Every Thought and Feeling Attracts Like
Like attracts like – whether you believe in the Law of Attraction or not.
The past couple of weeks have been personally rough for me.
The air conditioner in my car is not working – and we’re having an ongoing heatwave. A plan for additional financial stability fell through. I got to take a literal and metaphorical guilt trip that took up a lot of mental energy. A nerve pinch in my hand forced me to stop fencing mid-practice. My book sales are flat. A message thanking certain people for contributions that I also made excluded me.
All of these, in the grand scheme of things, aren’t terribly important. But compounded together over 2 weeks, they have taken a toll. As such, I’ve been contending with numerous negative emotions, unhappy thoughts, and a general sense of anger, ire, and annoyance.
That, in turn, feeds my depression and stirs my fears. Before me, a chasm has opened – and if I stare down into it I know it will swallow me whole.
All the present situations created new bridges to past experiences, happenings, and matters that were not the best. If I allow this to go on, I will be facing an intense period of self-pity, self-recrimination, and land in a depressive cycle.
If I allow this to go on. The choice belongs to me. Years of similar experiences have taught me this. Thus, I know what I must do to prevent the downward spiral.
Because I know full-well that every thought and feeling attracts like.
The Law of Attraction in action
A lot of people get caught up in the hype of the idea of the Law of Attraction. More specifically, the hooky-spooky, mumbo-jumbo make-or-break concept spouted by gurus, self-help maestros, and the like.
Similar to the Law of Gravity, the Law of Attraction works whether you believe in it or not. Disbelieve in gravity, you don’t fall off the face of the planet. The same applies to the Law of Attraction. But the form this takes is so simple that it’s easy to mislabel.
One negative thought or feeling can, unchecked, draw in another. Then another. And then another. Before too long, you’re in a downward spiral and either heading for a mental and/or emotional breakdown, fighting depression, anxiety, and the like.
Some people, chemically, are more prone to this than others. Hence, you get into therapy and take SSRI medications and the like to help balance the chemical matters.
Everyone, however, can use practical mindfulness to be consciously aware of your thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions. That conscious awareness, in the here and now, empowers you to recognize where your mindset/headspace/psyche self is at – and whether that’s positive or negative.
Being mindful allows you to see if you are on a downward spiral or an upward one instead. When you are not mindful of your thoughts and feelings – and shit is happening in your life that is compounding negatives – you tend to find and/or create more negatives. That’s the Law of Attraction in action.
Everyone experiences how like attracts like
I would be surprised if you have never had the following happen to you:
Something unexpected happened. Or an expected thing didn’t happen. That made you feel bad, which made you think negatively. Something about yourself gets blamed or noticed for ongoing discrepancies – which then draws in more negative thoughts and feelings. Something else outside of your control goes poorly, and that reinforces the ongoing negative thoughts and feelings. Another past memory comes to the surface of fault of failure on your part – and eventually, you can barely get out of bed in the morning or speak without tremendous anger or frustration.
You may not think of the above as the Law of Attraction in action. But it is. That’s how it works.
And YOU have the power to change it.
While outside influencers can and will impact your thoughts and feelings – that impact and its aftermath are under your control. You can choose to use practical mindfulness to examine the negativity – and then find and/or create positivity to counter it.
This is where I find myself today.
How I am countering a downward spiral
I’ve spent a lot of the last two weeks angry, annoyed, irked, frustrated, and full of self-pity and self-loathing. It’s been in fits and spurts – but overall, the like is attracting like, and it’s not getting better.
Why isn’t it getting better? Because I’m not practicing practical mindfulness. So, the negativity is taking root in my subconscious, dredging up old feelings and thoughts of inadequacy, and leaving me distressed and depressed.
The starting point in turning this around is Identifying and recognizing this for what it is. Since I’m the only one inside my head, I’m the only one who can see and fix this.
How do I fix this? I need to change what I am feeling so that like attracts like that I desire to experience.
These follows are the steps I am employing to do so.
Stop and take stock
What has happened? How did this all come to pass? Why? Where do I go with it? These questions – and others like them – will tell me precisely where I am, here and now. Here and now is the only time and place that matters.
Recognize and acknowledge
With our society so hell-bent to blame, recognition and acknowledgment need to be active. Passive tends to stay hidden. This is especially true of our own thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions. Recognizing the issues and acknowledging them allows me to be accountable to and for them. That, in turn, empowers me to alter them.
Breathe and meditate
Pausing to breathe deeply as I examine what’s happening in my head allows me, at this moment, to gain control over my thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions. When I take the time to meditate on this, I’ll be more able to address, replace, and restore the underlying issues.
Seek and/or find positivity
Jen Sincero talks about applying the phrase, “this is good because…” to any negative situation or experience. Thus, you find and/or create positivity to change the overall place you are at. Very little happens to us that cannot teach us lessons. Note that some are more obvious than others.
Practice practical mindfulness
Knowing that I am on the cusp of a downward spiral, I need to choose. Decide to allow the spiral to take me down – or choose to look up and pull myself out of this chasm. Practical mindfulness practices allow me to seek and find where I am truly at – and assume control to shift my mindset/headspace/psyche.
I know from past experiences that if I don’t decide to make new choices, like will attract like – and down I will go. Even though I’ve begun to spiral down, I have all the power to alter, reverse and change this for the better.
It’s a matter of shifting mindset/headspace/psyche from negativity to positivity via mindful, conscious awareness – here and now.
Every thought and feeling attracts like
I believe in the Law of Attraction. Thus, I know full well that if I don’t shift my mindset/headspace/psyche – actively – I’m going to wind up somewhere I’d prefer not to.
It is NEVER too late to change direction.
I’m going to actively work to take these steps,
- Stop and take stock
- Recognize and acknowledge
- Breathe and meditate
- Seek and/or find positivity
- Practice practical mindfulness
This empowers me to take control so that the like I attract is positive and helpful rather than negative and unhelpful.
Consciousness creates reality. Like attracts like.
I’ve done this before – I can do this now. And if you have similar negativity happening in YOUR life – you can do this, too.
Recognizing how like attracts like isn’t hard
It begins with mindfulness of your thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions.
Knowing that every thought and feeling you have can be altered and controlled via practically applied mindfulness, you can recognize how like attracts like and redirect your mindset/headspace/psyche when it’s negative. When you recognize that this is within your control – and you can choose to find and/or create positivity in the face of negativity – that ultimately empowers you.
When you feel empowered, your mindfulness increases, you become more aware overall, and that gets reflected and spreads to more people. This creates a feedback loop of awareness and positivity. A feedback loop we can all take part in.
Then, we build more positive feelings and discover further reasons to feel positivity and gratitude. That can be the impetus to improve numerous aspects of our lives for the better, help overcome the overwhelming negativity of any current situation, and generate yet more positivity and gratitude.
You, me, and everybody are worthy and deserving of all the good we desire.
An attitude of gratitude is an attitude of pure positivity. That positivity can generate even greater positive energies – and that is always worthwhile.
This is the three-hundred and eighty-eighth entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog, and spread the positivity.
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