"The Law of Attraction Can Give You Instant Results!" Right? Not so Fast

"Change your thinking and change your life!" That's what so much of the hype around the Law of Attraction spouts as gospel, but let's take a deep breath and examine this for a minute.

Oftentimes, because the so-called "experts" make it sound that simple (and often to simply make themselves attractive to you and therefore make money FROM you), it can be really discouraging to those of us who follow LOA, especially if we are new to it, to think that we're somehow doing something wrong because things don't change miraculously overnight. (Trust me; things didn't change overnight for the so-called "experts," either.)

However, if we think LOA is going to bring us instant changes, we're really just taking the wrong approach. Instead, the Law of Attraction is a construct by which you can live your life, not just a superficial "tool" that can make you money, make you prettier, make you skinnier, make that perfect job appear, and so on.

Many of us who start out in the pursuit of LOA start out precisely to fix something that's wrong with our lives -- we don't have enough money, we don't have a loving relationship, we hate our jobs, we don't weigh what we think we should, and so on. However, if you stick with it, you'll find that something happens when you keep at it, over the long haul.

That is, your focus changes. You begin to realize that it isn't just one thing you want to fix with your life. Instead, you want to make your life better in so many ways that go far beyond the superficial. And as you stay with LOA, you begin to see just what those "beyond the superficial" things in your life are, those things that need fixing that you don't know how to fix because you neither have the wisdom nor the experience to do so.

Simply sitting back and asking for help is one way to do this. The universe and LOA in general are great at responding when we ask for help. The thing is, you have to learn to listen and watch, because the answers you get are probably not going to be particularly overt. Instead, they'll be subtle suggestions that will gradually change your life for the better, sometimes so subtly that you won't realize just how much things have improved until you look back over many months' time and see just how much better things are.

So, when it comes to LOA, go for the subtle. Look for the gradual. That's likely how LOA's improvements are really going to come to you.