I disagree with many other teachers of the law of attraction in a few key places.
For instance, I have a huge problem with the sole focus on changing thoughts and beliefs that many teachers of the law of attraction have. A person needs to do something in order to be something else. But my training also has shown me that beliefs and thoughts are the structure of behavior...
So, in order to get people to change things in their lives, you often have to get them to change how they think and feel about themselves, their lives, the world, and their place in it; however, if you don't get them to take "inspired action" after changing their minds, you're apt to have problems (and leave them more frustrated afterward).
Law of attraction, if thought of from a secular, stoic perspective is similar to Heidegger. Though the explanation of this would necessarily be long, a simple place they overlap is on emotions. For Heidegger, angst is the inability to experience the world as able to facilitate your projects, e.g. the way people feel suicidal and depressed when they "can't do what they want to do." And this emotion is bad if you linger in it and allow it to dismantle you; however, angst serves a very positive benefit: it reminds you that you're not living the live you really want to live (you're being "inauthentic") and serves as a way to determine what you do want by giving you the opposite of what you really want.
The law also easily overlaps with Kierkegaard on "leaps of faith". In order to get where we really want in life we need to believe in the "teleological suspension" (in other words, God can bend the rules of nature and ethics in order to achieve his will). The key point for us here being that in order to get what you really want, you have to have faith it will come to you no matter what. (And this is often called the "answering" stage, the stage wherein you push away all resistance to your goal.)
And on a secular note, Nietzsche argues for a similar position without God: to live a meaningful life is to become a genius or superhuman (ubermensch), by which he means that humans can transcend the world as it is by becoming something better than they are now. Notice that this is like the secular interpretation of the law of attraction: if you change how you think and feel, you'll change how you live in the world, and you'll thus change your life.
For instance, I have a huge problem with the sole focus on changing thoughts and beliefs that many teachers of the law of attraction have. A person needs to do something in order to be something else. But my training also has shown me that beliefs and thoughts are the structure of behavior...
So, in order to get people to change things in their lives, you often have to get them to change how they think and feel about themselves, their lives, the world, and their place in it; however, if you don't get them to take "inspired action" after changing their minds, you're apt to have problems (and leave them more frustrated afterward).
Law of attraction, if thought of from a secular, stoic perspective is similar to Heidegger. Though the explanation of this would necessarily be long, a simple place they overlap is on emotions. For Heidegger, angst is the inability to experience the world as able to facilitate your projects, e.g. the way people feel suicidal and depressed when they "can't do what they want to do." And this emotion is bad if you linger in it and allow it to dismantle you; however, angst serves a very positive benefit: it reminds you that you're not living the live you really want to live (you're being "inauthentic") and serves as a way to determine what you do want by giving you the opposite of what you really want.
The law also easily overlaps with Kierkegaard on "leaps of faith". In order to get where we really want in life we need to believe in the "teleological suspension" (in other words, God can bend the rules of nature and ethics in order to achieve his will). The key point for us here being that in order to get what you really want, you have to have faith it will come to you no matter what. (And this is often called the "answering" stage, the stage wherein you push away all resistance to your goal.)
And on a secular note, Nietzsche argues for a similar position without God: to live a meaningful life is to become a genius or superhuman (ubermensch), by which he means that humans can transcend the world as it is by becoming something better than they are now. Notice that this is like the secular interpretation of the law of attraction: if you change how you think and feel, you'll change how you live in the world, and you'll thus change your life.
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