Who is stealing all your ideas?

Do you ever feel like people hijack all your brilliant ideas and become rich off them? If so, you are not alone. The phenomenon of idea stealing has been going on for a pretty long time; in print or written material, it's called plagiarism.

But it's not existing stuff that we are talking about. It's the more ethereal ideas, the ones that come in form of brainwaves and dreams and inspiration.

Other people do not actually "steal" your ideas. Ideas, thoughts, feelings and hunches all exist in the same form before they are expressed in the physical world. They are contained in what can be referred to as the Universal Mind.

What is this Universal Mind? It is simply a floating and formless "living" substance that permeates all of life. It is found everywhere and everything in it is available to everyone; essentially it is omnipresent.

How does this affect your ideas? Well, that idea you think is yours comes from this Mind. And because all humans have different interests, they receive different kinds of inspirations. Some get workarounds in sport, others in business, others in health and so on. Some of us have similar interests and therefore we tune to similar frequencies.

That idea you get, and ignore, jumps to the next available antenna where, if nurtured, gains a physical form. Ideas of brilliant books become bestsellers, ideas of business become successful enterprises and so on. This therefore means that those ideas you do receive have also been received by others like you. Whoever takes action then, wins.

I have seen many of "my" ideas materialize after a year or two, without my input. Other people, got the message, and unlike me, were not lazy. They took action and by the laws of sowing and reaping, became successful. This has taught me to take action whenever I spot opportunity. Of course I'm still lazy, but whenever I have put in the requisite action, wonderful things have happened, like this post for instance.

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