I have found that a reason many people cannot get the Law of Attraction to work for them is because of their own beliefs. Remember this and remember it well: One cannot change his beliefs simply for wanting to. It is possible for beliefs to change but it takes an external force to make it happen.
Let me give you a scenario. Let’s say that you and I are standing on the Golden Gate bridge looking down at the water several hundred feet below and I tell you to jump. “No way!” you say. But I remind you about the Law of Attraction and tell you that all you have to do is believe you will not fall. Would you jump then? Why not? What do you think would happen if you did jump? If someone is about to jump off a bridge, they cannot temporarily alter their belief system just to make levitation possible. They can say the words, “I believe I can fly”, like Peter Pan, but deep down they still know they’re going to fall. That belief will not change no matter how much the person wants it to.
As I said, it is possible for beliefs to change but it takes an external force. What would happen to one’s beliefs if he witnessed someone walking on water? He might believe it is possible for himself to do it. But what if he believed the person walking on the water was special, like the son of God? Now his beliefs are grounded again because he believes he himself is not special and cannot do those things.
People often learn about the Law of Attraction and are immediately drawn to the possibilities. They try to use the Law of Attraction to get and do things they inherently do not believe in and nothing seems to work. Pretty soon they give up on the Law of Attraction and revert back to their old selves.
Someone goes to buy a lottery ticket but this time it’s different. This time he knows of the Law of Attraction so he repeats to himself, “This time I’m going to win. This time I’m going to win…..” He imagines over and over in his head of himself screaming that his numbers matched. He buys the ticket and later that night during the drawing, he rubs his lucky rabbit’s foot while watching the balls drop. Sure enough, he doesn’t win. Why not? Because he knows the odds. He knows that his chances are extremely thin and nothing has really changed. His belief system for the lottery is identical as it was before he learned of the Law of Attraction. Repeating his words over and over did not change anything.
A man, who is tired of being single, goes out to a bar one night with some friends. But this time, he knows of the Law of Attraction and this time it’s going to be different. This time he repeats over and over how he is going to meet a nice woman tonight. He pictures this woman coming up to him and talking with him. He sits there all night long “putting it out in the Universe”. But, alas, he goes home alone again. Why? Is it because he believes that women do not approach lonely men in bars? His belief system did not change. He may have been putting it out there in the Universe, but deep down his subconscious was putting something else out there.
The Law of Attraction is not magic and uttering the “magic words” does not make anything happen. Nor is it a badge you get to where that makes things all of a sudden work in your favor simply because you learned of it. You cannot stand on the curb of a busy street, close your eyes, and step out onto the street saying, “Can’t hit me cars. Law of Attraction at work here people.” It is foolish to walk blindly across a busy street and those magic words are not going to help. Your belief system has taught you for many years that walking across a street is dangerous and nothing has changed, regardless of your knowledge of the Law of Attraction.
So if you believe what you believe, what good is the Law of Attraction? As I said a couple of times before, beliefs can change, but it takes an external force to make it happen. One way of forcing change is through affirmations. An affirmation is just a token. It, in itself is not going to change anything. Sometimes people write notes to themselves. They may make dream boards or put up pictures on the wall to remind themselves of what they want or where they want to be. They may repeat something over and over daily. None of these things by themselves does anything. But these affirmations begin to work because of little things that happen. Witnessing these things strengthens the belief in the affirmation. The strengthened belief causes more things to happen and it builds on itself.
Let me give you an example. A woman says to herself many times daily, “I am attractive. People like me. The man of my dreams is waiting for me.” At first they’re just words. After a little while, however, an attractive man who she’s noticed before but doesn’t think has ever noticed her, says hello while passing in the lobby. This small thing strengthens her belief that her affirmations are working. So she repeats them again but with more conviction. She walks through the lobby next time with her head just a little higher, her posture just a little straighter, and her walk just a little more confident. Over time things start to change. Eventually, she has the firm belief that she is attractive and people do really like her. That last sentence in her affirmation may get her into trouble, though. She may find she has more work to do once she has realized that she is attractive and people really do like her. Perhaps she should have told herself that she was going to meet the man of her dreams.
The previous example may seem to you like it has nothing at all to do with the Law of Attraction. It is just logical that a confident person is more attractive and someone saying hello gives her just a tad more confidence. So was it the Law of Attraction or simple logic? What do your beliefs tell you? The Law of Attraction keeps on working whether you believe in it or not.
