I adore this book. It’s wise, funny, irreverent, and totally aligned with the focus of this month’s ‘Play Your Way to Prosperity’ experiment.

Experiment: The Volkswagen Jetta Principle

Whatever You Focus On Expands

‘Miracles are like pimples, because once your start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you’d see.’ — Lemony Snicket

Premise:

One of the great spiritual principles is that whatever we devote our minds to expands. I like to call it the Volkswagen Jetta Principle.

According to physicists, there’s a Zero Point Field where every possibility exists. For example, there’s the possibility that you could be a ballerina, another that you could be a United States Senator. Still yet another possibility is bag lady in Haight- Ashbury. When it comes to the Zero Point Field, the possibilities
are infinite.

This simple, 48 hour experiment will prove that what you see in life is none other than what you look for. It will also prove that it’s possible to find anything you look for. And, most important, it will prove that by changing what you look for, you can radically change what shows up in your world.

Method:

For the next 48 hours (that’s all, a pain-free, two day commitment. You are free to go back to your miserable life as soon as this experiment is over), you are going to actively look for certain things. And just like sixth graders who start out dissecting worms, not human bodies, you’re going to begin with something simple — green cars. Okay, if you insist, you can pick another color. Sunset beige for example.

For the first 24 hours of the experiment, you’re going to make the following conscious intention, ‘I hereby intend for the next day of my life to look for…okay you win…sunset beige vehicles.’ Again, you don’t have to do anything special. Just keep your eyes open. Just make the intention. and then simply notice if your conscious awareness has made a difference in the number of sunset beige cars you see.

On day two, during the following 24-hour period, you’re going to make the intention to see butterflies. I don’t care if it’s the middle of winter. Make the intention. Jeanette tried the experiment in January in the upper peninsula of Michigan and found butterflies on stationery, on a paper cup at her daughter’s friend’s birthday party. the point is don’t let your previous conditioning influence you in any way. Just open your mind and look, consciously actively look–as if you had misplaced your car keys.

To participate:

Download the lab_report_sheet1.pdf here and hold your focused intention on subject of ’sunset beige cars’ for 24-hours and ‘butterflies’ for the 2nd 24-hours.

Then return here to the Blog to report on your experiences!