The Law of Attraction
The subject of the law of attraction has been done to death for the last 15 years. A lot has been written and said, a lot has been stated, and yet there is still considerable confusion as to whether or not this actually works.
The basis of the law of attraction is that “the similar attracts the similar”
This is expanded upon in “The Secret” and it is stated with certainty that:
# Your thoughts are magnetic and therefore have the power to attract situations, people and events into your life.
# Positive thoughts attract wealth, health and love.
# You have caused all the joy, happiness and fulfillment in your life with your positive thoughts.
# Negative thoughts attract poverty, illness and loneliness.
# You have caused all sickness, misery and unhappiness in your life by your negative thoughts.
# How you think creates your reality.
# You are 100% responsible for your life.
The Cosmic Vending Machine
The way this is generally sold is that if you think the right thoughts enough, intensely enough, you can manifest whatever you want and the “Universe” will deliver it into your life.
In this model, the “Universe” is seen as a cosmic vending machine.
Many of us have at one stage or another in our lives [often at times of desperation] I bought this and gave it a try.
It works?
Sometimes it works and more often it doesn’t.
When it doesn’t, we tend to react in one of two ways, either throwing our copy of “The Secret” in the trash, grinding our teeth and moving on in varying degrees of lonely despair, or deciding that we are lost. something and buy another book or take another course.
Please do not think that I am making fun of or belittling these behaviors. I’ve done both! I have experienced amazing success and positive results in my attempts to manifest abject things and failures that destroy the soul.
On the positive side, I have experienced financial success, incredible relationships, health and healing and on the negative side I have experienced devastating setbacks and seemingly unsolvable long-term defeats.
Here is a summary evaluation of the law of attraction:
TRUE OR FALSE?
# The law of attraction is a lie because it is a partial truth disguised as absolute truth.
CAUSATION AND CORRELATION
# There is no scientific evidence to support the claim of the masters of the law of attraction that there is a direct causal link between your thoughts and the circumstances and events you create.
# There are a number of factors that can correlate how your thoughts determine your responses and the results you experience.
TEST BASE
# The law of attraction is a belief presented as fact and, in the absence of a scientific basis for this belief, it is not a fact and is therefore false.
INFLUENCE DOMAINS
# There is a demonstrable causal connection in the internal domain of your influence “here”, in the everyday material world, that how you respond to an event affects your experience of that event and the outcome that follows from it.
# We have no way of saying with certainty that intentions located in the external domain – “out there” in the realms of possibility – have correlation or causality of outcomes.
RESONANCE
# In the internal domain of reaction / response and result, there is no scientific evidence that thoughts have resonance. The scientific claims, made by the masters of the law of attraction, about the MRI of thoughts are based on pseudoscience and as such are meaningless. What happens is based on cause and effect, not resonance.
# In the external domain, from a scientific perspective, there is no evidence that our thoughts have any effect on “things out there” or that “things out there” respond to our thoughts.
DO vs BE
# The idea of just “posting” it and waiting for the cosmic vending machine to deliver its manifestation is pointless.
# There is no such thing as success without effort. This is a verifiable verification based on empirical evidence from the lives of many successful people, including many of the masters of the law of attraction.
# The focus of the action is: [1] set the “direction of travel” – have a vision and a goal; and [2] to develop a variety of “how-to” skills necessary to make the journey a success, specifically to recognize and act on opportunities as they arise, and to deal with disappointments and setbacks along the way.
# It is these skills that build the correlation between your answers and your results.
# Balance activity with non-activity – “do without doing” – proceed on a “do-do-do-do” basis.
# Act directly by acting on your inner promptings and intuitions as they arise.
THE MIND IN CONFLICT
# One of the many reasons why the law of attraction doesn’t work and thoughts don’t create things is because different levels of your mind are in conflict and working against each other.
# The “monkey mind” that has not been trained to stop thinking is full of so much “junk thinking”.
# The key to developing a good working relationship with your mind is having tools, techniques and resources that work with all levels of your mind.
# The goal is for everyone to work together, moving in the same direction and at the same time!
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUE SECRET?
The results you experience are determined by your responses to the events in your life.
This can be expressed as: Result = Event x Response
The strength and quality of your response is determined by the skills and experience it brings you.
The stronger your response, the better the result.
Your thoughts, feelings, and reactions are under your command and control, and they will determine your responses to the events you experience.
You are 100% responsible for your responses to events in your life and this, in turn, will shape, influence and create the results you seek that are aligned with your life purpose and vision.
I call this: “The law of response and result.”