Why The Law Of Attraction Doesn’t Work For You – (Life Through A Magnifying Lens)

Remember magnifying lenses we loved when we were kids?  Maybe you still have one somewhere.  Looking through them at an object of course made the image bigger.  But for most of us the fun part of magnifying glasses wasn’t their ability to magnify.  It was their power to focus the sun’s rays and make fire!

 

To do that, you had to have a little fuel, of course – some kind of dry tinder or grass.  Then all you needed was a few minutes of uninterrupted sunshine and your magnifying glass.  Oh, and some patience.  And maybe a steady hand.

 

It may be an old schoolboys’ trick, and is doubtless still used as a survival strategy, but the principles are much more profound than that.

 

If you look at, let’s say, a butterfly through your magnifying lens, and then some small print and then your finger nail and then … Well, you’ll get a lot of random enlarged images, won’t you?

 

Some will be fascinating, others perhaps less so.

 

Mostly, this is what we do with life.  We look at one thing, then think about another, then get distracted by something else and so on.  With no focus.

 

But if we focussed our energy and our attention and our emotions, even for a few consistent minutes on our desired outcomes, we’d be far more likely to see our hearts’ desires showing up.

 

This is why the law of attraction appears not to work for many people.  We spend a tiny amount of time focussing on what we want, and then snap back into old patterns, believing all our negative stuff that we’ve been so conditioned to believe.  Then we catch ourselves, and then we scold ourselves for not being positive, (so we’re negative with ourselves), and then we wrench ourselves back to positive thinking again and start all over again!  It’s exhausting!

 

Be gentle with yourself.  Your mind will wander, so forgive it.  It is said that seventeen seconds of focussed emotion is what it takes to set the manifestation process in motion.

 

So what if you only manage seven?  Or even three?  Or one?

 

Congratulate yourself, because that’s seven or three or one more than before!

 

If you want to start a fire with a magnifying lens it wouldn’t be any use throwing it down in disgust when the tinder didn’t catch light straight away.  Keep still, be patient and let the instrument do the focussing.  That instrument, if you want to start a fire is a magnifying lens.  If you want to change your life, it’s your incredible mind.  The result is then assured.

 

Have a focussed day!

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~ by wizardofwisdom on July 16, 2008.