For those of you who also believe/have believed in law of attraction, how do you go about it with ocd? I don’t want to put so much weight on my thoughts because that’s what got me in this mess, but I also believe I create my own reality. It feels like a catch 22. Would love some thoughts on it ❤️🩹 Hope everyone has a decent day!
You’re not wrong; you do create your own reality but by doing/taking action. The LOA and OCD doesn’t go well together bc the LOA places great importance and value on our thoughts, when in reality, they don’t actually mean anything. In a way, it also sounds similar to magical thinking OCD.
@blazed You’re absolutely right it does sound like magical thinking
The law of attraction has failed me so many times. I wouldn't call it a law as there is no scientific evidence that thinking positive thoughts brings positive experiences into your life. Most supporting anecdotes are self-selecting and therefore susceptible to confirmation bias. Since that may sound too matter-of-fact for you, I will just say that dealing with OCD myself has taught me to be skeptical of my thoughts, since so many of my intrusive catastrophizing thoughts are completely unsupported by the evidence. They're just obsessions.
@Anonymous Yeah I totally get you. It just sucks coz it’s something I believed for so long and now I’m like.. this can NOT be healthy for me lol. I’m paying way too much attention to my thoughts and it’s feeding them.
Unfortunately believing in law of attraction made my OCD way worse but to each their own 🤷🏻♀️
@Honeyshark Me too :( started paying wayyy too much attention to each thought
@rathernot Yeah and then trying to “cancel out” negative thoughts 🙈 it got bad for me.
@Honeyshark Omg totalllyyyyy!! I can fully relate
Law of attraction is not a real thing. That isn't my opinion, it's a fact.
@BoogerBrains77 Hm appreciate that but that does sound like an opinion!! Haha
@rathernot - Well, I'm uncertain what your definition of "opinion" is, but a thought popping in your head isn't going to become reality.
What is law of attraction in this context?
Answering this has been a bitch lmao I typed out 3 different messages 🤣 I think LOA is about perspective. Seeing the silver lining to a storm. If you think positively you'll likely happen to notice more positive things around you (not saying they weren't already there). My family also use to say it as show your ass be treated like one but act like you care and you'll get somewhere...The simple act of getting up and taking a shower on a down day can put positivity back into your mind n let you see the day differently. 🤷🏻♂️
Hello, Everyone. My situation got worse when I got to know about The Secret book by Rhonda Bryne. The book mentions that positive thinking attracts positive things in life and negative attracts negative. Every OCD mind is filled with negative thoughts. It means that the negative thoughts will become true because we are keep thinking about them.
I’m having intrusive thoughts of something horrible happening to a loved one and the ocd says that I’m “attracting it to happen” and that no matter what I say or do I’ll “attract” this to become reality when I know logically that it was just a thought but the what if and the “if you do this then____ will happen” I just feel so intensely afraid and I never want these things to be real obviously but idk it’s just a scary what if and it’s hard to believe that something that feels so real is just a thought—- then I proceed after recognizing it’s just a thought to fear that saying that somehow the universe will cause that horrible thing to happen as “proof” so I just sit and wait and beg everyone to be careful and keep in contact with me so I know they are ok The thing is is that nothing ever happens but the fear just feels like it’s actually occurring Goshh I’m a friggin mess
Can anyone relate to this?: I wanted to fix my OCD (aggressive and sexual) by turning to spirituality and spiritual teachings (A Course in Miracles). Now the OCD uses the spiritual content to torture me with existential thoughts and worries all day, for example: „the world is an illusion“ or „you’re just dreaming this — you have to ‚wake up‘“. Problem is that these ocd thoughts are backed up by the spiritual literature. I don’t know what to believe in anymore and if I try to figure that out, I’m back in the ocd cycle again.
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