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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.”

~~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you’ve been keeping up with the last few articles here at Ron’s Esoteric Thoughts, then you know we’re talking about “The Secret”. You also know that there is more to making “The Secret” work for you than just sitting on your butt and wishing for something to manifest in your life. The first principle is to focus your mind on what it is you want to manifest — the second principle is to take action — to follow the clues as to what you need to do to help this manifestation along.

When the focus is sharp — when it’s clear to your mind and to the universe what it is you desire — then the light bulb goes on and the ideas begin to show up on how to get what you want. Resources will begin to come into your life. You’ll begin to see the path to reaching your goals. This is when it really starts to get exciting. Your level of motivation will jump up by leaps and bounds. You’ll find you have more courage — it will be easier for you to persist in carrying out the actions needed — you’ll be more disciplined and less likely to procrastinate. Let’s face it, you’ll be enthused about this new venture.

The most exciting thing for me when I get to this step in the process is how positive I feel. I really feel good — I can’t wait to get at it. I also find that I seem to develop new qualities that I never knew I had. This is what it feels like when you’re taking the actions necessary to make “The Secret” work the way it should.

This is also the point in the process where you need to be careful and not let your focus begin to slip away. If you want to maintain that positive energy you must keep the dream alive and foremost in your mind. You need to keep those clues coming — you need to be working on those actions. So many times, people will fall away at this point — sometimes because they just get lazy — but more often it’s because they lost the razor-sharp focus.

Don’t be afraid to ask the universe — your higher power — God — “What do I need to do to make this happen?” This is especially true if the ideas don’t seem to be making themselves known. The ideas aren’t showing up because your focus isn’t zeroed in the way it needs to be. Asking this type of question will bring it back up to where it belongs.

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

~~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Is this going to seem harder for some than it is for others? Well, for one thing, waiting for a miracle will be really easy to do — just don’t do anything but hope for the sky to open up and have your desire fall into your lap. Is that likely to happen? Not by a long shot. I’ve been reading some articles lately that still seem to promote this as the way to make The Secret work. I have to disagree. Everyone I know that is truly successful got that way because they took the necessary action steps to make it happen for them. And, in most cases, the action they took was of value, not only to them, but to the world around them. Laziness won’t do the job — it will take work on your part — but you’ll feel great while your doing the work.

One quick example of this in my own life. I’ve been looking at building some business by finding good small niches — and finding good valuable products that fit into those niches for me to promote. (I’m promoting a few of them right here in my blog — read to the end of the posting and look on the sidebars and you’ll see them.) I focused on this as a goal to help me monetize this site a little more than it was originally. I knew I was putting out a good product here — and I knew that the action I was taking — writing these articles — was of value to whoever was taking the time to read them. It was also of value to me to do the research and the study necessary.

But it went a step further — not only did I need to give value in my writing — but also, if I was going to promote any products here — they too, had to have value — and if they weren’t my own products, the people creating them had to be giving value.

Do you see?

That leads us into the third principle of “The Secret” — taking actions that give value. We’ll make that our focus for next time.

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

~~~ Napoleon Hill

You are the most precious gift you can give yourself. Every day look in the mirror and say, “I’m available to more good than I have experienced, realized or imagined ever before in my life!” Do this every day while you look into your own eyes.

You are special — and you are loved. You are the greatest gift you can be.

Shanti … (A sanscrit word meaning, “Let there be Peace. Peace, beautiful Peace. Peace within, Peace without. Peace in this world. Peace for all beings.”)

~~~ DBL-R
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If you’ve been reading here for any length of time, you know that I practice meditation every day. When I do so, I use, what I truly believe, is the most powerful personal growth and mind development tool on earth. It’s the The Holosync Solution. I knew that meditation was a vital element to nurturing my soul — to opening myself to the universe — and this tool has allowed me to achieve and receive the benefits of deep, long-term meditation — and to achieve it much more quickly. If you’re having trouble “getting meditation to work for you” – then the The Holosync Solution is what you’re looking for.

Regular, daily meditation can give you …

(1) Increased intelligence and creativity.
(2) Lower stress levels — and with that — increased ability to handle whatever the world tosses your way.
(3) New levels of self-awareness and inner peace.
(4) The healing of emotional issues at the deepest levels —

— it’s definitely worth taking the time for this powerful practice every day.

With a One-Year 100% Iron-Clad Guarantee, you can now do so with no risk whatsoever —

— The Holosync Solution
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“It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”

~~~ Anthony Robbins

Here we are at the first of the week, and it’s time to write some further thoughts about “The Secret” and the Law of Attraction. On Friday, we started to dig into what happens when we consciously put an intention out to the universe. We discovered that there is more to be done in order to make “The Secret”, work for you.

Last week we used the example of “wishing” for a nice cup of green tea while I was working in my office — where, by the way — there is nothing in my office that could manifest a cup of tea. So, I could sit here all day and wish for that cup of tea, but it’s not likely to materialize on its own, is it? I need to take some sort of action to get my cup of tea, right?

There are many people who, if they were to “wish” for something — and who are aware of “The Secret”, — will have that something materialize for them quite by “magic”. Let’s face it, it’s within the realm of possibility that someone could walk into my office and hand me a cup of tea without any action on my part. Is that because of The Secret? I don’t think so. That is, to my way of thinking, nothing more than pure coincidence.

One of the examples I hear and read about concerns the folks who are using the Law of Attraction to manifest parking places. And when a parking place does open up for them, they feel it’s The Secret working for them. I’m not saying that it’s not — they are taking the action of looking for a parking place — but it might also be sheer coincidence that they found one. Do they find a parking place every time? I wonder.

When you put your mind onto some desire — when you focus your thinking on that desire — you’ll begin to notice ideas coming into your mind about what to do — what action to take. You may become more aware of things that will help you get what you want. It might be a book — or a course on the Internet — or a teleseminar on a topic relating to your desire — or people may come into your life that can help you reach your goal.

“Our thoughts create our reality — where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.”

~~~ Peter McWilliams

I know of an example for me that might describe this phenomenon. This isn’t a big whoopie-do thing — but a few months ago I was developing a desire to re-learn more about the techniques needed to be a good pool player. There’s a beautiful pool table in my basement, and I could remember back to when I was younger and I was really good at pool. (I even used pool to generate some extra income in my youth. [grin]) However, it was becoming quite obvious that all the subsequent years of not playing had caused those skills to vanish. So, my mind was focused to some extent on learning to regain those skills. Within a few short days, I happened to be in the local bookstore looking for a book on cooking with Splenda, when I noticed several books on pool techniques on a nearby shelf. I’m betting that I wouldn’t have noticed those books if my mind hadn’t been focused on that subject.

The Law of Attraction works in mysterious, but wonderful ways. When you put your mind to something that you’d like to manifest in your life, all sorts of clues about how to help bring this desire into reality begin to come into your consciousness. You’ll start to notice things that would have slipped right by you otherwise. It’s like your mind gets sharper. The Law of Attraction will bring you the clues. Your job is to notice them and then take the action needed to use them.

Next time we’ll dig into this even more about how to make “The Secret” work for you.

“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.”

~~~ Michael Leboeuf

You are the most precious gift you can give yourself. Every day look in the mirror and say, “I’m available to more good than I have experienced, realized or imagined ever before in my life!” Do this every day while you look into your own eyes.

You are special — and you are loved. You are the greatest gift you can be.

Shanti … (A sanscrit word meaning, “Let there be Peace. Peace, beautiful Peace. Peace within, Peace without. Peace in this world. Peace for all beings.”)

~~~ DBL-R
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If you’ve been reading here for any length of time, you know that I practice meditation every day. When I do so, I use, what I truly believe, is the most powerful personal growth and mind development tool on earth. It’s the The Holosync Solution. I knew that meditation was a vital element to nurturing my soul — to opening myself to the universe — and this tool has allowed me to achieve and receive the benefits of deep, long-term meditation — and to achieve it much more quickly. If you’re having trouble “getting meditation to work for you” – then the The Holosync Solution is what you’re looking for.

Regular, daily meditation can give you …

(1) Increased intelligence and creativity.
(2) Lower stress levels — and with that — increased ability to handle whatever the world tosses your way.
(3) New levels of self-awareness and inner peace.
(4) The healing of emotional issues at the deepest levels —

— it’s definitely worth taking the time for this powerful practice every day.

With a One-Year 100% Iron-Clad Guarantee, you can now do so with no risk whatsoever —

— The Holosync Solution
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[tags]peace, inner self, The Secret, Law of Attraction, dreams, spiritual energy, inner balance, enlightenment, destiny, manifestation, meditation, patience, gratitude, tolerance, acceptance, body balance, life cycle, beginnings, endings, positive thinking, ego, silence, consciousness, staying grounded, cycle of life[/tags]

“Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your actions. Keep your actions positive because your actions become your habits. Keep your habits positive because habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”

~~~ Gandhi

On Monday, we started to discuss a couple of factors pertaining to “The Secret” and the Law of Attraction that many people didn’t quite understand. Again, to repeat, the concept introduced in the movie, “The Secret”, is powerful!

But we are already hearing people say, “This Secret thing doesn’t work for me!”

In my own experiences with the Law of Attraction, I’ve learned that there are a couple of steps that people are leaving out of the process — and that may have been understated in the movie itself. Those steps are — that in addition to putting your intention out to the universe — in addition to letting the universe know of your desire — in addition to focusing on what you want to manifest into your life — you will also need to pay attention to what the universe is telling you to do — what actions you need to take — and furthermore, to be certain that those actions have real value — not only for yourself, but also for the benefit of others.

Do this, and “The Secret” will work for you.

As I said on Monday, the universe will give you back whatever you put out there. Good intentions, followed by good actions that have value and are of benefit to others will give you back all of that — and more. Like attracts like.

One of the aspects of my life in the years past, is that I never truly believed in my own heart that I had the “right stuff” to be successful in this world. I grew up on the streets of Detroit. I was a homeless street kid from the age of eight years old until I went into the Navy when I was 17. Sure, I learned how to survive on the streets — I was as tough as leather — but any concept of wealth or success was beyond my wildest dreams. I was dirt poor and that’s what I understood. In the years following that, even though I was a success in my chosen field of banking, my relationships with others were never fulfilling. On a personal level I was floundering — I felt like a loser.

Back in those days I didn’t have the knowledge or the skills to know how to offer value to others. I knew how to take care of myself, but I grew up with the philosophy of “every man for himself”. I can’t tell you how often during those years that I put intentions out to the universe. (Of course, I didn’t know I was doing that — not then.) How often I wished, dreamed, and hoped for prosperity, respect, happiness — and like everyone else on this planet — the desire to be truly loved.

But, that’s all I did — I wished, dreamed, hoped and desired — just like the DVD, “The Secret,” suggests — and not much happened. I didn’t know it then, but I needed to do more than just wish, dream, hope and desire. I wanted magic to happen. What I didn’t know was that I needed to do some work to make it happen.

When you ask someone who has seen the movie about The Secret, “How does it work?”, most people will say that what you place your intention on — your focus on — will manifest. That’s right, that’s the first principle of The Secret.

(This is getting long — so bear with me for just a little longer.)

If you’ve experienced the process of really wanting something — and you do put your entire focus on that “something” — you may have noticed some things happening. If you’re paying attention, you’ll begin to notice certain signals or clues coming into your life. I’ve learned that you don’t need to worry about “How” to take action — the “Hows” will make themselves known to you. That’s where some of the magic happens. When your mind is focusing on what you want to create in your life, the universe is receiving that as an instruction and will begin to show you “How” to make it happen. You need to be watching for these clues. You’ll notice ideas popping into your head. You’ll get an email message showing you a cool new way to achieve a goal of yours. You’ll read something in the paper — or you’ll see an ad for a tool you need. These are all just ideas — but they are subtle clues about actions you need to take.

A quick, but simple example — then I’ll close for today. If I’m sitting here at the computer and I would like to “attract” a nice cup of green tea, what happens? If I focus on that, what happens? There’s no teapot in my office, so my mind gets the idea that I need to get up and go to the kitchen and heat some water. If I don’t do that, I don’t get the cup of tea, right? That’s a pretty simple example, but I think you’ll see how the first principle, focusing on your intention, relates to the second principle, taking action.

Next time we’ll pick this up and look at some more about the principles of “The Secret.”

(These are the same quotes I used on Monday, but they still apply so well I’m going to leave them. Hope that’s okay with you.)

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”

~~~ Andrew Jackson – Quoting Napoleon Bonaparte

“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.”

~~~ Jules Renard

You are the most precious gift you can give yourself. Every day look in the mirror and say, “I’m available to more good than I have experienced, realized or imagined ever before in my life!” Do this every day while you look into your own eyes.

You are special — and you are loved. You are the greatest gift you can be.

Shanti … (A sanscrit word meaning, “Let there be Peace. Peace, beautiful Peace. Peace within, Peace without. Peace in this world. Peace for all beings.”)

~~~ DBL-R
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If you’ve been reading here for any length of time, you know that I practice meditation every day. When I do so, I use, what I truly believe, is the most powerful personal growth and mind development tool on earth. It’s the The Holosync Solution. I knew that meditation was a vital element to nurturing my soul — to opening myself to the universe — and this tool has allowed me to achieve and receive the benefits of deep, long-term meditation — and to achieve it much more quickly. If you’re having trouble “getting meditation to work for you” – then the The Holosync Solution is what you’re looking for.

Regular, daily meditation can give you …

(1) Increased intelligence and creativity.
(2) Lower stress levels — and with that — increased ability to handle whatever the world tosses your way.
(3) New levels of self-awareness and inner peace.
(4) The healing of emotional issues at the deepest levels —

— it’s definitely worth taking the time for this powerful practice every day.

With a One-Year 100% Iron-Clad Guarantee, you can now do so with no risk whatsoever —

— The Holosync Solution
===============================================================

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[tags]peace, inner self, The Secret, Law of Attraction, dreams, spiritual energy, inner balance, enlightenment, destiny, manifestation, meditation, patience, gratitude, tolerance, acceptance, body balance, life cycle, beginnings, endings, positive thinking, ego, silence, consciousness, staying grounded, cycle of life[/tags]