Courage And The Law Of Attraction Part 5 of 5 by Steve Pavlina

May 23, 2011

The Vibration of Courage

Courage is a very powerful vibration. When you act with courage and confidence, your goals and intentions will manifest much more readily because you’re actively moving toward them instead of hoping they’ll magically appear at your door. Hope is a very weak vibration — it doesn’t manifest squat!

If you shrink from your fears, you’re going to have little success with the LoA. Fear serves as a counter-intention to all of your positive intentions. Trying to manifest without courage is like going to the gym to do a workout, then returning home to smoke a cigarette and chow down on junk food. Now go ahead and complain that exercise has no effect. :)

Some people might be turned off by this, but I have to say it. The people I know who are most convinced the LoA doesn’t work are invariably the biggest cowards I’ve ever met. They’ve given up so much ground to their fears and retreated so far into their heads that their goals are buried beneath a weighty tome of excuses and rationalizations. When I talk to such people for even a few minutes, it’s crystal clear that fear and worry are their dominant vibrations. Courage is like a totally alien concept to them and has very little place in their lives. The closest thing to courage they can muster is to complain about what they don’t want.

For example, I know someone who hates her job and has enough money saved up to last a year, but she can’t bring herself to quit. So she keeps doing heartless, soulless work year after year. She’s good at what she does, but she knows it’s a dead end. She lacks the courage to go after her dreams, so she plays it safe instead. I can ask her what she wants, and she’ll tell me her goals, but there’s no passion or enthusiasm behind her words. The goals are nothing but emotionless content — there’s no energy behind them at all.

When she asks me for advice on how to create a better life for herself, I tell her, “Go to your boss and say, ‘I quit.’ It will take about one second.” It’s a very straightforward, simple, concrete step to take. I can see that she’ll be utterly relieved, but also excited and terrified, when she lets that job go. It will allow her to embark on an adventurous new chapter of her life. But will she do it? I doubt it will happen anytime soon. She doesn’t see the value of courage. She thinks she can get by without it. And yet she remains a woman whose life is tediously the same year after year.

At the same time, she wonders why she can’t seem to attract the man of her dreams, no matter how much time she invests in clarifying what she wants and (feebly) moving toward her goal. Of course she can’t succeed with this approach. Such a man only exists on the other side of her fear. The man of her dreams, should he ever appear in her life, could never find such a disconnected, cowardly woman attractive. Until she musters the courage to step outside her comfort zone, she’ll remain perpetually alone.

Fortunately I know that life will eventually force the issue. With each passing year as she ages, she has to watch her dreams fading faster and faster. I expect that will eventually stir something in her, especially since she wants to have a family of her own.

If you want to grow consciously, don’t wait for life to force the issue. Build your courage consciously. Apply it consciously. Push yourself to grow instead of being shoved around or beaten down.

Don’t wait for life to magically bring you what you want. Go out and hunt it down. Be bold, brave, and proactive. Activate the Law of Attraction at full intensity. Speed toward your desires just as they speed toward you. Let them attract you just as you attract them.

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