All this theory about the law of attraction sounds cheesy, but that's just because it's so simple and it needs to seem more sophisticated for people to even consider that it could work. Even so, lots of people simply walk away from it and say it's just a bunch of "bull residue".

Quantum physics, spirituality, brainwaves, manifesting…

These are all very scary words that make most of the people turn their backs to the person who is speaking about them. Let's face it: these are some weird words right there.

But why are they really that scary?

It may be because we hear them every day. It may be because we are afraid other people might think we're weird if we talked like that.

Here's what I think it is that make people walk away from applying the law of attraction to their lives:

We are addicted to our struggle. There, I said it. Every day we fight hard to survive on this planet. We work extra hours, we work in weekends, and we sacrifice our time with the family just so that we can provide for them. We did this all our lives. And now, someone comes up to us and says: "You don't have to struggle, you don't have to work until you can't keep your eyes open… all you have to do is learn about the law of attraction and take action when the universe tells you to."

What do you think our subconscious goes ahead and assumes while we hear that? "I worked that hard for so long, and now you're telling me I didn't have to? I don't think so. I'm happy right where I am right now. I have food to put on the table, I like my job, blah, blah, blah…" In our minds we are making all kinds of statements to convince ourselves not to make a change. That's because our minds love solving problems. Why do you think complicated puzzles are called brain food? Life doesn't have to be complicated; we just like it that way.

That leads us back to my first point. People like Bob Proctor, Joe Vitale, Lisa Nichols, Mike Dooley, John Assaraf and Michael Beckwith just to name a few have put together this theory in the movie The Secret which promises to give us the secret to success. But they make it sound a little more complicated than it really is, just so that they give our minds something to chew on while we hopefully stop rejecting the idea.

Even with those efforts in place, people will still be running away from their own prosperity by dismissing the law of attraction because of their pride, because of peer pressure, because of their beautiful minds…