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The Laws of Unattraction: Top 10 Appealing, Eye-Catching and Attractive Tips On How to STOP Being Unattractive from Janice Taylor, beliefnet Blogger.

Chances are you've heard about the Laws of Attraction. The basic concept is that you attract into your life whatever you think about. Positive thoughts and beliefs create a positive life; negative thoughts and beliefs attract negativity.

One sure way to get those positive vibes swirling out there is to be attracted to yourself, in a healthy and self-affirming way (not in a narcissistic, oh my goodness, Im the greatest ever, wheres the mirror I need to look at myself again - kind of way). Truthfully, if you arent attracted to you, if you dont fully recognize your qualities and embrace yourself, how attractive could you possibly be to the universe.

One thing we dont want to do is throw a false blanket of positivity on top of a basement full of unattractive thoughts and behaviors. Lets get in there, excavate, STOP .. and make some mind-altering changes and create space for the positive life that we are craving!

Top 10 Appealing, Eye-Catching and Attractive Tips on How to STOP Being Unattractive

1. STOP doing what is bad for you!
Keep in mind that determining what is bad is completely subjective. So dig deep and be honest. Make a list of at least ten things that you are currently doing that are bad for you from sleeping too late, to eating too much, to dating bad boys! Or bad girls, for that matter. And then STOP doing those things!

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People ask me what my new novel's about. It's a thriller set in San Francisco, I tell them. The heroine's Jo Beckett, a forensic psychiatrist. It's The Dirty Secrets Club.

These people then give me a look. Dirty secrets, they say - how much do you know about that? Those years you lived near San Francisco, what kind of crazy things did you get up to?

I can't talk them out of the look, no matter how many times I explain that novels are fiction. They nod, and say: Of course you invented the club. For the book. Sure you did.

Then, with the same expression of disbelief, they say: a forensic psychiatrist. Did you make that one up? Does the job actually exist?

Absolutely.

Jo Beckett performs psychological autopsies to determine whether equivocal deaths are suicide, accident, or murder. When the police can't determine the manner in which somebody has died, she's the one they call. She's the last hope in puzzling cases. She's a deadshrinker.

And her job is very real. A forensic psychiatrist doesn't open up victims' bodies, but their lives. She digs into people's passions, secrets, and obsessions to find out what has killed them. Her territory is the psyche and the human heart.