Sunday, September 7, 2008

Can You *Really* Control What Happens to You?

This question is at the heart of all the material presented in The Secret. The thought that we could come to the point where we could control everything that happens to us is totally new and unique for most of us. Certainly to have any chance of this, we would have to be a master of the concepts presented in the movie, and a master of the Law of Attraction.

If we *were* a master of these concepts, could we do it?

Not completely.

And I will explain why.

To understand my explanation, I must share with you a couple of concepts that are important for you to understand. Prior to our living here on Earth, we lived! Not only did we live, but we were awesome! It had to do with our parentage in that realm.

As we left that realm and came here, there were two distinct things that happened to us:

1. A "veil of forgetfulness" was drawn that made it so that we had no memory of our previous existence or how cool we were. And we do not remember it at all.

2. The link between our conscious mind (the place of decision) and our sub-conscious mind (the place of power) was abstracted. As a result, our decisions are not immediately followed by the power to do it.

Especially with number 2 above, you might see how this would make things confusing. One other point to understand: The power of your attraction is the power of your sub-conscious mind.

And you cannot directly control it.

So here is why everyone is confused (if they are) about the concepts in the movie, because they feel that perhaps the attraction is done in the conscious mind. So the child that contracts cancer was not consciously thinking about doing so (I will guess), but who knows what was happening in the sub-conscious mind? The answer is no one, perhaps not even the child themself.

So back to my original point, the only possibility to fully control everything that happened to you would depend on you having mastery and a clear connection between the conscious and the sub-conscious minds.

And I do not know anyone who has that.

People can tell you why they attracted something to them that has already happened.

No one can tell you exactly what they will attract to themself tomorrow.

So if you are beating yourself up because you think that you should be able to do that . . . .

Please stop.

I invite comment on the next section here, because it is somewhat an opinion on my part as to the relationship between the conscious and the sub-conscious mind.

I believe that there is a "valve" between the two that opens every once in a while.

Under normal circumstances, your sub-conscious mind is running all sorts of programs that are keeping you alive and which are attracting certain things to you. Every once in a while, the valve opens and the sub-conscious mind will rewrite some of those programs that are running based on information it reads out of the conscious mind.

But do you know when that will happen, so that you can make sure you have only positive thoughts at that moment?

You do not, generally.

Or can you just keep positive thoughts 100% of the time so it does not matter when it happens?

Do not even try it. Will not work. NO ONE has positive thoughts 100% of the time.

So what is a better option? You can try any of the following that might work for you.

1. Take a walk in nature. As you relax (keyword) on that walk, make sure you are thinking of all the things that you want and that are positive. If the valve opens then your programs will improve, as will what you attract.

2. Do some meditation. Get into a relaxed state (there is that word again), and be thinking or visualizing along the lines of what you are wanting to create. If the valve opens while you are doing this, then you will improve your programs.

3. Play a musical instrument, or listen to some uplifting music. As you are doing so, be thinking in terms of what you want to attract. Perhaps you can open the valve that way.

4. Try Praying and being in the spirit of gratitude during prayer. If the valve opens while you are doing that you will certainly attracts many more things to be grateful for.

5. Otherwise, just relax a little bit. Stress is the preventer of everything that you are trying to do, and it is also the base cause of almost all diseases.

I cannot tell you which one (or if any of these) will work for you. I am not even set on which ones of those are the best for me, but I am working on learning that part.

But if you have an open mind towards such things, I invite you to try.

And let me know how it goes? Post a comment?

Joseph