How the Law of Attraction works
How the Law of Attraction works
The film “The Secret” has done a wonderful job of raising awareness of the Law of Attraction (LOA) and many people are enjoying a prosperous and fulfilling life by working in harmony with this law. But what about the many other people who, although aware of this law, are not experiencing the results they desire. What is the difference that makes the difference?
Well it’s not because the LOA only works for some people and not for others. Being a Universal law, the Law of Attraction is operating all of the time even for those who are not aware of it or don’t believe in it. And it’s not because some people are more lucky than others. The LOA is impersonal and applies equally irrespective of age, gender, race or background. So if this law applies equally to all people why is there such a diversity in peoples results? Well I think it’s because those who are successful have a deeper understanding of this law.
Many people define the LOA as “like attracts like”, but a more accurate definition is “we attract into our experience that with which we are in vibrational resonance”. The LOA is a secondary law and is based on the primary law of vibration. The LOA doesn’t respond to what you want, eg, improved health or financial prosperity, but only to the energy and vibration you are sending out. This is a key understanding.
Nobel Prize winning physicists have confirmed that everything in the universe, both visible and invisible is, at its most basic level, energy vibrating at different frequencies. You, me, a desk, a glass, a tree, a dog, absolutely everything, including our thoughts and feelings are “concentrations” of energy and even though there’s only one energy, it vibrates differently.
It is the vibration you are sending out in every moment of every day that is determining what you are attracting into your experience. So what determines your vibration? Thoughts are considered the most potent form of energy and different thoughts create different kinds of vibration. It is your thoughts, beliefs and emotions which determine your vibratory ‘output’ and what you attract back in your life.
Here’s how it works. Everything that exists in the Universe, including our thoughts, is energy and energy vibrates. If you have a thought that “earning money is hard” and focus your attention on this thought, you begin to vibrate a frequency that resonates with the thought “earning money is hard”. The more you focus your attention on this thought, the easier it is to assume that particular rate of vibration. Eventually, you’ve practiced this vibration so much, that as soon as you think the thought “earning money is hard”, you instantly assume the vibrational frequency associated with this thought and we call it a belief.
A belief is nothing more than a practiced vibration, which through the LOA, brings into your experience everything in harmony or resonance with that vibration, thus validating or reinforcing the truth of your belief! A belief however is not fact and so the question to ask is not “Are my beliefs true?” because to the believer they are always true. The question to ask is “Do my current beliefs move me in the direction of my goals and what I want to experience in life?”
Everything is created through energetic vibration and you cannot attract anything into your experience you are not in vibrational resonance with. The principle is similar to tuning in a radio station. In order to hear your favourite radio station, you set your tuner to the exact vibrational frequency match. Even though there are many, many different radio stations playing out there in every moment of every day (in the same way there are many, many opportunities waiting for you), you are not aware of them and they do not become part of your experience until you ‘tune in’ and achieve an exact vibrational match. Your experiences in life are simply a matching of vibration. You cannot experience anything in life you are not in vibrational resonance with in the same way you cannot experience 82.4 fm if you have set your radio tuner to 106.fm
Although our physical senses tell us we are a physical body, we are not. We are Vibrational Beings living in a vibrational universe and in every moment of our existence we are broadcasting a vibrational signal based on our thoughts, feelings and beliefs and this is determining what we attract into our lives.
But here is the problem. Most peoples’ thoughts are on what they don’t want, rather than on what they do want. For example, John is currently in debt and is desperate to attract more money into his life. However his attention is focused on his debt. He allows his current experience of debt to determine his thoughts and feelings and this vibrational signal of ‘lack’ attracts more ‘lack’ back into his life. If you try to explain to John that it is his own thoughts about lack that is creating more lack, he will probably angrily reply “Well of course I’m thinking about lack because that’s my reality. To think otherwise is naïve and irresponsible”.
But John’s response, while typical, evidences a deep misunderstanding of how the LOA actually works. We’re told to face facts and be realistic, but this is before we understood our role in the creation process. The LOA doesn’t respond to what John wants (eg, more money), but only to the energy and vibration he is sending out and it works perfectly every time. This is why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It is simply a matter of where people focus their attention.
When we let our current results determine our current thoughts and feelings (vibratory output), we are attempting to create in reverse. Our current results are the effects of our previous thoughts and feelings. To create different results, we must change the cause (our thoughts and feelings) first, and then our outer circumstances will change.
Now at the beginning this is hard because our habitual way of thinking of what we don’t want is, through the LOA, matching us up with more thoughts of what we don’t want! But when you understand that the LOA is set up to respond to your individual vibration, you can begin the process of allowing the experience of what you don’t want to guide you to what you do want and begin to focus on that to achieve vibrational alignment.
So if you are not experiencing what you desire in life, it’s because your thoughts and feelings (vibrational output) are on what you don’t want, rather than what you do want. You are, metaphorically speaking, tuned into 97.6fm and becoming frustrated because you want to listen to 83.2fm. Nothing will change until you change the vibrational frequency.
Vibration is everything … 3 simple words … but it may be the missing piece you are looking for.


