Law of Attraction-Phenomena or Delusion?
By karen | September 3, 2008
A recent comment here at Live the Power prompted me to respond and address this.
Here is the unedited comment ….
“You people are so completely deluded. If you believe this stuff, great. I hope it gets you through the day, but the Law of Attraction is not a universal law. It isn’t a law. It isn’t true.
If you wish for a red bike, you don’t get a red bike.
If you save up your money and do the store, you can buy one though. There’s no “Secret” to that!
If you think positively about the things would like to have in your life (Also called daydreaming) and you take some sort of action to make these things happen, then you have a greater chance of achieving them.
But no secret law made them happen. YOU did.”
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Now had this person actually READ the post that he hammered here he would have seen that it does talk about getting inspired thoughts and taking actions! Oh and yes it does talk a bit about “thinking positively (also called daydreaming)”.
And of course, this commenter is absolutely right.
YOU make it happen but can YOU make it happen with negative thoughts and negative energies? No, didn’t think so. If you notice the commenter even mentions that fact himself here in the second half of his comment….
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“If you think positively about the things would like to have in your life (Also called daydreaming) and you take some sort of action to make these things happen, then you have a greater chance of achieving them.
But no secret law made them happen. YOU did.”
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(yes, those are the commenter’s words…not mine but they are oh, so similar…!)
Well, yes, that is exactly what we are talking about. We just use a nice catchy phrase to describe it….apparently this commenter doesn’t like our nice catchy phrase.
(geez, I really like the phrase myself. It describes the phenomena in such a succinct way!)
Of course, he essentially agreed with me after telling me how deluded I was! Even though he was apparently offended by the words I used to describe it! Funny how he actually says basically the same thing. Yet it’s true he doesn’t call it a “Universal Law” or “The Law of Attraction“.
He calls it a “YOU”.
Well “YOU” is a fine personal pronoun, it is very effective for referring to other people to whom you may be speaking but it in no way describes the phenomena of what YOU have to do to create the best things in your life or how the Universe and life steps up to meet YOU when YOU do.
“The Law of Attraction” is just a phrase that describes the phenomena that we can all see.
Look around at life and you see it, it’s absolutely true.
The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer.
The phenomena is that it happens that way for everyone.
Everyone, meaning Me, You and Johnny Babaloo living up in Kalamazoo.
So you may call it the Law of Attraction or you may call it something else but not many can honestly and truly deny the phenomena that it is.
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A Matter of Perception
By karen | September 2, 2008
Think about this.
Imagine a balance beam, you know the kind that the gymnasts use in the Olympics. A balance beam is 5 meters or about 16.4 feet long and 10 cm or 4 inches wide.
So imagine that this beam is flat to the floor and you are asked to walk across it. Do you have any doubts that you can do it? Easy, right? You may lose your balance a bit but it is likely that you don’t have any fear about walking across the beam.
So now put that beam up to the regulation height of 125 cm or about 4.5 feet high. Now think about walking across it.
Do you have more trepidation this time?
Next imagine the same beam, the same piece of wood balanced between two large building that are say…
30 stories high. What do you think about walking across it now?
My guess is that the higher the beam goes into the air, the more frightened you become of that little walk. Yet, it is the same beam, it is still just a short walk of 16.4 feet balanced on a 4 inch plank. It is essentially the same walk.
The difference is your perception.
Now consider this. Circus performers walk tight ropes and do wild things at great heights all the time. If they share the same fears we do then somehow they overcome them and they do it anyway.
The gymnasts not only walk across the beam but they do back handsprings, aerials and turns, leaps and dance poses. All you had to imagine was walking across. The gymnasts have overcome any doubts and fears that they have while the typical, normal adult is too scared to even try.
And the difference is perception. The circus performers and the gymnasts have learned to overcome their fears and do it anyway.
Now, let’s shift to something that you can probably relate to.
Think about taking a trip, a trip of a lifetime, to someplace that you have always dreamed of going. You call the airline and the tickets are $25.00. Wow, pocket change, whoohoo, going on a trip! Easy, fun, effortless! How lucky you are!
Now imagine the same trip…..you have always dreamed of going……it’s still the trip of a lifetime but now the tickets are $2500.00.….or $25,000.00.…. or (are you ready for this?) $250,000.00.
How lucky do you feel now to be taking that trip of a lifetime?
It’s still the same trip. But your feelings about the trip have changed.
At what point does your heart stop and you say “I can’t do that!”.
It’s all a matter of perception.
There are people in the world who would not flinch at the price of $250,000.00 or even more for the trip of a lifetime and there are people in the world who would flinch at $250.00 and probably even at $25.00.
(reminder: this is not a conversation about value and worth but rather a conversation about perceptions).
So which one are you?
If you can’t even imagine having something that you would want, if you can’t even imagine having an abundance of money, love, time, energy, health, whatever it may be that is your wildest dream….
If you can’t imagine your wildest dream then you can’t achieve it.
But if you can imagine your dream, you can have it.
And imagining it is all a matter of perception.
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The Break of Dawn
By karen | September 1, 2008
I just received this video in an email with the words….
I loved it and I wanted to share.
It is a breath of fresh air, especially after all of the political news that I have been paying way too much attention to!
Enjoy! As I did.
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Blink of an Eye
By karen | August 25, 2008
I live in a beautiful place, close to the mountains and canyons, in a small suburb of a beautiful city. I’m grateful and I appreciate this place.
But today it is very clear to me that life can change in the blink of an eye.
I am here at my computer because I want to stop watching. I don’t want to watch anymore. It’s too nerve racking. Why are we compelled to watch? Train wrecks, car crashes, forest fires? I know that the reason I am compelled to watch this one because it is too close, too close to my home, my life, my family, my friends. Much too close for comfort.
As I sit here at my computer there is a huge forest fire burning in the canyon behind my house. I can see that the mountain I love has burned to black, I can see the flames rising up in places, I smell the acrid smell and see the billows of smoke enveloping the valley. Yes, it is way too close for comfort! A neighborhood about ½ a mile away with about 20 homes has had a mandatory evacuation. They said on the news for the families to “just take the clothes on your back and get out”. One of my daughter’s best friends lives in that neighborhood.
Tomorrow it is supposed to be cooler….perhaps in the 80’s rather than the 100 it is today. Please let the weather cooperate.
The latest news said that 200 homes are being threatened. Mine is probably one of them. I better go take care of some things.
And I better go watch.
Update:
It’s been a few hours. The smoke has settled. It doesn’t seem quite so bad now. There are still some flames that I can see right above my house but it has moved quite a ways east on the mountain. Down near the houses it seems to be contained.
The news said that it will be reevaluated at 9:00 pm and the people who were evacuated will probably be able to return to their homes.
The air quality is still pretty bad so there will be no playing outside tonight. It would be nice if it would rain (not likely, but nice).
Update:
It’s morning. The fire is still burning a bit but it has calmed down dramatically. The evacuee’s were able to return to their homes in safety. Since I was watching the news (which I don’t really do much) I saw that some families in Boise were not so lucky. Send them our prayers.
At this point it seems the fire here is contained.
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The Phenom of Intention
By karen | August 22, 2008
It’s been fun the last week or so watching the Olympics. It’s exciting and exhilarating and I’ve stayed up way too late a few too many times just watching. I’ve really enjoyed it. And it’s all good.
But you would have had to have been living under a rock to have not heard who the absolute phenom of the games has been. Michael Phelps, of course. With 8 gold medals and 7 world records, he really has put his mark on these Olympics.
I love watching people like Michael Phelps. It is so inspiring to watch someone who really sets out to create something amazing and wonderful and then succeeds. Don’t you agree?
In all of the races that I saw Michael swim, he was far ahead of the competition with the exception of the one. And even in that one, he still got it done in .08 of a second or something like that. I guess the time matters not since he still accomplished his goal. He got the Gold. It’s pretty amazing, pretty inspiring.
So I’m watching and reading about this young man who is obviously a very powerful creator and there were some things that really stood out for me.
For one, he seems to love his life.
He said that his life consists of eating (apparently a lot! 5000-8000 calories a day and more!) swimming, playing video games and sleeping. He said that he Loves to swim. He loves to train. He loves the pool, and that is really an advantage. It’s easier to create wonderful things by being happy and doing what you love. In order to create something that is exceptionally great, it really helps to love what you are doing.
Love Energy in equals Success Energy out compounded to Infinity!
Another thing that really stood out was that in one of the articles that I read it said that Michael has an “uncanny ability to predict the time of his races”. It said that it was something that he has done with his coach since he started racing. He would write down on a piece of paper what his time would be for the race and then see how close he would come. Turns out that he was right or very, very close to right almost every time.
My question for you is….Does Michael “predict” the time of his races or does he “intend” the time of his races?
“Uncanny” is perhaps a perfect word to describe the phenomenon but I don’t think he “predicts” his time but rather that he “intends” his time and the Law of Attraction and the Universe come to his aid.
In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps has unequivocally been the phenom of the games.
He loved what he was doing, he had a very clear Intention and he created Massive Success.
It happened for him. No resistance.
And that is a perfect example of Deliberate Creation.
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