The honest version
Strip away the marketing layer and the working claim is something like: the felt internal state a person spends most of their attention in tends, over time, to bias their perceptions, decisions and actions in directions that produce more of the same state. That is empirically defensible — it is roughly what cognitive psychology calls the negativity bias and confirmation bias rotated into spiritual vocabulary. The classical New Thought writers understood this; the popularisers often did not.
What it isn't
The dishonest version — the think it and the cheque arrives version — is what serious teachers in the tradition have spent a hundred years pushing back against. Neville Goddard insisted that the practice is feeling the desired state as accomplished, not visualising the object; Joseph Murphy warned against the autosuggestion as wishful thinking trap; Wattles built his case around aligned action, not magical bypass. Read the originals before reading anyone who came after them.
Where to encounter it
In the index, Bob Proctor's *The Law of Attraction Explained* is the most direct short-form statement of the popular version, and his guided abundance meditation is the practice form. For depth, go upstream to the actual texts — Wattles's *Science of Getting Rich*, Murphy's Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Goddard's Feeling is the Secret.
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