“Our crisis is no longer material, it is existential, it is spiritual.” says Mark Manson. But as a human race, aren’t we already successful? given the fact that we live in an era where artificial intelligence is taking the center stage.
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We still feel a need to be productive every single day, do something meaningful. So, this means we are chasing individual success. This takes us to two contradicting theories:
1.The law of attraction which believes that what you think about consistently will eventually become your reality. Manifestation is the key principle here. Many great leaders like Albert Einstein, Napoleon Hill, and Bob Proctor speak about the Law of Attraction in their works.
2.The Backwards law in a very layman term can be described as “the harder we try to be successful, the less likely we shall succeed. Aldous Huxley and Alan Watt, two western philosophers propounded the backwards law.
Now arises the question of utmost importance, which of these contradicting laws should we follow in order to attain our goals? I would like to use the concept of yin and yang to answer this question.
Yin and Yang is a Chinese philosophical concept that describes how contrary forces may actually be interdependent in the natural world. By applying this philosophy, we can create a state of equilibrium between the opposing laws. However, this equilibrium will be subjective, leaning towards a particular law more than the other depending on the individual belief system of the person wanting to reach a particular goal, no matter how small or big it might be.
The ultimate power of attaining a goal lies in our hands, the beauty is to manifest just the right amount and leave the rest to the universe while we stop trying to put in efforts and focus on creating a healthy routine for ourselves, while the universe works on converting our manifestations into reality.