Here is another case of specialized knowledge that affects the law of attraction.  It has to do with outside factors that affect your ability to attract what you want and create abundance.  This is about understanding the world or your personal reality within the frame of the reality of the world.

Suppose you have the intent to become wealthy. You decide to take action by investing the markets. You notice that the price of gold is going up and so you decide to take advantage of the market. Instead of mining for gold yourself, you buy some with dollars. The price of gold continues up and your wealth is increasing. You invest more of your money in the market and even perhaps buy some gold stocks on margin. It looks like your law of attraction efforts are working.

After a while of going up the commodity and precious metal market takes a turn south. The price of gold drops because the central banks of China and Russia both decide to diversify their reserves and start buying Euros.

You hang onto to your gold and continue to focus your attention on being wealthy. However the markets don ’t egard your personal reality and continue to tumble according to everyone else ’s actions and reactions of their reality (and perceptions). In the end you have a lot of gold, but it isn ’t worth very much. You might have a lot less money than what you started with.  Remember the Nasdaq of 2000?  No amount of focusing your attention seems to drive price of your stocks or gold up.   No amount of faith in your personal beliefs of abundance seems to get the central banks of Russian and China to buy back gold at such a cheap price. Now your law of attraction that you were so confident in isn’t a law anymore.

What happened?   Maybe your belief in the law of attraction wasn’t strong enough to overcome the majority of investors and their belief in a bear market for precious metals. All their belief in their own abundance and personal law of attraction was at your expense. Maybe your belief in the law of attraction doesn ’t override the laws of economics as they are currently being played out in the world. Perhaps you were so focused on your personal reality that you created denial about the reality of the world and how it affects you. The idea that you create your own reality is a nice one. Just don ’t let it fool you into thinking that you are not part of the world.

A person ’s specialized knowledge in creating abundance has to extend beyond the law of attraction. It has to include the practical understanding of how the world works. In this case that means understanding the cycles of precious metals, currency markets, demand, supply, and the impact central bank policy has on your investments. The more specialized knowledge you have about how this world works, the less likely you will fall into traps of your own illusions of what you believe the markets will do.

So what was the problem and how do you avoid it? Recognize that the law of attraction isn ’t a law. Attracting things and people into your life is something you can affect, but not control. Don ’t lose your attention completely into that belief. Believing completely that attraction is a law sets you up to lose your attention into that dream. The dream can look true for a while, but then the reality of the world changes and that belief now looks like a lie. That ’s when disillusionment sets in.

Disillusionment happens when the world, or just a person, no longer acts in a manner congruent with your beliefs. Too often we end up hoping for the world to change, or hoping for a person to change. This can lead to a lot of frustration and heartache. If we gain the self mastery to be aware and flexible in our beliefs, then we can live in a continually changing world and enjoy relationships without painful emotional reactions.

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It sounds simple enough but there are a few other factors at play in the universe that we have to contend with. Because there are other factors affecting what you create, I don‘t think we should really call it a law. It might be more accurate to refer to it as Influencing and attracting into your life by focusing your attention. But that‘s too long. The point is that we can influence and affect the conditions, but we don‘t always have control over them.

If we refer to it as a law of attraction it assumes that we are in control at the steering wheel and there are no other obstacles or drivers out there to affect the outcome. That simply isn‘t the case. The universe doesn‘t‘ live according to each person‘s focus. We don‘t live in separate realities. However we do live in separate dreams in our imagination. Don‘t confuse the personal dream of your imagination with the reality of the world.

When the modified law of attraction works and when it doesn‘t is subject to opinion that I might discuss at another time. Right now I want to address two factors that affect creating abundance using these mechanisms. They are the impact of action and the importance of specialized knowledge.

The Law of Action
To really attract what you want you will have to do more than just focus your attention, and believe in it happening. You will also have to take action. You can be completely focused and still not manifest what you want unless you take effective actions. The Law of Action is simply that if you want a different result, then you need to take a different action.

Let‘s consider that you want to have more gold in your life. I could use money but I think gold will be more effective in proving my point for now. You meditate every day on having gold. You go about your day completely confident in attracting and having it. You do all the steps that are outlined in various books and programs including creating emotions that are congruent with the scenario you have in your mind.

However, what you don‘t do is actually go out and buy gold. You don‘t go to a coin shop or even take action and purchase it on the internet. Nor do you purchase a claim of land and start mining or panning for gold. At the end of the year, without actual practical actions you will not have anymore gold than you did a year before.

Focusing your attention and believing in what you are doing will help motivate you to take action. But no amount of focused attention or thinking by itself will make gold appear in your living room without some action. The universe provides, but life also helps those that take action and help themselves.

The Importance of Specialized Knowledge
Let‘s say you get the point about action and include it with the law of attraction to create abundance in your life. That is still not enough to effectively create wealth. The second aspect to include in your manifesting process is specialized knowledge.

If you decide to take action and accumulate gold you will need to know how to get it. Perhaps you decide to mine for it. Where do you dig? A geologist is experienced at studying the layers of rock, identifying areas that gold are plentiful, and how much there is. They also drill for core samples and can determine the direction of the vein so the know where to dig next. This is specialized knowledge that saves a lot of time and energy in acquiring gold.

If you are panning for gold, you also need to know where to pan and how to effectively use the pan in the water to separate the gold from the soil. The technique of panning is a kind of specialized knowledge that makes it possible to manifest gold. Taking action with this type of specific knowledge can help you accumulate a lot more gold than feverish action of digging in places that a geologist could easily determine is a waste of time. All of this specialized knowledge applies to investing in real estate and owning your own business as well.

In creating abundance in your life it is helpful to focus your attention and believe in what you are doing. However, by itself that is not enough. You will also need to take action in a manner that is effective. Part of being effective is having specialized knowledge in how a business, industry, or markets and legal systems work.

If you plan to make money in real estate then you had better gain a thorough knowledge of property values and the markets. Without taking effective action that only comes with practical knowledge you can easily end up losing a lot of money. No matter how much faith you have in your law of attraction. Someone else may have just as much faith in their version of the law of attraction and have a better understanding of the markets on their side.

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