What is the Law of Attraction? What is Universal Law?
By emptychair
@innertalks (23746)
Australia
February 8, 2016 10:31pm CST
The Law of Attraction says something like that that which we hold in our minds will be attracted to us. This law has also been referred to as, The Universal Law, by some people.
It is said to work impartially, and it will deliver to you exactly whatever you really believe that it will.
The law works for you they say once you accept total responsibility for your own life.
You can change anything, attract anything to yourself, and do anything too.
Everything is a part of who you are, and so nothing happens by chance.
Nothing can happen to you, unless you are allowing it to happen to you.
In short, you attract it all to yourself.
Is this gobbledygook, or not?
if there is a Universal law that delivers things to me based on what I request or believe, and so I am like a God, with power to use this law for myself, why didn't I have a hand in forming this law?
Who made it up? Why do I have to abide by it?
Why can't I bypass it, ignore it, or make up my own better laws, instead?
What I know is that there is no such thing as any law to love.
When you do love, and if you do not love unconditionally, the way in which you love becomes a law for you, that is if you believe it to be the only way to love.
(In other words, you create karma, karmic law, or call it anything else you like, what you do not love now, comes back to try to get you to love it again, later on).
Love in all ways unconditionally, and let these laws take care of themselves.
True love transcends all such laws and always provides you all that you need.
The bible tells us this when it tells us to seek first the Kingdom of God, and then all things will be added to your life.
What is this Kingdom of God, other than God, and his love.
Has anyone else got any ideas what this Law of Attraction is all about?
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4 responses
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
9 Feb 16
I think you have a misunderstanding of the law of attraction.
It is not based on what you believe, but rather what you feel towards.
Those who fear losing their jobs will lose their jobs.
The feeling of fear is a very strong feeling.
Those who desire to win lottery to the point of actually feeling the check in their hands will win the lottery.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
9 Feb 16
Every belief has a feeling behind it keeping it alive, and every feeling has a belief keeping it alive too. Beliefs are feelings linked to thoughts, and thoughts are beliefs when a feeling is attached that causes it to remain as dominant in your mind.
Feelings can become attached to thoughts and become a belief, but feelings on their own should be felt and let go off, and not used for any other purpose other than this.
I am not denying that feelings attract similar feelings, but I am saying that we shouldn't abuse our feelings to try to obtain stuff like this.
This is putting a feeling or a desire above love, and doing this will always bring us some type of karma in response, as well as sometimes what we want, materially speaking.
I am saying that life should not be based solely on our wants, feelings, or desires only, but solely on love.
If we could love as Jesus loved, we would have all we want then too.
@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
9 Feb 16
@innertalks I think the Law of Attraction also applies to our thoughts.
If we think positive thoughts, we attract other people to us who think positively too. It works on overall energy levels as well as different separate aspects of us.
If we are low in energy, we attract low energy vibrations or low energy situations to us.
Like attracts like, no matter what the like is.
I am just saying that this law should be better just utilised as an observing tool, and as an awareness raiser by us, rather than our trying to use it for our own ends, to obtain something selfishly desired, which then will usually involve us in attracting karma to ourselves then too.
@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
11 Feb 16
@innertalks I think positive thoughts to an extent I want all to be happy so that they make the world happy too. Also, I detest negativity and so those with that mindset are kept away - siva
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@Bella128 (2471)
• United States
9 Feb 16
I believe in it and I think a lot of people believe in it and don't even know it. I think it can mean different things to others but basically to me it's all about positive thinking. Thinking about something positive, having good energy flowing and then acting upon things.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
9 Feb 16
I sort of believe in it too. Like does attract like.
But whether we can really say that someone attracted a thug into their life to bash them, and that they are responsible in a way for this, because of their own negative thinking, or something, is taking it too far I think.
It can describe some situations, but it is not a catch-all law I think.
The greater Law of love should always overrule all other laws.
Are laws operative at all times then?
Is the law of attraction always working at all times in all situations, or not?
Laws are man made theories about how things work, or operate.
They are all never perfectly descriptive then of all circumstances.
They describe things because we have noticed things to work in this way.
A law is like a fact then, in that it is only true for a certain time and instance of that fact as it has been observed to work through experience.
All laws are the same as this, and increased knowledge of real truths will eventually move you past needing to abide by any such laws or rules, as when you love as Jesus loved, fully perfectly and unconditionally, you make your own laws and rules as you go along responsibly and ethically too to best fit and suit each situation that you are in.
This is how Jesus could heal others, and also walk on water.
@divalounger (6182)
• United States
11 Feb 16
Our thoughts can become our reality--There really is something to positive and negative energy--and our thoughts can carry this same energy I think
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@divalounger (6182)
• United States
11 Feb 16
@innertalks I remember when I was a child making my first confession--I was struck by the idea that my thoughts could be sinful--that they could lead to sin--sort of the same idea there I think
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
11 Feb 16
@divalounger This idea of sinful thoughts, your comment here made me wonder how does it relate to my idea that all thoughts are good thoughts. Perhaps it is our sinful intentions that make them (our thoughts) bad, by adding bad energy to them.
Thoughts exist to me like they do in the dictionary. There are good words and bad words there. It is up to us how we use them, and which emotion we attach to them when we do use them.
Am I right here or not?
In the Christian bible in the New Testament book of Matthew, in chapter 9, verse 4, it says this:
'Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?"'.
Now, why did he say, "in our hearts" here, and not, "in our minds".
Evil thoughts might come into our minds to test us, but if we allow them to live in our hearts, that is where we have chosen to follow them, and this then is the real sin, in our doing of this.
To me then, the sin is in our allowing of these evil thought's energy, into our hearts.
Evil now exists in the dual world, because God is allowing it to do so for now.
When man fell, he needed to live in a swamp of such possible sins, so that he could go though the quicksands, and so see his own sinking, and so then he has the possibility to choose for himself to lift himself out of this mire of his mind, by his living from his heart, and so by his doing of this, not letting any of this mud, that surrounds him here, dirty the clean waters of this love, which is within his heart.
Bible > Matthew > Chapter 9 > Verse 4? Matthew 9:4 ?Parallel VersesNew International VersionKnowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?New Living TranslationJesus knew what they were thinking, so he asked them, "
@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
11 Feb 16
It is interesting what you have said here.
I think to myself though, is that the full story.
To me, thoughts are just thoughts.
How could they become our reality, unless we allow ourselves to be boxed in by them somehow? Can our thoughts carry energy, or do they more just use energy, or direct energy somehow?
Thoughts, I think, are merely carriers of ideas that already exist.
This is because all thoughts are already known, in a way.
Every thought has already been created within the infinitude of everything which we might call oneness, or God. There is nothing new, under God, he tells us in the Christian bible.
When anybody thinks one of these "already known" thoughts then, they give it new life of course, by filling it with their own energy, which allows it to exist in them, for a time.
But if they do not let the thought go, but hold onto it, this held onto energy creates a blockage of sorts in them, which then restricts the fuller reality, so that you then live from a lesser reality, which we could indeed call "your reality", but actually it is just a cut off subset of the greater reality, which we all live within, and which we can never remove ourselves completely from either.
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@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
11 Feb 16
Those who desire something with single minded devotion may get them but I have never desired anything to such an extent as I worry about the disappointment if they don't materialize. I am more doing my best and accepting the reward.
Then again, I feel we should desire/set achievable goals than like winning a lottery and then blame even God when they end up as pipe dreams! So I have misgivings on this law when we go overboard with targets not attainable and not backing up with the efforts required - siva
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
11 Feb 16
I agree with this sentiment siva.
Let us remain balanced in these things.
Single minded obstinacy can actually unbalance us at times. Going overboard to try to get things not yet within our own boat will always only ever cause problems for us too. We should not abandon our own vessel like this, I reckon.
Our boat is big enough for us now as it is, until we expand it with our own growth of awareness and consciousness, to match acquiring of the bigger boat.
Most people, given a bigger boat, when they are not ready for it, usually end up crashing it quickly, as in those who win millions of dollars in a lottery one year, and the very next year, they have lost it all already, through excessive living.
@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
12 Feb 16
@innertalks I could have become rich if that was my goal. But I knew from the very beginning it will prove an albatross around my neck eventually! Better to live among the common folks than try to avoid them like some do! As you know balance is my byword in everything I do (though I am trying hard for a payout here this month!).
I know some who get enslaved to an extent in what they do as if nothing else matters to them - they even end up as strangers to their families who leave them to their own devises - sort of hoisted by their own petard in their final moments - siva
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
12 Feb 16
@Shiva49 At least you had a chance, my Dad was named Rich when he was born, but he never was rich during his lifetime, with money that is. He was richly blessed in many other ways though.
