James Kilgarriff’s Weblog

The heart of the Law of Attraction is about cultivating your vibration or the way you feel about what it is you wish to bring into your life.

Think about a plant. Over time the plant starts as a seed and needs the right environment in order to grow and become strong enough to flourish. This is the same with working on changing your vibration say around money or health.

If you take for example money, your vibration around money in words and feelings terms is such that you may say “there is never enough money to go around” or ” I can never get out of debt”. When we continue to say these things to ourselves and to others we perpetuate the vibration of lack and so the law of attraction will deliver more of the same vibration.

What needs to happen is to switch the vibration to feelings of abundance and plenty. Like the plant this switch and cultivation of the vibration is going to need time and attention and support to make this a reality. This is not a quick fix solution to instantly manifest a ton of money as you may have read in some of the more ambitious books about manifestation and personal growth.

Things take time to form and changing your vibration about money or health is an ongoing and responsible habit which needs your willingness to commit to the process and take on new behaviours and actions to change your life´s experiences.

We live in a vibrational universe which means every thing we see and even our thoughts have vibrational qualities. Our job is to become deliberate changers of our vibrational relationship with money, health and relationships and so on.

As adults we want to know the mechanics of how the law of attraction works and can end up complicating the theme. Teaching this stuff to kids does not require an explanation of the law. We simply have to be examples for our children by the way we use our words.

As a child, how many times did you hear the words “no” or “don´t”? Probably many hundreds of thousands of times and so when you reached the age of 16 you were self critical of yourself because you were filled with “don´t” and “no” words and thousands memories of these.

The Law of Attraction works with children by selecting the right kind of words to get a positive outcome. For example, if you say to a child “don´t put the cup on the floor”, the chances are the child will be more rebellious and will put or even drop the cup on the floor. This is because when the words “no” and “dont” are used in the words you say, the law of attraction will respond by giving you just that! It is obedient.

So instead of saying to a child “don´t put the cup on the floor” you could say ” please could you put the cup on the table”. The words used here are giving the child more clarity about what you want to happen as opposed to what you “don´t want to happen. The outcome is more likely to be a positive one – the child is likely to place the cup on the table.

Asking your child “what would you like”, or “what do you want” is helping the child to focus on what is possible. This also helps you, the adult, to focus on more positive outcomes as opposed to the negative results and fearful outcomes that have become an automatic part of our thinking over the years.

So the Law of Attraction works in your life whether or are aware of it or not. You may as well focus on what you want or what you would like to see happen and as energy follows thought, the outcomes will match your thinking.

Applying this method of thought with children can be an enriching experience for you as well as the child as long as you keep persisting with it and making it a habit.

Once we really understand the power of perception our lives take on a new meaning and self empowerment.

Life attracts back to us what we are thinking and perceiving in every moment. So if I am fearful that money will not come to me, it won´t. However, if I experience abundance with what I do have such as being grateful and having the money to pay the phone bill to access the internet and post this article – even though I may not have much money but have a perception of abundance, I can be sure more abundance will show up for me.

So when life is not working for me, rather than change my job, my partner or where I live, I first look at how I can change my perception of these life circumstances and so start the process of dreaming a new dream. The law of attraction assists me in this new dream creation as it responds to how I think and how I percieve in any given moment. I therefore move away from a kind of victim thinking to a more self empowered way of creating a new dream.

There is an old story about a traveller who meets another traveller on the road comming from the other direction. The first guy says ” I am headed for the town you just came from. Tell me, what is it like? Are the people good, honest and trustworthy?” The second traveller says, “Well, what was everyone like in the town you just left?” The first traveller says, “Oh they were terrible! I was robbed, denied lodgings, and overcharged for food. There isn´t a decent person in that town.” The second traveller says, “Well, then, that is exactly what you will find in the town you are headed toward”.

What the second traveller sees which the first traveller does not, is that wherever you go and how you perceive the world is what you will get. Your perception attracts your reality.

Many people who study the law of attraction and its mechanics end up either taking action or no action at all.

As Einstein once said “Nothing happens until something moves”. In other words the element of action is the bridge between the visible and the invisible.

However, to take action just for the sake of making things happen can end up being an exercise of running down the incorrect path and one can end up tired and exhausted as a result.

The terms I use is that action is like the content and the intention is like the context or structure before action happens. In other words to make the Law of Attraction work in more effortless ways, the context has to feel right.

If you have set the correct context around your intention, you can see it clearly, you have positive feelings and a sense of excitement about the intention then the first job is to build this very clearly in the mind before action – the content – kicks in.

To quote a John Schaar – futurist..

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created–created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

So although many Law of Attraction teachers and personal development gurus press home the importance of taking massive action,  the right context has to be set up for the action to be more of a flow rather than a having to do it attitude.

Law of attraction and non action points to setting up in the mind and feelings first the clear intention so that action follows naturally.