Do you believe in law of attraction/thoughts create your reality?

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Do you believe you manifest everything, so for example a lot of it says you choose your romantic partner and attract that cause of your thoughts - what do you think?

do you think you create every bad thing that happens to you?

No.

No.

No.

But lots of ‘manifesting’ involves really thinking about what you want, and being clear about it. So a by product of that is you think about your goals and what you do and don’t want.

this probably helps people get those goals, as they are clear about them.

Certainly when I have a clear plan I tend to meet people who will help me with that. But if no plan then they are just random people. If you see what I mean.

plus if you decide you want a certain type of person perhaps you think more how you’d attract them, which makes it more likely.

Yes

Yes but it seems to take a long time to materialise

No. But these things should be learning experiences and not something that we keep repeating expecting to get a different result.

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In a way, yes.

The idea is you focus on what you want. Now, if you're focusing on what you want, truly, then you're going to work towards it, and it's going to happen.

Manifesting in the quantum wave function collapse sense?

Yes. But I'm not going to discuss it here. 😂

I don't think thoughts create reality by magic. But I think having a positive outlook and being focused on your goals makes you more like to see opportunities and behave in ways that will bring what you want about.

I've always found the law of attraction a bit victim blaming. I mean would you tell children born into warzones they they brought it on themselves because they didn't think positively enough?

As others have said, if you focus on something then you’re more likely to work towards it. I “manifested” things but that has been mainly my hard work and a bit of luck and good timing because I had focused on what I wanted.

And what do you think about negative thoughts? They can manifest?

Okay, this is what I think too. I’ve believed in it for a few months and weirdly enough, life was better. I was happy, confident and my life fell into place.

now I have anxiety, I am super worried the anxiety and worries will “manifest” - and since feeling this way, hearing a manifestation group I am in talk about the stuff they wanna manifest has started to sound NUTS to me. Manifesting specific people, etc.

It's okay, it's magic bollocks. You can't warp reality with your mind.

It's entirely the sensible stuff happening — the stuff about being in a place to notice and take advantage of opportunities, or about fears and anxiety meaning you don't do that. No supernatural stuff cause that's not real. If repeatedly hearing about their beliefs is causing your anxiety to start feeding on itself, then the group is damaging to your mental health and you should leave.

No it’s clearly nonsense, and quite pernicious nonsense when, for example, people believe people ‘manifest’ cancer ( as I was told my Gran had by being scared of getting cancer).

Where people’s thoughts affect their actions ( I really want that job so I will make a plan to get it and then enact that plan. Or I want a boyfriend but I won’t bother going to that party as I won’t meet anyone anyway. Or, I don’t know if this will work out but I’ll give it a go anyway vs I’ll probably fail at that which will be embarrassing so I won’t bother trying in the first place), that affects reality, but thoughts by themselves can’t lead to anything unless they control your actions.

Yes I do believe so. But honestly it's all quite personal. There's nothing I could ever say to convince someone who is firmly grounded in material science that would convince them that this world is anything but what they know it to be.

It's something I'm interested in, and it's something I use in my life but it is all quite intangible.

What are you actually in search of? I know of no specific resources because my knowledge around this has been gathered from various sources over the past 15 years.

Whatever you think will be become your reality, because your reality is just your perception.

Well, yes, but there are people who think they're infested with insects when in material reality there are no insects, and other people perceive no insects on them, and their perception that they're infested with insects becomes something of an obstacle to living the life they might like to live. There are benefits to having perceptions and thoughts that line up to some extent with actual reality.

Nope. I've tried to do this for the last 12 years no joy.
And I've tried to visualise myself in to a size 12 and not having any luck with that either. These things take more practical steps to become reality (getting out and meeting people, getting on a sensible eating plan, training for the job you want). You can pick a goal and work towards it but I don't think it requires any 'manifesting' mumbo jumbo.

No it’s the bullshit fed to vulnerable women ( and a few men) to hook them into multi level marketing.
Among other things such as “fake it till you make it”, mindset and lots of other rubbish.
Success comes from blood, sweat and tears. Hard work, preparation and dedication are the foundations of success. You can sit and daydream all you want but it isn’t going to happen.
Go over to the MLM thread in the Money section. There are over 40 threads analysing the charlatans that peddle this nonsense.

No. The whole 'law of attraction' thing is stupid...did those poor children who were killed in Texas deserve it because they were too negative? Sometimes horrible shit just happens, and luck is absolutely a thing.

That said, the idea of manifesting things isn't in itself a bad concept. It can really help to visualise where you want to be and see the steps you need to take to get there. 3.5 years ago I'd never have thought I'd be in a position to buy a flat in London. I would have laughed in your face. I had a mini breakdown, sick to death of flat sharing and not being able to afford the life I wanted, and basically visualised where I wanted to be and talked about it (to myself!) in the present tense, e.g. ("I live in London and I love my job, and I rent a really nice flat alone and have a good circle of friends"). It did work, on the whole.

No no no no no. Please do NOT get into this stuff if you're predisposed towards anxiety. The fear about "accidentally" creating bad things with your thoughts is terrible and can really trap you in a very unhealthy, dangerous place.

Your mind is a perfect safe space to imagine whatever you like as freely as you want. Use it to imagine wonderful things - and then use actions in real life to make those things come about. Use it to imagine terrible happenings, perfectly safe in the knowledge that your thoughts have absolutely zero influence on whether those things happen or not.

Thoughts cannot affect reality. There is absolutely no way this could happen. People sharing stories of it "working" are experiencing confirmation bias, that is all.

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No, it's quite obviously utter bollocks. Your choices (as in what you do) affect how your life turns out, obviously. But thinking things really hard does not make them come true. At all.

No