Law of Attraction for Beginners: 3 Easy Steps to Build Your Manifest Muscle
Well, you’ve seen or heard the Secret, you’re inspired to start using the Law of Attraction, but you don’t know where to start. Or maybe you’re wondering if it’s too good to be true and want to try it for yourself. Here are three easy steps to begin exercising your powers of deliberate creation.
Instead of reading all the books on the subject or subscribing to expensive programs, with just a few tips you can begin to experience the magic of conscious creation. Start with a practice project to not only build your manifesting muscle, but also have lots of fun.
What is a practice project? It is a low-risk item that you choose to manifest strictly for fun. Many who are newly excited about the Law of Attraction want to immediately change jobs, improve their health, transform relationships, get rich, etc. But when we start with something we’ve struggled with for some time, we stymie our efforts at manifestation before we’re out the door.
Which is where your practice project comes in. Follow these steps to start experiencing the ease of deliberate creation:
Choose a practice project. Have something in mind that is unique and out of the ordinary enough that you don’t see it every day, so that when you DO see or experience it, you know it is the result of your manifestation. Ideally, it will be something you look forward to or might enjoy, as the emotional factor helps your project come to fruition quickly.
Projects that some of my clients have had fun with include: unusual license plates, vintage cars, specific songs, celebrities, clothing items, certain animals, cards in the mail, phone calls from old acquaintances, specific foods, flowers, etc. Once again, choose something that gives you pleasure when you think about it, as pleasurable emotions add power to the process.
Imagine it. Then simply imagine experiencing, seeing, tasting, touching and/or hearing what you have chosen as your practice project. For just half a minute or so, visualize what it will feel like to experience this. Imagine your surprise or delight when you see it; listen to your laugh out loud when you realize that it is just what you have been manifesting; in your mind, pretend it’s really happening.
Do it a couple of times throughout the day for the next few days, whenever you think about it. Once again, the stronger the emotion you can replicate as you imagine experiencing your practice project, the better.
Be careful. Now just keep an eye on your article. Don’t worry about how it will appear, that is the job of the Universe. Also, don’t get attached to how it is displayed. Prepare to be surprised. Your job is to just relax and enjoy the idea of having this thing while keeping an eye on it.
If you find yourself getting anxious because you don’t know how it’s going to happen, or you’re worried it hasn’t happened yet, consciously let go of those stressful thoughts and feelings. Your item will manifest when you feel good about it. Anxiety prevents it from appearing. (That’s why practice projects work so well, because we’re less likely to have anxiety about seeing our “purple blanket” than our “yearly increase” or “perfect body.”)
How long will it take? After thinking about your practice project regularly and with pleasurable excitement for several days, you will likely see evidence that it will arrive within 1-2 weeks. The key is to refrain from thinking things like “Where is he?” or notice “It’s not here yet”. Those thoughts are show stoppers.
This is what this process looked like in action for a new client:
Thomas chose a free movie ticket as his practice project. He imagined the pleasure he would feel accepting the free ticket, and he smiled in anticipation of the happy outcome. He briefly had this image in mind a couple of times.
That day at work a colleague offered him a ticket to a live show. It wasn’t a free ticket, and it wasn’t a movie, but it got her thinking about his practice project. Later, Thomas smiled upon learning that the theme of the performance was “TV and Film”. After work, he noticed a promotional display in the store that offered a free movie ticket for buying ten chocolate bars. He didn’t buy the candy, but he knew that the Universe had heard his request.
In the next day’s mail, Thomas’s laundry service offered a free movie pass to renew his membership. On his answering machine was an invitation from an old friend to attend the symphony: the theme of the performance was “Academy Awards.”
The next day, Thomas won free tickets on the radio to a theater awards show in Los Angeles. At dinner that night, a friend mentioned that the local grocery store was offering two free movie tickets for the purchase of ten frozen items. A few days later, another friend invited him to a free screening of an independent film. He then heard the radio ad for free movie tickets at the grocery store; got a 30-day pass to an online movie site; and his AMC membership sent him free preview movie tickets.
This is an exaggerated example of how easy and fun deliberate creation can be when we allow it. So again, choose something you would enjoy, imagine it from time to time without being attached to how it will look, and stay tuned for it. Happy demonstration!