Evil And The Law Of Attraction

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As I write this article, I wish to convey the depth of love that fills this universe. It’s always around you — you are wrapped in love. We just don’t sense it because our perception is severely limited.

When I wrote “We are all causing evils”, you may have felt uncomfortable. Some of you may reacted thinking, “No way. I am a good person. I don’t do bad things. Plus, how could I possibly have caused the starvation in Africa or debilitating diseases to innocent children?”

Well, even though it may not be so apparent, we all have caused the evils in this world. You, me, everyone. And this is a great news. Because if we have caused them, then we can cease to cause them.

I have a few tips how to. . .

What you focus on expands

The Law of Attraction says what you focus on expands. It doesn’t matter if your focus is a positive one (“I love this! I want more of this!”) or a negative one (“I hate this! I don’t want any of this!”)

And this is how so many sick people unwittingly aggravate their situation and how we increase bad news such as crimes and social injustice.

Let’s say you get sick. The original cause may have been some kind of infection or nutritional imbalance or stress, etc. The problem is, once you acknowledge you have the health problem, you keep thinking and worrying about it so much. This way, you energetically feed the disease. Eventually, you may even start identifying with the disease.

Focus on health and joy, not on health problem

Let me use myself as a humble example. So I had some problems with sugar. The original cause may have been hormonal imbalance with my age or yin yang imbalance or something else or all of the above.

Strange things happen when I start worrying about my eating habit. The more I try NOT to eat sugary foods, the more cravings I get. And things get worse and worse.

The solution is to direct my attention to something I want. If you have the same problem, make a basic plan of what you eat in a day, perhaps with a plan for physical activities, too. And more importantly, focus on doing something you enjoy (hopefully, this includes your work as well as your hobby).

When you have the craving, just observe it like you observe passing thoughts in meditation. It will pass if you don’t feed it by reacting to it (that is, arguing against it or reasoning things out to it or forcing yourself to ignore it, etc) We are incapable of holding one thought for a long time. Know you are more than the thought or the thinking mind, and just observe it.

Even when you end up eating that forbidden food, don’t punish yourself. Just take care of yourself (you may be feeling sick, so take a rest, take some supplements like vitamin C). Don’t dwell on it but instead re-direct your attention on the things you enjoy.

I am not going into details with other health issues but I hope you get the idea. Make a plan of your recovery and healing with conventional and/or alternative healthcare professionals, follow it, but don’t worry about your disease. And definitely don’t identify with your disease. When fear and anger arise, release them by simply observing them. Direct your energy to what you can do and enjoy.

Bad news sell

The same energetic dynamics is at play with evils such as social injustice. The more we focus on the bad news, the more bad news we create. And the media loves it — after all, they know bad news sell.

So the solution is to direct our attention to love, peace, compassion, harmony, and joy. Any small act of love helps. Actually, not just the actions to promote peace and compassion, any loving thoughts help.

As I wrote in the last post, there is no significant difference between me getting frustrated in the traffic jam and someone starting a war. So rather than worrying about the bad things happening, live your life with love.

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give to good causes or do other activities to promote peace and justice. But worrying about evil really is counterproductive. (And reduce the time you watch the news. It reduces the bad news and helps your health.)

100th monkey

“But how can I, in the little corner of my town, affect the end of war that is happening thousands of miles away?”, you may ask.

Because the energy moves across space. Have you heard about the 100th monkey effect? From Wikipedia:

“(The scientist observed that) some of these monkeys (in the island) learned to wash sweet potatoes, and gradually this new behavior spread through the younger generation of monkeys—in the usual fashion, through observation and repetition. Watson then claimed that the researchers observed that once a critical number of monkeys was reached — the so-called hundredth monkey — this previously learned behavior instantly spread across the water to monkeys on nearby islands.”

So the monkeys in group B, who never met the potato-washing monkeys (group A), somehow figured to wash their potatoes. Not by direct communication. How could this happen?

I believe this is the effect of energetic communication.

The same thing can happen with you practicing kind acts in your humble life — once we reach the critical number, that kindness can spread even if you don’t directly teach it. (Note: The 100th monkey effect is disputed, like many psychic phenomena.)

You may also have noticed multiple people in different areas of the world seem to come up with very similar ideas almost at the same time. Like Edison and Bell conceiving the idea of the telephone. It’s like they both received the idea from — heaven?

It’s another sign that energy travels across space with no problem.

Conscious creation

Before, we didn’t fully know how powerful we really are, that we are creating our reality. So we became victims. But now, we know.

Are ALL evils created by us entertaining negative thoughts? I am not sure. For example, small children seem to take up the negativity in the collective consciousness and manifest it as their health problems. They also seem to come with certain health challenges as a way of learning — after all, we are all here to learn our life lessons, and why is it so wrong to learn it through health challenges (or financial problems or relationship difficulties)?

I am confident that the answer to the world’s seemingly overwhelming and complicated problems is quite simple. Change comes with one person choosing love and peace. And another person. And another. Join us!

Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha

“Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha” is a Sanskrit mantra to remove life’s obstacles. The link takes you to the Amazon’s page for Deva Premal’s CD “Mantras For Precarious Times” and you can check the sound sample to hear how it is pronounced. The mantra is repeated for the magic number of 108 times.

I have been receiving questions that basically says, “Okay, so I have been doing some spiritual work and I think I have had some breakthroughs in my spiritual growth. For a while, I felt great. But then such and such happened, and life feels just as hard as it was (or worse). Why is this so? Why do I still struggle in the old negative patterns?”

In fact, I’ve felt the same, too. After I had my own Ascension soul shift in January 2009, life was super for several months. Then, in my case, my old sugar addiction came back.

For others, it may be relationship or career or money situation that presents the obstacle.

I had a good long talk with my spirit guides, and here is what I gather. A lot of things are repetitions of what I’ve already written here, but I guess it is worth writing again because we (me included) haven’t quite “got it” yet.

As long as you judge, you isolate part of you

For a long time in our human history, life has been about survival. In the survival mode, the ability to make judgments quickly according to past experiences and common sense is helpful.

The thing is, we are moving on to the next phase, where it’s not about survival but love. In the love mode, judgements are the seeds of unhappiness.

This is because, whenever you judge someone or something, you are judging a certain part of yourself, whether you are aware or not. There is absolutely no room for double standards in the spiritual plane.

If I judge sickness and overweight is no good, then I am judging the part of me that is less than perfect health. I become less than whole. And the judged and isolated part of me, which some call “the negative part of me”, will yell at me for attention.

“But I MUST have this…”

You would experience the difficulty in the area you feel you MUST have or be in a certain way, the area you have the strongest judgments and therefore have the strongest need to control.

If you feel you must have a good relationship (to be happy and complete), then you are likely to have this backlash in forming a relationship. If you think you must have or make certain amount of money, then you may be facing financial challenges.

In my personal case, I see relationship as optional. My financial target is pretty flexible, too. So I don’t get the “negativity” in these areas. I might make quite a lot of money in one month and not so much in another, and all in all, I’m in good shape.

But leading a healthy lifestyle, especially eating in a certain way, has been a must for me, so there is my challenge. By focusing on healthy eating, I effectively feed my sugar cravings.

Just so we are on the same page, letting go of judgments and control doesn’t mean I binge on junk foods. If I am tuned in to myself, that just doesn’t happen. There may be times when I eat one cookie, for example, but bingeing like there is no tomorrow simply won’t happen in the natural state — that is a result of judgments and over-control.

Likewise, letting go of your need for relationship doesn’t mean you reject all dates. People will be naturally attracted to you, and when you see someone you like, you can enjoy time together. This may lead to long-term relationship — just don’t go back to your must-have mode of thinking.

Embracing destruction

Letting go of judgments also means accepting, or even welcoming, destruction.

In Hindu, there are thee main deities (or three aspects of one deity): Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the maintainer or preserver) and Shiva (the destroyer or transformer). Although we usually embrace only the creation and maintenance, destruction of the old is a necessary step for the new cycle of creation.

When you judge destruction as bad and hold onto what you have, you get constipated. When you are constipated, you feel sick and lose appetite for the new.

When you judge, you give power to the illusion of duality: good and no good.  The  truth is we are all one and whole.

In other words, this is all about living in the here and now. In the here and now, everything is already complete and whole and wonderful — if you have the eye for it.

How does this work with the Law of Attraction?

So, if we are to live happily in the here and now, without judgments and need to control, does that mean we are stuck in where we are and there is no point in having intentions and aspirations, like the Law of Attraction teaches?

No. Things change on their own. The intrinsic nature of energy is movement.

What it means is we don’t push our ego-produced agenda to the change. This actually accelerates the natural changes. It also means we learn balance in this naturally changing, moving energy, like you do in surfing. Or even riding a bike.

When you are riding a bike, you are heading to a certain direction. Try balancing a bike without moving ahead — it’s really hard. But then, you don’t want to dictate how the course should be like — you want to enjoy the ride while moving to a certain direction, rather than using the ride ( =life) as a means to get somewhere.

The Law of Attraction is really about feeling good about yourself right now and using this power of love to experience even more love. Yes, you want to have intentions, but it’s also true that it works best when you surrender.

Glitch in the life simulation game

Letting go of judgments is baffling. We are so well trained in making judgments that the function is our second nature. The minute we think we let go of judgment, we find it in ourselves again. We find ourselves in the same old pattern and strangely familiar old challenges.

It’s like being in the nick of an old record. (Remember the music records? Before downloads, and before CDs, there were something called records. . .) Something skips, and we are back to the same part of the music again. Over and over.

It’s a glitch in this life simulation game we are in.

How can we fix this glitch? With the damaged record, we picked up the needle and moved it on, but how can we move on to the next part of the “LIFE” game?

I don’t have a complete answer. If you do, please write in the comment. In the meantime, I will keep doing my part of letting go of my judgments and healing the part I have ignored. In other words, I’ll see how I can love my problems and embrace destruction (not about violence, but as in transformation). Maybe I will chant the mantra, too. Deva Premal writes, “”This mantra unifies us within. When there is oneness, there are no obstacles.”
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How The Law Of Attraction Worked In My Life

Three years ago, in July 2007, I bought the audio CD of The Secret. Back then, I was spending 40 minutes one way to commute, and I thought the inspirational CD is something I could utilize — I didn’t have much time for reading.

That was my introduction to the Law of Attraction. Eventually, I read more on the subject and contemplated on my own. I wrote down my intentions and collected photos that represented my dreams because I read that is the way we use the LoA.

I just found that writing and am seriously impressed. Even though my understanding of the LoA was elementary, most of my intentions have come true, except some that proved unimportant.

I thought it would be fun to share this…

My living environment

Let’s start with the living environment because the intention was most specific with this.

Below is my intention statement, with my note in ( ). The green part are the ones that have materialized.

I am happily living in a nice new townhouse. (I found a nice townhouse to rent last fall. It is not brand new, but new enough and maintained well.) It is 1200 sq ft, 2 bedroom, 1.5 bathrooms with a good-size garage, in a safe and quiet area. (Safe it is — some people don’t even lock the door here! It’s 1000 sq ft — plenty of space for me, and 2 BR 2BA, with a garage.) It is in a gated community on midhill. (At the time of writing, I was thinking of buying a condo. I now realize I don’t like home ownership — too much work! My current resident doesn’t have security gates, but it doesn’t matter because it’s so safe here. It is on midhill that commands a fantastic view!) It’s landscaped beautifully — I see lavenders around the house. (The lavender is a minor but surprising match. The community is very well landscaped and they come for care weekly.) The building wall is stone and the door is maroon.

When I enter the house, I can see the light in the windows. (In addition to regular windows, it has a skylight.) The living room has a mantle and there are my beloved kickknacks. There are artworks on the wall. (I’ve been too lazy to hang up my own artwork.) The kitchen has a granite countertop — smooth and cool. (The counter, which is very large, is tiled.) Also it has track lighting, flattop cooking oven, and real exhaust. (All the lights are recessed — nice enough for me. The cooktop is not the real smoothtop, which is electrical, but it’s a gas burner on a very flat surface that is easy to clean — none of those dish-like stuffs.)

In the bedroom, I see a large, comfy bed, antique tansu chest, and there is a walk-in closet. (I bought a natural bed last Christmas. The mattress is made of organic latex, cotton and wool. The frame is beautiful natural wood. And I myself chose smaller mattress. Also, even though the closet is not walk-in, they are two large closets facing each other, so I made it a dressing area by hanging a light drapery. Close enough for me.)

In the bathroom, I see natural light, clean large vanity, beautiful tub where I can enjoy fragrant bubble bath. (It’s standard bathroom, but I do take the time to bathe a couple times a week these days.) My office room is well organized. (Since I started using a laptop, I don’t need an “office room” any more. I use the extra bedroom as storage.) I feel the joy, peace, and clean energy in the house. I look out and see greens. (Not only I can see lush greens on this hill, I can see the distant mountains among them.) I can walk to the fitness center. (No fitness center, but walking around on the slopes is very good exercise.)

I moved twice since I wrote the intention, first from Tennessee to Portland, Oregon, suburb, and then to Eugene. Neither was planned at the time of writing. My current home is so much like my dream residence it almost scares me. I even got some bonus points that I forgot to write down — such as the large deck, the skylight, and the great view.

The points I missed are insignificant. I don’t really care the door is green, rather than maroon, nor that I don’t own a tansu chest. I think I pushed myself to write up a gorgeous, impressive intention — many Law of Attraction books tell us to do that. So I included some of the things that I THOUGHT I wanted — well, I guess I didn’t want them, really. I feel happy and comfortable the way it turned out.

My work

When I wrote the intentions, I was doing the regular 8 to 5, so my intention in this area was more about my “dream” and lacks specificity.

By 2010, my business is making $150K a year. I do:

• intuitive reading (I offer Akashic Record Reading)
• life coaching (I offer Spirit Guides Coaching)
• blogging
• publish books
• inspirational speeches

People and money come easily to me. (Not sure how to evaluate this point . . . I am not short on money but also not swimming in money. Same with people. I guess I could wish for more, but I am not lonely, either.) My business is thriving with many happy clients. They send me more clients to me. I am excited to get to know people who live with passion and sense of humor. (Referral is a significant source of my clients.)

I have all the time I need because I receive large passive income from my investments. I am happily donating 10% of profit to charities.

(Comes with a photo of a classy woman — nice dress and fancy jewelry watch. She is all silver hair — I probably chose her because she wasn’t the 20-something chirpy type.)

I quit my job in October that year and started my own service, Akashic Record Reading, the following year. Again, it was not planned out at the time of writing the intentions.

I have completed the manuscript of my book on the Akashic Records and Ascension, but have not found the publisher. And I think I might want to rewrite some part of it. So publicity is still not quite at my intention level, nor my income level. At the same time, I am not worried about money. (And this is only midyear of 2010 — some miracles can happen before the end of the year, you know )

The passive income thing is another influence of the books I was reading back then. Many get-rich books teach the benefits of passive income from rental real estates and stock investments. I am not on that path now. However, I have the time and the freedom to use my time as I see fit every day because I work for myself. So I can say I have achieved the “time wealth” I wanted — which, for me, is even more critical than financial wealth.

And I am looking at the photo of the beautiful woman. I don’t have that kind of dress nor the watch but I am okay with that. And I’d love to see my few strands of gray go dark again rather than having gorgeous silver hair, which I think may be possible with good nutrition and healthy lifestyle.

Others

There were other intentions such as traveling to Europe and attending the workshop of the inspirational writer I liked back then. I am now totally uninterested in them. Oh, and I wanted light green Toyota Prius. Well, maybe next time I trade, I will choose that, but for now, my Civic is running just fine and I am happy with it. In this small town of Eugene, I don’t drive so much any way.

Write down your intentions

I think writing down is a very effective way to influence the subconscious. I wasn’t 100% convinced of the Law of Attraction three years ago, but it still worked! So try it for yourself.

When you write your intentions, be as specific as you can. This way, you will clearly know when your intention manifests. And it also helps you to realize what is not really important to you. For example, I can now see “$150K annual income” was not really my dream but something I adopted. If I didn’t put a number on it, however, I may not have noticed how far off the intention was from the way of life I really aspired.

(My current intention for my finance and beyond, in terms of abundance, is that all I need flows to me easily and naturally. I do understand I need to cover my expenses, but I don’t see the point of having a large chunk of money.)

So it’s okay to make this kind of errors. Do write down, stash it somewhere and be pleasantly surprised later! You may even get some nice bonuses.

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