After watching and listening to ‘the Secret,’ reading books by Napoleon Hill, Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra, I believe that what they all cover is true. That is:

1. To [...]]]> A few years ago, we posted an article on Ezine articles about manifesting and detaching from the outcome. We still feel it to be true:

After watching and listening to ‘the Secret,’ reading books by Napoleon Hill, Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra, I believe that what they all cover is true. That is:

1. To focus on what you want

2. Detach yourself from the outcome

3. Be grateful for what you already have

4. Make a plan then take action

But the point that was most difficult for people that I’ve talked to is detach yourself from the outcome. In other words, don’t worry about whether or not something will happen and just know it will.

It’s easy to understand this concept if you look back on your own life and think about something you hoped for or wanted badly but didn’t get when you wanted it, only to manifest itself when you stopped worrying about it.

A simple example for me happened in high school. In my junior year, I really wanted to go to my junior prom but because I was shy and attended an all-boys school, finding a date was next to impossible. The junior prom came and went. While I was disappointed, I accepted the outcome and looked forward to my senior prom.

By the start my senior year in high school, my attitude had changed from worrisome and fearful to joyful and carefree. The reasons for this change are I did volunteer work at my school and participated in activities at the YMCA. Because of my positive outlook, I enjoyed my final year in high school and while I still wanted to go to my senior prom, I would be fine if I didn’t go. As a result, not only did I go to my senior prom, but I also went to three more proms with girls from the neighboring all-girl schools. It was unbelievable considering just a year earlier, I didn’t know any girl to ask.

Of course, something like going to a prom is not that big of a deal compared to the issues we face as we get older and take on more responsibilities. The challenges we experience can be overwhelming to the point where, despite all your efforts to detach yourself from what you desire, worry and fear find their way in. I think this is where people get discouraged and doubt any of this self-help / attraction concepts work.

I believe that the steps that are pointed out in programs like ‘The Secret’ are simple and easy to understand, but it’s not easy to implement when it comes to the big things in one’s life whether it be financial security, overcoming a serious illness or family stability.

The key to overcoming the inability to manifest what matters most to you is to think about your past and see what you were able to manifest, no matter how small or minor. Then try to remember how you felt before it happened and how you felt when it happened. Take those feelings and apply it to what you want now.

It takes great effort, especially when you are being inundated with negative energy from the people and environment around you. But it will make you a stronger person and you will manifest what you truly desire.

This year’s theme is ‘Making the Shift from Ambition to Meaning.’

Here’s the official description:

In these all-new lectures, Wayne will take you through the seven questions that constitute the Excuses Begone paradigm, and show you how it worked for him and [...]]]> Dr. Wayne Dyer is going on tour again with his inspiring seminars.

This year’s theme is ‘Making the Shift from Ambition to Meaning.’

Here’s the official description:

In these all-new lectures, Wayne will take you through the seven questions that constitute the Excuses Begone paradigm, and show you how it worked for him and how it can work for you. By examining the support system that a person has erected over a lifetime and putting those timeworn thoughts through the seven steps in this paradigm, excuses begin to fade away and are replaced with thoughts that speak fervently, almost shouting, Yes, you can change any excuse pattern, no matter how long or how pervasive the conditioning process has been! Wayne has seen people change from a lifetime of being overweight or addicted to all manner of substances by simply applying the principles inherent in the Excuses Begone approach to life.

During these profound, life-changing lectures you’ll explore the seven questions of the Excuses Begone paradigm shift:
- Is it true?
- Where did the excuses come from?
- What’s the payoff?
- What would my life look like if I couldn’t use these excuses?
- Can I create a rational reason to change?
- Can I access universal cooperation in shedding old habits?
- How do I continuously reinforce this new way of being?

If you are truly serious about changing any long-established habits of thought that have led you to use excuses as your rationale for staying on the same self-defeating path, then you are encouraged to follow the principles and practices presented in these all-new lectures!

Pretty exciting stuff! Here are the dates for what’s scheduled so far. There might be more coming up:

9/14/2010 Los Angeles. CA

10/23/2010 Maui, HI

11/12/2010 Tampa, FL

11/17/2010 Washington DC

11/21/2010 New York, NY

On top of that, Dr. Wayne Dyer will be taking part in Hay House’s annual I CAN DO IT! retreat in Tampa, Florida!

It’s a three day seminar featuring a who’s who list of self help guru’s and spiritualists:

• John Holland
• Caroline Myss
• Alan Cohen
• Marianne Williamson
• and 22 others

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS

Enjoy!

The great thing about life is that IF you’re willing you can “turn on” the light switch, make a decision to be GREAT. As a parent, I’m humbled constantly because [...]]]> While lurking at a Boston Celtics forum, I found this great post from someone named cornerstones.  I think this rings true for all of us:

The great thing about life is that IF you’re willing you can “turn on” the light switch, make a decision to be GREAT. As a parent, I’m humbled constantly because quite frankly my failures are magnified as they affect my child. Yet, the choice to quit or indulge in self-pity is non-existent. I gotta get up after every single solitary time I fall or fail, and DECIDE to move FORWARD.

But many of us have been conditioned to think that we have no control over what happens to us and ACCEPT the hand that life gives [...]]]> Being able to alter our own reality is something that we all have the ability to do. It’s our mindset, our unconditional knowing NOT belief, that will make it happen.

But many of us have been conditioned to think that we have no control over what happens to us and ACCEPT the hand that life gives us. Once we realize that it isn’t true, we try to make it happen. However trying to undue a certain thinking that’s been with us almost our whole life is quite a daunting task.

There’s a great forum that we frequent at StevePalvina.com.  There was a post made by someone named icutoffheads that I found quite powerful.  You can fly over there to read the whole thread, but I thought it would be good to post his initial comments here:

I understand it. It’s no longer a struggle, I manifest faster and faster each day. It happens with ease, without any effort. I literally just created the rest of my day today, not by thinking it over and over again and crossing my fingers it will happen. I woke up twenty minutes ago, thought about what I wanted to do today for about umm I don’t know, two seconds, and immediately these things were already brought to me (via telephone calls I recieved immediately after these thoughts) including a dinner that is my exact dinner of choice and coming to me for free (I thought of it, and no more than 20 seconds later it was delivered. Truth.) Don’t ever buy another LoA book again, you don’t need it. You just need yourself. This is the truth.

The biggest thing that will begin to get you results and that will also speed up the entire process (of understanding, experiencing, and create) is examining your perception of reality itself. This is the biggie. This is the core perception on which all the rest of your beliefs reside. If you believe reality to be solid and outside of yourself but still tell yourself you can manifest, you may not get the results you want. It’s like you are creating the rules and boundaries to your own experience. How would you like reality to be? Would you like to create your dream life? Begin with your perception on reality, examining you current perception of reality, and take the leap of faith to bend that perception into one that better fits your ideal version of reality. This is the biggest most important aspect of creating your own life. To me, this was the dam, holding back the flood. There was a crack in the dam before and a little bit of water was coming through but not much.

It’s scary changing your perceptions on reality itself because we are conditioned from child birth to believe it is one way, when it is truly not. Letting go of the perception of reality is frightening. It’s basically taking something that’s always been solid and real to you and flipping it inside out and upside down. Trust yourself. Bend your perception of reality and your reality will bend with it, I promise you. It will mold itself to however you see it, it will interact with you however you allow it to. Then you realize that you didn’t even really do anything and reality has been this way ALL along, you’re just now allowing yourself to see and experience it that way, and exert more control over it.

Find the non-physical part of yourself that exists beyond and throughout the reality in front of your eyes as well as deep inside you. This is you. It’s nothing, and it’s what “letting go” is all about. Once you find this dimension of yourself, you will understand, you will feel that tension “let go”. It’s quite amazing. You truly create from this place.

EXISTENCE is a spectrum! There are a spectrum of “states of being” that you can chose to experience RIGHT NOW. Everything is existence has it’s own gradient scale, it’s own spectrum, why would reality itself be any different?
Skeptics are like people looking at a color spectrum wheel, saying only red exists. Yes the experience of reality being solid and outside of you exists, but it’s arrogant to think this is the only experience of reality available, especially once you see life expressed in all of it’s many infinite number of ways. It’s beautiful and divine.

I am not trying to sell you people anything. I don’t care if you listen to me or not. I don’t want to be a guru or any of that bullshit. I want to help. I have struggled with these concepts of LoA and everything for so damn long and everything makes sense, is working for me effortlessly and amazingly, and increases each and everyday…exponentially to. I want people to have what I have, especially those of you who have been at this for as long as I was and was getting frustrated with no results. Those of you who get it already, I salute you with excitement and look forward to our eternal journey together.

I apologize for the randomness of this post, I just woke up about 20 minutes ago and I am rushing as I have to meet some musicians at the beach in a few moments to work out some musical arrangements.

Skeptics I urge you to reconsider you stance, to give it a shot. Not for me. Not because I’m making a church and I’m recruiting members. No. This isn’t about congregations or pews or preachers or whatever. This is about YOUR life and LIVING and EXPERIENCING IT TO IT’S FULLEST. I’m not trying to convert anybody. I’m trying to explain that I’ve changed my life and discovered truth in this complete OUT THERE concept. What you choose to do will not effect me in the slightest, I have no need or desire for people to believe the same things I do, and I’m not asking that at all. I’m saying if the opportunity is there for you to live YOUR ABSOLUTE DREAM LIFE, why not take it? I am proof. I took it and I am telling you it works, not because I manifested a drawing of a blue feather or anything like that, but because I manifest constantly, without effort or work or worry. This is not something I can see anybody wanting to pass up. It’s a difficult thing as first to wrap your head around because it so goes against everything you’ve been taught and learned to be true since birth. Simple first step is just to example your current beliefs on reality and how you experience reality. I guarantee they are the same. You probably believe that you hold these beliefs about reality because that’s how reality is. The truth is that’s how reality is because you hold these beliefs about it. Try changing your perceptions. Who wouldn’t want an easy, effortless, worry free life that hand delivers you everything you want and is shaping itself to be exactly what you wish to experience in your life. It’s scary taking 100% full responsibility for everything in your life. I know. You see the “bad” things and say there’s no way you would ever create that for yourself. But please, don’t believe me. Don’t take my word for it. Truly try it out and experience it for yourself. Or don’t. It won’t change my life a single bit. I will continue this struggle free, worry free existence that I mold to my will regardless of what any of you choose. I want everyone who truly wants to, to be able to achieve what I have. And you can. Because it’s easy. And once you start understanding the pieces, the rest of the puzzle begins to make more and more sense and the process speeds up.

It never goes faster than you allow it to. It will never be too much for you to handle. It is you.

You are free to do whatever you want, but then again you don’t need some jerk like me telling you that, do you? I’m just trying to share my joy with you.

It’s time to wake up, everybody. Let’s do this.

Many years ago my cousin had a bitter divorce. The ex wife got custody of the child and he had to pay alimony. However, not [...]]]> There was very welcome news today. My mother called me to let me know that my cousin has finally found his son after ten years.  Actually, his son found him!

Many years ago my cousin had a bitter divorce. The ex wife got custody of the child and he had to pay alimony. However, not long after the divorce, he lost his job and was not able to make alimony payments.  As result, the ex wife refused to grant visiting rights.

The ex wife even refused to let her son see his grandmother (my cousin’s mother) when her health was deteriorating.  This was quite painful to witness because my aunt had loved her grandson very much and had not seen him in years. It was her dying wish to see her grandson one more time before she crossed over.

Soon after my aunt passed away, my cousin’s ex-wife and her son moved to Japan. This was about five years ago. My cousin had not seen or even heard from either his ex-wife or son since.

My mother and I tried help locate my cousin’s son last year.  My mother called the local radio station for assistance and asked friends if they had heard anything.  I went to popular social sites in Japan and in America but no such luck.

A few days ago, my cousin went to Japan on a business trip, while there he suddenly got from his son. Initially, my cousin didn’t believe it but became elated when he realized he was talking to his son.

The amazing thing was his son was also searching for his father and actually hired a private investigator. Fortunately, my cousin was not hard to track since he created a successful multimedia business.

His son is in his early twenties with his own family, including a brand new son. (My cousin’s a grandpa!) And my cousin’s son currently resides in Nagoya. So my cousin had changed plans and is now on his way to Nagoya!

It’s a very joyous week!

Dr. Wayne [...]]]> One of the keys to manifesting what you desire is to be grateful for what you already have. In the book, ‘The Secret,’ Rhonda Bryne talks about waking in the morning and saying the words “thank you” over and over and over again until she is consumed with joy and good spirits.

Dr. Wayne Dyer also talks about gratitude, and reflecting on the abundance that you have via meditation. One of his favorite quotes is “Attitude With Gratitude.” Even in Dr Wayne Dyer’s film, ‘The Shift,’ in the opening scene, you see Dr. Dyer waking up from bed, taking a deep breath and saying “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

But is it all there is to it? Is just repeating “thank you” over and over again is enough to help you get what you want?

From my own personal experience, the answer would have to be “no.”

I have woken up for many a mornings and said “thank you” over and over again but it didn’t do anything for me. I did not feel either joyful or full of spirit, instead, I felt quite neutral. I began to wonder why?

The truth is most of us are taught to be grateful or thankful for what we have from church, our parents, even your country (i.e., United States has Thanksgiving Day.) After years of being told to be thankful, we don’t really have any feeling behind our thankfulness. I’m sure many of us have said something like “I am thankful that I have food on the table and clothes on my back and a roof over my head, so I shouldn’t be grumbling over the fact that I have all this debt, I’m getting a pay cut, my husband is cheating on me, blah, blah, blah.”

But this past week something popped into my head to make me feel truly grateful and thankful for all that has happened.

My son, who’s six years old, is at the point now where he wants to spend more time with me. But because of work and helping to take care of our four month old baby, time was perceived to be limited. His nagging and complaining was obviously getting on my nerves for quite sometime, and I found myself expressing my frustration and anger to him.

But last week, I thought about what I wanted to manifest into my life, which is to be financially successful and financially independent and creating this wealth virtually, over the internet perhaps, and doing it at any convenient time for me.  This, I believed, would allow me to have more free time for my family.

As I reflected on this, I realized that I was not showing that I wanted to spend time with my son. Instead of being thankful that I had two great boys, I was annoyed that they wanted to take away what little free time I had.  Then it hit me, how can I make more time for my sons in the future if I am not willing to spend time with them now, especially to my six year old.

And the fact that they are both growing up so quickly, I know I will be missing out on their childhood if I focus on my lack of perceived time and how I want to manifest the time in the future.

Since that mini epiphany last week, I’ve been very “present” with both my sons. My six year old has not nagged at me for awhile and for the first time, in a long time, I feel thankful for what I have.

One of the criticisms of people who are learning the law of attraction is that they are all lazy folk who would like to get something for nothing.  Yes, a person who casually listens/watches/reads “the Secret” or some other book, would assume that it would be the case.

On surface, you hear statements like:

“Envision in your mind that you are in possession of a brand new sports car, and it will manifest.”

or

“I wrote a check to myself for $100,000 and I said that I will get that much by the end of the year.”

Or

“Say to yourself, ‘I will receive $10,000 in unexpected income by the end of May.’ And it will happen.”

But if you really pay attention, you realize that it is more than making some kind of declaration or role play. Besides making affirmations or “lying to yourself,” you actually have to do something to manifest it.

Asking for something for nothing will not get you results. Look at a truly lazy person (maybe yourself) and see what they have achieved from doing nothing. I’m sure that they achieved nothing.

Wishing or affirmations is obviously doing something but to manifest something physical, you have to do something physical. You can visualize yourself as being a great tennis player but you really can’t become a great tennis player unless you actually play.

Same thing goes for wealth. Have you ever met a person who achieved wealth by solely by sitting in their chair with their eyes closed thinking about wealth? I haven’t. Instead, many wealthy people sit in their chairs with their eyes closed and think until an idea manifests itself. Then, they take action!

They do something to make it happen. They don’t focus on the amount of money they will make because they already know that they will make lots of it. All they focus on is making their idea into a reality.

The truth is what these wealthy people do is not work at all. It is never a chore for them so their motivation and energy remains high. Once you figure that out, you will achieve unexpected wealth!

Well, it has been over a month since we last posted anything on the Manifesters.  It wasn’t because we were too busy. We just didn’t have the inspiration to write anything.  But that doesn’t mean we have given up or have gotten tired of writing.

We have been doing the Om Gum Shrim. [...]]]> Hi All,

Well, it has been over a month since we last posted anything on the Manifesters.  It wasn’t because we were too busy. We just didn’t have the inspiration to write anything.  But that doesn’t mean we have given up or have gotten tired of writing.

We have been doing the Om Gum Shrim. . . experiment. Since manifesting $10,000, we managed another $300 or so. But we could have earned more had we worked harder to manifest the money. That is, do more than just say the mantra and watch the world go by. That’s not how we manifested $10,000.

Anyway, we will post reviews and articles regularly from now on.  Thank you and Cheers!

The thought [...]]]> In Wayne Dyer’s Manifesting Your Destiny, he talks about how he manifested needle nose pliers. Basically the story goes like this: The light bulb in the light fixture broke and Dr Dyer needed needle nose pliers to get it out. His children said they didn’t have any, but Dr. Dyer insisted they did. 

The thought of needle nose pliers was on his mind for the next couple of days. Then one day, after his morning run, he came into the garage to find brand new needle nose pliers lying on the ground. It’s as if he manifested these pliers into reality.

Well, I had the same experience. For me, it wasn’t needle nose pliers on the garage floor, or ten thousand dollars floating in my toilet, but a Wal-Mart receipt. Last week I had purchased fluorescent light bulbs for our new floor lamp, the type that generates 100 watts worth of light, only to discover that the base of the bulb is too big for the light socket (I just realized that Dyer’s story and mine involve light bulbs…hmm).

Of course, I decided to return the light bulb. Before I left home for Wal-Mart, I checked my wallet to make sure that I had the receipt. It wasn’t there. I had other receipts, including a newer Wal-Mart receipt, but not the one I needed. My wife thought I had thrown it away. But I didn’t.

I searched my desk. I’ve been very good at keeping my desk free from clutter recently so it should have been easy to find the receipt, but it was nowhere to be found. It baffle me. How could this be? I’m not one to throw away receipts until something is being used. So I decided not to return the light bulbs until I found the receipt because I KNEW it had to be somewhere.

A few days past when my wife suddenly fell ill and had to be sent to the hospital. For the next three days I spent my time taking care of my son and keeping my wife company. The day my wife returned from the hospital, I went to my desk to put some important papers away when I noticed a small piece of paper at the center of desk. I picked it up only to realize it was the receipt I was searching for the last week.

The receipt was not on the desk before as I searched thoroughly few days before, even going through the trash bin. But there it was in plain view. I manifested a Wal-Mart Receipt. I certainly hope this is not the extent of my manifesting abilities.