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I want to continue my conversation about synchronicity. What I mean by synchronicity is that uncanny way the world has of responding to your desires, interests, and deeds.

 

Let me give you a for instance.

Before I started this blog, I wrote an ebook about how to quit smoking. I’ve talked about the idea for this book and writing it, here, already. So, I won’t repeat myself. Suffice it to say that once I got the book finished, I had no idea how to go about selling it.
I listed it on eBay for a seven day period, and it didn’t sell. That didn’t surprise me, since I suspect most eBayers aren’t looking for self-help ebooks. When it didn’t sell, however, I knew that I needed to step back from the whole thing and come up with a way to market it.
I know quite a lot about selling, having been a successful salesman before I took some time off then went back to work teaching mathematics. My weakness, however, is marketing.
Now, the big picture of marketing is easy. Get the word out and they will come. Well, the devil is in the details. Getting the word out is a matter of managing a host of details (and if you’re selling online, technologies).
I didn’t want to just blow a bunch of money on AdSense, or CPM ads. I do want to sell the book, but I would rather do this with a sort of grassroots type campaign. More of a bootstrapping effort where the advertising budget grows with sales.
So, I was stymied.
As usual when I need to figure out something, I go to the local Borders. I am an inveterate reader, and I’m sure that any and all problems can be solved by finding the right book.
As usually happens, I ran across the right book within ten minutes of being in the store.

This time, the book I ran into was Joe Vitale’s, The Attraction Factor.

Basically, Joe is a proponent of The Law of Attraction, that is, you attract into your life what you give energy to through thought. His book outlines a five-step process that you can use to implement this law.

Hoping to break my log jam, I began Joe’s five-step process. At about the same time, I got my new blog (this one) up and running. Of course, everything takes a lot more time than it seems like it should. I thought: “Oh, I’ll get the blog going this weekend, monetize it next weekend, and retire to the Bahamas the following weekend.”

It hasn’t quite worked out this way.

Oh, it’s moving in that general direction, just not nearly as fast as I would have hoped.

I needed to become more “unstuck.”

Enter reiki.

The mother of a friend emailed me out of the blue and said that she could attune me to level one reiki.

I had heard of reiki; I had never heard of attunement; and I wondered if this was all a bunch of hooey.

But I’m game! I’ll try anything that might help me.

So, I said she could do whatever it was she does.

A few days later, she emailed me and said that I could accept the attunement. She sent a series of instructions on how to do this.

Well, the next day when I had twenty or so quiet minutes, I read the instructions and “accepted” the attunement.

At first nothing happened, and I thought: “Oh well, this is just another one of those empty promises.”

Then my legs started feeling very tingly. It was like they were vibrating inside. The vibration crawled up my legs to encompass my whole body. I sat in my chair for a good twenty to thirty minutes feeling very nervous and alive, almost as if I had an electric current flowing through me.

I’m not making this up! I don’t make stuff up like this!

The feeling didn’t quite go away, but stayed with me for half of the rest of the day.

At level one, there are a series of hand excercises I do to myself in order to create more of this energy and heal myself. I’ve done these every day for the past week.

Has this translated itself into unlocking my dilemma about my book? No, it hasn’t. But what has happened, day before yesterday, is that I got a much clearer idea of what I want this blog to be like.

If you read my last post, and the one before that, you’ll see how this realization just came to me out of the blue.

Yes, we have problems to solve, but sometimes we try to solve the wrong problem. Without the flexibility to understand that although the problem I wanted solved is still with me, I would not have achieved much more clarity about what might be for me a much bigger problem.

Apparently, God, or the Universe, or whatever you want to call it, knows more about me than I do.

Which is as it should be!

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