If you’ve been around here for a while, you'll know I’m obsessed with the law of attraction and manifestation. The book, ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrnes completely changed the trajectory of my business and life. I wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for her teachings - and those of the law of attraction and manifestation more generally.

I sometimes get people telling me that they’ve tried to implement these practices, but with little success. Today I wanted to share why, if this is you, you may be running into some roadblocks.

Here are 4 reasons you may not be attracting what you want.

You’re not in alignment

Just because you want something, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to get it (sorry!) You must be in alignment if you want to bring your desires to life. When there’s a discrepancy between what you want, and what’s in your environment, the Universe finds it difficult to know what it needs to provide.

Let me give you a practical example to help explain this …

Say you want to attract twenty thousand dollars but you’re flat broke and almost everything in your environment speaks poverty and lack (you’re stressed about money, all your conversations are about how much money you don’t have and you’re generating a negative energy when you have to pay a bill) - the Universe isn’t able to figure out if it’s abundance or lack that you want! 

You may be wishing and hoping, but the energy you’re giving off and everything the Universe is picking up on, feels like you want ten dollars rather than twenty thousand dollars.  

Your objective should be to find a way to begin to feel like you are worth twenty thousand dollars. This might look like you giving gratitude when you pay a bill (thank you phone for allowing me to connect with the people I love), refusing to have conversations that perpetuate financial stress or repeating affirmations like ‘I am a magnet for abundance’.

This is the first and most crucial step to activating the law of attraction!

Lack of Focus 

This is another hindrance to manifesting what you desire. In order to get the Universe to move what you want into your physical reality, you must begin to hold a clear and steady focus of what you want at all times throughout the day.

Some tools I use to help me with this are: 

• Vision boarding 
• The use of affirmations 
• Doing visualisation meditations
• Pretending that what I want already exists and feeling into the energy of that.

Lack of power with intent 

The one thing that helps give your desires power are emotions and feelings. In order for the law of attraction to work quickly with your desires, you must first know with great certainly that you do want what you are asking for and you must begin to feel it very deeply.  If there are slight feelings of doubt, those doubts will work as barriers and prevent your desires from coming to life.

Surrounding yourself with people or things that contradict what you are creating 

This is by far one of the most difficult things that gets in the way of you attracting what you desire. You see, other people's beliefs and doubts can greatly hinder your ability to manifest what you want. Those people could be family members, co-workers or friends.  The universal law of attraction works on vibrational energy - other people's vibrations can have a great effect on yours, causing you to attract things based on the energy of the group you are surrounded by.

There you have it friends, the 4 things that may be preventing you from attracting what you want in your life and business. I suggest that you pull out your journal and spend some time reflecting on these teachings … 

What exactly is getting in your way? The more specific the better!

What small shifts can you make so you can manifest all that you deserve and desire?

Caryna. X