| Have heard about the Law of Attraction? This | | | | the German concentration camps. Yes, it was |
| law states that whatever your predominant | | | | grim and he did not make the concentration |
| thoughts are that is what you will attract. If you | | | | camps disappear but by working with his |
| constantly think about all your aches and pains | | | | consciousness he was able to change his internal |
| and how poor your health is then you will attract | | | | condition. He was then in a much better position |
| more of the same. On the other hand, if you | | | | to help himself and others. |
| concentrate on abundant health and imagine | | | | But how about actually attracting something? For |
| yourself healthy and full of energy then you will | | | | example, you decide that you would like an extra |
| attract health into your life. | | | | five thousand dollars next month. You begin to |
| Some people would argue that the law of | | | | visualize it and emotionally feel what it would be |
| attraction is just wishful thinking and could actually | | | | like to have that extra money. Then a week later |
| be dangerous. They feel that people who believe | | | | you get a letter that a distant relative has passed |
| in this so-called law might for example, just hope | | | | a way and left you five thousand dollars in their |
| that a tumor would go away rather than getting | | | | will. This is not at all an unusual circumstance and |
| proper medical treatment. Or they might wish | | | | most people probably could point to a few in their |
| that their bills would go away and end up in | | | | own lives. Is this just a coincidence a fluke, a bit |
| bankruptcy rather than upgrading their skills and | | | | of good luck? Or is something else going on? |
| finding a new job which would enable them to pay | | | | This is where it gets interesting. Recent studies in |
| their debts. | | | | such diverse fields as quantum physics, brain scan |
| Both the critics and proponents would be missing | | | | imaging, and distance healing, seem to be indicate |
| the larger picture if they believed in the above. | | | | that something is going on in terms of our ability |
| Visualizing an ideal outcome is only the first step in | | | | to affect things at a distance. Larry Dossey, the |
| the law of attraction. We live in a material world | | | | well known physician who has done a great deal |
| so inspired action is also usually required. | | | | of work in studying distance healing through |
| Nevertheless, the visualizing stage will quite often | | | | prayer, feels that medicine has progressed |
| reveal possibilities that were unknown or even | | | | through three distinct stages. |
| seem to create synchronous events that seem | | | | Stage 1 is the traditional 19th century mechanistic |
| almost magical. | | | | view of the body. Stage 2 is the age of |
| Let's look at a difficult situation such as that of a | | | | "psychosomatic medicine" which believes that the |
| poor African country. One could feel that since | | | | mind can influence the body. Stage 3, which we |
| there is no food in the environment it is impossible | | | | are just entering, proposes that consciousness is |
| to attract it. Yes, I agree that wishing for some | | | | not confined to one's individual body. In other |
| food will not make it magically appear. But, if an | | | | words, an individual's mind may affect not just his |
| individual was able to stay positive in that very | | | | or her body, but the body of another person, |
| difficult environment they would have the best | | | | event or object at a distance. |
| opportunity to become aware of and avail | | | | Perhaps it is in these new areas of research that |
| themselves of an air-drop of refugee supplies. | | | | we will begin to understand the Law of Attraction |
| Victor Frankl did pretty much the same thing in | | | | and whether or not it has true validity. |