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I recently attended a course on accelerated learning methods to train other people to retain information for longer and in a fun way. One tip I can share is to celebrate your successes often.

When you acknowledge yourself for doing things that support you, you are telling your sub conciousness mind that you are there for you.

Fore example when I notice I am doing something good or right for me I will make a fist with my right hand and say “YES”, either I shout it or do it silently but with “feeling”.

Now this may sound a bit wierd for some readers. If you consider that this is all about raising your energy and the language of sub conscious  is feeling and energy then what you are doing is anchoring moments throughout the day that support you. In time the sub conscious will get it and you will start feeling and seeing life differently.

So when I balance my bank account, go for a run, write a blog article, find money in the street or in my wardrobe etc I anchor with a “YES” sound and clentch my fist.

Notice that the top tennis players carry out this action when they make a breakthrough on court. What is good enough for them is good enough for me.

Try this simple technique often or when you catch yourself doing something right and support yourself and celebrate all your wins both small and big.

You have to be there for you. You are your own best friend.

It is easy to feel like a victim of the problems of the world economic situation. Many people are becoming money victims. People are believing there is no money or opportunities and the best thing is to not do anything and “wait” for things to get better.

We can blame the governments or our circumstances. We may be complaining that there is not enough money, no jobs, no future or some other thing.

Blaming and complaining are like viruses of the mind. When we blame or complain we actually push opportunities away from us. Blaming and complaining can cover up deeper beliefs of feeling like a failure or feeling like a victim to life.

There are two economies – “the economy” and “my economy”. I can take charge of my economy by taking responsibility for how I think, feel and act.

For the next week make a commitment to not complain or blame anyone or the circumstances you find yourself in. This is a daily practice and it is not easy to do. However, try it for a week and then check with yourself as to how feel from this change of behaviour. You will probably feel better and in more control of your life. You may even begin to attract new opportunities into your life despite the economy out there.

Recently I have been pondering on the fear and anxiety that is being felt by millions of people around the world as a result of the news that is flying around every hour about how bad the world and financial system is. I realise that at times I am buying into the “trance” that the media has set up which can be very disempowering if I keep giving my power away to this information.

I know the facts are that we are living in very challenging times and the future looks uncertain. However, I am choosing to not buy into the volumes of media coverage that say its all going down the pan because by doing this I am setting myself up to become a victim of these times.

When you are in the victim space you end up giving your power away to others such as institutions and Governments and then you become helpless and passive as to what you think you cannot do. Circumstances decide what is best for you which is usually you become more of a victim as opposed to you deciding what is good and right for you.

So is the credit crunch made up?

From my perspective if I keep saying to myself  “there is a crisis and I am going to lose all my money” then that statement if repeated a few hundred times, usually unconsciously, will become my truth because I have made it up to be real in my mind.

What I am pointing to is that we can take external information and form strong beliefs around them and then these become group beliefs and from this we shape the results based on these beliefs.

I am not avoiding the challenges we are in, however, I am choosing to turn the volume down on fear and increasing the volume of feeling at ease and feeling good  – every day.

I suggest that if you are feeling anxious about the future go on a diet of watching the news for not more than 5 minutes a day and spend the rest of the times feeling gratitude and appreciation for who you are and what you have in your life.

If you can refrain from watching news or reading papers for say a week then you are in the process of turning down the volume of fear and turning up the volume of well being and hope in your life.

Wishing you an empowering time as we all move through this period of change and transformation.

After spending many years in sales and marketing and now working as a Coach and using the principles of the Law of Attraction, I can see how very important it is to be clear and specific as to who your typical customer is. It is important to talk to the core aspects of your niche market rather than hoping that someone will show up and buy your products or services.

The Law of Attractions can be defined as “whatever I give my energy, attention and focus to the Law responds in exact mathematical exactitude to what I give out”.

How does this apply in the business scene?

If I am marketing a product and I am not clear as to who my target market is then the “Law” will give me back “fuzzy” clients – in other words a loosely defined market audience returns a mix of clients and most of them are not really the clients I may want to do business with.

Focus gives you power and energy and so attracting customers using attraction principles is about…

1) Clearly defining who your typical client is -  his or her habits, the type of lifestyle they live, what is their pain or needs. Is your solution what they actually want?

It is about focusing on “one” ideal client and not about focusing on hundreds of profiles of clients.

2) Identify your client´s hot buttons – what motivates them? where is their pain?

3) Create a Unique Selling point (USP) – in other words what key benefits can you offer that really turns on your client to buy from you. The USP has to talk to their pain and provide them with  compelling benefits.

People buy on emotion and not so much logic. If you can engage them emotionally, you can justify it with logic.

The language of the Law of Attraction is “emotion or feeling” so by working on the emotion of your client´s needs you will be ahead of the game because you are touching into the core aspects of your market niche.

There are other pieces to this puzzle, however, this article is a pointer as to consider the importance of focus, being specific and connecting to the emotion of your client niche. From there the Law of Attraction has something specific to work on and it will go to work in returning you the kind of clients you know you have a solution for and you can deliver with a high level of confidence.

Any comments or insights to this article a welcome

Visualisation is a key component when working with the Law of Attraction. What many people are not fully aware of is that we have three modalities on how we imagine our world and how we manifest.

When these three modalities are fused together they bring about very effective and focused visualisations which quickens the Law of Attraction to work towards your imagined outcome.

The sub conscious does not know the difference between what is real and what is imagined. It simply follows instructions from the conscious mind and in time delivers you the results of the dominant thoughts you have been holding about a certain thing.

To turbo charge your visualisation there is a technique used in Neuro Linguistic Programming that employs three sub modalities…

Visual – seeing images, colours and forms

Kinesthetic – feelings, and sensations

Auditory – sounds and frequencies

When I think about a goal or project I tend to see the images in my mind (visual) and then I check into my feelings (kinesthetic) about the goal or project. I tend to be weak on the auditory, in other words does it “sound” like a good idea.

As I am now aware that I am weaker on my auditory, I make an effort to include sounds in my imaginary experience and bring my auditory perception up to the level of my visual and kinesthetic. When these three modalities are fused together the subconscious can really go to town and deliver a more fuller manifestation of that which has been intended.

Also, certain people have a dominant modality such as kinesthetic (feelings) or auditory and low on visual. We are all wired differently  and we all have these three modalities only that one tends to be stronger than the other two. It is useful to focus on bringing the level up the weaker modaility to improve your imagination for optimal results.

If you are a kinesthetic type and think you cannot “visualise” well in terms of seeing images, the answer is you can  – you simply imagine more with your feelings than with the visual part of the brain.

Many people have a fixed idea that visualisation is about seeing images in the mind. It is and it is only one aspect of visualisation. Get all three modailities working and you turbo charge your visualisation to attract powerfully.

When I teach the mechanics of goal setting and Law of Attraction priciples I notice that many people have great and sincere intentions to change their life circumstances and within a few weeks they either give up or try a new goal or realise the goal they set was not really for them. What is needed is to give your desires or goals sufficient leverage to move you forward.

For example I may set a goal to attract $5000 a month in passive income streams.

Now to give this some leverage I will ask the questions “why do I want this goal?”

If the answer is… “because I can pay off my debts and have a more peaceful life and not worry about money any more” – this may be a good reason it but it may lack sufficient emotional force to help you sustain this goal when you meet obstacles as you move forward. Instead you may want to adjust this until you feel a stronger positive emotional charge such as..

” Earning this money will inspire me to break free of living in survival mode and propel me into a lifestyle where I am using my creativity to attract even more wealth, serve my family and the community at large and I can choose to work on projects that makes my heart sing”

Personally I prefer this response or reason to go for the goal as I feel a sense of real purpose behind the goal. The reason makes me feel good and it will help me to sustain this goal as I go forward and handle the challenges along the way.

I will add a couple of more compelling reasons why I want a certain goal and make those reasons visible each day so the reasons are always at the forefront of my mind. This helps me to persist more with the goal  and I may add more reasons to my list why I want to attract this money over the time I am going for the goal.

It is not so much about the goal, it is more about what the goal will do for you in your life that really matters. To quote Jim Rohn,  America´s leading personal growth teacher, “Reasons come first”.

If you are going for a specific goal think about your compelling reasons to the point where you feel emotionally charged and sufficiently moved to make this goal worthy of you.

There is a lot of excitement going around the internet about a new visualisation tool known as Mind Movies which was created by a Ryan Higgins from Australia.

Ryan´s personal story is that he was in a job that he just did not like and was in huge amounts of debt. He tried a whole bunch of manifestation ideas and goal setting and struggled in the process to create the life he really wanted. Ryan came across the idea of creating your own mind movies of the things you want to bring into your life. Within three months he sacked his boss and was liberated from his debt situation and is now travelling the world spreading the message of this visualisation method.

I really like this visualisation idea as I can see how the power of images, music and the fast moving scenes speaks straight to the sub conscious mind. The subconscious relates to images and emotion and this mind movie idea is a method to access the subconscious for faster manifestation.

Like all things, the key to creating a successful vision board or mind movie is to know what it is you want and put yourself in the images that you see in your mind’s eye.

If you are not a visual person then the mind movie kit that Ryan provides does the visualisation for you as long as you set up the movie with the relevant images and sounds and then you watch your movies every day.

I am not an affiliate of this product and I thought I share it with you because it appears to be a great idea. Visualisation and imagination “rule the world” as Napoleon once said. The launch of this product happens today (10^th September) and I intend to buy a kit and try it out. As it is launch week, Ryan offers a huge array of bonuses with the kit. It is worth a look if this resonates with you.

For some powerful case studies, take a look at this video clip…

http://www.mindmovies.com/vid2/

You can also sign up for the free mind movies Ryan has created. These are on abundance, health, relationships and attracting a partner.

Most people who study The Law of Attraction spend alot of time doing what I term inner work to raise the vibrations to feel good and so attract the higher vibration results. However, there is a a method that both teachers and practitioners miss which is that your environemnt affects your vibration in very powerful ways.

Feng Shui is an anchient Chinese art of managing the energy flow in your environmnet. The Chinese take this art very seriously and I have found that when I share this environment insight with my clients the change in their vibration shifts within hours for the better.

People report feeling better, lighter and clearer headed handle the situations in their lives.

In fact we have numersous environments:

Home, diet, office space, friends we hang out with, clothes we wear, music we listen to, TV programs we watch, the pen we write with and so on.

Your environments are a reflection of you and your consciousness at the time. So if you have been trying to find answers to your life situations either inside yourself, through books or speaking with friends and still feel frustrated then try this amazing technique of clearing up your environments.

As an excercise – clean out all the clutter and outdated clothes from your wardrobes, closets and other storage areas and I will bet you will begin to feel lighter and better about life in general.

When you feel these feelings your vibrations improve and then you are able to manifest things into your life with less will power than before.

Try it and if it works write back to me with your comments.

The subject of the Law of Attraction has shot to popularity overnight after the release of The Secret Movie and Oprah endorsing the theme on American TV to millions of people.

Is Law of Attraction just another fad that is the flavour of the moment right now?

Many people have tried applying the Law after seeing the movie The Secret and are so excited by the idea. Many have realised that putting the Law into effect to get results they hoped for has not worked. People have felt disillusioned with the whole theme and put it down to great marketing and a few the top teachers in the arena have walked away with their pockets full of cash.

From my own point of view, I have studied this theme for many years and the whole idea of how energy flows through using thoughts and intention. I know for a fact that Quantum Physics has proved the power of attention and thought mixed with emotion. There is scientific evidence that we do affect our lives energetically. Clear thought and getting in touch with feelings are the keys to the process.

I have studied martial arts such as Chi Kung and this whole exercise method is based on channelling energy to heal and remove blocks within the body. This is a system over 3000 years old and many quantum physicists are discovering the power of thought through experimentation and realise that methods such as Chi Kung works at a quantum level. Wiliam Tiller, the quantum physicist the from the movie “What the Bleep do we know”, is one such advocate of this energy system.

What am I saying then?

Well, Law of Attraction does work and we need to place close attention when we start bringing into our lives new desires the feelings, resistance, mental blocks and energetic blocks that show up which is a natural part of the process.

Most people start enthusiastically then give up because many are not aware that the sub concious holds old beliefs that keeps a person in check and so he or she is unable to break out of the self imposed limitations the mind has created over the years.

I have attached this 4 minute You Tube clip of Bob Doyle, a Law of Attraction teacher, who puts this theme so well. Perhaps it will give you a new aspect that the Law of Attraction is for real, it works and it is down to each of us to work the system at a deeper level beyond that which was explained on “The Secret” movie.

The Law of attraction is a law that is obedient to your every word, feeling and thought. Asking powerful questions elicits some powerful answers which can manifest into powerful results!

Whether you know about it or not everyone, including you is asking  questions all day long such as “which clothes shall I wear today” , “I wonder what will happen at the office today”. “what shall I have for lunch” and so on. We may not ask questions consciously,  however,  we are talking to ourselves at a sub concious level and most of the questions are unsupportive to us.

You may hear someone say “Why do I always lose out at the last moment?” or “why does this always happen to me?”. The Law of Attraction will do its obedient job to access the memories in your sub concious mind and deliver back a perfect answer based on the questions you asked. It does not care  if you are happy  or suffering  – it matches your energy with a like  energy.

Knowing this puts you in a head start over most people. This insight delivers to you a powerful possibility – the possiblity that if you ask quality questions you will get back quality answers.

Here are some questions to consider even if your situation is defined by you as “bad”…

What is good about this?

What is right about this?

How can I turn this around and make this a success?

What can I learn from this that can take me to a new level?

What can I be grateful for even though this may not be to my liking?

What can I do to make this almost perfect?

If I just pretended I had a solution or answer to this, what would it be and what action could I take?

These are just some of the questions that I work with on a daily basis. I suggest you discover some of your own power questions and by practising this process daily,  see how life starts supporting you in new and exciting ways.

What one great question do you have to start this process off?