AttractAnything! (the blog)

Everyone who studies the law of attraction already understands that like energy attracts. This concept appears in lots of old sayings, such as “birds of a feather flock together,” or “tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.”

But is most commonly expressed with three simple words: like attracts like.

But it’s important to keep in mind that the power of those three words is indiscriminate — it can either work for you or against you.

I was thinking about how this power can be used in harmful ways earlier this week. I encountered several people over the last week that seemed to be practicing a philosophy I could only describe as “lack attracts lack.”

When we think about lack, worry about lack, and focus on lack, what do we get? Bingo — we get more lack. And while all of us can fall into lack-based thinking now and then (I’ve been as guilty of it as anyone), there are folks out there among us who seem to be trying to make a career at of it. 

Anytime we think about what could go wrong, or a rejection we could potentially face, we are doing our self a serious disservice. And it is precisely because like attracts like that lack-based thinking is so dangerous.

Everything in this world is nothing but energy. To some people, that sounds like New Age hippie nonsense, but its science, plain and simple. Physics tells us that at the tiniest levels, everything we see around us (including ourselves) is actually just “strings” of vibrating energy. In quantum physics this is known as String Theory or M Theory, and it is the most universally excepted explanation of the physical world among researchers worldwide.

So if all is energy, what does that tell us about our thoughts? Yep, they’re energy too. And because like attracts like, the energy of our thoughts will always attract like energy to it. If our thoughts are of abundance, strength and joy, we WILL attract like energy to us in the form of other people, circumstances and material objects.

In fact, we ALWAYS attract people, circumstances and material objects that are in harmony with our dominant thoughts. This tells us that no one can attract lack unless they are thinking and feeling lack — it can only come into your life if you are in vibrational agreement with it.

I’ve studied the law of attraction for so many years now, but the implications of that last paragraph still blow my mind. It sounds fantastical, even far-fetched. But at the heart of the matter, is completely rooted in science.

Quantum physicists work in laboratories where they routinely observe molecules that exist simultaneously in two different places! Think about that for a moment. This is not hippie, New Age stuff — it’s hard science. And what does this tell us about the world we live in?

First, it tells us that our “map” of reality is faulty. The world does not work the way we think it works. Me, you, or our greatest scientific minds; none of us can grasp reality. Instead, we create a mental representation of reality, and we go through our lives assuming that “that’s just the way things are.” The truth is,” that’s just the way things AREN’T.” Einstein said “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

But we shouldn’t feel insecure or afraid because we don’t have a firm grasp on reality (and we most certainly don’t). Understanding that “reality” is just a collection of thoughts, beliefs and paradigms in our mind (and not “real” at all) can be very liberating. We can break free of bad habits, bad experiences in our past, and most importantly, our own self image.

We can re-create ourselves anyway we want once we understand that what we think is “real” and what we think is “true” are nothing but mental shortcuts we use to navigate our way through life, and have nothing at all to do with “reality.” As the late great Bill Hicks said about life:

“It’s just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.”

–Bill Hicks (1961-1994)

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Is the law of attraction always working, or only working every now and then when you want it to? When asked, most people will answer that of course the law of attraction isn’t only working when you want it to, but if you look at their lives, they might just live as if it did.

It is easy for us to look at other people and see what they are doing wrong when it comes to the law of attraction, but much harder to take the same look at ourselves. One thing that is repeated over and over again in almost all the material dealing with the law of attraction is the importance of taking responsibility.

We accept this concept in theory, and we might even be able to look at our past and admit to attracting to us the bad stuff that happened. Our problem comes when we are asked to do this in everyday life. It is hard to stop pointing fingers around at other people, blaming them for causing us problems or making us feel bad.

It is hard because we have years of experience with the finger pointing, and a lot of us still have a hard time taking responsibility without feeling that there is something wrong with us or blaming ourselves for the mistakes we made.

As hard as it might be, it is important to take responsibility. The finger pointing and blaming other people only attracts more things to place blame for. As harsh as it may sound, it is never them and always you. Whatever problems you have in your life, you created, and only by doing something different can you create something else.

The first thing you need to do in order to get a better life is to stop pointing to others when something goes wrong or you don’t feel good and start owning up to it. Rather than focusing on what someone else did or didn’t do to you, try to focus on what you can do for someone else.

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Just a quick reminder today to keep some cool music playing in your day to day life. Everybody needs a cool soundtrack to their life. Pick whatever you like–it doesn’t matter if it’s jazz, house, indie, country, or whatever. If it makes YOU feel great, it IS great!

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