The Power Of Thought Part 1
Have you seen the ground breaking movie The Secret? The Secret shows how we can easily create abundance in our lives by learning to manage our thoughts. I purchased a copy of it shortly after it was launched and was so impressed by its powerful message that I have subsequently bought copies for family members.
As the popularity of The Secret has grown, there has been some criticism of it in the press and on various websites/blogs in recent months with critics appearing to share 2 concerns:
1. The message is simplistic
2. Disbelief that thoughts become things
What really bugs me about many of the critics is that they are not satisfied with questioning the message but feel compelled to attack the ‘gurus and experts’ who have shared their knowledge, experience and wisdom with purchasers of the movie and then go on to suggest that those who have purchased The Secret are stupid and gullible. This type of derision is not uncommon in the UK where it has become something of a national pastime to denigrate those who are successful.
I would like to add my two pence worth in response to these criticisms and to include some thoughts shared by others whose knowledge and expertise of things metaphysical are without question.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” Buddha
In 1993 the renowned author Deepak Chopra wrote a small and easy-to-read book entitled Creating Abundance. In it he describes the nature of the quantum field - that realm that physicists have discovered beyond the atom and even subatomic particles:
"Physicists tell us that as we go beyond the realm of subatomic particles into the cloud of subatomic particles which makes up the atom, which makes up everything in reality, that when we try to examine and understand these particles - which have fancy names like quarks and bosons and leptons, and so on - these particles are so small that we can never measure them. In fact, they are so small that we can only think about them.
Now, there is another very interesting fact about these particles: they have never been seen. So, if you can't observe these subatomic particles, if you can't see them, how do we even know they exist? And the answer is, we know they exist by the evidence of the trails they leave behind in particle accelerators. In places where they are doing research on subatomic theory, one can see - and even photograph - the trails that these particles leave behind. And by looking at the trails, one knows that they did, in fact, exist. But there is another very interesting facet to these particles, and that is that they come into existence only when we observe them.
So, if we are looking at a quantum field, every time we look at it these particles (in the cloud of subatomic particles) blink into existence. And every time we turn our attention away from them they disappear into a void. They blink on and off like little lights in a dark room. The dark room you can imagine as infinite, unbounded space, and the particles that blink into existence do so by the mere fact of putting attention on the field.
When you put your attention on the field, then they come into existence. When you're not putting your attention on the field, they are just a probability amplitude in the field of all possibilities."
In other words the things we think about are scientifically capable of turning possibility into reality. And likewise, when we get distracted from what we want and fail to pay attention to our dreams and goals, they become simply "a probability amplitude in the field of all possibilities". The real magic happens when we keep our thoughts focused on our dreams and desires and consistently use the power of our attention to literally bring our goals and our dreams into existence.
In The Power Of Thought Part 2 I’ll be discussing the power of thought and the energy to attract and manifest that flows from it.
Have you seen the ground breaking movie The Secret? The Secret shows how we can easily create abundance in our lives by learning to manage our thoughts. I purchased a copy of it shortly after it was launched and was so impressed by its powerful message that I have subsequently bought copies for family members.
As the popularity of The Secret has grown, there has been some criticism of it in the press and on various websites/blogs in recent months with critics appearing to share 2 concerns:
1. The message is simplistic
2. Disbelief that thoughts become things
What really bugs me about many of the critics is that they are not satisfied with questioning the message but feel compelled to attack the ‘gurus and experts’ who have shared their knowledge, experience and wisdom with purchasers of the movie and then go on to suggest that those who have purchased The Secret are stupid and gullible. This type of derision is not uncommon in the UK where it has become something of a national pastime to denigrate those who are successful.
I would like to add my two pence worth in response to these criticisms and to include some thoughts shared by others whose knowledge and expertise of things metaphysical are without question.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” Buddha
In 1993 the renowned author Deepak Chopra wrote a small and easy-to-read book entitled Creating Abundance. In it he describes the nature of the quantum field - that realm that physicists have discovered beyond the atom and even subatomic particles:
"Physicists tell us that as we go beyond the realm of subatomic particles into the cloud of subatomic particles which makes up the atom, which makes up everything in reality, that when we try to examine and understand these particles - which have fancy names like quarks and bosons and leptons, and so on - these particles are so small that we can never measure them. In fact, they are so small that we can only think about them.
Now, there is another very interesting fact about these particles: they have never been seen. So, if you can't observe these subatomic particles, if you can't see them, how do we even know they exist? And the answer is, we know they exist by the evidence of the trails they leave behind in particle accelerators. In places where they are doing research on subatomic theory, one can see - and even photograph - the trails that these particles leave behind. And by looking at the trails, one knows that they did, in fact, exist. But there is another very interesting facet to these particles, and that is that they come into existence only when we observe them.
So, if we are looking at a quantum field, every time we look at it these particles (in the cloud of subatomic particles) blink into existence. And every time we turn our attention away from them they disappear into a void. They blink on and off like little lights in a dark room. The dark room you can imagine as infinite, unbounded space, and the particles that blink into existence do so by the mere fact of putting attention on the field.
When you put your attention on the field, then they come into existence. When you're not putting your attention on the field, they are just a probability amplitude in the field of all possibilities."
In other words the things we think about are scientifically capable of turning possibility into reality. And likewise, when we get distracted from what we want and fail to pay attention to our dreams and goals, they become simply "a probability amplitude in the field of all possibilities". The real magic happens when we keep our thoughts focused on our dreams and desires and consistently use the power of our attention to literally bring our goals and our dreams into existence.
In The Power Of Thought Part 2 I’ll be discussing the power of thought and the energy to attract and manifest that flows from it.
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