Luke Broad -

In 2007 I was diagnosed with Meniere’s Disease - an inner ear disorder that causes violent attacks of tinnitus, which is so loud that I was virtually deaf in the affected ear.  The tinnitus then causes dizziness, which results in vomiting.  Attacks are unpredictable and can come at any time anywhere.  The specialists told me that there was no cure and that the illness could result in permanent deafness in the affected ear.  All they could do was prescribe me the strongest medication possible that supposedly helped to reduce the frequency of the attacks.  This illness dominated my life for two years.  During this period, I was backpacking and my enjoyment would often be interrupted by violent attacks of this illness.  Attacks became so frequent that I had to return home.  When I arrived home, I was bedridden for a number of weeks with one attack after another.

When I first began learning about the Law of Attraction, two years earlier, I was depressed and living undesirable circumstances.  I felt trapped by my contract in the British Armed Forces, so much so that I developed a desire to commit suicide.  If I had not come across the Law of Attraction, I would probably not be here today.  I began imagining myself on the beach in Australia and I trained my mind into a state of belief and positive expectation.  Just three months later, I was on a beach in Australia and I was a qualified fitness instructor! 

So, two years later, when I reached the point where I was bedridden for a number of weeks because of my illness, I decided to change my mindset regarding my illness.  I threw my medication in the bin and I began visualizing myself back in Australia, in a bar with my friends sipping champagne.  I visualized myself as healthy and I imagined myself telling a family member the story of how I used my mind to heal myself.  I believed in my vision and I imagined it with conviction and clarity.  I trained my belief and expectation and I began feeling optimistic, excited and eager, even whilst I was bedridden with dizziness and vomiting.  One month later, my attacks stopped.  Three and a half months later, I was back in Australia, in a bar with my friends sipping champagne!

(Excerpted from Let Go and Live in the Now, Red Wheel/Weiser, 2004: 2600 words) 

Just as a storm in the atmosphere of the earth is born of conflicting fronts of different temperatures colliding with one another, so too must there be conflicting forces within us in order to form a mental or emotional storm. Our task is to become conscious of these unseen forces that dwell in the unenlightened parts of us. As we grow to realize that no disturbance can remain within us without our granting it the force it needs to sustain its fury, we realize that we have at our disposal two great powers. We are empowered to dismiss storms when they appear in our psychic system and, with time and practice, we can learn to dismiss these disturbances before they begin!

What are these invisible conflicting forces at work within us that cause so much foul weather? We uncover the first of these unconscious forces by recognizing that the storms in our lives all share a common cause. Each storm, large or small, centers on something that happens to us that we don’t want to be happening for whatever reasons. A few quick examples prove this insight, but best success is assured if you will fill in the blanks from your own experience. 

By now you are no doubt familiar with the principles of Law of Attraction and Conscious Creation, and have seen or read The Secret—and you are aware of using the power of positively directed thought to improve your life.

But let’s be honest…How often do you remember to apply these? Maybe once or twice a month? Or when you come across something you really want to manifest—so you get busy visualizing? Have you really made it a way of life? Are you impatient to see things become reality, but the slowness of the process is making you crazy?

Author, Navy SEAL Michael Jaco, says power of perception can save and enhance lives.

For all intents and purposes, what you actively imagine is authentically and undeniably already here, so you can absolutely change from self-defeating excuses to self-enhancing actions.