The Law Of Attraction and Wishful Thinking

Ever since the movie The Secret came out, I have read over and over again from many and varied sources how the Law of Attraction is merely “wishful thinking” and that it doesn’t really work the way that it is portrayed in any of the movies, books, recordings, etc. written about it.

I have even seen some people, who are otherwise huge new age and metaphysical proponents, completely bash LOA as being nothing more than delusional and wishful thinking. When asked by others why doesn’t it work the way it’s advertized to work, the ones against it say things like “it just doesn’t” or “it can’t work like that”, and “that’s just wishful thinking” and “it’s pseudoscience”.

You're kidding me, right??

The thing is that they are under the mistaken impression that all you have to do is “think about what you want and it materializes”. They believe that LOA is somehow “magic” and that those who are espousing it are claiming magical properties for it. Well, no that’s not how it works, and it’s not how anyone I’ve seen talking or writing about it has protrayed it. I read one post where the poster was sighting the story in The Secret about the young boy who “wished” for a new bike and got it. The thing is, he didn’t just “wish” for it. He visualized it. He saw it as his. He drew a picture of himself with the bike. All of these things are in fact just one thing. That thing is taking action.

In his book, “Affirmations”, Stuart Wilde talks about this very thing.


He gives an example of a young woman who dreams of being a successful Hollywood actress, yet all of her affirmations aren’t going to get her there as long as she’s still living in Kansas. He says you have to take action. You have to be emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually in a place that is as conducive as possible to achieve your desires. You see, the Universe responds whether you believe it does or not, but you will only get positive results if you believe in yourself. When you believe in yourself, you automatically put yourself in the right places at the right times. If you don’t believe in yourself, then your results are not going to turn out as you want them to.

I think, therefore, I am. I think.

Way too often we do not believe in ourselves. We’ve been conditioned all our lives that we can’t just have what we want. That we have to struggle and slog and “work hard” to achieve anything. Usually then and only then do we give ourselves permission to have what we want. Then we use terms like “I earned it” or “I worked hard for this” and because we’ve got everyone else and our egos tellings us that’s the only way to get anything, we believe it. On top of that, if we see someone else getting something that they want without any struggle or years of labor, we think they must have cheated, or that they were somehow “lucky”.

Nonsense. Utter and complete nonsense, yet we do this to ourselves our whole lives. Ask anyone who has achieved any level of greatness in most any endeavor and they’ll all basically say the same thing. They made their own luck. They had a desire, and used their imagination and thoughts and will to bring it about. However, most people don’t want to hear that because, and this is where it starts to border on insanity, that requires work and effort.

Wait… what? Didn’t they just say that it requires work and effort and struggle to achieve anything? Now, when given a sure fire recipe to achieve what they want with a minimum of effort, they say “that takes too much work.” I’ve even read several posts where people actually argue that the things they have achieved in this life was done without using their thoughts or imagination at all. Ok, let’s leave imagination out of it for a moment, and just deal with the thoughts/thinking part. To say that you achieved anything and that you didn’t use your “thoughts” to get you there, is ludicrous in the extreme. Of course you used your thoughts. Your thoughts are what brought the idea to you in the first place. You “think” things like “Hey, that person has a car, and I’d like a car of my own. Hmm, wonder how I get a car. Well, I’ll have to get some money, which means getting a job, or borrowing it, and then once I’ve gotten enough money, I’ll have to go to the dealership and figure out which one I want, and then I’ll have to think about getting insurance for it and maybe a maintainence plan and….”

Hey, wait a minute. That’s an awful lot of thoughts and thinking going on here. And that’s just for one small example. To say or even (if you’ll pardon the pun) “think” that your thinking is not involved in the creation process is just a bit on the nutty side of things.

“One mans magic is another mans engineering” – Robert Heinlein

This is the main point of this post really. There is no “magic” involved with the Law of Attraction. It’s not fairyland dreaming, or pixie dust apparitions. It is what it is. A power that works all the time, every time, for everyone. Until scientists figured out how to actually harness and use electricity, the idea of it was considered magic. Even after it was harnessed, and the first light bulb was shown to the world, people still believed it was magic, and some of them said it was evil, because it wasn’t “natural”. Yet, it didn’t matter what anyone thought or believed about electricty, because it was always there, waiting to be “discovered”. It’s no different with the Law of Attraction.

Does it matter where it comes from or how it does what it does? No, it doesn’t. The bottom line is that, just like with electricity, you either use it to your advantage, or you don’t. It’s up to you to decide how you want to live your life. On your own terms, or at the whim of “chance” and “fate”.

May you choose wisely.

In my next post, I’m going to talk about the various necessary methods and steps that will help us in achieving all that we want.

Deep Peace.

Ross – “Tolemac”

Love is…

I have two songs here from my favorite composer/singer/songwriter, Mr. Jon Anderson from the group Yes, to share with you on this Valentine’s Day.

My love goes to you all.

Love Is

I will be here
To find it is
For your love
I’ll carry on, to know
That’s all it is, love is
It is, love is, it is

All now is all
The sound is
So in love this way
Together, once more together

Although the future, seems so uncertain
(Although the future, seems so uncertain)
Take heart my good friend,
(take heart my good friend)
Your time is waiting, (your time is waiting)

No thoughts of sadness,
(no thoughts of sadness)
All thoughts need someone, too,
(all thoughts need someone, too)

Of all the feelings
There’s one that matters
The gift of loving
The gift of love is calling you
O heart of mine be true, be true,

I know we’re ready, like ships asailing
Let all nights be like this
Forever I could hold you
Come to me
Then we come to love.

Jon Anderson & Vangelis – Short Stories 1980

If Only You Knew

I can lift you with my heart
Give you meaning every day
Cannot live without your truth

And be the true me
To be the true you

Pick the flowers from your floor
Put them in your arms for you my love
Realise my life and more

Say you will and then

Take me home
Make me clear
It feels so much better
Take me home
To this heart of hearts

If only you knew
You caught me when I was falling
Yes you caught me when I was falling fast

And only you knew
You answered me when I was calling you
You saw me when I was dreaming you
Into my life

Everyone who looks at you
Sees the loving in your every move
You’re the healing of the soul
To be the true you
To be the true me

I will be your strength all time
Ever wishing you this love and more
Forever be your guiding song

Say you will and then

Take me home
Make me clear
To feel so much better
In this life
In your heart of hearts

If only you knew
How you caught me when I was falling
Yes you caught me when I was falling fast

And only you knew
You answered me when I was calling you
You saw me when I was dreaming you
Into my life

When I feel the hurt in so many peoples’ lives
I take a deep breath and think of your smile your eyes

When I hear the sadness of this earthtime
Then I take a deep breath and know that you understand
That you understand

And only you knew
How you caught me when I was falling fast
Caught me when I was falling fast

If only you knew
How you answered me when I was calling you
You saw me when I was dreaming you

If only you knew
Yes you caught me when I was falling fast
You caught me when I was falling
Into your life

Jon Anderson & Yes – The Ladder 1999

68 Second Energy Booster Videos

I can hear the questions already, after reading the title of this post. “68 seconds? How can I boost my energy in 68 seconds?” If you are familiar at all with the teachings of Abraham as channeled by Ester Hicks, then you know that they advocate doing 68 second “meditations” to align your energy to what you want. Read this quote from Abraham to understand this better…

“Few humans are aware of their vibrational point of attraction, and few have any awareness of how they are flowing their Energy moment by moment. Instead, most are observing the results of how others have flowed Energy. As they look at the evidence of what they don’t want, they conclude “that is bad” and as they look at the evidence of what they do want they conclude “that is good”. The next logical step to concluding what is “not wanted” is to try to hold it away. To push against it. It is from this perspective that most physical human beings become almost completely dependent upon their action for creating. But action does not create. Your vibrational offering of thought Energy produces the results that you live.

“If you will take the time to line up your Energy, meaning create a vibrational match between your desire and your belief, the Universe will deliver to you amazing circumstances and events toward your physical conclusions. However, if you proceed with action before you have aligned your Energies of belief and desire, there is not enough action in the world to make any real difference.

“We see so many working so very hard, and giving so much time and physical effort without having aligned their own Energies. We encourage you to develop the skill of alignment and you will discover the power of this Universal Energy.

“17 seconds of pure (not contradicted) thought is equivalent to 2000 action hours. 34 seconds of pure thought is equivalent to 20,000 action hours. 51 seconds of pure thought is equivalent to 200,000 action hours. 68 seconds of pure thought is equivalent to over 2,000,000 action hours.

“Once you learn to align with the Energy of your Source you will discover that action is not a key ingredient to the fulfillment of your desires for abundance, success, joy or any other physical fulfillment. Line up your Energy and then follow the inspired action — and you will live happily ever after.”

Abraham-Hicks 10/27/96

The Abraham quote above is copywritten by Esther and Jerry Hicks. You can find out more about Abraham at http://www.abraham-hicks.com.

So, now that you have a better awareness and understanding about how to utilize this process and align your energy, go and see the 68 Second Energy Booster Videos, created by Frank Butterfield, of “Life Unfolding Beautifully“. You will be amazed at how powerful these videos are, even though they are only 68 seconds long!

Many thanks and blessings to Frank for creating these wonderful images and sharing them with us all.

Bright Blessings!

Ross – “Tolemac”

The Money Flow Stream

I’ve got another Prosperity Tool for you that goes right along with the Prosperity Gauge I posted on Feb. 5th.

Back in ’89, I had the priviledge of going through Stuart Wilde’s “Warriors Wisdom” 5 day Intensive training seminars, and then a year later working as staff for him at four more “WW”s. One of the training days was dedicated to Finance on all sorts of different levels. One of the things that Stuart mentioned on one of these finance days, was that we are surrounded by the energy of money flowing all around us, but we’re not aware of it or thinking about it. He said, “Think of all the billions of dollars that are flowing through the ethers this very second in the form of electronic transfers from bank to bank.”

We were stunned! He was right. Not one of the participants and staff had thought about it in those terms. It was definitely an eye opener. Think about this on a practical level, and you can really see how this can have a major impact on your personal prosperity and how you think about abundance. If I tell you to look at the abundance of the Universe, the multitude of stars, the leaves on a tree, the sand on any beach, you can easily see these things and recognize the inherent abundance around us all, but does it reach you on a practical level? Psychologically speaking, how much sand or leaves or stars do you need in your daily life? Yes, you “get it” but what have you got?

What Have You Got?

I started looking at this a few years ago while in meditation, and asking that very question. “What have I got?” When I think about the vast abundance of the Universe, I have the concept down pat! Now I need it to become practical. So, I went back over my various trainings and teachings and came back to a process Stuart had taught where you use your etheric energy and your visualization to bring you what you want. Here now is the technique I came up with that will help you bring that money energy into practical terms that you can literally “grasp” with both hands, if you like.

To begin, get yourself seated in a comfortable position with your arms resting on your thighs, with your palms face up. Follow my grounding techniques so you are grounded and in the center of your head, with your aura nice and close around you. Now, with your eyes closed, begin to sense the Money Flow Stream that is all around you. See if it has a color, or a shape, or a sound. It doesn’t have to have any of those things, but for some people, it helps them visualize. Is it an energy blob, or a mist? Maybe a ray of light. For me, I see it as a sort of two lane highway just above me and slightly to my left. I see the money energy flowing back and forth, probably because that’s what it’s doing in reality, as it goes from bank to bank all over the world.

One thing that will help you to see it clearly is to think of a one hundred dollar bill. The one with Ben Franklin on it. Here, here’s a picture of one:

One Hundred Dollar Bill

Now see hundreds and thousands and millions of these one hundred dollar bills moving through the Money Flow Stream. I want you to see only hundred dollar bills, as that is the highest currency available in bill form (in the US, anyway. Please use the highest currency bill for your country) and I feel there’s no need to “look at” anything smaller. However they appear to be in the stream doesn’t really matter. They can be swirling around, they can be moving along the stream like I see them, flowing in two “lanes”, whatever works for you. Once you’ve got a clear vision of them, now we can move onto the fun part.

Etheric Maneuvers In The Dark

What I’m going to show you now is something that Stuart calls an “etheric exercise”. The etheric is the strong force energy that is very close to our bodies, at around an inch or less, around all parts of our physical selves. Now that you have a good visualization of the Money Flow Stream, imagine your “receiving hand”. This is your non-dominant hand, so if you’re right handed, this will be your left hand. The non-dominant side of you is the receptive, or in-flowing side, while the dominant side is the giving, or out-flowing side. See the etheric energy of this hand in your minds eye start to rise from off your leg. See that energy stretch up and into the Flow Stream. Once your “hand” has merged into the Flow Stream energy, make a slight cup with this “hand”, and begin to see the one hundred dollar bills hitting your cupped “hand” and flowing down your etheric arm, and into your body. Hold this position until you have “received” the amount of hundred dollar bills you want. If, for instance, you want to receive $5,000, then visualize 50 hundred dollar bills going down your etheric arm.

Once the amount you want has flowed into you, bring your etheric arm back down and into your physical arm. Take a couple of deep breaths and open your eyes. Say a prayer of gratitude for what you’ve just received, then stand up and stretch. One quick note about breathing here. When doing any of these techniques, I recommend breathing into your belly through your nose, nice and easy and out through your mouth, just as easy. Using this technique after you’ve done your Prosperity Gauge, and the Energy Perception method I wrote about, will really multiply your level of abundance and prosperity.

Please let me know how this works for you and if you have any questions about the technique.

Blessings of Wealth and Good Fortune to you!

Ross – “Tolemac”

Advanced Grounding Techniques

Now that you are, hopefully, using the Prosperity Tool, I feel it’s time to talk with you about some more advanced grounding techniques. Again, if you haven’t read my post on grounding, I suggest that you read that first to get familiar with the basic idea and technique, so that you’ll understand what I’m talking about here.

In the Prosperity Tool post, I showed you how to ground your prosperity gauge, so that you can release any energy that is not yours from it, thereby increasing your personal level of prosperity, abundance and allowing. So, the question I get from most of my healing clients at this point is, “What else can I give a grounding cord to?” The answer is simple: Everything.

Everything can be grounded

On a daily basis, I ground my home, my computer, my car, the road I’m travelling; just to name a few of the regular ones. Because I’ve been doing this for 18 years, it’s become totally second nature for me to give items and people a grounding cord without any effort or thought. It didn’t take all 18 years to get to this level, believe me. It did take about 6 months of daily practice to get to the point where it became part of who and what I am, and since then the visualization of a grounding cord takes me about 2 seconds.

The next question I get asked is usually, “Why ground all these different things?” Well, the answer varies depending on what it is that you want to give a grounding cord to. I do this for my car, to keep everyone elses energy off of it, especially their “traffic paranoia” so that I’m not caught up in their accident patterns. I do the same thing on the road I’m travelling, to keep it clear of accidents ahead of me, and to help move the traffic along. For “road grounding”, visualize the road you are going to be on from your starting point to well past your destination, and give that entire stretch it’s own cord. This doesn’t take more than a couple of moments, and you can use a map if you’re not familiar with the route you’ll be on.

Grounding others and Non-infringement

This works wonders on crying babies. I get the most amazing looks and smiles from them. They’re so close to the Infinite energy that they just came from, and recognize when someone is there to help. I give them a cord and a psychic “hello” and they just giggle away. This has the same effect on barking dogs, though most animals are very well grounded on their own. It helps to eliminate the “owners” fear energy and gives the dog the opportunity to assess the situation from it’s own natural perspective, instead of through their “owners” stuff. Again, I get great looks from the dogs, as they see me with their own energy, usually followed by wagging tails and lolling tongues, wondering if I have a treat for them.

One thing I will say here, is that when I give a cord to a person, no matter what age, I ask them psychically for permission first. 99% of the time, this is greeted with a resounding “PLEASE!!” and I proceed. There is that 1% where I’ve gotten a “no thank you”, and left it at that. Non-infringement is mandatory here and it’s one of the tenets that Stuart Wilde was really adamant about in our training. Your offer of help and assistance is all you can really do. If they accept, then do what you can. If they reject it, then simply walk away. Remember, the key is being in neutrality and warm compassion for the person and the situation they find themselves in. There’s no judgement, and there’s no thought of trying to “save them”. That’s the ego talking, and it’ll get you into a ton of trouble if that’s the energy level you come from.

Advanced Techniques for Yourself

Now I want to tell you about some advanced techniques that you use on yourself. In my first grounding post, I showed you how to ground yourself at your first chakra. Along with grounding your root chakra and aura, you can also ground the rest of your chakras as well. Once you are at that place where you’ve set up your personal grounding cord, in your mind’s eye see it move up the interior of your body and have it attach to each chakra as it moves up. This is a powerful feeling. Having all of your chakras grounded at the same time allows you to release just that much faster.

Along with your chakras, you can also give your reproductive organs a grounding cord, and see it connecting from those organs to your main cord. This helps to relieve blocked energy and tension from those areas, and to get your female or male energy moving freely. Because we are sexually excited at all times, by our thoughts, the images we see everywhere, and the conversations we have or hear, this really brings an amazing amount of relief. Women, in particular, note how much better they feel when they use this technique on themselves. Considering the amount of sexual energy that is projected on women on a daily basis, this is not a surprise at all.

A grounded home, is a happy home

Giving your home it’s own grounding cord will not only help you, but anyone who lives in the same house. Along with doing the psychic healing with people, I have done a lot of home and office clearing through the years as well, and this is the first thing I do in that process. Simply locate the basic center of the space you want to ground, and place a cord there. If it’s your home, you can create one main cord in the center, and then have separate cords for each room, all connecting to the main one. I also ground my bed along with my bedroom. You are sleeping on it for 6 to 8 hours each night after all, and by grounding it and cleaning up the energy, you’ll get a better nights sleep.

If you work in an office type environment, give the building a main cord, and each office that you work in, or have to be in, it’s own cord that merges with the main one. I’d also have you ground your desk, chair and computer. I’ve done this for clients and have had them report back to me that their computer was the only one that didn’t get a virus that was going around the office, even though they were on the same network as everyone else. Nice.

As you can see, there are endless possibilities here. Look at the different aspects that you interact with in your life, and see what you think can benefit from having a grounding cord attached to it. Post your comments and tell us what you’ve grounded and how the energy changed. I’d love to hear your experiences and to answer any questions you have about this fun, easy and excellent process.

Bright Blessings!

Ross – “Tolemac”

Be sure to read my Advanced Grounding 2 for more techniques.