The Magic Gratitude Challenge ~ Day 17
The Magic Check
Day 17 Challenge:
The law of attraction is such a powerful energy. It attracts to thoughts like a magnet, drawing in whatever experiences match up to it. If your thoughts are negative, you will attract more negativity into your life. If your thoughts are positive, you will attract more positivity into your life.
When it comes to negative thoughts it is usually a result of stress, anxiety and depression. Sometimes the stressful thoughts are a result of the lack of money. Money helps to support ourselves and our family. Money helps to put our children through college. Having money helps us create memories that last a life time and live the life that we dream of living.
When we are struggling with money, we become
stressed,
anxious and
depressed. We have thoughts of
worry,
fear and
disappointment. We may see others thriving and succeeding, which may make us feel
envious,
jealous and
angry. All those feelings highlighted above are negative thoughts and feelings. By thinking and feeling them you are only attracting more future experiences like them. However difficult you have to ignore your negative thoughts and feelings about money and focus on gratitude to attract the life you want to have.
A great tip to remember when learning to use gratitude ~ You can't be grateful and negative at the same time. So you can't be feeling grateful for money and be worried about money at the same time. Or even be grateful for money and feeling fearful of money at the same time. The two feelings will not work together. That really helped me in the beginning when learning to apply gratitude to attract the things I desired. I knew I was aligning myself perfectly with the universe when I was feeling grateful. And I knew I wasn't aligned when I felt negative. I continually started realigning and realigning until it became more natural to think positive thoughts first.
You have attracted money into you life numerous times. You may not of realized it at the time but you did.
We have to be grateful for all forms of money each time they come into our life. To be able to attract more frequent experiences in the future. So being more aware of all the forms of money that come into your life is important. Here is a list of many examples...
Money can come to you: (examples of the book)
- through unexpected checks
- increased salary
- lottery
- tax refund
- unanticipated gift of money
- someone picks up the tab at the restaurant, coffee shop, etc.
- sale prices on items you were already in the market for
- money-back offers
- someone gives you a gift of something you had planned on buying
- discounts on anything from household items to travel
- lending institution lowers interest rate
- service provider offers better packages
The list could go on and on, but it will open your eyes to the idea what all forms of money means. Most likely you have had one of these experiences happen to you and little had you know you attracted them to you! Most may call it luck, but it is actually the law of attraction at work. Once you wrap your head around the opportunities that you have available, you will be wanting to use gratitude all the time. The more you do, the more good experiences you will attract guaranteed.
On to today's fun challenge!
Today you will write a out a magical check for any amount you want. You will fill it out with your name and the date. Think about what you want to spend it on. You will be more grateful for the money when you know what you want to spend it on. Because money is just a means to getting what you want, but it is not the end result. What we use the money for is the end result. You can find the magic check in the book or online. If you use the one in the book you will photocopy or scan the check from the book or you can go to www.thesecret.tv/magiccheck and print them out. You will be doing this practice more than once. Especially if you see results like I did!
I would suggest you start out writing a smaller amount at first. By doing a smaller amount you will know when you receive the money that you did it and the magic of gratitude helped you manifest it into your life. And then continue to increase the amount each time. I would also suggest that you really get into the belief that you can manifest money into your life. Focus on this magic check as much as possible today (and the days and weeks ahead.) You will hold the check in your hands and think about what you want the money for. Get a picture of it in your head and visualize yourself actually purchasing it. Feeling the feeling of how good it would feel. The more excited and grateful you can get the better.
After you complete the steps above place the check somewhere where you will see it often. At least two times today you will again hold that check in your hands and visualize how you will spend the money. Making sure to feel as excited and grateful as you can. I would suggest you do it more than twice, the more times a day you can do this the better. At the end of the day, either kept the check where you had it or move it to another place where you will see if often. Making sure each time you see it you go through the steps of thinking about the purchase and feeling the gratitude and excitement for it.
After you receive what you wanted, you can replace it with a new check for something else you want. You can continue this practice as long as you want. Now I want to share my story from my first 28 day challenge. I wrote my check out for $260.00 because my sons and I wanted new smart phones and that was going to be the monthly price. I really got into this challenge. I followed the instructions in the book and really felt the feeling of it being a real check and that the money was on it's way.
About two hours after I wrote it I received a text from my dear neighbor. She wanted to know if the boys or I wanted to watch her sons a few hours in the morning 3 to 4 days a week during the summer. I got back to her and said the boys would be able to and that I would fill in when needed. I asked her how much it would be and she said around $240.00 or more a month! I was shocked it was so close to the $260.00! A few hours later my oldest son walks in the kitchen as I was making the grocery list. He handed me $20.00 and said put it toward dinner tonight. He rarely gives me money without me asking. I knew it was the law of attraction working! I was sold from that day on! BUT there is more!
So, five days longer I woke up sweating, the whole house was humid and clammy. The A/C wasn't working properly. I would normally be stressed about the money, but the day before I had the Day 21 challenge, Magnificent Outcomes, and I was more optimistic. So I decided to put into practice what I had learned on this normally stressful situation. I called the A/C guy we used a month before. He came right out to the house, which was a "Magnificent Outcome" in itself! lol!
When he was done he came in and said it was the compressor. I didn't understand that because I thought they had just replaced that part last month when he came out. He thought they had done another part (something to do with the motor). I was very calm about it, (because I was using the Magnificent Outcomes) but wanted to make sure I was not paying for something I just paid for. He politely said he would go back to the office to check the records and he would get back to me.
He called soon after and said that we were both right! He had came out a month ago and replaced the compressor. My husband called him back two hours later that same day, saying that the A/C was still not working. So they came back and took the new compressor off and put our old compressor back on and put on the new part. So, he went on saying, that he wanted to just give me the service for free to make sure I was a happy customer. I was so happy indeed! So as we were hanging up he said he would write out a mock receipt that we had paid $260.00 cash for his files and send me that receipt. I was blown away! I received the $260.00 twice in less than a week! I was more than sold this time, I was confident that I helped to manifest this into my life with gratitude and the right attitude.
By using both practices, the "Magic Check" and the "Magnificent Outcomes" I was able to align myself to where I received what I desired. I hope all of you take what you learn from this challenge and use it to create the life you dream of. Like anything in life the more you practice, the better you will become at it. And when you stumble or feel discouraged just realign with gratitude and continue on.
You will do your daily
10 "Count Your Blessings" list and your
"Magical Rock" moment
from yesterday. I will see you here tomorrow for
Day 18 ~ The Magical To Do List! As always you can email
me with any questions, comments and suggestions at
ascreaminggoodlife@gmail.com! I love hearing from you!
~Meme
