A good friend of mine and I were talking and she used a phrase that I don’t typically hear her say…

“Keeping It Real”

It’s a colloquial term used by a lot of the ‘young folk’ meaning a myriad of things ranging from, not selling out to ‘tha man’ to appreciating culture…and everything in between.

We laughed about it, then got into a really interesting discussion about “keeping it real”

The “Keeping It Real” we were referring to was regarding your desires.

Are you keeping your desires real?

What I mean by that is are you keeping them “real” in your mind? As you know, your subconscious can’t tell the difference between what’s real and what ‘s not… so when you imagine something, your subconscious believes it’s real…

So the more you imagine something, the more “real” it becomes to your subconscious and ultimately, more real in your life.

PRACTICAL APPLICATION
Keep your dreams, your desires and aspirations “real”. See them as happening now. See them as easily achievable and attainable… and the more you see them that way, the faster you attract them into your ‘reality’

I don’t know what other way to put it.

I haven’t been sick…in almost two decades. Not even as much as a common cold since December 11th 1989.

Until now…

This week I got sick… and not only did I get sick, I came down with strep throat AND pink eye at the same time!

Geez!

Now, you may be wondering what this has to do with the Law of Attraction…

Well – EVERYTHING!

One of the fundamental principles of the Law of Attraction is that our physical experiences are the EFFECTS of mental and emotional CAUSES.

What does this mean?

This means that when you’re experiencing something on the “outside” of you, it is the result of something going on “inside” you.

This can be a really challenging concept to grasp.

Typically we says things like,

“I get sick when the seasons change…”

or

“I always get sick once a year…”

Based on the Law, these things are the RESULTS of the belief systems that create them.

We cannot experience anything that we are not a vibrational match with. So if and when we get sick, it’s because on some level, we are vibrationally aligned with the dis-ease!

Take a look at what I read in Louise Hay’s book, You Can Heal Your Life:

Emotional causes of sore throats: Holding angry words…unable to express the Self.

Emotional causes of pink eye: Anger and frustration…not wanting to see.

This was REALLY powerful for me.

I’m not going to bore you with the details of what was going on, but both of these describe the EXACT state of mind I’ve been in for the past few days.

Your body… no scratch that – your LIFE, is a reflection of what’s going on INSIDE you. When you see things that aren’t what you want showing up around you… they should be red flags or “indicators” that you are consistently thinking, believing, or feeling something that isn’t in alignment with what you say you want for yourself.

Of course, no ones says, “I want to be sick…” or “I want to be broke” or “I want to get fired from my job” – but believe me, there is a conversation that’s going on a subconscious level that’s creating theses things around you.

So when these ‘indicators’ show up, they’re your opportunity to evaluate what your belief systems are and change them if you choose to. This goes for healt, finances, relationship… EVERY part of your life.

Sometimes, you may need someone else to help you see what these beliefs are because a lot of times, they are too deeply rooted for you to see.

You Can Heal Your Life is a good start… it’s a great way to see what could be causing the things that are showing up around you as it relates to health.

Practical Application

Take a moment and make a list of the things that are showing up in your life that aren’t in alignment with what you say you want for yourself.

Ask yourself, “What could I be thinking, believing, or feeling about myself that could be attracting these things?

If you choose to…change them.

I remember 15 years ago, I hadn’t had a cold in about 3 years and I was talking to a girlfriend and she asked me did I ever get sick? Jokingly, I told her that I didn’t have time to get sick.

She totally cracked up and ever since then, that was what I always said when people asked about or talked about getting sick.

I remember a few years later, when I was running my paging company, I was having a conversation with one of the employees who’d asked me about taking off a few sick days. He said, ” Man, I feel horrible, I need to take a few days off.”

I said sure

He went on to ask, “You never take any days off, do you ever get sick?”

I told him, “No, I haven’t scheduled getting sick…I might put it on my calendar in a few years or so, when things slow down.”
He laughed and we went on our way.

Fast forward to 2006…post knowledge of the Law of Attraction. I can totally understand why I never got sick. Between the first time I made that statement to Kim, back in 1991, I’ve probably said “I don’t have time to get sick” a few hundred times.

I said it so much that it became a superficial conscious belief. I say superficial, because intellectually, I didn’t really think I was too busy get sick, but my subconscious didn’t know the difference. My subconscious said, “hey this guy ‘doesn’t have time’ to get sick so I need to make that happen”… and it did.

And here’s where things get a little cloudy for most. I became a vegetarian around that time…just out of the blue, I stopped eating meat. I also started finding out and reading about herbs – and this was back in the early 90’s when vegetarianism wasn’t the cultural taboo it is now. And around that time – virtually no one was using herbs.

Now it’s easy to say, “Oh that’s why you didn’t get sick…it was because of the herbs and being a vegetarian.” Well I know a LOT of vegetarians who still get sick.

I’m making two very important points here:

1) Saying I don’t have time to get sick over and over and over again, was telling (programming) my subconscious to make “not getting sick” my reality.

2) My subconscious responded by tapping into the Universe and bringing me the information and resources to help keep me healthy.

So, here’s a classic example of subconscious manifestation at work.

If you’re having trouble manifesting the things you want in your life, create an affirmation around it and follow it up wit belief that you already have it.

Keep in mind that I didn’t say, “I’m not going to get sick…” I said, “I was too busy to get sick…” as if that were the reality I was living already. Affirmations work…but only when they’re followed with emotion and belief that they are already yours.

Also, be conscious of what negative affirmations you’re saying regularly that might be mis-creating for you. I talked about this in the “Are You Killing Yourself? post.

Just as I never got sick. A buddy of mine (she doesn’t want me to use her name) gets sick all the time… and guess what her favorite phrase is?

You got it….. You Make Me Sick!!!

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A few people were curious about the one time I did get sick… it was about 3 years ago, when my fianc? left me and I was ‘sick with heartache.” I told all my friends how sick I was that she left and I’ll be doggone if I didn’t end up with some horrible flu-like bug for a week.

Amazing isn’t it…?

It’s really a interesting question to ask with powerful implications.

Put another way, what are the things you want in your life that ‘big buts’ are getting in the way of?

What things do you say and follow up with a but in your sentence?
We’ll say things like:

• I want a happy relationship…but, I don’t know if I’ll find a person that I really like…or if they’ll like me.
• I want to have a lot of money…but, I’ve never made a lot of money – I don’t know how to make a lot of money.
• I want to have a big house…but I don’t know if I can afford it or how I would maintain it.
• I want to go after my dreams…but I don’t want to set myself up for failure.
• I want to be happy…but I need to focus on getting this ‘stuff’ done first (here’s a subconscious ‘but’ about happiness, – but I don’t know what makes me happy.)

“Buts” get in the way of the Universe bringing us the things we say we want. Because what you’re doing is subconsciously telling yourself you can’t have or (don’t want) this thing.

In almost all cases, buts psychologically negate your thoughts, your statements, your wants.
They tell your subconscious, “Even though I said I want this thing…I really don’t believe I can have it or to some degree, you’re saying I really don’t want it.”

So imagine going to a restaurant and the waiter asks to take your order, then you say, “I want the Eggplant Parmesan, but I really don’t want it.”

How would he be able to serve you…because he wouldn’t know what you wanted and couldn’t bring you anything. That’s the exact same thing we do when we ask the Universe for the things we want. We ask, then immediately tell the Universe that we DON’T want it.

This is why we get so confused about ‘manifesting’ our reality. We think we’re asking for stuff, and when it doesn’t come, then we get confused.

Even if the ‘but is’ a verbal but, the feeling we have bout our desires can be even more dis-empowering than verbally saying it. So if you’re asking for things, but you FEEL that you can’t afford it or cant have it, the feeling is just as powerful in dismantling your desires.
This also happens when we keep changing our minds about what we want. Again with the restaurant example, imagine placing your order like this, “Yes, I’ll have the Eggplant Parmesan…no I’ll have the Veggie Burger…no, give me the Eggplant Parmesan.” Again, the waiter wouldn’t know what you wanted…and you’d end up with nothing.

So there are two main points here.

First, you have to “kick your buts”. When you catch yourself saying it, just stop and recognize what your mis-creating. Think about the statement you just dismantled with your but. My goal is to just stop using the word altogether.

Secondly, it’s critically important to be very clear on what you want. I think this is one of the biggest reasons why we don’t get what we ‘want’…because on a subconscious level, we don’t know what we want. And if we don’t know what we want, how is the Universe supposed to?

KICK YOUR BUTS!!

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