Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Do I Focus On The Cause or The Effect?

By Mark S. Kearns, MA, N.H.D.

One of the callers on last night's law of attraction call asked for clarification on a comment that I made during the talk. I made the comment that some people don't realize the result they desire because they are more concern with changing effects rather than the causes.

Let me explain this further with this example. It is a common belief, shared by many, that personal resources are very limited, money being the most common one. If someone is feeling a financial pinch, the first thing they want to do is limit spending.

At the moment, they don't realize that their idea of lack becomes the focal point for all of their energy. Now please don't misunderstand me. Prudence is important and it certainly makes good sense to reevaluate your budget when faced with financial challenge. However, this too often just becomes the way that people live, through a sense of lack. They begin to accept this as just the way things are.

A closer analysis with uncover some facts that should be known. The practice of "cutting back" is one that focuses on lack. That is, what they do not possess, what they are lacking in life. All of their focus and energy is keeping that state of lack at the forefront and energized.

Secondly, "cutting back" will not increase income. Only by making more money will your income increase. The natural question asked by these individuals is, how? How can I make more money when my income is fixed by how much I make a hour, a week, or a month?

This is actually the whole point of learning about the law of attraction. This is the perfect opportunity to put the lessons into practice because at this point you will be motivated to experience a change. However, since most people can't figure out how that change might come about, they discount the law of attraction.

But that is not your true fate, to be frustrated with the limitation of life. The law of attraction was designed so that you could push back your limitations and rise above your present conditions to conceive new ideas. This law is designed for you to experience new opportunities in your life, by allowing yourself to be a part of the creative process.

By using the law of attraction, they would begin to create the thought image of life with increased financial resources. They would use their imagination to create the thought image of how life would be without the financial limitation.

As you imagine your new life you naturally begin to create clearer and clearer pictures of that life. As that happens, you naturally add more and more emotion about your thought image. This is the key. Now through the law of attraction you find yourself attracted to the things that you need and attracting to you, the things that you need to manifest your thought image.

Now those thoughts begin to find harmony with similar thoughts and soon the individual finds themselves attracted to certain opportunities and opportunities for additional financial gain attracted to them.

Notice how your entire focus has now switched from just the results to the real cause of the results you experience. That is your thoughts! As you focus more and more on the causes you set into motion, you will automatically begin to notice different effects, different results, results that you really want to experience.

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