I have not read much about the law of attraction, so temper what I say with that.

I think of this as a self fulfilling prophecy. If you believe in something (positive or negative) hard and deeply enough, then you will take actions to make it come true. Sometimes these actions are conscious, sometimes they are subconscious.

For example, if you think somebody hates you then odds are that will influence how you act around that person. They will pick up on it and avoid you, thus fulfilling the prophecy you made that they hate you.

I could convince myself that Brad Pitt is out there looking for me for a role in a new block buster movie that will make me rich. Odds of this happening are very slim. But if I made a more general goal the focus of my thoughts (like wanting to make it in the movie biz) then I stand a much better chance of making it happen. This can come from scanning "good sources" for leads, learning what it takes to make it, and giving it my all.

In general negative self fulfilling prophecies are easier to make happen.

So by all means, go about having attainable goals, and do all you can to make them come true!

Hope this helps.

I have a very strong 'yeah-nah' reaction to this stuff, and consider it first class garbage.

this mumbo jumbo is there for people who are emotionally needy and require a crutch to stand up. The problem is, it turns them into cripples to start with. The fact that there are questions that cannot be answered leaves them unconfident, unsure, and unable to access the knowledge they DO have. it's entirely destructive.

Also it doesn't help that I spent a few months convincing my fellow high school students that I could read auras and tell their palms - which I did entirely cynically and for my own personal entertainment, and they soaked it right up. I also as a six year old had the whole street believing in my imaginary friends.

This does make me feel that we're all primates scared of the dark, hiding underneath mumbo jumbo to keep safe from the boogey monster.

those motivational tapes and such are SALES tapes, for salespeople. Salespeople constantly have to be 'on' and so they have to hype themselves into uber-confidence just to get through the day, so they watch this stuff to self-hypnotise. Then they can get out there and be 'on' and sell! Sell! Sell! and come home exhausted, depressed, anxious, have another drink, listen to another tape.

They are not a centred, paced, sane way of functioning. Silence and lack of input are required for that. Not huge wads of emotionalist peppy interfering type input.

I would say, in all earnestness, ditch the weirdo class and just go walk on the beach and ask yourself what you want out of life. Ignore the hype. Ignore the mumbo jumbo which is 100% designed to part you from your hard earned money. There are no fairies, there is no magic, there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

it's just physical you, a collection of molecules, in this finite physical world, doing the best you can.

:) xx.

Ive been thinking about this myself and I have came to these conclusions that existed before the book did.

People remember you by the way that you make them feel
You can only make others happy by staying happy because other people feel your pain
The planet has many sights to see, try to see as much as you can
Remove the people that are not condusive to your enviroment especially if they run over your psyche you can't have sex with a troll

these are all interesting viewers ....and have truths in each one ......negitiveity ...is a very big problem .....for a lot of people ....and depreshion is all about the negative energies and emotions ...................pepperman ....has some good advice .......and hits closest to the truth of if ............if you are always in the negative emotions ..and fealings ...at a certin point people can feel it ....and not knowing how to help you ..or just not wanting that nagatitivity in ther lives will shy away from you ....you will also ...conchesly or . ....pick up behavouiers ..around ..people that you know at some leaval will ...push these people away ....if you are doing that with out being conches of it than you will just think that they hate you ...when in fact that might no be the hole truth ..at all ....but it becomes your reality .........................................I don't like the people who lectures and want your money ..telling you you can be anything you want ..they use ..high powered ...emotions ...WITH good sails man ship ...and in fact you are sold a dream ....and the reason people by into it is because ...they need ..change in there life ...they belive if only they could make lots of money and be anything they wanted to be all there problems would be gone ....witch is not only fals hope but ...but not true ........but they get caught up in it ..there a very few ....and I mean a very few ...who will..do good ..but that is the exception .............................................how ever ...if you ..are going for a goal that is more attainable ...for you to reach ..than this positive actiude ...can go a very long way in getting to ware you want to be ...if you are persistent ...work hard ...if you studie what it is ..what skills you need to get there and go about and get them .....you will have a very good chance than of reaching your goal ......but this way of doing things can also open other doors ..so it would be posible to Chang your goal ...once you are in this process ................................................................aneccleaver ....you are right that if some one is ....just a very negitive infulince on you ..than you need to put distance ..between .you ...it isent healthy for you .....................bridge ......you are a brat ......you like to play with people ....but you are making it hard on those of us who do have ...gifts ...those who can see and read people's auras ....and many more gifts ...I am telling you ....these ..gifts are very real ....you are talking to some one very real ..............................I agree youth you on your last paragraph ...................I do belive in the laws of attraction .....but what are you realy sending out ....that is the ..question you need to ask your self .....befor you start sending it out ..so you will attract ....what you realy need in your life ...........it is good that it helped you .....but when you here the words you can have or do anything you want ..it is time to get off the buss ...............take care everyone ......God bless

bridge ...calling you a brat ..was not.ment in a negative way ....so pleas don't take it that way ....I have ..grandchildren I call little brats ...while I am playing with them ....and we laugh ...take care ..God bless

Musky I forgive you. I will send you positive vibes and get them back...

totally don't believe in all that gumph but if someone can prove me wrong, I will stand corrected. I am of the opinion though that just as with monsters under the bed:

the reason we don't see the monster deaths in the newspaper is because there are no monsters. there's an old saying: You don't see psychics winning lotto.

I spent a year living in a storage unit once. And every night I would go to bed dreaming about what life would be like when I got things under control. I also worked really hard. I can honestly say I achieved most of the practical things I used to dream about. I'm not sure if that's the law of attraction but it work for me.

that is very true ..but that is because people and especualy ..people who are suposto know better and are suposto be of higher learning .....know nothing about ..what it is to be phicic ....or how it works or that ..there are many diferant gifts ...under that topic ......so we do not all have the same gifts ..not even in the same family's ..we might shair some the same ..in the same family like we do in mine but we also each have our Owen individual ...gifts ....in our family ...it runs dowen ...my mothers side ....and has for ever ...and with my grand mother being a twin ..and them being the strongest in there generation ..it now runes dowen my grand mothers twins side to ....in each generation there is always one who is the strongest ...and ..there can be a sprinkling ..of ...diferant experances ....throught the rest of the family ...but only in the ..part of the family under the strongest ....there is no point in me trying to make anyone a believer ....it is my truth ....and I am not afraid to stand up and admit to who I am ....and I don't feel the need to brag ...because ..for me it has been a .two edged sward ....it has caused me ..unimaginable pain ...but there are things that I got to experance that ..were unimanagable ...beautifull ......so it has Been bot a curce and a blessing .....but I just chouise not to hid who I am ...it is that simple ....you are my friends in here ...every day you ..talk ..about very personal things ...you ..leave your souls bear ....and I haven't even told you who I am .....I am not willing to do that any more ....it is not important that you belive me ...it is important that I tell you all of how I am ..and not hold back the true me .....when you all poar out so much .....I feelt like a hipicrite ......it dident feel good ....so now that I am ..so to speak out of the closet .....I can live with my self ...easer .....and that is important to me ........we all have our Owen truths ......you have yours ....and who am I to ...question your truths ....at the same time who are you to question my truths ....I don't ask you to belive in my truths just to leave them be my truths .......so ..take very good care of your self ...sending my love to all of you ...God bless .....