I do believe that he is on to something after all he was a self-made millionaire. Haanel seems to have been very influenced by eastern thought. Haanel writes that we must first learn to control our physical selves before we can control our minds So far this process sounds like meditation and Chakra opening. At the end of week three, Haanel says that I should have very strong “Solar Plexus energy” –which is the sun of the body and source of great personal magnetism. It was very hard to relax because my thoughts were now busy concentrating on not lounging and falling asleep. Week Three: required me to sit erectly, inhibit all thought and relax. The problem is that he does not suggest a thought or word to replace the “non thoughts” such as OM or I AM, so I spent time trying to channel Haanel’s spirit to see if he might have any ideas for me. Week Two: required me to sit in chair and think of nothing. If I could have lounged, I’m sure it would have been easier. Week one actually took me two weeks to complete. Week One: required tremendous effort because my exercise was to sit erectly in a chair for 20-25 minutes and not lounge. If you do not intend to do a thing, do not start see it through even if heavens fall…” because my efforts -so far -have not gone past week three: I ended up buying the public domain book on Kindle for myself with the plan to actually go through the almost 100 year old course.īut I should have paid attention to Haanel’s warning that “modern psychology tells us that if we start something and do not complete it, or make a resolution and do not keep it we are forming the habit of failure absolute ignominious failure. I bought the book with the intention to send it to my bookophile father from St Louis. Louis publishing company and it appeared to be an early form of correspondence course that offered the reader the ability to create, Power, Health and Prosperity. I had never heard of the author, Charles Haanel, but upon closer inspection, I found that the book was published by a St. The book titled, “The Master Key” was very old and the copyright was for the year 1916. My most recent encounter with the “Law of Attraction” was when I happened upon a peculiar book at our town library’s used book sale. Does the curmudgeon deserve to get cancer? But this is an oversimplification of the law which at its core questions the nature of reality and deserves more space than I can give in a short blog post. The law of attraction is basically “like attracts like” negative thoughts bring poverty and sickness and positive thoughts manifest health and prosperity Much of the criticism of the law is that it gives the mind too much power over what many perceive to be uncontrollable events for the poor and the unfortunate. The concept also is the primary premise of New Age writers such as Carolyn Myss and Louise Hay. The concept of the mind being able to manifest reality has been the basis for a genre known as “success-literature”, proselytized by champions of positive thinking such as Norman Vincent Peal, and Napoleon Hill. Was I experiencing the “Law of Attraction” in my life? Perhaps on some level I wanted the challenge because I developed my own fasciitis within weeks. I suppose I needed to get more empathy so I had to experience this pain myself” I did not remember what this pain felt like when I had it 20 years ago and could not have envisioned the three months of excruciating pain that my fluid filled inflamed heel would have. “No really! A very athletic woman in my gym complained about a machine giving her planter fasciitis that was so bad that she had to go to the emergency room. I brought this on because I willed it.” The doctor and his assistants looked at each other with a twinkle in their eyes. As I sat in the podiatrist office sticking out my foot for my second injection of cortisone, I looked over my toes, met my doctor’s eyes and said, “You know I don’t need orthotics.
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