Well, yesterdays visit to a friend brought me four new books. I was offered to bring six, but i brought four. Law of Attraction?
They are1:
- Getting it Together
from Noel Whittaker.
- Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting: The Power of Positive Feelings
from Lynn Grabhorn.
- The Magic of Thinking Big
from David J. Schwartz
- ???
And the fourth just disappeared, very strange, or did I just bring three? I’m quite sure I brought four, but maybe that’s what this article is all about, vibrating with something, and it seems i’m learning to vibrate positive as many good things are happening to me lately, even though I’m still very scared.
And now, some time after I wrote the post and added some stuff in the rest of the site I realize there is a fourth book on my desk: Fundamentals of Vipassana Meditation, printed and donated by The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation.
I was also asking my Buddhist friend about some more background about the chanting, and one of the things she said that part or all of the chanting is getting in touch with the Universe.
So last night I started reading a bit and this morning i continued as I’m still struggling, still don’t understand. All the ‘going the extra mile stuff’ and ‘work your plan’ and ‘things will come back to you’ and ‘you reap what you say’ don’t seem to work for me. Often I go twenty miles extra and it just doesn’t work and I think mostly I plant positive seeds. And all I got back were bad results, most I got back was negativity, loneliness, people leaving me. And I did my best, so it didn’t add up.
So I guess there is more than Think and Grow Rich with all it’s principles of success.
Any how, I started reading and ended up with “Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting“ and I found some relief in it as i did not feel so good this morning, which made me also start reading by the way. And this book has a totally different approach to achieving success, to live a happy life than most other success books.
So what is different. Well, it’s not that different, but the book starts from the idea that ‘everything is energy’ and that ‘energy and matter’ are the same thing. And that we ourselves ‘vibrate’. And that everything around us, everything that is happening to us vibrates with the same vibration. So if we vibrate in a positive way, positive things come to us, vibrate with us and when we vibrate ‘negative’, negative things come to us, vibrate with us. So the starting point of this book is ‘vibrations’, where vibrations come from feelings, whereas e.g. the starting point from Think and Grow Rich is more like desire.
Not that different in the end though, as I guess desire and positive feelings or positive vibrations are not that different. And reading one line more, Lynn Grabhorn mentions deliberate creation and four steps to bring into your life whatever is your passion and much, much more. The four steps she mentions are:
- Identify what you DON’T want.
- From that, identify what you DO want.
- Get into the feeling place of what you want.
- Expect, listen and allow it to happen.
Sounds simpler than the ideas of Think and Grow Rich, although I still have the feeling they’re not that different, as also in the principles of success as described by Napoleon Hill the term Infinite Intelligence plays a major role.
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