Imagine going to your closet and putting on some shorts, a t-shirt, and finishing things off with some flip-flops, then driving across town to a suit and tie meeting. What kind of attention would you attract? Or if you went to the library and screamed at the top of your lungs for an hour. No one would react positively, right? But if you were to go to a punk rock concert in your best punk rock outfit and you’d fit right in. You would meet like minded people, make friends, enjoy one another. They would trust you. This law of attraction can also be applied to your thoughts and your feelings. But most of us never take the time to think about what we’re thinking. When you start, however, you realize how you can influence the reality around you, much in the same way as the clothes you wear and the things you say out loud attracts the particular attention you seek. With this mindset, you can guide yourself into your preferred place within your love life.
No matter how you look at it, we are emotional creatures. Our emotions form the decisions we make. A woman with confidence, who reminds herself everyday of her goals and who positively focuses on what she wants will no doubt achieve. However a person who thinks to themselves, “I’ll never meet my soulmate” will always cut their chances short. Not only will those negative vibrations attract an unsatisfactory reality, they will push away the reality you really want. If you don’t send out the call, how will anyone know you’re there in need?
Before we continue with love, consider this. Many studies have found that thoughts, which translate into feelings through our subconscious, affect our physical health. A study conducted by Dr. Toshihiko Maruta for the Mayo Clinic concluded that pessimistic patients tested worse than optimists in all areas of health.
A Women’s Health Initiative study done by Hilary A. Tindle, MD, found in women that those who had the highest score for optimism were 9% less likely to develop heart disease and 14% less likely to die from all causes.
What’s more frightening is that those with a bad attitude, such as hostility and cynicism were 16% more likely to die than anyone else. Negative thoughts away from the focus of what you want leads to stress, and stress leads to lack of sleep, which leads to poor health and poor judgment, even anger and skin ailments. Bags under your eyes are the least of your worries.
So what do you do? You need to focus on what you desire and push out all the rest. I know, I hear you say, if it’s so easy, I’d be married to the man of my dreams by now. The truth is you probably would be if you actually spent the time continuously concentrating, meditating and attracting like vibrations. Be honest, when was the last time a pessimistic thought came to your mind, such as “I only meet men who don’t want a serious relationship, what’s wrong with me?” even just for a moment? Probably not long ago. And with these thoughts I am betting that you continue to only meet men who want something casual.
The secret is to focus on the outcome, the engagement ring, the marriage and the happy kids (provided that is what you want!), you must visualize it all clearly in your mind. Never let these thoughts crumble, never doubt that you will not have these things. How you think alters how you feel and how you feel about yourself is like a mirror that attracts the one for you.
This isn’t magic. You don’t have to drive to Vegas to catch the show. The trick of this law of attraction is no trick at all. When the voice in your head repeats positive thoughts over and over, again and again, what you are doing is conditioning your subconscious. Your subconscious, then accepts the fact that this must be true, that your wish for isn’t a wish at all, but a fact, a reality. And so when your subconscious accepts this new reality, your actions change. You won’t be aware of the subtle differences in your choices and you certainly won’t be aware that you’re attracting just the right elements that will help you succeed. Psychiatrist Srinivasan Pillay found that because the regions in our brains that involve INTENTION are very connected to regions of ACTION, “firing up those brain regions involved in intention will start to fire up your action centers.”
Pillay explains that the discovery of “mirror neurons” in the brain is a sort of evidence of the law of attraction. When you see someone do something, “the same pattern of brain activation that allows that person to do what they are doing is mirrored” in your own brain. Our actions, Pillay states, “cause similar action-representations in the brains of others” automatically. If you see someone smile, you smile. When you watch a man on a tightrope on television, you feel as if you’re on that tightrope. That is why often you will tell those around you,” Oh, I can’t watch.” The brain “sets up a simulation as though you are actually doing these things.” If you can concentrate and utilize these mirror neurons, you can greatly affect the environment around you, as things around you will start to mirror your behavior.
Pillay continues with another study that found that when viewing a set of “fearful faces,” the area of the amygdala that fear activates does indeed do so in observers “as if those people were experiencing fear themselves.” When the study made it so that people were unaware that they were viewing faces of fear, this part of the amygdala still activated. Pillay states that “we attract the fear to ourselves because we are connected to other people and their brains instantly.” If you’re afraid of approaching a man, not only will that display your lack of confidence, it will also be a subconscious signal to everything around you that they should not come forth. It is, to a degree, similar to a self-fulfilling prophecy. The man of your dreams has his own brain responses altered by your emotions, for while brains mirror the actions of others, “they can also mirror emotions.”
It’s understandable that negative thoughts can often commandeer your mind, we all experience this from time to time. They are strong and ever-present. The bitter memories of broken relationships can override a positive outlook. But that is the challenge of the law of attraction. Instead of worrying about an accident while on an airplane, think of walking out from the terminal into the arms of loved ones. Instead of stressing about the mountain of bills, think about a specific way you can earn enough money to take care of those bills. And to find that man you want to spend the rest of your life with, picture him in detail. Picture him finding you. Picture a life together with him. Understand and believe that it’s true, it will happen. No more wanton thoughts. No more negative thinking!
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Really opened my eyes! I’m glad that I have control over what happens. I’ll have to try this and see what changes.
This is generally just good advice to live by in general. It’s good to be positive. People definitely would rather hang around happy people than someone who hates everything. I know from personal experience that sometimes when I just don’t feel like being social and generally being dark that I didn’t get a lot of good coming my way. But when I’m happy and excited people can see that and not only do I find that more people like me and I make more friends, it’s just so much easier and I have a better attitude to just do things better than if I was down.
Tiffany, absolutely right. This isn’t just for love but every facet of your life. Take control. Make one area of your life right and others will follow. It’s all connected. Just be positive in all ways and be a kind person. There is nothing to be frightened about when going out. Having a good time is definitely not a crime.
Does anyone know if there’s a book or movie I can check out? Interesting stuff, especially with the scientific research.
I’m really inspired to keep positive thoughts after this article and some other places I’ve read this about. I’m done with men who can’t love. Ready for the next step. Thanks!
I'll definitely agree with Tiffany and Kim. Being positive always makes our life easier.I am the type of person seeing life instead of half-empty but its half full...It's a nice feeling if you share your positive thoughts to someone who are always negative about life..We just need to be comfortable and confident for every thing we does. We must remember that being positive is contagious..!!
While this is really worthwhile information, it can’t be stress enough just how difficult this really is. I’ve followed this sort of thinking for some time now and sometimes it really gets me places then some other times I don’t really feel up to it at all. Definitely hard to accomplish completely.
Nora, you can Google “law of attraction” and you’ll find a plethora of good information. Many people have recommendations for you to take a look at.
Natalie, that’s the spirit.
Daniel, it definitely is difficult. If it were easy, everybody would be utilizing these tools, but of course, not many do. But if you look at very successful people, they tend to follow this sort of attitude, of making your own path, your own luck, to believe in yourself to the point that no negativity can pass through you. Some may see it as egotism, but it is in fact a very stern practice that someone has worked at and perfected over a long period of time. Keeping positive 100% of the time is most likely one of the hardest things to accomplish, but keep at it!
I was a skeptic at first but the research about emotions affecting health is true. My stress makes me break out in eczema. Being positive and meditating really helps, so I don’t see why this won’t help as well. To just always think good thoughts and concentrate on your goals.
My cousin does this and among other things like being really happy, she recently got married to a wonderful man after a string of bad guys. I think it just allowed her to be confident and do more things socially, and her fun loving personality and everything attracted the right guy who just happened to want what she was all about.
Martin, you are right in that everything is connected. Your health is greatly affected by your mood and vice versa. Positivity releases many chemicals through your body to combat illness.
Kimberly:
Congratulations to your cousin! It is absolutely a byproduct of concentrating on the positive and believing in yourself that people will see in you a wonderful, fun personality. Everyone will be attracted to that.
Thank you! This is inspiring me to change my outlook on life. Especially in hs I was always that depressed emo kind of kid but this really makes me feel like I can change that and be positive without feeling ashamed or anything. Can’t wait to feel good about myself and get what I’m dreaming for.
Awesome article!
Great article. Valuable info. Can never get enough of this topic. Thanks!
I wanna attract hot ladies! :)
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