Have you been trying to use the Law of Attraction with little or no success?

Do you think it’s a load of new-age bullish and just another money making gimmick for people who are already super-rich?

Maybe you’ve been playing with the LoA and you’ve seen some results here and there but you feel that there’s something you’re not quite ‘getting’ — like there’s more to it than what you’ve been told by all of the best known gurus on the subject.

If this sounds like you, then you probably have also heard that the Law of Attraction means ‘you get whatever you think about’ — If so, that’s your problem. That’s the reason the Law of Attraction isn’t working for you — it doesn’t work that way.

It’s actually a lot simpler than that.

The Law of Attraction is about how you feel

The Law of Attraction is about how you feel, not what you think about. I’m sure it’s the lack of this realization that’s sabotaging your best intention manifestation efforts, just like it was mine.

Almost everyone who talks about the Law of Attraction makes it seem like ‘you get whatever you think about’, but this is simply not true. The people who make those claims are wrong. If you’ve been told that the LoA is about what you think then you’re probably not getting the results you’re hoping for. The Law of Attraction does not give you what you think about, it gives you what you feel like. Let me explain by answering one of the most common questions regarding the Law of Attraction…

A lot of people get confused when first learning about the Law of Attraction and intention manifestation (that’s what I prefer to call it), they ask

“Well what about all the bad things? Why is there murder and rape and all this bad stuff that happens? People don’t think about murder and rape all the time so if the Law of Attraction is true then why does it happen?”

The answer is because the Law of Attraction is not only attracting what you think about, it also attracts things that make you feel a similar way. It’s true that the LoA brings you what you think about, but more often it brings you things based on how you feel. So when you start thinking about the things you really want you will usually start to feel really good. And when you feel really good you attract more things that make you feel really good, so it’s likely that you’ll end up manifesting whatever it is that you’re thinking about that makes you feel so good — as long as you think and feel that way most of the time.

When somebody gets hurt at work or gets into a car accident or some other ‘bad’ thing happens to them it’s important to think about how that event made them feel. When you get hurt at work, what do you feel like? Maybe it’s angry, or annoyed, or frustrated, or maybe it’s just pain. How much of your time in the previous month or two had you spent feeling angry, annoyed, frustrated, or in pain?

Now you’re starting to realize where you’ve been going wrong, aren’t you?

If you spend all day thinking about things that make you feel really grateful then you’re going to bring in more things to be grateful for. Being grateful is a great way to feel, there’s not really anything that makes you feel grateful that is ‘bad’. The same goes for if you feel wealthy, healthy, or even stylish. If you feel like you have really great style you’ll start attracting more things that make you feel like you’re really stylish. Perhaps your dreams of becoming a professional model or actor will come to fruition, wouldn’t that make you feel like you had style? Of course it would!

The same goes for feeling thankful. If you feel really thankful for the things you appreciate in your life you will automatically start attracting more things to be thankful for — this is a really great position to be in. When you’re constantly receiving things that you’re really thankful for it’s going to be a lot harder for you to get down and be unhappy. Life will soon be overflowing with abundance and you’ll start really enjoying your experience more than ever before.

The Law of Attraction can defeat itself… be careful

When you first start out with the Law of Attraction and Intention Manifestation most people have doubts. This is natural. Our entire lives we’ve been conditioned to believe that this sort of thing is all a big hoax, we’re programmed to be skeptical of things like the Law of Attraction. It hasn’t always been like this, and one day it will change, but for now it’s best to start small with your intentions.

You must start with intentions that you know are achievable and work your way up. Any doubts you have will stop your progress dead. If you’re feeling doubt, what are you going to attract? Of course you will attract things that make you feel more doubtful about the Law of Attraction — your intentions won’t manifest because you are intending one thing but feeling another!

Start using the LoA to manifest things you know you can manifest and work your way up from there. This will help you build confidence in your ability to manifest anything you want. Start with a dollar or a free lunch or something like that. Something that you could easily explain away as a mere coincidence (there is no such thing). From there you can work up to bigger and better things. It won’t take long before you’re manifesting your wildest dreams, but you can’t just jump into manifesting millions of dollars, nice cars, and huge houses. If you start trying to manifest a million dollars you’re probably going to start wondering how it could even be possible, ‘where will I get a million dollars from?’ . What is worrying? Worrying leads to doubt, and doubt attracts experiences to reinforce your doubtfulness. You’ll doubt the ability to manifest a million dollars and you won’t be able to make it happen, the Law of Attraction will have defeated itself… Sort of.

Feelings are stronger than thoughts when it comes to the LoA — that’s the secret behind the secret. Most of the best known Law of Attraction gurus keep that information to themselves, they don’t tell you that feelings are stronger magnets than thoughts. Many of them may not even know, they might truly believe that ‘you get what you think about’ because when they think about what they want to attract it makes them feel really great and they attract things into their lives that make them feel the same way… Usually what they manifest will be what they were thinking about that made them feel that way — that’s why so many people think that you ‘get what you think about’ when you really attract more of the same feelings.

Feel Good Now!

If you want to reap the fruits of the Law of Attraction seeds you’ve sown, you must always focus on feeling good. Do you feel good right now? If not, you’re doing something wrong. You’re asking the universe to give you more people, events, and circumstances that make you feel the way you feel right now.

Are you tired, stressed, frustrated, or downright depressed? If you are, then you’ve got to change the way you feel right now, or you will keep feeling that way forever. The present moment is all that exists, the future and the past are just collections of thoughts that don’t actually exist anywhere but inside your own mind. You can only change the way you feel right now, not tomorrow, not in some distant point in the future when you are rich and have your dream career and the greatest relationship — you have to start feeling good now before any of that is possible.

A quick way to feel better

There are plenty of ways to start feeling better in this very moment, let me offer a few quick suggestions that will help clear your mind and focus on things that make you feel good.

First I want you to do the following procedure and repeat it at least 8 times. It will only take a few minutes and it will help take you to a much more peaceful state of mind.

1. Inhale through your nose for 8 seconds
2. Hold for 8 seconds
3. Exhale through your mouth for 8 seconds
4. Hold pause for 8 seconds
5. Repeat steps one through four 8 times

This quick exercise will leave you feeling refreshed and much better than when you started. Allow your mind to go completely blank when you’re doing this and simply focus on your breath. Aim for long steady breaths and breathe as deeply as you can. Try to fill your body with air from the bottom up, start filling the bottom of your stomach first and end with the top of your lungs. Do the same except reversed on the exhale. This is a simple meditation and breathing exercise that rejuvenates the whole body in just a few quick minutes.

Once you have repeated the process 8 times you should continue to breathe in a controlled manner and begin to think about things that make you happy. Think about when you feel the best. What are you doing when you feel this way? Where would you be? What would it feel like? What sounds would you hear and what sights would you see? Who’s there with you? Hold on to that feeling and really try to be there in that moment. Forget about everything else and just focus on whatever makes you feel good. This is a sure fire way to rejuvenate both your body and mind and to focus your attention on something that will help you to feel good right now in this very moment.

After you’ve focused on what makes you feel good and you actually begin to truly feel that way, then start visualizing your intentions in the same way you were visualizing what makes you feel good. Actually feel your intention as if it’s already real. Feel what it would be like, smell the smells, hear the sounds, and taste the flavors of your desires. Focus on the feelings that you get from your intentions and not the intentions themselves.

It’s not the fancy car, big bank account, nice house, and perfect spouse that makes you happy, it’s being happy that brings all of those things to you.

You’re now on your way to living your dreams, whatever they may be.

Happy manifesting!

This post was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend last night. Let’s just call him…. Dick Rivers. Anyway, I was basically introducing the idea of Subjective Reality to him and he was having a hard time understanding why our freedoms are being taken away if we’re the creators of our own reality. I explained to him that the way it works is based on the way we feel, not exactly what we think about.

For example, if you feel like your freedom and your power is being taken away from you by the things that are happening in the news and the media, if that’s how you feel then what you need to ask yourself is “what else makes me feel that way” and “am I spending most of my time feeling that way”. You might find that you feel that way nearly all of the time. Maybe it’s because of an addiction, a bad relationship, hating your job, or having too much debt, but it’s likely that something else is making you feel that way too.

It’s likely you will find that you feel that way not only when you watch the news or get too excited over the latest Alex Jones news-bomb but you also feel that way when your alcoholism gets you down or your nagging terrible wife that you absolutely hate gets home and starts yelling at you. I’m just using these things as examples, I sure hope that you guys don’t let yourselves stay in those types of situations… But some people do.

It’s the constant focus on the feeling of having no power or having it taken away from you that brings that reality to manifestation in ‘the physical’.

Anyway, the rest of that is for a different post. That’s just the start of what got me thinking about how to encourage humanity to evolve into something better. Dick Rivers is still in the stage of wanting activism and yelling and posters and fliers and propaganda. I know where he’s coming from, but I now believe that the best way to fight the corruption and apparent fascism is to start working on ourselves.

That might sound selfish, but I assure you that it is not selfish in the least. Let me explain…

People learn from other people

One thing I’ve noticed in life is that no matter what, you are always effecting your surroundings, including the people around you. People learn from the people around them whether they are aware of it or not, this is something that cannot be stopped. People will always learn from other people. And they don’t just learn from certain people who are qualified to teach, no no, all people learn from all other people. This is a strange concept when you really think about it. Everyone learns from everyone else.

Because this is true, it’s important to remember that you are a teacher whether you like it or not. People learn from you and the more of an impression you leave on them the more they start to act like you. You attract things that make you feel the same as the vibration you’re putting out. You change the reality around you in this way, so it’s important to put off good vibes and teach others to behave as you’d like them to. You can teach people how to act by simply acting that way yourself.

If you are a really great person, people will aspire to be like you. That would be a good thing — if you’re truly a really great person then having people be inspired by your greatness will only bring about more great people. An example from my own life is when I did the 30 day Raw Food Diet. I inspired several people to make dietary improvements and even inspired a few to attempt to do a 30 day raw food cleanse themselves. I know of several examples of people around me who were effected by my dietary choices for that month, just because they were around me. And who even knows how many more have been inspired to improve their health because they found the articles here on this website! It could be hundreds or even thousands!

It is automatic

You automatically effect everything around you, so making improvements to yourself will tend to improve your surroundings as well. This is completely natural and automatic. What I mean by ‘automatic’ is that it happens whether you are aware of it or not. That’s part of the reason you see groups of depressed people who all hang out together, and groups of wealthy people who all know each other and hang out together and so on. You attract similar people, events, and circumstances to what you spend the most time thinking about and feeling. There’s no stopping it as far as I can tell, so learning to work with it is probably your best option.

If you lead by example you will start to see results, I promise. If we all try to make good decisions and be the best we can be, if we all try to focus on positive solutions instead of problems, and if we all try to love everything a bit more each day, we will automatically create a better reality — that’s just how it works!

If we can become more conscious — that is, if we can become more aware of the effect we are having on the experience then we can start to improve our actions and therefore also improve the effects of our actions, even if it’s just one small improvement at a time. By always trying to improve we can begin to form a better place for ourselves and for everyone else. Understanding how our own thoughts, feelings, and actions effect the rest of the universe is absolutely critical. There’s never been a more crucial time for personal development than now — that’s why it’s becoming so popular as of late.

How to encourage humanity in a positive way

Smile more

It’s true that smiling is contagious, and smiling also makes you happy. Even if you aren’t happy, forcing a smile will improve your mood. It’s an action that’s linked to feeling good in the brain, so when you smile you start to feel better. Plus you make other people smile too, so then they start feeling better too. There you go changing your reality again..

Have more fun, worry less

People these days have a worry problem. Worry is stress that you don’t need. Be confident in the universe and it’s power, and be confident in yourself and your power. Don’t spend your time worrying about things. It is almost never worth it, so don’t do it.

Spend more time having fun and fooling around doing whatever you like doing. This is so important, but most people ‘don’t have enough time for that’. HAH. . Make time. For real, the benefits of having ‘you time’ are greater than the payout for that shift of overtime at work, or that TV show you don’t want to miss. Set aside several hours per week where you will dedicate to just having fun and schedule it like it was a shift at work or an important meeting.

Try doing creative things in your ‘you time’, unleashing your creative potential is also a great thing to do. The more creative we can be the more interesting the future will be.

Read Personal Development books and websites

There’s no denying it, Personal Development information is getting ‘hella’ popular as of late. But with good reason!

Sure some of the Personal Development information out there is kind of cheesy, new-agey, snake salesman type stuff, but you’ve got to find the good stuff just like information in any other field. Here’s a few good places to start:

• Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development For Smart People
• Plugin ID
• Personal Development Coach
• The Law of Success
• The Work (of Byron Katie)
• Zen Habits
• Life Hacker
• The Change Blog
• Your Wish Is Your Command

You could also listen to audio seminars like MindShift — the one you get with a subscription to my Newsletter. (you can subscribe at the top right hand side of the page) MindShift is a fantastic audio program, and so is Your Wish Is Your Command. You’ll have to buy Your Wish Is Your Command but it’s worth it. I have to say it’s one of the best audio programs about the law of attraction that I’ve found to date. Apply what you learn from the audios, don’t just listen but also apply what feels right to you.

Live a healthier life

Living healthier isn’t all that hard. Just like everything else in your life you can make positive changes in small steps if you must. Work on changing one thing that will improve your health at a time, or a few things if you can still follow through with making the change when you make multiple changes simultaneously.

Start by incorporating more raw organic fruits and vegetables into your diet, and eating more whole foods. Ween yourself off of processed foods and start avoiding toxins that have been intentionally placed into the average western diet. Things like fluoride, aspartame (artificial sweeteners in almost everything), MSG, are just a few to start with. There are a lot of toxins in our environment so just try to always be more aware about these types of things. Don’t get vaccines.

Doing all of these things will help humanity move in the right direction a lot quicker than you may think at first, but it works. If more and more people keep getting interested in becoming better people and improving themselves then we’re going to have a lot more good people around in the near future.