At it’s most basic level The Law of Attraction states that “like attracts like”.  As a result, if you put out anger you will attract anger from the universe, and the individuals in it.  If you put out thoughts about being short of money, then you will attract situations that make you short of money.  If you make yourself a source of abundance, then you will attract abundance from the Universe.  And so on…

We are therefore all interacting with the Law of Attraction every moment of every day.  The question is whether  you are making the Law of Attraction work for you, or against you!  If we are to have any success at all in directing our energy in a way that allows us to manifest what we want in our lives utilizing the Law of Attraction, then it is not just necessary but vital to grasp certain core principals that govern this natural law.  And make no mistake about it, this is just as much of a natural law as is gravity.

We use the principals that govern the natural law of gravity to our benefit every day.  We do this when we pour a cup of coffee by placing the cup below where the flow of coffee will exit the spout of the coffee pot when we tip it.  If we didn’t do this, we would have a mess resulting from our own failure to understand and use the law of gravity accurately.

This is exactly why you may have difficulty making the Law of Attraction work for you.  Meditate on these Law of Attraction principals and you will progress to utilizing Attraction Techniques as beneficially and as easily as you pour that cup of joe!

• The Law of Attraction will respond to the energy from the entirety of the energy you emit in relation to what you are trying to manifest. You simply cannot separate out your end desire from your motivation.  Doing so will have unintended consequences.  If your motivation for manifesting is to harm another, then the energy you are sending out if of a malevolent nature and malevolence is what will result even if you do in fact receive your goal situation.
• The Law of Attraction is also The Law of Abundance. Manifesting in a competitive manner carries with it an attempt to stifle the flow of the energy so abundant in the Universe and what you are manifesting is a restriction of that abundance.  That is what you will get back.  A lack of access to that abundant energy.
• Successful Manifestation using Attraction Techniques requires accurate assessment of the current situation. You cannot direct a beneficial change in situation if you do not acknowledge what the actuality of that situation is.  This is why we each need to start our journey towards manifesting by taking stock of what is, and being present with it.  Being “present with what is” means accepting that this is the situation at the present moment.  It does not mean accepting that as a judgment for all time.  Be at peace with what is, so that you are not identifying with a situation that is undesirable.  Identifying with it sends out energy that the Law of Attraction will respond to and return.

There are a great deal more principals that make the Law of Attraction react in a manner not beneficial to our purposes when we set out to manifest our desires, but the above are some of those that most commonly affect people that feel the Law of Attraction is not working for them.  It is interacting with each and every one of us at all times, either beneficially or detrimentally.  It is up to use to identify how and why.

Jim

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Visit any forum on this subject and you are bound to find threads by people looking for help manifesting  new cars, luxury homes and stacks of cash.  And this by people who have no interest in the more basic forms of manifesting that deal with day to day issues of peace and harmony within their lives.

This is not possible!

You must address these issues as a basis for progressing in manifestation.  Attempting to jump ahead, so to speak would put you in a position where you were in conflict with the LOA, not working with it.

The Law of Attraction is a natural law, like gravity.  And you ignore it’s basic tenets with the same degree of danger you would have if you ignored gravity.  This means that if you want to harness this power, it is necessary to experience it as it occurs in everyday life as an observer before you even attempt to steer it with your own thoughts and energy.  Even with the Law of Attraction you need to be able to crawl before you try to run a marathon…

We have each already observed the Law of Attraction at work whether we realized it or not.  How often have we seen someone put out negative energy in the form of anger only to get anger back?  How often have we seen that some people never seem to have a problem with anyone due to their own calm demeanor?  In each of these cases, the party  with the greatest strength behind the type of energy they are emanating will prevail.  With one seeming exception, which we will get to later.

So each and every one of us are manifesting through the energy we emanate through our thoughts, words and actions.  You are already interacting with the Law of Attraction by thinking, speaking and going about your business every day just as you are interacting with gravity by failing to fall off the planet!

What we want to do though, is to learn to interact with the Law of Attraction in a beneficial way.  And when we say beneficial, we mean beneficial to all.  As if we seek to manifest in a way that is harmful to others in order to benefit ourselves, our efforts with fail.  They will fail because by definition they are in conflict with the Law of Attraction.  To attempt to manifest something that is good for the manifestor at another’s expense is a selfish act and will attract selfishness from others, hindering the desired results across all aspects of the manifestors life.  See how this works?

So the first thing we need to develop in order to begin even the most basic forms of Law of Attraction manifestation is to develop Awareness.  What is meant here by Awareness is first of all to be Aware of one’s own identity as opposed to the over-identification with one’s own positions, and identification with the content of life that is so common today.  Awareness also includes being cognizant of everyone else as something other than competitors.  The best way to accomplish both of these is to meditate on the following affirmation:

Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources available to them.

This helps to build our empathy with the condition of others and eliminate our feelings that we need to overcome them as such.  Awareness is key to success in your efforts to use Law of Attraction manifestation techniques.  This is one of the reasons that I have given more attention to writing about The Power of Now issues as they help to overcome the out of balance ego that the majority of the world struggles with.

Developing this kind of Awareness will result in an existance marked with peace, harmony and a comforting realization of where one fits in the Universe.  It also will give you a much better feeling about all of the other individuals we come in contact with on a daily basis.  Yes, even the ones we don’t really like all that much, lol…

Awareness is also the energy that tips the scales in favor of the Aware.  Remember the one exception to the rule that the one manifesting with the most energy will prevail?  Awareness trumps all.  You can come up against the angriest of individuals with their yelling and cursing, and overcome them with far less energy as long as you are acting out of Awareness.  This is because the energy that Awareness brings is of such a higher order, that it trumps just about everything it comes up against.

I will be writing further about the Law of Attraction and Manifestation techniques.  It will be with an understanding that to even begin working to use LOA techniques as a steering mechanism, you have to start by developing Awareness as a baseline within your life.

Jim

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The entire universe, all of creation, the cosmos…

Whatever you want to call it, it’s all made of the same thing:

Energy!

You and I and your dog and your car are all composed of energy in various forms. In spite of what you are hearing on the TV machine energy is everywhere around you in every direction and much farther than the eye can see. Another way to say it is that energy is the most abundant commodity there is.

So let’s call this all important principle the Law of Abundance.

It’s a constant reminder that the stuff of the universe is all around us, if we just tap into it!

Explore this with me a little further…

Your kitchen table, like everything else is made up of energy.  Tiny particles of energy separated by space that are traveling so quickly and vibrating at such a rate that when you knock on it, the surface seems extremely hard and still.  When you put your dinner plate down on it your pork chop and veg doesn’t end up on the floor precisely because of the speed and vibration of the energy making up that table.

So how do we tap into all of that abundant energy?

Glad you asked!

Try this experiment with any string instrument you have access to.  Myself, I have a guitar and a mandolin to choose from.  Gonna go with the guitar since it’s here in the room…

You may not be aware of it, but the strings on my guitar (and every other guitar) are emitting  their notes continuously as the air currents in the room pass over them.  They are just playing their notes at such a low level that the human ear cannot detect it.

But what happens when that vibration is increased?

If I pick up that guitar and pluck the first string (it’s an E) to get the right pitch, I can then sing that note back to the still guitar and when I stop singing the guitar will audibly emit that note back to me.  This happens because I am emitting vibrations at the same wavelength the guitar string is already vibrating at.

What happens though when I sing the note just one tone higher than the E that the string is tuned to?  Practically nothing.  And what little does happen is not harmonious in the least!  And this is exactly how the universe works:

If you vibrate with the same kind of energy as the universe you make yourself a part of that abundant energy!

And just like with the guitar, the volume will increase the more you add to it’s harmonious vibration. Notice from our experiment with the guitar that harmonious vibration has an exponentially larger result than dissonant vibration.   But if this is how the universe really works, why is it that we see such a huge result from dissonant vibration?

Because their is such an overwhelming majority of people out of harmony with the universe!

This also means that each of us that vibrates on the same wavelength with the universe’s abundant energy will have dynamically abundant energy returning and cutting right through the prevalent lack that most people are experiencing.

In essence what we are doing is making ourselves into exactly what we were always supposed to be.  A dynamic and integrally involved part of a universe overflowing with abundant energy.  So instead of trying to get something out of (or Attracting something from) the universe, we are becoming part of it.

Understanding this and acting in accord with it is subtly different than the Law of Attraction as many try to practice it.  Instead of trying to treat the universe as some kind of cosmic ATM, we become centers of resonating positive energy radiating abundant, positive, joyous and joyful energy and find ourselves awash in ever increasing waves of like abundant energy.  And thus:

The Law of Abundance!

Does this all rule out the concept of Manifesting?  Nope, but that is a discussion for another day…

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Many that have found their own spiritual awakening by seeking to live in the present moment feel that the concept of manifesting their desires is a denial of the present moment and therefore not harmonious to a life firmly planted in The Now.  Likewise, LOA devotees frequently state that  living in that same now doesn’t allow for their own desires to be manifested…

Is this really an either or proposition?

It needn’t be…

Eckhart Tolle referred to the manifestation process as “a fine thing to do” in his book “A New Earth: Awakening To Life’s Purpose”.  And Dr Wayne Dyer has frequently made statements to the effect that the movie “The Secret” gave a slightly skewed view of  the LOA and how it works.  This is why he was not involved in the project, although he was asked to be very early on.

Resolving these types of issues, as well as just plain exploring the principles found in both the LOA and Mr. Tolle’s work is what this blog is about, with plenty of room to delve a bit into Lao-Tzu. I may even stretch back a bit to someone like Leo Buscaglia and see if he works within today’s ideas…

Of course, everyone’s spiritual journey is their own and must be traveled at the speed of their own understanding and path.  Hopefully you will find these posts as thought provoking to read as I do writing them.  Feel free to dive in and post a comment challenging or questioning my assertions, and I will do my best to respond.

Having neither all of the answers, nor even most of the questions, all I can promise is an interesting exchange of ideas that could be useful on your own spiritual journey to enlightenment…

Jim

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