Visualize in your mind that you are driving down a road. Traffic is not light, but moving freely at the speed limit. Ahead is an intersection with a traffic light. The light is green, but as you approach, it turns yellow for a brief moment, then quickly to red. Traffic stops, and you with it. You sit and wait until the light turns green, and traffic begins to move again, and you along with it.

This simple and familiar routine that drivers experience everyday is a perfect metaphor for "this stuff", the Law of Attraction, a belief that your thoughts become things and like thoughts attract like experiences.

 

If you imagine your "Want" thoughts are the green light, then when you are thinking those thoughts, you are able to move freely and closer to your destination, the ideal. Green means Go.

But what happens is that we have this tendency to slow things down with the same tool– our thoughts. When we begin to think thoughts that are unclear, unsure, doubtful, or that dangerous place of "whatever", they become the yellow light, and progress towards what we want slows down. Yellow means Slow. We are also warned of an impending red light, as we've observed that a yellow light doesn't last long before becoming red.

When we begin to think Don't Want thoughts, the light changes to Red, and you MUST stop. Red means No. Your progress towards what you want is halted, because you do not see the green light (your want thoughts).

 

You sit, and wait.

Red light (don't want)

Red light (don't want.

Maybe you grow irritated (more red light)

Impatient (more red light)

Angry (more red light)

When nothing happens at this red light, you begin to feel hopeless (red light). 

 

You might even do something dangerous and drastic, like run the red light (proceeding towards your destination with "don't want" thoughts in mind). This a violation which can immediately cause more problems for you.

 

The great news is that red lights don't remain red forever. And while on the actual road, you don't have control over the timing of traffic lights, you do have complete control over the metaphorical traffic signal of your focused thoughts. More good news is that from Red light (don't want) you are able to go IMMEDIATELY back to Green, quickly and safely, by shifting your thoughts back to the want. As soon as you do, things get moving again, and you can continue on the journey towards destination Ideal. Assuming you don't keep catching the red lights.

 

Take a moment each day and focus on a picture of a traffic light (or, when it's safe to do so, take a look at a real one.) Imagine that your traffic light is always green.

 

Print a color picture of 3 traffic lights, in each color. On the green light, write WANT/GO. On the yellow light, write SLOW. On the red light, write DON'T WANT/STOP/NO. Post these images where you can see them and use them to remind yourself of the way "this stuff works". Whenever you see them, assess the condition of your thoughts in that moment. Are you focused on wants, and coasting through green lights? Is that yellow light of fear, worry, anger, envy, or "whatever" slowing you down? Or, are you sitting at a red light with your "don't want" thoughts?

 

By using this visual, you will become more aware of your thoughts, and grow inspired to keep your light green at all costs, meaning, to keep your focus on the want. If you do this, nothing can bar you from moving towards your desires freely. Nothing, of course, but you.

 

KishaLynn Elliott

1/26/2010