Exquisitive

I’ve been thinking about the Law of Attraction for about a year and a half and seeing what I can do with it. As I’ve said before, my results have been modest. I’ve been proceeding on the belief that it works, because I really do believe that there’s something there, somewhere between “poof – there it is” and “this total nonsense.” During one of my sessions meditating, the thought arose about applying LOA in reverse: Instead of using it to attract something I want, why not look at what I’m getting, with the belief that it is what I’m attracting and see what it can tell me about what I believe?

I think this can work even when you don’t necessarily believe in the Law of Attraction, as it’s been presented in things like The Secret or Hicks/Abraham, on the not so off chance that you find those things a bit too wooly. It could be a way to ease into it and sort of let it sink in. I know that for myself, it’s been a somewhat intriguing discovery to make and in some ways, it’s given me another way to think about it in addition to the more direct ways I’ve been trying to incorporate it in my thinking.

I know that for me, this has lead to some different ways of looking at memories I have from childhood and how I feel the’ve affected me as an adult. Everyone bears some scars from childhood and adolescence, and I’ve certainly heard far worse stories than mine, so I won’t go into terrible detail, but doing this sort of thing has caused me to ease my belief in the immutability of my memories. In a way it’s been a backdoor method for allowing me to consider how I might see myself differently, and this new sense of possibility, of potential, has had the somewhat unintended consequence of reinforcing my understanding of how the Law of Attraction might be actively applied in my own life.

I’m not saying any of this is particularly revolutionary, but it was a bit of a bolt from the blue for me. In my reading of LOA, this sort of idea has only been hinted at and mentioned indirectly. I’m just taking it upon myself to expand on it a little. Who knows, it could work for you too!