Really, tell me what it means to you?  Has it affected your job, or how you get paid, the flow of customers to your door or the way people spend in your store?  Has the news affected your own mental outlook as far as spending, investing or how you care for yourself?  If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then the current buzz about the economy has affected you in some way.

Whatever your current reality feels like, that’s right - feels like, changing the status of your thoughts about what seems apparent is the only solution out of a place that is not comfortable.  My belief is that it is important not to label any situation as “bad” or “good” which is difficult sometimes; however, the current reality will always change and will always take you to a new place in life.

Change is a constant.  We cannot stop change; although, we can go kicking and screaming it will still happen.  If we resist it will definitely happen; and, will not feel as good to us as it will when we recognize that change is in the air, and that it can take us to a new level of living, hopefully more consciously.

So to recap, the current situation is about change.  If we are adventurous we can say, “oh wow, I can’t wait to see where all this is headed.”  To remain calm, take needed action, pray and meditate it requires a certain level of composure and TRUST in the overall Universal Plan.  And, if you think I left God out of that equation let me rephrase.  It requires TRUST in God’s Universal Plan and the Laws that are always in operation waiting for any of us tap into them.

Two of those Laws are the Laws of Attraction and Connectivity.  The Law of Attraction is self-explanatory but it means that the frequency, or vibe as we said in the 1960s,that you send out as to what is true for you, what you believe about yourself, will attract all of that simply because it is a Universal Law set in motion.  The Law of Connectivity states that we are all connected.  The good news on all levels about that is that we are connected to and through Source Energy, God, or the Universe, however that suits you.

Those two unique Laws give you everything you need to shift your reality during hard or seeming troubled times.  So how to do it?  Focus, focus, and focus on what you want, not what seems to be.  Vision Boards, Vision Books or a computer Vision Screen are all great ways to keep the faith and let the Universe know you are putting in your order.  Add music to your creative visualizing time and make it sentient rich, emotion laden and so real you can taste, hear, feel and smell the new creation.

Read only great material.  I love books by some of the teachers that have already left us, plus some of my favorite teachers present time like Jack Canfield.  Hang out with Masters and live in the gratitude of the present moment.  If you don’t feel like you have something to be grateful for, make it up.  Just start by saying and feeling thank you.  Take a deep breath and look at the sunshine or the trees or a flower.  We are deeply blessed on this planet so there’s really no end to what we can be grateful for.

My favorite books for a shift in perspective are: The Master Key System, by Charles Haanel; How to Prosper in Hard Times, a collected work of Joseph Murphy, Napoleon Hill, George Clason and other masters; The Success Principles by Jack Canfield; The Power of the Subconscious Mind, by Joseph Murphy and The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles.  So many more could be listed but these few will pull anyone out of poverty consciousness and back to the truth which is that God is not poor and through the Law of Connectivity neither are we.

We are learning now from information on Brain Sciences and Quantum Physics that all we are is pure potential.  And although the possibility of all potential is a gift we’ve been given, we often twist the possibilities against our self.  According to our energetic impulses, our thought waves, we also tap into the Pure Potential of the Universal Mind from which all things spring.  And that happens because of the Laws of Attraction and Connectivity of all things.

One of my favorite teachers of the Law of Attraction is Jack Canfield.  Jack walks his talk and lives the life of a great manifestor.  I love to quote one of his lines from the Secret Movie, “Decide what you want; know you can have it, believe you deserve it, and be open to receive it.”  It can’t be said much plainer than that. It’s worth your time to take a trip to his site and take full advantage of Jack’s training materials.  http://www.jackcanfield.com/cmd.php?af=700087

When we experience emotion, part of our body mind, the hypothalamus matches the emotional state and sends out peptides through the pituitary gland which seek to connect or link to docking points on cells in our body.  As we get locked into similar thinking day in and day out those docking points are all ready to receive impulses they are used to.  Certain situations trigger emotions, if they are familiar emotions, strong emotions, the cells have locking docks just waiting for them.  In many ways it could be said that triggers, the emotions they stir up and then the cellular response to them will eventually become “old friends”. 

Familiar triggers and emotions create patterns and habits because people tend to relate certain actions, people, places and experiences with strong feelings.  This in turn sets up predictable behaviors because some things feel good and some feel bad.  People generally go for the better or familiar feeling even if this doesn’t net them the best results.

In brief it feels easier to do the same things, even if they don’t bring the best results because our neurological network gets wired for certain responses.   And, although every human is limitless, most function at a very limited level because it feels “normal” or right to them.  Daily behavior, then, becomes what a person believes to be true about them; and, it will continue to be true for them

Patterns of thinking also set up an agreement with the Greater Universal Mind that this is what we expect to be true for us.  Because the Universe, Source, is very neutral and non-judgmental, it can only respond in support.  It sends to us people, circumstances and materials that will be a similar energetic frequency to the energetic frequency of the thoughts or beliefs we hold to be true for us.  The stronger the feelings behind thoughts, the bigger the frequency produced, and the faster the response from the Universal Field of All Potential.  

Depending on the habitual pattern, the thing that keeps happening, our job to break the habit is to replace one thing for another which will produce a more desirable outcome.  In other words, if we can understand a behavior that produces a painful outcome, then we can use a reprogramming technique such as Sedona Method, TFT and EFT, Breath work with Journaling or EMDR to shift the energy around patterns of behavior.  It requires effort and continual vigilance for a full 30 – 40 days.  That helps the neural network to send a new message for new behaviors.  That’s how long it takes to break a neurological response pattern, a habit.  Your intention is everything.

As you break an old way of being, old networks are broken, new chemical responses are felt and new neural pathways are created.  The Greater Universal Mind also supports the effort and determination on the part of the person.  Because a person is shifting what they believe to be true about them, the impulse and response from the Universe supports the new belief.  This goes back again to the Law of Connectivity and the Law of Attraction. This is the reason not to give up when you are working on YOU as a project.  Many people, most people in fact, quit right before they achieve success. Having a strong support system is crucial.

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To get new results and create new ways things happen in your life begin thinking new thoughts about yourself.  Shift your perspective as your own life observer.  Shift the energy around the situation and keep doing the process until you start getting the results you hope for.  In that way you claim more of who you really are.  As always support is a key in shifting patterns and remembering the goodness you truly are in the process.