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To celebrate life on a daily basis is to unleash a tremendous power in your life – a power which makes every day unique and special and which enables you to habitually live your life to the full. Even better, celebrating life isn’t difficult when you know how. Over the next few posts I will share six keys which will enable you to experience an enormous amount of joy every day for the rest of your physical life…
Key #1 – Live In The “Now”
Because all us who seek to Create Good Things are people who value personal growth, it is often very easy for us to focus solely on the future and exclude the habit of living in the present moment.
We think of the future which we are in the process of creating, of the dreams and ambitions which we are aiming to achieve, and in the process we do not often stop to look at where we are right now.
The first key to celebrate life is therefore to temporarily forget the future. Forget your dreams and ambitions. At the same time, forget your past. Just concentrate on experiencing the moment.
Key #2 – Count Your Blessings
Although it is perfectly natural that we should all want to grow more, achieve more, be, do and have more, it is very important that we regularly appreciate the abundance that we already have.
Look at your life and notice how you have already grown over the last few months or years. Look at your loved ones and thank the universe that you have people in your life who mean more to you than life itself. Appreciate the roof over your head, the food in your cupboards and the clothes on your back. Appreciate the money you have in your wallet or purse and the furnishings you have in your home.
It may be that you don’t think you have much in the way of worldly possessions, but compared to the millions of people who live rough in the streets, you have a lot to be thankful for. Express your gratitude in whatever way you find acceptable.
Regardless of our personal spiritual leanings or religious beliefs, Christmas is a special time for most of us. It is a time when families come together, enemies lay aside their differences and the world at large seems to be bathed in a sense of festive joy, generosity, love and kindness. It is a time when strangers in the shopping mall smile at each other as they pass by, when the faces of children glow with anticipation and when the whole of life seems to be more colourful, vibrant and enjoyable.
What is it about the holiday season which makes such dramatic changes in the mood, experience and perception of the population possible? Is it simply the good food, festive drink and traditional music which most of us enjoy? Or is it something else? Something deeper which anyone can enjoy regardless of their income, social standing or environment?
We hold the opinion that the key to festive cheer can be found in just one word, and that word is ‘Celebration’.
According to the dictionary, the word ‘Celebration’ is defined as: ‘The marking of something as special, often accompanied by a suspension of routine activities; The giving of thanks.’
If you think about it, all of the positive aspects of the holiday season can be attributed to the celebration of life. Even if you take away holiday entertainments, Christmas trees, rich foodstuffs and all the other incidentals, the celebration itself is still enough to put a smile on the face of most people. The power to feel good, to feel alive and joyous, is therefore nothing more than the power of celebration.
When we celebrate life, we feel good. It doesn’t matter how much income we have, what kind of house we live in or the variety of everyday problems and opportunities we face. All that matters is that we are all alive on this wonderful planet and that we are all in a position to bring some light and love into the lives of everyone around us.
The really exciting thing that I want to convey in this festive series on celebration is that this sense of aliveness, joy, love and light is not something which can only happen once each year. Not at all. It is something which can happen every day for the rest of your life.
All you need to do is teach yourself to celebrate life on a daily basis – to take time out to ‘tune in’ to the joy which is around you during every moment of every day if you would just look for it. We will look at how to do this over the course of this series.
Today I want to talk about how to allow success into your life instead of chasing it. All over the world there are millions of people who believe, either consciously or on a deeper subconscious level, that the Creative Force (or God) is their opponent in life. They have a ‘me against the world’ mentality and feel that they need to fight in order to succeed, prosper and achieve happiness.
This is nonsense. Success, prosperity and happiness are natural states of being and are actually what the Creative Force wants you to experience whilst here on earth. Far from ‘opposing’ your efforts, the universe is just as keen for you to succeed as you are – if not even more so!
Examine the natural order of the universe and you will find that success, prosperity and achievement are taking place naturally all the time. When we think of nature, we think of growth, abundance, reproduction, beauty, peace and all the other good things that we too want to enjoy. This desire to become successful, prosperous and happy is therefore completely natural, and in no way opposes the Creative Force.
So why is it that so many people strive to succeed, prosper and gain happiness, only to fail? The answer lies in the question. People strive for success, when what they really need to do is allow success to happen. They chase success instead of learning to allow it to flow freely into their lives.
In nature, which offers a perfect illustration of the Creative Force in motion, plants and trees do not strive and struggle in order to grow. They simply bask in the light of the sun, feed from the nutrients of the soil, and experience growth as a natural result. In a similar way, all we need to do in order to enjoy the most wonderful life is stop struggling and striving. Instead, we need to concentrate on basking in the light of the Creative Force and feeding from the power which is right there within us.
In other words, the way to succeed in material ways is to stop focusing on them so much and instead put spiritual matters first. Almost all scriptures present this eternal truth in one way or another. For example, in the New testament, Jesus says, ‘Seek first the kingdom [spiritual growth] and all of these things [material benefits] will be given to you.’
Why is it so important to put the spiritual first in your life in order to achieve success, prosperity and happiness? Well, you must remember that success, prosperity and happiness are creations of the Creative Force that permeates all things. By devoting yourself to the Creative Force, you are going directly to the source of all that is. Rather than spending your life chasing ‘effects’ you instead spend time with the great ‘cause’ and as a result the ‘effects’ will show up in your life quite naturally.
There is another reason for putting the Creative Force first, however, and that is because it is only the eternal aspect of your being which is truly important. You can make a great deal of money and achieve a great deal of material success, but if you have not developed your spiritual self then all of this is worthless. You will merely die a rich, but spiritually impoverished, man or woman.
If, on the other hand, you make your spiritual development the focus of your life, you will be dedicating yourself to something which transcends physical death. In other words, you will be doing something which you can take with you when you die. And along the way, you will also get to enjoy the fruits of a spiritual life – the success, prosperity and happiness which so many people seek for their own sake.
The points to remember for today are therefore as follows: The universe is on your side! The Creative Force wants you to be successful, prosperous, healthy and happy! The way to enjoy these things is not to chase them for their own sake, but allow them to manifest in your life as you focus primarily on developing your spiritual nature.
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What you focus on expands. You should therefore get into the habit of focusing only on what you have – not on things that you don’t have. The best way of doing this is to live your life with a grateful heart.
Instead of thinking that you would like more money, more health, more success and more happiness, simply be grateful for the money, health, success and happiness which you already have in your life. You may only have a dollar in your pocket, but if you focus on dollar and appreciate it, you will soon have two dollars. Then four. Then eight. And before you realise what is happening, you will be prospering – automatically and effortlessly.
The same applies to health, success, happiness and anything else you want. Be thankful for what health, success and happiness you already have – no matter how small their quantities may be – and the act of focusing on what you have will automatically lead to them expanding in your life. At the same time, avoid thinking in terms of lack or limitation. If you focus on what you lack, or of the things which limit your life, all you will do is expand that lack and limitation.
Be grateful for all that you have and you will have more. Be resentful of what you lack and you will lack more. This applies to relationships as well as everything else. If you focus on negative traits in your partner or in friends or family members, these negative traits will expand and annoy you even more. Instead, focus on all that is good about your partner, or your friends and family members, and watch how their good points expand.
The next time you find yourself focusing on what you do not have, or on what you do not want in your life, correct the situation by immediately focusing on what you do have and what you do want. It will take a little time before this becomes an automatic way of thinking for you, but when it does, you will find that manifesting what you want is far easier than you ever imagined.
How to win the lottery is a question that occurs to many people when they first come across the Law of Attraction, and perhaps this isn’t surprising. Winning a lottery jackpot is seen by many as perhaps the ‘easiest’ way of manifesting wealth quickly, at least in terms of the amount of effort involved.
Unfortunately, setting out to manifest a lottery jackpot is probably not the best way to use the Law of Attraction to create abundance and prosperity in your life, and that’s because lottery jackpots are limited in the number of people they can enrich.
Take the recent EuroMillions jackpot of £50 million that was won on Friday 12 June. Two people shared that jackpot, and so it could be argued that two people manifested £25 million of wealth quite effectively. But what about the many millions of other participants who didn’t win the jackpot or any prize at all? For those players, chasing the lottery dream didn’t prove to be effective in the least.
Some might argue that this was because they weren’t visualizing hard enough, or didn’t have enough belief to manifest their desire. But according to that theory, even totally effective visualization and belief would lead to disappointment. For example, if one million players had mustered the ‘faith’ required to win the jackpot then the £50 million would have to be divided between one million winners, and that would make each one only £50 richer than when they bought their tickets – not the kind of wealth one would expect from a lottery jackpot!
In my opinion, setting out to win a lottery jackpot is a very narrow and limiting endeavour. You are effectively saying to the universe, “I want to be rich, but I only want to get rich in this one specific way.” It could be that the universe has a completely different method of delivering wealth into your life, but if you insist on concentrating entirely on a lottery jackpot, you are blocking your ability to receive wealth in any other way.
By all means use the power of creative thought to attract more wealth, abundance and prosperity into your life, but don’t worry about how to win the lottery and don’t make specific demands about the method by which such riches should be delivered. Instead, allow the universe to deliver your abundance in whatever way it deems to be the most effective. If that happens to be a lottery jackpot, all well and good, but if not there are plenty of other ways in which the universe can deliver wealth to you as long as you allow yourself to be open to them.
The Law of Attraction has been receiving an enormous amount of attention in recent years, and part of this is due to movies like ‘The Secret’ and ‘What the Bleep do we know?’, but the Law of Attraction itself has been with us since the dawn of humanity. The Law of Attraction can be described in many ways, but when all is said and done it boils down to a very simple idea: Your Thoughts Are Creative.
Now different people have different understandings about what that actually means. Some people believe that, because thoughts are creative, they can sit back and visualize something good happening and expect it to manifest in their lives without them having to lift a finger as far as physical action is concerned. Others, myself included, believe that physical action is also necessary, especially if your want your desires to manifest as quickly and effectively as possible.
To illustrate this, consider the idea of becoming a world-class pianist. You could sit and think creative thoughts about becoming a world-class pianist for as long as you like, but unless you actually add the physical action of learning to play the piano, your creative thoughts won’t be very effective. Similarly, if you want to win a lottery jackpot, you need to take the physical action of buying a ticket!
I wanted to make this point clear, because here at Create Good Things I focus on the mental and spiritual side of things, but I don’t want you to think that physical action is not just as important. My personal belief is that your thoughts can help you to create an enormous amount of wealth, happiness and success in your life, but you need to follow through with whatever physical actions are appropriate to make the manifestation of your desires possible.
Think of your thoughts as a kind of fuel that drive your physical actions in life. The quality of your actions will be determined by the quality of the fuel you are using. Think negative thoughts and you are effectively filling up your tank with negative fuel, and that leads to ineffective actions because you don’t believe that it is possible for you to create good things in your life. However, if you think positive thoughts and expect to experience success in every aspect of your life, you are filling up your tank with positive fuel. As a result, you will take more effective actions, interact with people in a much more positive way and – as a natural consequence – you will achieve your desires.
I focus on the creative power of thought in this Create Good Things blog because the fuel must always precede the physical actions. The popular saying ‘Thoughts Are Things’ doesn’t mean that you can think of a $100 bill and have one manifest in your hand automatically. It simply means that if you want a $100 bill in your hand you first need to believe that such a thing is possible. Only when you have the necessary belief will you even begin to take whatever actions are appropriate to making that particular thought manifest in your life.
That said, I do also know from experience that creative thought alone can lead directly to manifestation of desires. For example, a man might decide to get a new job and start visualizing his ideal career. Then, just as he is about to start drawing up a new CV, he might get a phone call from an old employer who wants him to join a new business venture.
Why such a direct manifestation takes place in some cases and not in others is one of those questions that nobody can answer with any real conviction. What I can say is that the willingness to take physical action always precedes manifestation, even if such physical action turns out to be unnecessary. Had the person in the example just given not been willing to draw up a new CV and start looking for a new position, the job offer probably wouldn’t have come. But, because the willingness to take physical action was there, the person somehow opened the way for his desire to be manifested automatically.
For this reason, the Law of Attraction cannot be described simply as ‘believe and receive’. In my experience, if you want to obtain manifestation of your desires as quickly as possible, a better description of the Law of Attraction – and the one you should employ in your daily life – is ‘believe, act and receive’. Omit the central willingness to take appropriate physical action and you effectively short-circuit the whole law, and that is why some people find that the Law of Attraction doesn’t seem to ‘work’ for them.
With this proper understanding of the Law of Attraction in mind, maybe it would be a good idea to review your approach to manifesting your desires. Acknowledge that your thoughts are creative,. Decide to create good things and then start taking positive action to speed up the manifestation of those good things. If you do this I am sure you will be astonished at how quickly results will follow!
