Monthly Mind Power Questions & Answers

A You ask why it is that when you do your visualizations they simply do not happen. This question indicates that you have done visualizations before but that not all of them are happening for you. This is very unusual and I cannot tell you exactly why it is that your visualizations are not happening, but I can give you several more general reasons why sometimes visualizations don't work.

The first thing to remember about visualizations is that you must always visualize as if it is already happening to you now. Not something that is going to happen, not something that will happen, but always something that is happening now. It is presently happening in your life, and you live and feel and vibrate with that energy.

The other thing about visualizations is that they must be done regularly, each and every day. The power of persistence cannot be overemphasized. So you must chart yourself and make sure that you are doing them each and every day. Doing them once or twice a week does not count. It must be done daily. This is a practice.

You also say that perhaps you are expecting the visualizations to occur too quickly. Again, I'm not sure what time frame you're referring to. Quite often Mind Powers do happen to manifest for us very quickly. However, other times, with certain goals, it can take weeks, months, sometimes even years, depending on what the goal is. However, you should be seeing positive progress towards that goal certainly within weeks or months of doing the exercises. So keep up the work and I hope this has helped.

A This is a good question and I hope my answer clarifies this for you and other people that have similar concerns. When you're working towards a financial goal that is in excess of what you are earning now, the amount that you want to attain looks great and you would be very happy to achieve that. However, once prosperity and abundance begins working in your life, you might indeed, as you have suggested in your question, end up in a position where you are earning more. This is not a problem at all. In fact, what you then do is re-program your self-financial worth to be in excess of the former amount. And you keep programming yourself for prosperity, always allowing a certain leeway in the amount that you can earn. In fact, it could be $50,000 to $75,000 dollars, and that would cover many different possibilities. As you achieve those financial goals then you begin imagining still larger ones as well, so that you grow internally as your situations change externally.

A All of us have negative thoughts now and then. The key is how we choose to react to them. Always remember, "Negatives only have power over you if you react to them." The secret is to have techniques that help you eliminate your negatives when they come to you. Check my past topic of the month, "Eliminating Negatives."

Regarding feeling jealous and ignored when others are encouraged, practice feeling happy for others. If you get into the habit of acknowledging others for their achievements, it makes it easier for you to acknowledge yourself. Conversely, if you criticize and feel jealous, this becomes your vibration and your subconscious will begin to criticize you. Acknowledge yourself and others daily for their achievements, and your feelings of being jealous and ignored will disappear.

A It's not only normal, it's to be expected. You can't be optimistic all the time. Sometimes you'll be depressed, negative; these feelings are okay and normal. Don't feel you have to be up all the time If you're up a whole lot more than you're down, that's great.

A Congratulations. I love hearing the success stories. Right now I have tapes to help people with health, money, sales, and keeping fit, as well as numerous other topics. Next year I will be doing a whole series of new tapes, including one on quitting smoking. All the current tapes are available on this website and I would encourage all who might be interested in these topics to check them out.

A Don't try to convince your son. Show him. Sit down with him everyday and spend five or ten minutes visualizing together him being popular and making friends. Have fun with it, make it a game. Take the attitude, "Why don't we just see if it works." Share with him stories of athletes and how they use it. Make up little affirmations for him, " I make friends easily," "People like me and I like them," School is fun," etc. Say them together. Have you had success with Mind Power? If so share your success. If not, why not lead by example. Kids pick up on this quickly once they get the process started.

A Because we all go through cycles of when it's easy to do the exercises and when it's hard. There are tides to our consciousness and, just like the ocean tides, they ebb and flow. When the flow is against you or at a low ebb, it is so easy to not do the exercises. You forget, put them off, make up reasons why you can't, and ultimately you don't do your exercises. I've said this again and again and I'll say it once more. It's not easy to do your exercises every day for 60 or 90 days. You need discipline, desire and willpower, especially when the tides are not in your favor. But it is very important to push through it. Chart yourself daily to discover your own internal tides.

A One of my beliefs is that there are no problems, there are only opportunities. In fact, this is a chapter title in my book Mind Power Into the 21st Century. In creative problem solving, you also take the attitude that there are numerous solutions available to you. For example, in your present situation the only avenue that seems open to you is a mortgage from a bank. However, maybe your mortgage will come through other means, i.e., family or friends or business acquaintances. There might be someone who would love to give you a mortgage rather than have their money earn low interest in a savings or investment account. There is also a possibility that the seller of the house would hold the mortgage. This is more common than people think. These are just some options, and we haven't even explored numerous other avenues for raising money or attracting finances. As I said, there are countless solutions to every problem. Don't get locked into the one-solution paradigm.

Create an affirmation that reflects this perspective, such as, "The perfect solution is revealing itself," or, "We've found our home and the financing is in place." Use the words that feel right for you, and have several such affirmations. Also, don't forget visualizations, seeing and feeling yourself in the perfect house. Harness your subconscious and intuition to assist you. Mind Power gives you so many tools to manifest your home. I have no doubt at all that if you do this you will create the situation and opportunities that bring the new house to you.