32. My thoughts dovetail into stronger matching thoughts
Whatever thought you’re focused upon, whether it’s a memory from your past, something that
you’re observing in your present, or something you’re anticipating in your future, that thought is
active within you right now, and it is attracting other thoughts and ideas that are similar. Not only
do your thoughts attract other thoughts that are of a similar nature, but the longer you focus, the
stronger the thoughts become and the more attraction power they amass.
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Our friend Jerry likens this to the ropes he once observed while watching a large ship being docked.
It was to be tied with a rope that was very large, too big and bulky to be thrown across the
expansive water. And so instead, a small ball of twine was tossed across the water to the dock. That
twine had been spliced into a little bigger rope, which had been spliced into a little bigger rope,
which had been spliced into a little bigger rope, until eventually the very large rope could easily be
pulled across the expansive water, and the ship was then secured to the dock. This is similar to the
way your thoughts dovetail one to another, with one connecting to another, connecting to another..
and so on.
Upon some subjects, because you’ve been pulling upon the negative rope longer, it’s very easy for
you to get off on a negative tangent. In other words, it just takes a little negative utterance from
someone, a memory of something or a suggestion that takes you into a negative tailspin right away.
Your point of attraction predominantly occurs from the day to day things that you’re thinking about
as you’re moving through your day. And you have the power to direct your thoughts positively or
negatively.
For example, you’re in a grocery store, and you notice that something that you regularly purchase
has increased substantially in price, and you feel strong discomfort wash over you. You may very
well think that you’re just feeling shock over the sudden spike in the price of this item, and that
since you have no say in what the grocer charges for the items, that you have no option other than to
feel discomfort about it. However, we want to point out to you that your feeling of discomfort is not
because of the grocer’s action of raising the price of the goods for sale, but instead it’s because of
the direction of your own thoughts. Just like the analogy of the rope tied to the rope tied to the rope
tied to the rope, your thoughts are tied to one another and travel quickly to heightened vibrational
places. For example,
“Wow, the price of this is much greater than it was just last week. This price jump seems
unreasonable. There’s nothing reasonable about the greed in the market place. Things are getting
way out of hand. I don’t know where it’s all headed. It doesn’t seem like we can go on like this. Our
economy’s in trouble. I can’t afford these inflated prices. I’m having a hard time making ends meet.
I can’t seem to earn it fast enough to keep up with the increase in the cost of living.”
And of course, this negative train of thought could move in any directions: toward blame of the
grocer, to the economy, to your government.. But it usually always turns back to the way you feel
that the situation will negatively impact you, because everything that you observe feels personal to
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you. And everything, in truth, is personal to you, because you’re offering a vibration about it that is
affecting what is now being attracted to you by your choice of thoughts.
If you are aware of how you are feeling, and you understand that your emotions are indicating the
direction of your thoughts, then you can more deliberately guide your thoughts. For example,
“Wow, the price of this is much greater than it was last week. However, I’m not aware of the other
things in my basket. They could be the same or maybe even a bit lower. I wasn’t really paying
attention. This one just got my attention because it was so much greater. Prices do fluctuate. I
always manage. Things are going up a bit, but it’s working out alright. It is quite an impressive
system of distribution that makes this variety of goods so accessible to us.”
Once you’ve decided that care about feeling good, you will find it easier to more consistently
choose a better feeling direction in your thoughts. When a desire to feel good is effectively active
within you, a consistent inspiration toward good-feeling thoughts will be present. And you’ll find it
easier and easier to direct your thoughts in productive directions.
Your thoughts contain enormous creative attractive power that you harness effectively only by
consistently offering good-feeling thoughts. When your thoughts constantly move back and forth
between wanted and unwanted, pros and cons, pluses and minuses, you lose the benefit of the
momentum of your pure positive thought.
33. Creating a book of positive aspects
In the first year of Jerry and Esther’s work with us they were using small hotel meeting rooms in
different cities. Always wanting to provide a comfortable place where people could gather to
address their personal questions with us. There was a hotel in the city of Austin that always seemed
to forget they were coming, even though Esther had made arrangements with the hotel, signed
contracts, even called in the days just prior to the event to confirm. The hotel was always able to
accommodate them, even though when they arrived no one seemed to be expecting them. But it was
very uncomfortable for Jerry and Esther to be in the position of urging the hotel to hurry to get the
room ready before their guests arrived. Finally Esther said, “I think we should find a new hotel”.
And we said, “That might be a good idea, but remember, you will take yourselves with you”.
“What do you mean”, Esther asked a bit defensively.
We explained to her, “If you take action from your perspective of lack, the action is always
counterproductive. In fact, it is likely that the new hotel will treat you just like the last one did”.
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Jerry and Esther laughed at our explanation, because they’d already moved from one hotel to
another for the very same reason.
“But what should we do?” they asked.
We encouraged them to purchase a new notebook and right boldly across the front cover of it: My
book of positive aspects. And on the first page of the book right: positive aspects of this hotel in
Austin. And so, Esther began to write:
It’s a beautiful facility. It’s immaculate. It’s very well situated, it’s close to the interstate, it’s easy
to find. There are many different sized rooms to accommodate our increasing numbers. The hotel
staff is friendly.
And as Esther was making those entries, her feeling about the hotel changed from one of negative to
one of positive. And in the moment that she began to feel better, her attraction from the hotel
changed. She did not write, “They’re always ready and waiting for us”, because that had not been
her experience, and writing that would have evoked a feeling of contradiction, or a feeling of
defense, or a feeling of justification from her. But by wanting to feel good, and by deliberately
focusing her attention more upon the things about the hotel that did feel good, Esther’s point of
attraction regarding the hotel shifted. And then something Esther found very interesting happened –
the hotel never forgot they were coming again. Esther was amused to realize that the hotel had not
been forgetting about their agreement because they were uncaring or disorganized, the staff was
simply being influenced by her dominant thought about them. In short, they could not buck the
current of Esther’s negative thought.
Esther enjoyed her Book of positive aspects so much that she began writing pages on many subjects
of her life. We encouraged her to not only write about the things in which she was seeking
improved feelings, but to write about things she already felt mostly positive about, just to get in the
habit of good-feeling thoughts and for the pleasure of good-feeling thoughts. It’s a nice way to live.
34. The Law of Attraction adds power to thoughts
Often when experiencing an unwanted situation, you feel a need to explain why it has happened in
an attempt, perhaps, to justify why you’re in the situation. Whenever you’re defending, or
justifying, or rationalizing, or blaming anything or anyone, you remain in a place of negative
attraction. Every word you speak as you explain why something is not the way you want it to be
continues the negative attraction, for you cannot be focused upon what you do want while you’re
explaining why you’re experiencing something that you do not want. You cannot be focused upon
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negative aspects and positive aspects at the same time. Often in an attempt to determine where your
trouble started, you only hold yourself in that negative attraction longer. “What’s the source of my
trouble? What’s the reason that I am not where I want to be?”
It’s natural that you want improvement in your experience, and therefore it’s logical that you’re
solution oriented. But there is a big difference between seriously looking for a solution and
justifying the need for a solution by emphasizing the problem.
The realization that something is not as you want it to be is an important first step. But once you’ve
identified that, the faster you’re able to turn your attention in the direction of a solution, the better,
because a continuing exploration of the problem will prevent you from finding the solution. The
problem is a different vibrational frequency than the solution.
As you become aware of the value of the process of pivoting, and as you become adept at
identifying what is not wanted, and then immediately turn your attention toward what is wanted,
you will realize that you’re surrounded primarily by wonderful things, for there is so much more
that is going right in your world than wrong.
Also, a daily utilization of the Book of positive aspects will help you to become more positively
oriented. It will assist you in gradually tipping the balance of your thoughts more in the direction of
what you do want.
The more that you focus your attention with the intention of finding increasingly better-feeling
thoughts, the more you will realize that there is a very big difference between thinking about what
you want and thinking about the absence of it.
Whenever you’re feeling uncomfortable as you’re speaking or thinking about improving something
you want, such as a better financial condition or an improved relationship or physical condition,
you’re in that moment preventing yourself from finding the improvement.
The process of pivoting and the process of the Book of positive aspects are both offered to assist you
in recognizing in the early subtle stages of your creation that you are pulling on the very tips of that
negative ball of twine, so that you may right away release it and reach for the positive thread of
thought instead.
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It is much easier to go from a thought of something that makes you feel a little better to an even
better feeling thought to an even better feeling thought than to go directly to a wonderful feeling
thought, because all thoughts, or vibrations, are affected, or managed, by Law of Attraction.