One of the conundrums of the Law of Attraction is that if we attract that which we contemplate, and ideate, why do negative things happen to people with positive outlooks? I'm talking about devastating events, such as a cancer diagnosis, or accidents in life, or petty enmities that spoil a workplace environment. Since nobody actively things about these things, how are they attracted to someone's life?

The 'Law of Attraction' is not just a personal force that manifests on an individual basis; it is at work with the entire universe, the laws of causation and belief. Much as vector sums result in strange accumulations of forces in physics, the cumulative sum of everyone's beliefs manifest through the law of attraction.

Carrying the analogy further, let's start with a mountain and a pebble falling from the sky from orbital velocity – we'll ignore atmospheric friction for a moment. Gravitation affects both of these objects equally; Galileos' experiment of dropping the cannon ball and the pebble from the tower of Pisa and noting that they both hit the ground at the same time is proof of this – and you can demonstrate it yourself by shoving a dime and a quarter off the edge of the table and watching to see which one hits the floor first.

While the forces acting on the pebble and the mountain are the same, the masses are different. The mountain hitting the ocean will cause devastation and ripples like a tsunami. A pebble might cause a few minor ripples. Just like kinetic energy is the product of mass times the square of the velocity of impact, the law of attraction scales by the number of people believing in a particular outcome. Since most people are unaware of their interaction with the law of attraction, the majority of the courses that it sets are neutral to negative, as they react to life stresses, which means that their ideation washes over on to you.

Following the Law of Attraction, it becomes stunningly apparent societal beliefs will impact our lives. You can still enhance your own level of ideation and self realization with the law of attraction, and you can use it to alter and attract the circumstances of your life to what you desire, but understand that other people's ideations involving you, or things you interact with will also impact your life. This is particularly apparent in areas of your life where you're dwelling at a low point of attraction and not applying much focus.

A larger example of this is the concept of money, and the rule of law, both of which govern entire countries and international relations. If you think about it much, money and economic principles are a communally supported set of shared beliefs – that by exchanging scraps of paper for goods, those scraps of paper can be exchanged for other goods and the entire valuation of the economy can be made to work. When there's a lack of confidence in the value of the paper to hold its rate of exchange, inflation occurs, and bank collapses happen – this is happening now in Venezuela, as Hugo Chavez nationalizes key industries in the country. Likewise, the concept that government officials are not corrupt, and don't pad their nests with bribes, that the local cop on the corner is actually there to help and protect you rather than a uniformed thug for a criminal gang is another example of massive scale Law of Attraction effects. While it's somewhat callous to say so, thinking and worrying about poverty will mire you in poverty and debt.

In conclusion, the best way to raise yourself is to raise your sights to something positive, something better, and let the Law of Attraction pull you along.