The Law Of Attraction - LOVE

I painted a mandala months ago… it has hung in my room ever since, not photographed, unfinished. There was something missing and I didn’t know what.

I had painted it with the law of attraction in mind – I was missing love in my life and I wanted to bring it back in and I had thought that this mandala, with all its personal symbology and colour, would assist in allowing that flow of love, in the form of a loving relationship with a man, to come back into my life.

The mandala symbology represents the elements of love in relationships that are essential to me –

Kookaburras for Laughter and Joy
Kangaroo for Family and Abundance
Sea Eagle for Great Spirit
Cockatoo representing Self Esteem and Friendship (and falling in my sign, Libra)
Wolf as Teacher
Raven for Magick

And thus, after painting it, I sat back to wait for LOVE to arrive in my life, LOL!

I should’ve known better! When you ask the Universe for something, it will come to you, but if you have not asked clearly and specifically, what you get is something completely unexpected – and thus it was with this request.

Love arrived in my life in the form of lessons. The first lesson was to teach me that despite the fact that there are horrible people out there in the real world who will use you up, hurt you, spit you out and discard you without thought for your emotions or feelings, they are NOT YOU. They cannot take away your power or your capacity to love – only you can do that.

Only you have the power to love. Only you have the power to change the way you think and feel and believe. Only you.

I learned not to shut down my heart ever again, for anyone. It’s my heart and my love and I will let it pour forth into the world with joy and abundance…

The second lesson was much harder. I was given an opportunity to learn about myself through the behaviour of another. In the losing of myself in another’s life, I became aware of the pain in my heart that my behaviour was causing. I realised that in order for me to be happy, I had to satisfy my needs first. Not in a selfish way, but in a way that meant that for the first time in my life, I came first. My needs came first. This is a difficult lesson for me and one which will take time absorbing and actualizing.

When you subjugate your basic needs to another, you give away your power. By saying you will put up with things that hurt or upset you, you give away your power. By ignoring the unhappiness and stress in your mind, you give away your power.

My needs were simple. Like all of us, I just wanted to be happy and to be loved, appreciated and respected. I deserve to be treated with love, respect and appreciation because that is the way I treat others. And in this lesson, I realised that I was not being treated this way. I then had to choose to stay with that lesson, or learn it and move on.

I chose to move on. I chose to reclaim my power.

The third lesson was that all the money in the world CANNOT buy happiness – it comes from within…

I realised that I am the only person who can make me happy. I am responsible for my own happiness, my own respect, my own appreciation. I became aware that I am the only person in my life I truly have to please and that if I meet my needs – If I learn to LOVE and APPRECIATE and RESPECT MYSELF then all else will follow.

And thus I took the mandala off the wall and in the inner circles I wrote all the things that were necessary for me to have wonderful relationships. All the things that were essential in my life for me to be happy. All the morals and ethics that were important to me on my very first level of need.

Friendship, Joy, Happiness, Respect, Self Respect, Monogamy, Abundance, Faith, Trust, Belief, Support, Love, Sharing, Caring, Compassion, Family, Communication, Magic, Trust, Partnership, Fidelity, Commitment and many more…

And the mandala was complete.
It was for me all along.
It was the Law Of Attraction – In order for me to be loved, I first have to love myself.

Enjoy…

Marg Thomson
copyright 2009

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