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There is a lot said about the Law of Attraction these days.  I’m not confident that all that is said is 100% accurate.  One of the things I know about it is something I’ve never heard discussed so I’ll discuss it here today.

This is a picture of Agave.

Lots of good accrues here: Sweetener, Astringent, Tequila

Some people wonder why “setting your intention” doesn’t always work.  That dang Universe just doesn’t want to “give” to them.  Why is that and what does it have to do with obesity and changing your bodily size - if that’s what you want to do?

1.  “The Universe” as a concept is not accurate.  There is no “Universe” giving stuff to you.  This is the same mistake that religions make when they put their concept of a “Personal God” into that giving role.  It just doesn’t happen that way. The right idea behind this is:  YOU are the Universe.  You are a mental being.  Your thinking is causative.  What YOU think is what YOU get.  There is no universe (just as there is no personal God) doling things out to  you.  You are creating (or not creating if you don’t know how) what you get with your mind.  If you want to serve yourself well, learn how to create things with your mind.  This is what I teach on this site.

2. I haven’t heard anybody address the concept that you have to be good to get.  You cannot be a Tasmanian devil out there ripping, snorting, raping and pillaging and then ask “the Universe” for something good and hope to get it.  This goodness doesn’t have to be about giant things.  It’s about how your self-talk is loving; how your relationships are focused on the good; on how your efforts to unfold more daily is worked on.  So in addition to learning how to create things through a purely mental process, if you are not being good, this will set up the expectation of “no good” and that is what you will create.

I’m sorry to say that these truths now becoming so much talked about are not always accurate, sometimes watered down, or sometimes taught prematurely before the individual really has a complete grasp. This is sad to me and I believe these folks are spoken of in biblical terms and the concept of hanging a millstone around their necks is also addressed.

The Fall Madly in Love With Yourself Teleclass Series teaches the purest truth.  You’d be well served to join us in unfolding more good, more love, more self acceptance. Class #2 is beginning at 6 pm PST on March 23rd, next Monday night and I’d sure love it if you were there.

Why does the good accrue in magical ways and how does that happen?  My intentions are good and pure.  I only want what is mine to have and I seek to do harm to no one.  The snow plows destroyed my garden boxes this past winter.  Yesterday, the sometimes dour Supervisor of County Roads showed up to assess the damages.  Net result?  I’m getting new, deeper boxes.  I’m getting the two in the middle shoveled away and moved for my Home Depot Deck Project Materials delivery. And the Supervisor acted friendly, kind and interested.  The good that I am accrues as the good that I get. Like that, folks.

Love,

Pat

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