In the fall of 2000, I moved into the house of my dreams. It is warm, light-filled, and spacious, with spectacular meadow, vineyard and orchard views from every window.

Several months later, sorting through some paperwork I came across something I had written several years earlier, back in cold, dark New Jersey. It was a description of my ideal home, the very one I now lived in. My eyes filled with tears as I realized that the manifestation principles I was applying to my life really worked.

Have you ever wished things were different in your life? That you could influence the things that occur? That you could create your own life, rather than have it happen to you?

You can, through the Law of Attraction.

This universal law is the most powerful force in the universe. Like gravity, this law is in effect whether or not we are conscious of or believe in it. Simply stated, the Law of Attraction means energy attracts like energy. Everything in the universe, both physical and non-physical, is made of vibrating energy. Quantum physics shows us that it is in the nature of energy particles to be attracted to other energy particles that are vibrating at the same frequency, that are in resonance with it. Many adages convey this idea: birds of a feather flock together; as you sow, so shall you reap.

Our thoughts, too, are energy. Everything we think sends out an energy signal like a radio tower, and the universe responds to and matches that signal with a physical manifestation. Whatever we focus our attention on, we attract. It doesn’t matter whether we want or like the thing we’re focusing on. Whatever we focus our attention on—liked or disliked, wanted or unwanted--we attract. Once we realize the immense power of this Law, we can begin to use it to deliberately attract what we want into our lives.