The Magical Path. Marc Allen

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      Unfortunately, negative thinking also works,

      and has the power to undermine and destroy

      our affirmations, prayers, and dreams.

      But there’s hope for every one of us: We can overcome a huge amount of doubt and fear by simply returning to our affirmations, over and over. Post them on your wall, where you’ll keep seeing them. Carry some around with you. Read them over and over. Implant them deeply in your mind. And prepare yourself for some inevitable results.

Miracle Story

      I’ve heard countless stories over the years that illustrate the power of the spoken word, affirmations, and mantras. I’m sure you have too, when you think about it.

      Just a few weeks ago, I reconnected with an old friend from our back-to-the-land experiment. I hadn’t seen her in over forty years, and wanted to hear the story of her life: what she’d been through, where she was now, and where she dreamed of going.

      She said she had wandered around through her twenties, much like I had, searching for something or other that seemed to elude her. Then in her early thirties, she read Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain, and she started repeating an affirmation, over and over, through the months and years that followed. These were the words that ended up changing her life:

      I do wonderful work

      in a wonderful way

      with wonderful people

      for wonderful pay.

      After chanting this for a while, some creative ideas, some possibilities, came floating along. She had several ideas she played with, and then one of them started to become much more concrete — more and more details kept coming to mind — until she was able to make a clear, simple plan that felt completely doable. She ended up setting up her own retail store, featuring all of the strange and unusual and wonderful things she loved.

      She made a plan and went for it, repeating her affirmation often throughout the day, and for thirty years she had her own business where she did wonderful work in a wonderful way with wonderful people for wonderful pay.

Another Miracle Story

      I heard another miracle story recently: Several years ago, a woman was facing bankruptcy and foreclosure on her home; her real-estate career was earning almost nothing after the crash. She had bought her home at the peak of the real-estate bubble, and it was completely underwater — worth far less than the loan. She took one of my seminars and made a list of goals as affirmations in a notebook. Every morning, as she worked out for half an hour on a treadmill or StairMaster, she read her affirmations to herself, over and over.

      She affirmed she was paying off her home completely, in an easy and relaxed manner, a healthy and positive way, and she had a million dollars in liquid assets.

      Within a few days, she started getting creative ideas. She played with several possibilities that came to mind, but couldn’t see how they could work. Within a few weeks, she got an idea that she acted on: working directly with the banks to help refinance homes like hers that were underwater. Within two years, her home was completely paid off, and she had substantial savings — a comfortable nest egg.

      She knows that the repeated affirmations had an effect, causing the creative ideas to surface in her mind.

      There’s nothing you have to believe in to make any of this work — just try it, and see what happens.

The Two Most Important Affirmations: The First and the Last

      When I look back over the winding path I took from poverty to abundance, it’s obvious to me that one of the most powerful, effective things I ever did was to write a list of dreams and goals as affirmations, worded as if they were already coming into being, and repeat those affirmations enough so that my subconscious mind accepted them and went to work fulfilling them.

      When I hit my financial low, near bankruptcy, I came up with an affirmation that changed my life and my world:

      I am sensible and in control of my finances;

      I am creating total financial success,

      in an easy and relaxed manner,

      a healthy and positive way,

      in its own perfect time,

      for the highest good of all.

      I kept repeating those words, at a time when that affirmation was very different from my current reality — exactly the opposite, in fact. After a few weeks of that affirmation, it began to slowly dawn on me that creating financial success was not all that mysterious, not even all that difficult — and, even better, I began to get all kinds of ideas about how I could actually create financial success in my life.

      In the beginning was the word, says John in the Bible. The affirmations you repeat in your mind start to give you ideas — more words in your mind — that show you the steps you can take to build a much more abundant and fulfilled life. And the steps are obvious, simple, and easy to take. In its own perfect time, for the highest good of all, those things you continue to affirm become true in your reality. That’s worth repeating….

      In its own perfect time,

      those things you continue to affirm

      become true in your reality.

      Our subconscious mind knows no limits.

      If we keep telling our subconscious mind we are creating total financial success, it immediately gets to work showing us how to do it. And if we keep saying to ourselves — programming ourselves — that we’re succeeding in an easy and relaxed manner, a healthy and positive way, our subconscious goes about showing us exactly how to create success with ease.

      Make a list of your goals as affirmations. If you don’t like the word goals for some reason, pick something else, like dreams. Repeat your affirmations often enough so that your subconscious mind absorbs and accepts them. You know that’s happening when you start getting ideas, seemingly out of nowhere, that show you the next obvious steps to take to move toward your dreams, your goals, your desires.

      In the beginning, I had twelve affirmations on my list; the first and the last affirmations are the most important ones. This is what has just naturally come to me, over the years; find your own first and last affirmations, and put them in your own words.

      The first affirms my connection with spirit, every moment; it affirms my enlightenment. Yes, we can affirm our way to enlightenment in the same way we can affirm our way to financial success. It all depends on how you define enlightenment, of course. I like to look at it this way:

      To be enlightened is to realize who we are

      and what we are in reality.

      We are, in reality, one with the quantum field, with all that is. We are not our bodies; we are not our thoughts and feelings and perceptions. Those things pass away. We are the eternal force of life that animates our bodies; СКАЧАТЬ