The Only One Who Can Stop You Is You

Nothing and no one can stop you from creating the life you desire. Ultimately, the only one who can really stop you is YOU and your own limiting beliefs.

The truth is, we can create anything we desire, and it doesn't have to take a lot of effort and work. However, if we think it takes a lot of effort and work to get what we want, then our life is going to be a struggle. The idea that it takes effort and work to get what we want is a limiting belief.

The Law of Attraction or getting what you want in life is as simple as this: Choose what you want and believe you are going to get it. With our conscious mind we focus on what we want. Then our subconscious mind goes to work to figure out the HOW.

Our biggest problem is accepting the simplicity of it all. Most of us have been taught life is more complicated than that. The idea that it is difficult or complicated to create what we want is another limiting belief.

Now, you can't get started until you know exactly what you want. If have difficulty with deciding what it is that you really want just choose SOMETHING.

In Beyond Positive Thinking, Dr. Robert Anthony writes,

"The important thing is to choose something. Just get started. If it's the ‘wrong' thing, you will find out and then you can make corrections...Affirm the specific thing that you want to be, to do, and to have. Once you have (done that), your subconscious will ...support you in creating what you want."

(Copyright © 2007 By Dan Forbes. All Rights Reserved.

How To Attract a New Car Into Your Life

I started to name this post, "Law of Attraction: 'We become what we think about all day long' - Emerson" But then I thought I'd get right to the nitty-gritty with the headline. Do you want a new car, more money, a happier life? Then read this post...

Our minds are the most powerful machines on earth. Learn how to control your mind and you will have the key to your life.

Your subconscious mind will achieve anything you believe to be true for you. The key is that we have the right beliefs. Dr. Emile Coue used autosuggestion in his clinic in France. He had his patients repeat this statement: “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” It had amazing results because of the constant repetition.

Affirmations work on the theory of displacement. You can demonstrate this by taking a glass of water and adding food coloring. If you add red food coloring the water will be turned red. However, if you hold that full glass of water under the faucet and start running clear water into the glass, eventually the red water will be displaced with the clear water.

When you displace negative, unproductive, unworkable thoughts with positive, productive, powerful thoughts, the same thing happens. You don’t have to focus on getting rid of the limiting beliefs. You merely need to focus on thinking about the new positive beliefs that support getting what you want instead of what you don’t want.

Emerson said, “We become what we think about all day long.” The important thing is that we can control what we think about through positive self-talk or affirmations. Using affirmations is one of the easiest ways to change our lives. However, most people don’t know how to use affirmations correctly.

TWO KEYS TO USING AFFIRMATIONS CORRECTLY:

1. Combine your affirmation with imagery or visualization. Hold the thought in your mind until it creates a mental picture or image. Experience it in your mind. Affirmations are the thoughts you choose to think about. Imagery goes a step further and generates emotion and belief. Visualization creates beliefs and attitudes without the actual event having taken place.

2. Put as much emotion into your imagery as possible. Create excitement, desire, and enthusiasm. Run the picture over and over again in your mind and experience the feeling. New thoughts programmed with repetition, and imagery become dominant thoughts. Dominant thoughts become our reality.

The concepts I am writing about comes from Dr. Robert Anthony’s book, “Beyond Positive Thinking.” Here are some other points he makes:

1. “The key is to be able to picture or imagine the end results so vividly that it appears real.” Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it will work to bring it to pass. If we supply the end result that we want to achieve, our subconscious will supply the “how to.”

2. “The aim of affirmation and visualization is to evoke the feeling that the goal has already been achieved.” If you can create this feeling, you will attract the result you want.

3. “If you do not put yourself in the picture, you may not be in the end result.” Always put yourself in the picture. See yourself accomplishing the goal or behavior. If you can’t see yourself being, doing, or having it, you won’t.

For example, imagine you want a new Chrysler Crossfire convertible. Every day you visualize the car and faithfully put lots of emotion into your affirmation with imagery and repetition. Suddenly, a new Chrysler Crossfire comes into your life. You look through the window and there it sits ---in your neighbor’s driveway. You now have a new convertible in your life, but you are not in it. Make sure to put yourself in the picture.

On my Vision Board is a picture of me standing beside a silver Chrysler Crossfire convertible. I rented it while visiting Las Vegas and decided I would love to own one. So I added it to my board and affirmed, visualized, and thought about owning and driving the car I desired. A few months later I owned a black Chrysler Crossfire. I keep a picture of it on my Vision Board to remind me of the power of affirmations.

What You Believe You Can Do, You Can

What we believe we are, we are. What we believe we can do, we can. What we believe we can have, we will. This is the way the Law of Attraction works in our lives. It is as certain as the Law of Gravity.

Prior to May 6th, 1954, no one in sports believed it was possible to run a mile in under four minutes. Hundreds of runners had attempted to break the four minute mark to no avail. Because no one believed it was possible, it became reality.

But there was one runner who believed differently. He truly believed that he could break the four minute mile. On that day in May of 1954, Roger Bannister ran the mile in three minutes and fifty nine seconds.

Then an amazing thing happened. Everyone’s belief changed. Now it was believable to finish the mile in less than four minutes. By the end of the next year, every major professional runner had run the mile in under four minutes. How? Because they believed it once Roger Bannister proved it could be done.

Our self-limiting beliefs hinder us from accomplishing our goals. So before anything else, when you set a goal you must BELIEVE that you can accomplish it. Once you believe it, you can see yourself accomplishing it, and then you will. The HOW will find a way.

You can heal a broken relationship…if you believe you can. You can overcome a defeating habit…if you think you can. You can have a strong, healthy body…if you think you can.

Go ahead; create your own magnificent goal. You can do it!

The Law of Attraction: Why Goals Don’t Work

Dr. Robert Anthony, in his book, Beyond Positive Thinking, writes about goals and the importance of “positive feedback.” He proposes that the primary factor in the successful use of goals is positive feedback. Without it our goals don’t work.

When the goal-setter fails to receive any positive feedback he or she soon gives up.

In my office I have a Vision Board on one wall. It’s a simple cork board with pictures, notes, and visual reminders of my be, do, and have goals. It is my vision of what I want to be, what I want to do, and what I want to have.

Each day I take a moment to look at my Vision Board and feel the good feeling of accomplishing my goals. It’s amazing to see these goals fulfilled.

My Vision Board helps keep me focuses. That’s important because what we think about comes about. What we focus on, we create in our lives.

Dr. Anthony suggests keeping a notebook that lists our goals and the obstacles we face along the way. It is our positive feedback notebook.

Here are few suggestions:

1. Post a Vision Board and add pictures and visuals that represent your goals.

2. Spend a few moments each day looking at your Vision Board and ask, “What will it feel like to reach these goals?” Imagine yourself living your dreams.

3. Buy a notebook and write down your goals, including the obstacles you have to overcome along the way.

4. As you reach your goals, make notes in your notebook and then review them from time to time.

5. Keep adding to your list of accomplished goals. Every time you look at it, you’ll gain more and more confidence in your ability to reach your goals.

I wish I had started such a notebook years ago. I think of the hundreds of goals I’ve set. Some I reached, some I didn’t. If I had recorded how I overcame obstacles in the past, I can only imagine how that information could help me today. If I had recorded the celebration of goals reached, my confidence today might be much higher.

So, I encourage you to do two things today:
1. Erect a Vision Board. Put it somewhere that you’ll see it every day.
2. Buy a notebook. Write down your goals and start giving yourself some positive feedback.

Goals don’t work for some people because they don’t create any positive feedback. Your goals will work for you because you are going to take action today, right?

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