Many of you are familiar with the law of attraction. It has many formulations:
- like attracts like,
- thoughts are material,
- the external is a reflection of the internal,
- the universe is our mirror.
The meaning is the same — if you want improvements in life, find what needs to change within, and everything will come true.
But why doesn’t this law always work? You change internally, but nothing happens externally.
The law of attraction works under certain conditions.
In this article, we will examine three levels of reality in which the law of attraction operates, as well as the reasons that hinder its effect.
Three Levels of Reality of the Law of Attraction’s Operation
To understand why the law of attraction does not always work in your life, let’s break down the levels at which it operates.
This will help determine which stage you are currently at and what is needed to master the skill of applying this law in your life.
Level One — Hope
The task of this stage is to get used to the idea that your thoughts materialize.
You are only just allowing the possibility that by shifting to positive thinking, you can frame your own reality.
At this level, the greatest emotional turbulence and anxiety occur, because your desires still contain fear, need, anger, and sometimes excitement, admiration, hope that everything will finally change.
You take two steps forward, and then roll back one step.
You are thrown back to stereotypical behavior, to the familiar routines you have followed year after year.
At the same time, your life is already beginning to change gradually at this stage.
In the infographic, we identified the specifics of your actions at the level of hope.
At this level, the action of the law of attraction is not very noticeable.
Small manifestations occur, but where real changes are needed, there are no big results, because there is still no confidence that you deserve it.
As soon as you begin to actively apply the knowledge you have gained in life, you gradually gain confidence that you are actually capable of changing your reality.
And then from the level of hope you move to the level of faith.
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Level Two — Faith
At this level, an internal 100% confidence appears that you can get what you desire.
You switch from the mind, from mental affirmations, to a deeper level, into the heart. Feeling turns on.
At this stage, you already see the difference between what you wanted to get and what you have now, and you understand that you need to take certain steps to achieve what you desire.
The reason the law of attraction slows down at this level is resistance.
You want bigger changes in life, but at the same time you resist. Because in those areas where these changes are necessary, emotional pain and trauma are hidden.
You reach a certain threshold where you need to prove to yourself that you deserve the life you are asking for.
Many perceive these obstacles as a blow — “I am not worthy” — and turn back. This indicates a lack of knowledge about what exactly you need.
If you have a need inside that is aligned with your higher purpose, it will inevitably be realized.
But it requires you to use your right to choose to insist that it happens.
This means you must remove doubts about whether you deserve to receive it.
When the feeling of your own worth is born from within, you begin to express it in life. Then faith emerges.
We invite you to go through the meditation My Worth, during which you will be able to forgive yourself and others, and accept your mistakes and errors.
You will feel new vibrations, see what your value and uniqueness are, which will spur you to express them in your real life.
How the law of attraction works at this level:
- In addition to the mental plane and affirmations, you engage other levels of perception: visualization, sensations. You learn to see your intention and feel it.
- Focus on joy or gratitude. The more often you maintain a state of pleasure and joy, the more energy appears to change your life qualitatively.
When a state of joy is present, your energetic vibration rises. The signal you send out into the world changes and, by the law of attraction, is attracted back.
If you have lost this state or cannot feel it, a completely different signal goes out into the universe, and something entirely different from what you want comes back.
- If at the first stage you were only planting the thought that what happens depends on your actions, then at this stage faith is strengthened that this is indeed the case.
Recommendation for strengthening faith
Keep a book of personal records, write down your desires and intentions there, and check them off or cross them out when they come true.
When you look into your book in a couple of months, you will see real proof that the law of attraction works and your dreams are coming true.
Level Three — Absolute Knowledge
You move to the third level already with the absolute knowledge that your intention is your birthright, that external reality reflects the internal one.
You do not HOPE, you do not BELIEVE in it — it simply MUST reflect the internal one.
At this level, synchronization works.
You only think about it, and circumstances begin to unfold: people are drawn in, things resolve themselves. Everything happens naturally, without effort.
The main condition for the law of attraction to work without fail is constant presence in the flow.
Catch moments of pleasure, appreciate the blessings you have.
Remember the moment when you were washing by hand, and suddenly an automatic washing machine appeared. How much the whole process was eased, freeing up time for other activities.
Recall this state of pleasure and gratitude – it solves everything. This is the key moment.
If you fall back, switch gears. Find your switching mechanism to avoid sinking.
The article Ways to Switch from Stress to Mindfulness will help you with this.
When you send an intention to the universe, be sure to use the two sayings we indicated in the infographic.
In the second stage, you learned to connect all levels of perception to attract what you want into your life.
Here, you already masterfully handle visualization, rely on sensations, and clearly formulate your intention.
You attune to the reality you want to be in and easily determine what you lack to get there.
You make adjustments to your behavior and thoughts and act, focusing on the goal.
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Why the Law of Attraction Does NOT Work
In what cases does the law of attraction NOT work?
There are three components that slow down or completely nullify the effect of this law:
1. Lack of Self-Love
Self-love is the golden key to making everything work.
It is a state of flight comparable to first love, when you adore your partner and pay no attention to their flaws.
For the law of attraction to work without fail, you must have the same attitude toward yourself — a state of bliss, of being high on yourself, regardless of what you have done or achieved.
Track situations where you do not accept yourself, compare yourself to others, deny yourself what you need, or believe you do not deserve better.
Self-love is the foundation upon which all other bricks are laid.
2. A large number of limiting beliefs
If you compare life to a multi-story building, at the very bottom is the basement, where old beliefs and negative programs are stored.
You can develop and rise up, but until you clean out that basement, you will constantly be thrown back to your old way of thinking.
If you free yourself from negative beliefs and heal your traumas, you will have nowhere left to fall, and the law of attraction will work at full strength.
See also: How to prescribe a new paradigm of thinking
6 steps that will help replace old beliefs with new, positive ones.
3. Blocks in the energy system
If the lower chakras are blocked, the body will not fully channel energy to manifest your desires.
The first chakra is specifically responsible for the physical embodiment of intentions into reality. It holds family and ancestral programs that need to be cleared.
For successful manifestation, it is necessary for the flow coming from the cosmos to pass through all energy centers without obstruction.
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We hope it is now clearer to you why the law of attraction sometimes does not work.
We wish you to master the skill of practical application of this law, thanks to which grand positive changes will enter your life.