By Joshua Howard
I disagree with many other teachers
of the law of attraction in a few key places.
For instance, I have a huge problem
with the sole focus on changing thoughts and beliefs that many teachers of the
law of attraction have. A person needs to do something in order to be something
else. But my training also has shown me that beliefs and thoughts are the
structure of behavior...
So, in order to get people to
change things in their lives, you often have to get them to change how they
think and feel about themselves, their lives, the world, and their place in it;
however, if you don't get them to take "inspired action" after
changing their minds, you're apt to have problems (and leave them more
frustrated afterward).
Law of attraction, if thought of
from a secular, stoic perspective is similar to Heidegger. Though the
explanation of this would necessarily be long, a simple place they overlap is
on emotions. For Heidegger, angst is the inability to experience the world as
able to facilitate your projects, e.g. the way people feel suicidal and
depressed when they "can't do what they want to do." And this emotion
is bad if you linger in it and allow it to dismantle you; however, angst serves
a very positive benefit: it reminds you that you're not living the live you
really want to live (you're being "inauthentic") and serves as a way
to determine what you do want by giving you the opposite of what you really
want.
The law also easily overlaps with
Kierkegaard on "leaps of faith". In order to get where we really want
in life we need to believe in the "teleological suspension" (in other
words, God can bend the rules of nature and ethics in order to achieve his
will). The key point for us here being that in order to get what you really
want, you have to have faith it will come to you no matter what. (And this is
often called the "answering" stage, the stage wherein you push away
all resistance to your goal.)
And on a secular note, Nietzsche
argues for a similar position without God: to live a meaningful life is to
become a genius or superhuman (ubermensch), by which he means that humans can
transcend the world as it is by becoming something better than they are now.
Notice that this is like the secular interpretation of the law of attraction:
if you change how you think and feel, you'll change how you live in the world,
and you'll thus change your life.
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Joshua Howard is life coach who
specializes in law of attraction, NLP, and DHE.
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