Teaching The Attraction Principle To Children

Millions of adults are using the Attraction Principle to build wealth and health, find a soul mate, and attract meaningful work. Since these adults get positive results from using this important law, an increasing number of them (parents and teachers) are actively teaching it to children. Their belief is that it is important for children to understand and appreciate how our thoughts manifest external results and how emotions can be used to guide our thought processes. They see this understanding as a vital addition to the life skills every child needs in order to grow and evolve into who and what they want to be.

As more adults find personal meaning in the Attraction Principle, they will in turn help more children make the connection between thoughts, emotions and the results which follow. To that end, we offer the following guidelines to consider when teaching the Attraction Principle to the important children in your life. By using these ideas in conjunction with the Attraction Principle, you can help them learn how to manifest a better world.

1. Begin with yourself. Use the Attraction Principle in your life to draw to you what you desire in your parenting, your job, your relationships and your finances. When you find value in this important principle in your own life, you will be more likely to pass it on to your children. Let them observe you setting goals, discussing your feelings, creating a vision board, outlining action steps, making adjustments as mistakes occur, and allowing what you desire to come to you. Remember, change yourself first and your child will follow your lead.

2. Start early. As a parent, you don’t wait until your child understands language before you start talking to them. You don’t wait for fine motor skills to fully develop before you put a spoon in your child’s hands. Likewise, don’t wait until your child can understand an abstract concept like the Attraction Principle before you begin helping him or her see its effects. Start now by talking about how we create our own reality with our thoughts and feelings.

3. Look for the teachable moments. Use what the universe brings you to teach important lessons. If your child says, “Third grade is going to be hard,” use that comment to teach him about the importance of thoughts. If you see a sign vibrating in the wind, point it out and talk about how all things are vibrating, even thoughts. Make the point that it is our vibrating thoughts and emotions that make the Attraction Principle work. When you view a commercial on TV, use that circumstance to question the picture advertisers are trying to put in our heads. When your child asks, “How come we have such a nice house?” tell her about your vision several years ago and how your thoughts helped attract it into your life. The Attraction Principle can be taught in small increments as opportunities arise. Be alert for the arrival of teachable moments.

4. Help children clarify their wants. Many children find it easy to identify and state what they don’t want. “I don’t want to go to bed.” “I don’t want to go to school.” “I don’t want to eat my vegetables.” “I don’t want to come home so early.” What our children don’t understand is that the way the Attraction Principle works is that they get what they predominately think about, whether it is what they want or what they don’t want. Help your children turn their focus from what they don’t want into what they do want by stating it in the positive present tense. “I don’t want to come home so early” can be restated as “I want to stay out a half hour later tonight.” “I don’t want to eat my vegetables” is rephrased as “I would rather eat an orange instead of vegetables for supper.”

5. Help children understand their feelings. Feelings and emotions are the guidance system that lets us know if our thoughts are vibrating with what is best for us. Negative feelings are an indication that we are out of synch with the process of sending positive vibrations and are on a path of attracting more of what we don’t want. Teach children to identify feelings of anger, fear, sadness and joy. Help them understand these important emotions and how to use them as a guide. Remember, when we are feeling happy, tranquil, peaceful, and safe, we are connecting with the vibrational essence that manifests a better world.

6. Understand that children may be skeptical. Some children may have initial doubts about the existence and effectiveness of the Attraction Principle. Even some adults struggle with understanding how to put it into practice in their own lives. Whether they believe it or not, whether they use it purposefully or not, the Attraction Principle is at work in their lives. Be patient with your children’s skepticism. Skepticism is a valuable trait and needs to be honored as such. Without making your child wrong for his or her beliefs, continue to point out how thought creates and that it has been an important step in the creation of such everyday items as a chair, television, and cell phone. Someone had to think a thought before any of these items came into existence.

7. Know that you may have to teach the Attraction Principle again and again. Children don’t always understand a concept the first time it is presented. They may need several repetitions at different ages and stages before the concepts are fully understood. As your children grow and develop, they see the world from different points of view. A teenager has an entirely different view of procreation, honesty, and friendship than does a five-year-old. The same holds true for the Attraction Principle. Continue to share with your children the ways in which their thoughts are creating at every age and stage.

8. Celebrate successes. Look for evidence of the Attraction Principle at work and celebrate it. Notice proof that the Attraction Principle is working and point it out to your children. When your child manifests an object of his desire, go to his vision board, look at the picture of it there and celebrate together. When you get the new job, take the family out to dinner and debrief your success. Notice the little moments when the universe is bringing to your child what she wants, even when it is minute. When you see a penny on the ground, pick it up. Thank the universe for bringing you money easily and effortlessly.

9. Teach the proper order in using the Attraction Principle. Being comes before doing. Then comes having. It is important to help children understand that the attitudes and beliefs they hold in the present moment (how they are being) affect how they do whatever it is they are doing. We often rush into doing before first centering ourselves and getting our attitudes and emotions in line. All the doing in the world will not compensate for thoughts, emotions, and beliefs that are not in line with our doing. Teach and model this sequence: First BE, then DO, then HAVE.

There is no big secret to helping children understand the Attraction Principle and its presence in their lives. You teach it like you would teach anything else. Commit yourself to it, invest time in doing it, practice, debrief, and do it all over again.

Once children understand the relationship between their thoughts and emotions and what the universe manifests, they will experience the power that comes from providing direction to their own life. At that point the world opens and there is nothing that is unavailable to them.