The Power of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

So the Law of Attraction stopped working for you, has it? When the proverbial wotsit hits the fan, if you are like most of us, a feeling of helplessness may overcome you at least for a while. On a really bad day, it may even be hopelessness that you feel, which is a very unpleasant place to be indeed.
But allow me to dispel once and for all that things can ever be hopeless or that you are helpless. There is always a resource at your command that will get you out of any hole and which is extraordinarily powerful. That resource is … the bank? No! The tax man with a refund? No! The government … erm, no.
The resource, which can never be taken from you, is your own mind!
As a human being you are a member of a species which is quite possibly unique in its ability to change its mind! In other words – you can decide what to think! And once you do that, you will change what you feel.
Take Nelson Mandela, incarcerated for twenty seven years, much of it in solitary confinement. He emerged from that experience loving and wise, and fit to govern a country with the most appalling problems. That he emerged alive was a miracle, but to be in that condition takes a special discipline of mind. Or Mahatma Gandhi who saw that his truth and beliefs could never be taken from him.
You don’t have to endure what these remarkable men went through in order to thrive. One good and very positive thinking friend of mine was once very short of money with no visible means of where his next mortgage payment was going to come from. Yet he remained remarkably cheerful. I asked him how he did it. His reply was, “If everything I own got taken away tomorrow, I’ve still got me, and I’m always going to do something. Money isn’t my greatest resource – I am - and if I can’t think of a way to put a meal in my belly and a roof over my head within twenty four hours, there’s something wrong with me.”
Once you realise that YOU are your most precious and powerful resource, nothing and no one can ever make you feel bad again.
Harnessing The Power Of Your Greatest Resource
This is all very well, but if you got out the wrong side of the bed this morning aren't you stuck with it? Well, no. Of course not. Here are some steps you can take to turn things around.
First, realise that you have a power that quite possibly no other species has. (I'm not Desmond Morris, so if I'm wrong about that, I'll stand corrected!). What is that power? The power to choose what you think about. It's one of those "so obvious we take it for granted" statements, but it's a life changer. Trust me.
Okay, next, choose - on purpose - to think about something that makes you feel happy. A piece of music you like, or a friend who always makes you laugh. How about a joke you heard in the office? A holiday recollection, or even one of those "saucy" moments! Aha! Got you smiling already, haven't I?
Now, you'll notice something very important here. When you changed what you thought about, you changed how you felt. It's automatic. Feelings follow thoughts!
This step alone is actually enough to change your destiny. Can you imagine how much more attractive you are when you're smiling, optimistic and bright? People and opportunities are drawn to you, whereas staying glum is a guaranteed way of staying overlooked too.
But you can do more. Once you've got yourself into a happy state, just start making pictures in your head of how you want things to turn out. Imagine the rest of the day going really smoothly. That meeting giving you a positive outcome; a phone call to a client or a relative being cheerful and relaxed ... whatever.
Start noticing the results, and as your confidence with this grows, you can expand the ideas to a greater future. Let yourself imagine and feel the prosperity you want flooding into your life; or how about your love life turning out perfectly?
The problems come when we look at what is here now and we imagine that that is how they're always going to be. Then we feel bad, and we imagine even more of it, and pretty soon you've proved yourself right.
Self-fulfilling prophecies work on the positive side too, so harness the incredible power of your mind, and watch the changes happen like magic!
Trevor Emdon is a Personal Development writer, trainer and workshop leader. www.wizardofwisdom.com, emai: trev@wizardofwisdom.com or call 01392 861134.