1 post tagged “positive thinking”

I was watching t.v tonight (a rare thing) and got hooked into an Oprah special where she was talking about Rhonda Byrne's, The Secret.




I've seen the book in bookstores and listened to people gabbing about it - like it was some 'new' thing. I'd go buy a copy of it - if I didn't feel I'd be funding Ms Byrne's get rich scheme - just cuz I really can't talk smack about it unless I've read it ... but I'll tell you a secret ...

"The Law Of Attraction" is anything but new - The Power of Positive Thinking was lying around when I was in my teens and the "New Age" types spout this sort of thing all the time - and have been forever.

I have issues with the 'power of positive thinking' - and the mass push to 'forgive everything' so your life will be awesome and you can get rich. This is called 'magical thinking' and those of us based in reality - know better.

I'm a therapist - and a social worker -- what I know is that life is not a level playing field ... watching Oprah talk about how she sees the law of manifestation at work in all she does - makes my ass twitch, cuz its a little different for a multi-millionaire, public figure with bizillions of resources than for say, a 19 year old, black single parent mother in an abusive relationship etc etc -- you get my drift.

We don't all get the same opportunities, and I am disgusted when those who have the lower end of the slope, the worse end of the stick are chastised for not being in their situations, smiling, thinking positive thoughts and waiting for manifestation to sweep through their lives and fix it.

All that said - negative thinking doesn't get you anywhere either -- and It's been awhile since I have felt or talked positive. Life's been difficult and I've not had a lot of power to change things to my advantage. I'm a realist, I see it as it is - but sometimes I forget to see all the things that are working and are ok. I guess a little gratitude and positive thinking can't hurt anyone, eh?