believe what you need exists and you have claimed your right to ask for and to receive what you need.
Some believers who see God as the source of all things in the universe can apply these approaches to attracting what they need because there is a link to making those requests in the Bible.
Others who believe that the universe contains God and all things will make similar approaches to attract what they need based on the Law of Attraction principles. The essential concepts are similar, with emphasis on positive thinking and rejecting negative thinking.
If you attempt to use the energy of the universe to produce things, yet deny the power of attraction in your heart, then you satisfy neither the universe nor the Supreme Being you claim to profess.
You have to bring together your spiritual beliefs with your expanded understanding about energy and life force within this present reality. Many people who practice the Law of Attraction are deeply spiritual in all aspects of their life.
If you seek greater spiritual awakening, you can attract that into your life using the same three steps – Ask, Believe, and Receive. In fact, this process is so rightly related to spirituality that you'll wonder what took you so long to use this to energize your spiritual connections!
Adopting a Childlike View of the World
Children are in tune with their world in ways that adults miss. Have you ever thought about how much easier things seemed when you were a child? Logically, that doesn’t make sense!
After all, children have fewer skills, freedom and choices than adults have. Yet in an intuitive sense, it totally makes sense. Children have a wonder about their world and willingness to be aware of all that is around them.
For a child, the world has endless possibilities. The Law of Attraction isn’t a theory that children can explain, but it’s certainly one that they naturally understand. Go back to that classic movie, ‘Miracle on 34th Street.’
The little girl’s belief that she and her mother would have a home was so strong, she even described the house – she had a picture of it, in fact! Her mother was quick to give reasons why it was not possible.
The little girl asked the department store Santa for help, yet she already had claimed the vision of her home before she verbalized it. Needless to say, she got the house and was the only one not surprised by it.
This little girl was simply practicing the Law of Attraction. She knew the house existed and refused to be shaken in her belief that the universe could provide that house for her – even if the universe was represented by a jolly old soul in a red velvet outfit.
How often do adults dismiss a child’s belief in what is not yet seen as just a fantasy? Perhaps we need to see the universal value in their childlike view. The Law of Attraction is alive, well and working just fine, if we allow it space to work.
As adults, we are quick to place conditions on our desires. ‘I believe that the ideal job with better salary is waiting for me, if I’m in the right place at the right time.’ How quick we are to place limits or maybe escape clauses in case it doesn’t work.
A child would say, ‘Daddy is going to a great new job with lots more money and we can get a new car now.’ The child doesn’t put a time limit or escape clause on the belief. In fact, the child’s belief is so strong that she thinks the family needs to start car shopping because Daddy’s new job is on the way.
Look at how the child’s belief opens a direct connection with the universe to receive. For an adult to reconnect with a childlike worldview isn’t the same as acting childish or immature.
The child’s ability to trust in what is neither seen nor heard as having the potential to become real is actually quite mature in the context of the Law of Attraction. Adults have to make an effort to position themselves to receive from the universe.
Children remain open at any time to receive both unexpected gifts as well as those things that have been named and believed to be on the way. What comes naturally to children, takes practice for adults.
Developing a childlike worldview is to wake up every morning and be fully open minded about what the universe may bring into your world – whether it’s people, places, money or new opportunities.
When I woke up every morning, I clap my hands and say, ‘get up on this great day and take advantage of the opportunities the world has to offer.’
See it all with childlike wonder and you’ll never again miss the simple treasures that could be yours.
Positive Affirmation – A Tool to Help You Wield the Power of the LOA
Positive affirmations are daily statements that align energy by focusing your thought power in positive directions. Turn your self-talk into support for your beliefs. You are re-writing your internal programming to over-write the negative, harmful thoughts with life-sustaining, forward moving affirmations.
Positive affirmations may start as part of your daily to-do list only to become as vital to you as the air that you breathe. Positive thinkers are not weird Pollyannas who are blind to the real world and its problems.
Positive thinkers are fully aware of the good and the bad around them, yet they make a conscious choice to focus on what is good. This is more than a choice – it’s protective in mind, body and spirit.
The mind is constantly bombarded by words, images, thoughts, impressions and fearful reactions. As the supercomputer command center, the mind must deal with all of this input and make sense of it.
When the mind is overwhelmed with negative thoughts, the body and spirit are compromised. Medical science has countless studies showing that persistent negativity is harmful to the immune system, nervous system and your overall health.
Negative people are more prone to high blood pressure, heart attacks and immune system disorders. Not only is the body affected, but the spirit is also battered. When the spirit takes on this negativity, there is no comfort in connecting with religion or other sources of spiritual support.
Constant negative input over time pulls you away from your spiritual source since it feels as if even a divine power can’t (or won’t) help you. It’s a slippery slope from constant negativity to major depression, where you believe that you are helpless and hopeless.
The way to avoid that terrible image of living a compromised life is to take on the world from a positive perspective. Psychologists teach a technique called ‘reframing.’ If you have a wonderful painting that begins to look shabby because of the old, broken frame, then change it.
Place the painting inside a new frame and instantly the picture looks brighter and more valuable. That’s a metaphor for reframing responses to situations. You cannot control the situation, but you can control your response to it.
Let’s say a coworker makes an error on a team report that you discover and have to stay late to fix. You can replay the scene in your mind, getting madder and more frustrated each time, which raises your blood pressure and makes you prone to making a mistake.
Or – you can say, ‘I was angry at her – now that’s over and my attention is on the report.’ You can even extend the reframing to say, ‘She is an unhappy person who doesn’t pay attention to her work, but that doesn’t have to change how I handle my work.
You can focus on the negative (her attitude, her mistake, your anger) or you can let it go and reframe your focus to what you want it to be. She can only play on your negativity if you allow her to do so.
Parents and preschool teachers are advised to ‘catch a child doing the right thing and praise the action.’ You can do the same for yourself. Catch yourself feeling negative – then turning it around.
Remember to praise yourself or give yourself a reward for making the positive choice. What you don’t see is that your mind, body and spirit are cheering you on because you have found the power