How to use the Law of Attraction

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The 3 laws of the law of Attraction

If you have been using the law of attraction in your life, you’ll know sometimes that it might not work as well as you would want. Why is this?

Speaking from my own point of view, as I cannot say what your experiences will be like, there are 3 components to the law of attraction. I have read lots of articles and a few books on the Law of Attraction and they all give more or less the same advice. However I have tweaked all the information and experimenting I have done on my own and come up with thefollowing three three components:

The intention
The power behind the intention
The action toward the intention

The intention

Your intention is literally a statement of intent, something you want to achieve or have in the future. When I make my intentions I state the intention in the present tense while looking into the future. For example one of my intentions is to become a professional blogger so I would word it:

‘I am now a professional blogger, I have my own blog training business, I teach and write articles every day and love it and get paid for doing it’

Whilst saying this statement, internally or out loud, I visualise myself working as a professional blogger. I see myself teaching other people blogging, I see myself giving seminars. I see myself sitting at home during the day and writing my articles and talking on the phone with other bloggers.

Another important aspect of the intention is to clear any resistance to the intention. With my previous example I still have resistance as I know I have to help provide for my family so my current job needs to be kept on. This is a blockage and a major blockage but I am working on it bit by bit.

The power behind the intention

This is another important aspect that a lot of people miss and it is the power or the force behind the intention. Before setting your intention gear up toward it and muster as much energy around the intention as you can. When I muster up the energy I delay the intention and build it up to such an extent as to have an excited feeling in my stomach that needs to be released. The only analogy I can think of is that feeling when you are absolutely bursting on a pee and you have to hold it for a few hours and then at the moment you go to the toilet and pee, it’s a fantastic feeling of release and pleasure.

When you know roughly what your intention is and you can see it in your mind, make it clearer and get excited about it. Do this during the day when you are working, think about it, don’t talk about it, but think about it all day or for a few days.

When you are ready to release the intention plan 15 – 30 minutes alone and release your intention and make it focused and visualise it, hear it, sense it, smell it. Give it all your five sense and release it and let it drift out to wherever it goes to manifest.

The action toward the intention

In the past I have stated the intention and let it go and thought about it occasionally. I didn’t like this way of doing it and have now come to a more powerful way, for me, of achieving the intention. I work toward it and think about it often.

Right now I am working toward my dream of becoming a pro blogger. I am going into affiliate marketing, I am blogging for other people, and I am making more money with AdSense, all in the hope that I will make enough money
to either pay off the mortgage or make a lot more than I can working for a living.

I have found this a much better way of manifesting my intentions than the old way I was using of simply stating the intention and then letting it go.

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Experimenting

There are lots of different ways of making your intentions come into alignment with the present. Experimenting with lots of different ways is a good way to get to know what works for you. The more you do it the more you will get to know the blockages that may be hampering your efforts. Don’t give up with it and it can take some time to release those blockages. I found the biggest blockage is belief. I have chosen to believe in this way of thinking as I have seen it working for me.

Of course if I wanted to I could find other ways of explaining the events that have happened in my life without the intention-manifestation model. You can find proof of anything in life depending on the way you are inclined. So it is with the law of attraction.

I am a logical man and question everything and I questioned the law of attraction for a long time. When I started trying it and seeing results I tweaked it and then installed the new belief that it works for me. You have to do the same. Tweak it or leave it.

Your stories

Let me know of any interesting stories you have with the law of attraction and your experiments with this or if you think it is all a lot of rubbish, either way it would be good to hear from you.

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Comment by Glenn Tan on 26 May 2007:

Hi Steven Aitchison,

To your success!

Your blogging pal and friend,
Glenn Tan
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Comment by Steven Aitchison on 26 May 2007:

Hi Glenn

Nice to see you back here, always a comfy chair and a cup of tea ready for you.

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Comment by Haris on 30 May 2007:

Hi Glenn.

Thank for its information about “three components”
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Comment by Ronald on 31 May 2007:

Hi,
Nice article..
Keep the good work

Cheers,
Ronald

Comment by Anthony on 2 June 2007:

I really believe in Law of Attraction. I believe that it works best. Even unconciously we use it most of the times, but a little knowledge about the same can make us achieve anything we wish abt.
Just a few days back I got to read an Interview with Bob Proctor. I am passing the url below for you to have a look around..
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Comment by Kobi on 2 June 2007:

Dear Steven,

This is my first official “blog” (I still have no idea what that word means…)

Your 3 step revelations are not too removed from Napoleon Hill’s great work “Think and Grow Rich” - I use to listen to his book-on-cd every day, 8 hours a day, and read his book at night or upon waking each morning to “re-program” my habits (mental, emotional, physical, spiritual). My experiments have proven that anything I do on a consistant daily basis for 90 days straight are habit forming, and manifest!

Now I watch the DVD “The Secret” on a daily basis while working. It works best when I need it most - when “doubt” attempts to creep in through a back door I’ve left open carelessly.

but no worries! My fuel for faith continues to be “remeber, God did not send me here to fail!”

So remember, the Universe did not send you here to fail!

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Comment by Sherman on 21 June 2007:

Yes, I agree.

It could get quite “scary” when I thought of having more clients for my web design business when suddenly people started contacting me for design projects.

Sherman

Comment by Sherman on 25 June 2007:

I was reading a report recently. It’s an interview with Bob Proctor (one of the “actors” in The Secret) by a guy called Stephen Pierce.

Proctor talked quite a bit about the law of attraction, which is THE secret. For someone who hasn’t watched the full length version of The Secret (only the free ones on YouTube), the report really opens my mind after reading.

Worth a look.

You could get a copy of the report here. It’s free:
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Comment by K Amber on 3 July 2007:

Law of Attraction will only work when your are able to consistently stroke your goals.

Only simple steps can help you power up your self belief, desire and ethusiasim to complete your goals.

Goals nees to be constantly nurture for you to see, feel and taste the worthiness and value

Fuzzy thought do not make goals
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Comment by Andrew on 17 July 2007:

These days I am very conscious of the Law of Attraction and I deliberately use this knowledge to create my life. But my awareness and my comprehension have grown exponentially in the past few years. I didn’t always comprehend the fact that you can actually use it deliberately. How to accelerate this process? Stephen Pierce has produced a report on this - Attraction Accelerator, you can get it free here http://www.personalgrowthselfesteem.com

Comment by Filomena on 23 July 2007:

yes the law of attraction does work, but we have to focus on all the good things that we want if we continue to say to ourselves, I don’t want to be sick, I don’t want to be poor, then that is exactly what we are going to attract as the law of attraction is only going to give you what you think about. So the focus should always be I am going to be wealthy, I am wealthy etc.
Like Bob Proctor said ” The law of attraction is always working, whether you believe it or understand it or not”.

Cheers
Filomena
http://www.physicsofgettingwealthy.com

Comment by Hazel on 27 July 2007:

Well, the power of intention really works. Just that day as I was searching for a theme song for my group by Diana Ross. I was looking through the web pages for the song to purchase, just then, my friend’s radio was playing the exact song that I was searching for. I was so trilled. Coincidence or what? I was in thoughts about it and it manifested.

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Comment by Chris Ball on 15 August 2007:

I really enjoyed reading this and I can state categorically that the law of attraction has changed my life completely.
I went from Broke to millionaire in just 6 months - it was an amazing trip!
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Comment by Michael on 24 August 2007:

I really appreciate your perspective . Yes It takes action on your part and you will come closer and closer to your goals as you become in alignment with what you want. I think there are a lot of confused people out there who watched the movie but didn’t have a real definable process to work with .

Comment by JC Money on 21 September 2007:

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Comment by Junyang on 27 September 2007:

This discussion of the Law of Attraction doesn’t focus on things (like magnets and filings) but upon the more subtle tools we use to create our lives: our thoughts. Whatever we think about grows. The more time and energy we invest in thinking about any given subject, the bigger it gets and the more influence it exerts in our experience. A thought attracts other thoughts like it, and creates its own momentum, like a snowball rolling downhill. The bigger it gets, the faster it grows.

The seed thought that is attracting others like it could be a memory of the past, a mental image of a possible future, or whatever is happening now. Regardless, the Law of Attraction responds to it in this present moment. Always.

Here’s an interesting wrinkle in how this works. The Law of Attraction always works by inclusion and never by exclusion. It responds directly to the thought itself, regardless of whether you are mentally saying “yes” to it or “no” to it. If you picture in your imagination something you do not want, the universe gets the picture only, and not the idea of “do not want.”

Regards,
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Comment by sarah on 27 October 2007:

i discovered the law of attraction via the film, The Secret, just over 24 hours ago and i can’t even begin to explain how much it has already revolutionized my life. I haven’t been able to stop gushing about the secret, the power of our thoughts and desires over the course of our own life…i’ve definitely converted several of my friends and family members already.

best of all, i’ve generated so much energy from all the exciting potential inspired in me by the secret that i’ve gotten my life to do a complete 180. for months now, i’ve been in this rut of nothing ever ever going right, to the point where it was amusing more than shitty. but now, everything goes right…all you gotta do is release your desires into the universe, but as you wrote, you can’t just kind of make a wish and sit around on your ass waiting for it to come true. being proactive is the key. all your deepest desires, or even petty little ones, just do everything you can to get closer and don’t let little setbacks drag you all the way back to zero.

it takes much less energy to actually achieve what you think/believe/hope you can than it does to stress about how everything’s fucked. obsessing over all the negative aspects naturally brings down your mood, and from there your potential plummets. you’ll brood all day, bump into things, forget your crucial meeting material on the bus, miss the subway by 10 seconds and then walk into meeting late…and there’s only jelly donuts left. fuuuuuck that!

i’m about to turn 21 and i like how all this wisdom really is coming to me with adulthood. it’s truly like my renaissance and i couldn’t be happier! (and i’m normally a cynical-yet-realistic bitch who would clock any annoying happy-go-lucky person within reach) i’m physically exhausted because my mind won’t stop thinking about the secret…and i get so excited just thinking about all the possibilities.

I would obviously love to chat further…i gotta get this energy out so i can get some sleep (my positive energy right now is fighting the ambien and winning like when the spartans fend off xerxes men until the final battle in 300).
take it easy,
-sarah

Comment by sriks on 25 November 2007:

hi…
i want to know that this law of attraction can make attract to others…..

Comment by Marcus on 27 January 2008:

Hi, It’s great that you mentioned the action part as well as the intention part as both as important, and the “Secret” book emphasized more on only the thinking part! I think both the thought and action gives a messgae to the subconscious mind about what you want to achieve, so it can get to work for you as well. It’ll get the message that you’re serious about something and will help accordingly.

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Comment by Steven Aitchison on 27 January 2008:

Hi Marcus, thanks for your comments. You’re spot on with this one, a lot of people forget about the action side of the law of attraction and it’s perhaps the most important aspect.

Comment by Alex Liu on 31 January 2008:

I prefer the steps like these:

1. Get clear what I want
2. Visualize it with emotions.
3. Repeat and consistant
4. Allow it
5. Take inspiring action

Alex Liu
http://secretsofunlimitedwealth.com

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Comment by Ayo Kadri on 4 May 2008:

The concept of the law of attraction is an interesting one. I think that the 2 key elements are having a clear purpose and taking active steps towards achieving it.

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Comment by A. Gibson on 7 October 2008:

I believe that the secret does work, I did not understand this until I looked back on my life and analyzed all the times that bad things did happen in my life occured when I was depressed and thought negatively

Comment by Business Gifts on 10 October 2008:

Good article. The action behind the attraction is often hard to implement!

Keep up the good work

Comment by law of attraction on 12 October 2008:

it does indeed work , in so far as intention is concerned you are right , it does come down to you and what you put into a given situation as far as your energy is concerned . It is all energy after all and we are all connected , so if a person is having a challenge that tends to suggest that they are holding on to a counter intention with in themselves.

Comment by breen on 3 November 2008:

hey, i’m only 16 and i have an extended essay about this topic, and it looks like u knw wat you are talking about, and that you knw a lot about these things….. well i just need to knw is it the same as the law of attractivness, or is it part of it, as in to say does attractivness mean physical attractions or attraction of good thing s in lufe such as succes and good wil…. and does it work when ur also using it for the wrong purposes… if u wish for success it’s a good thing that has a posibility of coming true, well does it work if the goal u set is for a bad reason such as ill health to someone else or the down fall of a person??????? pls help… if anyone could help me my e-mail is sabsoob8@yahoo.com thank you for ur help

Comment by Steven Aitchison on 5 November 2008:

hi Breen

The law of attraction and the law of attractiveness are two seperate things altogether. The law of attraction is asking for something from the universe to come to you and the law of attractiveness is a physical attraction.

Hope this helps

Comment by sergio on 10 November 2008:

hola i¡m spanish ..i just wanna say that i use the secret every day every night everytime i wake up i say thanx ,,and this is working but you can’t know this just after you understand it and really feel the emotiones…but until you don’t believe in yourself you can’t start this step.i¡m 15 years and i hope that my dream it’s gonna complish one day…..

Comment by Jeffery on 11 December 2008:

The problem that most people have is they are hoping or wishing the Law of Attraction worked, but knowing that it is only wishfull thinking.

For those INTENDING on producing money lets say, they are so busy looking at all the reasons they don’t have wealth, and missing the opportunities that are right underneath their noses.

I can show anyone how to make an extra $2000.00 to $ 4000.00 in the next thirty days, and yet out of the hundreds that I help do this, MILLIONS never even are aware of it.

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Comment by anna on 15 February 2009:

it seems to work fantastically and amazingly well sometimes and then other times no matter what I do or which strategies I use I have a zero result. Then, I do think about randomness and whether I am barking up the wrong tree. Cynical? I don’t want to be. I would like to know why it happens sometimes and other stuff you may really really want never materialises.

Comment by pete on 16 February 2009:

when we are children we are a pure form of thought, from that pureness comes everything good in life, as a kid for the most part everything is good in life. as we grow up and let negativity fall upon our energy it drains you. it is not an easy feat to overcome, but as i can say and prove, love, and good intentions can bring you out of any bad situation, i just never knew what it was called(the law of attraction). now i apply it everyday and although it is very chalenging and i have applyied it to my everyday life. it is getting easier but i will master the law of attraction no matter how long it takes. i live by three simple rules.1-hate no one, 2- love all, 3.trust few. and it works great for me.

Comment by Law of Attraction Guide on 5 May 2009:

Hi its John Peace from the Law-of-Attraction-Guide.com, love your post Steve. It’s nice to see the KISS approach…..

Keep it simple s****, all to often the Law of Attraction is wrapped up in complex ideas and methods, but what it really boils down to is this…

If You Want it, Intend it!

Great work, as always..

Law of Attraction Guide’s great blog post..Manifesting Issues