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Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:00:00 GMT

We all try to understand life. Why we are here, what's the purpose of life, etc. And most of us have our own point-of-view of the meaning of life. Our point-of-view determines how our life can be. Some people say life is hard and to them life is very hard, others say life is a mystery and they wonder through life, others say “well life is just life”, so life is just “wherever”.

There is an interesting interaction between our attitude about life and our circumstances, we may influence our circumstances through our attitudes or we may be influenced by the circumstance according to our view of life. If everything is going smoothly, we tend to say life is beautiful. When things change, become harsh we tend to complain and see life as not so wonderful. What we hear and what we experience create in us a perception of the world, of life itself, influencing our interpretation of the circumstances around us. The way you see life will determine your level of happiness.

So, what is life? how should we see it?

Reading books about the mind and the laws that govern success we find many principles that have been created by God for our good. Principles that have been in His Word written thousands of years ago and in the human mind since the creation.

Here 12 easy principles that if we understand well, will enhance our lives to live the full potential we were designed to live for.

Have a copy of our condensed FREE eBook "Living by Design". Click Here. (condensed in 17 pages pdf)

People Opinions and Law of Allowing.

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:13:00 GMT

"ACCURATE analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure, disclosed the fact that LACK OF DECISION was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of FAILURE. This is no mere statement of a theory— it is a fact.

PROCRASTINATION, the opposite of DECISION, is a common enemy which practically every man must conquer.

Analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark, disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of REACHING DECISIONS PROMPTLY, and of changing these decisions SLOWLY, if, and when they were changed. People who fail to accumulate Wealth, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, IF AT ALL, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often

The majority of people who fail to accumulate wealth sufficient for their needs, are, generally, easily influenced by the "opinions" of others. They permit the newspapers and the "gossiping" neighbors to do their "thinking" for them. "Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting YOUR OWN DESIRE into wealth.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

Keep your own counsel, when you begin to put into practice the principles described here, by reaching your own decisions and following them. Take no one into your confidence, EXCEPT the members of your "Master Mind" group, and be very sure in your selection of this group, that you choose ONLY those who will be in COMPLETE SYMPATHY AND HARMONY WITH YOUR PURPOSE

You have a brain and mind of your own. USE IT, and reach your own decisions. If you need facts or information from other people, to enable you to reach decisions, as you probably will in many instances; acquire these facts or secure the information you need quietly, without disclosing your purpose." (Napoleon Hill, "Think & Grow Rich" ( Copyright notice)

I am reproducing here a story told by Æsop. from the sixth century Before Christ. (book "Fables".The Harvard Classics. Permission Asked).

The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey

An Man, a donkey and his son were once going with their Donkey to market. As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them and said: “You fools, what is a Donkey for but to ride upon?

So the Man put the Boy on the Donkey and they went on their way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: “See that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides.

So the Man ordered his Boy to get off, and got on himself. But they hadn’t gone far when they passed two women, one of whom said to the other: “Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little son trudge along.

Well, the Man didn’t know what to do, but at last he took his Boy up before him on the Donkey. By this time they had come to the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The Man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said: “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor Donkey of yours—you and your hulking son?

The Man and Boy got off and tried to think what to do. They thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied the Donkey’s feet to it, and raised the pole and the Donkey to their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met them till they came to Market Bridge, when the Donkey, getting one of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the Boy to drop his end of the pole. In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned.

That will teach you,” said an old man who had followed them: PLEASE ALL, AND YOU WILL PLEASE NONE.

Allowing means, let people have their opinions, if we need facts before a decision, let's study the facts, let's seek inside of ourselves our purpose and destiny, let's search God's design imprinted in us. Let's take a wise decision and go for it.

Your Subconscious Mind, Key for Success

Wed, 28 May 2008 02:42:00 GMT

NO THOUGHT, whether it be negative or positive, CAN ENTER THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WITHOUT THE AID OF THE PRINCIPLE OF AUTO-SUGGESTION... Stated differently, all sense impressions which are perceived through the five senses, are stopped by the CONSCIOUS thinking mind, and may be either passed on to the subconscious mind, or rejected, at will. The conscious faculty serves, therefore, as an outer-guard to the approach of the subconscious.

Nature has so built man that he has ABSOLUTE CONTROL over the material which reaches his subconscious mind, through his five senses, although this is not meant to be construed as a statement that man always EXERCISES this control. In the great majority of instances, he does NOT exercise it, which explains why so many people go through life in poverty.

Remember, therefore, when reading aloud the statement of your desire (through which you are endeavoring to develop a "wealth consciousness"), that the mere reading of the words is of NO CONSEQUENCE— UNLESS you mix emotion, or feeling with your words. If you repeat a million times the famous Emil Coué formula, "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better," without mixing emotion and FAITH with your words, you will experience no desirable results. Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon ONLY thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.(and Faith)

Napoleon Hill: Think & Grow Rich. Fourth Chapter: Read online at http://www.twinisles.com/shs/tagr/tagr4_1.php

New Book

Fri, 23 May 2008 08:17:00 GMT

Here a snapshot of our new book:

"Living by Design:

Your Law of Attraction"

First Principle “We Are What We Think The Most” 17

Second Principle. “Guide your Thoughts” 23

Third Principle. “Emotion Guidance System” 27

Fourth Principle. “ Born to Enjoy Life” 30

Fifth Principle. “Our Inner Man” 33

Sixth Principle. “ Believe you Have Received” 40

Seventh Principle. “Allowing Time” 44

Eighth Principle. “ Visualization “ 49

Ninth Principle. “ Confession “ 53

Tenth Principle. “ A New Way of Thinking” 56

Eleventh Principle. “ There is Enough for Everyone” 60

Twelfth Principle. “ Be an Uplifter “ 66

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Second Principle: Guide Your Thoughts

Tue, 06 May 2008 12:29:00 GMT

Chapter 2

Second Principle:

We must guide our thoughts to achieve the best outcome

The Bible says: "casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,"2 Corinthians 10:5

The word "captivity" in the Greek text is used for "going to the enemies camp, sizing them and bringing them captive". In every thought that comes to my mind I have the power and duty to analyze if they are convenient or not, if this thought is good or is just waste of time, or worse, can drive me down to harmful things. I must capture them and bring under obedience to the good things God wants in my life.

Many people think they are guided or misguided by their emotions. We heard about "crime of passion", the ones committed under an uncontrollable emotion. We understand that emotions are powerful, but emotions are caused by thoughts, when we let one thought come in and we nurture that thought it will cause emotions and then by continuing that thought we empower the emotion till the point that the emotion grows disproportionately and begin to "control" us.

The first thing we need to do is not to invite or not to let uninvited thoughts dwell in our minds. We control our thoughts and we direct them to where we want to go.

Evaristo Lacerda Living by Design LoA page 23

The 12 Principles.

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:16:00 GMT

We put together 12 principles, or studies, that we want to go through one by one in our meetings, in order to better understand the concept exposed in the book along with the documentary "The Secret".

Here the 12 " Principles"

1. Our dominant thoughts bring about actions, events and circumstances.
2. Drive your thoughts by monitoring your feelings.
3. Choose joyful thoughts: be thankful for the things you have and for the good things that are coming.
4. Believe you have received the things you ask for."
5. Allow time between the thought and it's outcome."
6. Visualize the things you intend to have.
7. Segment intending. Declarations for each part of the day.
8. We are here because our way of thinking in the past brought us to the present, by the same token, we will be in the future by the way we think in the present.
9. Our Inner Being is immanent good.
10. We are born to enjoy life. To live abundantly.
11. There is enough for everyone;
12. Allow people be what they want to be.

Our group is formed of people of all walk of life. Each person bring the best in themselves to enrich the group. And each one allow the other be what they want to be. What bring us together is the 12 principles we want to master.

Someone ask me how can we harmonize the law of attraction with a fundamentalist christian view of life. It is like how to solve the conflict between religion and science. There is no conflit. The real science studies the phenomena of nature, and stop there. That is physics, Religion studies the origins of life and theorizes on their meaning. That is metaphysics. Both completes one another. By Religion I believe in the creation and it's Creator, by science I am delighted by the wonders of the things and laws of creation.

The same is with the law of attraction. Their principles has been in nature since humankind exists. I study the laws as they exist and I study their origin according my christian beliefs. By-the-way, is in the publisher "Living by Design, Your Law of Attraction" 12 simple principles to change your way based in a strong positive biblical view of life. Check it out on http://www.createspace.com/3340299

Joyfully.

First Principle _ As Man Thinks...so is he.

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:24:00 GMT

Every successful person in this world will say that they had something that drove them to the place where they are now. When we read their biographies, we can identify that there was a dominant thought that brought circumstances, events or people in the direction they had in mind. From this finding we derive the first principle of the law of attraction: Our dominant thoughts bring about actions, events and circumstances.

Wherever we think, negative or positive, this continuous thought will bring negative or positive results in our life. The bible tells us the story-drama of a man that ,although a good man, but because he harbor a wrong thought in his mind, he brought disastrous results to himself. We read the drama of Job.

"There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil". Job 1:1

Job was a good man but one day he lost everything he had. His friends could not understand how in this world this good man could loose family, goods , everything. For the most part of the book his friends try to find one fault in him that could explain the reason of his suffering. But he, himself, give us the reason of his "misfortune".

"...the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has happened to me." Job 3:25

Every time his sons and daughters had a party ,a feast in their home, he immediately run to offer sacrifices because maybe, he thought, they had done something wrong. His fear that something bad could happen to them broke the fence he had around him and brought what he feared the most. His dominant thought operated in his life. In the book of Proverbs we read:

"For as he thinks in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7

The whole universe is pure energy, we live in a zero-field ocean of energy where subatomic particles move, coming into and disappearing of existence. Quantum science has been marveled about this phenomenon in the subatomic level. (The Field _ Lynne McTarggart)

It is in this ocean of invisible subatomics particles-waves , created by God and an extension of God that we and the whole universe live. This ocean of energy is the meddium where waves of electricity, magnet or sounds move in. Our minds too is sending out waves, each thought it is not just the passage of quimical-electrical signals between neurons but the emission of frequencies. Looking at an EEG, the electro-encephalogram device that registers the electrical waves that come from our mind, we see how many frequencies are going out of our mind in any given time. Those waves go throughout the universe and can resonate with similar frequencies creating harmony or desarmony, bringing results that is still a vast cience field to be studied.

How many times we are near by someone and they start humming or whistling a song that we were just thinking about. Or in a conversation somebody bring a subject we were just thinking about. Telepathy is still a young science. But it is not too far the day when we may turn on or off lamps, radios etc, or even have devices that enhance the right waves and we will communicate throught our thoughts. As today March 2008, a company demonstrated how a device could read the waves sent to our vocal chords and with a computer they could transform them in commands for a wheel chair. Without voice someone was giving commands to the wheel chair where to go, to turn and to stop. (read link on the right side)

The mind is a powerful device, tremendous energy that we need to guide in the best direction. What we think will affect our lives, it doesn’t matter if we believe in this law or not. Our dominant thoughts will bring about emotions, people, events, circumstances.

Accepting this as a law even in it's infancy, make us wonder how much careful we must be about the thoughts we cherish and how can we guide them in a direction that would enhance and make us live more abundantly. And that is what we will discuss in our second principle.

My Personal View of The Law of Allowing

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:22:00 GMT

One of the most important thing in life is to keep the joy in our mind. We do that by choosing always thoughts that are good, fruitful, positive, that is good for us and at same time a blessing to others.

In our relationships we want to share our happiness with everyone, but not everyone is ready or willingly to receive our way of seeing life. We must remember that there is so much negative thoughts in our world that some people do not believe they can be happy. On the other hand, every one is in different stages in life. Some may have a sadistic way of thinking. Others has been abused in their childhood. Others had relationships that destroyed their self-esteem. Others want to be happy their own way, living for pleasure alone, they replace pleasure for happiness, and sometimes they endup harming themselves and the people around them. Some live in poverty, because they are poor in their thinking, others live in sickness for, among others reasons, hating themselves, eating wrong, or because they don't care about life.

Every human being live in their own stage. Some take their problems thinking someone else can solve them, when we are called to solve our owns. We may receive advise, but everyone has to take responsibility for themselves and then take the decisions that are necessary. Some have so much negative aura, vibes around them that it can harm us. We need to approach each person with love and we need care for them and for ourselves. We cannot let their negativity damage our soul. We must not, by invitation or default,let their thoughts become part of us.

The bible say "Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep." Rom 12:15. It means, show sympathy with everyone, sym-pathos, walk and feel the same with someone. But sympathy does not mean take their place, live their live. Christ came to Lazarus's funeral, there "Jesus wept. Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" John 11:35,36. But instead of looking for the cause of their troubles, He brought the solution. Lazarus was brought back to life.

Instead of living someone else troubles, looking for the causes or to whom to blame, our approach is looking for solutions. Working through the thinking process so they can take productive decisions. If they are in a mind set that do not allow them to see and to change, our decision should be, show possible directions and let them take their own decisions.

Some organizations tell us that if we have a drug addict that we want to help, we need to let them go to the bottom until they really decide they want to change on their own. If we do not let them go, then we may go down with them and we may not be able or will not have the strength to pull them out when they need us. When people are unhappy and they do not want to change their way of thinking, we need to let them be what they choose to be.

When the bible says " Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. ",in the same context it's says "... each one shall bear his own load." Galatians 6:2,5. That means there is a time to help , help with their burden, and there is time to let them go, they are responsible for their own "load".

Allowing means too, respect other's point of view. We do not have to agree with someone in order to love them. Christianity has taught us that we should love even our enemy. "But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you," Matthew 5:43.

We have seen so much hate in the media, and most of time start with just a desagreement in their point-of-view. We never are going to agree with someone in all their point-of-views. We are creatures born to develop our own way to see life, and that is the beauty about life. Each one bring to the table their views, and from that different views new ideas, technologies, improvements are created. Any given group can have common grounds and differ in minor points. What keep the group is the common grounds. If someone do not agree with the common, he has the option to find or create another group that have his common grounds. And so goes the humanity.

Paul said to the Romans: "One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind." Romans 14:5. Be convinced in one owns mind doesn't mean reject the other that do not think alike. Again, what keep us together is the common grounds. And that he said to a church.

One common ground that keep humanity united is the compassion for the fellow human being. When there is catastrophe, we see countries that having strong divergent opinions although come together to help one in need. To care about the planet, to improve the human life, are subjects that bring us together.

Allow others be what they want to be. I can have a friend Muslim, Budhist, atheist or wherever without agree with his/her ideas or beliefs. They have the right to tell me their beliefs if I want to listen, so vice-versa. It is by reasoning that I may accept or reject their way of thinking. If we work together our work is our common ground. If we live in the same neighborhood, the needs of our community is our common ground. We respect one another without agreeing about our beliefs.

We start a Law of Attraction group in our city, we met every other Monday night, there is people of all walk of life. We respect and love them all. Our common ground is the improvement of everyone, is to help people that want to change their lives in a more productive and abundant way. As a Christian I do not have to agree with everything that is said in the group, like nobody has to agree with what I say. But I love them and accept everyone, and is only through my true love that some can see the light that I say is inside me. I may share my views like everybody else. If anyone see in me something they would like to have, then they will ask me how to get it, and that goes both way.

It is an atmosphere of love, respect and acceptance that people are attract for. And any true change in life is a question of personal desire and decision.

Snapshot of the Book "Law of Attraction"

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:39:00 GMT

Your dominant thoughts are creating your reality. Your thoughts are electrical vibrations, waves that go out of your mind and resonates with whatever your thought is about, bringing circumstances, persons or events according to your dominant thought. You are a magnet.
If you concentrate in the things that you do not want, you bring them about. There is a buffer of time between your thought and the manifestation of it, giving you the opportunity to redirect, clarify your thoughts.
Your Inner Being, inner energy, your soul, (God's breath in you - my input) is good, it desires the best, your thought life need to be in agreement with your soul to reach the potential in you for you.
Your feelings are your guidance system to show you if you are in the right track to accomplish the better good in you. Feeling down, stressed, depression, negative thoughts, all or any of them is showing you that you are not in alignment with your Inner Being. Start thinking in something good, a good memory, a good desire, dream about a different future, let the new emotion replace the old. You are creating your future, you are in a deliberately creation. Pay attention to your feelings.
What do you want? Decide what your really want, be specific about, focus on it. "When you meditate, ask and believe that you have received" ( prayer Mark 11:24.)
Disregard how things are, even how people see you, give your attention to the way you prefer things to be.
The more emotion one thought bring to your mind, the greater your magnet power to attract the thing you want.
Spend everyday 10 to 15 min. bringing powerful thoughts, passionate, positive emotions, picture yourself in the things that satisfies and pleases you.
When you feel disappointments, a litle down etc, your Inner Being is telling you are not focusing in what you really want.
Having clarified your intentions you will allow or not what others are offering to you, you invite them in your experience. Giving attention to what you DO NOT want, brings more of it.
The universe has enough provision to give whatever you ask to make your cake. Having joy is the most important thing in life. Do not allow yourself to focus in things that do not make you feel good. Joy is the path to the wonderful life we want.
Our emotional intense joy is our point of attraction, is the momentum where we create powerful waves that goes throughout the universe.
When friends are suffering, concentrate in the solutions, even if you ask the cause, do not dwell on it, look for success, concentrate in a good outcome not in pain.
Allowing is letting others be what they want to be without letting their thoughts interfere in your joy. You share joy, if people around you are not ready and want to keep going their way, let them be. You are not their saviour, unless they want to be "saved" from their way of thinking.
Success it is the achievement of joy, living in joy, contentment, others things will follow.
Rather than jump in action, Think through, see the outcome, visualize it, expect good things to come and they will be. You will be inspired, lead through joyful action to the realization of your dream. Use you body , action, to enjoy that which you have created through your thought.
Pre pave is the joyful creation you have launched in the future paved by inspired joyful actions in the way.

Visualization, is the images I keep in my mind, the things, actions and feelings I want to achieve. Playbook, is my visualization in a chart, in a visible book or board where I can see and meditate about it. Declarations, are sayings that I repeat to myself, declaring the the things I want to be part of my life. Segment intending, are declarations for each part of my day, giving me control of my thoughts in every stage of that day.

This is some of the principles, a nutshel, of the law of attraction. Your comments are very welcomed.

Happiness, pursue or live it ?

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:51:00 GMT

Happiness , Pursue or Live it?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.

"Pursuit of Happiness", our western world developed the idea that humanity are not happy, that happiness is a set of pleasant circumstances, and we must run after them. For some of us, happiness is a dream, always in front of us, we run after, we "pursue" it. Sometimes we catch a little bit of happiness, in a pleasant circumstance, then it slips away and we go again trying to find it.

It all start with the wrong axiom, "human being is not happy". Life is hard and happiness is out there, somewhere.

How different from what we learn from the Creator, what has been taught in oriental religions. We must remember that Christianity come from the middle east. We read in genesis 1:31 " God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" . Creation is good, mankind is good.

Verse 27 "So God created man in his own image... 28 God blessed them" . God is love and justice. We rage when we see injustice, but we show mercy to the needy. God image inside of us. Our Inner Being, our soul is the breath of God in us. Gen 2:7 "...and (He) breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being". God is a good God, full of contentment, joy, happiness and He created the humankind at His image, to be happy, full of contentment.

If someone does not believe that there is a God, or that He speaks through His word, yet we have the evidence of human happiness in the nature.

Have you seen how our pets show happiness ? how they are playful? "puppies" chase one another, hide, run , bark , wag and show how "happy" they are. It is not the same with babies? of course not barking or wagging... We still have games in adult life that reassembles our toys and moods of infancy. Happiness is inside of all of us.

We are born with Happiness, instead of pursue it we need to learn, relearn, to enjoy it. Enjoy the coffee in the morning, the bright sun, the place where we live, the people around us, and we need to show our young children that happiness is inside of us. We enjoy thoughts of peace, love and gladness, and through our thoughts we bring good circumstances. Our joy is not because the circumstances but because of the thought that brought them.

I read about a man that went through the concentration camp without loosing his mind. He said " they can take everything from me but my thoughts" .

The happiness of my thoughts bring happy circumstances, and even when circumstances are not the most desirable I still think about good things and I know things will turn around.