The Big Lie And The Law Of Attraction

Well I’m sure your aware of the new craze or at least the rise in popularity of the ‘law of attraction’ and other self-improvement buzz phrases. It seems strange that something that has been around for so long should suddenly start to rise to prominence so dramatically. Indeed I have a book on my shelf called ‘The Secret of the Ages’ by Robert Collier dated 1948 so it’s certainly all nothing new. I’m talking about the explosion in self-improvement products and such like.  There have been recent shows on Oprah, CNN and not to mention the hit movie ‘The Secret’ all raising the profile of this so called law.

However I do find all this publicity a bit off-key and potentially dangerous especially when it seems to me that the message being put across is really not correct and can be more than a little mis-leading. In fact I would go so far as to say the new marketing of this type of material is not helping anyone…apart from people cashing the cheques!

The reason for my concern is that while it is fine to say that focussing your thoughts on a particular object of your desire will then lead to more thoughts on a similar subject and because thoughts charged with emotion held in the mind contiuosly will eventually materialise in the world in one way or another…. it is certainly not some kind of magic wand or formula that means that day dreaming will suddenly make you rich or solve all your financial problems. In fact it is quite the opposite. If you sit around all day imagining and dreaming about what you want to achieve that will get you absolutley no-where! That’s right all the imagining and focusing of thoughts will produce you nothing and you will more likely become demotivated and frustrated by your efforts than achieving your desires…not to mention wasting your time. 

You see there is a missing ingredient. Did you ever catch a rich person sitting around doing nothing for long. Have you ever known a successful sports person not to be constantly training and refining their diet and competition strategies and so on. No of course not. It is not that they don’t use mind power or the ‘law of attraction’ it is just the fact that they back up their efforts at harnessing the power of the mind and the law of attraction with consistent physical efforts towards their goals and desires on an everyday basis.

The mental thoughts provide the guidance for the body to follow. The thoughts alone will not do all the work, you have to put in the time and effort to turn the thoughts in to reality yourself in the vast majority of occassions.

True at times ‘co-incidence’ and ‘chance’ may seem to run on your side but more often than not this is a result of the knock-on or ripple effects of your actions.

So in short do not be a day dreamer but back up your positive thoughts with a written plan that you can physically follow that will allow your thoughts and ideas to really materialise in the world. Do not kid yourself that no effort is involved…it is!  

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Positively Dieing!

Gee….. these last few weeks I’ve been pretty laid low with a combination of flu and tonsilitus. I have not felt as rough as this since I spent a week in a Japanese hospital a couple of years ago….that time I could hardly breathe and it didn’t help not understanding a word anyone was saying.

This time however I remember waking up in the night and never ever feeling as cold in my life, I mean like I felt like I was freezing to death, I was shuddering to the core.

Clearly I haven’t died but for some reason it reminded me of an experiment someone did with rats once. They put them in a fish tank with no way to get out. Some rats swam and swam and swam even though they couldn’t escape, other rats just gave up very quickly and accepted their own fate. Eventually the scientists removed the rats that were still swimming. The point is even if you can’t see how you are ever going to escape from a particular situation it is important to simply…never give in….you don’t know when you are going to get your lucky break!

The power of this philosophy is proven many times over. There are countless stories of how people have risen from poor impoverished backgrounds to places that they would never have originally dreamed possible. Fomer bankrupts turned millionaires, former cancer patients turned marathon runners…in fact one of my favourite stories is Terry Fox who did just that after losing a leg to cancer he subsequently went on to raise huge amounts of money for cancer by runnning across Canada! What a mindset and what an achievement, surely something we can all learn from.

You can read more of that story at:  Terry Fox and more about the power of positive thinking by tapping: power of positive thinking