Law of Attraction

by Vaishali

Unless you have been living under a rock, or isolated in a remote
cave on a desert island, you have most likely found yourself in a
conversation about the latest topic du jour: the Law of Attraction.
The Law of Attraction looks like this:

Thoughts = Attraction

The truth of the matter is that the Law of Attraction is nothing new.
It has been around as long as human consciousness. But thanks to the
latest DVD, The Secret, this ancient idea is making a modern, popular
resurgence.

If you Google "The Law of Attraction" the information you get will
describe it as the most powerful force in the universe. However,
those who have traveled to the other side and come back to tell the
tale, all say that Divine Love is the most powerful force in the
universe. So who is right - Google or the Spiritual realm? Attention
or Love?

Well actually, they both are. We know this from the works of the
great mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). He spent every day of
the last twenty-six years of his life traveling into the Spiritual
realm by entering into a trance-like state of extreme focus. Spirit
gave him volumes of information to pass on to all of us in physical
bodies, so that we might better understand the meaning of our lives.
Swedenborg said that we are what we love... and we love whatever we
give our attention to. Our awareness, our attention, IS love. Emanuel
Swedenborg further said that we do not have love; we ARE love,
therefore whatever commands our attention... we love. And, whatever
we love, we ARE! We'll call this the Law of Love, and it looks like
this:

You = Love = Attention = Love = You

Love is considered the most powerful universal force because it is
wholeness making. In other words, it is the power of Love that will
bring whatever you focus on into the whole of your life. This can be
an extremely sobering reality, especially if you find yourself
constantly drifting off into worry, lack, or fear-based thoughts.
This means that you cannot spend 10 minutes a day focusing on copious
quantities of money pouring into your bank account, and then work 23
hours and 50 minutes building a monument to scarcity with your
attention, when you focus on thoughts like, "If only I had (fill in
the blank) everything would be okay," or, "why is it there are never
enough hours in the day?" Your devoted love for "less" will outweigh
your casual flirtation with abundance. It would be like getting your
nails done, and then spending the rest of the day biting them down to
the quick. The cosmetic attention given to your nails would not stop
the destructive end result of total erosion. Also, according to
Swedenborg's wisdom, if this (erosion, lack) is where you focus your
attention, this is also where you will be living: in a hellishly
limited world. Not a pretty thought - which then manifests into your
reality.

So, how can we use the Law of Love to improve our everyday life?
First, we need to be aware of it. Second, if we are wise, we will be
extremely judicious about what we are giving our attention to,
because whatever it is, we will be attracting more of it into the
whole of our life experience. And, third, whenever we find ourselves
focusing on anything limited, we need to immediately put it down, and
return our attention to that which is unlimited. The bigger picture
is, the Law of Attraction is really just a restatement of the Law of
Love. The primary difference is that the Spiritual realm focuses on
Love; the human, physical world focuses analytically on thoughts.

The Law of Attraction, because it is based on the Law of Love, will
work to bring more life sustaining influences into the whole of your
life, IF you do not spend the bulk of your life giving attention to
some other fatal attraction. The Law of Love has an intimate
relationship with our free will. Whatever we chose to freely love, we
are also choosing to freely learn from. Emanuel Swedenborg says, in
his prolific writings, that we are here having a human experience to
learn that we gain nothing by giving our attention to anything
limited. Furthermore, that we learn this truth as a result of what we
have practiced freely giving our attention to over the course of our
lives. The Law of Attraction works because we have the free will to
decide, at any time, that we will give our attention only to what
lives in an unlimited place.

Whenever we find ourselves entertaining something limiting with our
mind, only we have the free will to put down that thought and return
our attention to what is beyond limitation. As Emanuel Swedenborg
liked to say, giving attention exclusively to the unlimited is a
remembering and a forgetting thing. You have to remember to give your
attention to what is unlimited, and simply forget everything else.

Vaishali is the author of "You Are What You Love" (Purple Haze Press
2006) listen to her radio show "You Are What You Love" on Contact
Talk Radio and a guest radio host on Seattle's KKNW's "Contact Talk
Radio." For more information, email v@purplev.com

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