Law of Attraction
”Love is like a shadow, when you chase it, it runs away, when you turn back and walk away, it follows you.”
The law of attraction states that every positive or negative event that has happened with you was attracted by you and will continue for your lifetime.
The law of attraction is also described as the belief that "like attracts like" and that by focusing on positive or negative thoughts, one can bring about positive or negative results.
This belief is based upon the idea that people and their thoughts are both made from pure energy, and the belief that like energy attracts like energy.
One example used by a proponent of the law of attraction is that if a person opened an envelope expecting to see a bill, then the law of attraction would "confirm" those thoughts and contain a bill when opened. A person who decided to instead expect a cheque might, under the same law, find a cheque instead of a bill.
Although there are some cases where positive or negative attitudes can produce corresponding results (principally the placebo and nocebo effects), there is NO scientific basis to the law of attraction.
The Law of Attraction should be renamed 'The Law of Self-empowerment'.
Very few people believe they can manifest their dreams into reality even then very few succeed. For example: opposing teams of football players believe they can win but only one team will win in each game.
So what can be achieved by believing it?
It is true that if you believe something will work then it can work. This is not true every time or for everyone. There are opposing forces and 'free will' that act against the Law of Attraction.
There are also natural limitations imposed in Nature. Same applies to the Law of Attraction. Athletes have natural limits to their muscle growth and fitness. Athletes like pole vaulters need "aids" to go higher. But there will be a limit. Most people don't strive to improve so there is a lot that can be done to reach "maximum" limits.
So what can you influence with believing and what can you achieve?
I believe there are three things you can do that will have meaningful impact on your life and, as a consequence, of those around you.
Keep it simple
Complex desires and dreams take many steps to achieve. Along the way only one step needs to be too difficult to achieve before we give up. So keep it simple.
Be realistic
A retail assistant is more likely to get a promotion to supervisor than store manager. A supervisor can be promoted to shift leader and then assistant manager and so on. One step at a time when you formulate your goals. Apply this philosophy to work rest and play activities.
Self Empower
When someone else is involved they also have their own “law of attraction' which works for them in their own way. The only person you can genuinely affect is YOU.
People around you will notice changes in you. Some cannot accept that and you will lose some of them. Others that are on 'your level' will come into your life to replace them. This is a natural process and should not be feared. Embrace change that will enhance your life.
Other Helpful Explanations for the "Law of Attraction":
Causality (also referred to as causation) is the relation between an event (the cause) and a second event (the effect), where the second event is understood as a consequence of the first. So think, act and achieve!
Magical thinking is the identification of causal relationships between actions and events where scientific consensus says that there are none.
In religion, folk religion and superstition the correlation posited is between religious ritual, prayer, sacrifice, or the observance of a taboo, and an expected benefit or recompense.
In its simplest form it means if you pray, do a spell or follow some ritual it will result in what you want.
In
clinical psychology, magical thinking can cause a patient to
experience fear of performing certain acts or having certain thoughts
because of an assumed correlation between doing so and threatening
calamities.
Magical thinking may lead people to believe that their thoughts by themselves can bring about effects in the world or that thinking something corresponds with doing it.
It is a type of causal reasoning or causal fallacy that looks for meaningful relationships of grouped phenomena between acts and events.
Optimism is a mental attitude or world view that interprets situations and events as being best (optimized), meaning that in some way for factors that may not be fully comprehended, the present moment is in an optimum state.
The concept is typically extended to include the attitude of hope for future conditions unfolding as optimal as well.
The more broad concept of optimism is the understanding that all of nature, past, present and future, operates by laws of optimization along the lines of Hamilton's principle of optimization in the realm of physics.
This understanding, although criticized by counter views such as pessimism, idealism and realism, leads to a state of mind that believes everything is as it should be, and that the future will be as well. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass with water at the halfway point, where the optimist is said to see the glass as half full, but the pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
Positive
mental attitude (PMA) is the philosophy that having an optimistic
disposition in every situation in one's life attracts positive
changes and increases achievement.
It employs a state of mind that continues to seek, find and execute ways to win, or find a desirable outcome, regardless of the circumstances.
It
opposes negativity, defeatism and hopelessness.
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.
In other words, a positive or negative prophecy, strongly held belief, or delusion—declared as truth when it is actually false -- may sufficiently influence people so that their reactions ultimately fulfill the once-false prophecy.
The term relates to the belief that the mind is more powerful than the body.
Specifically, mind over matter refers to controlling pain that one may or may not be experiencing, such as holding one's hand under extremely hot water and feeling no pain.
Also, "self-help" personalities such as Tony Robbins claim that, through the power of concentration and "positive thinking", people can walk on hot coals without getting burned.
This claim is made despite the fact that there are solid, scientific explanations for firewalking.
"Mind over matter" was also Mao Zedong's idea that rural peasants could be "proletarianized" so they could lead the revolution and China could move from feudalism to socialism.
It may be said that, so far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life — sensation, instinct, the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason, and lastly, the improvable reason of Man himself — presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter.
Sir Charles Lyell, 1863
Anything that can possibly go wrong, does – murphys law.
tips
Try this... if you experience an event that makes you so happy and overjoyed that you want to attract more into your life then try and remember your inner emotion you had (your heart beating faster/ stomach jumping) whatever it was try and replicate that by remembering the event and then if your vibrational energy is the same as you felt in that joyous moment then the it will manifest and you will attract it into your life.
Good feelings = good reality = Feel GOOD. Put on your favorite song, paint a picture, have fun with your pet, or think of someone or something that you love, something that makes you happy, and just shut your eyes and dwell on this. This is called Frequency Shifting. Different thoughts work for different situations, so think of a few now you can use later.
Focus as often as you can on what you DO want rather than on what you don't want. For example, if you are angry or upset about a war/conflict that has been going on, do your best to be 'pro-peace' rather than 'anti-war' - focus on the peace, and the kinds of solutions that you would like to see, instead of whatever it is that you do not like about the situation.
If you are constantly worried about bad things happening, or negative outcomes, then you are using the law of attraction AGAINST yourself. To worry is really to apply most of the above steps, towards a NEGATIVE outcome. You are visualizing the negative outcome and asking the universe for it with pictures of the negative outcome, you are feeling the feelings of the negative outcome ... Stop Worrying and follow step seven above.
"Be careful what you wish for because you just may get it," is not a statement to joke around with. This law is so powerful your request could manifest instantly and powerfully without warning. Remember, this Law could be used to create or destroy.
If you want something to happen you have to help it along. Believe you're going to get it and have no doubts about it. If you have any doubts, quickly change your thought pattern to the positive and focus on receiving or having what you want.
You can't use the Law of Attraction to control people. However, if you have a friend who you haven't seen in a long time and you want her to come to you. Instead of saying "I want my friend to show up at my door," just say, "I want to walk down the street and see her pass by," or something like that.
You can't have any resistance in your mind: if you have just tried using the law of attraction and you say "this stuff isn't working" then the universe will give you more of 'this isn't working'.
Avoid using negation terms. For example, if you want to get out of debt and you say "I want to get out of debt," the Universe only see the word 'debt' and will send more along your way. It pays no attention to negation terms like, 'no', 'not', 'none', 'out' and so forth. Instead say "I am rich. The wealthy have lots of money."
