People ask why I have refrained from writing directly about the Law of Attraction. I did this because of the prevalence of information on the subject that makes the LOA sound like a cosmic ATM!

Visit any forum on this topic and you’re bound to find threads of people looking for help manifesting new cars, fancy homes, and loads of cash. And this by people who have no interest in the most basic forms of manifestation dealing with the everyday problems of peace and harmony within their lives.

The Law of Attraction is a natural law, like gravity. And you ignore it with the same degree of danger that you would have if you ignored gravity. This means that if you want to harness this power, you need to experience it as it occurs in everyday life as an observer before even attempting to direct it with your own thoughts and energy. Even with the Law of Attraction, you have to be able to crawl before you attempt to run a marathon…

Each of us has already observed the Law of Attraction at work, whether we realize it or not.

• How often have we seen someone put out negative energy in the form of anger only to get the anger back?
• How often have we seen that some people never seem to have a problem with anyone because of their own quiet demeanor?

In each of these cases, the strongest part behind the type of energy you are emanating will prevail. With one apparent exception, which we’ll get to later.

So each and every one of us is manifesting through the energy that we emanate through our thoughts, words and actions. You are already interacting with the Law of Attraction by thinking, talking, and going about your business every day, just like you are interacting with gravity by not falling off the planet!

However, what we want to do is learn how to interact with the Law of Attraction in a beneficial way. And when we say beneficial, we mean beneficial to all. When we seek to manifest ourselves in a way that is harmful to others in order to benefit ourselves, our efforts fail.

They will fail because by definition they are in conflict with the Law of Attraction. Attempting to manifest something that is good for the manifester at the expense of another is a selfish act and will attract the selfishness of others, hindering the desired results in all aspects of the manifester’s life. Do you see how this works?

So the first thing we need to develop to begin with even the most basic forms of manifestation of the Law of Attraction is to develop Awareness. What is meant here by Awareness is, first of all, to be Aware of one’s own identity as opposed to the over-identification with one’s own positions and identification with the content of life that is so common today. Awareness also includes being aware that everyone else is more than just a competitor.

The best way to achieve both is to meditate on the following affirmation:

Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources available.

This helps build our empathy with the condition of others and removes our feelings that we need to outdo others. Awareness is key to success in your efforts to use the Law of Attraction manifestation techniques.

This is one of the reasons why I have paid more attention to writing about the themes of The Power of Now, as they help to overcome the unbalanced ego that most of the world struggles with.

Consciousness is also the energy that tips the balance in favor of the Conscious. Do you remember the one exception to the rule that whoever manifests with the most energy will prevail? Consciousness triumphs over all.

You can take on the angriest individuals with their yelling and cursing, and defeat them with much less energy as long as you act from Consciousness. This is because the energy that Consciousness brings is of such a high order that it triumphs over almost anything that comes its way.

I will be writing more about the techniques of the Law of Attraction and Manifestation. It will be with the understanding that even to begin working to use LOA techniques as a steering mechanism, you must begin by developing Awareness as a baseline within your life.