Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE

« Your pot of gold | Main | Do something different »

Putting matters straight

I received some comments from a reader recently about my blogs and how he did not believe this so-called Law of Attraction and the concept of 'Like attracts Like', and how can this possibly hold true when we 'know' that opposites are likely to attract towards one another and magnetic forces pull towards the opposite polarity. He also commented, how can someone who talks of Being Grounded, believe or promote such 'airy-fairy' nonsense ideas? Very reasonable points to make, I thought and it would be appropriate if I write a bit more about my own views. As there was a degree of anger and judgement evident in his tone and vocabulary, I wondered if he may hold some attitude or issue. However it's quite likely that I am mistaken, but I would still like to pick up on some relevant points.

If you have been visiting my blog for a while, you will probably have read what I've said about 'Law of Attraction' and Loving me, Loving You. Naturally, these reflect my own beliefs and I would certainly not profess to understand everything or claim that they are absolute and irrefutable!! Some things are inexplicable to our understanding and we can make our choices about what we believe or not. However I would like to offer a few personal thoughts on these points. I do empathise when some people say they can't accept a concept unless it is proven and that they can understand it. However you'll no doubt agree, we don't need to know how the car engine works to drive the car.

To compare or contest the concept of 'Like attracts Like' with that of magnetism, I feel is rather like arguing water is not a liquid. I see it as being all the same thing.

A magnet does not exist without having opposing polarities within itself; it is both negative and positive together, molecules arranged to form polarities. The metal magnet is attracted to another metal magnet. One magnet cannot be attracted to another magnet without attracting both ends as they are one and the same thing. If we look closely enough at ourselves through a microscope, we too are made of molecules. We are all molecules bound together by energy, just as the magnet, but arranged differently. Indeed we ARE energy. Everything is moving within itself if we examine closely enough, wood, metal, stone, liquid and living tissue,... all constantly moving. Everything is energy.

If we have two guitars tuned correctly and we pluck the G string on one, the G string on the other guitar which may be lying on the floor, will also vibrate; they resonate at the same frequency. We also attract people/things towards us on the same frequency. Although some people may appear superficially to be 'opposites', they can be thinking and feeling subconsciously on frequencies that will attract people/things matching the frequency they send out. And this 'sending out' of frequencies is not selective; it's happening all the time with every thought and feeling we get (which are all electromagnetic resonances and frequencies) so we end up having experiences in life that match our thinking and feelings. It's the same with our sexual persuasion; we give out energies and we will attract people of a similar orientation. If we think angry thoughts we attract more situations towards us that will give us more angry thoughts. But give someone a smile. we'll more than likely get a smile back. How often have you thought of someone you haven't seen for a while and within a few days, they've contacted you, or you've heard something about them?

We can use the 'Law' of Attraction by being selective about what we think, so we attract what we do like towards us.....by thinking about nice things. By feeling 'love', with or without someone acting as a catalyst, we will attract more situations towards us that bring us the experience of love. People 'falling in love' look really healthy and well. Love is healing and gives growth, whereas hate, anger over long periods cause sickness and illness.

Naturally, the above concepts are what I believe in and I would not pretend to suggest that they are any more absolute than alternative concepts that may be offered by others. But for me, they ring with truth, as I can think of hundreds of personal experiences to support them. The nature of a blog is such that it allows personal views to be expressed and if you share the same views, then I'm happy that you join me. If not, then I respect your differing views.

Many of my blogs also refer to poise and posture. In contrast to the other topics that I refer to above, the information that I impart or tips and ideas that I suggest are based on the Alexander Technique and supported by factual and scientific studies. This is my profession. As such I offer them to you, to the best of my ability as reliable information.

So, with regards to our physical situation here on earth and Being Grounded, it's clear that we're living as creatures, coping with balance in relation to the gravity. As bipeds on two feet and the same applies to four-legged animals, our whole skeletal-muscular structure has developed to enable us to respond to the gravitational pull. Indeed we have reflexes that cause us to stand and lengthen upwards away from earth, just by simply 'needing' or instinctively 'wishing' to be tall....maybe to see into the distance. However, there is a real tendency for modern man/woman who sit behind desks for 10 hours a day and who get into postural habits such as slouching, stooping and stiffening, to get physically off balance so we are under the constant threat of falling over. This can cause us to strain muscles unceasingly through the day in unhealthy and unnatural ways. With such constant strain, our problems get worse over time.

When we're physically off balance, there is no way we can be emotionally centred, as the threat of falling, subconscious as it may be, undermines our security; our safety is under threat. In consequence we are probably stiffening our neck as part of our fight/flight reflex and as well as our head weight being off balance to compensate. This neck tension also gives rise to anger, fear and unnecessary stress.

By improving our balance and poise, and by releasing our neck of unnecessary tension, we find that we become more physically secure on earth and probably less prone to emotional highs and lows. Problems are more able to be coped with, rather like water off a duck's back. We may also find that we are comfortable and secure enough, physically and emotionally in our own existence to accept or accommodate new concepts that we may otherwise seem threatening. I can really understand it when people respond to unusual or 'difficult' concepts by getting angry, as this often has a basis in fear. By enhancing our postural well-being, we also help our emotional condition and life can become a whole lot better in so many ways.

Posted by Noël on July 13, 2007 1:34 PM | Permalink