Gratitude + the Law of Attraction = Plentitude

The Power of Gratitude

When you?re thankful for something, no matter how small it is, you?re initiating the law of attraction to get even more of what you want--and deserve. Everyone deserves to have plenty, and there?s plenty to go around. But sometimes we have a deep-seated, even subconscious, belief that we don?t deserve to have more. And sometimes we don?t even appreciate what we do have! Both types of negative thinking conspire to force the law of attraction to work against us, manifesting scarcity.

Gratitude + the Law of Attraction = Plentitude

No matter what you have, be thankful for it! This is a basic principle underlying the law of attraction. Even if all you have is the shirt on your back, be grateful for it. Your gratefulness will allow the law of attraction to pave the way for getting even more of your needs and desires fulfilled.

Think of all the simple things we have to be thankful for, which we too often overlook: having plenty of clothing, having a roof over our heads, having enough food--the list goes on and on! If you practice gratitude every day with a long list of your basic needs that are fulfilled, you?re setting the law of attraction in motion to guarantee that your needs and desires are always met. In addition to being grateful for your basic needs always being met, you can also give thanks for life?s little victories: getting a great evaluation from your boss, your child earning all A?s and B?s, winning the radio station contest for concert tickets.

But have you ever noticed that some people complain about every little thing that goes wrong? And have you noticed that such people always have little things going wrong? That?s because their complaining is setting up the law of attraction to work against them. If the furnace breaks and you?re whopped with an unexpected $300 furnace repair bill, don?t chronically complain. Complaining won?t make it go away. Rather, use the law of attraction to focus on the positive: be grateful that you have $300 in your checking account to pay for the repair!

If you constantly focus on the negative instead of the positive--on what you don?t have instead of what you do have--the law of attraction and the universe will conspire to adjust your attitude by taking away some of your basic needs. All of a sudden an unexpected $400 auto repair bill will be added to that furnace repair bill!

The power of gratitude is simply using the law of attraction to focus on what you do have instead of what you don?t have. This will help you reap more of what you need and want!
--
David Hooper is founder of the Guide for Living Institute, a think tank designed to help people enjoy life. His new book on Law of Attraction is available at Amazon.com or can be downloaded free of charge at www.receivethebook.com.
This article is free for republishing
Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_125957_24.html

Law of Attraction: Caution, Don't Attract Lack

Author: Beth McCain

Can words keep you from obtaining what you desire through the Law of Attraction? It all depends on how you use your words.

Words, of themselves, won't keep you from your desires but the feelings attached to them can.

There are many words that we say with such strong emotional attachment that they cause an upheaval in one's feelings that are a complete opposite of the feeling you want while trying to stay in a certain vibrational space.

These specific 'lack' words cause you to feel worry, doubt, fear, shame, afraid, and frustrated. Each word exudes a feeling and the feeling caused is the concern with the use of these lack words. They are just words, but with the emotion attached they become extremely powerful.

Any emotion that you have, whether it is joyous or angry, sends the Universe that vibration and the Universe will match and return that vibration with similar 'feeling' situations. So when you send out a feeling of happiness, the Universe will attract and return to you the same feeling. The same goes for anger. When you are angry and stay that way, the Universe attracts the same. So you can imagine what the 'lack' words can cause in your life if you 'feel' them as well as say them.

Let's illustrate an example. Imagine you are driving to work and someone cuts you off. You become irritated. You then get stuck in traffic and become more frustrated. Have you noticed that when you have a day that starts this way, the rest of the day seems to follow suit? This is the Law of Attraction in action. Because of your irritation and frustration, because of those strong feelings, you attract more of the same.

So how can you keep from blowing your top? It does takes some practice, and a complete awareness of yourself.

If you find yourself in a negative situation that is attached to strong feelings, first try to shorten the use of the lack words. We're not saying you shouldn't get upset; feel how you have to feel and then get it together and get it over with. Next, realize and be aware of your feelings and know that if you keep it up, you will attract more of the same. Find yourself some joy. Whatever it is, find it. If you are on the freeway stuck in traffic, do something that will put you in a better space; maybe bring your favorite CD in the car for such an occasion. Find something to raise your mind's vibration so that you move away from the frustrated feelings. The more you can change your feelings into something good, the more you will have a life of good things, situations, and people.

Believe it or not, there are people who like to be upset and be drama queens. If that's the case then continue with the 'lack' words and keep creating a world fit for all that drama.

For those of you who want to diminish the 'seemingly bad' days and move into a place of greater tranquility, try what we have suggested. Move yourself out of the victim mode, move yourself out of the martyr mode, move yourself out of the frustration mode, and move yourself into a greater awareness.

You make the choice whether to have a good day or a bad day. Even if your day starts a little rocky and all those 'lack' words start popping up, you have the choice and the power to instantly change your day.
Use that power, use the choice, and create the day that you deserve.



This article is free for republishing
Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_249798_24.html

Mother-in-law AND daughter-in-law conflict

Author: sadashivan nair

When newcomer "wife" comes to stay in the new house with husband who is already with other male members, becomes favorable atmosphere for her. Tendency of males to attract females facilitates her to take advantage to establish own atmosphere that matches her identity. This facilitates her to run the home as she wants. On the other hand, if there is already an adult female member (mainly mother-in-law) who controlled the house, turn out to be problems for her and her. Her survival is by surrendering to adjust into the existing environment or fight to gain control to establish own environment. It is a war between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, most popular of any war. It is egoistic war to establish own superiority.

A home adorned by woman is her entity. Her own values are involved in making a home that reflects her qualities. Each house interior is different from other is because her deep involvement to decorate that suits her taste. We can observe in a house purchased or hired, woman takes special interest and involve her feeling to decorate and arrange interiors that makes her comfortable. Woman modifies her house to suit her taste is the environment she makes that suits her.

The mother who is already in control of her house would not easily leave, is the same case as of politicians who hates to leave legislation membership or seat whatever we may call. This is her house as she has been involved to nurture the house since the beginning. Any challenge is the challenge to her emotions, sense of worth, identity, fondness and finally her control for own security. Thus, she would never wish newcomer to have control on what she amassed for long-long time. This is the psychological behavior with every individual/ any life form. Who creates own territory by involving sentimentally and marks psychologically or physically to declare. Depends how species behave as human declare with flags and animals with other methods. Declaring territory is the sense of security. Similarly, mother too has marked her territory and would resist to any challenge.

A son for the mother is the outgrowth of her efforts and emotional involvement. Mainly when she has one son, she expects her son to become security for the family and the old age. Honestly, no aged man or woman would wish to go to old age houses for rest of the life as long as the son is alive. Differences of new generations, old generations, and psychological war between in-laws force to leave the house.

When she hands over her son to a new woman, she is cautious that her influence on the son is not disconnected. Her influence on him is the sense of security as he obeys, cares, and respects are his attachment. The new woman (WIFE) cannot tolerate because her sense of security expects 100% involvement from her husband. Wife needs him for her and children's safety, security, comfort and sensual attachment. The diversion of her husband's attention would minimize her expected desires. Therefore, she declares a war against her mother-in-law aggressively to thwart the weakening realm. However, the outcome depends on how psychologically strong the son/ husband is. How much his attraction or submission to the influence is? How strong the religious influence is? How he handles the situation? Who of two women are more influential is?

99.99 % mothers win over daughter-in-laws in the countries where religious dominance rule. All religious scripts direct the son to follow, respect, care and worship mothers. Therefore, aged are still safe and living with their children. However, in the urban and advanced countries it is the opposite. In such cases, the mothers are psychologically weaker and get defeated to daughter-in-laws.

In most cases, wife's inclination is towards her own parents above the husband's parents. She would prefer her mother-father to stay with her provided she wins her husband's mind to agree. The reason of this is that she lived for long-long time, made her involve and attached emotionally with the parents and mixed up intensely to understand the needs of parents and parents understand her needs subsides only when she bears her own children.

One thing I would wish to stress that even wife loves and has respect for the mother-in-law; only psychological issues disconnect them. It is not any personal conflict rather is the personality conflict. They involve in the conflict to gain/retain the status and claim rights on the son/husband's attention. So, can retain their say and pull major attention of son/husband towards them.
� Daughter-in-law should also realize that she too would meet her daughter-in-law in her future when she becomes the mother-in-law. On the other hand, mother-in-law should realize the same way.
� Wife need to understand that mother-in-law is now aged. The behavior developed from the very beginning, some times is not easy to change. Thus becomes responsibility to understand the situation and act to drag mother-in-law towards her by affection. This technique is an influence to convince mother-in-law that "I care her more than even her son."
� Do not hurt any one's sentiment. Sentiment is the personal value and ego. If you hurt, you become enemy. Besides, putting your own values in front of her, listen to her too and tell to agree which ever is best. Forcing opinions and values is a root to clash.
� It is a conflict between the new and old generation. Thinking and behavior differ generation to generation. Present generation is more open, free, and demanding than the old. Mother-in-law need to know it is not her era.
� Opinion and ideological differences lead to misunderstanding.
� Psychological feelings and horrifying stories about mother-in-law create misunderstanding.
� Besides, understanding each other's stand and responsibilities should work to eliminate feeling of insecurity.
� Egoistic approach is the root cause that I am the one who is responsible for him. Now he is an adult man can take care himself and your both.
� Exchange the affection, views, chat, good moments of your life, gifts etc to get closer.

Two different identities of different ideologies fight each other to gain control on one man. These two beloved women crush this man in their skirmishes. They do not realize the affect on the man they are fighting-for. In most cases, mother gets defeated in this episode and ends up rest of her life in the old age homes. If wife looses the war, she ends up in marriage failure. Finally, who is the looser?

Link to this article:
http://www.sadashivan.com/marriagedreamswhenfails/id10.html

This article is free for republishing
Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_13179_35.html

What You Need To Know About Lawyer Advertising

Author: Christopher M Davis, Attorney At Law

You need to know a few things about lawyer advertising. For example, if you look through the yellow pages you’ll see that the ads placed by attorneys all say essentially the same thing. Very few of them actually give good useful information to make it easier for you to choose a good lawyer for your case. Although the yellow pages are a good place to get names of attorneys, you need to be aware of the following points when it comes to lawyer advertising:
 There is no rule which requires that the lawyer have a minimum amount of experience handling the case which the lawyer wants to advertise.
 Although the bar association has rules that govern lawyer advertising, it usually does not actively investigate, restrict or determine whether each lawyer who advertises is a specialist or has experience with the type of case being advertised. This means a lawyer can advertise that she is a “divorce lawyer” or “personal injury attorney” when that lawyer may have limited experience or knowledge of that area of the law.
 There are virtually no restrictions on the different types of law that the lawyer wants to advertise. Therefore, you should be extremely careful about choosing an attorney based solely on that attorney’s advertising claim, whether the ad is in the phone book or on television.
 Any attorney can buy a big slick ad in the yellow pages. The phone book company typically does not verify the claims that are being made in the ad. In many cases the phone book company does not even verify that the person is a licensed attorney in good standing! Use caution.
 A lawyer who advertises does not mean that that lawyer will be handling your case. Some lawyers simply run advertisements and then refer outmost or all of the clients to other lawyers to do the work in exchange for a referral fee. Such a lawyer essentially acts like a referral broker. Be especially cautious of ads placed by out of state attorneys. Because of state licensing requirements, these attorneys will usually have to refer the case to a lawyer who is licensed to practice law in Washington.
 A lawyer who purchases full page ads in the yellow pages, or pays for slick T.V. commercials, does not necessarily mean that the lawyer is super successful. Some lawyers who pay for such advertising operate a “volume practice” for the purpose of making just a little money on the numerous cases that are generated from the ad. Many times a “volume practice” attorney tries to settle all or most of the cases to earn the most amount of money in the least amount of time. The only time you may see this lawyer is if his face appears in the ad!
 Some lawyers who run big ads to fill their “volume practices” will rarely even work on a case. These lawyers farm out every aspect of the case to a paralegal or legal assistant. The only time the lawyer may even look at your case is after it has settled and the lawyer wants to collect his fee!
 Be cautious of lawyer ads that create unjustified expectations. For example, if the lawyer advertises that he can obtain “Fast Settlements in 30 Days” he probably never goes to trial and settles cases for far less than what they are actually worth. In most cases, good settlements take time and effort.
 Sometimes the lawyer’s advertising can negatively affect your own case. If your case goes to trial and jurors recognize your lawyer from his advertising, it may undermine your lawyer’s credibility during trial. Do you want jurors to remember your lawyer as the one who can get “BIG MONEY DAMAGES!!” or “FAST SETTLEMENTS $$$” for pain and suffering?? Jurors watch television, too, you know.

Lawyer TV Ads: A word to the wise
Did you know that there are companies that offer prewritten and pre-shot TV commercials for personal injury attorneys? You’ve probably seen one. Sometimes a famous actor is used (like Robert Vaughan, William Shatner or Eric Estrada). Other times an attractive man or woman is shown speaking behind a desk or holding a legal book or doing something else to act like a lawyer. The person says something like, “If you’ve been in an accident, get the money you deserve. Speak to an attorney for free. Call 1-800-XXXXXXX.” What you need to know is that many times your call is routed to a call center that randomly sends your call to the next attorney “in line.” The next one “in line” is an attorney who has actually paid a hefty fee to be on the “list.” Any attorney with enough money can pay to be on the list, including attorneys who have never tried a case in court. Many times the attorney who has paid the fee is not necessarily the most experienced lawyer for your case. Now I’m not saying that all attorneys who use TV advertising are inexperienced. But you should not rely on TV advertising alone when choosing a lawyer. Just a word to the wise.

Case Study: T.V. Personal Injury Lawyer Fails Client

Here’s a sad story about a lawyer who advertised on T.V. in Rochester, New York. The attorney, Jim Schapiro, ran aggressive T.V. commercials which promised to obtain large financial settlements for victims, referred to himself as “the meanest, nastiest S.O.B. in town,” and claimed to have aggressive courtroom prowess. Schapiro, who called himself “The Hammer,” had law offices in the states of New York and Florida.

In 2002, one of Schapiro’s clients, Christopher Wagner, sued Schapiro for malpractice. Mr. Wagner had been injured in a car accident and had responded to one of Mr. Schapiro’s television ads. Mr. Wagner alleged that he had incurred medical bills of $182,000 but that Schapiro’s firm advised him to accept a settlement of only $65,000 from the driver and then promised that he could get more money by filing suit against the state of New York. It turned out that the state had no liability for the accident and Schapiro never pursued Mr. Wagner’s case further.

In a video deposition, Jim Schapiro testified that he had never tried a personal injury case in court and that he had been living in Florida for the last seven years. Mr. Wagner’s attorney also discovered that Schapiro’s Rochester law firm staffed just one lawyer who had only tried four cases. A New York jury found that Schapiro had engaged in misleading and deceptive advertising and that he committed malpractice. Schapiro was ordered to pay $1.5 million to Wagner.

Consequently, in 2004 Schapiro was suspended for practicing law for one year by the State of New York. In 2005, Schapiro was then suspended from practicing law in Florida for one year. In 2004, four additional clients sued Schapiro alleging that he had engaged in misleading advertising and had committed malpractice. Thereafter Schapiro stopped practicing law and instead now writes books for injury victims.

This article is free for republishing
Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_195480_18.html