Do you belief in The Law Of Attraction?

[Phunk_Fenomenon]

I used to be a big fan of The Secret by Rhonda Byrnes since 2006 but now I no longer believe in such nonsense.

at first I thought it was working for me until I realize it was just a huge placebo effect all along when I realized that even when I think positive in life shit still never when my way in life. lets not forget that in life everything is made of positivity and negativity so therefore believing that a human being must think positive 24/7 is a huge recipe for insanity. lets also not forget that book sold 33 Million copies yet how much of those 33 Million people who bought it are actually millionaires at the moment?

another reason why I refuse to believe such horseshit is because I realized that a lot of the people who do believe in the law of attraction act and behave like narcissist snobs. like my cousin for example, he was the one that introduced me to The Secret. this guy is the luckiest motherfucker alive, he started working at 14, later on we would go job hunting together and he would always get called from almost every where we applied while I had to always wait for a miracle.

but just when you thought that was enough he also applied to the state university and was immediately accepted with a nice cozy dorm, all the financial aid he needed. but when I tried to do the same I was rejected instead and then kept getting fucked over by community college and technical schools.

we even had a fallout recently and this guy had the audacity, balls, and nerves to tell me that the reason why all this has been happening to me is a result of the universe punishing me for being "negative"

Yes

No

[Coercion_Is_Trauma]

It is a religion like any other. New age bullshit is particularly harmful because it has an illusion of being smarter than typical "religion". And it is rare to see me agree with the use of the word "narcissism" but you've described it very well. Not so much because they are self obsessed, but because their religion teaches that self obsession will save them.

That doesn't mean that we do not have a subconscious mind and our subconscious is connected to the whole world, sometimes we all get premonitions and shit. No doubt about that. Just like, we have all seen crazy vegans but just because they are crazy doesn't mean animal cruelty is ok. All these law off attraction preachers (Byrnes or any other) are no different than sects of Christianity, just because something happened in palestine 2000 years ago doesn't make 100 religions based on that event any true. So too all those new-age religions are not automatically validated just because our consciousness is one with the world.

I find that they teach the exact opposite of how i observed the subconscious work. They teach that to pray you should feel the feeling of succeeding. But i have got something more aligned with Carl Jung: since our failures are part of karma, or, just a pattern in our subconscious, if you will, then we must feel the failure before it happens so that karma doesn't need to act physically to make us pay it. Face it within so that it doesn't act from without as fate. Feel the pain and terror of failing so that the universe doesn't force you to feel it. This is the antidote to spiritual narcissism. Negative, positive, the oscillation between them is relogious repression. And please stay away from the "zen" meditating that traps you in the 5 senses because somehow "thinking is the root of evil". Don't stop thinking. Just stop avoiding the feeling of terror. ㅤ

[Sevenpointfive]

i'm a pretty negative person. i constantly make people laugh with my cynicism and dry humor, but it's not really a joke. i just slide away the veneer for a second but i need to be alone. i don't feel negative really. it's just how i think. i just constantly analyze and look for problems and unfortunately that goes for people too. it's tough. but i have no clue what i want in a relationship. the normal things with total freedom?

[Sunshinelips]

I think it’s all bollocks. Manifestation doesn’t work. The law of attraction doesn’t exist. Just made up from people who think it does.

[NathanDavis]

no... I just work, and get things done

[Iron_Man]

I’m attracted to beauty

[strateguy632]

No..