Law of Attraction Magazine August, 2015 Issue | Page 49

Whether you have been perusing the self-help or
personal development section of the book store, been
around people who are looking for personal success or
whether you are part of or know of people in spiritual
circles, "The Secret" or "Law of Attraction" is a big topic
and has been for years. Some of us know a lot about it,
some a little, for some of us it works and for some it
?doesn?t,? either way, this article will explore a bit about
The Secret or Law of Attraction and will touch on some
key factors we are often not told about it.
What Is It ?
For simplicity sake, I?m going to use the abbreviation
LOA throughout the article when I?m speaking about the
Secret or The Law of Attraction. Simply put, the LOA is
said to be a universal law that states every person has
the ability to attract things into their life with their
thoughts and intentions. If someone is thinking and
believing negative things all the time, they will attract
them into their experience. If someone is thinking
positive things all the time, they will attract that into
their experience. In theory, someone could also use the
LOA to attract situations, experiences and material
objects into their lives.
Made most popular by books like The Secret and Ask & It
Is Given, the LOA has grabbed the attention of many and
for good reason, it can work very well and even when
viewed scientifically, there is some interesting stuff to
back it up. When you note the fact that everything is
energy and that our thoughts and consciousness do
impact and create reality, as quantum physics has shown,
making the leap that we can attract what we want isn?t
too difficult to assert.
The Met h ods
Without going into huge detail, the methods are rather
simple. One uses their thoughts and intentions to attract
things they want. You can use affirmations, vision
boards, words and so on to set out what you are looking
to obtain and you go from there. In more day-to-day
applications, one might watch what they say and avoid
negative words, self-defeating words or attitudes and
instead replace it with more positive and affirming
statements and attitudes.
The theory behind some of the affirmations and vision
boards is that the more you say something or see
something, the more it imposes itself into your
subconscious where it begins to create the reality.
Many have reported these methods to work often and
many have claimed that they do not work at all. In any
case, there can be a number of factors involved as to

why it might work or not work, but most books don?t go too far
into covering this and often times the whole subject of LOA has
become a cliche.
What We?re Of t en Not Tol d About The LOA
I?ve personally seen some interesting results when I have
practiced the LOA. Some of my friends would say that the LOA
failed at times for me and other times it succeeded, but the way
I see it is that it was successful every time. Why do I see it this
way? Because I believe there are other factors involved in the
LOA that we often don?t realize because we get too caught up in
creating from our minds and ego desires. Simply, we are missing
the bigger picture.
Right away I can hear the questions, ?how do we know what an
ego desire is or not?!? We will get to that shortly. Drawing from
personal experience, I have used the LOA and was able to attract
what I wanted into my life, but there were other times it didn?t
come into being. Why? Simply because there is a larger factor at
play ? YOU have a say in determining whether or not a specific
reality might play out for you. But when we are engaged in
mental and ego desires, we often don?t see the perfect reason as
to why we didn?t bring about what ?we? wanted.
Each of us is on our own unique journey and we, in some way,
have a path we are on for our own individual growth and
experience. At a deeper level, often called a soul level, we are
choosing aspects of our journey so we can learn what we set out
to learn in each lifetime here. So how could this interact with
the LOA?
In a simple example, let?s say you wanted to attract a certain
experience into your life, say becoming really rich, but you, at
the soul beyond the mind, had a journey set out for yourself
where you would learn to detach from money and that money
does not define who you are nor your level of success in life.
Then, no matter how hard you might try to attract this into your
life, you would notice it not playing out simply because there is
a bigger lesson you are trying to learn. You can?t use your
mental creative powers to dictate your life as intensely as your
own bigger picture that your true self sees.
Think about it. How many times have you had a situation
happen in life that you didn?t like at the beginning only to find
out a few days, weeks, months or years later that you grew and
learned so much from it? Guess what, you attracted this
experience but in a way that we often don?t understand. It?s not
as though we sat there and said ?Oh yay let?s have this ?crap?
come into my life!? It was more so that at a deeper energetic
level we knew we could grow from it.
Anot her Personal Anecdot e
Before creating CE (Collective-Evolution.com), I was working in
finance for a short period of time. I was using the LOA to attract
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