Oct 10 2008
Law of Attraction and Going with the Flow
Manifesting your desires using the law of attraction gives you the means to realize your dreams and aspirations in life. Using this universal law, you can consciously create the life you want to have. You get to have a sense of control over the experiences in your life.
However, controlling situations or people around you is a major hindrance in your manifesting effort. You cannot make a person do something he/she does not want to do using the law of attraction. Nor can you make a current situation instantly reverse itself into something you want using the same concept.
The thing with the law of attraction is that you just have to allow things to happen. If your thoughts are focused on the end result of what you want, then that is what you will be getting. There is no need for you to worry how things will come to be, just have faith that you will eventually attract your desires.
Just go with the flow. Allow your ideal situation to unfold on its own. Your instinct (not your logic) will tell you what action is required, so be receptive. The universe does not make a mistake. As Max Ehrmann said in Desiderata, “And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.” The non-physical Abraham call this the law of allowing which says that “I am which I am and I am willing to let others be which they are.”
Yes it would have been easy to go with the flow if only Miss REALITY here doesn’t bite. It is what is happening in front of us that sends us to overdrive and grasping for control of the situation. That is why I never fail to include in my writings that manifesting with the law of attraction requires that you transcend reality and suspend doubt.
Here is a story that I lifted from Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking. Although this story was used in the book to emphasize Peale’s formula of PRAYERIZE, PICTURIZE ACTUALIZE, it also portrays how one should look beyond the current situation in order to manifest an ideal situation.
A woman discovered that her husband was drifting from her. Theirs had been a happy marriage, but the wife had become preoccupied in social affairs and the husband had gotten busy in his work. Before they knew it, the close, old-time companionship was lost. One day she discovered his interest in another woman. She lost her head and became hysterical. She consulted her minister, who adroitly turned the conversation to herself. She admitted being a careless homemaker and that she had also become self-centered, sharp-tongued, and nagging.
She then confessed that she had never felt herself the equal of her husband. She had a profound sense of inferiority regarding him, feeling unable to maintain equality with him socially and intellectually. So she retreated into an antagonistic attitude and manifested itself in petulance and criticism.
The minister saw that the woman had more talent, ability, and charm than she was revealing. He suggested that she create an image or picture of herself as capable and attractive. He whimsically told her that “God runs a beauty parlor” and that faith techniques could put beauty in a person’s face and charm and ease in her manner. He gave her instruction in how to pray and how spiritually to “picturize.” He also advised her to hold a mental image of the restoration of the old-time companionship, to visualize the goodness in her husband, and to picture a restored harmony between the two of them. She was to hold this picture with faith. In this manner he prepared her for a most interesting personal victory.
About this time her husband informed her that he wanted a divorce. She had conquered herself to the extent of being able to receive this request with calmness. She simply replied that she was willing if he wanted it, but suggested a deferral of the decision for ninety day on the ground that divorce is so final. “If at the end of 90 days you still feel that you want a divorce, I will cooperate with you.” She said this calmly. He gave her a quizzical look, for he had expected an outburst.
Night after night he went out, and night after night she sat at home, but she pictured him as seated in his old chair. He was not in the chair, but she painted an image of him there comfortably reading as in old days. She visualize him puttering around the house, painting and fixing things as he had formerly done. She even pictured him drying the dishes as he did when they were first married. She visualized the two of them playing golf together and taking hikes as they once did.
She maintained this pictured with steady faith, and one night there he actually sat in his old chair. She looked twice to be sure that it was the reality rather than the picturization, but perhaps a picturization is a reality, for at any rate the actual man was there. Occasionally he would be gone but more and more night he sat in his chair. Then he began to read to her as in the old days. Then one sunny Saturday afternoon he asked, What do you say to a game of golf?”
The days went by pleasantly until she realized that the 90th day has arrived, so that evening she said quietly, “Bill this is the 90th day.”
“What do you mean,” he asked, puzzled, “the 90th day?”
“Why, don’t you remember? We agreed to wait 90 days to settle that divorce matter and this is the day.”
He looked at her for a moment, then hidden behind his paper turned a page, saying, “Don’t be silly. I couldn’t possibly get along without you. Where did you ever get the idea I was going to leave you?”
-Peale, Norman Vincent; The Power of Positive Thinking p. 43-44 Ballantine Books
You have to see beyond the reality of the situation if you want to change your reality. I am not saying that you should be in denial of the current situation and tell yourself that it is not happening and pretend that everything is just peachy in your life. You also need to acknowledge what is really happening so that you will know that this is not the ideal situation for you. You can then use the law of attraction to manifest your ideal situation.
All of Peale’s books include true stories of the wonderful manifestations of the power of positive thinking. But I specifically selected the one above because I once tried to emulate it in order to restore a relationship gone bad. Unfortunately for me, I did not get my happy ending like in the story because I hounded him, and I manipulated situations which drove him farther away from me. In other words, I wanted to CONTROL the situation.
Grappling for control is like swimming against the flow, it drains your creative energy and leads you nowhere. So relax, close your eyes, go with the flow with faith and you will open your eyes to your desired reality. The law of attraction works, you just have to let it be.
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