Prove it! That's what many people are saying about the Law of Attraction, now that it has finally hit the mainstream media. They don't believe that the universe really works that way, because they can't see the evidence. They ask, "If this stuff really works, then why are children starving? Did they want to attract that? And why are there victims of crime? And what about all these homeless people we see on our city streets? Did they really choose to attract that? And why?"
I have wondered about this myself in the past, but now, after consciously working with the Law of Attraction for about 15 years, it all makes perfect sense to me. Now I know the answer to these questions. The answer is this: Everyone is getting what they predominantly think about. When people see poverty and homelessness around them and continue to focus their attention on it, they attract the reality of poverty and homelessness to themselves. They may eventually become homeless, or they may run into homeless people more and more.
Children often pick up the fears and beliefs of their parents and other people around them. A mother who is fearful of birth defects may attract a child with birth defects. It may not even be a conscious fear. Maybe she once saw a child with a birth defect and connected that with the idea that it wasn't safe to have a child. This new belief continued to operate under the surface until her own child was born with a defect. That then supplied "proof" of her belief that it was not safe to have a child. If another child grows up in poverty and keeps focusing attention on poverty, more poverty will be the result in that child's experience. If children grow up in a war zone and keep thinking about war, they will continue to experience more war.
The funny thing about the Law of Attraction is that it will "prove" you right, even when you are wrong! If you really believe you can't walk, you will not be able to walk, even if there is nothing wrong with your legs. If you believe you can't get a job, you won't be able to get a job. On the other hand, if you really believe you can make a million dollars, starting from nothing, you can do that, too. Many people have done it, so obviously it is possible - because they believed they could do it.
In a way it is great that everyone can "prove" whatever they believe to themselves. You always get to be "right" in one sense. But if you want to be happy, that is something else again. Happiness depends on what you think about. When you think about things that make you feel happy... which are different for each of us... then you will attract more and more happiness into your experience. Of course, many of us have a very bad habit of thinking about things that don't make us happy. We watch the news, we listen to gossip, we go to horror movies, or we talk about our aches and pains. All those things are ways of focusing our thoughts on things that may be "real," but they are not things that make us feel happy. And as long as we are thinking about them, we are attracting more of those negative things we are thinking about.
Unless we stop and observe the way our own thoughts, and the thoughts and words of those around us, are reflected in the reality we each experience, we will never see the connection. And we have to look at it over time, because the Law of Attraction rarely gives us instantaneous results. It could take months or even years for habitual thoughts to change the reality we experience. Unless we are really paying attention, this can make it difficult to see cause and effect. We have to look at our predominant thought patterns as they play out in our future experiences.
To change these patterns, we need to make a leap from our old habits of focusing on negative thoughts to new habits of giving our attention only to what makes us happy. But, unless we are really paying attention, we can think happy thoughts for days on end without noticing much positive effect in our outer reality. So we have to carry on, giving the process the benefit of the doubt even when we don't yet see the results.
This is where we really have to trust our intuition. If you are skeptical, but you are still reading this, that is because your intuition is telling you there is something to this Law of Attraction stuff. There is a part of you that is prompting you to listen up and pay attention... while another part (your conscious, logical mind) may be telling you it is a bunch of hogwash. But your logical mind only knows what it has been taught. It can't think "outside the box." Your intuition knows much more. It knows everything you will ever need to know, but you have to trust it. The more you trust it, the stronger and more reliable it will be.
Then you have to use your imagination, because your present reality is probably not exactly where you want to be. If you keep thinking about where you are, you will attract more and more of what you are already experiencing. If you want to make positive changes, you have to put most of your thoughts on where you want to be. Keep imagining things that make you feel happy and you will be on your way to fulfilling your dreams. Then you will prove the Law of Attraction to yourself.
In a few days, or a few months, or even a few hours, you will start to see signs that your dreams are getting closer. Maybe someone will say something out of the blue, or you will see a picture in a magazine, or you'll see some other sign of what you have been thinking about. Then you will know that things are starting to shift toward what you want. Even something as small as finding a dime on the sidewalk, can be a sign that you are starting to attract more money. A song on the radio that stirs your heart could be a sign that romance is on its way. A chance conversation overheard in a restaurant could be a clue to finding the solution to a health problem. You never know what it will be, but if you are paying attention you will notice that the universe is starting to line things up in the direction of your thoughts.
If you continue to hold those positive thoughts, everything you want will eventually come to you. One good way of keeping your mind on the positive is to notice and appreciate the good things already in your life. When you feel gratitude and appreciation, you are automatically focused on what you want. You will keep attracting more of that. Sometimes it is easier to look around and find something to appreciate than it is to imagine something that doesn't yet seem real. Your conscious mind will be more cooperative when it can observe the beauty, love, and abundance that is already present in your life.
Nobody else can prove any of this to you, because whatever you believe is all you can see... which ought to be proof enough in and of itself. But for most people what they experience is just what they call "reality." If you want to experience a different and better version of reality, you have to step out of your habitual thought patterns... take a chance and give it a try... not just for a few hours, or a few days. You have to make a commitment to your own happiness and well-being, so that nothing is worth paying attention to unless it makes you feel uplifted, joyful, happy, calm, peaceful, safe, and secure.
Try it for a month and I guarantee that you will see positive proof of the Law of Attraction. And if you like pudding, think about pudding a lot... you'll find pudding popping up in the strangest places. And there you'll have it. The proof in the pudding!
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