Attracting The Perfect Lawn Service

This summer our front yard bushes needed some serious trimming.  I have trimmed the bushes for many years, but this year  I decided I wanted to hire someone else to do this job.  Unfortunately, because I kept procrastinating, spring slipped into summer and by the end of June the bushes were getting out of control.

Since winter had ended, I'd been walking our dog around our subdivision and had seen many lawn mowing services busy at work in our neighborhood.  The last week in June I was walking our dog as usual and noticed a truck promoting lawn mowing service, about a half a block from our home.  As I walked by I noticed the men were not mowing the lawn (as advertised on the truck) but were actually trimming the bushes.  I walked on by, and continued on home with the dog, and suddenly I had an impulse to walk back down the block and ask the men who were trimming the bushes if they would mind coming to my house to give me an estimate on trimming my bushes.

They were happy to do this and a few hours later all the bushes in my entire front yard were trimmed expertly and all the debris was cleaned up and taken away for a mere $40.

I am thankful I listened to my intuitive thought (that impulse) to walk back and ask for an estimate.  Not only were my overgrown bushes taken care of, but I had this company do our weekly lawn mowing for the rest of the summer.  They also repaired a sump pump drainage problem in our water logged ditch, moved our mailbox to a more eye appealing location and installed 5 new fence posts that had been gradually deteriorating for several years from overgrown tree roots.  I have learned that the universe is always giving us signs and lining things up for us to solve all our problems.  Many times the key to finding the solution lies in our awareness of listening and then acting on our intuitive, good feeling, many times impulsive thoughts!

S.Y.
Novi, MI

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Should My Focus Be Specific or General?

A common misconception about the use of Law of Attraction is that, if I want something to manifest, all I have to do is think hard about it and it will come into my life.

Unfortunately, this only works if we're in a positive, aligned state of mind.  If not then it will have the opposite effect which can be confusing and frustrating if we don't understand why.

Because Law of Attraction is always active, when we aren't feeling good, specifically focusing on what we want will tend to bring us negative thoughts that match the mood we're in rather than what we want.  This becomes a pattern that is increasingly difficult to interrupt as it's self-feeding.

You might think, but I'm thinking about something I want which should make me feel good!  The problem is that, we can only move incrementally up the Emotional Scale. When we're too far down, attempting to make a big leap only causes us to fall backwards and become even more annoyed with where we are.

So what's the answer?  Soften our focus.  Softening one's focus, that is, finding generally good things to think about tends to stop the feeding frenzy.

Since our Source is always gently calling us towards the top of the Emotional Scale, simply distracting ourselves from the negative thought cycle allows us to naturally rise up.

As we start feeling hopeful again, we can re-introduce specific thoughts about what we want.  Now, Law of Attraction becomes our friend, bringing us thoughts that match which reinforces our point of attraction.

So, the rule of thumb is:

• When you are in alignment about something, that is, at or above Hopeful on the Emotional Scale, then focusing specifically on what you want can be of benefit.

• When you aren't in alignment, that is, feeling bad about a subject then your best effort is to focus more generally until you are back into alignment. That is, things either on or off the subject that make you feel good when you think them.  Then, over time, you can focus specifically again when you're feeling better.