Law of Attraction

Coming very soon on our site, and hopefully lots of other places, is our latest “Law of Attraction” title.This one is a video that I am making in partnership with Knowing Entertainment Productions. We just wrapped our first full two days of production, and the “trailer” will be soon visible on our site and elsewhere on the web.

The Law of Attraction, which has been popularized so much by the movie “The Secret” is something that we can all use more of in our lives. I’ve been using it’s principles in my daily life and with my hypnotherapy clients for years. I thought it was a great idea that I get these things out to people in as big of a way as possible. Thus, the video.

What I noticed to be lacking in a lot of the “stuff” out there was a way for people to immediately and effectively, step by step, put the Law of Attraction to work for themselves. Rhetoric about it abounds everywhere I look, but the actual do “this”, “this”, and “this” is much harder to find. Our video will give you exactly that. The “How To”, that you can put into action immediately after watching. The step by step layout for manifesting changes.

It’s also worth mentioning here that the video is NOT an advertisement to buy more things or sign up for “courses”. It’s a complete, self-contained roadmap to success, wealth, love, health — whatever you decide you want in your life. It presents some old ideas, some new ideas, and some existing ideas with a new twist.

When the trailer is up on the site, we’ll let you know on here. Who knows, maybe you’ll even hear about it on, “Oprah”.

I constantly get asked about effectiveness of subliminal recordings and scientific proof, and studies and things such as that. Many people are looking for me to cite clinical studies, or data collected by the scientific method, but I don’t do that.
I know what has worked for me and for my clients. “How” it works is another story altogether. I think that the “how” is irrelevant most of the time. I don’t need to know how a TV works in order to watch it, nor do I need to fully understand the internal combustion engine to drive my car.
I got the following question emailed to me, and i thought other people would be interested in it and the answer.

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Hi Rick,

I was surfing the net about Law Of Attraction and stumbled on your site. I read some things on Subliminal messages and there is ’supposedly’ scientific proof that subliminal messages do not work.

Since you are at the heart of it… what honestly have you noticed?

Please respond..very interested.

Mike

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Hi Mike,

I think it all depends on what studies you read and how they conducted it. Years ago, (before I was in this field myself) I ordered some subliminal tapes and used them. They seemed to work, but the company was very specific that I needed to keep the playback head of the cassette player de-gaussed or the tapes would lose their effectiveness. I don’t know if it was the power of suggestion or not, but they did seem to lose effectiveness over time.

Later, I ordered some affirmations tapes from a different company and repeated the affirmations out loud and they seemed to work well, but I wasn’t always in a place where I could do that, nor was it appropriate to listen to that type of thing (in offices around other people and such).

I searched for a long time for a “happy medium”, and was determined to find something that would work that was in between. What I found out in doing all that looking was that a lot of the subliminal audio that was out there truly didn’t work, because the subliminal part was recorded at a level that was not only beneath perception, but that was impossible to even register through people’s senses at all.

I got to where I didn’t trust anything out there if I couldn’t verify that there was actually something on it. Interestingly enough, I started my current business by adapting things I was doing to help myself to helping other people. In order to get the results I wanted, I developed my own type of subliminal recordings — for my own use for various things.
I know I’ve taken a long time answering your question, but what I actually noticed was that when I used the subliminals that I made myself with a different recording technique than all the others, they worked, and they gave me the results that I wanted.
Now honestly, I don’t know if it’s the power of suggestion, the placebo effect, or what, but they always work for me. The difficulty is that anything I say about it is purely subjective, but maybe that’s the whole point. The Law of Attraction is about feelings and emotions and attitudes, so if they (the subliminal CDs) are able to affect a change in attitude (no matter how that actually happens), then I guess they are working the way they need to.

When it all boils down to the end, as long as we achieve the results that we want, do we care how it happened?

Other people report the same results with listening to my subliminals.

I hope I answered your question… sorry I got long-winded

Best Regards,
Rick McFall
United Hypnotherapy

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Considering the principles of hypnotherapy and NLP, as well as the Universal Law of Attraction, it is important from a weight management perspective to watch your focus, not your weight. When we say to ourselves “I must lose this weight,” the subconscious mind picks up on your focus on weight, and helpfully obliges you by bringing you more of what you are focusing on (weight). It (your subconscious) makes no distinction on which way you are focusing on it, it simply perceives that you are very involved with that weight and therefore you must want more of it. Then, it obliges you by adding more pounds.

This is exactly the same principle behind how the Law of Attraction works in a universal sense. In other words, the abundant universe will also line up to give you more of what you are focusing on in just the same way. It will bring you plenty of opportunities to eat more, to eat those things you believe are fattening, to be inactive instead of active and so on. It will also team up with your subconscious mind and really pack those pounds on. (From certain perspectives, your subconscious mind and the abundant universe can be perceived as the being same thing anyway.)

Instead of focusing on your weight, focus on health. Focus on having energy and freedom of movement and flexibility. Focus on wearing some favorite outfit to a special event and feeling and looking fabulous. Focus on the emotions of being happy with yourself and having fun in the world. Step into a positive and healthy, energetic vision of yourself. See out of those happy eyes, hear the vibrant world through your ecstatic ears, feel the feelings of being and having what you truly want.

Put another way, what you are truly wanting is not ‘weight loss.’ What you are truly wanting is to be healthy so you can enjoy life, to be at an appropriate weight which allows you to be happy, energetic, feeling attractive and so forth. Behind all of this is really the ultimate goal everyone has for themselves, which is to be happy. To be in a state of BLISS. This is what we crave at the core of being. So focus on that, and take your mind off the weight.

Does this mean to stop caring about your health and about eating appropriately of healthy food in healthy amounts? And stop caring about moving your body in a healthy way? Of course not. But, what I am saying here is shift the focus on these things. Do these things because you love yourself and your body and wish to make sure that you have all the best things in the best amounts to provide the best care for yourself. Focus on doing these things because they are part of having a healthy happy life which you love. Stop doing them because you think you HAVE TO do them to lose weight.

Oh, what’s that you’re saying? Weight? Did I hear ‘weight’ again? You don’t have enough, you’re still focused on that? Always with you, it’s ‘blah blah weight this, blah blah weight that.’ A thousand times a day, that’s all you think about. Weight, weight, weight, weight, weight. Well, here you go, have some more!

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A woman I was working with lately mentioned that she prays for peace everyday. As she said this, there was anguish in her face. Like many of us, she is deeply concerned about the conflicts and suffering in the world. This ‘praying for peace’ is something many people do on a regular basis. However, one thing that strikes me about this is that by ‘praying for peace’ we may actually be focusing on the lack of peace in the world, and by focusing on that, we can then feel a lack of peace within ourselves. I know that focusing on this certainly creates anxiety and a lack of peace within me.

Perhaps peace is something that we can create in the world by bringing ourselves into a state of peace. The more ‘at peace’ we are, the more we may generate the consciousness of peace around us, and the more peace can be generated on a larger scale. It is difficult to generate world peace when we have so few people on the planet who are ‘at peace’ within themselves in a consistent way. When we say ‘Lord, bring us peace’ or even ‘Let there be peace in the world,’ this is actually a plea to provide that which we do not have, so in this way we are reflectively focusing backward, onto the ‘lack of peace’ which initiated our plea in the first place.

From the perspective of the Spiritual Law of Attraction, which is, simply stated, that you create more of that which you are focused upon, I wonder if it might not be more effective if we were to ‘pray’ from the perspective of gratitude rather than suplication? I wonder if we might not find peace within by giving thanks for our peace? And, I wonder if experiencing peace within might not generate more peace on a larger scale? I know for myself, as I have been repeating this ‘thank you for my peace’ quite often over the course of the last few days, that I do feel more at peace within myself.

I am wondering if anyone else would be interested in just trying this way of ‘praying’ for peace, as a gratitude practice. No matter what is going on in my life, I find that just stopping a moment and saying ‘thank you for my peace,’ I automatically feel better. I believe that it is possible that WE (the big collective WE of the world) will only find peace when we (the you and I individuals of the world) find and know our own inner peace.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” ~William A. Ward

So how do you super charge your affirmations? I use a technique that involves recording them and creating a chorus of my own voice and then listening to it every day for a few minutes.

First you will want to write out your affirmations and put them through a feeling test to make sure every word fills you with positive feelings, images and sensations. Then record them. It helps to have at least three minutes worth of affirmations. You will be surprised how long three minutes is.

You can record this directly onto your PC or Mac with microphone or record it on a digital recorder and upload the file to your computer. Then using an audio editing program you can loop your affirmations so that you have 15 minutes of solid affirmations. You can save this loop as one track and lay it down again starting it 15 to 20 seconds after your first loop. I have done this where I’ve added it over and over again until I have more than 80 versions of my reciting my affirmations playing at the same time. I then turn the volume of the affirmations down and mix in some relaxing music.

The result is an amazingly powerful hypnotic journey. I did this for a client with cancer. She listened to her affirmations at least once a day every day for over a year. I watched in amazement as everything she affirmed began to come true in her life. One of her affirmations was that people would be looking at her bald head because she was so attractive and it was so sexy. She forgot that this was on her tape and came in one day telling me how even with her bald head men were hitting on her. Her affirmation was working even though she didn’t even remember it was on her tape.

If you need some good audio software for creating multiple track audio, there’s a shareware program for free called audacity that works on PC’s and is very effective for a project like this.

Here’s a link to download it. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

If you use a Mac your garage band program can create multiple tracks and is just as easy to use as Audacity. You may need to buy a new version of I-life that includes garage band if you are using an older mac.

You can do all this without a computer the old fashioned way, cutting and splicing audio tape. That can take forever and there’s no room for errors. Once the tape is cut, it is cut.

You can also purchase affirmation recordings right here on United Hypnotherapy. As you listen to a Hypnotherapy recording that includes positive suggestions and affirmations, try repeating the suggestion to yourself as you hear it. This can make the experience even more powerful.

Happy manifesting!

Rick Reynolds, CCHT

When working on anything in the personal growth area (especially the “Law of Attraction”), there are several powerful methods of helping focus your mind. One of the most powerful ways is to do what is called “Vision-Boarding”.

Think of a vision board as a poster/collage of what you want in you life. That keeps it fairly simple, and will aid you in making it. So here’s what you do:

First, imagine what it would “feel like” if you already had everything in life that you wanted - and I mean everything. No matter what it is that you want, imagine what it would feel like if you had it, and then hang onto that feeling.
Look through magazines, or go through some of your photographs, or search on the internet for photos/images of things that represent that feeling you want to “feel” in your life. If it’s feeling financially secure, perhaps you’ll get some pictures of piles of money, or gold, or limousines - anything that represents to you what financial security feels like. Try to stay focused on the feelings part of it, but just do the best you can, and let your mind take over if it wants to.

When you have a whole bunch of pictures either printed out, or cut out, or collected, arrange them on a poster board and put it in a spot where you will be able to look at it and meditate about it. You might want to add some words to the vision board as well (for anything you think might need a bit of emphasis).

When it’s all done and hanging where you want it, look at it… take a few deep breaths… and allow yourself to “feel” what it feels like to have all of those things on your vision board. Just pretend if you have to, but do your best to actually feel it. Do that everyday, and watch and be amazed as things from your vision board begin to magically appear in your life.

Many people I know have done this, and after a while they forget about it and go about their normal day to day activities. At some point later, though, they come back and look at their vision board and notice many of the things they put on the board have been “manifested” into their lives. It truly is amazing stuff…

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I saw the movie, the Secret because my golf coach called me one day and told me to get and watch it as soon as possible. He had so much excitement behind his voice I had to get it. I watched it once and because I study all of that stuff I wasn’t all that impressed. I put it away, but when I would tell my coach problems I was having with my game or my life he directed me towards the movie again and told me I wasn’t watching it enough. I began to watch it everyday. I began to meditate for hours creating the life I wanted. I made a vision board and looked at it everyday. I kept the emotions in my heart as if I had everything I wanted. Nothing happened.

Three months later my whole situation had changed. I moved to Palm Springs which I absolutely love because of the weather and the golf courses. I have drawn many wonderful clients and friends into my life. I am financially wealthy and live on a great golf course. I am doing what I love, furthering my education and expanding my golf business. I have a great spiritual group called the Course in Miracles that I meet with once a week. I have much free-time and look and feel great. My emotions are at peace and I feel great about my future. Everything seems to be inflow as I allow the laws of attraction to work for me. Everyday seems to be an adventure and everyday I am more and more grateful for the wonderful world I live in.

I still often watch the movie for check ups and to continue making my dreams come true. The trick is to not get discouraged if everything does not happen all at once. It’s very important to keep that knowing in your heart that your dreams are a reality and in the process of becoming true. The laws of attraction really work. Miracles can happen!

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Did you know that sometimes practical life changing ideas can come to you through your actual dreams? Dream state can be a great creative state. I once read that many inventors take naps in order to dream up their new inventions. They use that state just as they woke up to write down their dreams.

I use that state to write many of my blog entries including this very one. Just this morning I had a dream that you can use to help build your ideal life or that a high end florist could use to make millions of dollars.

Here’s my dreamed up idea. I call it the manifestation flower box. It’s a beautiful wooden box filled with the most amazing flowers you have ever seen. The beauty of this box captures your attention every time you walk by it. You’ll find yourself admiring and thinking of the box several times a day. The box also comes with a small pair of scissors and strips of pretty paper some with powerful words like love and joy and prosperity and others blank so you can write the words that you want to manifest in your life. You use the scissors to cut photos from magazines of items you want to manifest in your life. As the flowers die you replace the flowers with the words and the photos you’ve cut out.

The items you want to manifest slowly take the place of the beautiful flowers and you begin to admire and and enjoy your wants the way you did the beautiful flowers thinking about them several times a day and stopping by your box to admire them. In my dream the items began to manifest in my life and I pulled them one at a time out of the box and replaced them again with beautiful flowers.

I have yet to share this idea with a high end florist so you can’t yet order your manifestation flower box, but you can create your own. It doesn’t have to be a box filled with flowers first. You can create a vision board, a collage of words and photos that you can look at often until it manifests in your life.

I first heard of vision boarding when I was fifteen and dreaming of getting my drivers license and owning a car. I cut out a photo of a little yellow Honda civic from an old magazine and put it up in my bedroom. I would gaze at it from time to time. I eventually lost the photo and forgot all about it.

A few years later when I had saved up enough money to finally buy a used car I found one in the paper. My parents took me off to see it and I bought it. On the drive home it hit me… this little yellow Civic was the exact same color and year as the one in that photo I had cut out a few years earlier.

In the movie”The Secret” a man tells a similar story of posting a photo of his dream house on a vision board then five years later pulling out the board and realizing he was living in the very home he had clipped out of a magazine.

So your mission today is to create a manifestation box or a vision board or perhaps just a want list (a list of all the things you want to create in your life) based on the dream you have for your life. Put this creation somewhere where you can look at it and admire it often. As you look at it pretend that you already have all these things in your life and feel the joy that it brings you.

If you decide to create manifestation boxes and sell them to the public, charge a buck more for each one and send it back to the original dreamer… me… lol !!!!

One more thing, keep paper and pen by your bed so you can capture your dreamed up ideas when you wake. Just this week I dreamed up the manifestation box and an entire one day hypnotherapy workshop. You might even try taking some naps in the middle of the day to dream up some creative ways to expand the joy in your life.

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Overview:
The following are guidelines for becoming an active and conscious manifester in your life. We human beings are constantly manifesting. The power to manifest is already a part of you. It is your Being. We manifest through our body, mind and soul. Our thoughts, words, and actions are our tools. We manifest in our lives that upon which we focus. Most people manifest passively and unconsciously; they are victims of how their unconscious thoughts and words manifest outcomes in their lives. It is very important for us, who want to be conscious manifesters, to become exquisitely aware of what we focus on, consciously and unconsciously, and how to directly engage our thoughts, words and actions so that we are more productively working towards creating our heart’s desires. These simple steps will help you become more conscious and more directly involved in manifesting your goals and dreams. You may facilitate your coaching clients towards manifesting their coaching and life goals using this process as well as use it for yourself.

1. Choosing a Goal to Manifest.

Make sure that your goal is your own; that is one that is congruent to your own desires and to who you are as a person. It will not work, for instance, to try to manifest your parent’s goals for you to be a politician when you really want to be a dancer. Using the Wheel of Life tool and the Coaching for Values approaches are important tools at this stage. You and only you can decide if this goal is truly important and of value.

2. The Importance of Manifesting with Intention.

Make sure that your goal is moving towards what you want, not what you don’t want. Get specific about the details or qualities of what you want. Make a list of these details or use the “bubbling” technique to map the specifics.

3. Reinforcing with Affirmations.

Write an affirmation that includes the specifics of your goal. Be positive. Use present tense. Relate it to yourself as coming to you at just the right time and for the highest good of all. Give the statement some “juice” or emotion.

4. Doing a “Body Check”.

Say your affirmation aloud and feel it in your body. Make sure that it feels right and important to you, especially in your heart chakra. If it doesn’t feel right, keep working on the specifics until it does feel right.
At this stage you may become aware of limiting beliefs, unconscious attitudes or negative self talk that need clearing. Muscle testing can be used to check for psychological reversal. Inner work with EFT or Hypnotherapy may be needed to clear the unconscious blocks.

5. Engaging the Unconscious.

Using your hypnosis and creative visualization skills, now close your eyes and say the affirmation. Allow yourself to experience being your future self, the person who has already manifested the goal. Awaken all of your inner senses and experience what you feel, see, hear, sense, think and if appropriate taste and smell. Associate in the experience as fully as possible. The unconscious is now engaging in the manifesting process! Use your hypnotic skill rehearsal techniques to be in the moment the person who has already manifested his or her goal.

6. Anchor your Goal.

Choose a word, phrase, an image or a feeling that come to you when in trance that will be your anchor to reinforce the positive experience of stepping into your future self.

7. Give it substance.

Draw a picture, make a sandtray, take a photograph, find a symbol or make a collage of what you want. Keep it in view of your daily activities. What color or colors are the essence of your goal? When thinking of your goal you can use your anchors and put a big ball of energy over your head that is the color of your goal. Allow the color and feelings of energy to move into your aura and body to give it space to manifest through you and in your life.

8. Let it go.

Now release this color or feeling through your solar plexus. Surrender it to the Universe. Letting it go is very important to the manifesting process. As a part of the energy mechanics of life, the vibration of your thought and words have been released and broadcast into the universe so that they can attract to you opportunities and what you need. Coaching for Being is helpful here. Be where you are right now. Know that what is at this moment is perfect and right.

9. Know it as Reality.

There is no time in spirit. It does, however take time for goals to manifest in physical plane reality. Know that your goal will manifest in the time and way it is best for you. The Law of Cause and Effect is in action. “Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find, Knock and it shall be opened unto you.” Manifesting is a process that takes time. You can support it by acting as if you already have what you want. Validate even the smallest steps.

10. Take Action.

Manifesting is a process. Give your manifesting process attention. Every day do something towards making your goal a reality. The universe will give you signs along the way that will lead you on the path of manifesting. Stay alert to the opportunities that show up. Use your intuition and explore those opportunities that get your attention. Follow up on the cosmic “leads” that appear. Engage in your life as a part of the process. Stay open and receptive to opportunities coming in surprising ways. Work with your affirmation daily. Write it out and place it in a conspicuous place so you will see it as you go about your daily routines. Stop any negative language or limiting thoughts. Use EFT and hypnotherapy to delete any negative programs that show up.

11. Give thanks.

Hold gratitude in your heart for the abundance of the universe and the knowing that you are manifesting opportunities and exactly what you need for your goal to manifest. Celebrate and enjoy the process.

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Just for today I’d like you to try a little experiment. Just for today pretend that you already have everything you want in life.

Just for today pretend that you’ve achieved all the success you’re wanting to have.
Imagine your wallet filled with money. Imagine your bank statement the way you would most want it to be.

Imagine yourself doing exactly what you want to do when you want to do it.

Now for the rest of the day, pretend that everything you imagined is real. Try on this new reality, just for today.

You can go back to thinking your ideal life exists somewhere out there when the day is done. Or maybe you’ll choose to keep pretending. And maybe if you pretend well enough other people might believe that your life is really ideal.

Maybe if you pretend long and hard enough, you’ll actually convince yourself that you already have your ideal life.

Your imagination is the key for tapping into your subconscious mind. It is from the subconscious mind that we create the reality we live our lives in. Pretending, using your imagination resets the inner programing and produces a new outer reality.

A little time spent pretending is calling your attention back to your intentions. This helps you stay focused on what you want. Instead of being focused on what you don’t want.

Have you ever heard the story of Jim Carrey the comic actor and his million dollar check? Carrey has told many an interviewer the story of how he wrote himself a check for a million dollars and carried it around in his wallet until he became a huge success and could cash it.

Carrey is a great pretender. He’s pretended his way into a multi million dollar movie star career.

If you want, write yourself a check for a million dollars and see what happens. Be sure to share your results by posting a comment!

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