The Neothink Society · Psychology and Self-Leadership · October 2009
The law of attraction fails because internal forces inside the person cancel the request before it can move. The universe is not withholding; the person is blocking the request while making it. Wanting an outcome and blocking it at the same time produces stillness, and the block almost always wins.
These internal forces are self-imposed. They are the limits a person sets on themselves, and the engine underneath nearly all of them is fear.
The Real Cause
The block is internal, not cosmic. The request and the resistance come from the same person, and the resistance almost always wins.
Fear wears a different shape in every life. Someone can move through genuine danger without flinching, then feel the stomach tighten before placing a single unfamiliar phone call. The danger is real and the phone call is not, yet the phone call is the one that stops people. The fear of that call is enough to keep an outcome out of reach. The remedy is to make the call anyway. A word or two into the conversation and the fear is already gone, which exposes what it always was: a fear with nothing real behind it.
Two other internal forces sit alongside fear. Frustration and lack of knowledge both yield to training and experience, and both trace back to fear at the root, because people fear what they cannot see clearly. Uncertainty about how something will turn out generates the stress that freezes action. Preparation reduces the odds of a mistake; it never removes the possibility of one, and the mind treats that remaining possibility as a threat. A flubbed speech, a lost competition, a deal that slips. The fear of those outcomes blocks the attempt that would have produced the better ones.
Frustration shows itself most in skilled work that spans many disciplines. A person coordinating a technical project may carry the roles of engineer, instructional designer, media developer, writer, and web developer at once. Getting a graphic artist to grasp the inner workings of equipment they have never touched is slow and error-prone. Corrections cost time, and handled poorly the frustration compounds until the collaboration breaks. Multiply that across every contributor and frustration becomes a standing tax on the work.
The law of attraction fails because three internal forces, fear at the root with frustration and lack of knowledge above it, cancel the request from the inside, and naming each one is what strips its power and lets the outcome through.
The Technique
What gets named gets disarmed. The force that runs unseen is the one that wins.
Naming the force strips its power. Write the internal blockers down, one by one, and give each one a name. This is the same principle behind disarming any obstacle. A blocker that has been named can be managed; an unnamed one keeps operating unchecked.
What you understand, you can control. The Neothink mind turns internal forces into objects a person can see, name, and move past, so the outcome a person sets out to create is no longer canceled from the inside. The internal forces standing between the wish and the work are what stop the outcome. Naming each force is what lets a person move past it and produce the outcome they set out to create.
Common Questions
Why does the law of attraction fail? It fails because the person wanting an outcome is also blocking it at the same moment. Internal forces inside the individual cancel the request before it can move. The universe is not withholding anything; the resistance and the request come from the same mind, and the resistance almost always wins.
What are the internal forces that block a desired outcome? Three: fear, frustration, and lack of knowledge. Fear is the engine underneath the other two. Frustration and lack of knowledge both yield to training and experience, and both trace back to fear at the root, because people fear what they cannot see clearly.
Why is fear the root force? Because fear runs even when no real danger exists. A person can move through genuine danger without flinching, then freeze before an unfamiliar phone call. The remedy exposes it: make the call anyway, and a word or two in, the fear is already gone, which shows it had nothing real behind it.
How does naming the internal forces work? The blockers are written down one by one and each one is given a name. A named force can be seen, managed, and moved past. An unnamed one keeps operating unchecked, canceling the outcome from inside without ever being identified.
How is this different from positive thinking or visualization? Positive thinking adds intensity to the request while leaving the internal block in place, so the two cancel. This approach works the other direction: it removes the block. The outcome is no longer fought from the inside, so the work that produces it can proceed.
What does the Neothink mind do with internal forces? The Neothink mind turns internal forces into objects a person can see, name, and move past. What you understand, you can control. Once the block is named, the outcome a person sets out to create is no longer canceled from within.
Further Reading
- The Neothink Mind : the way of using the mind that turns internal forces into objects a person can see, name, and control.
- Internal Forces : the self-imposed limits, led by fear, that cancel a desired outcome from the inside.
- Fear : the root engine beneath frustration and lack of knowledge, and how to expose it by acting anyway.
- Integrated Thinking : the mode in which separate facts lock into a working whole and uncertainty loses its grip.
- Self-Leadership : running the work from your own direction instead of waiting for the block to lift on its own.
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