"The Law of Attraction"
~Choosing Love~
Time often passes quickly and life's blessed challenges (fear, loss, sickness, death, war, hurricanes, divorce) also, known as opportunities for growth) bring us to new places within ourselves, and with others around us. We must remember always to let our hearts fill with LOVE and bless all that we think and all that we do with that LOVE, no matter what we are faced with, or what is before us. We are here to learn to LOVE ourselves, and others, and to heal ourselves, and others, through that LOVE.
We choose our perspectives and our outlooks on our life. We choose our attitude that we carry forth throughout our day and night. Not choosing is still a choice. Make your choices consciously with LOVE, rather than fear, and open your heart to the divine beauty and power that resides within you. The time is now. You hold the key to your life. Cherish the moment, and make the most of it.
Choose LOVE and empower yourself now.
Choose LOVE and empower others now.
Choose LOVE and bless everyone and everything in your path.
~ valorie (Bills’ teacher & dear friend)
The Purpose of Life and The Law of Attraction
Why the LOA is a Lie….
by Bill O’Mara PhD
Recently I watched a wonderful internet movie on the Law of Attraction, called, The Secret (www.thesecret.tv). It is a dramatized evolution of the What the Bleep quantum physics movie that was sweeping the nation in 2005 and has some excellent points on how to ignite the Law of Attraction (LOA) to our benefit. Watch it when you get a chance. This LOA principle is discussed in many books of late, especially the work of Jerry and Esther Hicks, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, and in Chapter 4 of my Corporate Shaman Way book. I fully support we all use the LOA – if for no other reason – just for fun. And at work, we are all paid to create results!
The purpose of this article is to (a) invite you to watch the movie and share your thoughts with me, and others, on its message, and (b) acknowledge the LOA as a vital life law but to keep it in its rightful perspective - for our lives have a greater purpose.
What I mean in (b) above is, while I agree with LOA on one hand, on the other, I have concerns, that I would like to share with you, with the recent huge hype of the LOA in The Secret movie (and in other places) as the KEY principle of all of life. I believe while the LOA is true... it can easily be misinterpreted by some watchers of the Secret movie to re-concentrate their lives more on over-ego materialist “getting” and forget our greater purpose. This is a movie that thousands of people are watching and becoming advocates of... and it needs some perspective added, as I see it, to be truly on course and not mislead people. I have had five close trusted friends watch it so far and we all feel the same way: it is great and motivational; be all you can be, get what you want, but without a lot of soul of God to it. Esther Hicks, one of the speakers in the film, I found truly credible in her energy though...I believe she offers some very essential teachings that we can all benefit from (get her books). As I have noted in my Mastermind groups... it is never the act, but the consciousness that is vital. The heart.
For me... According to all sacred texts I have ever read: A Course in Miracles, the Bhagava Gita, the Celestine Prophecy, etc. - and teachers such as the Dalai Lama, OSHO, Ramana Maharshi, my native elders/teachers, Speaking Wind and many more - suggest at this time in our evolution as energy is speeding up, we are growing to be more heart/love centered than ever before and helping others to do the same - some call this the ascension process on earth. Helping release the grip of the ego and supporting the new heaven on earth unfold. This is my path and principle. This is the path I have spent a whole life learning and I am still learning and helping others each day in my work - through practices of consciousness, service, and teaching business ethics. And, aren’t you doing the same in what ever your occupation?
Therefore, my key point is there is so much more to our lives than obsessing over what we are getting. Right? Yes, money, and the perfect mate, and all the stuff we can manifest with the LOA are cool. Yeah, go be a millionaire. Why not? The Quantum Physics theories in the movie are true, but we have known of these for 50 years in sports and in martial arts and yoga for centuries – that we attract what we think. It is not new... our need to practice may well be as the world speeds up. I can certainly learn to do better here. The power of thought, visualization, the process of manifestation... are great. Read all you can on it and prosper from it! I have been using this to make more money this year than I have ever earned. The LOA empowers us not to be victims and to choose our destiny and lifestyle on the earth plane. I have lots of clients and friends who can benefit from it in their businesses and lives. I do share it. We all need to create and produce in life.
What is our mission then ... a job, to manifest, to be rich? Our collective mission, if I may offer my perspective, is to create a new world of love, kindness, and community. All our individual missions are connected to this collective one. This is the God revolution. Just purview the shift in best selling movies/books over the last few years. What is the message to you? Doesn't your path - singing, bodywork, healing, teaching, business, etc. call to you because it uplifts your heart and the world’s heart? So, sell everything (metaphorically speaking) and do what your hearts is calling you to do. There is a destiny for the human race .. it is unfolding… do you feel it? Are you part of it? Purpose is not a job, or what you manifest… it’s how you live. It’s what you give. It’s playing your part in a better world. If you need help on this key topic, reach out to coaches/teachers you are drawn to – to find out more. Go within. For you know… you’ve always known. Its simple – its right there in your heart. You don’t have to do what you think you have to do… try something new and different that brings you joy. Take the risk!
• The only goal of life is God realization, everything else is meaningless and worthless.
- Sivananda
• The ambitious person is the unhappiest in the world. But we go on training our children to
be ambitious: “Be the first, be at the top, get it, and you will be happy” It never works. -OSHO
• Joy is full attention to our true self in the moment. - Ekhart Tolle
• Love is all there is... - Amma
• My mission is to take the time to know my true self and live this self fully - learning, healing,
loving, serving. - O’Mara
In summary, may I suggest we all find/accept our purpose (your unique way to give love) and use the LOA to make some extra money. Truly stay on task to heal your inner blocks to love and flow from the heart – do what you feel drawn to doing. Work at being more intimate and true with those you care about. Then the cosmos will support you more than you could ever dream of. God is always giving you more than you need. The real thing. The real riches. Love ignites the greatest attraction – the joy of coming home to your true self and purpose. Of course, the physical is needed. We all need to make a good living etc. We are learning to integrate our lives - both spirit and physical. Just remember what is first for you! What is your deepest purpose? Don’t drop love for materialism. There is no need to become a LOA disciple. Be a Love disciple instead. It is right there in your heart and the rest will flow…
Quote: From the Channeled book, The Godspell Solution:
With each day, be an example of heaven, for you and all the world. Accept and create. Stay firm on this path. With this focus not to waiver from you single-minded purpose of bliss, your new life, your new adventure begins. You each have been given the key, each of you, to create whatever you want. Choose wisely. As you stay in the God energy first by releasing all to the will of the divine(of your higher self) - what you receive is a billion times more wonderful than the childish Christmas list the ego would seek to find. The material stuff that only brings on more suffering. Release it and find that life as a light worker offers miracles so magnificent that all the gold in the world would not touch its worth. So laugh, love and embrace the Godspell. Never let it go. With the excitement of a newborn, embrace each moment and look forward to the next with baited breathe, for the next miracle to occur. One after another, they will appear, by the power of our will, our power to choose the path of God instead of pain.
Blessings,
Bill Jason O’Mara
Author, The Way of the Corporate Shaman
William Jason O'Mara PsyD, PhD
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