3 Ways to go BEYOND the Law of Attraction and Why "thinking" isn't Enough

Aaron Doughty explains why positive thinking alone doesn't work and outlines three deeper mechanisms: aligning subconscious beliefs with desires, using pain-pleasure associations to redirect motivation toward goals, and embodying your future self through visualization. He references Dr. Joe Dispenza and offers a 21-day guided meditation for subconscious reprogramming.
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This video, I'm going to share with you 3 reasons that the law of attraction isn't enough and understand how you can really get through that barrier so that you experience what you want easier than ever. I'm going to show you ways of getting deeper into understanding the way reality works so that you can optimize your own life in the process. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron and I help people expand their consciousness. Consciousness. Now in this video, I'm going to be sharing with you the 3 things you can do and 3 reasons the law of attraction isn't enough. Now these are going to be the things that people normally experience blocks with, but I'm going to show you ways of getting deeper because the thing is, is it goes just beyond that of the law of attraction. Of course, the law of attraction is nonetheless something that we see in our universe. It's one of what is called the quote rule sets of the universe. However, the thing is, is when we get deeper than that, we see that it's actually much more simpler. Now you would think it'd be more complicated because like, well, isn't it just you think about it and that's what comes in your life? Isn't that about as simple as it gets? Well, the thing is, is there are a couple different characteristics that come into play and there's a couple different areas we move in the direction of unconsciously without even knowing it. So you may have someone, for example, that is thinking about a certain type of car and maybe they go out and they see this certain type of car, but it's not like necessarily they've internalized it and they've allowed themselves to believe they deserve it. So you see, there's a little bit of a difference between what we think about to what we believe we deserve. Someone may think about a Ferrari or a nice car, but if they're not aligning and resonating with that reality, than they're just thinking about it. Now, of course, when you think about it, you may bring more characteristics in that life, more opportunities that if you act upon and if you do certain things, you begin to resonate more with it. But many times people will think of things and unless they internalize it in some ways I share with you, then it remains just exactly that, a thought in the mind. Now, I do believe that in a way thoughts are things, so when we think thoughts, We think that they are invisible, that they just don't exist. I think on a plane, on a certain way of looking at it, they do actually exist. It's just that they haven't formalized yet. They haven't crystallized into reality because there hasn't been momentum. There's maybe a couple of different reasons for this, but in the same way that there's certain frequencies we can't see with our eyes, like we can only see between infrared and ultraviolet, we can only hear a certain decibel range. I believe there's other vibrations out there and it would be in a way kind of limiting to think that we can see, hear, and experience everything there is to experience when we know that we can only feel and see. We can't see x-rays, for example. We can't hear the sound of a dog whistle yet. A dog can, yet that doesn't mean the sound doesn't exist. You see? So what this does is this allows us to know that there's more to experience than we have already through our senses. So the key to this and the first reason that the law of attraction isn't enough is because it more so is about how our beliefs create our reality. So what we believe to be true is always reflected back to us. We could say that when we go out into the world, what we experience is a reflection of that. It's like a mirror. So if we smile in the life, in life in general, then we will get a reflection of that back. We will see reasons to smile. We get a reflection of what we put out. Now it's about understanding the beliefs that we have because some people may actually go out and say, I believe the law of attraction doesn't work. Now what they do is that belief in and of itself will tone out proof and evidence where the law of attraction does work. It's called confirmation bias, and they will only see evidence that the law of attraction doesn't work. Now that's because beyond just the law of attraction, our beliefs create our reality and our beliefs will always formulate and crystallize into such a way that that is what we experience. So the key to this whole process is understanding that our beliefs are what influence our life. So let me ask you a question. If there was, for example, a certain type of car you wanted, let's say that you wanted to have a, uh, Tesla. That's what I want. I want a Tesla. So if you wanted a Tesla, what you could do is you say, I want a Tesla. You could even think of a Tesla and you may go, the gym I go to, there's a whole bunch of Teslas there. So I'm always driving by them and I'm like, nice. And when I see them, I can look at that and say, okay, I'm attracting more of seeing it. But do I believe that I am worthy to have a Tesla? Do you believe you are worthy to have whatever kind of car you like, whatever kind of relationship you wanna be in? Do you view yourself as worthy? Because if you just think about it, but you don't think and internalize and believe that you're worthy of it, then you won't actually experience it. So the key to this is becoming aware of what you believe. Now, what you believe to be true is something that is normally formulated at an early stage in life. A lot of it unconsciously as well. We may have these beliefs about money that say money is bad. Money is something that if you have, you're a bad person. There could be money is hard to get. So there's these negative associations with money, which means money is not going to come into our life very easily because we have all these rules about it. We have all these mindsets about it. So the key to this is to actually become aware of the beliefs about money and then to let them go. The key is to become aware of our beliefs about relationships. Do you believe you're worthy to be in a certain type of relationship? Sometimes this is patterned in at a young age. Maybe we see the way one of our parents treats someone else and we assume, oh, that's the way relationships work. So then we assume that that's how we deserve to be treated, but we can become aware and we could say, what do I believe about relationships? You see, it's not always just the subject itself that we focus on, but it's how we relate to the subject that we focus on. If we relate to relationships and we think, oh, relationships to to me mean no freedom, then we start to give it a negative connotation, which means we want to attract that into our life. If we give it a negative connotation that, oh, this person's probably going to take advantage of me, kind of the presupposition of us going into an experience, then we start to create the momentum for that. Be aware of the beliefs that you have. Now, here's a way you find beliefs. Here's the easiest process for changing your beliefs. Simply ask yourself the question, what would I believe to be true to be having X, Y, or Z? What would I believe to be— what would I have to believe is true to be feeling lonely right now? What would I have to believe is true in order for me to think that money is hard to get? What would I have to believe is true for me to know that I don't interact with other people very well? As you become aware of all these beliefs, you can then see, whoa, there's this one reference experience that I go back to in my mind of when I was younger or maybe 10 years ago or 5 years ago, and this one reference experience started to build that belief. But then what you do is you look at that belief and you look at that reference experience, which is a memory, and you say, that was just one experience. That doesn't have to be who I am. That doesn't have to be something that drains itself out the rest of my life. In the moment you become aware of it is the moment you can decide to let it go. Beliefs only have power when we are unaware of them. When we become aware of them, we see how illogical they are because you may see just a couple experiences, but what you can do is you can take that belief and you could find evidence of the opposite of it. For example, you say, I believe I'm not confident. There are times in your past when you were confident. There were times in your past when you weren't confident. It's if you don't feel confident, it's because you're focusing on the times that you weren't, you have momentum or you have some very powerful memories in the past that developed that belief. So then what you could do is become aware of it. You're aware of it. So you've already started to gain back the power. Then find evidence of the opposite and be like, yeah, well there's plenty of times I actually was confident. And as you become aware of those, you start to develop the momentum in a different direction and just specifically decide to let go of the old belief. It's a decision to let go. And as you let that go, it starts to change everything in your life. I truly believe that when we get to the core of what we believe to be true, it's a lot of beliefs, but I believe when we get to the core of what we believe to be true, that's when everything in our life will change because that is what we experience in reality. It's a belief of what we believe. It's a reflection of what we believe. Too many beliefs. Anyways, I'm going to move on to the next one then. So secondly, the second reason the law of attraction is not enough, or the reason you may be experiencing blocks, is understanding pleasure and pain. See, we may think that we want something, say we think we want a relationship, but we may associate pain with the relationship subconsciously. We may have these mixed neuroassociations. A neuroassociation is a thing in our mind, a way of thinking about something that causes a certain feeling within us. So for example, you may see and want to be in a relationship, but at the same time associate pain with not having freedom. Pain and pleasure is very similar to beliefs in certain ways, but also different in certain ways. Now the way that you can use pain and pleasure is by understanding you already use it. You don't have to try to use this, but it's about being aware of how you are using this because here's the thing, here's the truth about every single person on this planet, no matter what, every single person on this planet is driven by pain and pleasure. We will always, no matter what, move in the direction of what we believe or what we perceive will bring us pleasure and we will always move away from that which we believe or perceive to bring us pain. Works the same for everyone. That is what it's called, the motivational mechanism. The difference is what people associate pleasure and pain with. So for example, someone may say, I want to be in shape. My goal is to be in shape. I want to lose 30 pounds. I want to be at this perfect body weight image, but that's what they're thinking for the law of attraction, but they associate pain with going on a diet. They associate pain with going to the gym. They associate pain with being strict on what they eat and because they associate pain with it, they have these mixed neural associations. On one hand, they desire and they want to be at the perfect body weight. On another hand, they're not driven by the motivation of doing that because they're motivated away from that. They associate pleasure maybe with eating unhealthy foods. They associate pleasure with maybe watching television versus going to the gym and maybe not even knowing this, but here is how you get what you want in your life and this will totally change your life if you start to apply it. Find out what you want to experience in your life, whatever that is. Become very clear as to what you want to experience in your life, your vision. That's something you can move towards and then associate massive pleasure with doing things that get you in that direction. Associate massive pain with things that hold you back. So this may require you to become aware as to what that could be for you. For example, for me, what I did is I associate massive pleasure with taking action and making YouTube videos. I associate pleasure with editing, with doing website stuff, with creating the kind of business that I have, with creating the lifestyle I have, with growing my brand, with posting on social media. I associate massive pleasure with that because I know that that helps get my message out to more people, but it wasn't always like that. I used to associate pain with making videos about 2 years ago before I went daily on YouTube. I did a video once a week and I would enjoy it, but I, it was, it felt like a lot of work. I switched around these pain and pleasure way of looking at it and I say, you know what? I'm going to start to associate massive pleasure with making videos even though it's going to take away some of my time. So at the time I was working 40 hours a week at Barney's New York, plus I was making daily videos on YouTube, but I switched it around. I started to associate pleasure with doing my passion. I use this also with the gym. For example, I used to be about 10, 15 pounds heavier. Nothing wrong with it, but I wanted to be a lot leaner because I knew I'd have more energy and now I do. And what I did is I associated pleasure with going on a diet. I associated pleasure with eating nutrient-rich foods. I associated pleasure with pushing myself at the gym because of the serotonin, the dopamine rush that you get when you push yourself. I associate pain with remaining stagnant. I associated pain with eating junk food, with eating— like, I used to eat like 2 or 3 acai bowls a day sometimes. And these acai bowls had a lot of granola, which is sugar, and I knew that that wasn't good for me, but I associated pleasure with it. So what I did is I switched it around and I associated more pleasure with eating more nutrient-rich stuff, and that changed everything. And within a couple of 3 months, I lost a whole bunch of excess fat and I have more energy than ever before. So if you find that you're not getting results with the law of attraction, be aware of what you are guided towards with your pain and pleasure mechanism. And if you want to achieve your goals easier than ever, simply associate more pleasure with attaining them, more pleasure with actions of getting closer to them, and associate massive pain with the opposite. If you do this, this will change your whole entire life. And this is what has allowed me to live the kind of lifestyle I do now is because I associate pleasure with things that help what I do grow. And I'll say this from experience too, success does not come from like one or two different things that have events that just change everything. If you develop a successful day, that trickles out and that gains momentum. So every day there's certain things I do that leverage what I do. I make YouTube videos, I edit, I do website stuff, I do marketing stuff. I do all of these things every single day because I'm spreading my message and that's what leverages to over time compounding everything. So be aware of what that is for you. Master your day. Associate pleasure every day with doing what you love. That will eventually become your full-time. That's what I did, and that's what absolutely transformed my life. The third reason that the law of attraction isn't enough is simply because people are thinking about it and they aren't being it. There's a difference between just thinking and being, and the difference is profound because when you start to embody the resonance of the reality you want, everything in your life will begin to change. And resonating with the reality you want is more so about understanding the three aspects that make up your personality. Your personality creates your personal reality. This is a quote from Dr. Joe Dispenza. And I find it to be true. Your personality is a combination of what you think, which is part of it, what you feel, and what you do. So some people are just thinking about it, but they're not doing the other two. Now sometimes the thinking about it will lead to the other two because then you'll feel inspired to take action. You'll feel the emotions start to build up as well. But the key to this is understanding the other two aspects. Now this may mean that you must start to take a little bit of action because when you start to move the— you want to think of moving the energy. The thoughts will move the energy, but the action and the emotion move the energy to a whole new level because the thoughts are something like we were talking about before, kind of like in the etheric plane. We can't actually see it with our eyes, but when we take action, we start to crystallize it into reality. We start to really put in a whole new level of it. Now what you can do for this quick little exercise for you is imagine the best version of you, the best self-image you have, you doing exactly what you love. Imagine that version of you, exactly what you'd be doing, feeling, and acting, and how you'd be acting. Imagine that version of you and simply decide that every day you're going to do things as that version of you. You're going to feel what that version of you feels, you're gonna think how that version of you thinks. Because then as you embody those characteristics in your reality now, eventually that will become reality for you. So it's about being aware of how you see yourself. It's about being aware of those different aspects and then how that begins to change in your life. So I imagine the best version of me, I shared this many times, I imagine the best version of me traveling the world, speaking in front of large groups of people, doing seminars, being in front, helping people understand different things, noticing how grateful people are, going and meeting people that watch my YouTube channel and how that's so cool. It's so different than just doing it through comments online. And I imagine all of these things and I imagine the version of me, my body language, how I act, kind of tonality I have, how I treat people, how compassionate I am. And I simply embodied those characteristics. Now I may even play it out in my head a couple of times. but that allows me to resonate now with that reality rather than in the future. Now is all that exists. What you can do is begin to be that which you experience instead of just think that. So this is another way that you can profoundly change your life and move beyond just the thinking aspect. To go beyond the law of attraction, we must first off become aware of the beliefs that we have. Get to the root of what we believe to be true, become aware of that belief, and then to simply decide to let it go. And then to secondly start to associate massive pleasure with attaining what we want in life, with moving and progressing in the direction you want, with taking action in whatever way that is, doing what we're passionate about. As we associate massive pleasure with that and the massive pain with the opposite, we start to direct the force of our life in a powerful way. And then remember, it's not just the thinking, it's the feeling, and it's the being. It's about being the best version of yourself, choosing that's who you are now. And as you do that, you'll find that everything in your life changes. Now, if you want to learn how to change your self-image, what I have is a guided meditation that will help you to reprogram your subconscious mind. It's one that I think that if you listen to for 21 days, it'll absolutely transform your life. I get a lot of people that say that it's One of my best meditations. It'll be in the top of the description box below. It's absolutely free. You can download it. I recommend you listen to it for 21 days. I'll also be doing more live Q&As on Instagram, so if you haven't followed me on Instagram yet, I do live Q&As plus I post daily content there. And other than that, I hope you enjoyed this video. Feel free to like this video if you liked it. Subscribe if you haven't already. Hit the little notification here next to the subscribe button so that you can see the daily vids that I do. And other than that, as always, peace, much love, and namaste.
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