Do you set yourself goals, and wish for the new job, new house and new love...but secretly don't thnk they will ever be yours? You could be sabotaging your own success with straightforward negative thinking. If you turn it around, you could find that 2008 is the year that your dreams, quite literally, start to come true!
Robb Williams is the founder of the Cosmic Ordering Forum, and he shares his advice of thinking positive to get what you want from life...
The power of positivity
We are living in an age that promises quick fixes for all that dissatisfies us in our world; if we want to lose weight we buy the book, join a club or take a pill. We have a patch to help quit smoking and the lottery provides an chance of instant wealth. The catch is that, for the majority, these fixes are often transient and unsustainable, leaving us feeling more dissatisfied than we were before. Unfortunately, by buying into someone else’s solution to our problems and hoping that it works for us, we’ve lost some of our control over our ultimate desire. As soon as we use phrases like “I don’t know whether this will work… but I’ll give it a try”, we are predisposing ourselves towards accepting failure.
So what’s the solution? Well, it lies in us actually believing that we can achieve anything we want to. If that sounds too obvious or simplistic, take a few minutes to think about the last time you really thought you wanted something and didn’t achieve it. Did you really believe deep in your heart, without a shadow of a doubt, that you’d achieve your desire, or did you have a few niggling little doubts eating away at your resolve? Now think about an achievement you’ve had where you genuinely had no thoughts about failure and see the difference in how your thoughts worked in both situations. Saying you believe and actually believing are two completely different things. By truly believing that something would happen, your thoughts actually made it happen.
Cosmic Ordering -v- Law of Attraction
These fundamental ideas of belief and the power of thought are at the core of Cosmic Ordering, the Law of Attraction and the best selling book “the Secret”. However, there is nothing secret or new about the idea. It’s been known about for centuries, even millennia. Finally, science, in the form of quantum physics, is starting to recognise and prove that thoughts and emotions definitely do have an effect on the real world and even the fabric of the universe. The implications from their findings are sending shockwaves trough the world of conventional scientific thought. It means that reality, as we recognise, it is actually defined by our very thoughts and emotions. By recognising this and creating the right sort of positive thoughts, we can steer that reality in the direction that we really desire.
So how do we go about creating these changes and achieving our desires? The first question to ask is, “What do I really desire”. This isn’t always as obvious a question as it may seem. The most common responses are often related to things like more wealth, losing weight, a new car, a new love and a whole host of materialistic gains. These answers invariably represent the trappings associated with what we perceive to be a perfect life style whereas; in reality, they may just be reflecting our personal insecurities or desires to impress others. Look at your answers again, be totally honest with yourself, and try to see what lies behind these desires. Continue to do look behind subsequent answers until you get to the crux of what you really desire. Discover this and you can set about creating what you really want. Achieve this reality and other good things will follow.
Create the belief
To achieve this reality you have to create the belief you can achieve it. Cosmic Ordering and the Law of Attraction use subtly different methods to achieve this conviction. In Cosmic Ordering you place an order using what ever method you feel comfortable with. This could be by writing it on a piece of paper, in a book, or by filling in the order form at www.cosmicorderingform.com. Once you’ve created the order, forget about it as completely as possible, and know that that order has been accepted and will be delivered. The purpose behind this is to create and reinforce a positive affirmation which your unconscious mind will recognise and act upon to send out the positive thoughts to attract your desire. By forgetting the order on a conscious level, you are not tempted to dwell on the possibility of your order failing. Doing so could generate doubts that create negative thoughts capable of derailing your belief.
The Law of Attraction uses a method of bombarding your mind with positive thoughts of what you desire. Visualisation is an important tool where you create a scenario with you actually experiencing what you desire. Once experienced on this level your thoughts are starting a process of manifesting the real thing. It asks you accept that you already have your desire and live as though it already exists. Create aids like picture boards with images of what you seek on it, and any other method, to reinforce the positive feeling of having you it.
Cosmic Ordering and the Law of Attraction are complimentary to each other, so use whichever method you find to be more effective or intuitive. Remember; Find out what it is that you really want and create a true belief, at your very core, that you will achieve it, and it will happen.