Law of Attraction Myth Series:

Gratitude

 

 

Gratitude is stressed as an important law of attraction component. However, it is only extremely specific forms of gratitude which lead to manifestation, and the majority of the time it is useless. Below are some understandings to help you:

 

1. Gratitude puts too much emphasis on the past

 

When you think about all the good things that have come to you in your life, you end up thinking about the past. However:

 

a) Your power and ability to change lies in controlling the present moment only. Thinking about the bounties of your past increases the disposition to think of the past instead of the moment.

 

b) Thinking about the past also connects you to the failings of your past. Your initial gratitude may be positive in that you are actively thinking about what you are grateful for. However, you are also connecting more strongly to your past and everything in it. This also means your negative emotions and situations of the past become more accessible to influence you in the present. This results in negative manifestation.

 

2. Gratitude invokes emotions and emotions signify lack of control

 

Manifestation comes from control of the mind and body. By invoking emotions and feelings you are losing control of the body, and allowing the body to control you:

 

a) Emotions lead to more emotions. This means that you will be presented with more uncontrollable emotions when you invoke gratitude. This means you will have less control of your mind and body, and end up doing things which you are unaware of: The hallmark of negative manifestation.

 

b) It leads to fantasising and wishful thinking. As said earlier, gratitude increases the links into your past. This also means the desires and fantasies of your past. Your emotions also extend to include fantasy and wishful thinking too. All in all, you significantly decrease control of your body and mind, leading to negative manifestation.

 

3. Gratitude leads to decrease through thinking of consolidation

 

Manifestation is an increasing process, which means you are expanding and achieving new things by increasing control of your mind and body, and becoming more efficient and more connected to your inner natural resources. Gratitude is different:

 

a) Gratitude makes you think of what you "at least" have. It is a recognition of what you have, instead of what you will do to expand and have more.

 

b) Gratitude can be selfish in nature. That is, it actually makes you egotistically see what you have, instead of what everyone has. This leads to a significant decrease in mental and physical manifestation.

 

4. Gratitude wastes your mental resources

 

Gratitude is a mental process which takes up your cognitive power. True manifestation instead, lies on consuming no cognitive power by connecting to the depths of your own mind. Thus:

a) Gratitude leads to a decrease in mental manifestation. This means the ideas, plans, thoughts and theories to help you manifest your goal will decrease.

 

b) Gratitude makes you lose focus. Focus can only go in one direction, and that direction is to focus unconditionally on the immediate tasks required to reach the goal, and harnessing your time and mental powers to be as efficient as possible in achieving physical manifestation.

 

More evidence that gratitude is useless for manifestation:

 

Think of all the tyrants of history: Stalin, Mao Tsung, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane etc. These people are extremely successful manifesters and geniuses of their kind, because they had humble origins and rose to the top of their respective nations and brought them to some level of greatness. However, they were tyrants to their enemies with no gratitude and value for life whatsoever. So how can gratitude be a manifestation principle, when having none of it allowed them to achieve so much for their country?  This example may be a little extreme, but it stresses the point nevertheless.

 

What To Expect/Conclusion

 

Gratitude is useful for manifestation, but only in extremely specific and defined circumstances. However in the majority of the time, incorrect gratitude leads to a significant decrease in manifestation. You must therefore take the steps to learn true manifestation through the Laws of Mind system.

 

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