The Universal Laws operate consistently all the time and cannot be bent.
The Law of Attraction
The Law of Attraction is working in your life right now. The circumstances, job, relationships and friends you have, or don’t have, are all what you have attracted according to the energy and vibration you are transmitting.
You are like a magnet. You will attract what you focus on and think about, whether or not it is something you consciously want. The Law of Attraction is the most powerful force underlying the universe. You can’t overcome it.
As we have seen, everything in the universe vibrates and is moving. According to the Law of Attraction, when something vibrates at a particular frequency, it attracts and resonates with other things vibrating at the same frequency.
Thoughts as well as objects have their own vibration. You attract particular events towards you, according to the frequency of the vibration of your thoughts.
Whatever you give your attention to, you will attract. This doesn’t have to be conscious attention. The conscious mind is only a tiny part of our mind. The greater part of it is unconscious, so whatever is fed into your unconscious you attract into your reality. If you have thoughts that attack or are in conflict with each other, you will attract a jumble of experiences—what most of us call ‘reality’ or ‘normality’.
The cosmic ordering process enables you to work with the Law of Attraction and become a deliberate thinker and creator of what you want to attract into your life. As you follow the process, you will become much more aware of the link between your thoughts and the experiences you attract to you. You will learn more about this in Step 4: Take charge of your thoughts.
The Law of Cause and Effect, or Consequences
This law is often referred to as Karma—it gives us a sense of responsibility alongside our power as co-creators of our own destinies.
What we sow, we subsequently reap
What comes around goes around
What you put out you will get back
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
You sow with your thoughts, words and deeds, and reap the effect in your own reality. Your will is always and will be done. As Deepak Chopra once said, ‘There is a perfect accounting system in the universe.’ If you run up a debt on one side of your balance sheet, it will be paid off on the other side. If you run up a credit, it will likewise be balanced out.
Part of the cosmic ordering process is taking responsibility for what reality you want to create and being clear why you think that it will be beneficial for your life.
The more you practise the process and see the results that you get, the wiser you will become in what you ask for. Many people find that because of this they move away from placing cosmic orders relating to possessions, and ask for greater and wiser things in their life that will bring them experiences out of which they will learn and grow in understanding.
Later in the book, you will be shown how to keep an order delivery diary—to build your personal record of evidence for what results have been caused by you. Keeping this diary will act as a record of the consequences of the orders you place.
When you are grateful in advance for what youare about to receive, you can achieve yourdreams successfully, and quickly!
Tip Gratitude
The universe responds to gratitude. When you become grateful for all the experiences you have attracted into your life, whether you have classified them as negative or positive in the past, the universe rewards you. Being grateful ensures that we learn and understand from our experiences in the material world.
The universe sends us the events and situations we need to grow, learn and develop as human beings. Each time you recognise and acknowledge, through your expression of gratitude, the gifts that a particular experience has given you, the universe recognises that you are ready to move on and sends you a new experience.
Say thank you as often as possible for all you have gone through, and really notice what benefits you have got from each experience life has thrown your way. Doing this teaches you to embrace and cherish what life has to offer you, which is in effect what you have yourself created.
When you are grateful for what you have attracted, you automatically attract more good things into your life. By holding this spirit of gratitude, you can now deliberately ask the universe from your heart to bring specific new experiences into your life. Because the old events now hold no energy or vibration other than a positive one, the universe is open to co-create positive events in your future with you. You create these events by thanking the universe in advance for what it is about to give you.
Summary Step 1
Understand and work with the secrets and laws of the universe and you will see enormous changes happening in your life.
Of course, you can’t not work with the universe. But from now on, you can deliberately choose your thoughts and actions in full awareness of what you are doing.
Pay attention to the Laws of Attraction and Cause and Effect.
Express your gratitude to the universe.
‘The thoughts that come so often unsought, and…as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. And therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again.’
JOHN LOCKE
What do you want?
What were you going to be when you grew up? Have your dreams been fulfilled?
When you were a child, looking into the future, did you imagine your present life as it is now?
When we are children we take imagination for granted. You dream that you will be rich, successful or famous. Maybe you will travel the world. Perhaps you will own a big house or fast car. Perhaps you will ride a camel across the desert or fly a plane around the world.
What would it be like if you could make those dreams come true now? True, some of your dreams may have changed. Or maybe many of them are as they have always been?
How would it be if you could believe that even one of your dreams could turn into reality?
Maybe you know exactly what you want, maybe you have only a slight inkling, or maybe no ideas at all. Or, perhaps you even need to be convinced that it is okay to dream at all?
Whichever way, you probably want something to change in at least some part of your life. In this step, you will start the process of laying the foundations for changing your life by discovering and rediscovering your dreams.
Your life right now
‘For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been”.’
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER