I want to tell you a bit about my father- who was a happy go lucky person with a constant song in his heart. He never saw the movie The Secret, or went to Yoga classes. He did not read philosophy. And yet he manifested the good around him his whole life long. And when he passed away a week ago Monday I was there with him. I held his hand for a day and a half. He was loathe to let it go. And that time with him- time spent largely in the silence- was both the most heartbreaking and the most love-filled time of my life.

My father spent most of his life singing, dancing, and telling jokes. He lived in what I will call the happy zone, and for the most part life was a gift he opened with zest. So when I speak of how to access the law of attraction energy, I am speaking in some ways about my father, a great role model for me.

What do you do that makes you happy and gives you peace? For me it is sitting on the edge of the brook with the leaves and squirrels, the moths and butterflies. I watch them all go about their business and I feel peaceful. I can also get in this place through visualizing the above.

For me I can access my peaceful self by reading a spiritual book such as “Conversations with God” or Alanon’s “Courage to Change.” I can get it through listening to beautiful music or looking at lovely artwork. I can read affirmation cards, or meditate on the musings of the famous spiritual teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh.

Love is also a great place to be to attract the good. For me the presence of love occurs in the space of other people, such as my children, friends, and family. We may be cuddling watching a movie- or simply talking and listening about what is good in life- or what works- and love becomes present.

As for joy, my dad and I were both fond of the singing at the top of your lungs in the car method of accessing it. We did many a fine concert for the steering wheel, and when we did all cares and worries went away. But the question for you is “What gives me joy?” And as soon as you answer it, you must go about the business of doing it, if you hope for any success at all in accessing the Law of Attraction Energy.

One thing about my dad, He did not watch horror flicks, sad movies, or even the news very frequently. He seemed to know instinctively that negativity was best taken in small doses and I think his example was a good one when it comes to accessing the Law of Attraction Energy.

In closing I will say that if you don’t do the things that make you feel bad, but rather do the things that make you feel good, you have taken one huge step in manifesting the good things in life. And it is quite possible that this is the biggest step in that endeavor. And you also serve to honor my dad, and keep his spirit alive in us all.

Because our thought process is constantly working, the Law of Attraction is constantly working as well. Many of our thoughts are at the unconscious level, so we’re not always aware of what type of energy those thoughts may be creating.

According to the Law of Attraction, if you want something enough and you truly believe it’s possible for you to have it, you’ll probably get it. But the same is true for negative thoughts.

If you spend a lot of time thinking on the things you don’t want or fear, and you believe it’s possible for you to experience them, it’s just as likely they’ll come your way. You can’t avoid unpleasant things by hoping they don’t happen.

Your unconscious is literal and produces negative energy the same as it does positive energy. It doesn’t know the difference. Your unconscious mind doesn’t understand “I don’t want”.

To truly achieve the positive benefits of the Law of Attraction, you have to become aware of what you’re focusing your attention on.

Are you focusing on what you want? Or don’t want? Do you have thoughts or beliefs that are contrary to what you want? If you truly want something, but feel you don’t really deserve it, those thoughts will be translated into energy, and the Universe will “feel” that you don’t deserve it.

Becoming aware of what you’re spending your energy on, enables you to change it. Allowing you to focus all your thoughts on the things you really want.

If you want something, all you have to do is ask for it. Sweeter words have never been spoken. It would be like a dream come true. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be true. Good things really can be yours just from asking for them.

When you know how to ask. That’s the key. Knowing how to ask, and knowing what to ask for. You can ask for anything you want. But asking for a new car when you really want a Porsche, doesn’t mean you’ll be satisfied with just “a new car”. And just saying “I want a Porsche” and then going on about your life as usual probably won’t get it for you.

Focusing your thoughts on getting that new Porsche, picturing yourself driving it, truly believing you deserve it, and allowing it to come to you is the way to get it.

Just asking is only the first step in the Law of Attraction. Feeling and acting as if you’ve received it is the second, knowing you deserve it and allowing it to come to you is the third.

Having doubts about your worthiness produces negative energy. Negative energy produces negative results. If you don’t think you deserve a new Porsche, you won’t get it. If you don’t think the Law of Attraction works, it won’t work for you.

Positive energy is the only way to get positive results. And positive energy is only produced by positive thoughts.

For many, “The Secret” hasn’t been a secret for centuries. It’s been going by different names. Every other generation feels the need to rename it. To make it theirs. But changing the name doesn’t change the idea.

The concept of “positive thinking” was the last topic and the “Law of Attraction” is the newest. But the focus is still the same. What you think will happen, will happen. Your thoughts will manifest themselves into your reality. The words change, but not the meaning.

Focusing on negative things will cause these negative things to become reality. If your life and mind are filled with anger, hate and dissatisfaction, you will find yourself surrounded by those very same things.

Learning to focus your thoughts on positive things, love, happiness and contentment will have the desired results and your life will be filled with these positive things.

Just wishing for the good things in life will not make them magically appear right before your eyes. It’s a learning process in which you teach yourself to change the way you think.

The average human mind tends to focus on the negative. Worrying about fears, whether real or imagined, consumes much of our thought process. It’s part of our survival instinct. Often this takes place on an unconscious level, and we don’t even notice these thoughts.

The Law of Attraction is the way to change your thinking process. Regardless of its name, the result is the same: Improving your daily life through your thoughts.

When you talk about how to increase mental power, you can get a vision of your mind, working fast and furious at warp speed- solving issues and problems left and right.

At first glance one might think this was true.

Well Ekhart Tolle and some of the great minds of our time would say that obsessive thinking was exactly the opposite of what it takes for the mind to perform at ts optimum. Mr. Tolle calls compulsive thinking a ‘disease.’ And what many people of our enlightened times are beginning to see is that what we actually need to do is slow the mind down- and have it be still and quiet. And from this stillness, genius can arise.

How many of you, for instance, have gone through a time of tribulation in your life and have felt the stifling sensation of not being able to escape thinking about the problem. You try a hot bath- still the thoughts continue. You put the TV on- the thoughts sit in the background. You take a jog- your mind continues to churn. You try to sleep- but cannot. Finally desperate, you may seek peace through a sleeping pill- only to wake up still tired and with the same thoughts present. The mind in this sense could be seen as some out-of-control computer. You keep hitting the off button, but it won’t turn off. And it doesn’t solve the problem you want it to. It just churns away at the problem it wants to focus on- with very little success.

At times like this, it seems the mind is your bitter enemy. Not only does it work compulsive, whether you want it to or not. But the messages it sends to you- such as “You’re a failure” “What’s wrong with you?” “Can’t you do anything right”- are disheartening at best.

So in order to increase mental power, what we actually need to do is train the mind. The mind needs to be trained that it turns on or off at our control, and focuses on the subjects that we desire at any given time- instead of following its own agenda. Which is easier said than done.

And I can give personal testimony that yes, this can be done. For instance, right now I am facing what could occur to others as insurmountable obstacles in my personal life. To name a few, my beloved father is passing away and I cannot be there with him. My back is healing from an injury, and the instability of a new business has me living in the question mark in life. But because I have trained my mind, and it does not run me, I live a stable, peaceful life, one day at a time.

Today I used a variety of methods to train my mind. I listened to an entrainment CD, then a meditation CD, and then a hypnosis CD. I went for a nature walk, and I called myself to be present to the walk, the air, the sun, and the smells. When my mind stepped in with worries and concerns I thanked it for the thoughts, but I did not follow them. As a rule, I really try to thank and appreciate my mind because I know that my mind, like a misguided child, it is only trying to help.