Imagine the scenario. You are watching television and suddenly the latest lottery numbers are flashed up on the screen. You casually check your ticket and discover that you have all the numbers. You have won the Jackpot and stand to become a millionaire just as soon as your win is confirmed. The rules of your current “game of life” have suddenly and dramatically changed. No longer will you have to think about money and how much you have. You now have the financial wherewithal to focus your mind on other, more eternal issues. And all because of one incredible moment of good luck.
Luck comes in many forms to many different people. As we have just seen, good luck often manifests itself as a financial windfall, but there are many other ways in which good luck can affect our lives. We can bump into people or stumble into situations which benefit all concerned. We can find a book or manual which helps us deal with a specific problem at just the right time. We can make a seemingly random decision which dramatically and beneficially alters our current destiny.
Take a look at the people who live life in the spotlight – celebrities, businessmen, entrepreneurs and politicians – and you can usually see at a glance who is lucky and who is not. People who have good luck experience life as if blessed with a non-stop winning streak. Actors get starring roles in major movies – sometimes after being plucked from total obscurity. Politicians succeed in securing a peace treaty where their predecessors failed miserably. Businessmen clinch deals which secure their success for decades to come.
People who do not have so much good luck have a different story to tell. They often work as hard – if not harder – than their lucky counterparts, but nothing seems to go quite right for them. Actors lose their parts or star in movies which bomb at the box office. Pop stars have arguments which bring their careers to an early demise. Politicians say the wrong things at the wrong times and create more tension where they had intended to create peace.
Examine your own life and it will be obvious whether or not you are experiencing good luck. If good luck is on your side then you will find that everything is working together for your good – often in coincidental or unexpected ways. It seems as if nothing you do can go wrong. If good luck is not on your side, however, the opposite will tend to be true. Everything will seem to be conspiring against you. Try as hard as you will, it may seem as if nothing you do ever works out quite as well as you had hoped.
According to many people, luck is something which is beyond our control. Indeed, the dictionary defines luck as: “Whatever good or bad events happen to a person by chance; the tendency for a person to be consistently fortunate or unfortunate.”
Whilst this definition serves it purpose for most people, it is far from accurate from a metaphysical point of view. The fact is that nothing occurs by chance. Even seemingly random events serve a higher purpose. We therefore need to re-define luck from our more spiritual or cosmic point of view:
Luck is the automatic response to our automatic affirmations about life.
This might sound a little strange to some newer readers, so let us explain what we mean by this. Luck, the seemingly random events and situations which affect our lives either negatively or positively, are merely automatic responses to the affirmations we have automatically (or subconsciously) made about life on a daily basis.
Think of a universal vending machine and you will understand this definition even better. Whatever you put into the vending machine in the form of thought-currency will determine what the machine dispenses at the other end. Insert thoughts and affirmations of how lucky you are and the machine will dispense circumstances and events which are in line with your lucky self-image. If, on the other hand, you insert thoughts and affirmations of how unlucky you are, the machine will dispence circumstances and events which are in line with your un-lucky self-image.
Now it is vitally important that you realise your part in this process. Although the vending machine (which in this metaphor symbolises the universe around you) dispenses negative situations and events to some people, it does so only because these people have asked for such events and situations through negative affirmations. Similarly, when it dispenses huge, lottery-winning piles of good luck to other individuals, it does so only because those people have been emanating huge, lottery-winning thoughts and affirmations.
The universe is therefore totally unbiased. People are not singled-out to be blessed with luck or cursed with no luck. Rather, we ourselves put in a request to be lucky or unlucky according to the thoughts and affirmations we put out on a regular basis, both consciously and subconsciously. The universe then honours that request. Simple.
When you take this new understanding on board, you will come to realise that luck is not a quality which bestows itself randomly on people, but that it is an actual vibrational rate of spiritual energy which you can learn to develop through the continued use of specific exercises.
Consider your thoughts and affirmations as having specific frequencies, much like a radio. If you habitually turn your dial to the vibrations which correspond to negativity, failure and lack then these are the only radio stations you will be able to listen to. However, if you learn to turn your dial to the vibrations which correspond to success, optimism and abundance then these are the radio stations which you will be able to listen to on a regular basis.
