My friend Ann, who is my spiritual mentor, told me that recently she’s been asked by a lot of people for more information on the movie The Secret and the Law of Attraction. She mentioned that she is going to refer people to this blog (thanks Ann!) for more information on how the Law of Attraction works. So I thought I’d better get writing about it so that the masses being referred to my site have something to read when they get here, and I give thanks in advance for all the people who find my site to read this information.
As a disclaimer, almost none of the ideas I’m about to share with you are original. I can’t take credit for this information since many, many other teachers before me have talked about these concepts long before I was alive! I just happen to be the messenger today and I can help others apply the law in their own lives.
The Law of Attraction is the most powerful law in the universe. It basically says, “Like attracts like.” Everything in this universe is made up of energy, including your thoughts, and you attract everything that shows up in your reality with your thoughts, and especially with your feelings.
The feeling part is really the most important part of the Law of Attraction. If you’re not sure about your thoughts, ask yourself how you feel. Our feelings are a guide to what we are creating. If you feel bad, you are not creating the things you want. It’s impossible to feel bad and attract good at the same time.
This information is hard for a lot of people to accept at first because no one wants to believe that they attracted a car accident, debt or any other negative situation. However, if you consider the law for a moment, it’s really liberating because it means YOU have the power to change your circumstances.
The key to applying the law to your life is to change the way you think about things and get absolutely clear on what you want. Most people send mixed requests to the universe by thinking about what they want combined with what they don’t want.
The request usually sounds something like this: “I want a new car, because my current one is falling apart.”
The problem with this statement is that you are telling the universe that you WANT your car to fall apart. The universe doesn’t understand the words “I don’t want…” because the universe assumes that if you’re talking about it, you want it. In this statement, you are asking for the car to break down because you thought about how bad the car is, felt the fear of it breaking down, and then talked about it breaking down. When the car breaks down, the universe has delivered exactly what’s been asked for.
A clearer and more refined version of this particular request would sound something like this: “Thank you God/Universe (or whatever you choose to call it) for my car. I appreciate the car because it gets me back and forth to work every day and it serves my needs, allowing me to get to the grocery store, etc.” This might not seem like much to be thankful for, but imagine your life without any car at all! Gratitude is the best way to attract more good into your life. And, being thankful for the little things is a good place to start.
Another important thing to understand is that just because your current circumstances are not desirable doesn’t mean you can’t change the future. We are continually living in the residual. In other words, your current reality is a result of your previous thoughts and feelings, and if you change them now, your future reality will change.
This will be a challenge to a lot of you because you’ll have to imagine that the future is already here! And you do that by test driving the new car, taking photos of yourself in the car, visualizing yourself owning the car and having the feelings of it already being in your reality. Have you ever noticed how kids pretend to play school, etc.? You'll just be pretending on a bigger scale.
I’m using the example of the car because it’s illustrative of a situation that my mom had trouble with. She didn’t know that she had to be thankful for the car she already has. She thought that if she was thankful for her current circumstances that she was somehow telling the universe that she didn’t need or want the new car she had been asking for. I understood her viewpoint but there is no relation to what exists now and what exists in the future. Just because it exists in your reality now doesn't mean your future can't be different if you choose to change it.
However, gratitude for what you have NOW is the fastest way to bring more good into your life, because when you are thankful you are feeling good. When you feel good, you’re attracting good things.
So, to attract what you want, get clear on what you want (don’t talk about what you don’t want!) and focus ONLY on what you want. Tell those negative voices to be quiet. Visualize yourself having whatever it is you want, know that you can have it, stay in alignment with it by feeling good, and it will manifest in your reality.
Christine