The Science Behind the Law of Attraction Magazine October Magazine, 2017 | Page 44

How t he
Law of At t r act ion
Really Wor k s
Spiritual principles are absolutely real and it is
totally possible to transform your life. I have
transformed mine and have seen many others
transform theirs. What some people call the ?Law of
Attraction? is really not that complicated, when you
know what to do.
Three easy st eps t o success?
Every day a new bumper sticker pops up on the
Facebook newsfeed about how to be happy and how
to live your best life. It?s normally in three steps, or
thereabouts and the steps usually go something like
this:
Be positive, Love yourself, Forgive everyone, Let go,
Don?t worry, Believe in yourself, Be present? The list
goes on.
These messages may be well intended but the
words themselves don?t help all that much. Much
like an Olympic Athlete posting that his secret is to
"Just run", these messages often state the obvious.
Words without actions are useless. Worse still, this
kind of spiritual perfectionism can make people
stress out even more, wondering what is wrong with
their mind, which can?t seem to grasp with actually
living these simple steps.
It?s the same with so many of the self-help books
out there. What I?ve found, through working with
hundreds of clients and also doing my own inner
work, is that when we are in a storm of thoughts,
books telling us to "get happy" are totally useless.
And when we are happy, we don?t need the book.
"Posit ive Thinking" Pressure
By Michael James,
Per sonal Development
Aut hor
Some books or philosophies go even further - telling
us that negative thinking is bad or wrong. Although I
understand their point, this approach doesn?t help.
In many ways it is the worst thing you can tell
someone when they are experiencing troubles -
because it gets people to "try not to think negative
thoughts" which makes them think even more
negative thoughts, because what you resist, persists.
The Benef it s of Negat ive Thinking?
Relax. It?s perfectly ok to feel negative, or angry, or
vengeful, or sad, or lonely or whatever else the
"negative" emotion is. This is the journey of being
human, even those heroes or masters you may look
up to have experienced or will experience these
feelings. The first step is to realize that. Nothing has
gone wrong and you are ok just as you are.
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