..........so does this really work or is it just New Age woo?

Here's whats got me wondering. I am reading and hearing a lot that "thoughts create reality" and especially in realities beyond the physical. That we are here in a heavy,slowed down reality to learn this, etc etc.

Its easy for me to believe that we create our reality to some extent. How we view life is largely how it is for us. We can choose to be positive, grateful and happy, or negative, gloomy and sad. But how much does it go beyond that? Can we actually influence outcomes? Create synchronicity? Cause good things (or bad things) to flow to us that otherwise would not? Healing?

It makes sense it would be that way somewhat if it is that way in the non-physical but I tend to be skeptical.

Any thoughts or personal experiences with this?

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If I had 10 million dollars I probably wouldn't be too concerned about the subject. 

The biggest secret about the film, The Secret, seems to be that it is just a film with actors playing parts according to their scripts.

That does not mean that the concept presented in the film as the law of attraction does not have some merit, for it is clear that attractions occur. and no doubt occur in ways not yet generally understood. The laws of thermodynamics, pertaining to convection, consumption, chemistry, magnetism, gravity, capillary action and surface tension, physical bodily attractions, hunger and thirst, desires and emotions, and nearly any other phenomenon and function could, with a bit of imagination, be described as a kind of attraction, or as a kind of repulsion, which are both part of the same function. But that is not how the law of attraction is presented in the film. It is presented as a true metaphysical phenomena, by actors playing roles presenting their characters as their actual selves. Like actors in some advertisements do. 

Whatever the true picture may be regarding the existence of a law of attraction, there is no doubt that other laws and forces are at play too.
 

Hello Doodad,

It's been a long time since I've read or posted here, but I happened to see your post today.  For what it is worth, here is my opinion on the subject.

Many of our desires can be categorized into three groups, all of which are connected to our deeper spiritual longing for the completion of our life purpose.  Each of us carries desires governed by our feelings on a personal level, a relational level, and on a spiritual connective level.

On the personal level we carry the desires to feel good about ourselves, to love ourselves, to be content, comfortable and happy, to feel satisfied and fulfilled in life. 
     
On the relational level our desires are focused on our relationships with others, the desire for close connection and intimacy, the desire to give and receive love, as well as the desire to enjoy a relationship with objects, such as a comfortable home, a pleasing flower garden or a wooded forest surrounding a lake.

On the spiritual connective level our desires are for spiritual communion with God or whatever God means to us, which includes having the feeling of oneness and unity with all that exists.

Many, if not all of our schools of thought from both Eastern and Western religious and spiritual groups have attempted to reject a part of the human experience by stating that desires are undesirable or objectionable, and seek to reject, deny or annihilate them in their philosophical and ideological teachings. 

The foundation of this whole belief system is that all desire must be eliminated including the desire for good as well as the desire for evil. The ideal behind these schools of thought are that good is as much of an "illusion" as is evil, and until we have reached absolute indifference and detachment to both, we have not attained freedom.

The thought that one could possibly deny or annihilate desires is bewildering to me.  If one were to accomplish the elimination of desire, what motivation would be left for living?  Where would the guiding force for living life come from?  Consider what a person’s life would be like without having any desires.

To the person that had successfully created a state of having no desires, all sense of choice would have also been eliminated because choosing implies the perception of one desirable over another undesirable.  So even the perception that makes one thing preferable over another would have to be eliminated as well, leaving this person without any sort of motivation to take any kind of action whatsoever.  This person could have no likes or dislikes because nothing could have the power to rise up feelings of desire within him. 

This person, having reached his ideal of eliminating desire would essentially cease to exist to be anything other than a mere outer shell because nothing could interest him.  There could be nothing to attract or repulse him. He would be deadened to all feeling, all motivation for any type of action toward living life. 

The bewildering factor in this line of thought is that it totally goes against all creative principles.  Since creation exists it seems clear that we only need to look around to see that creativity exists because of the motivating desires within each of us. 

Our desires are at the forefront of unleashing the creative power within.  Each and every form of creative expression not only implies, but also requires us to have selective desire, which is in essence the universal law of attraction in action.  In the conscious mind the attraction towards its affinity rises up within to become the desire to take action for creativity.

Most often we desire to create things that are viewed as a condition of betterment than what we’d known or had previously.  Sometimes our lack of knowledge causes us to make mistakes in decisions as to what better is and we may take a wrong direction.  However, the fault for wrong direction is not in the desire itself, but in our mistaken notion of what is required for results that satisfy.

Therefore, desire is the originators of creativity or the first cause all creations.  Desire is the origin of all our feelings and all our actions.  Desire is the whole of life brought forth and lived in the receiving of or in the radiating forth the vibrations produced by the law of attraction in which consciousness reaches out toward the direction that it feels attraction to and thus it becomes desire.

The force of the universe is desire and it is the innermost center of all life from which all movement originates.  Desire is the creative power within each of us and desire’s correlation is fulfillment.  Both are bound together in the sequential law of cause and effect.  Once we come to a realization of this, we can understand desire as being the center of life itself.      

Why not just try it? It should be clear enough if it is happening?

It is just learning how to visualize and how to believe, rather than to simply desire.

Much of what is attracted to us requires a waiting period. Sometimes the waiting period is very long.

Also, desires are complex. They can conflict.

I believe that visualization is very very powerful.

However, it is important to remember that space must be cleared for the appearance of a granted wish. Something is often lost when something else is gained.

This is what is eventually learned from our experiences in life. It is life's challenge to find personal reasons to continue living and learning when it is discovered that losses of various sorts inevitably follow the fulfillment of our dreams.

There is no such law as Attraction, yes there are laws, such a gravity, electromagnetic, strong and weak forces, but no law of
attraction period!