The Law of Attraction has once again risen its head.
More people seem to be talking about it. And many people seem to be having the same issues with it.
If you’re unfamiliar, the Law of Attraction has been around for quite a while, with the basic concept that raising your ‘vibration’ whether that be through your positive emotions or thoughts would be helpful in attracting good things to you. Then apparently if you believe hard enough in whatever you want to have or achieve, you can manifest that into your life.
No wonder it’s done so well and been so popular. Who wouldn’t want to believe that if I jolly myself up enough and wish hard enough, that $10.6 million house will just land in my lap?
Or that if I want to write a bestseller, all I have to do is put a few words together and the publishers will be knocking down my door.
This is where I don’t like it. It encourages people to take too much and too little responsibility.
First of all too much – if I don’t get the things I want I haven’t been a good enough person. I haven’t raised my vibration high enough.
And then too little – no-one ever got anywhere without putting in more than some earnest wishes.
It sets up an unrealistic expectation of what we can have and then blames the user for not meeting those expectations.
I’d have to put that side of it in the Bad basket.
On the other hand, what the Law of Attraction does encourage is building a clear picture of your goals.
If you want to be a bestselling author, visualising what it will feel like to see your book in print might be some of the good stuff that keeps you going when the writing gets tough. Seeing yourself writing and enjoying it would help with motivation at the times that writing feels like pulling teeth.
And getting clear on who publishes in your genre will help you with how you can get your manuscript in front of them.
So the forward thinking, planning, goal setting, and developing associations between good feelings and the work you need to do to get the thing you want, definitely falls in the Good category.
There are others way using the Law of Attraction can also be helpful. When you set your heart and mind on a goal, you become primed to watch for opportunities that will help you fulfil it.
So let’s just say you have the dream of working from anywhere, travelling around, and generally being a cool digital nomad. You’re out with friends and one of the ring-ins mentions a website for international pet-sitting where you get to look after people’s pets in their home, rent free – all over the world.
If you hadn’t been fantasising about the digital nomad life, the international pet-sitting probably would have whizzed straight past you. But now you see it as an opportunity to do your travel at reduced cost. Definitely the Good basket.
Now what if you could take the good and change the bad and use them both to your advantage?
What if you focused on your goal, worked on developing an unshakable belief in yourself, practised gratitude and appreciation for your current situation and future goal and then……
put in the work to get there?
And didn’t blame yourself if it didn’t work the first time. So it’s not that your vibration isn’t up to scratch but that life doesn’t work out how you want sometimes.
Then I think you’ll find the Law of Attraction helpful.
