The Law of Attraction - in its simplest form - states that "like attracts like". Whatever you focus on the most is what will be most attracted to your life. At first glance, that would seem to state that since we all think about being healthy, rich, and having fulfilling lives, that we should all be living happily ever after, right?
Wrong. Although it is true that if we properly focused on those things that they would come to us in abundance, the truth is that most people don't focus on having those things - they focus on the fact that they DON'T have those things!
So, going back to the definition of the Law of Attraction - "like attracts like". If all you ever do is think about how much you wish you were healthy, or how much you wish you were rich, or how much you wish you were happy, do you know what the Universal Law of Attraction will bring you? You guessed it - a life full of wishing you had all of those things.
The only way to attract what you desire in life is to allow yourself to understand what it would feel like to have what you want, to allow yourself to believe that you will have it, that you deserve it, and by focusing on those positive feelings and beliefs on a consistent basis.
It seems way too simple to be true, right? It is hard for you to believe that just by thinking about having a new car that you will get one. You can't grasp the fact that by just thinking about getting promoted at work that it will happen. You refuse to believe that by feeling positive about your life, that your fulfilling life will come to pass.
So, let's see if you have been paying attention. If you believe that it's not possible to get that car, that promotion, or that fulfilling life, guess what you are attracting with the Universal Law of Attraction? That's right - NOT having those things!
In order to invoke the Law of Attraction for positive gain, you must visualize the things that you want, feel in your heart what it will be like to have them, and believe that you will get them. It really is just that simple! However, after spending decades of our lives being taught to "work hard for what we want", we can't bring ourselves to believe that anything less than hard work will bring those things into our lives.
Now, don't misunderstand. The Law of Attraction is not "magic". You won't manifest material goods or personal success simply by thinking about them. However, the Universe WILL provide methods for you to gain those things, and hard work may or may not be part of that equation.
For that reason, it is important for you to remember that you have to be aware. When you train your mind to send out the positive emotional vibrations into the Universe that will bring these things to you, the Universe WILL answer. However, if you aren't paying attention, you will not be home when Opportunity comes knocking at your door!
The Law of Attraction is not some sort of mystical mumbo-jumbo, but rather scientific fact. The key is in knowing how to use that science, and the consistent application of those scientific principles.
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Law of Attraction Tip #1
The Law of Attraction works just like tuning forks. If you ding a tuning fork in a room full of tuning forks, only the tuning forks on the same wave length as the one you dinged will vibrate. The vibrations created by your feelings work exactly the same way. If you feel positive feelings, positive things will be attracted to you. If you feel negative feelings, then you will attract negative things - guaranteed.
Using the Law of Attraction is like shopping in a catalogue that literally contains anything in the world that you could possibly want to have. Traditional thinking tells us that we can only have the things that we can afford, or that are appropriate for us to have, or that we deserve. The infinite power of the Universe does not recognize any of these human limitations. No matter how big something is, or how incredibly small, if you can imagine it, and you can feel what it would be like to have it, then the Universe will deliver it to you.
You do not have to justify why you want something, or whether or not you deserve it! This is a limitation that has been imposed on us by our social upbringing, and it has absolutely nothing to do with what the Universe can deliver to you. The infinite power of the Universe does not recognize whether you think of yourself as a good person or a bad person. It also does not recognize what your friends, family, or your society think of you. When using the Law of Attraction to attain what you desire, if you feel that you don't deserve something, or you think that you aren't worthy of it, then it is guaranteed that you won't get it!
Most adults have forgotten how to dream about what they want, and they usually don't believe that they can have their desires, even if they do remember to dream. When you truly embrace the fact that you can literally have anything that you want by using the Law of Attraction, then you start to experience the emotion connected with having that thing. THAT is when you truly start to create the high frequency emotional vibrations that will attract that thing into your life.
Laughter is one of the most effective ways to create true positive vibrations that will attract great things into your life. Laugh and smile as often as possible, and positive things will start to happen for you!
In order to create the powerful vibrations needed to attract the things into your life that you want, it is not enough to simply think about them. You must figure out the emotional reason WHY you want that thing, and experience the positive emotion of HAVING it while you think about the object of your desire. The more positive emotion that you create by feeling good about having that thing, and the longer you stay in that emotionally positive state, the faster your desires will come to you!
Think of the Universal power that resides inside each and every human being as a water hose. Any kind of negative emotions that you experience will pinch that hose and slow down or stop the flow of that power from inside of you. Your ability to use that power to get what you want from life will also slow down or stop. On the other hand, when you experience positive, happy emotions, then your hose is full of high pressure Universal energy and you can use it to literally manifest anything in the world that you want!
A simple and powerful way to use the Law of Attraction is called "Intending". By making a conscious effort to "intend" to do something, you call upon the resources that will be required to make that thing happen. Start out small with this method to learn how it works. Say that you "intend" to make it to work on time today. "Intend" to have a smile for everyone that you see today. Say that you "intend" to be very productive today. By consistently "intending" to do things - even small things - you are constantly building up the positive emotional vibration of Self-confidence. As you get more and more proficient at this, you will be amazed at how much your confidence soars, and how you can literally "intend" for anything to happen - and it will!
You have to stop focusing on the negative things in your life right now! Remember, the Law of Attraction works both ways. Whether you focus on something negative, or something positive, you will receive something out of that attraction - whether you want it or not. So, if you focus on something negative in your life - work, family, health, whatever - you are guaranteed to attract more of it!
Our "reality" today is nothing more than the result of how we have been flowing our energy up to this point by using our feelings. Good, bad, or indifferent - YOU are the only one responsible for where your life is right now. The great news is that it doesn't MATTER where your life is right now! By flowing your energy differently from now on and only feeling positive emotions, you can literally create your tomorrow to be whatever you want it to be!
Focus on what you want in life as if you already had it. Do whatever it takes to create the positive emotional state that you will experience when you actually have whatever it is that you desire. Do this as opposed to focusing on what you DON'T want! For example: If you want to lose weight, don't say "I want to lose weight". All that does is remind you that you think you weigh too much! Instead, picture in your mind how you will look when you get to your goal weight, and imagine how great that will make you feel. This creates positive energy flow, rather than the habitual negative energy flow that automatically comes forth when you say "I want to lose weight". No matter what it is that you desire, you must create the positive emotional energy associated with already having that thing, which will ultimately attract that thing right to you!
Never ever worry about HOW you are going to get what you want! This one misconception is responsible for a large portion of the failure that exists in our society today. The idea behind the Law of Attraction is that you flow positive energy out into the Universe by having feelings of success, happiness, and fulfillment when you visualize the things that you want to get out of life. The Universe will provide the things that you “feel” about, but it will not work if you worry about how it is all going to happen, or even IF it is going to happen. Doubt breeds insecurity and lack of focus. KNOW that you will get what you want, and leave the details of HOW it is going to happen to the power of the Universe!
Don't be afraid to "tender talk" yourself. By telling yourself in a soothing manner that everything is going to be okay, you immediately start producing positive energy. Talking out loud radically increases the effectiveness of this technique and you will be amazed at how quickly you start to feel better.
Always remember that negative energy is created by your reaction to something. No matter how justified you may be in getting angry or upset about something, your justification means nothing to the Universe. You will create damaging negativity that directly affects you in a negative manner - no matter how justified you were for getting upset in the first place.
Feel good even when you don't FEEL like feeling good. In fact, the more you don't want to be positive, the greater the need for you to BE positive! When life has you down and all you want to do is curl into a ball and hide - that is when you need positive energy the most. Even if you have to take baby steps to work your way back into the light - DO IT!
Focus intense emotional happiness and positive vibrations on your true desires in life as often as you can. The Law of Attraction works on a cumulative scale. The more you vibrate in a truly positive manner, the faster you get what you want. There are no "rules" that say how often or for how long you should undertake these activities, but it is clear that the more often you do it, the better. It is not possible to feel positive TOO often! At least 15 continuous, uninterrupted minutes per day is recommended, and more than that is even better.
Don't jump to "take action" every time something doesn't go your way in life. Our habits have been formed in such a way that we think the only way to "fix" something is to take massive action against it. Not true! By taking massive action, all we are doing is continuing to convince ourselves that the problem must be huge. Instead, focus on the positive opposite of that problem, and a solution will present itself - without you continuing to create negative energy by taking massive action against that thing.
One of the simplest and most effective ways to turn a negative situation around is to simply SMILE. We're not talking about smiling at the situation, although that may also be appropriate. Instead, we are talking about putting together a list of things for you to think about that simply bring a true heartfelt smile to your face. Whenever you are feeling down or unable to control your negative feelings, just consult your list and smile when you think of one or more of the things on the list. You can choose things like envisioning two kittens tumbling all over each other as they play; maybe a puppy barking at the TV because he sees another animal there; perhaps a cherished memory of a child, a family member, or a loved one. The better the vision or the memory, the more powerful the smile will be!
A simple and silly - but very effective - way to get positive energy flowing when you least feel like it is to simply focus on flowing positive energy. Choose a person, an inanimate object, a tree - anything. Just stare at the thing you have chosen and simply imagine overflowing it with love! Picture waves of goodness and positive vibrations emanating from you and being swallowed up by the object of your attention. Not only does this have the affect of stopping your negative energy flow simply because you have something else to focus on, but you get the humor factor going, too. If concentrating on how much you love a street sign, a dust bunny, or your shoelace doesn't bring a silly grin to your face, then nothing will!
Dance & Sing! Every one of us has songs that simply make us feel good. In fact, sometimes when we are relishing in a bath of (seemingly) well-deserved negativity, we WON'T listen to that song because we are enjoying the chance to wallow in self-pity. Rubbish! Negativity will get you nowhere, so turn that song on and sing! If you are not driving, then dance, too! The worse your singing voice is and the more you can't dance, the better you will feel for belting out the effort anyway!
When your "Inner Self" sends you a message, listen to it! The more we vibrate positive emotions, the closer we become to who we TRULY are. Flashes of intuition and inspired ideas are a direct result of us gaining a closer relationship with our all-powerful inner selves. Human instincts teach us to survive. Human intuition, on the other hand, teaches us to be happy. If you want to be happy, then learn how to respond when clues and answers are given to you.
Focus intense emotional happiness and positive vibrations on your true desires in life as often as you can. The Law of Attraction works on a cumulative scale. The more you vibrate in a truly positive manner, the faster you get what you want. There are no "rules" that say how often or for how long you should undertake these activities, but it is clear that the more often you do it, the better. It is not possible to feel positive TOO often! At least 15 continuous, uninterrupted minutes per day is recommended, and more than that is even better.
If you and another person are both focusing on the same positive outcome, then you amplify the effects of the Law of Attraction. If a group of people can focus on the same thing, then the effect is even greater. The uses for this type of amplification at home or in the workplace are truly staggering.
Do whatever you can to understand what it will feel like to possess the things that you are working to manifest with the Law of Attraction. Go visit the type of house that you want to live in. Test-drive the car that you want to buy. Vacation on the island that you want to retire on. Remember, though - the point of this exercise is NOT to remind yourself that you don't already have these things, but rather to FEEL what it is like to have them. The more intensely and the more often you focus on that feeling afterwards, the sooner the object of your desire will come into your life!
Before you enter into a potentially negative situation, put up your own emotional shields by sending positive vibrations in advance of you actually getting there. Envision the best possible outcome, and think of how easy the whole thing will be because you have such a great attitude about it. By sending positive vibrations in ahead of you, then at the very least, YOUR head will be in the right place, and it is possible that you will displace some other negative energy as well.
Practice the life that you want before you get it! No matter if your goals are health, wealth, personal happiness, or whatever else you want to attain - pretend you already have it. Visualize going out and spending your money, or strutting around in your picture-perfect body, or curling up in a perpetually happy ball of contentment. It doesn't matter what you want. All that matters is that you see the life that you want as if you already have it, and you FEEL accordingly!
Allow no excuses! If you think that you can't get what you want because you don't have enough time or education, or because some "circumstance" just won't allow you to have it, then that is the energy that you will flow, and that EXACTLY what you will get!
If you feel that your personal or family relationships are in trouble - or worse, are completely hopeless - then you are absolutely right! By feeling that way, you are absolutely guaranteeing that what you feel will happen is going to come to pass. It is imperative that you remember that you can only control your feelings and your reactions to the people in your life. If those feelings and reactions are angry, hostile, or hopeless, then those relationships are doomed by your own hand. Also, remember that just because you manage to keep up a positive energy flow, that does not guarantee that the people you care about will do the same. Some people are doomed to misery because they can't break free from their negative ways. All you can do is remain positive, visualize the best possible outcome, and trust that the Universe - your Inner Self - will guide YOU down the right path.
Never blame anyone for anything. Even if they were 100% in the wrong, by blaming them, all you do is create more negative energy. Instead, appreciate whatever it is that is good about that person or the situation, and flow positive energy instead.
Forgiveness is something that we do for ourselves. By continuing to be upset about something that someone has done in the past, all we are doing is continually recreating the negative energy associated with that memory. In order to forgive, you truly must forget. Otherwise, your "forgiveness" is just a show, and neither you nor the other person is going to receive any positive energy from it.
If you truly want to help someone in your life who is going through a rough time, then stop focusing on their issues! Whether you are talking about medical conditions, financial woes, or personal problems, you must not dwell on the negative aspects of their lives. By focusing on that person's problems, or talking about those problems, you are reinforcing the negative strength of their issues. Instead, just focus on the positive opposite of their negative issue, and encourage them to do the same.
When a relationship does not go your way, the only way that you can expect to attract a better relationship - or to fix the one that you are in - is to let go of the negative feelings that you have about that person or that relationship. Instead, focus on a positive mental picture of the type of relationship that you want, or on the positive aspects of the relationship that you are in.
If your family life is in turmoil, you must remember that it is up to YOU to create the positive environment that will fix it. By continuing to do nothing but respond in a negative manner to whatever the problems are, you will do nothing but perpetuate the problems, and they will never go away!
Your mind and your body are linked on every conceivable level, so it stands to reason that if you think you are sick and you focus on that, then you most certainly will be. On the flip side, if you focus on being healthy and strong, then your body will respond by BEING healthy and strong. You can literally heal your body of injury and illness by flowing positive energy. However, if you focus on any illness - from the common cold all the way up through cancer - you are guaranteed to make that condition worse!
Your natural state is one of happiness, health, and unlimited power! The less you believe that, the less happiness, health, and power you will have. On the other hand, when you truly believe that you are both the creator and the recipient of a truly fulfilling existence, then the sky is the limit as far as what you can have, what you can become, and what you can experience!
The past is exactly that - the past! You do not have to "deal with it", "come to terms with it", or any similar nonsense. You are the architect of your future, and your future has not been written yet! It has absolutely nothing to do with who you used to be, what you think you have done wrong in the past, or how you were raised. Every day - indeed, every MOMENT - is another chance for you to make your life whatever you want it to be. Make it a good one!
You can never have anything if you have an energetic "resistance" to attracting that thing into your life. If you don't BELIEVE you can have it, you never will have it!











