Creative Bent: If you don't want it in your life, stop thinking about it!
If you're at all familiar with the renowned book, The Science of Getting Rich, from Wallace Wattles, you have come across the proven concept that what we think about we create in reality.
There's no limit to what we can create because there's no limit to the energy and power that moves into action in our behalf, creating what we've "asked for." This energy and power is what Wattles refers to as "The Original Substance." I personally think of this "Substance" as God's limitless creative power.
For some reason, I always think of Silly Putty when I consider this action - Silly Putty is that gooey, rubbery substance that comes packaged in a toy egg. My brother and I used to apply Silly Putty to the Sunday color comic strips because the color would magically transfer to the Silly Putty surface.
Now, I'm sure Wattles AND the Original Thinking Substance could be a bit miffed at my comparison here, but I think it gets the picture across . . . whatever thought you think is immediately impressed on Original Substance, just as the color comic is impressed on a patch of Silly Putty. It can't help itself - Original Substance is almost a magnet that your thought attaches itself to. From that moment, Original Substance begins to move your thought into form – it must become reality because that 's what creative power does - it creates.
This creative energy isn't subjective. It doesn't stop and ask you if you're SURE you want to have this thing created . . . it simply moves forward, as Thomas Troward puts it "going forward beyond what's gone before, creating something absolutely new."
It's vital, then, that you consciously remain focused on what it is you WANT rather than what it is you DON'T WANT or FEAR. Raymond Holliwell wrote about this most succinctly in his book, "Working With the Law." In his chapter on the Law of Non-Resistance, he reminds us that, when we begin to focus on obstacles in our way (real or imagined), our progress not only stops - it can turn in an entirely wrong direction. We might first think that obstacles standing in the way of getting what we want are coming from someone ELSE - and sometimes, they do. But more often than not, we're guilty of putting up our OWN obstacles to impede our own progress. We doubt that we'll be able to accomplish this feat. We fear the loss of not achieving this goal. Our minds rummage around to past experience, when things went wrong, when we got stopped before.
You got stopped before because you stopped yourself. This time, be more consciously aware of when these "obstacle thoughts" perk up in your head. Stop them immediately, as soon as you notice they're there. Fill your mind immediately with the results you'll be feeling and experiencing when you DO accomplish this goal you have.
As Holliwell counsels, don't stop and marshal your forces to beat back or subdue the obstacle in your path. With your eye on that goal ahead of you, simply move around the obstacle - don't give it any energy. Don't argue with it. Don't reason with it. Just dismiss it. And keep moving on to that life you deserve.
There's no limit to what we can create because there's no limit to the energy and power that moves into action in our behalf, creating what we've "asked for." This energy and power is what Wattles refers to as "The Original Substance." I personally think of this "Substance" as God's limitless creative power.
For some reason, I always think of Silly Putty when I consider this action - Silly Putty is that gooey, rubbery substance that comes packaged in a toy egg. My brother and I used to apply Silly Putty to the Sunday color comic strips because the color would magically transfer to the Silly Putty surface.
Now, I'm sure Wattles AND the Original Thinking Substance could be a bit miffed at my comparison here, but I think it gets the picture across . . . whatever thought you think is immediately impressed on Original Substance, just as the color comic is impressed on a patch of Silly Putty. It can't help itself - Original Substance is almost a magnet that your thought attaches itself to. From that moment, Original Substance begins to move your thought into form – it must become reality because that 's what creative power does - it creates.
This creative energy isn't subjective. It doesn't stop and ask you if you're SURE you want to have this thing created . . . it simply moves forward, as Thomas Troward puts it "going forward beyond what's gone before, creating something absolutely new."
It's vital, then, that you consciously remain focused on what it is you WANT rather than what it is you DON'T WANT or FEAR. Raymond Holliwell wrote about this most succinctly in his book, "Working With the Law." In his chapter on the Law of Non-Resistance, he reminds us that, when we begin to focus on obstacles in our way (real or imagined), our progress not only stops - it can turn in an entirely wrong direction. We might first think that obstacles standing in the way of getting what we want are coming from someone ELSE - and sometimes, they do. But more often than not, we're guilty of putting up our OWN obstacles to impede our own progress. We doubt that we'll be able to accomplish this feat. We fear the loss of not achieving this goal. Our minds rummage around to past experience, when things went wrong, when we got stopped before.
You got stopped before because you stopped yourself. This time, be more consciously aware of when these "obstacle thoughts" perk up in your head. Stop them immediately, as soon as you notice they're there. Fill your mind immediately with the results you'll be feeling and experiencing when you DO accomplish this goal you have.
As Holliwell counsels, don't stop and marshal your forces to beat back or subdue the obstacle in your path. With your eye on that goal ahead of you, simply move around the obstacle - don't give it any energy. Don't argue with it. Don't reason with it. Just dismiss it. And keep moving on to that life you deserve.
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