Prayer is a staple of many religions.  People speak to God or to higher powers or forces and ask for assistance.  Prayer in this form still works, as many people will attest.  But prayer in its purest form is nothing more than a focused visualization, utilizing the Law of Attraction to bring about healing, assistance, guidance, or to affirm gratitude.  Let’s look at the ways in which we can use prayer to manifest our desires.

When looking at prayer specifically for the purpose of manifesting, we are discussing a focused form of thought infused with emotion.  When do most people pray?  When there is turmoil, fear, or other bad emotions that they want relief from.  People also pray when they become so enthralled with the idea of having something that they pray excitedly to receive their desire.  In both cases, we are seeing hyper-concentrated thought-emotions being focused directly on the desire, which is already emotionally charged.  A person praying in this fashion becomes a very powerful magnet indeed, and will generally succeed in attracting their desire.

Try engaging in such prayer, regardless of your religion or lack thereof, whenever you find yourself worried, stressed, angry, sad, or in a state of deep desire over something.  By stopping and literally focusing your mind, you put a magnetic pole up to the universe, and begin pulling your desire for freedom from the stress, worry, or the acquisition of your desire.  The difference between the normal thought processes and what I am calling prayer here is a powerful intent.  Use your will, and rather than praying to a deity, you may simply state, “I intend that this occur” or “I will receive that”.  The more emotional energy behind the statement, the more powerful it will be.

Every thought you have is like a prayer to the universe, so let me specify the form of prayer I’m talking about as hyper-focused thought.  If you follow this prayer up with additional visualization work, you will have even greater success.  The more energy you put into the desire, the faster and greater will be your success.

Group prayer is a powerful force.  When multiple people bring the power of their thoughts and emotions together, the Law of Attraction can truly shine.  With many people working together to attract the same thing, a tremendous boost of energy goes into the thoughtform, and the universe hears this loud and clear.  Manifestations with a group can happen very quickly indeed.  The only difficult part is ensuring that everyone in the group is truly working as a united whole, and that no negative thinking is being added to the pool, which can diminish some of the group’s power.

So try to form a group of like-minded people.  Pray for world peace.  Pray for new cars.  Pray for whatever you like!  Take advantage of group prayer and make a difference in your realities.  The effort may be daunting but the payoff will be huge.  Good luck!

Dick Ingersoll is sharing what he has learned from his studies in metaphysics, philosophy and spirituality at: Applying the Law of Attraction You can download Dick’s latest eBook “Master Your Life Using the Law of Attraction” at: http://www.applying-the-law-of-attraction.com/MYL

There is a lot of buzz around the Law of Attraction. Many of you are looking for ways to attract money into your lives. But just as passionate are those of you looking to attract love. You can certainly attract a soul mate using the Law of Attraction. Let’s discuss how to do so.

First and foremost, let’s discuss the primary parts of the Law of Attraction. First, we visualize our desire as though we are there, it has manifested, and we are ecstatic. Then, we leave the universe alone to do the work. Finally, we accept the desire as it is actually manifested into our lives. The important thing to remember is that we don’t visualize “HOW” our desire will be manifested, we simply visualize that it IS. Leaving the “HOW” to the universe is very important. When overlooked, our manifesting seems to work sluggishly if at all.

So when looking at attracting a soul mate, if you have a certain person in mind, you need to let go of their image when visualizing. Instead, imagine the warmth of a loving relationship. Do not imagine particulars. Try to create an imaginary face for your person, or don’t visualize a face at all. Just imagine the feeling of having the partner you desire. This way, the universe can work freely to bring you the very best possible love available. As much as it may hurt to hear, it just might not be the person you are focused on. If you focus your visualizations exclusively on that person, and things are simply not going to work that way, you will waste a lot of energy and come out disappointed. Your internal insecurities and fears will work against your practice, and you will have little luck. Detachment from a particular person will work far more easily, even if it does in fact bring you the very person you are hoping for.

For those of you without any prospects at the moment, things will flow even smoother. The universe will bring your love to you – just be patient. Until then, do not pine for love, and do not indulge in depression, whining, or feeling sad. These things only work towards manifesting more lack of love, and that is counterproductive. Focus on the image of being in love, and then let it go and enjoy being single. You won’t be single for much longer.

Mostly, remember that proper use of the Law of Attraction brings about good feelings. If you imagine a warm healthy love, you will feel wonderful. If you have difficulty doing this, rent some romantic movies – romance, romantic comedies, whatever your taste. Find movies that make you feel good inside, and where the protagonists have the type of loving relationship you are looking for. The more you saturate your mind with images, thoughts and feelings of being in love, the faster things will happen for you. Movies, books, and love songs are all excellent ways to saturate your consciousness with the idea.

Finally, when your love arrives, be sure to properly appreciate them. Check yourself every month or two and make sure you are not taking them for granted. Remember how lucky you are to have found love, and bask in the warmth of a truly loving relationship. Best of luck!

Dick Ingersoll is sharing what he has learned from his studies in metaphysics, philosophy and spirituality at: Applying the Law of Attraction You can download Dick’s latest eBook “Master Your Life Using the Law of Attraction” at: http://www.applying-the-law-of-attraction.com/MYL

We all have a built in mechanism for detecting when something or someone around us is ultimately good or bad for the life we desire.  Most of us ignore this system, or are unaware of it, or even utilize it without realizing it.  This system is our intuition, and it is fully functional in all of us.  We just need to take a moment to reconnect to it.

Of course, intuitional abilities may greatly decline with the introduction of emotional blockages in our energy bodies.  The more closed off from the world we are, the less able we will be to access this ability.  You need to keep your energy open, so that you can truly feel what I’m explaining to you.

When in the presence of a new person or circumstance, stop for a moment and notice your feelings.  Are you anxious?  Nervous?  Relaxed?  Calm?  Afraid?  Your emotional energy is a great clue as to the nature of your surroundings.  This is what we often refer to as our “gut”, or gut instinct.  It’s also described as “vibes”, as in “So and so gave off some creepy vibes.”  These feelings are more often than not excellent assessors of our current situation, and you can use them as a cue to move forward or retreat as necessary.  In cases where we have patterned thinking that causes emotions, we may actually be creating them ourselves.  This is why it is important to be truly open, in order to sense the energy of any person or situation.  Otherwise, it may just be a mental concoction.

If you want to develop this ability further, you should first begin working on meditation.  As you learn to move into light trance states, and then slightly deeper, emotional blockages and unhealthy mental patterns will begin to make themselves known.  It is far easier to identify and eliminate or heal such patterns and blockages when in meditation.  In many cases, knowing the blockage or pattern exists may be enough in and of itself to do away with it.

You may need to work with a hypnotherapist if there are deeply scarring issues in your emotional body.  Traumatic or otherwise hurtful events in your past may be crippling a part of your energy field in the present.  Having a healer or hypnotherapist assist in removing such blocks is an excellent first step towards regaining your full power.  You can also buy healing and hypnosis CD’s to listen to each night as you go to sleep.  Over time submersion into these types of material will allow your subconscious to begin the healing process, which may take a day, a week, or a year or more, but will eventually resolve in a healthy, happy energy body.

The more open you are, and the stronger and clearer your energy field, the more easily you will be able to detect and intuit all of the nuances of a given situation.  You will know a bad person by the vibe you get immediately, and you will catch liars in their tracks.  When things are going wrong, or if you are at the wrong place at the wrong time, you will get a feeling for that well in advance, and can change your plans to coincide with better events.

Take control of your inherent abilities to intuit.  Your life will be smoother and happier for it!

Dick Ingersoll is sharing what he has learned from his studies in metaphysics, philosophy and spirituality at: Applying the Law of Attraction You can download Dick’s latest eBook “Master Your Life Using the Law of Attraction” at: http://www.applying-the-law-of-attraction.com/MYL

“If you build it, they will come.” Field of Dreams

Instead of observing a problem that you want changed, imagine the situation or condition as you want it to be. The concept is simple and, fortunately, so is the method. Anyone can do it, anywhere, at any time, and for any duration – with incredible results. Visualization is one of the most powerful methods existing for effecting the changes you desire.  

In a very real way your fantasies are your realities – good ones and bad ones, for better and worse. What you imagine is what will be. If you build it, they will come. Fortunately, it’s never too late to imagine something new, even if you’re presently embroiled in circumstances previously imagined.

The process of visualization is simple, and it doesn’t require any esoteric knowledge or complicated accoutrements. If you can find a quiet place to do it, all the better; if you can’t don’t worry about it. Do it on the bus, if you want. If you can arrange to be uninterrupted while you do it, great; if not, it isn’t a problem. You can do it with your eyes closed or open. You can do it sitting, standing, laying down, or out jogging.

All you do is create a visual picture of what you want (NOT what you don’t want). Create a visual picture of the condition, circumstance, or situation as you desire it to be (NOT how it currently, undesirably, is). For best results, once you have a clear mental picture of the ideal you’re creating, be sure to place yourself in the image (if you’re not already). Interact with the elements of this ideal reality you’re visualization into existence.

And that brings us to a trick for boosting the impact of your efforts: Visualization is made exponentially more effective when coupled with positive emotions. That is to say, once you’ve begun visualizing the way you want something to be – whether it’s your physical condition or your life situations – next allow yourself to start feeling the emotions associated with these desired states.

Feel what it’s like to have what you want as though you already had it now – perfect health, that relationship you’ve always wanted, that new car or Tahitian holiday, that better job, the return of something lost or missing, the resolution of a squabble – whatever it is, feel the emotions you know you’ll have when that possibility, whatever it is, becomes your reality.

The visualization is the way to make your request for a particular reality to unfold; the positive emotions you feel about that reality are the way you get yourself in alignment with it occurring for you, the way you allow what you’ve visualized into your present reality.

It’s a three-step process:

Esther and Jerry Hicks, co-authors of “Ask and It Is Given”, and facilitators of the “Art of Allowing” workshop affirm that if you can focus on a single visual image for 17 seconds straight, you’ve effectively put your request out into the Universe – like giving your lunch order to the waitress at the diner. They further affirm that all it takes is 68 seconds of uninterrupted focus on your desire to get yourself into vibrational alignment with allowing it to happen.

Dick Ingersoll is sharing what he has learned from his studies in metaphysics, philosophy and spirituality at: Applying the Law of Attraction. You can download Dick’s latest eBook “Three Powerful, Dirty Little Secrets for Manifestation with the Law of Attraction” at: http://www.applying-the-law-of-attraction.com/3DLS

The entire physical world is nothing but a sea of vibrating particles. We talk about “good vibes” and “bad vibes”, but what does that really mean? How can we use the knowledge of vibration to create the reality we desire?

Happiness, love, joy, and compassion are emotions with high vibrations. You feel “up-lifted”, or “high”, when you feel these things. Lower vibrations include sadness, depression, anger or hatred. These make you feel “low”, or feel “down”. There are clues in the language we use every day.

What we miss, however, is the power of these vibrations. Our physical reality itself is nothing but wave upon wave of vibrations, all of which exist in the same space but are separated by their frequency. Our human energy system, consisting of our body, mind and emotions, is basically a radio tuner. We can tune into higher vibrations, or we can tune into lower ones. Most of us tune in somewhere in the middle. However, all of physical reality around you will reflect only the vibrational bracket that you are tuning in.

This means that by attuning ourselves to lower vibrations, we in fact exist in a reality where things are bad, and bad things happen to us or around us all the time. Likewise, by attuning ourselves to higher vibrations, we actually experience a different flow of events, where things go well and things are fun and peaceful.

The Law of Attraction states that like attracts like. This is true, but in many instances the events that you will experience aren’t just attracted to you because they are similar. In fact, you can not experience the better event because you are tuning in to a lower reality. This is why long-term negative thinking can be so dangerous. When you create a negative reality, it is very difficult to begin the process of positive thinking and feelings that can elevate you into higher-vibrational experiences.

Like attracts like actually means that you will experience the types of things on the level of vibration that most closely matches your own. What you must do is increase your vibrational frequency little by little and step up the ladder. In one day there may be three different possible events that could occur to you. The one that will occur for you will be the one attuned most closely to your energy. So if you happened to be in a good mood that day, you don’t hit that nail. But if you’re in a crappy mood, you blow your tire.

What we want to do is to become aware of this and make it work in our favor. Attempt to curtail negative feelings as quickly as you can, and think of as many positive things as possible. Remember funny things that happen. Think about people you care about. Imagine your ideal future. All of these things bring your energy back into a good state. Music is another powerful elevator – great music can put you back into a good mood in the worst of days.

Focus on keeping your vibrations high, and notice that as you do so, things go smoother. Better things happen to you, and bad things will simply not happen. It’s really amazing what the power of vibration can do once you are aware of it! Keep your vibrations high and your life experiences will be the best possible. By making this a long-term habit, you absolutely can not fail to manifest your ideal life. Best of luck!

Dick Ingersoll is sharing what he has learned from his studies in metaphysics, philosophy and spirituality at: Applying the Law of Attraction. You can download Dick’s latest ebook “Three Powerful, Dirty Little Secrets for Manifestation with the Law of Attraction” at: http://www.applying-the-law-of-attraction.com/3DLS