My LOA Journey, Part 1

There are heaps of books and films showing how and why the Law of Attraction works and teaching how to use it. Here is a list of my personal influences on this path, and following that I’ll expand a bit on each of these influences.


1. Prayer
2. Meditation
3. Group Prayer
4. Healing, Visualizing, Music Therapy
5. Positive Thinking
6. Abundance Consciousness
7. Quantum Physics, What the Bleep Do We Know?
8. The Hidden Messages in Water
9. The Secret
10. Loving What Is by Byron Katie
11. Ask and it Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks
12. Group Manifesting - The Miracle Masterminding Circle

PRAYER: I realized early on that I got what I prayed for, especially if it was a feeling that I wanted. If I wanted to feel better about something or someone and prayed for that, it usually happened right away or within a few days. Prayers for material things were also sometimes granted and they sometimes took a bit longer.

Scientific studies have now proven that prayers for healing are often quite effective.

MEDITATION: The Urantia Book is a book that my parents brought me up with. It says that it is in and through the religions of the world that we come to an understanding of others. It also says that after we pray we should remain for a time in silent receptivity to allow God within us to speak to our listening soul. When I came across meditation for the first time, I thought, that is the same thing! Prayer is us talking to God, and Meditation is allowing God to talk to us (silently). Although not directly related to LOA, meditation clears the mind and makes me feel so good and peaceful and focused that I can go from this state to one of creativity and be more able to manifest. I think that if we try to do it all ourselves, this manifesting stuff, it can get overwhelming and tough. We have to remember that we aren’t really doing it, God is. We have to give ourselves the space and time regularly to connect with God/Spirit/The Universe in whatever way works for us personally to recharge our batteries and then go forth and manifest great things!

GROUP PRAYER: My Mom and I came across Terry Cole Whittaker’s TV show while I was in High School in the Valley (San Fernando that is), and loved her message of “you can have - and you really should have - anything you want!” It was the first time we’d heard abundance consciousness in this spiritual format. She also talked about the power of setting intentions and visualizations as a group, and asked all her viewers to pray for peace on a certain day/time, which we did, and felt part of something really powerful. It seems to be the pattern that when people start exploring Manifesting to achieve their own goals they always end up doing something that also happens to be great for the world!

HEALING, VISUALIZING, MUSIC THERAPY: I read several books on visualizing during my 20’s, including Shakti Gawain, Shirley MacLaine, Silva Mind Control Method, and worked with these somewhat. But just a few years ago in my late 30’s I started doing Kundalini Yoga which besides being wonderful exercise also incorporates breathing, visualizing and music. Combining visualizing with the breath was really powerful for me, and then adding music to that was again a whole new level of making the visualizations more real. Kundalini Yoga teaches you how to visualize!

Through working in the healing arena, through our raw food writings and retreats, I’ve learned through personal experiences a lot about how visualizing affects health, how our emotional energy affects our health, how our relationships and our work and our thoughts all affect out health. Health is wholeness. So when something affects your health, it affects your wholeness, your whole life! Health, Spirit, Mind, Energy, Emotions, Body, Diet, Earth, Others, Work, Play, Love, Life – its all one! The whole universe is interconnected and each cell reflects the whole Universe and the whole Universe is reflected in each cell – or atom perhaps.

POSITIVE THINKING: In my late teens I skimmed through Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich”. An acne doctor also turned me on to a lot of other books about positive thinking and self esteem. It doesn’t seem like it should be so hard, but it is a lifelong journey to learn to, as one centenarian put it, - don’t give that Devil no foothold. In other words if we let negative thinking in it can get a toehold, then a foothold, then can just take over our mind and wreak havoc on our life and our health. Whereas if we hold a positive thought in our mind for a while we start getting really happy and creative and excited! Negative thinking is destructive. Positive thinking is creative.

Of course, sometimes we have to consider our problems and how to solve them. That isn’t negative thinking, although it can be hard work. But if we keep having the same negative thoughts over and over again without being constructive about coming up with a solution, then we can get stuck in “stinking thinking”, “monkey mind”, bad self-esteem, worry, anger, etc....

There are 22 exercises in the book “Ask and it is Given” by Esther and Jerry Hicks that are manifesting exercises. Many of them could also be called positive thinking exercises as they teach us all manner of ways to choose and focus on positive thoughts!

Byron Katie’s book “Loving What is” helped me with getting totally rid of useless draining negative thinking!

ABUNDANCE CONSCIOUSNES: I forget the name of the book, but the main concept in it was to write down what you want to have materially (house, job, relationship, etc...). Then imagine how you will feel when you have that stuff. Now you just had the end goal right there, when you were imagining the feeling! You can have that feeling right now!!! So, you already have what you want!

I’ll finish this article in my next post – off to my T’ae Kwon Do class!

What is The Law of Attraction?

I’m sure we all have different answers to this question. The basic answer is that what you focus on you attract into your life. Simple example, when you are driving and you look at a car in the lane next to you, you start to move towards that car. They teach you this in drivers’ education.

Next question, how do I use the LOA to manifest my dreams? Well, positive thinking is essential. Think big and follow your dreams. The more from the heart it is, the easier it will be to manifest. Be very specific with what you want. Write it down. Focus on it daily. Have faith that it will be. Then let go and let God. You can enhance the effectiveness of The Law of Attraction in your life through applying group energy to your dreams and supporting the dreams of others. That’s all you need to know to begin!

To re-cap in point form....

How to use the LOA to manifest your dreams!

think positive
think big
follow your heart
be specific
write it down
focus on it daily
have faith that it will be
let go and let God
join an LOA manifesting group or dream with a friend/partner/spouse

Coconut Coconut Cream Pleasure

OK, want some pleasure with your pleasure? Try coconut on coconut!

Open a young coconut and drink or set aside the water in it.

Scoop out the meat. Ideally it should be meat that isn't total jelly and not totally hard either, but the sort-of noodley consistency in between. But that's just a matter of finding coconuts at a nice ripe but not too ripe phase. Basically its the luck of the draw. Anyway, any young coconut meat will do otherwise.

Cut up the meat into small bite sizes and season with salt, paprika, and/or any other seasonings you prefer. Some fresh herbs like cilantro or dill could be nice sprinkled on top too.

Now you make a cream from the meat of another young coconut. Storm just invented this cream! He just blended up the coconut meat with a handful of macadamia nuts and a clove of garlic with a titch of the coconut water and it turned out like cream!

So put a few tablespoons of that on it, stir it in, and sit in the sun and totally indulge!!! - And feel sorry for anyone who thinks cooked processed food actually tastes good and has never tasted the Ambrosial Food of Heaven on Earth!!

All raw vegan goodness!

Jinjee

LOA and my Religious Views

I believe the Law of Attraction is a law of physics, rather than spiritual mumbo-jumbo. Just like a magnet attracts metal, our thoughts attract other thoughts. Negative thoughts tend to attract more negative thoughts and positive thoughts tend to attract more positive thoughts. For instance if you are in a fight with your mate, even though it is about one particular issue, suddenly you are swamped with negative thoughts about that person, all the negative things that happened in the past, and then you even start thinking negative thoughts about your life in general. And you can end up depressed. On the other hand when you think a positive thought then more and more positive thoughts can swarm in until you are almost overwhelmed with all the great energy! - I think that's what we call excitement.

But we can train ourselves to respond to a negative thought with a positive one.

Thoughts usually lead to actions. Negative thoughts can often lead to destructive actions. And positive thoughts usually lead to creative actions. This is especially true when the thoughts are repeated often enough, when they become a focus. We are all using the Law of Attraction all the time unconsciously.

I think it is one of the ways that God answers prayers. I think it is a law that He made in order to help us get what we want, to help our free will to be effective, and to allow us to co-create our world with Him.

I believe there are many other natural laws, cosmic laws, laws of physics, and spiritual laws too.

My own religious beliefs are that all religions contain truth but most if not all of the texts were edited by the rulers of the day for political reasons. I believe in accepting all religions. I believe that religious tolerance is one of the most important things we can cultivate for world peace. More than tolerance, I think we need to understand the religions of the world and see where they all are saying the same thing in essence; that all people in the world are loved by God, and that we should be happy and pass that love on to each-other.

I grew up with a book called The Urantia Book which is where I got a lot of my religious philosophy from.

I believe that there has to be a balance between creating and allowing. On the one hand we have to plot our course in life, to use our free will, to do what we love. On the other hand we have to allow God to adjust our course, to pray for God's will to be done in our lives, and to let our needs be spread out before us. If we think we are doing it all, we can become pretty miserable, because we just don't know enough. We don't have enough of the big picture. On the flipside if we are just waiting for God to do everything, waiting for marching orders, we could be waiting forever because I think what He wants is for us to use the free will He gave us. If we were created in His image, we must be little Creators. So it is a dance. A balance. An art. A give and take. A wonderful and exciting journey!