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!