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Our thinking and emotions effect our reality. Choose what to think, choose how to feel. Duh.

But there’s something much more than ‘duh’ here; there is a lot of power in these ideas.

The law of attraction states that whatever we’re feeling, thinking, and seeing, more of it will come out in “the universe” (a term I’d like to de-generalize). This makes a lot of sense. If I am upset because the food I just ate at the cafeteria was horrible, those thoughts and feelings are existing as much in my head as they are in my upset stomach. Walking around, I’ll feel upset because my stomach hurts. This emotion permeates my reality, saturates it, and connects my experiences.

If I feel sad, I’ll be a sad looking, thinking, and acting individual. I will wonder about sadness in the world and I’ll continue to be sad because I’m thinking, seeing, and feeling sad images.

If I feel happy, I will find happiness in my life because I’m thinking about happiness and feeling happiness. It’s circular, a positive feedback loop. The more you feel happy, the more happy things in your life will appear, and the more happiness you will feel.

Knowing that our thoughts and images decide our mood, and that our emotions decide our happiness, if we change our thoughts and images to be congruent with our emotional values, we can choose how we feel.
Let’s Apply the Three Principles.

Ask yourself what you really want. You need to make this as specific as possible.
Believe patiently that you will attract your desire.
Receive your desires.

It is imperative, when asking for something, that you visualize the experience of having that something, and feel the emotions associated with that experience. This means
Examples of these Behaviors

They cite a very convincing example: athlete runners who were trained to run their races in their mind. The runners, while visualizing the race, experience the exact same physically triggered effects as they would while running. This physiological reaction is caused by the minds inability to distinguish mentally true and mentally false images. This can also explain why I wake up after a nightmare breathless.

Another very clear example off the top of my head is me simply reacting to a funny dog with a smile. You see the dog, it becomes part of your experience, and you feel and think a certain way because of it. When you think about the dog again or see its photo, you smile.

This happens to me all the time with music. Certain songs will put me in specific moods and drastically effect my thinking. I often have reoccurring vivid images associated with certain parts of my favorite songs.

The scary part is regardless of the language used, the specific words–these are nouns “A first edition copy of The Old man and the Sea,” and adjectives (”old, softened by dust,) and verbs (”lay there” ) and adverbs (”quietly, as if tired of an old place”)–decide the images we see and the emotions we feel.

You could say “I can’t imagine being rich,” and guess what happens? You see yourself incapable of being rich. If you want to be rich, having the thought of an image like that will only be a detriment. You must take control of your thinking by applying the principles of the laws of attraction.
How Do We Apply The Law of Attraction?

We must change our thinking. So simple and so important.
Instead of thinking about what you don’t want, don’t! Think about what you want, what you want passionately, and imagine the scene with vivid images. Pretend you already have it and you will feel it; try on the suit of the business man you hope to become; really experience the feelings that you associate with being that changed person.

If you are emotionally and intellectually incongruent with your desires, your “asks”, imagine how long it will take for them to actualize.

Make these changes to your thinking and your world will change. Not just, “oh, now my thinking is changed.”

Making these changes in thinking will literally transform your thoughts into things.

Why? Because we are all energy. Hmmmm…
Where does the movie “The Secret” go too far?

This is where “The Secrete” and I begin to devate.
“Everything is Energy”

The reason the law of attraction works is because we are all united as the same substance as the universe, and what we want, the universe wants, because we are everything, energy.
E=mc^2

In physics, E = mc2 is an important and well-known equation, which states an equivalence between energy (E) and mass (m), in direct proportion to the square of the speed of light in a vacuum (c2).

The equation was first derived (in a slightly different formulation) in 1905 by Albert Einstein.

The World As I See It

So… Yes, everything is energy… in the sense that we can measure everything through light frequencies.

Also, Albert Einstein is my man. I highly recommend his book,THE WORLD AS I SEE IT.
Do you feel United or Apart of?

I am not the computer I’m typing on, and I am not my roommate’s guitar. Ultimately I may be made of the same stuff, but right now we exist apart from one another.

When I walk around I’m not thinking that the branch I’m about to run into is one with my energy. While I may be the source of the worlds energy, I try not to get hit by the branches.

My rational for nominalism seems rare in itself: phenomenology (more on this in another post about my philosophy).
Universe as a Competent Being

I don’t buy the idea that the universe wants me to achieve because I don’t believe there are wants, desires, or intelligent things with freewill beyond us meaning-assigning humans. We create these ideas, we apply them to non-human things, we forget there’s a difference between our capacities, and suddenly the whole universe becomes the idea that all things are made of energy. This may be true, but this is just one idea of the universe, and I don’t find this idea to be phenomenologically evident, and therefore I reject it, choosing to focus on my perceived reality for truth.
The Law of Attraction and “The Secret” are Sound Yet

I think the law of attraction has a lot of logical and phenomenological veracity.

Look. The way I feel totally changes the way I see the world, the choices I make, and the feelings I have. If I’m in a bad mood, I’m not going to want to go ice skating when I see an ice rink. But if I’m in an adventurous mood, trying to ice skate for the first time would be a lot of fun.

The law of attraction says,

* Figure out what you want.
* Spend time during your day imagining yourself feeling the way it would feel to already have that desire.
* Write down how it would feel in the present tense.
* Believe with your mind and especially your emotions that this desire will manifest in your life. You cannot waiver in this step, you must absolutely believe in yourself congruently.
* Have the courage to act on those beliefs.

I don’t need a big universal reason to explain why this works. You think happy thoughts, you are in a happy mood!

So figure out what is happiness for yourself, visualize it, and feel it. Do this passionately and you’ll naturally gravitate to those desires. Why? Because you’re thinking about them so intensely!

I’ve admired a lot of people in my life. I have an idea of who they are in my head, just a collection of attributes and, in my case, writing or film directing styles. I look up to these people, and I try to act as they would, because I emotionally value what they offer me. So when I make choices, the ideas of these characters guides my thinking, along with a bunch of other independent effects. They don’t inspire some meaning with me, I value them as ideals and I aspire to be like them.

The universal reason that makes attraction work is your own mind! because it constitutes all of reality.

I have a really great fortune cookie that I loved so much I taped it to the cover of my laptop. It reads:
Change your thoughts and you change the world.
Change your thoughts and you change the world.

I couldn’t agree more.