Comments on: Positive Thinking & The Law of Attraction – a one size fits all solution that sometimes doesn’t work

By: stevie

stevie — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:19:34 +0000

great post anna! most people are conditioned to be materialistic,so they can achieve just what the “real world” tell them they can achieve depending in their career or skills, one have to be creative and never say never, takes time to make a wish come true,but if one want hard and work hard it materializes, it’s not too hard,all my wishes come true, some not yet but I know that eventually they will this is what I do, I want it, I visulaize it and I release it into the universe and then I never go back to ask why has not happened?..instead I focus in my normal life being confident that sooner or later my wanting or wish will come true!…this may not work for everybody but it works for me. sometimes Im amazed how the universe put things together to make my wish come true, it;s a blessing to have this hability and so bad just a few use it!

By: Elena

Elena — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:53:46 +0000

Hi There,

This is a great subject. I read it last night and have been thinking about it all day. So I have to reply….

There is a time and a place for everything. Right now, I am very much into the positive thinking mentality. I find it is “fitting” with my life now and is working for me. There have been times, however, when things were falilng apart and the only answer (literally) was to pummel through things without rhyme, reason or affirmations. In fact, at that time, I was feeling extremely disillusioned by affirmations, simply because…

1 – I was not able to simply & abruptly cut “negative people and events out of my life that were not life-giving”

2 – I was not able to “take mini-vacations for myself to pamper and surround myself in positivity”

3 – The decisions I had to make involved breaking hearts (mine included) and I could not “lovingly accept the situation and move on joyfully”

Yes, Anna POSITIVE THINKING IS NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN DO ALL THE TIME:)

In fact, during that time, the positivity mentality was in fact keeping me in a bubble that quite honestly needed to burst, so that i could come out, and move through some healing that needed to happen. And make no doubt about it–it was HARD and there was very little support. I believe it was like that for a reason, a sort of “training” for my soul. Sometimes we are thrown into things and have no time to do much except drag ourselves through them. And there is no shame in that.

However, I do find, now that my life is in a better place (after having done the practical changes nessicary) I can use affirmations and positive attractivism as therapy and another kind of healing. I have been listening to Louise Hay and trully adore her work and ability to empower people to heal themselves. There are moments where, during the process of listening to affirmations that I am feeling open and vulnerable…when I am not able to accept an affirmation right away, I feel the anguish of rejecting “life” and all that comes with it. Then, there is work to do. I sit with that feeling, i move through it and I reclaim peices of myself that I have essentially abandoned.

For me, Positive Thinking/Law of attraction should be viewed as therapy. It is not enough to repeat things, you have to find out if you agree with the things you are agreeing with. If so, what are you willing to do for that which you want? If not, what feelings/memories does it bring up and why?

It is the same when you are dealing with wealth/abundance. I dont have a poverty mentality but I do have issues with money. The reasons come back to my own self worth and what I percieve that I am deserving to recieve. The problem comes when people seek the Law of Attraction to get away from themselves, to look externally to remedies that will fill up their inner void. In that case, it can be in the same realm of addiction.

When we are Whole and full of self love and appreciation, all that we need flows towards us. I have experienced this in the past so I know it is real. What I have a problem with is people forgetting its all about their inner state of wholeness and keep thinking about their next fix of manifesting(the image of the broken aura comes to mind for some reason)…

Thats all I have to say right now. I really enjoy your perspective and look forward to reading more

Elena

By: Denise

Denise — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:34:04 +0000

OMG!!! I’ve felt this way for a while about going through a learning experience and not being able to summon that ‘good’ that ‘ The Secret’ was trying to explain. I don’t feel so crazy now and yes I’m still going through my learning lesson because I’m stubborn.

By: vikasgupta6

vikasgupta6 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:26:19 +0000

vikas6,
Anna my life is a distance between the two places heaven to hell or hell 2 heaven.
But the earth is round so,from earth where is the path for heaven it have no conner,as we have race from center of circle which have same length to every point of round,God plays of it own,who have to ratate the earth.
I conclude that on 2 life we will pass through hell and heaven both.good,bad,on earth we r judge to take. It is bles or curse
please tel what should we do when 90% dream,saying,curse al come true when sleeping walking,talking,
Any time when i have a telecast by my brain,it is a bles.. For me i am helpless 2 my family,but 4 needy due to this outsider have positive.this is difficujt for the family

By: Sai

Sai — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:39:38 +0000

Loved this article. I am an Indian and a Hindu, so have a horoscope. It says that nothing is going to come to me on a platter and I have to work for it. The past ten years of my life had tremendous challenges and hurdles because of Saturn. That is when I started viewing life in a philosophical fashion. I was told that whatever moderate success I achieved was mainly due to my willpower. I cannot but agree with that and your article reaffirms it!

Sometimes you have to learn the life lessons to fully value what you have and that is the truth!

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 06 May 2011 11:00:12 +0000

A friend asked me to give her my opinion on this thread and I feel much love from all who have chosen to be involded and interact with each other.

What is “love?” What is “God?” Why are you here? What is your purpose?” Four basic questions to live by and I will share my experience.

It was recently told to me that LOA is not something that you can choose to experience. It’s like choosing to live with the Law of Gravity. Stephan Hawking once said “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” So, how can people say that “(bad) things are thrown at them?”

LOA is going to happen. The part that stops people is the Art of Allowing. Going back to “What is God?” I asked a fundamental Baptist preacher this question, to give me the simplest answer he could. He looked down for 3 seconds, looked back up and said “Everything.” And that answer was perfect. God, the omnipotent being that has created all their is, was and will be, will never “want.” What works is knowing that after being created, the soul was told “You’re on your own, to make choices of inclusion or to be seperated from ME.”

Now, what is Love?” eHarmony states that it is a chemical reaction. Oh how limitting is that? Take a moment to define love as energy, universal energy. All matter is energy in motion. Some more dense than others. When you are sitting at a restaurant and all of a sudden, everyone from all the tables turn to look at the front door to view the couple that just walked in, the couple that are radiating with a glow, what is being observed? Love. Are they “in love?” Sorta. “When 2 or more are gathered in my name..” is what is being observed. We each have the ability to bring into our bodies universal love and allow it to flow from us as a beacon or even direct it towards someone or something. As each part of our chakra system is attuned to frequency, so is the ability we have to connect with other matter.

Why are we here? If we take “time” out of the physical experience, then we reduce the stigma of comparison reasoning. We are here to experience emotion and if we do not have the fullest expeience of that emotion, we will come back until we have had enough of it. It’s like eating ice cream. We can eat so much of it day after day after day until we say “Enough, I don;t want any more. I don’t like what it’s doing to my body.” The same with each emotion. In becoming a physicality, the soul is experiencing re-membering who it really is and its infinate abilities to create. It’s about the journey and not “Whoever has the most toys in the end wins.”

Do you KNOW fear? Can you feel it coming forward in your body and recognise it before it causes massive reactions of chemicals in your body or can you identify it and say to it before it takes you to a dark place “Uh uh! Not today. I’m see you. I’m going to lut you in a jar, on the shelf and take you out when I want to experience you again.

Which now leads to “the ride.” Why do people rise and fall from their succeses and failures? It’s about the journey. I am a chef and opera singer. I create and experience emotions in a grand way. Yet, I go bowling in leagues with “blue collar” people that use fowl language and are not in a loving place. I also watch football, which is a competitive sport, where there is always a loser. Why do I separate myself from being “in love?” It’s about the ride, the journey. For as I push myself into loving my work and going further into ability to create, to manifest, I also must withdraw and experience the lack of abumdance of being a loving person. This gets me back on the bicycle after falling and allows me to see from my mistkes how to peddle faster, how to rise out of the seat when approching a bump, to experience a greater “ride.”

LOA is here an there is nothing that can be done about it. How much will you experience today from your Emotional Escrow (that which you have banked to use in your future physical days)? Are you separating yourself from abundance? Are you worthy of prosperity? Are you emotionally ready?

Finally, language, spoken words are pithy to use in communication. Some of you may want to challenge my posting. That’s fine. I use the word namaste and respect and honor your perception of where you are in your journey. I choose to continue to share my love with all today, for there is nothing greater than to experience that while in this physical form.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:46:07 +0000

Brenda,

Good thoughts. It’s begun working for me, but only when I get myself tuned just right. It’s tricky. And one great truism is that what works for one will NOT work for all; hence, the fallacy behind the “teaching” of LOA. Those courses and books in general only increase the abundance of their creators and cause frustration for everyone else.

I will also say that keyboards should be made so that one receives a mild electrical shock unless the “Enter” key is pressed at least every 80-100 words or so…

By: Brenda The B

Brenda The B — Mon, 02 May 2011 01:55:02 +0000

Anna, Commenters, and Readers : I think we are all correct in our opinions, but perhaps we jump too soon for the interpretation of what’s behind the LOA books and why we’re reading them. (LOA is real and available to everyone as far as I’m concerned, by the way.) For years I have been racing through life, absorbing all the self-help advice from outside of me as if somehow the sheer quantity of information I took in would magically gel and make me spit up the answer I had been looking for (such as, why am I unhappy? why do I feel so lost, etc.). But was that truly what was bothering me, what attracted me to that book? Only after I finished reading yet another book which promised to help, and sitting there with my sense of inadequacy and having been tricked (by myself), would the real questions be revealed. It wasn’t that I wanted “abundance” — I wanted what it took to get there. I know how to become abundant. I just don’t want to be a phony while I’m doing it. Neither do I want to use or exploit others in order to achieve my goals. After reading a certain number of these books, a few suggestions will be repeated and become a theme. You have to know what you want, for example. So the real problem isn’t how do I generate prosperity, but how do I uncover what’s inside of me that will take me there – and why is it covered up? How do I discover what it is that I REALLY want – and why don’t I know that at this moment? A person can get tangled up in this, so much for attracting the clarity you seek! I guess what I’m saying is that most of what happens to us is connected to what we have learned, are learning, or plan to learn. Sometimes, all we really need in order to be more deliberate in creating the life we want (or to being more actively psychic) is to KNOW OURSELVES — meaning, to learn more about ourselves. That’s the tricky part, and many of those books seduce us by hinting that it’s easy to work through that obstacle. Sometimes…but then not always. That being said, I want to say that once you clear our the inner obstacles, and examine and confront the ideas you believe about life that are holding you back, you can move ahead and achieve more. I see this as more of an society brainwashing thing than a spirit thing. Oh, and ideas (and guilt is an idea) about being psychic or expressing psychic abilities applies here, too. Do you think the spiritual powers that be really want us to languish for years and years before reawakening to our psychic selves in order to learn some kind of lesson? Aren’t those on “the other side” banging on our mental doors trying to get out attention, to get us to wake up and open the lines of communication so we can speed up the process of creating a greater truth — before it’s too late? Learning that your preconceived ideas about life are causing some of the poverty and lack can be an important and very helpful realization, because the skills you learn apply to everything in your life. I should listen to myself.

By: Paulymath

Paulymath — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:41:04 +0000

@Michael: I think anyone who truly desires to be a billionaire and follows that up with the vision, faith, action and the belief that it is achievable can become a billionaire.

If that makes me a “guru” who “spreads false hope” in your mind, so be it.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:58:48 +0000

There is no question of definition.

The ones I’m talking about are indeed talking about a “billion dollars”, Pauly. They define it at the outset, give assurance that it’s possible for anyone (which it is, but not a specifically teachable thing), and give the impression that it’s a done deal…when it’s not.

Apples and oranges. I generally try to work in real things, not abstracts. I’m not talking about abundance in general; but your misinterpretation is forgiven