During my early days at Supercool School, one day Steli entered our newly leased office with 2 books and asked me which one I’d like to read. More than the books, I was impressed by his gesture and I picked “Ask & it’s given”. He said I would like it.
The book is based on a central theme called “law of attraction” which essentially says that your thoughts & emotions have a certain vibration and that similar vibrations attract each other.
“You are a vibrational transmitter, and you are broadcasting your signal in every moment of your existence. Your feelings are representative of your guidance system – the way you feel is true indicator of your alignment with your source & of your alignment with your intentions. Your powerful beliefs were once gentle thoughts. The longer you think thoughts, the stronger the become. With your practiced attention to any subject, the law of attraction delivers circumstances, conditions, experiences, people and all manner of things that match your habitual dominant vibration. And as things begin to manifest around you that match the thoughts you have been holding, you now develop stronger and stronger vibrational habits. And so, your once small & insignificant thought has now evolved into a powerful belief – and your powerful belief will always be played out in your experience.”
“Journey – a path full of optimism, positive expectations and joy no matter what your goal is because that source of energy flows through you all the time. You are the source.”
The “Source of energy” concept is very similar to “Aham Brahma Asmi ” (meaning I am the creator) in Bhagavad Gita. However I always interpreted Gita in the sense that we create our lives through our actions. Definitely having a plan which glues these actions in long term is critical. However this book adds another dimesion to planning and acting. It talks about thinking & dreaming about your goals and it says if you do that you will get situations/people/things which will take you closer to your final goal. Thinking & dreaming seems to be ranked higher than acting towards those goals.
There are certain things suggested to put you in “right vibration” e.g. don’t be conflicted within yourself; if you are in a negative emotion don’t try to hide it by acting out positive; think about your goal, how it would feel when you reach that goal etc. It even talks about gathering pictures, texts about your dream and put it in front of you so that you have “positive vibrations”.
Even though I agree about clarity of thoughts & goals , I would still like to believe that my actions will help me more towards reaching those goals than dreaming about it. Though would be nice if I can just sit & dream and things will come to me – I’d start by dreaming about an apt by the bay, lots of romance, a chef, a fitter body and of course million dollars :)