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.
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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The definition of the believe factor July 31, 2006
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What is your believe factor? Many people ask me what I am actually meaning when I talk about the believe factor. First I should probably lay some groundwork. Many psychologists such as Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud recognized that all humans really have two voices in their heads. One voice is the one we typically recognize as our conscious voice. This is the voice that we use in our everyday lives. When we speak with other people or when we are consciously thinking we are using this voice. But there is another voice that is much quieter inside our selves. The deception is that the inner voice although it may seem quiet and most of us completely ignore it anyways is actually running the show.
Our inner voice or our “Self” is what is really making the decisions and creating the reality which we perceive. It is this voice that will autosuggest things to us without us being aware most of the time. In order to manifest and create our day it is the inner voice that we must become aware of and learn to control.
Like a computer, our inner voice will serve up many things to our conscious minds because it thinks that is what we wish to experience. The problem is that the inner voice does not have a perception of morals or right or wrong. It will only suggest things that directly tie us to an emotion. A computer will make calculated assumptions based on previous user input to anticipate our next move. So the computer calls up potential possibilities in an effort to make a program load faster. Our mind will do this exact same thing based on what it has experienced in the past. If an emotion feels good and we want to experience it more often, our mind will serve it up to us whether we are aware of it or not.
So how to you become aware of this inner mind and therefore take some control away from it? The answer is very simple, however most people have a very hard time actually putting it into practice. I want you to imagine for a moment that it is exactly 24 hours from this very moment that you are reading this article. Imagine that you are sitting at your computer desk reading this article thinking about what this all means. Now shift your future awareness back to today. If you imagine it’s tomorrow and you are sitting there thinking about what you did yesterday (Really today) now you are seeing what you did the day before from a future point of view. This is how you are able to reflect on what your inner mind is up too.
Now comes the fun part. How do you control your inner mind? Imagine that you feel like crap, your day has been going badly or something bad has happened to you recently. Ask yourself in this very moment why you should continue to feel bad? By placing yourself in the now, you are consciously blocking the inner voice from serving up anything. You ask yourself, “Why do I feel bad in this very moment”? There is never a real answer to the question so it makes it easy to rationalize that you shouldn’t feel bad. This is the point that you consciously choose to select a better feeling place. When you learn to listen to the thoughts your inner mind serves up, you have the ability to select one of many possible outcomes.
By not choosing to feel bad you are simply letting go of the situation and allowing the universe to handle it for you. This is critical because without you realizing it you are making a conscious choice to think differently and that’s how you are able to create a different reality for yourself. Simply wishing for change will not bring change. But when you continually force yourself to be in the now you are taking control and deciding what is best for you. Remember that your inner mind does not care about the rational world it only knows from past experience. Our goal is to move out of these past experiences and into a better place. This is the only way to manifest a life that you desire to have. Take control of your inner self and take control of your life. Then and only then will you have what I call “The believe Factor”.
