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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  See - this is the key point that most people miss.
Why do I say that it's a key point? Because what keeps most of your negative thoughts from manifesting is the same as what keeps most of your positive thoughts from manifesting. |
Earlier you said this is why not all the negative thoughts manifest, the same way not all of the positive thoughts manifest, and now we are looking at
most of the positive thoughts not manifesting.
I think most of the positive thoughts do manifest because for the most part life goes pretty smoothly. The electricity stays on, the car starts, and so on. What we see people struggling with here typically are bigger problem issues they're trying to get a handle on. Relationships, career, and money, most frequently.
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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot Negative Example Negated
The person begins with his irrational fears (I use MR's example): "I am so afraid of shark attacks. I even get nightmares about being eaten by a shark."
Why this doesn't manifest - the thoughts are neutralised by other thoughts. Eg:
"I am afraid of shark attacks, therefore I do NOT go swimming in the ocean. I will only swim in a swimming pool". Effect on reality - the person will never be bitten by a shark. |
A shark attack is one thing, but what about the person who's terrified of elevators, and has to ride in an elevator every week or two? What about the person who's terrified of tornadoes, and lives in Kansas? How come their house is still standing, even though they are very well aware that tornadoes come and obliterate entire towns once in awhile? What about the person who hates driving and is scared to drive because she's afraid she's going to get in an accident? Even though she's careful to the point of obsession, why hasn't some truck careened out of control and wiped out her car?
You can say this happens all the time . . . but really, it
doesn't happen a lot more often than it does happen.
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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot ... actually, I'd already explained them. You see, Event A does not necessarily occur because you are thinking of Event A. Event A occurs instead because you are thinking thoughts X, Y and Z, and the net effect of thoughts X, Y and Z is that Event A occurs.
Therefore Event A can be a real surprise to you. But it is merely the net result of your different thoughts X, Y and Z. |
The reason I discounted this part of the explanation is because it doesn't seem to relate to this particular discussion -- about fear being a magnet. I specifically set out the guideline that bad things happen even when a person wasn't afraid of the particular possibility that did occur. And some other things they were really afraid of all their lives never did occur. This is how life typically goes. While a person's busy being all worried and afraid of their car breaking down on the highway at night, one day a tree falls down on their house instead, and they go man, I never imagined that would ever happen.