Chabad and LOA: A Lesson in Consciousness for the New Year
I often receive emails from our local Chabad rabbi, Yochanan Friendman, who I like very much. He actually taught my son to lay tefillin, and inspired him to do so for a month – actually more – and bought him a beautiful tefillin bag for doing so. (I’ve done some editing for his father, Manis Friedman, as well.) Anyway, back on point, just before the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, he sent out an email, which I received. He talked a little bit about the difficult and scary times we find our selves in right now, with the stock market so volatile and people unable to pay for their houses or losing jobs.
Interestingly, his remedy for this situation was one that could have come right out of the book The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne, or any similar book, like Ask and It is Given, by Esther Hicks (one I prefer)…or even my booklet, The Kabbalah of Conscious Creation, a shortened version of my forthcoming book. And I’m always so pleased when I find lessons in conscious or deliberate creation, otherwise known as the Law of Attraction, within Judaism. Here’s what he wrote:
In difficult times our Rebbe, of blessed memory, would consistently quote the saying “Tracht Gut Vet Zayn Gut – Think positive and it will be positive!” always adding that it is the very positive thought that creates the desired outcome.
He quoted the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Manachem Mendel Schneerson, world leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, who, by the way, spoke above in Yiddish. And the message comes through loud and clear: Thoughts are creative. What you think about is what you get. What you focus upon expands.
A huge part of creating what you want using the Law of Allowing (LOA) comes down to using your thoughts creatively. Then you have to combine your thoughts with the feeling of having already manifested, or created, that thought on the physical plane. You also have to take action and a few other steps (I suggest seven) as well. For example, thinking of what you do not have and feeling that lack manifests itself in lack, while avoiding “negative” thoughts and focusing instead on what you want and how good it would feel to have it manifests that which you want. At least that the basic principle behind LOA. (I believe there’s much more to it than that, but that’s the law in it’s simplest form.)
(For the best information about LOA – other than what I provide – go to www.abraham-hicks.com. This particular page will give you the basics of LOA; look on the right side of the page – and don’t be put off by the information on the left side of the page.)
Notice the last part of what Rabbi Friedman says: “It is the very positive thought that creates the desired outcome.” The thought itself is creative. It has the ability to create something. A positive thought creates a positive outcome. Therefore, a negative thought creates a negative outcome…and so on and so forth.
So, as we move into the New Year, we would be wise to focus upon our thoughts and to notice, to become aware or conscious of, what we are thinking. We humans think an enormous number of thoughts each day, most of them repetitive and negative – or at least not focused upon what we truly want to create in our lives. We have to learn to train our thoughts on what we do want to create - a difficult lesson. We have to become very conscious, like master meditators who notice every thought that enters their minds. We have to notice our thoughts and choose them carefully. We have to choose only thoughts that create the things we want in our lives. Then each one of those thoughts has the potential of manifesting those desires.
Become conscious of what you are thinking about – the stock market plunging, the safety of your money or your job, your ability to pay your mortgage, that odd pain in your back, the fear you have of someone hurting you, that presidential candidate getting elected, global warming… Are these the things you want to create in your life or in the world? Positive thinking does not, however, mean that you ignore problems – like a pain or global issue. It just means you focus on the positive or on what you desire rather than on what you dread. Train your thoughts on a solution or a positive outcome, and that is what you will create.
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