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| Ok, I saw the secret and it was interesting and inspiring. They saw that the great minds through history have used this. Are they referring to the exact principle or are they looking at what they wrote and seeing similarities between the two? I guess this is just beyond positive thinking? What I gathered was that I must feel like I already own it? I mean I've noticed stuff before like I'm thinking/learning about something the couple days before and I meet someone and they start talking about it. Is that an example? I'm confused. |
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| I'm new to this, just learning myself, but I'll take a stab at it. Quote:
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The idea is that you attract what you think about. Thinking with feeling or emotion creates a stronger attraction. So, if you think about wanting something, you'll attract more want. But if you think about having something, you'll attract more having it. Add the feeling of having it to your thoughts, and you'll create an even stronger attraction. Quote:
The thing is, the LoA works all the time, whether you intend it to or not, and whether you realize it or not. "Thinking positive" will tend to generate more positive outcomes and negative thinking will tend to generate more negative outcomes. I wrote a post on my own experiences with the LoA, and how looking back I can see how I attracted both things I wanted, and things I didn't want, merely by what my mind was occupied with at the time. What lead me to the LoA was the idea that thought creates reality. Assuming this is true (and I believe it to be true), anyone should be able to look at their current circumstances and analyze their past thoughts and see how they got where they are. What do you want your reality to be like? This is what we're all learning here, how do we use this Truth we're calling the Law of Attraction to create a better reality.
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I must say I'm finding that just the awareness of loa forces me to practice keeping my thoughts focused on what I want to attract....and yes, it's definitely about feeling like you own it or are already in that place. I'm definitely noticing a difference as I get used to implementing the loa. Another thing I'm finding is that I am really put off my negative people now. I'm finding it easier to not get sucked in by their negative attitude. Thad
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I think the hardest thing too is to stay with it. Because initially nothing may happen, but like the video said progress may just be around the corner. |
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| Update: It was my intention this week to manifest a dollar and low and behold walking outside today I found a folded up 1 dollar bill! I'm trying for 5 next week! I guess nothing is the limit!! Last edited by Ibanez : 11-15-2006 at 04:12 PM. |
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Maybe you should intend an odd number and see if it works, like instead of $5, intend $5.63...see if you get that exact amount. Thad
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| Its quite possible that all great minds of the past became great puerly because of the LoA but you gotta tell yourself they never really existed and that all that exists is the now, you could hav ecome into existance right now and you wouold never know, because you could have created the memories, think about it. |
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It just seems hard at first to grasp the concept. Because in the video(The Secret) they make it seem like everything flows naturally, wealth comes naturally, money, etc. But everyone else is like work 60-80hrs a week, then you'll be rich. But I realize I create my own reality. It's my duty to create my life. |
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At this point, I am thinking LoA is just a marketing vehicle for some (smart?) people to make money by polarizing people: "LoA works!", "No it does not", "But it worked for so and so", etc.. |
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| I was thinking about something. Wouldn't you all say that anyone who's successfully achieving their goals would be doing so because of their successful use of the LoA, whether they realize it or not? And that anyone not successful at achieving their goals would be because of the way they use the LoA?
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| Maybe we are all beating the subject to death and it is reaching levels that don't make sense... No great person in history, as far as I know, did anything because they were trying to be millionaires, or win the lottery, or land a particular job. They did what they did because they either got great pleasure out of doing it, or they wanted to eliminate a disease/condition/etc, or feed their curiosity that kept them up at night... In the meantime they used what LoA suggests: intense focus, passion, not accepting failure, action, patience, commitment, etc.. Now some dudes come out and say "Look these great people did these great things and here is the formula they used". They are not lying per se, but that formula worked only because of the particular purposes involved. It was for service of some kind; for the advancement of humanity in one way or another. You can't apply that formula to win the lottery, or get $5.63, or land a job... Bottomline is, these people were serving a purpose higher than themselves whether they were aware of it or not. If your goal is to serve others, I am sure LoA will work wonders. Go Steve! If the goal is to benefit one's self, I doubt it will do much if anything. Dormant forces come alive when you are a bridge from the source to the destination/purpose. As it flows through you, I am sure you get your share of it. If you are the destination, then nothing flows at all. Perhaps it's that simple. Last edited by eternomi : 11-18-2006 at 04:50 AM. |
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| Looking at it from Steve's perspective, wouldn't it make more sense to say that it's not so much an issue of helping others as opposed to helping yourself as it is that others are a projection of your own thoughts, and to ignore them would be to deny your own manifestations? Just as denying that your physical body has anything to do with that manifested reality, denying that all the other people have nothing to do with it does not work either. Yet at the same time, there is only one consciousness - yours. "I think, therefore I am." |
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| Whether there is only one, or a million, the result is the same. In either case, you could know you are omnipotent, or you could experience you are omnipotent. Without someone else to show to that you are omnipotent, you can only know your powers. I mean use it to help someone, not gloat about it. As it seems to me, and like I said above, the magic ingredient for these powers to come alive is to get them to flow somewhere. You've got them. We've all got them. You just need something outside of you for them to flow. So you gotta think "you", not "me". All the rest of the stuff Steve and a bazillion other thinkers, mystics and masters of eternity wrote about is to convince you that you are not just flesh and bones, you have these powers and they will activate once you think the right (you) way. That's it! Really! Now go do something, flow somewhere... Last edited by eternomi : 11-18-2006 at 03:54 PM. |
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| Are you saying the LoA isn't always in operation?
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| It is always in operation (even though I don't quite agree with how it is stated), but when you think "me me me", you are casting the powers away... When you say "you you you", you get them back. |
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As I've said before, I'm new to all this and am just learning. Right now, my line of thinking is that the "me me me" would attract to you more "me me me." Example: I have have plenty of money to give, I'll have more and more money to give. However, if I have no money to give, I'll have less and less money to give.
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| First of all, let me put a disclaimer and say that my thoughts on the subject do not match up with the rest of the crowd here. If you want to know what LoA is, I am not the best person to ask, but since you asked me, I'll tell you my perspective. All my thoughts on the subject are actually in the following thread. Please give it a read and see what you think. http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/i...-r-broken.html In a nut shell, you get to pick a "theme" for your life and the rest unfolds based on that. Your thoughts and actions pick the theme. Apart from picking the theme, you don't have control over the specifics of the unfolding of events (This is where I differ with the LoA, S/R, I-M folks. They claim you create the whole thing whereas I claim you create the path, but events unfold on their own). If you pick a theme of love, support, understanding, etc your "reality movie" will unfold in that direction. If you pick greed, competition, jealousy, hatred and revenge, then it will unfold in that direction. Your job is to make sure your thoughts and actions are always aligned with the theme you pick for yourself no matter how the reality unfolds! There could be tricky situations where what unfolds might cause you to unknowingly change the theme you are picking! You also have to keep in mind that the theme picking is both a conscious and a subconscious process. The way you've done the picking in the past will tend to have become automatic in your brain... you might have to dig in there and rip out the old ways and put in new ones. That's it. Last edited by eternomi : 11-20-2006 at 05:31 PM. |
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Same idea applies to everything else. It is not really how much of something you have, but how you use what you have. I am guessing that if you end up controlling your "theme" well, you get to impact more and more people. For example, if you are generous and you are truely generous from "inside out", then you'll also end up getting lots of money to use it in the act of being generous. But it doesn't work from outside in. You can't wait until you have lots of money to be generous. Last edited by eternomi : 11-20-2006 at 06:01 PM. |
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