Laws Of Attraction

[RockChick]

Do you believe in Laws of Attraction?

What energy you send out you attract in like a spiritual sense that you inner world e.g. mind, subconscious affects your outer world e.g. your life.

So basically the more you become at peace internally the better your life will become & attract what you want. Likewise can be said for if you are negative you attract what you fear or trying to avoid.

I know it's easy to say but if we find a way to do it, it might help. I keep trying.

 

[Thelema]

I just can't let a thread go by with this without me trying to convince people that it's all a bunch of hokus pokus.

It's a system whereby you think happy things and good things happen to you, but obviously this doesn't fly in the real world. Just think what the World would be like if this was the way things worked, it would be a very very strange place. The workaholic worried about deadlines would never get anywhere and the lazy employee imagining a Ferrari would be a millionaire overnight. Obviously the opposite is true, the worried workaholic enjoys great career success and the day dreamer works at McDonalds his whole life.

Life rewards the hard worker, regardless of his state of mind. What you feel doesn't matter in the material World.

 

[gsmax5]

I just can't let a thread go by with this without me trying to convince people that it's all a bunch of hokus pokus.

It's a system whereby you think happy things and good things happen to you, but obviously this doesn't fly in the real world. Just think what the World would be like if this was the way things worked, it would be a very very strange place. The workaholic worried about deadlines would never get anywhere and the lazy employee imagining a Ferrari would be a millionaire overnight. Obviously the opposite is true, the worried workaholic enjoys great career success and the day dreamer works at McDonalds his whole life.

Life rewards the hard worker, regardless of his state of mind. What you feel doesn't matter in the material World.

Well said. I'd also like to mention that people who pretend to be happy all the ****ing time are just plain creepy!

RockChick, please don't buy into this stuff. The book "The Secret" (not that you mentioned it in your post but...) was written by a cranky old lady looking to make a quick buck.

 

[Thelema]

Well said. I'd also like to mention that people who pretend to be happy all the ****ing time are just plain creepy!

RockChick, please don't buy into this stuff. The book "The Secret" (not that you mentioned it in your post but...) was written by a cranky old lady looking to make a quick buck.

Amen.

I beg anyone to think really hard about a magic cure for the low price of a $20 DVD.

If they are so powerful and enlightened and holier than thou, let them "manifest" $20 and steal the DVD. If you get caught, just say you "attracted" it to the inside of your jacket. That way, at least you didn't lose money on the snake oil

 

[RockChick]

I understand both of your points a view but negativity doesn't help either as being unrealistically positive. I wasn't trying to cause offence.

I have known people who are the hardest working people alive but because they are so pessimistic stuff gets complicated & fails. Likewise people who positive from my experience have a way of getting what they want in a round about way.

Never heard of the book you have mentioned I don't waste my money on new age or self help books but like reading a lot of metaphysical philosophy & Buddhist philosophy.

I never want to have "Californian" type happiness i.e. everything is so wonderful & perfect because that's just messed up but neither do I want to be the bitter maladjusted lady with three cats & see the bad & flaws in everything & everyone around me.

You've go to have a happy medium of sadness & happiness in your life, a balance as such.

 

[Thelema]

I understand both of your points a view but negativity doesn't help either as being unrealistically positive. I wasn't trying to cause offence.

I have known people who are the hardest working people alive but because they are so pessimistic stuff gets complicated & fails. Likewise people who positive from my experience have a way of getting what they want in a round about way.

Never heard of the book you have mentioned I don't waste my money on new age or self help books but like reading a lot of metaphysical philosophy & Buddhist philosophy.

I never want to have "Californian" type happiness i.e. everything is so wonderful & perfect because that's just messed up but neither do I want to be the bitter maladjusted lady with three cats & see the bad & flaws in everything & everyone around me.

You've go to have a happy medium of sadness & happiness in your life, a balance as such.

You aren't causing offence, but this attraction stuff is just a way for some people to make money off the hopes and dreams of others by offering an easy cure all.

Being positive is great, but all the positivity in the World isn't going to do much without action. If you want to take a sip of a drink, you don't imagine yourself drinking it and how nice it is; somehow expecting the glass to fly to your lips, you reach with your arm for it. You have to take an action for a reaction to occur, right?

I like Buddhism too.

 

[Rodox]

I think that thinking like this can be good for you in some ways,but I dont really believe it.

 

[sabbath9]

I believe in karma. The laws of attraction is kinda like karma.

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin' to do
It's up to you, yeah you

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin'
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin' at fools like me
Who on earth d'you think you are
A super star
Well, right you are

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Ev'ryone come on

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Ev'ryone you meet
Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When you're ev'rywhere
Come and get your share

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Come on and on and on on on
Yeah yeah, alright, uh huh, ah

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
On and on and on on and on

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun

 

[nephatitus]

i beleive that by absolutely expecting the worst you can see the positive more clearly

 

[Perfidion]

The Law of Attraction is a complete pile of arse. It's a money spinner for grasping charlatans like Rhonda Byrne and Esther and Jerry Hicks (who get all their 'insights' from their imaginary friend "Abraham"), appealing to a combination of laziness and greed. "I want all this great stuff in my life, but I don't actually want to get off my bloated backside in order to achieve any of it. So I'll just sit here and wish for it." You know what they say, "Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first."

I wrote a review of Esther and Jerry Hicks' book, "Money & The Law Of Attraction", and concluded this...

"If anyone knows about money and the 'Law of Attraction', it's Esther and Jerry Hicks. They've made vault-loads of cash by peddling the same wheelbarrow load of insipid manure to the same audience of dribbling, self-absorbed dupes for sometime now.

Two pertinent facts right off the bat:

1. The authors receive their information from the "non-physical entity, Abraham". (They're hearing voices, experiencing aural hallucinations and are quite possibly as mad as a box of frogs.)

2. Their information is about as useful as cellophane body armour or a balsa wood chair.

If you genuinely believe the universe will grant your most heartfelt desires simply because you want it to, then you should probably seek psychiatric treatment or go out to the garden shed and hang yourself."

Basically, it's bollocks, it doesn't even make sense, let alone work, and the only thing you're likely to attract is poverty after having given all your money away to Esther and Jerry Hicks and their ilk. Don't be dumb. Be self-sufficient and learn to solve your own problems and manage your own affairs, because the only person you can really, truly rely on in this life, is yourself. Sad, but true.

 

[RockChick]

Everybody has a right to believe what they want to believe as long as it doesn't hurt them or others.

With regards to these people in America profiting off "Laws of Attraction" that is evil that they are playing on upon others vulnerability & need. Same with all those people that do the self-help books. All religions do that though to a degree especially major religions with a form of fear & control & so do strange religious cults.

I'm not disillusional or need psychiatric help, I'm just a realist. If you find what you believe on your own terms & aren't brainwashed or forced into a way of thinking then it's ok as long as you don't let your beliefs take over your life.

You can't make things happen by just thinking good but you need to think good & act as well. That's what I do & sometimes doing to much counteracts what I am trying to do. You can push too much & get no where, you need a balance of thinking & doing.

When you say about seeing bad of everyone when you are with somebody they pick up vibes from your body language or subliminally that you don't like them or distrust them. So that then makes them either want to ignore you or bully you.

Seeing the best in people unless they prove you otherwise is a better way to go. I'm not saying be naive & let people walk all over you like a doormat. You need to be equally assertive & passive.

It's just putting it into reality that is hard unless you live in a monastery in the mountains like buddhist monks lol.

 

[worrywort]

I believe that if you're nice to someone they're more likely to be nice back to you....whereas if you're mean to someone, they're more likely to be mean back to you.

also, I believe that if you judge others they will judge you by the same measure....but this one I reckon can work like this: if you spend all day in front of the tv, judging everyone you see and pointing out all their flaws......when you walk outside you will believe that everybody else is doing the exact same to you.

along the same vein, when you get depressed it taints your whole world view. You see the negative in things more easily. Whereas when you're in a good mood, negative remarks can be like water off a ducks back.

So I definitely think that if you're a negative person your whole outlook on life is more likely to seem negative. Whereas if you foster positive, optimistic thoughts inside of yourself your outlook on life is more likely to seem positive.

What I don't believe, however, is that by thinking positive thoughts the universe will somehow conform to you and start doing you favours. The universe will remain exactly the same, but our view of the universe may change.