The law of attraction is undoubtedly the most exciting and misunderstood idea to come about in a long, long time. Exciting because the promise of wealth, abundance, and prosperity is huge. Misunderstood because it isn’t being grasped in its entirety. The term law of attraction is a recent phrase for something that has been around for thousands of years.

Great teachers like Abraham-Hicks, Steve Pavlina, Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor, Joe Vitale, Christy Whitman, Margaret Lynch, and movies like The Secret and What the Bleep Do We Know? artfully describe this law and have made it a household word. But one thing remains missing. And what is that? A practice that enables the student to embody this law as a way of life and not just a nice idea.

And what is that practice? Allowing.

According to G. P. Walsh, spiritual teacher and radio personality, this law is simply “the way things actually are”. In other words, the tao or nature itself. It is not a technique. It is a way of being! So, more than just a passive, "wait for it to happen" attitude, the tao of allowing is a very active way of engaging with life. Instead of trying to force it to our will, we allow ourselves to flow with life. We ride the wave. We surf on the law of attraction. The law of attraction has promised a great deal, including things like: effortless wealth, health, relationships, even weight loss, a stress-free life, more customer for your business, the front parking space at WalMart, and just about whatever you want from the genie of the universe.

So, how come the only people who seem to get all those results are the ones teaching everybody else how to do it? I thought this was a law?

It is a law. Not magic. Like the Wright Brothers, who experimented for years before getting that first plane off the ground, you need to understand the law. It is not an act of faith. It is an act of understanding. Once you understand the law, then, like the Wright Brothers, you get to build the airplane.

Ancient Chinese medicine, Feng Shui, martial arts, and acupuncture understood how life actually moved and functioned. That is how they healed and did miraculous things. They called this natural flow "the tao". And the tao is the center of “the tao of allowing” and its experiential approach to learning and mastering the law of attraction.

So, don’t stand in the ocean trying to push the waves back out to sea. Grab your surfboard and come surf the tao of allowing.

"A key piece of the manifestation puzzle that is often overlooked - and is addressed head-on in The Tao of Allowing - is that before we can successfully take that next step toward greater fulfillment, abundance, and success, we must feel in the very core of our being and nervous system that it is safe to take that step. As long as we are operating in a state of fear - whether expressed as resistance, defensiveness, or what G calls the 'contrived, artificial behaviors' that we adapted early in life to ensure our continued acceptance in our social 'tribe' - all our efforts forward inevitably grind to a halt, every single time." (Christy Whitman, The New York Times best-selling author)