Today my blog is a continuation of the one from last month – about the Law of Attraction.
Over the years many famous and renowned persons have supposedly used the principles of the Law of Attraction to achieve their successes. Even though it hasn’t been widely known, historical figures like Socrates, Plato, Francis Bacon, Henry David Thoreau and the transcendentalists of the mid-19th century, were all students of the Law. We can add to the list: Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Graham Bell, Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Victor Hugo, and even the Founding Fathers of the USA.
More recently, various celebrities have talked about and utilized the principles of the Law, and a number of them publicly shared their beliefs in the movie I mentioned earlier – “The Secret”. I also understand that Arnie the Terminator and Lady Gaga both promote certain aspects of the Law.
In today’s modern society Oprah is really the main personality to have popularized the ideas of the Law. As she said: “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change her future by merely changing her attitude.”
Well, what’s this about Attitude?
According to the Law, a positive or optimistic attitude naturally results in positive thinking and, ultimately, manifests in positive outcomes. Alternatively, a pessimistic or negative perspective on life results in negative thinking and attracts negative outcomes.
To begin incorporating this Law into our everyday lives, we need to monitor our thought processes and the words that we use. Once we have learned to be more attentive to our thoughts, words, and actions we become more aware of any underlying negativity that could be affecting what we are manifesting in our lives. Not only that, but when we are aware of these negative patterns, it will become easier for us to cancel or dismiss them and replace them with a more positive and affirmative mindset.
So, we need to exchange negative thoughts and comments about the “things” that we do not want with positive ones about those that we do want. After a little while, it becomes second nature to think optimistically, to use positive words, and to send out good energy.
Consider this: Who attracts the best people? The person who is joyful, cheerful and grateful and who expresses positive vibes, or the one who is a doomsayer, complainer, and whiner, and who carries heavy and negative vibrational energy?
Now, one of the more interesting aspects of the Law deals with the fact that the Universe responds to vibrational intent by creating methods to fulfill our wants and desires. It manipulates events, circumstances, and situations to achieve the results that we have identified. So, we must remember to let the Universe work out the details and not get concerned about how it will manifest them.
We also need to be patient – it will all come, but in its own good time.
As some say, when a problem requires a solution: Let go and let the Divine. It is important therefore not to get tied up in the how’s, the when’s, and the why’s, but to focus on the outcomes. Let the Universe work in its own wondrous ways.
Let me give you an example: My youngest daughter had a long dry spell in her dating life when she was in her early 20’s. She picked a picture of a good looking guy out of a magazine, printed out the personal qualities that she wanted in the man of her dreams, posted it all on her refrigerator, and then looked at her vision board every day. Two years later, on her first day of work as a teacher she and her dream guy locked eyes across the tarmac. He was a teacher too. It was love at first sight. They moved in together, got married, have 2 great young boys, and are living happily ever after.
It was all worth waiting for. So, don’t rush the Universe.
Many people who have attempted to consciously apply the principles of the Law have been unable to achieve the results that they wanted. Some of the main reasons for that lack of success are our negative, self-defeating, limiting, disempowering and sabotaging habits and beliefs.
Doubts, lack consciousness, scarcity mindsets, and similar negative assumptions have been programmed into us starting from birth.
Maybe you have read about them in Don Miguel Ruiz’s “Five Agreements”
We were conditioned by usually well-meaning teachers, parents, religious leaders, politicians, and peers. Don Miguel called this the “domestication of humans”. These false teachings are part of our cultural story, so embedded in our psyche that it takes a major effort to root them out.
Disempowering and limiting beliefs often result in thoughts of failure, discouragement, inadequacy, and constant negative self-talk and self-criticism.
Can you relate to that?
These domesticated beliefs, preconceived notions, and negative thoughts restrict us in so many ways. We end up judging ourselves and what we deserve and don’t deserve, or what we can and cannot do.
We limit ourselves to living within certain acceptable or approved societal norms or value structures. We end up fault finding, judging, criticizing and blaming others and ourselves, and often feel shame, guilt, and regret related to our thoughts, our words, and our actions.
But how can we root out these negativities?
First, we identify what we don’t want in our lives: like the rusty old Edsel. Then, we decide what we really do want: like the hot red Ferrari.
We deliberately create our ideal situations, our desired outcomes. The weird bald guy or the hairy hunk? We then focus on this result that we want and release any disbelief, doubt, and negativity.
We begin to feel what it’s like to have what we want. We have faith and trust that the Universe will provide.
Stay tuned for next month’s blog about the LAW.
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Keep manifesting good things 🙂 Tony