Q&A about all self-help subjects and more with Stephen Richards discussion

There is a growing interest in an ancient practice called the law of attraction, which is the ability to draw your desires to yourself through the proper application of certain universal laws. While this is being bandied about through modern technology, allowing more people to access such powers than ever before, there is nothing new about this practice.

Since time immemorial, people in all cultures, in all places, and at all times have sensed that there was a power in the world around them that responded to their wants and needs. While they may not have agreed on what to call this power, and while they may have disagreed on its nature, one thing they were consistent about: that there is something out there that provides.

It is not within the scope of this book to explain or to explicate on the nature of this power, and it is unlikely that anyone really knows. To claim to do so, however, is especially arrogant.

The focus here will be on how to attract your wants and needs to you.

As fantastic as that may sound, please suspend judgment for a moment and consider what this could mean to you, to your life, if indeed it were possible to manifest into your life whatever it is you so desired.

Are the possibilities racing through your mind already?

While keeping your judgment at bay, consider another possibility: that you can do so because the world you think you know, the one you have been taught is a certain way since school, and due to your own personal experiences, is therefore not quite what you thought it was.

Assuming both are correct, this places an interesting burden upon you, two in fact.

The first is: what if you could have whatever it is you wanted, what would then be expected of you.

The second is: if you knew that the world around you was not what most people believe it to be, but is actually a far stranger, far more fantastic place, and that it is responsive to your very existence, to your every thought and feeling, then what does that say about your very own nature?

Again, assuming that you have suspended disbelief and that you have accepted the above statements that:

1) you can have whatever you want, and
2) that you live in a responsive world

then we must take this one step further, and explore a third possibility: that everything that you are now, everything that you have, and everything that you do not have, the very condition of your life at the very moment that you are reading this, is something that you have chosen to create.

These three precepts are very difficult for many to grasp, much less accept, and many will protest and say they are not happy with their lives, that they did not choose how they live, and that no one in their right minds would do the same if they had a choice.

Others will say that they and they alone got them to where they are, that hard work, persistence, and dedication led them to what it is they have, and the successes they enjoy.

The interesting thing is that both those who have and those who have not, they have created the very conditions they live in at the moment, and will continue to dictate those conditions in the future.

Stephen Richards

Sara wrote: "We can choose to live in old-style, rational world, or we can evolve into the conscious view that law of attraction, the Secret, not only do work, but can be utilized by anyone.

This is just the ..."

Sara, Great viewpoint, and of course the law of attraction is just the theory side of things, whereas Cosmic Ordering is the realy nitty-gritty practical side of that. Your take on the desired reality already being there is an interesting one. I see, so by expanding your viewpoint enables one to see what is already there ... very nice way to see it, too.

I am sure that your book "Writing the Divine" gives a much more expansive viewpoint on that belief. WOuld be great to see what others think of this theory.

Once again, a BIG thank you for your contribution.

♥ ♥ ♥Happy Cosmic Week,

Stephen Richards

I am following this discussion because the Law of Attraction is a very intriguing idea to me. I have always believed that words and thoughts are powerful. Last year, I finally got around to reading Rhonda Byrne's The Secret and The Power. Those books presented the Law of Attraction in a very nice format.

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "I am following this discussion because the Law of Attraction is a very intriguing idea to me. I have always believed that words and thoughts are powerful. Last year, I finally got around to reading..."

Thank you, Dustin. Indeed, such a subject is greatly fascinating, thoughts do become things.

Blessings ... *☆*.¸¸.Great week to you my kind Friend!!!

Sara wrote: "I liked Stephen's comment about ... I'm very interested in Manifesting too, Dustin.

I'm most interested in if it really works. I like Stephen's term Cosmic Ordering—it's a good way of thinking ab..."

Sara, such a great addition to this thread by you ... thank you. I am sure many could benefit from your audio course "The 4 Steps to Creating Miracles", sounds interesting.

With regard to your comment on Cosmic Ordering (There's no "one way".), we are all on the same highway ... and if some use a four leaf clover, a rabbit's foot or some other means to manifest their desires, we just have different ways of how it comes to us.

As you say, Sara, it is a useful tool.

♥ Love & Peace Your Way ♥

Stephen Richards

I like your face Sara....And I Love this discussion.
I 'come to' consciousness from a very different 'angle' to you. My understanding - after many many years.... is very briefly our individual 'ME' is the 'bed rock' from which our Soul can grow. To atain the true growth of our Soul we need to first bring True stabilty to our 'ME' - that for most of us - did get 'lost' and or fragmented in states of 'Fear' which at the time of 'Fear' 'ME' could not of itself 'move on'..... Hoping this discussion continues... All love to You Sara - All Love to The Great Steve Richards and to everyone....Sally

Sally wrote: "My understanding - after many many years.... is very briefly our individual 'ME' is the 'bed rock' from which our Soul can grow. To atain the true growth of our Soul we need to first bring True stabilty to our 'ME' - that for most of us - did get 'lost' and or fragmented in states of 'Fear' which at the time of 'Fear' 'ME' could not of itself 'move on'..... Hoping this discussion continues... "

I like your thoughts. I often find fear holding me back. I find myself creating anxiety for anything different or unknown and so I try to keep things as simple as possible - which isn't necessarily a bad thing - I value my simplicity, but in some ways it is holding me back.

I'm finding some of these goodreads discussions very helpful and encouraging. In 2010, I went through a divorce and my ex-wife was also my employer so I was starting all over again finding new work, a new place to live and on my own. I found a little apartment and since I found a job that I could walk to. Now it's two years later and I have realized that while this job has helped me survive and get back on my feet - it's not where I want to work long-term. I desire consistency, but I also desire a work environment that reflects my true self.

These good reads discussions have been helping me overcome my fear of change... Keep it coming :-)

One Republic & their song "Fear":
http://youtu.be/BHVOjraCriA

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "Sally wrote: "My understanding - after many many years.... is very briefly our individual 'ME' is the 'bed rock' from which our Soul can grow. To atain the true growth of our Soul we need to first ..."

Dustin ... When it comes to tackling fear head on and seeing how we react in different situations we have to look back a few hundred millions years to get the answer. The brain stem is the oldest and smallest region in the evolving human brain; this is where our basic emotion of fear is stored. This is called the 'reptilian brain'. It is more like the entire brain of present-day reptiles.

When it comes to making snap judgments, which can cause fear to rear its ugly head, it is something which happens on a barely conscious level. This is the “lizard brain” at work. To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival. This is why we can do irrational things when we are in a tight spot. Fear can be stored as emotional memories, and that is what can trigger certain physiological actions within you. In order to overcome and rationalize a particular fear emotion you need help in shifting those particular memories.

So when you are in a tight spot and take instant fight or flight action, it is the lizard brain, which sits at the base of the skull that takes over. Evolutionists tell us that we've had this “lizard brain” since we were, well, lizards.

In the context of fear, the lizard brain’s reactions to everything are limited to: eating, attacking, running away and mating. That is why you sometimes make surprising judgments.

Whenever you feel fear, your mind is often yanked into an imaginary future scenario where you think you might fail. Your brain is over-analyzing a likely outcome, which leads for many of us to a negative, descending spiral of feelings. This inflates and empowers your fear to the point where you become literally become frozen with fear.

Why is it dire to allow these fear memories into your life? To accept these negative thoughts would reinforce the fear emotion. Accepting the feeling can reinforce it at a later stage. Some therapists advise you to accept the feeling of fear so as to nurture your true self. This can be unreliable as it may cause more emotional memories to be stored in what is known as the lizard brain, and hence your fear is perpetuated. How do you overcome this and escape being the grip of fear?

When fear strikes you it is your lizard brain, scientifically known as the amygdala, which takes over. Your nervous system is flooded with powerful neurochemicals. Hence your senses, such as hearing and vision, become heightened. The amygdala blocks out anything that competes for your awareness, this why the fear grips you. Naturally at this stage all of your resources are devoted to keeping you alive. The number one fear is public speaking followed by asking someone out on a date. This is fear of rejection.

What is fear? Fear has been described as a neural circuit that has been designed to keep the organism, you, alive in dangerous situations. The amygdala determines the significance of the stimulus and triggers emotional responses like freezing or fleeing. This is a process that would best be described as the “emotion of fear”. The amygdala is the storage area where the memory of fear is kept.

Why is it that when you get an attack of fear that occasionally you can become incapacitated? Simple, it is related to the hyperactivity of the amygdala! This almond sized object is the storehouse for the memory of fear! The amygdala can misinterpret physiological signals from the body and cause inappropriate actions. Then in the cold light of day you can see how ridiculous you behaved, but too late ... the emotion is stored.

This is how your fear/panic manifests itself. The definition of panic is a heightened state of anxiety. This fear/panic feeds off itself in a positive feedback loop and jumps to faulty conclusions.

When you are focused on an impending situation you have wrongly construed as “dangerous”, like public speaking or going on an airplane when you are feared of flying, the body undergoes many changes that prepare it for intense action, albeit this is a falsely activated call to arms. This brings on symptoms like: difficulty in breathing, increased temperature, localized sweating, decreased motility of the stomach, constrictions in the stomach and intestines, as well as making your hair stand on end.

Once this emotion of fear has been turned on it is difficult for the cortex to turn it off. Fortunately there are methods of reducing fear and inhibiting the fear response.

So just how do you go about overcoming these “false” alarms? Well there is something called “immersion” therapy; you are literally thrown into the very situation that brings on the fear within you. Then there is cognitive therapy, you are slowly exposed to what it is you have a fear of.

Perhaps in an effort to overcome this irrational fear you’ve read all the self-help books and listened to all of the hypnosis or subliminal downloads you can handle, and all with little success in eradicating that irrational fear. So what now? One way to overcome your particular fear is to replace some of your negative thoughts (that creates negative feelings) with unmistakable positive thoughts.

So how do you beat the fear in such situations without resorting to hypnosis or subliminal messaging? There is a potent way to help you overcome your fear, which is a roadblock of irrational thoughts about uncertain situations that stops you progressing in life.

In order to really make inroads into eradicating your fear, techniques that get right to the core of the problem, and in rapid time are needed. By using up to date methods with brainwave technology it can be resolved.

While many methods of helping you overcome fear claim success, they can involve a great deal of mental effort. Some retraining of the mind also requires frequent therapy sessions over several weeks, such as hypnotherapy (which is a great way, but sometimes prolonged). When testing how such a brainwave audio could do away with the traditional methods of therapy it was found that in less than 30 minutes the core of the problem was targeted.

Targeting the zone of the amygdala is the answer. It totally disarms harbored memories of the particular fear emotion. Methods previously used to target this area did not take into account how your lizard brain reacted in certain trigger situations. Minor obstacles and irritations which were once magnified and a cause of the cycle of fear can now be broken.

Hope this is of some help.

♥ ♥♥Universal ԼƠƔЄ,

Stephen Richards

Thank You for taking the time to explain & share this information :-) I appreciate it.

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "Thank You for taking the time to explain & share this information :-) I appreciate it."

Dustin, always a pleasure to help a Friend ...