The Boomerang Effect – Why You Don’t Always Get What You Want – Part 2 of 3

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The Boomerang Effect – Part 2

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In the previous post we considered ‘throwing a boomerang’ as a metaphor for using your thoughts to affect your experience of life.  The lesson was to align with the prevailing winds before attempting any throw.

So now you’re aligned with the winds of your life, and you have a very clear picture of what you want to achieve, let’s go back to learning how to throw a boomerang.

Again, if you’ve never thrown one, you’d be surprised at how difficult it can be.  How a race of people, described as one of, if not THE oldest cultures in the world, who have roamed across Australia for the past 60,000 years, figured out the aerodynamics of a wing, is amazing and credit to them!

The reality is, if you know how to throw one, it will come back to you!

There are two aspects, of the actual throwing of the weapon, to learn.  One is technique and the other is the design of the tool itself.  You must practice the physical throwing of the boomerang, but you must also understand how it is crafted.

Transition this back to your thoughts and intentions, and using them to assist you in your life, you will find it’s the exact same thing…

Yes, you must know the technique for throwing your thoughts and intentions out there, but they must be well crafted before they leave your mind!  So what is a well crafted thought?

The answer is in the previous post.  To craft a thought worth throwing, it must align with who you are and what you want to become.  Once you’ve conducted a serious self analysis, these well crafted thoughts should result.

Step Two – Technique

Now we get to the technique required to make a boomerang come back to you. 

If you handed a real boomerang to the average non-Australian, and asked them to throw it without any instruction, they usually try to throw it one of two ways:

1. They hold it backwards and flick it like a Frisbee.
2. They hold it correctly and throw it fine, but they don’t have the finesse of the wrist and arm to create the required spin and arc for it to return.

Again, bringing the metaphor back to using thoughts and intention to affect your life, most people have two main challenges:

1. They simply don’t believe this stuff works because consciousness cannot exist outside the skull.
2. They do believe consciousness is real, but they just don’t understand how to access their individual ability properly, so they stumble in their attempts.

A very simple technique I utilize is Repetition.

Many schools of thought believe it is appropriate, when attempting to have an effect on your experience of life with your mind, to create a very physical and emotional image, including any sounds, smells, emotional feelings, etc, and focus on it intently for a period of time.  You’re then instructed to ‘release’ that thought to the universe and let whatever happens happen.

This has never worked for me….

What has worked for me is a repetitive and continuous focus on the outcome I want to achieve.  Spending the past two years, researching and writing the book I’m about to publish, has only succeeded because once the idea was conceived, something bigger than myself took control and is working the magic for me daily.

The second lesson is: look within yourself (align with the wind), craft your thoughts, and practice throwing them as many times a day as you can. 

Practice and Patience

My experience with this technique is working for me, but it has taken years of practice.  Do not judge your ability to throw a boomerang after the first 100 throws, for you will fail 100 times.  After 1000 throws you might achieve a single return…that’s when the realization will kick in and motivate you to throw 1000 more times!

If you understand the metaphor, you will also understand the patience required to learn how to affect your experience of life with your intentions.  You will try 100 times and you’ll fail 100 times, but after 1000 attempts, you will notice something amazing start to happen.

So get out there and start throwing!!!

In Part 3 we’ll consider the most difficult part….catching the boomerang.

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