Are You Living the Law of Attraction… or Is It Living You?

Is your life going along as you envision it? or …. Do you feel you know what you want – you know how you want to live – but you feel you can’t quite get there?

Things sorta go good… then they get a bit jumbled… start back to being better… nose dive to pure yucky… back up to kinda OK… all the way to Yes! Yes!… and then the down slide again.

Do you identify? What is that all about? Why the up, down and all around?

The answer is simple – it is the Law of Attraction working in your life.

Whoa – then somebody stop this Law of Attraction! Nope – we can’t do that — but you can start living the Law of Attraction instead of having it live you!

The definition of LOA is simple – “Like attracts Like” –It’s job description is also simple – to “match vibrations”

It works in your life like this – You attract to yourself whatever you put your energy, focus or attention on.

If you have up and down and all around results – take a look at your thought patterns.

• Where is your attention?
• Where is your focus?
• What are you putting your energy into?

Most people will answer – I am putting my attention on all the good things I want to see in life. I don’t disagree with this – however – there might be a small twist in here… So let me ask – Are you putting your attention on those good things…. or…. On the lack of those good things? This is a huge difference!

Note: I started writing this post and during the day I was having a conversation with LC_Sun on Twitter – at one point he said “I don’t like being a cynic, but after spending 27 yrs trying to be harmonious & judicuious & magnanimous – I have so little of what I expected”

I “hear” him – I truly do – I have felt that way about my life and I absolutely was cynical.

Here are the questions I need to ask LC_Sun – in essence these are the same questions I had to ask me.

• When being harmonious is your attention on harmony … or is your focus on how others are not being harmonious? Are you annoyed when others aren’t harmonious? Are you putting your attention only on the harmony in your life?
• When being magnanimous – again is your attention truly on not being petty – or are you aware of how petty others are around you?
• When being judicious – here again is your energy on being wise… or have you turned your attention to – - there are so many unreasonable people out there.

Take these basic questions in any area of your life – if you want a better job. Are you putting your focus on “I can find the job that fits me”… or…. is your attention on “jobs are hard to find these days”

Your Vibrational Expectations

If I am putting my attention on how other people are not harmonious – is that vibration one of harmony or one of disharmony? If I put my attention on the economy is bad – is that vibration one of abundance or one of lack?

Herein lies the reason so many people are not getting what they have expected. While they believe their expectation is on what they want – instead they are sending out a vibrational expectation of what they don’t want!

We are always sending out a vibration — if you are up and down and all around with your thoughts and beliefs – your are sending out a mixed bag of vibrations and the obedient Law of Attraction is serving it right back to you.

It is said we have 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts running through our heads everyday. That is a lot of thoughts – how could I ever know what they are? Obviously none of us are purposely sending out thoughts that will play havoc with our lives. The question is – Are you purposely sending out thoughts (vibrations) that will bring wonder-filled results to your life?

How do you know the vibration you are sending out? You know by how you feel. If you are angry, frustrated, cynical, sad – these are not in alignment with your expectations. Happy, content, joy – you are sending out the same vibrational expectation as your desires.

I’m not in anyway advocating that you never feel angry or never feel sad. These are true feelings and they are telling you an important message. They are telling you that your attention, energy and focus are on things that are not in alignment with your desires. When something angers you – in that moment you absolutely know what you do not want – which means you have fine-tuned your desires of what you do want. If you need to be cranky for awhile to get it off your chest – go ahead and do that …. Just don’t get stuck in anger or sad or frustrated.

Most of those 50,000 – 70,000 thoughts that run through our heads are old stories – old habits / patterns of thought. Thoughts  like – “This isn’t going to work cause it never worked before”… “I did good things and it got me nowhere”… “This economy stinks I’ll never get a good job”…yada… yada… yada…

These thoughts are old, learned, habitual thought patterns – if you allow them to flow freely the Law of Attraction is living you. If you choose to get aware of yourself – start to pay attention to how you feel and deliberately choose thoughts that make you feel good…. Then you are living the Law of Attraction.

I Thought I had Great Expectations…

I do not know the situations in LC_Sun’s life — I know for me I thought I had great expectations for my life. When I got clearer I realized I so badly wanted to believe these great expectations were going to happen for me — yet I already had the naysayers living in my head. I had doubts, fears, low self esteem and low self confidence. My focus was turned more on what was not working instead of what was working in my life.

Here is just one example – 23 years ago I was doing woodcarvings – I carved faces in driftwood and I adored doing it! After a few years – I was still not making any money – I was spending more money on show fees and tools then I was making. I was faced with what I felt was the reality of having to stop carving.

I remember sitting on the side of the road rocking back and forth and sobbing. I was so disappointed – I felt so abandoned – Where was this loving Higher Power, Universe, God?! Why didn’t this work for me?!

I did stop carving… and I also carried this great disappointment with me. And… I also got a little more cynical about life.

Six 1/2 years ago – I finally got it! I understood the Law of Attraction. I understood how powerful I am in my life – I understood vibrations and I understood how this carving scenario and all the other scenarios, good and bad, happened in my life. I took full responsibility for my life!

Today – when I look back at that time in my life – what happened makes perfect sense to me now. While I did indeed absolutely adore carving and I was the most happiest when I was carving – I also carried a slew of other thoughts/vibrations with me -

• I come from a working family and was told I could never make it being self-employed.
• I had the “starving artist” syndrome – the idea that artists never make enough money
• I was scared and doubtful as I silently believed I did not know how to make this business work
• I had low self esteem
• I had low self confidence

Do you see where my primary vibration was? While my hopes and desires where indeed on making a living doing this thing I so loved to do…. My Vibrational Expectation was on failure and that is exactly what happened!

Today I rejoice in this! Why? Because I can so clearly see this time and time again throughout my life. It so proves how powerful we are!

Today I know how to direct my thoughts – I know how to find the opportunities in all situation in my life.

Look at the opportunity this carving scenario has given me. Today I am aware of the vibrations – the vibrational expectations – I was sending out to the Universe. Today I know I was not abandoned – instead I had set myself up for this failure. This is good to know! If I can set myself up for failure – I can set myself up for success!  I turned – feeling sorry for myself – into – feeling and acknowledging the power I have in my life!

If we are the creators of our lives… and we are. We need to stop looking outside of ourselves for our answers. We need to pay attention to where our thoughts are going – to the vibrations we send out to the Universe. We need to stop looking for people or situations to blame and instead harness the opportunity every situation offers us!

If you have decided you will not let old, habitual thoughts run around  in your head and instead will deliberately choose your thoughts – you are Living the Law of Attraction…

Please let me know your thoughts… comments – I love to communicate with you all.
** I want to thank LC_Sun for tweeting with me on Twitter. I enjoyed his conversation and his honesty.

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"There are No Mistakes..... Only Discoveries!" ^TM ~ Ellie Walsh

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