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Expecting Happiness

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My wonderful and life long friend Amanda announced to the world a short while ago that she was going to have a baby… ah, the miracle of the world wide web.

She enthusiastically carried on about how happy her and her husband were, even though he had recently lost his job, and how their 3 year old daughter had really needed a playmate although she wasn’t sure where they were going to put the baby once he/she was born due to the fact they had recently downsized to a smaller apartment, and on and on she lamented on her life, both current and future.

Her announcement of good news was inner-twined with her story of missteps, mistakes and misfortunes she and her husband had experienced over the past several months, and I almost felt it more a cry for help than that of joy and celebration.

So, I did what I always do and stuck my nose in her business in the form of a late evening phone call. I could tell quickly that all was not well on the home front.

Happiness that a new baby was on the way had turned to fear of how, given their current circumstances, they were even going to afford to have the baby, much less care for him/her once she/he arrived. (For the sake of this article, lets assume our new bundle of joy will be a little baby girl so I can stop all the he/she and the him/her references).

We spent a few moments going over Amanda’s concerns and fears and I allowed her to vent. Her husband had lost his job due to downsizing and so to went the employer supplied insurance. They had mice, the electric bill was two months behind, so was the phone bill. The cable had already been shut off and their daughter was quickly running out of clothes that fit her.

I asked her how her husband felt about all that was happening in their life and she said his answer to that was in the six pack he drank every night and the distant stares she would get when she talked to him about their dark and uncertain future.

I asked how she felt about things and she told me that if she were not pregnant she’d be mighty tempted to join him in a drink to help get her mind off all her worries.

She basically said she had no hopes for what her future held and that there was no way they could ever dig themselves out of this financial, emotional and energy sucking hell hole they found themselves in and then, she began to cry.

I let her sob for a few moments without saying a word to her and when I heard her quite down a bit I finally asked her why she was feeling this way.

She said I must be kidding, hadn’t I been listening to her? Her life was falling apart right in front of her very eyes and there was absolutely nothing she could do about it.

Now Amanda knows exactly what it is that I do for a living and she has been to my house and has seen the car I drive. She understands fully that I have these things and much, much more because I live what I preach. She does not believe the prosperity ideas that I teach will work for her and I have been unable to get her to even take a look at the information on success and wealth building that I would freely offer to her. Nor does she have any use for the available information on the exciting and proven concept of the Law of Attraction.

In a nutshell, The Law of Attraction simply states that like attracts like so therefore, as a man thinketh, so is he. One must also be grateful for what they currently have, and be able to feel and imagine what it is they want to come into their life as though they already possess it.

Amanda would have none of this pop psychology mumbo-jumbo and said she needed to get off the phone and would call me back later. I knew she wouldn’t so I asked her a simple question.

“Amanda, when are you going to have your baby?”

“The due-date is in September, why?” she asked cautiously

“How can you be so confident that she will actually arrive in September, how can you be certain she will come at all?” I asked her.

“That’s the way it works Myla.” she said sarcastically, “You get pregnant and then nine months later, presto, you have an eighteen year commitment on your hands.”

I paused for a minute and then asked, “So even though she is not here yet, you know she’s coming. And the fact that finances are tight right now has you worried about how the two of you are going to care for her, Is that right?”

“Yes, exactly” she said with a loud sigh, “ I’m worrying myself sick over how we are going to pay all the medical bills for the delivery, and how on earth are we going to have the money for all the things a new baby needs? This is so unexpected, we don’t even have any of Savannas things anymore, we sold them at a garage sale a few months back to put food on the darn table.” she said angrily.

“Amanda” I said calmly, “I want you to listen to me and consider what I am about to tell you. Can you do that for me?”

“I guess”, she said with out much enthusiasm, “But if you start in with all that positive affirmation garbage and your ridiculous speech about pretending to already have everything I need in my life, and how if I convince myself it’s in my possession already then it will somehow magically appear out of nothing, I’ll hang up on you and not name the new baby after you like I’d planned.”

She was getting frustrated, so I said, “Your already doing that, Amanda, and quite well actually. I really don’t need to teach you the concepts at all… You have mastered them and they are at work in your life at this very moment.”

“What are you talking about, Myla. We have nothing! Our life is spinning out of control. There’s no money, no food… no hope!”

“Amanda, calm down” I said firmly, “You promised to hear me out. I haven’t said one word about positive thinking or anything about the Laws of Attraction. I simply said that you are already employing these concepts in your life and they are working like gang busters!”

“Amanda, consider this for a minute. You are so sure you are going to physically be in possession of a baby in nine months, even though you couldn’t possibly understand the monumental complexity and miracle of how that baby is turning from a single cell organism into one that lives and breathes and thinks and feels and loves, and unfortunately eats, poops and cries an awful lot too, but you know it’s happening. The baby is not even here yet, but you are fully expecting it to arrive with every fiber of your being and it is effecting how you feel at this very moment.”

“Or consider how you feel when you order something from the shopping channel. After you give them your payment information and they confirm that it is ordered and will be shipped to you shortly, don’t you get excited that you now own what ever it was you were looking for only moments earlier? It’s not in your possession but you know it’s coming, you can visually see yourself in possession of it, how it feels, it’s texture, how it’s going to effect your life. You don’t doubt that its coming or have no emotion of ownership, do you?”

“And so it is with visualizing how and what you want your life to look like. You are choosing to see a dark future, even though it is not here yet, and your are feeling worried and depressed. These visualizations and feelings are powerful stuff, Amanda, and they are going to keep attracting similar feelings and emotions and manifest themselves into more bills, no job offers and more and more misery.”

“Just imagine what you could do just by thinking differently, by having these same intense feelings for positive things you just know are coming into your life any moment now. If you knew that you were going to be given a million dollars next week, suddenly you would not be miserable, depressed and worried and a lot of that coming money would probably be already spent in your mind before it even arrives, wouldn’t it, Amanda?”

“Amanda? Amanda!? Hello?” Nothing but a dial tone. She hung up on me, I can’t believe it. What harm could it have possibly done for her to consider what I was saying? If there is the possibility that something can change your life for the better and it is not painful or morally objectionable, why wouldn’t someone at least give it a try?

Please don’t shut yourself off from the possibilities of a better life like Amanda did. Go to my website right now and get more information on the Law of Attraction and achieving endless wealth and happiness. Go to: http://www.grapevineassociatesinc.com/prosperity

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<h1>Expecting Happiness</h1><br />by Myla Madson<br />My wonderful and life long friend Amanda announced to the world a short while ago that she was going to have a baby… ah, the miracle of the world wide web.<br /><br />She enthusiastically carried on about how happy her and her husband were, even though he had recently lost his job, and how their 3 year old daughter had really needed a playmate although she wasn’t sure where they were going to put the baby once he/she was born due to the fact they had recently downsized to a smaller apartment, and on and on she lamented on her life, both current and future.<br /><br />Her announcement of good news was inner-twined with her story of missteps, mistakes and misfortunes she and her husband had experienced over the past several months, and I almost felt it more a cry for help than that of joy and celebration.<br /><br />So, I did what I always do and stuck my nose in her business in the form of a late evening phone call. I could tell quickly that all was not well on the home front.<br /><br />Happiness that a new baby was on the way had turned to fear of how, given their current circumstances, they were even going to afford to have the baby, much less care for him/her once she/he arrived. (For the sake of this article, lets assume our new bundle of joy will be a little baby girl so I can stop all the he/she and the him/her references).<br /><br />We spent a few moments going over Amanda’s concerns and fears and I allowed her to vent. Her husband had lost his job due to downsizing and so to went the employer supplied insurance. They had mice, the electric bill was two months behind, so was the phone bill. The cable had already been shut off and their daughter was quickly running out of clothes that fit her.<br /><br />I asked her how her husband felt about all that was happening in their life and she said his answer to that was in the six pack he drank every night and the distant stares she would get when she talked to him about their dark and uncertain future.<br /><br />I asked how she felt about things and she told me that if she were not pregnant she’d be mighty tempted to join him in a drink to help get her mind off all her worries.<br /><br />She basically said she had no hopes for what her future held and that there was no way they could ever dig themselves out of this financial, emotional and energy sucking hell hole they found themselves in and then, she began to cry.<br /><br />I let her sob for a few moments without saying a word to her and when I heard her quite down a bit I finally asked her why she was feeling this way.<br /><br />She said I must be kidding, hadn’t I been listening to her? Her life was falling apart right in front of her very eyes and there was absolutely nothing she could do about it.<br /><br />Now Amanda knows exactly what it is that I do for a living and she has been to my house and has seen the car I drive. She understands fully that I have these things and much, much more because I live what I preach. She does not believe the prosperity ideas that I teach will work for her and I have been unable to get her to even take a look at the information on success and wealth building that I would freely offer to her. Nor does she have any use for the available information on the exciting and proven concept of the Law of Attraction.<br /><br />In a nutshell, The Law of Attraction simply states that like attracts like so therefore, as a man thinketh, so is he. One must also be grateful for what they currently have, and be able to feel and imagine what it is they want to come into their life as though they already possess it.<br /><br />Amanda would have none of this pop psychology mumbo-jumbo and said she needed to get off the phone and would call me back later. I knew she wouldn’t so I asked her a simple question.<br /><br />“Amanda, when are you going to have your baby?”<br /><br />“The due-date is in September, why?” she asked cautiously<br /><br />“How can you be so confident that she will actually arrive in September, how can you be certain she will come at all?” I asked her.<br /><br />“That’s the way it works Myla.” she said sarcastically, “You get pregnant and then nine months later, presto, you have an eighteen year commitment on your hands.”<br /><br />I paused for a minute and then asked, “So even though she is not here yet, you know she’s coming. And the fact that finances are tight right now has you worried about how the two of you are going to care for her, Is that right?”<br /><br />“Yes, exactly” she said with a loud sigh, “ I’m worrying myself sick over how we are going to pay all the medical bills for the delivery, and how on earth are we going to have the money for all the things a new baby needs? This is so unexpected, we don’t even have any of Savannas things anymore, we sold them at a garage sale a few months back to put food on the darn table.” she said angrily.<br /><br />“Amanda” I said calmly, “I want you to listen to me and consider what I am about to tell you. Can you do that for me?”<br /><br />“I guess”, she said with out much enthusiasm, “But if you start in with all that positive affirmation garbage and your ridiculous speech about pretending to already have everything I need in my life, and how if I convince myself it’s in my possession already then it will somehow magically appear out of nothing, I’ll hang up on you and not name the new baby after you like I’d planned.”<br /><br />She was getting frustrated, so I said, “Your already doing that, Amanda, and quite well actually. I really don’t need to teach you the concepts at all… You have mastered them and they are at work in your life at this very moment.”<br /><br />“What are you talking about, Myla. We have nothing! Our life is spinning out of control. There’s no money, no food… no hope!”<br /><br />“Amanda, calm down” I said firmly, “You promised to hear me out. I haven’t said one word about positive thinking or anything about the Laws of Attraction. I simply said that you are already employing these concepts in your life and they are working like gang busters!”<br /><br />“Amanda, consider this for a minute. You are so sure you are going to physically be in possession of a baby in nine months, even though you couldn’t possibly understand the monumental complexity and miracle of how that baby is turning from a single cell organism into one that lives and breathes and thinks and feels and loves, and unfortunately eats, poops and cries an awful lot too, but you know it’s happening. The baby is not even here yet, but you are fully expecting it to arrive with every fiber of your being and it is effecting how you feel at this very moment.”<br /><br />“Or consider how you feel when you order something from the shopping channel. After you give them your payment information and they confirm that it is ordered and will be shipped to you shortly, don’t you get excited that you now own what ever it was you were looking for only moments earlier? It’s not in your possession but you know it’s coming, you can visually see yourself in possession of it, how it feels, it’s texture, how it’s going to effect your life. You don’t doubt that its coming or have no emotion of ownership, do you?”<br /><br />“And so it is with visualizing how and what you want your life to look like. You are choosing to see a dark future, even though it is not here yet, and your are feeling worried and depressed. These visualizations and feelings are powerful stuff, Amanda, and they are going to keep attracting similar feelings and emotions and manifest themselves into more bills, no job offers and more and more misery.”<br /><br />“Just imagine what you could do just by thinking differently, by having these same intense feelings for positive things you just know are coming into your life any moment now. If you knew that you were going to be given a million dollars next week, suddenly you would not be miserable, depressed and worried and a lot of that coming money would probably be already spent in your mind before it even arrives, wouldn’t it, Amanda?”<br /><br />“Amanda? Amanda!? Hello?” Nothing but a dial tone. She hung up on me, I can’t believe it. What harm could it have possibly done for her to consider what I was saying? If there is the possibility that something can change your life for the better and it is not painful or morally objectionable, why wouldn’t someone at least give it a try?<br /><br />Please don’t shut yourself off from the possibilities of a better life like Amanda did. Go to my website right now and get more information on the Law of Attraction and achieving endless wealth and happiness. Go to: http://www.grapevineassociatesinc.com/prosperity<br /><h2>About the Author</h2><p>For a powerful and in depth FREE ecourse on the Law of Attraction and a complimentary copy of The Secret, go to my website at: <a href="http://www.grapevineassociatesinc.com.ebook1/" title="http://www.grapevineassociatesinc.com.ebook1/" target="_blank">http://www.grapevineassociatesinc.com.ebook1/</a>. Myla Madson is the founder of the popular women’s website <a href="http://www.abrandnewyou.org/" title="http://www.abrandnewyou.org/" target="_blank">http://www.abrandnewyou.org/</a>.</p> <br /><h3><a href="http://www.content4reprint.com/personal-development/expecting-happiness.htm" title="Expecting Happiness">Article Source:</a> <a href="http://www.content4reprint.com" title="Free high quality articles">Content for Reprint</a></h3>