Would you like a simple way to understand Law of Attraction?

I used to spend a lot of time in forums, discussing and debating the topic of Law of Attraction and how it works.  Some of the constant arguments that would continuously pop up over and over again were mostly due to people’s misunderstanding of the Law of Attraction.

On one end you’d have Law of Attraction Skeptics who would insist that Law of Attraction is a giant scam perpetrated by the creators of the movie “The Secret” for monetary gain, not realizing that the concept of the Law of Attraction was not invented by the creators of “The Secret”, but actually has been around for thousands of years in scriptures and texts from various cultures all around the world.  I have read almost a thousand personal development books in the last 15 years or so, and the Law of Attraction is talked about and present in practically every single one of them, except that most of them don’t call it by that name.

On the other end of the spectrum, you’d have Law of Attraction enthusiasts who saw the movie “The Secret” and got really excited by the idea, not completely understanding the full concept of how it works.  They ran out, cut out a picture of their dream car and pasted it on the wall, and then went on with their life as usual.  Two days later they wondered why they haven’t manifested this car yet.

The truth is that Law of Attraction is always working in your life.  You are always attracting everything that’s in your life, whether you are aware of it or not.

Let me illustrate a simple way to understand the Law of Attraction.

I’m going to use the example of attracting a career path where you are Making Money Doing What You Love as an example, since it is the theme of this Blog.

Let’s start with this illustration (Figure 1):

Let me explain what’s what in this illustration so that you can understand it better.

Imagine that Point A is where you are right now - not making money doing what you love.

Imagine that Point B is where you’d like to be - the place where you are now making money doing what you love.

So, since most of our education and social conditioning is purely centered around the physical world, we are taught that the most important thing we need to focus on is ACTION.  So, we blindly follow the advice of the masses and we start to take action from where we are (Point A) towards our goal (Point B).

Unfortunately, what we don’t realize is that Law of Attraction is always working, and if our Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires are not properly aligned with our action, we are simultaneously PUSHING AWAY our goal (Point B).  What does this look like?  Well, let me break down what I might typically see.  These may be a few of the things this person might be doing:

Action Steps:

• Looking around for business opportunities, talking to people about ways to make money
• Taking on part-time work or after-hours projects to try making money doing what they love
• Reading books, Blogs and going to seminars related to doing what they love
• Taking action towards making their first few dollars doing what they love
• Seeking out examples of other people who are making money doing the same thing they love
• etc.

Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires:

• It’s not really possible for me to make money doing what I love
• I don’t have enough money to pursue my dreams
• My family won’t support me
• The universe is a scary place
• The economy is failing, I’m lucky to even have a job
• Things are getting worse
• I’m never going to amount to anything
• etc.

This person may very well be taking some of the action steps someone would take in order to get from Point A to Point B, but at the same time their Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires are working against them.  What happens then is that Law of Attraction literally pushes away Point B.  Meaning, when you think and believe things like “It’s not really possible for me to make money doing what I love.” then those kinds of thoughts and beliefs create a very specific vibration and the universe attracts events, people and circumstances into your life which MATCH that vibration.  You will literally start getting PROOF that this belief is true.

For example, you may start to attract people into your life who are examples of this belief.  All of a sudden you find yourself at a social event and when you share your idea of making money doing what you love to do with someone, that person completely shuts down your idea saying something like “Oh yeah, I used to have a cousin that tried to make money doing that exact thing, but it was a complete disaster.”

The bottom line is that while you’re so focused on taking the action steps you think are necessary to get you to your desired Point B, the whole universe is aligned against you.  You grit your teeth and exercise incredible feats of willpower and bravery, trying your hardest to take three steps forward in your actions, and then your elusive goal of reaching Point B takes three steps forward as well.

It’s the typical “Carrot on a Stick” metaphor where you keep running for the carrot but you don’t realize that the carrot is hung on a string, attached to a stick that’s attached to your back.  It seems obvious that the proper action to take is to run forward towards the carrot, but if you look at the issue from a broader perspective you’ll realize that you will never catch the carrot!

This is, unfortunately, where I find most people STUCK on their path of trying to Make Money Doing What They Love.  They are either taking some action, or a lot of action towards their goal, but they are completely ignoring the mental / spiritual side of getting aligned with your goal and so they never reach it.  After an extended period of time pushing and pushing towards their goal, they start to feel burned out and intuitively they start to sense that IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.  That’s where most people give up.  You’ll find millions of them working at dead end jobs, bitching and complaining about how they hate coming to work, but completely paralized and given up on their dreams.  They’re simply tired of chasing the carrot.

Let’s take a look at the next illustration (Figure 2):

Here, in this illustration we see someone who is taking the right action steps towards their goal, and they have managed to start aligning some of their thoughts, beliefs and desires in the right direction, but still the majority of their other thoughts, beliefs and desires are actually working against them.

Using the same example as above, lets imagine that this person changed just a couple of their beliefs.  They now look like this:

Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires:

• It’s possible for me to make money doing what I love
• I don’t have enough money to pursue my dreams
• My family won’t support me
• The universe is a scary place
• The economy is failing, I’m lucky to even have a job
• Things are getting worse
• I’m destined for greatness
  
• etc.

You see that this person has cleared a few of their limiting beliefs and now believes that it IS possible for them to make money doing what they love.  However, some of their other beliefs, such as “The economy is failing” or “Things are getting worse” are still holding them back.  In this example, Law of Attraction is still in effect working against them, pushing their goal away from them as they take action towards it.

However, given enough time and enough action, as long as this person doesn’t give up, it IS possible that they will one day reach their goal, because the Law of Attraction is no longer completely stacked against them.  The tangent path they have to take is a lot longer than if they were aligned or at least neutral in their beliefs, but it is still a path that is possible.

Here’s the next illustration (Figure 3):

Here the person has started to realize that their thoughts, beliefs and desires affect the results they get from their actions.  They aren’t fully aligned yet, but the number of negative beliefs that repel their goal is now balanced out by their positive beliefs that attract their goal.  This is a person who has conflicting beliefs.

Their beliefs may look a bit like this:

Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires:

• It’s possible for me to make money doing what I love
• I don’t have enough money to pursue my dreams
• My family won’t support me
• The universe is a friendly place
• The economy is failing, I’m lucky to even have a job
• Things are getting better
  
• I’m destined for greatness
  
• etc.

Sometimes you’ll find that these individuals have a split-mind where they are actually completely positive in their beliefs when they are around positive people, but they are not strong enough to stay positive when they get around negative people.  One minute they’re talking to a friend about their grand business plans and how awesome it’s going to be for everyone involved once they are doing what they love, and then the next minute they are talking to someone else who is a complete pessimist and they are starting to doubt themselves, thinking “Who do I think I am?  I can’t do this!“.

As their mind plays tricks on them and they flip flop between a positive vibration which attracts their desired goal and a negative vibration which repels it, as long as they continue to take action towards their goal, they WILL eventually achieve it.  The path is still going to be a much longer path than necessary, but at least they are now balancing out their negativity with a fresh dose of positivity.

Here’s a better place to be (Figure 4):

Now you’re starting to see the Law of Attraction work in your favor.  The majority of your Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires are now in alignment with your goal and except for the occasional hiccup perhaps when you get around really fearful and negative people, you’re now starting to really live your days believing and knowing that your dreams are on their way.  Even if you haven’t reached them yet, you are now living with a deep knowing that everything will be alright and you’re going to reach your goal.

Here, the Law of Attraction is working in partial harmony with you, making some of the resources you’ll need available to you, introducing you to people you’ll need to meet and harmonizing you with the events you need to experience in order to bring you closer to your goal.  This is usually the place where you start to experience some synchronistic events, and you generally walk around with an inner smile of knowing that the only thing seperating you from your dreams is a bit of time.

As wonderful as this place can be, there is an ever better place you can be which is this (Figure 5):

Here in this example, you are now fully aligned.  Your actions, your thoughts, beliefs and desires are all in alignment and Point A and Point B are fully attracting each other.  You begin to experience massive synchronicities where resources, people and events required for you to reach your goal are “magically” starting to show up in your life.  Even when you’re not seemingly taking action towards your goal, such as for example when you’re grocery shopping, watching TV or even sleeping, you are in fact bringing it closer.

You go grocery shopping and you meet an old friend you haven’t seen in years that helps you achieve your goal even faster.  As you’re watching TV, a character in a movie says something that helps you solve a problem you were having related to your goal.  You go to bed and wake up remembering dreams that have given you ideas towards reaching your goal even faster.

When you’re fully aligned like this, EVERYTHING you do is massively attracting your desired goal.  When we’re in this state, things are attracted to us so quickly and with such force it’s amazing to watch.  Outsiders who may witness this happening in the life of someone they know typically label this as “Luck.”  All of a sudden, everything goes right for the person.

It’s not luck.  It’s Law of Attraction working with you.  Or more accurately, you’re now working aligned with IT, instead of against IT.

I hope this will help you guys understand a little bit better how the Law of Attraction works in your life and maybe it’ll become more clear why I spend so much time on this Blog talking about “Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires”.  For most of you, that’s the only thing still holding you back.