LOA - Intensity and Duration

For those of you who are practicing consciously creating your life using the law of attraction, intensity and duration of your thoughts and feelings are keys to being successful. What does this mean to you?

As you are aware, thoughts create feelings, and feelings create the world around us. If we want to have a better life, we need to have better thoughts. Often in my workshops, we practice focusing on our desires and goals for 15 minutes a day, but that is only a start. The idea is to have more positive thoughts and feelings directed towards your true desires. But 15 minutes a day is only to up your awareness and to start the practice. The practice must become a way of life, part of your daily living. Duration just means focusing on the desires for more time each day, putting in as much time as you can dreaming of, talking about, and imagining the desire as if it were already occuring.

Think "immersion". Immerse yourself in the habit of being more positive, in catching yourself sooner when experiencing negativity, in expressing more positivity through your words and actions, in expecting positive events in your life, rather than expecting the negative. This does take practice, but every minute you spend in positive thoughts and feelings is a step in the right direction. At first, you may only be able to manage a few minutes at a time. But with practice and diligence, this will expand. Before you know it, within weeks or months, you will have more positive than negative thoughts and feelings and this is the pivot point. At this point, things that you want in your life, especially those that are in alignment with your purpose and true self, will significantly accelerate into your life.

The more intensity you can add to your feelings about your desires, the easier they will manifest. Intensity just means having stronger feelings. So instead of pleasure, think overjoyed. Instead of pleased, think excited. Instead of excited, think ecstatic or passionate. There are many ways to "amp up" your feelings to get the intensity necessary. Let's use the example of wanting an overseas trip. Typically, you might just sigh and say "I really wish I could go to X". And leave it at that. You might put it on your life list or your to do list. That is the opposite of amping up your feelings. To get more intensity into your feelings about this desire, you will want to focus on it daily for at least a short period of time. Read books about the place, talk to people who have been, attend a lecture and slide show of someone who has been, search the Internet, go to a travel agent and pick up brochures, create a dream board for the anticipated trip. Write letters to the Universe about what a great trip you "had". Every time you do these actions, you will feel more and more excited and happy.

If you are practicing the law of attraction and things are not happening as you expected, lack of intensity and/or duration may be the problem.