Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and you touch on several concepts here. For one, by simply observing and focusing intensely on someone, as you indicated, it would certainly be a lot easier to get in their good graces. The question of whether or not that is a good way to start off a relationship, however, is a debate for another time.

In addition, by focusing on one person that much, you would consciously as well as subconsciously modify your own vibration so that it more closely matched the other person. In that respect, you would certainly create more of a magnetic attraction between you and that individual.

All of that being said, every time that I’ve fallen in love, it was pretty obvious to both of us right from the start.

Welcome to the Today is that Day community! Always nice to see someone new chiming in to the conversation!

You are dead on accurate about the need for releasing beliefs. They are the more powerful force in our lives because it isn’t that difficult to conjure up a good vibration when you think about it, but it’s the rest of the time when our beliefs are doing the vibrating for us.

If that is your approach to working with your clients, then I have no doubt they see some great progress. Reprogramming our inner belief system is a short, direct path to attaining success.

Again, thanks for chiming in, Zoe!

Some great distinctions in here.

For me LOA is much more than deliberate conscious creation; it is a doorway to allowing people to live a life of freedom and joy. Rather than obsessing on manifesting circumstances to create happiness, the work I do with my clients and myself is about releasing beliefs and vibrations that don’t feel so crash hot in order to access the more natural and powerful state of happiness. It’s really about embracing the moment of ‘now’, whatever the circumstances, and finding peace in that.

Manifestation is the party trick of LOA! It’s fun to do, but it is only part of the greater journey – one of living a life of peace and joy. Obsessing over manifesting stuff only delays fulfillment.

Thanks for the great discussion!

Zoe
http://www.innercompass.com.au
http://zoerouth.blogspot.com

Thanks for your response! It is a tough question, and you addressed it well.

Referring back to what Jeannette and I were just saying about Ho’oponopono, that belief system is based entirely on the fact that each of us does, in fact, create our entire reality. In order to fix something in our reality that we do not like, we make requests of “The Divine” (as some call it) to “clean” (fix) that situation.

As you indicated, as we become closer to becoming one with the higher self, the divine, whatever you want to call it, we are more able to consciously control our reality.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on that concept, Sugandhi!

Sheesh – why don’t you ask me something easy next time???

Actually, yes, I do have this reconciled in my mind, but many thanks for bringing up such a great question that requires a further understanding of our abilities!

As I’m sure you are aware (but for the benefit of others), the word Ho’oponopono roughly translated means “to fix things”. Whenever we see something in our lives that we don’t like, we can use Ho’oponopono to “clean” it, thereby making it go away, be repaired, morph into something better, etc.

However, in each of those instances, Ho’oponopono is used to take positive action with regard to something that already exists. In each of the examples that I gave above, the point of view was that of someone sitting down and saying “Can I have, do, or be {BLANK} with the Law of Attraction?”

The deliberate creators who want to use the Law of Attraction to bring something into their lives are using the LOA to manifest a desired result; they are not trying to use the LOA to fix a result that has already manifested itself, e.g. -

You can’t use the LOA to make your spouse into a different person, but you can use Ho’oponopono to “clean” that situation in order to make it into something better for you.

You can’t use the LOA to manifest a new car out of thin air, but you can use Ho’oponopono to “clean” the fact that you don’t have a new car, and as result, the already existing circumstances will be fixed or modified in a positive manner.

Long story short (yeah, right!), the Law of Attraction and Ho’oponopono go hand in hand, and I do not see a clear line in the sand that separates them. However, as a general rule, I would say that you can use the LOA to manifest something that you want by focusing on whatever it is, while Ho’oponopono is used to “clean” unwanted things out of your life.

A fine line, I know, but one that I think makes sense. That was a long answer, but it was a deep question!

Yeah, I realized that one was a bit “off” until the reader focused on what was being said a bit more, which is why I left it worded that way. When we can’t just scan text, we have to really read it and think about it!

That statement, “You can’t attract what you don’t truly want” is really just a backwards way of saying that we tend to attract things that we think we don’t want, when it all actuality, we must want those things on some level, or we wouldn’t be allowing them into our existence.

Whether it’s money problems, relationship issues, job woes, etc., everything that is in our existence provides contrast, and sometimes – even if we don’t consciously realize it – we are asking for (and allowing) that contrast into our lives for some reason.

So, if we really wanted financial freedom, relationship happiness, career satisfaction, etc., we would have already asked for (and allowed) those things into our lives. If we don’t have 100% of what we want in those areas yet (and who does?), the question to be asked is, “Why am I allowing a lack of success in this area into my existence?”

It can be hard to get your head around, but it rings true when you think it out!

Everything that you see and experience is created by the God-self. And so, when you the personality get aligned with the God-self’s intention, magic happens.

However the personality is afraid as it experiences the effects of the Doer (self). And so resistances build up.

Everything is a part of your universe, and everything is an enegy corridor. You don’t have to manipulate people, all you have to do is change energy corridors and the reality changes, and people’s actions also change.

So keep on climbing and changing and become ONE with the Self which knows everything, and all will fall into alignment by itself.

Love
Sugandhi

For example, if I created my arguing neighbors, why couldn’t I create happy neighbors? Or vice versa? Why wouldn’t I ALWAYS be responsible for what I experience? And why wouldn’t I always be able to re-create that? No matter what was involved?

It seems like a disconnect here. But I’m sure you’ve got this reconciled in your mind, and I’d love to hear it.

Jeannette Maw
Good Vibe Coach
http://loaplayground.blogspot.com
http://goodvibecoach.com

Point no. 8 caught me by surprise when I went through it the frist time – ‘You can’t attract what you don’t truly want’. My first time through your article I read it as, “You can’t attract what you DON’T WANT” which doesn’t make sense to me. That’s because most people who focus on what they DON’T WANT usually get more of it.

When I read your article through a second time I began to see an alternate context. That being, ‘if you don’t truly want something bad enough to take action, then you will not get it’. That lines up with me…

Cheers,

Stephen Martile
Personal Development with NLP
http://www.stephenmartile.com

Your are a modern day Moses, with your 10 commandments regarding LOA. Great post.

Thanks for the endorsement of my post in this edition of the Law of Attraction carnival!

Also, this edition is packed with great content. That is awesome, and I highly recommend that anyone reading this gets over there to check it out. Here is the direct link:

Law of Attraction Carnival #24

I’m very grateful that you got so much out of this post, and I really appreciate the link back from your site.

I’m a big believer in the LOA, but I also know that it is not some “magical” force, and that I am still required to get off my butt and take action. I composed this post in order to help spread that message!

Blessings,
Andrea
http://www.EmpoweredSoul.com

You are absolutely right! I have read books, articles, and blog posts, as well as seen and heard interviews with all of the teachers from the movie, and they all say that taking action is a necessary part of the process.

The Law of Attraction will bring an opportunity to you, and it may or may not require hard work, but it will require that you take action in order to take advantage of that opportunity.

Oh, this quote is SO worthy of being recognized as a present truth of our existence:

…we are so far from that level of consciousness at the moment that we must work within the limitations of physicality and belief that we are now experiencing…

You nailed it! It isn’t about what we can do, because we can do anything. Rather, it is about what we believe we can do!

Until we – as individuals and as a whole – get further down the road to higher levels of consciousness, trying to work outside of our belief systems will only lead us to frustration and a lack of results.

Well put, Shauna!

Bravo! This is the stuff that needs to be said, and which no one ever bothers to say…as so many of your commenters noted The Secret is a wonderful introduction to the Law of Attraction, but needs follow-up study in order to internalize and use the concepts (effectively).

I actually believe that on some level, we CAN influence things and do literally ANYthing, but we are so far from that level of consciousness at the moment that we must work within the limitations of physicality and belief that we are now experiencing.

Let’s have fun with it! As I have said in many blog posts, ‘What could be more fun?’

Thanks, Aaron.

Shauna