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In last week’s post I suggested that the single most important thing that distinguished Steve Jobs from most people is that he “created his own reality.”
Some people took that to mean that I subscribed to the Law of Attraction (LOA) and was saying that Jobs achieved what he did primarily by focusing intently on what he wanted with a lot of desire (and, also, according to some versions of the LOA, taking the appropriate action).
That’s not at all what I meant to say. And because all of us can (and, in fact, already do) create our own reality—without using any version of the LOA—I want to explain in more detail what I mean by “creating your own reality” and how that differs significantly from the LOA.
Here is the essence of what I said about Jobs last week
Most people hold many versions of an “It can’t be done” belief. Jobs did not. Jobs did not deal more effectively with the same world most people deal with. He interacted with a different world—a world in which almost anything is possible, while most people interact with a world in which so many things “can’t be done.” …
Don’t learn how to deal better with the “reality” you have constructed. Change your reality and virtually anything becomes possible. That was Steve Job’s “secret.”
Someone thought I was advocating the LOA
Suzanna was one of several people who thought I was saying that Jobs and others like him used the LOA to achieve the miraculous things he did.
She wrote:
Hi Morty,
I read the same type of story about an automobile manufacturer. His employees told him that something could not be done, he insisted, and it got done. I guess, what he, Steve, and other top leaders are good at is using the law of attraction. They know that you can create your own reality. If you have a desire that you keep focusing on and you don’t create resistance to the desire with limiting beliefs, your desire will eventually manifest into physical form.
And Lachlan commented: “From the little I know of Quantum Physics, what Steve understood about reality is now a scientific fact; we create our own view of reality and then form it by acting on the thought forms we create in our imagination.”
How we create our own reality
All of us, all the time, “create our own reality” via the beliefs we form. Let me explain. A belief is a statement about reality that we feel is true. I say “feel” rather than “think” because we may logically know that something we believe is not true and still feel it is true. And as long as we feel it is true, it really is true for us.
So if we believe I’m not good enough, or Life is difficult, or Relationships don’t work, then we live in a reality is which these statements are “The Truth” for us. As a result we deal with reality as if these statements are true.
If, in the reality you have created for yourself, you really are not good enough, then everything you do, don’t do, or even think about doing, are significantly affected by the “fact” that you are not good enough. The same is true for any other belief you might hold.
Our reality is comprised largely by our beliefs
So what projects you take on—if any—and how creative you are in pursuing them, is largely determined by your beliefs about yourself and life. In addition, each of us forms specific beliefs about what can and what can’t be done. Anything we say can’t be done really can’t be done (it’s a “fact”) in our reality, which would prevent us from even trying to do it.
There were very few things that Jobs believed couldn’t be done. In his reality, almost anything was possible. And he acted consistently with that reality. Very few other people live in a reality like that.
If Change is difficult if not impossible, how hard will you try to change something, even if change is necessary to get what you really want? On the other hand, if in your reality Change is easy when you know how, then potential barriers to you getting what you want are only temporary roadblocks until you tear them down. If change were necessary, you would change anything that got in your way.
If you believe that something is impossible if an “expert” tells you it is impossible, it would make sense to accept the expert’s advice and not waste your time trying to do something that is impossible. If you believe Almost anything is possible; just because an “expert” says something is impossible doesn’t mean it really is impossible—then you will ignore pronouncements from experts.
Although there is a physical reality that must be dealt with, much of what each of us considers to be reality—and virtually all that stops us in life—is a function of our beliefs, not what’s really out there. And because we create our beliefs and can eliminate them at any time, it is an accurate statement to say we, for the most part, create our own reality. Or to put it another way, we create the reality we interact with daily.
This is what I meant when I say that Jobs “lived” in a different world than most of us—a world of his own making. And because each of us “makes” his own reality, it is possible for us to change our reality if it gets in the way of us getting what we want. (See my earlier post on how eliminating beliefs literally creates new possibilities in your life: https://www.mortylefkoe.com/how-to-create-new-possibilities-in-your-life/)
Why this is not the LOA
Is it clear now why my statement that we create our reality has nothing to do with a LOA that states that a concentrated focus on what we really desire, added to taking action when the opportunity arises, will always give us what we want? That is a good strategy for trying to get what you want, especially the taking action step, but I don’t think that approach will “create your reality”—in other words, what you want will not “just manifest” no matter how intensely you focus or how much action you take—if you do it in a reality that doesn’t permit what you are seeking.
Moreover, it won’t even occur to you to take action in a reality where what you want is impossible.
To paraphrase what I said at the end of last week’s post: Don’t waste your time trying to deal better with the “reality” you already have constructed. Change your reality by eliminating your limiting beliefs and virtually anything becomes possible.
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I actually don’t see the dichotomy you are setting up. What you are saying is basically the law of attraction in a nutshell. If you don’t change your subconscious limiting beliefs, then you can’t create the openness for that desire to enter your reality.
The law of attraction is not just focusing on a desire very intensely. It is getting to a point where you believe that desire is possible. It is allowing yourself to feel good about the possibility of that desire, which can only happen when the limiting beliefs are removed.
If you believe that money is hard to get, then no matter how much you focus on getting money, your energy will be broadcasting “lack of money”, and you’ll get lack of money. Most good LOA teachers say exactly this. It’s not the thoughts you think, but the emotions behind those thoughts, which are influenced by your beliefs.
So it all is connected. And it is impossible for any of us to not use the law of attraction. It is the way the world works. It’s just a matter of whether we are using it consciously or not.
Everything Starts With A Thought – which becomes a Belief which creates a Feeling which can create a positive and negative anchor to Thoughts and Beliefs which gives birth to Paradox.
There are great lessons to be learned from Jerks… Yes Absolutely! There are many people whom we think of as being Jerks – one that comes to mind are Football players/Jocks. Jocks create their own mindsets/Thought patterns of Success. Their thought patterns are not I think Can, it’s I Know I Can, I am the Best, I am Great, No One Else Is Better Than Me, Damn Right I am Good, You Know it Baby/Buddy. They Talk/Program Themselves to be Great At Everything and Along with doing this they also create a mindset of where they do not give a rats about what you think of them. Now this does not mean they don’t care or have compassion for people, they just don’t have one care in the world of what you think about them.
Everything thing they Envision, Design, Choose to have can seem like LOA, however they are Consciously creating to be so – It Is Done.
Now if you can take on some of their persona and use it to obliterate past negative emotions and memories you could and just might change your life now and the future.
Every Time a Negative Emotional Memory came up and you say to it, You know what I don’t give one rats crap about that anymore and I don’t give a crap what they said to me or did me anymore, I am this blah blah now.
There is so much you can learn from a Jerk so don’t judge their book cover to fast stop crack the pages and learn how they create their realities!
Quote from collectiveevolution.com “A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. (R. C. Henry, “The Mental Universe”; Nature 436:29, 2005)
Morty, I beg to differ. You can’t teach people just one half of the truth. You can’t take someone who is all new to consciously can eating their own reality and expect this to work for them. Everyone WANTS to believe everything is possible, but I came from a family that conditioned me the complete opposite. That almost everything was IMPOSSIBLE. My subconscious mind was still working against me when my conscious mind had long ago decided I could be anything I wanted. If you’re gonna teach an old dog new tricks, you have to take LOA into account. If people don’t realize they are self sabotaging themselves subconsciously, as I was for years, they will never succeed no matter what the conscious mind believes. That’s where learning the Law of Attraction greatly improved my ability to manifest situations that propelled me into changing my subconscious beliefs first came about. LOA is not about “oh I want a fancy car and I am going to focus on that car and it’s coming to me magically” it’s about bringing you into the FEELING of becoming worthy of owning that car, along with creating the feeling of confidence that it takes to know you will be able to manifest the creativity (energy or ideas) to exchange for enough money to purchase that car. It is all about the feelings you create within yourself that propel you to great heights, but it comes through the process of learning from experiences. Desire is everything, it’s natural to want to expand. That’s all the Universe wants to do, expand, how else would that happen without desire??? But you learn to FEEL your way to the next level, until you are where I am. It took me lik 3 years to piece together enough of the puzzle to grasp that reality is literally liquid and fluid like creating a painting. You are creating it with beliefs, feelings, & desire. You just have to get them all aligned, conscious AND subconscious for it to work. Learn to follow your heart and seek no one’s approval along the way. No one. Push forward outside your comfort zone. That’s where the magic happens. Then keep doing it no matter if people think you’re crazy. It wasn’t until Jobs got fired from the company he CREATED by the board, which I’m sure was hard to handle, that he re-focused and created something that Apple needed and they re-hired him and made him the CEO again. He made something impossible-possible!!!
I know this comment is old, but I’m inspired by your journey. And your conclusion that it’s all about the feelings is right on. :) I wish you the best success in the future.
Steve Jobs created his own reality because he didn’t care about anyone else. He cared only about what he thought, what he felt, what he believed, and thought he was right on all counts at the expense of everyone else. If he had a conscience it was close to non-existent. He was a jerk to many people including his parents and daughter. He’d promise things then not deliver. He’d belittle others and treat them like shit. Yes you can create your own reality. Just take on the characteristics of a jerk and the world is your oyster. Can you live with yourself doing that? Good for you.
Yes, Steve Jobs was a narcissistic sociopath, and those people rule the world at this moment. The richest 1 % is either narcissistic or psychopathic, and they have deleted their conscience, and so they make money by using and abusing other people.
Psychopaths are not normal people; they are not healthy. But they do thrive in neoliberal finance capitalism, the diabolical system that makes those who are already rich even richer, simply because they have wealth and money. Capitalism is a man-made system that has nothing to do with godly spirituality or universal law.
This is one of the worst articles I have ever seen online. Nevertheless, it seems to me that confusing magnets with philosophy might work if you think in terms of metaphysics and consciousness and physics, but if you think in terms of actual iron bars and human brains, there is no way of reconciling the apparent contradiction there.
All wrong,
There is only one reality which is anchored in existence. You cannot create reality but you can control it.
Changing a mindset takes time because one has to source and identify the beliefs that support it; it isn’t “incredibly hard”. What is difficult for people is recognizing, understanding, and accepting that other people hold beliefs that are different than, even diametrically opposed, to theirs. Unless people can acknowledge that their beliefs are “a truth” and “not THE truth”, nothing changes. The changing is actually quite easy. As far as “attracting”, I think what Morty is saying is akin to keeping one’s options open and when one eliminates limiting beliefs, your mind opens to the possibilities rather than having them obscured. My husband had been out of work for several months and we managed to stay afloat by our own sweat and ingenuity as well as asking family; it wasn’t the LOA “working” for us; it was us keeping the attitude that we will be able to take care of ourselves because we “see the possibilities and opportunities” instead of being clouded by limiting beliefs. We didn’t attract anything; we kept clear heads and did what we needed to do to take care of ourselves. It isn’t about adopting a mindset as much as it is about shedding limiting belief and operating from wholeness, serenity, and self-empowerment instead of from partiality, anxiety, and little self-empowerment.
Love and Light on your Journey,
Lauren
What you wrote here is actually the method to make the LOA work. Whoever told you that to attract what you want, all you need to do is think about it and take action given the opportunity is clearly mistaken. I’m actually surprised that so many of you think like that because there’s clearly a big misunderstanding here. I admit that’s what the book “The Secret” states but obviously the writers left a lot of things out. I mean “think about what you want”? That’s not even the start of what the LOA really states. I’ll try to make it as simple and fast as I can.
Truth to be told, the LOA actually states that you attract what your vibrations match NOT what you think. Since this world is made of energy and since we’re also made of energy, we need to change our vibration frequency to be able to attract a matching energy. To change our vibration, first we must change our mindset (limiting beliefs). But changing our mindset in order to attract what we want is for most of us incredibly hard, so often we use whish lists, limiting beliefs replacement, meditation, affirmations, vision boards, creative visualization, vibrational shifting, the ever so popular “acting as if”…you name it, as long as it helps you to change your mindset but this are the most commonly used. Only when we’re fully immersed into this new pattern of thinking and truly believe our desire with all our heart do we see it come true.
I guess, the LOA sounds way too complex for you now, I know it did for me! But once you get the hang of it and find out what works for you, changing your mindset will become easier and easier. Of course with so many alternatives (as the ones I stated above) it might take so time but it’s worth it. I promise.
But please don’t be fooled by what “The Secret” teaches you because you’ll ultimately fail and like many others give up on creating your dream reality which, in my humble opinion, would be a shame.
Hope it helped you and thank you so much for this article . I’ve nothing against it, just thought I should help you understand the LOA a bit better.
do you consider yourself a personal growth (EGO) teacher or non-dual (AWARENESS) teacher ?
thank you.
robert
Hi Robert,
We think we are one of the very few organizations that do both. The Lefkoe Method helps you change who you think you are and, at the same time, experience yourself as the consciousness you really are.
Love, Morty
I am replying in general to what I am reading all over the place and seeing in my day to day life. There is a movement that is using half-truth to undermine spirituality and it is growing ever-more pervasive. I appreciate you addressing this topic.
I’m in agreement with you Morty, sorry if that was unclear.
So if you are born in Africa with no money food or drinking water, its your fault for attracting it. If you have your limbs blown off and your land taken in Palestine you must have attracted it. There is no objectivity at all and there is no intersection between all of the active “attractors.” Such a massive oversimplification of spiritually difficult to conceive concepts. All part of the DELIBERATE hijacking of spirituality to keep people confused and passive. I’m sure the Native American’s were busy attracting genocide at the hands of white people in their ceremonial ways that were practiced on north american soil for centuries. Am I dismissing this entirely? No. Just acknowledging how many people run around presuming to understand (Not that I do!) something that is much more complex than the new age movement likes to sell. And yes, that’s what they are doing, nicely packaging and selling oversimplified, easily digestible half-truth, to create a pile of people who think they get it and are no threat to the way things are unfolding. You know what’s better than thinking about something, and hoping it “manifests”….doing something!
Hi,
I’m wondering which post you are replying to.
I make it quite clear that I am NOT saying that your thoughts create your reality. I don’t think that that is true. So I would not say any of the things you write.
I distinguished the Law of Attraction from beliefs about the world that create more or less possibilities for action for you, based on the nature of the world you have created for yourself. If you believe something can’t be done, then, for you, that is impossible and you are unlikely to try to do it.
Our beliefs have a significant impact on our behavior. That is not the same as saying our thoughts create our reality.
Love, Morty
Hi there,
there might be a misunderstanding about what LOA is.
If it’s a belief, then believe it or not, it changes only your own world.
If it’s a law, then, you can say it doesn’t exist, that doesn’t change the reality (the one in which we all live).
Let me put it in another way : before Newton, the law of universal gravitation was not known, but that doesn’t imply that the law was not “acting” ! If something is a law of nature, you don’t have to believe it…
Now if the LOA is really a law, it will have its effects, without asking your permission. LBP and LOA are not the same thing; LBP works accordingly to LOA. We attract what we think. It doesn’t have to be conscious. If you consciously choose to use the LOA, you create only more attraction. All thoughts attract. Emotions are thoughts for that matter.
If I feel that “I’m not good enough”, I live in a world where that is true. My thought pattern will be modified by that belief. In turn, a lot of meaningless events will “tell” me that “I’m not good enough”. All those events will generate feelings and thought about not being good enough. That is where Lefkoe model stops. Then comes the LOA: all those thoughts are magnets that will attract more experiences of not being good enough. If you eliminate that belief, you don’t have those kind of thoughts any more, thus you don’t attract that kind of experience.
We want happiness. But we live lifes where most of us experiment desire, frustration, depression, anger, etc.
What do we have more in mind, then? Consequently, what are we really attracting? What will come?
What you think (both consciously and unconsciously) is what you ask for. “Ask and you shall receive”…
Morty, you assume (as many others) that LOA is a technique. Moreover, you assume that you have to be focusing on something in order to use the LOA.
Anyway, thank you for your precious technique.
Gabriel
Hi Gabriel,
I agree that many people claim the LOA is a “law” of reality, and they think it works whether we are even aware of it or not.
I have serous reservations about whether there is such a “law.” Our thoughts and feelings determine our perception of the world, which significantly determines how we act in the world. I doubt that our thoughts and feelings are magnets.
And many people think that if they consciously follow the law (act consistently with the law) to the letter, they they are employing a technique that will insure the “law” works in their favor.
Love, Morty
Dear Morty:
Thank you so so much for your wonderful post!!!! You rock!!!
In the Lefkoe model as I understand it, thoughts feel real; in the LOA model, they actually become real. Whichever one you subscribe to, the prescription is the same. I refer you to Morty and Esther Hicks for the how…
LOA can not not work period! How ever, many people BE LIE ve they are focused on a destination, target or goal when they are actually looking at not having it, or not knowing how to get it. Many words in the english language have messages with in them just by moving letters, or syllables. That is why it is the most universal language (NOT in number’s, it used to be Latin and changes over time.) including belief. BE LIFE.
“Solid,” words like NOW, NO, YES, STOP and FEEL are absolute in their meaning, not miss construde.
It is each individuals RESPONSE ABILITY, to BE aware of how they FEEL when we think on different subjects.
If you think and it feels nice you are attracting (tractor, ie pulling) it to you. If it does not FEEL nice you are not really believing what you are thinking.
When your too hot, you want cold. If you believe you can get a cool drink and believe you can get one, you think, then act and CREATE one. And feel nice in thinking toward that goal. If you dont believe, you RE ACTe the thought (thinking is an action!) still feeling more uncomfortable.
The universe RESPONDS to how you feel, (E nergy MOTION) and thinking is the first energy. NO THING happens without it, period!
You are ALL WAYS able to obtain FREE WILL of thought.
And guess what, you, reading this are THE universe. Your universe and the centre of it. (UNI, meaning the one, or prime. Verse, meaning mover)
Morty delivers a method that dissolve’s obsolete beliefs (thinking) that give negative emotion, feeling, that may not apply now, but once did.
It is this that will be his legacy for the whole human race.
I BELIEVE this!
. . .every perspective is relevant, this is mine, my universe. It may not be yours and thats fine too. But if this makes you think, be aware (CONSCIOUS) of how you are feeling. If it feels nice your attracting understanding, expansion. If you feel nothing, you attract nothing. If you feel less than pleased you are thinking a way from what you want, or mis understanding the intent of the receiving of information.
YOU ARE NEVER WRONG, BAD or EVIL no matter what.
The emotion you are feeling is Your universe, telling you which way your moving. To a better place of being, to sameness or not.
If you believe something, it is no longer a belief but an IS, a fact.
To have no feeling on a subject is to have no interest, no movement, to take for granted, ie; the sky is blue. Or the way it is, A BE LIE F can not be changed.
Or can it?!
NOW!! The trouble is when you have held a belief for a long time, you BE COME desensitized to it and not know it is there. This is what we call unconscious, or unaware of what we FEEL. We don’t get the message from our universe.
Morty helps us find these and identify them and gives the method to elminate them, for good!!
Thanks Morty!
When the Law of Attraction came out, it was reviewed in Newsweek by a professor who had spent 30 years evaluating self-help books. He opined that about 10% of them are not healthy for us and LOA was on that list. I see LOA– as as developed in the book and video–as egocentric, materialistic and full of magical thinking–all attributes of earlier stages of adult development. Thank you for contrasting that with creating your own reality. If I believe I am unworthy, I can practice LOA until the cows come home and nothing will happen because I act consistent with my beliefs.
I used to think the LOA had validity, thinking that I could actually attract something by having the “right” thoughts and attitude. Then, I started thinking about the mechanics of the LOA and pondered this thought: changing my reality by erasing beliefs brings to me a space where I think about what I want and can get because I have changed my outlook on my own ability to achieve or get what I want. This is in contrast to the LOA which says all I have to do is “ask, believe, and receive.” Here again, is “believe”. I have trouble with belief; like Just Because I Believe I will receive what I desire. Just because I have a thought of what I want, then I ask, I will receive. If I eliminate beliefs that keep me from really attaining what I want, that isn’t because of any Law Of Attraction, it’s because I eliminated a thought process in my own head that prevented me from even thinking I could actually attain that something.
Thank you so much for this post, Morty; I am more in touch with who I really am and using this creation to work for what I want knowing that the limiting beliefs I had are gone and am constantly learning more.
Love and Light,
Lauren
As I get rid of beliefs my reality HAS changed. But it’s funny, I have to stop and remember how things that used to cause me anxiety don’t affect me in any way anymore. Now, nothing is there at all. I never heard of this “LOA” stuff but it sounds like just another set of beliefs that exists only in people’s minds. Get rid of the beliefs and just live with the reality you can see. Thanks, Morty!
How anyone who watched that Video cannot understand how it’s NOT the same as the LOA is interesting (to be nice). LOA example: I make $10k a week. But if you barely made it out of HighSchool & work fliping burgers, repeating that 1k times a day will not help you make $10k a week. Even if you can visualize you owning a McDonalds.
If you think you are poor and believe you will always be poor you’ll be stuck there. That’s what the difference is and what Morty can help you with and just explained with several examples. Watch video again.
I think that for someone who has reality that “the Law of Attraction works,” the Law of Attraction does occur as working for them. That is, if they’re not getting the results they want, that means that they’re not vibrating in alignment with that result or that they’re somehow not “good enough” at using it effectively yet, but the Law itself is always at work, in their model of the world.
Hi Morty, Thank you so much, I love the clarity your blog has given me and I’m sure it is a great value to others who read it.
I have had an amazing week putting into practice almost exactly what you describe. All my life (at least from 7 years and I’m now 66) I have had the feeling that I could never do enough to earn or deserve the unconditional love I so much wanted, even when I have a loving wife and friends, that feeling was always there.
However, after the worst case of gastric diarrhea I have ever experienced, I received an internal message that it was time to clean out the s—t (the false beliefs) that have been blocking me for so long – what a relief in more ways than one! After I recovered, I was suddenly able to see the error in my thinking, which started when I was a child and felt unloved, and how that feeling had created my world without the love I “imagined” was somewhere to be earned by good works, blah, blah, but not in my life. Boo hoo.
My feeling was actually true, I could never earn or deserve unconditional love, but my error in thinking blinded me from the fact that unconditional love really has no conditions! (how did I not see that?) My false belief was actually preventing me from seeing what is now blindingly obvious – I had created a world where unconditional love was impossible or had impossibly difficult conditions. What an amazing change that has made!
Much love, (now, not just polite words)
Lachlan
Hi Morty, your way of expressing your ideas seems to be always changing (in a good way :) ) – it really helps me to understand where you’re coming from.
I was wondering about this. I heard a clip from a spiritual master Babaji where he said LOA is not what is attracted to you but what you attract. That we are the attraction. & I didn’t get it. But now I understand your beliefs create who you are and the world around you. I like how you put it as how one DEALS with their reality based on their belief. Like dreaming where you create your own world based on your own personal perspective & experiences. Belief creates the thought, word, action & experience. I get it now! It makes sense and makes us accountable for our own worlds. Nice!!
Interesting post. I am not sure I understand what you want to say this time and how this has nothing to do with the LOA. You wrote:
“…but I don’t think that approach will “create your reality”—in other words, what you want will not “just manifest” no matter how intensely you focus or how much action you take—if you do it in a reality that doesn’t permit what you are seeking.”
Basically, what you are saying is that beliefs have the power to prevent the LOA from bringing you what you want. So, consequently, if I eliminate the belief that doesn’t permit what I am seeking, LOA will work. So, what I get is: don’t try manifesting unless you have eliminated all beliefs that prevent your ability to do so. And Steve Jobs just didn’t have any beliefs that prevented LOA from working in his life. In no way do I see how this contradicts LOA or anything else. It’s just a step we need to do before we can use it, which is good to know. It’s like: don’t step on the gas in your car before you have loosened the brakes and opened the doors of the garage…?
Excellent post and clarification, Joseann. LOA doesn’t work unless the beliefs are in line – it can actually make it worse with limiting unconscious beliefs. I was fairly surprised by this by Morty. Basically, just focus on BELIEFS and you don’t have to worry about the LOA — it’s happening either way. It’s not a “strategy” like Morty is leading on.
Morty!
I continue to find your blog posts helpful to me personally and professionally. I had limited myself for years believing I wasn’t “good enough”…you helped me eliminate that belief and it opened doors to growing and improving my life. This post helps another step…about life around us. I can broaden my belief about reality around me to create possibilities I have never dreamed before. That in itself lowers the boundaries to achieve what I wish to achieve. Now, I use that momentum and pass it on to others…so they can be healthy as well! You are always helpful!
@Dom: exactly!
Excellent post and dissection of LOA! LOA is more like a cult, which guru fanboys blindly follow. Thanks for this post and last week’s post on Jobs :)
Spot on Morty! LOA is not a belief. It is a method. Handy and useful in some situations, but not all. You can only think LOA, it is a method within a larger concept. That larger concept is the belief that it will be done. The frame (belief) has to encompass the picture (the thinking, LOA). You can think it as much as you want, but if you have a small frame then it doesn’t matter.
In this same logic, wouldn’t belief in the law of attraction make it a reality though?
Yeah well, there is no such thing as law of attraction as it’s been defined by the so call spiritual experts, they made it up. Besides that it’s an unhealthy belief to subscribe to.
nothing exists. everything is a story. even science, its all a story. to say there is no such thing is incorrect. there is, because anything can exist if you believe it to. see the paradox? reality is paradoxical