Making the Law of Attraction Work For Your Benefit

Making the Law of Attraction Work For Your Benefit
By Jim Patterson

The Law of Attraction is undoubtedly one of the most powerful natural phenomenon in the Universe. With the runaway success of the movie and book The Secret, it has become one of the most highly studied natural laws as well. And yet it is also still one of the most misunderstood.

At it's most basic level The Law of Attraction states that "like attracts like". As a result, if you put out anger you will attract anger from the universe, and the individuals in it. If you put out thoughts about being short of money, then you will attract situations that make you short of money. If you make yourself a source of abundance, then you will attract abundance from the Universe. And so on...

We are therefore all interacting with the Law of Attraction every moment of every day. The question is whether you are making the Law of Attraction work for you, or against you! If we are to have any success at all in directing our energy in a way that allows us to manifest what we want in our lives utilizing the Law of Attraction, then it is not just necessary but vital to grasp certain core principals that govern this natural law. And make no mistake about it, this is just as much of a natural law as is gravity.

We use the principals that govern the natural law of gravity to our benefit every day. We do this when we pour a cup of coffee by placing the cup below where the flow of coffee will exit the spout of the coffee pot when we tip it. If we didn't do this, we would have a mess resulting from our own failure to understand and use the law of gravity accurately.

This is exactly why you may have difficulty making the Law of Attraction work for you. Meditate on these Law of Attraction principals and you will progress to utilizing Attraction Techniques as beneficially and as easily as you pour that cup of joe!

• The Law of Attraction will respond to the energy from the entirety of the energy you emit in relation to what you are trying to manifest. You simply cannot separate out your end desire from your motivation. Doing so will have unintended consequences. If your motivation for manifesting is to harm another, then the energy you are sending out if of a malevolant nature and malevolance is what will result even if you do in fact receive your goal situation.



• The Law of Attraction is also The Law of Abundance. Manifesting in a competitive manner carries with it an attempt to stifle the flow of the energy so abundant in the Universe and what you are manifesting is a restriction of that abundance. That is what you will get back. A lack of access to that abundant energy.



• Successful Manifestation using Attraction Techniques requires accurate assessment of the current situation. You cannot direct a beneficial change in situation if you do not acknowledge what the actuality of that situation is. This is why we each need to start our journey towards manifesting by taking stock of what is, and being present with it. Being "present with what is" means accepting that this is the situation at the present moment. It does not mean accepting that as a judgment for all time. Be at peace with what is, so that you are not identifying with a situation that is undesirable. Identifying with it sends out energy that the Law of Attraction will respond to and return.

There are a great deal more principals that make the Law of Attraction react in a manner not beneficial to our purposes when we set out to manifest our desires, but the above are some of those that most commonly affect people that feel the Law of Attraction is not working for them. It is interacting with each and every one of us at all times, either beneficially or detrimentally. It is up to use to identify how and why.

Jim Patterson

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The Power of Now - Awareness and Acceptance Go Hand in Hand

The Power of Now - Awareness and Acceptance Go Hand in Hand
By Jim Patterson

I was talking with a long term client the other day, and was discussing his desire to lose twenty pounds. When I asked what his weight currently was his response floored me!

"Oh, I won't get on a scale so I really don't know!"

This raised a whole new arena of questions due to the conflicts inherent to the specific situation. Having a specific goal to lose twenty pounds while refusing to acknowledge ones current weight is self defeating from the word go, but that is not even the part that was most important to address.

A large part of what I try to help people to achieve is centered around Awareness. Awareness of and presence in The Now. Living a life of presence in this moment, not looking forward or backward. Eschewing all of the folderol that accrues when we live our lives to be happy/content/relaxed "As Soon As..."

To do this in any full sense means also being aware of what the current moment is. And being aware of it means also accepting what is. To it's fullest extent this includes being at peace with what is. That may seem a bit much to expect to many people with serious challenges in their life, but it is achievable for all...

My client wanted to change his situation without really knowing what his situation was. Anybody see a problem here? If you cannot accept your situation (what is) then you have no real hope of changing it. In actuality, willful ignorance of a situation he didn't like was keeping him from not just changing the situation but also from real peace and joy right now!

How so? Well let's consider what happened next!

I trotted out my faithful bathroom scale and literally forced him onto it. The result? He weighed more than he hoped but less than he feared. He was also only 18 pounds from his goal wieght. Having become aware of his actual current weight, he was able to stop the inner stammering dialog that happened every time someone inquired about his weight, whether that was his wife, a friend or even just himself...

So one less thing had the ability to take him out of the present moment and toss him back out of Awareness of The Now!

The importance of this can not be overstated. Every time we overcome one of these issues and take away that ability we gain greater understanding and skills that will allow us to maintain a life of Awareness and Connection with the Dynamic Energy of the Universe and it's Creator.

Awareness then leads to Acceptance as we acknowledge the reality of a situation. This is key to our accomplishing any desired change in that situation we may want. But how do we come to be at peace with a situation that we are at core unhappy about.

All situations fall under one of three categories.

1. Situations that we have no control over.
2. Situations that we have control over.
3. Situations that are a mixture of things we cannot control, and those we can.

When faced with something that falls in category one, we can legitimately give ourselves a pass. Accepting that the situation was not of our making doesn't always mean there is nothing we can do to change things. So if we allow for things that we had no control over, but take what action is available now we have the perfect basis to be at peace with what is...

Categories 2 and 3 are closely related, because if we had any culpability at all in the actuality of What Is, many people just can't seem to let themselves off the hook! This is a forgiveness issue, and will also usually be affecting people's ability to offer forgiveness to others. This will further hinder the achievement of joy and peaceful living in Awareness of The Now.

Let's face it, most things fall into these two categories as we can almost always affect a situation by our actions. With whatever we are faced with that we are not pleased with, we either did not take action, or our actions were not effective.

The first step to overcoming negative feelings about this aspect of What Is consists of meditating on that old NLP affirmation: Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources available to them.

This includes each and every one of us. I challenge anyone to really meditate on this and not come away being more at peace with What Is; In The Now.

Whatever we have or have not done that added to our current predicament occurred while we were faced with other complex situations. By no act of will can we separate out the influences of those past moments in time. To even go back and try is to take ourselves our of the present moment. Acknowledge this, and you are most of the way to a peaceful acceptance of your own culpability and present situation.

Am I saying that retrospection is always a bad thing? That we should never try to learn from our past mistakes and errors of omission? Absolutely not, but I am saying that to do so in even a slightly obsessive way is not only counterproductive but dangerous, and toxic to our Awareness and Presence in The Now.

Be Aware of all aspects of your situation without denial or obfuscation. Accept whatever your own role is in any aspect that is not to your liking, and forgive yourself. Acknowledge that you were "Doing the best you could with the resources available to you."

This will allow you to accept what is openly and take appropriate action while still enjoying a peaceful existence in the present moment at all times.


Jim Patterson

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Renaming The Law Of Attraction

Like most people that have even the smallest exposure to it. The Law Of Attraction has had a tremendous impact on my life. And yet, there continue to be commentaries on it that are both insightful, and necessary.

I think you will enjoy this one: Renaming The Law Of Attraction

The Basics Of The Law Of Attraction

The Basics Of The Law Of Attraction

There is a secret in the universe that can bring
you good things, it is called the Law of Attraction.
This can bring you happiness, wealth, and physical
well-being. You only have to know how to apply it.
A few basic concepts of the Law of Attraction can
help you on your way.

A concept central to the Law of Attraction is
that the things you think become reality. The
things you think are energy, just as the entire
universe is energy. As you ponder your reality,
or simply let thoughts run through your mind, you
are shaping your reality.

You do this by means of the Law of Attraction.

The energy you send out connects with like energy.
Then, the universe responds to your feelings by
returning the energy back to you. This happens
for good or bad feelings.

Another basic concept is that it is too difficult
to monitor every one of some 60,000 thoughts you
have every day. The goal, instead, should be to
foster a feeling of happiness, gratitude, and well-
being. This will go further than trying to change
every thought individually. Feelings are important
to the Law of Attraction.

One assumption of users of the Law of Attraction is
that life is meant to be joyous and fulfilling.

Many people feel that their lives can be no more than
difficult work situations, unhappy relationships, poor
health, and a mountain of debt. Unless these people
change their attitudes, they can never know the
abundance they can get through the Law of Attraction.

There can never be a lack of anything that you want
if you follow the Law of Attraction. This is another
concept of the movement. It means that there is enough
for everyone to have what they want.

This is especially true because some people want certain
things and other people want something else. According
to the Law of Attraction, what you want is always possible.

One concept of the Law of Attraction can be stated as
something like, "what you get is what you see."

What this means in this case is that when you see a
result, you will vibrate with energy based on that result.
If you see good, you will send out good energy.

This energy will return to you in the form of more
positive results. So, if you want positive results,
you need to find a way to see the good in situations.
This is how the Law of Attraction works. If you see
good, more good will return to you.

The concept of asking for particular things is a part
of the Law of Attraction. When you command the
universe to give you what you want, you can get it.

To do this, you must believe in it. Then, you must
accept it as if you had already gotten it. Then you
will find the Law of Attraction bringing all kinds of
good things your way.

The Law of Attraction is at once both simple and
complex. You must only ask and receive. Yet, to
do that in confidence, you must work to restructure
your whole way of thinking.

To do this it is good to study the concepts
of the Law of Attraction.

Floyd Bogart

The Secret

This is an absolutely amazing phenomenon...

It is called the "Law of Attraction" and is the reality of how the world works.
That is something that you will have to learn the facts of yourself firsthand though.

Fortunately you can do so easily right here:

The Secret

Everyone should see this at least once at preferably several times.
It is changing lives worldwide as we speak.

Don't wait, just go to it and watch the movie as soon as you can.

Floyd!