| I was surprised and delighted to be innudated with emails of support about the article in the last issue saying we should stop the 'Make Poverty History' campaign. There were a few who didn't quite read it through and thought I was talking about banning the good work that goes on which of course is idiotic and I meant no such thing. It is the NAME that I was talking about and how important what you focus on is, because that is what you get. Perhaps some people thought I was being flippant about a serious issue. Perhaps, but this ezine is about thinking differently - just in case we find a better way.
Here's another way of looking at it, from Ann Hawkins
"I often get emails urging me to go to the Breast Cancer web site because they have a scheme where their advertisers count the clicks and contribute to providing free mammograms. I wondered why I felt such resistance to taking part until I realised that every time I thought about breast cancer it made me feel afraid and so I learned to avoid those messages. If the site had been called breast health or something similar it might have had a different effect.
When I first became aware of the Law of Attraction it took me a while to get to grips with the concept of identifying what I want without it triggering a feeling of lack, e.g. I want more money because I don't have enough. Then someone suggested that instead of thinking about what I want I could think about the things I already have that I'd like more of, e.g. I'd like more lovely clients to join our training groups.
At the last seminar we ran, we discussed the idea that 'positive thinking is bad for us'! It took a minute for this to sink in until we explained that in order to think positively about something, we first have to identify it as bad or negative. For example, an event we were looking forward to gets cancelled and we feel sad or angry or disappointed and then, in order to feel better, we try to put a positive spin on it by thinking of other things we could do with the time - but we have to feel bad first in order to get to this point.
However, if instead of thinking that things are 'good' or 'bad' we deliberately choose the way we want to react to things, there will be no need to think positively because there will be no negatives - only events. So next time something that you were looking forward to gets cancelled, choose to feel excited at all of the possibilities now on offer!
I'm looking forward to more creative ideas and to hearing what names people come up with for the "lets-make-sure-everyone-has-a-reasonable-standard-of-living" campaign!"
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