Circumstances are Thoughts in Disguise

A different look at the law of attraction

Throughout most of my journey through spirituality, I was under the impression that negative thoughts create negative circumstances. But they don’t.

Allow me to elaborate…

You can spend a thousand years in a negative vibration. All it means for the duration of that time you are seeing the negative.

The moment you switch into a positive state of mind, you don’t even have to wait for “circumstances” to change. You automatically, instantly, see positive all around you, like flipping between two radio stations, only you’re seeing a new reality.

While we believe in two worlds, the inside, and the outside, it’s helpful to consider the idea of aligning with a higher vibration as a sort of investment. As if you can invest in positive thoughts and eventually if you invest in enough positive vibration, positive things happen.

But there’s a flip-side to this.

If you believe investing in positive thoughts creates positive things, that means investing in negative thoughts creates negative things. So from this perspective, you have to be very careful about what you think. And if a terrible thing happens, it means that it’s because you’ve been investing in too many negative thoughts.

This underlying assumption will, one way or another, create worry and guilt.

Worry that you need to stay positive “or else” … And guilt that if something bad happens, it’s your fault for spending too much time in a low vibration.

In the law-of-attraction world, we mostly sweep this problem under the rug by saying that positive thoughts are a thousand times stronger at attracting circumstances than negative thoughts, but I’d like to offer a different understanding where we can expose it completely.

And it’s this:

Circumstances don’t happen. At all. So you never need to worry about creating a negative circumstance by thinking too many negative thoughts. In fact, nothing happens. Nothing has happened. Nothing can happen.

What does that mean?

Since the beginning of time-space, nothing has been created. It’s just a continual dream that’s experienced from thought.

This is difficult to see while we’re invested in the reality our senses appear to witness. We can look at our hands and say “this is definitely created.” But consider that our senses only give evidence to what we think is there. That’s quite difficult for us to come to terms with, so while it is, learning the law of attraction serves as a helpful stepping stone.

But as we move up a level of consciousness we begin to see that the inside world and the outside world are the same. They’re not linked. One does not influence the other. They’re actually the same. The world is the mind and the mind is the world.

No physical “thing” happens in the world. Thoughts arise in consciousness, and sometimes those thoughts appear as though they are made of matter.

Circumstances don’t happen. Ideas pass through the mind, and they make a temporary illusion of a circumstance.

To believe otherwise is to believe that an idea of yours can leave your mind and actually become something outside it. Ideas can’t leave the mind that thought them. The creation cannot leave the mind of the creator.

What you seem to be perceiving, at all times, is what you’re thinking at that moment.

So you never have to worry about manifesting the negative, because what appears as something manifested, something happening, is just a thought you’re thinking at that moment.

You can transcend all negative ‘circumstances’ instantly, simply by seeing that you are making them up — no matter how ‘physical’ they seem to be. They are made up in the mind that believes them to be real.

Whenever something bad happens and you think, “darn, if only I were in a more positive vibration this wouldn’t have happened” — what’s actually happening is a negative thought is passing through your mind, and you are mistaking it for being something physical and real.

This is how you free yourself of the guilt, and the worry, completely — by seeing that nothing happened, and so nothing can happen. No negative thought can affect anything. You don’t pay consequences for negative thoughts, they just temporarily distract you from the love, happiness, and perfection of who you are.

Who you are, in this sense, is not a dream. It’s not made up. It’s the only thing that’s truly ‘created’ and eternal. You only need to notice when you’ve deviated from the wellbeing of who you are. Whenever you lose that feeling, it just means you’re playing with some crappy thoughts. Even if they appear like circumstances, they’re still thoughts you’re thinking.

Everything else is smoke and mirrors — illusion appearing as form, and the moment that smoke passes, the truth of who you are is revealed underneath — like a stone castle amidst the fog. Still and changeless, beyond time and space.