Do your thoughts create your reality?
Sure.
Except for when they don’t.
If you feel good, are good things more likely to happen for you?
Sure, except for when life sucks anyway.
The issue I have with the Law Of Attraction isn’t that it’s wrong or incorrect.
I do feel better, when I think better thoughts.
When my energy is coherent and my own, when I’m creative and in my element, I do magnetize certain opportunities to me.
And also: my thoughts didn’t create my chronic illness.
My energy didn’t attract Long-Covid to me.
Nor is any of the crosses I have had to bear “a lesson,” or my fault from a past life or anywhere else. Chronic illness, tragedy, poverty, and terrible things happen.
We aren’t to blame.
And that’s what I take issue with: the victim blaming, the flat answer that the LOA has has to very complex issues. Alongside the victim blaming, there’s a lack of accountability for the people who maybe did cause some suffering.
Like climate change, no affordable healthcare, toxicity in nature, and so on.
I could get into all the other reasons why this is a harmful absolute take to have
(the background of the creators of this, which you can look up, the tons of examples that point to the opposite of “you attract what you are”, for when you are healing and resourced, sometimes you attract users and abusers) but this would get quite long.
Instead, listen to this insightful conversation about the Law Of Attraction between myself and Chelsea Selby of Witch Baby Soap.
We go over what’s helpful about this take, and what isn’t.
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