Get Rich with Random Acts of Kindness

Lately, I have become aware of a movement that suggests our life is the way it is because we have attracted what is there. The “secret” says we are what we think. “Law of attraction” tells us we have to vibrate in the “vortex” to attract the good things.

Now for me, “vibrating in the vortex” means something a little like the Christian saying “Put your hand in the hand of God.” Both statements are oblique and vague. Sometimes I want more step by step instructions. After all, I really want to attract that good stuff into my life. So, I began noticing my thoughts and monitoring my feelings, trying to stay positive, think good thoughts, not get upset, or notice anything negative. Nothing really different happened. Oh, there were times when the princess parking, green lights, and no paper cuts happened. However, it was a struggle. Nothing significantly wonderful appeared. When I would have a bad day, I would say to myself, “How the heck do you turn this into something positive?” This is nasty, on the verge of a horrible, no good, very bad day! How do I find this event positive and “vibrate in the vortex” about it?
I teach my clients they “get what they notice.” As their therapist, am I then noticing the negative in their world and sabotaging my own? This gets really complicated. Think of the war and trauma in the world. It is reported in the newspaper and on the television daily.

Actually, I don’t watch the news anymore. I don’t refuse to watch it because of the “notice” thing, but it works that way just the same. Think about all the people in the world that watch the news. The news is 99% negative. By watching the news, we welcome war, despair, injustice, famine, and death straight into our living rooms. If all the people watching are “noticing” these negative aspects, and it works that more negative is generated, then we will get more and more of the same horrible events in the world. What if the news made a commitment to focus on at least 50% positive events? It would be worth a try, and this would make the news worth watching. Perhaps over time, the world would begin to change.

In the 70’s, I saw a bumper sticker that stated, “What if we gave a war and nobody came.” It was a thought provoking statement. What if? I like that thought. So, if we all begin to notice the positive, it could happen. I have realized that it is not so easy. Where do we to begin? What about all the bad stuff? Do we just ignore it?

Abraham Hicks of Law of Attraction says this: "I'm just a hindering fool! Because I observe what is around me. Because I've been trained to be very objective. I've been trained to observe the pros and the cons, the plusses and minuses, to catalog it and pigeonhole it.

I believe I do the world a service by pushing very hard against unjust
things. I believe I do the world a service by pointing out what is wrong.
Because after all, how could anything ever go right if I don't point out
what's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong?

So, I have become a bastion of ferreting out the unjust and evil and unwanted. As a resllt, I am a sacrificial hinder-er of wellbeing!