With the first two Developing Willpower exercises you have developed your willpower by focusing on fundamental aspects of human life, namely your sleeping and communication habits. In this third Developing Willpower exercise you will focus on a third area of life which could well challenge you even more than the previous two. Your instructions for this week are as follows:
Developing Willpower Exercise #3
For the next seven days, you shall only eat and drink products which are genuinely wholesome and nutritious. Specifically, your diet should be rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and as far as possible – free of processed foods or those with added sugar. You should also avoid all forms of alcohol and animal products.
Now, it may strike you that this kind of diet is rather more severe than that of most people, and we would agree. However, it is an extremely healthy way of eating which everyone should experience at least once in their lives, and adhering to it for seven days is a very good way of developing your willpower.
Most people have no idea how much they allow their base cravings for sugars, fats, animal products and alcohol to control them. This week you will experience your own cravings very clearly. Do not become disheartened by this, but welcome the opportunity to overcome your base urges for such things. You are not required to eat this way forever, but only for seven days.
The benefits of succeeding with this exercise are considerable. As well as strengthening your willpower even further, you will experience a dramatic increase in the amount of physical energy you have. This is because a wholesome diet which is free of sugars, fats, animal products and alcohol is a lot kinder to the human body. Your body will not have to expend nearly as much energy to digest this diet, and so you will feel a lot more alive and vital as a result.
Many people who have somewhat reluctantly developed their willpower by adhering to this strict diet have been surprised to find that they wanted to continue eating more naturally in the future. Few have embraced the diet as a way of life, but almost everyone has chosen to eat with more awareness in the future.
If you successfully completed the previous Developing Willpower exercise then you will already feel very good about how quickly your willpower is developing. The second Developing Willpower exercise is designed to continue this development, albeit in a different area of life. This week, your instructions are as follows:
Developing Willpower Exercise #2
For the next seven days, you must not speak a word of pessimism, criticism or negativity. Instead, you will speak in an optimistic, encouraging and positive manner. If you cannot say anything positive in a given situation, say nothing.
Many of us speak without thinking, and not only does this demonstrate a deficiency in willpower, it can also hurt others and make life seem a lot more negative than it really is. By adhering to a ‘verbal negativity fast’ for seven days, you will develop your willpower and experience life itself from a much more positive perspective.
Controlling the tongue is not easy, because it requires us to think about our words and choose them carefully, rather than allow ourselves to be swept in one direction or another by the emotional feeling of the moment. The key to success here is to get into the habit of pausing for a few seconds before saying anything. This will give you the presence of mind required to process your response consciously.
The words we speak not only influence other people and the universe around us, but the way we ourselves feel. For example, if we continually tell people that ‘life is hard’ and that ‘money is tight’ then we will tend feel a lot more stressed and anxious than if we were to remain silent or to actually have a positive attitude and say ‘life is easy’ or ‘ always have enough to meet my needs.’
Look at the people who always seem to enjoy life and you will notice that they regularly speak in positive terms. They do not speak in such a way because they are enjoying life, but rather, they enjoy life because they have developed positive ways of representing it to themselves and those around them.
By the time you have completed seven days with this exercise, the truth of that last statement will be more apparent than you can currently imagine.
The first Developing Willpower exercise that we would like to present sounds extremely simple – and from a technical perspective it really is – but most people find it a lot more difficult than they first imagine. The instructions for this exercise are as follows:
Developing Willpower Exercise #1
For the next seven days, get out of bed one hour earlier than usual and spend the first thirty minutes of this time sitting in the same spot with your eyes closed and your mental focus only on your own inhalation and exhalation.
We all know that meditation is good for us, but how many people actually take the time to do it? This first exercise requires you to do just that, for the first thirty minutes of the next seven days. If you already meditate then that is good, but you must now get out of bed an hour earlier than usual to meditate. If you normally get up at 7am and meditate, you now need to get up at 6am and meditate.
The earlier time of rising is important, because it is at that time that you will most clearly witness an internal struggle between your base self, which usually wants you to do what feels good, and your Higher Self, which usually wants you to do what is right even if that thing doesn’t feel good.
Your mission here is to resist doing what feels good, and to instead do what you know you ought to do. This is a training exercise, and as such it does not require you to make a life-long commitment to getting up a whole hour earlier than usual. It only requires that you demonstrate your ability to do so for the next seven days.
Some students – especially the ‘early risers’ among you – will find this exercise relatively easy. But many more will find it very difficult. We make no apology for this. In order to raise yourself to the next level of ability you first need to face and do battle with your base self. Conquer it’s desire for sleep, or to move around the home when you should be sat with your eyes closed in meditation, and you will be surprised at how strong you suddenly feel. After seven consecutive days of such victory it seems as if your willpower has multiplied ten-fold. And in truth, that’s exactly what it has done. At that stage – after seven days of success – you may proceed to Exercise #2.
As regular readers of Create Good Things will be aware, the power of thought – and specifically of creative thought – is tremendous. However, when creative thought is coupled with the similarly potent potential of will, the combined power is truly phenomenal. For this reason, in this new series on Developing Willpower we shall discuss how one can develop the power of will in an effective manner.
The will can be defined in a number of ways. Many people described the will as ‘resolute self-determination’ or ‘personal resolve’. Longman’s dictionary defines the will as, ‘a mental power by which one controls one’s wishes and intentions.’ For our purposes, the will can be defined as, ‘Volitional effort applied toward a known objective.’ In other words, it is a mental power which manifests whenever we take action that we know we should take.
Many people complain that they ‘don’t have much willpower’. Some people actually believe that don’t have any willpower at all. But of course, both statements are quite untrue. All human beings have willpower, just as we all have muscles in our arms. However, as with the muscles in our arms, willpower is stronger in some people than it is in others. Not because some are born with more than others, but simply because some use it more than others and, like a muscle, the more you exercise willpower, the more it grows. Thinking creatively is an extremely good way to improve all aspects of your life, but when you learn to develop and apply your willpower towards the same ends, the results can often be quite miraculous.
Developing and applying your willpower is not a complicated process. Over the next few parts of this series we will provide you with four separate training exercises to help you increase the strength of your willpower exponentially. We suggest that you use the first exercise for a whole week before moving on to the second, then use the second for a whole week before moving on to the third, and so on. This will effectively give you a full one month training and development course that can’t fail to benefit you.
Many metaphysical practitioners and students are creative individuals with a strong artistic flair. For this reason, creative magick is something which has been used for centuries by practitioners to attract wealth, success, power and other common desires, and you too can begin using it for the same purposes.
Begin by choosing a mode of expression. Creative Magick can be worked through painting, sculpture, drawing or any other form of artistic creation. It matters little if you have great talent in any of these areas. Your creations will be for personal use only to achieve a magickal end, not for public exhibition.
Having selected a mode of expression which appeals to you (for example, drawing) take the necessary tools (pencils and paper) and create the image of what you most want in your life. The image may be literal, or it may be symbolic, as you feel is most appropriate.
As you create the image of your desire with pencils, clay, oils or any other medium, be mindful of the fact that you are simultaneously creating the actual manifestation of your desire on a non-physical plane of existence. You are, in fact, visualizing your desire as you create the physical image, thus establishing a spiritual bond between the physical creation and the actual desire.
When you have completed creating the image, display it in your private room. Then, on a daily basis, visit the image and chant the following phrase seven times:
‘This or something better is even now coming into my life.’
If you wish, you may begin another creation (for the same desire – you should not try to focus on more than one desire at a time using this method) whilst you are waiting for your desire to come to pass. Many seasoned practitioners find that they rarely need to create more than a few such images before their desire has materialised on the earth plane, but of course this does to some extent depend on the nature of the desire.
The creative magick technique presented here can be extraordinarily effective in helping you to create good things in your life. If putting your creative urges to good use sounds like an attractive idea then follow the instructions provided and try it for yourself!
Remote healing is the term used to describe the sending of healing energy to a person who is situated some distance away. The person in question could be just a few hundred yards away or thousands of miles away and remote healing could be applied with equal benefit. Of course, remote healing techniques should never be used as an alternative to conventional treatment, but as a supplementary treatment in the same way that a traditionally religious person might use prayer.
Due to the nature of this exercise we suggest that you obtain the recipient’s permission to try and assist him or her using remote healing and that the recipient is sitting or lying in a relaxed position at the time you use the technique. Then proceed as follows:
- Go to a quiet place and make the room as dark as possible. Try to ensure that you will not be disturbed for at least fifteen minutes.
- Sit down comfortably on the floor or in a chair, but make sure that your back is as straight as possible.
- Close your eyes and take seven deep breaths. With every inhalation and exhalation imagine that a swirling spiral of pure white energy in the region of recipient’s solar plexus is getting stronger and more vibrant.
- Now visualize yourself inside the recipient’s solar plexus. Spend a few minutes allowing your consciousness to adjust to being inside another individual.
- Imagine being surrounded by the pure white energy in the recipient’s solar plexus. Hear the sound it makes – the sound of a thousand waterfalls roaring with power.
- Once you are comfortable with your consciousness inside the recipient’s solar plexus, begin to travel towards the area that needs attention. As you travel, the pure white energy comes with you.
For example, if the recipient has a sprained ankle, imagine yourself travelling down from the solar plexus into the groin, and then down through the leg to the ankle.
- When you arrive inside the part of the body which needs attention, imagine yourself spinning on the spot. As you spin, the pure white energy spins with you. Allow yourself to spin faster and faster, at impossible speeds. As you do this, note that the power which is spinning around you begins to hum loudly.
- Now imagine that the pure white power around you explodes and floods every cell in the part of the body you are in. Feel it energizing the body in the immediate vicinity, helping to eradicate sickness and replacing it with health and vitality. Spend around five minutes doing this.
- When you have done, travel back to the solar plexus and take a few deep breaths.
- Now transfer your consciousness back to your own solar plexus and, when your are comfortable, open your eyes. Allow yourself to adjust to being back in a normal state of consciousness before getting up and continuing with the rest of your day.
In the first part of this two-part series on How to Amplify the Law of Attraction, we said that the key to experience the full power of the Law of Attraction is to learn to work on a feeling level as well as on an intellectual level. We said that, as well as adjusting your thoughts, you also need to adjust how you feel if you want to manifest your desires as quickly as possible. So how exactly can you do that?
You have no doubt heard one commonly offered solution, which is to ‘act as if’ the thing you desire is already a part of your life. That is excellent advice, but to get the most out of it you should understanding that ‘acting as if’ doesn’t simply mean pretending that any feelings of lack that you might have don’t exist. Rather, it means transforming any feelings of lack into feelings of havingness.
Going back to the example that we used in the previous part of this series, if you wanted to experience a greater level of abundance in your life you would need to develop the feeling of already having all the abundance you could ever desire.
Developing such feelings of ‘havingness’ is something that many people find difficult due to the fact that physical reality often contradicts the desire that they hold. The secret to overcoming this problem is to start looking at life from the perspective of the unlimited spiritual being that you really are instead of the limited physical being that you appear to be.
As a spiritual being you lack nothing, so from this higher perspective you can quite easily develop a sense of ‘havingness’ about abundance, health, peace of mind, success, confidence or whatever else you would like to experience on the physical plane. And because you can, as a spiritual being, enjoy a sense of havingness with ease, by maintaining that feeling you will automatically raise your energy and amplify the Law of Attraction in your physical life.
We can therefore summarise the approach that you need to take to amplify the Law of Attraction as follows:
1 – Identify the condition that you want to experience in your life. (For example, abundant wealth).
2 – Adopt the perspective of the unlimited spiritual being that you really are and, from that higher perspective, enjoy the reality that you already have what you would like on the physical plane. (For example, as a spiritual being you already enjoy abundant wealth right at this moment because you are one with all the abundance in the universe).
3 – Maintain this sense of havingness and do not let it go. Even when your physical situation changes for the better (as it must when you adopt this approach to working with the Law of Attraction) there is never any need to revert to your previous perspective. Instead, continue enjoying your sense of havingness so that the Law of Attraction can continue enriching your life on an ongoing basis.
If you have ever wanted to amplify the Law of Attraction in your own life then try applying the ideas that we have presented here for a few weeks. When you bring a higher quality of energy to the task by developing a sense of havingness in advance, you will find that the Law of Attraction works far more effectively than you have ever dared to imagine. Enjoy!
