Though many people don't think about it this way, the law of
attraction is really just another way to alter your habits. This is
because in order to make any real changes in your life you too have to
change-in fact, your changing is what'll cause the other elements to
change. And once things change, then you'll either be closer to or
further from your goal. In other words, to manifest things, you need to
alter yourself so as to be the kind of person who receives such
things-and though most of this change happens in your thoughts and
beliefs, you still need to change how you act (though some people think
of action as living out thoughts and beliefs, I see all three as
equivalent parts of one holistic system).
Everything in your life is a process, but by our age, we've forgotten most of what these processes do and what many of the processes are. For instance, try and think about how you type as you type-try to consciously push each key as you type rather than by thinking of the words you want written and letting your fingers go as you normally do. Or better yet, think about how you read as you read this-how do you know that that word is that word? Is that how that's spelled? I can completely dismantle my ability to read if I think too hard about this (and I can read in four languages). If neither of those jars you enough, try to consciously walk (be careful though as you could hurt yourself-so avoid dangerous areas) or consciously choose the words you want to say next. But almost everything in your life works this way, it's why you can space out while you're doing everyday tasks and "come back to the world" with everything finished and done well.
Once you're aware of these processes, you'll start to see that most things in your life are like this: just a habitual process, as if your body is on autopilot. And the funny thing about these habitual processes is that they're ritualized-you do them in the same ways every time expecting the same results. This also means that obsessive-compulsive disorder isn't a mistaken extra process, but rather just an overzealous version of a normal human process (as pretty much every psychological condition is... ).
Though this may be a bizarre way to think about your habits, it's actually very helpful if you think of your processes this way because then you're aware that each process is a magical ritual. Now, I know this will put the secular person up in arms (though, if you're reading this, you're probably at least a little open-minded about spirituality), but if you stop and think about it for a second, you'll see I'm right: everything you do is a magic ritual for something. For instance, you're reading this article (using the process of reading) for the magical purpose of uncovering hidden knowledge ("occult" means hidden; learning things is a major goal of magical rituals in magical texts, particularly in the Jewish and Egyptian traditions) about the law of attraction so you can then use it in your life (another magical ritual, whether you think of LOA as spiritual or as unconscious processes).
To be less abstract about it, think of it like this: everything you do has a purpose. You do things for a reason (sometimes, this reason is buried in your unconscious mind, but at least part of you knows what it is). Likewise, many behaviors have a "secondary gain" like a person who's chronically depressed and miserable, but also loves the ways her family coddles her because of her depression. Though, I don't mean that as an objective case-secondary gain is always specific to an individual and their life. Regardless of the purpose, however, every action has a purpose in mind. And the way that you go about trying to get your desire is your ritual.
Some people also have interesting ritualistic frameworks for their magical processes. By this, I mean that they impose rules on their processes that cause them to fail. For instance, the one that irritates me the most, "I'm just the kind of person... " The funny thing is that the people who sabotage themselves these ways don't actually drag themselves along to everything like they think they do like they believe they do. For instance, I have a friend who refuses to be nice to people because "that's just the way he is" and "if people want to know him, they need to just accept that". As you can imagine, his dating and social life is abysmal because he's a jerk to most people; however, the reason I keep him around as a friend is that he's not really like that, he's actually a deeply caring and giving friend-once you get to know him. His "just the way he is" isn't really how he is, it is only how he acts toward strangers and people he doesn't like (though he seems himself as this negative person, he only acts that way in certain circumstances). Nor does he act like this at work-he's a very talented and successful salesman.
I don't point this out to bash my friend (he wouldn't read this anyway as he's so secular), but to make a point to you: some people have parts of their rituals that sabotage them. What are these for you? If you take an honest look at the areas you're repeatedly failing in your life, you'll see these. Sometimes, if you're like my friend, the sabotage elements are tiny little things that can be switched around with a little thinking (like if my friend were to realize he's very rarely the person he thinks he is-a difficult feat I've failed at enumerable times).
However, many of us (myself), sabotage ourselves in a greater way: our rituals are for the purpose of misery, which is something we declare to be good while holding out for an impossible happiness to come with it. In other words, we do things with a self-sabotaging purpose in mind while calling it good. For instance, for a long time, I've been driven to date extremely broken people. And for the most part my magical rituals have been focused on making them the happy, beautiful person I see on the inside: an impossible goal as they've failed at it for years before meeting me. I expend much time and effort on this, just to be left with nothing and blamed for it at the end. So, while I could blame the other person for this, it's my fault for continuing to cast the same lousy spell without any clarification on my desire-in fact, if my desire was at all centered on me, I'd have a different set of experiences entirely.
I know this has been rather metaphorical, but I hope it rings a bell with you because if you take what I'm saying here seriously, then you can step back and ask, "What is the point of this spell I'm casting? How does it serve me?" etc. And once you can see these things clearly, all of life will become clearer...
Everything in your life is a process, but by our age, we've forgotten most of what these processes do and what many of the processes are. For instance, try and think about how you type as you type-try to consciously push each key as you type rather than by thinking of the words you want written and letting your fingers go as you normally do. Or better yet, think about how you read as you read this-how do you know that that word is that word? Is that how that's spelled? I can completely dismantle my ability to read if I think too hard about this (and I can read in four languages). If neither of those jars you enough, try to consciously walk (be careful though as you could hurt yourself-so avoid dangerous areas) or consciously choose the words you want to say next. But almost everything in your life works this way, it's why you can space out while you're doing everyday tasks and "come back to the world" with everything finished and done well.
Once you're aware of these processes, you'll start to see that most things in your life are like this: just a habitual process, as if your body is on autopilot. And the funny thing about these habitual processes is that they're ritualized-you do them in the same ways every time expecting the same results. This also means that obsessive-compulsive disorder isn't a mistaken extra process, but rather just an overzealous version of a normal human process (as pretty much every psychological condition is... ).
Though this may be a bizarre way to think about your habits, it's actually very helpful if you think of your processes this way because then you're aware that each process is a magical ritual. Now, I know this will put the secular person up in arms (though, if you're reading this, you're probably at least a little open-minded about spirituality), but if you stop and think about it for a second, you'll see I'm right: everything you do is a magic ritual for something. For instance, you're reading this article (using the process of reading) for the magical purpose of uncovering hidden knowledge ("occult" means hidden; learning things is a major goal of magical rituals in magical texts, particularly in the Jewish and Egyptian traditions) about the law of attraction so you can then use it in your life (another magical ritual, whether you think of LOA as spiritual or as unconscious processes).
To be less abstract about it, think of it like this: everything you do has a purpose. You do things for a reason (sometimes, this reason is buried in your unconscious mind, but at least part of you knows what it is). Likewise, many behaviors have a "secondary gain" like a person who's chronically depressed and miserable, but also loves the ways her family coddles her because of her depression. Though, I don't mean that as an objective case-secondary gain is always specific to an individual and their life. Regardless of the purpose, however, every action has a purpose in mind. And the way that you go about trying to get your desire is your ritual.
Some people also have interesting ritualistic frameworks for their magical processes. By this, I mean that they impose rules on their processes that cause them to fail. For instance, the one that irritates me the most, "I'm just the kind of person... " The funny thing is that the people who sabotage themselves these ways don't actually drag themselves along to everything like they think they do like they believe they do. For instance, I have a friend who refuses to be nice to people because "that's just the way he is" and "if people want to know him, they need to just accept that". As you can imagine, his dating and social life is abysmal because he's a jerk to most people; however, the reason I keep him around as a friend is that he's not really like that, he's actually a deeply caring and giving friend-once you get to know him. His "just the way he is" isn't really how he is, it is only how he acts toward strangers and people he doesn't like (though he seems himself as this negative person, he only acts that way in certain circumstances). Nor does he act like this at work-he's a very talented and successful salesman.
I don't point this out to bash my friend (he wouldn't read this anyway as he's so secular), but to make a point to you: some people have parts of their rituals that sabotage them. What are these for you? If you take an honest look at the areas you're repeatedly failing in your life, you'll see these. Sometimes, if you're like my friend, the sabotage elements are tiny little things that can be switched around with a little thinking (like if my friend were to realize he's very rarely the person he thinks he is-a difficult feat I've failed at enumerable times).
However, many of us (myself), sabotage ourselves in a greater way: our rituals are for the purpose of misery, which is something we declare to be good while holding out for an impossible happiness to come with it. In other words, we do things with a self-sabotaging purpose in mind while calling it good. For instance, for a long time, I've been driven to date extremely broken people. And for the most part my magical rituals have been focused on making them the happy, beautiful person I see on the inside: an impossible goal as they've failed at it for years before meeting me. I expend much time and effort on this, just to be left with nothing and blamed for it at the end. So, while I could blame the other person for this, it's my fault for continuing to cast the same lousy spell without any clarification on my desire-in fact, if my desire was at all centered on me, I'd have a different set of experiences entirely.
I know this has been rather metaphorical, but I hope it rings a bell with you because if you take what I'm saying here seriously, then you can step back and ask, "What is the point of this spell I'm casting? How does it serve me?" etc. And once you can see these things clearly, all of life will become clearer...
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Joshua Howard is life coach who specializes in law of attraction, NLP, and DHE.
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