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Introduction It’s now been several years since the big hit h it “The Secret” swept the world off of its its feet, with promises of this awesome power we have to intentionally create the life of our dreams. Very quickly, the news spread, and what is now most commonly called The Law of Attraction became more more popular and common than ever before. Many people from many different walks of life life jumped on the bandwagon. Even scientists got involved, and began to corroborate much of this idea in terms terms of quantum physics and non-linear potentiality. It was a revolution; a major step in the evolution of human consciousness and un derstanding. But really, this was not a new concept. Long before the secret, the idea that thought, or mind, manifests into physical, tangible experience was being taught in religion and mysticism dating back 1,000’s of years. Even in America, there have been books and pieces of work from obscure and unlikely decades like the 1950’s about this subject. Einstein was known for talking about it. American poet Walt Whitman eluded eluded to it many times. Even some of the oldest and most most ancient texts from Buddhism and Hindi literature speak of it in in practical and clear terms. terms. Certain people have always known and understood this “secret” about our existence. It only makes sense. What is true will always be known by someone. Many of the teachers and mystics from the past probably figured this out all a ll on their own, from simply being aware of themselves and the universe universe around/inside of them. This is not just airy airy fairy, happy feel good stuff. It’s a law of reality. reality. And it’s also also a crucial step to the journey of waking up to our true nature. But tell me, after all you’ve heard, h eard, and learned so far, is this law of reality working for you the way you want it to? My guess is it’s not quite not quite where you want it to be, be, or you wouldn’t wouldn’t be reading this book. The irony is that for decades now, there has been a huge industry in teaching the law of attraction attraction and manifestation. But now the industry is slowly taking a new turn. Now the big seller is all about why these previous previous teachings about the law of
attraction aren’t working, and why. Isn’t it ironic? Why is it that there are hundreds, hundreds, thousands of different programs, books, videos, etc. out there about this subject, and yet there are so many of us still looking? When I first realized real ized it wasn’t working out the way wa y I wanted it to, I thought it was because I wasn’t trying hard enough. So I doubled and redoubled my efforts. This only seemed to push the goals even farther away from me. Sometimes in exasperation I would say “Alright! I give up!” Strangely, at these times, the the goals and things I wanted would often times seem to get get a little bit closer to me after I’d given given up chasing them. This would usually lead me to renew my enthusiasm in the law of attraction and I’d start up my efforts my efforts again, sometimes successfully and sometimes not. I was in a cycle. My desire was creating more desire. My feelings of not having having what I wanted were manifesting more of not having what I wanted. But breaking this cycle was easier said than done. I knew there was something missing. I knew, or I could say I now know, that there is a great deal of important information missing in the status quo teaching of the skill of manifestation. It wasn’t just all as simple as writing goals and changing thoughts. t houghts. Not even the emphasis on reprogramming the unconscious u nconscious mind was getting the results I was looking for. for. Sometimes things that worked would stop working. Sometimes very counterintuitive things would happen, like I would end up manifesting something after a night of frustrated venting of negative emotion on my laptop keyboard, as opposed op posed to focusing on positive things. I could tell things were operating on a level I was unconscious of, and I wanted to delve further into this level, and try to measure and an d study it. Much of this information here I had to find out through through my own experimentation. Much of it came from the tedious acts of almost giving up, trying again, giving up again, accepting I was wrong, trying something new, failing again, etc. e tc.,, etc. But in the end, it really wasn’t anything that obscure, or difficult, or unlikely that was missing. It was really quite obvious once I was able to drop my m y preconceived notions and desires to make the law of attraction what I wanted it to be (instead of letting it be what it was and learning about it.) Eventually what I learned in my own life made it easier to to manifest results; not just tangible results like money, or jobs, or cars, but more importantly intangible results like happiness, peace of mind, relief, security, and a feeling of being a part of something bigger, having a purpose. These results were more satisfying than from my previous attempts at manifestation, and there was completely different feel to the process. In fact, the difference was almost black and white. It became a flowing extension of myself; myself; a key component to my spiritual journey and self-awareness. In a nutshell, I would describe the change as me no longer feeling like I was manifesting all by myself anymore. I had learned to let a greater power, one that really knew more about what it was doing than I did, manifest for me. me. I had effectively effectively delegated the task task to the expert-the universe itself. Much of the information I’m I’m about to share with you is almost completely left out in most law of attraction literature literature and teachings. If it’s not completely left out, it’s it’s breezed over
without being given nearly the important emphasis that it needs to truly help one understand the full mechanics of the process. Half of the battle in understanding how to effectively and practically use the law of attraction is letting go of the compulsion to use what I call “magical thinking”. One of the biggest problems we struggle with in this journey is our only human urge to want to get something for nothing, to want this to be the magical solution to all our problems, for it to eliminate our need to ever face personal growth or discomfort again. This is just not the case. Yes, this is an almost magical skill. Yes, it can become very effortless. Yes, it can create a life beyond our wildest dreams if used correctly. But this is a LAW of our reality that functions under certain “rules”. It does take practice. It does require action. It does require that we are sometimes pushed outside of our comfort zone, and it does require that we learn to let ourselves, our pride, our arrogance, and our opinions of how we think things should be go so the universe can go to work. It’s much more about surrender than fighting. It’s much more about humility than pride. And it’s much more about figuring out what the bigger picture needs from US than trying to get the bigger picture to mold to what WE want it to be. It is my greatest hope that this information helps lead you to true and lasting peace and happiness, rather than just to a new car, a new girlfriend/boyfriend, or more money. But I think you will find that often times the former creates the latter (though not the other way around). We will first start out by clearing some of the most common and detrimental misconceptions about the law of intentional manifestation. Even making ONE of these mistakes can completely sabotage your ability to get what you want from the process. Alternately, understanding these will shed a whole new light to the process, and will bring you that much closer to mastering this ability to mold matter and create your life as you want it to be.
Misconception #1: Dream as Big as Possible Many LOA books and gurus will encourage you to dream as big as you possibly can, and make these incredibly dramatic outcomes into your goals. Then to start visualizing them, using affirmations about them, set up vision boards with pictures of them, and ta king action towards these big dreams. There are several reasons why this is not the best way to go about using the law of attraction. The first one has to do with your emotional state. There is a great deal of dissonance and discomfort that begins to form when one sets a goal that seems so far away, so different from their current, present, day-to-day experience of life. The contrast is HUGE! If you are currently making $40,000 dollars a year or less, working 40 hours a week, and daily visualizing making $1,000,000 dollars a year, traveling the world, and only working when you feel like it, you are going to have to progressively expend more and more discipline in keeping yourself from being unhappy with your current
predicament. It helps to have a goal of something awesome, something that motivates you to continually move forward, but if that goal is so drastically different, so dramatically better than your current life situation, its going to start to make you feel like your life now sucks. Can you relate to this? Take this example: You wake up early in the morning, getting ready for your 8 hour 9-5 shift and fall into a visualization of standing on the balcony of some posh apartment in Buenos Aires. You’re watching the sun come up while tourists and locals quietly move through the streets below. Behind you comes the woman (man) of your dreams. The most gorgeous woman (man) you’ve ever seen. They kiss you lovingly and passionately and tell you they love you. You start discussing what you’re going to do today. You may go to restaurants and bars all day. You may go to the beach and relax in a lounge chair, sipping margaritas. It doesn’t really matter because you’ve got $600,000 in the bank and no need to work unless you want to for the rest of the year. Ahhhh, your own personal paradise. Then you snap out of it, in a rush to brush your teeth, shower, and get to the call center where you will proceed to handle escalated customer complaints about a company that deserves to have unhappy customers because of its less-than-integrous business practices. Once you’re done with work you’ll drive home in your used 2001 Buick and spend the evening hanging out by yourself, or possibly going out to meet someone, in hopes that you will find your significant other. This is just an example, but how can that sharp contrast not be a sharp smack in the face? And to think that you’d do that to yourself every single day and expect results? There is an important variable in this equation that must be considered: cognitive dissonance. The cognitive dissonance in this particular situation is that you have vividly visualized and imagined one of the most ideal outcomes you could possibly consider, and yet there’s a HUGE experiential gap between this ideal outcome, and present day real-life. I’m going to share an incredibly important, and incredibly simple truth about life with you here. There is only one single cause of suffering, negative emotion, and pain in a human being’s life: the fact that the mind places expectations upon things, and then expects life to mold to these expectations. It’s that simple. You want things to be THIS way, and then when they turn out THAT way, it causes dissonance, resistance, and suffering. When you consider that human suffering is largely based upon the dissonance between a human being’s preferred outcomes and the differences between those and their actual experience, you see that setting a goal too high can be a recipe for negative emotion. The cognitive dissonance between the two extremes is just too much. It’s not effective, nor will it allow you to hold the positive emotions and gratitude in the NOW that are necessary to enjoy life and manifest your future goals. The other reason that this is not a good idea is because the mind does not believe in such far-out dreams. Yes, you may want it, and yes, it may make you excited to think about it,
but the reality is that the second you imagine something that is so different from what you’re used to experiencing, the conscious and unconscious mind both go “yeah that’s not gonna happen” and dismiss it as a fantasy.
Solution: You must start out gradually and push the threshold of your beliefs. Start with something that seems maybe a bit unlikely, but possible. Maybe you’ll find a new job that pays you more money, or gives you more flexibility in your schedule. Maybe you can start up a side business online that earns you a little more money, and you can develop it into a big company from there. Perhaps you will meet someone and form a relationship. But let that relationship have room for imperfections. It might be a beautiful woman/man with a great personality, but they likely won’t be super -model status. They might have a few character flaws (just like you might), and you guys might have a few issues to work through. It wouldn’t be fair for either of you for you to expect it to be absolutely perfect.
Once you’ve accomplished more believable and realistic goals, set them a little higher. You gain a boost in confidence in achieving these goals that are a little closer to your current belief system, and you stretch your beliefs in what is possible that much more. Once you’ve set your goals higher a few times, and achieved them a few times, you start to really believe in your ability to manifest, and THEN you can start going for those big fish without experiencing discomfort, cognitive dissonance, and lack of belief. Like I said at the beginning of this book, this amazing power of our mind to create matter and experience can seem quite magical, but in order to truly master this skill to its fullest potential, it is important to dispel with “magical” or “wishful” thinking. There is a lot of room for practicality in this journey. Which leads us to our next subject…
Mistake #2: The Fast Food Approach How many product, book, and program advertisements have you read in the past few years with headlines like “Manifest ANYTHING You Want in Two Weeks!”? How many sales letters have you read that tell magical stories about someone going from being completely broke, maybe even homeless, to having everything they could ever want, that dream girl, the Audi, the mansion in L.A., the millions of dollars flowing in in….less than 3 months? What about the idea that you can learn to create ANYTHING you want at all without putting forth ANY effort at all? You must realize that this industry, though it’s comprised of people that are a lot more likely to be good, genuine, and honest is not above using the same sales tactics that are used in any other industry or advertisement agenda. And these types of headlines ARE playing on wishful thinking, “magical” thinking.
Understand that I am not saying that things can’t f low easily and effortlessly. I do believe that learning and mastering manifestation is our birthright. It’s something that each and every one of us was designed to understand and do intentionally. Because of this, yes, the odds are completely in our favor. But please, for your own sake, and for the sake of someone who is trying to help you get this right from the foundation up, do not let yourself be fooled or set yourself up for disappointment by allowing yourself to believe that this is not going to take a certain amount of time and effort. I’m sure that my advertising team is going to criticize me for telling this to you straight, because this is not necessarily what leads someone to pull out their wallet or credit card number to make a purchase. But I would much rather sell somebody something that will actually WORK, that will actually give them the results they deserve and in order to do this this fast-food-have-it-now-get-it-all-for-nothing money mentality has to be put to an end. Let me share a perspective of this that might help you get a better idea of how to set your attitude up for success. Conscious and deliberate manifestation is not a technique. It’s not a trick, like a spell or an incantation. It is a skill. More than that, it is an art. And it’s not something you do once for this, or another time for this. It is a lifestyle. It is about how you live your life from day to day, moment to moment. So when you are thinking about improving your ability to do this, understand that this is about building a lifestyle, honing a skill, developing the subtle perception that leads to a beautiful piece of art (the art piece is your life). Did Leonardo Davinci paint the Mona Lisa after a one month crash course on painting? Did Bruce Lee develop his style of martial arts from a “Martial Arts certification program?” Can you become a black belt in any style of Karate in 2 weeks, 3 months, 1 year even? Understand, it is going to take some time. This does not mean that the journey will not be one hell of an adventure. It doesn’t mean you won’t experience results in two weeks, one month, three months, one year. In fact, I can guarantee that with the right teacher, the right program, you will experience breakthrough after breakthrough, that the path will be one of exponential and measurable growth. That you will be better at manifestation, and closer to your ultimate goals within a few weeks, months, etc. But you’re just not going to make a quantum leap without doing the necessary training. You’re just not, and I’m not going to lie to you and tell you I can make you a manifestation black belt without any work on your part. So what about these many success stories that we’ve all heard? Are they nothing but lies and marketing schemes? I believe some of them are. But I also believe that there are a lot of hidden variables in the process that many of these people may have not even been fully aware of. For example, a largely overlooked variable in most LOA teachings is mental focus, and the a bility to increase what I prefer to call “power” through energy management
and mental stillness. This is something that, depending on the person and their life experience, could be more or less prevalent in that particular mind. People may not have even considered how much non-linear energy they were tapping into without doing so intentionally, and yet this is an important variable to the equation. Like I’ve said, there are MANY variables to this equation, and many that have yet to be discovered and taught. The mind is very complex and mysterious. Not only is it complex, but largely affected by subtleties that a lot of us have yet to become fully aware of. Yet these subtleties are important pieces of the puzzle in this pathway. I certainly wouldn’t call these success stories complete dishonesty, but I believe that there is probably a lot more going on than meets the eye with them. One must consider the totality of the life experience that amounts to these seemingly miraculous results, and the many occurrences, subtle thought patterns and beliefs at the conscious, subconscious, unconscious, and superconscious levels of mind. I can promise you at any rate that these miraculous manifestations are not as simple as repeating affirmations daily, visualizing, and having a vision board. Solution: Accept a more realistic viewpoint of the process. Look at it as a skill, one comparable to learning to play a musical instrument, or mastering a sport. It is something that we are all imbued with the power to truly master, but it WILL take time, con sistency, a learning curve. You’re only going to set yourself up for disappointment if you expect this to be a “magical fix” where you get a whole lot of something for absolutely nothing. How fun would that be anyways? How much satisfaction would you derive from your creations that way?
Also, become more aware of the many different subtleties and variables that affect the outcome. Read on to learn more…
Mistake #3: Over-Reliance on Affirmations, Positive Thinking, and Changing Beliefs I recently received a book in the mail. I’m not exactly sure where it came from, or why I received it. I certainly prick my intuitive ears a bit when something like this happens. I felt there must be a reason this happened. I opened it up to random pages several times in the past 3 days, and, finally, I threw it in the trash. It seems I received this book from the universe to help me bring this misconception to light here. I could have guessed what the approach of this book was going to be, along with 95% of the books out there that carry the theme of changing your life, creating your dreams, being successful, etc. …written goals, visualization, affirmations, change your beliefs, written goals, visualization, affirmations, change your beliefs, written goals, visualization, affirmations, change your beliefs…
It’s beginning to feel like every single program, product, or book on manifestation is simply a new twist on this same familiar approach. For some, this is no problem. They take these tools and they run with them, creating more and more fantastic situations, experiences, and material luxuries into their lives. And yet some don’t. Some are already completely drowned in affirmations, visualizations, positive thinking worksheets and exercises, emotional mastery techniques, and magazine cut outs of everything they could ever want, and yet they’re not getting the results they want. Or even worse, they’re manifesting all these things, but they’re no closer to just being happy than they were before they learned how to create these things. Why is this? I have to guess that you yourself are likely a member of this category. Otherwise you would have read 1-3 books on the subject, applied what it taught to succeed, and moved on from reading books to creating what you wanted. Why is there still such an industry for teaching the law of attraction? Shouldn’t we have all figured it out, not to mention proven it with such clarity and certainty that the people in our lives were not able to doubt it at all, thus creating a spiritual renaissance in which the entire world manifested peace and abundance? Here’s the thing. Affirmations, visualizations, vision boards, positive thinking, positive self-talk, even emotional mastery, are very effective and powerful tools when used in the right context , but they are not everything. Not even close. They’re not the only thing someone needs to learn and practice to create success in their life. And here’s the real thing that needs to be understood. If these tools are not used with the proper framework, without the necessary steps being developed before they are used, they are more than 1,000 times less effective than they could be, if not entirely ineffective. What I am saying is that there is a missing step. In fact, there are a few crucial missing steps that are being largely IGNORED. There’s a missing link that needs to be put back into the equation in order for people to get results from these afore mentioned techniques. As an example, when I learned to play the guitar as a kid, my guitar teacher did not start right off having me learn to play rip roaring guitar solos. Why? Because I wouldn’t even know what to do with my fingers! I wouldn’t be able to stretch my hand f rom note to note, I wouldn’t know which finger should go in which place, I wouldn’t know how to hold (or not hold) the notes to get them to resonate in the correct way. I’d have no form. So when I learned to play the guitar, I was first taught form. First I was taught simply how to hold the guitar. I learned how to hold my fingers, and which fingers would go to which places in chords and note progressions. Then I learned how to play basic chords. Eventually this built up to me being able to play more complex things with ease, but it would have been a disaster for my guitar teacher to hand me the instructions for Eruption by Van Halen, or the solo to Crazy Train in my first lesson. I probably could have learned them with incredible amounts of determination and practice, but it might have taken me just as long to do it that
way as it would have for me to learn the basics and work my way up. Not to mention with plenty of frustration and headache. Take the movie The Karate Kid. Mr. Miyagi spent months with Daniel having him do mundane things like wash his car, paint his house, paint his fence. He didn’t even teach him how to hold a stance or block. First he knew that Daniel must build the muscles necessary to perform these basic blocks. Otherwise they would have been completely ineffective. Solution: There is a foundation that needs to be laid first and foremost, before using affirmations, visualization, etc. If this foundation is not there, these tools will not work. If the foundation is there, than these tools will be effortlessly used and work with 100x the firepower. In fact, if the foundation is laid thoroughly, and the necessary set of skills is developed first to full potential, these standard technique s will not always even be necessary. Manifestation will happen more spontaneously, more automatically. More synchronicity will occur, and often times things will manifest that are better than you could’ve even imagined on your own, because the grand mind of the universe is now on your side and helping you at every step.
My program, The Missing Link is all about laying this proper foundation. It is the first program of its kind, being used for this goal, and it is by far the easiest and most guided, step by step method for developing the necessary skills that precede affirmations, positive thinking, etc. This is the REAL secret. This is the understanding that has been completely neglected, breezed over, or left out of 99% of the products on manifestation out there. And this stuff is really not hard at all. It’s pleasurable, it provides very quick results, and it comes with a whole range of other positive benefits. The most important thing is understanding first that it’s a necessary component to the development of this amazing skill we call manifestation. The big issue is this: All these techniques (visualization, affirmations, written goals, re-programming beliefs, etc.) are all stuck in the box of one thing: THE MIND. And though we can all agree that the mind is very necessary partner to all this, it’s not the only thing that is creating the experience of life around you. In fact, it’s not even the biggest contributor to your life experience. It is absolutely necessary to go beyond the mind. This is where our greatest power comes from. This is where we reach the boundless infinite energy that truly allows us to powerfully manifest, often times in wa y that appear to be miraculous. I can’t give you ALL the secrets here, but I’ll let you in on a big secret right now. Rather than focusing on affirmations, visualization, positive thinking, even positive emotions, there is a LOT more value in focusing on things like building your personal power by tapping into non-linear fields of energy, management of the personal energy system, mental stillness and concentration, minimizing your identification with the separate self, thus strengthening the ability to tap into your transcendental self, and the ability to truly
create peace, joy, and bliss RIGHT NOW based on nothing but your true nature (as opposed to basing these positive emotions on your future goals and expectation of receiving them). There is much more to understand about all this, but I am not able to share it all in a short book like this one.
Mistake #4: Thinking What You Create Will Solve Your Problems This is a subtlety, but a very important subtlety to be aware of. You cannot use the law of attraction as a means of “solving your problems”. Doing so will only backfire on you, and cause you to spend time and effort without getting anywhere. What I mean is that you cannot start attempting to manifest more money, with your motivation being that you’re drowned in debt and get a migraine every time you think about your bills. You cannot manifest an amazing relationship out of the fact that you hate being lonely all the time, and don’t feel happy being single. You can’t manifest your dream job out of the dissatisfaction and stress you feel at your current job. The law of attraction is not a method for solving problems. It’s not the escape route from the challenges that you are facing in your life. Why? There are a few reasons. One is that these dreams and desires you have require a consistent amount of positive emotion; emotions like gratitude, wonder, joy, relaxation, p eace of mind, and security. These are not the emotions you are feeling when you are resisting what is currently going on in your life. The very intention to manifest something positive can not be born of resistance and negative emotion. It just doesn’t work that way. You must accept your life as it is NOW. There is no way to get around this. You may be thinking, “Well if I learn to be completely happy, at peace, and full of gratitude for what I have right NOW, how am I going to have the motivation to manifest that new car, extra money, new lover, etc.?” Well that’s a good question. If you find you no longer want or need these things to be completely happy and content would that be a problem for you? Sounds like you might save yourself some time and energy. Also sounds like those things you might find you no longer need once you accept the now may have been more likely to be “ego desires” than “inspirational desires”. I want you to really think about this. Why is it that you want that fancy new “thing”, or that beautiful woman/hunky guy, or that bigger, better home, or that higher paying job? Is it not because you think it will make you happy? Is happiness not the ultimate goal? This is where I think many people really get stuck with this whole manifestation mindset, because
it’s counterintuitive and irrational. It is not the situation, person, relationship, money, circumstance that makes you happy. It is the opposite way around ! The happiness, the joy, the contentment, the gratitude is what creates the successful relationship, the more money, the affordable vacation house in Spain. I know you’ve already heard this, but it is important to really grasp this. You have to find happiness first , and it has to be here in the NOW. It can’t be in the future once ____, _____, and _____ happens. You’ve probably heard/read that detachment and letting go are important ingredients to manifestation. Well, this healthy detachment comes naturally from already being happy. If you’re already happy with your life, and at peace with all you have, the emotions that you have about the things you are creating is quite different. You’re now creating because you’re really curious and interested in how it would be, because it’s fun, because you’re creating for the joy and fun of creation itself. It’s a journey, an adventure, and it doesn’t really make or break anything whether you’re successful or not. Because you know you’ll be happy either way. Now ask yourself if this is your attitude in your endeavors to create right now. Think about it. But there is an even deeper layer that is important to understand about all this. When you have a desire for something that is born out of resistance, born out of wanting things to be different, what exactly is going on? This particular function of the human mind is quite interesting, and quite delusional. This is ego at its finest. Let’s think about a few examples. Say your business is failing, and you want it to succeed. So you start using the law of attraction to help it stop failing, and make some money again. Say you are in a relationship with a verbally abusive, non-responsive, selfish, emotionally unavailable partner, so you start using the law of attraction to bring a better relationship into your life. Say you hate your job vehemently, so you start attempting to manifest a better one. It seems to make enough sense to do this right? But here’s where people are tricking themselves. Remember that whether you are doing it intentionally or not, you are always creating. This is both the most freeing and the scariest thing about this law. You are 100% responsible for everything that is happening in your life. So take the example of the failing business. Who created the failure of the business? I’m afraid there’s ultimately no one to point the finger at but yourself. Yeah it seems like it’s the economy, the road construction, the changing trends, the competition; but ultimately, YOU have created it as it is. So does it make sense to try to fix one creation by creating something else as a fix? This is a recipe for failure, and I’ll tell you why. Every effort you make to create a fix to the already manifested creation of your “problem” is only adding further energy to your
original creation of the problem. The fact that you have to create the fix in the first place is a powerful affirmation of the reality of the problem. At this point, your energy and efforts to “fix” your perceived problem begins to work against you. In this situation, it is MUCH more effective to first learn to un-create the original manifestation of chaos, lack, or failure. So how do you un-create something? Very simple, by accepting and loving it as it is. Love and acceptance are extensions of the most potent and powerful force in the entire universe. They have the power to transmute negativity into positivity, limitation into opportunity, resentment into reinforced loyalty and affection. In a way, accepting your life as it is is re-creating it. You will see that when you do this, many of the issues and problems that have been coming up over and over again seem to just magically disappear. And you didn’t have to make any affirmations, write any goals, or cut out any pictures from magazines to put up on the wall. Solution: You must learn to be happy, grateful, and at peace regardless of your current circumstances. This doesn’t mean that you have to be 100% happy every hour of every day, but you need to be able to create these emotions on a daily basis, and with a high level of intensity.
This is where meditation becomes an absolutely crucial key. When it comes to generating powerful positive emotion, meditation (the right kind of meditation) is the most effective method there is. This is because meditation transcends the mind. The peace, joy, security, and contentment that you experience in meditation will always completely trump affirmations and visualizations because you are experiencing something tha t is beyond the mind entirely. It is beyond thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. In fact, the experiences you have in meditation are as powerful as they could possibly be, because they are more real than anything you experience in the realm of rational mind. Their energy is infinite and unlimited, coming from the absolute, which adds further power to your ability to manifest (and do anything else for that matter). Investing the time and effort to learn meditation, effective meditation, is also one of the best things you can do to help recondition the mind to react with acceptance rather than resistance. The same conscious “willpower” that is necessary to break the resistance habit and cultivate the acceptance habit is the exact same mental muscle that is being flexed every time you meditate.
Mistake #5: Creating From Ego Instead of Inspiration The ego, or separate self, comprised of the intellectual conscious mind, the subconscious mind, and much of the unconscious mind, has got nothing on your transcendental self (or for practical purposes we will call it the superconscious mind). There’s just no comparison. It is my opinion that many of the world’s most successful manifestors, whether they are
aware of it or not, are manifesting much more from their transcendental self than their separate self. Of course the outward appearance could look exactly the same. The conscious mind is still being used in the same way, to direct the vast amount of power coming from the superconscious mind, but there’s just a lot more power and purpose behind it. The manifestations are more pure, more peaceful, more successful, and for some reason, the subconscious and unconscious beliefs are so much more consistent and congruent, so much more aligned with the goal. This is a further description of why it is so important to first understand the missing link of the big picture before moving on to affirmations, visualization, etc. One must tap into the superconscious, spirit, Divinity, Oneness (all different words to describe the same thing) FIRST in order to truly manifest the peace and success that their very soul is craving. When creation comes from mere goals that have been thought up by the rational mind, instead of goals that have come through inspiration and connection with Oneness, the whole being is not congruent. The manifestation is not as effective (if its effective at all) and even worse than that, even if the manifestation is successful, it doesn’t bring you the happiness you had expected it to. It just perpetuates the carousel of desire, and chasing that desire with more goals, needing more of everything, more money, more love, more success, more confidence, more charisma, more material objects. You see, the very foundation of the separate self (which manifests itself as the rational mind) is the need for MORE. This is its core. Thus, unless the rational mind is first tamed through identification and connection with spirit, it will always manifest that need for more, and you will never be fully satisfied, fully at peace. Solution: When you are able to establish a consistent connection with your transcendental self, the part of you that is at one with everything, your desires and goals come from inspiration. They come from the part of you that knows what truly makes you happy, what your true purpose is. They no longer come from things like stress, strife, dissatisfaction, or the desire for more (stemming from the belief in “not enough-ness”).
These inspired desires manifest more easily, and create lasting happiness an d peace. There is a necessary amount of humility needed to do this. We must understand that what we think of as “ourselves”, our rational, thinking mind, does not understand the bigger picture. Rational mind doesn’t know what is best for us in the long run, or what makes us truly happy and at peace. We must learn to trust and surrender to Divinity, or “God”. One of the greatest masters of manifestation, Jesus Christ, who raised a man from the dead, healed several people of various ailments, fed a crowd with one loaf of bread, and calmed a storm with his will, understood this perfectly: “Not my will, but thy will be done.”
“Seek ye first the kingdom of God (the kingdom of God being interpreted as your connection to Oneness), and all these things shall be added unto you.” As I talk about regularly, the greatest key to tapping into your transcendental self is through meditation, along with a specific direction of your thoughts. This is one of the most crucial steps to the formula of manifestation. This is also one of the greatest purposes of my program, The Missing Link.
Mistake #6: Creatively Avoiding Practical Action This ties in to the fast food approach of magical thinking. The idea that we can just sit and imagine what we want with out thoughts and get whatever we want in life can definitely appeal to people who don’t want to take action. It can definitely appeal to people who feel like they don’t have the time, courage, energy, ability, or (name your limitation here) to actually go out there and get what they want. So, to be clear, there is nothing in the law of attraction that says you don’t have to ACT. Sometimes there will be certain experiences where things seem to just “show up”. Maybe someone knocks on the door, a friend you haven’t seen for a long time, and hands you some money that they’ve owed you for years. Maybe a situation just mysteriously disappears, or appears out of nowhere. These things do happen, but in order for you to TRULY get what you want specifically with this law, it is absolutely necessary for you to MOVE towards that goal. It can be very easy to use the law of attraction as a means to dupe yourself into thinking you’re moving towards the goal when you’re not. This will most often come up when you are pushing up against a comfort barrier. Perhaps you may know that your next step is to go out and start public speaking. But you’re ver y uncomfortable and nervous about public speaking, so instead of going out there and doing it, you decide to stay at home and visualize your goals. Or perhaps you make affirmations about feeling empowered and at ease on stage. You may even buy a hypnosis audio about public speaking. To a certain extent these ways of creatively avoiding action can help, but they will only help you eventually take the same step that needed to be taken before you did them. There is a certain amount of inescapability of the steps you need to take to achieve your goals. Really I like to think that the mind will manifest opportunities. But it is still our responsibility to reach out and take them. Often times the law of attraction will bring what we want right in front of our faces, the game plan, the possibility, the knowledge that we are able to do what needs to be done, and all the people and circumstances we need to succeed. But it wont open up our palms for us and close our hands around the final goal. The law of attraction is not an enabler. It doesn’t just want you to have what you want, it wants you to grow into being the person that has the things you want . Solution:
First you must accept that you still have to push yourself outside of your comfort zone to get the things you really want. You will never avoid personal growth by using manifestation. Personal growth is a key ingredient to living a happy successful life. It’s a part of the manifestation process. Keep yourself in check. Ask yourself regularly, “Is there any action that I am avoiding right now?” Always be thinking about what your next step is, and put one foot in front of the other. Learn to continually push yourself. Live on the edge. Lean past your boundaries and watch them stretch. If you have mapped out a game plan, or a goal map of all the steps you need to take, DON’T HESITATE! Jump in there. Let yourself fail, make a fool of yourself, fall down, take risks. This is the way my friend. Nobody ever got anywhere by waiting until they had all their ducks in a row. The ducks will never all be in a row, and you’ll just end up making more and more excuses about why now is not the time to act. Learn as you go. Ready, Fire, Aim! One great exercise for learning to act when necessary is to hold yourself accountable for taking just one step of action a day. It may be a phone call, some research or studying. It could be going to the state building and applying for a business license. Whatever the step is, take one each day. You can’t help but move forward if you keep at it.
Missing Keys to the Art of Manifestation We’ve now talked about some of the greatest set backs and misconceptions to using the law of attraction. Understanding and eliminating these mistakes will change the way you manifest life forever. But aside from mistakes and misconceptions, there are also key components, necessary ingredients that are missing from most LOA information. Developing and honing the “skills” that I am about to share with you below will change the game for you, and give you personal power that you may not have even imagined could be yours. These are truly the missing keys to mastering the art of manifesting your life exactly as you want it to be. As a side note, developing these abilities will also improve any other area of your life, whether it be your relationships, your level of attraction to the opposite sex, your energy level and physical health, your creativity, your “luck”, or your material success in the business world. These are truly keys to the game of life.
Subtle Energy Management You will often find energy work and energetic management techniques in the same category as the law of attraction. Some teachers will interweave it into their method for applying it. But this subject really deserves to be in its own category. As a stand-alone skill, management and control of your own energetic system is a necessary skill to learn as a preliminary to attempting to manifest ideal circumstances and outcomes.
Why? Because your energy field, the flow of your electromagnetic energy through the different channels, chakras, etc. of the body is always constantly manifesting on its own accord . The vibration of your energy field, the different flows, blockages, balances or imbalances of your personal energy system are variables in the manifestation of your life. This energy affects your thoughts, emotions, and physical well-being, but it also affects your “resonance” with the universe and matter in your external world. If this energy is off, blocked, or out of balance, you could be thinking all the right thoughts, and even feeling good regularly, but you will still have difficulty manifesting positive outcomes. In fact, you will be a lot more likely to manifest these blocks and imbalances directly into your experience of life, sometimes almost instantly, and in exact holographic correlation to the particular block you have inside of yourself. Remember, the external world is simply a reflection of your internal world. One of the largest benefits that comes from energetic balance and management is the feeling of what some may call “luck”. A healthy and balanced energetic system is in harmony and resonance with its environment, giving you a tremendous amount of “flow” and effortlessness in your day to day life. Opportunities present themselves more easily, people respond to you and relate to you better, synchronicity happens, and situations seem to work themselves out more easily. Getting this area of your life under control and into balance helps everything else fall effortlessly into place. Specifically when I say energy management, I am talking about learning to clear energetic blocks and balance the chakras, channels, meridians, and aura. I am also talking about learning to direct its flow so you can send it up into the higher chakras, where your awareness can be enhanced, and the full potential of your mind can be harnessed. Also, just as importantly I am talking about learning how to minimize any unnecessary expenditure of this energy and to alternately collect and bring in more of this energy into the system, so it can be used to more powerfully manifest matter and reality. One crucial step in achieving this type of control is purifying the nervous system, as it is a central part of the entire energy system of the human body. All of these goals can be achieved through certain breathing techniques, yogic practices, and other physical and mental disciplines. In fact, in a nutshell, everything I am talking about here is included in the pathway of Raja Yoga.
Mental Focus and Stillness Being able to silence and focus the mind ties directly into energy management, as it is THE MOST POWERFUL way to both bring more energy into the system and minimize unnecessary expenditure of this powerful energy. The more idle thoughts, emotional reactions, and unnecessary intellectualization we have, the more energy we are using, and the more scattered this energetic expenditure is. Every single thought we have is the building block of a physical manifestation. Most people are very out of control in their
thinking, with almost little ability at all to control, direct, and silence their thoughts. This results in all of their energy being spent scattered into many little, different “building blocks” of unconscious, unintended manifestations, when it could be focused and harnessed instead into one single, fully manifested experience that one consciously intends. In my experience, this is the most important missing link to the law of attraction. Before we start using affirmations, visualizing, and writing goals, we must have learned to harness the mind fully. We must have the ability to completely silence it. To basically stop expending our precious energy on creating things we don’t really want, while alternately being able to focus this reservoir of energy on what we want with pinpoint precision; to be able to give our total being and full 100% attention to the creation of what we want without distraction. The absolute best way to learn this skill is, again, through meditation. Meditation is the development of this skill. Each time you sit down to meditate, you are both collecting and saving energy, and you are also learning to do it better and better each time you practice. The more you are able to do this, the more and more energy you build up, and the greater your manifestation “power” becomes. You have more firepower to instantly and quickly create. This extra energy also begins to overflow into the physical body, giving you better health and more balanced emotions. There is an inertia that begins to build, and a snowball effect occurs where your energy becomes more and more focused, and you can retain and collect more and more. This naturally begins to manifest more positive outcomes in your life, which only builds upon itself further to help you manifest even better outcomes into the future. The benefits of becoming a master in this area cannot be over exaggerated. The greatest power that exists in reality is non-linear. It is our birthright to connect with this power and use it to create our world. Yet, these non-linear energies are completely outside the realm of the rational mind. The only way for us to tap into this miraculous and infinite energy is to silence, sidestep, or transcend the rational mind through meditation and other mental techniques.
Detachment Your greatest obstacle, your largest limitation in your ability to create your world, to perform miracles even, is your attachment to your individualized self (most commonly referred to as “the ego”). It is this individual, separate self that constructs all the themes of limitation, fear, pain, struggle, and lack in your life. You do not need to completely, 100% transcend this limited self to manifest effectively, but you must learn to detach from it, to loosen your hold on it, to at least be able to give yourself a break from it when you choose. Many people, even very spiritual, loving, and humble people, are walking around fully believing themselves to be their separate individual self. This is a paradigm that requires a great deal of self-awareness, self-scrutiny, and self-honesty to become aware o f, let alone shift or overcome. But until this paradigm is seen for what it is, an illusion, it is nearly
impossible to truly experience emotions like total satisfaction, peace of mind, unconditional love, and power. Once one does transcend their identity of being separate, they automatically begin to perceive their true reality, being at one with the whole, being limitless, being Love, and Peace. Though this may sound like a nice spiritual day-dream, the experience is actually very real, completely concrete, and it is this experience that is the true cornerstone to consistent positive emotions, and their manifestation into desirable circumstances, objects, and relationships. This is the deepest level that can be worked with in this journey. It is deeper even than beliefs, or “unconscious programming”. The beliefs and programming follow this. Even making a slight shift at this level causes a rippling effect out to all the other levels: beliefs, emotions, thoughts, etc. So not only is this the most important level to address, it’s also the fastest way to get results.
Access to Deep Meditative States As you have probably noticed, all of these missing keys that I have shared with you are interrelated. They all compliment and enhance each other. And they all have a common denominator: meditation and mental control. In order to meditate deeply, and reach states of mental stillness and focus, it is important to be able to balance and work with the subtle energy system. And this mental focus and stillness is crucial to be able to start addressing the level of identity. In fact, if you cannot still your mind, you will never truly be able to experience the reality of your true self. The two go hand in hand. Once you have been able to reach a state of mental stillness, and maintain an even focus of awareness in meditation, the doorway has been opened for you to begin to access the deeper states within your own awareness. It is within these deeper states that you begin to develop more mystical abilities, and tap into your full mental potential. It is also in these deeper states that your intentions, visualizations, commands, and messages penetrate into the parts of your mind tha t hold your powers of manifestation. There is an immense difference between focusing on what you want to create in a normal, active brainwave state, and focusing on what you want in a centered, focused, deeper brainwave state. You can almost imagine that in between your waking day-to-day awareness and your vast unconscious mind is a chain link fence. When you are wide awake, active, and mentally scattered, the links in this fence are woven very tightly, so nothing can make it through. As the mind focuses, and the body relaxes, and the brain begins to drop into the states of alpha, theta, and even delta, the links in this fence become wider and wider, and more and more of the information, intention, commands, and signals
from your conscious awareness are able to penetrate deep into the unconscious, where they can be manifested at full potential. In the past, these deeper brainwave states were largely inaccessible to the average Joe. But our breakthroughs in the technology of brainwave entrainment has taken something that used to take years and years of disciplined practice and given it to anyone that has the willingness to close their eyes and listen to a pair of headphones for 20-60 minutes. It’s downright amazing when you really think about it.
In Conclusion… So it is my hope that this information has opened some new doors for you. So how are you going to apply this in your life? I urge you to take action! There will never be a better time than now to begin to master this amazing ability, and the key skills that make conscious manifestation a real possibility. Take some time every day to still your mind and focus. Flex the mental muscle and watch it develop. Study methods for transcending your separate ego so you can learn to see yourself as unlimited, at peace, and infinitely abundant. You will be amazed at what manifests from that mindstate. I am here to help you on this journey in any way that I can. I have worked very hard to put a program together that is meant to help you quickly and powerfully develop the very skills I have mentioned in this book, with the most minimal amount of effort possible. Never before have these tools and resources made it so easy for us to reach out and grasp our full potential! I really want you to be able to have it all: that perfect relationship with someone special, as much money as you will ever need, a job or profession that you love, and, m ost importantly, a feeling of peace and satisfaction with your life as a whole. I urge you to visit this link ( ) and check out my program the Missing Link. You will never find anything else like this, conveniently laid out for you step by step, with all the techniques necessary to master the essence of the important variables to this process that I have outlined in this book (ie: mental silence and focus, energy management, identification with the transcendental self). The Missing Link targets the deepest level, the very foundation of the part of your mind that is responsible for creating your world. Because of this, you achieve results on ALL levels of the mind with every practice, every step you take in the program. Not only does this fundamental process enable you to more fully master the art of intentional manifestation, but it also clears a H UGE amount of “mental junk” out of your mind and enables it to AUTOMATICALLY manifest positive outcomes, harmonious relationships, monetary opportunities, and all the other things that make YOU as an individual happy and successful.
As always, I am available at any time to answer your questions, and would love to hear your feedback. Please feel free to contact me at any time. Until our next connection, much love, and cheers to your success! -Ashton A.
