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Are we "Law of Attraction"-ed out??
My goodness, it seems that everywhere we turn these days, somebody else is teaching the Law of Attraction. (If you are one of the few that doesn’t know what I am talking about, I urge you to watch the movie “The Secret”, or go to the Hicks’ website http://www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/index.php for more info on what it is-then come back and read the rest of this post.)
Now, I suppose it does make perfect sense that the more we look into the Law, the more it is going to manifest itself to us. Kind of like when you are shopping around for a car, all of the sudden it seems that those couple of cars you have been checking out are everywhere, a million of them on the road, you can’t get away from them! Same thing here.
And I will say for the record that I do 100% believe in the Law of Attraction, as I have seen it work for myself. But, I am wondering this: how many of us are using the Law of Attraction in the first place? Do most of us follow through with the procedures, or do we give up after 2 days of visualizing? “This crap doesn’t work….,I don’t see anything happening,,,” .
Or, if people are using the tools to manifest, what are they manifesting? This question, in my opinion, is the most important one. Why? Because I believe that for most of us, the hardest thing to figure out in our lives is what we really want. I mean, it is easy to say, ” I want a new car”, “I want a bigger house”, or in today’s economy, “I want a job”! But let’s take this a little deeper.
We usually think of the law of attraction as something we are “getting”. But if we really look at how this technique works, it really works by “giving”. In fact, if we are completely in a “what’s in it for me” state of mind, the Law of Attraction will NOT work. With that frame of mind there is a key missing ingredient. It is this: You get what you give. If you want more love, give more love: if you want more money, give more money. Help someone out, you will be helped.
So while we are in the midst of our manifesting, our visualizing, our affirming, if we are not giving, helping, then we are biting the hand that feeds us. It could be said that the law of giving is as important as the law of attraction.
Having said all of that, with all of the LOA information out there, how many of us are following it? I mean, it seems pretty easy right? How many of you right now are using this technique to make your life more fulfilling? How many of you have given up after one attempt? Maybe it’s NOT so easy…. Maybe it takes patience and determination, just like anything else worthwhile in this life? Of course it does. Which brings me to this:
Let’s make sure that what you are focusing on is what you REALLY WANT. If you are going to put the time in, if you are going to make the commitment, make sure you know what you want, and that it falls in line with what you are passionate about. Make sure that you are truly doing what you were meant to be doing. Because the law is working whether you are conscious of it or not. So follow your dreams, and put the law to work with you, instead of fighting against it.
Put the law to work for the highest good, by focusing on what you love way down deep in your soul. See, that is why you have those desires-because that is what God put it there for you. It is your calling. So don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do anything, and don’t let anyone steal a dream away from you. Are you going to tell God that he is wrong? I mean, you can tell Him if you want, He won mind at all; but it’s not going to get you anywhere.
Remember when you were a kid, and you maybe had all of these dreams of what you would be someday, where you would live, etc. Somehow these dreams seem to fade away with time, and then one day they are just a distant memory. Maybe somehow we convince ourselves that these dreams were unrealistic, so we stop believing in them. We settle for what we think we can have. But remember, the law is in effect whether we are conscious of it or not, so if in our mind we are thinking that we are not worthy of a better life, or we don’t really belong over there with the “successful” people(whatever that means), then that is exactly what we end up with.
Ask yourself this question: Are you happy with your life? If so, then I say congratulations! If not, then, if you could snap your fingers and change something, what would you change? Only you can answer that truthfully.
And then remember that with every thought, every action, every word, we are sending a message to ourselves, our surroundings, our universe about who we are. We are sending a message of “I am happy” or “I am sick” or “I am miserable” or “I am wealthy” or “I have peace” or “I love myself” or “I hate myself”.
This is really what the Law of Attraction is all about. What you send out, you get back. Some of this is unconscious, so some of the time, we don’t really know why we end up with certain things. But that is why it is so important to give. We need to consciously be doing the things, taking the action, thinking the thoughts that are going to help the most people, which will in turn bring good things to us.
Anyone who has a great Law of Attraction story, please feel free to comment here and add it. I would love to hear from you.
To your best life,
-Jamie Hosmer