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Magnets

"There is a great idea that you will encounter again and again on your quest: you are a living magnet, constantly drawing to you the things, the people, and the circumstances which are in accord with your thoughts. In other words, you are where you are in experience, in relationships, even in financial conditions, because of what you are (which is where you are in consciousness)." ~ Eric Butterworth from Spiritual Economics

I love this. Whether we explain it through the Law of Attraction, your Reticular Activating System or some other way, you know you're a magnet, right? You will pull into your life whatever is in your consciousness.

I like to take the Reticular Activating System (RAS) approach to it. You know, your RAS--that little bundle of cells at your brain stem that filters the TRILLIONS of stimuli we're constantly being bombarded by. It filters out the "unimportant" and gives us the important. For example: Let's say you're going to buy a new car. Ever had the experience where all the sudden you see that car everywhere?!? You told your unconscious mind that getting that car was a priority, so, all the sudden you noticed it. Make sense?

What if you tell your unconscious mind that the world is a frightening/dangerous/vicious place. Guess what? You'll get ALL KINDS of evidence to support that belief--from the rude waiter to the guy who cut you off on the freeway, you'll be sure to notice every single little thing that supports your perspective. You're a magnet.

On the other hand, let's assume you believe the world is a beautiful, abundant, loving, expanding experience. What do you think you'll "magnetize" toward yourself? Of course, the people and experiences consistent with that level of consciousness.

For more on the power of the Law of Attraction, I think you'll dig my Notes on Esther & Jerry Hicks' Ask and It Is Given as well as my Notes on Wayne Dyer's Power of Intention.

"Oh, while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me shall ever take command of me." ~ Walt Whitman