Law of Attraction Illustrated
Would you like a simple way to understand Law of Attraction?
I used to spend a lot of time in forums, discussing and debating the topic of Law of Attraction and how it works. Some of the constant arguments that would continuously pop up over and over again were mostly due to people’s misunderstanding of the Law of Attraction.
On one end you’d have Law of Attraction Skeptics who would insist that Law of Attraction is a giant scam perpetrated by the creators of the movie “The Secret” for monetary gain, not realizing that the concept of the Law of Attraction was not invented by the creators of “The Secret”, but actually has been around for thousands of years in scriptures and texts from various cultures all around the world. I have read almost a thousand personal development books in the last 15 years or so, and the Law of Attraction is talked about and present in practically every single one of them, except that most of them don’t call it by that name.
On the other end of the spectrum, you’d have Law of Attraction enthusiasts who saw the movie “The Secret” and got really excited by the idea, not completely understanding the full concept of how it works. They ran out, cut out a picture of their dream car and pasted it on the wall, and then went on with their life as usual. Two days later they wondered why they haven’t manifested this car yet.
The truth is that Law of Attraction is always working in your life. You are always attracting everything that’s in your life, whether you are aware of it or not.
Let me illustrate a simple way to understand the Law of Attraction.
I’m going to use the example of attracting a career path where you are Making Money Doing What You Love as an example, since it is the theme of this Blog.
Let’s start with this illustration (Figure 1):
Let me explain what’s what in this illustration so that you can understand it better.
Imagine that Point A is where you are right now – not making money doing what you love.
Imagine that Point B is where you’d like to be – the place where you are now making money doing what you love.
So, since most of our education and social conditioning is purely centered around the physical world, we are taught that the most important thing we need to focus on is ACTION. So, we blindly follow the advice of the masses and we start to take action from where we are (Point A) towards our goal (Point B).
Unfortunately, what we don’t realize is that Law of Attraction is always working, and if our Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires are not properly aligned with our action, we are simultaneously PUSHING AWAY our goal (Point B). What does this look like? Well, let me break down what I might typically see. These may be a few of the things this person might be doing:
Action Steps:
- Looking around for business opportunities, talking to people about ways to make money
- Taking on part-time work or after-hours projects to try making money doing what they love
- Reading books, Blogs and going to seminars related to doing what they love
- Taking action towards making their first few dollars doing what they love
- Seeking out examples of other people who are making money doing the same thing they love
- etc.
Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires:
- It’s not really possible for me to make money doing what I love
- I don’t have enough money to pursue my dreams
- My family won’t support me
- The universe is a scary place
- The economy is failing, I’m lucky to even have a job
- Things are getting worse
- I’m never going to amount to anything
- etc.
This person may very well be taking some of the action steps someone would take in order to get from Point A to Point B, but at the same time their Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires are working against them. What happens then is that Law of Attraction literally pushes away Point B. Meaning, when you think and believe things like “It’s not really possible for me to make money doing what I love.” then those kinds of thoughts and beliefs create a very specific vibration and the universe attracts events, people and circumstances into your life which MATCH that vibration. You will literally start getting PROOF that this belief is true.
For example, you may start to attract people into your life who are examples of this belief. All of a sudden you find yourself at a social event and when you share your idea of making money doing what you love to do with someone, that person completely shuts down your idea saying something like “Oh yeah, I used to have a cousin that tried to make money doing that exact thing, but it was a complete disaster.”
The bottom line is that while you’re so focused on taking the action steps you think are necessary to get you to your desired Point B, the whole universe is aligned against you. You grit your teeth and exercise incredible feats of willpower and bravery, trying your hardest to take three steps forward in your actions, and then your elusive goal of reaching Point B takes three steps forward as well.
It’s the typical “Carrot on a Stick” metaphor where you keep running for the carrot but you don’t realize that the carrot is hung on a string, attached to a stick that’s attached to your back. It seems obvious that the proper action to take is to run forward towards the carrot, but if you look at the issue from a broader perspective you’ll realize that you will never catch the carrot!
This is, unfortunately, where I find most people STUCK on their path of trying to Make Money Doing What They Love. They are either taking some action, or a lot of action towards their goal, but they are completely ignoring the mental / spiritual side of getting aligned with your goal and so they never reach it. After an extended period of time pushing and pushing towards their goal, they start to feel burned out and intuitively they start to sense that IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. That’s where most people give up. You’ll find millions of them working at dead end jobs, bitching and complaining about how they hate coming to work, but completely paralized and given up on their dreams. They’re simply tired of chasing the carrot.
Let’s take a look at the next illustration (Figure 2):
Here, in this illustration we see someone who is taking the right action steps towards their goal, and they have managed to start aligning some of their thoughts, beliefs and desires in the right direction, but still the majority of their other thoughts, beliefs and desires are actually working against them.
Using the same example as above, lets imagine that this person changed just a couple of their beliefs. They now look like this:
Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires:
- It’s possible for me to make money doing what I love
- I don’t have enough money to pursue my dreams
- My family won’t support me
- The universe is a scary place
- The economy is failing, I’m lucky to even have a job
- Things are getting worse
- I’m destined for greatness
- etc.
You see that this person has cleared a few of their limiting beliefs and now believes that it IS possible for them to make money doing what they love. However, some of their other beliefs, such as “The economy is failing” or “Things are getting worse” are still holding them back. In this example, Law of Attraction is still in effect working against them, pushing their goal away from them as they take action towards it.
However, given enough time and enough action, as long as this person doesn’t give up, it IS possible that they will one day reach their goal, because the Law of Attraction is no longer completely stacked against them. The tangent path they have to take is a lot longer than if they were aligned or at least neutral in their beliefs, but it is still a path that is possible.
Here’s the next illustration (Figure 3):
Here the person has started to realize that their thoughts, beliefs and desires affect the results they get from their actions. They aren’t fully aligned yet, but the number of negative beliefs that repel their goal is now balanced out by their positive beliefs that attract their goal. This is a person who has conflicting beliefs.
Their beliefs may look a bit like this:
Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires:
- It’s possible for me to make money doing what I love
- I don’t have enough money to pursue my dreams
- My family won’t support me
- The universe is a friendly place
- The economy is failing, I’m lucky to even have a job
- Things are getting better
- I’m destined for greatness
- etc.
Sometimes you’ll find that these individuals have a split-mind where they are actually completely positive in their beliefs when they are around positive people, but they are not strong enough to stay positive when they get around negative people. One minute they’re talking to a friend about their grand business plans and how awesome it’s going to be for everyone involved once they are doing what they love, and then the next minute they are talking to someone else who is a complete pessimist and they are starting to doubt themselves, thinking “Who do I think I am? I can’t do this!“.
As their mind plays tricks on them and they flip flop between a positive vibration which attracts their desired goal and a negative vibration which repels it, as long as they continue to take action towards their goal, they WILL eventually achieve it. The path is still going to be a much longer path than necessary, but at least they are now balancing out their negativity with a fresh dose of positivity.
Here’s a better place to be (Figure 4):
Now you’re starting to see the Law of Attraction work in your favor. The majority of your Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires are now in alignment with your goal and except for the occasional hiccup perhaps when you get around really fearful and negative people, you’re now starting to really live your days believing and knowing that your dreams are on their way. Even if you haven’t reached them yet, you are now living with a deep knowing that everything will be alright and you’re going to reach your goal.
Here, the Law of Attraction is working in partial harmony with you, making some of the resources you’ll need available to you, introducing you to people you’ll need to meet and harmonizing you with the events you need to experience in order to bring you closer to your goal. This is usually the place where you start to experience some synchronistic events, and you generally walk around with an inner smile of knowing that the only thing seperating you from your dreams is a bit of time.
As wonderful as this place can be, there is an ever better place you can be which is this (Figure 5):
Here in this example, you are now fully aligned. Your actions, your thoughts, beliefs and desires are all in alignment and Point A and Point B are fully attracting each other. You begin to experience massive synchronicities where resources, people and events required for you to reach your goal are “magically” starting to show up in your life. Even when you’re not seemingly taking action towards your goal, such as for example when you’re grocery shopping, watching TV or even sleeping, you are in fact bringing it closer.
You go grocery shopping and you meet an old friend you haven’t seen in years that helps you achieve your goal even faster. As you’re watching TV, a character in a movie says something that helps you solve a problem you were having related to your goal. You go to bed and wake up remembering dreams that have given you ideas towards reaching your goal even faster.
When you’re fully aligned like this, EVERYTHING you do is massively attracting your desired goal. When we’re in this state, things are attracted to us so quickly and with such force it’s amazing to watch. Outsiders who may witness this happening in the life of someone they know typically label this as “Luck.” All of a sudden, everything goes right for the person.
It’s not luck. It’s Law of Attraction working with you. Or more accurately, you’re now working aligned with IT, instead of against IT.
I hope this will help you guys understand a little bit better how the Law of Attraction works in your life and maybe it’ll become more clear why I spend so much time on this Blog talking about “Thoughts, Beliefs and Desires”. For most of you, that’s the only thing still holding you back.
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Two things come to mind when I read this. One, “To thine own self be true”. And the one word, integrity. If we aren’t true to ourselves we will not see this amazing law of attraction work for us. Great post Paul. Keep them coming!
Cheers,
Jeremy
Paul,
How can you tell which beliefs are holding you back from what you want, and which are aligned? From an inner perspective, it can be hard to determine whether any of the beliefs you have or supportive or not. It would be easier if they showed up in red and green like in your post, but at least for myself this doesn’t happen
. Is there a process you use to determine which beliefs are ‘right’ (moving towards what you want or right for you) and which are not?
@Patrick: Click on the category “Beliefs” on the right hand column and read through some of my articles on beliefs. This one may be of particular value to you:
http://www.inspiredmoneymaker.com/2008/04/27/how-to-make-money-doing-what-you-love-by-clearing-your-limiting-beliefs/
Besides that, there are many other tools out there specifically designed for finding and clearing limiting beliefs. I’ll be talking about this more in the coming days.
Dang, I’m having flash backs from highschool from when I played running back. These diagrams remind me of a chalk board and who I’m suppose to block.
LOL….. great post Paul.
Ace
Thank you for the very clear explanation and images. If I may, I would like to share an article that goes hand in hand with what you explaines.
Controlling Your Thoughts
The importance of controlling one’s thoughts is paramount to achieve success. In the Star Wars Saga both Obi Wan Kenobi (my favorite Jedi Master, by the way) and Qui Gon Jin stressed the importance of exercising a very strict discipline over one’s thoughts.
This is because, the Dark Side’s number one target is the arena of your thoughts. If the Dark Side gets to permeate your thoughts, it will control and manipulate your entire life and take you into a downward spiral of destruction. We must be extremely careful not only about what we ingest through our eyes and ears, but what we think about.
Almost like a magnet, we draw in what we constantly think about. Now, you must realize that you are the only one who can control your thoughts. You decide what you will entertain in your mind. Simply because the Dark Side plants a negative, discouraging thought in your brain doesn’t mean you have to “water” it and help it to grow.
Proverbs 23, 7 says “As a person thinks in his heart, so he will become”. When you think thoughts of mediocrity of failure you are doomed to fail. But when you align your thoughts with God’s thoughts, with the Light Side, and decide to think about victory, success, calmness, peace, strength, faith and a myriad of positive thoughts, you will inevitably put yourself on the path of the Light Side’s supernatural blessings. Continually choose to keep your minds on the higher things and trust God, trust the Light Side, for good things.
At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the Universe, this field of energy is The Force. Scientists have proved this, through quantum physics, and have come to a concept called the Zero Point Field – an ocean of microscopic vibrations in the space between things, thus everything would be connected to everything else like some invisible web. Human perception occurs because of interactions between the subatomic particles of our brains and the quantum energy sea, or The Force. The existence of the Zero Point Field implies that all matter in the universe is interconnected by waves, which are spread out through time and space and can carry on to infinity, tying one part of the universe to every other part, at speeds higher than the speed of light. We and all the matter of the universe are literally connected to the furthest reaches of the cosmos through the Zero Point Field waves of the grandest dimensions. One of the central tenets of quantum physics, first proposed by Louis de Broglie, is that subatomic entities can behave either as particles or waves (diffuse and unbounded regions of influence which can flow through and interfere with other waves). This brings us to the theory that each individual consciousness has its own ‘particular’ separateness, but is also capable of ‘wave-like’ behavior, in which it could flow through any barriers or distance, to exchange information and interact with the physical world.
If consciousness is operating at the quantum frequency level, it would also naturally reside outside space and time, which means that we theoretically have access to information, ‘past’ and ‘future’. If humans are able to influence quantum events, this implies that we are also able to affect events or moments other than in the present.
At a Quantum level you are like a radio tower that is constantly transmitting a certain frequency into the Universe. Your thoughts and feelings create an energetic vibration that is sent out into the world. This vibration is then reflected back to you by the Universe, producing physical results in your personal world. The truth is that we are always creating something. Whether you are manifesting what you want or what you don’t want depends on the level of your vibration. We are like manifesting magnets! We attract what mirrors are feelings and thinking patterns. So what we send out is EXACTLY what we get back!
For example, when we are full of joy, gratitude, or excitement, we tend to send out a high frequency energy, which in turn magnetizes back high frequency experiences like great opportunities, positive-minded people, great learning experiences, material and spiritual prosperity, etc.
On the other hand, when we send out the energy of doubt, frustration, or fear, we tend to magnetize challenging experiences that we don’t want. So all you need to do in order to be successful is to constantly emit high frequency vibrations which will attract your desires to you!
It’s important to know that we are each born with the natural power to create our own reality. We do so everyday! The real question is… are you creating what you WANT, or stuck in creating what you DON’T WANT?
More info at: QuantumKnights Lens.
The truth is that you are a manifesting machine! You cannot stop manifesting. Whatever you are focusing on is what you will manifest!
Once you learn how to train your mind to stay focused ONLY on the experience you want to have, that experience will find it’s way into your life! Use this powerful gift to your advantage and learn how to manifest what you WANT and how to stop manifesting what you DON’T WANT today!
The path to the Light involves being constantly aware of the real effects of our thoughts and the importance of being constantly mindful of them. Start exercising discipline on your thoughts, keep them positive, uplifting and centered on the higher things.
Many blessings,
Art Gonzalez
QuantumKnights Lens.
Are you guest posting Art?
JK
Thanks for that enlightenment Paul. I am mixed up with this right now, and am not “aligned”. I have been realizing this lately as God has been opening my eyes. I didn’t really understand it though, this puts it largely into perspective and makes sense. For me its a spiritual alignment that is missing and I am going to work on aligning it. Now can my working on aligning it actually be out of alignment and mess up my alignment? Maybe I am reading too much into it? Anyway, I now understand that there is a lot I don’t understand, and that is a great place to start. Thanks.
Wow Paul you have read over 1000 personal development books?
I am wondering if you could suggest a few of the best life changing ones, especially ones that might be of interest to more advanced personal developers..?
Paul,
This was a brilliant (B-R-I-L-L-A-N-T) feature. I learned so much and I see where I’ve been out of sink with what I wanted out of life. I can also see that because I’ve been doing much more work on myself, I’m starting to turn a cover and there is a lot more coming into my life pushing me towards victory.
I quite enjoyed the lesson here. Thanks a million!!!
Miss Gisele B.
@justin lora: Send me an email via the site and tell me what you’re looking for, and maybe I can suggest some books that might help you out Justin.
Great post! A very clear look at the Law of Attraction. My only addition to it is that I’d flip things around a bit – I’d say that it’s not the goal that’s moving, but you. Another metaphor might be that you are on a sailboat and your beliefs are directing the wind; if you’re beliefs support the direction you’re going, it’s easy to get there with full sails, but if not, you’ve got to tack your way upwind the long, hard way and if you stop you’ll just get pushed further and further away from your goal.
Of course, this is just a matter of frame of reference – if you sit at the goal it appears that you are moving and the goal sits still. If you look from your POV the goal looks like it’s the one that is moving.
WOW! It’s hard to read this and NOT feel inspired. What an excellent way of looking at the matter. I think this model is something I can use to help other people manifest, and to also stock-check myself. In fact I think I will print it out and keep it in my bag for such occastions! Thanks very much Paul.
Just found this post this morning via John Chow’s website, and I wish I had something like this to read every Monday morning! It’s easy to lose focus when it feels like things aren’t going your way… and when you lose focus things start to go downhill.
Thanks for the post!
NICE article
Great post Paul, especially as it clearly explains what happens when people think that they are aligned and taking action, thus should be attracting what they want, when they are far from doing that at a subconscious level. I always use the expression “you get what you focus on” but you need to know what you want to focus on first and then you need to believe it’s possible. If that chattering voice is continuing to say “you know you can’t do this” (for instance) at a subconscious level, not amount of action will change that at a conscious one in my experience. This post really helps to highlight that, and I’m sure people will find it v useful.
awsome post! Great job and I enjoyed Art’s insight as well.
Visiting your site has been my highlight of blogs today. I will be out having fun tonight with a stronger sense of focus. I know what I want and where I am heading. Now, I must stay aligned. This is what I need to work on the most. Love your post!
Thanks everyone for the positive feedback. I really enjoyed writing this post.
Hi Paul,
I heard an audio interview between you and Yaro Starak in BlogMasterMind. It is nice to know how you leveraged the forum traffic from Steve Pavlina’s blog. At that time I remember you saying that you had 297 RSS readers. Now its more than 1.5k. Looks like law of attraction is working for you. This post is very nice. I am also reading many books and lawof attraction is mentioned in all of them.
Indian Mythology is all about this law. Perhaps you should take a look into ancient indian scriptures too for a deeper knowledge.
You have really inspired me. Your blog is growing fast. I have a blog about bikes and it has 1k RSS readers. Thanks to Yaro’s for his program.
Deepak
@Deepak: Yes, Yaro’s Blog Mastermind program was a big help in getting my Blog to the level it’s at today.
I have studied some Indian Spiritual traditions, and I especially love the writings of Deepak Chopra. His books speak to me a lot.
A great post. I have also learned law of attraction for a long time. the illustrations explain how we are pushing our dreams away. Only when actions and our belief are a match can we get a fast step toward our success. without realizing this, it is possible that we can still succeed, but we will pay more, work more to get it.
welcome to my blog: wealth attraction using law of attraction
Name some books for:
1. Getting up early ready to act no distraction, no hangover, no confusion, no exhaustion.
2. To get a position or job
3. To make creative ideas
I think this post explains the whole concept of LOA quite clearly. It’s not a difficult concept to understand, but there are hurdles for people when applying it. What techniques do you personally use? Affirmations and visualisations?
@LWeng: Pretty much everything under the sun I can get my hands on. Affirmations, meditation, visualization etc. are all a part of it.
Lately I’ve been really getting great results by following the teachings in “Money and the Law of Attraction” by Esther Hicks.