Article written for Adventures in Manifesting (awaiting publication). Read the previous article Part 1 – “Why the ‘bad’ stuff happens” here.
Many people have written about the law of attraction, in one form or another, based on Newton’s law of inter-attractiveness, or gravity. It’s the scientific principle that underlies the phenomenon of “The Secret”. But very few, in comparison, have written about Ohm’s law which is just as powerful, perhaps more so. To understand how this law can negatively impact your subconscious and subsequent behaviour we must first understand this law of resistance proposed in 1827 by Georg Ohm.
Have you ever gone out of your way to avoid something, but it’s happened anyway? If this scenario has happened once or many times in your life then you’ve probably been left wondering “why me?” Truly it’s not bad luck, the ‘curse’ or any sort of conspiracy against you. Rather it’s simply Ohms Law in action.
In the 1999 Movie “The Matrix” Morpheus explains to Neo “If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.” So if we exist primarily due to the electromagnetic impulses that surge through our bodies then we can begin to understand how the concept of resistance, and this law, could have a big effect.
Ohm, the German physicist and mathematician, observed electrical circuits and proposed that ‘current that passes through a resistor between two points is related to the voltage difference between the two points, and inversely related to the electrical resistance between the two points’.
According to Lawrence Fishburne’s character, with the human body generating “more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTVs in body heat” it makes sense that it’s where we direct this energy – the goals, objectives, tasks and thoughts that we channel it into – that matters.
Electricity, or energy, is neither good nor bad. We can use it to give life with a defibrillator, or we can use it to take life in an electric chair. What determines its meaning is the intent behind the energy, and it’s this intent combined with our values that label it destructive or supportive.
Just like a battery, there are opposing choices in our human circuit: positive or negative. When we direct our energy into negative or destructive thoughts about what could happen, we conjure up all sorts of horrible scenarios, filling our conscious mind with images and thoughts. And it’s those very scenarios that with enough thought soon spill over into the subconscious mind, which is what drives our ‘automatic’ behaviours.
The subconscious is a very powerful thing – just like an Aladdin’s lamp it will give you everything you ask for. But it also takes you literally, personally and doesn’t process negatives – every statement you make, verbal or otherwise, has a direct impact on your results. A negative statement like “I don’t want to be late” is interpreted as “I want to be late”. A negative thought like “they want to be broke” may be interpreted as “I want to be broke”. And a throw-away line like “I’m ugly” is taken literally despite your beauty. The old adage ‘be careful what you wish for’ reminds us to take more care with our language, our words and our thoughts, because we just might get exactly what we ask for.
My favourite summary of Ohms law are the words “what you resist, persists”, and it also explains why resistance really is futile – just ask Star Trek’s Borg! The upshot of all this is that we need to learn how to control our negativity in order to boost the manifestations of our goals, just like turning on a light bulb. And that’s exactly what we’ll be discussing in the next article, ‘Flicking the Switch’.