A Teacher
Lynn Grabhorn
Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting — feelings as the magnet
The transmission
Lynn Grabhorn was an American businesswoman and author whose Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting (2000) was an influential pre-Secret law-of-attraction bestseller.
Her central claim was that feelings, not thoughts, are the true magnetic force behind what we attract—that sustained positive emotional vibration draws matching experiences, while negative feeling repels desired outcomes.
She presented a four-step process and a strong emphasis on monitoring and deliberately generating emotion. Grabhorn’s significance is in foregrounding the emotional/vibrational mechanism of attraction for a mass audience several years before The Secret, closely paralleling and popularizing themes from the Hicks/Abraham material.
Her feeling-first framing—“flip your switch” to a better-feeling state—prefigured the affect-centered approach that now dominates online manifestation culture, where “vibration,” “alignment,” and “high-vibe” states are treated as the operative levers.
She is a key transitional figure between 1990s New Age thought and the 2000s LOA boom.
What they gave
Feelings as the magnet: Argued that emotion, not thought, is the primary attracting force.
- Vibrational alignment: Centered deliberately shifting one’s feeling-state (“flipping the switch”) as the core practice.
- Pre-Secret popularization: Brought feeling-based LOA to a mass readership before the 2006 boom.
- Process framework: Offered an accessible four-step method for emotional manifestation.
The line they stand in
Influenced by: New Thought; the Hicks/Abraham material; law of attraction; vibrational metaphysics.
- Influenced: feeling-based and “high-vibe” manifestation teaching; pre-Secret LOA readership; modern vibration-centered manifestation.
Revelations they taught
Essential Works
- Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting2000