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Douglas Manning — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:00:24 +0000

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Gratitude Journal Affirmations: Twenty Positive Affirmations For Increasing Abundance

Douglas Manning — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:07:44 +0000

I speak to so many people each day who want to begin a gratitude journal but cannot seem to invoke the creativity to decide what they want. They know that they want abundance, but cannot seem to articulate it in specific terms.

As such, I have put together a list of twenty gratitude journal affirmations to help those with writer’s block move forward. These are to be used as a guide to creating one’s own affirmations. Here they are:

I am thankful to be healthy, wealthy and wise.
I am grateful for all of the abundance that the Source sends me each day.
I am a healthy and beautiful being created in the image of God. I am grateful for all that I am and all that I am becoming.
I am grateful for the possibilities and options that the Universe is revealing to me. I give thanks for the divine meetings with others that will happen to me today.
I am thankful for all of those that love me, even those that I do not know.
I am happy and grateful for everything I have and receive daily
I am grateful for my health even if I cannot see it physically yet.
I am thankful for the amazing abundance that is being created right now as I ponder the infinite generosity of the Universe.
God loves me and wants to bestow his riches upon me.
The Universe is a system of giving and receiving. I am thankful that it is as natural and right for me to receive as it is for me to give.
I am the Universe. The beauty I see in the world is a reflection of what I see in myself.
I am thankful to be lucky.
I am grateful that abundance is the natural order of things.
I am grateful that my life is squarely within my control.
I am thankful that I do not need to compete with others to live a life of abundance. There is plenty for all.
In the face of my enemy I see myself. I am thankful that by forgiving others, I am also forgiving myself.
I am thankful that the Universe is always forgiving, always loving and ready to meet my needs.
Happiness is the natural state of things. I can choose to be happy even if my outside circumstances do not accurately reflect the state of my being.
I am thankful for the difficulties in my life. It is through them that I learn to appreciate the contrast of the blessings that I receive daily.
I am grateful to be made in the image of God, to be pure energy in a temporary shell, to have, at my disposal, all of the tools to create and manifest reality from thought.

Ideally, one should create gratitude journal affirmations that are unique to that individual. I have written an article on creating affirmations, you can read it here.

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Law Of Attraction: Create Effective Positive Affirmations To Manifest Abundance (Part Four)

Douglas Manning — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:40:52 +0000

This is Part Four of a five part series entitled The Secret Law Of Attraction: A Complete Guide To Manifesting Abundance.

In Part One, I led you through a series of exercises to develop the elements needed to put together your conscious creation program. In Part Two, I taught you how to create an inspiring gratitude journal. In Part Three, I taught you how to create an use a multitude of effective visualization aids.

In Part Four, I will discuss a simple technique to effectively incorporate the use of positive affirmations into your daily routine.

To recap, you should have created:

Concise statement of life purpose
List of 15 to 20 positive affirmations
Several paragraphs, each of which should paint a word picture of you living one of you chosen goals.

Now, we are ready to create the third of our law of attraction tools, effective positive affirmation tools. You should place your positive affirmations in your journal, in your visualization aids and in the form of flashcards.

Read more to learn how to use each of these effective methods.

Positive Affirmations Should Be Written In Your Journal

I have written all of my positive affirmations in my gratitude journal. As I go through my journal each day, I read each of these affirmations aloud while dwelling on the positive emotions that the affirmations create inside me.

I can access my positive affirmations in my journal even while I am traveling.

Positive Affirmations Should Be Incorporated Into Your Visualization Tools

In addition to my journal, I have my positive affirmations (actually abbreviated forms of them) incorporated into my screensaver and electronic picture frame.

In order to do this, I opened my photo editing software and used the text function to type each affirmation. I then saved the file as a .JPEG. The computer treats the file like any other photograph and displays it along with the pictures that represent my goals. It flashes randomly along the screen throughout the day.

You can also print and frame your affirmations in order to display them throughout your office, home or workspace.

Create Positive Affirmation Flash Cards

One of my favorite ways to review my daily affirmation is through the use of positive affirmation (or law of attraction) flashcards. These are small cards that I created that have positive affirmations printed on both sides of the cards.

I have a total of twenty affirmations printed on ten business size cards. I carry these in my wallet or shirt pocket and review them in my spare time.

You can make them yourself very inexpensively.

Go to any office supply store and purchase a packet of perforated business card sheets. These are the sheets used to make business cards. You will find Microsoft Word templates online that correspond to the code on the card package. Download and open the template. You will find that the downloaded file is essentially a table that has been set up to center the text in the middle of each business card.

Simply type ten of your affirmations in the space provided and print. Adjust the font size accordingly to fit one affirmation on each card. Print out the cards.

You now have a set of ten positive affirmation flash cards

DO NOT PERFORATE THE BUSINESS CARDS YET!!!

Now, reinsert the sheet into your printer so that you can now print on the opposite side of the sheet. Type the remaining ten affirmations and print.

You now should have a sheet with ten business cards and an affirmation printed on both sides of each card.

Carefully perforate the cards and stack neatly.

To use, you simply read each card, flip the stack and read the other side of each card. When you have completed your review, place the cards in your wallet, purse of shirt pocket. As the cards wear out, or your goals change, simply print new ones.

I love using these flashcards and carry mine with me everywhere I go.

What About Subliminal Software For Positive Affirmations?

First of all, I believe in subliminal software. I used subliminal tapes in the past. The new subliminal cds and software are far more advanced than the cassette tapes I used many years ago.

I do not have any experience with any of the many subliminal products offered for sale on the internet with one exception.

I do use a product called Holosync to assist me in my meditation (see Part Five). Centerpointe, the maker of Holosync, affords the user the opportunity to place five minutes of subliminal affirmations on the CD before it is created.

So, I am receiving subliminal affirmations while I am meditating.

If you are interested in Holosync, here is a Holosync Meditation Review.

I will be talking more about the importance of meditations and how to use traditional meditation techniques in Part Five.

Positive Affirmations Are An Essential Part Of Any Conscious Creation Program

Early law of attraction writers such as Wallace Wattles and Napoleon Hill advocated the frequent practicing of positive affirmations as the main way to manifest abundance in life.

I believe positive affirmations are an important tool in the arsenal of the conscious creator.

Use positive affirmations in your journal, in your visual aids and as flashcards and you will see the effectiveness of this simple law of attraction tool.

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Law of Attraction: Creating Effective Visualization Aids (Part Three)

Douglas Manning — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:00:20 +0000

This is Part Three of a five part series entitled The Secret Law Of Attraction: A Complete Guide To Manifesting Abundance.

In Part One , I led you through a series of exercises to develop the elements needed to put together your conscious creation program. In Part Two, I taught you how to create an inspiring gratitude journal. Using these resources, we are going to create a series of tools and aids to assist you in manifesting your goals according to your life purpose. As a recap, you should have created:

Concise statement of life purpose
List of 15 to 20 positive affirmations
Several paragraphs, each of which should paint a word picture of you living one of you chosen goals.

Now, we are ready to create the first of our law of attraction tools, an inspiring gratitude journal.

As I stated before, my favorite law of attraction tool is my journal.

I can express gratitude, review positive affirmations and visualize my goals all in one portable device. Also, I prefer to keep most of my dreams private and the journal affords me that level of privacy.

However, I also actively use other visualization aids as well.

Inspirational Quaotes, Photographs And Pictures

I have several pictures in my office that symbolize, and allow me to reflect on the positive mental attitudes associated with the universal law of attraction.

Here is one of the pictures that I have in my office:

When Walt Disney World was opened in 1972, someone commented to Walt’s brother that it was a shame that Walt never lived to see his dream. Roy Disney replied

“Walt was the first one to see this dream.”

You can also find and frame other pictures that reflect your goals. You can also frame and hang various words, symbols, sayings, religious verses or anything else that will help put you in a mindset that to better manifest abundance.

You might be tempted to use your computer screen saver as your “vision board.”

I recommend against it for this reason. While I do use my screen saver as one of my visualization aids, I believe that it is important for some of your visualization material to be in physical form and, preferably, made or assembled by you. It all has to do with the act of creation.

Electronic Vision Boards: Computerized Screensavers

I do supplement my physical visualization aids with electionic visualization aids. These supplement, but do not replace, my journal and other pictures in my office.

I have digitized pictures of my goals, verses, symbols and affirmations that randomly float across my computer screen saver throughout the day.

To create these, I scan the pictures using photoediting software and save the picutres in a >jpeg format. You can use photoediting software to create .JPEGs of bible verses, words and sayings as well.

If you are really creative, you can use photoediting software to place yourself in the photos as if your goal was already in existence. This is a powerful visualization aid.

Once you have created your array of electronic visual aids, simply dump everything into one directory and point Windows at that directory for the screensaver/slideshow option. The pictures will play randomly throughout your work day.

Electronic Visualization Aids: Using Electronic Picture Frames For Law Of Attraction

If you do not have a computer or you are not allowed to alter the screensaver, you can do the same thing with an electronic picture frame.

Simply purchase a small thumb drive and dump all of your pictures on it.

Plug it into the back of the frame and turn it on. It will play random pictures throughout the day.

I actually use both because sometimes I am actually using my computer for work.

Use Effective Visualization Aids To Supercharge Your Conscious Creation Efforts

Effective visualization is a key to manifesting abundance with the law of attraction. Utilize these simple but effective tools to invoke the positive emotions associated with effective use of the secret law of attraction.

In Part 3 of this series, I will explain tips and tools you can use to effectively incorporate positive affirmation into your daily law of attraction plan. Positive affirmations are an essential part of any conscious creation plan.

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Law Of Attraction Tools: Creating An Inspiring Gratitude Journal (Part Two)

Douglas Manning — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:24:39 +0000

This is Part Two of a five part series entitled The Secret Law Of Attraction: A Complete Guide To Manifesting Abundance.

In Part One, I led you through a series of exercises to develop the elements needed to put together your conscious creation program. Using these resources, we are going to create a series of tools and aids to assist you in manifesting your goals according to your life purpose. As a recap, you should have created:

Concise statement of life purpose
List of 15 to 20 positive affirmations
Several paragraphs, each of which should paint a word picture of you living one of you chosen goals.

Now, we are ready to create the first of our law of attraction tools, an inspiring gratitude journal.

The Law Of Attraction Gratitude Journal

I must admit that this is my favorite law of attraction tool.

I like it better than a vision board (which I discuss below) for the following reasons:

It is portable. I can take it with me anywhere.
It is multifunctional. I can do gratitude exercises, write and read my affirmations, write and read my visualization paragraphs, paste and review inspiring pictures, symbols and words.
It provides a record of my success. As I achieve my conscious creation goals, the journal is a reminder of my personal development and personal growth. I can see that manifesting abundance actually works.
It is private. I can close it up and put it away. I can share it with everyone or I can share it with no one. This is useful if I find myself in an environment with people who like to “rain on my parade.”

This journal can be a simple as spiral notebook or an ornate leather journal with hand crafted paper. Mine is gthe latter and I purchased it off of Ebay.

Setting Up Your Gratitude Journal

I am going to share with you how I initially set up my journal on one condition.

Here it is:

I want you to understand that there is not a “right way” to set up your gratitude journal. I want you to set up your journal differently than mine. I want it to be YOUR journal, not a cookie cutter copy of mine. Okay?

In fact, I would argue that it is better for your journal to be less organized and more random. Your time will be better spent focusing on your goals and the positive emotions associated with them rather than trying to organize your journal “just right.” Excessive organizing is a form of self sabotage. Don’t do it.

I initially set up my journal life this:

Inside the front cover I pasted a copy of my statement of life purpose

Then I created a written, daily action plan of action that includes a time for: gratitude, affirmations, visualization, meditation, prayer. This is to remind me of what I want to accomplish each day. Note, that I do not follow this plan EVERY day. Using your journal should be fun and exciting. It should not feel like work.

Now, throughout the journal, I have pasted or written random statements from well known law of attraction authors (such as Wallace Wattles) as well as verses Bible verses. This is to remind me how and why the law of attraction works.

I have a section for each of my goals. Each section includes the positive affirmation associated with my goal, the paragraph (or word picture) for the goal as well as several pictures or symbols to assist me in positively visualizing the goal.

Again, I would like to remind you that your journal is not to be sequential or organized. If you set up your journal and want to add something new, you can put it anywhere in the journal, or even start a new page.

The process of creating your journal should be fun and playful. If it becomes a chore, you need to immediately stop and go do something else.

How I Use My Gratitude Journal

Here is how I use my journal.

Each morning, I get up and work slowly and casually through the journal as if I were perusing a magazine.

I do not “concentrate.”

I simply read, see and enjoy what I have created and savor the positive emotions I feel from looking and reading that which makes me happy. The attitude I try to cultivate is:

“Wow, all of this is coming my way. I can’t wait. Look, here’s my airplane. Man, I can’t wait to fly it.”

Then I add anything else that comes to my mind. Sometimes, I add nothing at all.

After I go through my journal, I usually feel really good. I then go to the last blank page of the journal and write 1-5 things for which I am grateful.

Author’s Note: The reason I write in the back is to keep my gratitude list separate and in one place . Over time, I will work my way from front to back (with my goals, affirmations, etc) while working my way from back to front with my gratitude list. When the journal is full, I start a new journal.

I then review the other statements of gratitude that I have written in the past.

The Gratitude Journal: An Important Tool For Effectively Using The Universal Law Of Attraction

The law of attraction gratitude journal is an effective and portable way to incorporate your life purpose, goals and gratitude statements in one place. You can take it with you anywhere and refer to it whenever you want. Your gratitude journal should be your own special creation. Reading it should invoke happiness and feelings of positive expectation. Do not allow working in your journal to be “work.” It should be a fun, creative treat you allow yourself each day.

In Part Three of this series, I will teach you a simple, inexpensive, portable and fun way to practice your daily affirmations. Affirmations are a key tool in using the universal law of attraction to manifest abundance in your life.

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