How do Horses Teach us About the Law of Attraction?

If a horse displays ‘bad’ behaviour for some reason, maybe he shies at something in the yard that wasn’t there yesterday and pulls the owner with the suddenness of his movement. The horse will get used to the new thing and be fine the next day.

If the next day the owner has it in their mind that the horse will shy again, this probably will happen.

Seen as a problem by the owner, the owner now takes measures to stop the horse shying, which then focus both their energies on the fact that the horse will shy, and so the horse shy’s.

This can be proved by simply letting someone who is not aware the horse shy’s lead the horse past the object. Because that person is not focused on the object and the horse shying, the horse will now walk past the object perfectly happily.

The Law of Attraction says where energy goes that is what will happen. This example shows how this works.

You may have heard of the Law of Attraction. It is often also referred to as The Secret

The law of attraction is the belief that the universe can manifest anything that you want it to. It states that there is no true scarcity in the world as the Universe has the power to manifest anything we set our thoughts and attention to. When you want something, it does not need to come from others. It can be manifested by our thoughts and desires.

If it is that easy why are most of us struggling with lack of money, love or anything else?

Most of us spend our days running around trying to earn enough money to pay the bills. Or maybe we are saving hard for that holiday that gives us a break from the constant rush and worry of life. So where is the Law of Attraction in this? Where is the lottery win, we dream of to get us away from this daily treadmill?

Well believe it or not the Law of Attraction is with you every day. It is working for you everyday without you even realising it. The Law of Attraction is bringing you more of what you are focusing on, where you put your energy and attention  and for most of us that energy and attention is concentrated on our struggle, hard work, bills, problems and general lack. The Law of Attraction is then sending us more of what we are focussed on. That is hard word, struggle, bills and lack.

The Law of Attraction is not sentient it is energy. It does not look at what you need and want and send you those. It follows where your energy is concentrated and sends you more of the same.

You see we are so programmed to think negatively in this world that what we spend out time thinking and believing is mostly negative.

We start our day worrying about the day ahead. We foresee problems in everything we are going to do, and we dread the day because we know it will be hard and full of difficulty just like every previous day. If something good happens we probably spend up to 10 minutes thinking about it and then we are back to worrying about the rest of the day and never having enough time to do everything.

Where attention goes energy flows.

I repeat

The law of attraction is not a thing of magic.

It is a thing of energy and intent.

Each day unfolds before us in a new way. Each moment has not happened, until it happens, and what happens in that next moment is decided by our energy and intent. The Universe creates each moment around you depending on your energy. If your energy is negative the universe brings you negative things.

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get all the good stuff and you are still struggling? Well watch those people with this knowledge and learn from them. Do they look happy and content? Do they look forward to the day and what it will bring? Or do they believe they know what it will bring?

You see we are so ingrained with the way life is, that many of us can never see another version of today. We always see a copy of yesterday.

We are not open to opportunities that may come our way because we are set in our ways, thinking these opportunities sound too good to be true.

We do not believe that the universe is offering us a way to change our circumstance and so we stay blinkered on the safe path, and the Universe keeps us where we feel safe and happy.

This shows us that having preconceived ideas about things, usually makes that thing happen, proving us right.

This is what happens with the law of attraction. If we start the day with the pre conceived idea that everything will go wrong then it usually will, as the law of attraction brings us exactly what we are focused on.

The first thing you need to do is raise the vibration of your energy out of the negative state. You can do this with gratitude and finding things that make you happy. When something good happens in your life, stop, enjoy it, love it, feel grateful for it and hold on to that feeling.

Spend time later in your day thinking of that moment and how you felt. Remember the happiness and the gratitude.

If you do this and you look for 5 things to be grateful for each day the Universe will slowly start to realise what you want is happiness and joy.

This will not happen immediately. Remember you have been programming the Universe to give you more worry, hard work and stress for a long time, so when it feels a change in you it will initially ignore it because it is so outweighed by all the negativity. Only by constantly showing the Universe how grateful you are for this new feeling of happiness will it gradually understand that you want more and then you will find that nice things start to happen to make you happy.

It was indeed the law of attraction that brought Dolly to me. I had dreamed of a shire horse small enough to ride throughout my childhood, between all the negativity.

Then many years later I was doing some sales work and working on goal setting. Sometime in the autumn of 2005 I put a large picture of a horse on my kitchen wall, above it I put a note saying, “mine June 2006”. I had started taking riding lessons again that summer. In January 2006 Dolly came into the yard as a riding horse. I felt very attached to her but still never considered really owning her because she was a riding school horse.

In May 2006 Dolly came up for sale, just when I had released some finances.

I just knew I could not bare to see someone else with her and so after lots of soul searching, in June 2006 I bought her.

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What was different with this dream to any other? Every day I stroked the horse on that picture until it seamed I could feel the coat, the muscle, the life. In my mind that horse was real and that is what has to happen for you to manifest something big. You have to feel as if you already own it and love it in your heart and then you will.

OK so what's all this rubbish about setting goals? It's just life right?

So now lets start planning where your life is going to go.

This is your life not mine. You know where you want it to go but you don't really know how to get there. So lets start with now and the dream result. Then you need to put steps in between to get from one to the other.

Setting goals is just a way of measuring your success with those steps.

Many people don't like setting goals and many more say they can never achieve the goals they set.

 The best way to fail is to not set any goals.

You will never achieve a dream if you don't have a plan and goals to measure it by.

The next way to fail is to set goals that are too big for us to possibly achieve. Believe it or not most of us are more scared of success than we are of failure.

"Oh no" I hear you cry. "Of course I want to be successful, everyone does"

Yes but can you deal with success?

Is your brain ready to make that much of a change?

 I can practically guarantee that that first step you set yourself, is way too big for you to achieve.

We all have (to some degree) what I call an internal self destruct button.

If you have ever tried to set goals before I bet the first goal was so out of reach you lost hope of ever achieving it.

 This was your internal self destruct keeping you where you are.

Because subconsciously we all want to stay in our comfort zone,

even if it a really unhappy one.

This is because secretly we fear change.

 So how do we beat the self destruct button?

We have to accept that every step has to be very small.

We cannot climb this ladder in leaps we are not ready for.

The dream may seem beyond reach but the first step has to be a real one.

If it is not, break it down until you get real steps.

I'll give some examples.

You hate your job and decide that you want to be a singer.

Unfortunately you are tone deaf and can not sing so the truth is that this is an unrealistic goal.

However it does not need to be the end of the dream. You just tweak it a little. Maybe you could work in music in some other way.

 So your first goal would be to find something in the music world that you could learn to do.

The next step would be find a course.

The third step would be to save up for the course.

All this will give you the incentive to keep going to your current job as this will pay for your course, because you are now on the path to your dream.

Alternatively you could seek out a good singing instructor.

If your job is making you unhappy but you love your work.

Maybe you could look at finding another job in the same area of work.

This is still a big task that needs planning.

 First you need to do some research and find some companies you would like to work for.

Then you need to start looking for job vacancies with these companies.

It may also be worth considering getting a temporary job with one of thee companies,

This would allow you to meet the people and see how the job works in that company, until you find one that really is where you could enjoy working,

As you can see this does not happen overnight.

 When you are following your heart it is a life work.

Sometimes we have to go sideways - to a different job - before we can go forward towards our dream.

Making today more bearable until the dream is in reach.

Setting goals can be quite a daunting thought.

 I mean until now you did not even realize you were in charge of your own destiny did you?.

To achieve your dreams you will need to understand all the life skills I have listed here for you.

Learn them well before you follow Dolly's 

One step at a Time