When we hear law of attraction motivational speakers and "gurus" talking about how we are all capable of attracting wealth into our lives, we all want to believe them, but a the same time, believing can be difficult.
The law of attraction works on what we are able to see in our minds. If someone is telling us that we have the capacity to attract hundreds of thousands of dollars into our lives, when we are struggling to make enough money to pay the bills, it can be hard to imagine how that would come about.
That is exactly the problem that stops so many people dead in their tracks; they focus on how. If you are working full time, making a certain amount a month, it is difficult to see a way that you could change that. You probably think about how you are already spending more time than you like at your job, how there is no chance of climbing the ranks and a raise is out of the question, or would still not take you anywhere near where you would like to be financially.
If you work a job where there is opportunities to advance, or you work for commission or tip, it is probably easier to imagine more money coming you way, but chances are you are still trying to think of how the money will come to you.
When you are focusing on how you will be attracting wealth to you, chances are that you are blocking yourself from actually attracting wealth. You might still be able to attract some money, but you are putting a glass ceiling on your dreams.
You don't need to know how it will come about; all you need to do is visualize it happening. If it's hard for you to visualize a certain sum, try focusing on the lifestyle you will have. What kind of house do you live in? What car do you drive? What kind of food do you eat?
Imagine already having it. If you are doing your visualizations and you are feeling an almost desperate need or craving for something, you are not going about it the right way. We don't crave things we already have, we enjoy them. Get your imagination going, and really try to fantasize on how it feels to actually live that life. Attracting wealth is all about using your imagination.
You might find that you have a hard time letting your imagination run free, and consider it something only children do. If so, answer me this: have you ever been able to picture someone breaking into your house? Have you ever felt scared that something might happen to your children? Have you ever walked alone on a dark street and thought someone was coming up behind you when there was no one there?
If your answer is yes to any of these questions, you have no problems using your imagination to visualize things, you are just trained to misuse it rather than use it for your own benefit. For some reason most of us have no problem imagining bad things happening and believing in them, even though we can't see how exactly it would come about. It's when it comes to positive things we have a hard time.
If we want to be successful in attracting wealth and happiness into our lives, we need to shift our paradigms and learn that to use our imagination to attract to us the things we want, not the things we fear.
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