There is a Sakti or power in every word. The Name of God, chanted correctly or incorrectly, knowingly or unknowingly, carefully, is sure to give the desired result.The glory of the Name of God cannot be established through reasoning and intellect. It can be experienced or realized only through devotion, faith and constant repetition of the Name. By Mantra japa, you can attain peace of mind quickly. By prolonged and constant practice the inherent power of the Mantra (Mantra-Sakti) will be awakened, which will fill your very existence with the Divinity of the Mantra.

MANTRAS FOR JAPA

Lord Ganapati:

Om Sri Ganapataye Namah

Lord Shiva:

Om Namah Shivaya (Panchakshara)

Maha-Mrityunjaya Mantra:

Om tryambakam yajamahe
sugandhim pushtivardhanam
uurvarukamiva bandhanaan
mrityor mukshiya maamritaat.

Sri Devi:
Om Sri Durgayai Namah

Sri Kalika:
Om Sri Kalikayai Namah

Sri Lakshmi:
Om Sri Maha-Lakshmyai Namah

Lord Hari:

Om Namo Narayanaya (Ashtakshara)

Hari Om

Hari Om Tat Sat

Lord Krishna:

Maha-Mantra :

Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya

Om Sri Krishnaya Govindaya Gopijana Vallabhaya Namah

Om Sri Krishnaya Namah

Sri Hanuman:

Om Sri Hanumate Namah

Lord Rama:

Om Sri Ram Jaya Ram Jaya Jaya Ram

Om Sri Ramaya Namah

Sri Rama Rama Rameti,
Rame Rame Manorame
Sahasranama Tattulyam Rama Nama Varanane

Om Sri Sita-Ramachandradhyam Namah

Sri Ram

Sri Saraswathi:

Om Sri Sarasvatyai Namah

Lord Subramanya, Kartikeya:

Om Sri Saravanabhavaya Namah

Sharangati Mantra (for surrender):

Om Sri Ramah Sharanam Mama
Om Sri Krishnah Sharanam Mama
Om Sri Sita-Ramah Sharanam Mama

Sharada:

Om Sri Bala-Parameshvaryai Namah

Tripurasundari:

Om Sri Tripura-Sundaryai Namah

Vedantic Formulae:

Om Soham

Om Tat Tvam Asi

Om Aham Brahma Asmi

PRACTICAL AIDS TO JAPA

1. Select any Mantra or Name of God, preferably that given to you by your Guru, and repeat it from 108 to 1,080 times daily (one to ten malas).

2. Always keep your Guru-Mantra a secret. Never disclose it to anyone. It is better to stick to one Mantra only. Take a bath or wash your hands, feet, face and mouth before sitting for Japa in the morning. At other times this is not absolutely necessary. Do Japa whenever you have leisure, at the three junctions of the day – morning, noon and evening – and before going to bed.

3 The early morning period (Brahmamuhurta) and dusk is the most favourable time for Japa and meditation. This is when Sattva (purity or steadiness) is predominant.

4. Face east or north during the practice. This enhances the efficacy of the Japa.

5. Sit on a deer skin or rug. Spread a piece of cloth over it. This conserves body-electricity. Sit in a separate meditation room or in any suitable place, such as a temple, on a river bank or under a banyan or peepul tree.

6. Maintain a steady pose. Attain mastery of the posture. You must be able to sit in Padmasana, Siddhasana or Sukhasana for three hours at a strech. Recite some prayers before starting the Japa. Reslove to complete a certain minimum number of malas before leaving your seat.

7. A rosary is a whip to goad the mind towards God. Use a rudraksha or tulsi mala of 108 beads. Do not allow the mala to hang below the navel. Keep the hand near the heart or the nose. The mala must not be visible to you or to others. Cover it with a towel or handkerchief, which must be clean and washed daily. Use the middle finger and the thumb of the right to roll the beads. The use of the index finger is prohibited.Do not cross the meru while rolling the beads. Turn back when you come to it.

8. Do mental Japa for sometimes without a mala. When the mind wanders, do the Japa aloud, or whisper the Mantra for some time and come back to mental Japa again as soon as possible.

9. When you repeat the Mantra, have the feeling or mental attitude that the Lord is seated in your heart, that purity or Sattva is flowing from the Lord into your mind, that the Mantra is purifying your heart, destroying desires, cravings and evil thoughts.

10. Do not do the Japa in a hurried manner. Do it slowly with feeling, one-pointedness of mind and single-minded devotion. Pronounce the Mantra distinctly and without any mistakes. Repeat it neither too slowly nor too fast. Increase the speed only when the mind wanders. Be vigilant and alert during Japa. Stand up when sleep tries to overpower you.

11. Try to associate the Japa with the rhythm of the breath and meditate in the form of your Deity. Keep a picture or idol of the Deity in front of you. Think of the meaning of the Mantra while repeating it. Regularity in Japa Sadhana is most essential if success is to be achieved. Sit in the same place and at the same time every day. Do not beg for any worldly objects from God while doing Japa. Feel that your heart is being purified and that the mind is becoming steady by the power of the Mantra and the Grace of the Lord.

12. Observe silence and avoid distractions, calls and engagements. It is important not to leave the place at once after the Japa is over and mix with everyone or plunge into worldly activity. Sit very quietly for at least ten minutes, humming some prayer, remembering the Lord and reflecting upon His infinite love. Then, after devout prostration, leave the place and commence your routine duties and activities. In this way the spiritual vibrations will remain intact. Continue the current of Japa mentally at all times, whatever be the activity in which you are engaged. Carry on your Sadhana with tenacity and perseverance, without a break. Realize the glorious goal of life and enjoy supreme bliss.

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Mantras are powerful sounds. Mantras are the ones that have when chanted produce great effects. These are chanted repeatedly and that is called Japa. Japa is a key part of Hindu prayer.

Mantras are very rich in their meaning. While doing japa one can meditate on the mantra and its meaning. As the mind dwell more and more into that, the mantra conditions the mind and takes up to the higher states and forms the path to the great liberation – eternal bliss !

What makes mantras so special as compared to the normal words ? Mantras are not human composed. One may wonder how can that be possible. Especially given that there are sages associated with the mantras ! The point to be noted is that these sages are not composers of these mantras, as we normaly compose the sentences; they are not the inventors, but they are the discoverers of the mantra. They get to know the mantras in a state in which these words do not emanate from their thoughts, but they are just passive audience to it. Those who go deep in meditation and realize God may be able to get a feel of this situation.

To be such a discoverer, even though they are just passive hearers, needs great amount of qualification. Only the perfect one can unchangedly reproduce the mantra heard. The only one that is absolutely perfect is God. All other discoverers reproduce that mantra only as pure as their closeness to perfection.

veda samhit As are full of mantras and hence have been preserved for ages in their pure form by utilizing the various techniques like patha, krama, jaTa, gaNa pATas, that ensure that the chanter clearly gets the correct letters and even the correct level of sound for each letter (svara). The chanters are advised to chant the mantras only after getting the right pronunciation of it, so that the mantras are presered against deterioration with time. There would be gurus who initiate the disciple in a mantra. guru ensures that the disciple got the mantra right, so that the person can chant independently as well as initiate others in that mantra. Ensuring this preservation vedas were passed only through the tradition of guru and disciples and was never written down till very recent past. (It is really amazing to note that without being written down the vedas have been preserved in pure form across the land by these techniques. Though the texts are freely available now for anybody to read, it would be important to ensure that these mantras are properly learnt and then chanted. This way the treasure that as been preserved so carefully over multiple milleniums do not deteriorate due to indifference.)

It is to be noted that many of the hymns of thirumuRai are known to have great powers of mantras that are practiced even today.

While there are plenty of mantras available, there are a few that are chanted with high esteem by the shaivas. Definitely those are highly powerful ones that can lead the chanter on the great path to mukti (liberation). praNava, paNJchAkashra, gAyatri to name a few. For shaivites the Holy Five Syllables (paNJchAkshara) with or without combined with the praNava is the ultimate mantra.

Definition # 1: Mantras are energy-based sounds.

Saying any word produces an actual physical vibration. Over time, if we know what the effect of that vibration is, then the word may come to have meaning associated with the effect of saying that vibration or word. This is one level of energy basis for words.

Another level is intent. If the actual physical vibration is coupled with a mental intention, the vibration then contains an additional mental component which influences the result of saying it. The sound is the carrier wave and the intent is overlaid upon the wave form, just as a colored gel influences the appearance and effect of a white light.

In either instance, the word is based upon energy. Nowhere is this idea more true than for Sanskrit mantra. For although there is a general meaning which comes to be associated with mantras, the only lasting definition is the result or effect of saying the mantra.

Definition #2: Mantras create thought-energy waves.

The human consciousness is really a collection of states of consciousness which distributively exist throughout the physical and subtle bodies. Each organ has a primitive consciousness of its own. That primitive consciousness allows it to perform functions specific to it. Then come the various systems. The cardio-vascular system, the reproductive system and other systems have various organs or body parts working at slightly different stages of a single process. Like the organs, there is a primitive consciousness also associated with each system. And these are just within the physical body. Similar functions and states of consciousness exist within the subtle body as well. So individual organ consciousness is overlaid by system consciousness, overlaid again by subtle body counterparts and consciousness, and so ad infinitum.

The ego with its self-defined “I” ness assumes a pre-eminent state among the subtle din of random, semi-conscious thoughts which pulse through our organism. And of course, our organism can “pick up” the vibration of other organisms nearby. The result is that there are myriad vibrations riding in and through the subconscious mind at any given time.

Mantras start a powerful vibration which corresponds to both a specific spiritual energy frequency and a state of consciousness in seed form. Over time, the mantra process begins to override all of the other smaller vibrations, which eventually become absorbed by the mantra. After a length of time which varies from individual to individual, the great wave of the mantra stills all other vibrations. Ultimately, the mantra produces a state where the organism vibrates at the rate completely in tune with the energy and spiritual state represented by and contained within the mantra.

At this point, a change of state occurs in the organism. The organism becomes subtly different. Just as a laser is light which is coherent in a new way, the person who becomes one with the state produced by the mantra is also coherent in a way which did not exist prior to the conscious undertaking of repetition of the mantra.

Definition #3: Mantras are tools of power and tools for power.

They are formidable. They are ancient. They work. The word “mantra” is derived from two Sanskrit words. The first is “manas” or “mind,” which provides the “man” syllable. The second syllable is drawn from the Sanskrit word “trai” meaning to “protect” or to “free from.” Therefore, the word mantra in its most literal sense means “to free from the mind.” Mantra is, at its core, a tool used by the mind which eventually frees one from the vagaries of the mind.

But the journey from mantra to freedom is a wondrous one. The mind expands, deepens and widens and eventually dips into the essence of cosmic existence. On its journey, the mind comes to understand much about the essence of the vibration of things. And knowledge, as we all know, is power. In the case of mantra, this power is tangible and wieldable.

Statements About Mantra

Mantras have close, approximate one-to-one direct language-based translation.

If we warn a young child that it should not touch a hot stove, we try to explain that it will burn the child. However, language is insufficient to convey the experience. Only the act of touching the stove and being burned will adequately define the words “hot” and “burn” in the context of “stove.” Essentially, there is no real direct translation of the experience of being burned.

Similarly, there is no word which is the exact equivalent of the experience of sticking one’s finger into an electrical socket. When we stick our hand into the socket, only then do we have a context for the word “shock.” But shock is really a definition of the result of the action of sticking our hand into the socket.

It is the same with mantras. The only true definition is the experience which it ultimately creates in the sayer. Over thousands of years, many sayers have had common experiences and passed them on to the next generation. Through this tradition, a context of experiential definition has been created.

Definitions of mantras are oriented toward either the results of repeating the mantra or of the intentions of the original framers and testers of the mantra.

In Sanskrit, sounds which have no direct translation but which contain great power which can be “grown” from it are called “seed mantras.” Seed in Sanskrit is called “Bijam” in the singular and “Bija” in the plural form.

Let’s take an example. The mantra “Shrim” or Shreem is the seed sound for the principle of abundance (Lakshmi, in the Hindu Pantheon.) If one says “shrim” a hundred times, a certain increase in the potentiality of the sayer to accumulate abundance is achieved. If one says “shrim” a thousand times or a million, the result is correspondingly greater.

But abundance can take many forms. There is prosperity, to be sure, but there is also peace as abundance, health as wealth, friends as wealth, enough food to eat as wealth, and a host of other kinds and types of abundance which may vary from individual to individual and culture to culture. It is at this point that the intention of the sayer begins to influence the degree of the kind of capacity for accumulating wealth which may accrue.

Mantras have been tested and/or verified by their original framers or users.

Each mantra is associated with an actual sage or historical person who once lived. Although the oral tradition predates written speech by centuries, those earliest oral records annotated on palm leaves discussed earlier clearly designate a specific sage as the “seer” of the mantra. This means that the mantra was probably arrived at through some form of meditation or intuition and subsequently tested by the person who first encountered it.

Sanskrit mantras are composed of letters which correspond to certain petals or spokes of chakras in the subtle body.

As discussed earlier, there is a direct relationship between the mantra sound, either vocalized or subvocalized, and the chakras located throughout the body.

Mantras are energy which can be likened to fire.

You can use fire either to cook your lunch or to burn down the forest. It is the same fire. Similarly, mantra can bring a positive and beneficial result, or it can produce an energy meltdown when misused or practiced without some guidance. There are certain mantra formulas which are so exact, so specific and so powerful that they must be learned and practiced under careful supervision by a qualified guru.

Fortunately, most of the mantras widely used in our portal and certainly those contained in this chapter are perfectly safe to use on a daily basis, even with some intensity.

Mantra energizes prana.

“Prana” is a Sanskrit term for a form of life energy which can be transferred from individual to individual. Prana may or may not produce an instant dramatic effect upon transfer. There can be heat or coolness as a result of the transfer.

Some healers operate through transfer of prana. A massage therapist can transfer prana with beneficial effect. Even self-healing can be accomplished by concentrating prana in certain organs, the result of which can be a clearing of the difficulty or condition. For instance, by saying a certain mantra while visualizing an internal organ bathed in light, the specific power of the mantra can become concentrated there with great beneficial effect.

Mantras eventually quiet the mind.

At a deep level, subconscious mind is a collective consciousness of all the forms of primitive consciousnesses which exist throughout the physical and subtle bodies. The dedicated use of mantra can dig into subconscious crystallized thoughts stored in the organs and glands and transform these bodily parts into repositories of peace.

Some of you may be interested or even fascinated by the discipline of mantra, but feel somewhat overwhelmed by the array of mantras and disciplines, astotaras and pujas you find in here. If so, then this chapter will be of use to you. It contains some simple mantras and their common application. They have been compiled from vedas and upanishads, drawn from the various headings of the deities or principles involved. These mantras address various life issues which we all face from time to time.

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The necessity of forgiveness to attain true contentment, fulfillment and harmony in life is as necessary as the air we breathe to survive. Practice forgiveness…”Unconditionally”

The Power Of Forgiveness is an incredibly powerful and self liberating principle which, when “consciously” applied, allows a sense of indescribable peace and overall well being to flow and permeate your inner most being resulting in FAR GREATER and more “pleasing” outcomes in your physical world.The importance of implementing this incredible power cannot be understated and can be much more easily understood by developing the awareness and understanding of how our universe operates in it’s precise, unwavering and perfectly constructed manner.

By developing an awareness and deeper understanding of the immeasurable, unwavering, and immutable power of the governing Laws of Creation, also referred to as Universal Laws, that govern the entire universe, you will become better equipped and empowered to begin effortlessly experiencing and consciously implementing the life transforming power of forgiveness into your day to day life and as a result, begin to personally experience the true sense of freedom and well being derived from it.

First of all let’s examine the definition of forgiveness so that you might gain a better understanding of what “true forgiveness” really is.

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary to forgive is….

A) to give up resentment of, or claim to requital for B): to grant relief from payment of 2) : to cease to feel resentment against (an offender) : PARDON intransitive senses : to grant forgiveness.

By developing a basic understanding of what you are creating by “holding resentment”, or by failing “to give up your claim to” or “refusal to grant relief of” the offender, you will have the ability to make an educated and conscious choice as to your future actions with respect to forgiveness and the limitless power which is unleashed as a result of choosing to do so.

By continually and purposefully exercising your ability to forgive, you will begin to understand and experience the true and life transforming power of forgiveness in your physical outcomes and will have discovered the ability to allow unrestricted and positive creative energy to continually flow in and through your life that is in harmony and alignment with all that you desire and deserve to experience.

Although I understand to an extent that forgiveness can seem difficult for some at times, utilizing and implementing the power of forgiveness, regardless of the circumstances iswell within your ability to implement if you make the “conscious” choice to do so. The power realized from doing so (or not) can mean the difference between a life of ease, harmony and overall wellbeing or a life of hardship, discord and illness.

These outcomes whether “perceived” as “good” or “bad” don’t happen as many “perceive” due to any form of wrath or judgment, but rather unfold due to a “perfectly constructed” and never changing process of creation based on “unconditional love” enabling us to experience life as we choose.

A choice to forgive or not is a choice that we have been provided the inalienable right of free will to exercise.

As has been expressed by many doctors, psychologists, scientists, clergy etc., at the core of the majority of illness and disease, there lies a deeply embedded issue of un-forgiveness, at either a conscious or unconscious level.

I have heard many say that “My un-forgiveness is justified”, and from a human perspective, although many may agree with them, I can assure you regardless of how justified you or anyone else may perceive it to be, a refusal to forgive, regardless of the situation will inevitably have an undesirable and “negative” effect on your outcomes in life whether physically, relationally, emotionally, and/or spiritually.

It is a little known fact that when someone makes the choice to hold resentment or un-forgiveness against another, they are NOT hurting the person that they are holding the resentment against, but instead only hurting themselves.

It has long been understood and proven that a prolonged state of un-forgiveness can have many negative side effects on the person that harbors and holds onto resentment and is proven to cause undesirable conditions, not only emotionally but physically as well.

Although the most commonly thought of form of forgiveness is in forgiving others that you “perceive” have wronged you in some way, equally as important is developing the ability to forgive yourself for what you might “perceive” to be past mistakes that you have made, and which many “choose” to hold onto resulting in “feelings” of guilt.

In order to be able to achieve a true state of forgiveness, it is also necessary to develop an understanding of your true nature of self. This self awareness allows you to see the true perfection of “the real you” at the depths of your inner most being and has the power to overwrite and replace the negative thoughts and emotions which empower you to release and shift the emotion of guilt, thereby changing the negative energies that may very well be keeping you from realizing your “birthright” to experience EVERY desire held and allowing unlimited Abundance and Happiness to flow into your life.

Let’s look at how and why a state of forgiveness as well as un-forgiveness has the ability to affect your external reality in a “physical” sense and plays an essential role in what you see manifest in your life.

First, let’s look at it from a scientific perspective…

First of all, as you have discovered in the Law of Vibration , all things, both seen and unseen, broken down and analyzed in their most basic sub-atomic structures consist of pure energy, or vibration. These vibrations, which are determined by the specific formation or structure of these subatomic particles which make them up, resonate and broadcast a specific frequency or rate of vibration.

As an example Love creates and emanates a much different vibrational frequency than does hate. Forgiveness resonates and emanates a much different vibrational frequency than Un-forgiveness.

Regardless of the frequency or vibratory rate which results and is projected, based on YOUR individual choices, these vibrations or frequencies that you choose to experience are sent out into the universe at an unseen, spiritual or metaphysical level and attract and/or are attracted to energies of a similar or harmonious vibratory pattern or frequency.

The result is that these patterns or projections of energy join together with patterns that are harmonious with these projected energy patterns and form what you come to see and experience in your physical world. (For deeper insight and understanding, See the Law of Attraction and Quantum Physics )

As we have discovered in the power of thoughts article , your thoughts, more specifically the emotions that those thoughts create also consist of, resonate and broadcast a specific vibratory frequency based on and determined by the kind and quality of the thought, and attracts into your life, without judgment, the events, conditions, and circumstances that you see manifest in your physical world every minute of every day.

 

So What Does All This Have To Do With The Power Of Forgiveness?

Absolutely Everything!

By failing to make a “conscious choice” to forgive yourself or someone else that may have wronged you in some way, you are actually creating and projecting a vibratory frequency through those thoughts of un-forgiveness and resentment that are being broadcast out, attracting to them harmonious vibratory patterns or frequencies which are, through the unwavering process of manifestation creating the events, conditions, and circumstances which form in your physical world, based on YOUR choices which determines what it is that you are sending out. In this case resentment and un-forgiveness.

To take it a step further, if you are not only holding on to resentment or un-forgiveness toward another, but also “hoping or wishing” that some negative experience be inflicted on them, you are in reality asking and will receive the outcome of that desire in your own life in some form.

How is that possible? Because the energy that you are creating and projecting is being internalized in you…by you…and as a result you will attract additional energies to you which support those outgoing thoughts.

Just as a mirror can only reflect back at you an image based on what you choose to project or place in front of it, the Universe, God, 1st Cause only reflects back to you what you choose to project which determines the outcome or effect.

Consider how it is that you tune into your favorite radio or TV station. The channel that you “choose” to tune into happens as the result of a personal choice to set the dial which creates a frequency that is projected outward and harmonizes with existing frequencies which results in the creation of the image or sound being received on the TV or radio enabling you to “experience” it.

The process NEVER fails or wavers!!

You can’t expect to tune into channel 9 by choosing to place the dial on channel 4. To “experience” channel 9 you must choose to place the dial on channel 9.

To provide additional clarity and deeper insight, let’s look at the how the process unfolds in nature……

If you made a choice to plant an apple seed you certainly couldn’t or wouldn’t expect oranges to be produced from the original seed!

No more than you would expect to receive a harvest of oranges by planting apple seeds, can you expect to receive pleasing and positive life outcomes based on planting and nurturing seeds of resentment and un-forgiveness.

By planting seeds of un-forgiveness and resentment, it would go against and violate every physical, scientific and spiritual law if you were able to produce any result that is in opposition to the original seed that was planted.

In Other words…….

 

It’s an IMPOSSIBILITY!!

The principles that govern creation and the physical outcomes received as a result of each of these above examples are identical regardless if your choice is to develop this understanding of them based on the latest in scientific discoveries, through various spiritual teachings and writings, or through the simple observation of nature.

The unwavering and inevitable end result is that you are going to receive back…in “physical form”…in relation to the seeds that you plant…receive an image based on the reflection that you choose to project…receive an outcome based on the energy that you choose to project…reap a harvest based on the kind and quality of “the seed” that you choose to plant.

From a more human perspective, if you plant what you “perceive” to be “negative” seeds you will reap negative results. If you plant what you “perceive” to be “positive” seeds, you will reap positive results.

 

Un-forgiveness Toward Yourself or Another Can NEVER Produce What Are “Perceived” As Positive Outcomes!

Another important point to understand if you are to fully grasp the power of forgiveness and develop the ability to effortlessly apply it’s healing power in your life is this….

All things that are happening in our entire universe, regardless of how good or bad you might perceive them from your individual human perspective, are actually happening at any given moment to assist the Universe, as a whole, in it’s ultimate growth and sustainment of itself!

You, being an integral part of the whole, (universal) means that all things, regardless of what they are and no matter how you perceive them, are also working for YOUR good!

So how is it that undesirable events, conditions, and circumstances that you may experience as a result of un-forgiveness in life be good? From a common and traditionally established human physical understanding and perspective they’re not, but at a deep spiritual level these “undesirable conditions” whether recognized or not, serve as a red flag or warning sign that you are not operating in harmonious resonance with what you claim that you desire, and as a result, the immutable, unwavering and perfectly constructed laws of nature, (Universal Laws) will provide you with all the physical proof needed to substantiate it.

This understanding enables you to recognize and correct what is creating the challenge, whatever it might be, and either brings you back toward the path of “Higher Truth” or enables you to continue with the same experience until the intended message is learned.

When recognized and in order to begin experiencing harmonious results, it is necessary to initiate the “inner change” required to realign or harmonize yourself with the “desired” outcomes in order to create and experience the harmony that you desire in your physical world.

This is why The Power Of Forgiveness is so crucial to develop an awareness of and continuously implement in your life.

When you fully recognize and allow this inescapable truth to be fully absorbed, and take the necessary action to surrender any animosity that you may hold toward yourself or another, you will have discovered the means to begin experiencing an incredible and overwhelming sense of inner peace, comfort and overall wellbeing that, absent this understanding, you have been unable to tap into and experience to this point.

Through an increased understanding of the immutable and life transforming truth of this principle, you’ll become empowered to make the necessary mental shift which can and will enable you to eliminate disharmony and discord in your physical world, enabling you to begin effortlessly attracting and experiencing your most cherished and heartfelt dreams and desires.

Through properly, consistently and “consciously” implementing the power of forgiveness into your life, absent judgment and choosing to exercise an attitude of gratitude for “whatever” experiences you may encounter, you will begin to realize and personally experience your personal ability to purposefully and consciously attract and create your life by design rather than by default.

There is no judgment or condemnation at the level of Source or 1st Cause, only a perfectly constructed system based on “Unconditional Love” which determines the process of creation…each and EVERY event, condition and circumstance in YOUR life with unwavering certainty and without fail based on the choices that YOU choose to make.

The following ancient wisdom isn’t based on law as many perceive, but serves as “profound” and life changing direction that IF consciously and consistently “applied” can and will change the entire course of your life.

What is this ancient wisdom?

 

“Judge not and you will not be judged”

Unconditional Love and forgiveness is the essence of our Source, (Creator) whatever you may perceive that to be. By developing the ability to forgive and eliminate judgment unconditionally you will have made tremendous and powerful progress in your ability to begin experiencing a life of ease, harmony and overall well being physically, financially, relationally, emotionally and spiritually.

If you seem to struggle with the ability to forgive yourself or others, it is most certainly effecting your outcomes in life and hopefully you now have a deeper understanding as to why and how.

Developing a keen awareness of the importance of The Power Of Forgiveness in your life, combined with the deeper understanding and correct implementation of that knowledge with focused intent, will enable you to begin experiencing what you may have previously perceived as “miracles” to occur.

While it’s impossible within a single webpage to address every aspect of The Power Of Forgiveness you would be well served to delve more deeply into expanding your awareness regarding it’s importance.

I have found and utilized an incredible program called The Sedona Method which is highly effective in releasing negative thoughts and emotions on the spot. Hale Dwoskin, the founder of the Sedona Training Institute utilizes and teaches an extremely simple yet powerful method called the Release Technique, which when utilized, provides an incredibly freeing experience and removes not only the conscious thoughts and emotions that adversely effect your life, but digs down and releases the subconscious blocks and emotional baggage as well. The Sedona Method program is incredibly effective and easy to use as well as providing excellent and unlimited customer support after the fact, should you need it.

By developing a deep and correct understanding of the power of this truth, it will become much easier to implement the Power of Forgiveness into your life, which, may very prove to be the missing link, enabling you to begin attracting and experiencing a life beyond your wildest imagination.

Only you can choose to utilize The Power Of Forgiveness in your life or not. If you hold onto any unforgiveness issues it is most certainly effecting your outcomes.

Whether or not you may currently realize or believe it, you were intended to experience all that life has to offer. The Power Of Forgiveness can help you achieve it.

Whatever choices you choose to make both today and in the future, it is our sincere and heartfelt hope for you that those choices lead you to a life filled with Love, Joy, Harmony, Fulfillment, Profound Inner Peace and Limitless Prosperity.

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Developing an attitude of sincere gratitude for your current blessings unleashes the power for receiving many more. Every Day Give Thanks.

Consciously utilizing The Power Of Gratitude is an extremely important aspect of attracting to yourself the Abundance and Happiness that you desire and deserve in your life.

First, let’s explore how sincere gratefulness works from a strictly scientific perspective and how, through our individual choice to develop a consistent habit of expressing heartfelt gratitude enacts the unwavering power of Universal Law to draw more to be grateful for.

As we’ve discovered in the Law of Vibration , everything within our universe broken down into it’s purest form is a vibrating mass of atoms and subatomic particles. (Energy) Through the Law of Attraction , the energy (vibrations) that you resonate and project based on your thoughts, feelings, and emotions determines your “vibrational frequency” which broadcasts that frequency, attracts to it energy or vibrational frequencies that harmonize or resonate with it which determines the events, situations, and circumstances that you attract and eventually see manifest into your life.

What does that have to do with the Power Of Gratitude?

Absolutely Everything!

When you are in a sincere state of gratitude your energy (vibrational resonance) is one of acceptance and harmony. You resonate and as a result project a much higher vibrational frequency which is exactly what attracts to you the events, conditions, and circumstances that you desire.

To provide more clarity on the resonance created and projected by gratitude consider the following analogy…

Think of yourself as a giant magnet. Whatever you are feeling, whether it be love, fear, anger, happiness, anger, joy, gratitude, resistance etc. you are in essence creating a magnetic force that attracts and draws to you events, conditions and circumstances which are in direct correlation to what you are feeling. Fear of something creates a magnetic force that will attract more of what you fear. Expressing Gratitude for any situation projects a magnetic force that draws to you more of what you are expressing gratitude for.

In other words gratitude puts you in a harmonious vibrational resonance which attracts additional energies

At any time that you are NOT expressing gratitude for an outcome you are in essence resisting the outcome which places your focus on NOT WANTING that outcome. When this happens what are your thoughts and emotions fixated on? What you DON”T want, correct? That focus of NOT wanting creates a “magnetic force” which only serves to draw to you more of that which you are NOT WANTING or resisting.

 

Let’s look at the difference between expressing gratitude and resistance in your day to day life…

When you experience an outcome that you find displeasing and you choose to fight orresist whatever is happening in your life at any given moment you are actually creating resistance, which puts you in a disharmonious vibration, or a lower vibrational frequency, and we all know what begins to happen then, don’t we? You resonate with and begin to attract the dis-harmonious events, conditions and circumstances into your life that you are resisting. As mentioned above, you are drawing to you or attracting through your “magnetic force” the polar opposite of what you have a desire to experience.

Resistance is placing focus on what you would rather NOT have happening which is in essence creating and projecting a magnetic force which is drawing to you what it is that you are placing your predominant focus on (resisting) or DON”T have a desire to experience. This focus can only draw more of that which you are focusing on.

Gratitude on the other hand is an acceptance of things just the way they are which correlates with acceptance which in turn resonates and projects a much different resonance of energy creating a magnetic force that is conducive to attracting the “desired” outcome.

 

A common question that comes up is……

“How in the world can I be in a state of gratitude when everything seems to be going wrong? Let’s dig down a bit deeper, analyze this a little further and you’ll have a crystal clear understanding of what is actually happening.

First of all it’s important to recognize the importance of accepting responsibility for whatever is going on in your life. As we’ve covered in The Power Of Thoughts , the events, conditions and circumstances that you’re currently experiencing are manifestations based on thoughts and emotions that you’ve chosen at some point in the past. It’s due to those thoughts and emotions which represent the seeds, that you are experiencing whatever outcome you currently are. Remember, you are the one that thinks your thoughts. Your thoughts do not think you. In the same way, the emotions experienced serve as a gauge and are a reflection of the quality of thoughts that you are thinking.

Since your current outcomes are based on what you have thought and felt at some point in the past and those outcomes are now being experienced in your life, guess who created them? YOU did!! Although that may not make you feel any better about them just yet, consider this…

Since it is you that is responsible for attracting and creating “undesirable outcomes, then isn’t it also possible to change the thoughts and emotions responsible for creating them which will produce the desired result? Absolutely!!

Simply recognizing the fact that you brought them into your life in and of itself provides you with an understanding of your creative power which in and of itself should instill a sense of gratitude that you’ve been provided the choice as to what you will create for your life.

Although prior to understanding how this process works you were in essence “unconsciously creating”, now you can begin to “consciously create” more to express gratitude for.

Once you fully grasp and understand that your current experiences here and now are merely guideposts showing you that you are either on the right path of creating your desired outcomes or that you need to make some adjustments in your thought processes that created them, you will become empowered to express heartfelt gratitude for whatever is currently happening in your life recognizing the fact that YOU created it.

Sure…you could get mad at yourself and choose to be upset but what energy are you resonating through that choice? NOT the kind that will attract desired outcomes for sure.

Your perception of something going wrong is only your perception, that is all. A misguided perception based on false beliefs and a lack of understanding that EVERYTHING unfolds in your life perfectly just as you choose and instruct.

In the bigger scheme of things, Nothing EVER goes “wrong.” It is only based on a lack of deeper understanding concerning the process of creation that you “perceive” something as going wrong. The process of creation NEVER wavers. It is, has been and always will be perfect, precise and unfailing 100% of the time.

It is only wrong thought and wrong perceptions that are responsible for igniting emotions that attract creations that show up in your life in the form of events, conditions and circumstances that you perceive as “going wrong.”

It’s important to recognize and express gratitude for the fact that EVERYTHING in your life is a miracle, a creation that YOU created.

Creation, regardless of how you might perceive it is ALWAYS 100% of the time a miracle. Learn to recognize that fact and express gratitude for EVERY miracle in your life and you will begin to see the life changing power that gratitude holds in creating MUCH more to be grateful for.

Those miracles (creations) which show up that aren’t in harmony with your intended or desired outcomes are merely signs that YOU need to make adjustments within yourself. When you fully grasp and internalize this truth you’ll learn to express gratitude for the sign that you mis-created it and that you have been provided with the evidence that will enable you to change the thoughts, emotions and perceptions which brought it into your life.

Your perceptions regarding any event, condition or circumstance are only based on a memory of something in the past that is stored in your subconscious mind and can be consciously changed if you discover that it is not in harmony with what you have a desire to accomplish.

For example, let’s look at two people with totally different perceptions regarding the same situation, and see first hand what an attitude of gratitude is, and isn’t.

This analogy will validate the old saying that “There’s a silver lining in EVERY cloud.” That’s MUCH more true than most understand.

Let’s say that you wake up on a Saturday morning after a good nights rest. You’ve worked hard all week and you’re really looking forward to getting outside and playing in a golf tournament that you had entered, and enjoying your weekend of R&R. You’re feeling pretty good about the day ahead of you. You make your coffee and head for the window to open the blinds. You get them opened up and look out the window. ARGGHHHHHH, it’s raining outside!

Next, your self talk kicks in and it goes something like this. “Oh man, my whole day is ruined. I was planning on doing this and that and now I can’t. Why do things always have to happen like that? Another weekend shot! I can’t ever get a break!”

Obviously your perception is that everything went wrong and your whole weekend is ruined. Based on your thought pattern and perception, your right, it is. Unless you are able to change that perception, you’ll allow yourself to have a less than desirable weekend. In fact, by remaining in this state, you will literally attract additional events, conditions, and circumstances to you that will make Certain that you have a less than desirable weekend!

This is a classic case of resistance, or ungratefulness. No silver lining here right?

Now let’s take a look at the neighbor down the street who always seems to have things going his way. Let’s imagine it’s the same scenario. He has worked all week and made plans to play in the same golf tournament that you were entered in.

He walks to the window, opens the shades and sees exactly the same situation that you did when you opened them except, although he initially has a little disappointment because he can’t go to the golf tournament he was planning on, he decides that there is nothing he can do to change the situation and begins his habitual thought process and self talk which goes something like this…

“Boy I sure was looking forward to that golf tournament. Oh well, I’ve got a few things that need to get done around here today anyway. That means I don’t have to water the grass for a few days and that will sure save a little on my water bill. It’s been a few weeks since it rained and we sure needed it.”

Although the person in the second example was a little disappointed initially, a conscious decision was made that wouldn’t allow it to ruin the entire weekend and shifted the focus to something more positive and productive.

This is a classic case of remaining in gratitude, regardless. No resistance, no allowing undesired emotions to ignite and the end result is a harmonious vibration.

Do you see what I mean about perception? Same situation, different people, different perception, different outcome.

Although that’s a “physical” example, it conveys from that perspective how varying perceptions can create completely opposite experiences.

When you have developed a crystal clear understanding that all things work for the greater good no matter how seemingly bad things may appear, it becomes much easier to stay in a state of gratitude.

When you are able to fully develop that awareness, (and with a little practice, you will) not only is it an extremely freeing experience, but you are setting your self up for a much greater flow of Abundance and Happiness being attracted and coming into your life…EVERY area of your life! When the Universe sees that you are grateful for what you have, it will send you more.

This is exactly how Universal Laws operate. The universe doesn’t perceive anything as good or bad, it only sends outcomes to you based on your vibrational resonance, and your attitude concerning any given thing is exactly what determines that vibrational resonance.

 

God, Universal Consciousness, Super-Conscious Mind or whatever you perceive Source to be, loves each person unconditionally exactly the same and only delivers to each precisely what we are asking for, based on our individually chosen vibrational output. If that output resonates anger, fear, doubt, worry etc. the vibrational resonance that you’re projecting communicates and the universe perceives that you are asking for outcomes based on that output, and that is exactly what you’ll receive!

As spiritual text states it…”As you sow, so shall you reap.”

 

On the other hand, by learning to consciously control the emotions that determine that output, and developing the ability to remain in a state of Gratitude regardless of what the situation may temporarily consist of, your vibrational output or magnetically attractive force is conducive to attracting outcomes that are in vibrational resonance with Gratitude and you can only attract to you the events, conditions and circumstances that are in alignment with Gratitude. Positive and Desired Outcomes!

We can’t possibly control everything that is going on around us in the world but we can most certainly control ourselves and how we perceive what’s going on.

 

The unwavering systems (Universal Laws) have been put into place, and you only need to learn to operate in harmony with them, which will allow you to attract the Abundance and Happiness that you desire.

Developing an attitude of gratitude is one of the most important things that you can dofor attracting and manifesting the things that you desire into your life. In fact, if you have a desire to consistently attract desired outcomes, it’s essential that you do!

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” — Eric Hoffer

Action Steps To Develop Your Attitude Of Gratitude

Ok, now that you have a feel for the importance of expressing gratitude in your day to day outcomes, regardless of what they are, let’s explore a few ways to develop an attitude of gratitude that will positively effect what you see manifest in your life everyday.

By focusing on and compiling a list of the things that you are grateful for in your life actually accomplishes a few extremely effective things at the same time.

#1 It allows you to bring into your conscious awareness the good things that are happening in your life on a day to day basis, and with repetition, will take your focus off of what you perceive as the negative aspects of any situation.

It’s purpose is to put you more into a mindset of finding that you really do have good, positive things happening to you in all areas of your life, and shifts the focus off of what you perceive to be negative.

In essence it is a conscious choice to focus on gratitude rather than choosing what the mass majority does which is “unconsciously” allowing their thoughts, emotions and focus to run wild all the while believing that their a victim of circumstance rather than a creator of circumstance.

It’s no secret that life can deal what “appears” and is often “perceived” to be a bad hand sometimes, but if you will look hard for it, you can find the good in any situation. Sometimes the answer isn’t readily available, but just the knowing that all things happen for the greater good, is enough to keep you from falling into resistance, and keep it from getting worse.

#2 By shifting the focus off of only the negative aspect of a situation, you are able to see more clearly the positive things that can come out of this situation, which in turn puts you into more of a vibrational state that will attract the things that you desire.

#3 While you are doing this procedure, it is automatically rewriting the negative script that through repetition, you have allowed to be written in your subconscious and replacing it with positive and productive scripting that will deliver to you, more positive and productive outcomes.

 

Technique #1 : The Mental Gratitude List

By developing the discipline to practice this technique every day, you will find that it becomes easier and easier to do, and the results, meaning the attraction of more to express gratitude for, will be dramatic.

There are actually several ways that you can do gratitude exercises. Personally I find what works best for me is to mentally go over my list of things to be grateful for as Imeditate . The reason this is such an effective method is because during meditation, your brain wave activity is lowered dramatically into an alpha state, which allows the affirmations to penetrate deeper into the subconscious portion of your mind, and has a quicker, deeper, and longer lasting effect with less effort.

If your not into the meditation thing, you can also go over a mental list as you do the things that relax you, such as working in the garden, walking in the park, going fishing, or whatever relaxation activities that you do.

It’s not nearly as important precisely how you do your gratitude exercises as it is that you make certain to do them.

You’ll find that doing your gratitude work consistently delivers results more quickly, and is much more effective if you can do it while you are in a more relaxed state of mind.

If you are at a place where you are totally unable to quite your mind and anxious most of the time, you may find the next method to be more effective, initially.

 

Technique #2 : The Written Out Gratitude List

This method is equally as effective and actually accomplishes the same end result as the first technique.

Just take out a piece of paper and make a hand written list of the things that you can think of that you are grateful for. Think deeply about each area of your life and begin to write in detail the good things that come to your mind as you write.

Don’t fight it or strain attempting to come up with things, just “allow” them to flow.

Depending on your particular situation, you may find that it’s hard to come up with things to be grateful for initially, so dig deep and things will begin to flow. Make sure though that you are finding and writing things that you are sincerely grateful for. If the emotion isn’t there, the result won’t be either.

To give an example, let’s say that your working on a relationship issue. You and your significant other have been at odds for some time and you are feeling really hurt and angry over the situation. Although your state of mind is telling you how angry you are, think about the good that you saw in this person that attracted you to them initially. Begin to write down what comes to mind and more will follow. Write in as much detail as you are able regarding each item on your list. If it is hard initially, that’s OK, just do the best you can. It will become easier and easier the more you practice at it.

Utilize this technique in whatever area of your life you are working on, regardless if it’s money, health, relationships, or all three. It is extremely powerful and with practice and persistence you will begin to see circumstances begin to change almost magically.

 

Make a commitment to yourself that you will do this at least once per day and stick to that commitment. It doesn’t have to take a long time. Even 5 minutes is better than not at all. Put into it the time that you can spare, but make sure you do it every day.

You’ll be pleased with the results.

There are a few quotes that come to mind with regard to gratitude and the power that it has.

One is…

“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears” -Anthony Robbins

Another is…

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

And an even more powerful one that provides VERY specific instruction with regard to gratitude is…

 

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” -The Bible-Phil 4:6-7 NKJV

Ok…just one more and I’ll stop…

“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” -Brian Tracy

The bottom line is that gratitude plays an extremely important role in beginning to consciously and intentionally create desired outcomes in your life…EXTREMELY important!!

It’s my hope that you’ll think about this and choose gratitude for yourself. It will make ALL the difference.

I would encourage you to develop your understanding with regard to the importance of gratitude and how from a “deeper perspective” it does serve to mold and shape a far more pleasing quality of life.

The following are some personal empowerment tools that I found personally beneficial and perhaps they will serve you as well.

 

Powerful Tools For Developing An Awareness Of The Power Of Gratitude

Although we try to cover as much as possible in developing your ability to attract Abundance and Happiness into your life, it is necessary for some to explore further to enable themselves to establish a better understanding as well as a firm belief in the material presented.

The following tools are extremely effective not only in assisting you to develop an attitude of gratitude, but to dramatically raise your awareness regarding how our universe operates in relation to attracting the Abundance and Happiness that you desire into your life.

Sources: http://www.abundance-and-happiness.com/gratitude.html