Put the wine, celery, sliced tomatoes, capers and sugar into a saucepan and season. Bring to the boil and simmer for about 30 minutes. Add chicken pieces and continue simmering for about 20 minutes more, until the chicken is well heated through. Serve with rice, couscous or noodles. Serves 4.
One of the biggest mistakes that you can make when starting out on the road to abundance and fulfilment of all aspects of your life is to overlook the simple components of emotion and energy in your intentions. Find out here about emotions, energy and the concept of polarity; the combination will pay huge dividends in your manifestation.
The components of an intention
Each time you form an intention, your intention has two primary components.
The first component is the content of the intention. The content is the information part of your desire. It is whatever you decide you want, such as a new career, a better relationship, or extra money. This part is pretty straightforward.
The second component of an intention is the energy you infuse into the intention. Some people describe this as a feeling, like passion or gratitude, but the feeling is actually the result of the energy, not the energy itself. However, you know there is energy in your intention when you connect strong feelings to it.
Failures with the Law of Attraction
People complain that they have dutifully and correctly applied the Law of Attraction, but their intentions are just not manifesting. Stubborn believers may continue beating their heads against the wall, using the same ineffective approach even though it generates no results week after week, and they realize it in their hearts. Others give up within a matter of hours when their grand scheme fails to manifest, concluding that the whole Law of Attraction concept is a sham.
So what is the most common mistake of all?
Content alone is not enough
People mistake content for complete intentions. The problem is that content alone is not enough because energy is an essential component of your every intention?
Great content without energy is an intention that will not manifest you anything but frustration and disappointment.
If you are worrying over the content of your intentions, you are like a writer nitpicking the wording of a private journal entry that no one else is going to read. It just does not matter.
What is the energy component of your intention?
Many people refer to energy as the emotional juice you bring to an intention. That is part of it, but strong emotions are the result, not the cause, of that energy.
If you want to see some high-energy intentions, look no further than children. They are intention and manifestation masters. When they really want something, there is no mistaking it. They will ask for it, they will jump up and down, demand it and they will drive everyone crazy expressing their desires. And assuming they do not give up, children are pretty good at manifesting what they want.
What kind of energy do you bring to your intentions? Do you speak of them like you are talking about a piece of insignificance? Or are you so excited that you are just exploding with enthusiasm?
I’m not suggesting you should behave like a child throwing a tantrum, but if you get more excited about the coming weekend than you do about your intention, the weekend will be the only thing you get.
Emotions measure your intentional energy
Strong emotions are the result of energy, not the cause of it. The value of emotions is that they let you know how much energy you have managed to Law of Attraction into your intention. If you are so enthusiastic about your intention that people keep telling you to shut up about it, you clearly have put plenty of energy behind it.
So what is the real source of this energy then?
The source of this energy is actually the universe itself. The energy is already there; always has been and always will be. You just need to connect some of it with your intention.
Consider how electricity works. The electrons are already sitting there in the wires of your home, and they start flowing when you throw the switch to complete the circuit, thereby creating a current and providing usable electrical power to your appliances.
Your intentions work much the same way. The energy is already there. You just need to get the current flowing in the right direction. And this has virtually nothing to do with the actual content of your intentions. Electricity does not care whether it is powering a computer or a radio, nor does intentional energy care whether you are building a business or desiring a new house.
Polarity
So how do you get this energy current flowing? First you need to understand the concept of polarity, using a conceptual example of electrical flow:
Imagine a battery with two terminals which are polar opposites of each other, one holds a positive potential and the other a negative potential. If you connect the battery up to a circuit comprising a resistor, electrons will flow in one direction through the resistor back to the battery, creating a current. If you hook the battery up the other way around, you will reverse the flow of electrons through the resistor, thereby creating an identical current flow but in the opposite direction.
Now what if you wanted to increase the current flowing through your circuit? You could do that by adding more batteries? But in order for this to work, the batteries must be aligned to create a current in the same direction. If you put batteries into a device with some facing the correct way and some facing the wrong way, the device will not work because the current will not flow.
So what does this have to do with intention and manifestation? Well, the energy you apply to your intentions also has polarity, much like a battery. It can flow one way or the other way. You’ll know you have a strong intentional current when you experience strong emotions. No emotions mean you have no current.
Many people prejudice their intentional energy flow by trying to use both polarities in the same circuit. You can not do that and expect to get good results with the Law of Attraction. It just will not work. You must use either one polarity or the other, and you must remain congruent in your usage.
You should now have some insight into the components of emotion and polarized energy in your intentions, leading to successful manifesting everytime.
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Feelings are a natural response to our thoughts and intentions. You do not really choose our feelings directly. Our feelings are a feedback mechanism. They indicate whether you are moving into alignment with our true desires (positive feelings) or out of alignment (negative feelings).
You should feel good when you are moving towards what you want, and feel bad when you are moving away from what you want. And that movement is more about thought and intention than it is about action.
Using Feelings as feedback
The way to deal with negative your feelings is to trace them all the way back to their source. That source will always be found in your thoughts and intentions. Ask yourself, “Which of my thoughts and intentions are giving rise to these feelings?” and you should be able to eventually find the answer. You can then find where you are out of alignment with what you really want. Negative feelings reveal that you are moving away from your true desires instead of towards them, so you do your best to acknowledge and accept your true desires and to align your thoughts with them.
There are a couple different processes you find effective here. The first is called journaling, where you write down and clarify your negative feelings and then figure out which of your thoughts are causing them. The second process is conversation. You may say to a friend or partner, “I am feeling disturbed, but I am not sure why? Will you help me figure this out?” Then you talk for a while and eventually get to the bottom of it.
Identifying the source of your feelings
If your antennae are sensitive and emotional, the feelings you experience may not be your own. For example, if a close relative feels great anxiety, one or both of you may feel intense negative emotion for no apparent reason. This can seemingly come out of nowhere and you struggle to think why you suddenly feel like that.
Most of the time, your feelings arise from your own thoughts. Through journaling or conversation, you can track them to the source. Invariably this reveals you have been inadvertently moving away from something you want. The negative emotions are a way for your true desires to get your attention.
Walkthrough your feelings
Suppose you sit down to work one day, and you just cannot seem to get anything going. You feel no passion for what you are doing, your work seems really tedious, and do not feel motivated to do anything. Maybe you succumb to this pattern for a few days. Then you feel even worse because you are not getting anything done.
In such situations you need to stop and track those feelings back to the source. Eventually you will find the unacknowledged desire that is the cause of the state.
If you acknowledge the desire you may come into better alignment with it. But there may still be a gnawing feeling of negativity that you are missing something. Another round of introspection may bring up more revelations.
Continuing to use feelings as feedback, keep listening and taking action, noticing what works (positive feelings) and what doesn’t work (negative or neutral feelings). The pattern of the true desire should begin to emerge.
As you keep making changes to bring yourself into alignment with your true desires, your baseline emotional state becomes increasingly positive.
Eventually those negative feelings will return, indicating that yet another desire has surfaced that you must attend to. Negative feelings are not negative; they are an indication that you are ready to manifest a whole new desire. As soon as you recognize that, it is easy to get moving in the right direction, and it feels good to do so. The universe will drop the appropriate opportunities right into your lap. The phone will ring, or a friend will tell you about something at just the right time. All you have to do is keep saying yes as long as it keeps moving you in the direction of more positive feelings. Taking these steps is actually very easy because you are simply following the trail to more positive emotional states. It is resisting the steps that is hard.
Negative feelings are a call to action
Negative feelings mean you are going the wrong way. Your current reality is no longer a match for you, and it is time for you to experience something new. This must be a good thing, so do not worry when you notice you are feeling bad. It just means you want something better or different. Do not dwell on negative feelings, instead go into detective mode, and figure out why you are feeling bad. It is because you want something new that you do not yet have yet, and at the same time you are stubbornly resisting what you want by failing to fully align your vibrations with it. Do not ignore your desires, or those negative feelings will only grow stronger and louder until you have to listen or the situation forces change.
Often what traps you in negative emotion is that deep down you know what you want, but you do not think you can get it. Sometimes you also do not feel you deserve it. So you tell yourself maybe you should not desire it. This is a mistake. it never works. You cannot NOT want what you want. If you want it, you want it. Trying to deny your desires is only going to frustrate you. You must do the exact opposite of that.
Summoning an energy of desire
When you want something, really want it. Let that marvellous feeling of desire permeate your entire being, until you are almost ready to explode from the energy! Desire should feel good. This is how to get yourself aligned with what you want. This is what activates the Law of Attraction and helps manifest what you want. This is also what activates your creativity and summons inspired action to help you get there even faster.
What you want to summon here is not exactly a thought, a feeling, or an action. Some people call it a vibration. That is pretty close to what it feels like. To some it is a sensation of being charged with positive energy.
Align yourself with your desires, and allow
The receiving and manifesting part is not up to us so much; your part is simply to admit what you really want, to firmly hold that desire, and to move into full alignment with it. You will begin to feel very good as soon as you start moving in the right direction, which starts with clarifying exactly what you want and then allowing yourself to want it.
If you have been feeling bad of late, recognize that it is because you want something that you do not currently have. Don you want to feel even worse, then try pretending you do not really want it, assume you will never get it, or imagine you do not deserve it. Want to turn it around and feel fantastic, then step fully and completely into that desire, and revel in the energy it summons.
Feeling bad can be a good thing
You are supposed to feel bad when new desires get activated, or at least initially. That emotional nudge is there to get your attention, so you will listen to what you really want and start heading in that direction.
This process does not have to be a struggle. When you move in the direction of your true desires, not the socially conditioned ones, you will feel good. It is also relatively easy. What makes it difficult is when you resist the notion of wanting what you want. Instead of resisting our desires, you need to do the exact opposite, embrace them fully and completely.
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This article gives details of how to replace a central heating circulator pump with fasteners where the nut has stuck or jammed.
The symptom of a failed central heating circulatory pump will be a cycling of the boiler caused by the static water constantly reaching a higher than normal temperature and the internal thermostat cutting in to shut down the boiler. The water may actually start to boil with the sounds transmitted through the system piping. Obviously this is detrimental to the boiler so the system should be shut down immediately.
The circulator pump is attached to the copper pipes each side by a brass gate valve which incorporates a compression fastener joint onto the pipe. Gates valves use a metal to metal closure which is not as efficient as a rubber washer closure as used in stop valves. Be prepared for some continuous water leakage when the pump is removed, if you are not draining the system.
Before you start check the valve spindle glands are not leaking. You can sometimes seal the leak by tightening the encircling nut. Prior to shutting the valve clock wise make sure you clean off any residue on the valve stem as it will be driven into, and may damage the seal when you close the valve. Before you shut the valves apply some silicon grease to the spindle so it is wound down into the seal as you screw the spindle down. This will help if the valve is sticky and aid the water seal. If there is any doubt as to the condition of the valves change them.
The fastener bond between the pump and the gate valve may incorporate a fiber or rubber washer. Both types of washer may stick to the brass of the valve and the steel of the pump. The seal on fiber types may prove really difficult to break as the washer bonds onto the metal surfaces so well that you end up actually shearing the washer leaving parts stuck to the valve and pump.
A fastener with a stuck washer will prove particularly difficult to remove with the pump in situ. To accommodate the pump and valves twisting it may be necessary to loosen the two compression joints so the twisting motion you use to undo the joint is not transmitted to the copper pipe. In this case you will probably need to drain the system if loosening the compression joint by a small amount results in a significant water leak.
The pump to valve fasteners are both right hand threaded, but as one is upside down in relation to the other this means that you can clamp wrenches on them both and turn the nuts in opposite directions, if you cannot hold the pump body firmly. Hold or jam one wrench against some object or helper, whilst putting the turning pressure on the other.
Installers often mount the pump against a wall so you may be restricted as to which flats on the fastener nuts you can use. A shifting wrench with flat parallel jaws is preferred to a Stillson pipe wrench with movable serrated jaws, as latter type may distort the nut and scrape metal off. You may need to loosen the compression fittings as detailed in the next section if access is restricted and you need to turn the whole assembly to locate the wrench on suitable flats of the nut.
Often the fastener nuts will not shift as they have been overtightened and the brass to brass friction, corrosion, jointing compound and a sticking washer make it impossible to shift them in situ. If all attempts to loosen the fastener nuts fail then one option is to slide the pump and valves off the pipes. You will need to do some dismantling of the system to find a combination of compression joints and units that when loosened or removed allow removal of the pump. A three way diverter valve is often located near the pump and this allows removal as the joints are in different planes. Alternatively you may have to cut the pipes or unsolder joints. Be careful when moving the copper pipes as although they are quite malleable they may crack, especially if aged or soldered joints open up.
Once off the system the valve to pump joints at the fasteners may still present a challenge to break. As the pump has failed further dismantling of the unit should not be a problem. The plastic electrical connection box can often be removed leaving at least one flat metal face for clamping. If you need to put extreme torque on the joint fastener nuts use a carpenter’s clamp to hold the pump. This type of clamp has a long bar with holes in which you peg at a suitable distance to clamp the pump. As the clamp has a long bar it can be placed on a flat surface (floor) to counter the twisting motion when you apply pressure on the wrench. You may need to use a Stillson pipe wrench here to get the leverage. Make sure you use the wrench in the correct direction as the action of applying pressure causes the jaws to close up aiding the grip. Careful “tapping” on the end of the wrench with a soft faced hammer may be required. As soon as the fastener joint cracks change to a flat jawed wrench to minimise the chance of further damage or distortion to the fastener nut. There is specialised tool which clamps around all faces of the fastener nut but access (in the in situ scenario) or required torque may preclude its use. If you do not have the necessary tools or value the skin on your knuckles, just buy some new valves.
An alternative is to part replace the pump using the motor section from the new pump on the old valve side of the old pump and leaving the valve joints intact. This should be a last option as you may experience problems in sealing the two parts and manufacturing changes can render the parts incompatible.
When remaking the fastener joint between the pump and the valve use a rubber washer as these are less likely to leak. You should not require jointing compound with the rubber washer, but may with the fiber washer. Fiber washers are inflexible in comparison and are more prone to leak on bad mating surfaces and with misaligned pipes.
Reassemble the compression joints and check for leaks and correct pump operation on all speeds with cold water in the system then recheck with hot water. Note the linseed oil may ooze out of some jointing compounds around the hot compression joints falsely giving the impression of a small water leak.
When the system has settled down, drain off some water from the system and replenish the anti-corrosion fluid.
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If you have a habit of dwelling too much on the same negative thoughts then this method will help. Often there is no outward mental or physical manifestation associated to the negative thought – at this time. It is just negative thinking, like “I am so depressed” or “I hate my job” or “I cannot do this” or “I hate being fat.” Constantly revisiting your negative thoughts can cause the depression which may cause more negative thoughts. So how do you break a bad habit when it is entirely in your mind and not supported by external conditions.
There are quite a number of ways to overcome a negative thought pattern. The basic idea here is to replace the old thought pattern with a new one. Mentally resisting the negative thought will usually backfire, you will simply reinforce it and making it stronger and even worse. The more you run it around your mind in the same way, the stronger the pattern becomes.
Here is the method that is useful to break negative thought patterns. It is basically a combination of the swish pattern from Neuro Linguistic Programming and a memory technique known as chaining
Instead of trying to resist the negative thought pattern, you will be redirecting it. Think of it like a powerful mental exercise. Take the energy of the negative thought and convert it into a positive thought. With a little mental conditioning, whenever the negative thought occurs, your mind will automatically flow into the linked positive thought. It’s similar to Pavlov’s dogs learning to salivate when the bell rang.
Here is how it works:
Assume your negative thought is a subvocalization, meaning that it’s like you hear a voice in your head that says something you want to change, like, “I am an idiot.” If the negative thought is visual (a mental image) or bodily kinesthetic (a gut feeling), you can use a similar process. In many cases the thought will manifest as a combination of all three (visual, auditory, and bodily kinesthetic).
Step 1: Turn the negative thought into a mental image.
Turn the little voice into a corresponding mental picture. For example, if your thought is, “I am an idiot,” imagine yourself wearing a dunce cap, dressed very foolishly, and jumping around like a idiot. See yourself surrounded by other people all pointing at you while you shout, “I am an idiot.” The more the scene is exaggerated and memorable the better. Imagine bright colors, lots of animation and rapid movement. Rehearse this scene over and over in your mind until you reach the point where thinking the negative thought automatically and quickly brings up this outlandish imagery.
If you have trouble visualizing, you can also do the above in an auditory fashion. Translate the negative thought into a sound, such as a song that you sing. Go through the same process with sound instead of imagery. It works either way.
Step 2: Select an empowering replacement thought.
Now decide what thought you would prefer to have instead of the negative one. So if you have been thinking, “I am an idiot,” maybe you would like to replace that with “I am brilliant.” Choose a thought that empowers you in a way that disrupts the effect of the original negative thought.
Step 3: Turn the positive thought into a mental image.
Now go through the same process you used in Step 1 to create a new mental scene from the positive thought. So with the example “I am brilliant,” you might imagine yourself standing tall, posing like a super hero with your hands on your hips. Picture a giant light bulb appearing just above your head. The bulb turns on so bright that it’s blinding, and you see yourself yelling, “I am brilliant!” as loud as possible. Keep rehearsing this scene until merely thinking the positive line automatically brings up the associated imagery.
Step 4: Mentally chain the two images together.
Now take the images in Step 1 and Step 3, and mentally glue them together. This trick is used in memory techniques like chaining or pegging. You want to morph the first scene into the second scene. The NLP swish pattern would have you do a straight cut from one scene to the next, but it is recommended that you animate the first scene into the second. A cut is too sharp for the brain and often won’t stick. So instead pretend you are the director of a movie. You have the opening scene and the closing scene, and you have to fill in the middle. But you only have a few seconds of film left, so you want to find a way to make the transition happen as quickly as possible.
For example, one of the hecklers in the first scene might throw a light bulb at the idiot version of you. The idiot you will catch the bulb and screw it into the top of his head, wincing at the pain. The bulb then grows into a giant bulb and turns on so bright it blinds all the hecklers. You rip off your ridiculous clothing to reveal a shining white robe beneath it. You stand tall like Superman and yell loudly and confidently, “ I am brilliant!” The hecklers fall to their knees and begin worshipping you. Again, the more exaggeration you use, the better. Exaggeration makes it easier to remember the scene because our brains have evolved to remember the unusual.
Once you have the whole scene worked out, mentally rehearse it for speed. Replay the whole scene over and over until you can imagine it from beginning to end in less than two seconds, ideally in under one second. It should be lightning fast, much faster than you would see in the real world.
Step 5: Test.
Now you need to test your mental redirect to confirm it works. When you think the old negative thouhgt, your mind should automatically redirect you to the positive one. Merely thinking the negative thought should rapidly bring up the positive thought. If you’ve done this correctly, you won’t be able to help it. If not go back and practice the set-up until the action becomes second nature. The negative thought is the stimulus that causes your mind to run the whole pattern automatically. So whenever you happen to think, “I am an idiot,” even without being fully aware of it, you end up thinking, “I am brilliant.”
If you’ve never done visualizations like this before, it may take you several minutes or longer to go through this whole process. Speed comes with practice. The whole thing can literally be done in seconds once you get used to it. Don not let the slowness of the first time through discourage you; it will soon speed up with practice. This is a skill can be learned like any other, but it probably will feel a bit awkward the first times you run it.
It is recommended you experiment with different types of imagery. You will likely find some variations much more effective than others. Pay particular attention to association versus dissociation. When you are associated in a scene, you are imagining seeing it through your own eyes, the first-person perspective. When you are dissociated you are imagining seeing yourself in the scene, the third-person perspective. You usually get the best results when you dissociate in both scenes. Your results may vary. You may have to do some mental image work if you switch from dissociated to associated or vice versa, but it can be done with practice.
Within a few days, you should be able to reprogram dozens of negative thought patterns, assuming you have that many. Soon it will became hard for your mind to even produce a negative thought or emotion. Everything will keep getting redirected to the positive side. This form of mental conditioning is especially effective when used to redirect the thoughts of self-doubt to a more can-do mindset.
This type of mental conditioning will give you a lot more conscious control you’re your internal states. It will become so internalized that you just do it automatically without even thinking about it or realising it happened. Your subconscious should take over, so whenever you have a thought like “I cannot,” it automatically gets immediately switched into “How can I?” giving you an immediate advantage. Memory experts similarly report that with practice, techniques like pegging and chaining are taken over by the subconscious, just like riding a bicycle.
Give this process a try the next time you notice yourself dwelling on a negative thought.
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There is a very profound statement that says when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. One of the most powerful changes that you can make in your life is a seemingly simple shift of perspective.
There may have been a catalytic event or sequence of events that caused the radical change in your perspective, and you can actually pinpoint the exact moment when you felt the shift and your attitude and motivation changed. It would have been like flipping a high powered switch, partly in your mind, but mostly in your heart.
Here are the main mindset differences of a change in perspective:
For example before the change you may have been focused on making your business successful. You may have been pursuing lucrative deals, money, and projects as if they were essential things to be acquired as quickly as possible at whatever cost. You may have wanted to create best selling products that sold well in large quantities. Motivation has a lot to do with proving yourself, and making your mark on a particular field. You may have visualised your business’s products getting glowing reviews, and imagined feeling the thrill of them selling in stores around the world.
After the change you will be focused on having fun, enjoying your life, and creatively expressing yourself. You have stopped worrying about whether or not you are ever going to be successful. You may have some tangible proof that you have already failed dismally, and so do not see any point in continuing to pursue the same priorities that led you there to that pit of despair. You will have decided to change the rules and try your hand at the “Just play it for fun” game.
The essential difference between the two mindsets is that in the latter you are not “trying” to make money.
This is a radical view and goes against mainstream business thinking, but you may be in a position, not out of choice, that you want to try this new avenue. The advice may not rest easily with some people but for others it will be a life saving inspiration.
So you have decided to stop trying to make money, and stopped trying to achieve success. You have had some years of failure to convince you that it is time to change your approach, so you need to make immediate changes and have little choice but to try a different path.
When you tried to succeed, a twist of fate, or whatever you like to call it, always showed up to defeat you. You could never defeat it no matter how hard you tried. The harder you tried, the more vigorously you were put down.
So stop trying to win, accept the irony that trying to get a higher financial score may actually doom you to a negative score. The opposing force may always greater than anything you can overcome.
Instead of trying to win, begin to play for a draw. Bypass what seems like obvious avenues for financial advancement, recognizing that they are exactly what you are expected to do. If you had made those self-maximizing moves, you would have simply been knocked back, and you would be worse off than when you started.
In practice what this means is that you stop trying to maximize revenue or profits. In each business transaction, you opt to give more than you receive in return. You always strive to leave extra value on the table.
For example, you may release a product priced at only $9.95, even though you believe a competitive price would be $19.95. You began giving advice for free. You commit to some hours unpaid volunteer work. You make it impossible for your moves to be countered because your moves are not competitive.
Deliberately and intentionally earn less revenue and less profit than you feel you are capable of earning. When it comes to income generation, you hold back when it seems like the logical move would be to advance. When you are expected you to play to win, you actually play for a draw.
When you played to win, you may have lost for significant amounts of time. You may have never actually won. Even when it seemed like you nailed a winning move, it always turned out to be a mistake that led to you being checkmated several moves later.
When you play for a draw, you should be able to make money more easily. And you do not have to work nearly as hard to make it happen.
When you play to win in a competitive game, you are playing for someone else to lose. If you want to maximize revenue or profits, you need to maximize the amount of money your customers or clients pay you. The more money you make, the less money they get to keep. You can only go so far down this path before you start meeting serious resistance. And the more tactics and techniques you use to try to combat that resistance, the stronger the resistance becomes.
How many businesses have had to learn this lesson the hard way? The more they try to extract the maximum amount of money from you, the more you feel driven to resist them.
Which businesses do you dislike most? Do you feel those businesses are playing to win at your expense? How does that affect your ongoing relationship with them?
What are your favorite businesses? Why are they your favorites?
What does it mean to win? What does it mean to succeed? Does it even make sense to pursue these ideals?
You may already have learned the hard way that it is actually easier to enjoy an abundant and fulfilling lifestyle by playing for a draw instead of playing to win or succeed.
When you play for a draw, you change the way others relate to you. They may not understand this consciously, but they’ll behave differently towards you nonetheless.
Some of your decisions may confuse people at first, especially if they are used to dealing with businesses that play to win, but generally people seem to respond positively. A business that plays for a draw is a breath of fresh air.
When you leave extra value on the table without trying to extract it, that value rolls over into goodwill, which is the lifeblood of a sustainable business.
Even by adopting this method there should be plenty for you to sustain a positive cash flow and to enjoy an abundant lifestyle.
It may be a major lesson for you to learn that you can actually make more money by trying to make less money. You can achieve more success by trying to succeed less.
The path of abundance is not necessarily the path that maximizes velocity. It is the path that minimizes friction. If you try to maximize velocity, you end up maximizing friction too, thereby causing massive amounts of heat and burn up.
Instead of seeing success as some kind of accomplishment, victory, or conquest, you must align your thinking that it is wiser and more effective to define success as sustainability.
This is not just about how we run our lives or businesses. It is about how we relate to each other and to our planet as a whole.
Is the most successful energy company the one that extracts and sells the earth’s resources as quickly as possible? Is a successful relationship one in which you extract maximum value from your partner, leaving them drained at the end of each day?
The game of business may not be winnable, and matter how hard you play to win, you may always lose in the end. Even if you become an extremely cunning player, laying waste to all who oppose you, will eventually cause your demise.
But if you largely ignore the score and play for a draw instead of trying to win, you cannot be defeated. You can play the game for as long as you like.
When you seek sustainability, the games of money and business are transformed. Instead of competing for survival and success, you can relax and enjoy yourself. Playing for fun is a whole different world.
When you play for fun instead of trying to win, most people will relate to you in the same manner. Some players may initially assume a competitive posture with you, but once they realize you are playing for fun instead of trying to win, they will quickly lower their shields, and they will begin to play the game with you at your fun level. Even highly competitive players naturally sense there is no honor in thrashing an opponent who is not trying to beat them. No real victory can be achieved against a player who stands no chance of winning. Players that try to overwhelm defenseless opponents simply make themselves look ridiculous.
This is not to say that you will never encounter a stubborn victory-minded person who seeks to trounce you anyway, but it is a lot rarer when you decline to resist them. Competitive people tend to expend more energy on those who resist them. If you offer no resistance, they are more likely to consider you a potential ally.
When you try to win in business, you experience frustration and failure. When you play for a draw, you have fun and enjoy sustainable success.
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How do you discover your real purpose in life, the real reason why you are here on earth at all, the very reason you exist.
There are two different methods for defining your purpose offered here. Ideally you should use both of them; since each will help you understand different aspects of your purpose. This is going to be a lot of work, but the end result will be worth it because you will reach a point of tremendous clarity about your true purpose. In the end it will be far easier to make decisions and take action, and you will find that your life just seems to work once you know your purpose.
Method 1: Emotional Intelligence
The first method is to consult your emotional intelligence. Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it is something you are tremendously passionate about. Emotionally you will feel that it is correct.
Perhaps you do not believe you have a purpose and your life has no meaning. If you do not believe that you have a purpose it will not prevent you from discovering it. The laws of the universe are immutable such that not believing in gravity will not protect you from falling from a great height should you choose to jump or are pushed. All the lack of belief will do is make the inevitable conclusion take longer. Most likely though if you do not believe you have a purpose, then you probably will not believe what this anyway, but even so, what is the risk of investing some time just in case?
If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes that you have been taught, including the idea that you have no purpose at all.
So how do you discover your true purpose in life? While there are many ways to do this, some of them fairly involved and costly, here is one of the simplest that anyone can do. The more open you are to this process and the more you expect it to work, the faster it will work for you. But not being open to it or having doubts about it or thinking it is an entirely idiotic and meaningless waste of time will not prevent it from working, it will just take longer to find.
Here are the details of what to do:
That is it. It does not matter who or what you are. To some people this exercise will make perfect sense. To others it will seem utterly stupid. Usually it takes fifteeen to twenty minutes to clear your head of all the clutter and the social conditioning about what you think your purpose in life is. The false answers will come from your mind and your memories. But when the true answer finally arrives, it will feel like it is coming to you from a very deep source entirely.
For those who are very entrenched in a state of low-awareness, it will take a lot longer to get all the false answers out, possibly more than an hour. But if you persist, after one or two hundred or maybe even five hundred answers, you will be struck by the answer that causes you to surge with emotion. If you have never done this, it may very well sound alien to you, but do it anyway.
As you go through this process, some of your answers will be very similar. You may even repeat previous answers. Then you might head off on a new tangent and generate between ten and twenty more answers along some other theme. And that is fine. You can list whatever answers pops into your head as long as you just keep writing.
At some point during the process (typically after about fifty to a hundred answers), you may want to quit and just can’t see it coming to a definite conclusion. You may feel the urge to get up and make an excuse to do something else. That is normal. Push past this resistance, and just keep writing. The feeling of resistance will eventually pass.
You may also discover a few answers that seem to give you a mini-surge of emotion, but they do not quite elicit strong emotions; they are just a bit off. Highlight those answers as you go along, so you can come back to them to generate new permutations. Each reflects a piece of your purpose, but individually they are not complete. When you start getting these kinds of answers, it just means you are getting warm; keep going.
It’s important to do this alone and with no interruptions. If you are still convinced that you do not have a purpose, feel free to start with the answer, “I do not have a purpose,” or “My life is meaningless,” and take it from there. If you keep at it, you will still eventually be surprised to find there is an answer.
The final result may seem strangely verbose for you. This is normal as the answer is coming from deep sources within and without.
When you find your own unique answer to the question of why you are here, you will be able to resonate with it deeply. The words will seem to spring off the page with special energy to you, and you will feel that energy whenever you read them.
However, discovering your purpose was the easy part. The hardest part is keeping it with you on a daily basis and working on yourself to the point where you become that purpose.
If you are inclined to ask, at this early stage, why this simple process works, just put that question aside until after you have successfully completed it. Once you have done that, you will have your own answer to why it works. Most likely if you ask ten different people why this works (people who have successfully completed it), you will get ten different answers, all filtered through their individual belief systems, and each will contain its own reflection of truth.
About eighty to ninety per cent of people should achieve a final result in less than an hour. If you are really entrenched in your beliefs and resistant to the process, maybe it will take you five sessions (about three hours, but if you are one of those people you will simply quit early (like within the first fifteen minutes) or will not even attempt it at all.
The answer you get from this process, however, depends heavily on your ability to generate good input. Essentially what you are doing is exploring the search space of possible purposes, and you’re using the heuristic of your emotional reaction to gauge how close you are. It requires you are clear about your overall context for life first. If you don’t have that level of clarity yet, then you’ll have a hard time making this approach work successfully; you will be approaching the problem from the wrong context, so the potential answers you generate will all be in the wrong neighborhood. The old adage applies: Garbage in, garbage out.
Method 2: Rational Intelligence
The second method is to use your reason and logic to work down from your context. The clearer and more accurate your context is, the easier this will be.
To identify your purpose, you basically project your entire context of reality onto yourself. Given your current understanding of reality, where do you fit in? If you buy into the social context that most people seem to use, this will be virtually impossible for the reasons stated in yesterday’s post. Social contexts don’t provide sufficient clarity. At best you may end up with a vague purpose statement that addresses the basics like making money, having a family, having friends, and being nice, but there won’t be any real substance to it. If you gave it to someone else to read it, they would not come away knowing you any better.
Fuzzy context and fuzzy projection means fuzzy purpose.
Clear context and clear projection means clear purpose.
Since your context of reality is based on seeing life as a process of ongoing evolution. The term evolution is used here use merely in the sense of growth and change, not in the strictly biological sense via natural selection. When you project this context onto yourself, the result is very simple; you are a participant in the process of growth and change.
This is such a simple approach that it is easy to miss completely. All you are really doing is looking at your overall context of life and projecting those same qualities onto yourself. This projection becomes your purpose, your role in reality.
Imagine a hologram. When you cut off a piece of a hologram, the entire original image is still contained within the smaller piece. Reality is the big hologram, and you are a piece of it. You inherit all the properties of reality. Your beliefs about reality become your beliefs about yourself. If your beliefs are accurate, you will end up with a sensible, achievable purpose.
This method will also help you identify problems in your context because you will notice that something is wrong when you project a false belief onto yourself.
If you do not like the purpose you end up with when applying this method, then what you’re really saying is that you do not like the context you are using. This is a conflict you will need to resolve. You must either accept the context and the purpose that accompanies it, or you must change the context.
Blending the Two Methods
It is helpful to use both methods for defining your purpose to see where they lead you. If your context is sound, you should get congruent answers from both approaches. Your emotional and rational intelligences will each phrase your purpose differently, but you should see that it is essentially the same. But most of the time that will not be the case, and the answers will be different, which means your context is incongruent. You rationally think about reality in one way but you feel it in another way. Perhaps you hold religious beliefs but only follow them sporadically; they are not integrated across your entire life. You may feel in your heart that your beliefs are true, but you do not think them in your head. In this case you have to identify the disparity, figure out where it comes from, and work it through until you can get both sides to agree or you can get clear on which one is correct. Use your consciousness to listen to the emotional side and the rational side, and be like a negotiator between them.
For example, if you feel emotionally that your purpose is to be some kind of artist or musician, but rationally you work out that you should be serving people in need, then you have to work through this disconnect by taking a look at what your context says about it. Remember that your context is your collection of beliefs about reality. When you experience a conflict like this, it will typically lead you to a hole in your context, a fuzzy area that you have not yet clarified. In this case you might see that you have mixed feelings as to the overall value of art and music. You partly see them as serving people, and you partly see them as a relative waste of time compared to other pursuits. You will have to decide which the most accurate, empowering viewpoint is. You have to fill the hole in your context.
This can be a lengthy process if you have a very fuzzy concept of reality or if you’re very conflicted internally. For many people this will require rooting out incongruence and consciously filling contextual holes, and it will take a long time before enough of those are eliminated to wield sufficient clarity to define a clear purpose.
At this point your purpose is likely to be very abstract and high-level. Once you have identified your overall purpose/mission, the next step is to turn that purpose into achievable goals, projects, and actions.
Once you have your overall context and your purpose worked out, you begin setting goals that would be congruent with that purpose.
The basic idea is that you must align your purpose with your needs, abilities, and desires. Your purpose tells you what you should do. Your basic needs (money, shelter, clothing) dictate what you must do. Your inbuilt and learned abilities (skills, talents, education) dictate what you can do. And your desires (enjoyable work, passion) will dictate what you want to do. Taken individually each of these areas will only point you in a general direction, but when you put them all together, you’ll find it easier to set specific, practical goals. This way you’ll be setting goals that help you fulfil your purpose, meet your needs, do what you love to do, whjat you can do easily and do what you are really good at.
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When you start using the Law of Attraction to manifest , things may go quiet for a period until the process starts to kick in. During the latter phase of the manifestation you may experience a sequence of events that seem at odds with what you are trying to achieve. In fact it may seem that a complete stream of contrary events is in progress and you should drop the manifesting to concentrate on countering these interloping events. During this phase events may become very lively in ways that you can never foresee. This is the process of chemicalization and the simple explanation of this is that things often get worse before they get better. It is the natural process of transformation.
It can seem that everything starts to go wrong at once and you spend considerable effort fire fighting, damping down a number of fires on one hand and battling with a dwindling supply of water to extinguish the fires. Your whole world and existence may appear to be coming off its foundations. Hold on tight, the foundations are still there it is just the parts above them which are moving and sorting themselves. If the foundations require change this will be achieved at the same time.
Chemicalization appears, to the uninitiated, to be a negative process, but is really a very positive one. It is always normal and natural part of the Law of Attraction. It is often an uncomfortable and testing experience, but it is always worth going through without exception. It is always a sign that significant change and cleansing is taking place around and in you for the good of all. A higher and better state always results from this experience. Things are moving to a better state of affairs than ever existed before. Regardless of what seems to be happening to you it never means anything else. When a physical or mental disturbance arises after your deliberate use of manifesting, it is always a sign that your manifesting is at work clearing out the negative from your world, so that the flow of positive power can gain complete control of your world.
Some people when first exposed to chemicalization think it would be great if you could avoid or change this phase. This would defeat to object of the exercise. The best you can do is to figure out how to live with it for the duration running up to the successful completion of manifestation. The way to do this is to maintain your positive target vibration and not dwell on the other events at all.
Every change that you make will incur some degree of chemicalization. It is inevitable that change may be uncomfortable but by choosing to relax and go with the process you will achieve the good changes you seek.
Now you know what to expect during your voyage with the Law of Attraction you will be far better prepared for the effects of manifesting. Remember that the unsettling events you endure may have happened anyway in some form and resulted in something very negative had you not been actively manifesting something better.
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The Law of Attraction works fine on it’s own but there are various ways of accelerating it. This article will show you one such way that may seem at odds with the process on first viewing but can have a great effect on accelerating the Law of Attraction. This method will accelerate your manifesting out of all proportions and is called the Appreciation Sob!
So how do you apply the Appreciation Sob to the Law of Attraction when manifesting. Simply find a quiet place which can be at work or home, but preferable away from the gaze of, and out of earshot of other people as your actions may be misinterpreted. In your car is an ideal place as it provides one possible key item that may help, and affords some sound isolation.
Once you are comfortable and settled in your quiet space start to think of all the things and events you are grateful for. These can be in the past or in current time if things are already starting to happen associated with the manifesting. Nothing is out of bounds as long as it is something that truly brings about a strong grateful emotion within you.
Carry on concentrating on the one subject you are grateful for until the emotion becomes overwhelming and you build up to a tearful state. This may not happen immediately and you may need to build up the emotion over a period or in subsequent sessions. At this point you should get an overwhelming feeling so strong that tears well up in your eyes and you start to cry.
Once you start to cry carry on reinforcing the feeling until you are feeling such grateful joy that you are sobbing uncontrollably. This may be a real shoulder shaker! The act of getting to this point is important and continued sobbing will be a bonus.
If you have difficulty sobbing try listening to music that is special to you, brings out your emotions and puts you in the mood. Hence the recommendation to try this in your car where there may be a music player.
If you are in the process of using the Law of Attraction and manifesting try the Appreciation Sob, not only will it make you feel better in a strange way by getting it off your chest, it will also greatly accelerate your manifesting.
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The Law of Attraction simply says that you attract into your life whatever you think about, negative or positive. Your dominant thoughts will always and without exception find a way to manifest. But the Law of Attraction gives rise to some tough questions that do not seem to have good answers. This article aims to address some of the common questions arising from excursions into the universe of the Law of Attraction. However, many of these problems are not caused by the Law of Attraction itself but rather by the Law of Attraction as applied to objective reality.
Some books hint at the solution but never really nail it. That nail, however, can be found in the concept of subjective reality.
Subjective reality is a belief system in which:
(1) There is only one consciousness.
(2) You are that singular consciousness.
(3) Everything and everyone in your reality is a projection of your thoughts.
So what is the secret; subjective reality neatly answers all these tricky Law of Attraction questions In subjective reality there is only one consciousness, and guess what it is yours. Consequently, there is only one source of intentions in your universe and that is you. While you may observe lots of external bodies in your reality, they all exist inside your consciousness. You know this is how your dreams work, but you have not yet realized your waking reality is just another type of dream. It only seems solid because you believe (intend) it is.
Since none of the other characters you encounter are conscious in a way that is separate from you, nobody else can have intentions. The only intentions are yours. You are the only thinker in this universe.
It’s important to correctly define the you in subjective reality. You are not your physical body. This is not the ego based you at all. There is no suggesting you are a conscious body walking around in a world full of unconscious automatons. That would be a total misunderstanding of subjective reality. The correct viewpoint is that you are the single consciousness in which this entire reality takes place.
Imagine you are having a dream. In your dream what exactly are you? Are you the physical dream character you identify with? No, of course not, that is just your dream avatar. You are the dreamer. The entire dream occurs within your consciousness. All dream characters are projections of your dream thoughts, including your avatar. In fact, if you learn lucid dreaming, you can even switch avatars in your dream by possessing another character. In a lucid dream, you can do anything you believe you can.
Physical reality works the same way. This is a denser universe than what you experience in your sleeping dreams, so changes occur a bit more gradually here. But this reality still conforms to your thoughts just like a sleeping dream. You are the dreamer in which all of this is taking place.
The idea that other people have intentions is an illusion because other people are just projections. Of course, if you strongly believe other people have intentions, then that is the dream you’ll create for yourself. But ultimately it’s still an illusion.
Here is how subjective reality answers these challenging Law of Attraction questions:
What happens when people put out conflicting intentions, like two people intending to get the same work promotion when only one position is available?
Since you are the only intender, this is entirely an internal conflict, within you. You are holding the thought (the intention) for both people to want the same position. But you are also thinking (intending) that only one can get it. So you are intending competition. This whole situation is your creation. You believe in competition, so that is what you bring about by manifesting. Maybe you have some beliefs (thoughts and intentions) about who will get the promotion, in which case your expectations will manifest. But you may have a higher order belief that life is random, unfair, uncertain, etc., so in that case you may manifest a surprise because that is what you are intending.
Being the only intender in your reality places a huge responsibility on your shoulders. You can give up control of your reality by thinking (intending) randomness and uncertainty, but you can never give up responsibility. You are the sole creator in this universe. If you think about negative things, that is exactly what you’ll manifest. If you think about positive things, you’ll manifest themt too. Your reality is exactly what you think it is. Whenever you think about anything, you summon its manifestation.
If I intend for a relationship to improve, but your spouse doesn’t seem to care, what will happen?
This is another example of intending conflict. You are projecting one intention for your avatar and one for your spouse, so the actual unified intention is that of conflict. Hence the result you experience, subject to the influence of your higher order beliefs, will be to experience conflict with your spouse. If your thoughts are conflicted, your reality is conflicted.
This is why assuming responsibility for your thoughts is so important. If you want to see peace in the world, then intend peace for everything in your reality. If you want to see abundance in the world, then intend it for everyone. If you want to enjoy loving relationships, then intend loving relationships for all. If you intend these only for your own avatar but not for others, then you are intending conflict, division, and separation; consequently, that is what you’ll experience.
If you stop thinking about something entirely, does that mean it disappears? Yes, technically it does. But in practice it is impossible to undo what you’ve already manifested, unless you move into a new round of manifesting to reverse it. You will continue creating the same problems just by noticing them. But when you assume 100% responsibility for everything you are experiencing in your reality right now — absolutely everything, then you assume the power to alter your reality by redirecting your thoughts.
This entire reality is your creation. Feel good about that. Feel grateful for the richness of your world. And then begin creating the reality you truly want by making decisions and holding intentions. Think about what you desire, and withdraw your thoughts from what you do not want. The most natural, easiest way to do this is to pay attention to your emotions. Emotions are a strong driving force in the process. Thinking about your desires feels good, and thinking about what you do not want makes you feel bad. When you notice yourself feeling bad, you have caught yourself thinking about something you do not want. Turn your focus back towards what you do want, and your emotional state will improve rapidly. As you do this repeatedly, you will begin to see your physical reality shift too, first in subtle ways and then in bigger and bigger leaps.
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