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The Laws Of Attraction Part 2
By Gemma Bailey
Dream big!
What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? Really stretch yourself! One of the challenges that I had initially with practicing the Law of Attraction, was that the dream was so big, I felt like I was lying to myself every time I imagined achieving it, or thought about it. Think of it this way, you're lying to yourself every time you say that you can't do something. You can do anything that is humanly possible. (As part of my Life Coaching practise near Bedfordshire, I teach my clients the ability to make their imagined dreams really come to life by altering the submodalities of their visualisation.)
The one thing that will determine success or failure is your level of belief in your ability to achieve your goal. You need to believe that you will do it from the bottom of your boots. I remember when I (Gemma) gave up my job as a manager at a children's nursery to set up my hypnotherapy practice. My mum said to me "If it doesn't work out, you can always go back to working with children." To which I replied "But it will work out." To which she replied "Yes but if it doesn't, you can always go back-" To which I replied "But it will work out." This conversation of few words went on for several minutes, (infuriating me.) You see, having my new business not work out, just wasn't on my radar. I believed from the bottom of my boots that it would work out just fine (and it did.)
Seeing is believing
Every morning (at least) or every night, you must aid your focus on your goal by visualizing what you will see, hear and feel when you have got it. Scientists that studied brain activity in athletes, discovered that the same neural networks in the mind are activated when the athlete visualizes doing their sport as when they are actually doing the sport. There for it is important to visualize so that your neural networks are wired for success and you can practice being successful at achieving your goal, all the time sending your thought energy into the universe to attract your goal further towards you.
Some people find visualize easier than others and some people "think" more than "see" actual movies in their minds. As part of the Life Coaching package I offer to my clients at my practise near Bedfordshire, I include hypnotherapy which is really good at stimulating the imagination, and making visualisations really vivid. Either way it works and everyone has the ability to do it because all of our memories are stored as pictures first, the sounds and feelings only follow after the picture. If you're not convinced that you can do it, try the following exercise:
I want you to memo rise the following words in order. Because your conscious mind can probably only remember the sequence of about 7 things, I'm going to give you a way of remembering the words. Read through the list first and see how many you can remember without the technique below, then see how easily you remember them all when you do use the technique.
Bear
photograph
bottle of water
hairbrush
rubbish bin
bed
alien
shoes
window
mirror
belt
candle
rug
remote

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vitamins
Now think of the follow, really imagine the scenarios you read about:
Bear>photograph
A bear is in his cave which is furnished with old ladies chintzy furniture. On the bookcase is a photograph of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears.
photograph>bottle of water
You notice that Goldilocks is holding a bottle of Evian in the photo which you suspect is secret laced with gin, (she's never been the same since the ASBO)
Bottle of water>hairbrush
There's been a water shortage and you've got to wash your hair over the bath with bottle water. Only problem is that is makes you hair get very knotty and the hairbrush keeps getting stuck.
Hairbrush>rubbish bin
Oh dear, your hair had got so stuck in your matted mane, that you've had to throw the hairbrush, with hair attached in the rubbish bin. it's sticking out the top of the bin like a dead guinea pig.
Rubbish bin>bed
You come home from work to discover someone has emptied the contents of your rubbish bin in your bed. Very smelly, and lots of damp patches all over you duvet.
Bed>alien
You go to the cupboard to get clean sheets (after removing the contents of the bin) and discover on your return a six foot green alien in your bed.
Alien>shoes
After you have shoed the alien out of the front door, he knocks again to say he has forgotten his shoes. Indeed he has got bare green feet with 8 toes.
Shoes>window
You go back into your room to discover the aliens silver shoes hanging out the window, with fumes coming out of them. They really stink.
Window>mirror
You watch the alien fly off. You're not sure if he's waving through the spaceship as it has mirrored windows and you can only see your reflection.
Mirror>belt
You notice in your reflection that your belt has broken, the leather has snapped because you've got so fat.
Belt>candle
Using melted candle wax, you attempt to rejoin the two halves of the leather belt.
Candle>rug
Oops, you've dripped wax on the rug. You try to pick it off.
Rug>remote control
Whilst picking the wax off the rug, you lean on the remote control which causes the rug to lift off the ground, ooh, a magic carpet!
Remote control>vitamins
You float your carpet towards the tv by using the buttons on your remote control. When you switch the TV on, you catch the end of an advert which is advertising the magic remote control. You can make anything move my pointing the remote at it, and the lady on the tv is laying in bed, pointing the remote at a bottle of vitamins so that it unscrews the lid and tips them into her mouth.
Ok, the first one was bear, so turn away from the list and note how easily you recall the list.
When you have recalled the list, realise how you did it. You made pictures, didn't you? Don't try telling me that you can't visualize.
Now use this visualisation skill to focus on your dreams. If you feel that you are unsure about your ability to visualise, Bedfordshire Life Coaching could be the answer. Based near Bedfordshire, I run my Life coaching business from home and use a combination of NLP, Hypnosis and Life Coaching. Life Coaching is an effective way of establishing, where you are in life and where you want to be. Only by using the Life Coaching skills, can you truly discover the path to happiness.

Gemma Bailey is qualified hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner, registered with the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR), American Board of Hypnotherapy (ABH), British Board of NLP (BBNLP) and American Board of NLP (ABNLP) as well as being a member of the NHS Directory of Complimentary and Alternative Practitioners.She is based in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire and has helped many clients and patients throughout South East England. www.gemmabailey.co.ukHer vast areas of expertise include helping with weight loss, quitting smoking, stress, bad habits, phobias, confidence building, performance anxiety, regression, Life Coaching and much more. She also offers an exclusive 6 hour, one off session in which a person can overcome all of their emotional problems or anxieties that are holding them back. This is called Turning Point, and details of these sessions can be found on her website.Gemma is also a qualified trainer of NLP and runs a training company called People Building which provides NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner Training. Details of these trainings can be found at www.peoplebuilding.co.uk




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