Starting from ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne, all the other self improvement books which I read talks about ‘Law Of Attraction”. Until starting off this pandemic, I did not even know or heard about this. But after reading ‘The Secret’, I was fascinated by this idea. Don’t know whether it is coincidence or so called attraction, all the other books , one or the other way talks about it. Maybe they use different name but it’s there as a core principle.

Let me tell you a story first.

Iliya was a girl who had fear for everything.But she was always very ambitious child. Due to her fear, whatever she approaches had adverse effect. Inspite of constant help from parents and teachers, she could not get good marks in exams. Teachers labelled her as unworthy child and she also felt she is worthless. Iliya loved walking in the garden and walk beside the nearby brook. During one of her walks, She saw an old man. The girl noticed an unusual charisma on his face. Later she came to know that the old man is a famous writer and a traveller.It was one of his such travel in her town and was there only for short period of time. Soon they became friends. The old man shared many life lessons to her and she felt as her fears are fading away by listening to those. As they became close, Iliya expressed the actual problem that she is going through in her life. After hearing the young girl’s problem, the old wise man decided to help her. It was his last day in her town. At the time of adieu, he handed a white shiny pebble and told her, “This is a magic stone and by holding this, whatever you wish you will get it, but with following conditions.

1. First and for most you should have faith in the magic stone. Once you wish something by holding this in hand, you should not have any doubt on achieving that.
2. Whatever you ask should be specific, achievable and a time bound to it.Let’s say if your wish is to get a nice gift from someone, be specific about what gift, from whom you are expecting and on what date or month etc.“

She was pleased to have the magic stone. The old man continued, “In order to fulfil any wish, Every morning as soon as you get up and each night before you go to bed, hold this magic stone and make the wish. Once you make the wish, with a feel of gratitude towards whatever you have in life, visualise that as you already achieved. Feel the same joy that you would have if you had achieved the wish”. She was sad as he bid bye, but also happy as she had her magic stone with her. The girl wanted to test the magic stone on her way back, but by remembering the first condition, she kept the magic stone safely in her pocket.

As the old man advised, Iliya made the wishes every morning and night. And also continued her visualisation. One of her wishes was to get good marks in exams and the following exams at school she happened to score the same marks that she had wished. Teachers were astonished at her achievement. Iliya understood the power of visualisation and realised how subconscious mind is treating her imagination as real and how it helped her achieving her goals.She held a smile on her face as she realised that the magic stone does not really hold any power and the power actually relies in her mind. Iliya realised now that the fear is something that we create and with the following various negative emotions and corresponding body behaviour etc, people starts feeling it as real. Iliya felt grateful for the old man for making her realise the fact.

I was trying to make you understand what is Law of attraction through this story. So Law of Attraction is nothing but the Law of universe and it states “In what we put our focus really on, is what we actually become or get in life”. Those of who want to know more about it can grab the book “The secret” and start reading. Here let me tell you how I apply in my life.

Before I begin I must stress on think positive stay positive and breath positive. Otherwise nothing is going to work. If your dominant thought is negative then you have to start manage or convince your mind to think positively. This is where everybody is going to lose and think that applying law of attraction is difficult and give up.

After this pandemic began our ‘new Normal’ was not so easy at the beginning and now somewhat we learn to adapt this ‘new Normal’. So here is how I applied and positively adapted the new normal. Starting the day itself, I feel grateful for the things that I already have and also convince my mind that today is a fresh and yet another beautiful day. During the day whatever difficult situation is on my way or whenever any negative emotion hits, I consciously convince my mind to think positively. For example, let’s say we have difficulty to get along with someone, what most of the people often does is constantly think negative about the situation and what happens ultimately is that we go completely against that someone day after day. isn’t it? Here is how you have to twist the situation if you want law of attraction to work. Try visualising everyday for what we expect our end-result to be. So for the above mentioned scenario if that someone is your boss, try imagining that you are having a great boss and having a wonderful time at work. If you truly put faith on this, maybe the current boss may change or you yourself may change the team or organisation. So when visualising don’t think about about “HOW”. When you start visualising the things or situation you want as you got already, the magic starts working. I swear this because I am talking from my experience. I have shared other family and friends with the same tip and it feels so nice when they come back and says me, “Yes, it is true and it has changed my perspective of life”.

Seeing is believing: The law of attraction can be applied for anything that you want such as health, money, relationship, career etc. With visualisation what happens is the subconscious mind starts believing that it has happened already and unknowingly it makes you behave like the way you visualise. This gives high self esteem to achieve anything we want in life. While visualising, you need to be specific on your end result. Let’s say if you want promotion, be specific about the role, when you want your promotion and think that you’re already in that role.

So visualisation and keeping faith on the universe for what you want is the key here.

“Visualisation is more important than knowledge – Albert Einstein”

For any situation, there is always choice to be made. One choice is to think negative and have fears, anxiety and have a feel that the life is full of problems. The other choice is to think positive and enjoy the path of life by being in the present. The choice is with us.

Be the change and be positive!