What's Wrong with "The Secret"

By now, millions of people have seen the hit film "The Secret." A lot of people found it inspiring, and I was one of them, but others have a very valid criticism. The film mainly focuses on material abundance, without addressing the issue of inner peace and fulfillment, which is what everybody is really looking for.

As a life coach, I hear all sorts of ideas from people about what they think will make them happy, but sometimes they don't have a clue. They imagine that it is the outward circumstances of their lives - the partner, the job, the financial security, the education, or any number of other things.

In actual fact, according to Law of Attraction, we have to find the happiness first, and THEN all the outer stuff naturally flows to us. The "stuff" is a natural consequence of living joyfully in the moment. So why not start right now?

Can you find something to appreciate? Can you feel the wonder of life flowing through your body? Are you aware of simply being - right here - right now? If so, you have found the real Secret. Everything else is just frosting on the cake!

When Law of Attraction Seems Not to Work

Sometimes it seems like you are doing all the "right" things - focusing on what makes you happy, looking for things to appreciate, getting clear about what you want, finding ways to relax and enjoy life, but still things don't seem to be improving in your life. You start to think, "This LOA stuff is a bunch of hooey," and you start sliding back into your old negative habits. But all the while, the Universe was lining things up just the way you wanted them. They were on their way, but you lost faith.

That's when things start shifting back to the way you DIDN'T want them to be. We live in a dimension of time, so we have to be patient. We have to believe in possibilities that have not yet manifested in our experience. We have to wait and hold the positive energy until things begin to shift, and KEEP holding the positive energy for the rest of our lives, until it becomes a habit. THEN Law of Attraction really kicks into high gear. Synchronicity happens right and left. Life just seems to get better and better.

So I always tell my coaching clients, "Keep focusing on what you can admire, appreciate, and enjoy. At first it may seem like nothing is happening, so you have to hang in there for a couple of weeks at least, maybe even a couple of months. Things WILL change for the better, but you have to shift your focus to stay as positive as possible over and over again each day. Right now you are still living what you attracted in the past. That will change the more you change the way you think and feel, but it sometimes takes a little while for the universe to line things up the way you want them. Trust. Believe. Relax. Enjoy."
And I would add "Appreciate, Appreciate, Appreciate."

Faery Healing

I haven't told many people about this, because - well, I don't like to appear too "out there." I mean, I have a professional image to uphold. Still, it did happen, and I think I owe it to the faeries to thank them publicly.

This happened several years ago. I had a bladder infection that kept me in bed with a fever for a couple of days. If you've never had one, pray that you don't. It was very uncomfortable! At the time I was living in the country and outside my window there was a beautiful, big oak tree where owls would often sit, hooting in the night. But this isn't about the owls.

It was twilight, that magical time of day when everything seems to hush. I was lying in bed resting and wondering how much longer it would take for my bladder infection to clear. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, a flurry of faeries flew in through my open window. Maybe a dozen. It all happened so fast that I couldn't count them. They swirled across my body, right over my bladder, and then circled back out the window.

Now, I have always believed in faeries. After all, there are stories about them in just about every culture on the planet. But I had never actually seen them before. They looked like small flying beings made of white light, though I've heard that they can appear in various ways. I wished that they would have stayed longer, but they had done their work.

I went to sleep soon after that and woke up completely healed the next morning! I have no doubt that the faeries played a part in my healing. Why they chose to come flying in through my window at that particular time, I cannot say, but I'm glad they did! It is a gift I will never forget.

In return, it seems that the least I can do is add my testimonial to the thousands of others out there. Faeries are real. I've seen them with my own eyes - and no, I wasn't hallucinating. Since that time, I have often been aware of the faeries and nature spirits all around us, though I haven't seen them quite so distinctly as then. Usually they appear as part of nature - faces peering out of bushes, stones, mountains, or as dancers in a stream.

Faeries are part of the natural world, but they are often unseen because they exist in a higher vibration than we do. Our linear, left-brain consciousness usually deletes them before we are even aware of what we have seen. If we shift to right-brain consciousness, however, we can experience a much wider view of reality that includes faeries, angels, and telepathic communication, among other things.

The faeries are always at work helping plants, animals, and humans. We can call on them for help with healing, gardening, and even finding lost pets. They appreciate our respect, but we have to earn their trust. They are much more likely to help those who love them. Aren't we all?

In order to foster more love and understanding between humans and the faerie realm, I have created a website just for the faeries and nature spirits. Visit FairySource.com for more faerie magic!

George Green on Surviving Economic Collapse

Watch this video for an interesting perspective on economic health and law of attraction.

George Green is a retired investment banker, finance adviser to Jimmy Carter's campaign, and a business man with many contacts in high places. He gives sage advice on gold, silver, the dollar and Euro, and the current economic crisis. Looks like it's time to get serious about barter!

http://www.consciousmedia.tv/news.htm

Law of Attraction - The Proof is in the Pudding

Prove it! That's what many people are saying about the Law of Attraction, now that it has finally hit the mainstream media. They don't believe that the universe really works that way, because they can't see the evidence. They ask, "If this stuff really works, then why are children starving? Did they want to attract that? And why are there victims of crime? And what about all these homeless people we see on our city streets? Did they really choose to attract that? And why?"

I have wondered about this myself in the past, but now, after consciously working with the Law of Attraction for about 15 years, it all makes perfect sense to me. Now I know the answer to these questions. The answer is this: Everyone is getting what they predominantly think about. When people see poverty and homelessness around them and continue to focus their attention on it, they attract the reality of poverty and homelessness to themselves. They may eventually become homeless, or they may run into homeless people more and more.

Children often pick up the fears and beliefs of their parents and other people around them. A mother who is fearful of birth defects may attract a child with birth defects. It may not even be a conscious fear. Maybe she once saw a child with a birth defect and connected that with the idea that it wasn't safe to have a child. This new belief continued to operate under the surface until her own child was born with a defect. That then supplied "proof" of her belief that it was not safe to have a child. If another child grows up in poverty and keeps focusing attention on poverty, more poverty will be the result in that child's experience. If children grow up in a war zone and keep thinking about war, they will continue to experience more war.

The funny thing about the Law of Attraction is that it will "prove" you right, even when you are wrong! If you really believe you can't walk, you will not be able to walk, even if there is nothing wrong with your legs. If you believe you can't get a job, you won't be able to get a job. On the other hand, if you really believe you can make a million dollars, starting from nothing, you can do that, too. Many people have done it, so obviously it is possible - because they believed they could do it.

In a way it is great that everyone can "prove" whatever they believe to themselves. You always get to be "right" in one sense. But if you want to be happy, that is something else again. Happiness depends on what you think about. When you think about things that make you feel happy... which are different for each of us... then you will attract more and more happiness into your experience. Of course, many of us have a very bad habit of thinking about things that don't make us happy. We watch the news, we listen to gossip, we go to horror movies, or we talk about our aches and pains. All those things are ways of focusing our thoughts on things that may be "real," but they are not things that make us feel happy. And as long as we are thinking about them, we are attracting more of those negative things we are thinking about.

Unless we stop and observe the way our own thoughts, and the thoughts and words of those around us, are reflected in the reality we each experience, we will never see the connection. And we have to look at it over time, because the Law of Attraction rarely gives us instantaneous results. It could take months or even years for habitual thoughts to change the reality we experience. Unless we are really paying attention, this can make it difficult to see cause and effect. We have to look at our predominant thought patterns as they play out in our future experiences.

To change these patterns, we need to make a leap from our old habits of focusing on negative thoughts to new habits of giving our attention only to what makes us happy. But, unless we are really paying attention, we can think happy thoughts for days on end without noticing much positive effect in our outer reality. So we have to carry on, giving the process the benefit of the doubt even when we don't yet see the results.

This is where we really have to trust our intuition. If you are skeptical, but you are still reading this, that is because your intuition is telling you there is something to this Law of Attraction stuff. There is a part of you that is prompting you to listen up and pay attention... while another part (your conscious, logical mind) may be telling you it is a bunch of hogwash. But your logical mind only knows what it has been taught. It can't think "outside the box." Your intuition knows much more. It knows everything you will ever need to know, but you have to trust it. The more you trust it, the stronger and more reliable it will be.

Then you have to use your imagination, because your present reality is probably not exactly where you want to be. If you keep thinking about where you are, you will attract more and more of what you are already experiencing. If you want to make positive changes, you have to put most of your thoughts on where you want to be. Keep imagining things that make you feel happy and you will be on your way to fulfilling your dreams. Then you will prove the Law of Attraction to yourself.

In a few days, or a few months, or even a few hours, you will start to see signs that your dreams are getting closer. Maybe someone will say something out of the blue, or you will see a picture in a magazine, or you'll see some other sign of what you have been thinking about. Then you will know that things are starting to shift toward what you want. Even something as small as finding a dime on the sidewalk, can be a sign that you are starting to attract more money. A song on the radio that stirs your heart could be a sign that romance is on its way. A chance conversation overheard in a restaurant could be a clue to finding the solution to a health problem. You never know what it will be, but if you are paying attention you will notice that the universe is starting to line things up in the direction of your thoughts.

If you continue to hold those positive thoughts, everything you want will eventually come to you. One good way of keeping your mind on the positive is to notice and appreciate the good things already in your life. When you feel gratitude and appreciation, you are automatically focused on what you want. You will keep attracting more of that. Sometimes it is easier to look around and find something to appreciate than it is to imagine something that doesn't yet seem real. Your conscious mind will be more cooperative when it can observe the beauty, love, and abundance that is already present in your life.

Nobody else can prove any of this to you, because whatever you believe is all you can see... which ought to be proof enough in and of itself. But for most people what they experience is just what they call "reality." If you want to experience a different and better version of reality, you have to step out of your habitual thought patterns... take a chance and give it a try... not just for a few hours, or a few days. You have to make a commitment to your own happiness and well-being, so that nothing is worth paying attention to unless it makes you feel uplifted, joyful, happy, calm, peaceful, safe, and secure.

Try it for a month and I guarantee that you will see positive proof of the Law of Attraction. And if you like pudding, think about pudding a lot... you'll find pudding popping up in the strangest places. And there you'll have it. The proof in the pudding!

Color Healing Therapy

I just spent the weekend in San Francisco at the New Living Expo. What a lot of stimulation and information to take in at once! On top of that I had an atlas adjustment that unleashed a major detox process and left my neck feeling very sore... even though I could immediately feel positive changes, like clearer sinuses, better hearing, and more balanced posture.

The next day I was drawn to wear blue. I took out a teal blue skirt that I wear very rarely and put on periwinkle blue top that didn't even go together with the skirt, but it FELT really good. I didn't even think about why until later. I was just following my feelings.

The next morning I couldn't imagine wearing that outfit. I was drawn to red and pink, and my usual dark velour pants (which have almost become a uniform for me!). Then I remembered Steven Halpern's talk at the Expo. He showed a DVD of chakra colors along with their tones. C + red for the base chakra, D + orange for the polarity - 2nd chakra, E + yellow for the solar plexus - 3rd, F + green for the heart - 4th, G + sky blue for the throat - 5th, A + indigo for the third eye - 6th, B + violet for the crown - 7th chakra.

As I was watching the colors come up on the screen, I was surprised that he used a yellow that looked very greenish to me. At the end of the DVD Steven said that the yellow was actually a true yellow, but it had looked greenish to him also. The reason for this was because all the stimulation of the Expo was causing us to look for balance by moving upward in the spectrum. So our eyes/brain added more green to the yellow than was really there.

I thought that was very interesting, but didn't think any more about it until the morning after I had worn the blue skirt. I suddenly realized that even the day after the Expo, there was a part of me that was still wanting to add more blue to balance my energy. Blue and yellow make green, by the way, so the green I had seen the day before was really a move toward blue.

What all this means to me is that, even when we don't consciously know it, we subconsciously look for and create the colors that will bring us into balance... and that is what healing is all about. As a visual artist/painter, I use healing colors in my paintings, particularly ethereal, translucent colors that uplift the vibrations of the viewer.

It is interesting that we have the saying "true blue." Could it be that my Inner Being was sifting through all the marketing hype and chit chat of the Expo to find what was true?

Also interesting is that blue is the throat chakra color. The throat is where we speak our truth when we are in integrity. Maybe that is why we have so much blue stretched over us in the sky... our blanket of truth.

Why Isn't the Law of Attraction Working?

I've closed my Heal It All Blog, so I've transfered a few articles here so they don't disappear. If you are looking for information on the Law of Attraction, I think you will find them interesting.

Ok - you've seen "The Secret." You've heard about the Law of Attraction. You've tried it and it just doesn't seem to work. All these other people say it works for them, but it doesn't work for you. What's wrong?

Believe me, I know how you feel. I started learning about the Law of Attraction about fifteen years ago, and it took me a long time to really get the hang of it. I remember feeling frustrated, angry, and confused when I tried to apply the Law of Attraction to my own life, particularly in the area of money! I had listened to the Abraham-Hicks tapes and read their books, but somehow the information wasn't helping me attract the money I wanted.

I spent quite a few years living hand-to-mouth, usually making barely enough to pay my bills, but never enough to thrive financially. But one day I finally got it and everything changed. Well, it wasn't "one day." It was actually a 90 day process that I put myself through. I even wrote a book about it, called Money Magic! - 90 Days to Prosperity in YOUR Hands.

I was unemployed at the time, and I decided that I was going to figure out this manifestation thing once and for all. I set my intention to have $3,000 in savings by the end of 90 days, WITHOUT getting a regular job. I succeeded! In fact, ever since then, money has flowed easily and abundantly into my hands whenever I want it. All I had to do was change the way I was "vibrating" about money.

What is "Vibrating?"
Actually, most things in my life have gone pretty well. I've always been healthy, generally happy, and I've had fulfilling relationships with friends and family. So in those areas my vibration was aligned with my desires. I was attracting what I wanted. But when it came to the subject of money, my circuits got jammed and everything went haywire. Even when I had a good income, there were so many expenses that I was always feeling on the edge of financial disaster.

It is that FEELING that kept me in dire financial straits. The FEELING is the vibration. It's how your energy is vibrating at an emotional level. There are instruments that can measure it, but you can also feel it in your body. Your stomach may feel heavy, your muscles tight, or your head may ache. It could even be as subtle as a shift in energy levels, a sense of dread or hopelessness. Any feeling you would call negative is creating a vibration that keeps you from attracting what you want.

So How Do You Change Your Feelings?
It isn't always easy to change your feelings at first. We all have deeply-ingrained habits and subconscious beliefs that often control the way we feel. Fact is, the Law of Attraction is working all the time. It is attracting at the level of your feelings (your vibration), which may be very different from your conscious intention. You may think you want more money (or whatever), but subconsciously your actual focus (vibration) may be on your lack of worthiness, or a belief that you don’t deserve abundance. You could even have a subconscious fear of success in general.

Yeah, it can be quite a mess! It was for me. I had so many limiting beliefs about money and my own self-worth (which is of course connected with financial worth), that I wouldn't have been able to attract money if I was sitting on a million dollars. But I decided I was going to change that, and that's the first step. Making the decision, or setting the intention, gives your subconscious mind the message that things are about to change.

Clear Your Negative Blocks With EFT
After that, it is simply a matter of paying attention to how you FEEL and ferreting out all the conscious and unconscious beliefs that keep you stuck where you are. In EFT we call them “tail enders.” They are more powerful than all the conscious visualizations and focusing exercises you may have tried in your efforts to use the Law of Attraction in your life.

When brought to conscious awareness, it is easy to neutralize these "tail enders" with EFT. Guilt, fear, false beliefs, and shame get in the way of your conscious use of the Law of Attraction, because the Law of Attraction responds to your vibration, rather than your conscious thoughts and words. Once you clear these limiting factors and get in the "happy habit" (always looking for ways to feel more positive), the door is wide open to let in everything you desire!

Manifesting Money Fast

Wow! Money Magic Coaching sure has it's perks. I had a client the other day who wanted to clear some of her money issues. Who doesn't? So I went through my coaching process with her. We did some EFT to clear a few of her limiting beliefs about money and her feeling of deserving. Then we talked about Law of Attraction and how the way we FEEL about money will either open the door to let it in or close it tight to keep it out. All the while I was totally and joyfully focused on helping her get through her issues around money. She had a big smile on her face at the end of our session, and I could tell she was on her way to improving her finances.

Meanwhile, strange things were in the works. I had recently sent in my annual tax payments, and I actually felt pretty good about doing my part to help build roads, support education, and feed hungry children. All the while I was maintaining a very positive feeling about money, my income level, my ability to pay my bills and still have money left over for having fun, and I even started planing a European vacation.

Here's the strange part. I went to my P. O. box today and found a state tax return for MORE than I had paid in taxes! What the heck? And I don't mean the six hundred dollar check that Bush keeps talking about. This was totally unexpected - which just goes to show that even focusing on somebody else's abundance can open your door to receiving. Helping my client to focus on the positive things about money triggered an unexpected influx of money in my own life. Now that's my kind of job!

If you are interested in learning more about how I "pulled myself up by my bootstraps" and shifted out of poverty consciousness, get yourself a copy of my Money Magic! manual. Money was once the biggest source of struggle and anxiety in my life. Now Money is my friend. Thank you Money!