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Old 11-06-2007, 09:40 AM   #35 (permalink)
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^ Nope. Honestly? It was among the most perfect intentions I ever put out. You see, my actual "intention" was just sitting down and honestly saying how I wanted each area of my life to be (I have 13 areas), and I put down the traits I wanted in the other person, while also noting what I could give. And then totally detached from it. You see, it wasn't a priority at all for me to do that then, so while I realized I might do that stuff at some point, but not now so I just put it out of my head. A little while later (about a month or so) I met her.
Ok, so this is in direct conflict with what The Secret says to do. Maybe people like me are trying too hard because we are instructed by the experienced people (in The Secret anyway) to keep focusing every day and every moment of every day on the thing we want. I tried to follow The Secret. They tell you you have to focus on it, visualize every day what you want, feel good about it, like you already have it, dwell on it, really want it ok, I have been doing that, because that is what it says on The Secret, which is all I have had to go by at this point and it is here with me, so any time I forget what to do, it is at the tip of my fingers, I can watch it again. Now I am being told, no, don't want it too much, just think the thing on one day and in a month you'll have it, don't take any action, take some action...I can't even well imagine that I could obtain something that I wasn't passionate about having.

At this point, I don't know what is what, LoA just looks like a free-for-all, because all experienced people just say all contradicting things and evidently if you don't intend something in just the perfect way and perfect attitude (whatever that is!! ), you are going to suffer, even if you get what you intended, in which case, I can just do the suffering, get the usual, usually sick mutation of I really wanted and skip all the wasted energy and time focusing, visualizing and meditating for it, because that is pretty much what I have been doing all my life anyhow .
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