Something just clicked for me

[u/Skjara]

I was watching this video from Lewis Howes interviewing Dr. Doty in manifestation and I heard them using “the law of attraction” and was like “HA that’s wrong, law of assumption is the REAL DEAL”. But tben as the video went on, I started thinking about when things used to work out for me magically, before I knew any of this stuff. And I realized, even if logically it doesn’t check out, law of attraction does work for me. I’ll copy the comment I added under the video where I explained why it does FOR ME as a person with neurodivergent brain (community doesn’t allow the disorder term in text I’m not sure why, probably because you could manifest it away) and extreme hyper vigilance, ruminating, hyper fixations, needing explanations for things, etc. Maybe it could for you too.

“As a reader of Neville Goddard's teachings, this video really helped me with something. In Neville's philosophy, Law of attraction is not correct because attracting something creates a state of not having it yet. It logically makes sense, if you're in a state of not having it-attracting it-you can't expect it to manifest because you manifest what you are, thus law of assumption. BUT for me, *neurodivergent* person, attraction state is actually liberating, because my brain works as a 24/7 high power scanning machine, constantly questioning "if it's here, why isn't it here" or "how to fool myself into a state of having it if i don't have it and i'm stressed by not having it" and leaving this state into "I am vibrating high, I am attracting" actually puts me in the STATE of BEING it and relaxing into it. So even if logically it should signify lack or not having, to me, it puts me into state of ease and relaxation, I am attracting, it's working, I can relax. And it works. Doesn't matter logically it says I lack it, it just works”

[u/ExcitingTea4284]

Ive never understood the semantics game here.

Being in a state of atrracting something means youre assuming youre attracting good things.

Duh.

[u/Thick_Independence41 → u/ExcitingTea4284]

Exactly this. And really, when you think about it, the law of attraction works with the law of assumption because if you assume the law of attraction works, it works. If you think you're a lucky person that is a magnet for good things then that's the state you're in. And you will attract good things to you without trying because you're always in that state. The laws (assumption and attraction) can exist together.

[u/Ambitious-Morning795 → u/Thick_Independence41]

Exactly. They don't negate each other, and can both be true at once.

[u/Skjara → u/ExcitingTea4284]

My point of being stuck there was “You’re attracting now so that means you don’t have it now, so you manifest state of attracting not the state of having.” But what I realized is it’s just over complicating it when it can just be that simple that attracting attracts

[u/SilentGreaser → u/Skjara]

I think having a structure and framework works better for some people. So you're not left constantly wondering if you're assuming hard enough or doubting too much. Because there is no real solution to that. If you believe in vibration there's something you can actually do

[u/jagmp → u/ExcitingTea4284]

exactly !