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 used incorrectly. 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 may 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. To manifest, you must be living in the moment and fully concentrating on the here and now.
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. You therefore need to be very careful of what you are being grateful for and what exactly you are doing.
2. Gratitude invokes emotions and emotions can signify lack of control
Manifestation comes from control of the mind and body. Control of the mind means being in a highly focused state, by which you are focused on what you are doing, as you are doing it, and concentrating for long periods of time. By invoking emotions and feelings you are not in full control of your mind. Additional pointers:
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.
b) Emotions may lead 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:
What To Expect/Conclusion
Gratitude is good for creating good feelings in your body and making you feel alive, but only in extremely specific and defined circumstances. Feeling grateful is important without a doubt, but there are some pitfalls to it which need to be addressed. Only when you are truely focused and working hard to your goals can you move towards maximum manifestation.
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