By Remez Sasson
Can you really attract into your life anything you want?
Can you really use the power of your thoughts and imagination to create what you want?
Does the law of attraction really work?
Are all the claims of people who write and teach about the law of attraction true?
If you followed the instructions found in books or articles, you might have sometimes succeeded, and sometimed you did not. It is also possible that some of you could not succeed at all, and quit this subject, with a feeling of disappointed.
Why some people succeed, and some don’t? If the law of attraction is a law of nature, why it sometimes works, and sometimes it doesn’t? Can you really attract into your life anything you want?
The answer is simple.
- Not every article or book provides the necessary instructions for correctly using the law of attraction.
- People tend to skip instructions.
- It is not enough just to visualize. You must also have a strong desire, an open mind to recognize opportunities, and have the courage and willingness to use them.
- How many times did you say or think you wanted something, but you didn’t really want it? The law of attraction, which is one of the fundamentals of creative visualization, requires some work and action, not just thinking for a few minutes and waiting for miracles to happen.
There is another point you should be thinking about. Even though most people want to be rich, how many really and truly want o be very rich and have a rich lifestyle? How many would accept all the responsibilities and activities entailed? Subconsciously, they might be afraid to be rich, due to negative mental programming.
Do you want to have billions of dollars? Can you really manage this sum of money? Let’s leave aside lotteries, where will the money come from? If you visualize a lot of money, and really believe you can have it, how is it going to arrive? It might arrive by implementing ideas that could come into your mind. You might be offered a new job, or an opportunity might pop up. But will you be willing and ready to take action?
Great amounts of money are done through business, but not everyone is qualified for business, or wants to make business. How visualizing a lot of money, and not wanting to do anything about it, is going to bring it to you?
Every accomplished goal and dream bring responsibilities, changes your lifestyle, and requires certain actions, certain tasks, and certain skills. You need first to analyze and think if you are willing and able to take these responsibilities, and whether you have the skills. Of course, if you don’t have the skills, but your desire is strong, you can always develop the necessary skills.
The law of attraction and creative visualization do work, but you have to use common sense when using them.
- You need to be sure that you really want what you are visualizing.
- You must have a strong desire.
- You have to add feelings into your mental images.
- You have to visualize several times a day.
- You need to treat this subject seriously, and be willing to invest the necessary time and energy.
- Not all books are equal, and not all give you all the necessary steps. You will need to read several books to understand this subject.
- In the beginning, choose small, simple, everyday goals, and only when you get experience and faith try to do bigger things.
- It is a good idea to imagine yourself in the situation you want to create, before starting to work on it, and ask yourself if you really want it, and whether you feel comfortable in this situation.
Take action, when action is required. Don’t just visualize and forget about it, thinking that you don’t have to do anything. Creative visualization and the law attraction can sometimes work in miraculous ways, but in many cases, you will be required to act. If you are too lazy, or expect miracles, with no effort on your part, you might lead yourself to disappointment. Look at the successful people in the world, do they just dream, or do they also act, strive, and work to make their dreams and goals come true?
There are a lot of articles and books about this subject, some useful, and some less useful. If you browse through this website and blog, you will find many articles on this subject, as well as the book Visualize and Achieve, where I wrote and explained this subject clearly and in a simple language. It is a book focusing on practical information, showing step-by-step what to and how. It is actually a textbook for teaching how to use creative visualization to attract into your life what you want.
Remez Sasson is an author and blogger. He is the founder of SuccessConsciousness.com, a website and blog about self improvement and spiritual growth.
Remez Sasson is the author of several life transforming books, containing a wealth of information, advice and guidance.
Great message! About time someone really clarifies The Law of Attraction. I remember when the “The Secret” first came out out years ago talking about The Law of Attraction. It did offer some good ideas on visualization on attracting what you think you really want, but it did not really provide any true details on how to achieve those wants/desires.
I feel most everything in life is about hope and desire! If you have the desire and an can truly focus day-in and day-out on what you really want, you’ll be amazed with The Law of Attraction.
Thanks!
Enjoyed your post … the Action is crucial, many people don’t act and wonder why they do not get the results
I’ve thought about the whole idea of “empowerment delusion” when it comes to the Law of Attraction. Mainly people feel empowered because they: go to church, read books, or just because they claim to believe in the Law of Attraction. And they think that is enough, however they don’t actually do the visualization work or the action steps required.
This is a great topic. I def agree that not all necessary steps are always covered.
Firstly, I would like to say that I, as a rather regular reader of this blog, find its content well written and interesting.
There are some thing I would like us to agree to disagree upon and one of them is as follows. As of now, there has been no concrete proof of this “law of attraction”‘s actual successes, and as I will soon put forward, it seems rather implausible.
This “law of attraction” as stated above is actually just the act of thinking about something and “attracting” the situations or opportunities into your life. Obviously this doesn’t work. If it did, then having negative thoughts would simply have an adverse reaction or effect on your life, and you simply thinking about being robbed, will probably cause you to be robbed.
If the “law of attraction” really worked, then it wouldn’t be the robber’s fault that he robbed you, it would simply be your own fault for thinking about being robbed and thus attracting the said situations to you, and therefore no crime committed would be deemed a crime, it would just be your just desserts for thinking negatively.
Now, what is being said above isn’t “the law of attraction” per se, it is more of empowering yourself by use of your mind and thoughts, and thus making yourself willing to to put in the effort and time needed. This can be called “mental self-encouragement and motivation”, as you are simply motivating yourself to work and encouraging yourself in order to reach a certain goal.
“the law of attraction” isn’t a law, as it is to full of logical flaws to be an actual law of nature. Thus I would caution against using the name so loosely. As of you who disagree on the definition, this “law of attraction” actually only really started with “The Secret”, the book, and hasn’t been around for very long before that, and “The Secret”‘s definition of “the law of attraction” is the one most people recognise to be the the true definition. As such, any other interpretation or definition of the law of attraction is simply not the “law of attraction” as most people would see it as.
Thank you Simon for your comment.
I agree with you that the term “the law of attraction” became used only after the book “The Secret” was published. Actually, a better term, which was coined many years before the “The secret”, and which refers to the same thing is “creative visualization”.
A lot has been written about the so called, “the law of attraction”, leading people to think that by just thinking about something you can draw it into your life. Thinking a few thoughts for a few minutes isn’t going to “attract” anything. You have to repeat this thought many times, believe it, and put feeling, desire and faith into it, and be willing to make any effort required to make it true. This sort of thinking, if continued for some time, will eventually affect one’s subconscious mind, and therefore, one’s behavior and actions.
If you keep thinking a certain thought, day after day, your desire would grow, you will be become aware of opportunities that might have always been there, but you have not paid them attention before.
Everything starts with a thought, but for manifestation, you need desire, ambition, motivation, persistence and taking positive action. There is a common erroneous assumption that all you have to do is think of what you want and you will get it. Thoughts possess power, but only if you put power into them, but how to do so is not often explained.
Taking your example about a person robbed, your explanation is incorrect. First, it is a crime of the robber. It was his intention and planning and the product of his thought and intention. The victim was robbed not necessarily because he or she thought of being robbed. This is over simplification.
Negative thinking affects one’s moods and state of mind, and therefore one’s behavior and tendency not to take positive action. This means that negative thinking affects one’s life. However, even people who are habitually negative, never put a lot of feelings, emotions and energy into into one single thought. They might think negatively about one subject, and then on another, never persiting with the same negative thought over a along time, and therefore no one single thought becomes powerful enough to become true. However, since there are always negative thoughts, they create a a general mood and environment of negativity.
Teach a negative thinking person to think positive thoughts and things will change. He or she will be happier and behave and act positively, and this is a proof that thoughts can make things change.
The best approach to everything is not to accept or believe in any theory in a naive way, but also, not to reject or ridicule it, but to try it in an inbiased way. Only then one can know whether it works or not.