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Originally Posted by Sindre  Might seem like a silly question. Your automatic response might be "of course we do". But do you really? If you think positive thoughts, and practice LoA, and get good results, then what do you need insurance for? You're not afraid of anything, right? Even if your house would burn down, or you would hurt yourself in some kind of accident, something good would eventually come out of it? Even without insurance?
Just some thoughts 
Oh yeah, this only counts if you're in the love-polarization. If you're in fear-polarization, then of course you need insurance 
Edit: And it especially counts if you believe in subjective reality. I was reading many of Steve's earlier reality-posts today, so I guess that's why I got the idea to write about this now. |
From the sounds of your post, it seems like you're using the "hype" version of the LoA, not the real version that actually works (depending on your beliefs, of course).
That statement was overly blunt, so let me explain.
From both what I've seen and my experience, lots of people seem to use an incomplete model of the LoA, largely because they've been presented with an incomplete model from things such as
The Secret, etc.
I've found that The Secret (ie. the movie) will do nothing but (A) make you feel good, and (B) confuse you. It doesn't answer any of the really important questions, which leads people to reply on only what
is covered in the movie, which seems to lead to people using some sort of "hopeful" positive thinking model, where they don't fully understand what they're doing, nor do they fully believe it's going to work, but they hope it will.
As you can imagine, this is suboptimal, kind of like watching someone teach someone to drive in a movie, thinking "great, now I can go out and drive!", realising that you don't really know how to drive once you get out and try it, but hoping it will all work out ok anyway.
What I've found much more useful is to ditch the hype and to spend a reasonable amount of time listening to the teachings of Abraham-Hicks. I encourage you to explore the Abraham-Hicks material yourself. I personally like the audio/video material better, but the books can be useful too (but I only found them useful once I had heard a lot of audio material).
Suffice to say that the Abraham-Hicks books also present an incomplete model without telling you (shame on them), but at least now they have enough of the model covered in the various books they have out that if you devour a lot of their material, you'll eventually 'get it'. But again, I highly recommend the audio/video material, since it makes things much easier to understand (or so I found).
If you'd like to, you can watch a preview/portion of an Abraham-Hicks workshop here:
Edit, 6/Jan/08: I had a link to a preview/portion of an Abraham-Hicks workshop here, but I've removed it because I believe it's in violation of the Forum Rules. Instead, I'll share some good YouTube.com links I know of. Firstly, you can check out the official videos that Abraham-Hicks publications makes available on YouTube. Secondly, there is a non-official source of videos from someone with the username "CAnn". CAnn does some very nice work, and I really enjoy the videos she does (I think CAnn is female, although I'm not sure). Finally, you can do a simple search for Abraham-Hicks material on YouTube and you'll turn up lots of results. Here are some results from a search I did. Enjoy!
PS. After proof-reading my post it probably looks like I'm plugging Abraham-Hicks, but really, it's just the best LoA-related resource I've found so far. If I had experience with other good resources, I'd promote those as well, but alas, I don't. My interest is mainly to contribute useful resources, not make Esther and Jerry Hicks rich -- they don't need my help to do that. Have you seen the size of that bus they own? It wouldn't have been cheap!