Law of Attraction

Guides, Experiments & Case Studies

The Law of Attraction is often introduced as a simple rule: focus, believe, receive. What this archive captures — across more than fifteen years of practice — is the texture under that rule. The daily strategy sessions, the limiting beliefs that quietly rewrite the result, the times it backfires, and the case studies that look more like real life than the manifesting books promised. A complete map of what working with the Law of Attraction has actually been, not what it was sold as.

Foundations · Specific Person · Money · When It Backfires · Case Studies · Through Astrology · Resources

The Law of Attraction: A Quick Guide

What is the Law of Attraction?
The principle that the focus, emotion, and belief you sustain shape the experiences that arrive in your life. Not as magic, but as a recognizable pattern between inner state and outer circumstance, observable over time.

Does the Law of Attraction actually work?
Yes — when applied with consistency, alignment between intention and underlying belief, and the willingness to notice what’s actually arriving rather than only what you wanted. The places where it appears to fail usually point to a misalignment beneath the wanting.

Why doesn’t it work the way the books say it should?
Because most books treat the Law of Attraction as a technique you apply, rather than a state you live from. Resistance, scarcity programming, and the gap between what you say you want and what you feel you deserve all distort the result. The work is internal first.

Start Here: Understanding the Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction has two halves: the techniques (vision boards, intention-setting, gratitude practice) and the inner work (clearing the limiting beliefs that override the technique, examining what you actually want versus what you’ve been told to want). Most readers come for the first half and stay for the second. The posts here cover both — the practices that build the muscle, and the harder work of becoming the person the practice can move through.

If you’re new to the Law of Attraction, the Foundations section is the place to start. If you’re here for a specific question — attracting a lost love, manifesting money, figuring out why it backfired — jump straight to that section. Everything is curated by topic so you can find the angle that fits where you actually are right now.

Foundations

These posts cover the practices and concepts that anchor the rest — morning practice, gratitude, vision boarding, the difference between knowledge and belief, and the slow work of clearing limiting beliefs.

• Morning Strategy Sessions with the Universe — This early post describes Lorna’s daily practice of presenting the Universe with a list of what she likes (in present tense, never future) during her quiet pre-dawn drive to work, then tracking how often those items arrive that same day. A foundational entry to the way she actually uses the Law of Attraction — as conversation, not technique.
• Vision Boards for Inspiration — This post explains why vision boards work especially well for people whose creative work is invisible until it’s done — writers, artists, knowledge workers — by giving you something concrete to look at while the slow stuff builds. Includes examples from boards going back to her college days, with reflections on which ones came true and how.
• Allowing the Universe to Take Care of You — This post explores the difference between forcing manifestation and allowing it — the moments when stepping back is the work, when doing nothing is actually doing the thing, and when the Universe’s no is its yes for a different timeline.
• Law of Attraction: Knowledge vs Belief — This post draws the critical distinction between knowing how the Law of Attraction works and believing in it deeply enough for it to function. Knowledge is the intellectual map; belief is the lived terrain — and the gap between them is where most Law of Attraction practice stalls.
• Re-Programming to Get Rid of Limiting Beliefs — This post traces how well-intentioned messages absorbed in childhood — “nothing good comes easy,” “don’t get above your raising” — become limiting beliefs that quietly run adult life. Includes Lorna’s re-programming work on the headmaster scripts that shaped her early sense of what she was allowed to want.

Attracting a Specific Person & Lost Love

The most common reason readers arrive at this site — wanting back the love they lost, or trying to attract a specific person they haven’t met yet. These posts treat that as a real question deserving real answers, including the honest answers most Law of Attraction books avoid.

• Law of Attraction and Relationships — This recent post explores what happens when the Law of Attraction doesn’t bring the person you want — but brings everything associated with that person instead. A pattern-recognition framework for reading the universe’s not-quite-yes, with examples where the symbols arrived while the specific person did not.
• Attracting a Relationship with a Specific Person — This foundational 2008 post takes on the ethics question — is it acceptable to use the Law of Attraction to ask for a specific person? — and answers from lived experience rather than dogma. Tells the story of a years-long relationship that finally shifted, and what made the shift possible.
• Can You Attract Old Lovers Back into Your Life? — This early flagship asks the question that brings most readers to this site: yes, you can attract old loves back — but never into the same relationship. It will be better, worse, or simply different. With the case study of a woman expert at attracting back who kept losing each relationship by changing herself to keep it.
• Attracting Back Old Lovers: Why There’s No Way in Hell He’s Coming Back Right Now — This post uses the metaphor of a lamp that won’t take a 75-watt bulb to explain alignment — why two people who both want a reunion still can’t make it work when their vibrations don’t fit. The honest counterpart to all the vision boards and balloons: sometimes the answer is no for a structural reason, not a personal one.
• “Plan Be” for Attracting Back a Love You Lost — This post offers a specific framework most readers don’t want to hear: the “Plan Be” is becoming the version of yourself the relationship needed, then letting the result follow or not. From the inside of having done it.
• Can You Attract Back a Friend or Lover When You’re the One Who’s Changed? — This post inverts the usual question: when the attraction doesn’t return, the other person hasn’t necessarily failed to manifest — sometimes you’ve outgrown the version of yourself that fit with them. Uses the analogy of revisiting a beloved childhood movie that now looks shockingly different.
• Four Man Plan Dating Guide: Good Advice for Attracting Back — Reviews Cindy Lu’s The Four Man Plan dating system as a practical Law of Attraction tool for the in-between period — what to do while you’re waiting on a specific person. The book’s value isn’t in “four men at once” as gimmick but in its forced antidote to pining and lack-focus.
• Repeating Frustrating Patterns in Romance, Career, and Life — Drawn from the upcoming 23 Ways I Screwed Up My Life with the Law of Attraction, this post opens with a wounded daughter asking how she manifested a disappointing festival weekend and uses the moment to examine how disappointment patterns repeat across romance and career when the underlying beliefs go unexamined.
• Attracting Back That Special Someone: The Abundance Mindset — This post applies the abundance-versus-scarcity distinction to lost love specifically. When you focus on the absence of the person you want back, you reinforce the absence; when you appreciate the love already shared, even at a distance, you set up the conditions for reunion.

Money & Abundance

Why most people who turn to the Law of Attraction for financial reasons end up attracting more debt instead. The mindset shifts, the family scripts that quietly run the result, and the practice of circulating instead of hoarding.

• Finding Money: On a Roll with the Law of Attraction — Documents the strange, on-a-roll streak of “found money” that arrived after Lorna decided to attack her debts — including $2K from an account she’d thought was cashed in years before. Part of her financial freedom series, written from inside the streak rather than after it.
• The Dharma of Money: How to Attract Debt Instead of Prosperity — Explains why most people who turn to the Law of Attraction for financial reasons end up attracting more debt rather than prosperity — by hoarding instead of circulating, by focusing on lack instead of flow. With Lorna’s own monthly practice of anonymous giving as the spiritual mechanic of feeling rich.
• Losing the Sense of Abundance: How Relationships Can Hinder a Prosperity Mindset — Examines how even good relationships can pull you back into a scarcity mindset — through unspoken family scripts, religious conditioning, or a partner’s framing that scarcity is normal and abundance is suspect. With Lorna tracing how each of her major relationships affected her own ability to feel prosperous.
• The Universe Wants You to Be Happy but the Economy Doesn’t — This early post takes on the cultural pressure to perform happiness while never actually feeling it — the etiquette mandate that anger, jealousy, and grief must be tamped down rather than processed. Drawn from an Abraham-Hicks teaching, with Lorna’s reflection on how suppression sabotages the very alignment that lets you attract what you want.

When the Law of Attraction Backfires

The honest counterpart to the success stories. When the Law of Attraction does exactly what you asked for — and you realize what you asked for wasn’t what you meant.

• When the Law of Attraction Backfires — This recent post — written alongside the novel The Lost Teachings of Dead Monks — explores what happens when the Universe listens not just to your dreams, but to your dread. The Law of Attraction as a neutral force that doesn’t grant wishes but reflects and amplifies what’s already taking shape in your inner world. A cautionary frame for the whole hub.
• Damn You, Law of Attraction, Damn You — The iconic “careful what you wish for” story. Lorna asked for more size 8 dresses in her closet — and the Universe delivered, in a way she absolutely did not mean. A reminder that the Law of Attraction will use the exact words you give it, including the ones you meant figuratively.
• Why Do We Manifest Injuries…Even Temporary Ones? — Examines how minor physical injuries — a turned ankle, a hurt knee — can be the body’s expression of emotional states that haven’t yet been named. The metaphysical reading isn’t “you caused this,” it’s “this is showing you something,” and the question is what feeling was present at the point of injury.
• Paying Attention to Injuries and Their Emotional Causes — Traces how a kitchen burn — utterly stupid, no good reason — turned out to be the surface of a slow-building frustration Lorna hadn’t yet acknowledged. The body-as-messenger framework rather than the body-as-fault one.
• Where Others Fail to Do You In, the Self-Saboteur Takes Over — Names the Saboteur archetype that lives in everyone — the part that re-opens old wounds and prevents you from settling into the vibration of the thing you want. When you can’t seem to align with the good thing, the obstacle is often inside, not out.

Case Studies & Experiments

Real applications across years and contexts — conference weekends, workplace dynamics, dating, year-end reviews. The Law of Attraction at work in messy, specific situations.

• Manifestation Junkie: An Intentional Weekend at the RWA Conference in Orlando — A real-time case study of an entire weekend of intentional manifesting at a writers’ conference — what Lorna and her daughter set out wanting, what arrived, and what kept arriving in the days after. The manifestation-junkie rush when alignment hits and the universe starts agreeing.
• Lessons in Focus: the Law of Attraction in the Corporate World — Moves Law of Attraction into the workplace and uses a boss who fixates on deficiency as the case study. When her attention is on absent or late employees, employees become absent or late. How group focus shapes shared experience, and what to do when you can’t change the focus of someone above you.
• How to Tell What a Stranger (or First Date) Is Insecure About — Uses the Law of Attraction lens to read what people unconsciously project — the gap between the confidence performed and the insecurity underneath. With examples from publishing, dating, and the moment Lorna realized that confidence and control are not the same thing.
• Taking Stock of 2010, Personally and in Photos — A year-end review using a visual tool — annotated photos — to reveal manifestations you didn’t recognize as such. Each photo corresponds to a sector: prosperity, family, travel, health, romance. Scales to any year.

Manifesting Through Astrology

The astrological framework Lorna uses to time intention-setting. Why she marks the new year at the first degree of Capricorn rather than January 1st, and how the Solstice ritual frames the year ahead.

• Capricorn Season: Manifesting the Mountain Beneath You — Frames Capricorn season — the four weeks beginning at Winter Solstice — as the natural astrological tailwind for committing to a long game rather than chasing the New Year’s resolution sugar high. The season for structured action and the slow building of foundations that hold.
• Why I Set My Intentions at the First Degree of Capricorn (Not January 1st) — Explains Lorna’s annual practice of marking the new year by astrology rather than the Gregorian calendar. The first degree of Capricorn at Winter Solstice is where the manifesting cycle actually begins for her — quieter, older, more aligned. With her Winter Solstice Burning Bowl ritual described.
• Winter Solstice Full Moon Eclipse and a Ritual for 21 December 2010 — Covers an unusually rare configuration — the first Winter Solstice / Lunar Eclipse conjunction in 456 years — and offers the Burning Bowl ritual as the way to work with it. Part eclipse breakdown, part ritual instruction.

For more on the astrological side of timing your intentions, see the Vertex and Anti-Vertex Astrology Hub.

Resources

For readers who want to deepen the foundational Law of Attraction framework, here’s the outside source I return to most.

• Abraham-Hicks — Esther Hicks’s channeled material is the primary outside source I return to, particularly Ask and It Is Given and the workshop recordings on Vortex alignment. Most of what I write builds on or argues with this body of work.

Closing Thoughts

The Law of Attraction is something I’ve practiced, mistrusted, refined, taught, and gotten very wrong over the past fifteen years. The posts collected here are the working notes of that ongoing relationship — the strategies that held up, the ones that broke down, the experiments that surprised me, and the moments when the Universe answered in the exact words I used and not the ones I meant. Whether you’re trying to attract a specific person, manifest financial freedom, or just understand why your last sincere intention turned into the opposite, I hope this hub becomes the working manual you come back to. New entries will be added as the practice continues to teach me.

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Featured Book

A Law of Attraction novel woven from years of working with this material: The Lost Teachings of Dead Monks. A tattered book that listens, amplifies, and reflects back what’s already taking shape in the soul of the man who finds it — not just what he wants, but what he fears. Find it on the bookshelf.