Crazy story

So for quite some time now I have been a firm believer in the power of positive thought. I have actually used it successfully to acquire things. I have been using my powers to try to bring a new snake into my life lately. And, yesterday it finally happened. But not like I thought it would. I came home from work yesterday and went down to the basement to throw some wood in the woodstove and there he was. Curled up in front of the stove, warming up. A baby garter snake!!!! I still can't believe it. Somehow in the middle of a harsh New England winter, in the middle of a snow storm, a baby garter snake comes out of hibernation and finds it's way into my finished basement to curl up in front of my woodstove and wait for me to get home from work!!!! I was trying for an albino male BP, but hey I'll take it. Oh well... back to the drawing board.

Have you seen or read anything about "The Secret" a book/documentary video.

I would use the powers to find a winning lottery ticket or a chest of gold bars.

The company I work for, Defender Direct, is actually a very big supporter of positive thought. They offer training courses and seminars for people to learn more about how their attitudes can affect their jobs and their lives (their motto is "Businesses don't grow, people do!) We give out free books to every new employee, as well as a "How to Face the Day" CD by Ed Foreman. They also have a library where people can rent and read books on the subject for free... including "The Secret".

And I gotta tell you, this is one of the best places I've ever worked... and I definitely think positive thought works!

Awesome story! :gj:

I tried applying what I saw in the secret but its very hard to stay positive all the time. Especially when 90% of the people you come into contact with are very negative and pessimistic. I definitely think there is something going on with thinking positive and the laws of attraction.

I believe in the powers of possitive thought as far as being optimistic and striving towards self imposed goals, not in the way that wishing for something really hard is going to make it fall out of the sky and land on my lap. Thinking really hard and wishing isn't going to make all my females lay 6 good eggs and have them hatch, but being possitive, setting goals and finding methods to reach the goals (and hard work and sacrifice) will give me the best shot at getting my wish.

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Originally Posted by Spaniard

I tried applying what I saw in the secret but its very hard to stay positive all the time. Especially when 90% of the people you come into contact with are very negative and pessimistic. I definitely think there is something going on with thinking positive and the laws of attraction.

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Have you ever heard of Ed Foreman or his Successful Life Seminar? One of his basic teachings is this: it has been biologically proven that, when you smile, your body produces two types of hormone: endorphins and adrenaline. These make you feel better, whether you're in a bad mood or not. Laughing only increasing the production of these two hormones. Foreman teaches you to smile even when you don't want to, and laugh when you want to cry or yell. It works. It's absolutely impossible to stay angry with a big-*ss smile on your face... or while having a big belly laugh.

I agree, there's something to it.

And Jake, I agree 100%. Setting goals and keeping yourself on the road to those goals is the best way to create the life you want for yourself. And it helps to have a good attitude while you're about it :D

I have read The Secret as well as the entire 700 section (self-help) in my local library!!!! I told the story of how I materilized a dozen yellow roses, somewhere on this forum a while ago. I have used nothing but thought to get all sorts of things once I found out it really works. And, yes, I am still thinking about that big sack of money. I'll keep you posted.

awesome and we have the dvd (the secret) i think there is certainly power in prayer and positive thoughts :gj:

Isnt the power of positive thinking more or less conditioning you to see the upside to anything that happens, rather than making it happen? It makes you see the glass half full instead of half empty, and makes you think outside of the box with how you can use what life gives you to further yourself regardless.

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

Isnt the power of positive thinking more or less conditioning you to see the upside to anything that happens, rather than making it happen? It makes you see the glass half full instead of half empty, and makes you think outside of the box with how you can use what life gives you to further yourself regardless.

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its all in the way you look at every situation ;)

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Originally Posted by ladywhipple02

Have you ever heard of Ed Foreman or his Successful Life Seminar? One of his basic teachings is this: it has been biologically proven that, when you smile, your body produces two types of hormone: endorphins and adrenaline. These make you feel better, whether you're in a bad mood or not. Laughing only increasing the production of these two hormones. Foreman teaches you to smile even when you don't want to, and laugh when you want to cry or yell. It works. It's absolutely impossible to stay angry with a big-*ss smile on your face... or while having a big belly laugh. :D

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Like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXgdSOxaCGI

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I have read The Secret as well as the entire 700 section (self-help) in my local library!!!! I told the story of how I materilized a dozen yellow roses, somewhere on this forum a while ago. I have used nothing but thought to get all sorts of things once I found out it really works. And, yes, I am still thinking about that big sack of money. I'll keep you posted.

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Can you share that story here?

is it just me or did that guy look like an umpaloompa?

I can't see it :(

Positive thought is very important but many times only as strong of positive action that must follow. Actions begin as thought.

Science has proven that stress causes disease therfore it only makes sense that happiness/peacefulness (positive) causes wellness and balance. In many different forms this is the basis of many religions.

Now the guy on the video must get stuff that is not legal in most parts:D

I was reading a self-help book by the Chicken Soup guys (Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield) and they suggested an experiment to prove that thought is not just something that stays in our heads, but rather a tangable thing. They set out to prove that thought has mass just like air and sound. Not too long ago people didn't think air was a tangable thing because they could not see or touch it.

Of course today we know better. Thought is the same way today as air was back then. Very few people believe that thought is tangable outside of our own heads. But I know better and I can prove it. Understanding this is the first step to making positive thought work for you. I'm not going to have time to tell the whole story right now but if you are interested I'll continue later.

I'll check back later then.

This is way short... I'll try to find more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_SKpnmKYQ

That is awesome. If you stick by your positive-thought beliefs, I almost guarantee you that success will come your way. Of course, it is a combination of positive thinking and actions too (like, I am not going to wish for a cake to bake itself in the kitchen while I sit on the couch! Irrational..) But seriously.. those in the know, know.

Another thing that interests me, is the power (negative power) of negative thoughts and events, and how they stick with a person. I was watching a show on the Discovery Channel that was about people who committed violent acts. Many of them had said that their plans for such acts, stemmed from resentment caused by severe rejection, ridicule, etc. that started in their younger years. Think of how it feels to be left out and rejected. Many people can just brush it off, but some let it really fester and feel exaggerated, irrational feelings of resentment that make them snap one day.
Just the other side of the positive thinking coin :) My point here would be to nurture and keep the positive actions, experiences and goals in the forefront of your mind, and let the dirty water go down the drain. Doing this is seriously the secret to happiness in my universe.

“The Secret” is a modern day retelling of the Law of Attraction, as found in Hermetic Philosophy traced to Hermes Trismegistus, the Greco-Egyptian philosopher.

There are many, many books about his philosophies. I have a history book chronicling the spread of his teachings over time, and it contains printings of fliers from 3-4 hundred years ago offering to teach people about the “laws of attraction.” Every couple of generations Hermetic Philosophy reappears repackaged. I'm not putting it down in any way, I'm just commenting on the history of the metaphysical movement. I find it interesting. If it helps people better their lives, then I say, go for it.

In The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy (published 1912) the Seven Hermetic Principals are discussed in more detail:

The Principle of Mentalist
The Principle of Correspondence
The Principle of Vibration (AKA: the Law of Attraction)
The Principle of Polarity
The Principle of Rhythm
The Principle of Cause and Effect
The Principle of Gender

I do not practice Hermeticism, but I do find the exploration of esoteric and occult wisdom especially fascinating. :)

You're right.. this Is interesting! Metaphysical history has always fascinated me.

Here's the rose story. I was reading everything I could get my hands on about this positive thought stuff, and still very very skeptical until I came across this one experiment. The purpose of the experiment is to prove that your thoughts do not stay inside of your head. (A necessary first step to having it work for you.) This really requires an open mind and a lot of time. It took me a couple of hours and it made my head hurt.

Like I said, this takes tremendous concentration and a long time so make sure you have a very quiet place and lots of time.

First you take a cork and set it on an upsidedown water glass. Then you push a sewing needle into the cork so that the pointed end is pointing straight up. Next take a piece of paper about four inches and perfectly square. Fold the paper from corner to corner. Now open it up and flatten it out. Now fold it from corner to corner the other way, and open it back up and flatten it out again. If all went well you should have a piece of paper that looks like a very very flat pyramid.

Now balance the paper on the point of the needle. Next you place your hands very close but not touching the paper on either side. You want to kind-of cup your hands around the paper. Now make it spin using just your mind!!! Don't worry about which direction just yet. Stick with it. Like I said this part took me about an hour. Finally it started to wobble and eventually spin very slowly. Next make it stop using just your mind. Then make it spin the other way. This was the hardest part for me. I could stop it but it would just start spinning the same way again when I tried to make it go the other way. After about another hour or so I finally did it. Then I got so good I could make it stop, start, and spin in either direction, at will.

Armed with the knowledge that I could in fact send my thoughts into the universe, I proposed another experiment. I wrote a letter describing exactly what I was about to do, and mailed it to myself. The unopened and postmaked letter would be my proof that I did in fact do it. To bring something to myself using only my thoughts. But what? First I thought, how about a can of peas? No, something a little more romantic. Yes flowers. But I needed to be more specific for the purpose of this experiment, so I decided on a dozen yellow roses.

Oddly, I learned that our thoughts don't have to be positive in order to work. In fact, the most important thing is that you include all of your senses in the thought process. I find this just doesn't work unless your thoughts contain smell, sight, taste, feel, and sound. This may seem a little odd at first but that's just how it works.

So I went to work, and I didn't tell a soul what I was doing. I cut out pictures of yellow roses and put them on my bathroom mirror and my fridge. I thought about yellow roses all the time. Particularly just before bed and first thing in the morning. I imagined my pillow was stuffed with roses. I even imagined eating them and cutting myself on the thorns.

After about two weeks of this I was at work one day when a white van pulled in the driveway. I began to tremble. Suddenly I didn't want it to be true. But I knew it was. The driver handed me a dozen yellow roses. Through shaking hands and tears I tried to read the card. They were from an old friend of mine who I hadn't seen for years. And she was in Germany at the time!!! When I called to thank her she told me the story of how "about two weeks ago" she just started smelling flowers one day. Each day the smell grew stronger until finally she could actually taste flowers! She couldn't stop thinking about flowers. Then the other day she passed by a flower shop and just had to go inside to buy herself some flowers. But then she felt a little guilty and decided to send the flowers to someone else, and that's when my name instantly came to mind she said. As she walked away from the counter she turned back and asked the clerk to switch her order from red roses to yellow.

I still have the unopened letter I sent myself, and when I showed it to my friend upon her return from Germany she asked if I had noticed the stamp? I hadn't. It was of a yellow rose!

I have since used this exact same method to get a drum set, a kitchen table and chairs, a guitar, and a new car. All using nothing but my thoughts. But for some reason this doesn't work on people or relationships, or for large sacks of money!!! But I'm still trying for that sack of money.