Welcome from James

Welcome to my blog, subtitled "a light-hearted look into the Law of Attraction" -- light-hearted because many of the articles and books on the Law of Attraction are serious and lacking in humor. Frankly, reading them can be depressing rather than inspirational -- not good for the psyche.

A super-serious psyche that isn't entertained by your life is likely to busy itself giving you just the opposite of what you're seeking. We don't want that, do we?

Even if we are feeling a bit desperate about our life situation, it's not a good idea to feed that feeling of desperation into your suggestible mind. Your mind takes every premise you send and acts on it as though that premise were TRUE. To quote a friend, "The desperate life is not worth examining."

The American novelist William Allen White read Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay on "Self-Reliance" when he was a teenager. Years later White would say, in his autobiography, "As I read that essay my spirit expanded as though I had heard the trumpet call of life. I was thrilled and stirred...I doubt if I have ever been moved so deeply by anything else I have read."

Take a look at Emerson's "Self-Reliance" when you get a chance. See if it thrills and stirs you as it did William Allen White when he was seventeen.

Your thoughts are not just whispey things that appear, hang around for a few seconds, and disappear. Your thoughts are Forces. I'd like to suggest you practice the power of speaking into existence the things you want. I suggest you avoid stirring up the energies that work to defeat your deepest desires and dreams by, frankly, not bringing up those subjects.

Here are three places to find great ideas, ideas that will excite and restore your vital reserves.

First, check out Project Gutenberg. You'll be astounded by the thousands of free books you can download, print, and read. All the books in that database are out of copyright. You're sure to find something of interest if you take an hour or two to browse the Project Gutenberg offerings.

Secondly, go to books.Google.com Google has scanned many classic books from libraries across America, books you will find no where else. Here are a few I've read recently and recommend you give a look:

Mind Power: The Secret of Mental Magic by William Walker Atkinson (1912). This book, by the author of over a hundred titles during his lifetime, was considered by Atkinson to be his masterpiece — and it is a masterpiece!

Mental Therapeutics or Just How to Heal Oneself and Others by Theron Q. Dumont (1917).

The Law of Mentation by A. Victor Segno (1902). Look up Segno on the net. He was quite a character among the early mentalists.

Health Through Will Power by James J. Walsh, M.D., (1919).

If you go to books.google.com and find a book you want to read, you may want to take notes on it if it deals with a self-help topic. I have many notebooks filled with jottings from late night voyages into the world of Google scanned books.

Finally, check out Internet Archive. They also have an amazing collection of books from libraries throughout the world. Tonight, for examine, I printed chapters from two remarkable books: The Power of Positive Living by Douglas Lurton (1950) and The Power of Mental Demand and Other Essays by Herbert Edward Law (1913).

Especially read Lurton's first chapter "Ask For It." I'll be writing and posting an article shortly from my reading of Lurton's book. "Many of the richest rewards of life, material as well as spiritual, are never acquired -- simply because they aren't asked for," Lurton writes.

I'm always glad to receive your feedback on the articles here at dollarsloveme.blogspot.com; so feel welcome to write me at writercard@gmail.com for your comments and suggestions. I leave you now with the wonderful words of Florence Scovel-Shinn from her 1920's classic The Game of Life and How to Play It: "We should all be bringing some seemingly impossible things to pass."
Let's do it!
All the best, James