Thought Vibration: or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World

by William Walker Atkinson

When we come to see that Thought is a force — a manifestation of energy — having a magnet-like power of attraction, we will begin to understand the why and wherefore of many things that have heretofore seemed dark to us.

In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object.

There is no study that will so well repay the student for his time and trouble as the study of the workings of this mighty law of the world of Thought — the Law of Attraction.

When we think we send out vibrations of a fine ethereal substance, which are as real as the vibrations manifesting light, heat, electricity, magnetism.

That these vibrations are not evident to our five senses is no proof that they do not exist.

Light and heat are manifested by vibrations of a far lower intensity than those of Thought, but the difference is solely in the rate of vibration.

The variance being one of degree only…

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Sensifying: To make sense or of the senses

We often hear repeated the well-known Mental Science statement, “Thoughts are Things,” and we say these words over without consciously realizing just what is the meaning of the statement.

aka New Thought

If we fully comprehended the truth of the statement and the natural consequences of the truth back of it, we should understand many things which have appeared dark to us, and would be able to use the wonderful power, Thought Force, just as we use any other manifestation of Energy.

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We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity all the time, and we are reaping the results of such thoughts.

Not only do our thought waves influence ourselves and others, but they have a drawing power — they attract to us the thoughts of others, things, circumstances, people, “luck,” in accord with the character of the thought uppermost in our minds.

LoA: That which is like unto itself is drawn. —AH Thoughts of like feather flock together

Like attracts like in the Thought World — as ye sow so shall ye reap. Birds of a feather flock together in the Thought World — curses like chickens come home to roost, and bringing their friends with them.

When you stop to think of it you will see that a man really makes his own surroundings, although he blames others for it. I have known people who understood this law to hold a positive, calm thought and be absolutely unaffected by the inharmony surrounding them.

Like a stone thrown into the water, thought produces ripples and waves which spread out over the great ocean of thought. There is this difference, however: the waves on the water move only on a level plane in all directions, whereas thought waves move in all directions from a common center, just as do the rays from the sun.

We attract to us the thoughts of others of the same order of thought.

the man who looks for good in everything and everybody will be likely to attract to himself the things and people corresponding to his thought. We generally see that for which we look.

We receive only that which corresponds to our mental attunement.

If we have been discouraged, we may rest assured that we have dropped into a negative key, and have been affected not only by our own thoughts but have also received the added depressing thoughts of similar character which are constantly being sent out from the minds of other unfortunates who have not yet learned the law of attraction in the thought world.

And if we occasionally rise to heights of enthusiasm and energy, how quickly we feel the inflow of the courageous, daring, energetic, positive thoughts being sen...

We recognize this without much trouble when we come in personal contact with people and feel their vibrations, depressing or invigorating, as the case may be. But the same law operates when w...

The mind has many degrees of pitch, ranging from the highest positive note to the lowest negative note, with many notes in between, varying in pitch according to their respective distance from the positive or negative extreme.

When your mind is operating along positive lines you feel strong, buoyant, bright, cheerful, happy, confident and courageous, and are enabled to do your work well, to carry out your intentions, and progress on your roads to Success. You send out strong positive thought, which affects others and causes them to cooperate with you or to follow your lead, according to their own mental keynote.

Mental attitude, atmosphere; Vibrational altitude, point-of-attraction

When you are playing on the extreme negative end of the mental keyboard you feel depressed, week, passive, dull, fearful, cowardly. And you find yourself unable to make progress or to succeed. And your effect upon others is practically nil. You are led by, rather than leading others, and are used as a human doormat or football by more positive persons.

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remember you possess the power to raise the keynote of your mind to a positive pitch by an effort of the will.

it is equally true that you may allow yourself to drop into a low, negative note by carelessness or a weak will.

There is no particular merit in affirmations of themselves, but they serve a twofold purpose:

(1)

They tend to establish new mental attitudes within us and act wonderfully in the direction of character- building — the...

(2)

They tend to raise the mental keynote so that we may get the benefit of the positive thought waves of other...

Whether or not we believe in them,

we are constantly making affirmations.

The man who asserts that he can and will do a thing — and ass...

develops in himself the qualities conducive to the well doing of that thing, and at the same time places his mind in the proper key to receive all the tho...

Do not allow yourselves to be affected by the adverse and negative thoughts of those around you.

Rise to the upper chambers of your mental dwelling, and key yourself up to a strong pitch, away above the vibrations on the lower planes of thought. Then you will not only be immune to their negative vibrations but will be in touch with the great body of strong positive thought coming from those of your own plane of development.

Development of the will is very much like the development of a muscle — a matter of practice and gradual improvement.

Man has but one mind, but he has many mental faculties, each faculty being capable of functioning along two different lines of mental effort. There are no distinct dividing lines separating the two several functions of a faculty, but they shade into each other as do the colors of the spectrum.

An Active effort of any faculty of the mind is the result of a direct impulse imparted at the time of

the effort.

A Passive effort of any faculty of the mind is the result of either a preceding Activ...

an Active effort of another along the lines...

Thought Vibrations from the mind...

Thought impulses from an ancestor, transmitted by the...

(including impulses transmitted from generation to generation from the time of the original vibratory impulse imparted by the Primal Cause — which impulses gradually unfold, and unsheath, when the ...

The Law applies to good habits as well as bad.

The moral is obvious.

The Will is the outward manifestation of the I Am.

He develops the faculties and powers latent within him and learns how to manifest them along the line of Active mentation as well as Passive.

He knows that the real man within him is the master to whom both Active and Passive functions are but tools.