The Money Attracting Challenge: Day 22

By Anne Bellamy, Author of Using The Law of Attraction To Help The Universe Help You

On Day 22 I logged onto my blog to find the following comment:

Anne,

Hi there, great post and I love the whole idea of the attracting money series. I am posting here because I could not find a contact us form and I wanted to let you know that your blog was one of the sites nominated for most positive website for the month of August at http://www.positivethinking-toolbox.com/positive-websites.html

Every month our guests nominate 3 to 5 sites for the next month. Your blog was one nominated so I would like to invite you and your guests to vote.

Congratulations on the nomination and good luck.

Bonnidette

All I can say is: Thank you! My gratitude is flowing from me to you, who nominated me.  I don't know who  you are (but I have a few usual suspects), but I appreciate you.

See how this is working?  This looking for positives.  This feeling appreciation.  This asking and receiving.  I never could have predicted this outcome.  I didn't have to! Okay, okay, I know what you might be thinking "it's just a nomination for blog of the month".  But that's not what I'm thinking.  I'm thinking thank you.  I'm thinking the Universe is bringing me what I ask for.  I'm thinking "how exciting....my £1000 is on its way!"

The Money Attracting Challenge: Days 20 & 21

By Anne Bellamy, Author of Using The Law of Attraction To Help The Universe Help You

On Day 20, which was Saturday, I did something that I rarely do.  I mean once in a blue moon, and usually it's because I've spent the day on an airplane....I went offline.  For the whole day....actually longer, probably more like 36 hours. 

While I get great enjoyment and satisfaction from the internet and all the connections I've made, I must admit, some days it feels like a chore, like an obligation.  This is how I felt on Saturday morning.  I stared at my computer and the thought of turning it on, quite simply, turned me off.  So, I said to myself "well, turning on the computer is what I don't want....so what is it I do want?"  This was a no-brainer.  Pivoting here was pretty clear.  I wanted to step away from the computer, for the day at least.

Once I'd made this decision, I felt a weight off my shoulders.

Ahhhh.....relief!  How good you feel.  I don't know why I felt particularly stressed at the thought of going online that day, but it doesn't matter.  I chose relief.  It's my dominant intent to do that which feel good. 

Day 21 starting with my waking up and thinking "Today, it is my dominant intent to seek out that which pleases me.  Because feeling good is the most important thing."

Then, my 40 minute run: "Thank you Universe for this functioning body!  Thank you for the abundant life I have! I love feeling abundant!  I love feeling joy!  I love feeling prosperous!  I've got a great life!"

In the afternoon, we went to a String Quartet Concert in a nearby museum.  It was set in a beautiful garden and the sun was shining.  I'm not a huge fan of classical music, but our neighbour was the cellist and it was a local event...It lasted about an hour and a half.  During most of that time I closed my eyes, felt the sun on my face, listened gently to the music, heard the birds chirping....it was pure bliss!  I don't even know what music they played.  I just know I made a conscious decision to feel good about where I was.  I don't usually meditate for that long, but I swear, I felt 10 years younger!  :-)

The Money Attracting Challenge: Day 19

by Anne Bellamy, Author of Using The Law of Attraction To Help The Universe Help You

Day 19: I am still trying (and sometimes being very successful) at monitoring my thoughts and intentionally pivoting them when they stray to the negative.  Although I've said I'm paying more attention now, it's not always easy and sometimes bad habits pop up.  Hey, I'm human.  Doesn't it take 21 days for a new habit to form?  Well, I've got 2 more days then.

I will say this though: As a result (I believe) of my pivoting, and looking for that which pleases me, I find myself smiling and feeling good at random moments.  Usually it would take something funny on TV, or a happy memory etc. to elicit this feeling.  But now, more and more, I'm just plain happy.  Sitting, meditating (as always) and just plain smiling.  I do feel the tide is turning.  I can't really explain it.  But there's a shift.  I feel it intuitively.

My intuition is something that I've been trying to develop (over several years) and now I find myself listening to it more and more.  Maybe that's what is making me happy.  It's a feeling of faith.  A feeling that all is well and getting weller.  A feeling that I know (intuitively) that I am meant to have a great life.  To be honest, I've already had a pretty great life.  A few dips but a lot of highs. 

So, it's with gratitude that I look forward to what the Universe brings me.  I know it'll be great.  I hope you had a great day too.

The Money Attracting Challenge Day 18: My "New" Money Story

By Anne Bellamy, Author of Using The Law of Attraction To Help The Universe Help You

So, I'm still reading Money and The Law of Attraction, when I came across this excerpt.  It's kinda long, but very powerful.  I suggest that, as you read it, you act as if you are saying the words, and feel the emotions that come with it.  That's what I did:

"I like the idea that money is as available as the air I breathe.  I like the idea of breathing in and breathing out more money.  It is fun to imagine a lot of money flowing to me.  I can see how my feeling about money affects the money that comes to me.  I am happy to understand that with practice I can control my attitude about money, or about anything.  I notice that the more I tell my story of abundance, the better I feel.

I like knowing that I am the creator of my own reality and that the money that flows into my experience is directly related to my thoughts.  I like knowing that I can adjust the amount of money that I receive by adjusting my thoughts.

Now that I understand the formula for creating; now that I understand that I do get the essence of what I think about; and, most important, now that I understand that I can tell by the way I am felling whether I am focused upon money or lack of money, I feel confident that in time, I will align my thoughts with abundance - and money will flow powerfully into my experience.

I understand that the people around me hold many different perspectives about money, wealth, spending, saving, philanthropy, giving money, receiving money, earning money, and so forth, and that it is not necessary for me to understand their opinions or experiences.  I am relieved to know that I do not have to sort all of that out.  It is very nice to know that my only work is to align my own thoughts about money with my own desires about money, and that whenever I am feeling good, I have found that alignment.

I like knowing that it is all right for me to occasionally feel negative emotion regarding money.  But it is my intention to quickly direct my thoughts in better-feeling directions, for it is logical to me that thoughts that feel good when I think them will bring positive results.

I understand that money will not necessarily manifest instantly in my experience with the changing of my thinking, but I do expect to see steadyimprovement as a result of my deliberate effort to think better-feeling thoughts.  The first evidence of my alignment with money will be my improved feeling, my improved mood, and my improved attitude - and then real changes in my financial situation will be soon to follow.  I am certain about that.

I am aware of the absolute correlation between what I have been thinking and feeling about money and what is actually happening in my life experience.  I can see the evidence of the Law Of Attraction's absolute and unerring response to my thought, and I look forward to more evidence in response to my improved thought.

I can feel a powerful leveraging of Energy in being more deliberate about my thoughts.  I believe, at many levels, that I have always knows this, and it feels good to return to my core beliefs about my power and value and worthiness.

I am living a very abundant life, and it feels so good to realize that whatever this life experience causes me to desire - I can achieve that.  I love knowing that I am unlimited.

I feel tremendous relief in recognizing that I do not have to wait for the money or the things to materialize before I can feel better.  And I now understand that when I do feel better, the things and experiences and money that I want must come.

As easily as air flows in and out of my being - so it is with money.  My desires draw it in, and my ease of thought lets it flow out.  In and out.  Ever flowing. Always easy. Whatever I desire, whenever I desire, as much as I desire - in and out."

I've decided to read this excerpt twice a day....at least, because:

The Money Attracting Challenge: Day 17 - Appreciation

By Anne Bellamy, Author of

Using The Law of Attraction To Help The Universe Help You

Day 17 was a day of Appreciation.  I specifically set time aside to feel grateful, to feel appreciation for what I already have.  I followed Esther and Jerry Hicks' advice on the technique of 17 seconds.  If you're not sure of what that is, have a look:

You know what?  This stuff works.  I sat down a few times yesterday to deliberately do this.  Each time, the momentum SWUNG towards Happiness.  I was absolutely beaming!  Thought after thought after thought of positive, happy, joyful, abundant, appreciative emotions poured forth from me.  Try it, it's seriously addictive....in a good way. 

I did it just before turning off the light and going to sleep.  Such a peaceful sleep I had!

The Money Attracting Challenge: Day 16

By Anne Bellamy, Author of Using The Law Of Attraction To Help The Universe Help You

Day 16 started off with my 40 minute run.  I look forward to this run now, not because of the physical benefit it gives me, but because it has become a dedicated time for my affirmations.  I feel really, really good while I'm running and saying my affirmations to myself.  Maybe there is a bit of two birds, one stone going on here,



because I do know that I am benefitting physically, and perhaps that's helping with my mood.  But, it's like I can't wait to get out there to tell the Universe what to bring me.  I can't wait to affirm and confirm my abundance to the Universe! 

Still reading Money and The Law of Attraction.  It keeps me focussing on my thoughts.  It keeps me paying attention, and it keeps me pivoting away from negativity (what I don't want) and towards positivity (what I do want.....£1000 by August 31, among other things)

15 minutes of quiet meditation....ahhhhh!!!!  I love the feeling of ease.  I love the view!  Gotta get me one of those!



The Money Attracting Challenge: Day 15

By Anne Bellamy, Author of Using The Law of Attraction To Help The Universe Help You

As I continue to read Money and The Law of Attraction, I've begun to put another of their recommendations into practice. Each night, before I go to sleep, I say the following (which I've paraphrased, as I don't have the book in front of me right now) :

"Tonight, as I sleep, all attraction will stop.  Which means that tomorrow, when I wake, I will have a new beginning.  It will be my dominant intent to look for and find that which pleases me, because there is nothing more important than feeling good."

Then, when I wake up in the morning, one of the first thoughts I have is "Today, it is my dominant intent to look for that which pleases me because feeling good is the most important thing."

This is how I started Day 15.  It was another restful day, as I hadn't entirely recovered from Saturday's party, but the rest did me good.  I put on some classical music and meditated to it, feeling easy, calm and blissful.

Then I logged on to Twitter to find a message from another Twitter friend, Ryan Biddulph.  He recommended an online live meditation taking place in London. While I didn't read the message in time, I so appreciate his thoughtfulness.  If you are interested in The Law of Attraction at all, then I highly recommend you follow him. Good things (and friends) come to those who take the time to attract them.