The Law of Attraction suggests that our thoughts shape our reality, influencing every aspect of our lives. Positive thinking and intentional actions can create a powerful cycle of attraction, helping us achieve our desires and improve our circumstances. Incorporating mindfulness, visualization, and gratitude can amplify these effects, transforming our everyday experiences.
Introduction
Even if you're not consciously aware of it, your thoughts are constantly shaping your experiences, and the law of attraction is busy at work. It is a law that can work for you or against you, and there is a lot that you can personally do to impact it positively.
Taking five minutes for mindfulness everyday, visualizing yourself where you want to be, and manifesting what you want to attract are hugely beneficial. On top of these, keeping a gratitude practice and self-reflective journaling make sure you’re celebrating your success and create a positivity loop.
Why we are where we are in life
First things first, to avoid guilt-tripping yourself, acknowledge the things you cannot change. This might be due to life events and circumstances that you’ve not yet finished working through.
For everything else that doesn’t fall into the “can’t change that right now” bucket, upleveling our attitude is first up. By definition, our attitude comes from interconnected short-term thoughts and feelings that we experience as a cycle, over and over again.
When our attitudes link together - which they do - so we create our beliefs. Some beliefs we’re aware of, and others we aren’t. Here’s where this ties to the law of attraction: the way you perceive the world comes from what you believe about it.
“Your perceptions have everything to do with the choices you make, the behaviors you exhibit, the relationships you chose, and the realities you create”, writes Joe Dispenza, in his best-selling book, You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
How to practice the Law of Attraction
Positively affirm what you’re doing
Start your day with loving self-affirming statements and re-affirm your goals. This mentally links your intention to your journey, and paves the way for positive experiences.
In his workbook, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, life coach Jack Canfield reminds us why this is so powerful - there are only three things that we can control in life: “the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior).”
“The Law of Attraction exists whether you like it or not. It shapes your reality and is more than wishful thinking.”
Visualize yourself living a new life
Spend a few minutes each day visualizing your goals. Picture yourself achieving them in vivid detail. Creating a physical vision board with your favorite quotes, images, and photos of the people on your journey helps bring your future into the now.
Visualization shifts our energy, which is an electromagnetic field in constant flow and changeable. In other words, to change our state of being, we have to change how we think and how we feel first.
Express gratitude
Make a gratitude journal a daily habit to bring a little joy into your day. This 60 second practice shifts your focus towards all the good things in your life, and creates a positivity loop where you attract even more good things.
It works. It’s wonderful. And it’s simple. According to The Gratitude Project, “practicing gratitude magnifies positive feelings more than it reduces negative feelings.”
Mindfulness
Appreciating the moment you’re in and the experience you’re having right now, is the most basic form of love, according to the mindfulness teacher, Tara Brach. “By paying attention we let ourselves be touched by life” she writes in Radical Acceptance, “and our hearts naturally become more open and engaged.”
Self-Reflection
Regularly take time to reflect on your thoughts and actions. Identify any negative patterns and work on aligning your mindset with your goals. In Ask and It Is Given, the manifestation expert, Esther Hicks notes that it’s “not about controlling thoughts, it is about guiding thoughts.” The truth, Hicks continues, is that “when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
What the Law of Attraction is not
The Law of Attraction isn’t just about thinking positively and waiting for good things to happen. It requires action. You must take responsibility and get active, not stay reactive. Envisioning what you love doing but staying in a dead end job without doing anything to change it will get you nowhere other than stuck.
Attraction is about doing the things that draw something or someone to you: it's a positive mindset first coupled with consistent proactive effort.
Final word
The Law of Attraction exists whether you like it or not.
When you tap into it with a positive attitude, it is incredibly powerful because it shapes your reality. It’s far more than wishful thinking; it’s about taking control of your thoughts, focusing on the things that will make your life better, and pairing that with consistent actions.
Those actions can be little steps or big leaps, but every single one begins with a positive affirmation, visualization, and clear picture of the life you want to live.
Disclaimer
The contents of this article are provided for informational purposes only. Anahana does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment and should not be used as a substitute for medical advice from a healthcare professional. Anahana encourages to consult a qualified healthcare professional for medical guidance. Anahana is not liable for any errors, omissions, or consequences that may occur from using the information provided.
