I've found many people misunderstand what law of attraction is and think it is about just being positive. If you read about what it really is, it is about being very precise in what you want. It is about not only thinking about openly many possibilities of a job (or whatever), but about actually listing it down on paper with a pen in your hand in detail what you actually want and even making a wish board about it. It has been studied that people who write down their goals and longings are more likely to reach them and get what they want.
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But when doing this exercise, you need to be very aware not to write down anything you do not want, only what you really want. If it works, it works - if it doesn't work for you, you haven't lost anything at all. It is an exercise for your brain
I don't mistake the LOA for positive thinking. The LOA has been around for millennia under different names. (For example, Matthew 7:7-8, Luke 11:9.) Back in the 1980s when I did a lot of workshops with "est" (now Landmark) we did a lot of specific goal-setting, note-keeping, &c. This group's purpose was to disabuse people of wishful or positive thinking, and to gain clarity on "what is." Most people have a lot of self-defeating beliefs and behaviours, such that it is difficult to reach a goal with the "static" in the way.
As such, goal-setting, clearing out our self-defeating narratives, and staying open to possibilities is just common sense.
I don't think we need to magic-alize this.
Retinoid wrote:
Often times ordinary reality can be very harsh. Being stuck, being abused by others, not knowing what the next step should be, uncertain how you will pay all your bills...magic helps to transform your life. It is the materialization of your desire. But it takes a lot of work, trial and error and natural ability to work with it effectively. Thankfully we live in an era where what was once hidden is now not.
This is the biggest failing in western astrology-lack of remedies. We dismiss it as superstitious yet the earliest astrology practitioners had remedies for bad issues. Nowadays we tell people with problems in their chart to do things mundanely to solve issues, which is great except the malefic issues are causing the person BLOCKAGES to do such things.
I suppose if people find magic spells, amulets, talismans, and the like to be beneficial, I'm not going to convince them there's a better way. But without any of these props, it is possible to recognize what is the reality and what is the "story" or "soap opera" we tell ourselves about the simple naked facts.
Just for example, if someone strikes you, that's a fact. What is not factual is what you tell yourself about it, which oftentimes becomes a story to weave about the event. Maybe the story contains elements of low self-esteem or revenge; but really what happened is that you were hit. That you felt hurt by the blow is a fact. The narrative you developed about the incident is a story.
It is important to let go of our stories. We probably will always have stories, but we can distinguish them from reality and not fixate on them.
1. We can sit down now and write a short list of goals. Make sure we really sincerely have these goals.
2. Make them as specific as you can. For example, "I would like to travel more," is too vague and general. A specific goal would be, "I want to spend a week in Yellowstone National Park."
3. Then start with one or two goals. Write down a short list of specific steps you would need to undertake to reach those goals.
4. Then for each step, write down its conditions of satisfaction. These might be things like (a) clearing your schedule, (b) determining what the trip would cost, (c) determining how to trim the costs by exploring possibilities (if money is a constraint,) (d) arranging the transportation. And so on.
5. If you reach a blockage on a particular step or even the goal itself, consider what might be your emotional or practical blockages. Recalculate the goal if you must. Maybe you don't get to Yellowstone in 2016, but you determine how you can save enough money for 2017. Re-work the steps. And so on.
6. Enjoy your vacation.
Frankly, for people with any religious/spiritual leanings, your trust in God (however your Divine Consciousness is defined) is far more powerful and important than faith in magic spells, rocks, or bits of paper (amulets.) We may also find that a lot of our goals or wants are pretty superficial. When we die, is it better to have become rich, or is it better to have been a blessing to other people?
