When teaching a new abstract concept, analogies can often help. One of our favorite analogies comes from Jesus about our power to create. One only needs faith the size of a mustard seed.
The lifecycle of a thought
Our thoughts come and go, but Abraham teaches us that every thought that has ever been thought continues to exist. From there, the law of attraction continues to grow each individual thought into a collective of matching… things.
“A thought is an event.”
Seth
If we think a thought and realize it serves us well, we can continue to think it. Over more than a few moments, as we hold that thought in our minds, we become a part of the process where the law of attraction grows the thought. The process is accelerated, and we can continue to refine the idea. We can come along for the ride as the thought evolves, and in fact, we get to steer.
Of course, this works equally well for thoughts that don’t serve us. This is the act of worrying in the context of the law of attraction.
As we continue to focus on a thought, it grows. Lots of words can describe its trajectory, but it’s a little difficult to order them since people mean subtly different things by each word. The post about budgets provides an example of how this might proceed.
- Fleeting thought
- Concept
- Attitude
- Faith
- Belief
- Knowledge
Seeds as our power to create
Jesus taught many people, but none of them had seen The Matrix. None of his followers were software engineers or high-energy physicists. There were farmers and fishermen, and that’s what makes this analogy so brilliant. It’s accessible to all walks of life, and it has survived over two millennia and god knows how many translations.
Jesus taught us that our thoughts are seeds. They’re seeds to be cultivated (if that’s what we want) and later harvested. Our thoughts need to be cultivated at least to the point where they’re large enough to be barely considered faith, faith the size of a mustard seed. From there, as long as your involvement is not contradicted by some other sloppy thought, it’ll continue to grow and attract on its own with you in tow.
“You reap what you sow”
Proverb
Seth occasionally used the analogy because people give up and think contradictory thoughts before they see the sprout poke out of the soil. He’s reassuring us that roots are taking hold even while it’s premature to see evidence in the physical world.
Abraham talks about holding a focused thought for at least 17 seconds. According to them, it takes only 17 seconds of pure uncontradicted thought to reach mustard seed level of critical mass.
Miscreating is only as temporary as you want it to be
Spend enough time worrying, and you’ll attract the very circumstances you’re pushing against. Some might even call that, “spilling your seed.” In every case, you reap what you sow.
At any time, you can recognize those thoughts don’t serve you anymore, and you can stop cultivating them. Instead, allow the experience to better inspire what you do want, and focus on that.
As you spend more time paying attention to what you do want, you’ll become inharmonious to what you have been getting. The previous undesirable outcomes will make their way out of your experience to be replaced with things matching your new vibration.
It’s okay to make mistakes, and it’s okay to change our minds. None of us know where we’re going, and none of us are locked into anything forever.
