How to Attract New Business Opportunities

Not Law of Attraction - Law of Harmonic Resonance

I’m sure you’ve heard of the Law of Attraction. It’s the idea that you attract what you intend to have into your life.

I’m not a big believer in the Law of Attraction.

It’s not that I think we don’t attract things into our lives. We most certainly do. But unless you’re an extremely enlightened individual, you don’t attract the things you intend to attract.

Instead, we operate in a kind of harmonic resonance.

Have you ever run a finger around the edge of a glass partially filled with water, and made it hum?

That’s harmonic resonance.

The motion of your finger vibrates the particles of glass it slides over. As you move your finger around and around the glass, more and more nearby particles begin vibrating. Until enough are vibrating that they produce a sound.

It’s why you can hit one key on a piano, and the strings of keys an octave above and below it start vibrating.

Or strike a tuning fork on the table, and another tuning fork also makes a noise even though it wasn’t struck.

Basically, harmonic resonance means that if one thing vibrates at a certain frequency, other things that also vibrate at that frequency will begin moving when they’re close enough together.

But what’s that got to do with people?

Have you ever had a really great day? It started off with something good happening. And then more and more great things happen.

Or have you ever had one of those days when it seems like nothing can go right? Little annoyances pile up one on top of the other. It’s like a black cloud is stuck above your head, raining down disappointments.

These are harmonic resonances.

In the same way, a person can resonate happiness and joy, or negativity and pessimism. We all know people that we hate seeing, because they always leave us feeling worse after we talk to them.

And there are other people that are popular just because they make everyone who talks to them feel so good.

Those are the most obvious cases of harmonic resonance. But people can also resonate to ideas, to beliefs, or to behaviors.

Whatever your resonant frequency is, when you get near others with a similar frequency, you start making them resonate. Their frequency will reinforce yours, and make your resonance stronger.

You don’t consciously intend to have this resonance. It’s simply a law of physics.

Which is why I don’t believe in the Law of Attraction. You can imagine and visualize a particular scenario all you want. If you are not resonating at the frequency of that scenario, you won’t attract it.

You’ll attract the scenario at whose frequency you are resonating.

One of my clients has been struggling with business. His various projects seem to get to a certain stage, and then stall. Again and again. Partners ghost him. Meetings are canceled.

And he couldn’t figure out why.

It was a matter of resonance. His personal frequency was the vibration of failed efforts and disappointing performance by business partners.

No matter what he tried, he kept attracting the same situations, over and over again.

Then he started dissolving his mental blocks.

His frequency changed.

And suddenly, he began resonating with different scenarios.

So far this month:

• He met with a cabinet member of the government who loved his proposal

• He met with a bank vice president who oversees a three-quarter-billion-dollar investment fund who also loved his proposal

• He attended a party and before even getting in the door, met someone to play a crucial part in his new venture

These people are resonating with his new frequency.

Tuning your resonance frequency

If you don’t like the situations you seem to find yourself in, over and over again, you need to change your resonance frequency. Here are some good ways to raise your frequency so that you attract better situations.

1. Stop complaining and start practicing gratitude. This one change can transform your life very quickly.

2. Remove toxic people and emotionally draining people from your life, wherever possible. If you can’t remove them, limit their impact as much as you can.

3. Dissolve mental blocks that are holding you back. If you need help doing this, drop me a line.

4. Limit your media and social media consumption. Stop watching the news or doomscrolling on social media.

5. Do things for others with no expectation of repayment. (But do not offer to “pay it forward” in line at Starbucks. Tip the waitstaff that amount instead. They can use the money more than the next customer.)

Raise your frequency until you resonate with all the good things you desire.

Top 3 Blocks Dissolved This Week

1. Stepping in to leadership - read the case study

2. Grieving lost parent and grandparent - removed “you need permission to speak your feelings” 

3. People not keeping their word - removed “it's not safe if you can't predict the future”

The second block was a surprise to me. The client was having trouble moving on from the loss of her mother and grandmother. Even after years, she felt a void in her life that impacted her every day. As the only girl in a large family, she’d looked to these female role models for permission to validate her feelings. With them both gone, she was choking on her unexpressed feelings. As soon as she stopped needing that permission, instead of grieving their loss, she started trying to figure out how she could distribute the wisdom they’d given her into the world. It was a beautiful transformation.

There are few people who understood energy at the level of Nikola Tesla, the man who invented A/C current. I mean, who would have thought the way to transmit electricity further, with less loss, was to send it back toward where it came some of the time?

That’s a perfect example of a counterintuitive thought.

But he realized that the problem with electricity transmission was that it was losing cohesion. By flip-flopping which direction the electricity was going in, he kept greater cohesion. He reinforced the resonance at which it vibrated.

So, if you want to change your vibrational frequency and attract better situations into your life, you may need to think counterintuitively.

For example, if what you want is to have more business opportunities, the straightforward way of thinking might suggest that you attend business networking events. After all, the more people you meet, the more opportunities you’ll be exposed to.

The counterintuitive way of thinking might be to attend no networking events at all, but to volunteer for a charity you feel strongly about. Helping others will lift your vibrational energy, and you may resonate with other volunteers who are also at that level.

Resonate with your dreams!

Jennifer Dunne, Caribbean Compassion Coaching