(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
The Law of Attraction can be put in very simple terms: happy vibrations attract happy circumstances, and yucky vibrations attract yucky circumstances. The big challenge to overcome is our negative thinking. It is an indoctrination. Our environment has taught us to look for what’s wrong with everything. Negative thinking is a habit that is learned that projects into the future and limits what you want to create. The things that you worry about and fear become your experience because your thoughts and feelings are vibrating to bring you more of it. Beliefs are “practiced vibrations.” Once you have had a thought long enough, the law of attraction takes you easily into that vibration. It becomes your set point and will bring a match to that vibration. Consciousness creates reality. No matter what is created, consciousness creates it.
The things we don’t want can be disguised as a want, such as “I want to get well” or “I want to lose weight.” These statements are focused on the lack of not having what you want. When you think of what you don’t want, you are going to attract it or it’s going to attract you. Lyn Grabhorn says in her book Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting (2000), “Negative vibrations occur when we refuse to allow ourselves to think about what makes us happy. Negative vibrations come from living with don’t wants. We cannot be thinking about what we don’t want and expect to get what we do want.” The key to receiving your heart’s desire is to find a way to feel good about it. Desire comes from excitement. Need is from fear. When you know what you want, begin to feel what it feels like to already have it and stay out of the place of not having it. Grabhorn writes, “Dare to want whatever in this whole wide world will give you pleasure. Wanting is taking charge. Wanting is creating. Wanting and manifesting those wants into reality is fulfilling your reason for being and therein lies the true richness of life. Never, ever accept reality as something to which you must resign yourself.” Whatever is currently happening in your life is a result of the past and how you have flowed your energy.
The energy of needing something to change holds it to you, for it is in the negative energy flow. The goal is to bring in the energy of excitement about what it will be changing into. This is flowing in the positive and gets the desired results you want to create. Focus on the feeling of having your desires, open yourself up to believe you can have it, and then answers and opportunities will come. See the value of knowing the things that you don’t want for it will help you to know what you do want. See what can be rather than what is. Jump into the wonderful feelings of how fantastic it will be when you are there. Shift your energy, state your desire to the universe and feel the gentle inner smile on the inside of gratitude. When you feel stuck in the negative, fake the feeling of what it might be like to have your desire. “Fake it ‘til you make it” is applicable to manifesting.
The theory of The Law of Attraction says that in order to be content in sound, mind, body and sensor, we must let go of any negative vibration that might cloud our thought and replace it with positive vibration. If you find yourself being pulled into a negative space, use isolation exercise to control and raise your body vibration, clearing your thought world of any undue stress. This type of therapy is beneficial to the whole body. By manifesting a desired reality, one can use this sort of testing of the body as a platform for meditation.