The Power (7 page)

When you’re feeling joyful, you are giving joy, and you’ll receive back joyful experiences, joyful situations, and joyful people, wherever you go. From the smallest experience of your favorite song playing on the radio to bigger experiences of receiving a pay raise – all of the circumstances you experience are the law of attraction responding to your feeling of joy. When you’re feeling irritated, you’re giving irritation, and you’ll receive back irritating experiences, irritating situations, and irritating people wherever you go. From the small irritation of a mosquito, to the bigger irritation of your car breaking down, all of these experiences are the law of attraction responding to your irritation.

Every good feeling unites you with the force of love, because love is the source of all good feelings. Feelings of enthusiasm, excitement, and passion come from love, and when you feel any of them consistently, they give you a life filled with enthusiastic, exciting, and passionate things.

You can harness the power of a good feeling to the fullest by turning up its volume. To turn up the volume of a feeling, take charge of it and deliberately intensify it so you feel as good as you can. To amplify enthusiasm, revel in the feeling of enthusiasm; milk the feeling for all that you can by feeling it intensely! When you feel passion or excitement, revel in those feelings and intensify them by feeling them as deeply as you can. The more you amplify your good feelings, the greater the love you give, and the results you will receive back in your life will be nothing short of spectacular.

When you’re feeling any good feeling, you can also amplify it by looking for things you love. Before sitting down to write this book, each day I spent several minutes amplifying my good feelings. To amplify my good feelings, I thought about all the things I love. I counted the things I love nonstop one after the other: my family, friends, home, flowers in the garden, the weather, colors, situations, events, and things I loved that happened during the week, month, or year. I kept listing everything I love in my mind until I felt amazing. Then I sat down to write. It’s as easy as that to amplify your good feelings, and you can do it anywhere, at any time.

Your Feelings Reflect What You’re Giving

You can tell right now in the major areas of your life whether you have been giving more good feelings or more bad feelings. How you
feel
about each subject in your life, such as money, health, your job, and every individual relationship, is an exact reflection of what you have been giving out on each subject.

When you think about money, your feelings reflect what you are giving about money. If you feel bad when you think about money, because you don’t have enough, you must receive back negative circumstances and experiences of not having enough money – because that is the negative feeling you’re giving.

When you think about your job, your feelings tell you what you are giving about your job. If you feel good about your job, you must receive back positive circumstances and experiences in your job – because that is the positive feeling you’re giving. When you think about your family, health, or any subject that is important to you, your feelings tell you what you’re giving.

“Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.”

Neville Goddard
(1905-1972)
NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR

Life isn’t happening to you; life is
responding
to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of your life movie. You decide what your life will be – by what you give out.

There are infinite levels of good feelings you can feel, which means there’s no end to the heights of the life you can receive. There are also many levels of bad feelings that become increasingly negative, but with bad feelings there is a bottom limit beyond which you can’t endure, which forces you to choose good feelings again.

It’s not a fluke or an accident that good feelings feel amazing and that bad feelings feel really bad. Love is the supreme ruling power of life, and it calls you and attracts you through your good feelings, so you will live the life you are meant to live. Love also calls you through your bad feelings, because they tell you that you are disconnected from the positive force of life!

Everything Is About How You Feel

Everything in life is about how you feel. Every decision you make in your life is based on how you feel. The single motivating power of your entire life is your feelings!

Whatever you want in your life, you want it because you love it and because it will make you
feel
good. Whatever you don’t want in your life you don’t want because it will make you
feel
bad.

You want health because it feels good to be healthy, and it feels bad to be sick. You want money because it feels good to buy and do the things you love, and it feels bad when you can’t. You want happy relationships because they make you feel good, and difficult relationships make you feel bad. You want happiness because happiness feels good, and to be unhappy feels bad.

All the things you want are motivated by the good feelings they will give you! And how do you receive the good things you want in your life? Good feelings! Dollars want you. Health wants you. Happiness wants you. All the things you love want you! They are bursting to come into your life, but you have to give good feelings to bring them to you. You don’t have to battle and struggle to change the circumstances of your life; all you have to do is give love through good feelings, and what you want will appear!

Your good feelings harness the force of love – the power to everything good in life. Your good feelings tell you this is the way to what you want. Your good feelings tell you that when you feel good, life will be good! But you have to give good feelings first!

If you have been living your life saying to yourself, “I will be happy when I have a better house,” “I will be happy when I get a job or promotion,” “I will be happy when the kids are through college,” “I will be happy when we have more money,” “I will be happy when I can travel,” or “I will be happy when my business is a success,” you will never have those things because your thoughts are defying the way love works. They’re defying the law of attraction.

You have to be happy first, and
give
happiness, to
receive
happy things! It can’t happen any other way, because whatever you want to
receive
in life, you must
give
first! You are in command of your feelings, you are in command of your love, and the force of love will give back to you whatever you give out.

POINTS OF POWER

• How you feel in any one moment is more important than anything else, because how you feel right now is creating your life.
  
• Your feelings are the power of your thoughts and words. It’s what you feel that matters!
  
• All good feelings come from love! All negative feelings come from a lack of love.
  
• Every good feeling unites you with the force of love, because love is the source of all good feelings.
  
• Amplify your good feelings by thinking about all the things you love. Count the things you love nonstop one after the other. Keep listing everything you love until you feel amazing.
  
• How you feel about each subject in your life is an exact reflection of what you have been giving out on each subject.
  
• Life isn’t happening to you – life is responding to you! Every subject of your life is your call and you make the call on everything in life by what you give.
  
• There are infinite levels of good feelings you can feel, which means there is no end to the heights of life you can receive.
  
• All the things you love want you! Dollars want you. Health wants you. Happiness wants you.
  
• Don’t struggle to change the circumstances of your life. Give love through your good feelings and what you want will appear!
  
• You have to give good feelings first. You have to be happy first, and give happiness, to receive happy things! Whatever you want to receive in life, you must give first!