What’s wrong with the Law of Attraction? September 27, 2006
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Over the past few months I have had several personal revelations. I have written several articles about the Law of Attraction but it wasn’t until only recently that I discovered the one inherent flaw with the theory of “The Law of Attraction”. Like all theories, the law of attraction is simply just that, nothing more than a theory.
The flaw arises out of our need to have a theory in the first place. After all, isn’t our need to have a “life story” the reason why we are here? We constantly seek out new experiences. It is what physical humans do. Because we have an innate sense of needing a purpose, we rationalize this as being here to do something and yet that very thing we are here to do, we hide from.
So I suppose you could say the only flaw with the law of attraction is the same flaw with everything. Everything in this world is dualistic. It’s either this way or that way. My concern is the belief that there is only one way of absolute truth and when you are fed the “truth” by someone else you are in fact living your life through their eyes.
People believe that without a purpose and a set of morals we would be absolutely insane and yet deep down inside we do share a moral conscious. We do care about other humans. We share the joys and pains together and it’s our mutual empathy that has evolved into who we are today. The fact that we can each share pain and make ourselves have feelings towards another human being whom we have never met is surely a sign that we are in fact all connected. That is why we feel sad when we hear the news that Princess Diana has been killed or even the crocodile hunter. We experience these feelings of pain because we are somehow connected.
We do not need a “theory” of life, we only think we do. Many people believe that without a God there would be no rules. We believe there would be chaos in the streets and yet we ignore that in fact there already is chaos in the streets. Our desire to have a purpose only drives our insanity into a never ending egoic journey from which we never seem to be able to escape.
If I had to say what I thought my purpose would be, I would say that it is the power of intent that drives all of us. We create our life through our intent. Following an idea or belief is only good for the sake of following an idea or belief. I’ve heard the phrase “Faith without works is dead” and it’s true! It takes a lot of work being alive right? So our true purpose is finding faith in whatever we choose and then going with the flow. I don’t care if you believe in the law of attraction, I only care that I live my life to its fullest extent with true conscious intent. So if you ask my advice I say just go with the flow, decide what your next step in life will be and follow through with it. Then when you wake up tomorrow, start all over again.
A world we love to hate September 17, 2006
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Imagine for a moment that you decide to take a drive on a nice Sunday afternoon. The sun is out and it’s a beautiful warm day. When you leave on this journey you have no purpose for driving to a specific location and your intent is simply to take in your surroundings. As you drive, you decide to take a country road with little or no traffic. You gaze out at the passing landscape, the fields and pastures go by one after another.
After driving for some thirty minutes without seeing another person or car you see an intersection ahead. As you slow the car another driver approaching from the east is heading towards the same intersection. As your car comes to a stop at the intersection so does the other car. You make eye contact with the other driver. At the same moment you both nod to one another as if to kindly gesture each other to go forward. Now you become confused, should you go first or let the other person go first. You both have this same feeling although no words have been spoken aloud. You nod again at the person and finally they proceed to pull forward and through the intersection.
As you pull forward and begin to drive away you are overcome with a sense of joy simply because you allowed the other person to go first. Now you begin to wonder what events in that person’s life lead them to that intersection at the exact same moment as you. Were they headed somewhere? Or were they driving without a purpose of getting somewhere as you were?
The events that lead up to your meeting at the intersection although vastly different must be similar in many ways in order for this chance meeting to take place. If the person in the other car had in fact been driving to a specific location maybe they were happy that you let them go through the intersection first. Maybe they felt a sense of relief because they could get to their destination a few moments sooner. Surely we will never know their intent or why they were placed in front of you to begin with.
I think all of us have had these moments and whether we realize it or not it is a direct reflection of how we should be living our lives. We can think of each moment as an intersection. We come to each intersection having to make a choice as to how we should proceed. Should we force the issue and drive ahead without any concern for anyone else? Or could we stop for a moment and realize that we have a choice as to where we go next and in recognizing that we have a choice can we make a conscious decision based on what we believe the outcome will be?
Can we realize that each choice we make will certainly have an outcome? We create each moment and every situation but realizing it as it happens gives us the awareness to see the future outcome. This realization is in fact our awakening to the moment. We are present in the now. We see the choice ahead of us and we see the results. If we make the same choice we would always make then we should expect the same results. But if we recognize the choice, now we can decide a different path and a different outcome.
I have heard and read many things about being enlightened or being spiritual but putting all of that aside, if we simply recognize our choices as they happen then we instantly take responsibility for our own actions and in doing so we create the world we desire instead of the world that we love to hate.
Getting the most out of each day September 14, 2006
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Over the past few weeks I have been in the grips of my own thought processes. I often wonder why I have made the choices I have made and how they have led me to this place. When I was a fulltime employee for a large corporation I can remember being so dissatisfied with myself and my work environment. It wasn’t that I had a bad job or that I worked with bad people but I still felt very unhappy with my circumstances. It wasn’t something I could place a finger on at the time but now looking back I have a better feel for why I felt so lost.
I didn’t stay in college and I have always held the belief that somehow I had limited myself because I was not willing to do the leg work required to be recognized as someone of importance. I’m not sure how a college degree would have made me a different person or if it really would have had any real effect on the person whom I have become.
I have always relied on self education. I have spent many years teaching myself through reading and researching topics that I find interesting. When I am focused on a topic I immerse myself into the subject matter as if it is the most important thing for me to be doing at that moment. My lack of a college degree has nothing to do with me being lazy or unguided. I have always felt that I am much better at guiding myself than any college instructor could do for me.
Now, when I look back on my corporate career I often think about the people I worked with. I remember how some of them were able to perform their daily tasks as if nothing were more important. They did their jobs without complaint and many of them seemed very happy to be in that place. At the time, I could not understand why I was so unhappy and yet the people around me did the exact same work as I did without any thought of unhappiness.
If I had simply decided to accept what I was doing then and placed the utmost important on my work maybe I would be a different person today. Many times people feel stuck or lost as I have felt. We hate our jobs or we feel like we need something else to make us whole and yet if we only realized that we are already whole then wouldn’t that make our current situations more tolerable? If we accept our current predicament and see the good in every situation, how could we not benefit from that sort of thinking?
I’m not saying we should just stop complaining and be happy because that doesn’t work. What I am suggesting is to realize that our current situations are only what they are because of our past choices. From this day forward we can choose to make the best of what seems to be the worst situation. By making a conscious choice to see our current dilemma’s in a new light, maybe we are taking a step in the right direction which will then lead us out of the darkness and into a life that is more abundant.
So if you’re unhappy with your current life situation, try looking at it from a different perspective. Many people would love to have the job you hate. Many people would love to have the house you live in or the car you drive. It’s not an easy task I know. Even to this day I struggle to keep an open mind. Just remember that the only real currency in life is each passing day. How we spend each day is a direct reflection of who we are and where we are going. Choose to live a happier existence and abundance will find you. If you live to be eighty years old you will have lived for 29,200 days. If you only had $29,200 for the rest of your life how would you spend it? Would you blow it all on things that will only give you temporary satisfaction or would you savor each dollar and get the most you could for it? Get the most out of each day and you will get the most out of life.
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