How
I Used the Power of Attraction to Get Out of Debt
A few years ago I had an experience that really made
me understand the power of attraction. I was on summer
break from college in the US. I was staying with my
parents in Europe, and completely broke. In fact, I
wasn't just broke, I was also in debt. I still had outstanding
tuition from a college I had previously attended, and
my credit card had covered both my plane ticket across
the Atlantic and my living costs for the last couple
of months.
I
spent my days at home desperately searching the newspapers
for job ads and complaining to my friends and family
about how broke I was. My situation was so bad, that
if I didn't make a lot of money that summer, I would
have to drop out of college because I couldn't afford
to go back. For weeks I couldn't find a job, and I started
getting really scared about what was going to happen.
One
day I was on the phone with my boyfriend in the US.
We had recently heard about the
law of attraction, and he suggested I tried applying
what we had learnt to my situation. At first I was reluctant,
because this required me to not think about my desperate
situation. As pretty much everyone else, I was preconditioned
to think that if I didn't worry and prepare myself for
the worst, I would be in big trouble. Somehow I found
the courage to stop worrying.
It
wasn't easy. At first I would find myself laying awake
at night, calculating how much money I needed to pay
off this and do that. I realized that to use the power
of attraction right, I had to consciously focus on positives
and push away my old fears when they came creeping back
into my head. I found a sum of money that would make
me able to pay off my debt and go back to college in
the fall. I knew that it was a stretch, but if I got
a really well paying job, working double shifts, I might
be able to reach my sum in about three months.
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Every
night I visualized making the money
I needed. I imagined paying off my debt and how that
would feel. I pictured working a lot and writing down
my hours, feeling good about how much money I was making.
I had heard that the main secret behind the power of
attraction was how you were feeling. After less then
a week of blocking out all my fears and negative thoughts,
I got a job at a restaurant.
The
restaurant had just opened and was in sore need for
staff so it was no problem for me to get double shifts.
The first week I was there, I worked twelve and thirteen
hours a day. I had about an hour commute to get to work,
so as you can imagine there wasn't much time for eating
and sleeping. Making some money really helped me to
visualize more money coming my way, and before I knew
it, I started making really good tips too. I kept the
tip money I made in a metal can with a plastic lid.
Every night I would put all my tips in the can, and
every few days I would count it.
As
the money grew, much faster than I had imagined, I started
to realize the immense power of attraction. Not only
was I making really good wages, my tip money alone was
enough to pay for all my expenses and still have plenty
left over. To make a long story short; I didn't meet
my goal sum that summer, I made quite a bit more than
what I had imagined. When I finally emptied out my tip
jar, I had over $2,000.
The
amazing thing about my experience wasn't just that I
was able to make the money I needed. It was that I managed
to pass my goal sum in about half the time I had calculated.
When I called my old school to pay off my debt, it was
miraculously a lot less then they had told me in a letter
only months before. I ended up working only a month
and a half, paying off my debt, buying a plane ticket
back to the US and still have enough left over to live
very comfortably that semester.
I
still don't know exactly how I managed to make so much
money so fast that summer. On paper, my initial calculation
was right; it should have taken me at least three months
to meet my goal on what I was making. That's how the
law of attraction works though, and I just remind
myself that I don't need to concern myself with the
"how", that's the job of the Universe. All
I have to do is decide what I want and the let the power
of attraction take it from there.
ERL
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