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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
I've got some white powder...
by: Leslie Householder
What comes to mind when you read that? I found it very perplexing one day as my family was
traveling in the mountains with another family on vacation. We were at the RV dump, preparing
to hit the road for the 6-hour journey home, when I realized that I was fresh out of baby
formula. My girlfriend's youngest was also a baby, and so she had just what I needed. She ran
up to her vehicle, and returned with a little zipper locked plastic bag of formula. She chuckled
as she handed it to me, and said, "I promise, it isn't what it looks like." My eyes squinted, I
looked her in the eyes, and waited for my neurons to fire their little connections in my brain so
that I could recall ANYTHING that would help me know what she meant. I waited. Nothing.
Finally, I shook my head and said, "huh?"
She was incredulous. "Well, white powder... in a little bag..." she said as she waited for my
neurons to fire as well. Still nothing. Dropping her chin just a little and keeping her eyes fixed
on mine she said, "Drugs..."
She really expected to see the lights go on in a profound way, but the reaction was absent.
"Oh!" I said, and gave her a chuckle. "I NEVER would have thought of that!" Now, for the
record, my friend does not do drugs, but she has been instrumental in helping many children
born to parents with drug problems. She has to work extra hard at not letting the issues she is
exposed to bring her down.
Many things can shape the way we think: life experiences, the movies we watch, the music we
listen to, the environment to which we expose ourselves. But they DO shape us. There was a
time when a little bag of white powder would have only meant "laundry soap" to me; say, at a
time when I didn't have a baby in the home. I anticipate that there will come a day, (when I have
finally learned to love cooking) that a little bag of white powder will mean "confectioner's
sugar," borrowed from a next door neighbor when I have run out.
It all comes down to "garbage in, garbage out," the cliché that sums up this principle in, I must
say, a rather negative way. A new, more refreshing campaign could be, "virtue in, virtue out."
But that wouldn't fly very far in today's media, would it? Well, all of that aside, the principle is
true. We need to feed our mind with images and messages that capture the kind of life we
expect to live. I have heard it said all too often: "What I watch on TV doesn't affect me." That
tends to be the kind of thing adolescents would say. (Do you think like an adolescent too?) I
love watching their faces when I demonstrate in my seminars in only about 5 minutes how
ignorant that statement really is. How they react in a situation will be bent even if just a little bit
by the input they have fed their minds.
So, what if our past, or our environment, IS lending to negative or destructive thinking? It must
be combated with uplifting input. How much? More than the negative. With enough inspiring
food for the mind and spirit, eventually the heavier thoughts shrink away. Although they will
always be stored in the mind, the desire and natural tendency to bring them forward into the
conscious mind will depart.
After spending considerable time in an environment that was gradually leading my thoughts to
baser things, and recognizing what was happening, I attempted to flood my mind with
inspirational media in order to combat the effects it was having upon me. Two years of a bad
environment required about one full year of inspirational and uplifting input before the effects
were no longer prominent. What if you feel like, "but I can't wait a whole year to see the
change!" Don't worry, you'll actually feel differently very quickly, in fact. It just might take a long
time before it isn't a constant battle. It does require a determination to win, however, no matter
how long it takes. For me, I wanted to be free of the negative effects so badly that I immersed
myself in uplifting media day and night, nearly round the clock. I had decided that I didn't care if
it took until the day I died to be free of it, I was going to do all I could to overpower the effects
of the unpleasant circumstances.
After fighting it for a very long time, I became very weary of the fight and realized that
something had to change. I discovered I was able to make that change, but I never would have
learned how if I hadn't humbled myself enough to subject my mind to all of those months of
dilligent uplifting input. The inspirational messages taught me how. I learned things that I didn't
know I didn't know!
It takes time, and it is not easy. But it is worth it. It's our choice. Virtue in, virtue out. We all
have room for improvement, and it all begins in our minds. We can't change what is already in
there, but we can control the input we give our minds by the programs we watch and the books
we read, from this very moment. It's up to you!
by: Leslie Householder
What comes to mind when you read that? I found it very perplexing one day as my family was
traveling in the mountains with another family on vacation. We were at the RV dump, preparing
to hit the road for the 6-hour journey home, when I realized that I was fresh out of baby
formula. My girlfriend's youngest was also a baby, and so she had just what I needed. She ran
up to her vehicle, and returned with a little zipper locked plastic bag of formula. She chuckled
as she handed it to me, and said, "I promise, it isn't what it looks like." My eyes squinted, I
looked her in the eyes, and waited for my neurons to fire their little connections in my brain so
that I could recall ANYTHING that would help me know what she meant. I waited. Nothing.
Finally, I shook my head and said, "huh?"
She was incredulous. "Well, white powder... in a little bag..." she said as she waited for my
neurons to fire as well. Still nothing. Dropping her chin just a little and keeping her eyes fixed
on mine she said, "Drugs..."
She really expected to see the lights go on in a profound way, but the reaction was absent.
"Oh!" I said, and gave her a chuckle. "I NEVER would have thought of that!" Now, for the
record, my friend does not do drugs, but she has been instrumental in helping many children
born to parents with drug problems. She has to work extra hard at not letting the issues she is
exposed to bring her down.
Many things can shape the way we think: life experiences, the movies we watch, the music we
listen to, the environment to which we expose ourselves. But they DO shape us. There was a
time when a little bag of white powder would have only meant "laundry soap" to me; say, at a
time when I didn't have a baby in the home. I anticipate that there will come a day, (when I have
finally learned to love cooking) that a little bag of white powder will mean "confectioner's
sugar," borrowed from a next door neighbor when I have run out.
It all comes down to "garbage in, garbage out," the cliché that sums up this principle in, I must
say, a rather negative way. A new, more refreshing campaign could be, "virtue in, virtue out."
But that wouldn't fly very far in today's media, would it? Well, all of that aside, the principle is
true. We need to feed our mind with images and messages that capture the kind of life we
expect to live. I have heard it said all too often: "What I watch on TV doesn't affect me." That
tends to be the kind of thing adolescents would say. (Do you think like an adolescent too?) I
love watching their faces when I demonstrate in my seminars in only about 5 minutes how
ignorant that statement really is. How they react in a situation will be bent even if just a little bit
by the input they have fed their minds.
So, what if our past, or our environment, IS lending to negative or destructive thinking? It must
be combated with uplifting input. How much? More than the negative. With enough inspiring
food for the mind and spirit, eventually the heavier thoughts shrink away. Although they will
always be stored in the mind, the desire and natural tendency to bring them forward into the
conscious mind will depart.
After spending considerable time in an environment that was gradually leading my thoughts to
baser things, and recognizing what was happening, I attempted to flood my mind with
inspirational media in order to combat the effects it was having upon me. Two years of a bad
environment required about one full year of inspirational and uplifting input before the effects
were no longer prominent. What if you feel like, "but I can't wait a whole year to see the
change!" Don't worry, you'll actually feel differently very quickly, in fact. It just might take a long
time before it isn't a constant battle. It does require a determination to win, however, no matter
how long it takes. For me, I wanted to be free of the negative effects so badly that I immersed
myself in uplifting media day and night, nearly round the clock. I had decided that I didn't care if
it took until the day I died to be free of it, I was going to do all I could to overpower the effects
of the unpleasant circumstances.
After fighting it for a very long time, I became very weary of the fight and realized that
something had to change. I discovered I was able to make that change, but I never would have
learned how if I hadn't humbled myself enough to subject my mind to all of those months of
dilligent uplifting input. The inspirational messages taught me how. I learned things that I didn't
know I didn't know!
It takes time, and it is not easy. But it is worth it. It's our choice. Virtue in, virtue out. We all
have room for improvement, and it all begins in our minds. We can't change what is already in
there, but we can control the input we give our minds by the programs we watch and the books
we read, from this very moment. It's up to you!
I like to think I'm becoming somewhat of an expert on the Law of Attraction and my recent
articles on the subject are getting great feedback. However, the top person I found who
really understands this subject and knows how to teach it in an inspiring and enjoyable way,
is Leslie Householder. I've decided to use her articles here because they really helped me
understand and commit to the study of this life changing principle. You can get her best
selling and award winning book: The Jackrabbit Factor free right now by clicking HERE . This
awesome book changed my life and I had to actually PAY for it! I'd do it again though, but you
don't have to. I promise you will love the book and I recommend that you read everything
you can get your hands on authored by her, she's the absolute best!!
articles on the subject are getting great feedback. However, the top person I found who
really understands this subject and knows how to teach it in an inspiring and enjoyable way,
is Leslie Householder. I've decided to use her articles here because they really helped me
understand and commit to the study of this life changing principle. You can get her best
selling and award winning book: The Jackrabbit Factor free right now by clicking HERE . This
awesome book changed my life and I had to actually PAY for it! I'd do it again though, but you
don't have to. I promise you will love the book and I recommend that you read everything
you can get your hands on authored by her, she's the absolute best!!
The Parable of the Jackrabbit
You have a certain goal, and you know someone that has already reached it. Maybe it is
earning a certain degree, or opening a business and making it fly. Maybe it is a better family
life, or a talent you'd like to master. Perhaps it is a highly developed relationship with your
Father in Heaven. Before you try to duplicate what others have done to attain what they have,
be sure of one thing. Understand the Parable of the Rabbit:
A man was on a journey and came to a field. In this field he observed a dog, jumping around,
darting to and fro, disappearing in the long, long grass each time he landed. The man stayed
back, fearing that the dog had a terrible disease that caused him to jerk wildly and bark
incessantly. Cautiously, he passed along side the field on the well-paved path, keeping an eye
on the ravenous dog to be sure it did not harm him. Coming to the end of the field, suddenly
the dog appeared in front of him, holding a jackrabbit in its jaws. Placidly, the dog glanced at
the man, and walked away.
This man was hungry. Thinking about the dog, he decided it would sure be nice if he could
have a rabbit to eat, too. So he turned around, retraced his steps along the path for a time, and
entered the grassy field. "Well, here I go," he said, and he began to jump and dart, growl and
bark. Up and down, back and forth, trying to duplicate all of the crazy movements he had seen
by the dog, believing this would somehow produce a rabbit. All day long he did this, and at the
end of the day, he was still hungry, and very very tired.
Disappointed, he returned to the well-paved path. He said to himself, "This is a well-paved
path, many people have traveled this way before. I guess I just need to stay on it, and eat
whatever I find along the way."
Isn't it interesting that not only did duplicating the dog NOT produce a rabbit, but it probably
kept them very far away?
During all those "starving student" days, I remember buying in to a handful of home-based
business ideas. Making beaded jewelry from home was one of them. I also remember getting
very frustrated because my results were not amounting to all of their advertised testimonials
of big success. Now, I understand that I was jumping and growling, expecting a rabbit to
appear. I had no expectation or vision of living the success they promised. I couldn't even
picture what it would be like to have abundance. All I knew was that there was never enough
money, and in reality, that scenario was all I expected. It would have been very different if I
had a vivid picture in my mind of living abundantly, so that when a vehicle to get me there
came along, my results would have surely been much different. I have only seen a significant
change in my financial picture since finding a rabbit that I could chase and capture. There are
many legitimate business oppportunities out there that get written off when they "don't work".
What is really going on, is that the subscribers just don't see a rabbit. The activity becomes
nothing more than jumping and barking at empty fields.
This brings up 2 points. First, the man was right in leaving the path in search of the rabbit. I
heard a very wise person once say, "If you want to do the right thing, look around at the
people in the world, see what they are doing and where they are going, and you will do well to
do just the opposite." Doing what everyone else is doing is often the absolute WRONG thing to
do. "Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that
find it," Matthew 7:13-14. Remember, any rabbit worth catching doesn't sit around on well
paved paths, there is a price to be paid, a seeking is required.
So if you want a rabbit, you may need to leave the well-paved path, but before you start
jumping and barking, make sure you have your eyes FIXED TIGHT on a rabbit. This is the
second point: All of the madness will be fruitless if you don't see your rabbit. Going through
the motions without a clear goal in mind is energy wasted. You would burn out before attaining
the degree. You would become impatient with the members of your family when things get
rough. You would tire of the practice required to master a talent. Your efforts to grow closer to
the Lord would too easily be thwarted without a burning desire to know Him. Satan has no
power over a determined seeker.
So, to duplicate the movements of the dog, without chasing a rabbit too, will NOT get you a
rabbit. Identify your dream, visualize it, make it real in your mind, get excited about it, and
chase it hard! Daydream about what it will feel like to have that degree, that business, that kind
of family life, that talent, that relationship with God. Others will look at you and the choices you
make and they might even think you are crazy. They just don't see your rabbit. But God does,
and He will help you catch every worthy and righteous one that you have your eyes on. He can
see where it goes when it disappears out of your vision, and He will prompt you by the Holy
Spirit, which way you should go. Practice listening to those quiet promptings, and practice
obeying them. Your dreams will return to your view and sooner or later become your reality.
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy
ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths," Proverbs 3:5-6.
Be sure to look for Leslie's book, "The Jackrabbit Factor!" About this book, Hyrum Smith,
co-founder Franklin-Covey and CEO Galileo said, "I have seldom read a more impactful book
where true principals are taught in such a clear and simple analogy. I have spent many years
teaching people how to gain control of their time and ultimately their lives. The principles so
uniquely taught in "The Jackrabbit Factor" take everything I have done a step further. How so
you say? You will have to read it to find out. This is a book that must be experienced and not
described. The person who can comprehend and internalize the laws of thought as they are
beautifully analogized in these pages, will realize any dream, effect any change, achieve any
goal they desire. A must read."
You have a certain goal, and you know someone that has already reached it. Maybe it is
earning a certain degree, or opening a business and making it fly. Maybe it is a better family
life, or a talent you'd like to master. Perhaps it is a highly developed relationship with your
Father in Heaven. Before you try to duplicate what others have done to attain what they have,
be sure of one thing. Understand the Parable of the Rabbit:
A man was on a journey and came to a field. In this field he observed a dog, jumping around,
darting to and fro, disappearing in the long, long grass each time he landed. The man stayed
back, fearing that the dog had a terrible disease that caused him to jerk wildly and bark
incessantly. Cautiously, he passed along side the field on the well-paved path, keeping an eye
on the ravenous dog to be sure it did not harm him. Coming to the end of the field, suddenly
the dog appeared in front of him, holding a jackrabbit in its jaws. Placidly, the dog glanced at
the man, and walked away.
This man was hungry. Thinking about the dog, he decided it would sure be nice if he could
have a rabbit to eat, too. So he turned around, retraced his steps along the path for a time, and
entered the grassy field. "Well, here I go," he said, and he began to jump and dart, growl and
bark. Up and down, back and forth, trying to duplicate all of the crazy movements he had seen
by the dog, believing this would somehow produce a rabbit. All day long he did this, and at the
end of the day, he was still hungry, and very very tired.
Disappointed, he returned to the well-paved path. He said to himself, "This is a well-paved
path, many people have traveled this way before. I guess I just need to stay on it, and eat
whatever I find along the way."
Isn't it interesting that not only did duplicating the dog NOT produce a rabbit, but it probably
kept them very far away?
During all those "starving student" days, I remember buying in to a handful of home-based
business ideas. Making beaded jewelry from home was one of them. I also remember getting
very frustrated because my results were not amounting to all of their advertised testimonials
of big success. Now, I understand that I was jumping and growling, expecting a rabbit to
appear. I had no expectation or vision of living the success they promised. I couldn't even
picture what it would be like to have abundance. All I knew was that there was never enough
money, and in reality, that scenario was all I expected. It would have been very different if I
had a vivid picture in my mind of living abundantly, so that when a vehicle to get me there
came along, my results would have surely been much different. I have only seen a significant
change in my financial picture since finding a rabbit that I could chase and capture. There are
many legitimate business oppportunities out there that get written off when they "don't work".
What is really going on, is that the subscribers just don't see a rabbit. The activity becomes
nothing more than jumping and barking at empty fields.
This brings up 2 points. First, the man was right in leaving the path in search of the rabbit. I
heard a very wise person once say, "If you want to do the right thing, look around at the
people in the world, see what they are doing and where they are going, and you will do well to
do just the opposite." Doing what everyone else is doing is often the absolute WRONG thing to
do. "Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that
find it," Matthew 7:13-14. Remember, any rabbit worth catching doesn't sit around on well
paved paths, there is a price to be paid, a seeking is required.
So if you want a rabbit, you may need to leave the well-paved path, but before you start
jumping and barking, make sure you have your eyes FIXED TIGHT on a rabbit. This is the
second point: All of the madness will be fruitless if you don't see your rabbit. Going through
the motions without a clear goal in mind is energy wasted. You would burn out before attaining
the degree. You would become impatient with the members of your family when things get
rough. You would tire of the practice required to master a talent. Your efforts to grow closer to
the Lord would too easily be thwarted without a burning desire to know Him. Satan has no
power over a determined seeker.
So, to duplicate the movements of the dog, without chasing a rabbit too, will NOT get you a
rabbit. Identify your dream, visualize it, make it real in your mind, get excited about it, and
chase it hard! Daydream about what it will feel like to have that degree, that business, that kind
of family life, that talent, that relationship with God. Others will look at you and the choices you
make and they might even think you are crazy. They just don't see your rabbit. But God does,
and He will help you catch every worthy and righteous one that you have your eyes on. He can
see where it goes when it disappears out of your vision, and He will prompt you by the Holy
Spirit, which way you should go. Practice listening to those quiet promptings, and practice
obeying them. Your dreams will return to your view and sooner or later become your reality.
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy
ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths," Proverbs 3:5-6.
Be sure to look for Leslie's book, "The Jackrabbit Factor!" About this book, Hyrum Smith,
co-founder Franklin-Covey and CEO Galileo said, "I have seldom read a more impactful book
where true principals are taught in such a clear and simple analogy. I have spent many years
teaching people how to gain control of their time and ultimately their lives. The principles so
uniquely taught in "The Jackrabbit Factor" take everything I have done a step further. How so
you say? You will have to read it to find out. This is a book that must be experienced and not
described. The person who can comprehend and internalize the laws of thought as they are
beautifully analogized in these pages, will realize any dream, effect any change, achieve any
goal they desire. A must read."
Prosperity Tip - For Working Mothers Who Struggle With Guilt
All I wanted was to be "Mom." So when circumstances forced me into the workplace, I was
devastated and determined to find a way to develop an income that would allow me to stay at
home with the kids. With this objective in mind, I spent many, many hours "working" toward my
dream while the neighbor moms baked cookies. In truth, that's what I wished I could be doing
instead, but I had to build a future for our family so that I could look forward to a day when
Mom AND Dad could enjoy family time and money freedom together. Eventually, my husband
moved into a career that made a respectable income that provided for us well, but there was
never enough time on the side for him to build a future outside of the J-O-B. I had to do
something.
Did I ever feel guilty about doing more than Beverly Cleaver used to do? Yeah, sometimes. I
grew up with traditional values and a desire to pass them along. I wanted to be the domestic
goddess with a perfectly clean home and perfectly behaved children, nourished three times
daily with perfectly balanced meals. But something inside me drove me to do other things, too.
I felt guilty about that, until I stumbled onto a certain Proverb that helped me feel better. It is
the definition of a "virtuous woman" and goes like this:
"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. She seeketh wool, and flax,
and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food
from afar. She ariseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a
portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she
planteth a vineyard. . . She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out
by night. She layeth her hands to the spindle . . . She maketh herself coverings of tapestry . . .
She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant... She openeth
her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways
of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and
let her own works praise her . . ."
A virtuous woman sounds busy doing many, many things, including working for financial gain.
This verse helped me feel better about burning the midnight oil now and then to make my own
contribution to our family.
Still, even now, every monetary goal I set is always for the primary purpose of being free to
focus on raising my children the way I want, which is for the purpose of helping them enjoy
fulfilling, happy lives as adults, which is for the purpose of me coming to the end of my life
pleased with the contribution I made while I was here.
Every goal I set will fit into the big picture of true prosperity somehow. If it doesn't, then I know
that I will NOT be passionate enough about it to make it happen. To achieve lofty goals
requires passion, and my family is my driving purpose for all I do.
Setting a goal to own a Rolls Royce will have no power for me, because it makes no
contribution to the driving purpose for my life. Is a Rolls bad? No, it's beautiful! But I know
myself well enough to know that it isn't something I'd go through the refiner's fire for.
Family time and money freedom, on the other hand, is something worth fighting for.
All I wanted was to be "Mom." So when circumstances forced me into the workplace, I was
devastated and determined to find a way to develop an income that would allow me to stay at
home with the kids. With this objective in mind, I spent many, many hours "working" toward my
dream while the neighbor moms baked cookies. In truth, that's what I wished I could be doing
instead, but I had to build a future for our family so that I could look forward to a day when
Mom AND Dad could enjoy family time and money freedom together. Eventually, my husband
moved into a career that made a respectable income that provided for us well, but there was
never enough time on the side for him to build a future outside of the J-O-B. I had to do
something.
Did I ever feel guilty about doing more than Beverly Cleaver used to do? Yeah, sometimes. I
grew up with traditional values and a desire to pass them along. I wanted to be the domestic
goddess with a perfectly clean home and perfectly behaved children, nourished three times
daily with perfectly balanced meals. But something inside me drove me to do other things, too.
I felt guilty about that, until I stumbled onto a certain Proverb that helped me feel better. It is
the definition of a "virtuous woman" and goes like this:
"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. She seeketh wool, and flax,
and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food
from afar. She ariseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a
portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she
planteth a vineyard. . . She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out
by night. She layeth her hands to the spindle . . . She maketh herself coverings of tapestry . . .
She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant... She openeth
her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways
of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and
let her own works praise her . . ."
A virtuous woman sounds busy doing many, many things, including working for financial gain.
This verse helped me feel better about burning the midnight oil now and then to make my own
contribution to our family.
Still, even now, every monetary goal I set is always for the primary purpose of being free to
focus on raising my children the way I want, which is for the purpose of helping them enjoy
fulfilling, happy lives as adults, which is for the purpose of me coming to the end of my life
pleased with the contribution I made while I was here.
Every goal I set will fit into the big picture of true prosperity somehow. If it doesn't, then I know
that I will NOT be passionate enough about it to make it happen. To achieve lofty goals
requires passion, and my family is my driving purpose for all I do.
Setting a goal to own a Rolls Royce will have no power for me, because it makes no
contribution to the driving purpose for my life. Is a Rolls bad? No, it's beautiful! But I know
myself well enough to know that it isn't something I'd go through the refiner's fire for.
Family time and money freedom, on the other hand, is something worth fighting for.
Heavenly Help with Money ...Matters
Does life sometimes seem so unfair? Maybe you've dealt with more than your fair share of
financial struggles. Perhaps you've had the feeling that your big break is just around the
corner, but that corner never comes. Learn the seven laws that govern the flow of blessings
you receive. The laws are like a kite string... and we are the kite. Without the string, we are
tossed in the wind, and struggle to soar. But with an understanding of the laws, we can rise to
remarkable heights.
As we learn the laws and live by them, we come to realize how much God's hand is in
everything around us. He is a God of order; this is an orderly universe. All that seems so
random is not random at all. Learn the laws, live by them, and watch your life take dramatic
turns towards greater prosperity.
Introduction
Have you ever violated a traffic law? How many times? How many times have you been
caught? When we talk about law, it is natural to immediately think of the kind of laws with
which we are most familiar. In our everyday life, we are more likely to chat with our spouse or
a friend about the guy who cut us off to make an illegal lane change, or the new tax bracket
that we just qualified for. These are kind of mushy laws, though. I mean, these laws are
supposed to be strictly observed, but when they are not, sometimes the violator suffers a civil
consequence; sometimes it seems to go unpunished.
So when someone tries to tell you that there are natural laws of success, there is a tendency
to think, "I wouldn't bank on it. Sounds like a 'get rich quick' scheme. They are only after my
money. There is no such thing as 'one formula fits all' to making money."
Let me explain something... when you think of law, don't think of man-made laws. They are not
absolute enough to compare with the ideas I will be presenting here. When I say "law", rather
think of something like gravity. Gravity is a natural law (a law of nature) that is dependable and
constant. You don't have to believe in it, you don't have to like it, you don't even have to
understand it. You are still subject to it. Everything is subject to it. When we seem to "defy" it,
it is because we are using other laws that are dependable and constant as well. We can use
our knowledge of laws to our advantage. Ignorance of the laws leaves us limited in our
abilities.
One thing I like to point out at this stage of the game is the following idea. With reference to
the fact that you don't have to believe in a law to be subject to it, picture this: Suppose that
you have firm belief in "mind over matter." You choose not to believe in the law of gravity.
You decide that you don't want to be subject to it any more. So you go to the edge of a cliff,
and with all of the positive thinking you can muster, you step off. It is no surprise that, once
again, gravity proves true and your "mind over matter" turns into a "mind all~a~smatter."
"Mind over matter" is a true principle, don't get me wrong. But it only works when we apply it
in harmony to natural laws. Remember that as you read on; because, if you find that you are
having a hard time believing any of the laws that I will present, so be it. Just remember that it
will save you from a lot of pain if you choose to believe them anyway.
More about LAW
I think that traffic laws should rather be called "traffic codes of conduct". Tax laws should be
called "tax rules". We need them, but they aren't as dependable as the term "law" would
indicate. For sake of this course, it is important that when we say law, we are talking about
something absolute, something unbreakable, something that just "is". You cannot break a law,
you can only break yourself against it. If you violate the law, you will most definitely be sorry
you did, and unfortunately there is no mercy if you are ignorant. The consequences will come
regardless of your understanding of the law.
Spiritual laws can be conditional. Sin is when you transgress a spiritual law after you have
been given the law and are capable of understanding it. Suppose a 1 year-old snatches a toy
from his 3 year-old brother. The spiritual law, had he completely understood it would have
instructed him "thou shalt not steal". If he knew better and did it anyway, that would have
been sin. Of course, a 1 year-old is incapable of understanding such a principle, so he is
innocent. John 9:41 says, "Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but
now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth."
Think again about the baby. He doesn't understand the spiritual law, so he will not suffer the
consequences typically attached to violation of that spiritual law. However, the natural law of
Cause and Effect is an absolute law. No allowance is made for ignorance. The baby stealing
the toy from his brother will discover the effects of this law when his older brother begins
screaming and perhaps inflicting pain on the poor child!
Understand that God did not apply the consequence. The consequence was spontaneous and
natural. I believe that God would prefer his children suffer no pain, but we live in a natural
world that is governed by natural laws. Natural laws are laws that even God will not alter. He
does not control the outcome of abiding or violating them. Yet he does understand them
perfectly, and tries to teach us through the scriptures and His prophets how to live in
harmony with them. The beautiful thing about understanding them is that if we choose to live
in harmony with them, we will also be following God's spiritual laws because they are in
harmony with each other. We will find that we can enjoy happiness and peace and abundance
now, and eternal joy in the hereafter. What more could God want for His children?
Are we supposed to be poor? What about Matthew 10:25? "It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." I have
heard it said that in the days of Jesus, the eye of a needle represented an entryway to a city. It
was small enough for a camel to enter, only if the camel crawled through on its knees.
Humility, and a willingness to remove all extra baggage.
Whenever riches are obtained in an "unlawful" manner, specifically, in violation of natural
laws, the prosperity is temporary. Many get rich on a competitive plane. Picture a pie, divided
into 4 parts. If your piece of the pie represents the prosperity or wealth you enjoy, then to get
more, someone must get less. But you will see that to obtain wealth on, rather, a creative
plane, what you are doing is adding some pie to the outer rim of your piece, increasing the
diameter of the pie, and thus creating a bigger pie for everyone. This is in harmony with
natural law, and spiritual law.
So ultimate success = happiness and abundance here and now, and a heavenly reward in the
hereafter. It is a worthy thing to desire, and you can have it.
"Ask, and it shall be given you," Matthew 7:7. The problem is, we don't really believe it,
because we don't know that there are absolute laws that we can depend on. If you lack faith in
God, then you can trust the laws and it will strengthen your faith in God. Isn't that wonderful?!
Laws should not be viewed as 'restrictive' any more than a kite should see its string as
'restrictive'.
Law 1: Perpetual Transmutation
That's just a fancy way of saying that everything is either coming into physical form or going
out of it. Namely, going from invisible to visible or back. Like water going from invisible
humidity in the air, to visible clouds, to tangible rain, to something even as solid as ice. The
difference is in the rate of vibration of the water molecules. You don't have to see the
vibrations to know they are happening. The state of the water depends on the rates of
vibrations.
So now think about an idea of prosperity. Perhaps a family picture could represent the idea as
you are posed in front of the Egyptian Pyramids. You see yourself and your family members
with you, huddled together, smiling, with the pyramids in the background. Now put yourself in
the picture, and see the photographer taking it. You feel the sun beating down on you, and
the dust blowing by in the mild, whistling breeze. There is laughter from your child or
grandchild. You hear the photographer tell your group to hold still and say, "Mummy!" And
then you can picture the group disassembling, and walking back to the tour bus. Or camel. Are
you thirsty? What would you like?
This situation may be compared to the invisible humidity, or water in an invisible state, or
vapor. The situation has not manifested itself in the physical world yet, but for a moment, the
circumstances required to make that situation a reality were actually beginning to gather. If
you were to hold on to that idea, and not throw it out with disbelief or apathy, then eventually,
it would happen in real life. Just like the water changing from invisible to visible, so would
that idea transmute itself into reality.
This law states that everything, every object, every circumstance, is constantly developing
into or dissipating out of form. When you decide to discard an idea, it ceases to develop and
begins to dissipate.
Another way to look at this law is to consider anything living. It is either growing or
disintegrating. We started out invisible, but ask any pregnant woman if the baby is coming or
going. Ask any old man if his body is coming or going. He will tell you that his eyesight is
going, and that his ability to remember may already be gone. In short, he is disintegrating. We
all are, once we have reached our prime. We are on our way back to an invisible state.
An acorn in your hand is disintegrating, because it isn't in the right environment for growth.
An acorn in the ground may one day be an oak tree.
Ideas are things, too. An idea in its beginning state is invisible in the physical world. The right
environment for an idea is our mind. Held there long enough, it begins to move from the
invisible to the visible world. Rooted out of our mind by doubt or apathy, the idea is drawn
back into an etheric state, to remain invisible.
How many times do you have an idea of prosperity, and for a moment you can picture yourself
living abundantly, and then the idea goes away? So long as you held the thought in your mind,
it was, by law, beginning to be drawn to you. You let go of the idea, and it was drawn away from
you. You never saw evidence of it, so you had no idea that what you desired was being
affected by your thoughts. These kinds of situations and things are "Perpetually Transmuting."
They are constantly coming or going from or toward the physical plane, but we just don't see it
happening, so it is easy to doubt. You must believe this law, and you will be able to have the
faith you need to hold the idea in your mind until you see fruition.
An idea held in the right environment (your mind) will begin to take form. It is only in the last
stage of the process that you will "see" it. Do not reverse the process with doubt or fear.
Belief and faith bring it into form; doubt and fear return it to the invisible.
Although it can be tough to comprehend it, since all we can really see is our physical world, it
is important at this point that you accept the more abstract ideas as fact. Just as we cannot
"see" the vibrating molecules in a rock, we have learned to accept the fact that there are
molecules, and that they do vibrate. So trust me on this one, and from here we'll be able to
build some very powerful ideas to explain the mystery behind prosperity.
Fact: All things were first an idea in God's mind. There is an original formless substance or
"matter" from which all things are created, and it exists throughout the universe. As Wallace
D. Wattles states it in his book, The Science of Getting Rich, "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 moment a thought is held in the mind, the formless
substance obediently organizes itself to reflect the thought. It goes from formless to having a
spirit form. All things that are physical were first created spiritually this way. Held in the mind
long enough with the unwavering belief that it will manifest itself in physical form, by law, it is
created spiritually and eventually it comes to us physically. By law it must.
Belief is an emotion that speeds the creative process while doubt returns it to the formless
original substance. So if you desire something or a circumstance that is good and in harmony
with God's desires for you, hold the idea of it in your mind, believing that it is being created
spiritually and is on its way. The original substance is obedient to the Law of Perpetual
Transmutation and the influences of belief and doubt. God understands this law perfectly and
uses it to accomplish His purposes as well.
Some may say that He established the laws; some say the laws have always existed and He
uses them for His purposes. It does not matter which way we believe, these laws can be
utilized regardless.
"Ask in faith, nothing wavering." (James 1:6)
"Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy
way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass." (Psalms 37:4-5)
"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." (Matthew 21:22)
When we pray for something, do we use vain repetitions? Or do we humbly and sincerely think
about and visualize what we are asking for? Do we allow ourselves to really feel gratitude for
what we need, even before it is with us? That, my friends, is faith. We learn throughout the
scriptures how destructive the emotions of doubt and fear can be. Knowledge of this law
helps us with our faith. We learn that "believing is seeing," not the other way around.
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Leslie is a wife and mother of 7 children. She is the two-time best-selling author of "The
Jackrabbit Factor: Why You Can," "Hidden Treasures: Heaven's Astonishing Help with your
Money Matters," and founder of PrinciplesofProsperity.com
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financial struggles. Perhaps you've had the feeling that your big break is just around the
corner, but that corner never comes. Learn the seven laws that govern the flow of blessings
you receive. The laws are like a kite string... and we are the kite. Without the string, we are
tossed in the wind, and struggle to soar. But with an understanding of the laws, we can rise to
remarkable heights.
As we learn the laws and live by them, we come to realize how much God's hand is in
everything around us. He is a God of order; this is an orderly universe. All that seems so
random is not random at all. Learn the laws, live by them, and watch your life take dramatic
turns towards greater prosperity.
Introduction
Have you ever violated a traffic law? How many times? How many times have you been
caught? When we talk about law, it is natural to immediately think of the kind of laws with
which we are most familiar. In our everyday life, we are more likely to chat with our spouse or
a friend about the guy who cut us off to make an illegal lane change, or the new tax bracket
that we just qualified for. These are kind of mushy laws, though. I mean, these laws are
supposed to be strictly observed, but when they are not, sometimes the violator suffers a civil
consequence; sometimes it seems to go unpunished.
So when someone tries to tell you that there are natural laws of success, there is a tendency
to think, "I wouldn't bank on it. Sounds like a 'get rich quick' scheme. They are only after my
money. There is no such thing as 'one formula fits all' to making money."
Let me explain something... when you think of law, don't think of man-made laws. They are not
absolute enough to compare with the ideas I will be presenting here. When I say "law", rather
think of something like gravity. Gravity is a natural law (a law of nature) that is dependable and
constant. You don't have to believe in it, you don't have to like it, you don't even have to
understand it. You are still subject to it. Everything is subject to it. When we seem to "defy" it,
it is because we are using other laws that are dependable and constant as well. We can use
our knowledge of laws to our advantage. Ignorance of the laws leaves us limited in our
abilities.
One thing I like to point out at this stage of the game is the following idea. With reference to
the fact that you don't have to believe in a law to be subject to it, picture this: Suppose that
you have firm belief in "mind over matter." You choose not to believe in the law of gravity.
You decide that you don't want to be subject to it any more. So you go to the edge of a cliff,
and with all of the positive thinking you can muster, you step off. It is no surprise that, once
again, gravity proves true and your "mind over matter" turns into a "mind all~a~smatter."
"Mind over matter" is a true principle, don't get me wrong. But it only works when we apply it
in harmony to natural laws. Remember that as you read on; because, if you find that you are
having a hard time believing any of the laws that I will present, so be it. Just remember that it
will save you from a lot of pain if you choose to believe them anyway.
More about LAW
I think that traffic laws should rather be called "traffic codes of conduct". Tax laws should be
called "tax rules". We need them, but they aren't as dependable as the term "law" would
indicate. For sake of this course, it is important that when we say law, we are talking about
something absolute, something unbreakable, something that just "is". You cannot break a law,
you can only break yourself against it. If you violate the law, you will most definitely be sorry
you did, and unfortunately there is no mercy if you are ignorant. The consequences will come
regardless of your understanding of the law.
Spiritual laws can be conditional. Sin is when you transgress a spiritual law after you have
been given the law and are capable of understanding it. Suppose a 1 year-old snatches a toy
from his 3 year-old brother. The spiritual law, had he completely understood it would have
instructed him "thou shalt not steal". If he knew better and did it anyway, that would have
been sin. Of course, a 1 year-old is incapable of understanding such a principle, so he is
innocent. John 9:41 says, "Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but
now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth."
Think again about the baby. He doesn't understand the spiritual law, so he will not suffer the
consequences typically attached to violation of that spiritual law. However, the natural law of
Cause and Effect is an absolute law. No allowance is made for ignorance. The baby stealing
the toy from his brother will discover the effects of this law when his older brother begins
screaming and perhaps inflicting pain on the poor child!
Understand that God did not apply the consequence. The consequence was spontaneous and
natural. I believe that God would prefer his children suffer no pain, but we live in a natural
world that is governed by natural laws. Natural laws are laws that even God will not alter. He
does not control the outcome of abiding or violating them. Yet he does understand them
perfectly, and tries to teach us through the scriptures and His prophets how to live in
harmony with them. The beautiful thing about understanding them is that if we choose to live
in harmony with them, we will also be following God's spiritual laws because they are in
harmony with each other. We will find that we can enjoy happiness and peace and abundance
now, and eternal joy in the hereafter. What more could God want for His children?
Are we supposed to be poor? What about Matthew 10:25? "It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." I have
heard it said that in the days of Jesus, the eye of a needle represented an entryway to a city. It
was small enough for a camel to enter, only if the camel crawled through on its knees.
Humility, and a willingness to remove all extra baggage.
Whenever riches are obtained in an "unlawful" manner, specifically, in violation of natural
laws, the prosperity is temporary. Many get rich on a competitive plane. Picture a pie, divided
into 4 parts. If your piece of the pie represents the prosperity or wealth you enjoy, then to get
more, someone must get less. But you will see that to obtain wealth on, rather, a creative
plane, what you are doing is adding some pie to the outer rim of your piece, increasing the
diameter of the pie, and thus creating a bigger pie for everyone. This is in harmony with
natural law, and spiritual law.
So ultimate success = happiness and abundance here and now, and a heavenly reward in the
hereafter. It is a worthy thing to desire, and you can have it.
"Ask, and it shall be given you," Matthew 7:7. The problem is, we don't really believe it,
because we don't know that there are absolute laws that we can depend on. If you lack faith in
God, then you can trust the laws and it will strengthen your faith in God. Isn't that wonderful?!
Laws should not be viewed as 'restrictive' any more than a kite should see its string as
'restrictive'.
Law 1: Perpetual Transmutation
That's just a fancy way of saying that everything is either coming into physical form or going
out of it. Namely, going from invisible to visible or back. Like water going from invisible
humidity in the air, to visible clouds, to tangible rain, to something even as solid as ice. The
difference is in the rate of vibration of the water molecules. You don't have to see the
vibrations to know they are happening. The state of the water depends on the rates of
vibrations.
So now think about an idea of prosperity. Perhaps a family picture could represent the idea as
you are posed in front of the Egyptian Pyramids. You see yourself and your family members
with you, huddled together, smiling, with the pyramids in the background. Now put yourself in
the picture, and see the photographer taking it. You feel the sun beating down on you, and
the dust blowing by in the mild, whistling breeze. There is laughter from your child or
grandchild. You hear the photographer tell your group to hold still and say, "Mummy!" And
then you can picture the group disassembling, and walking back to the tour bus. Or camel. Are
you thirsty? What would you like?
This situation may be compared to the invisible humidity, or water in an invisible state, or
vapor. The situation has not manifested itself in the physical world yet, but for a moment, the
circumstances required to make that situation a reality were actually beginning to gather. If
you were to hold on to that idea, and not throw it out with disbelief or apathy, then eventually,
it would happen in real life. Just like the water changing from invisible to visible, so would
that idea transmute itself into reality.
This law states that everything, every object, every circumstance, is constantly developing
into or dissipating out of form. When you decide to discard an idea, it ceases to develop and
begins to dissipate.
Another way to look at this law is to consider anything living. It is either growing or
disintegrating. We started out invisible, but ask any pregnant woman if the baby is coming or
going. Ask any old man if his body is coming or going. He will tell you that his eyesight is
going, and that his ability to remember may already be gone. In short, he is disintegrating. We
all are, once we have reached our prime. We are on our way back to an invisible state.
An acorn in your hand is disintegrating, because it isn't in the right environment for growth.
An acorn in the ground may one day be an oak tree.
Ideas are things, too. An idea in its beginning state is invisible in the physical world. The right
environment for an idea is our mind. Held there long enough, it begins to move from the
invisible to the visible world. Rooted out of our mind by doubt or apathy, the idea is drawn
back into an etheric state, to remain invisible.
How many times do you have an idea of prosperity, and for a moment you can picture yourself
living abundantly, and then the idea goes away? So long as you held the thought in your mind,
it was, by law, beginning to be drawn to you. You let go of the idea, and it was drawn away from
you. You never saw evidence of it, so you had no idea that what you desired was being
affected by your thoughts. These kinds of situations and things are "Perpetually Transmuting."
They are constantly coming or going from or toward the physical plane, but we just don't see it
happening, so it is easy to doubt. You must believe this law, and you will be able to have the
faith you need to hold the idea in your mind until you see fruition.
An idea held in the right environment (your mind) will begin to take form. It is only in the last
stage of the process that you will "see" it. Do not reverse the process with doubt or fear.
Belief and faith bring it into form; doubt and fear return it to the invisible.
Although it can be tough to comprehend it, since all we can really see is our physical world, it
is important at this point that you accept the more abstract ideas as fact. Just as we cannot
"see" the vibrating molecules in a rock, we have learned to accept the fact that there are
molecules, and that they do vibrate. So trust me on this one, and from here we'll be able to
build some very powerful ideas to explain the mystery behind prosperity.
Fact: All things were first an idea in God's mind. There is an original formless substance or
"matter" from which all things are created, and it exists throughout the universe. As Wallace
D. Wattles states it in his book, The Science of Getting Rich, "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 moment a thought is held in the mind, the formless
substance obediently organizes itself to reflect the thought. It goes from formless to having a
spirit form. All things that are physical were first created spiritually this way. Held in the mind
long enough with the unwavering belief that it will manifest itself in physical form, by law, it is
created spiritually and eventually it comes to us physically. By law it must.
Belief is an emotion that speeds the creative process while doubt returns it to the formless
original substance. So if you desire something or a circumstance that is good and in harmony
with God's desires for you, hold the idea of it in your mind, believing that it is being created
spiritually and is on its way. The original substance is obedient to the Law of Perpetual
Transmutation and the influences of belief and doubt. God understands this law perfectly and
uses it to accomplish His purposes as well.
Some may say that He established the laws; some say the laws have always existed and He
uses them for His purposes. It does not matter which way we believe, these laws can be
utilized regardless.
"Ask in faith, nothing wavering." (James 1:6)
"Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy
way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass." (Psalms 37:4-5)
"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." (Matthew 21:22)
When we pray for something, do we use vain repetitions? Or do we humbly and sincerely think
about and visualize what we are asking for? Do we allow ourselves to really feel gratitude for
what we need, even before it is with us? That, my friends, is faith. We learn throughout the
scriptures how destructive the emotions of doubt and fear can be. Knowledge of this law
helps us with our faith. We learn that "believing is seeing," not the other way around.
For more information on this topic, please Click Here
Leslie is a wife and mother of 7 children. She is the two-time best-selling author of "The
Jackrabbit Factor: Why You Can," "Hidden Treasures: Heaven's Astonishing Help with your
Money Matters," and founder of PrinciplesofProsperity.com