Awareness

The Law of Attraction dictates that what we think  becomes our experience.  I’m sure you know of people who are always telling you “I’m lucky–I win things all the time,” and go on to list all of their winnings from the past.  This is a simplified but easy example of how the Law of Attraction works.  Because they say, “I am lucky,” and BELIEVE it, then that becomes their reality.  Now think about the opposite belief, that of “I never win anything.”  Guess what happens?  Exactly.

The Law doesn’t care whether what it gives you is labeled “good” or “bad” by any particular culture or lifestyle.  It simply gives you what you’re thinking about.  But thankfully, it has a built-in delay for nearly all of us.  (I say nearly, because I have seen thoughts manifested immediately when I watched an Indonesian medicine man set fire to a bunch of newspaper with his bare hand hovering 12 inches above it–intense and concentrated thought combined with years of practice can allow this in those with strong beliefs).  But for the rest of us, we usually have to wait.

Oftentimes, the wait is necessary for situations and people to be properly placed prior to our desired manifestation.  Other times, the wait is self-induced because of lingering doubts about the validity of the Law itself.  And yet other times, our thoughts are just fleeting enough to be short on the intention necessary to manifest them.  This is a wonderful safety net, for those angry emotions combined with the desire to drown our little sister when she’s crying are probably left unmanifested!  After all, we really don’t mean them, but they arise out of frustration or anxiety, and dissipate just as quickly when  guilt overrides them.

It is my belief that  undesirable situations are manifested by consistent thought– intently focused– over a period of time.  This is often manifested in couples who break up because one spouse dreams of a lover whose traits are far different from those of her partner.  These consistent thoughts– combined with the emotions of depression, desperation, hope for a (possibly) better life, and the belief that the grass is greener–manifest the dissolution of the partnership.  It doesn’t happen overnight, thankfully.  But over time, with repeated replay of the perfect lover sweeping her off her feet and not ever leaving his socks on the bathroom floor, she will begin to look at her spouse as undesirable, and she will begin to search for the lover she’s created in her mind.

Well good luck finding a man who doesn’t leave his socks on the bathroom floor.

The Law of Attraction allows us this lag time, and it doesn’t discern whether the outcome of your intentions is “good” or “bad” for your future.  The Law gives you what you desire, and what you desire comes from consistent thought teamed with emotion.  So if you really don’t want it, don’t focus on it!

More on this in the next post.  I’ll leave you time to pick those socks up.