Originally Posted by Marina_J
I am new for this forum so please describe LOA in brief Thanks! & Regards.
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Hi Marina and welcome to the Project Meditation community.
The way I see the LoA is a little how Gary Craig (the founder of Emotional Freedom Techniques) described it in one of his videos "The palace of possibilities" and this is my description...
In a simplistic sense, when we take an interest in something, it becomes more noticable to us. I had this situation in the past where we went down to the car showroom to look for a new car. We found one we liked (and could afford
) and sat down with the salesman to order it. He pulled out the range of colours we could have and we decided on one we liked which seemed, at the time, to be quite a new unique colour and we wanted something a little different, and one we hadn't seen on the roads. No sooner had we ordered and left the showroom to go home, we spotted numerous cars of the same make in the colour we had chosen, but we could have sworn that we hadn't seen any before. What had happened is that we had brought our mind into a state where it now had an interest in this particular thing, so it therefore appeared to manifest before us.
The way this works is that our physical senses detect thousands of things going on around us all the time, but our conscious mind cannot possibly comprehend and process all of those things e.g. your reading this at the moment and whilst the nerves in your feet are sensing the floor (assuming you have your feet on the floor), you weren't consciously aware of that sensation until I mentioned it here. So, because we can't consciously process everything our senses are taking in, our unconscious mind filters out a great majority of it and just brings things up into our conscious that we are currently interested in. This is our "focus".
So, with the law of attraction, what you do is use a sort of positive affirmation or visualisation that gives an image or description of the situation or thing that you want, but you visualise/affirmate it as if it is there in the present moment and you already have that thing (because the unconscious mind has no concept of time, so something in the future is not something it's interested in in the present). Spending a little time with this thing in mind or repeating the affirmation regularly, sort of instructs the unconscious mind that this is something of interest to you in the present moment and, just like us seeing all those cars on our way back from the showroom, your unconscious mind will bring to the conscious mind anything the senses/awareness picks up that would fit in with that thing/situation you want. It won't actually give things to you, but it will allow your conscious mind to become aware of things (or I prefer to call them 'opportunities') that could assist you in reaching your desired goal. As long as you're willing to pick up on those opportunities and act you can more easily bring about your goal, whereas before you would have missed those opportunities.
Many people fail with the LoA or "try" it and don't believe it works, because they have only been given a simplistic concept of what to do and not really instructed in the need to act on the opportunities that arise. They are often misguided into thinking that it's some sort of magic wish and the next day the postman will knock on the door and just deliver it.
One important other factor to remember is that when you create your desired goal as a visualisation or affirmation, it works better if you make it realistic and something that you can believe is possible. e.g. creating a visualisation that you'll be running a multi million dollar company by the end of the week when you're currently unemployed would obviously be ridiculour, but a visualisation of yourself running a very profitable company within a couple of years doing something you already enjoy is far more achievable and likely to present opportunities to lead you there.
I hope that makes sense.
Hugs
Giles
