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I have a question for you.

Its about the Law of Attraction. Do we attract everything that happens to us in our lives? Some people say YES - on a conscious or unconscious level everything we experience in our lives we have attracted. But I am not so sure.

Here are three possible answers to this question.

1) YES(see above). Either consciously or unconsciously, we attract everything we experience in our lives. But the problem with this is for example,does a 3 year old who gets abused attract this to themselves? What about horrendous events like 911? I have a real problem with attributing the cause of a horrendous event to the victim. This brings us to explanation #2.

2) Zeitgeist - Its not necessarily the victim who attracts the event but instead its society as a whole that attracts events. When many individuals fear or focus on possible events, this attracts that particular event. For example, because there is a focus on violence in  society, for example, the daily news channel, we see this reflected in violence throughout our society. This removes the "blame" for an unwanted event from the individual and places it on society as a whole.

3) Sometimes bad(or good) things happen. - Because we live in a physical dimension If I create my reality and you create your reality, then at some point these intersect, what you do may affect me and vica-versa. Think of a pool table, where each ball has a trajectory unless it collides with another ball. The difference being that one, we choose our trajectory by our actions(one of these actions is using the Law of Attraction and focusing on what we want to attract). The other difference is that , unlike a pool ball, we can choose our reaction, adjust our trajectory.

For me I choose # 3. I believe that I live in this world where many individuals are simultaneously co-creating their reality. I believe that using the Law of Attraction  can help me to create the life I want AND help me to help others create the lives they want at the same time. I also believe that using the Law of Attraction will help me attract the circumstances I want and the people who I can co-create with. I also believe that each individual, as they create their life, they affect the whole world. As individuals we contribute and affect the larger whole. Think of individuals who have have affected the entire planet by taking individual action which in turn changes many lives.

What do you think? Do we attract everything into our lives?