You can’t escape them. You have to serve your time.

It’s the gurus’ fault. All their good intentions and conflicting information.

The marketing gurus tell you what you need to do. Sure Law of Attraction works, as long as you do your part. It’s a matter of tying up your camel and rowing toward shore. Visualize what you intend, then talk with people, connect, make friends. Increase your mailing list. Write an eBook, build your mailing list. Create an affiliate program. Write a blog.

Do.

Law of Attraction gurus tell you that you have to line up with what you are wanting. You have to create a vibration that is on the same frequency as what you are wanting. And as you change your frequency, you become that which you want to experience. That is still doing, although it has a “be” component.

Do Be.

Network marketers will tell you that if you want to be rich you have to grow. You have to become the person who has the money. You need strong motivation, so you have to really focus on why you want what you want. Once you are properly motivated, you start becoming. You “fake it until you make it.”

Do Be.

Spiritual marketers will tell you that you have to stay within your integrity. Come from your truth. A good rule of thumb is to market yourself for strengths so inherent that you could easily do them two years ago. Then be the best you can be within your integrity.

Be.

A popular motivational speaker tells us that we can’t just be. If you sit all day in meditation, all that will happen is people will come and take your furniture. So you should make lists, take stock, create a master plan and work backwards.

Do.

Others tell you to tell a better story.

Do.

Tell a better story about who you are.

Be.

Visualize who you are as Source Energy, and spend as much time as you can in that state.

Do.

Feel what it feels like to be the master manifestor that you are.

Be.

Me, I want the Master Formula for Law of Attraction. I want to know that I can do what it takes to create what I want when I want it.

But since the formula changes with every circumstance, I wish I knew that if I take X amount of action, I get Y amount of return. And if I do 2X amount of action and leverage my time, I’ll make Y³ amount of return.

Unfortunately, I know the truth. The truth is that once you reach a certain level in your spiritual development, doing stops working so well. This is because you’ve found out about the Law of Attraction and now you want to create through the power of your thought. Still you want to keep doing as a fall-back position. But it no longer works. Doing only works if you do those things in alignment with what you are wanting – doing what feels good.

Do.

When you do what feels good you are acting in alignment with what you want. You become that person who has what you want.

Be.

The Doobee wars have raged for centuries and in fact were one of the great philosophical debates of the 18th century.

Descartes said, “To do is to be.”

Thoreau countered, “To be is to do.”

But it took Sinatra to put it all together: “Do be do be do.”

Yes, it is a false dichotomy. So where is the truth? Doing is an energetic manifestation of who you are. Just like your thoughts, your actions are either in alignment with what you want or they are not. And just like your thoughts, you can tell whether your actions are in alignment with what you want by how you feel.

Thoughts? Comments?

(c)2010 Chip Engelmann

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Ever since The Secret Life of Plants – which I’ve never read – and the resulting experiments where plants were subject to different music and emotional experiments, we’ve known that plants are spiritual beings. My daughter performed one such experiment a couple of years ago. She grew three green bean plants and placed labels on the pots they were in: a control that was blank; one with “Love” written on it; and one with “Hate” written on it. At the end of a couple weeks, the bean plant labeled “Hate” was by far the smallest and scrawny. The control bean plant and the bean plant labeled “Love” were the same height, but “Love” was thick, bushy and symmetrical, while the control was thin, lanky and unbalanced.

In the book Anastasia, the first book of the Ringing Cedars series by Vladimir Megre, Anastasia tells us that plants can adapt themselves to specifically feed the person growing them. By holding the seeds in your mouth for nine minutes, she says, the plants will adapt themselves to your body and grow in such a way as to supply you with missing nutrients.

Last week I spent several days weeding my vegetable garden. I had neglected the garden while remodeling my office and it had become overgrown. I handled the plants as I pulled the weeds around them, silently talking with them, and apologizing when I accidentally broke one of their leaves. I noticed that when I finished, the plants seemed somehow happier.

My son quite randomly reported to me that he read that when a person touches a plant, the person transmits an enzyme to the plant that stimulates growth. Now it may be totally coincidence, but my sunflower plants had been sluggish and bug ridden. After giving my sunflowers the attention of weeding, clipping off half-eaten leaves, and handling them extensively, they started growing an inch to an inch and a half per day.

But there is more to the story. I not only noticed that the plants were happier – they seemed to ‘glow’ – I seemed to be happier in their presence. They were sending me love as well. I feel good when I sit next to my vegetables and watch them grow.

I have been in a process of clarifying the focus of my practice and I wanted my website to reflect what I have become. But the website is literally hundreds of pages of mixed messages, dating back a decade. Some of the information is no longer relevant, and the message of what I do for people is lost in a sea of information. I had a plan for reviving my site, but the amount of work involved seemed overwhelming.

At the same time, I have been coached by Paul, the Communion of Light, not to take action unless it feels good to do so. At first it did not feel good to work on my website, but I continued because it needed to be done. In fact, it felt quite similar to looking at the massive overgrowth of weeds in my garden. The prospect of weeding had felt overwhelming. Yet, when I cleared the weeds from around my first plants and they seemed to radiate with appreciation, the job got easier.

Today in meditation, my thoughts drifted to my garden as it does frequently. Thinking of my garden seems to be very expansive. I have learned a lot from my garden that has shifted my thinking and lifestyle. It occurred to me to ask the question:

I realized that my business was not that different from my garden. There are ideas that feed the business (vegetables) and ideas that drain the business of resources (weeds). All I have to do is dispassionately remove the non-supportive ideas from the website, while nurturing the ideas that represent the best I have to offer.

While this realization may be causing many of you to say, “Well duh!” for me the shift in consciousness was significant. Instead of plodding through page after page, it has become something that I enjoy doing. It is a like a treasure hunt in which certain ideas light up on a page while others fade to obscurity.

The main thing is that it now feels good to revise my website.

How has your garden helped you?

How have you been able to transfer the lessons that you learned in one area of your life to create success in another?

(c)2010 Chip Engelmann

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I haven’t written a blog post in quite a while – partly because I have been writing other things, and partly because I have been planting my vegetable garden and remodeling my new office space.

Indeed, it is the garden and a series of books, The Ringing Cedar Series, by Vladimir Megre, that have prompted a re-evaluation of my life on a grand scale. In these books, Anastasia, a very spiritual recluse living in the forests of Siberia, defines a post-2012 lifestyle and economy.

The way it works is that each person is given a hexameter of land (about 2 1/2 acres) upon which they create their own paradise by planting trees and vegetables to sustain their family. She further gives instructions on how to plant these vegetables so that the plants attune to the individual and heal them of any diseases they might have. I will not go into all the details, but suffice it to say the foundation of this system is the happiness of the family unit and its connection to the divine that exists in each of us.

Now, if this theory seems like a fantasy to you, take note: Russia tried this as an experiment several years ago and, as of 2006, allows anyone wishing to do so to move to a plot and start their own paradise. Currently, over 30% of Russia’s food supply is now home-grown, and because they are planting in harmony with the environment it is low maintenance, re-establishing the depleted soils, and 100% organic and healthy.

Indeed, the revolution we have asked for is manifesting in Russia. If it plays out according to Anastasia’s plan, and so far it has, Russia will be the economic leader in the global economy in just a few short years.

Perhaps the western world would be highly resistant to a change like this. But since I am fortunate enough own a piece of land, I can make my own transformation in my own way.

The reason this transformation is able to occur is due to the shift of consciousness surrounding the idea of 2012. People have been looking for change. Anastasia has provided a framework from which we can focus our co-creation. The book series has been translated into 20 languages and sold 10 million copies without any promotion or advertising. It is spreading via word of mouth.

According to the group of beings channeled by Steve Rother at www.lightworker.com the businesses that will thrive going forward are not asking, “How do we make money,” but rather, “How do we empower the people around us?” (scroll down to “Economics of Earth” and “The Soul of Business in the New Energy.”)

With this concept in mind I am redoubling the focus of my practice. I have been aware for some time that people who are in pain are greatly challenged in connecting with who they are as Source Energy. Any meaningful fulfillment of life is hindered because their attention is not on creating a paradise for themselves, but on their discomfort.

My system of Light Tapping^SM has proven to be very effective in removing the emotional resistance that causes pain. And I am dedicating my practice to helping people evolve beyond this state.

(c)2010 Chip Engelmann

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Alex came to me with eczema on her hands and face. She also had general anxiety and “food sensitivities.” She reported that she had seen one EFT practitioner for 6 months and another “high priced” EFT practitioner for 2 sessions before she decided she couldn’t handle his rates financially. She said she was desperate to find a solution to her eczema.

She also reported that she looked up eczema in Louise Hay’s Heal Your Body and read that it is due to “Breathtaking antagonism. Mental eruptions.” She said that she was subject to bursts of anger but she really didn’t see how it the definition allied to her.

She described the energy of her feeling about the eczema as round purple dog chew-toy with nobs protruding from it in her solar plexus. The solar plexus represents a connection with the Universe in general and the family sometimes in particular. The color purple represents grief. So we tapped two rounds on:

She reported that after the tapping, the purple chew-toy was completely gone, but now it had moved into her throat. She described the feeling in her throat as a red cloud that was trying to expand to fill the space. I asked her to be more precise in the location of the feeling and she said it ran up and down the muscles in the sides of her neck. I told her that the neck, depending upon the location can represent anger at the loss of her voice, anger at having something shoved down her throat, or anger at another person. The reason I asked is that location in the muscles of the neck really didn’t fit with any of the above. She said it was all three. The color red, of course, represents anger. We tapped a round on:

She said that the cloud had gotten smaller and then told me of a time in her life when she was six or seven-years-old her parents left her for a period of months to start a farm. She stayed with her grandparents and attended school. She got to see her parents on school holidays. This went on for 5 years. She said that the period before her parents left her with her grandparents was a good time. So we tapped on:

Then without stopping moved to, taking into account the antagonism theme of the eczema,

then

and

and

She then reported that the red cloud had shrunk and was now gray in color. The color gray represents guilt so we tapped on:

She reported that the cloud was gone and immediately had a throbbing sensation in the top of her head. She said it was gray in color. The head is the site of self-directed anger so we tapped on:

She reported that the gray was now gone and had become pitch black. The color black represents hate so we tapped on:

She reported that the sensation in her head had turned yellow. Yellow represents fear so we tapped on:

She reported that her head was clear, so I asked her to revisit her throat. She said that it was mostly clear, but she had a little stiffness in the right side muscle. I asked for a color and she told me it was brown. Brown represents frustration so we tapped on it, returning to the throat theme:

Now her neck relaxed and all three spots had cleared: her solar plexus, her throat, and the top of her head. I assumed that the energy in her solar plexus was due to the grief she was currently experiencing with her eczema. The anger and hate in her throat was the sentinel that was protecting her from the guilt and self-hate of having done something terrible to be punished.

Experience tells me that she should have felt grief and sadness over the loss of her parents attention and love, but neither came up as an emotion in play. I assumed therefore, that her lengthy sessions with other practitioners had released that sadness and grief.

We then set about the process of releasing the sentinel as described previously. She thanked the sentinel for all the work it did in protecting her, we tapped on the sadness, attachment and fear associated with the releasing the sentinel, and tapped on giving herself permission to use the other tools she had to deal with future guilt and self-hate.

At this point she was ready to release the sentinel, but it was not ready to leave. I had her ask it how it was still protecting her. She said that it was protecting her from saying the wrong thing and people getting angry. I asked her who got angry when she tried to tell people how miserable she was. She said it was her grandfather, who was very loving, but sometimes very scary. So we tapped on:

and

She said it was now ready to leave but it felt sad doing so. I asked her to ask it why it didn’t want to leave. She said it was because it was afraid she would get mad at herself. So we tapped on:

Followed by:

And

At which point the sentinel left on its own.

Even though the energetic vibrational field behind eczema has cleared, that does not necessarily mean the eczema will clear right away. Alex’s belief system will determine how things will play out. In Law of Attraction terms, the more she wants the eczema not to be there, the longer it will take for it to clear. The more she relaxes about the eczema and can see it as a perfect manifestation of her own creation, the faster it will disappear.

The next day I got an email from Alex, “I had a good sleep last night and my skin is feeling a lot less angry and irritated.”

(c)2010 Chip Engelmann

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For me, one of the greatest challenges is marketing. Now, I’ve had more businesses than jobs and some of them have been quite successful. And doing these businesses I have learned the traditional principles of marketing. Yet all of a sudden, because I am seriously practicing the Law of Attraction, the rules have changed.

Or maybe I should say I have changed.

Marketing has traditionally been a numbers game, and for coaches and practitioners this has meant “your tribe” and your mailing list. In my vitamin mail-order/Internet business I had a mailing list of 300,000, and that worked quite well. Now, even though I have a well-developed loyal tribe and a nice-sized mailing list, things are changing. Whether this is a reflection of the economy or that there seems to be a deluge of coaches all offering more or less the same thing, I notice a shift in how people are finding me.

The thing is, the Universe is not limited by my perceptions of the marketplace. A lot of people have used my services. Even more have heard of me and are thinking about using me. Even more have heard of me but have not decided to really investigate. And even more are in vibrational alignment with what I am offering.

What is not working are my traditional efforts. This is because of the shift I mentioned before. The truth is, I don’t know what to do about it.

The real truth is I don’t have to because the Universe knows.

So now we are back to the Vortex. When I am in the Vortex, the Universe whispers to me what actions to take. When I try to do what I think I should do, I don’t get the results I want. Let me put this another way.

If I act in a way to try to get results that will make me feel good, the action is a struggle and my results reflect that I am struggling.

If on the other hand I act on what feels good, and don’t worry about how it will work, things come together with a synchronicity unimagined. Most of the time I cannot trace the result back to the action, but in the case of the chainsaw, it is a very clear-cut path.

Yesterday I had some time free and my first thought was I should do something to promote my free virtual reality Law of Attraction Meditation Center. It would seem that many people might want to take advantage of a free, focused, turn-your-life-around experience, but so far people have been coming and going at a trickle.

This is one of my many projects though, not all of which are business-related. Paul has told me that the way to manage these multiple projects is to spend as much time in the vortex as possible. So instead of writing an article or a blog post, I sat in meditation and took myself to my Vortex. While in the Vortex, it came to me that it would feel really good to clear out the downed trees that had fallen when a micro-burst hit my yard awhile back. Five 40-50 foot trees fell down together like a wall across the back section of my yard near the woods.

Following this good feeling thought, I moved $300 to my checking account and headed off to the store to get a chainsaw. I took a different route than normal to the store because I needed to drop my son off along the way. On this route I saw a second-hand store I had never seen before. With a strong pull to stop, I circled the block and parked. I walked in and asked the owner if he had a chainsaw. He said he didn’t but he had been planning to bring one in from home. He told me to come back later and I got the almost new chainsaw for $60.

Today, it felt like the thing to do to take my portable phone and do my appointments outside. My wife saw me and snapped this picture – she thought you would enjoy seeing my “satellite office.” Sitting outside, my eyes played across my vegetable garden that had been ravaged by deer last summer and fall. Into the back of my mind popped a simple and inexpensive solution of how to keep the deer away this year, by hanging CD disks off the fence.

Although I still have a pull to do things that “make sense,” with practice it is getting easier and easier to stay in the vortex and do what feels good. I really like it here.

(For a related blog post, see Julie’s Spiritual Space, Felix Felicis.)

(c)2010 Chip Engelmann

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The next piece in my blog Meditation series was going to be about using meditation to get into the Vortex. The thing is, it never felt right to write it and it has “sat on the shelf” of my consciousness. In light of the upcoming March 31 Communion of Light, “The Non-Physical Guide to Living in Your Vortex,” with Paul as channeled by Frank Butterfield, I have been drawn to open up and tell you what I experience with “Living in the Vortex.”

Living the Vortex is totally cool.

I live for the moments I can spend in the Vortex. I love my work because when I work with clients I get to go into the Vortex. I see myself as Source Energy, and I “open a space” for my clients to also experience themselves as Source Energy. Yes, we do Light Tapping^SM here and there but the real juice to a session is when the client remembers who they are as Source.

When I write I get into the Vortex and things flow very nicely. They flow so nicely that I often pull words and ideas from that Source part of myself.

When I talk with Paul, or listen to the recordings of Paul or Abraham, I go into the Vortex.

I can go into the Vortex while driving, taking a shower, reading a book, or watching a fire. In fact, more and more I find myself spending time in the Vortex. Not 100% of the time, nor would I want it to be; I’m not ready to “croak” as Abraham would say.

But I spend a lot of time in the Vortex. When, during the course of a day, I get an idea or feeling about which I feel confused or conflicted – you guessed it, I pop into the Vortex. It has become that easy.

Unless I am feeling sad, grumpy, political, or angry. Then it takes a little more work. But I am not living in those “negative” feelings so much any more. Why? Because I am spending so much time in the Vortex.

One of the things that makes the Vortex really cool, besides remembering who you are as Source Energy, is that thoughts are amplified in the Vortex. It is like shouting your thoughts through a megaphone. What this means is that if you bring thoughts of what you want into the Vortex, it will just be that much easier to manifest them. Being in the Vortex also helps you become aligned with what you are wanting. It is simply easier to allow what you want to come into being.

I use this “thought megaphone” aspect of the Vortex very deliberately in meditation. After slipping into the Vortex, I start by thinking about something I want to manifest.

Abraham suggests placing your focused attention on what you want for 17 seconds to plant the thought. They say if you can do that 4 times in a row (68 seconds), your consciousness will shift.

The way I do it is to think a good feeling thought about what it is I want. When I do, Law of Attraction will bring more that is in line with my thought – in this case, another better-feeling thought. The second better-feeling thought begets another, which leads to a fourth, and so on, until the energy takes off as if it had a life of its own. It is a rampage of better feeling thoughts.

I can’t see a clock with my eyes closed so I never know when I reach 68 seconds. I just continue until it feels so good, I just want to bask in the glow of the moment and not think any more.

So that is my experience of the Vortex. Like I said. It is totally cool.

UPDATE: The virtual reality Law of Attraction Meditation Center

The Law of Attraction Meditation Center is picking up momentum. A theme of “turning your life around” has emerged.

What this means to participants is that they can have a place that:

• Helps them tune into who they are as Source Energy.
• Helps them use their “thought megaphone.”
• Helps them refocus on what they want.
• Gives them support in achieving the life they want.
• Provides a forum for asking questions about the Law of Attraction.

Join us or find out more about the Law of Attraction Meditation Center by clicking the link.

(c)2010 Chip Engelmann

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