What's the quickest way to let the universe know what you want?

It's not visualization!

The fastest way to tell the universe and the deeper aspects of your mind what you want in life, is to take action. A gentleman who held a 10th degree black belt in Karate once told me "Visualization is an excellent way to enhance and refine skill in the martial arts, but it's useless without hands-on practice!" This is true in all aspects of life.

Almost everybody has heard of the law of attraction at this point (not much of a 'secret' anymore). A quick look around, though, reveals that the planet isn't quite 'utopia', yet. Clearly there is something missing from the standard formula. Typically, gratitude and visualization are the primary techniques taught as the law of attraction. Understanding the concept of feedback is an important addition to this.

One of the many challenges in bringing the Law of Attraction into effect in your life is determining what you really want. You have to be able to focus on a clear goal (or set of goals). It is okay to start out a little bit vague, but you want to get as specific as possible as quickly as possible. You are looking for an ever clearer picture of your desired outcome.

Metaphysics, Meditation, and spiritual matters in general tend to be plagued by sloppy thinking. While we do want to be open to new possibilities (this is at the core of properly applied science), we want to have a structured approach to our practice, whatever it may be.

What follows is the modified scientific method for the study of the self.

The universe doesn't always just give you everything you want when you make pretty pictures in your head and say "thank you!" You, like most people, have probably already realized this. If it were this easy, we would all be millionaires. In fact, there would be so many millionaires, that being poor would become 'cool'... i.e. "Oh really, you're a millionaire? Yeah, I know lots of millionaires, but I decided to be poor.

What do sales, hypnosis, and meditation all have in common? Yes. All three involve internal acceptance, or saying "Yes." We have to soften ourselves for any of these to happen. We have to relax the mind-body. We have to accept.

In sales, obviously, a customer must say "yes" in order to make a purchase, but more important than the external yes, is the internal yes.

What is the difference between meditation and self-hypnosis? The short answer is, "There isn't necessarily any difference." Both take us out of our day-to-day consciousness. Both have the power to open our eyes and to create very powerful experiences and changes. Having said that, let me share some common perceptions and attitudes that typically accompany these two methodologies, and I'll also suggest a method for integrating the two.

I teach a variety of different skill-sets from a variety of traditions. The goal of the whole thing, however, is liberation... freedom. Currently, most of the people in the world are slaves to their programming... neurological slaves. Whatever patterns are in their nervous system, are basically who they are. Most of us have no idea what patterns we are living out.

Yoga has become an interesting fitness trend in America. Incidentally, Yoga can be an excellent way to get in shape, lose weight, etc. If this is all you do with Yoga, though, you are missing quite a bit.

Yoga is another method of contacting and expressing the self through the body. If you pay attention, going through these exercises will give you a chance to become more familiar with your body.

There is a line we have to walk between 'not prepared' and 'over prepared'. In actuality, it is very difficult to be 'over prepared', but people commonly use more preparation as an excuse to delay the actual event. Over preparation is a form of procrastination!
But how much preparation is enough? This depends on the situation. Usually it is preferable to learn just the minimum necessary to perform the skill marginally well; then it is time to get into real-world application.