Self Improvement and Law of Attraction Link Love, Volume 6

This is Volume 6 of the Self Improvement and Law of Attraction Link Love series.

This series will be published weekly and will be comprised of links to quality blog posts that have proven to be extraordinary in their ability to assist, inform, or empower the reader. Enjoy!

1) Practical Personal Development - Alex Shalman at Practical Personal Development (a blog about self help and personal growth is hosting a Donation Contest in which you press a button and he donates a dollar. Alex is a stand up guy, and I definitely recommend that you check out his cool effort for charity.

2) Success from the Nest - Tony Clark's post Make Envy Your Friend explains how our reaction to things that happen can be used as fuel for our own success.

3) The Positivity Blog - Henrik Edberg's post One Simple Way to Get a Good Idea is valuable not just for writers or people in business, but for people struggling to find solutions for personal issues as well.

4) Scott H. Young - Double Your Reading Rate is an excellent piece that includes several different levels of consideration for ways to get the most out your reading time.

5) Steve Olson - Leave it to a quality individual like Steve to come up with something positive out of what most consider to be a bad thing. Read his take on What Death Teaches Us About Life.

6) Live the Power - In No Matter What, Karen does an excellent job of pointing out why some people get what they want with the Law of Attraction, while others don't. Even more importantly, she teaches about following your passion!

7) Achieve-IT - Brad Isaac has a great post called Advantages Of Acting Over Being Careful in which he puts forth the obvious as well as the not so obvious benefits of taking action to achieve your dreams.

8) Brian Kim - In his post Why The Underdog Team Pulls Off The Upset, Brian not only breaks down a real-world truth of existence, but he also explains why some people tend to ignore this obvious, but simple concept.

9) Breathing Prosperity - Shauna has a great post entitled Law of Attraction: You Are Who You Hang Out With where she explains that if you want to move forward in life, you must be prepared to hear and deal with the implications of the phrase "You've changed".

10) Random Cool Sites - Item #10 this week includes a couple of websites that I think are worth a few minutes of your time, even though {gasp!} they aren't blogs!

MyGratitudeRocks.com - Cool tools to remind us all that the power of Gratitude is one of our greatest assets.

Don't Click It - Think you can kick the habit? Try out this new concept on web design - No clicks allowed!

That's it for this week! As always, much appreciation to our contributors for their time and their insights!

Is the Law of Attraction the Perfect Scam?

Did you ever seen the original Terminator movie?

There was one part where the psychologist is saying that Reese is crazy, and that his belief in the Terminators being from the future is the perfect fantasy because it doesn't require a shred of evidence.

The Law of Attraction is just like that!

Whether you are a believer or a non-believer there is absolutely no way to prove that you are right - or that you are wrong.

Much like the concept of religion, you see what you want to see when it comes to the Law of Attraction.

Believers will tell you that everything they manifested was a direct result of them properly following the LOA principles.

However, non-believers will try some of the techniques, not see astounding results, and exclaim (if I may borrow James Arthur Ray's comments):

"This stuff doesn't work!"

To once again compare conscious creation to religion, most people will say that having faith or belief is the key to invoking the almighty powers that be.

However, just like religion, if you see (or don't see) results when using the Law of Attraction it is quite impossible to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the LOA was responsible for your results - or lack thereof.

This becomes even more apparent (and non-believers will love this) when the acquisition of dreams by people who use the LOA always and only end up coming about as the result of very down-to-earth and explainable events.

Believers will say that those events would never have happened if it hadn't been for their faith and proper application of the methods, while non-believers will say that the whole thing is a bunch of nonsense.

Who is right?

What if someone were to come up to you and ask you for irrefutable evidence that your faith in and proper practice of your religion was responsible for some amazing turn of events in your life?

Could you prove scientifically that your religion was the direct and only cause for that turn of events?

And before someone calls out the dogs and wants to burn me at the stake for sacrilege, I am not saying that people should not honor their religious beliefs.Quite to the contrary, actually.

If your belief in your religion and your faith in your deity is what allows you to believe that you need to make a conscious effort to live a proper lifestyle, and that you will be rewarded for doing so, then by all means, please keep the faith.

After all, that is exactly what is expected of LOA believers. There are methods and systems for properly and deliberately creating the life that you want to live, and if you fail to honor those guidelines, you don't get what you wanted.

So, is the whole Law of Attraction thing just a scam that is being pulled on the world at large just to line the pockets of a few choice individuals?

Or maybe it is just a belief system that provides a guideline for how to live a prosperous and wonderful life.

There is no way to know, because as I mentioned before, the entire thing - whether you believe it or not - does not require a shred of scientific evidence.

You know. Just like religion.