Author Archives: Yucel

Who am I?

Who am I? …  What do I choose? …  I will live the question of what I choose, until I am living the answer.
 
I was guided using words similar to these by Rita, a meditation guide, recently during a guided meditation in Phoenix.
 
Her exact format was to ask “what” where I have written “choose”.
 
As you may imagine the version with choose felt better for me.  ( see also:  http://choose.ws/2009/10/29/positive-pivots/choosing/what-place-do-you-choose-for-want-in-your-life/yucel/ )
 
Though I did like very much like Rita’s overall format,  in my mind, I thought “choose” in place of “want” and the meditation resonated nicely for me this way.
 
On inquiry after finishing the session, Rita attributed her lyric source to something inspired through Deepak Chopra.
 
 I like using this phrasing and believe it works well for me.  Though I choose to use choose in place of want.   Alternatively, I might have chosen to use desire.
 
The phrasing helps me to allow more peacefully what is, as I am living the question of what I choose contentedly, while patently manifesting what will be, until it is.
   
I am grateful to Deepak and Rita for having carried the water this far. 
 
Touched now by me, it is passed on to you.
 
It is now for you to sip and decide for yourself if you will choose to keep it with you.
 
Peace on your journey,
Yucel

What Wanting does through the Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction ( LOA ) is always in motion.  It is set in motion by our thoughts and feelings, be they conscious, unconsious, and/or subconcious.

Choosing or desiding firmly sets the Law of Attraction in motion in manifesting that we have decided on or chosen.

Wanting is a form of desire for lack.

Wanting something will utilize the LOA to keep us wanting by creating more desire for lack.

Thus wanting can create a run away train effect of desire for lack.

Here is an example of a difference between wanting and desiding.

When you are standing in the cold, with your nose pressed up against the glass of a luxurious eating establishment, and you are wanting to enjoy such a delicious meal, you are in fact desiring what you lack.  You are cold and with out.

When you deside to go in to the restaurant, are seated at the table, with an open menu in your hand, and choose to order the lobster, you have choosen are warm, comfortable and will eat. 

The same thing applies to wanting other wants, for example wanting a million dollars.

Ask almost anyone, “You want a million dollars?”

The answer is typically,  “Yes, I want a million dollars.”

The world is full of poor blokes wanting a million dollars.

Show me someone who chooses to be abundant, who decides to have a million dollars, I’ll show you someone who has money flowing their way.

Yours in abundance,

Yucel

“You can choose.” Harry Browne

“You don’t have to buy from anyone. You don’t have to work at any particular job. You don’t have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.”
— Harry Browne

When we are often the most depressed, we often say, “we have no choice.”

We always a have a choice. 

To be more satisfied in our lives, we need merely choose that which we love and prefer.

What then of he or she who is drowning in a sea of choice?

Our minds and the Law of Attraction cannot distinguish between imagination and experience. 

Using this property of mind we can try out in mind our choices to see how the feel.

Try mentally making a choice of one of the choices.  Decide on it.  Try it on in your head.  Fully feel, imagine, how this choice plays out in your mind. Feel how it feels in your gut and system as you live this choice mentally.  Take note of the feelings.   You are not looking so much to see how the choice plays out.  Rather, you should focus on how the choice feels.  Your feelings know better than you thoughts how well the choice works for you.

Then try choosing mentally another of the possible choices.  Again, go through the feelings.

As you progress through the choices, one will feel better than the others.

Choose this choice over the others.

If they all feel less than good, get help to brain storm other choices.

If you run out of time and must choose, choose the choice which felt the best of the choices you ran through.

You can also try playing out how it feels not to choose.

Sometimes where we are is better than where we may be.

It’s all choice.

Yours in choice,

Yucel

How to get what I Want

When do I get what I want?  How do I get what I want?  Am I getting what I want?  It’s really quite simple when you realize what you are choosing when you want.

What do I mean by this?

Many of us do not do the work of realizing through examination of contrast what is in our lives we desire not to choose any longer and what we now truly desire manifesting.  Michael Losier explains a great deal about this concept of contrasts in his writings. 

Am I getting what I want

The answer is simple if slightly convoluted.   We always get whatever we focus on, through The Law of Attraction. When we want something, we are focused on desire of what we lack.  What we thus create through wanting is more lack.

( for more on contrast or want as lack see also:  http://choose.ws/2009/10/29/positive-pivots/choosing/what-place-do-you-choose-for-want-in-your-life/yucel/ )

How do I get what I want?

As we want, we desire more lack.  As we desire more lack, we create lack in our lives.  So, as we focus on want, we create want and lack in our lives.  And, as we always get what we focus on, we always get want we want.

If you find that when you want something, you notice a feeling of lack and that the thing you want is not in fact in your life, you are noticing the creatation of more lack, which is exactly what want is. 

By focusing on want, or lack, we are perpetrating more lack.

If you desire something, or choose something, or prefer something, you will get a different result than if you want something.

As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, you will have what you are in gratitude of and lack what you want.

How then may we create consciously?

To actually create something we desire in our lives, we focus on the idea or feeling of what it is that we desire. 

Then we realize this thing we desire is already there for us in the infinity of the universe. 

Being there for us, we can be grateful for it. 

Focused thus on having it and being grateful for it, we may choose it, and by choosing it further perpetrate and multiply its presence through and in our lives.

Yours in choice,

Yucel

What may be better than Hope?

Don’t you just find it so promising to be hopeful?  Isn’t hope a kind of optimistically good feeling that is bound to improve your life?

We have blogged on optimism in the past.  ( see:  http://choose.ws/2009/10/01/what-is-reality/positive-realistic/the-glass-is-half-full/yucel/ )

Hope can be another kind of optimism. 

We have also blogged on Presence and Gratitude.  ( see:  http://choose.ws/2009/09/09/what-is-reality/presence/presence-and-gratitude/yucel/ )

As we have discussed, happiness and therefore inner peace always occur in the present.

Being positive is a good way of looking at any situation,  as is being grateful.

So what then can it be to look at something with hope?

Isn’t it present or grateful to be hopeful?

Twice no.

First, when we are hoping, we may be giving up responsibility.  When so doing, we may in fact manifest a worse outcome than had we been less than hopeful.  In this mode, hope is used as a kind of crutch.  As with any crutch, we are handicapped when using one properly.  Examples:

We just hope to win the lottery.  Regardless of the handicap of not buying a ticket.   

We just hope the paint job will be a good one.  Regardless of the handicap of not having thought it through, hired professional help, or of giving our best to the project.

We just hope we will find a fabulous partner.  Regardless of being handicapped by refusing to do the work of making ourselves worthy.

Second, and I believe more to the point, hope is generally an expectation for and often an attachment to things being better than they currently are.  Examples of this context are:

We are being ungrateful by being hopeful.    By wanting, which is feeling lack, things to be better through being hopeful, we are in fact being less than grateful for and appreciative of how things are. 

If we were being grateful, we would be pleased with and thankful for how things are as opposed to being hopeful for them being different.

By looking for things to change in the future, we are in fact divorcing ourselves from being present.  

Since happiness can only occur in the present we, by being hopeful things will get better, are not being present.

How can we, while not present, ever be truly peaceful or happy?   I cannot imagine.

While gratitude can create happiness, we may also be creating want by being hopeful.  

Want is a lack.  ( for more on want, see also:  http://choose.ws/2009/10/30/positive-pivots/choosing/how-else-to-fill-the-lack-which-is-want/yucel/ )

As gratitude magnifies our blessings and happiness, hopefulness will magnify any current lacks we acknowledge through hoping.  

We are, when being hopeful, painfully aware of what is missing.  ( for more on missing, see also:  http://choose.ws/2009/05/01/positive-pivots/hello-world/yucel/ )

When things are missing, we feel pained.

Hoping when failing to be present always feels discordant.

Reaping what we sow by planting thoughts of hope, we will eventually harvest hope’s fruits, which must also of necessity be bitter, if we plant lack.

So you might ask, why then do we believe so strongly that hope feels good?  

When one is in great pain, alleviating the pain somewhat feels better.  There are many emotions and thoughts more painful than hope. 

Being negative or pessimistic for instance feels worse than hope.  

If we are feeling very negative about our prospects, going from negative to hopeful will generally feel better.

What we need to take care to keep in mind however is that hope is, at best, a way point; not a safe peaceful haven in its own right then quickly move forward from being hopeful into the present. 

How do we accomplish this?

We move into the present by being present. 

We may be present by being grateful, accepting and allowing of what is, while perhaps looking forward to more of the blessings we already have in abundance and for which are already grateful.

This is how we can feel happier and more peaceful now, while also manifesting the futures of our choice.

Gratefully yours,

Yucel