I’m sure if you googled “Law of Attraction” you’d find an incredible amount of information on it, so I’m not going to give you a long, detailed explanation of every aspect of it.  That’s what The Secret is for.  I’m going to share the basics of the Law of Attraction, exactly how it has worked for my benefit and how it can work for you.  The Law of Attraction states that your thoughts determine your life.  Your predominant thoughts find a way to manifest as your reality.  You attract what you think about.   It might be easier to see that your decisions have formed your life, but your decisions ultimately come from your thoughts.

The Secret

I first heard about the Law of Attraction in 2006 when the movie The Secret came out.  Oprah was excited about it and a lot of people were telling me about it, so I got it.  When I watched it the first time, I didn’t quite grasp it all, but I was definitely excited about this new way of thinking, so I showed it to some people I knew.  They watched it for about 10 minutes before they started talking about some drama they had heard on the news.  The excitement I had was gone and I could see they were disinterested, so I put the movie away for about two years.

After coming off two horrible semesters in college where I wasn’t going to class and seemed very disinterested, I decided I needed a break.  I didn’t want another repeat performance with more wasted money, so I decided to take some time off from school.  There was still some left over student loan money, so I could support myself away from my family for a while without having a job.  I was totally free to focus on me, and to this day that was by far the best decision I’ve made in my entire life.

During this time off, I played a lot of video games and watched a lot of TV and movies.   While I was browsing through my collection of movies to watch, I decided that I would watch The Secret again.  The movie inspired me, and it made total sense to me this time because I listened to Rhonda Byrnes commentary (under “Settings”) unlike the first time I saw it, and she explained it perfectly.  After I heard her commentary I could definitely see how my thoughts had caused me to be in the position I was in.  I created the problems in my life.  Me.  I had such a negative attitude towards myself, money and other people.  As a result I found myself in poor health, overweight, lacking money, and without friends.  My circumstances were all caused by my thoughts.  This is why the main premise of The Secret is to focus on what you want, and to feel good if you want to manifest your desires.

How To Control Your Thoughts

It would be extremely difficult to make sure every thought you have is positive seeing as you have tens of thousands of thoughts running through your head everyday.  Fortunately there is a much easier way – your emotions.  Your emotions fuel your thoughts, so your thoughts will change once you change how you feel.  In The Secret, Rhonda Byrne recommends to write 10 things that make you feel good and to do what’s on that list as much as possible.  When you’re feeling overwhelmed, stressed, fearful, disappointed – go to the list.  This was all I needed before my life started to change immensely.  It also raised my awareness.  I realized movies, television, and video games didn’t make me feel good.  They made me feel guilty when I was done with them because I felt like I had wasted time.  That’s when I realized I used them to procrastinate.

The Law of Attraction Test

This documentary was very inspiring, but I wanted to put it to a definite test. I decided it should be small just so I could see if it worked. It pained me to look at my messy apartment everyday, so I decided I would use The Law of Attraction to manifest a clean apartment.  In The Secret they say to be very specific about what you want, so I imagined me standing in the middle of my apartment stress-free appreciating its cleanliness.  I imagined this day in and day out, and I felt the feelings of me being in a clean house.  After a week my bedroom was clean.  After two weeks the living room and the bedroom were clean.  It ultimately took me 2 months for my whole apartment to manifest as I imagined  it.  Yes I had cleaned it, but this whole process was very different from any time I had cleaned my house before.  This time nothing I did felt like it was forced.  Everything I did seemed to flow naturally.  Why did it take so long? It took 2 months because I didn’t just get a clean apartment.  I got a clean, organized and uncluttered apartment.  The best part about this whole process was not me getting this clean, organized, and uncluttered apartment.  It was the fact that I became a clean, organized, uncluttered person.  My car is now clean, organized, and uncluttered.  My relationships are clean, organized, and uncluttered.   Throughout this whole process the real change had come from inside me, and that is why it took longer than one might expect.  The transformation of my outer reality (my apartment, my car, my relationships) was just a reflection of the transformation that had happened on the inside.

During the process I also attracted answers to help me reach my vision.  For instance, I became aware of the power of appreciation.  If you don’t appreciate something, you won’t do your best to take care of it.  I also read that clutter is clutter because you have no designated place for it, so I created a space for everything that I considered clutter.

That test has made me a firm believer in the Law of Attraction, and I can see it working each day more and more.  However, the truth is that it doesn’t matter whether I believe in it or not – it’s at work.  Like gravity.

How Can You Get What You Want?

-Create a detailed image of what you want in your mind.  Focus on it as much as possible.  When you focus on it, feel how you will feel when it comes to reality.
-Do what you have to do to feel good.  Positive feelings —-> Positive thoughts —-> Positive results

-Understand that this is going to change who you are and how you think.  Would you want a million dollars or would you want to be a person that could generate a million dollars very easily and felt like it was nothing if you lost it?
-Give what you want.  I’ll get into more detail about this in another post.

The best part about the Law of Attraction is the fact that there are no limits.  No limits placed on you by your religion, your parents, your friends.  None.  Literally anything is possible. I used the example of how I manifested a clean house, but the possibilities are endless.  You can use the Law of Attraction to manifest anything you want.  Since I’ve proven to myself that it works and understand how, I’m starting to think bigger now.  My focus is now starting to be on things like wealth and financial freedom.

Need anymore detail? Buy The Secret.  It was just what I needed.

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