law of (dis)attraction
August 9th 2008 14:00
I love the concept of the law of attraction but the damn thing never works for me.
I was relieved to learn that it's not just me and that many people around the world share my predicament.
When the hey-days of my depression were setting and I was climbing out of the hole, I developed another problem - An overpowering fetish for self-development articles/tips/gurus.
One of the things that kept coming up was this notion that if you want something bad enough, you can think it into existence. “Thoughts become things”, announces the highly, highly successful book “The Secret”.
I’ve read the book and seen the video and have spoken with many friends who have and I must say I was so excited and pumped that I felt like “the king of the world”, well for a few weeks at least.
I don’t criticise the book or the concept but there is a question that keeps coming up.
If the law of attraction is so powerful, why does it not work for everyone who wishes and thinks and believes and deserves even the most basic needs?
I am given many explanations for this and you might be able to help me with this one as well. One of these questions the strength and conviction of our thoughts. Another proposes the concept of subjective realty.
what is an elephant? subjective reality
Here’s my take.
Thoughts Conviction Action = Success
A little knowledge is sometimes more dangerous than no knowledge.
It’s like the blind men who felt a part of an elephant and accepted that as its complete reality.
One feels the body and says, “The elephant is like a wall.”
Another feels the legs and declares it to be just like a tree.
So is the case with Law of attraction. Whilst being a critical part of self realisation and development it is but a part and some of us take it as the magic key to resolve some of our big problems.
If we rest our fate in only the law of attraction, it won’t be long before the law of distraction takes over.
Thoughts without action will manifest little. Action is what keeps us and our society going. The apple might fall at your feet but it ain’t about to shove itself down your throat.
Proponents of the Attraction might well be trying to offer just that, a tool to use as a massive leap board for us to launch into our actions with the belief that our belief in what we are doing will bear the results we want. To look at it from this point of view makes it a wonderful and powerful tool indeed.
The alignment of desire, belief, conviction and action is a powerful, powerful system to deliver results.
This however is easy to say but somebody could seriously drive themselves insane trying to do it. To achieve that alignment and maintain it is a big ask that many shy away from.
It’s what psychology explains as picking a soft goal rather than a hard goal.
The psychological reason for a soft goal is that it makes us feel like we are doing something, working hard and not getting anywhere. These are the goals we pick when we should be following the other (hard) goals.
The result:
We invoke the universe to reorganise itself to manifest for us the results we don’t want.
It’s called “The Law of Dis-Attraction.”
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Comment by jay singh
on Introducing the Waterless Washing Machine.
LIFE OF OUR TIME
I mean the way things are going we could do with a little population control.
(no offence to any cancer patients out there, especially those suffering from the utter lack of intelligance and care of those bent upon destrying everything in their path to keep the red away from their bottomlines.
J