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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Entanglement (Part 2) , or How "much" do I love thee?

What a weird name for a post!

Let me lead with a couple of quotes:  As Vince Lombardi once said, "Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."

And from an online newsletter: "Creating a vision board one time, saying a few affirmations and meditating occasionally doesn't cut it. 80% of the effort doesn't produce 80% of the results - more like 20%. Consistency is key. Set and measure goals daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually."

The essence of successful 'entanglement' in quantum physics seems to be based on the level of "passion" one puts into the vision or dream.  Imagine this senario: A man is having lunch at a restaurant. Suddenly, at a table across from him, is seated the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. He thinks to himself, "I'd give 10 years of my life to spend the remaining portion of my life with her."  So he develops a plan: "Maybe I'll have lunch here again in a few months and maybe she'll' be here, or, "maybe I'll walk the streets of the city and maybe I'll see her sometime.

Reasonable? Of course not! He's going to find a way to 'break the ice', get a name, a phone number, email address, physical address, work address, blood type, ANYTHING!!!! He wants this woman. And until he sees her again, her image will be with him till he goes to bed at night and first thing in the morning.   Been in love? You know I'm right!

Here's the point: We can have a wish or desire, a good idea, an interest in something, and it will never amount to something because it is only 'lightly held'. The attracting power of 'quanta' are made more powerful by the intensity of the desire. The acorn doesn't get to choose its level of desire, we do.

It is easy to accept the fact that we can become more successful in what we do by focusing on a task or desire. Applying ourselves to a pursuit generally has some reward for doing so. BUT, here is a story to make you think: her name was Mary. Raised during the Depression, she came from a very poor family. Her desire was to go to college, but there was no way her family could afford it. Yet, she dreamed of a college. One with solid stone buildings, spacious grounds, tree-lined streets and sidewalks. She could see it in her mind, and she was there, studying and getting her degree. But there was no money.

Upon graduation from high school, her parish priest asked to speak to her and her parents. There had been a bequest, in the will of a parishioner, that the priest select a worthy student, and arrange for them to be sent to a church related college at no expense to the student. The priest, knowing of their financial needs, wanted her to be that student.

Imagine her surprise that fall when she was sent away to college. The college, one she had never heard of, had never seen a brochure of, was the college she had seen in her mind!

Let me repeat the quote from above:  "Creating a vision board one time, saying a few affirmations and meditating occasionally doesn't cut it. 80% of the effort doesn't produce 80% of the results - more like 20%. Consistency is key. Set and measure goals daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually."

I must admit that I have fallen short in my intensity. How about you? What is your dream, wish, desire? Are you really serious, or just thinking it would be nice to have?

We'll be going back to the more 'technical' aspects of the law of attraction in the next post. See you there.

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