How to Attract Abundance In Your Life

Turning your life around starts with mindset, but how do we begin to shift our mindset when the physical circumstances around us seem so bleak? How can we tune into abundance when we are broke, depressed and feeling unmotivated?

There’s a reason so many fail with the Law of Attraction: they don’t allow what they perceive as negative thoughts and beliefs to fully come up to the surface to be released. They hide negativity behind insincere affirmations and a cover of positivity.

Simply putting a facade of positivity does nothing to shift your external surroundings when the Universe is receiving a internal signal of fear and doubt. How do we begin to truly embody abundance and start seeing that reflected in our lives?

Why the Law of Attraction Isn’t Working for You

I remember one of the first experiences I had in a Law of Attraction group, anytime someone said something negative they were instantly berated and silenced.

This was never something that resonated with me because how can we help people move from a point of despair to a point of abundance if we don’t first address the despair!

It was an eye-opening dynamic watching people who spoke so much on positivity act so insulted by negativity. It was a good lesson for me in learning discernment and how to navigate not only spiritual practices themselves but how others interpret them.

What the Law of Attraction requires is that we first dig deep within ourselves and uncover everything that is holding us back. The limiting beliefs, self deprecating thoughts, stuck emotions – all of it.

Release Blocks to Abundance

It common when you manifest something to start noticing your whole life turning on its head. Obstacles pop up out of nowhere, dense emotions you’ve been ignoring for years come to the surface, relationships and routines are questioned.

This is the universe essentially prepping you for what you have asked for. It’s asking you to make a choice between the old and comfortable or the new and uncomfortable. It’s as if you’re being pulled through a storm.

What I like to do is recite affirmations and see how my mind and body reacts.

For example affirm: I am now financially free.

Your stomach may clench at the thought, you may feel a sense of dread wash over you or your mind may instantly start to contradict this.

Notice all of these little blocks that are showing up in both your physical body and mind, these are the areas that require work. The best way I’ve found to work on these blocks is through journaling.

Write the statement at the top of the page and underneath list all of your different reactions. You can then start breaking down these reactions, contradicting the contradictions of your mind/body.

If the thought of having extra money makes your stomach turn in knots, ask yourself why. Do these issues stem from childhood socialization, how you operate in relationships, feelings of guilt or unworthiness?

You don’t have to figure out the answers right now, but exploring these avenues will help you get a clearer picture of the work you need to do.

How to Tune into Abundance

Clearing your manifestation blocks using the above exercize is a good way to set the playing field. You’ve started to work through your blocks and now you have a clear slate to work from to start attracting things into your life.

Here’s the thing: we don’t exactly attract abundance but learn to see it all around us. The Law of Attraction isn’t about bringing something external towards us but aligning with it from the inside out.

We can only see abundance from an empowered state; knowing that everything we can see now is exactly what we need at this moment. This is why trying to manifest something when you’re in a state of desperation never works.

That $100 you need is never going to manifest when you’re still in a state of needing it. You are still unconsciously grasping for something external to fill a void, thus sending out a signal of lack to the Universe.

The house you live in, the bed you sleep in, the water you drink. This moment is filled with abundance. When you take this all in and fill yourself up on it you begin to attract from that state of wholeness not lack.

Look around you now and take it all in. Start listing off all of the things you are grateful for that you can see. Fill yourself up with this sense of gratitude. Cultivate a sensation of wholeness in your being.

Get into the mindset that whatever you will need is already on its way. You are no longer grasping for it but aligning with it.

Building energetic momentum

My entire approach to abundance is focused on building momentum. Not getting to a goal right now or by next week, but to consistently and consciously build energetic momentum underneath my actions.

There is always an energetic momentum going on within our lives. This is to say, that even when we are at a low point, we’re not usually there statically. We’re always moving up, down, or circling around a certain point.

Sometimes after a deep meditation, you can open your eyes and see that the many stationary and inanimate objects glow and expands with light & energy.

Everything is energy & energy wants to move.

And so, when things in your life do get stagnant, you can ask ‘What am I allowing to stay the same’.

What, within your control, are you keeping still due to fear of what change or movement will ask of you?

How to remain positive when manifesting

One of the key parts of manifestation (at least generally speaking) is to be able to hold an abundance mindset for long periods of time.

As we’ve explored this isn’t always realistic or practical. We’re not always going to be able to hold a clear positive mindset all the time, and we might prefer not to (to focus in a more balanced and grounded way).

When we set an intention often we just bring more attention to our lack of it.

If you are struggling to create change because you are still focused on lack and don’t know how to shake it – rather than trying to release or ignore that, start by being more aware of when you are bringing in the energy of lack.

Where can you start to ration and be more selective with it?

Set aside short periods of time where the only energy you are going to focus on is abundance. Outside of that, you can be more forgiving.

For example: When you are creating something – a piece of writing, artwork, a plan – this is when you can ration lack. 

Bring up all of the positive energy from your reserves, and pour it into this one thing in this moment.

Allow that work to hold an abundance vibration, even if you are feeling lack elsewhere. Whenever you bring out your creative tools, charge them with abundance. 

This is a great way to start building momentum when it feels difficult to hold a consistent positive mindset. It also takes a lot of the pressure off – mentally, emotionally, energetically.

I like to think that even when I am feeling low or down, those pockets of time where I devoted myself to deep levels of positivity are still working for me. Whatever I created in that time, is still attracting positive outcomes & opportunities.

Ironically enough, the less pressure we feel to be positive all the time, the easier it is to do so. This is the Law of Detachment.

Law of Attraction Visualization

The final piece of the puzzle is what you do on a day to day basis and incorporating the Law of Attraction into your default way of being.

In the book The Magic by Rhonda Byrne she talks of two daily techniques you can use to start manifesting abundance into your life through gratitude.

The first is to write a few things you are grateful for in a journal everyday when you wake up. The second is to find a rock you like and keep it as your gratitude rock. At the end of the day pick up this rock and think of a few events from the day that you are grateful for.-

What I like doing alongside these two techniques is to visualize my ideal day as I’m drifting off to sleep. What this does is allow our intentions to shimmer all night and even manifest in our dreams as we sleep. I talk more about this technique here.

They key here is to infuse as much emotion as possible into this visualization and as the brain cannot tell the difference between an inner vision and physical action you are aligning with that future present. Breathing energy into your goals.