Law of Attraction teaches: “You get what you think about.” Sounds simple enough, but how aware are you of what you really think? For most of us, thoughts follow the same deep ruts day after day, and we rarely stop to question them.

Until we notice our thoughts we can’t change them. What now?

Emmet Fox to the rescue (again). Fox was a minister of Divine Science in the first half of the 20th century. Before Abraham-Hicks and way before “The Secret,” New Thought was the leading edge of “you create your own reality” thinking.

In an essay called “The Mixing Bowl” Fox writes: “When you make a cake, you know that whatever you put into the mixing bowl will appear in the cake itself and, on the other hand, that unless a particular substance does go into the mixing bowl, it cannot appear in the finished article.”

That’s pretty duh when you think about cakes. But I invite you to consider that the same principle is at work when we create our reality from our thoughts. Says Fox: “The thoughts and beliefs that fill our minds ultimately appear in the cake of experience.”

Wondering why you “just can’t seem to get ahead”? Can’t figure out why you “never have enough money”? Confused over why you “always feel so tired”?

These thoughts have taken up residence in your “mental mixing bowl.” They can’t help but appear time after time in your “cake of experience.”

My post on The 7-Day Manifestation Experiment gives you Fox’s “Golden Key” to clearing your most troubling thoughts and as-yet-unfulfilled desires.  The way to remove them from your mixing bowl is to give your mind something else to think about.  Specifically:  a quality of spirit.

For 7 days, whenever you notice your mind picking at troubling thoughts, you think about spirit instead.

Report on my experiment

I decided the spiritual quality of appreciation would be my Golden Key for 7 days.

Results to date: My unfulfilled desire remains unfulfilled.

AND: my happy focus on appreciation brought me three surprise gifts that fulfilled other desires I’d almost forgotten about!

First gift – abundant, daily expressions of appreciation from my clients, readers and colleagues. I have never before felt the infinite flow of appreciation between us the way I did this week. Thank you!

Second gift – I had lunch with the friend of a friend from Sedona who just moved to Denver. To my delight, she turned out to be wonderful – we both sensed a strong spiritual connection and powerful feeling of friendship.

Third gift – I really “got” something Abraham-Hicks has talked about many times. Our unfulfilled desires are what continue to draw life force through us.  Without desire, we’d have no reason to be in physical.  As Abe likes to remind us: we do well to feel just as happy when our desires are unfulfilled as when they have manifested.

Do I still want my unfulfilled desire to manifest? Absolutely. But I’m relaxed about it. By applying the “golden key,” I deliberately think about spirit more than about what I lack. I see that when I focus on spirit, desires get fulfilled in lovely ways, without all my “helpful” engineering.

The old game of wanting wanting wanting and feeling bad in the not having  just might be over.