Attraction - Does it Take Work, or Do Things Come Automatically?

Work is a funny thing. My friend Frank will sit at his desk all week shuffling papers, and griping about how hard his job is. Then he'll go out hunting or fishing with his buddies and expend far more energy than he ever does at the office, all in the name of having fun.

So this Law of Attraction stuff, will it take work? That may be the wrong question. For now, let's just say it'll take effort.

If you hate doing inner work, it'll be an odious chore that you'll avoid most of the time. On the other hand, if you love meditating, ASSERTing or affirming and enjoy all the time you spend building your dreams, it'll be a pleasure to you.

In fact, if you've really understood what this series of articles is about, wild horses probably won't be able to pull you away from your inner-work sessions.

You may have read in the past that your programming or affirmations will bring the object of your goals to you automatically and effortlessly. I've even written a few things similar to this myself. However, it's important that you understand promises like this within the proper context.

So let's take this question head-on. When you're doing your inner work "properly," does life 222Dbecome effortless? Are the objects of your requests all handed to you without any physical effort on your part?

In the occasional wonderful case, yes. In most cases, no.

So what good is all this stuff, then? If we're investing oceans of time and get nothing special in return, then why bother?

Because there's more to success than bank balances, and there's more to work than calories expended.

My friend Frank and his buddies happily inconvenience themselves and work extremely hard having fun on a fishing trip. What do they get out of it? Sometimes they don't bring back a single fish, but they always swear they had tremendous fun.

What, then, is success? And why should you go to all this trouble trying to "make the Universe bring it to you"?

Fair question. But it's based on a misunderstanding. It's true that the Universe will sometimes bring you pleasant surprises and help you forward toward your goals in unexpected ways. But you're not doing all that affirming, ASSERTing and programming to make the Universe do anything. You're doing it to change the foundational stuff in your own mind.

When you affirm, program or ASSERT, you're feeding new data about reality into your own mind, to shift your own fundamental beliefs about yourself and about how the world around you works.

In other words, Law of Attraction work changes you, not the Universe. However, the Universe will automatically begin responding differently to you once you have formed those new beliefs at a deep enough level.

And that's where the real power of Attraction work is found.

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Norman Vincent Peale