Positive Doing
July 17th, 2007I’m not a skeptic of The Secret, but i don’t fully agree with the message of the power of attraction either. I tried thinking of a good parking spot in Cabramatta last weekend and managed a parking spot two blocks away from where I wanted to park. Thats a bad example, but thinkingof something until it materialise is just dumb. Thinking of wanting something like a nice pair of shoes and bugging your brother everyday until he buys them for your birthday however works!
I always try to be a positive thinker, and fully believe in the benefit of mental visualisation. I utilised both these techniques through high school to overcome a small stutter which made me shy about opening my mouth in class discussions during late primary and early high school. Being positive about yourself and giving yourself affirmations to overcome mental hurdles works. I used visualisation while playing competition basketball for the under 18’s Liverpool youth team, going through free throws and picturing them swishing, picturing myself dribbling with both hands etc… I still use visualisation today with tae kwon do, going through patterns in my head, rehearsing them before performing.
Positive thinking only goes so far, I believe positive thinking helps to motivate, prepare and gives you confidence, but it is the positive doing that really gets you anywhere.
Conceive, Believe, Achieve?
“Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison
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July 25th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Spot on mate. Car parking in Cabra… you’re really setting yourself up for failure with that little experiment!
On topic though, people miss out on the action/doing part of ‘the Secret’. Maybe the producers didn’t focus on it enough. Whatever it may be, inspired action (or ‘right’ action as some refer to it) is a key component to manifesting.
Nobody can deny though that if you never thought of something, that it would never become reality.
Here’s an email that I received a couple of days ago on this topic and it hits the nail on the head:
ATTRACTION
Do you believe in the law of attraction - that if you really wish for something and you really believe it will happen, it will?
It’s true. It’s not infallible, of course, but consider the corollary: if you don’t wish for something and you doubt it will happen, it probably won’t. Neither you nor anybody else around will be compelled to make it happen.
Wishing alone is not enough. Believing alone is not enough. But without wishing and believing, there can be no action.
Wish. Believe. Action.
That’s attraction!
I have discussions with Kenny and Nigel on this stuff quite often these days. It’s a fascinating topic, and we’ve all manifested stuff in our lives - usually unconsciously. Now I’m consciously working on manifesting things when I’m awake