Ian has mentioned a couple of time about Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) "healing himself" when this "law of attraction" nonsense has come up a few times.
Positive thinking, defining and making the effort to reach goals is perfectly plausiable and that is NOT what the "Law of Attraction" is, the Law of Attraction has to do with sending out vibrations and is magic, and not real.
Here are the facts with Scott Adams.
- he's been dyslexic his entire life
- in 1992 he was diagnosed with focal dystonia, which made it hard for him to draw his cartoons. He was able to work around it by developing a physical pattern of drawing that worked for him. Eventually the problem went away. It came back in 2004 and instead of doing what he did before he got a new drawing tool that allowed him to work with little noticable difference to the end user.
- in December 2005 he announced that he has spasmodic dysphonia, a brain abnormality that affects speech for which there is no known cure. There are treatments to manage it thought, and Scott is one of a few people for who the condition comes and goes, and is able to manage it through vocal exercises and cognitive thearapies. Scott has not complletely recovered, he still has a raspy, tinny voice, but at least he can talk. One article says " His doctor told him that nobody with this condition has ever regained the ability to speak." That doctor was wrong, and the condition doesn't necessarily mean that people won't be able to speak at all.
Scott didn't cure himself of spasmodic dysphonia. He's experienced a temporary reprieve from it based on some personal experimentation.
If he takes this further and develops a process which works permanently for everyone with the condition, then it will be correct to say that he has cured it.
None of this has to do with the magic of the "Law of Attraction", it has to do with effort and work and a positive attitude.
Here's what the basis of the "Law of Attraction" is, it's "vibratrions" and "energies" and it's nonsense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXqzRulbMyUSources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_dystonia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphoniahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050901066.htmlhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15446515/http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/25/scott-adams-hacks-hi.html