The Law of Attraction in Five Minutes or Less

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Perhaps no other concept in the self improvement field ignites such passionate enthusiasm and controversy as the Law of Attraction.

In this video, SelfGrowth.com’s David Riklan explains what exactly the Law of Attraction is, why it’s so controversial, and shows how YOU can change your life with the Law of Attraction.

While there may not be one universally-agreed-upon definition, most authors and speakers who teach the Law of Attraction would agree on the following:

The Law of Attraction says that people's thoughts - both conscious and unconscious - dictate the reality of their lives.

You attract into your life whatever you think about. Your dominant thoughts will find a way to manifest themselves, to come into being. Your thoughts become your reality.

So, if you think that you are rich, you will get rich.

If you believe you’ll get the promotion, get the new car, the big mansion, get the girl – or guy – of your dreams, you will.

Teachers of the Law also recommend that you focus on what you do want, instead of focusing on what you don’t. For example, focus on being healthy instead of focusing on not being sick. Focus on being wealthy, instead of simply on not being poor.

This is important because – here’s one of the key teachings of the Law - if you think the wrong thoughts, or just fail to think the right ones, you end up attracting bad things into your life. Negative thinking will attract negative outcomes. If you believe you’re going to fail, you’re going to fail. If you think all of your relationships are going to go bad, guess what, you’ll attract bad relationships into your life.

And this leads to some of the most controversial aspects of the Law of Attraction.

Say you got hit by a drunk driver on the way home from work. According to the Law of Attraction, you attracted that into your life.

Say your house was destroyed by a hurricane or earthquake. The Law of Attraction says – you deserved it. You’re responsible.

Skeptics say that the theory of the Law of Attraction falls apart when applied to real-life cases like the above, proving that it can’t be the great hidden “Secret” governing the universe.

But tell us what you believe! Law of attraction. Truth or fantasy? Are you a believer or a skeptic? Leave you comments below.

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Laurie Stolmaker (Law of Attraction)

The Law is always working, so it doesn't "care" if you believe in it or not. So many people are making it so complicated. I rely on Abraham-Hicks as the purest way to learn this material, and one of the few that doesn't have complicated instructions. LOA is easy to learn from them. Implemeting the changes in vibration is the real "work" and it is largely about emotions. Emotions that we feel are our feedback from the Universe and we can than find thoughts to improve our vibration. Also, the unpleasant or painful experiences are termed "contrast" and they are the calyst for having new desires, which cause the Universe to expand. So, the difficulties are the first step...creating the desire. The desire is a natural experience. The Universe immediately provides the answer, not necessarily a specific job, as an example, but a positive outcome. Our job is to focus on the desired outcome and feelings associated with it. This is what allows it to be delivered.

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jeff buehl

Very good description . On the negative side , no we dont attract accidents < robbery my behavior < poor luck add infintium ..It happened The hard part is rethinking and ACTING in winning mindset.

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Emily Erickson (Tarot)

In the long run most people get what they have deserved and produced. One can affect rewards (and losses) in the short run within those boundaries. Con artists tend to succeed way beyond what they deserve (usually temporarily) because they act like its theirs and other people stand aside and let them have it, out of reflexive behavior. Bernie Madoff is in prison, so . . . did he quit believing? . . .

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Its just like it says in the Bible. Ask, believe, and recieve. It's true. I've started living this way years ago and it works. :o)

Joyce Dinyar

I believe the laws of attraction are real and it's up to us to mold our destiny.

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i really think it has a great impact in our life.... if u think +ve good is going to manifest and if u think -ve somethink bad is going t manifests... u will get what u think....i.e thoughts have the energy....so making a habit of thinking positive in every condition of life is the thing what we should do.

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Charity Limula (Life Coach and Life Coaching)

Interesting!

Mary Anne Cipressy

The definition we use is that the LOA is the mechanism, the how all things manifest into reality and it works on the level of vibration. The LOA has no limits but our understanding of it does. We are creators of our own reality and the LOA is vehicle by which this occurs. It "works" even when we are not being deliberate about it.

Sharon Collins

I remember when I first was listening to The Secret, I sat in a parking lot of a grocery store the one where you need a quarter to use the cart I sat and listened and said to my self I wish an elderly person would come along and take the one cart that already had a quarter inserted into the cart. Thanks, Shaon@coupons|voucher

Dorothy Davis (Self Realization)

I am a FIRM believer in the LOA! I have seen it worked numerous times in my life. This is a Universal Law which cannot be ignored!

Victor Garcia

David, there is much to be said about this topic. However, more is required than just "thinking" and waiting to receive. I believe that a person also has to take action towards his goal. Action with a positive attitube is the catalyst needed to achieve. Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting. Quote by Woodrow Wilson Action is the topic that I have been writing about this week. Victor@empowering-quotations

Khanya Ngonyama

Good advice David. I'm a strong believer in the law of attraction because our thoughts and emotions are energy that attract circumstances into our lives. However, I do not believe that when a hurricane hits a community, it is because it was attracted by all the people in that community because each individual has thinking patterns and attitudes.

Wanda Eichner

I believe in positive thinking. If you truly believe in yourself, you just don't believe in defeat. You can what you set your mind to. Just don't believe there are external forces that are involved.

Marie Kirkland (Life Coach and Life Coaching)

The law of attraction like many of universal laws absolutely works. However, what most people often forget is that it works at the level you are vibrating on. If you want a 6 figure income but are vibrating on the level of minimum wage, you are not going to attract that income or the creativity, resources, or opportunities it takes to get you there. LOA is a practice that can change your life.

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Justin Lock (Sports)

I dont think that you can attract a hurricane to your home but you definetly can make things happen such as promotions and new jobs and smaller scale things such as that. For example: I spent the past three years dreaming about getting a motorcycle and how awesome it sould be. I just got one in spring. Not only did I get one but I got one of the best ones, BMW 650gs.

Gilberto Diaz

There are few things that may happen because of your own doing but in reality the LOA is a little complex or difficult to accept.

Charlotte Tersigni (Attitude)

I remember when I first was listening to The Secret, I sat in a parking lot of a grocery store ( the one where you need a quarter to use the cart) I sat and listened and said to my self I wish an elderly person would come along and take the one cart that already had a quarter inserted into the cart. As I sat for about one half hour, just observing, and I even pointed the cart out to a man with a child in his hands,he bypassed the cart and did not end up taking it. A few seconds later an elderly lady was searching in her purse for a quarter, I rolled down my window and told her one was already in a cart. She took it. So from that moment, I have been in "tune" to what the LOA can do.

Rajen Shhrivastava

90% 0f your life - you create by your thoughts, responses and actions (attract events / circumstances / people/ wealth etc); the remaining 10% is delivered to you by the universe

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One of my favorite units to teach is poetry. The playing with words, the cleverness of students, and the discovering of new ways to describe a simple object always gives me a thrill. I mean really. How often does one get to use words like hanker after to replace want or quick on the uptake for clever? I love it, but yes, that’s the English teacher in me along with a dozen word games on my iPod Touch. college degree AND university degree

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Debbie Unterman (Wellness)

I believe it's complicated, too. We have so many "voices" in our heads. The Believer's intents can be cancelled out by The Skeptic or even The Victim, who may be lurking in our subconscious. It's important to do our inner work and I never heard them mention that in The Secret. I'm afraid that may make people blame themselves when their good doesn't manifest, and that's not fair. We also came with different karmic purposes and not everyone came here to be rich and or famous, but that's what almost everyone wants. Just not gonna happen. We can start by being grateful for what we do have and love our life and our self (selves) as things are now. That will at least keep us living in the now instead of the future - which, of course, is all there is. That said, postive thinking is always a good idea. Debbie Unterman, author, Talking to My Selves: Learning to Love the Voices in Your Head. http://www.TalkingtoMySelves.com

Brette White

The hardest part for me is knowing exactly what I want. I have spent so much time trying to "not get my hopes up", in the past, that I have not allowed myself to focus on what I wanted. I was raised to believe that I would get what I deserved, and then feel guilty when the good did not come. LOA is the cure for guilt, doubt and unbelief, and I am pleased to finally know it.

Veronica White (Empowerment)

The extent to which this works is incredible! But it is a matter of learning how to do it PROPERLY. Manifesting your intentions is all fine and good, but being specific is key. You must know exactly what it is that you want... be able to describe it in detail... basically feel like you already have it. Once you master that part, the rest comes easily.

Niara Terela Isley (Life Coach and Life Coaching)

We need to realize its not just us individuals. It's us as a whole human collective. Because we are entangled, as Dean Radin is discovering in his research, we need to consciously work within the collective consciousness, and realize that as individuals, just a small piece of the collective is working on manifestation. I think this entanglement could also explain why people experience cataclysmic events like earthquakes and hurricanes that devastate our lives, there is more at work than individual hopes, dreams and intentions.

Niara Terela Isley (Life Coach and Life Coaching)

How can we learn, clear that up and turn things around? I'm not sure yet. But while mansions, hot cars, great relationships are wonderful and I'm not knocking people creating them, I would say we need to think beyond materialism and use our vital creative energy for more than just manifesting stuff... we need to heal our planet, environmentally, socially, economically and politically. We need to consider the good of the whole with every bit as much zeal as our own desire to have great stuff individually. We are each part of a larger whole, and we have the power to create a world where everyone thrives if enough of us embrace that idea to create an exponential expansion of it. (Cont.)

Niara Terela Isley (Life Coach and Life Coaching)

I think that the law of attraction needs to take into account humanity as a collective consciousness. Just as Carl Jung postulated the collective unconscious of humanity, so I've come to believe that we are both individuals and part of the larger collective. Dean Radin also discusses how we are all "entangled" in our consciousness. My mentors, Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks taught me that when you make a strong commitment to a particular path or something you want to manifest in your life, the first thing to come up is the unconscious counter-commitment to having that manifest, so you get a chance to confront the unconscious material and work it through. I watched the Secret and like so many, and I got excited. Now we're in an economic recession impacting whole populations. I have to wonder how the Secret got so many people stirred up, sending out powerful manifestation visualizations and now collectively, are we seeing humanity's counter-commitment to our own collective prosperity? (Cont.)

Marjo Rautaoja (Yoga)

I belive in this but it is also hard to be resposible of your own thoughts. So #1 forgive yourself for having sometimes negative moments #2 love yourself in order to create good vibes #3 believe in your dreams and visualize them. I have used these methods when building my life from scratches in a foreign country, I used in my native country and made my dreams come true: husband and wonderful children, dream house and work. Although I am still learning how to use that method to get my kids not to have tantrums:) Everyday I learn somehting new and everyday I forgive myself.

Teresa Bolen Okamoto (Dieting and Weight Loss)

Another winner David! I am a believer in the LOA, and I'm also grateful for tools such as EFT and NLP as a way to clear limiting unconscious beliefs and things we hold in our energy field. I no longer wrestle with LOA. I think that we are attracting things in our God Plan that we might not consciously be aware of, and also we attract things in groups. I hope we stop attracting things like swine flu - and that's why I just made a YouTube video on How to Protect Yourself from Swine Flu with EFT.

Betty Frausto (Health Education)

If you want to practice the LOA successfully with great triumph you may need to identify any false deep seeded believes that remain embedded deep within the crevices of your sub conscious from your early development. Programming begins from the moment we are born. Our minds absorb everything we see, hear, smell and feel from day one as if it were FACTUAL information. Our subconscious doesn't differentiate fact from fiction so our mind will mirror all kinds of information good or bad at subconscious levels we are not always aware of. Challenges and lessons will come a dime a dozen in a variety of flavors and colors. Perhaps it's what forces us create change where change is needed..

Umang Goel

Thank you. I do believe in this concept completely. I have proven it to myself again and again from both the positive and the negative sides, when I was not aware! With awareness came strength, and with strength came empowerment. Since believing in this is empowering, why would I not believe in it? It sure is the way to success in all possible ways :)

Wendy Dashwood-Quick (Career Coach and Career Coaching)

Interesting and thought provoking video. From my experiences lately, yes postive thinking is crucial in the Law of Attraction, however I am relying more and more on my gut instincts, following cues that are sent to me to follow up and generally being more tuned into 'stuff'. BUT sometimes things happen quickly, sometimes they happen slowly - you need to be in tune to this because you could end up being frustrated by the outcome if it doesn't happen for you straight away. Meaning that the Universe (if you've put in your order correctly), IS working for you, but it doesn't always show up at the time you want it, OR in the form you ordered; which is why sometimes we miss an opportunity which is right under our nose. To conclude - there is a bigger power at work I believe - and sometimes it knows better than EVEN YOU - and that ultimately even a disaster will work out for your benefit. So don't be too literal about the Law of Attraction

Jerome Dechant

The law of attraction works with is vibration. Beliefs may arise out of life experiencing, but they aren't necessarily what the law of attraction is responding to. The law of attraction is a vibrational energy response. How you feel, your emotional experience, is how we experience this vibrating energy. Based upon our feeling, we attract like vibrations (feelings) in to our life experiencing. When you understand this, you may realize the value of being present in each moment, and choosing to feel better because the better you feel emotionally, the better the energy expression you are radiating, and therefore the better the expressions in your life experience will be which are reflected back to you. Best regards, Jerry Dechant http://www.myspace.com/jerry_dechant

Jerome Dechant

in reading through some of these posted replies, I see a lot of conditions put into place by those who've posted here, limiting conditions. So, if this is an infinitely powerful law, and you limit it by placing conditions upon it, how infinitely powerfully will it express in your life?

Jerome Dechant

a bit of a continuation: If you go to Myspace page, you will see a picture I have posted there which is of the drama masks and some text. The text says, "How you feel, its a choice, so choose to feel better now." This is key to experiencing the life you truly desire. If you believe you can't choose to feel better, here is another saying which applies, "Who, or what, controls you then, if you do not control yourself?" Answer that questions and you will find out who or what you've given your power to. Best regards, Jerry Dechant http://www.myspace.com/jerry_dechant

Rich Johnson

While I believe we have control over much of what happens to each of us, we're all part of the energy soup that everything is made of. As such, our energy and our manifestations are shared. If we could exist in a vacuum, we could manifest exactly what we think about. But we all exist as part of a larger whole and at times, our intensions collide. The 3 teens killed in a car were not thinking about being killed, but someone else was reckless with his actions resulting in the death of the 3 teens. Look at it this way. Drop a rock into a pool of water and rippples radiate out from the center. They form a perfect circle and would go to infinity. Drop another rock into the water at a different location and the ripples collide, affecting the patterns in the pool. We are not in complete control of everything in our lives. This does not refute the validity of LOA. It merely shows that it works and we have to deal with the results of everyone's thoughts and intentions.

Jerome Dechant

As a powerful Energy Being, we each set our limits by choice, consciously or unconsciously which detmines how effective we are at manifesting that which we choose to. The law has no limits as far as what the results of its use are concerned, it just functions according to its law directive which is like energy vibrations attract like energy vibrations. How you feel is your experiencing of this energy in motion, (emotion = energy in motion.) The better you feel, the more powerfully you are aligned with the motion of this energy. Choose to feel better now. Best regards, Jerry

Robert Affolter

I teach that our thoughts have no power at all. Our thoughts are merely a reflection or indicator of what we are creating. The fact that we can control our thoughts is evidence that there is a part of us that is in control and has the power to create change. Logically, that part of us is part of the Original Creator of everything. As to "bad" things happening. I believe it is all part of the huge game we have created to experience. We may not control every aspect of the game, but we can control how we play.

ilona Paley

"Ask and it is Given" and the "LOA" will start...My take on it is in addition to intend and design an outcome one has to do the phisical thing or "the leg work" after all we live in a physical universe..."ask...beleive (it is possible )...act (the leg work) and recieve... visualization does help to manifest with less effort and little faster..."ilona@yourbrilliantself.com

Denniger Bolton

David & Everybody, AS the center of our Universe, I see it as if we are faced with unlimited possibilities, choices. We make a choice and the other possible choices we once had, dissolve. Behind or beyond the choice we make, the path we take, are a new set of choices, possibilities. As long as we are true to ourselves and goals, we will always attract what we choose. Denniger Bolton, Paperback Writer, Austin, Texas

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