The Law Of Attraction

The Law of Attraction (also known as LOA) is very simple: it states that like attracts like. It is supported by quantum physics and positive thinking, and it has practical applications to our lives.

The law of attraction applied to ourselves means that our thoughts have a certain vibration, which attracts events, people and circumstances of the same vibration to our lives.

So for instance, focusing on the bills to pay and feeling that you don't have enough money will bring into reality the circumstances that say "Yes, there isn't enough money".

Similarly, focusing on positive events, beautiful things and good people and times that make us feel good, will result in more positive circumstances coming into your life.

A word of caution

The LOA is generally used to attract what you want - therefore assuming that you do have wants and adding the possibility of contributing to a consumist society.

Eastern philosophies, and important spiritual leaders like Paramahansa Yogananda, state the importance of having no wants to attain bliss (yet wanting to not want is still a want). Check Yogananda's "The science of religion".

While I have goals in life and therefore "wants" to a certain degree, I've found that the most blissful state happens when I have no wants, at least not material or specific.

Assuming a state of no wants means you accept all that is at any moment and you are fine with it. Because you have no want of things being in any specific way, you let life happen at its pace and you enjoy the present moment. Life is brilliant this way, as it also takes away a lot of worries.

However, I've made use of the law of attraction to get certain things with success (read here the story of my bean bag). The way I understand the law of attraction implies that I desire something, then visualize it, create a good feeling about it, and let it go altogether, watching out to be surprised by the way it will come.

At that very point, and from then on, I am also completely fine if it doesn't come, and I interpret it like something better, more adequate for my life path, is on its way.

Different views

Some people believe in the law of attraction blindly, whereas some others don't, and some say there's more to it. Others prefer to talk about coincidences, or good or bad luck.

Though I believe in the LOA, I admit there are more elements to take into account when applying it consciously to achieve what we want.

Time, focusing on what you want, letting go

Does the law of attraction mean that if you want something and you think about it often you'll definitely get it?

Yes and No. Let's have a look at other elements.

Say, for example, that you want to get a better job that leaves you more time for yourself, where you do something you absolutely love, and you get very well paid.

Now, for as much as you sit at home today thinking about how good it would feel to have such a job, it is unlikely that you will actually have it tomorrow. We need to consider the factor time: the things that we want may take a while to manifest.

Say now that because your new job takes a while to show up, you feel frustrated and focus on the fact that you do NOT have that job (yet). Focusing on what we don't want, as per the law of attraction, will bring you more of it.

That is why it is also important to let go of what you have expressed you want. There's a subtle balance to the law of attraction, where you state what you want and you feel good about it, and then you let it happen in its own time, without falling into the anxiety of not having it right when you want it.

Authors like Esther Hicks explain that another element is being willing to receive what we have asked for, bearing in mind we could be unconsciously preventing ourselves from receiving it.

In this regard, before all this attraction happens, you need to believe that you deserve to have whatever it is you want. Surprisingly, many of us have "hidden" blocks to receiving what we ask for because deep down we don't think we deserve it. Use these deserving affirmations to start welcoming abundance into your life.

So... does the LOA work?

In my experience, it does. Most of the times it works in the long term, though other times it works almost immediately.

Let me tell you a little story about the law of attraction in action...

At a certain time of my life I worked for an important British organization. This organization received external visitors daily, for whom there was catering.

There were always food leftovers. One day, about midday, I got a banana out of the leftovers and I kept it to eat it later.



The day went on and I didn't eat the banana. Rather than let it go to waste, I left it on my table before leaving with a note: "Help yourself".

Just five minutes later and when I was already leaving, a work colleague, Maria, came to tell me how the whole day she had been wanting a banana, and then... there it was, the banana on my table, like a gift from the universe to her.

She couldn't be more surprised and pleased as this "coincidence" had brightened her day.

Find here another positive story of how my bean bag came into my life, or follow the link for more positive thinking stories.

There is a great inspirational movie called "The Secret", where the law of attraction is explained. In this movie, people like Bob Proctor state that whether you believe in the law of attraction or not, it works.

Now it is up to you to believe it too or not. However, if you choose to believe it you can definitely make it work to your advantage by bringing positive events to your life.

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