My vision board is broken: Secret disappointments
Remember that movie The Secret? Did you spend hours whispering affirmations to yourself about how successful and rich and happy you already were? Did you cut out the pictures of the mansion and the sports car for your vision board? Yeah, you know you did. Are you reading this post poolside at that mansion with the dream Ferrari parked in the garage? You either, huh?
So what’s the problem with the Law of Attraction? The Secret to the universe. The answer has to do with consciousness.
In my last post I discussed the two basic states of consciousness, ego-consciousness (EC) and quantum-consciousness (QC). The first being that which separates us out as individuals and the second being the totality of all consciousness. A major difference between the two and what wreaks havoc on the Law of Attraction is choice.
There have long been debates on whether or not we truly have choice. Well, the answer is yes...and the answer is sort of, but the answer is not no. For the answer to be no, we would have to believe that everything, and I mean every single little thing thing, was already been planned out. I don’t care what religious or spiritual practice you approach this from it doesn’t make sense to me. There is no point to pre-destiny.
So you got passed over for a promotion at work? Well why did you even bother trying? It was predestined. Or maybe you got that promotion. All your hard work was for nothing because you were going to get it anyway. So just sit back on the couch, binge watch your favorite TV show instead of even going to work because if you are predestined to be the CEO of a company, it’s going to happen no matter what you do.
Does that make sense to you?
Consciousness is ever evolving and expanding through the experience of all other levels of evolving consciousness. Quantum-consciousness is co-creating. So how does choice fit in?
Ego-consciousness has the ability to make choices. Quantum-consciousness is possibility, but is influenced by aspects such as what we call our sub-conscious. Don’t get hung up on sub-consciousness, we are still just focusing on the two primary states. Remember, QC is all consciousness, while EC is the immediate local consciousness you interact with. The sub-conscious is non-local. We don't interact directly with it. Choices are not made at the level of Quantum-consciousness, but our sub-conscious can affect what possibilities are more likely to happen. Like the things you do because they have become habits and not because you are critically thinking and choosing.
In consciousness, as in science, there are strong forces and weak forces. And these forces vary depending on what they are interacting with. Think of a magnet. A one inch magnet would have a strong force on a handful of tacks causing them to jump through the air when it gets close enough. But it would have a weak force on a car which would not move at. The pull of the magnet itself is the same, but how it affects an object depends on other factors in the relationship such as the weight and distance of the other objects.
Our sub-conscious exerts a strong force on what possibilities present themselves. Our positive or negative attitudes, for example, become ingrained in our sub-conscious, in the QC, so that we are making choices on a non-ego level without ever even thinking about them. Think of them as being closer, more readily accessible, than a possibility you haven’t even imagined yet.
Learned behaviors such as believing you are not worthy of a promotion or being loved, greatly reduced the strength of your force to make new choices. That is why just changing your ego-consciousness and saying, I am going to get that promotion, doesn’t immediately work. You have to change the strength of the force over time.
Our ego also has strong and weak forces depending on variables in the situation we are dealing with. If you are at a restaurant, you can decide between having chicken or steak. It is your choice. Unless the restaurant ran out of chicken. There are always circumstances that are beyond your control, but typically, your EC will have a strong force in this situation. More often than not, you will make your order and receive it. Occasionally you will not because some factor has changed the relationship.
If the choice you made is to manifest a Ferrari, then your financial and employment situation determine whether you have a strong or weak force. If you are a 24 year old working at a convenience store part time, you are relying on someone to give you the car or winning it somehow. That’s pretty weak. If you just started your job on wall street, then with hard work, in a few years you may very well be able to afford one. That is a stronger force. Of course, if you are independently wealthy, your force has some muscle behind it.
And now you’re thinking, isn’t that obvious? Yes, but look at it deeper. Statistically speaking, if you are 24 and working part-time at a convenience store you most likely did not go to college. Because you are only working part-time, you can’t afford to start going. You begin to feel like you are never going to get out of your situation and become depressed. You start to tell yourself you can’t do anything about it. You aren’t smart enough or you have bad luck or whatever negative self talk you engage in. Your ability to ever manifest that car is weak and always will be no matter how much you think about the car.
So the problem with The Secret is what so many people took away was if they focused enough with their mind, their ego-consciousness, they could influence the universe (quantum -consciousness) and eventually have whatever they wanted.
So, how do we create the existence we want to live? We can’t. We are not in charge. But we can co-create an existence that is fulfilling, life affirming and full of purpose. And when that happens you are more likely to be able to attain that dream car. Or perhaps... the dream itself will change.
Next time we will explore co-creating and altered states of consciousness.
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