I have a tolerate/hate relationship with the Law of Attraction – I do NOT love it at all. I tolerate the idea of it – that what you think about, you attract. I can understand why people believe this – confirmation bias is strong. And, all the talk about the law of attraction supports this.

However, I think that the popular portrayal of the law of attraction is harmful. I feel that believing that you attract what you think is EXTREMELY harmful. People who have had horrible things happen to them are NOT at fault. It was NOT because they thought the wrong thing. Sometimes, fucked up things happen, and sometimes they happen to the best people, and sometimes they happen to the worst people.  And I think that the law of attraction, as it is portrayed, does not allow for this, and I think it does a disservice to people because of it.

I personally think it’s a lot simpler than that – what you think, you pay attention to. 

We have the ability to recognize opportunities to improve our lives, but it’s a lot easier to recognize them if we have to have the right mindset. Having a negative perspective of the world means that we mostly see the negative in the world. Having a positive perspective means that we mostly see the positive. Having an eye for opportunity means that we see it all around. Thinking that only certain people get opportunities means we may not see them if they danced in front of us. Do some people have things easier than others? Yes, of course, and we’d be fools to think otherwise. We all know of people who made it big because of their family’s wealth or connections. Does that mean that things can never be easy for us, or others that are not “those people”? Absolutely not. We all know of people who started with literally nothing, or very little, and made it big. Some of it is luck, true. Random chance can definitely be a factor. But for most, a lot of that “luck” and “chance” is seeing or making opportunities and acting on them. 

That was my perspective while writing the Law of Attraction affirmations.