“Gratefulness is heaven itself.”

William Blake

An attitude of gratitude is recommended by all the teachers of the Law of Attraction. Why is it so important? For one, gratitude can put you in the vibration of your desires fulfilled.

Gratitude brings completion to cycles; when you are grateful in advance, you are feeling and responding to the completed manifestation cycle at a level of knowing. In other words, you are energetically in the fulfillment of your desired manifestations. The subconscious mind makes no distinction between what is “actual and what is imagined.”  It’s conviction comes from your emotional energy, based on intensity and frequency of those emotional states.

With an attitude of gratitude, you repeatedly energize the emotional states of your manifested desires, and your subconscious mind will get working on matching your outer reality with your inner state of being.

If you are trying to magnetize abundance, for example, then being grateful for all your abundant blessings puts you in the fulfilmment energies of abundance, which is the perfect attractor energy for increased abundance. But gratitude works in many varied ways. For example, being grateful for what is, including all your areas of lack or dysfunction, empowers you as an attractor force further. But how can you be grateful for your lack and dysfunction?

And won’t that attract more lack or dysfunction?

No it wont’, not if you’re grateful for what the lack is revealing to you. If you can feel grateful for the lack because it helps you to appreciate the sense of abundance, which is what you desire more of, then you’ve managed to be grateful for the full spectrum of experience.

Without the lack, you likely would not be able to consciously appreciate and therefore choose abundance. From that state of acceptance, your choice for abundance will be met with far greater ease than it would if you were still energetically resisting lack. What we resist persists. What we resist, we create an internal polarity to, which fixes it in place.

So gratitude for all experience is a very powerful means to dissolve the inner polarity and allow free movement, by choice, on the full spectrum of experience (in this case, the desired movement would be towards the abundance-end of the spectrum).

Dave Cameron explains, “gratitude completes the cycle of knowing. “

What you like and what you hate are two ends of the same thing.

For example, if you like being with your spouse and hate being separated from them, realize that you are working within the same essence, which is your spouse. It is because of the moments of absence that you appreciate and recognize the moments of presence.

When you are grateful for both what you like and what you don’t like, you complete the knowingness and you are released from having to experience what you don’t like.  Some very significant shifts occur in your mind and soul whenever you are genuinely grateful for all things, even the ones you don’t like.

Gratitude will speed you through your growth and success more than any amount of hard work ever can. Gratitude completes the lesson, and as a statement of completion rings that tone of success, pulling to you the end result desired.

When you can be grateful for the things you don’t like, you speed up the learning and hence, the need for those things in your life. You cannot leave a situation permanently unless you appreciate the gifts it brings you, and all situations bring a gift, no matter how terrible the situation may appear to be.

In the case of lack, the gift may be the conscious appreciation of abundance and ease, which is necessary for sustaining it in life.

Life as God’s Love in Action

Without you, your consciousness, your life would not be. All the interactions with others and what is created out of that simply would not exist. Life arises out of you, through you, and for you. It is entirely dependent upon your consciousness. It shapes and moulds itself around you in a perfect fit, like a glove over a hand.

The animated, gloved hand is you in life. The glove shifts as you shift. Take your hand out, and the glove collapses and is no longer animated.

The animating principle of this thing we call life (the glove) is the love of God for each one of us is God in action through the formless Substance. Imagine you are an invisible hand -visible at the level of matter. The glove is there to allow you to see yourself and others, in order to enable experience.

As fine-substance consciousness (invisible hand) in an ocean of consciousness, you cannot experience yourself apart from the ocean, and so you cannot encompass larger portions of the ocean, as you have no means of distinguishing anything consciously. The glove (i.e. matter, or the earthly realm of life) is there to enable distinction, contrast, and ultimately the experience of self and the possibility of encompassing larger portions of the ocean substance that is God, consciously.

The loving embrace of the universe is your life. The universe, upholding evolution by its love-imbued laws, hugs you tightly in a glove of life, which is love in action. Where you feel the pressure are the “places” that need attention. The pain you feel, is you shrinking away from life’s embrace. This pain alerts you to where you have forgotten who you are and are resisting remembering.

Life hugs you tightly, always.You are moving consciousness’ both awareness and life. You’re all of it, albeit, at different levels of consciousness. The god-you wishes you to remember who you are, the “small you” is the vehicle through which that remembering process is focused.

Resistance is what causes pain and delays learning. When you can be grateful for all experience, you release resistance and begin to yield and surrender to the process. The process (life) can then change from pain, to being benign, and then soon becoming a wondrous adventure.

When you are grateful for unwanted conditions that appear in life, you accept them with the faith that somehow they are for your highest good.

Acceptance is a prerequisite to change. But also importantly, by your faith that the condition is somehow for your highest good, you become a commanding presence to ensure an outcome that is preferred (you choose either lessons or blessings); and, that outcome of blessing will occur far more quickly than if you resist and are embittered or dissatisfied with the condition. So be grateful for it all; the tight hug is for your highest good, and the pain is there so long as you resist.

Engaging gratitude releases the resistance and enables you to move forward with the necessary learning, bringing completion and releasing the need for life to move in on you in that manner.

Rudolf Steiner2 explains that it is our consciousness that enables immortality; in unconsciousness, we do not know that we exist and so cannot speak meaningfully of immortality. Everything of your past has contributed to your current point of consciousness, and if you will be grateful for consciousness then you can be grateful for all of your past. When you can do this, you will successfully disengage from your past and be able to move resolutely forward with whatever new stories you wish to create for yourself.

In the Science of Getting Rich, Wattles explains that there is one intelligent Substance from which all things proceed which gives you everything you desire. In his chapter on Gratitude, he states that the best means to relate to this intelligent Substance and be in a harmonious relationship with it is through profound gratitude.

Failing to acknowledge our blessings “cuts the wires connecting” us to God. Energetically, failing to acknowledge creates imbalance, as there must always be a fair exchange of energies in all “transactions”. The universe will not be put off-balance.

Our soul lives in constant gratitude for all experience, and in this regard, lives closer to its source. When we emulate the soul we too shall live in close connection to the source of our abundance. Wattles explain the power of gratitude at accelerating manifestation because it “draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.”

Further he points out that gratitude always reaches what it addresses and there is an instantaneous reaction of a movement towards the person who is grateful. This is an experience we all can validate. Think of giving a gift to someone who is profoundly grateful to you for it. You are drawn closer to that person.

Contrast this with gifting someone who does not acknowledge the gift, or worse, refuses it. You will feel antipathy towards that person, which draws you away from them. Hug somebody who stiffens or shrinks away, and then hug somebody who hugs you back warmly.  Which person is more inviting?

This is another important aspect of the Law of Gratitude in action.

“Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you. That is a statement of psychological truth.”

It’s important that you ponder on the power of gratitude in all aspects discussed, and see where you can work these principles in your life. Gratitude is one of three keys of manifestation; these are:

Imagination/Desire

Gratitude

Faith

Imagination and desire are needed to direct the formless Substance.  This constitutes our engagement in life, whereby we become increasing consciousness by exerting choice and experiencing the effects of those choices. Desire is the level at which we work with the gift and power of free will as the means to come to know the self as love.

Gratitude releases our blocks from their locked-in positions, speeds up full learning, and gives back to the universe to maintain balance and harmony, and the universe in turn responds with the joy of greater giving. But these are its effects. The essence of gratitude is love, and the highest form of gratitude is unconditional love.

f you’re not sure what unconditional love feels like, try being grateful for all that is in your life that you tend to resist; be grateful for all those in your life who trigger you into less-than-love behaviors.  Be grateful for all past experiences that caused you pain.

Be grateful for all present conditions you’d rather not experience. Apply the principles discussed above, in which gratitude completes the spectrum of experience and thus the cycle of learning. Be grateful for the contrast and the resistance, for in letting go of the resistance, you gain conscious awareness and greater freedom to access, by will, the good end of the spectrum. I

n doing this, you will feel your heart expanding and will begin to glimpse unconditional love, and the state of being love in life. Furthermore, gratitude brings wholeness, which confers healing. As gratitude opens the heart (which is the province of miracles) the effects of developing an attitude of gratitude in life are far-reaching.

“Wholeness is Holy; wholeness is healing. That is the essence of all miracles”

Physical, mental, financial, and social. Whatever has been torn apart comes back together into a state of wholeness. Love supports wholeness and wholeness support love. Through that common bond, love can heal anything.

Many people wonder how to operate from love in life, and the answer is by way of gratitude. Gratitude is the energy that connects us to the love that we are. Gratitude is love; gratitude for everything is unconditional love. Gratitude is the surest way to merge with the source of creation and to wield its power.

“…for this is the universal law of command. Love commands the universe, the adamantine particles, the one spirit, the heart, and all of life.”

There is no energy or healing process that is more powerful than the application of gratitude, for gratitude is love. As a force of unconditional love, gratitude will activate the hidden workings of the cause and effect of love that operate in the universe, which is expressed in life as being in the grace of God.

This force is separate from the usual cause and effect of effort and operates at a higher level of Intelligence referred to as the Holy Center of existence.5 In addition, as Wattles points out, faith is born of gratitude.

Faith increases the more we dwell in the love that we are. Faith brings you deeper into the fulfillment energies of what you desire, which confers complete certainty that allows you to surrender the how-to of life and flow in divine guidance and synchronicity. All three energies generate a connection to life that is teeming with vitality and passion, and with passion, you are easily spurred to take bold action when opportunities appear.

Manifestation is an interactive dance with the Creator, and at each step there must be an exchange of energies in order to remain in balance and harmony with the laws of creation. That exchange is powerfully achieved in continuous gratitude.

If you will ponder on the power of gratitude, you will certainly understand the importance of nurturing a habit of gratitude.

Not only does it aligns you to attract your god-given resources and dissolves all the blocks to receiving them, but it also restores your wholeness so that you operate from greater personal power. Gratitude is the keystone of manifestation; gratitude brings you closer to the source so that you can easily imprint your desires on the formless Substance, and it begets faith, which keeps you in a vibrational match to your desires.

What you do towards increasing a grateful mind will have the largest repercussions for you in manifesting your dreams.

The next article in this series continues with this important topic, and provides a set of affirmations to support you in developing an attitude of gratitude.

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1. Developing An Attitude Of Gratitude – (Part II of Gratitude)
2. The Power of Gratitude Can Transform Your Life
3. Applying The Power Of Gratitude

What Book Inspired The Secret

Mike really goes into detail about the inspiration behind the move The Secret.

Rhonda Byrne attributes her inspiration for the movie to Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich.

But, if you look carefully at the opening scene of the movie, she pulls another book out of the trunk.

Take a look at Mike’s article, What Book Inspired The Secret to learn the identity of this book, the author and more about The Science of Getting Rich.

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1. Law Of Attraction: Meditation As A Tool For Manifesting Abundance (Part Five)
2. The Law of Attraction and the Science of Getting Rich – by Randy Baldwin
3. The Secret Law Of Attraction And The Science Of Getting Rich

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 discussed simple techniques to effectively incorporate the use of positive affirmations into your daily routine.

In this last Article, I will discuss the importance of meditation as a part of your conscious creation efforts.

The Law Of Attraction Requires A Positive Alignment With The Universe

The Law of Attraction works when we focus our thoughts, with positive emotion, on that which we desire.  The Universe responds to these thoughts and manifests, as reality, that which we focus upon.

Wallace Wattles put it best in his book. The Science Of Getting Rich when he proposed

THERE is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.

A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.  Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; otherwise he cannot be in harmony with the Formless Intelligence, which is always creative and never competitive in spirit.

The problem that we have is that our society is so hectic and fast paced that we are unable to pass from the competitive mind to the creative mind.  Meditation provides an exercise regimen that trains our brain to reconnect with the Universe.

Meditation:  Our Primary Means Of Communing With The Universe

I often tell those that I counsel that meditation and the law of attraction go together like

“peanut butter and jelly”

Here is how and why meditation works.

Meditation trains the practitioner to find and commune with the one universal, omnipotent, omnipresent energy that permeates the universe.  It is the same Universe that Wattles proposes is responsible for the creation of all matter that is in existence.  Indeed, quantum physics confirms that everything in the universe makes up this energy.

However, mystics state that this energy is conscious, omnipresent, omnipotent and conscious, this energy is happy, peaceful, blissful and content. You are made up of this same universal energy as well.  Therefore, it is within your true nature to be peaceful, blissful and content as well.

Unfortunately, we live in a society where our hectic schedules cloud our ability to commune with this energy that reflects our true selves. Meditation was developed to quiet the mind; so that the practitioner can connect with this energy that permeates the fabric of the universe.

Meditation Is An Essential Part Of Our Daily Law Of Attraction Routine

The explanation above serves to underscore the importance that the law of attraction practitioner include some form of meditation in his or her daily routine.  Here is a good article that explains how to use traditional meditation.

Meditation: Learn How And Why We Meditate In Less Than Ten Minutes

As I stated yesterday, I use a product, Holosync, which is made by a company called Centerpointe.  The reason I use this product is that:

1. The binaural beat technology places me in a meditative state instantly, even when I am initially distracted or not in the mood to meditate
2. This meditative state is much deeper than I could have achieved using traditional meditation unless I had been practicing it for years
3. While listening to the CDs, I can review and peruse my gratitude journal, focus on the pictures that flash across my screensaver or repeat my positive affirmations
4. Lastly, beginning with the second level of the CDs, I can listen to subliminal recordings of my positive affirmations embedded in the meditation CDs.

To learn more about Holosync, read this article.  In it, you can find out how to receive a free demonstration CD as well as a lot of literature to learn how this technology can work for you.

Incorporate Meditation Into Your Conscious Creation Program

Whether we use traditional meditation, or a product like Holosync, it is essential that we incorporate meditation into our daily conscious creation program.

In order to manifest abundance, we have to align ourselves to the vibration of the Universe.  Meditation has been the primary way to do that for the last three thousand years.  I believe it is just as important today as it was then.

Related posts:

1. Law Of Attraction: Create Effective Positive Affirmations To Manifest Abundance (Part Four)
2. The Secret Law Of Attraction: A Complete Guide To Manifesting Abundance (Part One)
3. Gratitude Journal Affirmations: Twenty Positive Affirmations For Increasing Abundance

The Science of Getting Rich is a success book written by Wallace D. Wattles in 1910. It is considered a “philosophy of Mental Science or Mind Science.”  It is widely credited as preceding the New Thought Movement.

The Science of Getting Rich preceded other financial success works such as Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.  Rhonda Byrne described the The Science of Getting Rich as the basis for her movie, The Secret, as well as the book by the same name.

The continuing influence of The Science of Getting Rich is apparent as evidenced by the numerous such reprints and audio versions of the book as well as the number of web sites that have been created based upon this work.

Understanding The Science Of Getting Rich

If you want to read the Science of Getting Rich, you can find a copy of it on many web sites on the internet.  The book is now in the public domain and can be acquired for free.

Unfortunately, The Science of Getting Rich was written in 1910 and the style of writing back then was much more verbose than we use today.

Why use one word, when you can use ten?

This seems to be the writing style of Wattles as well as other authors of the time.

As a result, the book is excessively long. In fact, the important material on the law of attraction and conscious creation can be distilled into one page.

So, I have taken the liberty of doing this for you here.

The Universe Is Conscious And Forms The Basis Of All Things In Existence

THERE is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.

The Universe Responds To The Thoughts Of The Individual

A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.  Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

The Universe Creates Your Desires Out Of Nothing, Not By Taking From Others

In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; otherwise he cannot be in harmony with the Formless Intelligence, which is always creative and never competitive in spirit.

This means that there is no room in the Universe for jealousy.  Jealousy puts one at odds with the Universe and is unnecessary because there is enough to go around.  The Universe works by  creating more of whatever one wants, not taking it from others.

The Universe Responds To An Attitude Of Gratitude

Man may come into full harmony with the Formless Substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him.

Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of Substance, so that man’s thoughts are received by the Formless.

Man can remain upon the creative plane only by uniting himself with the Formless Intelligence through a deep and continuous feeling of gratitude.

The Universe Responds To A Clear And Definite Mental Image Of What Is Desired

Man must form a clear and definite mental image of the things he wishes to have, to do, or to become; and he must hold this mental image in his thoughts, while being deeply grateful to the Supreme that all his desires are granted to him.

The man who wishes to get rich must spend his leisure hours in contemplating his Vision, and in earnest thanksgiving that the reality is being given to him.

Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of frequent contemplation of the mental image, coupled with unwavering faith and devout gratitude. This is the process by which the impression is given to the Formless, and the creative forces set in motion.

The Universe Fulfills Desires Through Natural Channels And Infrastructure

The creative energy works through the established channels of natural growth, and of the industrial and social order. All that is included in his mental image will surely be brought to the man who follows the instructions given above, and whose faith does not waver.

What he wants will come to him through the ways of established trade and commerce.

This may seem to conflict with the idea above that Man needs to reject a spirit of competition in favor of a spirit of creation.  It does not.  What this means is that whatever one desires will come from existing sources of supply.  Often, we will find that the source of our supply is unexpected or a complete surprise.  However, it will not come at the expense of another.  The Universe does not “…rob Peter to pay Paul.”  Man does.  This is the source of evil and chaos in the World.

The Universe Requires That We Do All That We Can Do, But No More

In order to receive his own when it shall come to him, man must be active; and this activity can only consist in more than filling his present place. He must keep in mind the Purpose to get rich through the realization of his mental image.

And he must do, every day, all that can be done that day, taking care to do each act in a successful manner. He must give to every man a use value in excess of the cash value he receives, so that each transaction makes for more life; and he must so hold the Advancing Thought that the impression of increase will be communicated to all with whom he comes in contact.

The Universe Responds In Direct Proportion To Our Definite Purpose And Vision

The men and women who practice the foregoing instructions will certainly get rich; and the riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.

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1. The Law of Attraction and the Science of Getting Rich – by Randy Baldwin
2. Law Of Attraction: Meditation As A Tool For Manifesting Abundance (Part Five)
3. Law Of Attraction: Great Article Over At TheRealMikeGriffin.com