What Is All This Talk About The Law OF Attraction?
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I have been writing about defining new age terms and phrases and hopefully simplifying them for mainstream reading. I am writing to the people who get turned off and tune out when they see them. Some of the terms I have described may be considered new age but words are funny. They evolve. ESP and karma used to belong to the new age movement. Now they are either old news or in the case of karma, used by the majority. If words are used enough by a wide range of people, then before long they become commonplace.
New Age Spirituality - The Tune Out Phrase
One phrase that I haven’t even mentioned is “new age spirituality.” It’s almost achieved the status of ESP and karma. People have used it for 20 plus years so it’s not as woo-woo anymore. When someone says this phrase, most will have a general idea what it means. When this one is used, it often has a big tune out effect. If I break it down into two parts it may be easier to understand. Unfortunately it is still a label for a group of people.
We love labels. One aspect of new age thought is to eliminate labels, yet we humans seem to need them to allow our minds to box and categorize things. New thought. New behavior. Change. These are all aspects of the new age. Spirituality can feel like a religious word. New-agers are not religious. There is no bible. No rule book. No code of conduct.
We are all spiritual beings. There is a spiritual aspect to everything so using the word spirituality along with the words new age kind of works, yet I like to think that this awakening stuff is not for the chosen “enlightened” few but for all. It describes a way of being rather than any structured group or religion. It has connotations for some that I would dearly love to change.
My intention is to contribute to make this phrase more universally accepted with posts like this. Help others understand that it is not a secret society who like to astral travel or a sect filled with new age spirituality nuts but just regular humans that have experienced an amazing transformation in their perspective on life. With a knowing that we will all go through this.
I saved the most popular new age term for last. We love to preface concepts with the words “universal law.” Like karma (which is also called the universal law of cause and effect or biblically “what ye reap ye shall sow”) this new age term has been beaten to death since the movie “The Secret” came out. So much so that it has almost become mainstream.
The Universal Law Of Attraction - Creating Our Reality
- Photo credit Edgar Thissen
In 2000, when I was jolted awake, I worked in a two person office. The other poor soul had to listen to me go on and on about new age spiritual concepts. He was a mainstream guy who was into sports and all the “normal” guy stuff. He was very non judgmental and I loved him for that, but one time when I was talking about reality, he raised his voice and said;
“There is only one reality!”
I looked at him straight in the eye and said
“No, you’re wrong. Everyone has their own reality.”
The conversation ended there.
When I put my bio in profiles on sites, I usually say that I am an Overlight facilitator and that Overlight is a process that recognizes that we can create our own reality and can therefore create whatever we choose. This is the same concept as the law of attraction only put in a more woo-woo way.
This concept is not new. It’s been around since ancient times. New age concepts are like that. It’s not new stuff, it’s just old truths that stand the test of time.
Egyptian and Sumerians wrote about it. The Koran , The Torah, The Bible, all reference the same basic concept. This if from the Jewish Book of Proverbs:
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is”
Notice it says heart, not head.
Many semi-modern writers like Napoleon Hill in Think And Grow Rich says “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Norman Vincent Peale in The Power Of Positive Thinking writes about what we can create with how we think. And what about Tony Robbins. Same stuff. He’s been saying it for a long time.
This new age, old age phrase with the fancy title of universal law, when used by many these days, often leaves out a very important part of it. It doesn’t work to just think, I need a new car and poof, one appears in your driveway. The “universe” (that’s another term that gets thrown around a lot) will co-create your reality with you, but only if there is clear communication. Communication with integrity. Not integrity in the dictionary sense of the word.
This is how I describe integrity. There are the four vibrational lines that people put out and we sub-consciously or consciously feel them and interpret them and so does the universe. (Okay, so that’s a woo-woo statement. Couldn’t help myself:)
- What you speak
- What you do
- What you think
- What you believe
We put out these four lines all the time. When they are integrated and all match then creation flows. That’s integrity. When they match, they are then easy to interpret. So many may “think” positively but don’t “believe” that it will work for them. Or they say one thing and their actions say another. All common concepts to understand but not always easy to put into practice. If you don’t truly believe that the law of attraction is real or that you do not have the ability to create what you desire then, guess what? The law of attraction will be just another mumbo jumbo, new age concept that is for some “elite” few and not for you. You have to completely trust that you can do it. If you have doubt, then there is no integrity.
Whether you are creating perfect health or abundance or inner peace or joy you have to be open to receive it and recognize that you created it, it is for you and you are worthy of it. You must feel gratitude for the creation as if has already happened and believe that you have it. The universe will match your belief and it will happen.
Using the term universe may turn some people off as being “out there” but all it really denotes is everything outside of you. Call it god or spirit or whatever. Sure it sounds new-agey but it is just another example of using words to express concepts that are hard to define. We are not alone. When we believe that we can attract what we desire then watch the help come. Who cares where it comes from or what it’s called.
My intention in writing about demystifying new age terms is to bring us together. To help make these concepts palatable for all. To take the woo-woo out of them. To hopefully get some to stay tuned in when they hear or read someone use them. As I have said they are not new concepts or even new age terms. We have been talking about this stuff since the beginning. The only difference is that now, more people are hearing them and truly believing that they are truths and not some mystical ideas thought up by new age gurus or ancient scribes, but concepts that work. They work to change our perspective on life and to how we interact with each other. Work to create the heaven on earth that we all deserve and are all capable of experiencing.
Let’s do this all together and not alienate ourselves with labels and terms and groups. Let’s not let words block us from receiving information that may just be exactly what we need to hear at exactly the right time.
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Higher Self - Channelling - New Age Words Demystified
My sole intention is to nudge others awake. To help them recognize the changes they are experiencing. To help as many as I can in their search for answers to what is happening to them right now. There is no point “singing to the choir” and having nice warm, fuzzy conversations with others who have the same perspective.
Sure it may be easier, but does it help anyone? Strokes the ego maybe. Were not supposed to have egos. Visiting new age forums is nice once in a while. I find that a lot of “spiritually enlightened” people just love to hear themselves go on and on describing all these concepts and wrapping them with terms that sound good. To me, this is what gets new-agers a bad wrap in so-called “normal” society, whatever that is these days.
I feel for new people who are just beginning to ask the questions of what life is about and hoping there’s more to it because this dialogue can only serve to confuse them and possibly make them discount it as mumbo jumbo. (I use “mumbo jumbo” a lot. I must like the sound. Kinda like “google”)
We need to be inclusive and not make out like we know something others don’t. We are all in this together.
Sure this stuff is hard to put into plain talk sometimes. Everyone has different ways of defining or explaining these new age terms. If a person is not open to receive this info and pre-judges it as craziness then it is not the time for them. My posts are for the people that have cracked open the door to see what’s inside.
Higher Self - Middle Self - Lower Self - How Many People Am I?
This one get used a lot. Higher self. It’s like a person is broken into pieces. No it’s not schizophrenia. May sound like it. Lots of native cultures and ancient cultures talk about the different aspects of self that govern different actions and responses. There really is only one self. Another way to describe this is the thinking mind or ego (lower self) and your intuition (higher self) The thinking mind is what we are all accustomed to using. Many have the belief that the mind is all there is. The brain or mind controls everything. Whatever we say or do is from direct command of the mind. Is there another factor that determines our actions?
If you asked a woman about intuition most would say that it is real. Guys, if pressed, would probably agree. Have you ever been in a situation where you did or said something that afterward you thought “Why did i say that or why did I do that? I don’t know what I was thinking.” Or how about being in a situation where you needed to pull someone from a fire or help an accident victim. What happens to the mind? It is not in control. You act on automatic. No thinking.
That is your higher self controlling your actions. Your logical mind is not deciding what to do, it’s your intuition. It’s your spirit. I call it your “god self.” It’s what we all have. It’s what we all use and just don’t recognize it as that. When you use feel or intuition to make a decision on an action that is your higher self running the ship. In times of heightened emotion like fear or love or anger is when our higher selves usually takes over from the mind. That’s where the term “lost my mind” comes from.
People who have truly awakened to the concept that we are spiritual beings experiencing a human lifetime will then harmonize these pieces of self into one. Not by discounting the mind (ego) but to use it as the beautiful tool that it was designed to be, with the understanding that we are not pieces of self with one being more important or higher or lower than the other.
That’s all these terms describing self are. Nothing mysterious. We use all aspects of our self every day. Mind - conscious -sub conscious - lower self - ego. God-self. Buddhists call it the Buddha within. Native Americans call it the higher self. Mind body spirit. Another new age term. It’s all the same thing. Are you enlightened now? Ok so how about this one.
Channelling - Not Your Dead Uncle
No it’s not some people sitting in a circle holding hands speaking to their dead uncle. Channelling is also an everyday, everybody occurrence. New agers love to use this one to really spook the people who might be checking out what this talk of a great shift is all about. A lot say they channel angelic entities. My view is that there are channelling themselves but they don’t have the confidence or feel that people will think the information is not valid if it comes from them.
Another way to describe channelling is speaking from the heart. Open, honest communication without filtering through the brain. The mind can hold a person back from saying things from the fear of being judged as weird or crazy.
The times when we channel are always connected to emotion. Same as the example of the higher self when we are passionate about a subject or in a traumatic situation or even at times of the death of a loved one, Anytime when we are stirred inside we can channel. What it feels like is that the words just come flowing out. No breaks. No hesitations. No thinking. Just our true self expressing our emotions or beliefs. If you listen to someone who is talking at these times you can hear the difference in the sound of their voice. I know I can feel when someone is speaking from their heart. That’s channelling.
So-called channelers have merely mastered the ability to take their thinking, logical mind out of the process. It can be achieved by deep breathing. When someone is breathing deeply their consciousness is on the breath. Try it. Try to think about things when you are intentionally breathing deeply. Your full attention is on your breathing. Then without the mind at rest the words can flow freely. This is just a learned process. My main point is that we all do it. The difference is that it happens for most only at times of high emotion.
Channelling is not just talking. People channel when they are doing things they are passionate about. Artists. Singers. Writers. Poets. Even athletes when they are in the “zone.” They are not thinking they are just letting it flow out. I wrote a post about Paul Potts, the winner of Britain’s Got Talent last year. Paul Potts was channelling. He is such a shy guy with no self-confidence that if he didn’t channel his god-self than the sounds that came out of him would have not been possible. Of course no one would call it channelling (except me) but that is what channelling is. Free, open, unobstructed flow of words or actions done from the heart not the head.
When I blasted awake in 2000, I remember it was non stop channelling for me. From the time I woke up in the morning to the time I went to bed I could be pouring out concepts of love, compassion, unity, beauty, god, perfection while with my mind I was thinking about things I had to get at the grocery store. It was a weird feeling but also an awesome one. After about 6 months it slowed down but not till after almost everyone I had known had written me off as crazy. That was okay because I wasn’t the same person they had known anyway.
That’s two of the most used and misunderstood terms in new age lingo. I don’t know if these explanations brought them down to easier to relate to concepts or not. I was going to get into the word “dimensions” but this post is long enough.
So now everyone go and channel your higher self.
Wooo! Sounds spooky huh?
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Lee Carroll from Kryon.com - defintion of channelling
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