Post about the Law of Attraction

*This post came from the Steve Pavlina forum before it closed down. I am not the original author. 

When you're first wanting to change your life, your capacity for imagination and belief is going to limit the power of your use of the LoA. 

 In this situation, using Affirmations to work on your subconscious blocks is very effective. The key to using them is to use them in a "throwaway" fashion. Every morning, look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I look pretty," or whatever, and see how you react to that statement. Even I use Affirmations, in my own way, when I need to remove a particularly deep block, these days I find them popping up around psychic abilities.

Visualizations start becoming useful when you don't have any huge blocks to change, but still need to make the change "go through." Visualizing is a good way to reveal any latent blocks to change. If you find your visualizations lacking in strength, if you can't really see yourself being handed large stacks of money, then you may find needing to Affirm the desire to change, then waiting a few days or weeks, then trying out the Visualization again.

Finally, if you have a really good idea of what you want and how you want it, you can just Intend for the change to happen.  You can go for a walk and meditate intently on what you want, 
 
Basically, the three tools are best used in different situations. Affirmations work when you want to make a perpendicular move, one you can't even Visualize properly. They'll gently, but effectively start "steering" you in the new direction, without the need for conscious input. Visualizations will complete the "turning" motion, and Intention will propel you faster in a direction you're already going in.