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When a beggar settles on the sidewalk, you will always find a bowl, a hat or some other container in front of him. That is so that people can make their donations, impersonally, without having to do it hand in hand. This bowl creates an emotional distance between the person giving and the person receiving.
Beggars tend to be passive, sitting on the side of the road, waiting for you to notice them, waiting for your impromptu sympathy, waiting for you to give them whatever you decide is appropriate. Waiting for life to happen to them.
Beggars, on the other hand, are a different breed because they are more proactive and show more initiative. They specialize in getting up close and personal. Direct action, without waiting. They look you in the eye while they tell you their sad story, arouse your sympathy and ask for your money. And they accept your help directly from your hand directly to theirs…no beggar’s bowl or tin cup for them. The beggars, if they are good, will make a lot more money than the beggars, although technically they are both beggars.
In the eighties or so, I remember reading about a man, Omar, who gave seminars for beggars. His star student was a young woman in her early twenties. She was small, she looked about 14 years old and she walked through airports. Her specialty was approaching older couples and convincing them that she had run away from home and she only needed $50 or $100 to get back home to her parents. Most people have good hearts, and the girl made six figures a year just begging.
So what is my point here?
Just this: begging is exactly like any other method of getting through life. There are those who prefer to wait passively, and there are those who go out and ask directly for what they want. The difference in effectiveness between these two approaches is huge.
If you have a more conventional mindset, you’ve probably chosen something other than begging (or panhandling). You probably have a job or run a business, but the same differences apply. Those who wait for “something to happen” get to keep the leftovers, while people who “go out and beg” always end up with the lion’s share of the goodies.
And that brings us to the Law of Attraction.
A friend once criticized, “The Attraction thing is just begging in disguise. Instead of sitting with a bowl on the sidewalk, you sit in front of the Universe and expect them to hand you something for free.” something you didn’t work for, didn’t win and don’t deserve.”
Well, my friend totally misunderstood what Attraction work is all about. It’s not begging, and it’s not begging either, but he’s right about one thing. A begging attitude is absolutely the wrong approach.
I remember hearing prayers offered by adults when I was young, learning very early that asking a higher power for help should always take the form of supplication.
- Please give me _____
- please stop _____
- Please help me stop _____
- Please don’t let _____ do _____
Sometimes we offered some kind of exchange. “If _______, then never again (or always) _______.”
All this begging and bartering reveals a total misunderstanding of what the work of Attraction (or prayer) is.
The misconception is that the power to change events and conditions is “out there” somewhere. It is not. That power is intrinsic within ourselves. It is ours to command.
Not ours to beg, but to command.
Haven’t we heard over and over again that what we want already exists (in the quantum realm of potential)? Or that our prayers are answered even before we ask? Well, either we accept it or we don’t accept it. And if we do, then we already know that all it takes to make what we want in our lives come true is to focus on it vividly and persistently, without hesitation or worry. And begging is the worst way to do it.
The truth is that we own everything we imagine. We are the owners of everything we want, right now, even before it exists. When he was a child and hungry, did he go to the refrigerator and stare longingly at it, hoping someone would see his distress and give him something? Or did you just walk over, open the door and take out what you wanted to eat?
That food was yours and you had every right to serve yourself.
Naturally, he was expected to use good judgment in the types and amounts of food he ate, but it was his.
Similarly, all the abundance of the quantum realm is also yours. It is yours to name and take.
In fact, a good way to lose that “begging” mentality is to always think of your Attraction work as “accepting” what already exists in potential form, accepting what is already yours.
So the next time you do Law of Attraction work, clearly and vividly describe what you want, then know that it already exists, already has your name on it, and is ready for you to simply accept it (which is what brings you from it). quantum realm into the “physical” realm.
That attitude of accepting what already exists gives you much more power and control than putting out a begging bowl.