Transcription
Hi, I am Teacher Chen. In our concept of the law of attraction, we believe that whatever we wish for, whatever we actively think about, will manifest. However, the law of attraction often reflects our unconscious parts. The things we think in our subconscious are the most terrifying. So, in this episode, we will talk about a person, Carl Jung. When Jung recalled his childhood, he told a story. After you hear this story, you will understand that the subconscious is the most deeply influential intention in the entire law of attraction. Many people have also summarized this law as Murphy's Law, which states that whatever you worry about the most will happen. Worrying about making a mistake, being fired, or suffering investment losses – yes, it will come true. Worrying that your partner will be taken away from you – yes, they will be taken away. Why is it that the more we worry about something, the more it happens? What is the mechanism behind it? Jung explained this long ago. In his autobiography, he recounted several stories from his childhood. Jung discovered that when he was a child, he frequently encountered dangerous situations and got hurt. For example, he would inexplicably roll down the stairs at home, or almost fall into the Rhine River, or suddenly get a shock and hit his head. Jung encountered these accidents more than once; he encountered them frequently. So, under normal circumstances, we would think that children are just being naughty, which is normal. But as Jung grew up, he recalled his childhood and made a startling discovery. He said that none of this was an accident. He said that every accident that happened in his childhood was his subconscious suicidal impulse. And this can be understood in the context of every person and every accident. If normal people think, "What reason do I have to want to commit suicide for no reason? Even if I'm world-weary, I wouldn't want to commit suicide every day. We all want to live, so why would we want to die?" In Jung's view, the accidents and dangers we encounter are not accidents at all, but rather our subconscious deliberately causing these things to happen. How did Jung prove this? It is said that when he was twelve years old, he was waiting for another classmate to go home together after school in the morning. At that moment, another classmate suddenly rushed over and pushed him down. Jung hit a stone by the roadside and lost consciousness. And at the moment Jung hit the stone, he clearly remembered what he was thinking. He wasn't angry at the person who pushed him, but a thought flashed through his mind: "I finally don't have to go to school anymore." Then he fainted. In fact, he recovered very quickly. And when his mother called him to go to school, he would inexplicably faint. So, for the next six months, Jung did not go to school. Because this book is Jung's memoir, he had no reason to lie. He said that this fainting was not him pretending to faint, but that he genuinely fainted and did not improve. His family thought it was a sequela of the head injury, and Jung himself thought so too. So when did he recover? And why? It wasn't because a doctor cured him, but because when Jung heard his father and another friend crying and saying, "I've seen many doctors, and I can't cure my son. I've used up all my savings, so I have to borrow money from a friend." Jung accidentally overheard this by the window. After hearing this, Jung felt a "ding" and felt very guilty. From then on, he recovered and no longer fainted, and could go to school. So, why did Jung later research the collective unconscious so thoroughly? It was largely related to his childhood experiences. He discovered that his injury was entirely orchestrated by his subconscious. Even on the day he wrote his memoir, he was not angry at the classmate who pushed him. Instead, he felt a little grateful to that classmate at the time. That classmate usually had no interaction with him, but for no reason that day, as if guided by fate, pushed him down. Then he deliberately stood next to a stone, which ultimately led to this classmate pushing him down. Although he did not consciously arrange this event, it was as if it happened willingly. Even after this event happened, he himself did not know that it was arranged and paved by his own subconscious. This kind of unconscious attraction is actually the majority of what we manifest through the law of attraction. Most of the time, when our hearts are burdened with guilt and remorse, when we experience failure in life, lose money, or lose something, although on the surface you may feel very dejected, feel very unhappy, and feel miserable, for some reason, a sense of pleasure arises within you. I have experienced this myself. Every time I lost money or someone borrowed money and didn't return it, a voice inside me would say, "It's deserved. That's right. That money doesn't belong to you." Although on the surface, I had lost that money, lost that money, and was heartbroken, and it took me a long time to make up for that loss. But in that instant, in that flash of lightning, you feel a sense of relief and pleasure. It is the feeling Jung spoke of, that momentary feeling. You really don't know why you feel this pleasure. You don't know why you have these thoughts. Ask anyone, and logically, no one would want to be unhappy, want to lose money, want to be sick, want to be injured. No one would say so. But there is always a moment within you that wants you to be like this. The reason behind it might be that you are carrying some guilt, and you want to atone for it through losing money or getting injured. Or perhaps you encounter something you want to escape from, just like Jung, wanting to escape through getting injured. We often think we know ourselves well, but you truly know nothing about your subconscious. We spend our whole lives learning this, learning that, understanding this, understanding others, but have you ever understood yourself? Have you ever understood yourself? Ask yourself seriously: Who are you? I don't know if you feel that this self, this subconscious self, is a very unfamiliar self. It might be contrary to what you think in your conscious, manifest consciousness. It wants you to go bankrupt, while you want to be healthy. It wants you to get cancer. You really shouldn't deny it. I have thought of all these things. I clearly remember when I was a child, I liked a girl in my class, but I found out she didn't like me. Then my subconscious thought, "Why don't I get sick? If I get sick, I'll feel a little better. If I get sick, I can also punish her and make her sympathetic." Don't deny this. When I was a child, I had such thoughts. As you grow older and older, you encounter many things, carry many burdens, and your subconscious becomes more mature. It actually grows with you from childhood to your current age. It is the same age as you. You were born on the same month, day, and year. It knows what you know, it has learned what you have learned, it has thought what you have thought. It is like an opposite you, another you in the mirror. If you are strangers to this self, completely ignorant of it, then it is possible that this subconscious self will cause your life to be very bad. Of course, I am not asking you to fight with yourself. We need to reconcile with this subconscious self. We need to get to know this subconscious self mutually, and then jointly create a life that we both are willing to see and want to see. When you are like this, your law of attraction will align with what you think in your conscious mind. Otherwise, it will always operate according to the rules of the subconscious. So, this is why Murphy's Law exists and why it is effective. In fact, if you look at it from a deeper level, Murphy's Law is also the law of attraction, but it only attracts negative things. So, if we want to get rid of Murphy's Law, the first thing we need to do is to accept Murphy's Law. We need to accept the subconscious that tends towards wisdom, because the conscious mind is more about our daytime selves, while the subconscious mind is more about our nighttime selves, our dark side, our陰暗面 (yīn'àn miàn - dark side). We tend to love positive energy and reject negative energy. We tend to suppress these emotions. But action and reaction, you all know very well. The harder you push, the greater the reaction. So, our subconscious is actually becoming more powerful than our suppression, and it is this that in turn affects our lives. And the law of attraction we often talk about, we often focus on the techniques, the technical aspects, meaning we make wishes, what we want on the surface, how to place orders with the universe. But in fact, we neglect the care of the subconscious, allowing our subconscious to place orders, making our subconscious feel abundant. Only then will your law of attraction manifest. This is why I often meditate, why I recommend so many meditations to everyone. Why are positive affirmations useful? Why is the Ho'oponopono method, that is, "I'm sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you," these four sentences, so useful? Because these affirmations, these positive phrases, actually re-pave our subconscious, making our subconscious think as if it has switched systems. Ten years ago, a movie called "Inception" was released, also known as "Dream Heist." What Leonardo DiCaprio's character did was essentially to do all these things to enter his deepest subconscious and plant a seed, so that when he woke up, his view on a certain matter would be completely different. This can clearly explain how much the subconscious influences us, how difficult it is to change the subconscious, and what you can gain after changing the subconscious. This movie has already told you. Alright, that's all for this episode. I am Teacher Chen. Goodbye.