Rock Bottom

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

Do you feel like your world is crashing down all around you? Does it feel like nothing is going right? Whether it’s the loss of your job, the breakup of a relationship, losing every penny you had – or the combination of all these and more – we want you to know that there is hope!

In fact, I would not be surprised if you recently asked or prayed for some kind of guidance to help you get through this very difficult time. And I would suggest that it’s not a coincidence that you ended up here. Because that’s exactly how life happens – Ask and it is given! So in essence, you’ve already taken the first big step in changing your life. Congratulations!

Is it hard for you to believe that you actually requested this information? Then I ask you to spend just a half hour on our website, and you may change your mind (literally!). We have tons of free information that can help you turn your life around in a relatively short amount of time.

The truth is, you are an incredibly powerful person, and you have everything you need in order to make your life exactly as you want it. You may not feel very powerful at the moment, but you CAN change how you feel – all you need is the desire, a little effort, and the right information to guide you to your own inner power.

You need only to rediscover the power that already lies right inside of you. And we can show you how to do this – we’ve all done it (we were all downtrodden in our own various ways, earlier in our lives). And we have thousands of other website members who are now successfully applying these principles.

Here are a few of the comments we’ve received recently, so you can get an idea of just how powerful this information really is:

First of all, there has been a feeling of intense connection as if you were put in my way by the Universe, while I was asking all the questions to the big answers and in need of hope. ...I had been doing some meditations called Destiny that kept talking about being ready to find "a map" to my journey, using words that are in your [free] mini-course. After that, it has been one "cool" little coincidence after another. And last Saturday for the first time in years I smiled and greeted the wholeness I felt in me. INCREDIBLE!!!

I'm so grateful for this website. I stumbled across it and it has greatly impacted and changed my life forever. Anyone I come in contact with I give them the website. My dad, my brother and sister in law, my husband, my best friend. My life changed the same day that I read your website, and I have been consciously creating my reality ever since! You have no idea, or maybe you do, but my life will never be the same, thank goodness!!

These people have just begun to rediscover their innate power, and they’re finding some joy where there was little to none before. Can you feel the genuine hope that they now have for their future? And by the way, they’ve just taken our free Mini-Guide To Conscious Creation E-course, which we highly encourage you to enroll in. Here’s another one:

First, you’ll need to address your immediate needs, and I would guess your current worries and anxieties could use some relief right about now. So I would suggest that you sit quietly for a few minutes, and ask yourself these questions:

“At this exact moment, do I have everything I need? Do I have shelter and food for myself and my family? Are my children healthy? Are our needs being met right at this moment?”

It’s likely that the answer to these questions is “Yes”. Have your worst fears come to pass yet? Most likely, the answer to that is “No”. And it’s always possible that they never will. So if this is the case, realize that you are actually doing okay right now, in this moment. Your needs are met, and that’s all that matters right now.

People can wake up poor, and go to sleep a millionaire. It’s called the lotto.
People can wake up a millionaire and go to sleep broke. It’s called the stock market.

(If things are actually worse than this, you will need to seek immediate help from family, friends, or community services. Just know that it’s a temporary situation, so don’t worry about asking for help at this point. People are often far more willing to help than we might believe.)

We often fall prey to the “What if?” scenarios that haven’t yet happened, especially when things appear to be so bleak. But this thought process can be our worst enemy. When these worrisome thoughts arise, it’s really important to stop, and think about whether they have in fact occurred.

Usually, they’re just a fear of something that might happen some day – therefore they have no place whatsoever in your reality at this moment. In fact, if anything, they are perpetuating your difficult situation.

If you want to play the “what if” game, instead of thinking, “What if this turns out to be a disaster?” try this version instead:

The next thing is to realize that there is a way to change your situation. But in order to improve it, you will have to make a committed decision. Mind you, this is not a commitment to us – it’s one you will make only to yourself.

Some of what we will recommend to you here may sound bizarre or even crazy (depending on whether or not this material is new to you). But if you follow these instructions, and commit to doing whatever it takes to improve your situation (which doesn’t include “hard labor” or joining a cult), I can practically guarantee that you will soon see big improvements in your life. So open your mind, take your critical thinking cap off, get yourself a cup of tea, and stay a while.

Are you willing to take some action to change your situation for the better? Great! (If not, why not? Haven’t you already had enough of the hard life?)

It all starts in your thinking. That’s because what you think about most is what you will create as your “reality”. Think back to two months, or even six months ago for a moment. Do you remember what thoughts dominated your mind? Is it possible that you were spending a lot of time worried about the future? Did the “future” that you worried about come true?

This is the true power of your thoughts. If you were focusing most of your thoughts on worrying about losing your job, or some other bad event, you’ve actually sent out a “request” to the universe to attract that experience to you. You ask, and it responds in kind, good or bad.

The key is to watch your thoughts, and when any negative ones show up, immediately catch them and change them to their exact opposite.

For example, if you find yourself thinking, “I’ll never get out of this hole I’m in!” you will want to immediately change it to, “I am so grateful NOW THAT I am feeling better and more hopeful about improving my situation.” Even if you’re not yet feeling grateful, that’s a good, relatively easy start that your mind won’t immediately reject as ridiculous. Your new thoughts will need to be within the realm of possibilities, as far as your current mindset is concerned.

Then over time, you’ll want it to become more assertive, such as “I am so happy NOW THAT I have plenty of money coming in every single month to support myself and my family!” We’ll talk more about why you’ll want to be grateful shortly.

Over time, you’ll become accustomed to fostering more positive thoughts, which will equate to a far better “reality”. Read more about how Thoughts Become Things.

But What If I Wasn’t Focusing On The Negative Things, And It STILL Happened?

Some of you may have been happily cruising along, without a worry in the world…then it all came crashing down on your head. You got blindsided.

Sometimes, the universe “nudges” us in a certain direction that is the next appropriate step in our life experience. We get hints and suggestions on how to follow this new direction, but for some reason (usually fear), we ignore them. The hints get louder and more frequent, and we still ignore them. Then one day, the door simply slams shut on the direction in which we had been heading.

An example of this might be if you suddenly got fired or laid off from your job. A year or more before this happens, you might have gotten a new boss whom you hated working for – it really ruined the job for you. That was the first sign, but you stayed because you had a family to feed and rent to pay. Then your reviews started going downhill, so you didn’t get the mid-year raise and promotion your previous boss had promised you. Sign number two. The writing is on the wall now. Yet you still don’t leave, because you don’t see any other “good opportunities” in the marketplace. Six months later, you get fired. Sign number three.

It was time for you to leave that job a year ago, perhaps to start your new Internet business to help troubled teens (which was your true passion), and work from home, where you could spend more time with your family. But out of fear of the possibility the new business would fail, or that your family wouldn’t approve, you stayed with the “safe” situation in your W-2 job.

The universe had to “yell” at you in order to get your attention, because you weren’t listening. As you move forward, and later look back upon this time in your life, you will probably see that losing your job (or whatever else is going on) was the best thing that could have happened. This may be difficult or downright impossible to see right now. But inevitably you will see it at some point in the future.

The universe never shuts a door on you,
without offering you one or more new open ones.

So keep your eyes open. No doubt there are new doors opening around you that you need only to notice. This will happen only when you’re good and ready to see them, so don’t worry if they’re not yet visible. They will be.

You are a remarkable being made up of pure energy, capable of doing and having whatever you set your mind to. This may sound absolutely ridiculous at the moment, just when things feel and appear so rotten.

But the fact is you are already playing a big role in what happens to you. Most likely, you’ve been completely unaware of what you’ve been doing, and that’s perfectly fine – you’re right where most people are. This is not a judgment – I was clueless for decades!

We are all creating our reality all of the time, but most of us are doing it unconsciously. So if it’s that simple, why not learn to do it consciously by focusing on the things we want, instead of those that we don’t?

If this idea of “creating your reality” is new to you, it might take some time to really get your mind around. One thing you need to be clear on is that creating your reality doesn’t mean you automatically create what you want; it means you create what you focus on. What you put your attention on.

We all have many things that we don’t want in our lives. The process of learning to create is to learn to be more conscious about this and to make what we want and what we focus on come into alignment. If you’re having money troubles and all you can think about is your debt and your empty wallet, that’s where your focus is, on your lack.

If you’re in a bad relationship and you talk to all your friends about how awful he/she is and what went wrong this time, that’s where your focus is. Learn to see what is going through your mind; where are your thoughts? It will become clearer as you do this.

Pick a thing in your life that you don’t want and ask yourself, Do I think about this often? Do I talk to other people about it? Do I reinforce this in some way? What decisions do I make that are based on my acceptance of this thing as a fact of my life that I can’t change?

One of the pitfalls of the idea that we create our reality is a massive feeling of guilt for those “bad” things that happened. But understanding this process will take away that guilt—you didn’t create it because you wanted it, you created it out of an unconscious process which told you that you had no choice.

By looking at the process and how it works, you can begin to make your choices, desires and creations come into alignment and create the reality that you want, not the one you’ve been conditioned to create.

Stick around for a while, and you’ll no doubt pick up some tips on how to consciously create a better life, at no charge. And for more about what a magnificent creation and creator you are, be sure to read our article on Who You Really Are.

Don’t get me wrong – if you choose to take this path, you will have to put in some time and effort on your own. This won’t happen automatically. The good news is that it’s probably going to be a little easier and a lot more enjoyable than you might think.

And don’t worry, this is not about switching religions or switching Gods – our site is entirely non-denominational. It’s about proven techniques, backed by hard science, that will help you build and use your own innate power.

The next thing you’ll want to do to start feeling better, inside and out, is to work on raising your energy vibrations. This may sound like a crazy idea, but there’s actually a scientific basis for this suggestion. And by raising your vibrations, in addition to feeling much better, you will also become a much more powerful “magnet” for attracting more of what you desire. So you have nothing to lose, and everything to gain, by learning how to do this. Please read this article, and then come right back here.

One of the best ways to raise your vibrations is to express gratitude on a frequent basis. Spend some time every day focusing on all the things that you’re grateful for in your life, little or big. Be grateful for your children, your cat, your apartment, or even that hot cup of coffee you’re drinking right now. You will begin to notice a difference in about five minutes whenever you express gratitude for all the things you’re happy about in your life. And, you’ll attract even more of them to your life, simply by expressing gratitude for what you already have. Say the Gratitude Prayer at least five times a day over the next week, and you’ll see how much better you feel overall.

Actually, graciously giving away something that you want more of is one of the most effective ways to get more of it. This works for anything: Money, love, affection, trust, etc. This may sound counterintuitive when you’re down to your last dollar, but when you look at things from an energetic perspective you will see that everything flows as energy. Money is a form of energy, as are gifts, and even we humans are energetic beings. So by giving something away, you are opening up the energy channels to allow more of it to flow back to you.

Try this experiment: Give fifty cents, or a dollar, or a tasty homemade sandwich to a street musician who is providing beautiful music for everyone. This may seem beyond comprehension to you right now, just when you’re feeling so much lack in your life. But take a small leap of faith, try it with fifty cents (or even a quarter, if that’s all you can spare), and just watch and see what happens - especially inside of you, in your feelings, as you give that precious money or food away. But be sure it’s something you treasure – in the case of money, make it an amount that would make you slightly uncomfortable.

A closed fist cannot accept anything new....so open your fist and let it flow. Try it every day for two weeks, a quarter or fifty cents every day. Notice what happens, and how you feel, each time you do this. You may be surprised at what comes back to you either within the two weeks or shortly thereafter.

Sometimes we’re so caught up in the direness of the situation we’re in that we don’t think as clearly as we could. There may be a simple solution to get you out of your current bind that you haven’t yet considered. Perhaps you can find and develop a quick source of income to get you by.

Sit quietly, and ask, “What can I do for some money right now? What am I good at?” Wait for an answer to come. It will come, either right away or within a week or two. Then pursue any inspirations or ideas you receive to take action, even if they’re small ones. (See Ask Your Higher Self for more information on how to do this.)

It could be a craft you were great at when you were young. Or it could be housecleaning, or driving people to the airport. It could be writing an e-book and selling it on the Internet. It could be anything. Be open to the possibilities.

The next step is to start thinking about what you really want in your life – you already have plenty of ideas about what you don’t want by now! And whatever you do, don’t dwell anymore on what you don’t want. Instead, let’s switch this thinking around to what you do want.

Think about all the details: What your home would be like, would it have a hot tub and/or a swimming pool, what kind of car you would be driving, what your days would be like, whether you would work or just play most of the time, compose music, write books, be a stock trader, working on a tuna boat, etc. Imagine the perfect life for yourself.

I encourage you to read our articles about visualizing and about Positive Affirmations and how both of these techniques can help you transform your life. Also see how to clearly define what you really want here.

You may have little to no faith in these ideas right now, either because it’s new to you or because your current circumstances suggest there is no reason to hope for anything being different in the future. I can understand – I’ve been there myself.

You’re in a chicken and egg situation, actually. In order to have trust in this information, you probably feel a need to see some results in your life first. But you won’t see results until you have at least a little bit of trust and faith.

So which would you rather have, more of the same, with little hope of improvement? Or putting your disbelief aside for just a few weeks, to see what happens when you take a tiny leap of faith? What do you have to lose?

Once you begin to accept even the possibility that you have the power to change your life by changing your thoughts, and by changing the way you do things, you will start seeing little signs indicating that you’re on the right path. You will begin seeing what we call “synchronicities”, which you may think of as coincidences – but they actually aren’t. They are evidence that the universe is helping you along your way.

For instance, you really want an extra $20 so that you can take your daughter to the movies this weekend, and to buy popcorn for the two of you. All of the sudden, an old friend repays a debt of $20 from a year ago. That’s a synchronicity!

This helps you to build a little bit of trust in yourself and in the process, which then gives you just a little more power. That power increases your ability to attract more of what you want. You’ll see more and even bigger synchronicities, which add to your trust and faith. And this increases your power. And so the cycle continues, until you have a really good idea of how powerful you really are, and you’re an attracting maniac!

Sign up for our free 5-Lesson Mini-Guide To Conscious Creation to get a great head start on your journey. (Don’t worry, we’ll never abuse or share your contact information!) In the Mini-Guide, you’ll read more about synchronicities and how to experience them on a more frequent basis. And soon you will rightfully expect that in mere months or weeks, or maybe even days, money will start coming in. But you must do your homework assignments! Just reading it through once will most likely not change your life.

Whenever worrisome thoughts enter your mind, immediately switch to the Gratitude Prayer. If negative thoughts appear, figure out the exact opposite of them, and then focus on those instead.

Find a way to go into nature and recognize how all of the universe’s creatures and plants are completely taken care of by the universe. Know that you are one of nature’s creatures, and that the universe will always take care of your needs, no matter what. Spend some time marveling at all the flora and fauna around you – what a miracle to behold!

Be quiet in your mind, and listen to the sounds of the trees and birds and insects. Above all, try to find water to sit by for a few hours. Watch it and you will see an aspect of yourself in there – a small piece of a much larger whole. More than anything else, water is a lovely metaphor for how we as humans fit in to the universe, into All That Is. And it’s highly calming.

I wish I could just wave a magic wand and take all the pain and struggle away from you, but that’s just not possible. We all have to do our own work. So take just a few minutes every single day to learn about How Special and How Powerful You Really Are, and you will be amazed at how much better you feel in just a short time. I promise.

Now, when you’re starting to feel a little less in crisis mode, begin to realize that YOU created this situation. You have the power to change it. And that’s great news!

Climbing Out Of Rock Bottom