So how long does it take to see results when I begin to apply the Law of Attraction in my life?
The simple answer: they can be immediate!
The more detailed answer: it really depends on quite a few things…
Considering the model of everything as energy… the most important thing to understand is the energy and attitude you bring into whatever aspect of your life you are working on is the most important component for your experience! That’s right:
Your energy and attitude will largely determine your experience of life!
That is very important to keep in mind, but there are a number of other factors that can influence your outcomes, and they can also influence your energy and your attitude.
There is a lot of wisdom along the line of “you can look at things however you want regardless of what happens in life…” and “success is based on 95% attitude and 5% events…” Ultimately, I would say these are useful generalizations, with a few footnotes.
- Getting to the place where you have near complete control over your state, energy, beliefs, etc. is a long and challenging road… understanding it as a possibility doesn’t make it happen any more than reading about a Karate school in the phone book makes you a black belt… you have to take up the practice.
- Keeping yourself in a given state with no attention to the circumstances in life is not always desirable (in fact, it is rarely desirable).
- The people who teach this way either haven’t really taken up the practice themselves, or they have forgotten what it was like when they began.
To address the first point, make the practice of these principles part of who you are. Take a few minutes everyday. Do some deep breathing, alter your state, do a countdown (see the self-hypnosis page), and visualize (see it, hear it, and feel it, as vividly as possible) yourself with these new beliefs as part of who you are (e.g. “I now draw to me the people, events, and energies that will allow me to have all the success I desire!“… very general, but you get the point), see yourself in the picture, then see it through your own eyes. Once you have developed this practice, it will be very easy to get yourself feeling very powerful and very motivated very quickly. It’s very useful to be able to step right back into this state in any place in your life.
For the second point, we always have to be aware of feedback. The Universe (call it God, Goddess, or higher power if you like) is constantly speaking to us. Many law of attraction products do not take this into account. They describe the system as a one-way conversation with the Universe. We say what we want, the Universe delivers it… everybody’s happy.
This doesn’t match my experience at all!
Typically, I decide that I would like something. I look into it. Sometimes it appears easy, sometimes it appears complex. This is feedback. If I start to practice to gain the new skills, beliefs, etc., sometimes they come rather easy, other times they are incredibly challenging. This is feedback. Sometimes it seems like I have success right away, other times it seems like I’m falling on my face. This is feedback. At any time I can change the methods used in my practice, I can make it more intense or a back off a little, or I can decide to take my life in a totally new direction… and I make these choices based off feedback.
Feedback is Priceless!
Whenever you change something in your life, the internal and external changes that come up are what I refer to as feedback. It does take sensory acuity (awareness) to become aware of the feedback you are receiving, but it is imperative that you pay close attention to it, and act on it!
As an example, when I did land navigation in the Army, you have to use a compass to get from point to point. You have to use the compass to find a point or terrain feature (shoot an azimuth) to move towards, and then you start walking to it. You have to remember to keep checking the compass to make adjustments on your path.
Without those adjustments, you will never get where you want go!
In land navigation, it is easy for the unaware to get lost. In life, also, it easy for the unaware to get lost… or to wonder why they don’t have what they want… or to blame others for their own lack of success… with just a little attention to feedback, all these issues can be easily resolved.
But all of this is a bit of an understatement… feedback is actually the Universe telling you what you need to know about the paths you are choosing for yourself! It might be a good idea to listen to what life tells you… it might know what its talking about!
So how long does it actually take…
In my next posts, I’ll explain a little more of this (how to quickly apply the law of attraction), and tell you a few stories from my own life.
keep smiling,
ben
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