the secret

"his whole life changed, because he changed from focusing on what he did not want, what he was afraid of, what he wanted to avoid, to focusing on what he did want.

So we may be very positive in our outlook and orientation and we tend to attract positive people and positive events and circumstances.
When we're very negative in our orientation, or very angry, in which case we tend to attract negative angry people, and negative angry circumstances.

And so you end up attracting to you, the predominant thoughts that you are holding in your awareness, whether those thoughts are conscious, or whether they're unconscious.

What you think about, you bring about.
Your life is a physical manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your head.

So, the law of attraction, the study and practice of the law of attraction, is just figuring out what will help you generate the feelings of having it now. Go test drive that car, go shop for that home, get in the house, do whatever you need to do to generate the feeling of having it now, and remember them. Whatever you can do to do that, will help you to literally attract it

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.

When you want to change your circumstances, you must first change your thinking.

So we're constantly living in this residual, if you will, of the thoughts and actions we've taken in the past. When you look at your current state of affairs and define yourself by that, then you doom yourself to have nothing more than the same in the future.

Start making a list of things to be grateful for. Start with that, because this shifts your energy. It starts to shift your thinking. Where before this exercise, you might be focusing on what you don't have, and you might be focusing on your complaints, and you might be focusing on whatever the problems are, when you do this exercise you start to go in a different direction. You start to be grateful for all the things that you feel good about. Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life.

When you visualize, you materialize.

When you're visualizing, when you've got that picture playing out in your mind, always and only dwell upon the end result.

When you have inspired thought
You have to trust it
You have to act on it.

Instead, give more to yourself. Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

It wasn't until I fell in love with Lisa, my mocha skin, my full lips, my round hips, my curly hair, it wasn't until that moment that I fell in love with me, that the rest of the world was able to fall in love with me as well.

And as soon as you love yourself, you'll love others.

For relationships to really work, we need to focus on what we appreciate about the other person, not what we are complaining about. When we're complaining about those things, we're only getting more of those things. Even if you're having a really hard time in your relationship... things aren't working, you're not getting along, someone's in your face.... you still can turn that relationship around. Take a piece of paper, and for the next thirty days, once a day sit down and write all the things that you appreciate about that person. Think about all the reasons that you love them. You appreciate their sense of humour, you appreciate how supportive they are. And what you'll find is that when you focus on appreciating and acknowledging their strengths, that's what you'll get more of. And the problems will fade away.

We cannot control other people, no matter how hard we try.

We create our own happiness through the law of attraction.

Often times, you give others the opportunity to create your happiness. And many times they fail to create it the way you want it.
Why?
Because only one person can be in charge of your joy, of your bliss. And that's you.

Remove physiological stress from the body, and the body does what it was designed to do. It heals itself.

What you resist persist.

You want to focus on what you want, not what you don't want. It's okay to notice what you don't want, because that gives you contrast to say "Well, this is what I do want." But the fact is, the more you talk about what you don't want, or talk about how bad it is, read about that all the time, and say how terrible it is, well, you're creating more of that.

Learn to become still, and to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place the attention on what you wish to experience.

Energy flows where attention goes.

Now the truth is, there's more than enough good to go around. There's more than enough creative ideas, there's more than enough power, there's more than enough love, there's more than enough joy.

When people focus on what they want, what they don't want falls away.

You are the designer of your destiny.
You are the author.
You write the story.
The pen is in your hand.
And the outcome is whatever you choose.

"Whether you think you can
or you cant
either way you are right"
-Henry Ford

You were born to add something, to add value, to simply be the best that you can be."
-quoted from "the secret"