Ekonomist13
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I'll only tell you what I know from psychology and experience. I'll leave out my own opinions.
It's about the locus of control, which can be external or internal (it's always on a continuum, expressed as a percentage).
Believing in some higher force and praying to it makes you have external locus of control, and so you would believe that you can't really impact what you're gonna get, it's set in the stars and you can only do your part and hope it gets recognized.
This is considered dangerous, as it totally removes the factor of your actions influencing future.
And the other extreme is internal locus of control, confident and self-reliable people who do not rely on luck or some higher forces to get what they want. The downside to this is such people tend to be overly critical of themselves and others due to their belief that everything is in their power to control.
From my experience, theory of attraction is what you're subconsciously doing (or should be doing) if your locus of control lies somewhere in between. That is, if you're going to focus your brain and other resources towards a specific goal, chances are higher you're going to achieve it. It's just math, statistics and management combined in one sort of philosophy of living.
The potential benefits of believe in theory of attraction are that, while you're aware that your actions DO have consequences, you're also aware that SOME things are LESS under your control, thus, by focusing your mental and physical activities toward a certain thing or a goal, you're instantenously living the best of the both "worlds": you're self-reliant but aware of the statistical and probabilistic nature of living.
Thus, it helps you be "down to earth" while having "spiritual dimension".
I woud like to insert just one opinion based on above mentioned arguments: Theory of attraction is most often (or should be most often) associated to Earth/water types of people, that is, a Taurus with Pisces rising, or one of the other similar combinations, exactly due to their "down to earth" vs "spiritual" dichotomy.
It's about the locus of control, which can be external or internal (it's always on a continuum, expressed as a percentage).
Believing in some higher force and praying to it makes you have external locus of control, and so you would believe that you can't really impact what you're gonna get, it's set in the stars and you can only do your part and hope it gets recognized.
This is considered dangerous, as it totally removes the factor of your actions influencing future.
And the other extreme is internal locus of control, confident and self-reliable people who do not rely on luck or some higher forces to get what they want. The downside to this is such people tend to be overly critical of themselves and others due to their belief that everything is in their power to control.
From my experience, theory of attraction is what you're subconsciously doing (or should be doing) if your locus of control lies somewhere in between. That is, if you're going to focus your brain and other resources towards a specific goal, chances are higher you're going to achieve it. It's just math, statistics and management combined in one sort of philosophy of living.
The potential benefits of believe in theory of attraction are that, while you're aware that your actions DO have consequences, you're also aware that SOME things are LESS under your control, thus, by focusing your mental and physical activities toward a certain thing or a goal, you're instantenously living the best of the both "worlds": you're self-reliant but aware of the statistical and probabilistic nature of living.
Thus, it helps you be "down to earth" while having "spiritual dimension".
I woud like to insert just one opinion based on above mentioned arguments: Theory of attraction is most often (or should be most often) associated to Earth/water types of people, that is, a Taurus with Pisces rising, or one of the other similar combinations, exactly due to their "down to earth" vs "spiritual" dichotomy.