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Originally Posted by MrsCogan  Weightloss/fitness promotionals are really common in December & January. If you hadn't "won" a reduced price membership you probably would have come across a coupon or a discount. You'd have counted those as hits also. |
RT Wolf probably
would have. And he would have said, "Thank you very much." You see, the theory on LOA doesn't say that LOA
has to fulfill your intentions in some bizarre or unusual manner.
In fact, the theory on LOA says that
all events that occur in your life - including events which are perfectly mundane and everyday to you - are manifested by yourself. After all, every day, most of your thoughts are mundane and everyday.
Now, from an
experimental perspective - and by that, I mean someone who is still
undecided about LOA and actively trying to test it out - getting a discount or coupon as RT Wolf did is probably not going to be very compelling evidence of LOA. After all, getting a discount or coupon for gym membership can be dismissed as a perfectly mundane and everyday event.
But then RT Wolf is not experimenting, or at least that is not his main intention. His main intention is to exercise and get fit. So when the universe sends him free fitness DVDs, free gym memberships etc, he says "thank you" and moves on. Feeling pleased, once again, that little events seemingly beyond his control are once again spontaneously happening to support his very specific intention of exercising every day in December.
But from an
experimental perspective - as I've already mentioned - what you probably want to do is experiment with the "possible but very unlikely" category of personal intentions. "Possible but very unlikely" being an assessment to be made according to your own belief system.