The law of attraction is the universal law that relates thought power, action and results all in one continuous cause-and-effect pattern. When positive thoughts are kept in mind, especially when this happens long term, the result is positive actions and eventually the achievement of goals.

To begin using the law of attraction in your life, starting with affirmations is an easy way to start changing your mindset to one that will attract success.

Writing Positive Affirmations

You may have a favorite saying that is empowering to you. If so, this is a perfect affirmation for you. To create more positive affirmations, consider exactly what you want to work on and recreate this on paper. One affirmation may be to feel more confident when working in your small business. Another may be to reach a specific financial goal that you have in mind.

Create several of these affirmations to boost your self confidence and to create a tangible goal that you can reach. These affirmations will be repeated often, so keep them relatively short and positive.

Creating Time for Affirmations

Recite your affirmations out loud each and every day. To make sure that you don’t avoid this because of a busy schedule, think of one or more specific times during the day that you can recite them without being interrupted. If you don’t want to recite them in front of anyone else, schedule it for times when you will be alone.

Your affirmations can be recited during your shower, during a commute or any time that you feel nervous or less than confident. Always find the time to do it, even if you are ill, busy or out of town. The regular recitation of your personal affirmations is what will make them impress upon you what success is possible in your own life.

Believing in Success

In order to succeed, you must believe in success completely. You must believe that you will succeed and that it is just a matter of time until that success is your reality. The affirmations are what teach you to believe that this success really can be yours.

The law of attraction needs your complete belief in order to attract that success. With the regular reading of your personal affirmations, they will eventually become positive thoughts that are in your head rather than simply words on paper. These positive thoughts then create more positive thoughts and a positive attitude toward the future develops.

To attract success, keep nurturing that positive attitude. If you have a bad day and slide into negative thoughts, simply pull out those affirmations and begin again. With enough practice, you will be able to put yourself in a positive frame of mind whenever you choose.

Visualizing the success that you want is one of the most powerful features of using the Law of Success. The power of direct, focused visualization is one of the guiding forces in attracting positive results. However, most people need to practice their visualization technique in order to see success with the Law of Attraction.

Visualizing Clear Goals

Instead of having vague goals of success, practice visualizing much more specific ones. Rather than seeing your business larger, see your business in terms of specific monetary goals. Picture how the business will look when this goal is reached. How will it change things? How will you feel about it? How will your life change for the better? Picture all of these changes as clearly as you can.

Make the effort to see that goal every day. Close your eyes and visualize it clearly until it looks like a movie playing in your mind. That clear picture is what you will put your positive energy into achieving.

Attracting Positive Energy

When you can see your specific goals and what the success looks like, you can begin believing that this vision is of your future. Believing in that future is what takes you down the path to actually achieving it. That positive energy attracts other positive energy, bringing you closer and closer to your goal.

To keep attracting this positive energy, let your positive visualization become your guide. When you hit an obstacle, keep that goal in mind and find away around it. By keeping your focus on that goal and believing that you will eventually get there, you will not be tempted to give up when you hit a wall. You will instead simply find another way to succeed.

Banish Negative Energy

Everyone is in danger of letting negative energy keep him or her from succeeding. Even with positive affirmations and goal visualization, a bad day can invite negative thoughts that attract negative energy. To succeed with the Law of Attraction, it is vital to banish those thoughts before they take hold.

To keep these thoughts at bay requires learning a new outlook. A positive mindset will allow you to see negative occurrences as lessons instead of as roadblocks. Every negative instance does teach us a lesson, and those lessons are a part of our road to success. With the Law of Attraction, every experience is something that helps us on our way to meeting our goals.

With daily practice, visualization can help you to see your success so clearly that you are excited about your future. This excitement and positive energy will help you to reach any level of success that you can visualize for yourself. Eventually, that vision will be the present and you can enjoy the fruits of your success.

The law of attraction can give to you anything and everything you desire, if you understand it and begin to implement the basics. Many have taught that the basics are to ask, believe and receive. I like to add desire because I believe that sometimes we do not focus on our desires enough to formulate that desire into a specific request. So the foundation or basics of the law of attraction are: desire, ask, believe, and receive.

Whatever you think of Jesus, religiously speaking, one has to admit that he was abundant in wisdom. He, along with other spiritual leaders, taught extensively on the law of attraction and we would all fare well to heed his teachings on the subject. One such time he taught on the subject (in the Judeo-Christian Bible it is referred to as the law of faith or faith) found in the book of Mark and it is the foundation of the law of attraction:

Mark 11:24 – What things so ever you desire, when you pray (ask), believe you receive them and you shall receive them.

First let’s talk about desire. So many times in our lives we see this and that and think that we want or desire those things. Most of the time these are just impulses and do not actually line up with our desires as a whole. What we must begin to do is define our actual desires, develop a complete picture of our lives as we want it to be in the long run. A lot of others things will fall into place after we do this.

So I encourage you to think long and hard about your desires. Allow yourself to dream. Dreaming about what you want will align your vibration (what you are sending out into the universe) with what is desired. So clearly formulating your true heart desires is the most important step in realizing those desires.

Second let’s look at asking. How do we ask for these things? There are many opinions and methods for doing this and we will look at some these, and hopefully gain a better understanding of what asking really is.

Some have said and it is true that the well formulated desire is in and of itself the asking. Since we are talking about the foundations or the real core of the law of attraction, let’s say that the asking is really your vibration lining up with what is desired. What do I mean by that? Well-being, goodness, abundance all of those things are continuously flowing to everyone, and we are either allowing the flow or resisting the flow. So how do you tell if your vibration is lining up with your desires in order to allow this flow into your life?

Your emotions, or the way you are feeling, is your guide. So whatever you do to create the feeling of obtaining your desire is when you are sending out the vibration equivalent of the essence of your desire. So if visualization puts you in a positive emotional state then do it. If positive affirmations do so then do that. If praying and formulating your desire into a request presented to Deity then do it! It is the vibration you send out on a regular consistent basis that is creating your world. It has been doing so whether you realized it or not. The law of attraction is no respecter of persons. Become aware and implement the basics and you will change your life and create the world you desire.

Third we’ll talk about believing. What is it you are supposed to believe?: That you have received them. One translation of this verse says believe it is granted to you. I think that is a good start in the believing process. Always believe that the universe or God, if you will, has granted your desire, because it has been granted to you. Remember the well-being/abundance river is always flowing to you. So then you should joyfully expect it to manifest in your life. Be on the lookout. That is believing in a nutshell.

When you believe something you will think, speak and act in a manner that says that the desire is granted and it is your present possession. Do not think, talk or act in a manner representative of lack. Guard your heart and put a watch over your mouth. Words are powerful.

Finally we’ll take a look at receiving. To receive means to accept, by reaching out. I think that one important aspect of receiving is giving thanks or maintaining an attitude of gratitude. Be thankful for what you already have and you will attract more of the same. Also express gratitude for what you are expecting. Remember you already believe that you receive it or that the desire is granted, so give thanks for it even before it manifests. It can be expressed to deity, to the universe, whichever you prefer. Ask yourself constantly, “what am I grateful for and begin to count your blessings and more will be given you.

Another aspect of receiving is making room for what you desire. Desire a new car? Clean out your garage. If you are expecting something new then, if you can live without it, give away the old. If you can’t give it away at present, promise to give it to someone when the new arrives. You are sending out a powerful signal to the universe when you do this.

One other aspect of receiving is ‘acting as if’ it were true right now. That really gets your emotions and your vibration in line with your desires. Don’t go out and get into debt or anything like that, just adopt the mental attitude of the person who has or is the person of their desires.

So there are many more things we could talk about involving the law of attraction, but now you have the basics and a good place to start. Always remember to start with smaller things, things you can really believe and then you will build confidence as you see your desires manifest all around you. It’s already working for you whether positive or negative, the trick is to realize it and allow it to work for you in the positive.