Is it possible to get everything you want?
Yesterday, I watched a film developed by PrimeTime Productions entitled "The Secret". It was a film describing positive thinking and the Law of Attraction. Their belief is that positive thinking enables you to attract what you want out of life. Similarly, I read a book a year ago entitled "The Power of Intention" by Dr. Wayne Dyer. He writes that everything starts out with intention. And with intention you are able to co-create what happens in the world. Dr. Deepak Chopra wrote another similar text. His book is called "The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire" and he writes how our desires can be manifested. Since I was brought up Catholic, I was taught the power of prayer and I remember from scripture "Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find." My understanding of that phrase is that God will grant you what you need. What I find is that all throughout history and up until today, so many people believe there is a way to ask what they need from God or the universe. So, over the years, I find I have read many examples of sources that express almost the same message.
The message: "It is possible to get what you want." Whether there is truth in that or not, I guess that is up to the individual to discover. But I am curious to see, why don't more people feel they have everything they want. To me, it feels like many people are always suffering. If these messages are basically the same after thousands of years, why don't more people follow them?
Throughout history, I'm sure there are a number of people who feel they have been given everything they need. Whether it is people, who put their trust in Yahweh, or people, who follow the life and message of Jesus, or people who worship Allah or people who find peace from Tao Teh Ching, or people who achieve enlightenment, there have been many people who have found or developed wisdom of achieving what they want out of life. Among those who have developed the wisdom of achieving what they want out of life, there are also so many people throughout history that focus on the negative; which is obviously counter productive. I believe in one of the Star Wars movies, Yoda said that fear is the root to all evil. I think? Well I believe in something similar to that. I believe that every negative feeling is due to a fear. Depression can be due to the fear of nothing is going to improve. Stress can be due to the fear of losing something. Anger can be due to the fear being weak. Jealousy can be due to the fear of inferiority. With any negative emotion you can determine what the underlying fear associated with it. And fear is essentially the lack of trust. In other words, if you trust in some belief system, you would essentially have less fear. I guess that the reason why so many people don't follow the wisdom of their belief system is because they don't really trust in themselves or God or the universe for that matter. And the notion for having trust in a belief system is essentially having faith. So it occurs to me that the wisdom of getting what you want, is closely tied to having a strong faith in what you believe in. So whether your belief system has any proof or not, you should have faith in your beliefs and trust that they will work.
