By Lena Salonikas

I am often asked why language and focus is so important in manifesting your desires. The plain truth is that if you use negative language in your discussions about what you are manifesting, be it out loud or in thought, or you are focusing on what is not right, you sabotage your good intentions. How can one negative thought or a backwards focus throw you off so much? Let me try to explain.

If you look at classic marketing theories, they say that people buy for the emotion that it gives them and that specifically people buy to move either away from pain or toward pleasure. It is the same in manifesting anything in your life. When you desire something, you generally desire it because it will either move you away from a painful feeling or undesirable experience or it will move you toward a feeling of joy and peace, toward a better experience. The rate at which you manifest what you desire is 100% based on where your focus is. If you are focusing on moving toward joy and peace, you will get what you want much quicker. If however, you are focusing on moving away from pain it will take you longer.

Why does the direction you are going in make a difference in how fast you manifest your desire? This is where focus comes in. The law of attraction states that like attracts like. Many successful people have also proven through the years that what you focus on is what you create in your world. Looking at all of this, what your thoughts are and what your thoughts are focused on are what you see before you in your life. The stronger your focus is, the quicker you see it happening.

Looking deeper at the away from pain vs. toward pleasure principle, I’m going to refer to moving away from pain as moving away from darkness and moving toward pleasure as moving toward the light.

When you are looking at the darkness, and focusing on it, you are constantly looking at it and no matter how far away you step, you still see a little black dot of darkness. It is always there, and because you see it, you are constantly reminded of the black dot that you no longer want in your life. You want it gone, but because you keep looking at it, it won’t go away until you move far enough away.

When you are looking at the light, there is no black dot to focus on. There is nothing to interfere with you focusing on what you want. The light is bright and keeps getting brighter and brighter the closer you move to it. You gravitate toward it until you feel enveloped by it. You see nothing wrong because there is no black dot to focus on. There is only the brightness and warmth of the light. Soon, you are in a state of bliss because the light surrounds you and you see the creation of your desire coming to life.

When you do something to move away from pain, you keep focusing on the pain and what you don’t want. There is always some residue there. When you move toward something that brings you pleasure, you focus on what you want and you see it showing up – you don’t even see the darkness, so it is instantly non-existent.

In my own life, I’ve been recently reminded of this theory as I close one chapter and open a new one. I’ve realized how in the past, I have moved away from pain by focusing on healing myself and others even though what I wanted was to create an ideal life. Sure, I moved along my path and create new things in my life every day. However, now that I’ve switched my focus to only the best of what I want, I’m creating at the speed of light. My focus now though, is all about helping people to create their dreams by gaining clarity around what they want, not what they don’t want, and staying focused on it. The result, I’m creating faster than I ever have before.

I am through moving away from darkness completely and have embraced moving toward the light with every fiber of my being. Are you? Make the choice today to manifest in your life at the speed of light.

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Lena Salonikas is a writer, life coach and infopreneur who works with people to live the life of their dreams. To find out more about her and what she is currently working on, visit www.masteringlifesgame.com or e-mail her directly at asklena@masteringlifesgame.com.
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