One of the Most Poignant Things I’ve Read All Day…

Okay, so now I’m SHAMELESSLY regurgitating a little bit of what I found on the internet today, but reading this really resonated (PUN!). I’ll tell you why in a minute…

Isn’t it wild how when you think of something it comes to you?  This law of attraction stuff, I must say, is very real, people. Let me share an opinion on this for a moment – here’s how I think of it: A tuning fork that is tuned to 440 has perfect pitch, now if you strike the tuning fork and place in near a perfectly tuned string instrument like a guitar, the strings of that instrument will start to vibrate. Now this may have everything to do with physics and by no means am I educated enough to discuss that, but the way I see it is that when people are in tune with each other great things can happen, they can vibrate together like the tuning fork and the guitar.

As I look back at everything I have and don’t have in my life I can see so clearly how I brought those things into my life and drove other things away. I know people will say that this is easy to say when a person has a lot, but believe me I have had a lot and have lost it all and got it back again; but everything changed for me when I stopped asking for “things”.  I see so many angry and sad people and I used to be one of them, [and] I think I have figured out why. People think that “stuff” will make them happy and I have been fortunate enough to have had a lot of stuff at certain points of my life and It doesn’t mean shit, people…   Instead of asking for money and a house or a car or whatever, ask for happiness. You see, the universe knows you better than you know yourself. By asking for happiness you’re bringing all good things to you…

Sometimes I think people put too much mysticism into this “law of attraction” stuff.  It’s not a mystical miracle that something should come to you if you open up your mind and your heart and your entire being to it’s occurrence.  When you are ready for something to happen there’s a greater chance that you will recognize an opportunity, see it start to grow, and grab hold before that chance flowers and dies.

I talked about this phenomenon a little in my post about the math and science of happiness.  You remember that?  That was the post where I mentioned that statistically, good things WILL come to you and you just have to be ready for them.  This author has expanded that idea in the sense that, for all that to work, you must work towards being truly happy.  That happiness will open up your mind to new things.  In short, happiness begets acceptance of new experiences and ideas, which leads to being fully aware of the good things around you.

Acceptance is the place to start in being happy, too; it’s cyclical and self-referential.  Accepting the way life is and all the amazing things you do have brings a mindset of peace and happiness – that happiness opens up your mind.   Zen Habits made a great point about this:

The root of the unhappiness isn’t necessarily that we want things to be different, however: it’s that we decided we didn’t like it in the first place. We’ve judged it as bad, rather than saying, “It’s not bad or good, it just is.”