Excerpt from interview with Marci Shimoff for Beyond Belief:

One of my favorite tools is a very simple system developed by a woman named Byron Katie.  Katie, they call her. is one of the happiest people I’ve ever met, and Katie discovered one day that is wasn’t her circumstances in life that were causing her to be miserable but it was her thoughts about those circumstances.

She just naturally started to question her thoughts.  You know we have this belief that just because we have a thought means that its true.  Silly, just because you have a thought doesn’t mean that its true.  It’s very important to learn to question your thoughts.

Katie has developed a system called the work.  It’s a very simple system for asking yourself four questions, that allow you to really see if in fact your thoughts are necessarily true, and they allow you enough distance that you are able to dissolve some of those thoughts that are robbing you of your happiness, of your success, of your greater purpose and passion in life.

The four questions that are involved in the work are very simple.

The first question is:  “Is that true?”

So I have a thought, my thought is, my friend should be nicer to me.  Well,  is that true?  You might on first guess say yeah, that’s true!  Then you say.  Can I really know that that’s true?

That’s the second question:  “Can I really know that that’s true?”

The third question is:  “How do I feel when I have that thought?”

Generally when you have a thought like that you are going to feel contracted, you are going to feel less energy. you are going to feel judgemental.

And then the fourth question is:  “Who would I be without that thought?”

You know without that kind of judgement I might have more freedom in life.   I might be able to be more accepting, more loving of my friend,  I might not be so contracted.

So you ask those 4 questions.  Then there is a very interesting twist and that is: You do a turnaround statement.

So you take the original statement and you turn it around in some way.  So the thought:  my friend should be nicer to me, well, one possible turnaround statement is: I should be nicer to my friend.   Could you find a way that that could be true?

Another possible turnaround statement could be, I should be nicer to myself.   I think for most of us that one could be true.

It sounds like such a simple process, but it makes profound difference in peoples lives.   I have seen so many people who have had amazing changes, just by, on a regular basis, practicing this simple system called the work.

Marci Shimoff is one of the experts in the documentary Beyond Belief.  Get the DVD at:  www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

by Bob Doyle

There is an inherent problem with the approach most people take to self-improvement of any kind. There is a presupposition that there is something wrong that needs fixing. Perhaps it is true that there are areas in their lives that they wish to change. However, the mindset with which they approach transformation will very often NEGATE any positive results they might have. Why? Because all of their focus is on the PROBLEM they are trying to solve, rather than their vision for what their life will be like without the alleged problem.

There is a very basic physical natural law which ultimately determines ANY success on ANY level. This law dictates exactly what our experience will be from moment to moment. Best of all, this law is fully under our control at all times, even if we are not aware of it.

This “law” is the Law of Attraction.  Most of the time, you hear about this law in terms of how it will help you to attract wealth or abundance in general. However, the Law of Attraction transcends just those basic desires. The Law of Attraction dictates that you will receive back exactly what you “vibrate”…that is, what you are FEELING. Where is your attention? Is it on the feelings associated with the problem, or with the feelings of no longer having the problem?

If you approach self-improvement material with the desire to “get rid of the problem”, and if all your feelings are on how terrible or frustrating this “problem” is, Universal Law dictates that you will simply attract MORE of those feelings…more of the circumstances that brought the problem to you in the first place. The Universe isn’t “out to get you”. It is simply responding to the “request” that you are putting out by way of your feelings.

If, however, you approach your self-improvement solutions with high positive feelings associated with what your life WILL be…if you visualize your success with your program of choice on all sensory levels, particularly on the level of EMOTION, you will literally magnetically ATTRACT the success you are looking for! Miracles will occur!

While this may sound very “mystic” or even preposterous, I submit to you that EVERY aspect of your life right now has been brought to you in perfect response to your prevailing thoughts and beliefs which directly effect your emotional state, which in turn causes you to emit very specific and magnetic frequencies which attract like frequencies.

We must never forget that beyond simply being flesh and bone, we are, at a molecular level, ENERGY. And our personal energy obeys the same physical laws as all other Energy which we study more traditionally.

The wealthiest, most successful people in the world use the Law of Attraction (albeit often unconsciously) to effortlessly bring into their lives whatever they envision. This could be wealth, successful businesses, or satisfying relationships. Or, it could simply be wisdom, peace of mind, and a sense of purpose.

The big secret is that you truly CAN have whatever you want, regardless of how “pie-in-the-sky” this may sound. You need only learn a few key concepts about HOW to ask for what you want to begin receiving it in abundance! Despite what you may currently believe or have been taught, it is not the purpose of our lives to struggle, to work hard for years, or try to “figure things out”. Our job is to do what we love to do. When we do that with full trust and knowing that doing so will naturally attract our deepest desires, we become powerful magnets, which absolutely assures our success.

Author’s Bio

Bob Doyle is the CEO and founder of Boundless Living and the developer of the “Wealth Beyond Reason” program, which provides a continuing education of the physics of wealth, abundance, and joyous living through the Law of Attraction. http://www.wealthbeyondreason.com

Bob Doyle is one of the experts in the documentary Beyond Belief.  Get the DVD at: www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

by David Hamilton Ph.D.

If you ask someone for help, more often or not they will. When you visualise something happening in your life, it is like sending out a call for help that is picked up unconsciously by people. Then, people who can help you are unconsciously drawn to you. Have you ever noticed that someone new has come into your life after you started hoping, praying, or visualising for something in particular to happen, or that someone you knew gave you new information or assistance. You also attract intuitions and suddenly get inspired with new ideas.

Quantum physics has revealed an interconnectedness to all things. And Carl Jung suggested that we share a collective unconscious mind. It has parallels with the Internet. Computers are separate from each other as they sit on our desks, but they are connected via the Internet, which is a shared repository of information. Similarly, the collective unconscious mind is a shared hive of information that all of us are connected to. When you hope, pray, or dream of something you want, your intention is felt by people at an unconscious level. Then the people who can help are drawn to be in the same place at the same time as you.

I often describe it using the metaphor of a spider’s web. How does a spider know that a fly is trapped in its web? It feels the vibrations. So in the same way, people feel the vibrations (at deep unconscious and quantum levels) of your hopes, prayers, dreams, and intentions, as you do theirs.

So when you want something in your life, imagine it clearly. And imagine it as if it is happening now. Your thoughts will attract it, either as intuitions and ideas or as people showing up in your life.

Most of us are experts at what I call the law of repulsion. I was a master of it for years. Whenever I wanted something, I must have invoked the law because I always seemed to get the opposite. Things got worse. It led me, when I was growing up, to conclude that if I wanted something there was no chance I could have it. I could only have the things I didn’t want, which was a bit of a bummer.

But the law of repulsion is really the law of attraction in disguise. We sometimes repel our goals because we spend more time complaining about how bad things are at the moment or that ‘ it’s not happened yet ‘, than we do actually imagining what we want. And just as energy flows to where attention goes inside the body, so reality flows in the direction of what you put your attention on in your life too.

The key is to keep your intention, periodically, on what you want instead of the opposite, which is what is happening now. When faced with current reality, just affirm that it is changing. What you want is coming to you. Play pretend, like a child does, every day or so for a couple of minutes.

For some people, change is rapid when they do this. For others, it’s a more gradual process and it takes discipline. But it’s worth it.

You can even wish the best for other people. I have noticed that good stuff happens in their life when I do this. People often show up in their life too, or little miracles happen in their life. All you are doing is giving them a little unconscious mental assistance, like you’re an angel I suppose.

I am a great believer in using the power of intention to make a positive difference in the lives of others, and in the world. I believe that we are far more powerful than we have ever believed ourselves to be. I believe that we have the ability to change the world. All we need to do is try.

Every act with a genuine heartfelt intent behind it sends out vibrations throughout the web that attracts new realities. So it’s not so much what you do, it’s the heartfelt intention behind it that’s matters. In other words, it’s the Thought that Counts!

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David Hamilton is one of the experts featured in the documentary Beyond Belief. Get the DVD:  www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

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