Now back to me. =P  Another recommendation I would like to make to you is this:  Run, don’t walk, to this website.  www.tut.com  Here you will find a whole gaggle of enormously inspirational works by a man named Mike Dooley.  Everything from hours of audio about the Law of Attraction to a mailing list called Notes from the Universe (which is free!) to help you feel more powerful and to keep you on the path of feeling good.  You can subscribe to these ‘Notes’ so that they show up in your email daily, and I can’t even begin to tell you how helpful they are.  But you know me.  I’m gonna try. 

As Law of Attraction would have it, I always receive just the right note at just the time I need it.  As I’ve said in the About Me section of this blog, I have recently moved to New York City.  I am currently pursuing my lifelong dream of being an actor!  And let’s just say having Law of Attraction working for me in this endeavor makes it more exciting, more hopeful, and more fulfilling than it already would have been otherwise!

But to get back to the story, I received a Note from the Universe saying something to the effect of, “What do you really want that you haven’t visualized in a really long time?  Now is the time to visualize it.”  I realized that as hard as I’ve been trying to get work as an actor (well, there’s the first clue right there, huh?  “Hard?” “Trying?” “Work?“  You and I and everyone else would be smart to take those words out of any situation!), I haven’t actually sat down and visualized it for a long time.

So I closed my eyes right there, and I began to visualize the ideal scenario, which is me working a creatively and financially satisfying acting job, feeling confident, feeling successful, feeling appreciated by the director and fellow actors and audience members.  I painted the picture exactly as I wanted to see it and felt the feelings of having it now.  I spent about ten minutes doing this, if even that.

When I finished, I went to Starbucks for my daily fix, and who should call me on the phone, but my old film agency back in Utah!  Very interesting, considering I haven’t received a call from them since APRIL!  And they weren’t just calling to send me out on an audition.  They were calling because of some film project coming up that they thought I would be good for, and they were pretty much offering me a spot!

Now, did I rant and rave and wonder why the Universe got its signals mixed and offered me a job across the country instead of right here?  No!  I explained to the agency that I don’t live there anymore, respectfully declined the offer, and then I hung up the phone and jumped up and down at how prompt the Universe was in giving me a sign!  I took it as a very nice reminder that I am on the right path, that I am an actor who is in demand, and that Law of Attraction absolutely works!  There was no ‘trying’ or ‘hard’ about it.  Visualizing something that makes me happy is about the easiest thing that I could do, and it yielded immediate results!

And that’s only one of many thrilling experiences I’ve had when I follow the advice given to me by Notes from the Universe.  Go to the website!  See for yourself!

Also, on the subject of visualization, I would also like to refer you to an extremely helpful and informative  book.   

Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain was my first in-depth introduction to Law of Attraction, and what a fine introduction it was!  The book is small, easy to read, and full of helpful visualizing techniques, affirmations, and advice.  Not to mention the real caring and love that comes through in Shakti Gawain’s writing style.  She has a way of really making you understand how special and powerful you really are.  I can happily say that this book literally changed my life.  Check it out! 

Until next time!

Mitch

However!  I promised that I would be sending you to various websites with even more valuable information, and I am delivering on that promise.  I do know of an EFT specialist named Brad Yates who, like me, loves combining Emotional Freedom Techniques with Law of Attraction, and he does it with exquisite results!  Brad can help you tap your way into any kind of abundance, be it money, health, or love.  His audios and videos are full of humor and kindness and just plain good content!

Check out his website and see what I mean. This man knows where it’s at.

Mitch

Emotional Freedom Techniques is (is? are? Hmm. English. I’m a fan.) a type of therapy consisting of focusing on one’s problem, be it emotional or physical, while tapping with two fingers on different energy points on the body.  These energy points are called meridians, and knowledge of them dates back thousands of years.  Therapies like acupuncture utilize them, and in fact, EFT is a direct descendant of ancient Chinese medicine.

“Okay, fine.  But what does any of this have to do with Law of Attraction?” you may be asking.  (It’s amazing how I’m always reading your mind like that, isn’t it?  I should have my own TV show! ) 

Well, here’s the thing about Law of Attraction that sometimes gets people stopped.  Resistance.  Law of Attraction states that whatever we are feeling on a consistent basis is what the Universe will reflect back to us in our lives.  This means that if we are aware of that knowledge, and we start floating good feelings and intentions often, we will get what we want.  Right?  Right.

The problem is that being made aware of this knowledge is not always enough to make us believe it.  And is it possible to manifest things in your life without your believing that you can intentionally do so?  Well, yes.  The Law of Attraction is always in action, for you, for me, and even Michael Jackson.  (How’s that for a mantra??  I don’t know whether to pat myself on the back or slap myself in the face!)  The point is, you can and do create things in your life without the belief that you can, but isn’t the idea of doing it on purpose so much more appealing? 

Imagine right now, especially if you never have before, living in a world where you have everything you want.  The job, the spouse, the house, the car, the mountains of money, the travel, and most importantly, that perfect sense of inner calm, love for yourself, love for the world, and joy.  Sit inside of that world for just a moment.  Here, I’ll sit with you.

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Nice, isn’t it?  Now imagine a world in which you know that you can create all of those things and anything else you want just by feeling it into existence!  Pretty exciting, I’d say!  But I know from personal experience that it takes time and effort to release ideas contrary to this one, ideas that have been pounded into my head (and probably yours too) since the day I was born.  Let’s face it, not everyone knows about the Law of Attraction.  And a lot of the people who do know about it really don’t believe in it.  As in, they get angry at you just for talking about it.  It is difficult to totally incorporate LOA when it seems so contrary to everything that you’ve been taught.  It’s even worse when you bring it up to the people around you and they stare at you like you’re a cuckoo clock that just struck thirteen.  (Personal experience, folks!  I’ve had my share of critics!)

And that’s where EFT comes in.  EFT is one of the fastest, most efficient, and easiest ways I’ve ever discovered of releasing negative thoughts and emotions.  Thoughts like, “I can’t do it.  LOA isn’t real.  This can’t work for me.”  I personally believe that we all know, somewhere inside of us, that we can have everything we want, and that it can come more easily to us than we have been told.  But I also believe that somewhere along the way we were told that it is not that easy, that the world doesn’t work that way, or that we are not deserving, and sadly, we believed it.  Even when we want to believe we can have what we want, we continue to let all those Negative Nellies keep us down.  That is because the beliefs that LOA is just a myth have been so prevalent in our lives that they have sunk way down deep into our subconscious minds and taken root, and those roots have been watered and tended by everyone around us who believed the same thing and have eventually grown into a big, awkward, uncomfortable, and disruptive Tree of Resistance!

Now, you don’t necessarily need EFT to remove this diseased tree from your subconscious garden.  We really can choose to believe anything that we want with enough practice.  I’m only saying that EFT will take a lot of the heavy lifting out of the equation for us so that we can forget about all the thoughts of failure or non-deserving and get focused on achieving our goals!

Here are a couple of sample set-up phrases that have worked for me:

Even though I don’t think the Law of Attraction will work for me, I deeply and completely accept myself.

Even though I’m afraid I’m not deserving of my heart’s desires, I deeply and completely accept myself.

Even though somebody told me that it takes hard work and sacrifice to get what I want, and I believed it, I deeply and completely accept myself.

These mantras may not make a lot of sense to you.  But rather than taking up several dozen pages here to explain how EFT works, I am going to send you to the official website.   At this website, you can download a free, yes, that’s right, FREE (!) manual that will teach you all about the history of EFT as well as exactly how to use it!  It’s somewhat heavy reading, meaning that it’s kind of long, but boy oh boy, is it ever enlightening!  I urge you to download this manual and start working on the techniques right away.  Start with the phrases I’ve given you here, or maybe work on some other issue in your life that has been bothering you and see how well it works.  Notice the sense of calm and relaxation that comes over you as you begin to release negativity and fear.  The EFT website and manual don’t really mention Law of Attraction, but as far as I’m concerned, they go hand in hand.  And I’m not the first person to say so.  Give it a try!

So there you have it.  I have set forth my intention for this blog, and I have brought you up to speed on the ideas that I’m working with.  I’ve also hopefully provided you with some informative resources which will help you to expand your understanding on the topics.  I will continue to update with my own personal stories on ways that these techniques have worked and continue to work for me to provide you a real-life context of the success that you can achieve.

Download the manual!  Float some good intentions!  Happy tapping, (and tap well!) and I will update again soon!

Mitch

No, the fact is, you probably heard that phrase in a science class.  Physics, perhaps.  That’s because it is a scientific principle.  Similar energies are naturally attracted to each other, and that is a proven truth.  Look it up if you need verification.  I’ll wait.

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Exciting, right??  But wait!  There’s more!

What’s even more exciting is when you realize that you can use this principle to enhance the quality of your own life.  Since we are made up of energy, just like everything else, we are attracting similar energies all the time, even if we don’t realize it!  And the amazing thing is that the energy we attract shows up in so many different forms!  People,  places, circumstances, objects, money, feelings, thoughts!  All of it!  Our energy is bringing things into our life experience every minute of the day!  The trick is to begin mastering our… yep, I’m saying it again… VIBRATION!!!  (Fear not.  If you continue to frequent this blog, which is truly my fondest hope, you’ll get used to that word very quickly.  I realize it sounds pretty sit-in-a-circle-chanting-ohms-y the first few times.  But it’s a regular part of my vocabulary now that I understand what it actually means.  And what’s more, it’s a regular part of my success in life!)

But let me back up to what I was saying about mastering our vibration.  Here’s the thing.  We can master it.  It is well within our power to vibrate intentionally in order to attract the things that we really want in our lives, rather than vibrating as a reaction to the things we already have, whether we want them or not!  (And as hard as it is for some to hear, I should also mention that these things we have in our lives now, wanted or unwanted, are also a result of whatever we’ve been vibrating in the past.  No one would intentionally attract something bad, of course.  But it does happen.)

So here is the solution.  The key.  The key to mastering our vibration is feeling good.  Sounds pretty simple, right?  Well, it can be.  It’s a matter of getting perfectly clear on what it is that you want, thinking about it as if you already have it, and allowing the wonderful feelings inspired by those thoughts flow over you for several minutes a day.  That’s it in a bulbous nutshell.  Now, there are different ways of going about it, as visualization is not always the most effective method to inspire positive feelings in everyone.  And I’ll be happy to share with you some of the techniques that have worked for me!  But for the purposes of defining this idea and how it works, it is most important to remember that the feeling is what you’re going for.  However you can get yourself into the feeling of already having what you want, that is what you must do.  It is your feelings that effect the frequency of your swirling, twirling, vibrating, beautiful energy!  If you see yourself as a person with a certain type of lifestyle, and you regularly enjoy the feelings that this lifestyle inspires in you, then that lifestyle must come to you because it is a vibrational match for the signal that you’re emitting!

Have I lost you yet?  Try knocking your elbows together.  It probably won’t clear up the confusion, but it will hopefully put a smile on your face (along with anyone who happens to be watching you!) and that smile will put you on the right track.  Because in case I haven’t made it vividly clear… feeling good is kind of a big deal.

So now you have an idea of what I mean when I say Law of Attraction or LOA.  (And hopefully you have a better idea why I’m always shouting things like Life is Good!!!)  Now you’re probably wondering what Emotional Freedom Techniques are and what they have to do with everything I’ve just covered.  I will be so happy to explain it to you in my next post!

Stay tuned.

Mitch

You may wonder what I have to be so happy about.  Well, my life for one thing!  The fact of my existence alone is pretty shout-worthy!  But what has made it even more amazing are a couple of mind-blowing ideas I’ve picked up along the way.  Those ideas being:

*drumroll*

Law of Attraction and Emotional Freedom Techniques!

*expectantly waits for a reaction*

Okay.  The cat’s out of the bag.  I have come out of my metaphysical closet as it were.  And I assume you’re having one of three reactions right now.  (Although I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to rule out more.) 

One reaction would be to scratch your head in confusion wondering what on Earth I’m talking about.  Totally understandable.  (But does anyone really scratch their head in confusion anymore?  Haven’t we all found a more interesting and creative way of expressing our confusion by now?  Yeah.  Scratch the head-scratching.  I would much rather you knit your brow or purse your lips.  You might even knock your elbows together and hum the theme song from Cagney & Lacey.  That could easily denote confusion.  It would be confusing at any rate!)

Another reaction would be the roll of the eyes as you think to yourself, “Oh, not that stuff again!  Another website trying to innoculate me with these new-agey ideas of energy and feeling good and getting what I want by talking to the universe!  Horse pucky is what it is!  Absolute horse pucky!  You heard me!  Horse pucky!!!“  (I may be overdoing it with the vehemence of your reaction a little bit, so if I’m over the line, feel free to draw me back.  I’m playing the role of You right now, so I may as well be doing You justice!)

The third, and my favorite, possible reaction would be that you know exactly what I’m talking about and you’re totally on-board!  You know the Law of Attraction, you know about EFT, and you at least have some understanding of the principles behind these two concepts which allow them to work for us!  In which case, you are probably saying something like, “Yes!  Law of Attraction!  Emotional Freedom Techniques!  I know exactly what you’re talking about!  I know that my life can be good because I have the tools to make it that way!” 

And with a reaction like that–or, indeed, with any of the preceding reactions–you have come to the right place.  Yes, my friend.  Even if the big, bad, ‘horse pucky’ reaction is the one you had, or have, to these new-agey ideas, which in truth, by the way, are about as far from new-agey as it gets (!), you are still in the right place.  It is my firm and unwavering belief that whether your feelings on these topics are good, bad, or indifferent, something in you, something in your, dare I say it… VIBRATION… has brought you to this blog.  Or has brought this blog to you.  Or maybe… just maybe… that small part of you, which, if you asked the right authorities, you would realize is actually the bigger part of you, understands that you and this blog (and me and the world and everything else!) are actually one in the same!  We’re energy! Swirling, twirling, vibrating, beautiful energy!  BZZZZzzzzz!  (Or at least I assume that’s the sound made by swirling, twirling, vibrating, beautiful energy.  It has to make some sound, right?)

But I’ll try to stop getting away from myself here.  Not that it would really be possible to do so.  (There’s an energy joke in there somewhere.)  I just wanted to make a quick, if somewhat meandering, first post to my Law of Attraction and EFT blog, or Tapwell!  Get it?   Tap-Well?  (If you don’t get it, you soon will.)  This is going to be a blog filled with my own personal experiences in the utilization of the Law of Attraction and the unparalleled assistance EFT has provided me in releasing not only my resistance, but a veritable slew of other most definitely unhelpful thoughts and emotions!  (Heck, I’ll even throw in a literary exploration of my apparent obsession with using parantheses… ((?)))  For now, I will be providing stories from my own life and bits of wisdom and ideas I have picked up along the way.  As I continue to post, I will be including links to other helpful websites and blogs full of knowledge, hints, and more information on these topics that, if you’re still reading this, you clearly have some interest in.  (Even if you don’t know it yet!  Ha!)

Stay tuned!

Mitch