Law of Attraction is the secret of the book The Secret. Actually it is not even a book at the beginning. It is a documentary movie sold online at thesecret.tv but because it is so well received, it is converted to a book, or should I say, a transcript of the documentary movie.
I read the book in October 2007, so it gives me almost 3 years to share my experience after playing with it. I am very sure this will be very very interesting, especially if you have never heard of it before.
Law of attraction is simply saying that you can get want you want, by just thinking.
Cool? Which means, the people who believe in that law believe that everything in this world is manifested (created) by the mind. We think. We create.
It is not, we think, we do, we create. It is we think, we create! There is no we do. That is the surprising part. They believe that once you ask, you shall receive. The universe (or God) will take in your order and deliver to you, like a drive through McDonald service.
Unbelievable right? More unbelievable than Ripleys Believe It Or Not.
It did sounds a bit unbelievable to me at first because it was missing the we do part. Previously my thought was at least you need to put in some effort to get something back. Not sitting there and did nothing. Means positive thinking will at least drive us to act which later lead us to results. There are suppose to be actions.
But Law of Attraction doesnt speak about actions. You ask, you will receive.
I try to be opened minded and trying to investigate. I bought this book before the day I flew to USA alone. The flight will be around 17 hours if I remember it correctly, long fxxxing boring flight!
Read it the night before the flight and felt very interesting. Continue to read it in the airport and immediately wanted to give it a try.
Then I saw a pretty blonde wearing a whole black dress and a black cold wear in front of me. So I put down The Secret, stared at her and keep mumbling, You sit beside me later You sit beside me later You sit beside me later
Sounds like an idiot but I did that for 15 minutes! Yeah, 15 minutes. 15 minutes is not long if you compare to the 17 hours flight! A sweetheart sitting beside you is definitely worth that 15 minutes of investment.
After that I forgot about it and kept on reading. Another 15 minutes we were called to queue for departing. I look at her again while she stood up and mumble my magic quotes again for a few times. And I forgot about it again to prepare myself for departure.
There were 300+ people flying that day. It is a huge 747 with 3 sections [3-5-3 seats arrangement]. Because Malaysia Airline Service a.k.a. MAS at that time was as lousy as Proton ( my country homemade car ), they were not fully booked, not even close to it. So it ended up that generous MAS is doing big charity and gave most people several seats to sleep. Means most people will get 3 seats on the left and right section. Some will get 5 seats in the middle!
And when I found my seat, the blonde was sitting right beside me. 1 out of 300 chance for this to happen. 1 out of 300!
Coincidence? Maybe. If this was so interesting, I shall not stop here right? I flew to Los Angeles for a seminar. There was slightly above 100 participants. Each of us was given a ping pong ball so we can wrote our name on it for lucky draw. I wrote my name Yap.
There will be 1 to 2 lucky draws a day depending on how good our behavior was for the day, an organizer trick to make us all good boys. [Boy boy, be good, I give you sweet sweet]
There were 2 lucky draws the first day. On the 2nd day, when they pull out the ping pong box for lucky draw, I just came back from the toilet and was bouncing on a rebounder at the back of the hall [they provide rebounders and bounder balls at the back for people who felt sleepy to wake up and I was really sleepy!]
So I suddenly remembered the law of attraction thingy, why not give it a try? The speaker was searching for a ball and I mumbled again with full concentration. Yap! Yap! Yap! Call Yap! Yap! Yap! while bouncing up and down, up and down
Next thing I know, the speaker shouted, Yaaaapppppppppppppppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!! I bounce off the bouncer like a Spiderman and flew to the front to claim my prize.
And I am the official 3rd winner of the lucky draw among the 100+ participants. A 1% chance. And I only used law of attraction once which is in the draw I won.
But my story didnt end there! I flew back, immediately called an emergency meeting with my buddies and shared my experience. They were very excited too. So you know my friends are as crazy minded as me, believing in shits like this.
A week later my friend went all the way to KL ( one of my state ) in car pooling with his friend to his company annual dinner. I didnt remember how many staffs were attending but probably a few hundreds. Again, there was a lucky draw. And the main prize? 32 LCD TV. Remember that was 2007 where LCD TV were far more expensive than today.
This friendsaw a chance to try out this law of attraction bullshit. There are many prizes (mostly small) given out that day. But all he wanted was the LCD TV.
You know, the problem is, you got to do this sohai thing without letting people know you are doing it because people will really think you are a dai sohai. My friend walked to the TV and kept mumbling quotes like This TV is mine I will win this TV I will go home with this TV stuffs like that. Went back to dinner. Lucky draw went on for small items until the grand prize 32 LCD TV.
Rules was modified and they were not drawing for 1 person but 3 persons! Only one of them will win the TV and the other 2 will have to walk down the stage being eliminated like American Idol.
My friend kept mumbling his name like a monk again. He was called up to the stage among the 3 persons from the few hundreds! A very small chance in statistic. Without stopping, he kept looking at the TV and kept mumbling his name and all the magic quotes he could think of. He was already 1 of the 3 out of the few hundreds. There was only 2 competitors ahead!
Unfortunately, my friend was very unlucky. He came here with 3 friends in a small Mini Cooper and the poor him had to squeeze himself beside his new 32 LCD TV at the back of the car for the 2+ hours journey back to Ipoh.
The other friend tried that too. He was in another lucky draw in his company too. He didnt get fancy things like a laptop or an LCD TV since his company is very kiamsiap. But he managed to get a 1 year free subscription to an investing magazine.
So 3 people tried out Law of Attraction within a month and 3 have outstanding results. Coincidence? Up to you.
After knowing this law, I suddenly remember something about my mum. Since I was small, my mum can always get something back from lucky draws. She never got big stuffs like car, TV or bicycle (which was BIG to me when I was a kid) and she always get something like cooking oil, cheap hand phones, etc. while I get nothing from the same draw.
She was a teacher and is now still a representative for the teacher cooperation. Every year there will be meeting at Genting Highlands with hundreds of participants. Every year there will be a lucky draw. She is the only person who has been able to draw a prize for 5 consecutive years! The next best known performer got only twice.
When I was small, I remembered there was a draw with a bicycle as one of the prize and all sort of house hold stuffs like laundry powder, baked beans, etc. and of course cooking oil. So many things. I remembered my mum told me that all she wanted was a cooking oil so she can give to my grandma. What I want is the bicycle. Yeah baby. But at the end, she got the cooking oil [out of so many things and so many people], and I got nothing. I was sad. She was happy.
To be continued ..
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