March/April 2003 Living Now
How to Create the Life You Desire

by Jan Engels-Smith

Change occurs when energy shifts. In order to understand change, one needs to understand the dynamics of energy. Everything emanates energy—animate beings; physical objects, even thoughts and feelings—and these energy "fields" impact and alter all that they touch. If we are to have control over the changes in our lives, we must also understand the importance of thoughts, beliefs, ideas, and feelings as energy.

Energy follows several universal laws one of them being the Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction says that like attracts like. That means that high frequency energy attracts high frequency energy, and low frequency energy attracts low frequency energy. Basically, good attracts good and bad attracts bad. Positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative.

An energy field surrounds every thing. Energy pulses out from objects, interacting with and absorbing other energies. A person’s energy field, commonly called an aura, is generated inside the body and extends outward to surround it. This energy field you generate is created by your beliefs and thoughts. Like a radio tower, you send out concentric pulses of energy that broaden and weaken as they move farther away. An electromagnetic charge exists immediately around your body. This energy attraction source impacts all that it comes in contact with, and by extension influences the entire universe. Like a strong magnet, your field of energy draws other energies to it and absorbs the power of them. The energies you attract and the ways that they are absorbed are influenced by your belief systems. Your beliefs filter and alter other energies as they enter your power source, and in turn become part of the energy that emanates from you.

This attractive power draws to you the situations, people, and events that will reinforce whatever it is you believe. If you believe that you are a victim, that people constantly exploit you, and that you are unlovable, your electromagnetic field will be charged with those beliefs and will draw to you circumstances that reinforce this. If you believe that you are a divine being, that all doors of opportunity are open to you, that you are loved by yourself and others, and that good things always come your way, then your magnetic energy will draw to you positive life conditions which reinforce your positive energy.

Take a moment to think about what you really believe and notice what you are drawing into your life. What do you believe about yourself, about God, about money, about your job, about your family, about your friends, and about life in general? Review your beliefs to understand which energies you attract. If you impart negative thoughts to your energy field, you will attract events and people that manifest negative beliefs. Negative energy begets negative experience, which reinforces negative beliefs. Conversely, if you radiate positive beliefs and thoughts, you will draw the situations to you, which confirm your beliefs and reinforce your positive life experience.

The advantage of positive thoughts is that they are electrically charged at a higher frequency than negative thoughts. That higher frequency is in harmony with your own Source. They also extend out farther and with greater strength into the universe. They leave you with a feeling of expansiveness, growth, and lightness. Negative thoughts are dense and heavy, whereas positive thoughts are light and high in vibration. Observe people’s body posture and you can get a sense of how these frequencies affect you physically. People who are self-confident usually hold themselves tall and upright, as though they could lift right off the ground. Their breathing isfull and expands the lungs, chest, and abdomen. People with heavy and dense negative energy look as though they are carrying a heavy backpack at all times. Their shoulders are often rounded, their head tilts down, and their breathing is shallow as if there just isn’t any room for breath in their lungs. They often feel tightness and stress in the upper back and shoulders.

The density of negative energy causes the body to collapse inwardly.

Energy changes with intention, instantaneously and powerfully. Changing your electromagnetic field of energy is not difficult, nor does it take years of study or practice. It is immediate. You can understand this by simply changing your thoughts and noticing the instant shift in the energy within and around you. Through practice, you can better manage moment to moment the energy that surrounds you. You can change your life and what you draw to you simply by changing your thoughts. You will attract to you what you think about, what you say about yourself, how you feel. You are a constant radio tower of energy attracting to you what you broadcast out. Unfortunately most people think more about what they don’t want in life instead of dreaming about what they want in life. This constant broadcast of ‘don’t wants’ just brings more of the same. A huge element in creating the life that you desire is to dream about it. Think about it all day, speak about it, and spend time feeling the results of your dream. In these ways you start broadcasting the new you: The healthy, wealthier, and happier you. You then will draw to you the corresponding energies. Change starts in the mind. Anyone and everyone can start right now at this moment and then proceed with passion to the desired outcome.

Jan Engels-Smith, author of Becoming Yourself-the Journey from Head to Heart, is the founder of LightSong Healing Center and the LightSong School of Shamanism. She is a Shamanic Practitioner & Counselor, Reiki Master, Licensed Professional Counselor, Chemical Dependency Specialist, Marriage and Family Counselor and a Hypnotherapist. If you are interested in more information, or in signing up for classes, please call Jan @ 503-669-3013 or go to www.janengelssmith.com.