THE LAW OF MENTAL EQUIVALENTS

      

By Barbara Berger

Barbara Berger    THE LAW OF MENTAL EQUIVALENTS by Barbara Berger Like attracts like   If you’re not happy with some aspects of your life, it’s important to understand that everything we experience in the outer world is a reflection of the mental equivalents we hold in thought.    When we understand this mechanism, we also understand that we must have the mental equivalent of whatever "Good" we wish to experience in the outer, external plane before we can experience it. Of course this is just another way of saying that thought is cause and experience is effect, but it is a very useful and practical way of looking at and understanding this mechanism.    So let’s look at little more closely at what this means.    The law of mental equivalents means, for example, that you cannot and will not experience the abundance of life in your life until you have a prosperity consciousness. When you have the mental equivalent of abundance, in other words when you think abundant thoughts and feel abundant, when you see and understand that all the wealth of the world belongs to you, you will experience prosperity in your life whether or not you have money in the bank. Prosperity, like everything else in life, is a state of mind. But of course, we have been brought up to believe the opposite. We have been raised to believe that you can only feel prosperous if you have money in the bank. But look around you. Is that true? Don’t you know a lot of people who have money in the bank and don’t feel prosperous? So is it true that you can only feel prosperous if you have money in the bank? If you are in doubt, take the time to go inside and find out if this is really true for you. Or is the opposite in fact true? What exactly do you mean by prosperity?    And what about the other areas of your life? What about love? If you want love, can you get it? As we all know, it usually doesn’t work like that.  In fact, wanting something badly usually pushes it away from us, because the very act of wanting is actually an affirmation that we don’t have it! And this holds true for love too. Especially since love is our nature! Interestingly enough, the law of mental equivalents tells us that if we want to experience love in our lives and in our relationships, the best way to do this is to realize the love that is within us and cultivate it! Because everything “out there” is just reflecting back to us what we have “in here”. All our experiences in the so-called outer world are merely equivalents or reflections of our inner states of mind or consciousness. So be the love you want to experience. Cultivate a love consciousness!     Be the love you want to experience.     Take a moment and think about this. Of course you want to experience love, but do you have a love consciousness? Or do you see critical people and enemies everywhere you turn? And are you critical yourself? Take a look within and find out. Watch your thinking and see if you are the love you want to experience. Watching like this may come as a shock because we are so often completely unaware of our own thought patterns and underlying beliefs. We don’t see that even though we want love, we are often sending out angry and critical thoughts, which as we now can see, will be reflected back to us. Understanding the mental laws and the mechanisms they describe, will help you unlock the key to your own behavior and experiences.   Like attracts like Another way of stating this law is: Like attracts like. If you don’t believe me, start to observe the people around you. Try picking one of your friends for example and then try to ascertain the general climate of your friend’s thoughts—his or her state of mind. Is the climate warm and friendly or cold and critical? Is it light-hearted and free or closed and depressed? If you watch closely, you will discover that interestingly enough, people’s experiences match their states of mind perfectly. And you will see that angry people often have many experiences to be angry about!  Since they have an angry or irritated mindset, angry or irritating things just show up! And the people who are truly kind and loving, what are their experiences? Try thinking of someone who has a truly generous mindset—then look at his or her life experience. Do they match? If you start to notice, you will probably see that people who are generous, loving and kind seem to meet evidence of the loving kindness they embody wherever they go. And this goes for people who have that very special prosperity vibe too. And for people who have that dynamic, healthy, energetic vibe. Can you see how their life experiences match and reflect back their mentalities? It’s interesting to watch isn’t it?   It’s the same for you & me Of course it’s the same with you and me. So please watch yourself and find out whether this is true or not. Just notice what happens. On a day when you wake up cross and irritated, doesn’t everything just seem to go wrong? And then when you wake up and your energy is high—well what happens then? Watch and see and I guarantee you will soon understand why the Wise say “exaltation is a magnet for all Good”. When you know the mechanism, you understand that joy and laughter, elation, exhilaration, rapture, excitement, bliss are states of mind that attract every Good thing in this universe. They must because the universe is just reflecting back what’s in here. Nothing else is going on.    If you don’t believe this is true, try this experiment. Make a mental note of when Good things happen to you and you will discover they happen when you're in an elevated state of mind. And extraordinary things happen when you're in a joyful or exalted state of mind—or in love…   _____   To see all my many articles on MysticLivingToday, click here:   http://beamteam.com/en/barbara/barbara_berger_articles_mystic_living_today.html   About Barbara Berger American-born Barbara Berger is the best-selling author of “The Road to Power – Fast Food for the Soul” (published in 30 languages), “Are You Happy Now? 10 Ways to Live a Happy Life” (published in 21 languages), “The Awakening Human Being – A Guide to the Power of Mind”, and "Find and Follow Your Inner Compass".  Barbara’s latest books include “Healthy Models for Relationships – the Basic Principles Behind Good Relationships” and her autobiography entitled “My Road to Power – Sex, Trauma & Higher Consciousness”.  Barbara lives in Copenhagen, Denmark and works as coach and therapist, helping people around the globe come into alignment with their own true power. For more about Barbara see her Web site: http://www.beamteam.com