Building Wealth: What Abundance Gurus Don't Tell You About the Law of Attraction2

By: Molly Gordon
WHEN A LEVER IS JUST A STICK IN THE MUD
The Law of Attraction magnifies your intentions and actions to produce significant change just as leverage amplifies a relatively small force to produce a relatively large result.

Investors use leverage when they borrow money in the expectation that the rate of return will exceed the cost of the loan, thus making it possible to generate earnings even when they don't have the cash for an investment.

In mechanics, leverage is produced when you push down on the long end of a stick resting on a fulcrum so that the short end moves upward with great force.

In physics and metaphysics, no fulcrum = no leverage. If you can't repay a loan, you won't profit from borrowing money. Push on a stick without a fulcrum, and, at best, you sink the stick in the mud.

If you rely on the Law of Attraction to produce results without grounding your vision in current reality, no amount of positive thinking or visualization will be sufficient to get what you want.

Reality is the fulcrum without which the lever of attraction is useless.

POWER WITHOUT TRACTION EQUALS SPIN OUT
If you've ever hit the gas when driving on a wet or icy road, you know that adding power when you don't have traction results in loss of control. You can go fast, but without traction you have no control over where you are going.

Similarly, when you use affirmations and positive thinking to ramp up your energy without being firmly rooted in acceptance of What Is, you will spin your wheels every time.

Accepting -- even loving -- Reality is where the rubber meets the road. It is the key to traction.

THE POWER OF ATTRACTION STARTS WITH LOVING WHAT IS
Accepting yourself and reality here and now is the missing piece of the attraction puzzle, but how do you do that? What if you find yourself devoutly wishing that someone would just put you away so you won't have to deal with yourself for a while? (Or am I the only one who feels that way sometimes?)

When the truth is that you don't like the way things are, then that's the place to begin your practice of acceptance. Stop. Look. Listen to yourself. Make room for the uncomfortable thoughts and beliefs that you are so eager to get rid of.

There's a lovely story of the Tibetan saint, Milarepa. One day he was meditating in front of his cave when the demons of anger, greed, and fear arose before him. They were truly horrible being, and the sounds they made were gut wrenching.

Rather than push them away, Milarepa invited the demons in for tea. One by one they entered his cave, and in the light of his clear regard, they dissolved.

Finally, only one demon remained, the most terrifying of them all. It roared and howled, and far from dissolving, it grew. At last, Milarepa stood and bowed, baring his neck and thrusting his head between the demon's fangs. As he breathed in the sulfurous stench of the creature's breath, Milarepa whispered, "Teach me your pain."

When your own demons howl in protest at what is, when doubts assail you and you feel like divorcing your sweet self, it's time for tea and radical surrender.

Are you still with me? I hope so, because here's the magic formula that restores balance to the Law of Attraction. Acknowledge, accept, and question (not argue with) your stressful thoughts. Sit in the answers that arise from within.

How do you do that? The best way I know is The Work® of Byron Katie. The Work is a direct route to acceptance, and from acceptance, creative ambition can't help but flower.

Molly Gordon is a renowned business coach. Read her articles to reinvent the relationship between money and you, and find out how to use the power of positive thinking for building wealth.

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