Normally, we believe that taking an action on our part brings about a
corresponding result in life. This is of course true. There is also a
secret knowledge that certain changes in our behavior can instantly
evoke good fortune from the world around us. We call this dramatic
phenomenon "life response."
Higher Levels of
Cleanliness, Orderliness, and Attention
Attract
For example, let us talk about money. We are all aware of the importance
of intelligence, hard work, social position, skill, organization, and
other forms of strength and power to create wealth. There are, however,
a few hidden strategies to elicit an immediate response from life
regarding money. For one, keeping accurate and up-to-date accounts of
money is a powerful mechanism for attracting more of it. E.g., one small
business owner decided to balance eight months of back statements in a
weekend and received $5000 from out of nowhere the next day. This is an
example of a life response. It is virtually instantaneous, and appears
to come from seemingly out of nowhere -- thus the above moniker
"instantaneous miraculousness."
There
does not seem to be any obvious connection between the actions and the
results, yet somehow life responds to these changes in our inner
behavior. That is the case because life is organized in ways that defy
our normal perceptions of cause and effect, and space and time. There
are movements, workings, and unfolding in life that are hidden from us;
that defy our ability to perceive them. However, if we develop a certain
subtle power of awareness, we can learn to perceive these life
movements, and then learn to harness that knowledge to elicit vast
accomplishment and success from life. The example of attention to money,
and how it generates a sudden, abundant, instant life response is but
one example of this extraordinary power.
Over
the decades, we have come to see that there are at least a dozen key
human behaviors that tend to trigger these instances of sudden good
fortune.
E.g. in addition to giving attention to finances to attract money, being
as careful and prompt in paying our debts also tends to attract
these instances of sudden good fortune. This is especially true for
settling old debts. E.g., one individual owed a friend money for over
twenty years. Within minutes of committing to paying that old
debt, he was told that he had been offered a new spacious place to live
-- this after having lived in the same cramped apartment for twenty
years! That is the power of committing to paying off an old debt.
Greater attention to business accounts, proper handling of money, et al
are, in essence, higher forms of organization. In fact, whenever
we make a serious effort to raise our level of organizational, life
tends to move in our direction. In particular, we have seen that higher
levels of cleanliness tend to elicit very powerful positive responses
from life.
Consider this true-life experience:
An
instructor had been without training and consulting work for weeks, and
was in desperate straits. He did not know what to do, but decided to
raise his level of cleanliness. His apartment was normally quite clean,
but he wanted to take cleanliness a step further. Therefore, he decided
to clean his refrigerator. At the exact moment he finished
putting the foodstuffs back after an exhaustive effort of cleaning, he
received a call from his training company offering him months
worth of new work! The response from life was instantaneous and
overwhelmingly powerful!
While cleaning and
ordering objects have a
vast power to attract sudden good fortune, so does true giving them more
attention. Consider this true incident:
A wine
seller in Asia had very low sales. A consultant noticed that the seller
had ignored stocks of old wine that were not selling. He asked the
seller to make a full effort to clean those stocks, even though he could
not imagine how such an action could possibly improve things. The seller
however in the end agreed to this course of action. Within a few short
weeks, the seller not only found someone to purchase his entire
inventory of old stocks, but he received new orders for sales equal to a
whole half years worth of revenues!
That
is the power of giving objects greater levels of attention. Life
suddenly responds out of all proportion!
The Power of Attitudes to Attract
You can also attract instances of overwhelming good fortune by
overcoming a negative attitude, such as a hostile feeling to another
individual. This is perhaps the most powerful psychological method to
attract the infinite potentials of life.
A woman worked part time for over a decade, hoping during
that time to secure a full-time position. One day she decided that her
negative attitudes towards certain people should stop. Within a few
days, she miraculously received a full time job from the company she had
been temping at -- her first full-time position in ten years!
Life
always responds with overwhelming good fortune to a decided change in
one's attitudes. Here is another example:
A man
lost a lot of borrowed money in speculation in the stock market. After
a time all of his shares became worthless. In fact, he paid interest on
the borrowed money by borrowing
more money. One day, he didn't have any more money to pay
the interest. Slowly, he realized his folly. He had already decided to
stop speculating. Now he also decided not to borrow any more
money to pay the interest. He took this firm decision and became very
calm within himself. Though he didn't know what to do next, still he
stuck to his decision.
After a day or two, he read in a newspaper that a certain company was
being taken over by another company. The share price started its upward
journey and within a few days it hit $20. He sold them and met his
obligation.
Life will suddenly
and abundantly response to any decided change in attitude. It will also
respond to making a decision or taking to a course of action when one
has been reluctant or otherwise unable to do so before. Consider this
episode:
A man worked at a computer store, but was reluctant to
work weekends. He was in the lower tier of monthly sales compared to his
peers. He then changed his attitude, and made the decision to work on
weekends. The first Saturday he appeared at the store, the first
customer he waited on placed the biggest order of his career! That in
turn kicked off the highest sales month, he ever experienced in his
life. Moreover, it also turned out to be the highest sales month by a
salesperson that the 4-store chain he worked at ever had witnessed. He
not only rocketed to the top of the sales group, but made more money in
the next few months than he had ever made in his life.
That is the power
of taking to decision and acting on it. Changes in attitude, in
combinations with taking to a decision and action have an
overwhelming power to invoke good fortune from the world around us.
Skills, Silent Will, and Other Methods that Attract
There
are a number of other ways to make life respond. E.g., one way is to
improve yourself -- such as by acquiring new
knowledge about a subject, or by learning a
new skill. Consider this true story, where one
individual tried to improve his skill,
and got an unexpected result:
A man hadn't had a consulting project of any substantial
size in
over half a year. He then decided to improve his professional condition
by learning an important new skill. Within a few days, he was contacted
by a major industrial firm in the central valley of California to do a
large consulting project, his first in nearly half a year of trying.
In addition to
proactively changing one's inner status,
such as taking to higher levels of organization, one can also invoke sudden good fortune
by restraining one’s self. E.g. rather than expressing a thought to
another person that you want to relate, you can withhold it, which will cause the other person
to express it shortly thereafter. We call this inner approach to
life response, “Silent Will.”
A management consultant was meeting with a high-level
executive of one of the largest companies in the US to secure interviews
with top-level management for a book he was writing. The executive
however rejected him outright, giving various reason why the consultant
request was not valid. Rather than respond, the consultant decided to
practice Silent Will, restraining himself from expressing various
justifiable reasons why the executive was in error. After a few minutes,
the executive completely reversed himself, and began to express several
reasons why the consultant request was valid! He not only then acceded
to the interviews, but a long time business relationship was forged
between the consultant and that major US company!
When we remain
silent in these situations, we release a solid block of energy that
others feel compelled to express on their own. In that way, our
intentions get expressed through another person without our having to
communicate it in the first place. Such “Silent Will" is but one of a
number of inner powers of life that are available to us. Another
one is the power of Equality; i.e. if we remain calm and very still
after a difficult situation has presented itself, the problem tends to
dissipate suddenly thereafter. Then there’s one ultimate inner power to
attract good fortune. It is to open ourselves to the spiritual Force
before engaging in an activity. When we do so, circumstances tend to
move in our favor, as life cooperates with us from all quarters. Anyone
who has experienced this power once in their lives, can be changed
forever.
An
instructor's class was going very poorly one morning. Nothing
seemed to go right. He then decided to consecrate the afternoon session
by offering it to the higher Power. Thereafter, every conceivable
thing went right. In addition, a deep peace and a palpable richness
could be felt in the classroom throughout the remainder of the day.
Inner-Outer
Correspondence
On the surface, there does not seem to be any obvious
connection between these changes in our psychological condition and
behavior, and the miraculous-like results that follow. Yet, somehow life
does respond to our change within. Why is this the case?
It
turns out that the separation we make between our own being and the
world around us is an illusion based on a surface view of life. Our
inner selves and the outer world are in fact part parcel of the same
contiguous reality. Therefore, if we change our consciousness within,
the outer instantly changes in kind. This
underlying oneness is
in turn made possible because there is a fundamental spiritual
reality that is at the heart of all existence. That reality provides an
ultimate Intelligence that relates all associated objects, individual,
and circumstances across space and time.
When you move your
consciousness towards the positive, you release energies that move
across a vast cosmic web of life that connects with related individuals,
objects, and circumstances. When you move toward higher emotions,
attitudes, behaviors, values, decisions, actions, thoughts, etc,
energies move out across space-time and connect with, and bring about
conditions that are favorable to you.
The key is to
proactively discover those wanting parts of your being, and to then
make the necessary effort to change them, enabling the continuous
flow of instantaneous good fortune to move in your direction.
For additional
Growth Online thoughts on
the phenomenon of life response,
click here.
-Additional Information on:
Inner-Outer Correspondence, The Power of
Organization, The Power of Attention,
The Power of Positive Attitudes,
Silent Will, Improving Our
Skills,
Opening to the Spiritual Force.
-Interview:
Extraordinary
Phenomenon in Life (includes life response) --
In
this Growth Online interview Roy
Posner, president of Growth Online, discusses a number of extraordinary
phenomena in life that normally go unnoticed
by us. However, if we learn to access their
powers, we can live lives of never ending, ever-accelerating
accomplishment, success, and delight. Included are
discussions on the phenomena of "life response," "contradiction are
complements," and "consecration;" i.e. opening to the Force, amongst
others.
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