Is the Law of Attraction Real?

Mahatma Gandhi already said it: "Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your words become your behaviors. Keep their behaviors positive, as their behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values ​​positive, because your values ​​become your destiny. "

Principles linking thought and results

The well-known Law of Attraction very popularized by books such as the secret, has some scientific evidence that I list below.

1. Collateral thinking

Understand the meaning of collateral thinking (positive thoughts / perceptions and manifestations or negative thoughts / perceptions and manifestations), the similar attracts the similar. When we have positive thoughts, we feel good and we transmit it unlike when we have negative thoughts. These thoughts have a direct impact on our way of acting, interacting, perceiving and receiving.

In addition, among other studies, the research conducted by Wetzel showed that

we are more attracted to people with similar opinions, we feel more akin to these people.

• Related article: "The 9 types of thinking and their characteristics"

2. Change your mood, you have the power to do it

A big part of the Law of Attraction is learning to be open and happy and interact with others. from this attitude, attracting generosity, kindness, and success, being the reflection of the behavior that we observe.

In other words, when someone exudes positivity, this same response is reflected in the observer's brain. This can produce feedback, which is easily replicated. On the other hand, studies on the amygdala (the brain's emotional center) show that if we are afraid or anxious we stimulate feelings of fear and anxiety in others.

An additional claim pertaining to the Law of Attraction theory states that negative thinking can hinder or impede success, love, well-being, and human connection. Act as if you have already achieved your goal, the positive, in a realistic and measurable way. Just thinking about positive things will make you feel better and from here relate better with them, translating into better results.

3. Limiting beliefs

Follow this process through four steps

• Define well you want it.
• Identify what you don't want.
• Feel what it would be like to have that goal.
• Avoid sabotaging or limiting it.
• Act accordingly.

Geneticists show that limiting beliefs are partly inherited, but thanks to epigenetics we know that new beliefs can be unlearned and learned.

You should not settle or feel guilty for your limiting beliefs, try to identify them and from here not make them yours, modify them.

4. The Pygmalion effect

From the self-fulfilling prophecy, the Pygmalion effect, if we believe that we are going to fail or succeed in any activity or performance, it is very possible that our behavior will change so that this ends up happening, since the belief is conditioning our responses and our way of interpreting the reality. In the words of Stephen R. Covey, “Treat a person as they are and they will remain as they are. Treat a person as he can be and could be and will become what he can and could be ”.

When you pronounce the statement "I can not" or "I do not want" you will have that result, you must add the word "" yet "and replace" no "with" yes "to your vocabulary.

Concluding

A professor at the University of Exeter published an article on constructive thinking and repetitive, revealing that people who continually tell themselves that they can get a objective are more likely to get a positive result.

Of course, there is a learning curve that is closely related to these principles. Remember, although perfection does not exist, practice almost leads to perfection. The more you practice, the better results you will get, from the security that this learning brings you.

If your actions are accompanied by positive thoughts, feelings and thoughts, these will help you to obtain these expected results, or at least it will facilitate and give you security in the process to achieve results constructive.

After all this, I invite you to put these principles into practice, and check through your thoughts, words, behaviors, habits and values ​​the power you have to achieve or "attract" your goals, such as Gandhi said; "Because your values ​​become your destiny."

And he remembers: "You are the creator of your mind."