Law of appreciation
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The law of appreciation is yet another New Age so-called "natural law" that basically states "What you appreciate gets bigger, what you don't appreciate gets smaller. Appreciation builds, evolves and creates harmony. Lack of appreciation motivates self consciousness, self depreciation and self destruction. There is nothing to change, only something to appreciate. You cannot change, you can only appreciate yourself as you are. Appreciation is an attractive force, depreciation is a repulsive force."[1] In other words, if you appreciate something, you get more of it.[2]
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[edit] How to prove this "law" is woo
To prove that this so-called "law" is woo, one must complete the following experiment: find an area in your life that isn't going so well and appreciate the opposite (for example: if you have money trouble, appreciate having money). If things do not get better before they get worse in this area, then, scientifically, this "law" is disproved and is, therefore, not a law of any kind.
Easier yet, pick a body part of yours that isn't the size that you want, and change your attitude towards it. When that doesn't yield your ideal body part dimensions, then scientifically this hypothesis is falsified.
[edit] Differences from "name it and claim it"
While "name it and claim it" is a doctrine found in some Christian circles, this take on the "if I really want it, it will be mine" approach to self-fulfillment is geared more towards New Agers. Otherwise, they are fundamentally the exact same thing: bullshit.