Let's think about this for a moment. How many thoughts have you had in last week? How many of them were positive, happy, and full of hope for future? How many of them were negative, frustrated, angry, upset, or fearful? If you're like most people, you had a mix of positive and negative thoughts and feelings. And since thoughts direct Power to create our experiences, they will create a mix of positive and negative events in your life, won't they?

Okay, so let's consider something else. You have a mix of different thought-forms out there waiting to manifest. You spend a few hours today thinking only positive thoughts and creating new positive thought-forms. Which thought-forms are going to manifest tomorrow? It could be any that are still out there, positive ones or negative ones, right? Of course! And this is why it's possible to think positive thoughts for a long time and still have negative things happen! Because negative events are simply manifestation of thought-forms you sent out into world previously.

So how can we use this information? Since we know that all thoughts we send out into world will eventually create experiences, and timing of manifestation of those thoughts is beyond our control, then all we can do is send out kinds of thoughts we want to experience and accept whatever happens in meantime. If we persist long enough, thinking and feeling only positive things (things we want to experience), then eventually there will be no more negative thoughts left to manifest. At that point, we will be living a life where nothing could ever go wrong!

But what do we do before that time? If something goes wrong, or we experience manifestation of one of our negative thought-forms, then we can realize that we are one step closer to our goal. There is one less negative thought-form out there to experience. Look at it this way, if God told you that you would have to kiss a hundred ugly toads, but last one would make all your dreams come true, would you start kissing toads? And how would you feel as you were doing it? You would probably be thinking about all glorious things that last toad will do for you!

Keep thinking positive, and get through toads as quickly as possible!

Because of this, it would seem logical that inorganic tools of Power would have very little Power themselves, but would rather act as a catalyst to helping us tap and use our own connection to Power. And while natural tools of Power, such as wood pieces, teeth, claws, and so on have (or had) a greater degree of intelligence, they also would have much less Power than we have ourselves.

Modern psychology has discovered some of what causes these tools of Power to have their catalytic influence on human mind. In a single word, in can be summed up as 'belief'. If you believe that a shiny rock will give you good luck, then it will. If you believe that breaking a mirror will give you seven years of bad luck, then it will. If you believe that kissing first person of opposite sex you see in day will give you extra strength and endurance, then that will become true for you. In Keys To Power (and many other systems) this is known as Law of Belief. The world will appear to you to be what you believe it to be.

The flip side to this is interesting. Since it is inner mind that has a direct connection to Power. Whatever you believe to be an effective method of working with Power will cause inner mind to work with Power more effectively when you are performing that method. In other words, if you believe that sitting in a yoga position chanting for hours at a time will increase your supply of Power, then inner mind will give you access to more Power when you perform this ritual (an intangible tools of Power). If you believe that working with a metal tube with a crystal attached to one end will help you focus Power towards a specific goal, then your inner mind will focus Power even more strongly when you are working with crystal rod.

But this is not to say that these tools of Power are worthless, that they have no value in and of themselves. If you are unable to focus your Power without a tool, and tool helps you focus your Power, then by all means use tool. We do not come out of womb able to walk, so we use whatever it takes to move us around until that time when we are ready to walk. We do not have ability (yet) to fly on our own, so we use tools to help us do that when time calls for it. Tools are beneficial when we are unable to perform a task without them.

The bottom line on tools of Power is this. They work according to your belief. That belief is usually built by association and repetition. The more you are exposed to an idea, and more you are exposed to similar ideas, stronger your belief. If you have been exposed to idea that crystals, or pyramids, or ley lines, or glass beads have a Power and will give you ability to control Power, then work with that belief and use it. But also work to develop your ability to work with Power without tools. In Keys To Power, we acknowledge that tools perform a service, yet we work constantly to improve ourselves to point where tools are unnecessary.