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oldskoolflavor
10/27/2011 1:51:44 PM | IP
oldskoolflavor



The Law of Attraction has been attacked by many, including many personal development bloggers. It looks to me that the easiest way to prove you are “smart” is to disagree with the Law of Attraction. If that is what you want, you probably don’t need this article. If you want to improve your life effortlessly, please read on. (Photo by Trader Doc)
Misunderstanding the Law of Attraction

To understand misunderstanding, we first need to define the Law of Attraction. For now, we will say “Like energy attracts like energy.” We will explore the deeper meaning of this law later.

There are a lot of misunderstanding going around about the Law of Attraction, discouraging people to use it to their favor.

1. Magnets don’t attract the same, they attracts the opposites. So the theory of Law of Attraction is flawed.
One end of a magnet attracts the opposite end of another magnet so that as a whole, the magnetic energy flows through in one way. Magnets attract magnets, not woods. It is indeed attracting the like energy.

2. The Law of Attraction is not a law because it is not proven. Plus the whole quantum physics stuff is BS.
Did the law of gravity become the law when Newton theorized it? Or was it working from the beginning of time?

Regarding the quantum physics – what I gather from Greatness Without Genies: The Law of Attraction for Realists is that this area of physics is still in debate and neither proven nor defeated. We just don’t know if the quantum physics is real, and if so, to what level of existence it applies, nor how it is related to the Law of Attraction. So let’s give it a benefit of doubt. (By the way, this eBook is an interesting read if you disliked the Secret. Especially if you disliked the Secret but still feel the pull of the Law of Attraction )

3. The Law of Attraction doesn’t work because I couldn’t attract what I wanted.
Ah, but did you use it properly? For example, if you wanted to be financially well, did you focus on abundance or did you focus on you being broke? If it’s the latter, the Law of Attraction worked perfectly – you got more broke. I feel for you, but don’t use your failure as a proof of the Law of Attraction not working. It’s a case of operator error.

The final point leads to the point of how to use the Law of Attraction correctly.
oldskoolflavor
10/27/2011 1:53:10 PM | IP
oldskoolflavor



http://reallifespirituality.com/the-law-of-attraction-works/

(rest of the article)
VirgoM20
12/12/2011 3:35:04 AM | IP
VirgoM20

38 years old male

Vir-sun, Leo-ris, Sco-moo

Posted by oldskoolflavor

3. The Law of Attraction doesn’t work because I couldn’t attract what I wanted.
Ah, but did you use it properly? For example, if you wanted to be financially well, did you focus on abundance or did you focus on you being broke? If it’s the latter, the Law of Attraction worked perfectly – you got more broke.

I’m fascinated by the law of attraction (LOA) and open-minded enough not to dismiss it, however, the above point – ‘you will get what you focus on’ – is emphasised, and somewhat exposed to being potentially unreliable, when you consider it in the context of sexual fantasy.

When you have a sexual fantasy you get yourself into a comfortable place where you won’t be disturbed and can lose yourself in your own thoughts. You visualise sex exactly the way you want it to happen – the setting, who you’re with, what they look like, what they’re wearing, how they touch you, how you touch them… you reach a point where your mind and body are completely in sync with the exact experience that you would choose to have if you were able to – so in sync that you are able to achieve the physical ending of orgasm as a result of a mental beginning. It would never occur to you to focus on the lack of that experience in your life – you are totally focused on it as though it is really happening, such that you’re probably as close to adhering to the rules of the LOA as is humanly possible. So, why doesn’t your exact sexual fantasy manifest itself in your life? Surely if the LOA worked everyone’s sex life would match their fantasies?
oldskoolflavor
12/12/2011 2:53:05 PM | IP
oldskoolflavor



you have a good point

I think a more correctment statement would be:
you'll attract what you focus on when you're ready to receive to it

plus,
they're other variables at work:

- laws of rhythm and gestation

- your life lessons :
let's say you chose to through a life of hardships to learn patience & perseverance
even though your thoughts are focused on what you want to attract (good sex, love), situations that are favorable to your learning will be on the foreground

from my pov, attracting what you need to evolve comes first & attracting what you need to enjoy life comes second

- all of us have free will: you have to encounter someone on a similar wavelength & willing to fulfill your wishes

- conscious mind vs subconscious mind: are they saying the same thing?

I recommend watching this video, dude talks about why positive thinking might not be enough for manifestations to take place



VirgoM20
12/13/2011 3:35:14 AM | IP
VirgoM20

38 years old male

Vir-sun, Leo-ris, Sco-moo

Posted by oldskoolflavor

I think a more correctment statement would be:
you'll attract what you focus on when you're ready to receive to it


Surely the whole thing is invalidated by statements like that? Can you imagine if you bought a TV and it didn’t work, and the manufacturer directed you to a page in the operating manual which said “the TV will only work if the universe believes you are ready to watch the program that’s on at the time that you want to watch that channel”. When you have a get-out clause like that you can sell anything to anyone and have your back completely covered when it fails to deliver, relying on coincidence to provide enough fulfilled deliveries that a few people will continue believing and arguing in favour of the theory.

Don’t get me wrong, I am open to the LOA – I’ve had some small successes with Cosmic Ordering, which is a similar thing – but I’m just a little sceptical. I know there are supposed to be no coincidences, but how can you explain the following?

Shortly after first learning about cosmic ordering I was sat at work and decided to try a little experiment. A railway line runs past my work and I can see trains from my window, so I ordered an ‘unusual train’ to go past in the next half hour. After about ten minutes an old fashioned steam train went past. In the simplest sense my cosmic ordered had been delivered but, I did wonder. Firstly: The train must have been on its way long before I ordered it and, secondly: the arrangements for this train to operate on this line at this time on this day must have been cleared by the relevant authorities weeks in advance, so it would probably have turned up whether or not I had ordered it.

So, did I order it, or did my subconscious pick up on something that was already approaching, or was it simply a coincidence.

I want to believe in this stuff but I can’t without first asking the questions which need to be answered to remove my doubt. I’m not the type who can live my life with my eyes closed, not commit myself to way of living which I haven’t researched to the point of truly believing that they are credible.
james tate
12/13/2011 9:55:19 AM | IP
james tate

46 years old male from Llandrindod wells, Powys  Wales  

OLD SK
You do a greart job of copying other peoples work
Quantum Physic is B>S>
If your I.Q. was one point less you would be growing somewhere
you haven't a clue.
eden2012
12/13/2011 11:16:54 AM | IP

I am a firm believer in this! I always get what I wish for

positive thinking + the universe is always listening

If beauty is put forth it comes back cuz ur deserving as such

if ur thoughts are ugly so ur world will be

so mote it be
(as so it shall be)
james tate
12/13/2011 2:26:50 PM | IP
james tate

46 years old male from Llandrindod wells, Powys  Wales  

Quantum Physic's
The elusive Higgs Boson
The missing piece of the governing Theory.
At CERN they are getting closer.
They have narrowed the list of hiding spots down.
If found this could resolve the mistery of the origin of mass.
The Higgs completes the Standard Model it is the missing piece.
It could explain the two fundamental forces of the universe and how they can be unified.
It may also effect the supersymmetry theory.
It would also on a more understandable level validate the building of the Large Hadron Collider.

And you say Quantum Physic's is B.S.
M
12/14/2011 8:39:30 PM | IP
M

male from Capritude  

Posted by eden2012
I am a firm believer in this! I always get what I wish for

positive thinking + the universe is always listening

If beauty is put forth it comes back cuz ur deserving as such

if ur thoughts are ugly so ur world will be

so mote it be
(as so it shall be)

I agree, the universe hears all. It would be a good idea not to look at it as pragmatism. Kind of defeats the karma if you do :p
M
12/14/2011 8:40:35 PM | IP
M

male from Capritude  

Posted by james tate
Quantum Physic's
The elusive Higgs Boson
The missing piece of the governing Theory.
At CERN they are getting closer.
They have narrowed the list of hiding spots down.
If found this could resolve the mistery of the origin of mass.
The Higgs completes the Standard Model it is the missing piece.
It could explain the two fundamental forces of the universe and how they can be unified.
It may also effect the supersymmetry theory.
It would also on a more understandable level validate the building of the Large Hadron Collider.

And you say Quantum Physic's is B.S.

Tate, I only know a bit about CERN but they are making huge strides. Is there a place you are following them on or do you hear odds and ends though a variety of places?
james tate
12/15/2011 7:58:25 AM | IP
james tate

46 years old male from Llandrindod wells, Powys  Wales  

Pnfysgol Morgannwg
University of Glamorgan Cardiff
I go down once a month and visit with so friends who teach there. I get the first hand on what is happening.
I would lov to work at cern but with a masters I would be sweeping floors.
M
12/15/2011 9:39:15 AM | IP
M

male from Capritude  

Posted by james tate
Pnfysgol Morgannwg
University of Glamorgan Cardiff
I go down once a month and visit with so friends who teach there. I get the first hand on what is happening.
I would lov to work at cern but with a masters I would be sweeping floors.

That's really kewl
james tate
12/16/2011 3:47:37 PM | IP
james tate

46 years old male from Llandrindod wells, Powys  Wales  

Big time meeting coming down next spring in Italy
partical physicist. deciding whats next
eden2012
12/19/2011 12:46:28 PM | IP

Posted by M
Posted by eden2012
I am a firm believer in this! I always get what I wish for

positive thinking + the universe is always listening

If beauty is put forth it comes back cuz ur deserving as such

if ur thoughts are ugly so ur world will be

so mote it be
(as so it shall be)

I agree, the universe hears all. It would be a good idea not to look at it as pragmatism. Kind of defeats the karma if you do :p


epistemology...

karma will exist due to consequence

ontology



westside
12/19/2011 12:52:14 PM | IP
westside

19 years old male from Tennessee  AMERICA!  

an obvious gemini,i write poetry and rea

from what i understand, the law of attraction is most certaintly real and definate, and it works wonders.

but what you're talking about- positive thinking,faith, and things of the sort- is not the law of attraction.

the law of attraction is another universal law, along with laws such as polarity, vibrations, and a couple more.


 

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