The Power (29 page)

POINTS OF POWER

• It’s the attractive force of love that moves all the money in the world, and whoever is giving love by feeling good is a magnet for money.
  
• You can tell how you feel about money, because if you don’t have all you need, then you don’t feel good about money.
  
• Love is the attracting force that brings money, and love is also the power that makes money stick!
  
• When you pay your bills, find a way, any way, to make yourself feel good. Imagine your bills are checks you’re receiving. Or use gratitude and give thanks to the company who sent you the bill.
  
• When some money comes into your hands, no matter how small it is, be grateful! Remember, gratitude is the great multiplier.
  
• Feel love when you pay for anything instead of feeling bad because you have less money. The difference between the two is the difference between having plenty of money, and struggling with money for the rest of your life.
  
• Use physical money as your cue to remember to feel good about plenty of money. Imagine the front of each bill as the positive side, which represents plenty of money. Each time you handle money, deliberately flip the bill so the front is facing you.
  
• If you feel really good about success, no matter whose success it is, you stick success to you!
  
• Give in equal value to the money you receive through profits or your salary. If you give more value than the money you’re receiving, your business and career will take off.
  
• Money is only a tool for you to experience the things you love in life. The attractive force of love has unlimited ways for you to receive what you want, and only one of those ways involves money.
  
• Imagine being with what you love, doing what you love, and having the things you love, because you will feel far more love than you will if you only think about money.
  
• The beauty of life is that when you put love first, all the money you need to live a full life comes to you.
  

“Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

Og Mandino
(1923-1996)
AUTHOR

Giving love is the law that applies to everything in your life. And giving love is the law of relationships. The force of love doesn’t care whether you know someone or not, whether a person is a friend or foe, a loved one or a complete stranger. The force of love doesn’t care if you’re encountering a work colleague, boss, parent, child, student, or a person serving you in a store. With every single person you come into contact, you are either giving love or you’re not. And what you give is what you will receive.

Relationships are your biggest channel to give love, and so you can change your entire life just through the love you give in your relationships. At the same time though, relationships can be your biggest downfall, because they are often your biggest excuse for
not
giving love!

What You Give to Others, You Give to Yourself

The most enlightened beings throughout history told us to love others. You were not told to love others just so that you would be a nice person. You were being given the secret to life! You were being given the law of attraction! When you love others,
you
will have an amazing life. When you love others,
you
will receive the life you deserve.

“The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Saint Paul
(circa 5-67)
CHRISTIAN APOSTLE, IN GALATIANS 5:14

Give love to others through kindness, encouragement, support, gratitude, or any good feeling, and it comes back to you and multiplies itself, bringing love to every other area of your life, including your health, money, happiness, and career.

Give negativity to others, through criticism, anger, impatience, or any bad feeling, and you will receive that negativity back – guaranteed! And as the negativity comes back, it multiplies itself, attracting more negativity, which affects the rest of your life.

It’s Not About the Other Person

You can tell in your relationships right now what you’ve been giving. If a current relationship is great, it means you are giving more love and gratitude than negativity. If a current relationship is difficult or challenging, it means you are inadvertently giving more negativity than love.

Some people think a relationship is either good or bad because of the other person, but life doesn’t happen that way. You can’t say to the force of love, “I will give love only when the other person gives it to me!” You can’t receive anything in life unless you give it first! Whatever you give, you receive, so it’s not about the other person at all: it’s all about you! It’s all about what you are giving and what you are feeling.

You can change any relationship right now by looking for the things you love, appreciate, and are grateful for in that person. When you make a deliberate effort to look for the things you love more than you notice negative things, a miracle will take place. It will appear to you as though something incredible has happened to the other person. But it’s the force of love that is incredible, because it dissolves negativity, including negativity in relationships. All you have to do is harness the force of love by looking for the things you love in the person, and everything will change in the relationship!

I know of hundreds of relationships that have been restored through the power of love, but one particular story of a woman who used love’s power to restore her crumbling marriage stands out from the others, because this woman had lost all love for her husband. In fact, she couldn’t bear to be near him. Her husband complained every day. He was sick all the time. He was depressed and angry, and verbally abusive to her and their four children.

When the woman learned about the power of giving love, she decided right away to feel happier despite the problems in her marriage. Immediately the atmosphere in their home became lighter, and the woman’s relationships with her children got better. She then went through her photo albums, looking at the photos of her husband when they first married. She took some of the photos and put them on her desk to look at them every day, and by her doing this, something amazing happened. She felt the love she had first felt for her husband, and as she felt the love return, her feelings of love began to increase dramatically inside her. She reached a point where she loved her husband more than she ever had in her life. Her love became so great that her husband’s depression and anger disappeared, and his health began to return. This woman went from wanting to be as far away as possible from her husband to a marriage where they want to be with each other as much as possible.