When you first heard about Law of Attraction?

As soon as I heard about it I recognized its value. This is because I was familiar with the work of Jane Roberts and had been studying that material for many years.

After she died, I didn't keep track of who was active in the field as her work is so comprehensive. I'd been recommending "The Nature Of Personal Reality" in seminars I conducted, and had based a lot of the material I taught on what I had learned from studying her work.

When the Secret came out, I became aware that there was a resurgence of interest in this information and soon found that the real source these days is Esther and Jerry Hicks, who had also been keen students of Jane Roberts.

The Abraham-Hicks material presented a lot of the information in a format and with a perspective that was much more easily accessible, especially to those who had little previous exposure to the ideas. As well, modern technology, such as DVDs are a tremendous aid to mass communication.

Although the term "Law of Attraction" had been used by earlier authors, Jerry and Esther really made it popular with their books and seminars. It's obvious from reading many other authors who are writing and teaching in this field - including lots of well known names - that they have been strongly influenced by the Abraham-Hicks material.

For instance, the author of "The Secret" - Rhonda Byrne - taped a seminar presented by Esther on board a ship, over a period of several days. Wayne Dyer actually wrote the foreword to the Hicks' book, "Ask And It Is Given".

Ivan

Afterthought: When I first came across the Jane Roberts book "The Seth Material", which is an introductory work, I was both fascinated and wary. I could only read a few pages every few days because it stimulated my thinking so much. I'd spent years working and studying in rational environments and was struggling to reconcile the approach - which was not inferential but simply a bold statement of "here's how it works..." - with how I was used to learning "the truth" about life, love, and the universe.

I gradually was able to integrate what I was learning with my personal experience.

Ivan

I believe one common misconception from that film is:

While thoughts are very powerful, action is even more powerful.

The trick is: First prepare your mind and then, and only then, take inspired action. The inspired actions will certainly lead to success.

And that's not properly explained in the film. Maybe in the sequel...

That's my impression regarding thoughts and actions,
Gaby

Constantly monitoring our thoughts when we have thousands of thoughts a day could be burdensome, even though it is important to be alert to what we are attending to.

A key method that Esther Hicks describes is something that we are born with - our emotional responses - and it's easier to be alert to our feelings and to use them as an Emotional Guidance System. I don't recall seeing that in the movie, however it is explored in greater depth in Esther Hicks' books and DVDs.

Briefly, our feelings are triggered by our perceptions (thoughts) and when these don't feel good (anger, anxiety, depression, etc) we are out of alignment with our true self, which is in a constant state of well-being and personal power (a sense of creative potential). This misalignment is experienced as disharmony and can alert us to check those thoughts we are paying attention to.

Our thoughts constantly interact with this "true self" (one term used is "who we really are") and those thoughts which cause us to feel better are in closer alignment with these inner senses. Thoughts which evoke feelings such as love, appreciation, peace, enthusiasm, optimism, and the like, are in closer accord with our real self.

[A notion of 'true self' is that awareness we are born with before acquiring information - beliefs, attitudes - about ourselves and the world around us. It is that sense of peace, harmony, well-being and creative potential.]

Beliefs and other information are basically acquired data which may or may not truly reflect this inner self. Ideas of inadequacy, inferiority, etc, are out of alignment and we experience anxiety. Thoughts of accomplishment, improvement in our lives, handling situations well, progressing towards our goals, etc, are in better alignment and we experience feelings of harmony, enthusiasm and the like.

"The Secret" is just an introductory work and serves that purpose well, but skims lightly over the surface of LOA.

Where weight loss is concerned, the conscious choice needs to be the desired end result (the trim, slender new figure) not the process of eating as much as you want. In essence we receive our true priorities. This would require a fuller explanation, but our true priorities are those things we habitually pay attention to.

In the book "Think and Grow Rich" Napoleon Hill explored aspects of this as it relates to prosperity and developing habits of thought consistent with improving wealth. Naturally, this can also be applied to other areas if our life, such as improving relationships and health, although Hill was focusing on financial well-being as he lived during harsh economic times.

An aspect he does not explore to the extent it deserves is the alternative to consciously choosing our true priorities. In this case we ACCEPT the default, which is be aware of whatever thoughts that grab our attention - meaning we are fixated by present and past conditions and they continue into the future. Many would be surprised to discover that happiness is not a "true priority" in this sense as they have chosen/accepted to pay attention to thoughts which make them unhappy - thoughts which reflect unsatisfactory present and past conditions, expected failure, etc.

Most people regard present and past reality as deserving of much of their current attention - even when it is what they don't want - effectively making it their true priority or focus.

As a guide:

1. We receive those things which are our true priorities.

2. Our true priorities are what we habitually pay attention to.

3. We receive those things we habitually pay attention to.

Suggested action:

Consciously choose those things we really WANT and make it a true priority - something we habitually pay attention to. (Most people accept what they are GETTING as most worthy of their attention.) By consciously choosing our true priorities, we create a future with deliberate intent.

Many of the popular improvement techniques - visualization, affirmations, self-hypnosis, and the like - provide focus on what we have identified as our priorities. As these gain in strength, other options fade. Our strongest true priorities - what we are actually paying attention to - begin to emerge.

Ivan

Well I'm still skeptical to be honest.
I first heard about it from Bob Proctor he also appears in (the secret)
And like some of you said i feel it's unfinished you get the feeling that
There are something missing at the end.

There are many in this field all over the world teaching and coaching those techniques. But how many really could Apply those techniques and benefit from it? is it for everyone?

I'm currently trying to put it in a test and see what happens. But i believe
In mind development and positive thinking and how it affects your life,
I think we all agree on that, we just use 5% of our mind and the geniuses use about 7 to 9% like Albert Einstein. So what are the rest doing? can we use it? then comes the faculties of your mind and how to develop them to use more and become more creative, this can be done by anyone IMHO.

The funny thing is this is my first post here and i was just checking info related to that subject when i saw this post . Maybe it works who knows .

Cheers

Angela,

I did a quick search for that book "Key To Yourself" and found that it is now in print and was released again in 2006 with a CD. it is available at Amazon. Here are the details (information supplied by the publishers):

Ivan

Hello Omari Taylor,

I totally believe in the law of attraction because we are all energy. An if some has the same vibration as you it will be attracted to you. It's happened to me and have attracted wonderful people and thing into my life and it's amazing.

Omari