What Is The Law Of Attraction?

Many of you will have already come across the DVD or book of ‘The Secret’, or the work of Abraham-Hicks. Possibly you’ve read Barbel Mohr or heard Noel Edmonds say how he managed to create a new prime-time TV show for himself, through Cosmic Ordering. There are ‘Law of Attraction’ and ‘Cosmic Ordering’ books by many authors out there, each having their own slant on the process and their own ideas about how it can help you achieve the life of your dreams. This is a brief introduction for those of you unsure or who've never come across it before.

Beginning with the ‘science’ will give us some evidence to back up some of the fantastic claims made for Cosmic Ordering. Scientists now know that everything in our Universe is made up of energy, you, me, our possessions, nature, the Universe; everything. And according to the Law of Vibration, nothing rests. So everything in the Universe, including ourselves is made up of energy vibrating at different rates. The higher the rate of vibration the finer the outcome. So the energy that is our thoughts is vibrating at a very high rate and cannot be seen. The energy that is our bodies vibrates more slowly, is much denser, and can be seen and felt. If you were to look at anything you now perceive to be ‘solid’ under a microscope, you would find that at finer and finer levels, what appears solid to the naked eye is nothing more than pure, vibrating energy. And all of this energy is magnetic, attracting like things to it. Hence the ‘Law of Attraction’.

Quantum physicists tell us that the Universe and everything in it was first created by a thought, which confirms what many personal development teachers have told us when they said that our thoughts create our lives. This is not mere ‘positive thinking’; this statement has now been proved beyond doubt. And, as we know, our thoughts are nothing but energy, vibrating at a certain rate, which ‘attracts’ into our lives whatever we think about or expect to have happen.

Now that I’ve discovered the Law, I realise that having good things in your life doesn’t depend on who you are, how well educated you are, or how much good you may or may not have done. The Law of Attraction is just that, a Law. Nothing more, nothing less. Just like the Law of Gravity, and other Laws, it governs everyone and everything. If you fell out of a window, you’d hit the ground, if I fell out of a window, I’d hit the ground. The Law of Gravity doesn’t discriminate. Neither does the Law of Attraction.

The Law of Attraction doesn’t have anything to do with religion. It doesn’t matter what you believe in (or not) the Law works for you. ‘The Secret’ likens the Universe to a genie who constantly says, “Your wish is my command.” Neale Donald Walsch calls it God, or The Creator. It doesn’t matter what religious background you come from the principle is the same. Out there is an energy or being greater than us and of whom we are a part and what we put out with our thoughts and expectations is attracted into our lives, courtesy of that energy or being.

However, if this is true, why doesn’t it always work? Usually this is because we’re focusing on what we ‘don’t’ want rather than what we do want. The Universe will just rush to fulfil our orders, whether they are what we actually want or not. If your order has ‘don’t’ in it, rephrase it to say the opposite, e.g. ‘I don’t want this bad back’ would become ‘I order a healthy back’. In the first statement, you are focusing on the bad back. In the second statement you are focusing on a healthy back.

There are lots of different ways to make your ‘order.’ But I would suggest that you simply ask. However, don’t ‘wish’, instead say ‘I order’. We place our ‘order’ just as we would if we were ordering from a catalogue and say ‘I now order a new phone’ (or whatever) and take the view that once the order is in place and already on its way.

Once our order has been sent all we need to do is sit back and wait for it to be fulfilled, yes? Well, not quite. The Universe will send our order but not necessarily in the form of a miracle. Usually it will do it through an intermediary and we need to be aware of the subtle signs and hunches that will guide us towards our order. For instance, if you are ‘ordering’ a new job and feel guided to go to a certain place, or call a certain person, then do it. This is the Universe guiding you through your hunches and feelings towards the fulfilment of your order.

When you begin, it’s best to start small. If you ask for small things and prove that the system works, you’ll be much more confident when it comes to the big things you want. And if you’re still having doubts about whether the process will work for you, why not ‘order’ some confidence? You can order much more than just ‘stuff’ from the Universe, you know!

And the most important thing we can do is to show gratitude, for a fulfilled order, and also for the things we already have in our lives. Some of them may not be exactly what we would wish for but to make changes we need to first accept what we already have and then move on from there. Learn to love what is already in your life. Expressing love for your world will attract even more things for you to love. It’s the Law of Attraction. And it works!