Cooperative Reality

There has been an enormous amount of discussion lately about the Law of Attraction,
you could say that the Law of Attraction has gained celebrity status as the personal
development tool of the moment, the current popular method for manifesting your dreams.
What most people don't realize is that the Law of Attraction is not a new idea, in fact
it's not even an old idea in the sense that there
was a point in time when somebody coined the phrase and suddenly everyone began using it
like some new appliance. Someone of course did invent the phrase Law of Attraction,
but in the same way that Sir Isaac Newton invented the word gravity. The Law of Attraction
like gravity, just is, no one owns the rights to it, in fact it is impossible to avoid using it.

The Law of Attraction is one of many laws by which mankind has been operating
consciously or unconsciously since the dawn of time. Most people are blissfully unaware
of how these laws affect their lives and equally unaware that the power of these laws can
be harnessed and used to great effect on a daily basis.

Since the release of the movie The Secret, the Law of Attraction has come to the forefront
in peoples minds as the ultimate tool for changing your life
and that is a good thing. I find however that many people after watching
and reading information about the Law of Attraction are still somewhat confused as to how
it actually works. There is a lot of talk about holding images in the mind, sending
thought vibrations out to the universe, maintaining a state of expectation and gratitude,
and waiting for the universe to respond by the Law of Attraction and provide that upon
which you have focussed your intention, and so on. All of these things are very wonderful
and I have found all of them useful in my own learning, but none of these ideas provided me with
truly satisfactory answers about how the Law of Attraction actually works, both
spiritually and scientifically.

Now if you're anything like me, blind faith just doesn't cut it, most people like
at least to have some kind of decent explanation for why they should get involved with
the Law of Attraction, otherwise we tend to reject the whole idea outright, which would
be a unfortunate indeed.

Vital Knowledge

The trouble that I think some people have is that they hear about incredible success
stories involving the Law of Attraction, amazing tales of people that have gone from
having an average kind of existence to living a life that most people only dream about,
and then set out in good faith to achieve similar results. Clearly not everyone achieves
the results they had hoped for, why is this? Has the Law of Attraction failed? Are all of
the success stories bogus? Are they just clever ploys to get us to buy books and movies
about how to use the Law of Attraction?

There are many individual claims about the Law of Attraction bringing great abundance
and the fulfillment of great dreams, and there are also charlatans in every area of life,
religious, secular, scientific, but it would be a great mistake to reject a concept of
such potential because of a few con artists, you might as well give up on all personal
development right now.

As for the first idea that the Law of Attraction has somehow failed to work, my own
experience tells me that this is simply not possible, the Law of Attraction is not a
business plan, or a clever scheme that is subject to markets or the moods of individuals,
it is as constant and predictable as the sun rise, all that is required is the appropriate
level of understanding in order to leverage its potential.

This I believe is where a lot of confusion exists, why do some people seem to be able
to apply the Law of Attraction with great affect and others struggle to see the smallest
things manifest? The answer is knowledge, there is a basic lack of understanding about how the Law of
Attraction works. Some people however seem to be able to easily apply the Law of
Attraction and get results even though they have no more knowledge of what is actually
happening than the next person, why is this? It is because some individuals have a mental
pre-disposition to accepting the Law of Attraction, its requirements and outcomes without
question, others don't and require further instruction about the fundamentals of the
law of attraction before being able to apply themselves properly.

Its a bit like being given a kit for a model aeroplane without the assembly
instructions, some people may have a natural understanding about how to assemble things,
they may have watched their father assembling model aeroplanes in the past, but for
others it will be an almost impossible task, time consuming and frustrating.

It is my experience that with a basic increase in understanding about the Law of
Attraction and the underlying principles that govern it, any individual can begin to see
real results in every area of their life almost immediately. So let's now take a look
at some of that useful knowledge that will assist us in gaining a better understanding of
how to apply the Law of Attraction to great affect.

The Most Important Thing

The first thing that I would like to say is that the Law of Attraction is not the most
powerful law in the universe, contrary to popular opinion, there are a number of
underlying principles that govern how the Law of Attraction works, and that is where we
shall begin.

I want to start by making this statement; when we use the Law of Attraction, we do not
attract things! this is also contrary to popular opinion. There is not a sports car with
your vibration on it waiting for you to
believe that it's yours before it appears in the driveway. This may seem a ridiculous
statement, but there are many teachers of the Law of Attraction that state exactly that,
it's about manifesting things, well it's not.

The Law of Attraction does not work by you putting out a thought vibration to the
universe and somehow the universe, through the principle of the Law of Attraction,
responds to that thought by sending you the thing that matches that vibration, yet
unfortunately this is what is taught. Some people simply accept this explanation and get
on with using the Law of Attraction to great success, you could call that blind faith,
and I have no problem with that at all, but it won't work for everyone, and that does
concern me because it can work for everyone.

The most important thing you will ever understand about the Law of Attraction is that
it always involves other people, other minds, other realities, not things. I call this
underlying principle Cooperative Reality and discuss it in detail throughout my book.

Put simply, Cooperative Reality states that in order to apply the Law of Attraction
you require the cooperation of other individuals realities. Understanding this concept
has been the single greatest step in my own personal growth, when I came to this
realization it completely revolutionized my experience in using the Law of Attraction. It
provided me with meaningful direction in the application of all the methods I was
ignorantly using to apply the Law of Attraction.

I have been asked many times to explain my success in using the Law of Attraction, and
I discover that it's not easy to summarise the concept of Cooperative Reality, and that is
why I decided to write my book entitled
  Cooperative Reality.
I will however attempt to summarise the book in order to give you at least some idea of
the power of this concept in relation to the Law of Attraction.
I must state however that there will be some ideas that may seem very
unusual, but I assure you there is solid scientific evidence for everything I am putting
forward, again, explained in detail throughout my book.

The Quantum Field

First of all we need to ask the question "what is reality?" and I will begin by
taking a brief look at a concept within Quantum Physics called super position. Briefly
stated super position is referring to sub atomic particles appearing in more than one
place at the same time, in fact the same electron, if I may use this particle as an
example, could appear in as many as 3000 different or potential locations simultaneously,
this phenomenon is referred to in Quantum Physics as a wave function. So the entire
universe being made up of the very tiny world of sub atomic particles exists in super
position, or one of many potential locations, on a universal scale Quantum Physicists call this the Field of
Potential.

This is great new for us all, it means that your reality is not fixed, it is flexible,
changeable, it can be altered from one form to another, but who does the transforming and how?

The Observer

This brings me to the second point I would like to consider, also a concept used in Quantum
Physics called The Observer, and this principle directly affect and alters the Field of Potential.
So what is The Observer? Well, you are the Observer, along with ever other conscious individual
on the planet. And what does the Observer do? The Observer is responsible for the
collapse of the wave function. What does that mean? Basically it means whenever you
consciously observe the Quantum Field you snap your reality into a single location
in time and space. Scientists conduct complex experiments with particles that bare out this
concept and it certainly aligns with my own experience.

So when we observe the Quantum Field, the world, the universe, what position do we
collapse the wave function to? Where does our reality finish up? Well that is determined
by what you believe, and I'm not referring to your religious allegiance, I'm talking about
what you believe your reality should be with every fibre of your being, which is taught in
the Law of Attraction, it's just not generally explained that well.
Now you are not the only Observer collapsing the wave function to set reality by what you
believe, everyone is an Observer, and that is of vital importance to understand.
To properly apply the Law of Attraction we need to somehow alter the way other people view reality,
and we will take a look at that shortly.

Rewiring The Mind

Finally we need to consider how it is that we change our fundamental beliefs about
ourselves and about the world. Fortunately for us, the construct of our belief systems
exist within the mind, in the complex structure of neural pathways that make up the
different areas of the brain. I say fortunately, because recent discoveries in neuroscience have
revealed that the neural structure of the brain is highly flexible, not rigid and fixed as scientists first
thought. You are not destined to be locked in to behaviors and attitudes of the past,
ways of thinking and patterns of belief that have been neurologically passed down to you
by your ancestors through your DNA, you possess the power to reconstruct the neural
pathways in your brain and create a brand new construct of reality in your mind.

This is a vital area of knowledge that most Law of Attraction publications do not go
into, some of the common Law of Attraction methods such as, focussed intention, and
holding an image in the mind of a new reality do have an affect on the neural construct
of the brain, but the affect can be temporary, because we are not taught how to solidify
the new construct for use over the long term. The human mind processes roughly 100,000 bits of
information per second, yet we are only consciously aware of around 2000 bits of that
information. What we need to do is begin to learn how to permanently alter the construct
of our neural net in order to perceive a new reality, to become aware of things that we
had never considered before and forever change our deep beliefs about who we are and what
we are doing here.

Putting it all Together

So what does this all mean in relation to using the Law of Attraction more
effectively? Your first goal when attempting to apply the Law of Attraction must be to
alter your fundamental beliefs about what your own reality is in order to begin
collapsing the quantum field to that new reality, but as I mentioned earlier, you are not the
only one that sets reality through belief, and this is where the Law of Attraction really
comes into its own.

As you apply all the methods around the Law of Attraction, visualization, intentions,
gratitude etc, you create a stronger reality for yourself, and that reality connects with
corresponding vibrations in the minds of those around you. You begin to alter other
individuals beliefs in relation to you, and they also begin to collapse the quantum
field in alignment with your new reality. Basically you create a stronger personal
reality that affects those around you, this is no game of chance, but using the
Law of Attraction properly does feel a little like stacking the odds in your favour.
When I first began to really understand and
apply the principles mentioned above, all the small details of my life began to change,
my life went from 80 percent of the things that happened to me being a disappointment to 80
percent of things becoming truly positive and magical virtually overnight.

Conclusion

Your life consists in all the small details that make up your reality, you don't
need to be somewhere else or do something else in order to be truly happy, using the Law
of Attraction you can begin to quickly transform every area of your life from the mundane
to the incredible, everyone has this ability, all you need is a brain and a choice.

As I said, it is difficult to explain this subject briefly, but I hope you have found
this article helpful in your understanding of the Law of Attraction and how it works.

If you would like to learn more about properly applying the Law of Attraction
and find out about the practical methods I use for changing my own fundamental beliefs and affecting
the reality of those around me, I encourage you to consider reading my book
Law of Attraction - Cooperative Reality, you will find simple practical methods for using the Law of Attraction
and Cooperative Reality, along with clear explanations of all the concepts I have mentioned in this article.

A Dose of Reality

I have written and published approximately 40 articles on various article submission websites in the last two months. I write on a variety of topics and to me it is very interesting what articles bring the most traffic.

Not all the websites I submit my articles too have stats for me to refer to but the ones that do offer valuable insight. The articles I write on politics and different kinds of investment options bring very little traffic. I also have counters on the articles on my own site and I get similar traffic on my site. People appear to be more interested in celebrity gossip, cars, Hot Wheels, and other hobbies than they are about how our country is run, their own financial position, or corporate issues.

I think hobbies are important this is why I have a hobbies page on my site. Hobbies offer a source stress relief, a way to relax and enjoy life. People get too caught up in the fast-paced world we live in and do not take time to wind down. So I am not saying the articles on hobbies are not important but the others certainly are too.

I originally titled the article "A Dose of Reality" because I thought it was me that needed to face reality, that most people are comfortable with the way their lives are going and do not want to face the difficult issues we will soon be faced with. As I am writing the article I now see it as a toss up. Maybe I am facing reality and it is most other people that do need to face reality and realize if we continue on the path we are on that we are headed for financial disaster.

If people continue to live beyond their means and rack up the debt what will happen if there is another recession? If the government continues to spend money at record pace what is going to happen if countries stop lending us money? How will we then finance the debt levels and spending? It is clear that the "leaders" of our country have no restraint at all when it comes money. And when you think about it, why should they? It is not their money, they are not held accountable for their irresponsibility, and when they retire they will live like royalty, on our tax dollars, for the rest of their lives.

Remember back to your elementary school days when you learned about the Revolutionary War and the development of our government? Do you think that the founders of our Constitution and the builders of our government intended things to turn out the way they have? Does anyone think that we, as people of the country, we were meant to have very little say over how our government is run as we do?

The United States government was set-up as a democracy. It was developed to give anyone the chance to run for office and be a leader of our country. This is not reality. Take the Presidential campaign for example. Since Ross Perot there have been many candidates for each election. He sort of made it possible for other parties to run. But, do they really have a fair chance? The Democrats and Republicans both receive Federal tax money to put toward their campaigns, no other party does. The Democrats and Republicans are often the only two parties allowed to participate in debates.

We are controlled by these two parties and as long as we continue to do things the way we have done them we will continue to get the results we have always gotten. As long as we continue to allow our Congress to pass laws allowing themselves to approve their own raises, allow our government to outsource the manufacturing of some of our most crucial defense weapons to Communist countries, allow our government to make deals with Arab countries to monitor our six biggest ports we will continue to face the same issues we face today.

The Countries Most Affected

A worst case scenario scientific report predicted that we may very well be living on the South Pole in a hundred years. And even though many people find the idea too ridiculous to contemplate there are others that already feel the effects of global warming.

Some of the parts of the world already feeling the effects of climate change are;

Asia - Bangladesh and India have heavily populated low lying land. Rising sea levels and increase in rainfall due to global warming an increasing problem.

Africa - Increasing drought in an already food short continent.

Australia - Hotter conditions are fueling massive bush fires that are occurring more frequently.

Pacific and Indonesia - Recent earthquakes have caused a major disaster in Indonesia and Samoa is still mourning the after effects of a tsunami, as a result of an offshore earthquake. Rising sea levels also threaten some islands in the pacific. Predicted to be completely under water in the future are Kiribati, Tuvalu and Marshall Islands.

Europe - Yearly flooding is now the norm when snow in the alpines melts. Greece and Portugal are regularly experiencing wildfires during summer heat waves.

Latin America - The Amazon, already threatened by encroaching development is also threatened by increasingly dry weather.

North America - Hurricane Katrina is the worst experienced so far due to rising sea levels and a massive storm surge. The threat from hurricanes is now a yearly occurrence. Bush fires in California have claimed many lives and rising sea levels is also a problem.

The picture is constantly changing and the latest prediction, within the next 20 years the Arctic will be an open sea during summer. A disastrous outcome for polar bears, arctic foxes and many other animals that call the arctic home. The full effect on the rest of us still largely unknown


Dianne Lawson-Jeffreys have been writing articles online for the past 2 years, she also manages a camera lens accessories

Vulnerability of New Expats

Moving to a new country can be difficult in many ways. Expats are particularly vulnerable to certain elements of a new society, which can be both unscrupulous and unavoidable.

'Forewarned is forearmed', and expats must be aware of their vulnerability, especially if they have just arrived to a foreign country. Another aspect to think about is how to take things slowly when meeting new people. It will be helpful to become a part of a social network of other new expats, which can help in finding a way to integrate more easily into a new society.

When settling in their new home, expats often feel excitement, but also fear. While dealing with challenges and getting familiar with a new culture and environment, expats sometimes may become an obvious target for undesired treatment, such as being abused or taken advantage of. Any new expat can be a potential victim, however, there are ways to deal with and overcome a situation in which you feel vulnerable.

The best advice is not to refuse help when it is offered, but to take things slowly when meeting new people, especially those who seem a bit too friendly. You may let people in your life, but only to the extent that you allow. Take one step at a time in making new friendships abroad.

During the adjustment process, or even before the move itself, it can be useful to use the Internet to get familiar with your new country and culture. One helpful source for such research is Move One's award-winning Expat Eye, offering virtual video city guides in a number of expat hubs around the world. You can also become a part of a local online expat community; there are many expats out there in the same situation, trying to fit in, and forums or expat social networks are perfect to exchange tips and practical advice. Get to know other expats in the area and learn from their experiences. It is very important not to limit yourself only to contacts with people from your neighborhood, or a local café. Try to interact with as many people as possible, so that you gain information from varied sources. This way you may be able to learn more and quicker, and understand things from various perspectives.

Expats may easily avoid becoming victims if they know more and seek to learn about their new environment. Beginner's mistakes are common, but if you are aware of your own vulnerability, you may adapt sooner than you ever thought you would.

Understanding what makes the Stock Market Move Up and Down

Successful investing requires more then just a little bit of know how and a dash of luck. It requires a cool head, an analytical mind, and the ability to make quick money decisions. This is especially true when investing in the stock market. Investing naturally comes with a level of risk. The market's activity fluctuates on a daily basis during the opening and closing bells.

Generally the stock market is supposed to grow in value over a period of time. This growth is actually an average of all of the stocks included on the market. While some may have increased in value throughout the day, other stocks will have fallen in value. In some cases growth can affect whole sectors. A sector is a bloc of companies involved in a specific type of business.

Movement in the market is affected by a number of different factors. News reports affecting a specific industry can cause investors to want to increase their holdings, or negative news can cause investors to exit as quickly as possible. These however, are not hard and fast rules. In some cases favorable news can result in lower stock prices as more investors try and sell their shares then are willing to buy, once the stock price falls, it can rise quickly again as even more investors are interested in "buying low".

According to analysts, the erratic movements of the stock market can sometimes be attributed to the large number of inexperienced and amateur investors. This can cause the irrational behavior sometimes seen. Mass panic has been blamed more then a few times for making the market move in directions that completely contradict normal rules of behavior for the stock market.

Amateur investors have a tendency to make decisions based on press releases or rumors that is sometimes not even related to the value of a stock itself. Other causes could be the activity of day traders. Day traders usually trade in such large volumes that they can affect a stock's price either negatively or positively.

Still other ways the stock market can be swayed is by a coutry's attempt at correcting inflation. Usually raising or lowering the interest rate does this. These rates are an indicator of the financial situation for a country. If rates are either raised or lowered, the market activity will usually be influenced.

Some companies are able to increase their individual stock prices by releasing quarterly reports showing they have met or exceeded their profit forecasts. Also releasing information about new products or technology that can increase that particular sector's value.

Conversely, if a company reports that they fell short of profit projections, the value of that companies stock will usually go down as investors sell off some or all of their stocks. Large shifts are usually due to overreaction to changes in risk.

Without the assistance of a professional, the market can be an unforgiving venture for the casual investor. This trend has begun to change due to better resources being available to investors on all levels. Research is a must for any investment.