Jaså, det finns faktiskt en liten "vetenskap" (sekt) kring detta, det visste jag inte. Haha.
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if a person wanted a new car, by thinking about the new car, having positive and thankful feelings about the car as if it were already attained and opening one's life in tangible ways for a new car to be acquired (for example, test driving the new car, or making sure no one parks in the space where the new car would arrive); the law of attraction would rearrange events to make it possible for the car to manifest in the person's life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_%28book%29
Det låter knäppt men visst, skulle man VERKLIGEN vilja ha en bil så finns det nog sätt att få tag på det... Skulle man VERKLIGEN behöva pengar finns det också oftast sätt. Jmf drogberoende eller spelberoende.
Men som Wikipedia artikeln också säger:
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Historian and ethicist John G. Stackhouse, Jr. also provided historical context for "The Secret," critically locating it in the tradition of American "New Thought" and "mind over matter" philosophy and popular religion in his weblog.
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In 2009, Ehrenreich published Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America as a response to "positive thinking" books, like The Secret, that teach "if I just change my thoughts, I could have it all". She worried this was delusional or even dangerous because it avoided dealing with the real sources behind problems. It encouraged "victim-blaming, political complacency, and a culture-wide "flight from realism" by suggesting failure is the result of not trying "hard enough" or believing "firmly enough in the inevitability of your success". Those who were "disappointed, resentful, or downcast" were 'victims' or 'losers'. Ehrenreich advocated "not negative thinking or despair" but "realism, checking out what’s really there and figuring out how to change it".
Instämmer med dessa citat...
Amerikaner vill tro på quick-fixar och "get rich quick". Att Oprah visar upp en den ena och en den andra självhjälpsboken som ska lösa folks alla problem... Konstigt att de inte är lösta vid detta laget då??
Att man drar till sig folk om man utstrålar självförtroende och glädje är en sak och det är ingen mystisk okänd flum-lag. Men att man skulle dra till sig allt man tänker på? Säg det till de svältande barnen i Afrika, de måste tänka mer på mat... (800 miljer människor i världen var kroniskt undernärda 2012)