It’s a safe bet the 1993 movie “Ground Hog Day” wasn’t created as a Law of Attraction teaching. Yet, it provides one of the clearest illustrations I’ve ever seen of  how we create our own reality. (Plus, it’s hilarious.)

Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, a cynical and disdainful local TV weather anchor who gets trapped with his TV crew in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania,  on Ground Hog Day.

What I mean by trapped is: after the show is taped, Phil can’t leave  Punxsutawney (because of a huge storm he failed to predict).

Worse yet, he wakes up each morning only to relive Ground Hog Day.  Over and over. Each morning the hotel clock radio snaps on at 6:00 a.m. and once again it’s February 2. No one else in the movie has any memory they’ve lived this day before: just Phil.

That’s the premise. But what’s the Law of Attraction secret hidden in this movie?

At first each day for Phil is an exact banal replica of the one before. His inability to escape the unbearable and by now utterly predictable day turns  him livid with contempt and frustration. His greatest hope is to pass the time by successfully seducing his boss (Andie MacDowell/Rita) or another attractive woman.

Rita, as intuitive as she is beautiful,  isn’t buying it.

Gradually Phil  discovers a key. Although he’s still stuck in Groundhog Day, he finds he’s able to make tiny changes that carry over into the next day’s replay.  Because he doesn’t suffer any ill consequences from these changes, he decides to make life more interesting by doing whatever he pleases with each day.

At first his new-found selfishness mirrors back his complete frustration. He doesn’t care who he hurts. But over time a new desire emerges in Phil.

He notices that he has the power to act and change things in this recurring nightmare. So he decides to do the best he can to enjoy his life – even if he’s stuck in Groundhog day for eternity.

That awareness, and Phil’s consequent decision to flow with life, changes everything.

Note:

This is exactly how things unfold when we first decide to become a conscious co-creator with the Law of Attraction. Often at the beginning we’re mired in our own habitual negativity. One day repeats another and we think that nothing we’re doing has any effect.

This is the “Law of Attraction doesn’t work” stage…

What’s really going on is we haven’t yet cleared out enough of our old frustrations, resentments, and disappointments for the Law of Attraction to match us with anything other than what we’ve always had.

Maybe Phil was lucky in that he was forced to stay in Punxsutawney until he figured it out. Most of us bail rather than get the point: Law of Attraction is simply showing us our current vibration so we can discover something: we have the power to shift it.

If we stick with it… gradually things begin to go our way. We begin to feel happier and more alive than we ever thought possible. That feeling of happiness and flowing with life  is your signal: you’re now a vibrational match to receiving bountifully.

Happy Groundhog Day….