Originally Posted by thumbscrew

The entire "self help" industry is based on the bastardisation of the original and the best "think and grow rich" by Napolean Hill

Originally Posted by brookelyn

i'm curious if anyone else believes or practices law of attraction or intention manifestation. it's basically the principles of the highly commercialized "the secret" and this subject seems to be experiencing a surge of popularity of late, regardless that the material is nothing new. when i heard about the secret, i was obviously a bit curious, but didn't get far before i realized it was what i always felt was common sense. since then, i have been recommended various books on the subject of law of attraction, namely those of esther hicks and abraham...

i do believe in the subject matter and i think you can/do most definitely attract things into your life mentally whether intentional or not. as for a lot of these books, im not sure what to make of them, i feel like they present the material as being all mystical and new-agey when its really not. for example, the law of attraction book abraham-hicks i could not get through (it was an audiobook actually) because i just kept laughing at the ridiculousness of it all. the woman esther claims that this guy abraham actually channelled into her and all of this information she teaches/sells is not from her, but from abraham.

i guess i believe it's possible, but it just seems like a rather silly way to present the information and i would assume that her way of doing so has turned hundreds if not thousands of people away thinking she was smoking crack.

so i suppose i'm just curious if anyone else believes in and/or practices intention manifestation, law of attraction, etc. and what their experiences have been like.

Originally Posted by *cherry bomb*

i totally believe it. i've read Seth Speaks, channelled by Jane Roberts. it has mental exercises to get in touch with your inner senses.

i must not think bad thoughts.

Originally Posted by brookelyn

not true at all. the science of being well was written in 1910 by wallace wattles and i doubt even he was the first to come up with the ideas.
The Science of Being Well - Google Book Search

these ideas have been around for centuries before books were ever published. like i said, i believed and practiced these ideas before i ever knew what "self-help" was, much less read a book on the subject. i manifested this knowledge simply through observation of the power of my own mind and the effect it had. it is only within the last few years that i have come to recognize there is a huge industry on these beliefs. its interesting to see how various people define their beliefs for others to digest, but i wouldn't agree that the entire industry are copycats of think and grow rich.

Originally Posted by Dithyrambic

i believe it.
it has changed my life. i am not kidding you.
it got me the man i always wanted, thousands of dollars, i'm 19 years old i'm able to buy a house!!
seriously... anything your heart desires can be yours if you know what to do.