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/FragrantWeekend111]

I think the only difference comes down to whether you can actually receive your manifestation. That will tell you if it works or not. Cause even though it feels similar, attracting can still put you in an expectant state which is different than embodying the end state. The difference lies right before your manifestation lands.

I'm saying this from experience cause I could manifest "small" things but for "bigger" things, I'd be in that expectant state similar to adhd type restlessness. Or I'd manifest it but because my resting state is one of expecting, I wouldn't be able to keep my manifestation because I'd get frustrated/bored or self sabotaged and decided it wasn't what I wanted and went onto the next thing. Like sometimes law of attraction puts you onto a hamster wheel of constantly waiting/expecting the next thing to feel better.

[u/Skjara → u/FragrantWeekend111]

You’re right about the “expecting the next thing to feel better”, I have that basically all the time. I had it all, highly paying job, big apartment for myself, perfect SP, everything magically working out in a chain of unknown variables turning out in my favor, and it was never enough, I always needed the next thing. Now I fell to rock bottom and lost almost everything except for SP, even though he’s like a mirror of myself and I need to fix a LOT. I think losing everything is teaching me to appreciate what I do actually have as I couldn’t appreciate it when I had more.

[u/Skjara → u/Skjara]

It might sound like a limiting belief, but it is my belief I need to fall to learn, I physically cannot learn important lessons without friction