Deliberate creation vs. acceptance

[Spectrum]

Hi, all.

I have been trying to apply the Law of Attraction for a couple of months. I am wondering something:

LOA teachers tell me that the more I focus on thoughts and feelings of having what I want ("positive" thoughts), the more I will manifest it. Respectively, the more I focus on thoughts and feelings of not having what I want ("negative" thoughts), the more I will perpetuate the lack of it. Hence, when I am thinking negative thoughts, the "right" thing to do is to not acknowledge them but instead try to change them and think positive thoughts instead.

Meanwhile, all sorts of other sources tell me that happiness lies in accepting my circumstances, including my thoughts and feelings. So, from this perspective, when I am thinking negative thoughts the "right" thing to do is to acknowledge them and not try to change them.

This is an apparent contradiction. Can anyone help me understand this?

[olmate]

It can be subtle.

I often hear people around me saying things like, " I am trying really hard to ...". The subtle context is to stop trying and just do.

This subtleness is evident here as well in the arm wrestle between positive and negative thinking. In my experience, acceptance of "what is" tends to stop the eternal cycle of analysis of whether it is positive or negative. By breaking that cycle, the focus can return to living in the now of what is to be manifested.

By living a life of "trying" or the eternal forensic analysis of whether thinking is positive or negative take you out of now to somewhere else. For things to manifest and to be drawn to the now, your focus must remain on now.

olmate

[Michael David]

"If you're not thinking about a negative thought, your vibration is going to raise to its natural positive place."
From Abraham - Hicks
Michael