[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Okay, I'm aware that I must be boring some of you to tears with the minutiae of my life. However, something else just happened and I just want to put it down for the sake of completeness of my story.

You certainly are not boring me!

I read your account of your manifestation success last night after I had immersed myself so much in all this yesterday, did so much reading, and seeing the success you had yesterday was a good cap to my day, since almost my entire day was filled with stress/frustration/disappointment/confusion.

You can also see the differences in style, among the LOA gurus / teachers. Abraham Hicks emphasises emotions. Shakti Gawain emphasises visualisation. Jose Silva emphasises the need to access deeper mental states. Etc.

I was thinking exactly this after reading your posting last night. The way you went about manifesting this is not at all the typical advice I see about IM, or practices that are like IM, such as Napoleon Hill's writings. There is so much commentary about how you can't just meditate and expect something to happen, you have to make a plan, write it down, say affirmations, go out in the world and work the plan . . . it's more like IM will speed up the process and make it more effective . . . but I don't tend to see people stating that one can go into a deep meditative state and manifest $10,000!

So clearly, LoA - if it exists at all - is haphazard at best. If "the universe" is so finely tuned that LoA practitioners must do A, B and C in a certain order in a certain timeline and in a certain way and feel certain feelings while doing it, well, that hardly makes it a reliable process, does it?

You were answering cdn's post above, and I have to agree with that post and how you answered. This concept of doing A, B and C in a certain order in a certain timeline and feeling certain feelings and so on, does not ring true to me. One thing I have realized though is that detachment probably is important, or at least feeling good, light, rather than stressed and worried about a certain intention -- mainly because if we are stating the intention with words like "relaxed, easy, healthy, and positive" -- then being stressed and worried is going to cancel out the intention because it is at odds with the first part of the intention.

I don't know how to avoid the stress and worry, however, when like cdn, I have got a mess to clean up. My intentions then carry a tone of desperation and demand, rather than a light and free attitue.