Comment on Law of Attraction is just a modern-day religion
ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 months agoNice explanation. I could still get behind that. I know there are woo-ey versions of it, but I find the fundamental idea of "visualization" to be pretty solid, regardless of whether the mechanism is internal or external.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
The woo-ey aspects are actually pretty interesting. Since the mechanism relies on focusing your subconscious, belief is crucial. If you don’t believe in your goal, and the efficacy of the method, your subconscious won’t buy-in, and without subconscious buy-in it flat out doesn’t work. Subconscious buy-in is the mechanism. You can’t try to consciously trick the subconscious, it’s in there with the one trying to trick it. You have to really believe.
A lot of people can’t believe that it’s internal. They don’t think that ability could possibly be in then anywhere, so in order to cultivate the requisite belief they have to attribute the mechanism to some kind of external woo. So even if the woo isn’t real, belief in the woo can be integral to the mechanism working.