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How to utilize the Law of Attraction while working with those in Poverty?
I'm an avid believer in the ideas of new thought and the Law of Attraction. However, I'm also involved in social work with those in poverty. Knowing how the Law of Attraction works, how can I avoid bringing in MORE poverty which is what I'm trying to prevent. Keep in mind I will be working with those in poverty regardless. How can I make it work for instead of against me in my career?
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1. How to utilize the Law of Attraction while working with those in Poverty? How can I make it work for instead of against me in my career?You must understand, and help those you are working with to understand that....to the Law of Attraction....
POVERTY AND ABUNDANCE ARE THE SAME THING !!!
How can poverty and abundance be the same thing ???
Poverty AND abundance....and ANY OTHER CONDITION...are the perfectly natural OUTCOME of the thoughts FROM WHICH THEY ARE BUILT.
You understand that I am speaking here of one's habitual thought patterns, positive OR negative.
Because it is....
OUR THOUGHTS THAT DO THE ATTRACTING !
EVERYONE ALIVE WAS BORN WITH THIS POWER.
The mechanism of "attraction" at work in both cases, but most especially in the answer to your question, is simply this: ACCEPTING, not wishing for, WHAT YOU WANT….NOW.
It’s very much like how a Tom-Tom or Garmin GPS system works in your automobile. You recognize that the GPS acts like a single system, right ? That’s because to IT, ALL the “points of reference” (i.e. places you CAN go) exist within the system…..NOW, no matter where YOU are in relation to ANY of them.
With some GPS models configured with 6 million or more “points of reference”, all YOU have to do is TELL THE GPS WHERE YOU WANT TO GO, so that the GPS can tell you HOW TO GET THERE ! Just as the GPS, in conjunction with orbiting satellites, all act as a single unit to convey your intention in this metaphor I described, so does your own mind, BUT...
....with a crucial difference between the GPS metaphor and Reality. And that is......that YOUR MIND works in conjunction with an "operating system", which in Reality is.....the ENTIRETY OF CREATION, seen and unseen....operating AS ONE.....AT ONCE.....to do so.
It's not the thoughts you AVOID that produce results. It's the thoughts you EMBRACE that produce results !
What you EMBRACE as true is what you attract AS you. WHAT YOU ACCEPT AS TRUE.....determines an idea’s effect on YOU. Characteristics and attributes are neutral, until YOU ASSIGN the idea OF positivity OR negativity to them.....ideas that YOU TELL YOURSELF to assign to them !
Positive ATTRACTS positive. Negative ATTRACTS negative.
You BECOME what you HABITUALLY embrace, not what you habitually avoid.
How ?
MIND IS THE BUILDER, BECAUSE OUR THOUGHT POSSESSES CREATIVE POWER !!
In the first source, entitled, "The Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, Thomas Troward asks, ".....But if our thought possesses this creative power, why are we hampered by adverse conditions? The answer is, because hitherto we have used our power invertedly. We have taken the starting point of our thought from external facts and consequently created a repetition of facts of a similar nature, and so long as we do this we must needs go on perpetuating the old circle of limitation. Why, then, does the individual make a negative choice? Because he does not understand the law of his own individuality, and believes it to be a law of limitation, instead of a Law of Liberty. He does not expect to find the starting point of the Creative Process reproduced within himself, and so he looks to the mechanical side of things for the basis of his reasoning about life. Consequently his reasoning lands him in the conclusion that life is limited, because he has assumed limitation in his premises, and so-logically cannot escape from it in his conclusion. Then he thinks that this is the law and so ridicules the idea of transcending it. He points to the sequence of cause and effect, by which death, disease, and disaster, hold their sway over the individual, and says that sequence is law. And he is perfectly right so far as he goes—it is a law; but not THE Law. When we have only reached this stage of comprehension, we have yet to learn that a higher law can include a lower one so completely as entirely to swallow it up. The fallacy involved in this negative argument, is the assumption that the law of limitation is essential in all grades of being. It is the fallacy of the old shipbuilders as to the impossibility of building iron ships. The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so."
"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"As a man thinketh, so is he".
As author Baird Spalding says in the second reference, ”Becoming aware of yourself as a spiritual being, offspring of an infinite spiritual system and one with all the powers and capacities within that system, is the very essence of attainment. To grow from the present state of awareness of himself as a material being and into the consciousness that he is a spiritual being contains the full secret of man's attainment.' Man's nature cannot be reversed for he always remains a spiritual being. He can only reverse his notion of himself. Instead of doing this, he should reverse his mistaken idea that he is a material being and retain the truth that he is a spiritual being created in the image and likeness of God."
The "belief" in limitation must then be seen to be SELF-IMPOSED......and if self-imposed....
....IT MUST BE SELF-REMOVED !!
Understand that....there is no need to control ANYTHING but your own choices. As a matter of fact, making your own choices is the ONLY THING you CAN control.
LIFE IS A MIRROR !
You CAN'T change the reflection in the mirror (consequence)......
....YOU CAN ONLY CHANGE WHAT’S CAUSING the reflection IN the mirror.....YOU, YOURSELF....by your choices !
We have control over the choices.....perfectly.
Life controls the consequences....perfectly.
What you say to yourself SUBJECTIVELY….is what gets expressed (i.e. reflected AS YOUR LIFE!) OBJECTIVELY !!
Positive thoughts > Positive outlook > Positive results.
Negative thoughts > Negative outlook > Negative results.
WHAT IF YOU HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT ALL OF THIS ?
Using the GPS metaphor, again, doubt is like telling yourself where you want to go.....BUT INPUTTING A DESTINATION INTO THE GPS OTHER THAN THE ONE YOU SAY YOU REALLY WANT. Where do YOU think the "system" will take you......perfectly ? To the ALTERNATE destination YOU inputted, right ? Not to the solution you really wanted, BUT didn't INPUT. Do you see ?
No different than how your OWN mind operates, in conjunction with the entirety of Creation WORKING AS ONE....PERFECTLY !....to take YOU to the "alternate" destination (solution) you TOLD YOURSELF about with doubt.... instead of the outcome you wanted ! Doubt is really "accepting" an ALTERNATIVE outcome, WHILE HOPING that it doesn't happen.
THAT'S WHY you clearly TELL YOURSELF where you WANT TO BE (clarity), NOT where you hope you don't end up (doubt).
Either outcome is EQUALLY facilitated by your subconscious REFLECTING what YOU tell yourself IS TRUE (i.e. what you embrace).
THAT IS THE SECRET (Law of Attraction) ! .....ACCEPTING THAT WHAT YOU DESIRE IS ALREADY TRULY YOURS !!
Life doesn't TELL you that your choice is amiss.
Life SHOWS YOU that your choice is amiss....with the consequences.
Life doesn't TELL you that you hit the target.
Life SHOWS YOU that you hit the target...with the consequences.
It is the real meaning behind "Ye shall reap what you sow"....for good or ill, as YOU choose....perfectly !
Do you see ?
The law of attraction is really only 4 steps (think of the GPS):
1. CLEARLY ACCEPTING that what you want (i.e. where you want to go) already exists (RIGHT NOW !) BEFORE you experience it (i.e. “arrive”)
2. CLEARLY STATING TO YOURSELF what you want (where you want to be).
3.CLEARLY INPUTTING what you want into the very mechanism whose SOLE purpose is to RECEIVE and ACT UPON YOUR CLEAR INPUT.....your OWN MIND.
4.“LETTING” (not begging or forcing !) the system “TELL YOU HOW TO GET THERE” or “bring IT to YOU”.
NOTHING ABOUT THIS PROCESS involves ANY wishing or pleading or hoping, whatsoever.
IT IS ALL ABOUT KNOWING and ACCEPTING...BEFOREHAND, not about wishing or doubting !
Creation KNOWS where you are, IN RELATION to the destination, or the solution, or the desire....which EXISTS RIGHT THIS MOMENT, whether you are focused on it or not.
....because CREATION is One....and YOU are inseparably one with EVERYTHING in It. There are NO gaps or separations between you and ANYTHING in Creaton. All (including you) is ONE ! That's how YOU are someone else's solution, desire, or destination....ALREADY....get it?
YOU ATTRACT what YOU SAY IS TRUE...and your subconscious mind, working in PERFECT COORDINATION WITH ALL OF CREATION....makes it so....
.....for GOOD or ILL.....as YOU choose.
And that is why the idea I'm about to show you ALONE can completely change your world, and everything you've believed....THAT'S HOW POWERFUL IDEAS ARE ! Ready? Here it is:
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Dr Wayne Dyer
THAT'S how abundance and poverty are the same thing....they are simply OUTCOMES of the THOUGHTS we hold to be true of ourselves....which are then.....MIRRORED in our lives....AS our lives.
"Like attracts like".....and..."Lack attracts lack"
Do you see ?
Hope this, and the sources below, help you and those with whom you will work.
2. the law of attraction has absolutely NOTHING to do with money or social standing.
where do you get such rubbish?
3. Some of the Law of Attraction is common sense, but most of it is superstition. Your questions show you've seen the failures in the law.
If you're helping provide food, clothing and shelter for the poor, you're doing much more helpful things than an imaginary belief system provides. Even just a smile gives more benefit than the law's wishful thinking.
Well done for helping the poor!
4. How to utilize the Law of Attraction while working with those in Poverty?
~~~ If the so-called 'Law of Attraction' were anything besides some new-age get-rich guru's fabrication, there would be no 'poverty'!!
5. Keep in mind that the most successful and abundant people in the world donate their time, money and energy working in some of the poorest countries in the world. These people include, Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Natalie Portman, Brad Pit and Angelina Joie.
Even though they surround themselves in poverty and lack they manage to create and manifest even more abundance.
Being surrounded by others who are poor does not have to make or keep you poor.
The root of poverty is caused by believing poverty thoughts like:
I can’t, life is too hard, I am supposed to be poor, what’s the point, I can’t make it, this is how my life is supposed to be, there is no hope for me, life will not get better from me, I don’t know how, I can’t learn how, why even try, and there are no opportunities for me.
Discover how these poverty thoughts create poverty by asking yourself and answering the following questions?
How do you feel when you believe these thoughts? What kinds of things do you do when you believe these thoughts? How do you treat others when you believe these thoughts? How do others treat you? What events and circumstances does the universe line up for you when you believe these thoughts?
Even though you might be surrounded by poverty day in and day out that doesn’t mean that anyone can force you to believe poverty thoughts.
You can choose to think and believe abundant thoughts like:
I can do this, there are opportunities for me, I am willing to look for opportunities to better myself, there are people who care about me and are willing to help me, I can learn, I am willing to do what it takes to reach my goals, what can I try differently, who can I ask, life is worth it, I am worth it, I can take one step at a time to create what I want, I can do what it takes to achieve my goals, life does support me, and I am loved and appreciated.
What does believing these abundant thoughts create for you? How do you feel when you believe these thoughts? What kinds of things do you do when you believe these thoughts? How do you treat others when you believe these thoughts? How do others respond to you? What events and circumstances does the universe line up for you when you believe these thoughts? Do you like what you create when you believe these thoughts?
You can influence others who think poor to believe abundant thoughts
There will be times when you will hear someone speak a poverty thought like, “I can’t do this, it is too difficult” and you can respond gently with an abundant thought like, “yes, it may be difficult but I am willing to help you and we can do this together”. Responding and influencing others with abundant thoughts will not only reinforce your own belief in abundance but it may help your clients gradually see that the world can be a friendly place to live in.
