This question has been popping up in my mind for at least the last 18 months, as I have been experiencing many more people using the phrase “Law of Attraction”.  I’d been following my own nose to learn at a deeper level how we create our own reality and how to go about creating more of what I really desire in life and this phrase has never really been part of my own usage, so I wondered “Why am I hearing it so much and where did it come from?”

I suspect the popularising of this phrase usage is an off shoot of many people becoming interested in bettering their lives, having seen or heard about the movie-doco called “The Secret”. In some of the interactive circles I’ve engaged in, this movie and phrase has been mentioned often. The marketing of this movie and the apparent message is the secret force to creating in life what we desire is this Law of Attraction.

Whilst the movie itself has popularised this phrase, the orgins of it’s usage in our collective language has been around for quite some time. In fact, I remember hearing there was some controversy in a lady named Ester Hicks appearing in the original version of “The Secret”and not appearing in a re-edited version a little later. This lady has many students of her work championing the phrase Law of Attraction through teachings of a being, she says channels through her, called “Abraham”.  My point here is not to discuss Abraham as such but to point out that the phrase “Law of Attraction”  was already being frequently referenced in some cricles before the movie “The Secret” came out, so the origins of it being popularised probably seem to have occurred in the most recent decades.

I personally first heard of this phrase at least twenty years ago when I began to study the powers of our own minds. In my exploring, I remember there were six so called laws that were foundational to explaining how our minds work.  One of those laws was called Law of Attraction. As far as I remember, it was not any more important than the other five laws I learnt about, so I never really identified it to myself as explaining in one easy law how we create our reality or knew it as universal law.

However, this seems to be the more common reference point for it when other people use this phrase today.  As a result, I’ve felt compelled to contemplate what is the distinction between what I learnt about as the Law of Attraction and what are other people are meaning when they use it in all types of contexts about their own lives, and beliefs.  In the coming week I will continue to share my thoughts here on this topic but I challenge you to also ask yourself the question what does the Law of Attraction mean to you ? If you could state it as a law in your own words what would it be ?