I am a huge believer in the Law of Attraction.  I am also a highly analytical thinker and I have an overactive desire to understand how and why things work the way they do.  Recently I’ve been increasingly diving into depth of how and why Law of Attraction works.

I have found that there is such a broad spectrum of understanding when it comes to the Law of Attraction that the concept itself is misunderstood by most people.  Some people believe that the Law of Attraction is a Universal force that can be activated and used in our lives by following a certain set of steps or procedures.  Activate the force and get what you want.  Don’t activate it, and live your “normal” life.

Others believe that the Law of Attraction is always on, regardless whether you’re following any steps or not.  Learning how to use the Law of Attraction is simply a matter of consciusly becoming aware of the fact that you’re always attracting what you dominantly think about.

Some believe that every single thing in your life has been attracted into your life by you at a subconscious level most likely without your conscious awareness of it.  If you win a $10 lottery ticket, you attracted that 100% yourself.  If you are a victim of crime, you attracted that 100%.  Everything, good, bad, positive, negative, etc. is all a manifestation of your subconscious mind.

Then finally there are the “skeptics” who think the Law of Attraction is mostly crap people delude themselves with.  They attribute any reported success with the Law of Attraction to the Reticular Activating System (RAS) playing tricks on us.  An example of the Reticular Activating System at work is when you purchase a particular car such as buying a red Honda Civic for example, and then all of a sudden you’re seeing red Honda Civic’s driving around everywhere.  However, are there all of a sudden a whole bunch more red Honda Civic’s driving around, or are you just noticing them more because your Reticular Activating System is pointing them out to you?

The skeptics that don’t believe in Law of Attraction typically just dismiss any Law of Attraction mombo-jumbo as the Reticular Activating System being activated and people clinging onto some fantasy that they are “attracting” things into their lives.

The confusion doesn’t end there.  I’ve read books by people who say that Law of Attraction only works if you’re attracting love-based things into your life.  I’ve read books that say that it doesn’t matter what you attract, it can be positive or negative.  I’ve read books that say that only certain things which are for the greater good of everyone else will be attracted into your life, while others say the choice is completely yours to decide whether you want to attract selfishly or to help others.

I’ve been in discussions where we’ve talked about the different possibilities of HOW the Law of Attraction could work the way it seems to work.  For example, I can set an intention to attract a certain type of person into my life such as a type of boss, co-worker, partner, friend or an expert in something and within a really short period of time that exact person comes into my life.  How did that happen?  Did my intention somehow get telepathically communicated to his consciousness and a perfect set of events brought us together?

Over the last 6 or 7 years I have literally been in thousands of conversations with people about this topic.  I’ve read a few hundred books related to the Law of Attraction, and watched dozens of videos.  You could say that I have completely immersed myself in the topic for more than half a decade and this morning while driving in my car I had a really simple, yet profound thought on the subject.

The analytical mind’s need to understand how and why the Law of Attraction works is largely irrelevant.  We do not need to understand how everything works for it to work.  The distinction we must make is in understanding how and why we can apply it to work in our lives, not how and why it works.

Let me explain the difference.  Let’s say I want to learn how to drive a car.  What do I need to know?  I need to learn how to turn the car on, how to operate the gas, the brake, the steering wheel and a handful of other controls.  That’s it.  Of course I’ll need some practice, but pretty soon I can learn how to drive.  Then, all I need to know after that is where I’m going and why I’m going there.

Do I need to understand how every detail in an engine works before I can drive a car?  Do I need to know how a starter works before I can start the car?  Does understanding the ins and outs of car starters make me a more efficient car starter?  Not really.  I just turn the key and the car starts.

When it comes to the Law of Attraction, I have found that the majority of Law of Attraction teachers and guru’s agree on the concepts of how to make Law of Attraction work for you and the steps have been laid out in detail in  many books.

The good news is that this is really all we need to activate and use the Law of Attraction in our lives.  Where most people get lost is in the detailed analytical analysis of trying to figure out how the Law of Attraction could possibly work.

As a person who’s trying to transition to making money doing what you love, focus the majority of your efforts on utilizing and employing the principles of the Law of Attraction.  Attract and manifest whatever you need to become an Inspired Money maker, and don’t worry too much about how it all works for now.

Later when you’re already making money doing what you love, you can start trying to understand how the whole thing works if you wish.  For now, just learn to drive the car.