Most of those who haven’t had much success with the Law of Attraction or who haven’t tried to see if it works would have one pertinent question – does the law work?

And justifiably so. Why should one believe in an intangible law which claims to give you everything you want, unless one has experienced it? If the law would hold true, wouldn’t there be more people who have everything they want than the ones who don’t? What is the basis to believe this law works?

Some times people try for almost a year with no success at all. I was one of them. I was full of hope when I chanced upon my first book on the subject – The Silva Mind Control Method. The back of the book read something on the lines of “… people who have mastered the art of seeing in their mind what they want, and then, making it happen.” This line made my heart jump out of my body. I felt this was the elixir I had been looking for. I bought the book and headed home with a heart so full of joy as if I had already manifested my desire!

I read the book, word by word, internalizing every single idea. I didn’t want to miss out on a single concept. It took me a day to devour the content and that was the night I started my practice. My desire was firmly set in my mind. The goal in my head was clear as crystal. Her name was in my blood. She was the world I wanted for myself. A girl from my childhood I’d been crazy about for more than 5 years. I never had the courage to talk to her. But I knew that my love for her was supreme and I could keep her happier than anyone else could. And now I had found the key to make her mine!

Armed with the new found secret, I set to work. I started my visualization day and night, though ensuring not to block the energy by overdoing it. A few months passed by and she yet wouldn’t even look at me when we came across each other in college. But I was not going to give up on hope. I felt the law was so powerful that all it needed was a moment to make things happen. I knew it was planning, conspiring, to get us into the situation we couldn’t get out from. I thought maybe the law will make me save her from getting hit by a speeding car and I will get the much wanted breakthrough!

Well, a couple of years passed by and there was no change in our situation. I lost my faith in the law. Although by then I had already read a few more books like the Power of your Subconscious Mind, Creative Visualization, Think and Grow Rich etc. I wanted to believe it worked but wasn’t being able to. It was not working for me. I gave up the books, wrote a letter to her and walked right up to her one fine day. She refused to accept the letter and broke my heart. The game was over! Now there was no room for hope.

A few days later, I read something in one of these books – the Law only works when there’s mutual benefit for all concerned. You cannot influence someone’s free will by using the law. What it meant was that my intention was wrong but the Law was not.

I want you to read that part again slowly… “the Law only works when there’s mutual benefit for all concerned”… “my intention was wrong but the Law was not.” This marked a major turning point in my Law of Attraction journey. It was a huge mindset change I had to embrace.

Though I thought that I had wasted all my efforts in trying to master the Law of Attraction as it did not work, I did not realize that in the process, I developed my visualization skills, my ability to expect and my ability to concentrate!

But the greatest benefit of this ‘training’ period was that it taught me patience and discipline. I still could not believe that the Law of Attraction did not work, since I felt too let down after all the effort I had put in. But something deep down convinced me that this law holds and that I needed to continue believing. So all the work that I put in was not lost and this helped me greatly as I progressed further in putting the Attraction Law into work.

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