Magnets - to Beauty or Beast?

By: Carolyn Porter
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:39:40
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What’s showing up in your life right now? Is it full of beautiful things, wonderful experiences, and happiness galore, or does it feel a bit beastly, with anxiety, worry, unfulfilled dreams, problems, and never enough of anything lurking nearby?

Do you know about energy? Energy is what makes this world go round. Energy is the core of all living things and without energy nothing would exist. In fact, energy supports all life in every form, including you.

Energy involves action and has tremendous power. Energy is a force that moves the vibrations and activates the power. Once energy is created it cannot be destroyed and it is continually circulating throughout the universe picking up more momentum as it moves – like the snowball that rolls down the hill, enlarging with every roll over. It is this energy and its power that creates your life for you.

People by nature blame everyone and everything for their problems. They might tell you that the reason they are having relationship problems is undoubtedly the other person. They’ll say they didn’t get the expected raise so that’s why they are having financial troubles. If they could just find a wonderful partner then they’d be happy. They haven’t been successful yet because they just haven’t had the right breaks like other people seem to have. They are so busy making ends meet that they don’t have time to exercise, so that’s why they’re overweight. We could go on and on with excuses, couldn’t we? Everyone wants to pass the buck so they can shift the accountability away from them.

And you see, this is exactly why the same experiences and problems keep showing up in their life. They pass it off as being their circumstances in life – the boss, spouse, not enough income, time constraints, so many commitments, or lack of opportunities, instead of accepting it as something they are creating. But they’ll tell you, “I wouldn’t create financial problems or relationship issues or any of these difficulties.” But you see, that’s exactly what they have done.

I don’t believe most people understand this concept of life. Generally people allow life to happen to them rather than making life happen for them. When you place blame on your circumstances you are actually saying you have no control over your life, it’s just happening to you. I can promise you that every moment of every day you are making choices, or the choices are being made for you. Your greatest power is the power of choice.

Picture a red, horseshoe shaped magnet, the kind you had as a child. Remember in school when the science teacher brought in different metal objects and you discovered that as you touched that metal magnet to the different metal objects they seemed to fly through the air with gusto and stick to the magnet? The object wouldn’t drop off of the magnet by itself either; you had to physically pull it off. Likes attract likes! Well my friend, that’s what happens in your life!

You are the magnet. Why do I say that? Remember that you are an energetic being, one that is powerful and sends out vibrations that are powerful. Those vibrations are in constant motion, gathering momentum. Those vibrations – like that magnet we just talked about – attract other vibrations of the same frequency to it so that they stick to it. Your science teacher probably showed you that if you placed the magnet next to a piece of paper, nothing happened, but if you go back to the metal objects that were similar to the magnet’s composition, they stuck like glue. This same principle applies to you.

Whatever you feel inside of you – happy, peaceful, fulfilled, grateful, successful, or angry, empty, not enough, blaming, frustrated – you project that out to the universe, and being the magnet that you are, you attract the same things back to you with gusto so that they stick tightly to you. It works like a boomerang – throw it out; receive it back.

This can set up a continuous cycle of pain, problems, lack, worry, and it is so unfortunate because it doesn’t have to be so. It all begins and ends with your focus. What do you think about? What words come out of your mouth? Do you frequently talk about how hard life is, how unhappy you are, how much stress you have, how there’s never enough money, and how difficult it is to get ahead nowadays? Do you think about the people next door who seem to be able to buy anything they want and you’re envious, or do you long for a wonderful partner, and since that partner isn’t here yet you are angry? Have you ever thought about focusing on the good things in your life?

People don’t think to do that. We’ve been so conditioned to look at the bad things and therefore we miss many of the good things. Take the news for instance. What is it all about - Murder; Rape; Disasters; Theft; War? That’s the focus of the majority of the news, which is why I rarely watch it. These negative aspects of our world are small in proportion to the good, but the good is so often overlooked because of the negative focus. So we have set ourselves up for continual negative reinforcement through the experiences that will show up due to the vibrational frequencies we project through our focused thoughts.

I grew up with the mindset of lack as most of you probably did. I was told I couldn’t have everything I wanted, that I had limits. I was also taught that I wasn’t worthy of these things primarily due to parental religious beliefs. It wasn’t necessarily said as bluntly as I just did, but came through as subtle inferences. So without realizing what I was doing, I continually focused on what I didn’t have, or thought I didn’t have, and was never content with anything. This is the typical mindset of society today – never enough - constantly searching for more fun, more wealth, more image, more success, more love, more acquisitions. Sure enough, I experienced multitudes of struggles and thought life was hard and full of negative things. But one day, through Divine insights that came from various “teachers” that showed up because I was ready to listen, I realized I already had all that I needed and was rich and abundant. I began focusing on what I had and all the good in my life instead of what I thought wasn’t so good. I focused on what was working instead of the little bit by proportion that wasn’t working. I also understood the abundance of the universe that was available to everyone if we simply allowed it in. It begins with a knowing you already have what you need.

As you focus on the good and the abundance, that vibration of abundance expands into the universal energy pool and perpetuates more of the same. You, as the magnet, create more abundance in your life and as long as you focus in this place it will continue to expand into more. Once you get the hang of this you’ll never go back to your previous mindset. Okay, you might slip sometimes, but you won’t like it there and will quickly brush off your knees and get back on the track of abundance. Understand that head knowledge alone won’t work; this must come from an inner knowing that resonates deep within you.

I tried it both ways – living life in a beastly environment, and then living the beautiful life. Which do you think I enjoy the most? You guessed it. A beautiful life offers many times the rewards, namely those of love, peace, enjoyment, contentment, fulfillment, and above all, happiness that a beastly life cannot give you. Living a life of beauty doesn’t mean you never have any problems or that you live in denial of their existence. What it does mean is that you see things differently. You know things come your way that appear as a problem, when actually they often become your greatest gift. Here’s an example that could have been an experience in your life somewhere along the way.

Your paycheck came and before you knew it, it was gone. There were still some bills to pay and you didn’t have the money at that time to pay them. You stewed around, getting angry at your circumstances, your spouse or yourself for this predicament, and maybe uttering some choice words as you slammed the checkbook down and frustratedly stomped off. This is a negative behavior and will bring you more experiences of the same because you are sending out negative vibrations into the universal energy fields. These circumstances will happen over and over until you change your focus.

Think about this approach. You realize you’ve overextended yourself again and enough money to cover the bills is simply not there. So you say a prayer of gratitude for the money that is there to pay the bills you can and then simply put out the intention for the rest of the money to show up to pay the rest of the bills. Once you’ve put out the intention, you say “thank you” for sending the solution of the needed money even though you have no idea when or how it’s coming to you. After examining why you are short of money for the bills, you may decide that some changes in your spending habits are necessary. Worry is not part of the equation because you have faith that all good is coming to you. You have then changed what most people would call a negative situation into a positive one. Have the circumstances changed? Not at all, but you have.

So where is the gift in this since the circumstances haven’t changed and the fact remains that there isn’t enough money to pay all the bills? Maybe the gift is in teaching you to spend less. Perhaps it is to show you that you can make lemonade out of lemons if you choose. Perhaps it’s to build your faith or to help you understand in a more emphatic way to be a good steward. Or maybe it’s to show you that your circumstances should not affect your happiness level. Possibly you’ll discover another way to earn some extra cash that wouldn’t have surfaced had you not needed to create it. Whatever you learn from any experience is a gift, and if you see it that way you create a life that is beautiful.

You are a magnet that is creating your life at this very moment. What was your last thought, and the thought before that? Will they lead you on a path to a beautiful life or a beastly one? Pay attention to what you are thinking and saying for that is the magnetic force that comes from within you as it shouts to the universe what experiences you will attract according to those inner vibrations. As always, it’s your choice!

Carolyn Porter, D. Div.
Empower Productions, Inc.
info@drcarolynporter.com
www.drcarolynporter.com

Carolyn Porter, D. Div., is an Inspirational Speaker, Spiritual Wholeness Coach, Author of multiple books, ebooks and audios, and Energy Facilitator whose passion is to help individuals move beyond their self-imposed limitations and become all theyare meant to be. She can help you remove the blocks that are keeping you stuck in a life of smallness, struggle and unfulfillment.

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