The Law of Attraction: True?

After starting to watch the movie "The Secret" today in my College English class in high school, I was opened up to the idea of the "Law of Attraction". The movie starts out talking about the law of attraction, and I haven't gotten to the rest of the movie, yet.

I've looked more into the Law of Attraction; What exactly it is, how it works, and why exactly people are following it. I would say at a glance that the Law of Attraction appears to be complete bull, if you will. It appears as if it's just encouraging positive thinking, to increase your desire to achieve your needs and wants, not actually bring them to you. However, after looking more into it, I think that there could easily be more there, a deeper, more important meaning to the law of attraction.

Some people like to look at the law of attraction as the reason / explanation to the way matter develops. As if the people on the Earth are actually the ones creating matter, or something deep like that. I appologize for not knowing all of the details here, as my information is limited and this is a fairly new discovery both for me and the world.

"New thought" believers use the law of attraction as a core piece of belief. In that everything that people believe makes up the content of their life. The things they think, and the way they think them make up what happens to them, what matter comes to them. It's a very deep and difficult to explain process.

In the movie, The Secret, the law of attraction is basically explained in a way that people's minds actually give off some frequency, and that each thought has its own unique frequency. These frequencies can actually attract matter, events, people, places, and other things to you. Your thoughts are not bias-in that, you will eventually get what you think about most. It doesn't matter if you're thinking about it because you don't want it, or because you do. Whatever you think of, whatever frequency you emit to the environment, is going to happen eventually. If you're on your way to work, and you're thinking "mannn, I'm going to be late!" you're much more likely to be late, because you're actually emitting a negative frequency, that is attracting and bringing on the likelihood of you "being late."

There basically are four major concepts to any theory of the law of attraction though. Know what you want. Ask the universe for it. Feel and behave as if the object you desire is on the way. And be open to recieving it. If you can do all of these things, you are exibiting the acts of the law of attraction, and you might find that it's actually effective. Maybe for the reasn everyone believes, or maybe there is some hidden meaning no one knows!