For ‘deliberate creators’, or those who aspire to be, depression can be like one of those things with spikes the police put down to catch runaway cars. It can stop you dead in your tracks.
Why?
Intention/manifestation, or the Law of Attraction, says in a nutshell that what you think about you will get. So what are the predominate thoughts of a depressed person like? Exactly.
Depression can so get in the way of you realizing your desires–because for a large part of the day, if not all of it, you’re hardly the cheerful, optimistic, enthusiastic person you need to be in order to deliberately attract what you want into your life–the good things. When you’re depressed, I believe you’re actually attracting more depression into your life.
If that isn’t a good reason to come to grips with and battle depression, I don’t know what is.
This article is the fourth in a series about depression: how it can affect you, ways you can recognize it, and some things you can do about it.
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Depression might be able to ruin your chances with law of attraction, but what if the law of attraction itself is the cause of your depression? What I mean is, the law of attraction has contributed greatly to the mood swings I’ve been going through of late. It’s been like a roller coaster ride. Very high days and very low days. Ever heard of anyone who has suicided because they tried and tried to get it to work, and failed? Believe me, the thought has crossed my mind on occasion.
Luke, you’re not alone in feeling this way, trust me.
First things first: no, I’ve not heard of someone ‘suiciding’ specifically because they think they’ve failed at making the LoA work for them. If you’ve seriously considered that, I really urge you to seek professional assistance. I don’t believe that there’s anything worth taking your own live over. There’s always a ray of hope, however small, if you only look for it.
I know mood swings. I’m intimately familiar with them, you could say. And the best advice that I’m able to give is that maybe you’re expecting too much too quickly, and your mental discipline is not yet enough to ‘tune in’ adequately to what you’re trying to accomplish.
Here’s what I mean. I’ll put this in financial terms, but it applies to any area–physical, spiritual, relations, etc.
If your level of income right now is, say, $25,000 a year, that is where your mentality is ‘tuned’ in. Making the jump to a millionaire mentality will take a lot of work, and a lot of time–simply because of having to identify all the baggage you’re going to have to toss overboard.
It’s best to start small, something that is believable, and something that you don’t have a lot of emotional attachment to. If your finances are giving you a lot of grief, start somewhere else. Start with something that doesn’t really matter to you a whole lot–something that you can do with or without. Something small that you want to do, for instance, like going to the local comedy show or something of that nature. Something that has nothing to do with finances or money. When that comes around for you, set your sights a little higher.
There’s a couple of things that I can tell you for sure: a) you seem to be way too attached to your wanted intention for the LoA to work as you want it to, and b) the LoA is working right now in your life–and it’s your job to explore why it is that what is happening in your life right now doesn’t seem to be what you want.
The Law of Attraction isn’t an easy thing to master. It can be incredibly frustrating that it’s not seeming to ‘work’.
I would recommend that you acquire and read everything you can on anything that relates to the Law of Attraction–even things that don’t seem to be connected, like the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, and Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz. There are others, also, like The Master Key to Riches, also by Hill, and the Master Key System, by Charles Hannel.
Above all, don’t give up. Don’t expect to change your world overnight, although that is possible. For it to happen, though, takes mental fortitude that few of us can tap into immediately. Like anything else, it takes practice.
Lastly, I have to stress a point I made earlier: it is almost essential that you get to a point where you can detach yourself from what it is you want. Intend what you want, then let it go knowing that it will, in its own time, come into your life. ‘In its own time’ may not be exactly when you want it to be, or in the manner you’re expecting. That’s one very valuable lesson that you can learn from all the other material that you read.
Let me know your progress, please?
I wish you well.
Ok Steve. Can you please tell me how long you’ve been applying LoA and what you’ve managed to manifest in that time, if you don’t mind. I’ve got no hangups about your level of wealth if you also don’t have hangups about discussing it. I can honestly say I’m not jealous or uptight about others having money or whatever – I have a friend very much like that, but I’m not. I’m just curious to know how successful you’ve been. I’m struggling to find people who’ve been even reasonably successful. Most people who post online have been at it for very little time with minimal achievements. Are the successful ones not bothering to post?
In the meantime I’ve read all over the net about a backlash that’s building against “The Secret”. It seems like many people (and regretably now me) are starting to see this DVD for what it is: just a big money-making scheme. Period. And when people can’t get LoA to work for them the producers say “It’s not our fault, it’s yours, because you failed to use the principles correctly”.
It will be very interesting to see Rhonda Byrne et al publicly shamed. I have to agree with a comment I read that “…in the future, The Secret may be thought of as the greatest self-help scam in history…”
Luke,
If you’re ‘struggling to find people who’ve been even reasonably successful’, I have to think that either you’re not looking very hard, or you’re not willing to open your eyes, even to your own accomplishments.
And if you think it would be ‘interesting’ to see someone publicly shamed for having a dream to get more people aware of the possibilities in their lives and accomplishing it, then I’m afraid we don’t have much more to talk about.
If you want to learn to be successful, I and many others can point you in the direction of the knowledge you need. What you do with it, or whether you even choose to try and learn, is up to you.
Good morning – I’d like to comment on Luke’s post and Steve’s reply. I’m a certified Life and Law of Attraction Coach who is also a longtime psychotherapist (msw). I’ve worked with hundreds (could be thousands) of people in my 30+ years career. I am familiar with the medical model of viewing and treating depression and agree that if the black cloud doesn’t lift, seek professional help (therapy). Since becoming a coach 4 years ago I have embraced the law of attraction and the questions:what’s working, what do you love, what makes you feel good – ie the more positive, glass is half full approach. I have seen amazing outcomes in the lives of my clients and in my own life. I have also suffered from depression myself and am revisiting dealing with the symptoms of feeling sad, bad and hopeless even when circumstances are pretty AOK (ie not necessarily ‘situational’). This is a work in progress but what I really wanted to share here is:
- whatever you resist persists – so fighting depression doesn’t work
- depression is a message and contains a gift so if we can hang
in there and ‘allow” (big loa word and concept) what is going
on – we can engage in a conversation with it and undergo
what Elizabeth Lesser calls a “phoenix process’ (in her book
Broken Open) – emerging transformed and richer and more
expansive for the experience.
I agree that much LOA material puts such emphasis on ‘feeling good’ that when we don’t our tendency is to get worried about what we are attracting and to beat ourselves up.
I hope to engage in a conversation and arrive at some very practical and very spiritual steps that can help us to move through whatever may be going on and in the process to heal ourselves and to heal the world.
Love,
Anne