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A human being can be said to inhabit two universes – the exterior physical universe which is experienced via the physical senses, and the interior universe which is experienced via the mind and imaginative faculties. Understanding that you as an individual inhabit two universes and not just one is important, because trying to bring about change in the physical universe without first bringing about the same change in your interior universe is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Your interior universe is your primary domain as a spiritual being, and it serves as a pattern upon which your external experience is built. Furthermore, if your interior universe and the exterior universe are ever in conflict, it is always the interior state that will win out.
For example, if you are perfectly at home in your interior universe and you enjoy a feeling of calm, tranquillity and being at cause over life, those feelings will be part of your external experience even if the outer environment is full of challenges and deadlines.
Of course, the opposite is also true, and if you lack confidence and peace in your own interior universe then you will lack the experience of confidence and peace externally even if the situations in the environment are conducive to confidence and peace.
When you recognise that your interior universe effectively shapes the experience that you have in the external world, it is immediately apparent that if you want to create good things in your external reality you first need to create good things in your interior universe.
Most popular Law of Attraction techniques such as creative visualization and affirmations work because they gradually bring about positive changes in your interior universe, thereby allowing you to experience similar changes externally. Unfortunately, most popular techniques don’t create change in the interior universe as effectively as they would if interior creation were their primary purpose.
Whilst creative visualization, affirmation and so on are excellent tools, it can often be even more effective to take more direct and deliberate control of your interior universe and focus fully on making it exactly as you would want your external universe to be. By taking that approach you get to experience immediate results in your interior universe and your outer-world experience will quite naturally fall into line in due course.
To start with, you could landscape your interior universe so that you really enjoy spending time there. In a previous article we have discussed how to create an inner temple, and the process here is much the same. The big difference is that instead of creating a single temple you create the entire inner landscape of your interior universe. How large you make this interior universe, and the form it takes, is up to you. The important thing is to make sure that it accurately reflects the kind of experience that you want to have in the exterior universe.
For example, if you want to live in a large house in the countryside and enjoy a high level of financial abundance, glowing health and complete peace of mind, you could create all of that in your interior universe. You could create your ideal home in great detail, create the specific amount of financial abundance that you want, give your interior universe body the health and vitality you want, and so on.
Or maybe you want to experience a greater level of self-confidence in the exterior universe, as well as more peace of mind. In that case you would create more self-confidence and peace of mind for yourself in your interior universe, in whatever way appeals to you.
Whatever your exterior universe goals, creating them first in your interior universe will make it far easier for you to experience them externally. Spend as much time landscaping your interior universe in whatever way you see fit, then get into the habit of enjoying it on a daily basis. You might like to set aside thirty minutes a day to close your eyes and enjoy the reality of your interior universe, or perhaps you would prefer to go there when you close your eyes to sleep at night. Your personal routine is not important – what is important is that you enjoy your interior universe, and create whatever experiences you desire there, on a daily basis.
As far as your interior universe is concerned, you are the sole Creator, and you have free reign to create what you will. You can create a brand new world or a continent almost as easily as you can create a modest garden sanctuary, so allow yourself to be as inventive as you like. Just remember, the experiences that you create in your interior universe serve as a blueprint for the experiences that you will have in the exterior universe, so always be sure to create good things!
The power of the mind is enormous, if not genuinely infinite. For millennia philosophers, spiritual leaders and in recent years even psychologists and scientists have said that the attitude or mind-set of a person can often have a direct effect on what that person experiences. In my opinion this relationship between attitude and winning is so important that I believe everyone who wants to win at life should invest some time in developing their latent Mind Power as fully as possible.
When it comes to Mind Power, there are only two kinds of people: those who use it, and those who abuse it. Those who use it deliberately develop their Mind Power in an effort to gain every possible edge in life. Those who abuse it often do so unconsciously, but nevertheless suffer as a result.
If you want to win at life, you must first of all ensure that you have developed and are using your inner Mind Power to its best effect. Fortunately, this isn’t difficult. It may, however, require that you change some of your core beliefs and attitudes.
To begin with, you should eliminate all negativity from your thinking. This is easier said than done, I know, but it is vital.
In this day and age it is easy to be negative about your life and your circumstances, but unfortunately, being negative never helps to turn your life or circumstances around. In fact, it only makes you feel worse and continue attracting negative circumstances! Being positive, on the other hand, can and does help to change both your life and your circumstances.
It is a fact of life that we all get what we expect. If we expect good things to happen then they invariably do. If we expect bad things to happen then they invariably do. In short, it can therefore be said that we always tend to get what we expect.
If you want to succeed and win at life, you must start expecting to succeed and win at life. It’s no good studying the Law of Attraction or simply going through the motions if you expect to fail deep down, because that hidden expectancy will still cause you to fail and your efforts would be fruitless.
The good news is that there are some very simple Mind Power development exercises which virtually anyone can use to start winning at life on a more consistent basis. There are three exercises in all, and using them daily will result in you developing your Mind Power with ease. All you have to do is carry out the following three exercises in the order given:
Exercise 1 – Affirm Success
Your subconscious mind is like a magical servant because it will do whatever it is told to do. Unfortunately, the conscious mind, which gives this servant its orders, often tells it to fail in life.
Affirmations have been proven by many people to help replace negative commands with positive ones, which obviously lead to more positive results. Our first exercise is therefore designed to bombard your subconscious mind with positive thoughts or affirmations.
Simply take five minutes each day (use a stop-watch if you want to be precise) and read the following affirmations out loud over and over again until the five minutes is up. You might feel a little self-conscious at first, but this is just because you are changing a pattern of negativity. Within a few days of practising the exercise the affirmations will become more and more believable as far as you are concerned and when this happens the positive effect will start to be seen in your external circumstances.
The affirmations to use are as follows:
I am a natural winner.
Whatever I touch becomes successful.
I am automatically guided towards success.
My positive mental attitude helps me to win at life.
Every day something good happens to me.
I am successful, victorious and happy.
Winning is automatic for me.
Exercise 2 – Picture Success
Images have just as much of an effect on our subconscious minds as our words do. It is therefore important to deliberately picture success and all that it means to you for five minutes each day if you want to become a genuinely consistent winner.
Now there are two ways of picturing success – one for those among you who can mentally visualize images (see Creative Visualization) and the other for those who cannot visualize so easily.
For those who can visualize, sit down quietly and imagine yourself living as a consistent winner. How would your life be different? Would you live in a larger home, drive a better car or enjoy more holidays? Whatever success means to you, imagine it now as though it has already happened. Enjoy this visualization completely. Actually work on convincing yourself that you are already enjoying the success you desire. This will ensure that the exercise is as beneficial as possible.
For those who cannot visualize with ease, do not worry. An equally effective way of picturing success is to collect a few pictures which symbolise what success means to you. Clip out a picture of the car you would like to drive, or the kind of house you would like to live in, or the holiday destinations you would like to visit. When you have a suitable collection of pictures, spend five minutes each day enjoying them, and just think how it will feel to have these things in your life.
Exercise 3 – Decide to Succeed
The third exercise calls for you to make a deliberate decision every single day to succeed and win at life. This might sound like a crazy idea, but it isn’t really. This is because when we make deliberate decisions, our subconscious mind automatically starts looking through its memory to find information, ideas and other items of data that will help you to follow through on your decision.
If you deliberately decide each day to win at life, your subconscious mind will immediately start working with you, rather than against you. It will start reminding you of books that you should read, steps that you should take and other things that you should do to help ensure that your goals are achieved as quickly as possible.
Making your daily decision to succeed is not difficult. You just decide! Some people like to profess their daily decision out loud, something like this:
‘Today I am committed to becoming more successful in every area of my life! I deliberately decide right now to focus 100% of my energy and concentration on taking more steps towards total success! Today I will win!’
How you phrase your own decision to succeed and win at life is up to you. Feel free to adopt the statement above, or invent your own. The way you phrase your decision is not important, all that is really important is that you:
a) Make a daily decision to succeed, and;
b) Stick to your decision by doing all you can to succeed today.
Like the previous two exercises, this one isn’t at all difficult, but it is still vitally important.
These three simple Mind Power exercises are simple enough for anyone to follow – even those who have no previous understanding of the Law of Attraction – yet they are still powerful enough to transform your life if you will allow them to. After you have been using them for a while you will feel good as a matter of course. You will habitually expect good things to happen – and they will! You will spend more and more time each day focusing on the things that can help you to succeed and as a result your whole life will become richer and more satisfying. In other words, you will be using the Power of the Mind to win at life!
Would you like to meet your astral lover? An Astral Lover is a being who is summoned (some would say created) on the astral plane solely for the purpose of providing companionship, romance and, if you desire, experiences of a sexual nature.
The technique that will enable you to meet your astral lover and spend time interacting with him or her is as follows:
Begin by preparing yourself physically for your meeting by doing whatever seems appropriate to get yourself in a romantic state of mind. Bathe, wear perfume (or cologne) and dress in whatever makes you feel most comfortable. You should also make the room itself more conducive to romance by dimming the lights and playing gentle music quietly in the background.
When you have done all these physical preparations, sit in a comfortable chair or recline on a couch and close your eyes. Create in your mind an ideal romantic setting. For some this might be a high class restaurant. For others it might be a large suite in a luxurious hotel. Whatever setting you choose, spend some time using your creative visualization skills to imagine it in as much detail as possible, paying equal attention to sights, sounds, aromas, textures and so on.
Now mentally invite your astral lover to come and visit you. Almost immediately someone will arrive. Look at this person, at their hair, eyes, physical body and so on, and you will find that your astral lover is immensely pleasing to you. Then introduce yourself to your astral lover and spend a while getting to know each other.
From here, you should enjoy time with your lover as you see fit. Enjoy a meal, go for a walk, sit and talk over a bottle of wine or engage in whatever other activity you would like to experience. As an adult, you are quite able to decide the kind of relationship you want to establish with your astral lover, so be true to yourself and remember that this technique is for your own personal joy and benefit.
When you wish to bring the exercise to a conclusion, kiss your lover goodbye and leave the setting that you have created. Then focus your attention on your physical body in its current physical location.
Many people feel awkward when using this technique for the first time, but soon the relationship which a person builds with their astral lover becomes almost as meaningful as any they might enjoy with a physical being. Often, the bonds between the individual and the astral lover become so strong that the lover will visit them in their dreams without invitation. When this happens the relationship progresses to an even deeper and more meaningful level.
Note: If you found this Meet Your Astral Lover article useful then you will also enjoy my series on Astral Projection.
Some people in life seem to have incredible charisma. These people are confident, charming, witty and amazingly popular with almost everyone they meet. But charisma isn’t something that some individuals are born with and others aren’t. It is simply the ability to charge the aura of etheric matter that we all have with intensely positive energy. Anyone can learn to do this deliberately. Indeed, people have done so for centuries.
The technique for developing incredible charisma is easy to learn, but extremely powerful. It involves getting yourself into what is known as a ‘peak state’ of emotional and physical intensity. Once established, the positive energy created by this peak state will charge your aura and automatically make you more charismatic for the rest of the day.
To get the most out of this technique (which is, by the way, based on the profound knowledge of the shamans) you should practice it every day without fail. By doing this, your aura will maintain a strong charge of positive energy which radiates charisma day after day.
The very first time you use this technique, you may feel a little self-conscious. This is normal. Within a few days you will notice people responding to you differently, more positively, and this in itself will naturally make you want to use the technique again and again. Before long you will be an awesomely charismatic individual and enjoy immense popularity. At this stage all feelings of self-consciousness will have vanished automatically. The technique for developing incredible charisma is as follows:
Each morning, go to a place where you can enjoy total privacy. Now imagine hearing a regular drumbeat which has a moderate pace. As you listen to this drumbeat in your imagination, begin to dance along to it. Do not worry about how you might look – no-one can see you. Just focus on dancing to the rhythm of the drumbeat within.
Now gradually increase the tempo of the drumbeat you hear, and as you do so, ensure that your dancing pace also increases accordingly. Allow the drumbeat to grow faster and faster, until you begin to feel a noticeable increase in your physical energy.
If you do this correctly, you will notice that your heart rate speeds up and your breathing becomes more intense. At this stage, whilst still dancing, use your creative visualization skills to imagine going through your day as an incredibly charismatic individual. In your mind, see people smiling at you, wanting to be around you – maybe even flirting with you if that is what you want. As you do this, hear the drumbeat grow louder and louder. Right now you should feel the energy coursing through your head and through the rest of your body even more intensely. Enjoy this feeling of energy and vitality. This is the real you. The charismatic you.
When your energy level has increased as much as you think it can, stop the internal drumbeat and stand still for a few seconds. Take a few deep breaths and then continue with the rest of your day. You will now radiate charisma automatically throughout the day, and if you ever feel your charisma weakening, simply hear the drumbeats in your mind to recharge your aura.
The Uni-Pulse technique is one that should be used in solitude at the beginning of each day. Traditionally, exercises such as this one are practised as early as dawn, because it is believed by some that the atmosphere at this time allows the spiritual (or, as we saw in Thoughts Are Attractive, electromagnetic) energy of thought to travel with fewer interruptions from other human beings. Others believe that the early morning hours are more conducive to peace and tranquillity, and are therefore more suitable for quiet, meditative work than the busier later hours.
If you are someone who likes to wake early and greet the day as the sun is rising then please feel free to use this process at dawn whenever the inclination takes you. Otherwise, simply aim to use the process before you set about the business of the day. The quieter it is when this process is used, the more effective you will find it.
The aim of the Uni-Pulse process is to ‘pulse’ an electromagnetic blueprint of your vision out into the universe at large. Some metaphysicians prefer to think in terms of a radio-energy metaphor and refer to this as ‘broadcasting’ a desire, but the overall purpose is the same – to provide a clear and specific ‘request’ to the universe and thereby initiate deliberate creation by thought.
This whole process takes fifteen minutes per sitting, and consists of four key steps:
• Grounding
• Emoting
• Pulsing
• Consolidating
I will now define and describe each step so that you can begin using this technique on a daily basis, starting tomorrow:
Step 1 – Grounding
This process should be done in a place where you can be alone at an early hour, before the rush of the day begins. First, do whatever is necessary for you to feel comfortable before commencing. For example, you may wish to shower, dress and eat a modest breakfast so that you can concentrate your mind on the task at hand without being distracted by physical needs. When you are ready to begin, sit and relax. Feel a sense of poise and calm. Breath smoothly and evenly, and bring to mind the thought that you are a creative being.
Dwell on the notion that you can, by thinking in a certain way, bring about an infinite number of changes in your life and experience. Remind yourself that this is just as natural as learning to walk or talk, so you are not attempting to do anything that you were not intended to do. Rather, by learning to use your thoughts in a deliberately creative way, you are beginning to live in a manner which brings you into closer alignment with the natural laws of the universe. Appreciate this gift that you and all individuals have for a few minutes, then move on to Step 2.
Step 2 – Emoting
Bring to mind the vision that you created when working through the Creative Visualization series. As you do so, allow yourself to develop the emotions that you would have if your vision were already a reality. Feel the way you would feel if your personal life was exactly the way you wanted it; if your professional life was exactly the way you wanted it; and if your emotional and spiritual life was exactly the way you wanted it. Remind yourself that thoughts are creative, and that you can have any future you choose if you use your thoughts creatively. So choose this future by enjoying the emotions associated with already having it. Spend a few minutes making these emotional feelings of ‘having’ as strong as you can, then maintain them as you move on to Step 3.
Step 3 – Pulsing
Your aim in this section of the process is to share your emotional feelings with the universe. Pay attention to your breathing, and with every out-breath, imagine that you are sending out these pleasant feelings in all directions, as if you are ‘pulsing’ information out into the atmosphere. This is the key to the whole process, so keep doing this for at least five minutes, pulsing your positive emotions of ‘having’ your vision out into the universe in all directions. As you do this, smile and enjoy the process. Not only can you enjoy the emotions of having your vision in the moment, but by doing so you can ensure that you will have them again – in an even more tangible way – in the future.
Step 4 – Consolidating
Having spent at least five minutes pulsing out your creative thought energy in all directions, start to bring your attention back to your breathing. Relax in the knowledge that the energy you have just pulsed out into the universe will continue travelling even when you aren’t consciously focusing on it. This means that you can bring your attention back to the business of the day at hand without in any way compromising the creation of your vision for the future.
Take two or three minutes to bring your awareness back to the present moment and your immediate environment by focusing on each in-breath and each out-breath. Become conscious of the way your physical body moves as it breathes.
Finally, take a few moments to pause and appreciate the life that you already have. Life itself is a precious gift, and there are many things in our lives that we often take for granted or even fail to recognise at all. Bringing all the good things that you have in your life to the forefront of your consciousness is an excellent way to begin the day and to ensure that the positive emotional state developed during the Uni-Pulse exercise continues throughout the day.
When you have gone through all of these steps, the Uni-Pulse exercise is complete and you may go about the rest of your day as you please.
The Uni-Pulse process utilises a primarily feminine energy, and should be used every day until the vision you created for yourself in the Creative Visualization series is a reality. It should also be used in conjunction with the Kinetic Dominance technique which I will discuss in my next post.
In my earlier Creative Visualization posts I described how you should go about creating a positive and inspiring blueprint for your future. Getting your vision to ‘take root’ in your subconscious mind and start attracting the corresponding conditions into your life involves one final step. However, unlike the previous steps, this one should be repeated daily.
Step 4 – Hypnagogic Focusing
As the human body falls asleep, the brain first goes through something called the hypnagogic state. This is a state of awareness which lies between waking and sleeping, and it is during this particular state that the subconscious mind is most impressionable. By regularly focusing on the vision you have created during the hypnagogic state, your subconscious mind will begin adapting to the idea of experiencing this fundamentally positive future. The nature of your day to day thoughts will change – albeit gradually at first – and as a consequence so will the conditions that are attracted into your life.
Of course, such hypnagogic focusing is not the only technique that you can use to harness the power of the Law of Attraction and create good things in your life, but it is extremely effective and can be used in conjunction with most other methods as you see fit.
That said, every night for the next month or so, as you close your eyes to sleep, bring the vision you have created to the forefront of your mind. Don’t force yourself to concentrate or remember every detail, but just enjoy imagining the kind of life you have defined. Allow yourself to fall asleep with this positive scenario in your consciousness, and as you do so, know that you have already begun making it a reality in your life.
Creative Visualization Notes
There are a few other optional ideas you can employ to support the main Creative Visualization process that I have outlined in this short series. If any of them appeal to you, feel free to use them:
- Using full-colour pictures from magazines, catalogues or other sources, create a collage which represents your vision in a graphic way. Simply choose one or two images for each of your fifteen goals and mount them all onto one large notice board or piece of card. Then hang this collage in a place where you will see it on a regular basis, such as in your office or bedroom. A modern alternative is to employ computer software designed specifically for such a purpose, such as Mind Movies, which I personally find to be extremely effective.
- Whenever you think about the future, deliberately think about the new vision of the future that you have created, rather than simply projecting your past experiences.
- If thinking about this positive future feels unrealistic or overly optimistic, remind yourself that this is only because of your past conditioning. The chances are that other people are looking forward to futures that are even more ambitious, so don’t hold yourself back with false limitations. The fact is that we are only ever limited in life by the size of the vision that we hold as our aim, so dream big and aim high!
In my previous article in this Creative Visualization series we began looking at a Creative Visualization process that you can use to create good things in your life. We have already discussed Step 1, so let us now continue…
Step 2 – Design Your Professional Life
Turn your attention to your professional life, which consists of your career and your finances. As you did previously, be sure to put all thought of your past experiences behind you (so as not to limit your thinking) and then identify five things that you would like to have in your future experience. Common goals in this area include:
- Getting a promotion in a current career.
- Starting a new career.
- Starting your own business.
- Gaining recognition from superiors.
- Achieving a certain career or business target (such as “Number One Salesman”).
- Becoming debt-free.
- Achieving a certain level of financial stability.
- To retire at a certain age.
- To enjoy your retirement in a certain way.
Once again, write down your five goals for this area, this time under the heading ‘Professional Life’, and be sure to be as specific as you can be.
Step 3 – Design Your Emotional & Spiritual Life
Many people ignore the important areas of emotions and spirituality when thinking about setting goals for the future, but this part of life is just as important as any other. In fact it can seem even more important, because a negative emotional outlook can tarnish even the most blessed life if you allow it to. So, whilst setting goals for your emotional and spiritual life, give as much attention to the task at hand as you did when working on the previous two steps.
Your emotional and spiritual life consists of how you feel, the attitude you adopt towards life and the spiritual beliefs and/or practices you adopt. Common goals in this area include the following:
- To be calmer and more at peace, regardless of external circumstances.
- To be joyful and optimistic every day.
- To love yourself and others unconditionally.
- To meditate daily.
- To study spiritual texts or attend lectures regularly.
As before, write down your five goals for this area in specific terms under the heading ‘Emotional & Spiritual Life’.
When you have worked your way through these three steps, you should have a document which encapsulates the kind of experiences you would genuinely like to experience in the future. Your blueprint is complete and you can now begin to use this new vision on a daily basis to begin attracting the kind of conditions and circumstances that you have defined, as you will discover in Creative Visualization Part 4…
