How To Attract Abundance: Clearing your Energy Field - NLP and the Law of Attraction

Summary

Dr. David Snyder presents the Law of Attraction as a process of reducing internal resistance rather than simply concentrating harder on desired outcomes. He argues that conflicting feelings, learned associations, and habits can undermine motivation and goal pursuit. His approach combines NLP-style imagery exercises, body awareness, posture and breathing, and guided visualization.

Key strategies and techniques

• Look for internal obstacles before intensifying a goal. Snyder uses an “anchor versus jet engine” metaphor: adding more effort, affirmations, or visualization may not help if doubts or fears are still pulling in the opposite direction.
• Treat uncomfortable feelings as signals. Instead of automatically distracting yourself from a difficult feeling, notice where it appears in your body and what it may be connected to.
• Use posture and breathing to shift your state. Snyder suggests recalling a moment of confidence or success, then recreating the posture and breathing associated with it. He says this can be a quick way to feel more capable or settled. He also recommends learning about Amy Cuddy’s “power poses” talk.
• Practice playfully and with attention. He encourages using imagination, play, and absorption—rather than evaluating each step as it happens—as ways to engage with the exercises.
• Try the “point and fix” imagery exercise:
  1. Recall a feeling you want to change and identify where you sense it in your body.
  2. Imagine or locate a picture associated with it.
  3. Experiment with the picture’s size, distance, color, or brightness, and notice how the feeling changes.
  4. In one version, imagine writing down the useful lessons from a difficult experience, then shrink the image and move it away.
• Build a positive state through imagery. For a desired feeling or experience, picture it clearly, notice its associated bodily feeling and color, and imagine expanding or bringing the image closer. Snyder also guides participants to imagine the feeling spreading through the body.
• Connect motivation to the work itself. He suggests that motivation depends partly on what you focus on in a task—the process or the outcome—and that distraction may sometimes reflect reluctance or discomfort about the task.
• Use self-reflection to clarify goals. The session opens by asking participants what they want to learn, including productivity, internal motivation, confidence, alignment, and setting themselves up to succeed.

Snyder also leads a live guided exercise in which a participant explores a distressing childhood memory and replaces it with a safe-place visualization and an imagined “alternate reality” version of events. Another participant uses the imagery method to reduce the intensity of recurring imagined car-crash scenes. These are presented as demonstrations of his method, not as a substitute for professional mental-health care.

Important context: Snyder describes energy fields, holographic memory, manifestation, and early-childhood programming as explanations for how the techniques work. Those are his framework and claims; the session does not establish them as scientific facts. If an exercise brings up significant distress or traumatic memories, consider stopping and seeking support from a qualified mental-health professional.

Presenters and sources mentioned

• Presenter: Dr. David Snyder
• Sources and frameworks mentioned: NLP; the Law of Attraction; Psycho-Cybernetics; Amy Cuddy; Larry Dossey; Steven Parkhill; Brent Baum; Louise Hay; Milton Erickson; and Bankston Research.