misunderstanding
There’s a gap in my understanding of things. The cause of this gap is not exactly clear to me, but I know it’s there. In fact, there’s a lot of things I don’t know, or understand. This particular gap applies to the Law of Attraction, LOA for short. I have suspected for a while that I was missing something, but not long ago that was made clear to me, though a roundabout manner.
First, a little background. I find that I learn the most about my life when I take lessons I’ve learned in jujitsu class and apply them off the mat, in everyday life. Lately sensei has been talking about applying learning we get from other styles into our system, our techniques or kata. He encourages to find the principles that make techniques from other systems work and bring them into our kata. According to him, if you can’t bring the principle into the kata, you don’t understand the kata correctly. Many principles of fighting are universal and it is the difference in their expression that gives rise to many of different martial arts systems.
With that in mind, I began to look at that idea and how I understand LOA. I understand LOA in regards to manifesting material things, but when I think about relationships, everything seems to go sideways. This tells me two things - one, I don’t completely understand relationships, at least I don’t understand them as much as I thought I did, and two, I don’t understand LOA correctly either. Universal laws are exactly that - universal, and they function the same whether the subject is material or immaterial.
In martial arts, the solution is simple - if you don’t understand the kata, go back to it, break it down into pieces and study it, and practice it until you understand how it functions and why it does what it does, then look at the principle you’re trying to bring into it and see where it fits into the kata. I think that solution is appropriate here too - I need to go back and look at LOA more and put the whole relationship thing on hold for now. I am attracting, or not attracting, people into my life for a reason, reasons I haven’t yet figured out but need to understand if I am to change the situation the way I want it to be. Lately, I’m not even sure what that is, so I think it best to just step back for a while and think. If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.