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Today, great controversy and great agreement was made manifest at SelfGrowth.com here and it made my blood boil:

http://www.selfgrowth.com/blog/law_attraction/law_attraction_five_minutes_or_less.html

David Riklan, the site’s founder, posted a video explaining his take on the Law of Attraction.  The wide dissemination (much of it inaccurate) of individual opinions about this so-called law triggered something off in me and I felt it necessary to reply.  Scroll down on the site - you’ll find me there twice.  But the site limited me to too few characters, so I’m going to expand on what I said here.

For me, having devoted 30 years to learn the Law of Cause and Effect (What?  You didn’t know that the Law of Attraction is a watered-down version of the Law of Cause and Effect.  Hummm, interesting? Now you wouldn’t be one of those who swallows things whole without research, would you?) C&E is THE law.  We bandy the term Cause & Effect around, but I’m going to share a bit from my book where I discuss this in full detail.

The Law of Cause and Effect

You’ve heard that such a thing as Cause and Effect exists. Do you know that it is one of the laws in this mental universe? That’s right. Cause and Effect is a law. In a mental universe, those who can think are the lawmakers, because thinking is causative. Let that one soak in on you. Maybe a re-read would help.

Your mind thinking has been causing things all along. It’s one of those invisible things I mentioned before. It causes your experiences. More importantly, it causes your appearance. Oh good grief! Can this be true? You better pray that it’s true, because it’s your way out.

I’m here to tell you that it is true. Your thought is causative and what it causes is called the effect. Here it is in a very simple description.

Your mind is Cause. Everything you can see is Effect.

If that is surprising to you, let yourself exhilarate in a moment of joy, because this knowledge is the beginning of solving the problem of your mistaken sense of obesity.

As I said, just a tidbit.  The entirety of the book is about Cause and Effect, how your misunderstanding about that law created your problems with bodily size and self acceptance and how to undo it.  You cannot learn this in a five minute video.

Ask yourself one question here: can you in truth provide a definition for the word Cause that makes you satisfied?  How about effect?  I can share this with you: if you will do the work to answer those two questions, your life will change forever and for the best.

Love,

Pat