Practising the Law of Attraction

Do you believe in the law of attraction? Or do you call it something else? Well I must admit the first time I heard about this was when the book the book The Secret by Rhonda Bryne came out. Before this book I hadn’t heard about Abraham-Hicks who had been the original people to teach about the law of attraction.

I’m an optimist, I believe anything is possible. I believe in God, I believe that dreams can come true. Five years ago a very trying time in my life this gave me the opportunity to put the Law of Attraction to use. According to Abraham-Hicks we attract the things we most think about. It’s terribly hard to be positive in a time of tribulation. I had just been separated and my ex partner did the meanest thing possible and that was to leave me without any financial support. What I mean by that was that we had joint everything. A mortgage, a HP vehicle, debt etc. Everything was paid as a joint effort. But one morning at the end of the month, the month he’d left, he secretly opened a separate account and had his salary put in that account instead of the joint account. The problem wasn’t the fact that he’d done this the problem was he hadn’t informed me nor prepared me or discussed this with me so that we could’ve put a plan in place. You can only imagine what happened next, all the joint debt came out of the joint account that only had my salary going into it.

I remember sitting outside in my car feeling helpless. The account had bounced, the bank charged me heavily. How was I going to feed my child? How was I going to keep a roof over our heads with just one salary? Things didn’t get better after that, they actually got worse. A month later I lost my job, the creditors were banging down my door and threatening me with court action. My ex partner was no where to be seen and if he was it was for brief moments to see our daughter. Life sucked!

Why am I telling you this?

I want people to see that just because the worst has happened doesn’t mean that it’s the end of the world. It doesn’t mean it won’t get better. I started reading the secret in the mist of my distress. Everything was going from bad to worse, I worried about money, wondered how I would even buy milk sometimes. I handed back the keys to the HP car and almost lost the house. It was rock bottom for me. But as I began to read The Secret something inside me switched. Something amazing happened inside me. I stopped worrying about what was going on around me. I learnt that what you focus on is what you attract. I was focusing on the lack of money, the bills and the lack of having a job and that was exactly what I was getting more of.

How do you stop worrying?

I got to the point where I felt it couldn’t get any worse. I let go! Whether this was acceptance I don’t know. I stopped answering the calls to creditors, I stopped opening the letters. I accepted that if I had to go to court so be it. Probably not something I would advice someone to do but I had got to that point. If they wanted to repossess my home, so be it. I had had enough, I stopped fighting, stopped resisting and just allowed. It was an immediate switch. I listened to Abraham-Hicks in one video that said the minute you change your mind set things will start to reveal themselves to you. It took me a short time to get to that point and what happened next was so amazing it makes me want to cry right now.

What happens when you let go?

For the next few days things were still the same but I didn’t pay any attention to any of it, instead I paid attention to the things I did have. It was an early Monday morning and I had to take my little one to school. We didn’t have a car because it had been given back so we had to get the bus. On the bus I felt happy, I had this beautiful daughter and she was happy. She was unaware of the things that were going on in our lives. She smiled up at me and said, ‘Mummy look it’s snowing!’ As we travelled on the bus I was so touched by the fact that the sight of snow could make her so happy. It made me so happy. When we got off the bus the flakes got heavier and thicker. We could catch another bus to get us to the school or it would be a fifteen minute walk. She turned to me and said, ‘Mummy can we walk?’

This memory has stayed with me till this day; we walked in the snow without a care in the world. We let it drop on our tongues we threw snowballs. I felt like a child again and everything, all worry just disappeared. We got to the school and I dropped her off happy. Then what happened next was a miracle. I’m tearing up just thinking about it. I’d just walked out of the school and my mobile rang. It was from a company that a friend of mine worked for. They had a position for an Administrator and wondered if I would be interested. What! Just like that! I was over the moon I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t even go looking for this job and to top it up it was four thousand pounds more than my previous job. I said I would be interested as long as I would be able to start at nine thirty in the morning to give me time to drop off my daughter. A day later they got back to me and said that would be fine!

I wanted to share this story to show you how the law of attraction worked for me. It’s always working whether we are aware of it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not. I finally got it. I stopped focusing on what I didn’t want and focused on what I did want. What did I want? I wanted to be happy. Did happiness come from money? No it didn’t it came from a child who was just happy to play in the snow. That’s life, that’s what matters. All these other things will fade away. I’m so glad I learnt this lesson and I hope many others will too.

To attract the life you want you have live as though you have it right now. How would you identify it otherwise? Life is now, be happy now and the rest will follow!