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kismet · 01-09-2008, 01:05 AM

A lot of the things I've been reading on LOA state that whatever you focus on you attract, and whatever you don't focus on or give your attention to you don't attract. One even goes so far as to say that if you do not pay attention to something it will cease to exist.

"Whatever you give psychic energy to, you are giving it mental life to exist. That is why the more you place your mind on something, the more it lives. The less you do, the less power it has to remain alive. When you do not pay attention to something, it ceases to exist over time."

This doesn't make sense, because the things in your life that you do not want you often just neglect or are in denial of. They are too painful or undesirable to confront, so in our "wishful" thinking, we think if we just ignore the problems they will go away. They usually never do though. They usually just get worse until they are so bad that you are forced to deal with them and put your attention on them to make them better. Usually also, the effects you deal with are far worse then if you had just dealt with them and confronted them in the early stage, instead of procrastinating.

Some good examples of this are health problems. I'm not talking about dwelling on how bad the health problem is or worrying about it, but just in confronting the reality of it directly and putting energy into dealing with it. Weather that is just seeing doctors to diagnose the problem and finding a treatment plan to stick to for it, or seeing a dentist and getting over the painful procedure that you'd rather just avoid and pretended didn't exist. Or many other things we just ignore and pretend are alright, but aren't. When we don't clean our house, the mess doesn't just go away by not paying attention to it.

01-09-2008, 01:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
kismet Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 33	LOA or just Denial? A lot of the things I've been reading on LOA state that whatever you focus on you attract, and whatever you don't focus on or give your attention to you don't attract. One even goes so far as to say that if you do not pay attention to something it will cease to exist. "Whatever you give psychic energy to, you are giving it mental life to exist. That is why the more you place your mind on something, the more it lives. The less you do, the less power it has to remain alive. When you do not pay attention to something, it ceases to exist over time." This doesn't make sense, because the things in your life that you do not want you often just neglect or are in denial of. They are too painful or undesirable to confront, so in our "wishful" thinking, we think if we just ignore the problems they will go away. They usually never do though. They usually just get worse until they are so bad that you are forced to deal with them and put your attention on them to make them better. Usually also, the effects you deal with are far worse then if you had just dealt with them and confronted them in the early stage, instead of procrastinating. Some good examples of this are health problems. I'm not talking about dwelling on how bad the health problem is or worrying about it, but just in confronting the reality of it directly and putting energy into dealing with it. Weather that is just seeing doctors to diagnose the problem and finding a treatment plan to stick to for it, or seeing a dentist and getting over the painful procedure that you'd rather just avoid and pretended didn't exist. Or many other things we just ignore and pretend are alright, but aren't. When we don't clean our house, the mess doesn't just go away by not paying attention to it.