Law of Attraction Misconceptions
Colin Joss
The theory behind the Law of Attraction is that two like elements will be attracted to each other. This has to do with the types of energy that people give off. Have you every worked in an office where one person is so negative that they are able to spread that energy like an airborne illness to others? Yet if you try very hard to only give off positive energy than those are the types of people you will attract to you.
Unfortunately, the reality is that we are not in 'heaven' but on 'earth.' On earth we find that everything is not governed and controlled by the Law of Attraction. In our day-to-day lives we find that just exuding good energies is not surrounding us with good energies and insulating us from all negative energies. Therefore, no matter how much good energy we are filled with and surrounded by, bad and negative things still happen to us.
This doesn't mean that the Law of Attraction can't help you in such instances though. The difference is that they often will be giving off negative energy subconsciously. You on the other hand will consciously be giving off positive energy. Knowing that you can't control the universe but you can control yourself is important. This way you won't feel that the Law of Attraction isn't working.
Focusing only on the positive make us put on blinkers that help us believe we will experience only positive. Therefore, all negative experiences are attributed to the strong negative energies that others have focused on us. As children we called them spells that had been cast on us. We find it easier to lay the blame elsewhere, rather than to acknowledge the negative energy that we ourselves may have unconsciously given out.
Focusing on the positive also presupposes that we will also be able to control the energies of those around us or that those around us are also surrounding themselves with positive energy, thereby creating an island of positive energy. We presume that when we do someone a favor, they in turn will return the favor. We help to clean out a neighbor's garage with the assumption that when the need should arise, they in turn would help us clean out our garage. However, this does not always happen in practice. Using this example to debunk the Law of Attraction would be shortsighted. The fault lies not in the faulty definition of the law, but rather in our faulty definition of the same.
We are all human and it is important to understand that. Too many people feel that if they follow the Law of Attraction they can't let any negative energy touch them. That isn't a realistic view and you can have a very long fall when you set your expectations too high off the ground. If you are able to successfully acknowledge that negative energy when it occurs though you can change it before it has the time to really settle within you.
We are all huge magnets of various events - good and bad. We cannot gain total control over the energies we give out. Therefore, we cannot expect only positive things to happen to us. We should also acknowledge that while we can to some extent control the energies we exude, we have no control over the energies that others around us give out. The key to success would lie in us not allowing ourselves to get derailed by the negative energies and events surrounding us. We should focus on trying to gain ever increasing control on the energies we give out. We should also remember the adage 'What Goes Around, Comes Around.' Therefore, what energies we give out will tend to come back to us.
Colin Joss is the author of the best-selling (
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