The Law of Attraction has been the focus of a lot of attention lately. As with most things, with a lot of attention comes a lot of garbage. The internet, for example, is flooded with people selling LOA courses that are claimed to be life altering, providing you everything that you’ve always hoped for. The law of attraction, though, is not to be discounted simply because there has been a wave of aggressive marketing on the part of web based capitalists. The law of attraction is in fact something that can and does profoundly impact your life, but in order to actively use it to it’s fullest potential, we will first have to garner a better understanding of it’s practical capacities.
The law of attraction responds mostly to your dominant thoughts, and in the long run, your dominant thoughts will mostly be a product of your sustained and dominant actions. The mis-marketing of LOA has occurred mostly in the form of supposed LOA guru’s suggesting it to be something that will work solely to manifest your desires with no real action on your part. LOA is not a get rich quick scheme, and when it is marketed that way it attracts doubters and skeptics, and rightfully so within that context. LOA is something that will help you along on your path to fulfillment, but in most cases it is not something that will simply hand to you the fruition of your wants and needs.
If we can reasonably deduce that the law of attraction, or something like it, does in fact exist in the universe as something that works to govern our experiences, then it is reasonable that we would want to figure out how we can engage it in a way that is most beneficial to us.
Where people tend to get off track in their understanding of the law of attraction is in thinking that it is something that negates action. That couldn’t be further from the truth. The law of attraction is not a means of avoiding action, but rather a means of helping it’s direction and effectiveness. The something for nothing crowd ought to go elsewhere, because the law of attraction will offer only scant help to those who do not wish to act. Without action, the opportunities presented by the law are useless. Furthermore, it should be noted up front that action is much more than something that is to be carried out at the end, or something to be done after the law of attraction delivers the perfect opportunity. Rather, action is something that facilitates the attraction of opportunities to the actor. Such opportunities, of coarse, then require further action if the individual is to see the fruition of his or her desires.
So, if our thoughts and emotions do actually matter in the universe, more than just in creating our whimsical moods, then how the heck are we to most effectively use our thoughts and emotions to influence the world around us in favor of our desires? More simply put, how are we to go about manifesting better lives for ourselves with the help of the law of attraction? After all, the law of attraction is working whether we choose to believe it and acknowledge it or not, so it makes perfect sense that we should actively use it to our advantage, with the key word being actively.
Simply put, the law of attraction requires for manifestation dominant and emotionally charges thoughts. This is why it is stated that if our dominant thoughts are on that of lack and scarcity, then we tend to attract into our lives lack and scarcity, where as if our dominant thoughts are on that of abundance and prosperity, then we tend to attract into our lives, you guessed it, abundance and prosperity. Terms such as abundance and prosperity are generalized descriptions of states of being, but the law of attraction is not limited to the macro states of our lives. The law works on a micro level in our lives by setting up synchronicities that are often nothing more than opportunities that then lead to other opportunities that eventually end up changing our lives in a macro sense, as in from lack to abundance.
If the law of attraction feeds off of our dominant and emotionally charges thoughts, then how are we to ever go about manifesting change in our lives? After all, aren’t our dominant thoughts on that of the realities of our lives? If we are lacking, then how are we to focus our thoughts on abundance? If abundance is not our reality, are we to struggle through maintaining a mental state of pretending that we are rich? What good would that do us anyways? You are welcome to pretend that you are rich if your are not all you want, but that will only get you so far until you are arrested or thrown into the psych-ward.
This is where action comes in. You will go about changing your mind-set by taking action towards that which you want. Lasting, persistent action requires motivation, so we must ask the question of, "where will we get our motivation from?". The answer is simple. We will derive our motivation from lasting and persistent action. While that may seem like a paradox at first, it is not. When we take action towards what we want, we change our mind set towards that which we want in a very real way, while simultaneously directing our mind-set away from that which we don’t want. When we do this, we set the law of attraction into action in a way that works to help us along on our path to fulfillment. Our dominant thoughts will have moved into greater accordance with that which we want, and the law of attraction’s only option is to work in accordance with our new mind-set.
In a sense, the law of attraction becomes quite responsive to the old adage of fake it ‘till you make it. Put into practical terms, if, for example, you want to manifest a romantic partner into your life, yet you find yourself lonely and dismayed, then start doing the things that a person who has frequent dates would do. Think about what action steps such a person would take, and then do those things. Maybe they make use of opportunities to meet people when others would simply stay to themselves, such as in the grocery store or at the dog park. The same thing goes for generating income, reducing stress, finding peace, and whatever else you can think of. It all comes down to your mind-set and the action steps that you take.
No matter what your desires may be, if you are to reach fulfillment you must be doing the things that a successful person in your area of interest would do. Don’t take that to mean that you shouldn't take your own approach which may be unique in some way, as I recommend that you do. When you do, your mind-set will change, and the law of attraction will attract differently for you, in new and exciting ways.
