Law of attraction is simpler than people think (Read if you try to "get" stuff)

[arpee]

The Law Of Attraction works by energy/emotion, so, be happy and you'll attract more happy things. If you feel like something is lacking in your life you'll attract more lack. Feel happiness and satisfaction in anyway you can and you'll attract more happiness and satisfaction.

If daydreaming, fantasizing, or visualizing feels good - do it
If praying feels good - do it
If speaking about that thing feels good - do it
If taking action feels good - do it.

Don't do it to make something happen, do it because it's fun. Don't try to get happy - simply BE happy, do this and the rest will be taken care of. Be happy and you'll attract more happiness into your life.

The most important thing that most people forget is that Law Of Attraction is simple and is responding to your emotion - so happiness should be your one and only goal.

[Reefs]

Originally Posted by arpee

The most important thing that most people forget is that Law Of Attraction is simple and is responding to your emotion - so happiness should be your one and only goal.

Emotions are indicators only. Which means they are subject to LOA.

[Anagogy]

Originally Posted by Reefs

Emotions are indicators only. Which means they are subject to LOA.

This is true from my perspective, in the most technical sense of the word, however, they are so closely related that I would almost consider it splitting hairs. If you reach for an emotion, you are also reaching for the thought that generates that emotion, so I kind of think of emotions and thoughts as simply two sides of the same coin. They are never apart from one another, so you could, in a sense, consider them as part of the same "thing".

[Reefs]

Originally Posted by Anagogy

This is true from my perspective, in the most technical sense of the word, however, they are so closely related that I would almost consider it splitting hairs. If you reach for an emotion, you are also reaching for the thought that generates that emotion, so I kind of think of emotions and thoughts as simply two sides of the same coin. They are never apart from one another, so you could, in a sense, consider them as part of the same "thing".

Maybe we could say that there is a thought (sometimes gazillions of thoughts) hiding behind every emotion. Emotions are general and thoughts are usually very specific.

[arpee]

Originally Posted by Reefs

Emotions are indicators only. Which means they are subject to LOA.

Everything is subjected to LOA. LOA only responds to your vibration/emotion. So if you are feeling bad LOA will give you more bad-feeling things. If you feel happy LOA will give you more good-feeling things.

Saying that Emotions are indicators, is a tautology.


Happiness is what you want so when you feel happiness it's an indicator that happiness is where you want to be.

Unhappiness is not what you want so when you feel unhappiness it's an indicator that unhappiness is where you do not want to be.

[Reefs]

Originally Posted by arpee

Everything is subjected to LOA.

I am certainly NOT subject to LOA. First of all LOA is but a concept. Second, the one that is witnessing the phenomenal world and its creations can't possibly be bound by the conceptual 'laws' of the phenomenal world.

[arpee]

Originally Posted by Reefs

I am certainly NOT subject to LOA. First of all LOA is but a concept. Second, the one that is witnessing the phenomenal world and its creations can't possibly be bound by the conceptual 'laws' of the phenomenal world.

Ok then, we disagree. If LOA is a universal law - and it is - then EVERYTHING is subjected to it. I really don't feel inspired to explain all of the reasoning about why I don't agree with you. I was just inspired to deliver the original message. Hopefully, others will see it and it will help them if they need a nice simple explanation.

[Reefs]

Originally Posted by arpee

Ok then, we disagree. If LOA is a universal law - and it is - then EVERYTHING is subjected to it. I really don't feel inspired to explain all of the reasoning about why I don't agree with you. I was just inspired to deliver the original message. Hopefully, others will see it and it will help them if they need a nice simple explanation.

You don't have to explain it. There is more to the story, that's all I wanted to say. You see yourself as a focusing/thinking mechanism and part of the universe and therefore subject to LOA. But when you fall into dreamless deep sleep, where is the universe? Where are you? Where is LOA?

[Cantando]

Originally Posted by arpee

The most important thing that most people forget is that Law Of Attraction is simple and is responding to your emotion - so happiness should be your one and only goal.

Arpee, I agree with most of your post, but I'm not so sure about having a specific goal of happiness.

How can you 'attract' happiness? Is it an object external to you? Do you dangle the right bait on your line to attract it?

If there is a goal of happiness, I see it as just rediscovering one's inner joy of living. It is within you, it is you, not something external which can be found or attracted using L0A.

I really don't think you can plot happiness using the LoA belief of, 'Well, if I do x, y and z, I'm going to get lots more of x, y and z'.

[arpee]

Originally Posted by Cantando

Arpee, I agree with most of your post, but I'm not so sure about having a specific goal of happiness.

How can you 'attract' happiness? Is it an object external to you? Do you dangle the right bait on your line to attract it?

If there is a goal of happiness, see it as just rediscovering your inner joy of living. It is within you, it is you, not something external which can be found or attracted using L0A.

And this is the problem with a lot of people using LOA, they see it as a way to attract "stuff" instead of a spiritual universal law.

Be happy, and you'll attract more happiness in your life. If you aren't happy, you aren't focusing properly. You can always find your way back to happiness without depending on external things (family, cars, moneys, whatever)

[Cantando]

Originally Posted by arpee

Be happy, and you'll attract more happiness in your life.

If you already are happy, you wouldn't have a desire for more happiness so you wouldn't attract it.

[arpee]

Originally Posted by Cantando

If you already are happy, you wouldn't have a desire for more happiness so you wouldn't attract it.

The law of attraction attracts by your vibration. If you are happy, it'll bring you more happiness.

[Cantando]

Originally Posted by arpee

The law of attraction attracts by your vibration. If you are happy, it'll bring you more happiness.

So, are you saying that whatever your current vibration is, you will attract more of that, regardless of whether there is any desire present to have more?

[pianoperformer]

For me, it seems to not matter what I am feeling necessarily, but I am always shocked by how wonderfully things work out, and usually at the last moment. It seems to be independent of my feeling.

However, the positive aspect to this is that I've completely stopped worrying about things. I realize that it is going to be worked out either way, so it is pointless to worry. And, quite often without having to do much, it is resolved outside of my own control.

I don't know if I'm always ridiculously happy, but I'm optimistic and confident that things will work.

[Reefs]

Originally Posted by pianoperformer

For me, it seems to not matter what I am feeling necessarily, but I am always shocked by how wonderfully things work out, and usually at the last moment. It seems to be independent of my feeling.

Things and events are building up over time. So if you are focused on preventing some deadly disease over the course of a few months you might be happy for a week and still catch the disease. You usually aren't that strong a focuser to change the course of evens instantaneously. So was that week of happiness useless? No, it couldn't change the negative momentum, but it probably could slow it down significantly so that you won't have to be hospitalized but just eat some pills and in a day or two it's over. Whereas if you would have been depressed instead of happy that whole week, you would have added to the already negative momentum and the results would be more severe. You might spend a week or two in hospital.

Feelings just show you the direction you are going. And when you are CONSISTENTLY feeling good over a long period of time it's less and less likely that negative stuff happens. But if you are only feeling good from time to time and the negative stuff is as active as the positive stuff, then anything can happen.

However, the positive aspect to this is that I've completely stopped worrying about things. I realize that it is going to be worked out either way, so it is pointless to worry. And, quite often without having to do much, it is resolved outside of my own control.

I don't know if I'm always ridiculously happy, but I'm optimistic and confident that things will work.

It would be helpful to define what 'happy' really means. If you've spent your entire life on the edge of depression then being bored must feel like happy. I don't think that what people mean with 'happy' has a consistent quality.

You can feel happy that you only got wet and not run over by a car in the rain, but still you are wet and that's not what you wanted. So I'd say that being 'happy' how it is used in LOA is a conditional thing.

[jeff3]

I have experienced times when things went just like the original post said, "feel happy and attract more reasons to be happy", and I believe it is a factor in the LOA, especially in a passive sense, but when we try to attract specific things it is only part of the equation..

Behind most desires there hides another desire and when followed far enough back the basic desire is a feeling...not a thing. So ultimately we get things to feel a certain way, for many people that desire is to "feel happy". When they lock into that vibration, however they choose to, they will attract more things to make them happy. It's worth mentioning that as we become aware of and develop beliefs and expectations about this it become more pronounced.

Feeling gratitude works in the same way, enumerating things you are grateful for generally elicits feelings of gratitude, which attracts more things to be grateful for, as your skills in this area gets better you learn to be grateful for things that are "on the way" which hastens their arrival.


My experience tells me the "feeling" aspect is important and useful...but not exclusive. Many other factors are at work creating our lives, certainly some we are not aware of yet, but many we are. Belief, expectancy, the spoken word, symbols and the unconscious mind, egregores, gods, and spiritual entities to name a few.