“To be upset over what you don’t have, is to waste what you do have.” ~Ken Keyes JR
What do you prefer? A Complaint or a Compliment?
Even though most of you know which one is better, you would most likely go with the former, because this is how you have been programmed since your childhood. In your schools, the teachers would generously pin point your weaknesses rather than appreciating what is good (how big or little that was) about you. At home, your parents would be more than happy to highlight your mistakes rather than giving a pat for your achievements.
Everywhere you went and everyone you met, encouraged you to fix your weaknesses instead of looking at your strengths and motivating you to do even better. Due to an ever-growing, complaining environment around you at school, home, peers, and later at work, you conditioned yourselves to focus on what is wrong instead of appreciating what’s right.
And then comes a tornado of never ending complaints about the government, infrastructure, traffic, hiked prices, bosses, colleagues, spouses, neighbours, health issues, weather and the list goes on and on.
Now that you are aware of Law of Attraction and its first principle of “Like attracts Like”, it keeps bringing forth more instances where you can complain more as LOA is very faithful and always in action.
So, using this universal principle of LOA, what if you start converting all those complaints into compliments. Will LOA still bring forth the instances where you can compliment more and receive more appreciation yourself?
YES!!! YES!!!! YES!!!!
Without fail. No tricks. No cheating.
I can promise you that you will attract unlimited instances where you will give and receive ONLY compliments and there will be no place for complaints. Start by complimenting your parents, your spouse, your kids, your neighbour, the security guard of the building, your office boy, secretary, boss, teachers, colleagues, the guy at the coffee shop, the waiters, the drivers and all those people who serve you tirelessly and whom you are happy to ignore.
This is fourth step we need to follow to make LOA work in our favour.
Not that its harmful to look at one’s weaknesses, but it is equally important for everyone to know what they are appreciated for.
Who doesn’t love compliments? Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It has a power to lift your mood instantly. A few kind words having a huge effect on the receiver!!! Not Bad at all. Flattering, praising, admiring someone will bring more of it to yourself too and put you in a high vibration mode where you can manifest whatever you desire.
And what do complaints do? They spoil your mood. Makes you grouchy, irritable, snappy. Surely not a good place to be in if you are trying to practise LOA and awaiting the manifestation of your desires
A Complaint Free World – book by Reverend Will Bowen is based on this very principle written with a hope of having a world which is free of complaints and full of appreciation.
When we choose to stop the negative commentary, even about the daily list of frustrations we all encounter, and instead find and be grateful for the gift in every situation, it changes our inner dialogue, our outlook, and our stress levels.
It’s a chain reaction of good, better, and best.
You start appreciating every situation, every person around you including YOURSELF. You replace your worries, fears and doubts to gratitude and praise. You now have better ability to cope with everyday stress. You have a stronger immune system. You have an increased feeling of connectedness with Self, Surroundings, and the Source. This results in better health, improved relationships, less or no stress and happiness galore.
Isn’t that what we are looking for in our daily lives.
So next time when you have the choice to express appreciation or complain, try to remember that the LOA is in action and will always bring forth that you focus on. What will you choose?
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