The Law of Attraction: How Many Times Should You Ask to Receive?

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By Sherry Winn

How many times must you ask before you receive? Is there a perfect number?

It is easy to get stuck in the asking mode. After all, we have a habit of doing that in our lives. Did you ever ask your mother or father for something over and over again until they relented? Did you ever bug a brother or sister for a ride in their car until they said, “Okay?” Did you ever bother a coach for a chance to play until you got on the court?

We learned if we kept asking, most of the time we would get what we wanted.

So it is easy to understand our tendency to ask the Universe over and over again for our desires. But does that work in the Law of Attraction?

It seems like it should. After all the more we ask, the more it seems like the Universe would know how much we really want it. It keeps our desires right out there in the forefront of all that is. We want to be number one in line.

The problem with multiple asking is this: It starts to sound like begging or whining. Probably your mother or father gave in to you because they became exhausted from the constant torture of your asking. They were tired of your whining.

But the Universe is not based on the “Law of Whining.”

The Vibration of Having Vs. Lack
Think about it. When you are continually asking, are you asking from a place of having it or from a place of wanting it? When you beg, are you feeling good? What is your vibration when you are whining? The more you ask, the more you sound desperate. Desperation is opposite of the vibration you want to emit.

The Law of Attraction is based on getting what you think about most of the time. If you are repeatedly asking, you are coming from a place of lack, not from a place of having what you desire. You are actually thinking about NOT having what you want when you keep asking again and again.

How then do you continue to think about what you desire without asking?

1. Spend time every day visualizing in detail what you have asked for. Add color, sound, texture and emotion to the visualization. The closer you get to feeling it, the closer you get to having it.

2. Devote a small amount of the day pretending you have what you want. If you want a new house, actually go visit new houses. Look at them and pretend you already own the home. See a dinner party you are holding at your new home. See your children running around the house or you enjoying the view. Make the house yours in your mind.

3. Go to the store or mentally shop online. Give yourself an amount you want to spend. Pick out the things you want. Spend your mental money on the things you desire. Feel how good it is to have them.

4. Take time to make a vision board. Glue all the things you want on the board. Enjoy the feeling of having the things as you create your board.

During your process of imagining, stop immediately if you find yourself thinking you can’t have it or you don’t deserve it. If you start trying to figure out how it is going to happen, you might get lost in the belief that having it is too hard or impossible. Remember the most important thing when playing any daydreaming game it you must enjoy the process. Feeling is everything.

Start manifesting with something small you desire. Work on things you believe you can have and deserve to have. If you begin asking for one-million dollars while you are only making $50,000, you will probably find your mind is not ready for that leap. Go with something that feels natural to you until you find success with the process.

Remember: ask once and then begin to believe. It is not the asking which creates the outcome; it is the FAITH.

Sherry Winn is an author, EFT Practitioner, Certified Law of Attraction and Master Life Coach and a motivational speaker, whose topics include “Making the Impossible Possible,” “Loving Challenges,” and “Catching Your Dreams.” As a former elite athlete competing at the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988 in the sport of team handball and head collegiate coach for 23 years, she possesses a deep passion for helping others become motivated to reach their highest levels of success.

Winn overcame her fears and limitations when she contracted chronic pain at the age of 33 and was told by 17 different medical professionals there was no answer. Through books, meditation, mentors and Webinars, she discovered the power of healing through positive thinking.

To receive a free 50-minute Law of Attraction coaching session, or more information about Winn, she can be contacted by email at sherrymwinn@gmail.com, through her website at www.ucancreatesuccess.com or on Facebook.

4 Reasons Doing Nothing is Productive

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By Keri Nola, MA, LMHC

Most of us spend the majority of our time “doing.” We are a culture obsessed with action. If we aren’t doing five things at once, we aren’t productive enough, successful enough or “good” enough. Like one of my favorite teachers, Brene Brown says, we’re “hustling for our worth.” While we’re busy doing this, our relationships are suffering, and we are getting further and further from our soul’s purpose, which we are here to explore and experience.

Sometimes all is takes is a slight shift in our perspective to give ourselves permission to try something new on for size. What if I told you doing “nothing” is productive? Would you be more willing to put down your to-do list and relax for an hour or two, or heck even a day?

Check out these four reasons doing nothing IS productive:

1. Your batteries recharge. Just like batteries run out of juice, so do humans. If we never leave a battery on the charger long enough to fully re-charge, it struggles to operate at its full potential, and that’s true for us too. Allowing ourselves time to “do nothing” is an important way we allow ourselves to refresh so we can show up more fully, completely, and efficiently to all the tasks meaningful to us. Don’t just take my word for it though … try it and see what you notice.

2. You discover you are enough, simply because you exist. Allowing ourselves to “do nothing” is productive because it’s a powerful exercise in helping us discover all of the stories about our worth connected to “doing.” When we are still, we can hear our fears, our doubts, and the ways we plot to perform in an effort to be “enough.” As we meet these thoughts and beliefs with curiosity and compassion, we eventually discover we are enough simply because we exist. BUT we have to be willing to pause long enough to welcome the discovery of the truth.

3. You can reconnect with your higher self in preparation for moving forward. Down time allows us to tune into our inner wisdom — the voice we often can’t hear amidst all the noise of our daily lives. This is the voice that helps keep us honest about our passions and our purpose and points us in the direction of choices, people, places and circumstances that resonate with our divine path. If you are feeling confused, overwhelmed, or anxious, these can be symptoms of a life that is not resonating with your highest purpose.

4. You are becoming grounded in YOU to show up more fully and completely in relationships. When we pause and do nothing, we are actually becoming more connected with ourselves, and in doing so, it allows us to be more present and connected in relationships that mean the most to us. When we continually give and do, rather than relax and be, we can become disconnected from our true selves and our relationships suffer as a result. Contrary to popular belief, when we truly care about ourselves, we can care more deeply about others.

So are you convinced or at least curious about giving yourself some down time yet? If you need some help, my guided meditation may support you. Download it FREE!

Author of “A Year on Your Path to Growth: Daily Inspiration to Reconnect With Your Soul,” and “44 Holistic Tips for Peaceful Sleep,” Keri Nola is a highly regarded psychotherapist, and Founder of Path To Growth LLC, an integrative healing center based in Central Florida. She combines traditional and holistic techniques to create products and experiences that help people access their inner wisdom and create a healthy mind, body and spirit to live their most inspired lives. Her real life experience paired with her extensive education and work background makes her a compassionate, balanced, and sought-after professional in the areas of personal and spiritual growth and development. For more information, visit www.pathtogrowth.com; follow Keri on Twitter @PathtoGrowth; or on Facebook.

Alanis Morissette Reveals “Jagged Little Pill” as Spiritual Turning Point

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In an in-depth, cover story interview with the award-winning Elevated Existence Magazine, singer and songwriter Alanis Morissette opens up about her spiritual side, marriage and parenting, explaining how the success of her 1995 album “Jagged Little Pill,” represented a turning point in her life, sending her on a spiritual search for answers.

“I grabbed the brass ring of what the American Dream told me was the ideal goal – the very definition of success – and yet there I was, still with my humanity, my challenges, my loneliness and my existential loneliness,” she tells Elevated Existence in the June 2013 Issue. “I came to see what was offered as a ‘get out of jail free’ card, in a sense, really didn’t make good on its offer. So I just went deeper.”

Morissette realized she had been looking outside of herself for fulfillment, whether it was in relationships or commercial success, and by 1997 figured out the only way to gain what she was seeking was to go within. She began to inquire about her humanity, and ask the “big questions,” such as “Why am I here? What am I doing here? Why does life exist at all?” she says.

The singer also reveals the authors who had the biggest impact on her, including Debbie Ford and Elaine Aron; how she handled post partum depression; how parenting is a very intuitive experience for her; and how she is taking time now to write her own spiritual book.

“I feel like I’ve been wanting to write a book for a long time, so I’m just using my own life as a case study and just writing about my whole journey, the teachers and models – and audaciously updating a lot of models, which I kind of feel like I was born for,” she tells Elevated Existence. “It’s basically a spiritual, psychological book where I happily use my own life as a case study. If I want to illustrate anything, I will tell my stories.”

To read more about her journey, see the June 2013 Issue, and subscribe to the digital edition for only $10.

SoundTrue’s 2nd Annual Wake Up Festival is August 14-18 in Colorado

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Boulder, Colo.-based multimedia publishing company, Sounds True, is producing their second annual Wake Up Festival in Estes Park, Colo, August 14-18, 2013.

Featured authors, teachers, and artists include Jack Kornfield, Anne Lamott, David Whyte, Adyashanti, Matthew Fox, Shiva Rea, Rami Shapiro, Seane Corne, Tara Brach, Mark Nepo, Snatam Kaur and many more. Participants immerse themselves in the ideas of personal transformation, healing, renewal, spiritual community and explorations of faith and belief with more than 30 of today’s leading spiritual practitioners.

“The Wake Up Festival is a transformation vacation,” said Festival and Sounds True Founder Tami Simon. “It’s an opportunity to disconnect from our day to day obligations and focus on spiritual exploration, personal growth, and physical health in an environment that encourages questioning and dialogue. You go home with so much more than a tan – it’s the kind of experience that impacts participants for a lifetime.”

Located in the beautiful natural backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, the Wake Up Festival brings together people who approach awakening from many different perspectives—dancers, musicians, yogis, poets, energy healers, neuroscientists, and of course, spiritual teachers. Last year’s inaugural Wake Up Festival drew more than 1,000 participants from over 20 countries.

A personal growth getaway, the Wake Up Festival offers time for self-reflection, space to digitally disconnect, and teachers, experts, and practitioners to help explore spiritual awakening, emotional well being, health and wellness in order to live a better, more balanced life. It is also an opportunity to connect with a like-minded community of spiritual seekers.

A 5-day pass to the festival is available for $895 with a 2-day pre-festival intensive available for $245. For more information, visit www.wakeupfestival.com. And those who register before July 1^st and save $100.

Fish Oil Supplements May Help Fight Type 2 Diabetes, Study Shows

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Fish oil supplements, which are Omega-3 fatty acids, have been shown to raise levels of adiponectin in the bloodstream, which is an important hormone with beneficial effects on metabolic processes like glucose regulation and the modulation of inflammation, according to a study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). In long-term human studies, higher levels of adiponectin are associated with lower risks of type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease.

“By reviewing evidence from existing randomized clinical trials, we found that fish oil supplementation caused modest increases in adiponectin in the blood of humans,” said the study’s lead author, Jason Wu, PhD, of the Harvard School of Public Health in a MedicalXpress.com report.

The meta-analysis reviewed and analyzed results from 14 randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials, which included 682 subjects treated with fish oil, and 641 given placebos – most commonly olive and sunflower oils. In those taking fish oil, adiponectin levels increased by 0.37 ug/mL.

“Although higher levels of adiponectin in the bloodstream have been linked to lower risk of diabetes and coronary heart disease, whether fish oil influences glucose metabolism and development of type 2 diabetes remains unclear,” said Wu. “However, results from our study suggest that higher intake of fish oil may moderately increase blood level of adiponectin, and these results support potential benefits of fish oil consumption on glucose control and fat cell metabolism.”

Study Shows the Brain Can Be Trained in Compassion with Meditation

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Researchers at the Centre for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined whether training adults in compassion can result in greater altruistic behavior and related changes in neural systems underlying compassion, according to a Business Standard report.

In the study published in Psychological Science, the investigators trained young adults to engage in compassion meditation, an ancient Buddhist technique to increase caring feelings for people who are suffering, by envisioning a time when someone suffered and then practicing wishing his or her suffering was relieved, according to the report.

Participants practiced with different categories of people, first starting with a loved one, then moving to themselves and then a stranger. Finally, they practiced compassion for someone they actively had conflict with called the “difficult person,” such as a troublesome coworker or roommate, the report stated.

“It’s kind of like weight training. Using this systematic approach, we found that people can actually build up their compassion ‘muscle’ and respond to others’ suffering with care and a desire to help,” Helen Weng, lead author of the study and a graduate student in clinical psychology said in the report.

Compassion training was compared to a control group that learned cognitive reappraisal, a technique where people learn to reframe their thoughts to feel less negative.

“We found that people trained in compassion were more likely to spend their own money altruistically to help someone who was treated unfairly than those who were trained in cognitive reappraisal,” Weng said.

The study measured changes in brain responses using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) before and after training, and researchers found those who were the most altruistic after compassion training were the ones who showed the most brain changes when viewing human suffering.

Specifically, they found activity was increased in the inferior parietal cortex, a region involved in empathy and understanding others, as well as increased activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the extent to which it communicated with the nucleus accumbens – brain regions involved in emotion regulation and positive emotions.