Ever  notice how a chronic complainer always seems to have something to complain about? Or how certain people always seem sunny and bright, no matter what hardships they’re dealing with, as if the weight of all their troubles seems to just slip right off them? What’s that all about?

:”When it rains, it pours,” the proverbial ‘they’ say; why is that? Why does everything seem to go from bad to worse for some people while for others nothing ever seems to go wrong? In a word: magnetism. Everyone has a magnetic personality. How about that?

In all our endless trials and tribulations to get what we want in life, the solution – or maybe more aptly put: the method – is startlingly simple:

Like attracts like.

That’s it. Whatever energy we put into out into the world is precisely the energy we get back. And having all your heart’s desires fulfilled doesn’t get any harder than that.

If you put out to the world that nothing goes your way, that everything you touch turns to (insert expletive here), that good things happen to other people but not to you, then that’s exactly what you’re going to get: more circumstances justifying those beliefs.

But if instead you put out to the world that you can handle any challenges that come your way, that you can do anything you put your mind to, that love is the answer to every question, that you deserve to be happy, healthy, and fulfilled, then everywhere you turn, that is just what you’ll find.

One way to look at it is that the Universe (or God, or whatever other name you choose to give to the all-present, all-powerful, creative force underlying everything) wants you to have what you want. And when you put out certain vibrations into the Universe, it takes those as messages from you that that’s what you want created.

The Universe is there to serve you. It will produce for you whatever evidence you need to justify the world as you see it. Therefore, if you see the world as a dark, cold, and unfriendly place, that’s exactly what you’ll get. But by the same token, if you instead choose to see the world as a loving, giving, and abundant place, then that’s the world you’ll get.

Why doesn’t everybody do this then? How is it that so many people can use “logic” and evidence from their own lives to argue against it? And “why do bad things happen to good people, then?”

Because the evidence we speak of does not necessarily come in the form or the time frame we expect. (In fact usually it does not). And because proof must follow belief, not the other way around. We can’t wait until we see this phenomenon proven before we take is a truth. We must make the brave choice to see it that way first, and then watch the proof snowball in.

We can’t control situations, but we can control our inner state, and it is this – our internal mental/emotional/spiritual state, our perceptions, interpretations, and attitudes – that the Universe mirrors to give us what it thinks we want, namely: more of that same negative or positive energy.

In a very real way, we are magnets that draw to us more of whatever vibrations we emit. It can be argued that we do not live in the same world as everyone else, that we live each in our own world, shaped by our expectations and beliefs. If your expectations and beliefs are positive ones, then you will find circumstances bending over backwards to prove you right. If, however, you persist on painting everything with a negative brush, the Universe will only be too happy to oblige.