A Midwest Journal

What are dreams? How are they different from thoughts?

Levenson covered dreams with a rather Eastern approach, that perhaps our dreams are a different Universe than the one we are in during the waking hours.

I don’t know this to be true or not.

All I know right now is that I’m left thinking when I wake – meaning that I have more releasing to do to achieve that state of a truly calm mind.

My line of reasoning is that a person is trying to achieve a calm mind will should be able to determine between true intuitional inspiration and general, run-of-the-mill thinking.

Thinking will be rather uncontrolled and more than a bit non-sequitur and random. As well, any feeling besides a calm, deep peace with a simple happiness or joy – these would then be non-intuitional, but rather habitual.

(Or the AGFLAP vs. CAP – as Levenson would describe it.)*

So the utter lack of negative feeling, a completely calm knowing should accompany real intuitional inspiration. And would lead to true intuitional living.

I have a few dependable lines of intuition, being that I’ve always been blessed with a very imaginative and creative life. Working in these lines has shown me where the writing or artwork is forced, or requires too much effort – I might as well quit it, or take a break at least.

When I’ve taken up writing, this has opened up an new line – it’s one approach that the simplest line works. Just ask, the next sentence is there – or a phrase that needs to be applied.

One learns not to force or rush it. It’s always there, unless you try to force or rush it.

So that, I suppose, answers the question.

And now, extend that to all living – and your completely calm mind will then finally allow you to answer the question, “What Am I?”

* AGFLAP – CAP is a shorthand emotional scale one comes up through releasing

Apathy
Grief
Fear
Lust
Anger
Pride
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Courageousness
Acceptance
Peace

The CAP are top-end states which aren’t really emotions at all – these more describe a state of being which becomes more or less persistent as you work at releasing in general.

It’s obvious that Masters walk this earth. And they don’t particularly care a hoot about being “discovered” or “exposed”. Because they really don’t give a hoot about anything. They do their job easily, effortlessly, and live their life in comfort. Mostly unknown, they don’t seek the spotlight necessarily – since that is a tradeoff and can get in a person’s way in living life.

The key thing is to let your own Freedom shine out from within. You don’t hide a light under a basket, you let it shine.

The usual disclaimer: My ideas on this are just that – discount them immediately and make them your own or reject them.

Today’s lesson goes down this line.

There are some old phrases from the releasing technique which I’ll repeat here. “Be not the Doer, Be the Witness.” “Let go and Let the Universe.”

You have to get your Self out of the way so you can let the Universe within you shine through. You already have all the answers to any problem or situation right within you. All you have to do is let it out. There is no effort in it. Just let go and let the Universe. Let the Universe what? Anything it damned well pleases.

That’s the point. The You gets in the way. There is a way of intuitional living you can adopt (or not – your choice). What this does is connect you with a fountain-well of constant inspirational and motivational. All answers are there, all solutions are there. It’s the Universe just wanting to peek out behind that “solid” facade called Self.

The idea here is that it’s much easier to go through life by letting the Universe guide you.

OK?

Here’s a set of steps from an old tape series called “The Way”:

1. You want the world more than you want freedom. (You have to want freedom more than you want the world.)

2. Take all your joy from within by releasing.

3. Make the decision to go Free and then do it.

If you do make the decision to go Free, you will do it. If you’re not Free, you haven’t made the decision.

Prime thing is making releasing constant.

4. Go directly to the fear of dying and then release it.

Get rid of the bottom motivator and you’re finished.

5. Get everything from here on by releasing – the most practical of the four.

If you’re efforting, your not releasing. “I am not the doer – and letting it happen.” Let go and let God. All actions are effortless if you are releasing. Action doesn’t stop someone from realization, identification with the doer does.

6. Be not the doer.

You’re not the doer. Things happen. You don’t have to do them. Let go and it happens. Letting go and letting God. Just watch it happen.

Releasing wanting to feed the ego.

7. Make your behavior that which a Master would do.

Whatever you do, do it successfully. The more imperfectly we work, the lower down the scale we are. The action required to go free is releasing all the obstruction.

Those will keep you going for now. Tomorrow is another day. See you then.

Is Robert Worstell a scam?

Sure I am.

Fully 97% of what I say here is useless to you. And I can admit this with complete certainty that it is true.

Because it’s based on the scientific certainty of all those graduate and post-graduate studies cover on human behavior, commonly described as a “Bell Curve.”

Their descriptive mathematical profundity says that out of all the stuff you study, you reject around 97% of all that you read or listen to or experience – because it doesn’t meet your own belief-system, your own world-view.

You are only going to use about 3% of anything I bring up here.

Of course that’s true for every single thing you study, every single website. So I’m really a scammer now – I’m saying that everyone else out there is running a scam also.

Well — they are, you know. Down deep, you do know.

The other thing that makes me a scam is that I only deal in Metaphysics and all that la-de-dah stuff which you have to believe first in order to make it happen. I’ve even got degrees in this stuff – no, they aren’t from any Ivy-covered, Alumni-sponsored, Good Old Boy Academia. But I paid my dues to study all this stuff, wrote my papers and theses and so on. I can quote all this Metaphysical stuff by the yard.

Of course, there’s no “real science” to it. Sure, it’s been proved that a lot of this actually heals people, actually will help people achieve their goals, actually makes people feel better one-for-one — provided that they actually have faith in the books and writers and material that I present here.

But the super-science boys are all against this type of stuff. But they’ve reached a dead-end. It actually happened years ago – when they went beyond the smallest possible particle they could study. None of all the various “laws” and “rules” they had established for how the Universe operates – none of that seemed to work dependably at quantum levels.

Turns out they found the scientific equivalent of God down there. And several of them returned to ancient spiritual texts to actually start making sense out of it all.

And that heady stuff is where I started – and what you’ll find here.

So all that I cover is simply and easily attacked as a scam.

Welcome to being scammed – and feeling good about it.

I offer a complete line of all those “get anything and everything you want in life” books over at Lulu.com, where you’ll find all the authors like Wallace Wattles, Charles Haanel, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, – tons of all those “feel good” authors who made a living from inspirational and motivational books.

All scammers and quacks. Well, at least if you listen to the hard-boiled skeptics.

But you can live a better life – and the people who buy these books know that. They aren’t deterred because people around them are skeptical, critical, and generally negative. And they can generate faith at the drop of a hat.

The reason came up because I ran across a professional skeptic – who trusts things so little he won’t even use his real name online. And when I pointed out that being critical all the time would wind up with very few true friends (well, only those who didn’t mind being criticized right, left, and center.) He thought I “doth protest too much”. And my considered opinion was that he “doth skepticize too much.”

Different strokes for different folks.

So, join me in my scams. We can have some fun and maybe find personal freedom and happiness beyond anything anyone of his science boys has dug up.

Good Hunting!

Hard to believe you already know this – it’s just going to take someone point it out for you…

This secret route has been known since the early 1950’s. It didn’t really show up in “The Secret”, although one of its proponents and teachers (Hale Dwoskin) was in that DVD/movie.

Lester Levenson discovered in in 1952, after being sent home to die by his doctor – told not to get out of bed or make any physical effort of any kind. (But the doctor didn’t tell him he couldn’t use his mind to sort out his life from the inside out.)

The breakthrough was in learning to let go of all the self-limiting thinking he was doing and just learn to live life simply. He found that all the Happiness he had ever been searching for was already in side of him – and he had been keeping it from showing up through all these habitual thoughts he had kept around during the earlier 42 years of his life.

Of course, it took something like another 16 years before he could figure out what he had done and how to teach it to others so they could learn it, too.

I’m still studying Levenson and his Sedona Method, although the tapes seem hard to find these days. Hale Dwoskin and Larry Crane, among others, have picked up this banner. Of course, they are bringing it to people in the way they want, which is to solve the material needs first.

And that’s where people consider that Sedona Method is a scam, because it doesn’t immediately give them everything they want. Hale Dwoskin covers this in several recordings – that by working on your Health, you might get Success or Prosperity showing up – or some other feature of your health being improved.

But I’m getting way beyond the scope of this little post. If you’re interested, you’re going to have to do some more homework on your own. (See links above, or other posts on this site.)

In studying more of Levenson, what he revealed as the cause of his near-death experience was his own attitude toward the world. And by sitting quietly and using his own mind, he was able to reverse these effects in just a few months – and also climb into states of high bliss which few humankind have ever experienced, even briefly.

And along the way, he found the underlying explanations and techniques that enable a person to get anything and everything they want from this world. Anything and everything.

Doesn’t mean it comes to you instantly, although it can. It’s going to take some work on your part. It all depends on how much you are completely willing to give up everything first. And of course, that seems contradictory. But I’m not going to try to explain why it works that way.

Here’s a video where Levenson, in his classic New York accent and approach, lays it out for a small class of students in Arizona:

Lester Levenson Fireside Chat 1

Why I bring this to you is simple – I care about your future and that of the world around you.

I’ve been covering the Golden Rule here for a long time – many, many posts. The short hand version is thsi: You have to give before you can get.

Now some have this down to just, only, and exactly how much money do they have to pay to get a CD set that will help them get the pay raise or new car or cash bonus they want to show up in their lives. And some are simply working at visualizing every day to get things to show up.

And while these will work, most don’t find they can get them to work just by reading a book or listening to a tape or DVD. (Although “The Secret” is a good introduction to this approach.)

As the intro to that above recording goes – you have to listen with your heart. Put your thinking aside.

Because all your thinking has gotten you into any particular situation you are in right now – any lack you are experienceing.

What the Sedona Method does is to calm the mind so that your native Self can show up and start working.

And there is a built-in trap mechanism that will ultimately give you a huge loss, a catastrophy if you don’t really give it all up. That’s what Levenson said in the video above. Because, yes, you can get every single thing you ever wanted in this world – and they will all show up for you. But if you don’t move beyond that bliss point where you have the entire universe at your feet, then it will all come crashing down around you.

You have to be able to give it all up.

Because that is the way we’ve set this Universe up to operate. Like death, as Patrick Swayze would quote from one of his movies – you only take the love you hold within you. All these material things around you aren’t worth a tinker’s damn in the final reckoning.

And as you get this idea into your life right now, you can have an incredible life of unlimited Happiness, Joy, and everything you need to accomplish your basic purpose, your passion, your unending bliss on this planet.

It’s been there, really all the time, just waiting for you. As Jesus said, you already have Heaven within you.

But the way to find it isn’t within any particular religion or spiritual philosophy, but is in all of them.Check their basic books and you’ll see this to be true.

The trick is in how much you want to find it.

Geese actually do a great job mowing...

Came to me while mowing the lawn and watching/listening to/experiencing my thoughts rattle around. Not so much a unique experience for anyone familiar with Levensons’ Sedona Method. (I mean being distanced from your own thoughts – not mowing. I’d rather geese do my mowing almost any day.)

In my life I’ve been very busy following all sorts of leads which put all sorts of stuff in front of what I really should be doing.

I should have been listening to my intuition the whole time.

Intuitional living isn’t an easy thing to move over to. It’s not like you just ask the driver to stop at the next corner so you can get off. It’s a transformational thing.

At this point, I know these key points:

• You have to learn to listen.
• It requires working constantly for the most optimal solution around you.
• It means working in abundance in everything you do and more often open-handed giving.

There may be other key points (they’ll come to me if I need to tell you), but let’s go over these individually. While books have been written on each one (and I’ll reference those I know of as we go) you don’t have to get these books to understand and start applying these right now to your own life.

1. You have to learn to listen.

This is listening within as well as without. Most of the time we are so busy thinking that we are tripping over our own thoughts constantly. Our minds run away with our lives.

Several authors, such as Charles Haanel (in his “Master Key System”) said to seek the Silence. His 24-lesson course the book was based on had you practicing sitting still for some time every day and simply learning to control what you were thinking. Others call for meditation as a way to discipline the mind. My favorite is Lester Levenson, who simply said to release the thoughts and feelings which welled up – this quieted the mind and eventually removed its “thinking” influence entirely.

The point is like someone who is talking all the time and doesn’t let a word in edge-wise. Until that person learns to be quiet and listen to others, they can’t learn anything. While Levenson and others tell how a person develops that problem, it’s easier to simply “let go” of that impulse than to figure it out (which involves more thinking, doesn’t it?)

So intuitional thinking requires simply sitting down in a comfortable spot where you won’t be disturbed – several times a day if possible, but at least once daily – and learn to be still and just listen. Don’t contribute to anything that comes in, just allow it and then let it go. Eventually, with practice, you can sit for 5 – 10 – 15 minutes or more and just listen to the world around you. This skill starts to carry forward with you in life and you’ll find yourself taking in and enjoying more life around you.

Until you listen, you won’t be able to have the inspirational, motivational, and intuitional thoughts arrive (they actually are arriving all the time, but we have to get all this noise out of the way in order to begin to see them.)

2. You need to work constantly for the most optimal solution around you.

Now, “work” might not be the best term – it only seems like that at first. Later it becomes fun, a game. But you are changing some life-long mental habits at the outset. So start looking for better solutions, the best possible solution to everything you encounter. Just see if you can’t work out how to live more abundantly and install this abundance in everything you do.

All your situations should result not just in win-win, but in win-win-win. Everyone involved wins from the solution you help evolve – and they then take that to help others live abundantly as well. You really need to not just pay it back, but pay it forward, and then pay it forward in advance.  Wallace Wattles covered this in his classic, “Science of Getting Rich”. He laid out a whole chapter devoted to the idea of doing always more than you are asked to do, taking care with each detail to create the most professional product you can.

3. Work in abundance  – start giving open-handedly.

In nature, there really is no competition. That is a humankind-invented view of things. The oldest writings and teachings on this planet confirm just one thing – we are all connected, there are no limits. Sure, there are the apparency of limits and restrictions, but you’ll find that they are arbitrary and imposed, not occurring naturally.

Look at the things in life which are giving you the most problems – taxes, government, political parties, mass media – these things don’t exist except for us “highly evolved” humanoid-type peoples. And if you look at more “primitive” peoples who don’t have health care, insurance, lawyers – the same sun still lights up their day with warmth and causes things to grow for them. They still enjoy their family, they eat and live with much less stress than we face in our “modern” world. A recent article about some of the oldest-living people found this village where they still went out into the fields every day and harvested their own food, even into their hundreds of years living on this planet.

Competition is only a limiting apparency. Creative action and resolution is unlimited.

And I could really go on and on about open-handed giving – it’s where commerce started out and where online marketing is going again. People don’t want to be consumers, they want to be part of the experience and community that any given product represents.  Online vendors know that they have to give away tons of really valuable stuff before anyone will invest their own hard-earned income with them. It’s a matter of trust. But that trust is built best through open-handed value-giving, not tons of “promotional give-aways” (although the two are related.)

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None of these concepts are new – even Intuitional Living isn’t a new concept. Emerson talked about it in his own way, as did his student, Thoreau. Even Shakespeare touches on it here and there.

It’s just come the time now, in our Internet information age, that we can move anyone who wants to right on up this line and out. Because Intuitional Living is just the next logical step, but it isn’t the final one (if there is one). It’s the next thing after having everything you need and want in life, being whatever you want to be, doing, achieving, acquiring all that you ever really wanted. You’ll get all that on your road to Intuitional Living. All of it. And you’ll find that once you do, you don’t really have to have all that. (Like owning a candy store – you find that you don’t want to eat candy all the time, but are really interested how to improve others diets so they can enjoy candy as a treat – not an have-to-have.)

Try some Intuitional Living for yourself. Just those three simple steps. See how you can work on each one a little bit each day – and see if your world and the worlds of others around you don’t improve just to the degree you work on these. It really only helps improve things. And as you give to others, you will receive. So this is an invitation to immensely improve your life forever.

Don’t take my word for it, don’t believe what I say here. Try it for yourself and see if it’s true for you.

Spent this week just cranking out some products and posting them on Lulu. I was simply editing some PLR and public domain works and getting them up.

This was off an inspiration that if I was going to get more sales from Lulu, I simply needed to publish more. Lulu has an internal network which does buy new stuff, but this falls off after a month or so. Lulu is an Internet child, and its community mostly buys downloads, and wants new, fresh content. Bestsellers are mostly programming books – so there is “geek” aspect to everything.

Now editing is hard work. It isn’t simply putting someone else’s writing up with your name on it. Not that it doesn’t go quickly when you get started, but you have to stay at it and “git ‘r done”.

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The subject today is about frustration. This comes from having a goal but not making it fast enough – and having blocks in your way which you yourself put there.

You got that right – you put your own blocks there.

Now you had a great deal of help from the life you lead, the schools you went to, the friends you’ve hung out with, your parents, the government, the books you read, the magazines you’ve subscribed to, the TV shows you’ve been watching…

For all these build in your patterns, your habits. And these are what you base your decisions on. Along this line, you’ve been very carefully trained not to listen to your intuition, or “voices in your head”. Most people are trained not to be creative.

Essentially, we’ve been trained to work in a factory or a cubicle for a 40-day week. And meekly submit to the overtime tasks we’re assigned. Part of this is to use our credit cards and build up our debt so that we can’t simply live off our savings for awhile – or make our living with our own hands, marketing for ourselves.

We’ve more or less been trained to be wage-slaves. And that is where the “traces” in the above comes in. Traces are part of the harness to connect an animal to your wagon.

What I want to do (and have been working this out for you, too) is to get out of these shackles which we’ve accepted and start living for ourselves – to be truly free. I cover this mostly in Go Thunk Yourself, S’more! – and have more on this in various blog posts. But the core principle is that you’ve accepted various patterns from the people around you and you can change them if you want to.

Not all of these patterns are bad – manners is a set of good habits, which always need polishing.

But the habits which get in your way, which hold down your ability to be creative – or any of your abilities at all – those habits are the ones you have to confront and change.

The key habit most of us have is this 40-hour-week mess.

Practically, people used to work much longer, with no overtime pay – until they passed a law about it (the same people who passed a law which takes your taxes out before you ever see them – and then doesn’t pay you interest when you get your refund…)

What you see around you is a rigged system. It is a system because it works if you agree with it and apply it according to the rules. It’s rigged, because it’s not an easy system to break out of – our entire economy is based on it and it’s reinforced by all the media around us.

However, once you see it for what it is, you can quite easily break out of it – but it’s going to take some hard work on your part.

There’s probably an ebook in here somewhere, but for today, let’s look at the broad view:

1. Turn off the TV. Start spending some time with yourself.
2. Pay off your debts. Quit using credit cards for credit – pay them off.
3. Start doing what you’ve always wanted to do, what you like to do, what’s fun.
4. Cheer people up around you and help them live their own lives.

Taking those step by step:

Turn off the TV – start spending some time with yourself.

This isn’t really all that hard – you think. But you really have to get this influence out of your life. OK, maybe you should turn it on to see what the weather is, and maybe the sports scores, but you can also get these from the Internet. And also turn that Internet off – unless it’s making you money already as part of your job – but you want some free time, so when you’re not working, turn that computer off. TV, computer, radio – everything off.

What you’re working on here is to get part of your life back and start thinking for yourself.

Once you start taking time to really find out what you yourself are all about, then you can see where you want to head to.

Pick up a book like Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, or anything by Earl Nightingale. Something on achievement, personal success. That’s the fire you want to stoke – you want to start finding out what you’ve always wanted to do, be, or achieve. Listen to motivational tapes, like Brian Tracy, or Wayne Dyer on your way to work instead of the radio.

Get this into a regular schedule for yourself. FOR YOURSELF.

Pay off your debts. Quit using credit cards for credit – pay them off.

Credit cards charge you as much as they can legally and would be perfectly happy having you pay only the interest for the rest of your life if they didn’t legally have to make you pay off your bill.

You already know how much you make each week. Learn to live within that budget. Quit buying anything on credit that you can’t pay off that week with money you already have in the bank.

One tip on this is to get a debit card and transfer all your monthly bills to it. In that way, you don’t continue to stack up debts.

Now, once you’re able to live in what you make, start taking one dime out of every dollar you make and put in into savings and leave that strictly alone. If you did this from the first job you ever had, you’d have over a million dollars in reserve by the time you got too old to work anymore (what they call retirement). But it would be your money, not the government’s.

There are ways to make it become more than a million or two, but for now, let’s just set up a savings account that no one touches and you can’t get to it except in a dire emergency.

Now, back to those credit cards. It’s OK to use them as long as you can pay them off that week or by the end of the month. You don’t want to ever have a standing amount there.

How to get rid of that standing amount? First, quit adding to it. Second, pay more than what they ask for – that rate is designed to keep you paying for about 30 years or more. Third, get some more income from another source to pay this debt down.

I tell people to start a business. For some, it would be simpler to get another job and then use all that extra income to pay down that debt. Once all your credit card bills are covered, quit that extra job. That next day.

You are working to get your own life back. You need to spend more time on yourself, your family.

Start doing what you’ve always wanted to do, what you like to do, what’s fun.

Most people don’t listen to themselves very well. All around you are hints to what you’ve always liked to do, what makes you happy, what lightens up your day.

Those are the things you were put here to do. You probably won’t find them by listening to radio or watching TV or reading popular magazines or newspapers. Because what you really want to do isn’t particularly popular. It’s personal. Personal to you.

But the whole point is that you start listening to yourself and finding what you want to do with your own life.

There’s a certain amount of faith in yourself, and a fair amount of appreciating the serendipitous events that surround you. In this day and age, a new word – synchronicities – has shown up. Both really mean that various circumstances have conspired to bring you a realization about yourself, or a chance to improve your life, or something you can learn about yourself or others. Two or three things, not normally related, occur in the same time and space. Circumstance – you know, happens while you’re standing around; or happens around you wherever you are standing. Something like that.

At any rate, you have to start listening to and observing the world around you to get your clues. What you are looking for are things that make you happy, that cheer you up. When you start pursuing these motivation points, you start finding your purpose in life – or, as Wayne Dyer states, you let it find you.

As you find this and refine it, you can start getting rid of the stuff in your life which doesn’t support your dreams and life-purpose. You don’t have to do it all at once, but you want to keep working in the direction of what makes you happiest in life – you want to start being the person you’ve “always wanted to be”, to do the things which will help you accomplish or acquire the things you’ve always wanted.

Cheer people up around you and help them live their own lives.

I’ve included this as this is the only effective way you are ever going to get on purpose in your own life – help others get on-purpose in theirs.

Means you are going to have to help them find out for themselves what cheers them up and works to improve their lives. They probably won’t know. But the best way to help them figure it out is to get them off their bitches and gripes and start to make the world around them better because they are more cheerful about it.

People who constantly have their attention on how bad things are only see the bad things around them. They don’t have time to look for the nice things that are happening to them, they don’t know how to look for their own purpose.

The underlying reason for this is as old as the oldest texts and legends we have on this planet – The Golden Rule. If you want people to help you, you have to help them – first. If you want more pleasant people around you, start smiling and complimenting them for the good things they do.

That rule has been in place in all the great religions of this planet, all the philosophers have known it, all legends tell of its use (or misuse). Modernly, they call a version of it the “Law of Attraction”. But it works the same way regardless of what you call it – as long as you know how it works, you can make your life anyway you want it, you can be, do, achieve, or acquire anything you want.

The trick is in helping others achieve what they want. First. Earl Nightingale pointed this out in his gold recording, “The Strangest Secret”. He correctly observed that you earn money by first providing a service to others. The greater your service, the greater amount they want to pay you. But your service is first.

The shopkeeper has to offer good-quality items for sale, he also has to rent or buy a storefront and keep it open when people are around to buy from him.

The manufacturer has to create products and then sell them to shopkeepers – they have to be of good quality and affordable.

Computer factories like Dell seem to get this backward, but actually, they have a great system in place with customer service and online sales networks where you can place your order and they build your system to spec – after they recieve your order. By not having to keep a large amount of stock on hand, they can actually produce exactly what you want – faster and at a lower cost. Most of the time you are waiting for your order is in the regular shipping, not in the 24 hours it takes to build and test your computer. (I’ve worked in warehouses and know it can take two or three days or more to get your order filled and onto a truck to begin the shipping process – so having a company who can build your product in less than the time it takes for someone to pull it is a much better deal.)

So it’s being successful first and then the money follows. What’s success? Knowing what you really want to accomplish in life and then steadily achieving your plans and goals toward that end. The only real failures are those who gave up in ever working out what their purpose is and what they want to do in their lives. They started being someone else in order to let someone’s company pay for their living. The factory, the office, the warehouse – these are filled with people who are just spending their lives on someone else’s dime.

But I’m talking here to you – someone who wants something better in life. And there are damned few of you (and me) to go around. It’s always been this way. But as we continue to work at achieveing our own freedom, our own individual purpose, the bulk of society comes around – slowly and by painful degrees.

You can have a much better life than you’ve lived to date. You can achieve what others say is impossible. You can be happy almost all the time – and have around you a life and belongings which are just the way you like them.

YOU CAN LOVE LIFE AND THE LIFE YOU’RE LEADING.

Because you gave up following the pack and kicked over your own traces to start finding the life you’ve always wanted.

So start today, now. Turn off the TV, turn off the Internet, go take a walk around the block or in the countryside, or a large park. Listen to yourself, to your heart. And start to sing the songs your intuition has been trying to teach you for so long…

Just looked up “Law of Attraction” on Amazon – and found that it had some “competing” books, but also a fair number of books which were coat-tailing their sales onto the hit of the original ones.

The funny thing is that they were getting just what they were espousing – a slightly critical set of readers who would like to believe in what “The Secret” was saying, but weren’t actually able to believe in it.

And this is covered in that movie, where you are told that this is really the reason it “doesn’t work” as well – you really, really get exactly what you believe in and work for.

Now some have tried to get these teachers into that realm of “if you just think a certain way, it will happen” – while the Secret is very clear that you have to take action on your own, based on the intuitional responses you get after you hold a very clear picture of what you want.

Of course, the proof is in the sales. Critical books usually don’t last as long as the bestsellers. Check out “Think and Grow Rich” sales and you’ll find that they are continuing today just as ever – but you don’t see a bunch of books criticizing this 1937 classic today as “unworkable” or “cultish”.

You do find people who have changed their lives by reading it – Earl Nightingale (founded the motivational recordings industry and was very well off when he died), Bob Proctor (apparently very well off today), Robert Collier (known philanthropist worth 1/2 billion at his death), and so on. If you follow his book (not very much different from the precepts found in “The Secret”) you can have success in your life.

If you doubt it, it doesn’t work for you.

In Secrets of the Law of Attraction, the second book excerpted is Bristol’s Magic of Believing. And I find this for good reason – his whole book was devoted to exploring how a person’s beliefs will shape his world.

While the first book excerpt was Troward, the third was Genevieve Behrend – who had a chapter entitled, “How I attracted to myself $20,000″.

So the critics are actually hanging themselves with no needed help from the rest of us.

The positive thinkers win – continually – and just as Wattles said, “… and the riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.”

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update 070627:

Some people are making money online (apparently) by setting themselves up as expert debunkers – and attracting people using others’ good names (“Exposed – Find the real truth about [famous author] – click here!)

But remember, that law of attraction works all the time, every time. If you listen to critical people and believe them, you will get more critical thought into your life. Sure, you can check them out for contrast (things you don’t want in your life) but don’t get into any sort of routine critical thought. Your life has nothing in it now that you didn’t think about earlier.

Critical people lead critical lives. Postive thought (followed with positive and effective action) will result in positive results in your life.

It’s too easy to criticize. The harder thing to do is something positive to solve the problem.