A Sausage Press For Two

Okay, here’s my two cents on The Secret and the Law of Attraction. The Secret is a very simplistic, cliff notes view of a spiritual principle that is one of the things that I was not able to toss out when I decided that All Things Spiritual = All Things Bullshit.

The Law of Attraction, the belief that we create our own reality, does not exist to just get us cool stuff. It is not about having hot red sports cars and diamond tiaras drop from the sky merely because we think about them. It is about being conscious of our thoughts and feelings and being the masters of our inner worlds. When we really achieve that, miracles happen because of what we have chosen and what we have changed internally.

We get what we put out – if we are kind and loving and generous we get more of that in return than not. We are what we think – if we are positive and joyful we’re going to have, and be, more and more of the same (good luck having a positive and joyful life if you are a grumpy asshole). And we attract people and experiences that are in alignment with who we are allowing ourselves to be – if we insist on living a certain kind of life we just won’t tolerate or, after a while, even notice anything different.

It’s not magic, it’s just the way things work. But, to me, the results that occur from truly changing one’s emotional make up, one’s inner life experience, can only be described as magical.

Example: The Relationship. The act of making space in our closets, putting up a pair of candles in our bedroom, maybe sleeping on one side of the bed IS NOT going to make the partner of our dreams magically appear. What it IS going to do is raise our relationship comfort level and create room psychically to actually allow a partner in when they do show up. We will be a little less selfish, a little less afraid, a little less apt to allow our screaming committment issues to overwhelm and sabotage. We’ll be a little more ready and a little more willing to see something we might otherwise be blind to had we not done a few simple things to change our minds and hearts about being alone.

It’s not about visualizing a physical thing and… BAM! There it is. But, oh how I wish it were. That sausage press trick totally kicks ass.