If you're dedicated to your personal growth you have probably run across the phrase, "Law of Attraction". It's been written about in books, old and new, and is the main focus of the hit movie, The Secret.

I have to admit, I love this topic but for a long time I was utterly confused about how to make the Law of Attraction work for me. The concepts seemed so intangible I had a hard time grabbing hold of what exactly I could do to unleash the Law of Attraction in my own life.

But like anything you look at for awhile, the pieces suddenly started making sense, and I found the intangible was really quite tangible. I also noticed how natural it is to use the Law of Attraction. In fact, we use it all day long! However, many people still aren't attracting what they really want, maybe even you. That's because the Law of Attraction is generated by two things: thoughts and feelings, and for many their thoughts and feelings feel beyond their control.

A Law of Nature

The Law of Attraction can simply be described as Like Attracts Like. "Like" what? Like energy. In other words, like energy attracts like energy. This can be proven scientifically, but I won't go into the details of how this works. It just works.

Consider the Law of Gravity - you know this is a law of nature, but you don't need to know how it works on a scientific level because you can see for yourself how it works. Gravity holds us to the earth. If you let go of a ball, it's going to drop.

How can you see how the Law of Attraction works in your life? Take a look around you. Everything you have in your life right now is the result of the Law of Attraction. Everything in your life you've attracted. And you've attracted it to you through your thoughts and feelings.

Not always easy to accept

I know this can be hard to accept. It's hard to accept because we are a world that has been taught things happen "to us" and that many things are "beyond our control". And yet, if you analyze why you have the life you have, and you're completely honest about why you have it, you will see a pattern. That pattern will show you that everything you have in your adult life is a reflection of what you think and feel, the majority of the time.

Using the Law of Attraction consciously may require a shift in your belief system. A shift from, "look what's happened to me", to "now that I'm an adult, I create my own life experiences". Once that shift is made you become the conscious creator of your life. You have taken 100% responsibility for your life and what you create in it. YOU are in the driver's seat, and that's a very good place to be. This shift in perspective is empowering. That's because, if you are the creator of your life, you can take full responsibility for the good things that happen to you and the bad things that happen to you. This is a powerful place from which to live your life. If you can take responsibility for the bad, you gain the power to change what you don't like. On the other hand, if you don't/can't take responsibility for the bad, you will remain a victim of your circumstances and have a very hard time creating the life you most want.

We are spiritual beings, having a human experience

I once heard it said we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Being human can be hard. Bad things happen to good people all the time. People get sick, lose jobs, get divorced, lose people they love, fight with each other, and the list goes on. I like to look at challenging life experiences this way: every life experience gives us a gift and that is to help us grow into our full potential.

It still may be hard to accept the Law of Attraction when you think of children who have been abused or victims of hateful crimes. Unfortunately, we cannot see the divine purpose to these kinds of events. I just know as adults we come into our own and have the power to choose how we look at life and our experiences - past and present.

As adults we have the power to choose what happens to us today, and in the future. We have the power to choose what kind of life we live. Bad things may have happened to us when we were children, but we are no longer children, we are adults with choices to make about how we wish to live our lives.

Law of Attraction 101

The Law of Attraction does much more than help you manifest the "things" you want. Yes, you can use it to manifest a new car, but you can also use it to heal yourself, find the love of your life, and so much more. The Law of Attraction is a law of nature that shapes your life. You can personally work with this power to create the life you want. It is powerful and it is always at your disposal. You can't escape its power; it is working in your life at all times.

The Law of Attraction is activated by your thoughts and your feelings. Everything in the world is made of energy, including your thoughts and feelings. When you have a thought or feeling you send out an energetic vibration. Because the Law of Attraction tells us what you send out comes back, you will attract back to you things of similar vibrational energy. Like Attracts Like.

Here's another way to look at it - The Law of Attraction makes you a very powerful MAGNET.

Your negative thoughts, attract negative thoughts. Your positive thoughts, attract positive thoughts. Your discontent, attracts more discontent. Your joy, attracts more joy. What you attract will always mirror what you put forth. That is how you can see the Law of Attraction working in your life; just look around at what you've attracted. Do you like what you see?

Next week, I'll show you how you can leverage the Law of Attraction in your life to create the life you really want.