Lynn Grabhorn's Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting is the perfect complement to The Secret as seen on Oprah and Larry King Live. Though most of us can easily understand the concept of The Law of Attraction, successful implementation remains difficult for many people. Grabhorn's book removes much of the mystery and identifies ways to overcome the biggest stumbling block most people face when first venturing into the world of conscious creation--habitual negative thinking.
The Law of Attraction
Briefly stated, The Law of Attraction declares that like attracts like. The attractive forces are not physical characteristics, but energy characteristics. Everything, you, your chair, the computer screen you're viewing, and the table on which it sits, are just different forms of energy.
We attract objects and circumstances that have the same vibrational frequency we are displaying.
Grabhorn's Four Steps
Grabhorn shows us how to use the Law of Attraction to get what we want in life by following these four steps:
- Identify what you don't want.
- From that, identify what you do want.
- Get into the place of feeling the emotions of what you do want.
- Be open to accepting what the Universe sends you in response.
Two Critical Factors
Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting makes two very important points, factors that are critical to attracting what we want for our lives:
- Most of us are used to focusing on the negatives in our lives: lack of money, relationship problems, unfulfilling work, and health problems. That's what we think about, what we talk about, what we read about in the papers, and what we see on television.
- The power behind the Law of Attraction is centered in our feelings. Though everything we think and talk about sets attraction in motion, those that express very strong emotion and feeling have the most attractive force.
This is why our lives aren't as we would like them to be and why we struggle with implementing the Law of Attraction to get what we want. We habitually focus most of our attention on the negatives of our lives with very strong feelings. The Law of Attraction assures that as we continue to focus on the negatives in our lives we will get more of the same.
Money
Let's take, for example, the subject of money. While intending to attract financial abundance, more money, we tend to make the mistake of concentrating our thoughts and energy on our lack of money. We complain about the cost of living. We declare that if we just had 10% more, everything would be terrific. We think about getting out of debt, getting rid of the old junker car, and finally taking a vacation. All when we get more money.
Without knowing it, we're still focusing our thoughts, words, and feelings on our lack of money. What we attract, therefore, is more lack of money.
The Power of Positive Feelings
Grabhorn suggests that the key to success in having a life we really can enjoy is to strive for positive feelings at all times. Positive feelings generate positive energy, which attracts more positive things into our lives.
We can do this by monitoring how we're feeling. If we're feeling down, blue, angry, or depressed, Grabhorn tells us to call up a memory or image of something that brings good feelings with it. Examples might be: the smile of a child, a pet's friendly greeting, the joy of a special song, or the image of an inspiring natural scene.
Consciously Use The Law of Attraction
Conscious creation is a matter of attracting the things of life we want as opposed to those we don't want. Because we habitually focus on the "don't wants" of life, we tend to attract more of the same. With conscious attention and practice we can re-focus our thoughts and feelings on what we truly want.
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