Life Update: How the Law of Attraction ruined my life! 

Same story for me. 😔 It ruined my life. Trying to be positive when bad things happen, is okay, but when we believe that being happy will help us get our best life, and it doesn't, it crushes us. I also followed Law of Assumption, which doesn't happen difficult rules, but even then I failed. The only successful people are the RU-vid teachers and coaches that earn their money from ad revenue and coaching. That seems like a classic scam. I think we should accept that we drank the kool-aid, and fell for teachers who parrot Neville and other teachers. Wasted 4 years on this garbage. Broke my mental health by forcing myself to be positive. I don't care anymore. I'm happy with a mediocre life, as long as I'm happy.

I don't bother with this stuff anymore. Just got to live your life, take the good and bad. You seem a very kind, honest down to earth person. It's brave of you to go against the grain knowing you will get a lot of flack from law of attraction believers. Most will get mean due to you challenging their beliefs, which is unnecessary. Most people who leave comments against you are more than likely down and out, looking for hope in this, and I totally get that. Thanks for sharing. I hope things look up with your situation brother, and don't give up. Not the universe, I believe in YOU. Take care.

I live in the Netherlands and it is so refreshing to know an alternative view on the "the law of attraction". For instance to pray or to manifest large amounts of money, then if all would desire this then societies are bound for bankrupcy.

I wasted 5 to 6 years with this crap and it ruined my metal health. OCD and depression got really bad. I honestly got so much more happening in my life rn that I don’t care about the law than before. I got unstuck. My mental health improved as well.

I remember a couple of years ago, I was searching for someone who spoke negatively about the Law of Attraction. I found some Christians labeling it as the devil’s work, of course, but I wanted to hear from someone who actually tried to make the Law of Attraction work, like yourself. To my surprise, I couldn't find anyone. It's amazing and refreshing to find someone who actually critiques the Law of Attraction, and yes, it can be very dangerous. Unfortunately, the truth is that not everyone is going to be successful in life. It depends on so many variables that it's incalculable. Yes, hard work and dedication can help and can get you places, but that's not always true in this world. I left you another comment on another video explaining my reasons for saying that.

I agree, I've done everything possible to create the best conditions for the Law of Attraction in my life and it's done absolutely nothing for me. It feels as if I've gone backwards. When you speak about the frustration and the depression that comes from these teachings I relate, because you do everything you're supposed but get zero results. I've now completely cut off these ways off thinking, I don't watch videos, I don't listen to 'gurus' and I don't even care anymore. Let me tell you, I feel so relived that I don't have to do all these affirmations, and meditations and positive thinking all the time. I wish you all the best on your journey sir your video is valuable.

I don't know if it works or not. Some things has worked or been very opportune. However the bigger items has not worked at all or has been very frustrating. For example, I was homeless and I am fortunate to be living somewhere now. However, I have been treating for a home of my own and all I have is a vision for a new home. I want a job and to finish college and all I have experienced is frustration and going around in circles. I feel like Moses who has seen the promised land but never reached it or like Tanatalus taunted by water and fruit. I was clotheless and I got clothing but I'm still not financially independent or even have a job. I learned skills but not found employment. I feel almost like a beggar. I feel like I'm on the threshold of success and destitution. Struggling to breathe and be free but still being weighed down by what I don't know, understand or see. I tried agriculture and am doing better than most of my colleagues regarding production. Yet no matter how much I try, I am barely getting any sales, but I have colleagues who are sold out weekly. I am tired, frustrated and almost ready to die. I keep asking what did I do to deserve this torture? What?

It is quite the dilemma. Not only does confirmation bias want us to support our own beliefs which could be true or false, survivorship bias makes the success stories much more available, as you stated. On top of that, we will naturally chose to follow the path of least resistance. Masking the problem is always easier short-term than bettering it. I clicked on this video because I personally do believe in the law of attraction, but wanted to see how I could be wrong. I feel like the law has worked for me in almost magical ways, but I also feel like I am purposefully forgetting the times when it didn't--confirmation bias. And by seeing this video, I finally have the chance to witness the other side of survivorship bias--the "failed" cases. I believe you are a great person. You tried hard, probably more than most, for three years straight. Yet you would have to be psychotic to keep pushing without any results, which I hope we are both glad you are not haha. I'm not here to judge whether you are doing the "techniques" incorrectly or if there are deeper limiting beliefs within you that you are covering up with this obsession. I guess I'm just here to leave a comment and hope the law works in some backwards way to give to you what you've spent three years trying to get. Here's a sub and a like as well.

Hello, putting my own personal beliefs aside I would just like to say thanks for taking the time and for sharing your story with us.

look into stoicism.

Thank you for your gifts, Karl.

I think the issue is admitted in the beginning. You were obsessed with law of attraction. Obsession isnt how it works.

It is not just about visualizing and feeling good, that's why the books lied to you. It's about your belief system, and your hidden beliefs that you are not aware of. You can do all the visualizing stuff but if deep down you don't realistically believe your goal is possible then that is your TRUE belief. I was like you, I got obsessed and consumed 200+ books on LOA. My life went into a downward spiral, I lost everything, I was $100K in debt, my health suffered. I had a lot of childhood trauma. But I did not give up, all of this was happening to make me better. I persisted, it took 5 years but I turned everything around. I am a self made millionaire today, my business is thriving, my health is back, I found a beautiful wife. It is real, just not how you think it is.

Personally I think the law of attraction and those similar stuff is just for motivation and personality development. The rest of stuff is just bull

LOA is very real, just not in the way people think of it.

😂😂if it were true my primary crush could be my girlfriend...law of assumption/attraction is so Bs

I believe you are focusing too much on the material aspect instead of the energetic aspect of law of attraction. Whatever energy you put out into the world you will get back. You must give with a cheerful heart to be able to receive blessings from the universe.

Just be honest are you giving the real thing

I tried it i really have to read my bible after i see its no good. 😊 thats why I'm here.

It works in America

😂 dude read Bible once, in bible mark 11:24 it is written that " Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours., also you need to understand the very law of attraction is derived from Bible, do you know who is joseph murphy, he had written the book the power of your subconscious mind, he was a priest, and do you know who had written the bookt called the power of positive thinking, norman vincent, he was a clergyman, which means what Jesus had tell you in bible and the law of attraction are same, also Jesus said in the Bible, those who have, more will be given, those who dont, even what he have will taken away, this is also law of attraction, stay in the vibration of your wish fulfilled, untill it manifests in your 3d reality, without any doubt, it will come to pass

god bless you for this

Your belief is one that bad things happen. You’re so animated in your victimhood. You don’t “try”, it’s your belief you have to change. Law of assumption/ attraction is bunk, but beliefs do create or builds like a snowball that turns into an avalanche.

You say "obsessed" a lot. That's the key to your problems. Wanting stuff and obsessing over it is not manifesting. You are reminding yourself you do not have these things. Neville Goddard stated many times, about mental diet. Imagine yourself in the 'End State' with belief then let it go. Manifesting is about going inside of you, and discovering why you need things outside of yourself. That's when you discover you don't. That's when what you need manifests for you.

First of all, you seem to be a great guy, hardworking and determined. Respect. But you also seem kinda naive. The "Law of Attraction" only increases your chances of achieving your goal and doesn't guarantee it, as you mentioned with the President's example-that would be impossible. Did the Law of Attraction ruin your life? C'mon, you tried and failed, so what? I believe it was a nice try from you. You did well. Being overly positive despite things going wrong is just being delusional and it's surely not helpful-you need to accurately assess your situation. I believe that the purpose of the Law of Attraction is to connect you with the person you want to become. You don't need to focus solely on positive thoughts but on becoming the person who deserves what you yearn for. What do you need to do to be in that situation? What would that person do if they were in your position? If you visualize the person you want to become and feel the emotion and satisfaction from their perspective, you get a stimulus to act. You have a goal, and you should ask yourself how you can achieve it. If something doesn't work, something doesn't work - then how can you get it? Try and fail. In this case, the Law of Attraction starts to move you. It gives you a reason. How is that a scam? "Seek and Ye Shall Find" subscribed

Jesus Christ is God. King james bible is God's perfect Word, absolute truth.

We don't search for love because it's absent..it seems to be absent because we search for it.

You should give your life to Jesus and trust him for your life and needs! Amen

I honestly think u might r doing it wrong. It has nothing to do with just Manifesting etc. U have to feel it. I mean u have to know this after all those books, but maybe not. If u feel happy all the time, things will happen that make u feel more happy. U r just wishing for things. Wishing for change. Etc. That makes things worse Also the comment u posted. That guy doesnt understand anything. He is in a constand state of lack. Of course things will get worse. Also if u think about driving ur dreamcar u shlould NOT be crazy excited at all. It is ur car. Its nothing special. Its has to feel completely normal to have it. And now ur Brain is looking for things that prove that the loa is wrong. So of course it will fuck up ur live 😅 U first have to know what u really want. Which is almost never a car or milions of Money. Most people don’t even get this First Step right and thats why they fail. They only know what they don’t want. And oc they attract what they don’t want in that case. BTW is reality just an Illusion. So oc can all 50 get President. If u r Stuck in ur mind, still Identity as a Human beeing etc. the loa will never work for u

I get it. Just let go and let God.

hmm, I think that you are trying/have tried too hard. Your explanation of all that you have done seems forced, and thereby seems unnatural. Obsession is not the way to manifestation, but rather the way to insanity.

Read the bibel Jesus say if u belive it will happen. U not better than GOD I BELIVE GOD NOT U

It has always worked for me. You need to try harder and be positive

You have some massive resistance in your core beliefs. Very important, the teachings of the Secret are rubbish ....It is actually not called the law of attraction , it is the law of assumption.... You don't attraction attract anything .... It is a state of being