As you may already know, LOA (Law of Attraction) works by giving you what you really want. This means you can’t really lie to yourself. If you feel guilty for receiving money, as money makes you a bad person, then you will push money away, no matter how much you work.
This is especially true in picking a career and a path in your life.
Most people do what those around them want them to do. Maybe this is your case too. You’ve followed the college and you’ve picked the job that your parents wanted for you.
Since you want to be a good person, since you want to make those around you proud, you put your preferences second and did as they asked of you.
There is a major problem with this though. You are sending the universe mixed signals. This is because you have your social duty and your duty to yourself. You are doing what’s expected but not what you really want, and you can only manifest what’s really in your heart.
This means that no matter how much you work, no matter how much you struggle, it’s virtually impossible to manifest miracles, as that’s not what you really want.
One of the greatest thinkers on the subject is Joseph Campbell. While he is not an LOA thinker and author, not in the traditional sense, many educated LOA practitioners read his books and followed his teachings. If you don’t know him it is because he’s very hard to understand and not well known to begin with. Campbell said a phrase again and again.
This is “follow your bliss”. In his books, “follow your bliss” means “follow your heart, your true calling”. He was a strong believer that if you do what you love if you follow your heart instead of your mind, the universe will put doors where there were only walls before.
Reading Campbell changed my life. If most concepts presented in the LOA field are basic mathematics, what Campbell presented in his books is the equivalent of Astrophysics or quantum mechanics. It is a deep and meaningful philosophy of manifestation and everything comes together, from the world mythologies to your own emotions and your own psyche.
Campbell also uses the metaphor of the cave quite a lot.
Imagine this. You are a farmer. You work hard, year by year. No matter how much you try though, you never seem to get ahead in life. You earn enough to put food on the table, maybe even on the side but you know you’ll never have enough to trade for more equipment or to buy more land.
You are stuck. Yet, since this is the only way you’ve always known, you keep doing it, because living with little is better than you and your family starving.
A few kilometers from your farm is a cave. Each time you get close to it, you can hear terrifying animals like wolves and other monsters. You are afraid to go there. The legend goes that in this cave there is unlimited wealth, gold and jewels and expensive furs and everything you’ve ever wanted.
But since you’re afraid and you don’t want to lose your life, you stay away from it. Not only this but when your own two boys try to get close, you punish them and make them promise they’ll never try again.
Years go by. Then one year there is a great famine. Nothing grows. The crops are destroyed. You and your family face starvation. You try to do it due to what you have. You sell your animals or sacrifice them. Eventually, nothing is left, and nobody can help you.
So, since your back is against the wall, you do the worst possible, to enter the cave you fear. You equip yourself with a sword and you go in. Long shadows appear on the walls. It’s wet and scary.
You walk for a few minutes. Then you hear the howling of an animal. You know you’ll die now. But instead of seeing a huge wolf, you see a small lost dog. You walk into the cave further and you get to the end. It is full of treasure and there is nothing there, maybe apart from some spiders that are just afraid of you as you are of them.
You are a rich man now. You’ve saved yourself and your family.
What does this mean?
It means that most people avoid doing what they know they should do until they have no other choice. Most people don’t live until living is the only choice. It’s no wonder that most lives change after a traumatic event like a divorce or a car accident. You need to see the end to give yourself a fresh start.
We know what we need to do. We know that we should say no to that unhealthy relationship or to that job. And yet, we fear the unknown so much; we fear the cave we must enter so we stay in the bad circumstance. It’s easier than facing what we fear.
And then when we have no other choice and we must face our fears, we discover that our fears are nothing. We’ve just made them big in our minds. The monsters we were expecting to face are not even there or are far smaller. We do what we feared to do for years and discover that it’s simple and effortless.
Then we ask ourselves “why haven’t we done this sooner?”
The monsters, the dragons that stay between us and our dreams are not big and scary. They’re big and scary only in our minds. They’re small and weak and no match for us.
And so, it is with living someone’s else life.
We fear that if we stop following what our spouses say or our parents or friends, we will have to face something a lot worse. But the change is effortless, and a far better life awaits us, only if we find the courage to walk through that door.
I’ve discovered that in life, most fears are blown out of proportions and that nothing is as bad as it seems in our mind. Even terrible things are far easier to solve and make right compared to how we imagine them.
Don’t lie to yourself. Don’t cheat yourself. If in your heart you want something else than you are doing, then do it. Sure, it’s scary but the universe will assist you. You’re never alone.
You’re manifesting a new reality through the unlimited power of the universe. And since this will be the truth, your truth not what you tell other people, you’ll be able to manifest so much easier than before.