The first basic step to consciously using the law of attraction is visualization. After all, you have to know what you want to attract and visualizing is the way it is done.

Claude Bristol wrote an amazing book called the Magic of Believing. Then, with Harold Sherman, he refined the message in TNT: The Power Within You. This book gave concrete real life examples of the law of attraction using visualization. Here is one example:

A young couple wanted a new house. They searched and searched but could not find what they wanted.  Finally the young woman sketched out exactly the house layout they wanted. Together, every night, they focused on this “imaginary” house.  This went on for a few months.

At a dinner with friends, in discussing their search for a new house, they told their host in detail, what they were looking for. To their surprise, the host said they knew of a house just like the one they described. It was built by a friend of theirs as a retirement home. However, the man’s wife died and it was too painful for him to remain there so it was for sale. The host arranged a showing and to the shock of the young couple, the house was EXACTLY as they had visualized for several months.

The house was much more expensive than they could manage. However, the owner worked out doable terms because he could tell they loved the house as he and his wife had loved it.

Through visualization, this young couple got the exact house they dreamed of.