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Change Your Mind and Change Your Life.
Most of us have heard of the law of attraction. Some call it a New Age or New Thought idea, but it’s as old as humanity and a simple concept.
Basically, what you focus your attention on is what you will attract more of into your life. I know people who scoff at this idea, mostly people who feel powerless in their lives, but this is something I noticed early in my life long before I ever heard of the term law of attraction.
I remember when I was around 20 and my husband bought an ancient red Datsun pickup. I’d ever seen one before and suddenly it seemed like they were everywhere. You can call it attraction, or call it raised awareness but the end result is those little buggers were showing up everywhere!
When I was pregnant, it seemed like suddenly pregnant women were everywhere. When something gains my attention, or my energy, more of it seems to appear.
Am I attracting it? Am I manifesting it? Or am I simply just noticing what has been there all along but now that I’ve directed my attention it it, I begin to see what was already there?
In the case of red Datsun pickups and pregnant ladies, I would say the last choice is the most likely explanation.
However! I began to use this concept with the intent of attracting/manifesting something and it really…