What's the quickest way to let the universe know what you want?

It's not visualization!

The fastest way to tell the universe and the deeper aspects of your mind what you want in life, is to take action. A gentleman who held a 10th degree black belt in Karate once told me "Visualization is an excellent way to enhance and refine skill in the martial arts, but it's useless without hands-on practice!" This is true in all aspects of life.

Almost everybody has heard of the law of attraction at this point (not much of a 'secret' anymore). A quick look around, though, reveals that the planet isn't quite 'utopia', yet. Clearly there is something missing from the standard formula. Typically, gratitude and visualization are the primary techniques taught as the law of attraction. Understanding the concept of feedback is an important addition to this.

One of the many challenges in bringing the Law of Attraction into effect in your life is determining what you really want. You have to be able to focus on a clear goal (or set of goals). It is okay to start out a little bit vague, but you want to get as specific as possible as quickly as possible. You are looking for an ever clearer picture of your desired outcome.

Metaphysics, Meditation, and spiritual matters in general tend to be plagued by sloppy thinking. While we do want to be open to new possibilities (this is at the core of properly applied science), we want to have a structured approach to our practice, whatever it may be.

What follows is the modified scientific method for the study of the self.

The universe doesn't always just give you everything you want when you make pretty pictures in your head and say "thank you!" You, like most people, have probably already realized this. If it were this easy, we would all be millionaires. In fact, there would be so many millionaires, that being poor would become 'cool'... i.e. "Oh really, you're a millionaire? Yeah, I know lots of millionaires, but I decided to be poor.

What is the difference between meditation and self-hypnosis? The short answer is, "There isn't necessarily any difference." Both take us out of our day-to-day consciousness. Both have the power to open our eyes and to create very powerful experiences and changes. Having said that, let me share some common perceptions and attitudes that typically accompany these two methodologies, and I'll also suggest a method for integrating the two.

I teach a variety of different skill-sets from a variety of traditions. The goal of the whole thing, however, is liberation... freedom. Currently, most of the people in the world are slaves to their programming... neurological slaves. Whatever patterns are in their nervous system, are basically who they are. Most of us have no idea what patterns we are living out.

Goal setting is a classic method of self improvement. Virtually every self help book out there has a chapter (or more) on goal setting. But how do you get started? What constitutes a good goal?

I could speak for days about all the important things to do (and the important things to avoid) in goal setting. To keep things simple, we will just talk about a few of them.

What do sales, hypnosis, and meditation all have in common? Yes. All three involve internal acceptance, or saying "Yes." We have to soften ourselves for any of these to happen. We have to relax the mind-body. We have to accept.

In sales, obviously, a customer must say "yes" in order to make a purchase, but more important than the external yes, is the internal yes.

We tend to be very driven. When we are consciously aware of and in control of this quality, it can be very useful. Of course, being aware of and in control of your compulsions, impressions, and experiences might be better described as 'driving'. For most of us, we are 'driven' as opposed to 'driving'. When this is the case, it is hard to truly learn anything new.

A properly defined goal is a very powerful thing. It can have far-reaching impacts in your life. In order to create such a goal, it is important to make sure that it is specific, measurable, stated 'as if now', realistic, and time-sensitive. When a goal has been properly defined in this manner, it is almost guaranteed to happen! In this article we will be discussing how to make a goal realistic and keep it time-sensitive.