You already know that your thoughts have power. This is essentially the definition of magic, after all. But what is the power of words? Can your words significantly influence your or others reality?
The answer is yes, most definitely! And, unfortunately, it is something that all too many people ignore, to negative effect.
But the question is, how much of an effect can your words have, and how can you use the power of words to boost your ability to shape your reality?
How Magic Is Structured
Some people will say that words do not have power on their own. It is the thoughts that matter, and so it is the thoughts behind the words that have power, not the words themselves.
And there is a certain degree of truth to this. Words on their own are just empty syllables. They are sound waves hitting your eardrums.
But really, the same could be said of thoughts. Thoughts are just electrical impulses firing in your neurons. What do they have to do with anything?
This might get a bit technical, but it is necessary for a deeper understanding of how words can affect reality.
Magic, or law of attraction, is comprised basically of two components: Universal Energy, and your own energetic system. The way these two aspects interact determine the results you will get in life.
Universal Energy starts raw and unformed. By your focus, it is shaped to a particular purpose. This is magic in essence.
But once that energy is shaped, it interacts with your personal energy system.
Let me give an example to show you how this works in a more practical way:
Think for a moment about financial lack. If that doesn’t trigger you much, then replace it with one of your greatest fears.
Notice the immediate response of your mind and body. You’ll immediately have anxious thoughts, tense sensations in your body, and a negative emotion.
What happened here is simple: with your thoughts, you focused on lack. By your focus, you shaped Universal Energy to resonate with a vibration of lack. As that energy hit your energetic system, it caused you discomfort, which actually means you have some resonance with that potentiality. That is, you are at least partially a vibrational match to your fears, or else you wouldn’t be afraid of them.
That’s the power of your thoughts. If you kept focusing on lack, the effect would become larger. Your energetic system would become more and more resonant with the vibration of the Universal Energy you have shaped with your focus. Pretty soon it would manifest in your outer reality. But don’t worry, only a few seconds of focus won’t do anything.
But see, the only reason that happened is because you reacted to it emotionally. You allowed it to influence your energetic system.
If, instead, you simply allowed those sensations to travel through your system without emotional investment or reaction, it would have a negligible effect on you.
You have control over your own energetic system. This will become very important later on.
As your energetic system comes into resonance with some intention, it shapes the energy of the reality around you, and that is, in essence, the law of attraction at work. You become a larger and larger beacon for the vibration you have resonated at, and you attract larger and larger manifestations of that vibration.
So, Why Do Words Have Power?
Whew, that was deep, I know.
But what’s this have to do with words?
Well, all that was just done with your thoughts. Indeed, your thoughts are quite powerful, but only if you allow them to influence your energetic system.
But, we are both spiritual and physical beings. Things done in the physical have more effect on us than things done in the spiritual, at least in the short term.
Let’s continue the lack example from above. Just thinking about lack can really affect you for the worse. But, now imagine that you’re talking to someone about lack—about how bad things are and how little money you have.
Doesn’t this seem to have a much stronger emotional effect on you? And, more importantly, if you speak about your lack, don’t you seem to believe it more than if you just think about it?
To continue it even more, let’s imagine you start watching shows that really demonstrate poverty and lack. Watching and empathizing with it will strengthen that vibration even more, and make it easier to access that vibration yourself.
Or, if you know a lot of people who are struggling financially, or who are in a situation that matches where you don’t want to be, it’s easier for you to access that vibration, because you see it in your everyday life.
It’s why many people recommend surrounding yourself with people who have already achieved your goal. Seeing it in real time, right there in front of you every day, makes it infinitely more real than just thinking about it.
The mind seems to believe more in words and actions than mere thoughts. Thoughts can definitely help, but the words and actions need to line up with those thoughts.
If you think about financial abundance, or about loving relationships, or fulfilling jobs, but then your words are all about the lack of those things, or you demonstrate their lack with your actions, your mind is going to be impressed more by the external words and actions than the internal thoughts.
It’s the Energy Behind the Words
With that being said, it’s true that the real power is in the energy behind those words. However, words and actions do a lot to root that energy in physical reality.
I’m not a proponent of “fake it until you make it”, or even “acting as if”, unless the vibration is really there.
For instance, if you go around talking about money and abundance, but secretly you feel anxious about it, the Universe will act on your actual energetic vibration, not on the empty words you are using.
Remember, magic and manifestation are all about energy. When we use tools such as words, actions, rituals, and so on, it is just to make it easier to manipulate that energy. But, the energy is where all the action is. You can’t look at what you are doing or saying most of the time, and think that this defines your energy.
There are lots of people who seem happy on the outside, but in private are depressed or anxious. They put up a good front, but that only fools people, and generally people who can’t read energy very well.
But the Universe reads their energy directly, and responds in kind.
However, if you were to get your thoughts, words, and actions all lined up, you would have immense power to create your own reality.
While all of the above is true, it is also true that words and actions can influence your energetic vibration.
Have you ever said of someone that they seem convinced of their own lie, because they’ve repeated it so much? That’s the same sort of idea.
If done properly and in the right circumstances, words and actions can make up the difference to help align you with the desired vibration.
Where it doesn’t work is if there’s a huge gap. For instance, if you pretend to be a millionaire, and talk about being a millionaire, while really being nowhere close, the words can’t make up that gap.
But if you aren’t too far away from your goal, and it is inspiring, believable, and challenging to you, then pretending as though you have already reached it, either by journaling, role-playing, or similar methods, can really help.
In a course I took on the law of attraction last year, the teacher mentioned that he had a client who wanted to be a successful actor. So he told his client to journal every day, and write as though he had already achieved his goal.
The client later said that it took him about a month to really start believing it. At first, it just seemed ridiculous. But after a while, it started to seem more and more plausible to him. Not long thereafter, he had actually achieved his goal.
My guess is that actually writing these things down was much more effective than it might have been if he had simply visualized it. The visualization can definitely help, and might be preferred by some, but the journaling added an element of realism and believability to it.
Can Words Affect Others, Too?
Words have the power to both help as well as to hurt, and this is to both yourself as well as to others.
We all know this is true. I’ve heard from others who say that a parent, or a particular teacher, said something hurtful when they were a child, and it created a limiting belief that has stuck with them ever since that event. Obviously, words can hurt.
Words can also help. We remember the encouraging word that someone says to us in a time of need, and it gives us the motivation to continue.
Remember the two components of magic: Universal Energy, and how it interacts with your own energetic system.
Your word only has power if there is an emotional reaction to it. This is true whether it is directed at yourself or another.
And, there is only an emotional reaction if one’s energetic system is at least somewhat resonant to the vibration of that word.
If you call someone stupid, and they are actually sensitive on that subject, it’s going to affect them, because their energy has resonance with the idea of being stupid.
If they aren’t a match at all to that idea, then it won’t even touch them.
Similarly, if you try to help someone, it can only help them if they are at least partially in resonance with the help you are trying to give. If they are totally out of range, then your help simply can’t reach them.
There is also a more magical element to this. Your words about another don’t necessarily have to be said in their presence, for them to take effect. You can definitely influence another with your words in a magical context, without them ever being present at all.
If I talk badly about someone, it actually sends out a bit of negative energy to that person because of my focus. If their energy has resonance with the negative energy I sent, then they’ll be negatively affected by it. Yes, this is a curse.
But, most people have such scattered focus that it never really reaches a noticeable level. However, advanced magic users, which includes people who are proficient with the law of attraction, need to be careful of their words, because they can easily lay a curse on someone else without even meaning to.
Now again, that person’s energy needs to be in resonance with the curse that was sent. If they are in a high-vibrational state, then it’s not going to affect them. Nothing can ever happen to you that you’re not a match to.
Be Mindful of Your Words
So, for that reason, it’s vital that you’re mindful of how you speak, and even act, on a day-to-day basis.
I see every thought, word, and action as a magical working—or as a spell. If I think about abundance, I am working magic which will bring me abundance. If I think about lack, I am working magic that will bring me lack, or at least more lackful energy.
If I speak about how great my life is, I am literally shaping the energy of my reality with my words.
Again, all of this is only true if backed by emotion. Neutral words, empty of emotional investment, won’t do anything. The stronger the emotion, the more powerful the magic.
When speaking to or about others, the same holds true. Everything you say to or about them will send out a bit of energy that has the potential to influence them according to your words.
Yes, even thinking about others will send out energy. This is why, quite often, a friend you’ve not heard from in a while will suddenly call you just after you’ve thought about them. Your thought served as sort of an energetic ping, which they unconsciously felt and responded to.
So, the better you get at manifesting, the more important it is that you watch where you place your focus. Through your persistent focus, you are shaping reality for both yourself and others.
On the positive side, you can begin to use your words to shape your reality for the better. How do you speak about your goal most of the time? Do you talk about it as though it is easy? Or, do you complain about how hard or even impossible it seems?
Stop underestimating the power of words, and you will soon find that you have much more conscious control over creating your own reality.
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Hi Brandon,
“If I talk badly about someone, it actually sends out a bit of negative energy to that person because of my focus. If their energy has resonance with the negative energy I sent, then they’ll be negatively affected by it. Yes, this is a curse”.
So if someone has a fear of dogs and you think “I hope they get bitten by a dog”, you can help create that trauma in their life? That doesn’t sound right.
Something like that. Again, they’d have to be a match to it. If they were a match to the fear of dogs but not to being bitten, they might have another fearful experience not exactly like what you thought. It just depends.
There are endless stories out there of people who have wished harm on someone else, only to have it come to pass. It may not seem right, but it bears out in reality. Magic users have done it for millennia.
Again, no one can do anything to you that you’re not a match for. But, if you have resonance with that negative energy, then yes, you can be influenced by it.
Doing harmful stuff with LoA would create massive karma, one would think.
I don’t really believe in karma in the traditional way. It may, or it may not. I wouldn’t do it myself, but it just depends on the individual. A lot of the talk about karma is just a fear-based tactic, similar to hell in Christianity.
I just love this new LOA approach imbued with magic!
Thank you for reminding me of the power of words. There are certainly times when I still complain, talking about how hard something is, but it’s occurring at a less frequent rate. Once the negative momentum starts rolling, it can get quite hard to stop the talking, because it’s flowing so powerfully and effortlessly, and stopping the flow feels like effort. But that’s exactly where we need to put the effort, to stop the negative talk near the beginning, release the emotions, and focus on something lightly positive. Definitely, whatever we trained the subconscious mind to engage with, it does it so easily and effortlessly.
I still often find myself imagining how I tell someone how hard my life has been, and feeling resentment towards them for having it much easier than me. I have big cravings for complaining lol, but I’m dealing well with it. Yesterday I managed to allow such emotions and then refocus on the topic in a better way.
These days I’ve had to reread your post about 4 stages of manifestation, and remind myself about the germination stage. The challenging one. Progress isn’t visible, but instead of digging up the seed and messing it up, one needs to trust that things ARE moving and progressing. For example, a fear arose about me not getting the strong, good-looking body unless I go and take action right now. I guess that’s a fear that most people have: if we don’t go and make it happen, it won’t happen. I’ve had to really be persistent about reminding myself that I have had a strong negative momentum on this topic for years, and considering its strength, I’ve managed to quite successfully weaken it. And the other thing is, that aligning with my goal especially without taking uninspired actions, and while not knowing how it will come about is thrilling and fun.
That’s so awesome, Z! You’ve really been making progress.
You’re right it’s hard to stop that negative momentum. So many people seem to almost be addicted to complaining about their lives. But it does so much harm to them.
And yeah, germination is most of the process. It’s all happening under the surface. You just have to have faith it’ll all work out. 🙂 But it sounds like you’re doing a good job.
Hi Brandon,
“If I talk badly about someone, it actually sends out a bit of negative energy to that person because of my focus. If their energy has resonance with the negative energy I sent, then they’ll be negatively affected by it. Yes, this is a curse”.
So if someone has a fear of dogs and you think “I hope they get bitten by a dog”, you can help create that trauma in their life? That doesn’t sound right.
Something like that. Again, they’d have to be a match to it. If they were a match to the fear of dogs but not to being bitten, they might have another fearful experience not exactly like what you thought. It just depends.
There are endless stories out there of people who have wished harm on someone else, only to have it come to pass. It may not seem right, but it bears out in reality. Magic users have done it for millennia.
Again, no one can do anything to you that you’re not a match for. But, if you have resonance with that negative energy, then yes, you can be influenced by it.
Doing harmful stuff with LoA would create massive karma, one would think.
I don’t really believe in karma in the traditional way. It may, or it may not. I wouldn’t do it myself, but it just depends on the individual. A lot of the talk about karma is just a fear-based tactic, similar to hell in Christianity.
I just love this new LOA approach imbued with magic!
Thank you for reminding me of the power of words. There are certainly times when I still complain, talking about how hard something is, but it’s occurring at a less frequent rate. Once the negative momentum starts rolling, it can get quite hard to stop the talking, because it’s flowing so powerfully and effortlessly, and stopping the flow feels like effort. But that’s exactly where we need to put the effort, to stop the negative talk near the beginning, release the emotions, and focus on something lightly positive. Definitely, whatever we trained the subconscious mind to engage with, it does it so easily and effortlessly.
I still often find myself imagining how I tell someone how hard my life has been, and feeling resentment towards them for having it much easier than me. I have big cravings for complaining lol, but I’m dealing well with it. Yesterday I managed to allow such emotions and then refocus on the topic in a better way.
These days I’ve had to reread your post about 4 stages of manifestation, and remind myself about the germination stage. The challenging one. Progress isn’t visible, but instead of digging up the seed and messing it up, one needs to trust that things ARE moving and progressing. For example, a fear arose about me not getting the strong, good-looking body unless I go and take action right now. I guess that’s a fear that most people have: if we don’t go and make it happen, it won’t happen. I’ve had to really be persistent about reminding myself that I have had a strong negative momentum on this topic for years, and considering its strength, I’ve managed to quite successfully weaken it. And the other thing is, that aligning with my goal especially without taking uninspired actions, and while not knowing how it will come about is thrilling and fun.
That’s so awesome, Z! You’ve really been making progress.
You’re right it’s hard to stop that negative momentum. So many people seem to almost be addicted to complaining about their lives. But it does so much harm to them.
And yeah, germination is most of the process. It’s all happening under the surface. You just have to have faith it’ll all work out. 🙂 But it sounds like you’re doing a good job.
Most of the time talking about things does seem to make them more real in our lives. But I have sometimes experienced the opposite. For example, I might have a fear that persists in the back of my mind and causes me some distress. Then my husband or someone else will ask, “What exactly is it that you’re afraid of?” When I explain it, the idea then seems less real to me–it seems silly, and I wonder why I spent so much time being afraid of that. So I think sometimes talking about something is a way of letting go of resisting the feeling and embracing it instead. Talking about something you dread probably usually makes things worse, but occasionally it does clear things up.
And of course, in other posts Brandon has already covered the other side of the coin–when verbally sharing what you’re working on just invites others to tell you why it won’t work (or even if they refrain from criticizing, you may still feel a lot of doubt come up just worrying what they might say). So I guess if you decide to speak things aloud, it’s important to say them when you are alone or with people you know are supportive (or people whose opinion you truly don’t care about! haha).
Hey Lisa,
Yeah that can definitely happen. To me, it’s bringing more awareness to the fear, and sometimes we just see that there’s nothing to it.
Also, yes I maintain you shouldn’t talk to others about your goals, until you’re very confident about them. Here I am speaking more generally, that you should not complain about not having your goal. It’s also to do with self-talk—how you speak to yourself about your goal.
That makes a lot of sense. Using words to promote your manifestation can sometimes get tricky, but simply refraining from complaining (and thereby doing a lot of damage to your goals) seems like good advice for almost all the time. That’s very helpful.
It’s interesting to notice that if you are complaining about a person behaving badly to you recently, it may be all the more likely to bring that about again, since the person probably hasn’t changed their vibration much in the meantime. For example, if you complain about a teacher giving way too much homework and having unrealistic expectations of you yesterday, then probably that teacher is still a match to that heavy-homework vibration today, so the teacher may be prompted, energetically, to do it again! Is this the kind of thing you mean by “cursing”? The teacher is cursed to continue to be harsh, even if it might be better for everyone (teacher included) for the teacher to be nicer.
In a way, I think worrying about how you might be cursing or blessing others is rather a red herring. If they have free will to choose their vibration, and their vibration determines what will happen to them, then you can’t interfere in their lives in any significant way. You could play the role of “cursing” them and bringing something unpleasant into their lives…but if you decided not to, then some other person would curse them or some other bad thing would happen to them. Their vibration will call something of that nature into their lives, until they use their free will to change their level. The only question for you, then, is, “Do I like playing that role?” And that’s a question about you and your preferences, not really about them.
Some LOA people claim that you can affect others vibrationally, and somehow make it easier for other people to choose happiness or misery. But I think any way you try to cash out “make it easier” winds up contradicting the notion of free will. For example, I’ve heard some LOA people say that a person might be 20% likely to choose a high vibration, and that you could bump them up to 80% with blessings. (I’m making up the numbers, but this is the basic idea.) Is freedom really just a likelihood of various choices being made, or somehow partly influenced (and therefore partly constrained) by percentages? Ultimate freedom would mean every choice is equally choosable; no choices are weighted in themselves.
I’m curious what you think about this. When you get down to what really matters, the most basic choice (which I assume is the choice of your energy, but if that’s not it substitute whatever is most basic), can we influence each other?
I suppose you could argue that a person could choose to let someone else influence them about certain things, but that wouldn’t be the most basic choice. The most basic choice would be, in that case, “Do I choose to let someone else influence me in anything, or not?” To me, this still seems like a choice a person would make entirely on their own, with no influence or blessings or curses or anything like that tilting the scales in any way.
Lisa,
Your questions are great ones, and I want to answer them extensively. I’ll answer the best I can now, and may bring it up later in the support call as well.
First of all, yes, that’s what I mean by cursing someone else. But it might be different than that as well. I recently heard of a family where the grandmother (the mother’s mother) really did not like the father for some reason. She cursed him with very specific terms: he would have severe intestinal problems, would lose his job, would become homeless, and several other things I don’t remember.
Well, all came to pass exactly as she had said, even though the family didn’t really believe it at first.
Eventually they reconciled, and then everything started going well for him. He got a new job, became quite wealthy, etc.
That’s a curse in the truest meaning of the word. But I wanted to point out that even minor negative barbs towards someone else can be considered a curse as well. It’s made of the same essence, just on a smaller scale. Your teacher example is a great one.
Now I want to address two things: (1) free will, and (2) can we influence someone beyond what they would get anyway? And I want to do it without making this comment a blog post in itself. ????
Yes, we have free will. But think of it, things are influencing us all the time. If you’re tired, hungry, thirsty, etc, it’s often harder to make rational decisions using your free will, just as an example. If someone has clinical depression, it’s harder to find a high vibration using their free will. That’s just reality.
So of course we’re free, but we’re also heavily influenced. Beyond that, there are aspects like astrology, the phases of the Moon, and other things besides.
Now the more important question: can we influence others beyond what they would have attracted with the law of attraction?
I don’t agree with your sentiment that if we hadn’t cursed them, they would have attracted some other equally negative event to themselves. That’s not my experience.
In the case of the grandmother I mentioned above, I don’t believe the father would have attracted all those things on his own. I do believe that her curse clung on to the negativity present in his energy field, and influenced him to resonate to more and more negativity.
Now the important part is that he did have free will. He could have chosen to raise his vibration, despite the influence, and he’d be free of the curse, because it would have nothing to cling to.
But, how many deliberate creators are really out there? Even in the LOA community, most people are very much novices at this, and still let reality push them around, let alone powerful magic sent by another.
Most people, though technically having free will, allow themselves to be products of their environment. They give up their free will, simply reacting to life. These are the people most susceptible to magical influence.
I also think we can help someone as you mentioned, given powerful positive magical influence, given they are at least a little resonant with that positivity.
The gods can also, in my experience, influence us to the positive beyond what we’d normally attract with the LOA. But, again, we have to be at least partially resonant with that positive influence for it to work.
I know this goes against a lot of common LOA doctrine, but it’s been absolutely true in my experience. This doesn’t take away your ability to manifest: you simply have to be aware and even vigilant of your own vibration. It can be influenced by anything from a negative relative or coworker, to something you read online, to negative energy sent to you by others. Keep in a positive vibration most of the time, and use your free will to be a creator, not a reactor, and you’ll be fine. 🙂
Hopefully the above makes sense. I apologize for the length.
Thank you for answering in length. It is a very interesting topic to me. Thank you!
This is very interesting! I’m thinking about sending someone who is usually kind of nervous high vibration of love and peace tomorrow while running, and also the same a bit later, and then I’ll go to college. I wonder if his behavior will change. 😀 (P.S. it’s just a colleague I’m talking about)
Brandon, do you think this can significantly improve one’s behavior and self-confidence temporarily, provided that they are a match to it? I would love it if I could help someone like that. 😉
Yes, I definitely think it can help. 🙂 It’s a great idea. And the great thing is that since you have to be at a high vibration to do this, it will return back to you as well.
I’m glad to hear that! 🙂 Thank you~
Most of the time talking about things does seem to make them more real in our lives. But I have sometimes experienced the opposite. For example, I might have a fear that persists in the back of my mind and causes me some distress. Then my husband or someone else will ask, “What exactly is it that you’re afraid of?” When I explain it, the idea then seems less real to me–it seems silly, and I wonder why I spent so much time being afraid of that. So I think sometimes talking about something is a way of letting go of resisting the feeling and embracing it instead. Talking about something you dread probably usually makes things worse, but occasionally it does clear things up.
And of course, in other posts Brandon has already covered the other side of the coin–when verbally sharing what you’re working on just invites others to tell you why it won’t work (or even if they refrain from criticizing, you may still feel a lot of doubt come up just worrying what they might say). So I guess if you decide to speak things aloud, it’s important to say them when you are alone or with people you know are supportive (or people whose opinion you truly don’t care about! haha).
Hey Lisa,
Yeah that can definitely happen. To me, it’s bringing more awareness to the fear, and sometimes we just see that there’s nothing to it.
Also, yes I maintain you shouldn’t talk to others about your goals, until you’re very confident about them. Here I am speaking more generally, that you should not complain about not having your goal. It’s also to do with self-talk—how you speak to yourself about your goal.
That makes a lot of sense. Using words to promote your manifestation can sometimes get tricky, but simply refraining from complaining (and thereby doing a lot of damage to your goals) seems like good advice for almost all the time. That’s very helpful.
It’s interesting to notice that if you are complaining about a person behaving badly to you recently, it may be all the more likely to bring that about again, since the person probably hasn’t changed their vibration much in the meantime. For example, if you complain about a teacher giving way too much homework and having unrealistic expectations of you yesterday, then probably that teacher is still a match to that heavy-homework vibration today, so the teacher may be prompted, energetically, to do it again! Is this the kind of thing you mean by “cursing”? The teacher is cursed to continue to be harsh, even if it might be better for everyone (teacher included) for the teacher to be nicer.
In a way, I think worrying about how you might be cursing or blessing others is rather a red herring. If they have free will to choose their vibration, and their vibration determines what will happen to them, then you can’t interfere in their lives in any significant way. You could play the role of “cursing” them and bringing something unpleasant into their lives…but if you decided not to, then some other person would curse them or some other bad thing would happen to them. Their vibration will call something of that nature into their lives, until they use their free will to change their level. The only question for you, then, is, “Do I like playing that role?” And that’s a question about you and your preferences, not really about them.
Some LOA people claim that you can affect others vibrationally, and somehow make it easier for other people to choose happiness or misery. But I think any way you try to cash out “make it easier” winds up contradicting the notion of free will. For example, I’ve heard some LOA people say that a person might be 20% likely to choose a high vibration, and that you could bump them up to 80% with blessings. (I’m making up the numbers, but this is the basic idea.) Is freedom really just a likelihood of various choices being made, or somehow partly influenced (and therefore partly constrained) by percentages? Ultimate freedom would mean every choice is equally choosable; no choices are weighted in themselves.
I’m curious what you think about this. When you get down to what really matters, the most basic choice (which I assume is the choice of your energy, but if that’s not it substitute whatever is most basic), can we influence each other?
I suppose you could argue that a person could choose to let someone else influence them about certain things, but that wouldn’t be the most basic choice. The most basic choice would be, in that case, “Do I choose to let someone else influence me in anything, or not?” To me, this still seems like a choice a person would make entirely on their own, with no influence or blessings or curses or anything like that tilting the scales in any way.
Lisa,
Your questions are great ones, and I want to answer them extensively. I’ll answer the best I can now, and may bring it up later in the support call as well.
First of all, yes, that’s what I mean by cursing someone else. But it might be different than that as well. I recently heard of a family where the grandmother (the mother’s mother) really did not like the father for some reason. She cursed him with very specific terms: he would have severe intestinal problems, would lose his job, would become homeless, and several other things I don’t remember.
Well, all came to pass exactly as she had said, even though the family didn’t really believe it at first.
Eventually they reconciled, and then everything started going well for him. He got a new job, became quite wealthy, etc.
That’s a curse in the truest meaning of the word. But I wanted to point out that even minor negative barbs towards someone else can be considered a curse as well. It’s made of the same essence, just on a smaller scale. Your teacher example is a great one.
Now I want to address two things: (1) free will, and (2) can we influence someone beyond what they would get anyway? And I want to do it without making this comment a blog post in itself. ????
Yes, we have free will. But think of it, things are influencing us all the time. If you’re tired, hungry, thirsty, etc, it’s often harder to make rational decisions using your free will, just as an example. If someone has clinical depression, it’s harder to find a high vibration using their free will. That’s just reality.
So of course we’re free, but we’re also heavily influenced. Beyond that, there are aspects like astrology, the phases of the Moon, and other things besides.
Now the more important question: can we influence others beyond what they would have attracted with the law of attraction?
I don’t agree with your sentiment that if we hadn’t cursed them, they would have attracted some other equally negative event to themselves. That’s not my experience.
In the case of the grandmother I mentioned above, I don’t believe the father would have attracted all those things on his own. I do believe that her curse clung on to the negativity present in his energy field, and influenced him to resonate to more and more negativity.
Now the important part is that he did have free will. He could have chosen to raise his vibration, despite the influence, and he’d be free of the curse, because it would have nothing to cling to.
But, how many deliberate creators are really out there? Even in the LOA community, most people are very much novices at this, and still let reality push them around, let alone powerful magic sent by another.
Most people, though technically having free will, allow themselves to be products of their environment. They give up their free will, simply reacting to life. These are the people most susceptible to magical influence.
I also think we can help someone as you mentioned, given powerful positive magical influence, given they are at least a little resonant with that positivity.
The gods can also, in my experience, influence us to the positive beyond what we’d normally attract with the LOA. But, again, we have to be at least partially resonant with that positive influence for it to work.
I know this goes against a lot of common LOA doctrine, but it’s been absolutely true in my experience. This doesn’t take away your ability to manifest: you simply have to be aware and even vigilant of your own vibration. It can be influenced by anything from a negative relative or coworker, to something you read online, to negative energy sent to you by others. Keep in a positive vibration most of the time, and use your free will to be a creator, not a reactor, and you’ll be fine. 🙂
Hopefully the above makes sense. I apologize for the length.
Thank you for answering in length. It is a very interesting topic to me. Thank you!
This is very interesting! I’m thinking about sending someone who is usually kind of nervous high vibration of love and peace tomorrow while running, and also the same a bit later, and then I’ll go to college. I wonder if his behavior will change. 😀 (P.S. it’s just a colleague I’m talking about)
Brandon, do you think this can significantly improve one’s behavior and self-confidence temporarily, provided that they are a match to it? I would love it if I could help someone like that. 😉
Yes, I definitely think it can help. 🙂 It’s a great idea. And the great thing is that since you have to be at a high vibration to do this, it will return back to you as well.
I’m glad to hear that! 🙂 Thank you~
Brandon,
I have often used my ability to visualize to create change in other people – specifically to get rid of their aches and pains. But they really don’t like it. What do you make of this? Thanks.
I think what happens is that people SAY they want to feel better but they use their aches and pains only to get attention. So if you get rid of their pain, it’s not seen as a good thing but a bad thing because then they can’t get attention.
That’s definitely possible, though I’ve never had that happen personally. But if you know a particular person doesn’t like it, then I wouldn’t do it for that person.
You do healing?
Yes, I do. Largely reluctantly, because the gift came on despite my resistance to it. I really don’t do it often, besides for Christine, but she tries to convince me to.
Brandon,
I have often used my ability to visualize to create change in other people – specifically to get rid of their aches and pains. But they really don’t like it. What do you make of this? Thanks.
I think what happens is that people SAY they want to feel better but they use their aches and pains only to get attention. So if you get rid of their pain, it’s not seen as a good thing but a bad thing because then they can’t get attention.
That’s definitely possible, though I’ve never had that happen personally. But if you know a particular person doesn’t like it, then I wouldn’t do it for that person.
You do healing?
Yes, I do. Largely reluctantly, because the gift came on despite my resistance to it. I really don’t do it often, besides for Christine, but she tries to convince me to.
Wow, this was an awesome post!
“If you think about financial abundance, or about loving relationships, or fulfilling jobs, but then your words are all about the lack of those things, or you demonstrate their lack with your actions, your mind is going to be impressed more by the external words and actions than the internal thoughts.” Well, this is where most people are at and how their reality is created.
Personally I will stop watching the TV show Two Broke Girls. I always thought it was not so good, since they make being poor funny and sort of glamorize it, but it does not resonate with me so bye-bye. My husband can continue watching it for laughs.
Oh my, the curse topic is something. I feel bad for innocent children who are verbally abused by parents. I think I mentioned before that how you speak to water alters its molecular structure, from distortion of the molecules when speaking bad things to beautiful structure when speaking lovingly. The latter also helps you heal your body when you drink it. That is how some monks remained alive when imprisoned in the middle ages when given dirty water and moldy bread. It is not the child’s fault, but the parent’s problem. Why can’t they just deal with their own problems? Rhetorical question. But you are right, whatever they spew, if it has nothing to latch onto, then you are free. I keep thinking of the opposite, though, they are in such a bad state of fear, anguish, mental distortion and lack of clarity that they say these things. It is coming from a bad state within, otherwise, they would be be that way, you know? So, it is a reflection of where they themselves are and really has nothing to do with you most of the time, that is why you should let it go. Good reminder for everyone.
As Magi, we need to see ourselves in a better, higher light, hey, even emitting light and be beacons of light, wherever we go and in whatever we do. This is reality creation. I know because the Universe has been sending me signs all week, upon request!
Hey Kat,
Great points. Thank you for your comment.
Yes, it is how most people are, unfortunately. I agree about not watching certain shows or movies that might resonate more with poverty. A while ago, I stopped reading a certain website, because they were so cynical, and it was really bringing me down. You have to manage your own vibration.
I think you’d like our conversation about responsibility towards the end of last night’s support call. I agree with what you say, that we need to go around and send light. That’s our job, especially as we become more powerful.
Brandon,
Can you do a blog post on why people hold onto negativity please?
It causes such pain, and yet we cling to it. What on earth is that about??? It doesn’t even make sense. There must be a hidden payoff for all the suffering. It’s like putting your hand on a naked flame, knowing that it hurts like hell and is doing great damage, but resolving never to move the hand away. And the resolve is intense.
Sure, I think that’d be interesting.
But in short, I think it’s because people are convinced that there is value in suffering. Not sure why we picked up that warped idea, but we did somehow.
Brandon,
Can you also do a post on miracles? Like, what they really are and how we can bring more of them into our life? People think you only get one per lifetime, but that’s one of the most limiting beliefs I’ve heard.
That’d be an interesting one. A bit hard for me, perhaps, because I really just see miracles as everyday occurrences. I don’t mean that improbable things happen all the time, though that certainly does happen. I just mean that I see magic as an inherent part of the world around us, and we can’t separate any event from that magic. So, by definition, everything is a miracle.
But I’ll give it some thought and perhaps can write a post about it. 🙂
Wow, this was an awesome post!
“If you think about financial abundance, or about loving relationships, or fulfilling jobs, but then your words are all about the lack of those things, or you demonstrate their lack with your actions, your mind is going to be impressed more by the external words and actions than the internal thoughts.” Well, this is where most people are at and how their reality is created.
Personally I will stop watching the TV show Two Broke Girls. I always thought it was not so good, since they make being poor funny and sort of glamorize it, but it does not resonate with me so bye-bye. My husband can continue watching it for laughs.
Oh my, the curse topic is something. I feel bad for innocent children who are verbally abused by parents. I think I mentioned before that how you speak to water alters its molecular structure, from distortion of the molecules when speaking bad things to beautiful structure when speaking lovingly. The latter also helps you heal your body when you drink it. That is how some monks remained alive when imprisoned in the middle ages when given dirty water and moldy bread. It is not the child’s fault, but the parent’s problem. Why can’t they just deal with their own problems? Rhetorical question. But you are right, whatever they spew, if it has nothing to latch onto, then you are free. I keep thinking of the opposite, though, they are in such a bad state of fear, anguish, mental distortion and lack of clarity that they say these things. It is coming from a bad state within, otherwise, they would be be that way, you know? So, it is a reflection of where they themselves are and really has nothing to do with you most of the time, that is why you should let it go. Good reminder for everyone.
As Magi, we need to see ourselves in a better, higher light, hey, even emitting light and be beacons of light, wherever we go and in whatever we do. This is reality creation. I know because the Universe has been sending me signs all week, upon request!
Hey Kat,
Great points. Thank you for your comment.
Yes, it is how most people are, unfortunately. I agree about not watching certain shows or movies that might resonate more with poverty. A while ago, I stopped reading a certain website, because they were so cynical, and it was really bringing me down. You have to manage your own vibration.
I think you’d like our conversation about responsibility towards the end of last night’s support call. I agree with what you say, that we need to go around and send light. That’s our job, especially as we become more powerful.
Brandon,
Can you do a blog post on why people hold onto negativity please?
It causes such pain, and yet we cling to it. What on earth is that about??? It doesn’t even make sense. There must be a hidden payoff for all the suffering. It’s like putting your hand on a naked flame, knowing that it hurts like hell and is doing great damage, but resolving never to move the hand away. And the resolve is intense.
Sure, I think that’d be interesting.
But in short, I think it’s because people are convinced that there is value in suffering. Not sure why we picked up that warped idea, but we did somehow.
Brandon,
Can you also do a post on miracles? Like, what they really are and how we can bring more of them into our life? People think you only get one per lifetime, but that’s one of the most limiting beliefs I’ve heard.
That’d be an interesting one. A bit hard for me, perhaps, because I really just see miracles as everyday occurrences. I don’t mean that improbable things happen all the time, though that certainly does happen. I just mean that I see magic as an inherent part of the world around us, and we can’t separate any event from that magic. So, by definition, everything is a miracle.
But I’ll give it some thought and perhaps can write a post about it. 🙂
Brandon, I am interested in how you would comment Edison’s words, “Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration”. I assume that most people would interpret that as working hard most of the time, and an idea that represents that 1% will flash at some point thanks to that hard work.
To expand on this, I’m interested in your take on creativity, talents and skills.
Hi Z,
Well, I would indeed disagree with the common interpretation of it.
However, if we interpret “perspiration” as persistently holding the idea of that vision, even if it really triggers your resistance, then yes.
Inspiration is great. But you do have to have the persistence to carry it out. When I say carry it out, I mean mostly on the mental level. Of course the physical actions will come, but they have to be backed by the alignment with that inspiration.
I think to us on the outside, it can look like hard work when someone is achieving their life’s dream. But to them, it’s most definitely not hard work. I’m not a believer in hard work. I’m a believer in following your inspiration, but also holding on to that vision.
However, again, in my view, holding on to a vision is not easy. If it were, it wouldn’t really be a vision, because you’d already be there. The more inspiring the vision, the harder it will often be to align with it. There are some goals I have set which have really tested me. It wasn’t a physical thing, though, it was a mental/emotional thing. It really tested my resolve, my ability to work through resistance, etc.
I see, thanks. I agree that holding on to a vision is not easy. lol
These days holding the vision of what I want has been challenging for me. Setting a goal and setting off isn’t so hard, because there’s that initial zeal and determination. However, the time factor influences the initial energy, and it gets tougher. I guess that’s because we humans like seeing results fast, so when after a week or two the reality isn’t even near to being the way we’d like it to, then it’s so easy to get discouraged. Reading your blog posts like the one on letting go helps. I keep shifting from a mode where I wonder why do I have to go through all this simply to get what I want, especially since I haven’t had it for years, to a mode where I feel how exciting it is to watch my life shift from a very low state to a very high, and exciting state.
Oh well, I think that I’m doing okay nevertheless, and I’ll keep at it! It’s definitely easier to go through all this armed with the knowledge and support from your blog posts and replies, so thank you for that. 🙂
Hi Z,
As long as you hold that vision, you will get there. It’s easiest if you let go of the resistance, but eventually you will get there. There are many people who gave up on their vision, and so it gave up on them.
I’m very happy to help in any way I can. 🙂
Wow, yeah, when reading about visions, Anne if Green Gabkes comes to mind. If you are not familiar with the story it’s about an orphan who spreads good vibes while speaking her mind. But it’s also a love story. In the end, the guy got the girl and he even said he held on to that vision, even when it seemed like nothing would become of it, yet decades later it manifested.
Overnight I realized why people resist change. They have a negative thought pattern and someone suggests changing it. They think “I can’t possibly change who I am. I am personality x – that’s me, x. I can’t reject myself”.
But we CAN decide to totally reject ourselves and it’s ok. Reject the shit self and find a good self. Just change out the old and substitute in the new.
I’ll have to disagree with you there. I mean I’m sure this is the motive of some, but it’s not been my experience with the clients I’ve worked with.
Largely there are two motives: (1) a fear of change, and (2) the belief that the outside is more important than the inside. “If I just take these actions, it’ll work out,” goes the thinking, but it’s not true.
And also a third motive: the belief that suffering is virtuous. It’s in all the religious scriptures, so you really can’t blame people. Look at the New Testament of the Bible. It’s full of declarations that suffering is necessary, that the good and righteous will be persecuted, etc. So it runs very deep.
I can’t remember what we do about fear. Do you have a post on this in the archives please Brandon?
Hi CJ,
Fear is just like any other resistance. You do your best to stop reacting to it. You become mindful of it, accept it, and let it go.
Brandon, I am interested in how you would comment Edison’s words, “Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration”. I assume that most people would interpret that as working hard most of the time, and an idea that represents that 1% will flash at some point thanks to that hard work.
To expand on this, I’m interested in your take on creativity, talents and skills.
Hi Z,
Well, I would indeed disagree with the common interpretation of it.
However, if we interpret “perspiration” as persistently holding the idea of that vision, even if it really triggers your resistance, then yes.
Inspiration is great. But you do have to have the persistence to carry it out. When I say carry it out, I mean mostly on the mental level. Of course the physical actions will come, but they have to be backed by the alignment with that inspiration.
I think to us on the outside, it can look like hard work when someone is achieving their life’s dream. But to them, it’s most definitely not hard work. I’m not a believer in hard work. I’m a believer in following your inspiration, but also holding on to that vision.
However, again, in my view, holding on to a vision is not easy. If it were, it wouldn’t really be a vision, because you’d already be there. The more inspiring the vision, the harder it will often be to align with it. There are some goals I have set which have really tested me. It wasn’t a physical thing, though, it was a mental/emotional thing. It really tested my resolve, my ability to work through resistance, etc.
I see, thanks. I agree that holding on to a vision is not easy. lol
These days holding the vision of what I want has been challenging for me. Setting a goal and setting off isn’t so hard, because there’s that initial zeal and determination. However, the time factor influences the initial energy, and it gets tougher. I guess that’s because we humans like seeing results fast, so when after a week or two the reality isn’t even near to being the way we’d like it to, then it’s so easy to get discouraged. Reading your blog posts like the one on letting go helps. I keep shifting from a mode where I wonder why do I have to go through all this simply to get what I want, especially since I haven’t had it for years, to a mode where I feel how exciting it is to watch my life shift from a very low state to a very high, and exciting state.
Oh well, I think that I’m doing okay nevertheless, and I’ll keep at it! It’s definitely easier to go through all this armed with the knowledge and support from your blog posts and replies, so thank you for that. 🙂
Hi Z,
As long as you hold that vision, you will get there. It’s easiest if you let go of the resistance, but eventually you will get there. There are many people who gave up on their vision, and so it gave up on them.
I’m very happy to help in any way I can. 🙂
Wow, yeah, when reading about visions, Anne if Green Gabkes comes to mind. If you are not familiar with the story it’s about an orphan who spreads good vibes while speaking her mind. But it’s also a love story. In the end, the guy got the girl and he even said he held on to that vision, even when it seemed like nothing would become of it, yet decades later it manifested.
Overnight I realized why people resist change. They have a negative thought pattern and someone suggests changing it. They think “I can’t possibly change who I am. I am personality x – that’s me, x. I can’t reject myself”.
But we CAN decide to totally reject ourselves and it’s ok. Reject the shit self and find a good self. Just change out the old and substitute in the new.
I’ll have to disagree with you there. I mean I’m sure this is the motive of some, but it’s not been my experience with the clients I’ve worked with.
Largely there are two motives: (1) a fear of change, and (2) the belief that the outside is more important than the inside. “If I just take these actions, it’ll work out,” goes the thinking, but it’s not true.
And also a third motive: the belief that suffering is virtuous. It’s in all the religious scriptures, so you really can’t blame people. Look at the New Testament of the Bible. It’s full of declarations that suffering is necessary, that the good and righteous will be persecuted, etc. So it runs very deep.
I can’t remember what we do about fear. Do you have a post on this in the archives please Brandon?
Hi CJ,
Fear is just like any other resistance. You do your best to stop reacting to it. You become mindful of it, accept it, and let it go.