The Secret Is Wags

Think you can’t ignore something that’s right in front of your face?  Think again.

Last week, thanks to my reader, Mary, I watched a youtube yoga video that teaches breathing exercises and postures that help with weight loss.  Because it felt like inspired action to watch the video and because it felt easy and comfortable to write down the routine and plan to do it, I decided to start a short version of the routine.

One of the exercises in the routine is alternate nostril breathing.  This is something I used to do, and whether it helps with weight loss or not, I couldn’t say, but it is calming, and I wanted to get in the habit of doing it again. (more…)

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It was big stuff when that book and DVD came out.  A phenomenon.  Featured on Oprah, Larry King Live and other TV shows.  The Secret sold millions of copies.

And have millions of lives changed as a result?

If so, I haven’t heard about it.

And I sure haven’t experienced it myself.

Does that mean the law of attraction doesn’t exist?  Is it a bunch of metaphysical crap?  Something akin to fairy dust or Santa’s reindeer?

Honestly, I don’t know.

But I’m going to find out.

That’s what this blog is about.

Once and for all, I’m going to live according to Abraham’s advice.  Not here and there.  Not just a little.  Not in dribs and drabs.  Wholeheartedly.  Whole-souledly.

I’m putting it all on the line.  Does it work or not?

I’ve got nothing else.  No job will fix my financial situation.

I’m waiting on that book sale, but can I count on it?  Nope.

I know what I don’t want.  I don’t want to sell my house, move someplace where I can get a job, and get some job I have to have just to pay my bills.  I’m a writer.  I set out to create a particular life for myself.  That life is one of financial abundance and creative freedom.

So here I am, determined to learn how to use the law of attraction to my advantage.

Notice I didn’t say activate it.  I don’t have to activate the law of attraction.  If it’s real, it’s a LAW, always there, like the law of gravity.  You don’t activate the law of gravity.  You live in awareness of it—i.e., you don’t walk off the top of 50 story buildings because you know the law of gravity will turn you into a splat on the sidewalk.

So how do you live in awareness of the law of attraction?

Here’s where I think The Secret and all its so-called teachers, messed up.  They didn’t dumb it down for people.  They talked about creating vision boards and visualizing and expecting, but they didn’t get to the meat of it:  It’s all about energy.

An aside:  many of The Secret teachers didn’t even seem to get that it was all energy.  When Larry King asked one of the teachers on the Larry King show, “What about the lottery?  Why does one person expect it and not win and one person who never thinks about the lottery win?,” the answer was, “well, there is some luck.”

Luck?

It’s all energy and the universe functions according to the law of attraction.  But oh yeah, there’s also some luck?

I once read (don’t ask me where) that believing in a universe that has luck and chance in it is like believing that you could put all the parts of a 747 jetliner in a big field, all willy nilly, taken apart, and expect a big wind to come through and blow them all into the right places to form a perfect completed plane.

Does it strike you that we live in such a universe?  A random one?  A chaotic one?

Look around.  Don’t you see order?

I sure do.  There is some organizing force behind what happens in the world.  Some people say that force is God, and they have specific ideas about what that God is and what he/she does.  Me?  I think it’s energy, energy that responds to other energy according to consistent laws.

The law of attraction is one of those laws.

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