The so called Law of Attraction is widely popular these days, preaching that you can create the life that you want through changing your attitude and beliefs. Visualization is another feature, as well as affirmations and the like. Followed by action, changes in these areas are said to change your life, sometimes completely.

Although I do not deny that changes in these areas can deeply transform the way you live and bring magical transformation into your life, I am critical of the way that it’s being taught, as I’ve written about in two earlier posts – Love creates reality and I believe in magic but remain skeptical towards the Law of Attraction. Now I’m back to utter some thoughts and critique on the so called first Law of Attraction – “like attracts like”.

Like doesn’t always attract like

The “like attracts like” rule dictates that a certain vibration, for example positivity, will attract more positivity from the outside. While I believe that this is sometimes true, I don’t believe this to always be the case. To make it simple, let’s start with look at the opposite, a negative vibration, like sadness. A natural response to sadness is compassion, which is a positive vibration. Just like a human being, the Universe and your guides, ancestors and other beings as well as creatures are perfectly able and ready to react to for example sadness with compassion and comfort. Maybe even a happy surprise.

Sometimes love provokes a negative response

A person who is for example on a spiritual journey and through that deepens their capacity of loving, might actually trigger others around in their traumas and receive negative responses to their loving vibration. And the Universe or your guides, etc, can react with more difficult challenges as you deepen your spiritual journey. This is then not a punishment, but a challenge to grow.

So even if sometimes the “like attracts like” does apply, sometimes I think that it really doesn’t, and this is important to know when practicing manifestation and magic.

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