Law of Attraction - Ethics and Long Term Disability

Just on CNN.Com today was an article on “The Secret,” the e-book that has taken the world (literally) by using hurricane outlining, usually referred to as The Law of Attraction. While there may be nothing new about this “Law” – it has been written about for decades – what’s new is the presentation and the recognition of our way of life.

So what is truly at difficulty? Let’s appearance an instance. Not long ago, I heard a girl expressing how “The Secret” had changed her angle – how she would apply the regulation of appeal to alternate her fitness and wealth. She becomes pumped and full of enthusiasm. It seems she had been ill for some time and felt that through “The Secret,” she could attract the price range; she had to find some desperately wanted clinical help. On the surface, the entirety appeared affordable. You entice you what you are trying to find or what you hold inattention. Therefore ask, and you may acquire, a fundamental tenant of “The Secret” or “the Law of Attraction” must yield the effects you are looking for.

“Should” – but there may be more to the tale. It seems the person seeking investment for hospital therapy is on lengthy-term incapacity. Undoubtedly, the man or woman is sick and needs scientific interest. But as Paul Harvey might say – right here’s the relaxation of the story. The individual in question contracted her contamination for 20+ years in the past. That was not revealed to the employer thru whom she has a long-term incapacity. In her phrases, ” have they regarded after I got unwell, it’d were taken into consideration a pre-existing circumstance, and I might now not have acquired my incapacity benefit. So I never talk approximately the ones early days.”

Wow…My first thought changed here and turned into someone who knew that perhaps they wouldn’t qualify for a benefit but become inclined to play the machine for personal use. Would they inclined to be sincere and accept the results? Again, permit me to make it clear – I do not doubt the contamination – I’m concerned about the ethics of taking what may not be theirs. But the story goes deeper.

While on long-time period incapacity, the man or woman in query stated that the insurance employer had her under investigation. It seems that insurance corporations are brief in investigating a good way to keep away from fraudulent claims or payouts. Do coverage companies use moral processes to find out the reality? Probably no longer – but there had been many documented claims of disability while it becomes now not one hundred% genuine. Does this justify unethical investigational processes? No, however, one should see how that would apply while the rest of the tale is found out.

Let’s take it a piece further. A person with a hundred% disability prepares for a huge city journey in anticipation of a prime overall performance at a world-famed venue. Wait – that is perplexing; I thought parents with disabilities – mainly one hundred% were, well shall we embrace, challenged with strenuous effort. I agree. But let’s take a look at the statistics – packing healthy instances, touring to the airport, boarding a plane, going to the lodge, working towards for hours (in anticipation of the overall performance), status for hours (earlier than and throughout the overall performance) after which attending a celebration assembly following. It doesn’t sound like a person who is completely disabled.

But there may be more. How did this cross undetected using the insurance enterprise? Good question. One suitcase became wrapped up like a present so that it’d not seem suspicious as it was taken out of the living. And, upon return, the disabled individual exited (now not at her dwelling), however far away – so that she ought to flow at the back of the building – soar a fence – and sneak in the returned door so that everyone watching might not recognize that she again. And what approximately the suitcases? She had them taken to any other vicinity, so she may want to unpack them a touch at a time – sporting the contents in grocery bags – again to fool any coverage investigator who might be searching.

“I don’t want them to understand I’ve been away. Otherwise, they would observe me and use the experience against me to deny my claim,” stated the person. It appears that the coverage company would contend that she ought to perform a little painting – and even as that might be genuine, she didn’t want to allow them to recognize that.

While I will say, another time, that I don’t doubt her illness – I am surprised at the shortage of ethics and integrity involved in seeking to dupe the coverage employer – thereby allowing the ability to advantage economic gain.

But what does this have to do with the “Law of Attraction?” There are many “legal guidelines” that we live beneath and via which govern our world because it operates every day. There’s the “law of gravity.” We can not deny that. Likewise, there may be another law – some know it as “You attain what you sow” or the “law of purpose and impact.” Either way, as a motivational speaker, I locate that I am called up to talk to groups about this regulation’s application- as I have lived via each of the effects and benefits of its software. I communicate firsthand on Choices: Negative Consequences – Positive Results, a keynote speech that outlines the energy we’ve as people based totally on the alternatives we make. Further, Make It Happen is a keynote presentation outlining the practical application of the “Law of Attraction.”

It seems true that the laws we speak of labor are most effective if they are congruent with different time-honored laws. For instance, the “regulation of enchantment” will no longer praise someone financially if they rob a bank. This is incongruent with the “law of purpose and effect,” which will generate a terrible effect for the theft – prison. Similarly, one will not be rewarded with positive results for a long time thru mendacity.

We attain what we sow, and, normally, on a familiar stage, we’ve got what we attract to us. In this case (I may be proved incorrect – but I don’t assume so), I doubt that the universe, via the “Law of Attraction,” will provide the important funding for the hospital treatment this man or woman seeks – because such enchantment might be incongruent with other familiar laws. Dishonesty, unethical conduct, or lack of integrity, all blended, will produce an outcome that is much less than this folk nice.

As a motivational speaker who speaks on the “Law of Attraction” and the “Law of Cause and Effect,” I feel pressured to share the truth approximately the software of these legal guidelines with this person. Yet, after numerous conversations – I’m pretty satisfied the message might not be heard. So regularly, we get so stuck up in our web of deceit that we cannot see the reality – even when it’s in front of people. More importantly, we may not be inclined to accept the effects of changing our conduct – and at that point, the outcomes – after they appear – will be greater dramatic than we’d ever anticipated. Insurance fraud is punishable by jail – which is not the outcome being sought.