One of my favourite movies is “Under the Tuscan Sun”. Diane Lane plays Frances, a writer whose husband leaves her for a younger woman. Frances’ best friends send her on vacation to Italy in a bid to take her mind off things. Unexpectedly, she falls in love with a rundown old villa there and buys it on the spot.
Sounds romantic, right? Let’s just say… things don’t exactly go according to plan.
Luckily, our heroine gets help from a spiritual guide: her realtor, Signor Martini.
Frances tells him she’s worried she’ll never find love again. So Martini tells her a story about the Alps that divide Italy and Austria. The terrain in that part of Europe is some of the most difficult to navigate in all the world. Yet hundreds of years ago, the two countries built a railroad track. So far so good, right? Here’s the catch. The train capable of traversing the Alps didn’t exist yet . They built the tracks anyway. They believed the train would come.
Signor Martini tells Frances she must believe.
Spiritual teacher Wayne Dyer would have liked that story. He was famous for saying “You’ll see it when you believe it!”. For some reason, lots of us humans seem to have it the other way around: we believe it when we see it, and not before.
I hate to break it to you. We have it all wrong.
Dyer taught us that the thoughts we put out into the universe are pre-paving the way for our reality in the physical world to manifest. Believe that it’s going to happen? Then you’ll see it in your life… maybe not five minutes from now, or tomorrow or next week. But the universe is conspiring to give you exactly what you’re thinking about.
It’s the Law of Attraction, pure and simple. Believe it and it will happen.
How’s that for a train of thought?
