[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by MrsCogan

it works through hit counting. If you intend something and it comes to you--however it comes to you--you count it as a hit. If it doesn't, you don't count the miss. You make an excuse instead. You had a negative thought, you didn't visualize hard enough, you ate a hot dog and now your body is impure, it was "not meant to happen."

Mrs Cogan, if you even went that far, I'd applaud. But you haven't even tried, have you? You woudn't bother - because for you, if it happens, it is surely just a coincidence, but if it doesn't happen, well, there you go - the LOA doesn't work.

You are guilty of the same self-rationalising behaviour that you accuse others of.

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A few side notes, for those who are undecided about the LOA but have a sufficiently open mind to bother testing it:

Mrs Cogan does have a point. If you are currently undecided about the LOA, then from your current perspective, if you intend X, and it happens, a logical point of view is that it could be a coincidence; similarly, if you intend Y but it does not happen, a logical point of view is that LOA does not exist.

What you therefore may strive to do is where your hit rate is so high, and your miss rate is so low, that you would be inclined to conclude that your thoughts are really influencing reality. If you fail to get to that point, then the failure could be evidence that LOA does not exist.

So go test it out. Go be a real scientist at heart and in spirit. Unlike you-know-who.

For those who still instinctively cling very, very hard to their subjective perceptions of an objective reality, here is a suggested approach.

There is no need to immediately attempt to manifest what is, to you, sharply wild and inconsistent with those subjective perceptions. Start from somewhere just slightly outside the comfort zone of your current belief system.

What do I mean? Well, let me illustrate. Suppose you are looking for a new job and you would like to be paid well, and according to your current belief system:

1. "$3,000 a month is low for someone with my qualifications".
2. "$4,000 a month is the market rate for someone with my qualifications."
3. "$4,500 a month is what I could get, with a bit of luck."
4. "$7,000 a month would be really cool! Very unlikely, though."
5. "I really think that $15,000 a month is impossible.

Now, in terms of a LOA experiment, aiming for $4,000 is pointless. If it happens, it proves nothing to you as far as LOA is concerned.

Aiming for $4,500 could prove something, but not much. If it happens, you could still dismiss it as a bit of luck.

Aiming for $15,000 is dumb, because if LOA is for real, you should fail (due to your own limiting belief), but if LOA is not , then failure can also be attributed to unrealistic expectations in an objective reality - therefore failure is ambiguous for your LOA experiment.

Aiming for $7,000 is the best test. You believe it is possible (therefore LOA can work for you, if LOA exists) yet unlikely (therefore success provides some strong evidence of LOA being true).

Now, after you have achieved your "unlikely" success, you can go on to repeat your LOA experiments again and again, on different things. For experimental purposes, you can keep aiming for those intentions that stretch your belief system without bursting it - the intentions which you judge are "very unlikely" to be fulfilled, but are "possible".

If more and more and more "very unlikely" positive events keep occuring in your life, every month, every week, every day, seemingly in response to your positive thoughts, then you may eventually reach the point when you conclude that it would be illogical for you to still not believe that LOA works.

I've done my own experiments - I've drawn my own conclusions. My personal experiments still go on, but they're only a little about whether the LOA exists; the focus is really more on aspects such as what I can specifically do with it; and how I can use it with ever-increasing consistency.

Go do your own experiments. It's fun.

You can start the experiment at any time. You can quit it at any time. You can restart it at any time. It costs no money, not very much of your time, and (if you do not consider thought to be action), you don't even need to take any action over and above what you would do anyway, if you had never heard of LOA.

If your experiment fails to prove to yourself that LOA exists/works, you really have lost nothing very much. If your experiment proves to yourself that LOA exists/works, then potentially this is the greatest discovery you'll ever make in yur lifetime.

What logical reason could there be, for not trying? None.

Unless of course your mind is closed.