Like Attracts Like
The principle “like attracts like” is sometimes referred to as the law of attraction and affects all your energy, especially your thoughts. Even though you might not realize it, you think your thoughts, which means you…
The principle “like attracts like” is sometimes referred to as the law of attraction and affects all your energy, especially your thoughts. Even though you might not realize it, you think your thoughts, which means you choose your thoughts. They don’t just appear out of thin air.
A positive thought attracts the energy of more positive thoughts, just as a negative thought attracts the energy of more negative thoughts.
When you understand this insight and apply the principle, it will change your life for good. It demands that you become highly selective about where you place your focus, which is the first of the 3 Vital Questions®. The concern is that most people don’t realize that where they place their attention is a huge determining factor to what manifests in their life.
There is also science behind this principle. Your brain is activated by your focus and new baby neurons grow and start communicating together. Neurons that fire together, wire together. Therefore, the more you focus your attention, the more your neurons literally light up, transmitting your thoughts faster and with more clarity.
Like attracts like. Said another way, energy flows where your focus goes.
A colleague shared a metaphor that helps remind him of this principle. He pictures getting on an elevator knowing he has a choice about whether he is going up or down. He asks himself, “Am I focusing on who I am as a Creator?” If he affirms who he is, his positive energy arises, and he automatically pushes the up button, and his “inner” elevator goes up.
If he places his focuses on problems and the troublesome emotions and energies that arise from focusing on what he doesn’t want, he metaphorically pushes the down button and sinks into the Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT) and the roles of Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer.
With this image he knows he is always at choice. Whatever he gives his attention to expands, demonstrating the principle that like attracts like.
The mechanics of how this works are both common sense and a deep truth about the power of your conscious awareness. When you know how your system of creating works—when you really know it—then you can allow it to work for you. You commit to practice the principles of creating that operate behind the scenes of the human phenomena. Over time, consciously focusing your attention becomes an automatic practice. You accept that where you place your focus, your energy will follow and expand.
If you make no effort to focus your thoughts, distractions will take over and your thoughts will scatter from one moment to the next. In this fast paced and complex world, many people do not know what they are focusing on. And you, too, may go through your day, scrolling social media accounts, paying no attention to the thoughts you are thinking.
Once you understand that your energy flows where your focus goes, it is easier to take responsibility for focusing your attention on your inner world, rather than hoping things in your external world will make you happy.
One of the best questions to ask yourself to keep your focus on attracting what you want is to ask yourself, “Am I focusing on what I want over what I don’t want?” With that question you will activate the principle of like attracts like.
You have the power to create your own reality by choosing where to place your focus. And, yes, there are plenty of challenges at home, work, and the global society. And still, you have a choice about where you place your attention and where your energy flows, because, like attracts like.