I was wondering why we attract certain people and elements into our lives, or to us.  How do you change that?  How do you get something, or someone, better than what you're getting now?  Sometimes, wishful thinking or even praying just doesn't seem to be enough.  The same situations keep coming up to hassle us.  The same sort of people keep niggling at us.  You start to wonder if you did something really karmically bad in a previous life and perhaps are being punished for it, or taught a difficult lesson.  Trouble is, the difficult lesson seems to be so difficult that your addled brain can't latch on to it too well--can't sink it in, or learn it.  Then you're faced with an endless stream of the same, of trying to just accept things the way they are because, frankly, there appears to be nothing you can do to change them - so, what else can you do?

At the point when you accept things as they are, something changes--how weird!  New people come into your life who behave differently.  Old people begin to act a little differently.  Opportunities come up that you didn't have before.  Why is that?  And, will those things or people continue that way, or are they just sweeteners to lull you before the old problems rear up to bite you again?

Inside each of us are the forces of life, magnetic undercurrents for attraction and repulsion.  We're born with some, and then our environments and the situations and people we deal with along the way affect us and sometimes change the way these undercurrents act inside us - but how?  I figure we attract certain people and situations because these magnetic forces are set up inside us to attract them, or repulse certain people and situations for the same reasons.  But I've come to believe that these forces are alterable only from within.  We change our thoughts, our ideas, or attitudes, and then these currents change in modality. 

It doesn't matter what happens to us on the outside, or from the outside, these currents will never change until we change from the inside. That's why we keep facing the same problems, or problematic people, again and again and again.  And we keep on facing them while we retain the same attitudes and modes of behaviour, the same thoughts and ideas - the same magnetic modalities. 

Learning alters thought patterns.  It creates new ideas that modify the old ones.  When you learn something, you adapt what you know to accommodate what you've learned.  You haven't learned anything if that doesn't happen.  You reject learning, in that instance, and you reject the lesson.  But that doesn't mean you're incapable of learning.  Life goes into a different mode for people who won't learn by what comes to them from the outside.  It takes an affective mode and bubbles up, instead, from the inside.  The ultimate aim of all learning is to ease you into the next level of exploration.  If that can't be done by attaining knowledge, then it can sometimes be done by nullifying the barriers that prevent knowledge from being absorbed.  That happens when you give up, or when you come to accept things as they are. 

When you give up or accept things as they are, you stop fighting them, you stop putting up barriers against them, or no longer have any expectation of change.  That sets up a new modality inside you.  Your magnetic undercurrents change, instead.  You change, inside.  And that stops your repulsion mode.  You no longer repulse what life brings your way to teach you how to go further.  The attraction and repulsion currents alter inside you and, suddenly, people and situations you once had difficulties with are now amenable to you.  They find you attractive and you get along with them, and it's all because you have stopped resisting.  It's something that happens inside you, not outside of you.  It happens to your thoughts and behavioural patterns, not to your environment.  Other people don't change - you change - and they react to the changes in you, even though those changes are internal and unseen.  Instead, they are felt, because they are your magnetic currents, altered by your new thoughts and ideas.

So, life finds a way to teach us, after all; and we progress, after all.  From the point that we attract rather than repulse, or are attracted rather than repulsed, we see those other people and situations in a different light, and then learning comes to us in a revelatory manner.  Our viewpoint is opened up, and our lives are opened up by these revelations.