Using The Law Of Attraction aka The Secret To Grow Taller And Increase In Height

Using The Law Of Attraction aka The Secret To Grow Taller And Increase In Height

I have no idea why in the last week or so the website has been getting traffic from some very unique and interesting websites and forums on the internet. There are people who have been on this forum called www.PowerfulIntentions.org (We are not linking to this specific website) which is an online community for people who believe in the Idea of The Law of Attraction aka “The Secret” which had been this New Age type of revolution sparked by the author Rhonda Byrne. I am guessing that the people are linking back to this website to validate the idea that making humans can use the Law of Attraction aka The Secret to grow taller and increase in height.

The fact that is I’ve personally written over half a dozen posts proposing the ideas that one could use their minds to make themselves taller. The ideas range form using positive affirmations to visualizations, prayer, NLP, autosuggestion, qigong, hypnosis, and whatever else we’ve written brought up. In every single one of those posts, I had concluded with the idea that a person can not make themselves taller through a change in believes or attitude.

All of these posts have one central idea that they claim, which is that if we change the state of our minds, or even our real ‘selves’ (whatever that means) we would be somehow be able to increase the length or volume of our bones.

Many people who have tried to find evidence to validate this idea that if you desperately want something enough, and just imagine it in your mind, often point to the case of Oprah Winfrey. There is a famous story often told by her about how she became completely fixated on the novel “The Color Purple” and how she desperately wanted to be in a movie about the novel. She played in the movie back in 1985. She became obsessed about the story. She moved to Chicago and got a call to audition for that exact movie. While that may be a very inspirational story, the problem is that due to law the average of large numbers, there is bound to be situations where strange coincidences happens like the one she mentioned.

The billionaire lawyer partner of Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway is Charlie Munger. I personally own Munger’s book on mental models called “On Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger“. Munger has this brilliant set of mental models he uses to assess any business that reaches his desk to decide whether he wants to invest or not.

The best part of that books is probably the section where the book goes really deep in describing the set of confidence tricks, and self biases we all have to do to make our egos feel validated. As mortal creatures we often misunderstand how the universe really works because of bad judgement and ego defence mechanisms.

For example, the reason why we only hear from the winners in anything (like the local High School Basketball team who won State in a movie) is due to this thing called Survivor Bias. Oprah Winfrey is probably the clearest example of Survivorship Bias. If she thinks that her success is all due to her actions and her hard work, it would explain probably 20% of it all. Most likely than not, 80% of her success is determined just by dumb luck. No one ever tells the story of the group of people who tried their hardest to win or survive, but in the end failed or died. None tells the loser’s story, since there is no happy ending. When most people go see a movie, the need for a happy ending is derived from our human need to have hope. The key difference most people understand and fully accept is that real life does not mirror the movies. Sometimes bad things happen and we couldn’t do anything about it. Most people just don’t want to admit to ourselves that we are in denial and deceiving ourselves.

(For example, everyone can intellectually grasp the theoretical concept of death, and may be even able to hear the news of their parents being diagnosed with cancer. The fact is that in America, 1 out of 3 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. 1 out of 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer. None of us thinks that we will be in the half of the population which will get cancer. However, for a person himself/herself be diagnosed with cancer is the type of situation where people get a real reality check. No one wants to fully admit that they are going to die, even though we might be able to handle everyone else dying in front of us completely calmly. When death starts to knock on our door, we change and start to take notice. )

When we are the ones getting the universe’s bad mojo and horrible luck given to us, on something which we have absolutely no control over, we feel completely helpless. We create this imaginary image in the sky of a god to justify the unfairness of life. Just like how we can’t manifest what we want towards us, we can’t manifest what we don’t want away from our lives. 

Of course, it is absolutely true about the old adage ‘luck = preparation + opportunity”. If you plan ahead, create some type of life blueprint or map, set goals for yourself, and take action, you are more likely to get to where you want to be. Hard work, being smart enough to realize when there is a great opportunity in front of you, and taking the calculated leap or risk at the right time, is all on you. However, most of it, is just pure dumb luck. It is absolutely true that the most successful people only focus and work on the things that they actually have a control over.

However, there is no way that we can link our thoughts to the shape and form of our bones. It has been shown that extreme negativity and abusive environments can stunt a child’s growth, but there has been no evidence to show that happy, supportive environments in a child will lead to them being taller. There are hundreds of ways to stunt a child and make them shorter but there has been not a single easy way to make them taller. I would guess that a real clinical test would show no statistically significant increase in the overall adult height.

The Law of Attraction is a believe system which is really a repackaged idea which has been stated multiple time over in human history. Before Rhonda Byrne came out, James Allen wrote the same message in his book “As A Man Thinketh“. The Buddha stated in the Dhammapada in the first line that we are what we think about. The central message behind the Law of Attraction is that “Thoughts Become Things“.  This actually shows that our thoughts are objects, not processes. Our thoughts does not manifest into an object though. Just because we think of an apple doesn’t mean an apple will all of a sudden drop from the sky.

Similarly, thoughts do not change the physiology of our bodies. We admit that for some things in life, maybe we can trick ourselves and our minds to change our life slightly. With enough visualization and autosuggestion, we can trick our brains to help us run faster, or think clearer to do better on a test.

Happier thoughts may lower high blood pressure since the emotion inducing hormones are released by the brain to relax the muscles in the heart, but there are no changes with the bone structure. The bones are just too strong to mold. That is why I suggest to anyone who wants to try using the Law of Attraction to grow taller to stop doing it. It just won’t work.

7 thoughts on “Using The Law Of Attraction aka The Secret To Grow Taller And Increase In Height

  1. michaelbarone

    You’re another case of either a misleader or you’ve simple been brainwashed into this negative mindset.
    There are tons of people who have grown taller by the will of their mind.
    That is nothing to the universe.
    But you’ve been brainwashed by the for profit medical establishment that love to mislead people and keep them from really knowing the power of their own minds and bodies.
    God help you.

    1. Ikkd

      Tottaly agrree with Michealbarone, Law of atraction exist, i have gotten a better life with it, u can have ANYTHING!!

      And yuyeah u can grow taller too with LOA, I saw an after and before picture of a friend I have in powerful intention, she swore etc, that she used LOAt o do it, so yeah I believe in her..why we are good friends….She went from green to brown…if that i possible then growing taller is too….

  2. Michael Barone

    Thank you Lkkd

    The pituitary gland and the liver are the two organs that regulate growth, by CREATING and dispersing growth hormone.
    Keep in mind there’s no limit to how much growth hormone the pituitary can produce, it’s continuous and regulated by the brain.

    And it’s proven that the mind has incredible control over the brain and body.
    People have been cured of cancer, paralysis, completely changed their physics, and yes many people have grown taller in their 20s, some have even claimed their 30s.
    It’s proven that affirmations and suggestion heavily influence your subconscious and in turn your body.
    Growing taller is as simple as convincing your pituitary to release growth hormone to influence your bones.

    It’s simple but it’s not easy.

    If anybody knows people who have had success and can give us tips please comment on this blog!

  3. Billie

    Uneducated and incorrect. Read “The Biology Of Belief” by Dr Bruce Lipton where he gives physical scientific evidence that we control our own bodies.

    I hate when people give their own PERSON VIEW of the law of attraction and state it as a fact. Your BELIEF if you can’t change your body. Therefore you’ll never be able to. That is simply a limit you put on yourself. That is not a fact. Research it.

  4. Randy Orton

    This is some stupid taller person’s jealousy who is definitely ugly.

    you guys can’t even imagine how fucking easy it was to me to grow taller,,,,well I’m way intelligent then stupid world and I had grown 5’4 to 5’11 in just 4 months. Just imagine yourself taller than taller people and Don’t hold any stupid thought in mind which signals that you are shorter——- like I’m short but attractive or imperfect or strong or intelligent just make yourself taller with broader shoulders otherwise it is better to be short.

    I did it for my game otherwise I only prove right concepts to stupid peoples in world.

  5. Kumayl

    You are foolish. A soul who’s mind is corrupted by the everyday life rituals. You have been taught what is impossible and what is possible. Right now I am using the hypnosis to grow. I have not seen any difference as of yet, but mark my words, I AM going to die tall.

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