I guess I haven’t posted anything in a while. That’s a story I am currently in the process of rewriting. Thanks for sticking with me.
Now that I’ve been engaged with the Law of Attraction for a while, I’ve known that it is important to “Feel” what it is that you want. If you want success, you need to feel successful, if you want peace, you need to feel peace.
This was a hard concept for me to grasp. It felt fake to say that I felt peace, if I wanted it and it felt like a lie to feel successful if I wanted success.
For those of you who don’t already know, I am a follower of the Baha’i faith. There are many writings that at least hint at this concept. Some seem to come right out and say it, and even when it is not in the writings, the central figures of the faith, lived these concepts.
I had never quite understood. Abdu’l-baha, the son of the founder of the Baha’i Faith and even his grandson Shoghi Effendi, would often state how wonderful certain things were doing, or marvel at various happenings, praising people for their accomplishments before the accomplishments had even taken place. All that needed to happen would be for one person to take a step in the right direction and immediately some sort of praise would be forthcoming about the accomplishment of the goal. Imagine for a moment that you wanted your child to go make their bed and you told them, “Now go make your bed”. So the child starts to walk in the direction of their bedroom and you immediately say praise God your bed is made. That’s the sort of thing I’m talking about. Even though the task has not officially been accomplished, the mere action of heading in the right direction was enough to elicit that praise.
This is the sort of thing that so perplexed me. I couldn’t quite get that even though the task was not officially completed that praise or admiration would come out of it.
Now, here I am, learning about Law of Attraction, and I’ve heard stories and recommendations that practically say the same thing. I figure, there must be something to this, but I can’t lie. That would be wrong.
Well, that’s true. It would be wrong to lie. But now I finally see that these are not lies. They are simply a different way of looking at things that many are used to. It is the concept of seeing the end in the beginning. Even if the bed has not been made physically, in the world of reality (and some would call this the world of imagination, but please bear with me) it has been made. We do this by creating something in our minds eye. The difference is that we see that creation as true reality and physical reality as a reflection of that other reality. Law of attraction is about reflecting true reality in this physical reality and our feeling, our faith in that creation is what makes it real. Once we believe it is real, it is and it is simply a matter of time before physical reality catches up to it.
So, I am finally beginning to see this effect. I am finally beginning to believe this effect and I am finally beginning to feel this effect.
Let me describe my observations so far and I plan to elaborate more as this unfolds.
First, what I have been learning to do is want things that I already have. I grew up believing that if I want something, it is because I don’t already have it. I mean, why would you want something that you already have? But that’s practically the key right there. Somewhere it seems like an unwritten rule got put out there that you can’t want what you already have. If you have any understanding of the Law of Attraction, you can instantly see how defeating this is. If you want something, it presupposes you don’t have it and this vibration may keep you from getting it. If by some chance you do end up getting it, then suddenly, you no longer want it. I guess you can’t win for losing.
So, I’ve started by wanting the things that I have. This has already started changing my outlook on things. Now I see that many of the other things that I thought i wanted I did, indeed, already have, just perhaps not in the form I was expecting.
This has made it so much easier to now start believing that I have what I want and that is having a noticeable effect in my life.
Over the last few weeks, I have seen that I am organized, that I do have time to spend with friends and family, that I do have enough money to meet my needs and that I do finish things that I start. Indeed, these are more true than the lies I had been telling myself, I just was blinding myself to these truths.
I hope this post inspires someone to see things a little differently in their own lives.
