Introduction to The Law of Attraction
This is a great introduction to the law of attraction. When I first began researching self improvement, I came across this powerful law. Understanding and putting it into proper use however, is where I got my value add. Remember the saying coined by Earl Nightingale, “we become what we think about,” well, the law of attraction is very similar conceptually. We will attract what we think about most. To give a quick example, thinking about needing more money will most often result in us needing more money. However, thinking about how to make more money, focuses on how to make more money. Therefore, all your thought energy now focuses on how to make more money. Since your focus in on how to make more money, you begin to attract ideas driven towards that focus and hence, we begin to attract resources to us that help us make more money.
Continuing on, the law of attraction describes us as a living magnet. We attract into our lives the people and circumstances that we think and feel strongly about, most of the time. What exactly does this mean? Well, this simply means that whatever we focus on consistently, most likely will become our reality. The problem is, that most of us are thinking and focusing on things that do not necessarily empower us to succeed, in the major areas of our lives. To succeed in changing current unwanted circumstances, we need to change our focus and especially what that focus means to us. In other words, know exactly what you want, and focus on how you can get it. Focus on solution to what you want 80% of the time and the problem only 20% of the time.
By focusing on the problem for 20% of the time, I mean identifying what the cause was so we educate ourselves on what does not work. We don’t want to do what does not work obviously. Also, focus on understanding, instead of passing immediate judgment based what you may believe to be true regarding a situation. Remember, perceptions are not always true. In fact, from personal experience, most perceptions we have are false and are based on beliefs we have, whether they are true or not. Although the term “our perception is our reality” is certainly true, it’s only because what we believe to be true in that moment. It’s a paradigm and it can always change based on new information.
Getting back to The Secret, each time I watch this video, it gets me in a very positive state of mind. The value of watching this video to me, is that we can learn some new strategies to create self improvement in the areas of positive thinking and positive expectancy. Think about it, would you rather want to expect misery, or happiness? Again, to me, the bottom line is that by thinking about what we want in a positively stated way, will help change our
focus to positive and thus increase our chances of manifesting those positive circumstances in our lives. If it sounds like we have a choice, it’s because we do! We can choose to consciously work on our thoughts and then through repetition, we condition this positive way of thinking into our lives. As we direct our thoughts toward positive means and ends consciously, we end up embedding that into our subconscious which works automatically – meaning that we eventually convert our conscious thoughts into new, positive habits.
Finally, you can purchase the full video at most stores, online at amazon.com or at thesecret.tv. I definitely recommend this video to those who want to build a positive library of self improvement material.
The Secret (First 20 Minutes)