The Law of Attraction

Today I’m delving deep to wax philosophical on the Law of Attraction and some personal insights on how I understand and use it in my life. It’s a long post with a lot of information, so grab a fresh cuppa joe and snag a seat… this ought to be fun. 

Years before (the book) The Secret came out…

I was introduced to the idea of the Law of Attraction (referred to by some as the Law of Abundance) when, in my late teens, I overheard a conversation between my mother and grandmother that went like this... 

Tonight is a new moon--so don't forget to write the check. 

The check was an actual check from their checkbook. The Pay to the Order of line was made out to themselves. The Pay Amount was at times left blank, but at other times was filled with an amount that was needed for a specific item or event (like that extra $50 to pay the electric bill or $20 to put gas in the car). The check was signed and authorized by... The Law of Abundance.

For years, decades even, I would scratch my head at this monthly new moon ritual by two women in my family who were and are (by my standards and their own professions) considered accountants and the first two women I'd ever met who could always balance their checkbook down to the exact penny—on any given day of the month. (Something I'd be able to do only if you removed the dollar sign and incorporated Calculus into the equation.) 

It wasn't until I read The Secret that I finally understood the What and Why they wrote that check every month, which was followed by a long study into the How the mechanics of the Law of Abundance/Attraction worked. 

What is the Law of Attraction? Law of Abundance?

The Law of Attraction philosophy revolves around the premise that if you think an idea, then believe in the idea, then act as if the idea has manifested in your life… it will happen. The key to making said idea manifest includes being purposefully aligned, fully realized in the present, and/or having clarity for a specific goal.

The Law of Abundance is the belief that the universe has abundant energy—which is great if you’re always coming up with ideas that need manifesting in your conscious world. (BTW, the science geek in me feels compelled to point out that our universe expands and as it expands it takes on more energy. So theoretically, yeah, the universe really does have an abundant supply. At least for now. When the universe decides to start contracting… that’s a totally different story. LOL)

Why does the Law of Attraction work?

 The Law of Attraction philosophy works:

-- Because we have a mind that can manipulate energy (electricity and electrons).

-- Because we have a body that can act as an electro-chemical (both electrical and chemical) conduit.

-- Because as humans with an electro-chemical mind and an electro-chemical nervous system, we radiate energy fields.

-- Energy fields both attract and repel energy.

-- When you radiate the energy field you think, believe, and intend, then you attract the energy you desire. 

How does the Law of Attraction work? 

The mechanism behind the Law of Attraction working is similar, in my mind, to how to make an electromagnet. (A great lab on making an electromagnet—one that you can do with the kids on science nights at the homestead—is here: http://education.jlab.org/qa/electromagnet.html).

In a nutshell, to make an electromagnet, you need three items:

1.      Power source (battery)

2.      Insulated copper wire

3.      Iron nail

The wire is wrapped around the iron nail (copious times and aligned in the same direction to improve potency), then the wire is connected to the power source. The power source sends electricity through the wire which stimulates the atoms in the iron bar to polarize.  Turn off the power source and the iron bar will go back to a random pattern; turn the power source back on and the atoms re-organize to the appropriate (+ or -) polar regions.

That’s great info to know and thanks for the science brain dump, but WTF does that have to do with the Law of Attraction and, more importantly, ME?

The answer is simple—so simple that every time I think about it I feel like I’ve been smacked on the forehead and could’ve had a tomato cocktail.

To become an electro-(chemical)-magnet for the Law of Attraction, you need three things:

1.      Unconscious mind (power source)

2.      Subconscious mind (insulated copper wire)

3.      Conscious Mind/Body (Iron nail)

The Unconscious Mind is the idea generator. It operates as your power source and source of the brilliant idea that you wish to manifest in your life.

The Subconscious Mind is your analyzing, sorting machine. It operates as the insulated wire that must be wrapped in the same direction (read here, NOT conflicted, confused, of befuddled) to align the atoms (energy) in your Conscious Mind/Body.

The Conscious Mind/Body is your connection to your outside world. It is what interacts magnetically with the energy of the universe and attracts the energy you’re requesting.

Put it all together and you have an awesome machine that generates power from within. In a picture format, I view it like this:

Now that we have a basic understanding of how the flow of information and energy works to use the Law of Attraction, let’s look at what’s at work in each of the three layers.

See, Hear, Feel the Power…

This whole section should be its own post, but I couldn’t justify making you wait for it—since it just felt evil and wrong.  Especially since I’m very aware of just how easy it is to sabotage yourself when you have too little information on how a system works—aka clarity. So let’s talk about clarity and more importantly how you get it…

Clarity happens in the Subconscious Mind.

If you are not clear about your idea or intention that’s when you’re more likely to subconsciously sabotage yourself.

How clarity occurs for you is dependent on how you are hardwired.

My studies into understanding characters (both those in my imagination and the ones I interact with in the McDonalds drive-thru) have led to me to an oversimplified idea that there are, fundamentally, six types of ways a human can be hard wired in the world.

Those six types of humans interact with their world, sort ideas, and are inspired as follows:

	Conscious	Subconscious	Unconscious
	I experience my idea in my physical body by…	I sort information for my idea by…	My ideas are inspired by…
V	Seeing it physically	Pictures	Pictures
A	Speaking about it out loud	Words	Words
K	Feeling it in my bones, gut/ Movement (like acting it out)	Feeling my way through it/ Movement (like acting it out)	Feelings or Movement

Knowing where you fall in that breakdown is invaluable, IMHO, because it provides insight into what area of your personal nature and universe is prone to hindering clarity. It can also indicate what areas may be sending too little or too much information through to your subconscious.

Because yes, you guessed it, everything that happens in your Conscious mind and Unconscious mind gets funneled into your Subconscious for sorting and analysis.

Enough science mumbo jumbo, give me an example how it works.

You get an idea or have a want, desire, or need. Doesn’t matter how you got the idea, just matters that you found a nugget of an idea and lodged it successfully in the warm and fuzzy center of your universe and your Unconscious Mind.

Unconscious Mind announces Idea: “I want to win the lottery.”

That idea has some power in it. Yes, indeedy it does. Because I want to win the lottery so badly that I’m totally motivated. So motivated that I’m gonna send that idea to the checks and balances center of my universe (aka, my sorting/rationalizing Subconscious Mind).

Subconscious Mind analyzes, sorts, and does the deadly tango with said Idea: “Hey that’s great, you wanna win the lottery. But to win, you gotta play. You also have to have numbers. What numbers feel good for you? Or do you feel lucky and as if you have enough brownie points with the universe that you don’t need to pick your own numbers? Do you believe the universe will send you the right numbers to win? How strong is your faith? Are you really sure you need to win the lottery? Have you really looked at all options? Huh, well have you? (and so on and so on…)”

After reading the interaction with the Subconscious Mind, can you imagine how easy it is for people to subconsciously sabotage themself?

Yeah, I do this all the time—especially when my original idea isn’t clear or specific enough to pass the interrogation chamber within my Subconscious control-freak-dominatrix house of horrors.

For the sake of argument, let’s say you make it out of the Subconscious Mind with a rock steady idea fueling a steady stream of belief and intent that is funneled straight into your physical body and… you march your sweet little ass out to the nearest convenience store to purchase YOUR prize winning lottery ticket. With numbers that you KNOW will win. You know those numbers are gonna win the whole jackpot and you’re so secure in the idea that those numbers will win that you can see, hear, and feel what it’s like to win the jackpot.

You’re so sure it’s gonna happen that you write yourself a check on a new moon with the exact amount that the jackpot payout is gonna be and you sign it from the…

Law of Abundance

And that bring sus back to the beginning of today’s World Domination post on the Law of Attraction. I hope you enjoyed the ride and it helped clear up some questions you’ve had about how to make the law work for you.

Be sure to visit my Facebook page where I’ll have some more examples on how I use the law of attraction along with some additional thoughts. Join in the conversation there and be entered into a drawing for a $10 Amazon gift certificate.

Until next time, take care and happy manifesting!

~Elijana