Law of Attraction - A question for you.
Posted on March 4, 2008
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I have a question for you. Its about the Law of Attraction. Do we attract everything that happens to us in our lives? Some people say YES - on a conscious or unconscious level everything we experience in our lives we have attracted. But I am not so sure. Here are three possible answers to this question.
1) YES(see above).
Either consciously or unconsciously, we attract everything we experience in our lives. But the problem with this is for example, does a 3 year old who gets abused attract this to themselves? What about horrendous events like 911? I have a real problem with attributing the cause of a horrendous event to the victim. This brings us to explanation #2.
2) Zeitgeist - Its not necessarily the victim who attracts the event but instead its society as a whole that attracts events. When many individuals fear or focus on possible events, this attracts that particular event. For example, because there is a focus on violence in society, for example, the daily news channel, we see this reflected in violence throughout our society. This removes the “blame” for an unwanted event from the individual and places it on society as a whole.
#3) Sometimes bad(or good) things happen. - Because we live in a physical dimension If I create my reality and you create your reality, then at some point these intersect, what you do may affect me and vica-versa. Think of a pool table, where each ball has a trajectory unless it collides with another ball. The difference being that one, we choose our trajectory by our actions (one of these actions is using the Law of Attraction and focusing on what we want to attract). The other difference is that , unlike a pool ball, we can choose our reaction, adjust our trajectory.
For me I choose # 3. I believe that I live in this world where many individuals are simultaneously co-creating their reality. I believe that using the Law of Attraction can help me to create the life I want AND help me to help others create the lives they want at the same time. I also believe that using the Law of Attraction will help me attract the circumstances I want and the people who I can co-create with. I also believe that each individual, as they create their life, they affect the whole world. As individuals we contribute and affect the larger whole. Think of individuals who have have affected the entire planet by taking individual action which in turn changes many lives. What do you think? Do we attract everything into our lives?
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I’ve considered this question many times, and while I don’t have a definitive answer, I think it is wise to operate under the assumption that we DO attract everything in our lives (also called “implied resposibility”).
This helps us to stay away from the victim mindset, and to assume responsibility for our life by default. I think it’s pretty hard to go wrong when you operate under that assumption. It certainly works for me!
Peace and blessings!
The law of attraction, I believe works hand-in-hand with the law of gratitude. This is my story and my life-changing lesson of gratitude.
One day I was teaching a weekend college course on business start-up. The elevator was broken, so I had to lug my dolley of 4 boxes, by hand, up three flights of stairs. I was outside, and it was a little hot and sunny, but not unbearably unpleasant. I began to complain and grumble about how the school should have the elevators working and so on and so forth. I was angry that I had to go through all of this trouble to get to the top of the stairs.
Then, just as I reached to the top of the stairs, a young man, a quadriplegic, in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the neck down, operating his chair with just the slight movements of his bent-to-the-side neck, saw me and with a big, beautiful smile said to me, “Nice day, isn’t it.” I was stunned with embarrassment. Here I was moaning and groaning with all of my faculties and in perfect health, and here is a young man paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair telling me how pleasant a day it was. From that life-changing moment to this day, I have never complained about any physical labor again. “Only by the grace of God there go I.”
Your description of people co-creating their reality does pull the Law of Attraction principles neatly together with our concrete experiences of life. Sometimes we are an innocent effect of other people’s creations. This will begin to be a positive thing when masses of people on the planet are creating the ‘good’, for lack of a better word.
According to me third one is right because we all create our own reality and some or other time it intersect…..Law of attraction works like that…
law of attraction’s last blog post..Law of Attraction Show #1
Well, the Bhoeddha believed so, so who are we to doubt such a spritual teacher?
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Myself, I hope it is correct and try to apply it. The coincidences are stricking, but I would not (yet) answer with a definitive yes (but a small one
Olivier @ 7 laws of attraction’s last blog post..By: Allan@ViSwiss
I have a bit of a different point of view than you do in that I think it is actually all three of your answers at the same time waiting for their turn for the lead. They all are true and most everyone can give you examples where each has manifested but depending on things that we may not understand one may be stronger or weaker at any given moment. Just my point of view that seems to coincide with my life experience.