The Science Behind the Law of Attraction Magazine May 2018 | Page 52

Using t he Law of At t r act ion t o get Body Conf idence f r om t he Inside Out ! By Coach St ephanie Wood, PCC Many of us use LOA's powerful energy for what we desire in our lives. The implication is to attract things available in our environment, but not currently in our lives.The beauty of body confidence, the feeling of being comfortable with our appearance at any time under any circumstances, is we were born with that desirable quality. Our challenge is to get it back and that's where the Law of Attraction improves our lives. At birth, our only fear was of falling, as we grew into adulthood, our personalities added other insecurities. As we matured, body confidence was socialized out of us by our parents, peers, and the media. For women, body image took center stage during our adolescence and continued affecting our overall confidence into adulthood. In adulthood, every transition brought more body image issues. There are three traditional LOA Steps to Creating Confidence: 1. Focus on the feeling in present time 2. Reframe negative emotions into positivity around this issue. 3. Allow Confidence to flow into you. Those steps suggest Confidence lies outside of yourself, and it's necessary to attract it to you. Practitioners of Law of Attraction will report mixed results with those steps, as well as other techniques traditionally used to draw non-material things into their lives. Those unreliable results depend on the misconception that confidence is an external quality, one that is available somewhere "out there" and will be open to anyone who knows how to attract it. And they are the same unenlightened people who attempt to acquire confidence with other external items: a fancy car, an attractive partner, a large house, lots of jewelry, and endless rounds of plastic surgery. Those for whom, "More is never enough." Law of At t ract ion + Body Knowl edge Syst em= Body Conf idence Made Simpl e. Body Knowledge System practitioners understand the concept of "enough" and how it applies to every aspect of their lives. Ironically, those who also practice the Law of Attraction begin within their bodies to establish the trust between them for the Law of Attraction to be useful in all aspects of their lives. The concept of "enough" when applied to confidence is particularly important when used to women in modern society. Assertiveness is often mistaken for arrogance and criticized harshly by Page 52 - M ay, 2018