and heaven comes. And it is not a heaven of ignorance- like the Garden of Eden. But a heaven of knowing and power. It is a heaven where we can say that we have traveled many sordid paths to finally find our God light. And it is good, and we are good. We, like Jesus and GOD, Buddha, and Martin Luther King, are good.

Now many philosophers today say that all the rest- the evil, the meanness, the pain, and the suffering- is all an illusion. It is a bad dream that we will all wake up from some day. Or as Shakespeare, an enlightened soul well beyond his age and time, once said. 'It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.' And I tend to believe that this is true. Everything but love will pass away and we will some day be left with only light and our existence.

So to relate all of this back to the law of attraction energy, in past writings I have said a lot about what causes us to attract the good. I have given you many tools for how to get to that space. So here is one more tool. The concept that we are all peace-bound and working toward heaven, and that we will make it some day, is a positive concept. It includes all people, gives all people grace for imperfection, sets no one above another, and honors a sometimes unseen good in all people. It also scares the heck out of us. We all want to believe that we are above another human being, and we use the fact that we don’t do this or that evil to argue the point. But that very concept of being greater than another person is a force to be opposed. It’s just not true according to any great philosopher or religious teacher that we say we follow. Furthermore it will attract the negative, because it is negative. But living from the point of view that we are all the same, just at various stages of enlightenment, will bring a sort of compassion and love and hope for all of mankind. If we can live there, we will have to attract the good. If we can live there we will, by definition, be living in the “law of attraction energy.”

I want to tell you a bit about my father- who was a happy go lucky person with a constant song in his heart. He never saw the movie The Secret, or went to Yoga classes. He did not read philosophy. And yet he manifested the good around him his whole life long. And when he passed away a week ago Monday I was there with him. I held his hand for a day and a half. He was loathe to let it go. And that time with him- time spent largely in the silence- was both the most heartbreaking and the most love-filled time of my life.

My father spent most of his life singing, dancing, and telling jokes. He lived in what I will call the happy zone, and for the most part life was a gift he opened with zest. So when I speak of how to access the law of attraction energy, I am speaking in some ways about my father, a great role model for me.

So if my father were here he would say, what do you do that makes you happy and gives you peace? For me it is sitting on the edge of the brook with the leaves and squirrels, the moths and butterflies. I watch them all go about their business and I feel peaceful. I can also get in this place through visualizing the above.

I can also access my peaceful self by reading a spiritual book such as "Conversations with God" or Alanon's "Courage to Change." I can get it through listening to beautiful music or looking at lovely artwork. I can read affirmation cards, or meditate on the musings of the famous spiritual teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh.

Peace is a great place to be to attract the good, and so is love. For me the presence of love occurs in the space of other people, such as my children, friends, and family. We may be cuddling watching a movie- or simply talking and listening about what is good in life- or what works- and love becomes present.

And I get into a place of joy by listening to powerful singers such as Cher, Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, or by watching an inspirational movie. I also get there by singing at the top of my lungs to no-one but myself. My dad and I were both aficionados of ‘The Steering Wheel Concert." Today, that is still how I access the law of attraction energy. I sing to anybody or nobody and suddenly I feel good. Now the question is how to you make yourself feel good? And are you willing to take the time to do it. Because if you don't you simply won't have success in attracting what you want to your life.

It is certain that we do not access the Law of Attraction Energy by doing things that drain or upset us, such as being with negative people, or watching sad movies. My dad had this tool down pat and when he watched a movie it was The Sound of Music or Oklahoma. He knew instinctively that negativity was best taken in small, limited doses.

In closing I will say that if you don't do the things that make you feel bad, but rather do the things that make you feel good, you have taken one huge step in manifesting the good things in life. And it is quite possible that this is the biggest step in that endeavor. And you also serve to honor my dad, and keep his spirit alive in us all.

Vist my links above for other great tools and ideas to access the Law of Attraction Energy

I am a positive, 'Law of Attraction Energy' kind of person. I am generally pretty positive and I look for ways to keep myself that way. I have read a lot about the Power of attraction, and often thought that what we need is a nice neat set of tools

for using this law and having it work in our lives. I myself have used a myriad of such tools to keep me in a true and authentic positive mind-set. And in this article and some future ones I will share my tools with you so that you too can use them. My hope is that we can all have the Law of Attraction producing miracles in our lives, all the time.

Now I am big on looking at the state of the body as an access to our state of mind. After all, if our body is a crumpled up heap of aches, pains, and distress- it becomes very hard for us to stay positive. What more often happens is that we paste a smile over our clenched teeth, and that, my friends, is simply icing on a mudpie...and not a cake. So if you want to truly make a difference in your state of mind, look first at your state of body. Here are my tools for how to work on the body to elevate the state of mind.

A) How about laying on a table and relaxing with a deep tissue massage of your choice? This is a great way to let someone else divest you of the physical byproducts of stress, worry, and concern. Plus it feels good.

B) For me a saving grace in the most stressful times of my life has been a method of chiropractic know as 'Network Spinal Analysis.' I always say my personal practitioner is the kindest, gentlest person on earth and the experience heals the mind, body, and spirit- even though the work is physical. For me personally, this work was a saving grace during the most chaotic, stressful periods of my life.

C) Another great form of body work is yoga. Yoga is an age-old form of body work that is slow and methodical ,but has also put many the trained athlete to the test for endurance, strength and stamina. It is a great stress releaser, that you can do it at your own level and pace.

D) Of course you can always ride your bike, swim or shoot some hoops to feel good and elevate your mood. If you like strenuous exercise like pumping iron- be sure to get a massage afterwards so that you do not increase the physical stress on your body, instead of decreasing it.

E) Now if you want to relieve tension and worry, and elevate your mood, from the privacy of your own house, I always suggest a lovely candle-lit bath with the mineral salts of your choice. It's a sure bet and doesn't cost a dime. And if you tell the kids to stay away, you can soak to your heart's content.

Now in this article I only spoke about the physical ways to access the Law of Attraction Energy and out yourself in a positive frame of mind. There are many other, diverse ways which I have experienced, and which have produced miracles in my life. I will talk about these later. Suffice it to say, it is all important that you come to a place of true and real peace, harmony, and happiness. Because if you try to pretend you are there, when you really are not, it is just once again icing on a mudpie. So the trick is to be insightfully honest with yourself when you are not in a place of joy, even as you look at how to get there.

If you want a few more tools to help you access The Law of Attraction Energy, then visit my suggestions in my links.