What You Focus Your Attention on Grows

It’s sort of like plants.  If you focus your attention on them, giving them plenty of water and sunlight, they will grow.  So will your “problems”.  I put problems in quotation marks because, rather than perceiving them as such, I find it more helpful to think of them as “experiences”.  We did come here to Earth to feel the full range of feelings, and to have a full range of experiences, including those we tend to call problems.  But sometimes we get stuck in that space.  When that happens, it is the ego getting in the way.  Our souls may have desired to have every experience, but not to get stuck in suffering.

I know, it’s the way we think of things in our culture, right?  If someone has a “problem”, they need to focus on it so they can “solve” it.  But what if we spent more time focusing on the things that are going well in our worlds, rather than the things that are going “wrong”?  We would attract more things going well.

Let’s say I have poison ivy.  I have choices.  I can go to the doctor for it, get medicine, use it, and go on with my life knowing that it will resolve itself, not giving an excessive amount of attention to it.  Or I can make my whole life about it.  I can call all my friends and family, complain about it, worry about it getting worse, get and stay angry about having it, and feel sorry for myself. Which do you think is going to make it go away faster?

What I’m really talking about here is the Law of Attraction.  You may have heard of it from the book or movie The Secret, or you may have learned about it from someone you know.  Simply put, it is the universal law that say like attracts like.  So, to use our example again, if I focus my attention and energy around having poison ivy, I am keeping myself in the vibration of having poison ivy, and that will perpetuate having it.  Or, I can raise my vibration by choosing to focus on other things, like perhaps the great weather we are having, or enjoying my work, or the company of a loved one.  Then I will attract more things that will match that vibration.

The next time you find yourself complaining about something, either internally or externally, ask yourself this question:  “do I really want to create more of this in my life?”  If the answer is no, you may want to make a shift and focus instead on what you do want more of!

What do you think?  Do you buy this thing called the Law of Attraction?  Do you think it exists?  Do you think it’s a bunch of hogwash?  I invite you to blog with us and share your own experiences!

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