I’ve been
reading recently about the Law of Attraction.
Simply put, the Law states that whatever you think about, you attract
into your life at some point in the future.
You act as a huge magnet that turns your thoughts into reality. There are books about it, films about it -
you’d think everyone would know about it.
And it certainly sounds simple enough, but no doubt it’s easier said
than done.
It made me think
carefully about my life. Perhaps it has
worked for me as I have the lovely home and family that I’ve always imagined
and hoped for. I thought about other people
that I know – and no doubt you know some too – who lurch from one disaster or
illness to another, always complaining, always expecting the worst, and
seemingly always getting it. It made me
wonder whether there was something to this Law after all.
If it is true
that all we need to do to turn our thoughts to reality is focus very clearly on
what we want rather than what we don’t want, then the real experts are
children. If I was to ask small daughter
to draw her ideal bedroom, for example, I would get the most beautifully detailed
picture. Her focus is amazing and it
works with teenagers too; big daughter knows exactly the sort of car she wants and
the furniture for when she has her own house.
A girl at my school dreamed of being a doctor and now that’s what she
does for a living. So when do we stop
believing that we can have our dream houses, our dream cars, our dream
lives? Some people might say it’s when
you start working and ‘living in the real world’, but that just implies that
the real world isn’t a nice place which I’m sure isn’t right. So why are we more likely to focus on what’s
wrong with our lives instead of what’s right with them?
Whether you
believe that the Law of Attraction works or not (and if it did, I’d have a
yacht and four holidays a year, you might say), it must surely be a good thing
to focus on positive rather than negative aspects of your life. It’s not easy, as for some reason it’s much
easier to spiral downwards into despondency that remain cheerful when things
aren’t going your way. I try to deal
with unpleasant situations by thinking how much worse off someone else must be
at that particular moment, and when you look at the newspapers, there’s always
someone worse off than you.
I think it’s
time I followed my daughters’ lead and stopped being limited by the ‘real
world’. I might not end up with a yacht
or a mansion, but if imagining the world as a happier place with less poverty
and sadness could potentially make it happen, then it’s certainly worth a
go. I think so, anyway.
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