Law of attraction

[Mooshamoo]

I was just reading the books, "manifest" and "Ask and it is given" about using the law of attraction to get what you want in life.

Basically ,it says what we think about, we create.

And it suggests using vision boards, and journals and drawings etc to create things. For example writing out what you want to happen

Has anyone done it and had any success stories? I'd love to hear about them.

@DogFleece

Misery does love company, however i think a large part of young peoples mental health problems start at home. Depressed adults create depressed children nine times out of ten.

Op do you really children born into war zones or areas of famine did so because of negative thoughts.

Look outside of your immensely privileged bubble for a second and think about what you are implying for those much less fortunate than you by believing humans have magic powers that create their circumstances.

I think there is a lot to be said for thinking positively, looking for the good in situations and being open to opportunities but you can't make yourself rich just by thinking about being rich.

I did say a part of it. It’s something I’ve seen myself.

You've literally just described the job market though? This is the whole point of moving companies!

@NewNameNigel

You can think yourself rich as long as you combine it with action. I guess for me it’s been a positive application to my life. I grew up in poverty on a council estate and now I am so far removed from that life it’s untrue. Lovely husband, kids etc. Grateful every day for it and I enjoy it all. You never know what’s around the corner I guess.

I think this is just about focussing on something. It can "work" but not in a fantasy abstract way.

If you want to win the lottery, no amount of manifesting will make that happen because it is just chance and an infintessimally small chance.

If you are trying to manifest owning a Porsche say, then you will be focussed on it, be keeping an eye out, looking every where and you may happen across an advert for a second hand one that is going cheap for a quick sale and you get lucky - really because you were ultra focussed. Whereas otherwise you'd have missed that one advert for the cheaper one.

Same for particular jobs you'll be keeping more of an eye out and more on it if you think you are manifesting the perfect job.

It's not magic. It's just very practical.

I wanted to believe in this shit sooo badly. For many years! I read the secret and listen to bloody louise Hay a decade or so ago. Crystals, tarot yadayada. Then I realised it was all a load of crap! It's total bollocks!

This sort of shit preys on people when they're unhappy.

Tbh I’m not giving a fuck whether it’s the job market, LOA or fucking job fairy. I’m nearly £1k a month better off and enjoying it.

I’ve always thought this way - with a manifestation mindset, even as a child, even before I knew it had a name or theory.

There are times in my life I can pin point that really topped my expectations and it was also at time when I was manifesting the circumstances in my favour. I absolutely believe in this concept but I wouldn’t use mn as the platform to discuss open-mindedly about the topic!

I think most of it is BS but I interpret manifesting as a mind set. If you think positively and think about something you want constantly, you work harder and strive more which in turns gets you those things you constantly think about . Good things don't usually happen to people that are down in the dumps hating life

Thanks! That was very interesting. I love stuff like this. It is so interesting i'll look up Joe Dispenza. I've seen his name mentioned on a few website, but I've never say down and read about him properly.

Becoming Supernatural is an interesting read.

It’s all not much different than athletes using visualisation as a training method - most top athletes now use this as part of their training, I haven’t seen anyone telling them it’s a load of woo bollocks, and it does seem to improve their performance.

Utter utter codswallop. I heard of this in the 1990s and never believed it then. Someone who claimed they were stuck in a traffic queue, and wished the traffic away and it started moving. Well, what about the rest of the people in the queue? THEY didn't wish for it. (I doubt it anyway!) People who believe in this shit AND people who don't, get the same thing/same results.

You sound very easily-led, gullible, and naive @Mooshamoo And easy prey for scammers. Be careful.

Load of crap. I remember thinking I was going to adopt this way of life and when things that I had manifested didn’t happen I was devastated to the point my mental health took a terrible turn.

It’s basic and the way it’s presented is toxic.

As a PP said, Mumsnet is not the right place to ask about manifesting. The responses are always the same from people who assume it's just about thinking about what you want then it will magically appear.

I've always manifested but didn't know what it was called until I read a book about it. For me it's about changing your mindset - learning how to stay focused, overcome challenges and self-doubt and stay positive. Which then obviously leads to a change in your behaviour, and then you see the results.

It's worked for me. I've recently moved into my dream home that I visualised from being 16, I met my husband 2 days after I decided that I was ready to settle down. Loads of other examples that I won't go into here.

Also just to say that I come from a very working class background with absolutely no support from family.

If people genuinely wake up 100% driven and motivated every day, then good for you! But if like me you go through phases where you lose motivation/self-doubt creeps in, why not focus your mind and get yourself back on track?

Your are right, in a way. Thoughts create feelings and behaviours. Harness your thoughts and your behaviours will change accordingly. Have a google of the Reticular Activating System - the part of you brain that filters out stuff you don't need to notice and highlights the things you need to pay attention to.

I'm really interested in the topic. I think we do create our lives. What we believe we can get, we get. What we think about, we create. It's really interesting.

I was reading a few LOA websites online and I really like one technique.

It's scripting . You send yourself emails from your future self saying what life is like now ( how you want it to be). Or you can a write a diary event about a future event that you want to happen. For example if you wanted a new job but you haven't got it yet, you could write a diary entry saying "I'm so happy I got the job today! Everything went really well".

Well yes but if nobody had wished for it, they’d all still be stuck there 😂

I agree with a PP who said that the LOA has been badly misunderstood. Like most things I guess. Action + focus is much more likely to get the results you want. But idiots use it as a stick to beat unfortunate people with. (A bit like those wankers who tell infertile couples to ‘just relax, it’ll happen when you stop trying’ 🙄

I didn't grow up in an immensely privileged bubble. Okay I didn't grow up in a war zone. But I grew up in extreme poverty. Dad walked out on us, never gave us any maintenece money. I remember struggling to survive since I was very young. There is a lot of extreme poverty here. My mum was mentally ill. She wasn't able to take care of me in any way shape or form, so I brought myself up from the age 5. No one showed me the slightest bit of love it care.

I feel like my upbringing gave me a poverty mindset. When I grew up I I kept choosing badly paid jobs and kept myself in poverty because was what I saw growing up. It was hard to break out of that cycle because of my thoughts. When you grow up in poverty and with no love, it is sometimes hard to think that you deserve more, that you actually do deserve good jobs, money, love. That is why some people get trapped in the same cycle of poverty and bad lives as their parents. It is what we saw, and we repeat what we saw.

I really had to train my mind to think thoughts like "I deserve good jobs, "I'm intelligent" "I deserve lots of good things" "I deserve a really good well paid job"

I had to train my mind to expect better. And I do think that it has done me good.

It’s nonsense for the gullible and hard of thinking.

It is just a natural way of going about things. Negativity breeds negativity, If you surround yourself with positivity, as in people and thoughts you are opening up your heart and mind. Try it for a week. It does take work, what doesn't?

The mind is a hugely untapped resource.

Being miserable (been there) never opens hearts.

This will sound stupid probably but when i don't know what to do, I ask my magic 8 ball.
I close my eyes, ask 3 times then shake.
It's been pretty spot on each time and I think that's because I've made peace with the outcome. It also makes me think that the thought/worry is minimal in the grand scheme of things. If the question I need to ask leads to, "will I be OK?" Then I know I don't need to ask or worry about it.
Stupid, but it works for me.

Ooh I will definitely read that one.

Has anyone else got any other people/books to recommend?

@Mooshamoo I’ll pm you