Law of Attraction

[Pacion]

'The Law of Attraction' seems to be the lastest thing - seeing it around a lot. Have you heard of it? What are your thoughts or experiences about it?

The Law of Attraction is a theory commonly associated with New Age and New Thought philosophy. It posits that one should never dwell on the negative, as the met@physical principle of life is embodied in a "law of attraction": "you get what you think about; your thoughts determine your destiny."

For myself, I have always believed in what goes around, come around - positive thoughts/actions beget positive thoughts/actions. Earlier this year, I came across 'The Law of Attraction' and thought okay, sounds about right, sounds the same, just package slightly differently.

A few weeks ago, I met someone who subsequently behaved in a way that blew me out of the water, but not in a good way. For some time afterwards, I was wrestling with myself, how could I have 'attracted' this person into my life? What thoughts/behaviours have I been putting out that 'attracted' this person? Are there exceptions to 'The Law of Attraction'?

[Joe]

Huh?

[fascination]

'The Law of Attraction' seems to be the lastest thing - seeing it around a lot. Have you heard of it? What are your thoughts or experiences about it?



For myself, I have always believed in what goes around, come around - positive thoughts/actions beget positive thoughts/actions. Earlier this year, I came across 'The Law of Attraction' and thought okay, sounds about right, sounds the same, just package slightly differently.

A few weeks ago, I met someone who subsequently behaved in a way that blew me out of the water, but not in a good way. For some time afterwards, I was wrestling with myself, how could I have 'attracted' this person into my life? What thoughts/behaviours have I been putting out that 'attracted' this person? Are there exceptions to 'The Law of Attraction'?pacion...check out the movie "what the bleep do we know" and see what you think...

[mamboqueen]

Isn't this what that movie The Secret is all about, or am I thinking of something else?

[samina]

'The Law of Attraction' seems to be the lastest thing - seeing it around a lot. Have you heard of it? What are your thoughts or experiences about it?

...Earlier this year, I came across 'The Law of Attraction' and thought okay, sounds about right, sounds the same, just package slightly differently.


the phrase has just hit with some mainstream hooplah but the concept has been around for ages... there are many ways to phrase it & to work with it. there are other ****physical principles, as well. i've worked with these for a long time, exploring how they can be used "scientifically", meaning without exception and to every aspect of one's life. it's my experience that they do work that way, but it's nothing to speak glibly about. most of the pop-spiritual gurus out there IMO do just that, or highlight only aspects of the journey, giving just partial maps.

unconsciously contradicting thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, tho, diffuse one's ability to use them. learning what those are & how to release or change them is quite the task...

pacion, perhaps you "attracted" this person into your life to highlight a feeling or belief or judgment whose time has come for release...

[samina]

Isn't this what that movie The Secret is all about, or am I thinking of something else?

yes, the secret is all about the law of attraction

[Pacion]

...it's nothing to speak glibly about. most of the pop-spiritual gurus out there IMO do just that, or highlight only aspects of the journey, giving just partial maps.

Yes, I think that is part of the 'problem'.

...unconsciously contradicting thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, tho, diffuse one's ability to use them. learning what those are & how to release or change them is quite the task...

Ditto.

...pacion, perhaps you "attracted" this person into your life to highlight a feeling or belief or judgment whose time has come for release...

That is one of the many thoughts I had which contributed to unsettling me. Am still non the wiser for it.

[samina]

That is one of the many thoughts I had which contributed to unsettling me. Am still non the wiser for it.

"ask & it shall be given" ;)

it'll come to you... maybe it was just one piece of a puzzle that's coming into view

[DancinAnne]

I believe that the peeps you attract into your life usually have a lesson for us, though sometimes it can be difficult to see. Some lessons are gentle, some are more of slap in the face. Or as I like to call them, a cosmic wake-up call for change. All are blessings for us to learn from.

For a long time I attracted a certain type into my life that wasn't the most positive. I actually didn't really notice it until I did some counseling. My C was able to point out the similarities and speculate on what I could learn from these types. After some serious self reflection and work, I have none of these negatives in my life.

Not saying I'm right or wrong. I certainly don't have any answers... JMHO.

[samina]

After some serious self reflection and work, I have none of these negatives in my life.

feels good, no doubt. kudos on the reflection & work!

[DancinAnne]

feels good, no doubt. kudos on the reflection & work!

Thanks! I'm sure there is more to come, but for now, life are quite blissful.

[Pacion]

I believe that the peeps you attract into your life usually have a lesson for us, though sometimes it can be difficult to see. Some lessons are gentle, some are more of slap in the face. Or as I like to call them, a cosmic wake-up call for change. All are blessings for us to learn from.

Yes, 'on one hand' I have been trying to see it as a blessing in disguise - although, it was more like a punch than a slap in the face. :(

With regards to self reflection, that has been a bit of a tough one, as I was then and am to a degree now, nervous that if I think about it too much, I might actually attract more of the same! :doh:

[samina]

With regards to self reflection, that has been a bit of a tough one, as I was then and am to a degree now, nervous that if I think about it too much, I might actually attract more of the same! :doh:

IME, it's your feelings about the situation that point to what you are attracting, not your "thinking about it"... so whatever you felt at the time is what you can examine & sort out. even if you avoided thinking about it, the underlying root feelings or beliefs are still there, having their effect.

at another time, the same thing could happen, but if you no longer possess the same emotional "charge", the event would be completely different... neither here nor there, nothing to sort out.

[DancinAnne]

Yes, 'on one hand' I have been trying to see it as a blessing in disguise - although, it was more like a punch than a slap in the face. :(

With regards to self reflection, that has been a bit of a tough one, as I was then and am to a degree now, nervous that if I think about it too much, I might actually attract more of the same! :doh:

Yeah, been punched a time or two myself. Not so much fun.

Sometimes, when there are peeps in our life that make us nuts, it is because there is something about them, that is reminding us, on some level, about something about ourselves that we dislike. This can be so very disturbing at times, especially when I have had peeps in my life that make me crazy. I'm thinkin' in no way do have one thing in common with them. But if you try and step back and look at the sitch from an objective point of view, without emotion, (I've heard this referred to as witnessing) sometimes you see what it is you need to see. And then again, sometimes it's just painful!:headwall: :D

[DancinAnne]

IME, it's your feelings about the situation that point to what you are attracting, not your "thinking about it"... so whatever you felt at the time is what you can examine & sort out. even if you avoided thinking about it, the underlying root feelings or beliefs are still there, having their effect.

at another time, the same thing could happen, but if you no longer possess the same emotional "charge", the event would be completely different... neither here nor there, nothing to sort out.

I agree. 'Sometimes a dead whale... is just a dead whale.' (Sarah, CSI Vegas) In other words, sometimes a sitch is no more or less than what it appears to be...

[Pacion]

Sometimes, when there are peeps in our life that make us nuts, it is because there is something about them, that is reminding us, on some level, about something about ourselves that we dislike. This can be so very disturbing at times, especially when I have had peeps in my life that make me crazy. I'm thinkin' in no way do have one thing in common with them. But if you try and step back and look at the sitch from an objective point of view, without emotion, (I've heard this referred to as witnessing) sometimes you see what it is you need to see. And then again, sometimes it's just painful!:headwall: :D

I hear you. I am also familiar with the saying/belief that often when there is something we dislike about a person, it is a characteristic of ourselves that we are in fact disliking. But that is not the case in this instance. :?

[saludas]

Yeah, I guess all those starving children in Africa are just simply not 'wanting' that food enough to get it.

[Pacion]

Yeah, I guess all those starving children in Africa are just simply not 'wanting' that food enough to get it.

Ah, but Saludas, without getting flippant about it, starving children in Africa is an extreme case. I have often heard/read that Africa is a natural disaster (drought) compounded by man*kind* (wars).

In my opinion, this is a bit different.

[mamboqueen]

I hear you. I am also familiar with the saying/belief that often when there is something we dislike about a person, it is a characteristic of ourselves that we are in fact disliking. But that is not the case in this instance. :?

Interesting observation and I totally agree!

[DancinAnne]

I hear you. I am also familiar with the saying/belief that often when there is something we dislike about a person, it is a characteristic of ourselves that we are in fact disliking. But that is not the case in this instance. :?

Just playing devil's advocate.... are you sure about that?;)

[DancinAnne]

Yeah, I guess all those starving children in Africa are just simply not 'wanting' that food enough to get it.

There are a million tragedies in life.... many in our own back yard... that I can't fathom or explain.

But that is not exactly where we're goin' here...

[Pacion]

Just playing devil's advocate.... are you sure about that?;)

Yes :roll:






No :(




Maybe :mrgreen:

[samina]

There are a million tragedies in life.... many in our own back yard... that I can't fathom or explain.

But that is not exactly where we're goin' here...

yes. and who is to say what personal miracles & healings occur for anyone going through any apparent tragedy... to see the externals and judge it all as "bad" involves a lot of assumptions and conclusions drawn while being completely removed from the situation.

i've experienced more than one person's share of travesties... at least, that's what they appeared like on the surface. i came to regard them differently...

[DancinAnne]

Yes :roll:






No :(




Maybe :mrgreen:

:uplaugh:

[Shooshoo]

:kissme: don't feel bad Pacion.

The Law of Attraction has also always puzzled me as well. But I guess when there's attraction in the beginning, it's usually physical. One is then blinded not able to see clearly. And after some time and/or certain incidents one becomes more rational seeing more clearly.

You shouldn't worry that something's wrong with your judgement, unless you've been attracted to the same type of person many times :eyebrow: .

I remember getting this message once saying that things happens in your life for a reason, sometimes for a season and some for a life-time. So to make it easier for myself, I look for a reason or accept it's a season and try to enjoy all other life-time people in my world.

Of course I question myself if I'm stuck in a pattern, that's normal. I also question if I should do something differently. It's not bad. I guess this will always be happening with different people, but of course the degree of intensity of emotions would differ according to the type of relationship, but what can one do. It's life :rolleyes: .

Now I wanna see your dancing bananas.

[DancinAnne]

yes. and who is to say what personal miracles & healings occur for anyone going through any apparent tragedy... to see the externals and judge it all as "bad" involves a lot of assumptions and conclusions drawn while being completely removed from the situation.

i've experienced more than one person's share of travesties... at least, that's what they appeared like on the surface. i came to regard them differently...

Well said and insightful.

[mamboqueen]

I remember getting this message once saying that things happens in your life for a reason, sometimes for a season and some for a life-time. So to make it easier for myself, I look for a reason or accept it's a season and try to enjoy all other life-time people in my world.


I subscribe to this theory entirely, but it may be because it is more appeasing to the mind. I won't even seek out a reason...I just figure it will dawn on me sooner or later. Even a bad experience has some educational value, imo (although the educational value of losing someone you love escapes me). Might be hard to accept at the time, but you live and learn, right?

[Shooshoo]

(although the educational value of losing someone you love escapes me). Might be hard to accept at the time, but you live and learn, right?

That I'm sure is difficult, loosing someone you love who loves you, and you both have shared something.
But if you're attracted to someones/love someone and they did not turn out what you thought they were, or they did not give you anything in return, then that's not love. Disappointing.

[Shooshoo]

I subscribe to this theory entirely, but it may be because it is more appeasing to the mind.

I know if I didn't think about it like this, I would have become bitter. So in the end it makes me feel better.

[SPratt74]

The Law of Attraction has also always puzzled me as well. But I guess when there's attraction in the beginning, it's usually physical. One is then blinded not able to see clearly. And after some time and/or certain incidents one becomes more rational seeing more clearly.


Ok. This is a very good point. Usually... the one feature that we come liking to in another person is there physical appearance whether some of us admit it or not. Case in point. I'm going through this transaction now with an x boyfriend that I've known for over ten years. He wants to come down and see me. And I got to thinking that it was all about the physical attraction when we were in college. Now though, it's all about the emotional attraction. We haven't seen each other in over ten years (not even through pictures as he doesn't care for the Internet etc.), but we are so excited to see one another what I can see is based on emotional feelings through means of great communication.

But to me, communication is the key to anything in life. We have great communication! My mom thinks we are going to get married despite us dating different people over the years. I don't know about that, but she does make a good point. Why would you want to marry on just looks alone? You wouldn't be able to live very long with that person if that were the case even if married.

But I think that it all boils down to maturity too though. So, while one might call it law of attraction, I think it's more like if you are mature enough to finally be able to see what people are really like (and I don't mean age wise maturity, I mean relationship wise maturity).

[Pacion]

Whilst it is called the 'Law of Attraction', as I understand it, it is more universal and about attracting various things into your life, not just about the human sexual attraction - your thoughts 'attracting' various people to your life, that your paths cross or you are always in the 'right place at the right time' be it for the winning lottery ticket or a parking space or to be able to do a good deed even.

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Originally Posted by Shooshoo http://www.dance-forums.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.dance-forums.com/showthread.php?p=389837#post389837)
I remember getting this message once saying that things happens in your life for a reason, sometimes for a season and some for a life-time. So to make it easier for myself, I look for a reason or accept it's a season and try to enjoy all other life-time people in my world.


I subscribe to this theory entirely, but it may be because it is more appeasing to the mind. .... Even a bad experience has some educational value, imo (although the educational value of losing someone you love escapes me). Might be hard to accept at the time, but you live and learn, right?

Thanks Shooshoo. Thanks MQ. Thank you everyone who has posted on this! (Oscar speech over, now the tears ;) :lol:

Yes, the 'experience' has had 'some' educational value, which I am still trying to figure out. :lol: I laugh/have to laugh because once you have 'hit the bottom', the only way is up, right? Is it my own personal version of Groundhog Day ie. a lesson I need to learn and will keep experiencing until I learn? Hard to say. Is there something in my subconscious that is being played out in the Law of Attraction? Trying to figure out.

[quixotedlm]

Two words - Doesn't work.
I can do better I suppose. One word - superstition.

Out of the several occasions in my life when I wanted something important to me with all my heart, looked forward to it with infinite eagerness and worked my ass off to earn it, I only got what I wanted about 2-3 times ever.

Reflecting back upon the times when I was deeply disappointed (sometimes mourning the failed expectations for several months), I can't think that I didn't have the most positive attitude towards the object of my affection, i.e., I believe I projected a genuine attractiveness towards my goal. Of course, I wasn't experimenting with the 'law of attraction', but that's just how it was.

My experience says that if it doesn't work most of the times, then the occasions when it does seem to work must be statistical anomalies.

So yeah, this is just wishful imaginative thinking. It's like saying that if you act funny and dress well enough and be an overall great person, then you can seduce anybody you try to seduce. That too doesn't work. All life is a series of chance happenings. Like followers in a dance, we have some control and the ability to express ourselves, but it's rare to find yourself dancing with that great lead with whom you have an amazing connection and it clicks perfectly. It does happen - sometimes - maybe...

[DancinAnne]

Two words - Doesn't work.
I can do better I suppose. One word - superstition.

Out of the several occasions in my life when I wanted something important to me with all my heart, looked forward to it with infinite eagerness and worked my ass off to earn it, I only got what I wanted about 2-3 times ever.

Reflecting back upon the times when I was deeply disappointed (sometimes mourning the failed expectations for several months), I can't think that I didn't have the most positive attitude towards the object of my affection, i.e., I believe I projected a genuine attractiveness towards my goal. Of course, I wasn't experimenting with the 'law of attraction', but that's just how it was.

My experience says that if it doesn't work most of the times, then the occasions when it does seem to work must be statistical anomalies.

So yeah, this is just wishful imaginative thinking. It's like saying that if you act funny and dress well enough and be an overall great person, then you can seduce anybody you try to seduce. That too doesn't work. All life is a series of chance happenings. Like followers in a dance, we have some control and the ability to express ourselves, but it's rare to find yourself dancing with that great lead with whom you have an amazing connection and it clicks perfectly. It does happen - sometimes - maybe...

I disagree... but neither did I say that everything in life clicks perfectly with the right attitude or that everything is in our control/power. Oftentimes, I believe you get what you need and not always what you want.

Okay, now I sound like a cliche.

But I believe it nonetheless.

[mamboqueen]

The Law of Attraction is a theory commonly associated with New Age and New Thought philosophy. It posits that one should never dwell on the negative, as the met@physical principle of life is embodied in a "law of attraction": "you get what you think about; your thoughts determine your destiny."

My thinking is not that you'll necessarily get what you think about (otherwise I'd have won the lottery on Tuesday night rather than that silly truck driver who doesn't need expensive dresses), but I think that things happen for a reason, unbeknownst to us, and so maybe you're not getting what you want per se, but what you need (lord...am I sounding like a Rolling Stones song yet??). I also believe in not attaching negative feelings to something that might be *at this moment* negative, but rather to look at it and then let it go.

Hey...DA.. you're probably better off sounding like a cliche...I think I'm starting to sound like the nutty professor.

[Kiteless]

Yes, the 'experience' has had 'some' educational value, which I am still trying to figure out. :lol:

Then again, it could be just a random event. No one can control everything that happens in their lives. Back in the 19th century, the "mechanistic universe" philosophers used to believe that if they had a big enough computer, they could predict everything that would ever happen in the universe. Quantum mechanics has since shown that this is not true; at the mirco level, many events are inherently probabalistic and can't be predicted no matter how much data and computing power you have.

[quixotedlm]

Oftentimes, I believe you get what you need and not always what you want.

Oftentimes, I've experienced that I've been unsuccessful at avoiding depression while highly successful at finding the resources for high quality theraphy (which never seems to end). And I'm speaking both figuratively and literally... So I suppose life does give us what we need :rolleyes:


But your disagreement is actually good. Because it shows that either its possible to have a frame of mind that is generally contended, or that life indeed can be mostly satisfying, esp. wrt to our pursuits. So that's a source of hope. Good for you!

[Pacion]

I agree with everything everyone has said.


(Hopefully, this will mean that I will have all the agreement in my life that I need, rather than what I want ;) :lol:)

[FTL]

With endless number of positive wishes some would eventually happen. It sounds more like a law of probability than attraction.

[mamboqueen]

Excellent point!

I hope I win the lottery tonight. I hope I win next Tuesday. I hope I win next Friday...and the Tuesday after that (did my chances just go up?)!

[FTL]

Excellent point!

I hope I win the lottery tonight. I hope I win next Tuesday. I hope I win next Friday...and the Tuesday after that (did my chances just go up?)!

Not gonna happen. You've got to buy the ticket too!;)

[samina]

Two words - Doesn't work.
I can do better I suppose. One word - superstition.



the proof is in the pudding on this one... as well as "whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right". this isn't something that's arguable, only with yourself or against circumstances in one's life.

i've used these principles to consciously manifest very specific things in my life. i've used it to overcome many things, and to achieve things considered hopeless or impossible. the list is... extensive.

fwiw, my starting point was very negative, and with a deeply ingrained belief of a very bitter "if it's too good to be true, it probably is", which sounds not dissimilar to how you currently may be feeling, quixote. so believe me, i understand. :)

it's not like a recipe that you recite a few times and, if the results don't appear, you can reasonably conclude that it doesn't work. the realm is very intangible... the many layers of one's psyche, of one's thoughts, feelings, beliefs, conditioning, personality, wounds... it's like sitting at the corner of an enormously tangled fisherman's net and starting to untangle it... tracing how paths are interconnected, looped, tied too tightly to un-do in the moment, crusted by debris... i mean, this is not magic. it's work.

for myself, i've demonstrated repeatedly in my life that it works, so i depend on it now for everything that matters to me.

[DancinAnne]

Oftentimes, I've experienced that I've been unsuccessful at avoiding depression while highly successful at finding the resources for high quality theraphy (which never seems to end). And I'm speaking both figuratively and literally... So I suppose life does give us what we need :rolleyes:

I'd like to think so... and thank goodness for good therapists and counselors!!


But your disagreement is actually good. Because it shows that either its possible to have a frame of mind that is generally contended, or that life indeed can be mostly satisfying, esp. wrt to our pursuits. So that's a source of hope. Good for you!I guess we do what we need to... I do have my hopes and dreams, not all have panned out quite like I planned and some have worked out quite well... some are in the works... but there are also quiet times when I need to believe that all is as it should be...

[quixotedlm]

fwiw, my starting point was very negative, and with a deeply ingrained belief of a very bitter "if it's too good to be true, it probably is", which sounds not dissimilar to how you currently may be feeling, quixote. so believe me, i understand. :)

it's not like a recipe that you recite a few times and, if the results don't appear, you can reasonably conclude that it doesn't work. the realm is very intangible... the many layers of one's psyche, of one's thoughts, feelings, beliefs, conditioning, personality, wounds... it's like sitting at an enormously tangle fisherman's net and starting to untangle it... tracing how paths are interconnected, looped, tied to tight to un-do in the moment, crusted by debris... i mean, this is not magic. it's work.


re attitudes, magic vs. work etc, i'd like to reiterate the operative part of my post -


Out of the several occasions in my life when I wanted something important to me with all my heart, looked forward to it with infinite eagerness and worked my ass off to earn it, I only got what I wanted about 2-3 times ever.

re intangibility of this principle -

I wonder if you are really talking about faith... for some inexplicable reason, this reminds me of .. link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Hallaj#Wahhabi.2FSalafi_Parallels_with_Aham_Brahma smi) ... although the two ideas are really not congruent, or even very similar.

[samina]

re intangibility of this principle -

I wonder if you are really talking about faith... for some inexplicable reason, this reminds me of .. link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Hallaj#Wahhabi.2FSalafi_Parallels_with_Aham_Brahma smi) ... although the two ideas are really not congruent, or even very similar.

well, you could relate this principle to aspects of probably all religions, as well as throughout the sciences... it's in both "i am that i am" as well as in the construction of all energy & matter...

manifesting using ****physical principles most definitely requires faith up to a point... then it's something beyond that, a quality of irrefutable knowing...

fwiw, indian philosophy has been a very big part of my own journey, since around nine.

[quixotedlm]

fwiw, indian philosophy has been a very big part of my own journey, since around nine.

not to get offtrack...

Indian philosophy, decoupled with spirituality, theology or ritualistic ways of life, can be a very intellectually interesting pursuit. Highly recommended if you are an agnostic or atheistic, because you'll actually learn to refine your own world-view so much more and understand well the arguments for and against that viewpoint, and the validation that comes from the knowledge that several philospher and their peer-reviewed and respected works seriously entertained agnosticism and atheism as valid answer to The Question along with theism, without concertedly trying to pick one side over another.

[samina]

not to get offtrack...

Indian philosophy, decoupled with spirituality, theology or ritualistic ways of life, can be a very intellectually interesting pursuit. Highly recommended if you are an agnostic or atheistic, because you'll actually learn to refine your own world-view so much more and understand well the arguments for and against that viewpoint, and the validation that comes from the knowledge that several philospher and their peer-reviewed and respected works seriously entertained agnosticism and atheism as valid answer to The Question along with theism, without concertedly trying to pick one side over another.

yes, it's a good path for learning discrimination...

one thing i really appreciated about indian philosophy is that spiritual concepts are broken down & named very precisely. precision in the world of spiritual & ****physical discussion tends to be rare, and certainly difficult at best because words only point to or suggest the concepts involved.

and words themselves can trigger so many different unconsciously held personal assumptions that all meaningful discourse goes out the window in about 15 seconds. ;)

[samina]

Originally Posted by quixotedlm http://www.dance-forums.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.dance-forums.com/showthread.php?p=389868#post389868)
Out of the several occasions in my life when I wanted something important to me with all my heart, looked forward to it with infinite eagerness and worked my ass off to earn it, I only got what I wanted about 2-3 times ever.

the significance of what you unconsciously wrote above just hit me, quixote. "several" usually meaning 4-5, what you actually said here was that you hit your heart's desire with a relatively high degree of frequency. ;)

i know that's not what you thought you said... but it's still impressive.

[Pacion]

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Originally Posted by quixotedlm http://www.dance-forums.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.dance-forums.com/showthread.php?p=389868#post389868)
Out of the several occasions in my life when I wanted something important to me with all my heart, looked forward to it with infinite eagerness and worked my ass off to earn it, I only got what I wanted about 2-3 times ever.



the significance of what you unconsciously wrote above just hit me, quixote. "several" usually meaning 4-5, what you actually said here was that you hit your heart's desire with a relatively high degree of frequency. ;)

i know that's not what you thought you said... but it's still impressive.

rotfl! This is turning out to be more entertaining than I thought! :banana: :lol:

[quixotedlm]

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the significance of what you unconsciously wrote above just hit me, quixote. "several" usually meaning 4-5, what you actually said here was that you hit your heart's desire with a relatively high degree of frequency. ;)

i know that's not what you thought you said... but it's still impressive.

replace/several/numerous. :)

you might have a point.

4. As a vague numeral: Of an indefinite (but not large) number exceeding two or three; more than two or three but not very many. (The chief current sense.)

[samina]

rotfl! This is turning out to be more entertaining than I thought! :banana:

:banana: :banana: :banana:

that dancing banana is so fabulously goofy... just cracks me up.

i've met a few people like that in my life. in fact...my ex-husband used to dance like that. <heh>

[samina]

replace/several/numerous. :)

too late. can't take it back. ... ;)

[Pacion]

Q... you have been rumbled! :lol: :banana: :lol:

Samina, the funny thing about the dancing banana is that with the correct song, it actually looks (to me anyway!) as if the banana is dancing in time to the song! :lol:

[quixotedlm]

Q... you have been rumbled! :lol: :banana: :lol:

:headwall:

[samina]

Samina, the funny thing about the dancing banana is that with the correct song, it actually looks (to me anyway!) as if the banana is dancing in time to the song! :lol:

hang on, then... <putting on wcs playlist...>

yep, the little guy can swing!

he looks a bit disconcerting against eletrotango music, tho... a bit creepy. <lol>

[chachachacat]

Speaking of The Secret, I went to Agape last Sunday, (Michael was on vacation) and Lisa Nichols was the speaker - phenomenal!! She rocks!

[samina]

Speaking of The Secret, I went to Agape last Sunday, (Michael was on vacation) and Lisa Nichols was the speaker - phenomenal!! She rocks!

she has a nice voice... like buttered syrup. :)

what is Agape?

[quixotedlm]

what is Agape?

I'm guessing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agape_International_Spiritual_Center

[chachachacat]

Agape International Spirtitual Center, a Trans-denominational Spiritual Community founded by Dr. Micheal Beckwith. It's extremely popular in LA.
They recently added a third service, since Micheal was on Oprah, and you still have to stand in line for about an hour!
Wonderful music! Try agapelive.com.

[samina]

I'm guessing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agape_International_Spiritual_Center

hey, thanks... there ya go...

i'm not one to follow the peeps in these mod movements, but i do know that michael beckwith is one of "the secret" teachers. cool... i have no idea who those people are in the book/movie...

[fascination]

Ah, but Saludas, without getting flippant about it, starving children in Africa is an extreme case. I have often heard/read that Africa is a natural disaster (drought) compounded by man*kind* (wars).

In my opinion, this is a bit different.
perhaps the way to view that is that they continue to starve not b/c of the way they frame their poverty but b/c of the way in which others continue to frame it...just a thought

[fascination]

my two cents...like most concepts, the notion that our own minds play a critical role in the futures we create certainly has some merit...just like a thousand other variables which also intersect it...

[samina]

perhpas the way to view that is that they continue to starve not b/c of the way they frame their poverty but the way in which others continue to frmae it...just a thought

i like that way of looking at it

[fascination]

lol...if only I could spell...we could look at it more easily

[samina]

lol...if only I could spell...we could look at it more easily

seems you've got a case of DTD... dinner-time dyslexia :rolleyes:

[fascination]

nah...bftf...brain faster than fingers

[samina]

nah...bftf...brain faster than fingers

not a bad condition to have...

[fascination]

depends upon what one is doing...but ....it's all good, lol...hey, tgif...gotta go scare up some dinner for dh

[SPratt74]

With endless number of positive wishes some would eventually happen. It sounds more like a law of probability than attraction.

Isn't that group of people called visionaries?

[DancinAnne]

Isn't that group of people called visionaries?

:confused:

[Shooshoo]

:banana: :lol:

:p so they dancing bananas are back. It so 'Pacionic" ;) .

[Pacion]

:lol: Thanks Shooshoo. ;)