Of course, it does.
And everybody is always using it whether they realize it or not. But how can
you make it work for you? That can be a challenge. Yet a little study and a
little practice, and you can do it.
For example, everybody has experienced that, when they buy a
car, they start noticing the same make, model and color on the road everywhere.
That’s the Law of Attraction working on a very fundamental level. This basic
instance is simply your mind being focused on – pleased with – your new
purchase. So, your eyes become vigilant to see what you are meditating on. Yes,
you are meditating: You are thinking and feeling positive about this object.
So, you see it everywhere.
The same thing happens when you apply the Law of Attraction
consciously. You think about some object or circumstance, and you feel the wonder
of it as though it already exists; and pretty quickly you start noticing little
instances of that object or circumstance. That can grow into the reality of it
appearing into your life.
Fundamentals
How does that work? It’s the story of physics. (Not the math
and science of physics. The story of physics.) Once you understand this,
you’ll understand how to make the Law of Attraction work for you.
The universe is filled with energy: The universal energy field.
It’s everywhere, in everything; and even exists in the emptiest parts of outer space.
Energy is always vibrating, waving, flowing, spiraling, and spinning in
vortexes. These vortexes naturally pair up in double helixes (the shape of DNA).
The forces inside the double helix sucks energy down its middle and concentrates
it. Concentrated energy becomes matter. Now, that’s simplistic, but it’s a
story of explanation, not science.
Now, let’s shift perspective from the fantastically vast to
the inconceivably small. Scientists have been teasing out and identifying the tiniest
particles, called quantum particles. These are the particles that make up the
protons, neutrons and electrons in an atom. Quantum particles are so small
that, if one was the size of your index finger, the energy field surrounding it
would extend all the way out past Jupiter. It takes three of these particles to
make a proton, and three more to make a neutron. These things are tiny!
But more to the point, they take up vast amounts of space by
virtue of their energy fields, which are empty of matter except for the
miniscule particle. That’s a lot of space. You probably heard your teacher talk
about how an atom is mostly space. When we touch a table or chair, it is
actually just the energy fields resisting each other. They’ll tell you that we
don’t really exist, because we’re more than 99.99999% space. But I want you to
realize that all that space is filled with energy.
The entire universe is full of energy, including the energy
that makes you. And the energy is always moving. You were expecting certainty?
There is no certainty. Everything changes all the time.
Now, that brings us to meditation. We do meditation to help
us recognize that there is no certainty. The point is that, we create mental
constructs about what we think is real, so that we can have something firm to understand.
But that is all illusion. We are energy beings, and energy is always flowing
through us and around us and between us.
Some masters will tell you that nothing is real. This is why
they say that. At its most fundamental, the physical part of reality is virtually
non-existent. Reality is a vast amount of space filled with energy. You need to
contemplate this for the next nine months to just get a clue as to how fluid
and uncertain reality is. Just give up all your expectations and thoughts and
feelings about thoughts. Empty yourself of all mental constructs and illusions.
Vacate the lie that the universe is physical. The physical part is
insignificant compared to how much energy there is.
So, that’s the first part of this: Belief. You can believe
in a physical universe, or you can learn to work with the Law of Attraction,
which is all about energy. Energy moves to create circumstances. Energy
condenses to become matter. Matter is energy. E = mc2.
Next Step
Once we are empty of preconceptions, expectations, thoughts
and emotional junk – once we are empty – then we need to understand the nature
of our energy being.
For more than 300 years now, our culture has formed around Isaac
Newton’s version of a physical world, where objects are separate from each
other and bounce off of each other like billiard balls. With the advent of
quantum physics, we now realize that everything is made out of vibrating
energy. As the famous theoretical physicist Richard Feynman said, “Everything
jiggles.”
Energy condenses to create matter, but it is still basically
vibrating energy. Since all matter is vibrating within a universal energy field,
it is sending out waves into the field. Our bodies are doing the same thing,
and even our brains and hearts are sending waves into the aether around us. The
HeartMath Institute in California has done research that shows the brain and
the heart each produce a certain amount of energy in the form of an
electromagnetic field.
“The heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in
the body,” according to HeartMath Institute Director of Research Rollin McCraty.
“The electrical field as measured in an electrocardiogram (ECG) is about 60
times greater in amplitude than the brain waves recorded in an
electroencephalogram (EEG).”
The heart, like the brain, generates a powerful
electromagnetic field, according to McCraty. HeartMath studies show this
powerful electromagnetic field can be detected and measured several feet away
from a person's body and between two individuals in close proximity.
You may have noticed this when you’ve been alone in a room,
and suddenly, you realize – without seeing or hearing anything – that another
person has entered the room. The human body generates an electromagnetic field
that interacts with others. That human field is energy extending feet beyond the
skin. You extend beyond your skin.
In meditation, we can calm our brain and heart down to the
point where we can sense this energy flowing through and around us. However, this
high state of sensitive awareness is not the most astounding thing.
In fact, the Coptic
Gospel
of Thomas refers to this single-mindedness of unifying the brain and heart:
“Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and
when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and
the above like the below, … a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you
enter the kingdom. (verse 22) " Also, see verses 48 and 106.
The idea behind the Law of Attraction is that, by bringing
the heart and brain – feelings and thoughts – into a singular energy, human
beings can broadcast energy waves that interact with the universal energy field.
This creates a form or a coherent pattern for whatever we desire. That consciously
held, coherent pattern then naturally draws the object or circumstance of
matching energy frequency into our life.
You have experienced this unifying of brain and heart when
you have “connected” with a person across the room. Human beings have been
doing this unconsciously from ancient times without really realizing what we
were doing. Now, we do so consciously with practice, with a pretty good idea of
how we form our life – our circumstances – by holding our singular desire, by interacting
with each other to magnify the energy, and painting that pattern in the universal
energy. Amazing!
– Christopher Aune