Does the Law of Attraction Work?
I read The Secret almost a year ago. Even though the law of attraction became incredibly obvious to me immediately I’m still in the process of integrating it into my mind and life. Like many people facing the challenges of living it takes a radical shift in perspective to completely change your thinking.
The world seems to be falling apart everywhere around me even more so than a year ago. Yet my shift from thinking about what I don’t want to what I do want has made many incremental yet major differences in my personal life and how I feel. This has made me want to delve even deeper in the teachings behind the secret.
In practical experience the law of attraction works at the pace of a growing flower. You don’t see it happening so your mind wonders if its just a bunch of nonsense. However, if allow yourself to participate in strong intentions, faith and letting go, then I have found you wake up one day and realize your life is starting to change into something new and different.
Learning to Really “Use” the Law in Your Life
If you find that the law of attraction is not working for you in this way then you might need some more refined insights. The book and DVD The Secret is really just an introduction to the basics concepts. Even Bob Proctor, one of the stars in the movie, thinks its a “watered down version” of universal laws, even though it still served its purpose of helping the masses.
Proctor’s course “The 11 Forgotten Laws of Attraction” and Joe Vitale’s “The Secret Behind the Secret” are both excellent teaching manuals for learning the skills and tools you can use to practically implement the the law in to your life. The idea of changing your reality by being conscious of your thinking and purposefully changing has been around for thousands of years.
However, these concepts have been considered as out of reach or something to strive for over many lifetimes, not as an actual way to live your life. Words like “enlightenment”, “zen” and “saved” have such an astounding number of bizarre mental connotations attached to them that it becomes almost impossible for people to think they can enter that state. I personally think that these all refer to the states of mind that make the law of attraction work for you and that there are concrete steps you can take to become a new kind of person.
Why There is Allot More to “The Secret”
For instance, in “The 11 Forgotten Laws of Attraction” Bob Proctor outlines more keys to jump starting the law of attraction. He says you need to really understand that even people who are not getting what they want are still subject to the law, they just still happen to be thinking in a way that is drawing the wrong circumstances to them. The reason this happens is due to undisciplined thinking because at some level there must be resistance going on in the mind that is creating the undesired outcomes.
If the mind is still stuck in thinking about what it does not want then it is not open to give or receive. Without giving or receiving there is no way to have a forgiving mindset about your current situation. You can not experience increases in income or well-being if you are trapped in angry or resentful thoughts. That’s why there is allot more to it than just telling yourself to “Let-go”.
My whole point is that you really need to commit to the law of attraction with your whole mind and make it your way of life. Its like any profession or hobby, it takes a while to get good at and you don’t see immediate results. If you want to become a doctor your don’t read one medical book and then say “it doesn’t work” just because you don’t become a doctor right away!