I remember when I began reading books on spirituality in the late 80’s. The Law of Attraction seemed to be a part of many texts. When I furthered my education in the healing arts, I noticed that the paradigm set up around the Laws of Attraction left many of us in a depressed state. Simply put, if things weren’t going in the direction of your intentions, you were not doing something right in your life, or perhaps a prior incarnation was catching up to you. Below are some of my own perceptions….
It is said that everything we do happens for a reason.
I like to think that we can simply find ‘reason’ in everything we do.
Even if that reasoning finds us face to face with the unknown, the mystery behind our life story, the mystery behind our perceived identities in relation to heaven and earth.
It is said that people are put in our path for us to meet.
What if that purpose was not as individualized as we think it is?
What if those chance meetings were for a higher purpose we know nothing about? To bring about a healing effect for an individual on another continent, from a past generation or a generation to come? To influence a parallel reality?
Many take notice of those chance meetings that impact their lives with grand momentum but rarely do we take notice of the homeless person we pass on the streets, sheltering himself under his worn and dirty blanket to keep safe from the cold. Chance meetings like that do not happen unless we want them to. That homeless person is on the same path as the one who will help your dreams get accomplished. I find it interesting how we ourselves alter the law of attraction to avoid shadow and suffering at times. We initiate those chance meetings and experiences to ignite manifestations and positivity on our paths. If we struggle and suffer too much, then a thought comes that we are not in alignment. But what if the struggle is the alignment?
We are taught to raise our vibration by keeping company with those on a similar path.
I don’t recall Christ, Buddha, or any of the other mystics I have read about practicing spiritual bigotry.
I recall a myriad of stories where those who maintained a close spiritual relationship with the Divine kept company with Saints and much as sinners, criminals, the wretched, the ill, the indigent. Their vibrations were raised by the mere fact that they opened their hearts to love all of God’s children equally, forgiving their trespasses as they would want to be forgiven.
It is said that if you change your thoughts, then your desired intentions will follow suit.
I have always thought that if you changed your relationship to your thoughts, that you have just altered your destiny by creating space for something new to come into your life, even if that newness is inner peace amidst your suffering. We identify shift by a physical manifestation as opposed to an internal one. The teachings of the mystics have been lost lately to The Laws of Attraction furthering the understanding that changing one’s thoughts can equate to one’s intentions manifesting physically.
Yes, those people you allow into your life matter.
What is more important is how you hold space for yourself in those relationships.
It is said that if our life is so challenged this time around, perhaps we did something wrong in a prior one.
Really?
Our souls are fragments of other souls combined. Every time we reincarnate, we do so with threads of other souls and patterns within us. We all have good and evil within us, and we are all here regardless of intention to bring that good and evil into balance, embracing our humanity and Divinity until we reach the stillness the Divine intended.
When we focus so strongly on initiating those Laws of Attraction, we involve the ego and forget the humility needed to understand that our purpose is interconnected, our lives are interconnected, our lessons are interconnected. When we allow inclusivity of the Divine purpose, we actually do not have to focus on attracting things into our life as it will happen automatically the way the Divine intended.