After watching this movie again in Astro and it still able to capture the thrill of raving FC cars at the corners of Mount Atkina. Sweet movie. Anyway check out this song. Nice song.
By the way if anyone who have any pictures of this AE86 and would like to share kindly email it to me. I used to see an exact replica of this tofu car near by place but never seen it lately.
Yi Lu Xiang Bei (All The Way North)
Lyrics:
hou shi jing li de shi jie yue lai yue yuan de dao bie
ni zhuan shen xiang bei che lian hai shi hen mei
wo yong yan guang qu zui jing ting jian ni de lei
zai che chuang wai mian pai hui shi wo cuo shi de ji hui
ni zhan de fang wei gen wo zhong jian ge zhe lei
jie jing yi zhi zai hou tui ni de beng kui zai chuang wai ling sui
*Chorus
wo yi lu xiang bei li kai you ni de ji jie
ni shuo ni hao lei yi wu fa zai ai shang shui
feng zai shan lu chui guo wang de hua mian quan dou shi wo bu dui
xi su can kui wo shang ni ji hui
wo yi lu xiang bei li kai you ni de ji jie
fang xiang pan zhou wei hui zhuan zhe wo de hou hui
wo jia sui chao yue que shuai bu diao jing jing gen shui de shang bei
xi shu can kui wo shang ni ji hui
ting zhi lang bei jiu rang cuo chun cui
Monday, April 21, 2008
Forex Trading
So far Forex Trading seems to be the hottest investment available in the Internet. You may make fast cash within matter of few minutes also go the other way round too but nevertheless you are in control of your invesmtent mainly because you won't be influence by external factors as such brokers tell you what you need to do. You will make your own decision from the news and charts available in the program. It is sure fun if you have some cash and time to spare! Check this out. Etoro is one if the easier interface I have ever seen so easy that makes you feel that you are playing online games!
Monday, April 14, 2008
Will high inflation rates cause global recession now?
It's pretty hard for Croesus to believe that the rate of inflation is only 3.4%, given the sharp rise in the price of food, gasoline and other sundry daily necessities.
Kimberly Stevens, a 42-year-old resident of Lewisville, Texas, and a Croesus follower, is also refusing to buy into the official Washington line that the nation's inflation rate is only 3.4%. This outraged reader says, "As far as I am concerned, Bernanke, President Bush, Clinton, Obama and the rest of them live in a fairy-tale world. They do not go shopping each week and have no idea what the cost of goods is."
Stevens, a $90,000-a-year e-commerce solutions architect has been peppering Croesus with the real facts of life. A gallon of the Horizon organic milk she buys for her two boys has soared from $1.99 to over $5, an increase of 250%. In the past year, a loaf of bread has surged nearly 50%--to $2.29 from $1.59. Her Kraft cheddar cheese has gone from $1.99 to $2.50 for an eight-ounce package--a 25% rise. A dozen extra large eggs are up from 79 cents to $1.19, or about 50% , while ground beef, Stevens insists, is up more than 60%, from $1.79 a pound to $2.99.
Croesus' source in small-town America doesn't think "people will be able to afford to go to work this summer" when she predicts gasoline will hit $4.50 a gallon. "My Jeep cost $35 a week to fill in 2005 when we bought it. It is now over $60 to fill. In the past month gasoline has gone up over 75 cents (a gallon)."
The cost of food and fuel for a month are $1,300 higher, "a big hit in a family budget," she insists. "American people cannot continue to survive and fund our great economy with more and more of our income going to pay to get us to work and home again."
"You cannot tell me that is 3.4% inflation," Stevens writes. "Who is the government and the Fed kidding? I am not that stupid, and I can bet most wives/moms who are grocery shopping know there is no way that is 3.4% inflation. Do they think we forget what prices were a year ago?" This is a middle-class professional mother and consumer--the heart and soul of America--who is clearly resolutely focused on the daily cost of feeding her family.
Indeed, Croesus has discovered that wheat has been trading between 50% and 80% above 2007 prices. Dairy products have witnessed the largest gains compared with last year, ranging from 80% to 200% higher. This is caused by higher animal feed costs and tight dairy supplies. Monthly milk prices on the Chicago Board of Trade have more than doubled in the past two years. Crude oil prices have risen 15% so far this year after soaring 57% in 2007.
The Dow Jones-AIG commodity index overall is up 14% just since January. Can it be that commodities are trading on their investment quality as tangibles rather than because of supply-demand factors? Does that even matter when it comes to the impact on inflation?
Croesus believes this mad rush into commodities by SmartMoney is caused by its seductive quality as flavor of the month speculation by those across the globe betting against the U.S. dollar.
Former Fed chairman Paul Volcker warned this week that monetary policies to ease the recession might well be leading to higher inflation and a run on the dollar. He predicted OPEC would soon price oil from a basket of currencies rather than the dollar.
Can it be that the way the Fed figures inflation needs a thorough overhaul? The powers that be may think it is better to not know, to be dumb, or, at least, to play dumb. The middle class, after all, according to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, is taking it in the chops, as its gross income level hasn't appreciated at all despite an economy that has grown in aggregate the past seven years.
You'd think a household with gross income of $180,000 would not be complaining, but Stevens insists, "We are struggling along." Her husband, David, is a computer programmer, who is about to lose his job because his employer is going out of business.
Ms. Stevens' own earning power before Sept. 11 was $125,000 as a project manager, when that industry was cut back substantially. To make do, Ms. Stevens sells Mary Kay cosmetics out of her home, earning about $10,000 and gives horseback lessons to pay the expenses of the four horses her husband is raising, which cost $900 a month to feed and house. David Stevens hopes to raise and train horses for a living someday, a business that is widespread in the state of Texas.
Ms. Stevens believes the Bush economic stimulus package is ridiculous. She's no dummy and stays abreast of the nation's problems. "The government doesn't have the money to fund Social Security, Medicare, the Medicaid Drug Plan. And they want to take money that they are supposed to be using to manage the country's defense and infrastructure and send to citizens to spend at Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people )? Can you say stupid?"
She's also outraged that a Democratic president might raise taxes on couples making over $63,000 a year. Which seems mad if true, doesn't it? In most parts of the country, $31,500 a person (pre-tax) is all but poverty level.
Stevens concluded her message to Croesus by backing a general anxiety across the nation not supported by establishment economists. "I think the consumer--your neighbors and mine all around this country--are in for a bigger hit than economists see," she says. "I think [that] this recession is going to be deep and long (I am guessing 18 months) and that at the other end I'm not sure what we will find."
Croesus would like to hear what other families across America think about the rate of inflation and the cost of living. Post your comments below. Let the facts speak for themselves. Let a national dialogue begin
Kimberly Stevens, a 42-year-old resident of Lewisville, Texas, and a Croesus follower, is also refusing to buy into the official Washington line that the nation's inflation rate is only 3.4%. This outraged reader says, "As far as I am concerned, Bernanke, President Bush, Clinton, Obama and the rest of them live in a fairy-tale world. They do not go shopping each week and have no idea what the cost of goods is."
Stevens, a $90,000-a-year e-commerce solutions architect has been peppering Croesus with the real facts of life. A gallon of the Horizon organic milk she buys for her two boys has soared from $1.99 to over $5, an increase of 250%. In the past year, a loaf of bread has surged nearly 50%--to $2.29 from $1.59. Her Kraft cheddar cheese has gone from $1.99 to $2.50 for an eight-ounce package--a 25% rise. A dozen extra large eggs are up from 79 cents to $1.19, or about 50% , while ground beef, Stevens insists, is up more than 60%, from $1.79 a pound to $2.99.
Croesus' source in small-town America doesn't think "people will be able to afford to go to work this summer" when she predicts gasoline will hit $4.50 a gallon. "My Jeep cost $35 a week to fill in 2005 when we bought it. It is now over $60 to fill. In the past month gasoline has gone up over 75 cents (a gallon)."
The cost of food and fuel for a month are $1,300 higher, "a big hit in a family budget," she insists. "American people cannot continue to survive and fund our great economy with more and more of our income going to pay to get us to work and home again."
"You cannot tell me that is 3.4% inflation," Stevens writes. "Who is the government and the Fed kidding? I am not that stupid, and I can bet most wives/moms who are grocery shopping know there is no way that is 3.4% inflation. Do they think we forget what prices were a year ago?" This is a middle-class professional mother and consumer--the heart and soul of America--who is clearly resolutely focused on the daily cost of feeding her family.
Indeed, Croesus has discovered that wheat has been trading between 50% and 80% above 2007 prices. Dairy products have witnessed the largest gains compared with last year, ranging from 80% to 200% higher. This is caused by higher animal feed costs and tight dairy supplies. Monthly milk prices on the Chicago Board of Trade have more than doubled in the past two years. Crude oil prices have risen 15% so far this year after soaring 57% in 2007.
The Dow Jones-AIG commodity index overall is up 14% just since January. Can it be that commodities are trading on their investment quality as tangibles rather than because of supply-demand factors? Does that even matter when it comes to the impact on inflation?
Croesus believes this mad rush into commodities by SmartMoney is caused by its seductive quality as flavor of the month speculation by those across the globe betting against the U.S. dollar.
Former Fed chairman Paul Volcker warned this week that monetary policies to ease the recession might well be leading to higher inflation and a run on the dollar. He predicted OPEC would soon price oil from a basket of currencies rather than the dollar.
Can it be that the way the Fed figures inflation needs a thorough overhaul? The powers that be may think it is better to not know, to be dumb, or, at least, to play dumb. The middle class, after all, according to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, is taking it in the chops, as its gross income level hasn't appreciated at all despite an economy that has grown in aggregate the past seven years.
You'd think a household with gross income of $180,000 would not be complaining, but Stevens insists, "We are struggling along." Her husband, David, is a computer programmer, who is about to lose his job because his employer is going out of business.
Ms. Stevens' own earning power before Sept. 11 was $125,000 as a project manager, when that industry was cut back substantially. To make do, Ms. Stevens sells Mary Kay cosmetics out of her home, earning about $10,000 and gives horseback lessons to pay the expenses of the four horses her husband is raising, which cost $900 a month to feed and house. David Stevens hopes to raise and train horses for a living someday, a business that is widespread in the state of Texas.
Ms. Stevens believes the Bush economic stimulus package is ridiculous. She's no dummy and stays abreast of the nation's problems. "The government doesn't have the money to fund Social Security, Medicare, the Medicaid Drug Plan. And they want to take money that they are supposed to be using to manage the country's defense and infrastructure and send to citizens to spend at Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people )? Can you say stupid?"
She's also outraged that a Democratic president might raise taxes on couples making over $63,000 a year. Which seems mad if true, doesn't it? In most parts of the country, $31,500 a person (pre-tax) is all but poverty level.
Stevens concluded her message to Croesus by backing a general anxiety across the nation not supported by establishment economists. "I think the consumer--your neighbors and mine all around this country--are in for a bigger hit than economists see," she says. "I think [that] this recession is going to be deep and long (I am guessing 18 months) and that at the other end I'm not sure what we will find."
Croesus would like to hear what other families across America think about the rate of inflation and the cost of living. Post your comments below. Let the facts speak for themselves. Let a national dialogue begin
Sunday, April 13, 2008
What is Law Of Attraction?
The phrase Law of Attraction, although used widely by esoteric writers, does not have an agreed-upon definition. However, the general concensus among New Age thinkers is that the Law of Attraction takes the principal "Like Attracts Like" and applies it to conscious desire. That is, a person's thoughts (conscious and unconscious), emotions, and beliefs cause a change in the physical world that attracts positive or negative experiences that correspond to the aforementioned thoughts, with or without the person taking action to attain such experiences. This process has been described as "harmonious vibrations of the law of attraction"[1], or "you get what you think about; your thoughts determine your experience."[2]
The phrase is closely associated with New Thought beliefs and practices, from which its most common definition arises, but it also has a long standing (and more complex development) in other esoteric fields such as Hermeticism and Theosophy. Recently, the New Thought version was popularized by the 2006 film The Secret.
The more materialistic interpretations of The Law of Attraction have been criticized in the media, the scientific community—which cites what they believe to be the deliberate misuse of the scientific term law and the lack of any scientific evidence for the claims made by advocates for the Law of Attraction—and by some proponents of the New Age Movement and spirituality in general.[1]
Contents
[hide]
* 1 History
* 2 Principles
* 3 Criticism
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 Further reading
[edit] History
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The idea behind the Law of Attraction is not new. The concept can be found in Hinduism [3] and, due to the influence of Hinduism on Theosophy, it is mentioned in early Theosophical texts as well. [4]
An influential modern book on the subject in the English language is As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (1864 - 1912), which was published in 1902. The title derives from the ancient Jewish Book of Proverbs, chapter 23, verse 7: "As [a man] thinketh in his heart, so he is." Allen took this ambiguous idea of a correspondence between "a man's heart" and his existence to a logical extreme, stating that, "The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors, that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires -- and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own." [5]
Although As a Man Thinketh does not contain the term "Law of Attraction" in so many words, it explains the principle clearly and its popularity demonstrably gave rise to a century of writings on the subject. It has remained in print in book form for more than 100 years. Variant editions of As a Man Thinketh in print during the 21st century include those published by Dover Books [6], Barnes and Noble [7], Filiquarian [8], and Tarcher [9]; there are also audiobook and ebook editions; and at least three gender-switching spin-offs, each titled As a Woman Thinketh, which are by Gwendolyn Haynes (Million Words Publishing, 1997) [10], Dorothy J. Hulst, (Lushena Books, 2000)[11], and Cindy Cashman (Action Publishing, 2007) [12], respectively.
In America, Allen's assertion that "the soul attracts" both that which it desires and that which it fears struck a resonant chord in the New Thought Movement. Working from Allen's premise that one's thoughts attract "circumstances" that affect one's mental and physical situation in life, William Walker Atkinson (1862 - 1932) used the term 'Law of Attraction' to describe the phenomenon in his 1906 book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World [13]. Atkinson was the editor of New Thought magazine, a student of Hinduism, and the author of more than 100 books on an assortment on religious, spiritual, and occult topics.
In the wake of Atkinson's success, other "New Thought" authors very quickly wrote their own books promulgating the principle. For example, in 1907, just one year after Atkinson's breakthrough was published, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought, published Bruce MacLelland's book Prosperity Through Thought Force, in which he declared that "dwelling on any quality of mind adds that quality to you, whether it be helpful or injurious," and also clearly set forth what was to become a classic New Thought epigram: "You are what you think, not what you think you are." [14] Around this time, the term "Law of Attraction" also appeared in the writings of the Theosophical authors William Quan Judge, in 1915, [15] and Annie Besant, in 1919. [16]
By the mid 20th century, writings on the subject had become common and dozens of authors had addressed the topic under various names, such as positive thinking, "mental science", "pragmatic Christianity," "New Thought", "practical metaphysics", Science of Mind", and "Religious Science".[1][17] Among the mid 20th century authors who used the term were Sri K. Parvathi Kumar (1942)[18] and Alice Bailey (1942). [19][20] [21]
In 2006, a film titled The Secret presented the "Law of Attraction" to a new generation and was soon after developed into a book by the same name. The movie and book sold at a tremendous pace and gained widespread attention across the media from Saturday Night Live to The Oprah Winfrey Show in the United States.[1] In September of the same year, Hay House published a book by Esther Hicks titled the The Law Of Attraction, which reached the New York Times best-seller list. [22] 21st century Christian bestsellers such as The 4:8 Principle, Bruce Wilkinson's The Prayer of Jabez, and Joel Osteen's recent work present a similar message, although given an explicitly Christian terminology with tacit biblical support (such as Philippians 4:8 and the Prayer of Jabez in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10). As a direct result of the release of The Secret in 2006 full-time Law of Attraction practitioners and lecturers Beth and Lee McCain, who taught the concepts of the Law of Attraction at the university level at UCLA and Oxford, crossed over from academia to the more commercial world of talk radio and publishing when their book, A Grateful Life: Living the Law of Attraction[23] became a bestseller and speaking engagements followed. Appearing on the August 18, 2007 broadcast of the Oprah and Friends XM radio show, Beth and Lee McCain credited their positive career path change to the Law of Attraction. On the same program professional skeptic James Randi rejected the McCains' belief and instead said their recent career good fortune was nothing more than "being in the right place at the right time."
[edit] Principles
Many people who accept the Law of Attraction as a guide for right living do so on the basis of their faith in the Universe and The Universe's 'Laws'; thus, to them, the nature of the 'Law' is not one to be settled scientifically, and the word 'Law' carries the same belief-based weight as non-scientific 'Laws' from other religions, such as the 'Law of Karma' and the Ten Commandments. This is especially true among those who are adherents of various New Thought. One common way that New Thought adherents utilize the Law of Attraction is through the practice of positive affirmations.
Some proponents of a more modern version of the Law of Attraction claim that it has roots in Quantum Physics. According to them, thoughts have an energy that attracts like energy.[1] In order to control this energy, proponents state that people must practice four things: [24]
* Know what one desires and ask the universe for it. (The "universe" is mentioned broadly, stating that it can be anything the individual envisions it to be, from God to an unknown source of energy.)
* Focus one's thought upon the thing desired with great feeling such as enthusiasm or gratitude.
* Feel and behave as if the object of one's desire is already acquired.
* Be open to receiving it.
Thinking of what one does not have, they say, manifests itself in the perpetuation of not having, while if one abides by these principles, and avoids "negative" thoughts, the Universe will manifest a person's desires. [24]
This list of four steps (of uncertain origin), couched in quasi-scientific terms, is quite similar to, and was influenced by, the panentheistic "Seven Steps in Demonstration" first outlined in the book Become What You Believe by Mildred Mann (1904 - 1971):
* Desire. Get a strong enthusiasm for that which you want in your life, a real longing for something which is not there now.
* Decision. Know definitely what it is that you want, what it is that you want to do or have.
* Ask. [When sure and enthusiastic] ask for it in simple, concise language. . .
* Believe. Believe in the accomplishment with strong faith, consciously and subconsciously.
* Work. Work at it. . . a few minutes daily, seeing yourself in the finished picture. Never outline details, but rather see yourself enjoying the particular thing . . . Eventually, you will see a time where it will just appear, as a gift or such, or you may see an opportunity to get what you were asking for.
* Feel gratitude. Always remember to say, "Thank you, God [or the universe]," and begin to feel the gratitude in your heart. The most powerful prayer we can ever make is those three words, provided we really feel it. Feel as though you already have what you wanted.
* Feel expectancy. Train yourself to live in a state of happy expectancy... Find a way it will appear in your life, and keep believing in that. May it be that someone gives it to you, or you find an initiation to get it.
[edit] Criticism
The Law of Attraction, especially in its less religious contexts, has been criticized for
* Implying the law has a scientific foundation when no such basis exists,[1]
* Not defining its methodology correctly according to denominational New Thought practitioners,[25]
Criticism of the Law of Attraction comes from other directions as well.
In the mainstream media, talk show hosts such as Larry King have pointed at the sufferings in the world and asked, "If the Universe manifests abundance at a mere thought why is there so much poverty, starvation and death?" This theological problem is known as Theodicy.
It has also been pointed out that most of the people discussed in recent books on the subject live in a culture that has paths to allow people to overcome adversity and that the same is not true for much of the world.[1] The same cannot be said of earlier proponents of the Law of Attraction, however, especially those who, like Wallace Wattles (1860–1911), claimed in his book The Science of Getting Rich (1910) to have used the principle to rise from a life of grinding poverty to one of merely comfortable industry.
Scientists are critical of the lack of falsifiability and testability of the claims. All of the evidence is both anecdotal and, because of the self-selecting nature of positive reports as well as the subjective nature of any results, highly susceptible to misinterpretations like confirmation bias and selection bias.
The few claims by proponents that seem to reference modern scientific theory remain under question. While brainwaves do have an electrical signal, it is unclear what principles of quantum physics behave the way proponents of the Law of Attraction claim.[1] Opponents claim that the use of the term "Law" and the vague references to quantum physics to bridge any unexplained or seemingly implausible effects are hallmark traits of modern pseudoscience ideas.
Within spiritual circles, the Law of Attraction has been criticized for conflating ego with the higher self, and promoting narcissism.[citation needed] The concept is also criticized by members of various predestinarian and fundamentalist Christian denominations, due to its deviance from their teachings.[citation needed]
The phrase is closely associated with New Thought beliefs and practices, from which its most common definition arises, but it also has a long standing (and more complex development) in other esoteric fields such as Hermeticism and Theosophy. Recently, the New Thought version was popularized by the 2006 film The Secret.
The more materialistic interpretations of The Law of Attraction have been criticized in the media, the scientific community—which cites what they believe to be the deliberate misuse of the scientific term law and the lack of any scientific evidence for the claims made by advocates for the Law of Attraction—and by some proponents of the New Age Movement and spirituality in general.[1]
Contents
[hide]
* 1 History
* 2 Principles
* 3 Criticism
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 Further reading
[edit] History
The quality of this article or section may be compromised by "peacock terms".
You can help Wikipedia by removing peacock terms.
The idea behind the Law of Attraction is not new. The concept can be found in Hinduism [3] and, due to the influence of Hinduism on Theosophy, it is mentioned in early Theosophical texts as well. [4]
An influential modern book on the subject in the English language is As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (1864 - 1912), which was published in 1902. The title derives from the ancient Jewish Book of Proverbs, chapter 23, verse 7: "As [a man] thinketh in his heart, so he is." Allen took this ambiguous idea of a correspondence between "a man's heart" and his existence to a logical extreme, stating that, "The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors, that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires -- and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own." [5]
Although As a Man Thinketh does not contain the term "Law of Attraction" in so many words, it explains the principle clearly and its popularity demonstrably gave rise to a century of writings on the subject. It has remained in print in book form for more than 100 years. Variant editions of As a Man Thinketh in print during the 21st century include those published by Dover Books [6], Barnes and Noble [7], Filiquarian [8], and Tarcher [9]; there are also audiobook and ebook editions; and at least three gender-switching spin-offs, each titled As a Woman Thinketh, which are by Gwendolyn Haynes (Million Words Publishing, 1997) [10], Dorothy J. Hulst, (Lushena Books, 2000)[11], and Cindy Cashman (Action Publishing, 2007) [12], respectively.
In America, Allen's assertion that "the soul attracts" both that which it desires and that which it fears struck a resonant chord in the New Thought Movement. Working from Allen's premise that one's thoughts attract "circumstances" that affect one's mental and physical situation in life, William Walker Atkinson (1862 - 1932) used the term 'Law of Attraction' to describe the phenomenon in his 1906 book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World [13]. Atkinson was the editor of New Thought magazine, a student of Hinduism, and the author of more than 100 books on an assortment on religious, spiritual, and occult topics.
In the wake of Atkinson's success, other "New Thought" authors very quickly wrote their own books promulgating the principle. For example, in 1907, just one year after Atkinson's breakthrough was published, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought, published Bruce MacLelland's book Prosperity Through Thought Force, in which he declared that "dwelling on any quality of mind adds that quality to you, whether it be helpful or injurious," and also clearly set forth what was to become a classic New Thought epigram: "You are what you think, not what you think you are." [14] Around this time, the term "Law of Attraction" also appeared in the writings of the Theosophical authors William Quan Judge, in 1915, [15] and Annie Besant, in 1919. [16]
By the mid 20th century, writings on the subject had become common and dozens of authors had addressed the topic under various names, such as positive thinking, "mental science", "pragmatic Christianity," "New Thought", "practical metaphysics", Science of Mind", and "Religious Science".[1][17] Among the mid 20th century authors who used the term were Sri K. Parvathi Kumar (1942)[18] and Alice Bailey (1942). [19][20] [21]
In 2006, a film titled The Secret presented the "Law of Attraction" to a new generation and was soon after developed into a book by the same name. The movie and book sold at a tremendous pace and gained widespread attention across the media from Saturday Night Live to The Oprah Winfrey Show in the United States.[1] In September of the same year, Hay House published a book by Esther Hicks titled the The Law Of Attraction, which reached the New York Times best-seller list. [22] 21st century Christian bestsellers such as The 4:8 Principle, Bruce Wilkinson's The Prayer of Jabez, and Joel Osteen's recent work present a similar message, although given an explicitly Christian terminology with tacit biblical support (such as Philippians 4:8 and the Prayer of Jabez in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10). As a direct result of the release of The Secret in 2006 full-time Law of Attraction practitioners and lecturers Beth and Lee McCain, who taught the concepts of the Law of Attraction at the university level at UCLA and Oxford, crossed over from academia to the more commercial world of talk radio and publishing when their book, A Grateful Life: Living the Law of Attraction[23] became a bestseller and speaking engagements followed. Appearing on the August 18, 2007 broadcast of the Oprah and Friends XM radio show, Beth and Lee McCain credited their positive career path change to the Law of Attraction. On the same program professional skeptic James Randi rejected the McCains' belief and instead said their recent career good fortune was nothing more than "being in the right place at the right time."
[edit] Principles
Many people who accept the Law of Attraction as a guide for right living do so on the basis of their faith in the Universe and The Universe's 'Laws'; thus, to them, the nature of the 'Law' is not one to be settled scientifically, and the word 'Law' carries the same belief-based weight as non-scientific 'Laws' from other religions, such as the 'Law of Karma' and the Ten Commandments. This is especially true among those who are adherents of various New Thought. One common way that New Thought adherents utilize the Law of Attraction is through the practice of positive affirmations.
Some proponents of a more modern version of the Law of Attraction claim that it has roots in Quantum Physics. According to them, thoughts have an energy that attracts like energy.[1] In order to control this energy, proponents state that people must practice four things: [24]
* Know what one desires and ask the universe for it. (The "universe" is mentioned broadly, stating that it can be anything the individual envisions it to be, from God to an unknown source of energy.)
* Focus one's thought upon the thing desired with great feeling such as enthusiasm or gratitude.
* Feel and behave as if the object of one's desire is already acquired.
* Be open to receiving it.
Thinking of what one does not have, they say, manifests itself in the perpetuation of not having, while if one abides by these principles, and avoids "negative" thoughts, the Universe will manifest a person's desires. [24]
This list of four steps (of uncertain origin), couched in quasi-scientific terms, is quite similar to, and was influenced by, the panentheistic "Seven Steps in Demonstration" first outlined in the book Become What You Believe by Mildred Mann (1904 - 1971):
* Desire. Get a strong enthusiasm for that which you want in your life, a real longing for something which is not there now.
* Decision. Know definitely what it is that you want, what it is that you want to do or have.
* Ask. [When sure and enthusiastic] ask for it in simple, concise language. . .
* Believe. Believe in the accomplishment with strong faith, consciously and subconsciously.
* Work. Work at it. . . a few minutes daily, seeing yourself in the finished picture. Never outline details, but rather see yourself enjoying the particular thing . . . Eventually, you will see a time where it will just appear, as a gift or such, or you may see an opportunity to get what you were asking for.
* Feel gratitude. Always remember to say, "Thank you, God [or the universe]," and begin to feel the gratitude in your heart. The most powerful prayer we can ever make is those three words, provided we really feel it. Feel as though you already have what you wanted.
* Feel expectancy. Train yourself to live in a state of happy expectancy... Find a way it will appear in your life, and keep believing in that. May it be that someone gives it to you, or you find an initiation to get it.
[edit] Criticism
The Law of Attraction, especially in its less religious contexts, has been criticized for
* Implying the law has a scientific foundation when no such basis exists,[1]
* Not defining its methodology correctly according to denominational New Thought practitioners,[25]
Criticism of the Law of Attraction comes from other directions as well.
In the mainstream media, talk show hosts such as Larry King have pointed at the sufferings in the world and asked, "If the Universe manifests abundance at a mere thought why is there so much poverty, starvation and death?" This theological problem is known as Theodicy.
It has also been pointed out that most of the people discussed in recent books on the subject live in a culture that has paths to allow people to overcome adversity and that the same is not true for much of the world.[1] The same cannot be said of earlier proponents of the Law of Attraction, however, especially those who, like Wallace Wattles (1860–1911), claimed in his book The Science of Getting Rich (1910) to have used the principle to rise from a life of grinding poverty to one of merely comfortable industry.
Scientists are critical of the lack of falsifiability and testability of the claims. All of the evidence is both anecdotal and, because of the self-selecting nature of positive reports as well as the subjective nature of any results, highly susceptible to misinterpretations like confirmation bias and selection bias.
The few claims by proponents that seem to reference modern scientific theory remain under question. While brainwaves do have an electrical signal, it is unclear what principles of quantum physics behave the way proponents of the Law of Attraction claim.[1] Opponents claim that the use of the term "Law" and the vague references to quantum physics to bridge any unexplained or seemingly implausible effects are hallmark traits of modern pseudoscience ideas.
Within spiritual circles, the Law of Attraction has been criticized for conflating ego with the higher self, and promoting narcissism.[citation needed] The concept is also criticized by members of various predestinarian and fundamentalist Christian denominations, due to its deviance from their teachings.[citation needed]
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Feel Good Money Magnet Video
Pretty good video to kick off your day! It just makes you feel good about yourself and eventually your mind will start to manifest money magnet!
Money Magnet Tips
I got this article somewhere in the internet and would like to share it with you guys out there. Anyway there are pretty a lot scams around trying to sell their stuffs so just ignore it and learn the tips that they have shared. It should be good enough.
There is a simple technique you can use to start activating that Money Magnet inside you. I will start by briefly repeating a technique that was explained in a different article. It will be for the benefit of those who never read it. Then, I will present an alternative technique in case you have a subconscious barrier using the first method.
THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF ATTRACTION
In one of her books titled "The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity", Catherine Ponder stated something worth remembering, "The ungrateful never prospers''. According to the author, your ungrateful attitude is pushing abundance and prosperity away from you.
Do you take a few minutes every day to be grateful and thankful for all the good things you have in your life right now? Most likely, NO. You are probably too busy focusing on what is wrong in your life and bitterly complaining about it. You do not even begin to understand that, by NOT being grateful and thankful, you are becoming a REPELLENT to money, wealth and riches.
"How can that be?", you may ask. "What is really happening here? Why are gratitude and thankfulness mentioned by so many teachers, authors and lecturers?", you may be wondering.
The Law of Life is the Law of Belief, also known as the universal Law of Attraction. It simply states that "what you deeply believe will sooner or later materialize as your physical reality". In other words, you are creating your own reality through the beliefs you deeply hold in your Subconscious mind.
And as you keep resenting and FOCUSING on the things that you BELIEVE are wrong in your life, the universal Law of Attraction guarantees that you shall keep attracting more of the same. There is also another very little known law, the Subconscious Law of Multiplication and Expansion, which simply brings back to you multiplied whatever you FOCUS on and makes it expand into other areas of your life.
Now, it should be perfectly clear why 'The ungrateful never prospers". As these ungrateful individuals FOCUS mainly on what is wrong in their lives, they put into operation the universal Law of attraction, which keeps bringing them what they FOCUS on: the 'bad' stuff in their lives. And the Subconscious Law of Multiplication and Expansion makes those troubles, not only worse, but it makes those troubles expand into all the areas of their lives as well.
The persons who are thankful and grateful are FOCUSING their minds on what is good in their lives, on what is working alright. The universal Law of Attraction keeps bringing them more of what they FOCUS on: the 'good' stuff in their lives. And the Subconscious Law of Multiplication and Expansions takes care of multiplying and expanding those good results in all areas of their lives. BEING THANKFUL AND GRATEFUL makes this person a MONEY MAGNET as well as a magnet to many wonderful things and events being attracted to his life.
TECHNIQUE NUMBER ONE
Now, a simple technique to activate that MONEY MAGNET inside you is the following. It was explained by the late Jack Ensign Addington in one of his books. It was given to a man who was desperate with an ever increasing pile of unpaid bills and angry creditors hunting him all over the place.
As you are in bed, ready to fall asleep, implant into your Subconscious mind the idea of abundance by simply repeating to yourself, over and over again, with feelings but without forcing, the sentence "I give thanks for the abundance that is mine". You may modify it to "I give thanks for the abundance, wealth and riches that are mine". Or even "I am a money magnet. I give thanks for the abundance of money flowing irresistibly to me". Use the one that feels most natural, the one you can accept the most easily. Fall asleep gently letting this truth sip deeper and deeper into the depths of your own Subconscious mind.
As you wake up in the morning, spend the first 5-10 minutes staying in bed with your eyes closed and again repeating over and over the same sentence.
Then, as you go through your day, STOP focusing on things that you consider to be detrimental and no good in your life. Instead, keep mentally repeating one or several of the statements above. The Laws of Attraction and the Law of Multiplication and Expansion will take care of everything else.
Now, who or what do you give thanks to? That is your choice. Give it to God, the Universe, Life, The Universal Mind, Infinite Intelligence within you, The Quantum Field, The Creative Force, the Creator or whoever/whatever you believe to be the SOURCE of that abundance you are attracting to you using the power of your Subconscious mind.
TECHNIQUE NUMBER TWO
Even though the first Method is simplicity itself, some may find subconscious barriers to its use.
These barriers may manifest themselves as objections arising from the mind when repeating the statements in Technique Number One.
These objections could be "Come on, what abundance, what wealth?". "Nonsense. You are drowning with unpaid bills", "You repel money", "You never have enough money". and many others.
Those objections will make the use of Technique Number One very ineffective.
Therefore, you will be using a different TACTIC to go around the resistance of your Subconscious.
Instead of giving thanks for the abundance, the wealth, the money that are coming your way and that you are a Money Magnet, you will start being thankful and grateful for anything you GENUINELY can be thankful for.
Examples: Thank you for my great health and vitality.
Thank you for my great intelligence
Thank you for having a car
Thank you for having a roof over my head
Thank you for my parents, brothers, sisters, friends
Thank you because I have a job
Thank you because I have enough money to eat
Thank you for the wonderful lunch I had today
Thanks for my wonderful eyes (teeth, skin, etc.)
Make certain those are things you are GENUINELY thankful and grateful for. Keep following Technique Number Two for several days. You may even need a week. And then, SLOWLY and GRADUALLY, start ADDING the statements in technique Number One. Slowly, gradually I said.
What you did was to train your Subconscious to accept things that were going well in your life. And then, you started to SNEAK in a few of the statements in Technique Number One. And then, a bit more. And a bit more. Until a time where your Subconscious will start accepting those statements, they will be incorporated as part of your BELIEF system and the Law of Attraction will make you a Money Magnet and attract abundance, wealth, money into your life.
Practice these techniques for the next THIRTY (30) days and you will notice improvements in your life. These improvements will be gradual. They will get bigger and bigger, greater and greater as each day goes by. And you will be very happy you learned these very simple techniques.
There is a simple technique you can use to start activating that Money Magnet inside you. I will start by briefly repeating a technique that was explained in a different article. It will be for the benefit of those who never read it. Then, I will present an alternative technique in case you have a subconscious barrier using the first method.
THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF ATTRACTION
In one of her books titled "The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity", Catherine Ponder stated something worth remembering, "The ungrateful never prospers''. According to the author, your ungrateful attitude is pushing abundance and prosperity away from you.
Do you take a few minutes every day to be grateful and thankful for all the good things you have in your life right now? Most likely, NO. You are probably too busy focusing on what is wrong in your life and bitterly complaining about it. You do not even begin to understand that, by NOT being grateful and thankful, you are becoming a REPELLENT to money, wealth and riches.
"How can that be?", you may ask. "What is really happening here? Why are gratitude and thankfulness mentioned by so many teachers, authors and lecturers?", you may be wondering.
The Law of Life is the Law of Belief, also known as the universal Law of Attraction. It simply states that "what you deeply believe will sooner or later materialize as your physical reality". In other words, you are creating your own reality through the beliefs you deeply hold in your Subconscious mind.
And as you keep resenting and FOCUSING on the things that you BELIEVE are wrong in your life, the universal Law of Attraction guarantees that you shall keep attracting more of the same. There is also another very little known law, the Subconscious Law of Multiplication and Expansion, which simply brings back to you multiplied whatever you FOCUS on and makes it expand into other areas of your life.
Now, it should be perfectly clear why 'The ungrateful never prospers". As these ungrateful individuals FOCUS mainly on what is wrong in their lives, they put into operation the universal Law of attraction, which keeps bringing them what they FOCUS on: the 'bad' stuff in their lives. And the Subconscious Law of Multiplication and Expansion makes those troubles, not only worse, but it makes those troubles expand into all the areas of their lives as well.
The persons who are thankful and grateful are FOCUSING their minds on what is good in their lives, on what is working alright. The universal Law of Attraction keeps bringing them more of what they FOCUS on: the 'good' stuff in their lives. And the Subconscious Law of Multiplication and Expansions takes care of multiplying and expanding those good results in all areas of their lives. BEING THANKFUL AND GRATEFUL makes this person a MONEY MAGNET as well as a magnet to many wonderful things and events being attracted to his life.
TECHNIQUE NUMBER ONE
Now, a simple technique to activate that MONEY MAGNET inside you is the following. It was explained by the late Jack Ensign Addington in one of his books. It was given to a man who was desperate with an ever increasing pile of unpaid bills and angry creditors hunting him all over the place.
As you are in bed, ready to fall asleep, implant into your Subconscious mind the idea of abundance by simply repeating to yourself, over and over again, with feelings but without forcing, the sentence "I give thanks for the abundance that is mine". You may modify it to "I give thanks for the abundance, wealth and riches that are mine". Or even "I am a money magnet. I give thanks for the abundance of money flowing irresistibly to me". Use the one that feels most natural, the one you can accept the most easily. Fall asleep gently letting this truth sip deeper and deeper into the depths of your own Subconscious mind.
As you wake up in the morning, spend the first 5-10 minutes staying in bed with your eyes closed and again repeating over and over the same sentence.
Then, as you go through your day, STOP focusing on things that you consider to be detrimental and no good in your life. Instead, keep mentally repeating one or several of the statements above. The Laws of Attraction and the Law of Multiplication and Expansion will take care of everything else.
Now, who or what do you give thanks to? That is your choice. Give it to God, the Universe, Life, The Universal Mind, Infinite Intelligence within you, The Quantum Field, The Creative Force, the Creator or whoever/whatever you believe to be the SOURCE of that abundance you are attracting to you using the power of your Subconscious mind.
TECHNIQUE NUMBER TWO
Even though the first Method is simplicity itself, some may find subconscious barriers to its use.
These barriers may manifest themselves as objections arising from the mind when repeating the statements in Technique Number One.
These objections could be "Come on, what abundance, what wealth?". "Nonsense. You are drowning with unpaid bills", "You repel money", "You never have enough money". and many others.
Those objections will make the use of Technique Number One very ineffective.
Therefore, you will be using a different TACTIC to go around the resistance of your Subconscious.
Instead of giving thanks for the abundance, the wealth, the money that are coming your way and that you are a Money Magnet, you will start being thankful and grateful for anything you GENUINELY can be thankful for.
Examples: Thank you for my great health and vitality.
Thank you for my great intelligence
Thank you for having a car
Thank you for having a roof over my head
Thank you for my parents, brothers, sisters, friends
Thank you because I have a job
Thank you because I have enough money to eat
Thank you for the wonderful lunch I had today
Thanks for my wonderful eyes (teeth, skin, etc.)
Make certain those are things you are GENUINELY thankful and grateful for. Keep following Technique Number Two for several days. You may even need a week. And then, SLOWLY and GRADUALLY, start ADDING the statements in technique Number One. Slowly, gradually I said.
What you did was to train your Subconscious to accept things that were going well in your life. And then, you started to SNEAK in a few of the statements in Technique Number One. And then, a bit more. And a bit more. Until a time where your Subconscious will start accepting those statements, they will be incorporated as part of your BELIEF system and the Law of Attraction will make you a Money Magnet and attract abundance, wealth, money into your life.
Practice these techniques for the next THIRTY (30) days and you will notice improvements in your life. These improvements will be gradual. They will get bigger and bigger, greater and greater as each day goes by. And you will be very happy you learned these very simple techniques.
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