The Law of Distraction
September 23rd, 2007 by John Wolfe
Consciously applying the law of attraction has been shown to yield amazing manifestations in the lives of those that believe in it and intentionally put it to work. But what about those individuals that understand attraction, yet can’t seem to break out of their habitually patterned negative thoughts?
Working with the law of attraction is a very simple concept to understand, however applying those easily understood concepts can sometimes be extremely difficult. This can be especially true after many decades of negative thought processes have taken root. As our negative inclinations become habitual, while accompanied by strong emotions, the physical manifestations in our lives will reflect this.
This entire process is internalized at a much deeper level within the psyche. Without realizing it, we can become walking talking magnets primarily for the very things that we are complaining about and hoping to avoid. Those habits can be difficult to break, even after learning about attraction.
This article is for those that know we are responsible for everything that enters into our lives, yet may still be having issues getting past ingrained negative thoughts. I place myself in this category because I have seen the positive physical changes, which have come into my life when I consciously apply law of attraction. But I still have many years of ingrained negative thought patterning that I sometimes find myself utilizing.
Working with my emotions to find feelings of relief is almost always the best way for me to approach these negative thoughts, however when that doesn’t seem to work I like to employ the technique of distracting myself. Although distraction is not considered a law like attraction, I believe it too is a powerful tool for conscious creation.
When our desires are brand new, we almost always initially set forth amazingly charged positive emotional intentions for achieving them. It’s only as time goes by that we may find ourselves slipping into our old thought patterns and worrying over when our intentions will manifest. These old ways of thinking are capable of disrupting our previously positive point of attraction.
If we could just leave our desires alone and not over-analyze them, time and again, the Universe would open doors for them to enter quickly into our lives. A great example of this situation, which I’ve applied in my own life, centers on matters of health.
I will sometimes find myself experiencing a negative bodily condition and the more I devote my attention to the ailment, the more pronounced the symptoms become- every single time. Even though I desire to feel better, my consistent attention to the ache or pain causes it to increase. This is a case of my attention to the current situation being more dominant than my desire for an improved condition.
I’m predominantly focusing upon what’s occurring instead of what I actually want to occur. Once I reach a point of being able to shift my attention to other subjects (that make me feel better) and keep my focus within those subjects for varying lengths of time, I begin to notice a decrease in my symptoms.
It can sometimes be extremely difficult to find a better feeling place about an ailment that affects our body, while we continue to think about our body. Distraction can be a powerful form of medicine in these situations. In many cases the best thing we can do is involve ourselves in other activities that completely remove our attention from the focus on the ailment.
Now you may be thinking,”but don’t we have to create the intention that we want to feel better and then hold on to it? What good will distraction do if we don’t adhere to the idea of feeling better?” If you can find the place of what it feels like to be experiencing wellness while you’re hurting, then that would be a great plan. Most people are not capable of hurting and disregarding their pain long enough to find the feeling of wellness and then hold onto it without interruption though.
It’s far easier for them to preoccupy themselves instead. Through distraction their vibration shifts away from the focal point of their illness or pain. They immediately set forth the intention to feel good as soon as they began feeling sick or started hurting and they will continue emanating that feeling throughout their illness.
But that feeling will not physically manifest if they continue to primarily focus upon the situation at hand. What they must now do is find a place to release the resistance that would prevent the wellness from making its way into their lives. And by removing their attention (through distracting themselves) from the ache, pain or illness, they are well on their way to allowing a “healing” to take place.
I’m not advising that people quit seeing their doctors. Doctors serve an important role. They can tend to our wellness through their own methods of distracting our attention. Many times their modalities of treatment work only because they cause us to focus on well being instead of on illness. My posts are not here to replace medical advice but rather they are here in the hopes that you can find your emotional point of well being as a form of preventative medicine, eliminating the need to rely on doctors to provide a distraction for you.
Of course matters of health are only one example of applying techniques for manifesting what we desire through distraction. Preoccupying ourselves can be used to calm or soothe every circumstance in our lives where we are not capable of finding a thought that feels better. Distraction does represent more of an action based decision than emotionally based, but through the action of distraction we are led to better feeling emotions.
Many people believe that to fully utilize the law of attraction they have to be consistently thinking of their desires all day long. This approach is fine, as long as those thoughts lean more toward expectation and anticipation than fear or worry about their desires manifesting.
But again, if we find ourselves in a place of doubt or negativity and reaching for emotional relief feels impossible, then distracting ourselves from the subject can be extremely beneficial. It’s far more beneficial than sitting in a negative emotional state while hoping to draw into our lives our hopes and dreams. If you find yourself struggling to release your negativity in certain situations, give the “law” of distraction a try, prior to returning to the subject that was throwing you off your game.
The key to becoming conscious positive creators is to find the best feeling emotions we can and I have consistently found that distraction will provide a means for doing that. Perhaps there is no better way to change what we look at, than to distract ourselves from it, eventually coming back to it from a much better feeling place. Remember what Wayne Dyer always says, “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
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