“We don’t attract what we want, we attract what we are” – Unknown
This quote showed up on Twitter, posted by @loa_lover, a student of the Law of Attraction. It struck me as a very profoundly different way of saying what Abraham continually teaches us: if you don’t like what you’re attracting, change your vibration and attract something else!
A friend of mine who has multiple physical issues firmly believes that she couldn’t have attracted her conditions. She believes that her conditions are the result of outside forces and that she’s a helpless victim. According to her, if the Law of Attraction really worked, she’d be well because she wants to be well.
She’s not alone in her confusion about Law of Attraction. Many believe that if they want something badly enough, they can will it into existence, usually through action.
While persistence can result in the achievement of what one wants, it’s not the action that causes the result to manifest. It’s the change in vibration that takes place when one visualizes a goal and holds that vision clearly in front of them, trusting the Universe to provide the means to attain it.
The change in vibration causes the attraction of circumstances and events that are in harmony with the new vibration. Since we are vibration, any change in our vibration means a change in what we are. Because we attract according to our vibration, the key to attracting what we want is to match our vibration to what we want.
This means holding the vision and being the vision, or more precisely, matching our vibration to the vision.
Closing Your Gap
Around the first of this year, my wife talked me into ordering an identity theft prevention kit we saw featured on TV. It’s not something I generally concern myself with, but she insisted, reminding me that some years ago one of her credit cards was compromised and had to be cancelled and reissued. The price was good, so I ordered one for each of us.
A couple of nights later, before the package arrived at the house, I got an email from my bank. Not a phishing email, but a real alert that the bank had detected fraudulent activity on my ATM debit card. I called the 800 number in the email and confirmed that the transaction of which they were suspicious was indeed bogus. They cancelled my card and said they’d send a new one out right away. In the meantime, I was to stop by my local bank and get a temporary card so I could continue to use the ATM and make purchases until the new card arrived.
While I’m acquainted with a number of people to whom this sort of thing has happened, this was a first for me. We had the aforementioned experience with my wife’s card, but since then it’s been clear sailing until this little incident. More recently, an online payment processor with whom I have an account cancelled the debit card they’d issued because they “were notified that the card may have been compromised”, as they put it.
So, the question is: did I attract the credit card fraud by ordering the identity theft kit? After all, the Law of Attraction says we get what we think about, right?
While there’s no question I attracted it, as we all attract everything that’s in our lives at any given time, these events were in what Abraham calls my “vibrational escrow” long before the identity theft kit showed up on the tube. In other words, that’s a vibration that I’d had going on for a while and wasn’t aware of until it manifested.
It’s difficult to live in this world and interact with people without hearing about the hot topics of the day. If you’re at all aware, you’re going to be receiving what’s being broadcast even if you hardly notice it. My wife is constantly amazed at how much I absorb even though we don’t watch popular TV, nor listen to the radio except in the morning as our wake-up alarm. I don’t read the newspaper except to skim the sports and comic sections. I don’t surf the Net looking for news. In short, I have as little contact with popular culture as possible and yet I have a pretty good handle on what’s going on in the world.
It’s all about vibration. We are vibratory receivers and interpreters and the vibrations are being broadcast constantly. We receive the ones to which we’re most closely tuned, which is either the good news or the bad news depending on where you’re tuned at the moment.
In this case, I had allowed myself to be tuned to the Credit Card Fraud Channel, so to speak, long enough to develop a vibration around it that eventually manifested as two separate incidents. I simply need to clean up my vibration around that issue and I believe I have for the most part.
The lesson here is that we need to become aware of our vibrations and clean up the ones that don’t quite resonate as we’d like them to. This one wasn’t huge for me, so it’s not surprising it got by me. The manifestations were annoying, but hardly critical so it’s obvious the vibration wasn’t a big one.
We tend to notice the larger vibrational issues more, which makes sense. What we don’t do is recognize them for what they are and work on cleaning them up before the manifestations occur. That’s a discussion for another time.
For now, just be aware that if you’re not feeling good, your guidance system is trying to tell you something. What it’s telling you is that you’re headed toward a manifestation that you’re not going to like when it happens. Recognize that, identify the bad-feeling vibration and work on tuning yourself to a frequency that feels better.
John Sawyer
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“Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can’t do anything about.” — Abraham
One of the most important things I’ve had to learn as a healer is to detach myself emotionally from my clients’ healing or lack thereof. I think all healers start out with the idea that they can cause another to heal and if the other doesn’t heal, there must have been something wrong with the healing technique, or the application thereof, or that the practitioner is inadequate in some way.
Those beliefs place the responsibility for the client’s healing everywhere but the one place it belongs…with the client. Have you ever wondered why a given treatment for a particular condition works for some people and not for others? The obvious answer is that the ones who healed were ready to heal. Those who did not heal were not in a vibrational state that allowed their healing.
We in the West are raised to believe that medicine is something to be applied to our condition to cause us to heal. By extension, the same mindset is applied to alternative modalities. Healers, whether traditional Western practitioners or alternative practitioners, hold themselves responsible for their clients’ healing.
There’s a reason why they don’t let surgeons operate on family members – they care too much! The responsibility for a positive outcome is so great that the likelihood of error goes up considerably.
I often tell my Reiki students that the most difficult part of Reiki is getting out of the way. What that means is that Reiki cannot be forced. Trying to force it will only pinch off the flow of energy. The “trick”, so to speak, is to be an open channel and allow Reiki to flow freely. One can’t do that if they’re emotionally invested in the outcome.
To be truly effective as a healer, one must trust the modality completely. If the practitioner trusts their method implicitly, this offers a vibration of confidence and well being to the client. This is the single most important thing any healer can do for her client. People heal because they are a vibrational match to their own well being. It is much easier to come into that alignment if the healer is aligned first.
I have learned to trust completely in Reiki and the Universe to deliver to the client exactly what they need in exactly the right amount. I understand that what the client wants and what they need may be two very different things and I further understand that the ultimate decision to heal belongs with the client.
The best I can do is offer Reiki and hold my client in a vibration of well being. After that, they’re on their own. In other words, while I can influence them, I have no direct control over them. That knowing frees me from the burden of their healing (or not) and allows me to flow Reiki the best way I can.
Obviously, I wish for my clients the most positive of outcomes, but I understand that I can’t see the big picture of what is in their highest good. That’s between them and their Inner Being. I simply have to trust that whatever the outcome, it is in their best interest.
If I allow myself to be drawn into judging their outcome, I reduce my effectiveness as a healer and facilitator of their well being. As Abraham puts it, my work is to feel good because if I don’t feel good, I have nothing to offer anyone anyway.
John Sawyer
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It would seem that most of the world has seen “The Secret” by now, or read the book, or seen the stars on Oprah or Larry King. If you haven’t, I recommend getting a copy of either the book or the DVD and checking it out. I’m fascinated by peoples’ reactions to it, especially those who have been on a spiritual quest for some time and blow “The Secret” off as superficial and “nothing new.”
I believe that they miss the point of “The Secret” on several levels. First, if you haven’t heard something before, despite its being known to others, it could be considered a secret to you. At least it was a secret up until you heard about it! I completely agree that calling the Law of Attraction (which is what “The Secret” is ultimately about) a secret is like calling the Law of Gravity a secret. Things don’t fall up just because you haven’t heard it called the Law of Gravity before. By the same token, whether we know it as Law of Attraction or not, we’re affected by the Law of Attraction all day every day.
Second, “The Secret” isn’t intended to be an in-depth examination of the Law of Attraction because its target audience is the mass of humanity who has no idea that such a law exists, nor how it affects them on a daily basis. The purpose of “The Secret” is to make people aware that the Law of Attraction exists and to offer evidence, however anecdotal it may be, that it works. It does a brilliant job of that, IMO.
Third, there seems to be the assumption among those who are already aware of the Law of Attraction that they’ve “been there, done that” and they have no more to learn about Law of Attraction and no reason to be inspired by the fact that it is being presented to and embraced by so many people. Some even shrug off Law of Attraction as simply Positive Thinking in yet another guise. During a discussion on the Yahoo! group AnimalReikiSource, a member pointed out that Sikh yogis say that as soon as I say “I know that” I cut myself off from the flow. IMO, that says it all. The most that we know is that there is more to everything than we know.
The cynics among us will likely say that all those millions of people currently viewing and reading “The Secret” will maintain their excitement about it for a week or two or three and then fall back into the same patterns of life they had before. While I agree with that view somewhat, I don’t believe anyone can view “The Secret” and be inspired at all by it and remain unchanged. Whether they ultimately study Law of Attraction and apply it fully in their lives remains to be seen, but if only a small percentage of people do so, that’s enough to make a huge positive difference in the world.
John Sawyer
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This site is about closing your gap. So, what’s my gap and why would I want to close it, you may well ask. Your gap is the distance between where you are, i.e. what is, and where you want to be in the spiritual sense. We all have a gap. Some people’s gaps are wider than others, but even those who appear to have everything they could possibly want have a gap. You will never stop wanting and desiring so there will always be some distance between where you are and where you want to be.
As you get better at closing your gap, you’ll find it closes faster and you get where you wanted to be quicker, but once you get there, there will always be something beyond that that you will want. You didn’t know you wanted it until you got to where you could see it.
The Universe is about evolving and expanding and becoming more. The purpose of this exercise here in the physical plane is catching up to that expansion which we have created, in other words, closing the gap.
I hope you’ll join me in exploring that process. I will be providing thoughts, comments, and resources that I hope will assist the process of co-creation that attracted you here. Hopefully, you will be providing thoughts and comments and resources, as well. That’s what it’s about, co-creating our realities.
Namaste!
John Sawyer
