Back to Napoleon

Now that the Oneness experiment is over for now, I turn back to Think and Grow Rich, the well-known guide by Napoleon Hill. While this book is simple on it's surface, I am beginning to understand why fans read and re-read this thin volume.

I am on chapter 3: Faith. The subtitle speaks to visualizing and believing as the second step to riches. Hill describes the three main positive emotions: faith, love, and sex. By modern psychology, these are not emotions at all (joy, excitement, fear, anger, sadness). Sex is an emotion? I don't get that at all. Maybe he's referring to "desire." That would fit her better.

With that aside, let's look at what Hill was really saying in this chapter (or at least the part I've read so far). Please feel free to add your own thoughts here so we can learn together.

What I really got was that if I get emotional about the great goal that I have, then it is more likely to happen. This emotional connection is what sends a message to the Universe that I really want what I'm claiming/visualizing. Really, really. Pretty please? And the Universe says, well, ok, since you really really want it. Sure. Nothing new here...but wait, Hill wrote it before so many others who are common Masters now.

This is the theory behind experiential seminars like Lifespring, PSI, Vision. Get emotional as you do some exercise that has you ask what you want, that has you face death, that has you be courageous in the face of your biggest fears. The emotional piece makes whatever I'm learning really stick. I trust men because I screamed it all the way across a high ropes event. "I choose this stretch" is powerful because I chose to get in front of a group and be Donna Summer doing "Love to Love You, Baby" despite my terror. These concepts STUCK, and I mean good.

So it makes so much sense to get excited, joyful, in love with my big goal. The more I visualize it and feel the feelings that I imagine I will feel when I have it first of all is really fun. It feels good. Second of all, activates the whole law of attraction.

Now we are back around to the Oneness experiment and The Secret. It's all interconnected. No accident all these concepts are coming together for me just now. How about you? Are you on a similar path?

Sending love, joy, and prosperity,
Pam