LYL #062: The importance of the 17-second rule
Love Your Life + Law of Attraction
Jennifer Bailey
4.9 • 806 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Today we're going to talk about the 17-second rule that makes it easier to leverage Law of Attraction.
This episode is perfect for anyone who wants to learn…
- What happens when you focus on something for 17 seconds and what 68 seconds has to do with manifesting
- Why it's so important to be aware of your dominant thoughts
- How dominant thoughts of worry attract more into your life to worry about
- What Abraham says you need to be pickier about—and it's not your clothes and car
- Why you might want to experiment with setting a timer for the next few days
For all things Law of Attraction, visit Jennifer365.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Love Your Life with Law of Attraction. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm your host Jennifer Bailey, and this podcast is designed to inspire, uplift, and add more joy to your life. |
| 0:35.2 | Today we're going to talk about the 17-second rule that makes it easier to leverage |
| 0:40.6 | law of attraction. This episode is perfect for anyone who wants to learn what happens when you |
| 0:46.3 | focus on something for 17 seconds and what 68 seconds has to do with manifesting. I'll talk about |
| 0:53.5 | why it's so important to be aware of your |
| 0:56.9 | dominant thoughts and how dominant thoughts of worry attract more into your life to worry about. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm going to share what Abraham says you need to be pickier about and it's not your clothes or car |
| 1:10.7 | and why you might want to experiment with |
| 1:13.9 | setting a timer for the next few days. What you focus on grows. I created 31 days of LOWA, |
| 1:22.8 | the abundance series to help you focus on and grow abundance in your life. To find out more, go to |
| 1:31.5 | Jennifer 365.com forward slash abundance. And now on to the episode. |
| 1:47.6 | Hello and welcome to Love Your Life. |
| 1:55.2 | This episode is about Abraham's 17-second rule, but it's really about momentum and making it easier to leverage law of attraction. |
| 1:58.2 | So here's the short version of what Abraham says. Hold a thought for just 17 seconds and the law of the law of attraction. So here's the short version of what Abraham says. Hold a thought for just 17 |
| 2:03.1 | seconds and the law of attraction kicks in. Now on the one hand, 17 seconds sounds like very little time, |
| 2:12.5 | doesn't it? But really give it a try. Hold a thought, one pure positive thought for 17 seconds. I think what you'll |
| 2:22.2 | find is that while you have flitting positive thoughts, you rarely hold one for very long, |
| 2:29.7 | often not even 17 seconds. But a negative thought? Oh my. A negative thought is oh so easy to hold for 17 |
| 2:39.8 | seconds and even longer. You know, that thought of blame or complaint, that thought of worry or |
| 2:46.4 | disappointment, that thought of anger or fear, that thought can seemingly last forever. Okay, not really forever, |
| 2:56.2 | but certainly long enough to gain momentum in the wrong direction of a negative spiral downward. |
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