Wouldn’t it be great to FEEL good ALL THE TIME?

Imagine if you could activate the feel-good chemicals in your body any time you want….

That is just what Natural High is supposed to do:

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.I have to confess….
that I have been playing with this all week!!

Not only have I been having fun with this new digital toy, but I have found some very good real world uses for it.

But first, we should start with this:

DOES IT WORK?

In a word:  YES.

It will make you feel good and happy at the same time.

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I suspect that this is why the makers of it are going for the “digital drug” approach, since I suspect most people use drugs in order to feel good and be happy.  Of course real drugs never lead one to true happiness…  usually it is quite the opposite and real drugs lead one to ruins.

I suppose this could be fairly compared to a drug then, since it does get you feeling kind of “high on life”, but the biggest difference is that it doesn’t impair judgement.  I wouldn’t want to use this while driving though, as I feel it does slow my reflexes significantly when I am in the deeply relaxed state.

So, what REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS have I found for this?

I have found this to be a powerful tool for the law of attraction, because when you feel happy, you attract more things to be happy about.

Yes, you can focus on something and attract it, but if you are feeling sad, depressed, stressed or anxious, you will attract it along with more reasons to feel sad, depressed, stressed and anxious. You may even attract the thing you desire in a negative way, because of feeling poorly during the process.

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ATTRACTING MONEY.

When you don’t have enough money, it can be hard to feel “good” at times.  In order to make yourself a money magnet you need to feel good, happy and excited.  You know, how you would ACTUALLY feel if you suddenly won the lottery!

If you suddenly found yourself with a million dollars in your bank account, would you feel anything other than excited joy?

To attract more money, simply imagine (visualize) yourself having more money while using this and you will FEEL your way to more money.

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Stress and Anxiety

Not sure if you remember or not, but I use to suffer from pretty severe anxiety and even though I have overcome my GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) I still find times when I feel the effects of Anxiety for no apparent reason.

This is a great tool to INSTANTLY get over feelings of STRESS or ANXIETY, because you can’t feel stressed or anxious when you FEEL GOOD & HAPPY.

It just melts away.

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SIDE NOTE:   Since I have been snowed in at my house for going on 3 days now, and not getting any sun or exercise, this has been a God-send for me.

I am Glad I attracted this into my life.

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Now you have attracted it into your life, so be sure to check it out.

Feeling Good and Happy,

- John Derrick

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This has made me aware of how many non-happy or non-positive thoughts I allow in my own daily routines.

Here is one popular pitfall that should be avoided:

Entertainment:

I quit watching the nightly news years ago because of all the negativity and how it made me feel.  But I never thought of this:

When watching TV or going out to a movie, if you want to remain true to the only positive thoughts for 7 day challenge, you need to steer clear of Dramas, Violence, Horror, Action and instead watch a good comedy.   Laughing is very positive, but feeling scared, or ready to fight, or anger…  those are all negative emotions, and they are hard to avoid when you are watching a TV show or Movie.

I went and saw an action movie with a friend of mine and realized this while watching it.  It became a very strange movie for me when I began doing deep breathing and focused on relaxing my body.  Instead of feeling tense or involved in the movie at all, I felt great…  similar to meditative state, and the movie played on in front of me as if it were background.

People were kicking, shooting, yelling and fighting, all the while I remained in this near meditative state.  It felt surreal.

When you really think about it, the human race thrives on negativity.  Most people crave it because they have become addicted to feeling bad.  How else would you explain all the scary, violent movies and tv programming?

Each and every one of us has the freedom to chose what we are going to program ourselves with.  Like it or not, when you sit in a movie theater immersed in a horror, action or a drama that makes you feel tense for the whole two hours, you are programming yourself to feel tense.  It conditions your subconscious mind.

It is surprising how hard it is trying to think only positive thoughts for just one week.  Imagine how powerful this would be if we could do it for a month….  6months…  or a whole year.

Do you want want success….   health…  freedom…  and wealth… MORE than you want to think negatively?

This is a serious question.

How badly do you want positive change in your life?

YES – The Secret Course is amazing…. It is the best Law of Attraction course in the world, that not only reveals the exact steps you need to take each step of the way, it even goes one step further in BOOK I and shows you how to erase your past, put it behind you, forgive yourself and even erase your negative programming and replace it with positive programming.

YES – I hear about all the positive results people are getting….  and it truly does excite me.  I love knowing that I am spreading good will in the world and improving peoples lives.

BUT….thinking Positive Thoughts for 7 short days is a HUGE first step in the right direction, and it is 100% free.

So what does this one week journey entail?

It means that you will actively attempt, from the moment you wake up, to think only positive thoughts.  When brushing your teeth, when in the shower, when driving to work, you name it, you will be thinking positive thoughts.

They can be positive affirmations, or a positive spin on a situation, or envisioning an positive outcome.

So if someone cuts you off in traffic, you may get angry or irritated, but as quickly as humanly possible you let that go, and and replace it with a positive thought.

Remember, you are doing this FOR YOU.  When someone else does something that makes you angry or upset, you are letting these negative emotions steal from you.  Negative emotions rob you of your birthright of abundance.  They steal your happiness, your wealth…  your health and prosperity.

If you are the forgiving type…  GREAT.  forgive things as fast as you can.

BUT, if you are NOT the forgiving type, then think of it as being greedy, and letgo of that anger and frustration for your own benefit.

It is okay to be selfish…   you should put your own needs higher than the need to feel negative.

Of course you will still have to do your normal routine and job activities and such, but remember…  be selfish…. and no matter who says what or who does what….  you are going to remain positive.

It is only 1 week.   You can do this for one week right?

Why are you doing this?

#1 For you health. Your body will be less acidic and everything will function better.  Remaining calm and thinking positive thoughts has shown to even slow the heart rate and lower blood pressure.  It can effect blood sugar too.

#2 Your Digestion. All health and energy for the body is dependent on your ability to digest your food and extract the nutrients from it.  Positive thoughts and a calm state of being can greatly improve your digestion.

#3 For Longevity. Many studies have been done on aging and on centurions (people who live past 100 years of age) and the one thing they have found that all centurions have n common is a positive outlook on life.

#4 For Success. The most successful people in the world are all positive can-do thinkers.  It doesn’t matter how smart you are or how much money you start with, what matters is how well trained your mind is to think positively.  Whatever you can perceive you can achieve.

#5 It feels good. Positive thoughts feel good.  Obviously they feel much better than negative thoughts.  But did you know that thinking a certain way becomes addictive?  So if you have been thinking negatively for a long time, you will crave the chemicals that are released in your body from negative thoughts, because you are so used to them you have grown addicted to them.  The same thing  can be said of positive thoughts too!  So get yourself addicted to positive thinking and you will truly feel great.

The vast majority of the population think mostly negative thoughts and they are addicted to these thoughts.  Why do you think the nightly news is so negative?  Why do you think there are so many more horror, action and drama movies than there are comedy’s?

Negativity sells.

It only sells because people are addicted to feeling that way.

Please give up the negative life and join with me on creating a new and positive life for yourself.  Give this one week…  and see how great you feel and how much smoother your days go and how much more enjoyable your job becomes and how much better you get along with the people you interact with.

There is plenty of time to get upset at people next week….   but this week….  this week is for you!  Be happy.  Be joyful.  Think all positive happy and joyous thoughts.

Who knows… maybe you will never want to go back!

I hope.

Where did you get your beliefs from?  Did you pick them up along the beaten path of life, or were they given to you by your parents when you were still a child?

No matter where your beliefs are from, I challenge you to take a long hard honest look at them and see if they are serving you.

Since your beliefs are creating your personal world, it would seem wise to only hang on to beliefs that serve you.

For example, if you believe that life is tough, you will be creating a very tough life for yourself.  You might believe that to be true because your parents had a tough life and you have had a tough life too.

So what?

Who cares what your life has been like before today.   The past is simply the result of previous thinking.

If you do not like having a tough life I suggest you replace that belief!

I believe that things in life go easily and smoothly.  I also believe that I can have anything I put my mind to.

So when I want something, I simply pull out a Manifesting Card, and I focus on the end result of already possessing it.

Then I sit back and watch the universe re-align things in a way to make my wish come true.

How easy is that?

Yes, I sometimes have to take action, and when I see the events align in a way that leads me to believe that I need to take a small easy action I jump at the opportunity because the universe loves speed.

I USED to believe that life was tough.   I replaced that belief and now life is easy.

I USED to believe that “money was hard to come by”, and now money comes in steady and when I need more something suddenly happens to give me the more of what I need.

I USED to feel guilty when I went out spending money, but now I get home and usually find that I earned more than normal that day and like magic the “extra” money I spent is already replaced.

I USED to be unhealthy, and now (You Wont Believe This – Click Here For Details) my health is better than anytime in life, even though I am the oldest I have ever been.  (Of course, so are you at this very moment.)

I highly recommend you change your beliefs if they are working against you.  You can do this with the power of SUBLIMINAL VIDEOS, or SUBLIMINAL AUDIOS, or Daily Affirmations, but if you need someone to walk guide you every step of the way,  you will want to check out the SECRET COURSE.

Best wishes to you in all your future successes.

I have heard that question more than once in my life.  I heard it when I decided to write my first book.  I heard it when I decided to quit my job and work from home….  and now I am hearing it because I have decided to build a 10 foot tall building.

“What in the world has made you think you could build a 10 foot high work shop?”

To which I reply, “What in the world made you think I could not?”

Just because you have never done something before, does not mean that you can’t!  There is a first time for EVERYTHING.

There is a big difference between knowing the law of attraction, and living the law of attraction.

Knowing the law of attraction to many people means trying to feel good and keep a positive attitude.  They may even focus on manifesting something once and a while.

LIVING a life in harmony with the law of attraction, began with the teachings in the Secret Course.   I used manifesting Cards until they became a such an ingrained thing… a way of life for me…  that this is now how I live.

You see, it is true that I have no idea how to build a workshop, but I envisioned myself using this workshop.  Each night I used a manifesting card and FELT grateful for my new workshop.

(Using a manifesting card you work backwards, and begin at the end.  The beginning is being thankful for already having something that you do not yet have.  Feeling yourself having it, attracts or creates it into your life, to complete the circle)

Sooo…..   I buy the wood, and I have the plans, and even though I have NO WAY of knowing HOW this building will be constucted, I DO KNOW THAT IT WILL BE.  That certainty has a calming effect.

You see, the old me would have panicked over the details.  The old me would say “I can never do that”….  but I no longer allow such such limiting thoughts.

One way or another, it will be done.   It took me over a week to build the floor and foundation.  Each time a negative thought entered my mind, I would release it and let it leave as easily as it had come in.

I had no idea that my good friend John was going to stop in from out of town.   It turns out that his wife was out of state with family and he was more than happy to help me erect the walls.

What perfect timing too, because I had just finished the raised floor, and spent a great deal of time getting it level.

Sunday, we were able to erect all four walls.  It was amazing.  My neighbors couldn’t believe how fast we put this thing up.  In fact, we even had time to build the gable roof raters.

What was even more amazing was how much fun we had doing it.  We kept laughing like school kids and having a great time telling stories and catching up.  It didn’t even feel like work.  It all flowed perfectly.

I enjoyed my visit with John, and getting the building up was a great bonus!

Monday I have finished all of the project except for sheeting the roof.

Now I have to admit that the roof seems nearly impossible to nail on, since it is 12 feet in the air and I don’t feel that the rafters are strong enough for me to stand on (I am, and always have been, a large man).

Yes, I could hire someone….   I always could have hired someone, but I wanted the experience of doing it myself.  I am very happy having built the entire building, to hire someone just for the roof.

Here it is Tuesday, and I am set to hire someone when another friend of mine calls me up from down my street.  He offers to come over and help me with the roof today after he gets off work.

I had no idea how it was going to be built, only the certainty that it would.

When you manifest something, think of  it as destiny.  It is destined to be.  The universe will make it so, as long as you don’t hesitate (the universe loves speed) and as long as you are ready and willing to take some form of action.

Keep in mind that whenever you decide to do something new with your life, people will try to stop you.  They can’t see your new vision, and they will try to hold you back.  For various reasons, they like the old you and don’t like the idea of change.

When I decided to write my first book, my own mom said something along the lines of “Why would anyone read what you have to say?”.   She didn’t see me as a writer, and she wanted to keep me the way she saw me.

Don’t let anyone stop you.  I didn’t even allow myself to get angry at my mother for such an insensitive remark, because that would have taken me further off course.  Instead, I kept my vision of helping people and kept writing what eventually became one of the best selling Law of Attraction courses of all time.

Yes, I did have friends who believed in me, and some who even encouraged me to write the book(s) because they saw how much my the law of attraction had changed my life.

A good general rule, however, is NOT to tell others what you are manifesting until AFTER you have manifested it.  This way no one will be working against you .

You can do anything you wan to.
You can be anyone you want to be.

Decide what you want, and go for it.  It’s already yours.

With all the negative news about the economy, and people losing their jobs, there is a lot of fear out there right now, which is why I choose to look at my life from a slightly different angle…

I will use myself as an example here, but odds are you can apply 90% of what I am about to say to yourself as well.

I am richer than all the Kings in centuries past.   King Solomon never had a heated house like I do.  With all his wealth and power he never had wall to wall carpet, like I do.

The mighty Merlin, if he indeed existed, would be amazed at the magic box I have in my front room.  With this box I can see events from around the world.  Yes, I sit in total comfort on my soft couch while I watch my magical box that let’s me see a million actors and brings me news from every corner of the globe.

Great Rome in all its glory was proud to have public baths which were heated, while I take hot baths or showers in my own home everyday.  In fact, water both hot and cold are piped right into my house, in several locations even, and with a flip of a switch I can have hot or cold water in an instant, day or night.

The richest men in history’s past would collect books from around the world and build private libraries with all their wealth…. yet they would blush at how small their collection of information is when compared to what I can access on the internet.

Any question I want answered is just a few keystrokes away on the internet.  For a few dollars I can have a new book immediately sent to me from anywhere around the world.

For a few cents I can have messengers deliver a paper message of mine to the furthest reaches of my country, or for free I could send an email message to the furthest reaches of the entire planet.

I am immune to Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertusis, Hepatitis A and B, Measles, Mumps and Rubella, Polio, Meningitis and more…  because I was given a few shots as a child.  In fact, everyone I know is immune to most of these, and these diseases have been nearly wiped out from my nation.

My children are strong and healthy, and none of my three children nor my wife died in child birth, as was so common before modern medicine.

I can travel further than any king in a fraction of the time.  Thousands of men have paved all the roads ahead of me, making long distance travel fast, smooth and easy.  I can travel many times the speed of a horse while remaining in luxury, no bouncing up and down and I am completely protected from the elements.

Yes, I am so rich that I can board a plane and fly from one city to another at speeds no man in centuries past would dare to dream.

I am so rich that I have no shortage of food, in fact the problem I have is quite the opposite.  I have such an abundance of rich and tasty food flown in from around the world, but I must be careful to not to eat so much that I explode.

But even if I do eat so much that I become a rounder version of myself, I can still have people make me clothes that fit…  yes, I am truly rich.

Even the bed I sleep in would have made the richest men in history proud, it is soft and firm at the same time, and I sleep like a baby in it, on cotton sheets with a thread count higher than was ever possible in histories past.

I can pick up a phone and call anyone nearly anywhere in the world, and I can keep this magical phone in my pocket and use invisible waves in the air to make these magical calls whenever I desire.

The air in my home is warm in the winter and cool in the summer.  I have a device to take dust out of the air and make it crisp and clean.  I can cook in my house without the need for fire, and I have a hood with vent that removes any smoke to the outside if smoke should occur.

When I sleep at night I have devices which monitor the air for smoke, and in case of a fire they will wake me up and warn me.  Of course if fire should occur, men will come rushing to my aid, day or night, and use giant hoses to put the fire out.

Yes, I am truly rich….

Not just because I am happy and in love with my wife.  Not just because my children love me as much as I love them or because they look up to me.

No…  I am physically rich….    Rich beyond the great Caesar himself ever was…

I even do what most rich people in the past have done, I forget how rich that I am and take my wealth for granite.  I forget how magical my life is and sometimes think about how I could have more…..

Not today… not right now….   Right now I am thankful for my vast wealth.

So was I wrong?   Are you richer than you imagined too?

Life was more exciting and full of promise.  I believed I would change the world, and even though I have embarked on a career that has helped many people, when I was a child possibilities were limitless.

One of the amazing things about being a child is getting to do things for the first time.  The world was new and exciting.  Every experience had a first time and nothing compares to the excitement of doing something for the first time.

Remember your first kiss?

Even though I love my wife very much, a simple peck on the lips these days is common place and in fact is expected whenever we part each others company or when she comes home after being out all day.

Remember the first time you drove a car?

My nerves were screaming as I drove my parents car down the highway at night.  Sure, it was a straight stretch of road and today I drive without even noticing it, but the first time was a very different kind of experience.

Those first times make you feel alive.

The first time you vacation somewhere everything it new.  The first time I went to Las Vegas was far more exciting than the third time.  My first trip to Victoria, British Columbia was wonderful and more exciting and fun than any time I have visited since.

How long has it been since you felt alive?

Now that I am in my thirties I have to admit that most of what I do I have done many times before.  It may be comforting, but it doesn’t feel as exciting and vibrant as doing something for the first time.

It doesn’t take any money to do something new.  In fact, you can take something that you do regularly and change it up so that you are doing it in a way that is new and exciting.

Even something as mundane as taking a shower.  Sure, the first time you took a shower by yourself it was probably pretty exciting.  You were not sure how to get the water exactly right and didn’t know how long it would last.  There were new sights and smells and even the feel of the water falling onto your body was a new experience.

Tonight I decided to do something new.  It was on a whim.  Something that I had never done before.  I took a shower in the dark.

If you are anything like my wife, you probably think I am a bit off my rocker, but I assure you that taking a shower in the dark, at least for me, was an exciting new experience.

It was completely dark, so just moving in the bathroom was a new experience.  I noticed that I kept the water extra hot, probably because the blackness around me felt so cold.  Every noise in the house stood out.  Reaching for the shampoo was no problem, but I had to use my sense of smell to find the right bottle among the many bottles that belong to my wife.  Rinsing soap I could not see was an interesting experience.

In essence, I took an otherwise mundane experience and made it into something completely new.

Another option is to take a cold shower, where you only turn on the cold water.  WOW…  that is completely different from what I am used to also.  I guarantee you will feel awake after one of those…  if you can stand it for the length of a full shower.

I just rearranged the furniture in my house and now every room has that new exciting feeling.  My front room is so different that every day when I walk out into it I am surprised.  Sure, the effect will only last for a week or two at tops….  that’s because I will soon be used to it this way.

The other day I bought a new piece of software for editing videos.  The first hour I thought to myself “wow, this is nothing like I’ve ever used before”.  Now, a just a couple days later it has already lost it’s excitement and is just another tool that I enjoy using.

How many gadgets have you bought and were excited to use it for the first time?  New cell phones are a great example of this.  It’s exciting to open the box and play with the new phone discovering all the features, but a month or two later it’s just a phone.

Here are some ideas of ways you can feel young again,

1. Go to a new restaurant

Try to pick somewhere with a new kind of food that you have never tried. Mexican, Greek, Indian, Russian, Middle Eastern, Tai, Chinese, Mongolian, Cajun, Sushi, or something you have never tried before.

2. Try a new sport you’ve never tried.

3. Try using your non-dominant hand for a day.
It’s amazing how strange it feels to do something with my left hand.  Even something as simple as signing my own name.

4. Take part in an activity new to you…
Try your hand at bingo or a play a game of pool or use a batting cage.  The world is full of activities that most of us have not tried.  You don’t have to be good at it in order to enjoy doing something new.

5. Get involved with a charity or community service.
Volunteering is a great way to interact with others and give back to the community at the same time. And sharing your time is not just good for your mental health. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, found that as older adults participated in Experience Corps, they showed both mental and physical improvements, including increased strength and endurance. By choosing activities that are personally rewarding, you may discover similar benefits.

6. Be a tourist in your own town!
You’ll be surprised how much there is to do right where you live!  Contact your local chamber of commerce or look your city or area up in Google.com  and you’ll be amazed at what you find to do and sights to see you probably never seen in your own area.

7.  Join a Local Group.
You can check out the website:  http://www.meetup.com/ and see what is going on where you live.  There are thousands of groups of people getting together for everything you can imagine and more.

8. Explore a new area.
It doesn’t have to be anywhere in specific, you could drive to a city that you have never been to before and spend the day exploring all the neat sights, sounds and local shops.  If you prefer the outdoors, when not hike a new trail or visit a lake or camp grounds you’ve never been to.

9. Explore New Romance, or Re-Kindle An Existing Romance.
It doesn’t matter how long you have been together with your spouse, you can rekindle that spark and find brand new excitement.  Share a candlelit dinner, create a thoughtful gift or take your partner out dancing.  Suprise him or her with something brand new and you may just find yourself pleasantly surprised with a new romantic excitement…  just like in the “good ole days”.

If your single, try dating someone unique or unusual and explore outside your normal comfort zone.

Of course, if you really want to spice things up in the bedroom….  you may want to explore 500 Love Making Secrets. It’s even Oprah approved!  Okay… nuff said on that.

10.  One of the best ways to feel young, and keep your mind young…  is to challenge your mind with something brand new.
Learning a new language is one of the surest ways to keep your mind young.  Rocket Spanish, is supposed to be the fastest way to begin speaking Spanish.  No only does it keep your mind young, but it opens the door to a whole new world of conversation and eaves dropping.  You’d be amazed at what Spanish speaking people will say to each other in front of you because they presume you can’t understand what they are saying.  That alone makes for great fun.

If you have any additional ideas on how to feel mentally young again, please leave your comments below!

You see, just because I wrote a best selling course on the Law of Attraction, doesn’t mean that I am immune from mistakes of my own!  I find it a bit funny though, since I covered this specific topic inside that course.

Here’s what happened,

Yesterday my family ran out of milk (soy milk of course, since I am still off dairy) so after getting my youngest son off to school I decided to ride my bike up to the grocery store.  The sky was clear and the sun was out and even though it was cool outside, the crisp cold of fall had not yet hit.

Everything went fine… I rode to the store and got the milk, put it in my backpack and rode back home.  It was a nice ride and it really got my heart pumping and the blood flowing.

So today, I decided I would ride even further and go to the City Hall where I can drop off my ballot at the official voting box.  But today’s ride went very different.

Today, I thought to myself “Boy, this is a long ride.  Imagine if you had to walk this far.  I wonder how long it would take?”

Now I KNOW that when you find yourself having thoughts that are not in alignment with what you desire, you need to COUNTER those thoughts with thoughts that ARE in alignment with what you desire.

But instead, with legs pumping and blood flowing, I continued to think about how long of a walk this would be.  “Boy, if your bike broke down I wonder how long it would take for you to walk back?  Couple of hours at least I bet.  Walking is good exercise though, but I don’t have time for a two or three hour walk.  Hmmm…  except for hiking in the mountains I bet I’ve never walked this far.”

Up ahead I see a bunch of glass on the road and get the thought “Oh no… What if you get a flat tire?”

Now this time, I recognized the negative thought and like I normally do, I countered it with thoughts that were in alignment with what I desired.

I thought “(1) There is no way I am going to get a flat tire.  (2) I avoided all the glass by riding around it.  (3) Besides, I have tire liners inside these tires and (4) that green slime that seals small leaks”

I inserted the numbers above to show you how I had 1 negative thought, which I countered with 4 thoughts that brought me back into alignment with what I really wanted… which is this case was having tires that were in perfect condition.

Negative thoughts, or thoughts that are not in alignment with what you desire, ARE GOING to pop into your head.  There is nothing you can do about that.  It’s important to realize that you are not your thoughts.  You are in charge of choosing which thoughts to act on.

So when a negative thought enters you mind, simply counter it with thoughts that are in alignment with what you desire.  This is just one of the many tricks you have to master the law of attraction and keep your life going in the direction that you desire!

But somehow I allowed myself to go back to thinking about how long of a walk it would be as I got near City Hall.  I thought about how my wife, who is much more likely to go for a long walk than me, has not even walked beyond the grocery store.  She had never walked to city hall.

“I bet there are five or six bus stops on this main road alone, between our house and city hall.  Heck I even passed a park and ride along the way.  This would be a long walk indeed.” I thought as I pedaled my 21 speed.

I am sure you already know what happened next.

YES…  the bike broke JUST as I pulled into City Hall.  The way in which it broke was pretty dramatic.  The rear derailer (which shifts the gears) somehow managed to get stuck into the rear wheel, which not only brought me to screeching halt, but managed to bend the rear wheel, break out several spokes and completely rip off the derailer in the process.

So there I was…  standing in front of City Hall, only feet away from the official Vote Drop Box….  and I knew I was going to have to walk all the way home.

Now walking home I had plenty of time to reflect on how this was caused.  I knew I had thought about this long walk almost the entire ride.  Of course my bike broke… what did I expect?

Now to someone who does not understand the law of attraction, they would say “What a strange coincidence” and then go on with their day.  Not realizing that these “coincidences” are created by the thoughts.

So on my loooong walk back I thought to myself “Wouldn’t it be neat if someone I knew happened to see me and gave me a ride”.

Without my wanting it to, my mind answered back with “Almost everyone is at work at 1:30pm, so that is not very likely John.”…

But now I was back on my game.  I recognized that thought for what it was and I countered with “Yes… but wouldn’t that be strange.  Wouldn’t it be a strange coincidence if someone who lived on my very street saw me walking and offered me a ride”.

I wanted to walk a good ways just to see how it felt.  I could always use the exercise, and it was a nice day.  Still, I knew I had work that I wanted to do at my home office and I wanted to manifest a ride because I knew that I had manifested the crash in the first place, so it felt like a challenge.

I continued to imagine myself getting a ride from someone as I walked.  I wasn’t specific, I just imagined myself stepping up into the dark non-descript van and getting a ride.  I did this for at least another half hour when I suddenly heard someone shouting my name from a gas station that I was walking past.

“Hey John.  Hold on one minute and I’ll give you a lift” he said.

It was my neighbor Bob of all people.

The timing was perfect, because I had been walking for a long time and only had about a mile left to go, so I had gotten plenty of exercise already.

He was just entering the door to the convenience store at the gas station.  I walked up to the door and he came out and greeted me.

“Hey John,  How are you?”" asked Bob

“Doing well” I replied.  Which was true, I was doing well.  Exercise lifts my mood and always makes me feel better.  I was also having that great feeling you get when you see the law of attraction manifest something you have desired.

“Good timing seeing you on my way home,” Bob says.  “Gives me a chance to show you my new Van”.

Yes — Bob had just bought a new dark blue mini van.  I almost burst into laughter.  Instead I politely thanked him and his wife for the lift.

Here I had been visualizing myself stepping into a dark van, and yet I didn’t know anyone who even owned a dark van.    That detail never crossed my mind.

Bob had always driven a Mid Sized white car for all of the five years that I had known him. Today, he happens to be on his way home with his brand new dark van.   A dark van just like the one I had imagined coming to pick me up.

What a neat “coincidence”!

Let me explain with a real world example of something that is taking place right now.

I always receive a lot of emails from people who are on my Newsletter and who read this blog, but lately I see one question coming up more and more, so I thought I would address it publicly.

The question goes something like this:

“John, why aren’t you talking about the bad economy?  The stock market crash? What are you going to do?”

I don’t want to upset anyone or give the impression that I don’t care.  I do care!  In fact, it is because I care about all of you that I don’t write about negative things on this blog or in my weekly newsletter.

At first, when I began practicing the law of attraction I realized that what I thought (and FELT) about most, was what showed up the most in my life.  If I worried about lack of money, I would usually find a reason each month to end up with a lack of money.  Obviously the same principles apply to every other area of your life, but money is what seems to be on everyone’s mind lately.

That was a good start for me, but years later I developed advanced law of attraction tools that allowed me to manifest changes in my life at tremendous speeds.  It’s amazing how fast things can change (weight can go up or down… money can rush in or rush out) using these tools, so it became even more important to try to focus my thoughts on what I wanted most and to mostly ignore that which I wanted to disappear.

But now I live the law of attraction even deeper.  I see the law of attraction as the ultimate freedom.  When you live your life through the law of attraction at the deepest level, you are living a life that CREATES.  Creation is the highest form of expression.

Let’s contrast that with how I used to live my life, and how many people are living today.

The stock market goes up, and you REACT to it.  You get happy.  The stock market goes down, and you get sad. IF the market continues down, you began to be scared.  You are fearful of what is to come.

Is that freedom?  I say NO!  Reacting to things around you and giving up all your power to create the world around you is slavery!  That is a life similar to a rat in a maze that reacts to the stimuli given to it by forces outside of the maze.

The choice is clear.  You can either:

1)  React to the world around you.  In this mindset you have no control over your own life.  You run around reacting to things happening outside of you.  How you feel and what you do with your life is completely chosen for you by other people.  You are emotionally and physically a slave to a world outside of your control.

OR

2) You create your day each morning before you even get out of bed.  You expect pleasent surprises during your day and you usually get them.  You create your own economy and KNOW that everything will always be fine.  You create the world around you and you are in control.

Most people are living choice number 1, and then they want to use the law of attraction to fix a problem in their world.  Most of the time, even though they chose to live choice number 1, they can use the law of attraction (once they understand how it really works) to fix the problem that they set their mind to.

So, for example they may focus on brining in an extra $1,500 a month.  Yep, they manifest that using the advanced law of attraction tools that they discovered in My Secret Course, but then they go on living a life of fear and low and behold they find a reason for that $1,500 a month to suddenly not be enough.

The specifics are always unique to the person, but if you use the law of attraction to manifest just one thing, and continue to live a reactive fear-based life, you will sabotage  yourself most of the time.

So if anyone is wondering why I don’t talk about bad things, it’s because I KNOW good things are always heading my way.  Not just because I am ignoring bad things, but because everyone has a seperate personal economy.

No matter what “bad” happens in the world, you can either react to it negatively, or create abundance from it.

For example:

When gas prices were soaring, most people focused on how much money they were spending on gas.  They became upset and started to worry about the future.

Instead, I thought to myself…. boy, I wonder how I can get better gas mileage so it doesn’t effect me.  Sure enough, I find out a LOT of ways to bring my gas bill WAAY down!  Next thing I know, I am spending less on gas after the prices went up than I was before, because I was now using a lot less gas.

Then I decide to share that information with all of you because I want you to save money on gas also.  I barely charge anything for the ebook collection so everyone can benefit.  (Increase Gas Mileage 11 Cent Sale Can Be Seen Here)

At the time there was only a few hundred people reading this blog and I had just began my newsletter (Now there are close to 1,300 people subscribed to my newsletter alone) so only 62 people benefited from my gas mileage books back then.   Today I am sure the number would be much higher, but I still got to help 62 people out, which is certainly better than none.  Helping people makes me feel good.

So gas prices went up, and instead of reacting negatively, I created money savings for myself and a feel good feeling from helping others save money also.

Oh yeah, I also made a little money from those sales also.

Do you see the difference?

I wish you the very best in all aspects of your life and I hope that you choose to be a creator instead of a reactor.  Don’t just use the law of attraction in one or two areas of your life.  Instead practice living in a state of positive creation, where you expect nothing but the best to come to you and those you love.

Best Wishes,

Your Habits!

As you sit and read this, everything about you has been created by yesterday’s habits.

No, I am not talking about bad habits such as smoking.  I am talking about the habits that make up everyday life.  For example, if you go to bed about the same time each night, then when you go to bed has become a habit.

Truth be told….  You are a collection of habits.

Are you overweight?  Unhealthy?  Low in energy?  Then most likely you have a habit of eating unhealthy foods.  Eating Healthy can be easy and fun….  and even though it is only a small part of your life, it can have drastic changes, such as:  Weight Loss, Increased Energy, quicker healing, less illnesses, younger looking hair and skin, and reversing a whole slew of problems extra weight can cause.

Eating bad foods are not a problem.  You can eat Pizza and ice cream….  it’s the habit of eating poorly that IS the problem.  If you have a habit of eating healthy and only eat pizza on occasion, then pizza will not be a problem.   (Unless of course you decide to go off dairy completely like me)

Habits can work for you… or they can work against you.  Eating healthy is obviously one habit that works for you.

Thinking Positively is another great habit.  I was raised in a household of extremely negative people.  It has taken me many years to develop a positive outlook on life.

I promise you, positive thinking is a habit that will benefit you tremendously.  Not only will your health improve (lower blood pressure and lower risks for many diseases), but you will enjoy life more.

Of course, the Law of Attraction works IN PART on positive thinking as well.

The best positive habit I have is my daily use of the Manifesting Cards.  This habit actively shapes my life each day.  Sure, it only takes a few minutes twice a day, but it keeps my mind focused and it gets me what I want.  Every single time.  Without fail.

I used to be a drinker in my early twenties.  It was a habit that I gave up.  Do I still drink?  On occasion I do.  I gave up the habit, but I don’t tell myself I can’t have a drink.

In fact, if I try to tell myself I can’t have something, I find myself wanting it even more.  So I never forbid anything that I enjoy.  I merely remove the habit of its use if it is not beneficial.

Many people fail because they forbid themselves things…  such as the foods you enjoy.  It’s not the food…  it is the habit of eating that food (if it’s bad for you) that is the problem.

HINT: When you make a habit out of eating healthy, you will find yourself enjoying the flavor of healthy foods.  (Take a look at this Cookbook as an example)

This line of thinking can be applied to any part of your life.  If you want something, set up a habit that brings you closer to having what it is that you want.

If you want to shed fat, set up a habit of cutting a few calories.  Or perhaps create a habit of exercise.  (Nothing is stopping you from doing both.)

A great way to improve you life is to identify your habits and find which habits work for you and which habits work against you.  Once you know, you can adjust your habits by making small changes in your daily life, and in the end you will be rewarded with HUGE positive changes.

Seriously consider getting Manifesting Cards if you have not already.  It will help you create positive habits and help you focus on what is important to you in your life.  Then you can attract what you want in just minutes each day.

My Secret Course includes Manifesting Cards, and a slew of other Law of Attraction books that have the power to transform your life from where you are stuck today — to where you really want to be.

In the end, who you are comes down to how you have been acting and thinking in the past… and that is completely defined by your habits.

So go on and do what you can to create a life filled with healthy, happy and money making habits!

Best Wishes,

John Derrick

PS – Just about anything in excess can become a bad habit.  Even something as harmless as video games can take over your life.  The key is to find a balance.

PPS – When you are having that glass of wine, or drinking that beer, or eating a slice of pizza.  ENJOY YOURSELF.  Don’t feel guilty.  If it’s not a habit, it should be enjoyed to its fullest!

I must tell you that I didn’t begin by learning what is called “The Law of Attraction”.  In fact my wife and I began using this power in the later 90′s.   We called it “Bending Reality”.   Somehow we realized that we could bend or change our reality by using our minds.   I never thought of it as a attracting change…   and honestly I still think that our definition of “bending reality” is probably more accurate than “Law of Attraction”, which is how it has become known today.

Once I had this realization, that I could bend and change my reality, everything began changing in my life.  I think people around me noticed even faster than I did.

Looking back, I would have to say that I am as near opposite of who I use to be as is humanly possible.

I use to be very high strung and now I am relaxed.

I use to be a bouncer at a bar and I engaged in physical confrontations nightly…. Now I am a peace seeker and have not been in a any kind of physical confrontation since 1999.

I use to drink alcohol daily and now I rarely ever drink and if I do it is in moderation.

I use to be quick tempered… I use to have anxiety… I use to be stressed out all the time… I use to hold grudges for years…. Now I am the opposite of these as well.

Words can not describe it, but I live in a completely different world now.

Where I USE to attract conflicts everywhere I went, life now runs smoothly for me.

Where I use to have lack I now have abundance.

Where I use to have a job, I now have multiple streams of income.

I don’t take life so seriously now. I see messages in my environment daily… like little winks from the universe.  I often recognize external manifestations as previous internal thoughts and feelings.

Whenever I see something I desire, or a change I want to occur in life, I simply write it on my Manifesting Card and I KNOW that change will take place.  I have learned to trust in the universe to care for me.

I used to hate life and hate a lot of people… now I love life and everyone and everything in it.

I use to expect the worst and I usually received it.  Now I expect the best and usually get that.

I use to weight 120lbs more than I currently weigh, and I use to try to loose weight.

I use to attract misery to myself and I had a tendency to wallow in it.   Now I attract situations with happy endings and fun-filled adventure.

I guess my old life was spent warring with the world and focused on destruction while I am now at peace with my past and focus on creation and helping of others.

I use to serve people spirits (alcohol) for a living, which was damaging to their bodies, and now I serve people uplifting spiritual writings and focus on healing peoples spirits and bodies.

I use to save every cent I scraped together…  I was a real penny pincher. I would forgo enjoyment for the security of money in the bank.  I always expected a “rainy day”, and I often had them. I didn’t take vacations because I would rather have more money. Now I live mostly in a state of enjoyment. I take many vacations and I always know that the money will take care of itself. It always does.  I expect sunny days and that is what I tend to receive.

My life has truly done a 180 degree turn around.

Once you know the truth… really KNOW it… you can never go back.

I don’t mean forcing yourself to believe a certain thing. I don’t mean choosing to believe a certain thing. I mean discovering a truth larger than you… larger than words… once you do this… you can never turn back.

It’s similar to telling a child that there is no Santa. No matter how hard you try, once you realize that there is no Santa, you can never go back to believing in Santa. No matter how hard you try.

I have done my best to put everything I have discovered into a single course.

Every trick… not only my own, but those that I have read by works most people have never heard of.  I have gathered those books up also, and included them along with my own discoveries and put them all inside My Secret Course.

If you want to turn your life around too, there is no better time than right now.  Simply CLICK HERE now.

Peacefully Yours,

John Derrick

PS – Keep sending me your questions. I love to hear from you.

The following is taken from Your Secret Course

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Positive Thinking

Uri Gellar has been teaching the power of positive thinking for well over 3 decades, and is quoted with many sayings such as these: “Success really is in the mind” and “Think positive and you’ll act positive”.

Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company is quoted as saying “Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you’re right”

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”, is a famous quote of Winston Churchill. Another quote of his, “For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else” shows his dedication to positive thinking.

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results,” is a quote attributed to Willie Nelson.

“A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks, he becomes,” is a quote from Mahatma Gandhi.

George Foreman once said, “That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I don’t hear it”.

I really feel that W. Clement Stone sums it up in this precious gem of a quote: “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is a positive or negative”.

I could literally fill dozens of pages with quotes from famous and not-so-famous people who not only believe in positive thinking, but also actively practice it. These successful people are leaving a trail of breadcrumbs behind, so that others may follow.

If you think about it, every rags-to-riches story shows someone who thought positively despite what appeared to be going on around him or her. For one to go from rags-to-riches, one has to ignore the rags and the current circumstances in order to obtain the riches. No one lives a fulfilling life experiencing all the greatness life has to offer by thinking negatively.

I am sure you have heard of motivational speakers, such as Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Zig Ziglar, or any other of hundreds of famous motivational speakers. Obviously, all motivational speakers are positive thinkers, so think about this:

How many negative-thinking pessimists do you know? How many of them are successful? How many un-motivational speakers are there? Would you pay money to learn to think negative? No, I wouldn’t either, which is why you don’t find any negative thinking people teaching others how to be successful.

I know this may seem obvious to you, but most of us don’t put two and two together. You and I both know that life coaches, motivational speakers, business teachers and the like are all positive thinkers. We also want to be successful in our own lives, but we don’t see that in order for this to happen we have to change the way we think and become positive thinkers ourselves.

Science has proved with numerous studies that positive thinking, also known as optimism, leads to a longer and healthier life. Don’t take my word for it, look it up yourself.

On Oct 25, 2005 ABC World News ran an article by Ned Potter that opened with the following line: “A growing mountain of evidence suggests that an upbeat, positive attitude could be the key to a long life. ”

The Mayo Clinic has an original article available on their website titled “Prediction of All-Cause Mortality by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Optimism-Pessimism Scale Scores: Study of a College Sample During a 40-Year Follow-up Period”

At the end of the article, the conclusion of the study is stated thusly: “CONCLUSION: In a model that adjusted only for sex, a measure of optimistic vs pessimistic explanatory style was a significant predictor of survival during a 40-year follow-up period such that optimists had increased longevity.”

If you go to the popular search engine, Google, and type in “positive thinking longer life” (without the quotes), you will find nearly 4 million web pages to visit for yourself if you are interested in doing your own research.

Critics of these studies explain the studies results by pointing out that optimistic people are less likely to be depressed, they cope with stress better and are more likely to be physically active and that it’s these things that lead to longer and healthier lives.

So even if the critics were correct, the worse thing they can say is that positive thinking leads a person to healthier habits, and these habits lead to longer and healthier lives. That doesn’t sound too bad to me.

Of course, the critics do not know that the mind influences and changes one’s reality. They only see that optimistic thinking leads to positive habits and that positive habits lead to greater things. Either way you look at it, positive thinking leads to an optimistic outlook on life, and the result is a longer, healthier and happier life.

The method of manifesting with gratitude cards will make use of the power of positive thinking, but if you want to learn how to have a positive outlook on life, especially if you are plagued with negative thoughts, you will want to visit www.YouCanThinkPositive.com

Fighting against your negative thoughts only gives them more power. In the words of the Borg, “Resistance is futile”.

If you beat yourself up over your negative thoughts, you will only create more negative thoughts. If you scream out “no” or “stop”, it only adds to the negativity. You can not use force or mental censorship to change from being a negative thinking person to a positive thinking person, because the very method itself causes more negativity.

The only technique I have found to reliably change myself from a pessimist to an optimist, in two months or less, is outlined fully on www.YouCanThinkPositive.com

You will begin to program your subconscious mind with positive beliefs and positive expectations just by using this Manifesting With Gratitude Cards course. Your conscious thoughts all stem from your subconscious mind where they are formed.

Think about it for a moment. Where do your thoughts come from? What is forming them? When you see something in your environment, what is it that makes you react and feel differently from everyone else?

The answer is your subconscious mind. Experts would say that your past experiences have been saved as memories and your conscious mind draws upon these memories. In part, this is true, but it is your subconscious mind that is stringing these memories together and using them to create your entire outlook on life.

Your subconscious mind is programmed by your conscious mind. Your outlook on the world today is stored in your subconscious, and if you program yourself to think positively every day and expect positive things to happen you to, your subconscious mind will begin to change to be in alignment.

Repetition is the key to learning, so you have to create a pattern of positive thought, and repeat it over and over and soon, that pattern of positive thought will no longer be an efforted action. It will become your natural state of being.

Whatever your natural state of being currently is, you can be sure that it was created by thoughts and actions in your past that were done repeatedly. Today’s beliefs are based on yesterdays programming.

Repetition is how the human mind learns. If a child wants to learn the alphabet, they sing it repeatedly until they magically learn every letter.

You can use this same method to harness the power of positive thought. This course will give you a method whereby you are thinking positively every day, multiple times per day, until it becomes a habit.

Once you develop the habit of positive thought, you will have programmed your subconscious mind to think positively. You will expect positive things to happen to you, and they will. You will shape and create positive experiences for yourself and learn how to live your life in joy. This is the key to harnessing the power of positive thoughts.

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TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW!

Tomorrow we will continue with this teaching with the Power of Daily Affirmations!

-Susan J. Bissonette

It is March 29th… spring has sprung… and yet as I type this I look out my office window to see snow on the ground. Here in the Pacific Northwest we have been hit with a snow storm.

No one expects it to last. Hope springs eternal and the expectation held by all is for warmer weather to come.

If everything were the same outside, but the calendar showed the month as December, the human perception of the day would be considerably different. Instead of expecting warm weather to come one would wonder how much more snow we should expect. The day would be the same… only the human perception of it would be different.

That example illustrates the vast difference between being an optimist and pessimist. The outside would is viewed very differently based on how you interpret the data.

It is the difference between seeing an event as beautiful or ugly….. Half empty or half full…… Young and vibrant or old and tired. ….. It is the difference between enjoying your life or dreading your life.

Nothing is more important than developing a positive attitude, because it affects every aspect of your life.

You Can Think Positive