New Thought

Welcome to this site that dares to study New Thought in an attempt to determine what it is and how it is perceived by its advocates to influence our lives.

Getting to grips with the New Thought movement and understanding what it is can be a challenge at first.

new thoughtThis is especially so since it challenges what most people consider to be the "norm" in terms of how we live our lives and what governs what is and what is not according to the laws of physics that we were all taught at school.

What is New Thought?

The best way I can think of describing it concisely is this:

"A philosophy based around the proactive process of positive thinking to bring about positive change to a person's life. This process involves the use of the Law of Attraction (more recently popularized in Rhonda Byrne's book: The Secret) in conjunction with creative visualization, affirmations and combining a burning desire with absolute faith that the thing desired can become manifest through the realigning of circumstances and people to bring it into physical form."

The New Thought movement, according to Wikipedia developed in the nineteenth Century in the United States and is considered to have been derived from unpublished writings of Phineas Quimby.

It has been taken up by a number of prominent authors and public broadcasters. These include Napoleon Hill (author of "Think and Grow Rich"), James Allen (author of "As a Man Thinketh"), Wallace Wattles ("The Science of Getting Rich"), Charles F. Haanel ("The Master Key System"), broadcaster and more recently metaphysicians such as Dr Joe Vitale and Law of Attraction and personal development gurus such as Bob Proctor, Tony Robbins and Mary Morrison.

How Does New Thought Affect a Person?

Basically, the concept behind this and the Law of Attraction is that we, as beings comprised of energy have the ability through our thoughts and emotions to attract other people and circumstances into our lives that are on the same frequency as we are transmitting.

The problem most people experience, often through being unaware of the process, is that they are greatly influenced by whatever is going on outside of them and their thoughts are directed by external media to attract the things they don't want. Hence, the vast majority of the population lives a life limited by pack and poverty or they exist just above that poverty line though their job.

However, once a person becomes aware of the potential life changing power locked up inside their heads and learns how to use it properly, they can experience a freedom from the bonds of "the average life" and rise in income and stature to enjoy more of the good things that life has to offer. In other words, by learning how to take control of their thoughts and emotions, it is possible to attract more of the things that are actually wanted and avoid more of the things that are unwanted.

The Law of Attraction

I'll briefly explain what the Law of Attraction is as an introduction to it here and expand on this explanation in a separate page ion this site.

According to experts in New Thought precepts, it is possible to harness the Law of Attraction through taking control of one's thoughts. What they are saying is by thinking of what you really want and holding that thought for as long as possible as often as possible and then feeling the feelings associated with actually being in possession of the thing desired, circumstances will be created that will bring that to you.

The trick is to focus only on what you do want and literally ignore what you do not want. That means if, for example your goal is to get out of debt, you must think only of the end result which is enjoying prosperity and abundance and literally having plenty of money to enjoy life as it should be.

It also means you must not think of "getting out of debt" because that infers that you will still attract more debt because you are still thinking about debt, even if it is the "getting out" part. Your thoughts are still on debt and that's what you will keep attracting. The process is part science and part mental trickery!

You can read more about the Law of Attraction in the article linked to in the navigation area a the top of this page.




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