I'm inclined to agree with you, cdn. There are people here who state they can manifest what they want into their lives without taking any action -- maybe they are just so skilled at all this, that it does work that way. *poof*
What I see in the LoA and IM, and believing it before you see it, and acting as if, and all that, is it can empower people to act more effectively. And it gets them focused and clear on what they do want, and why they have been spinning their wheels.
I don't believe that anxiety and fear and focusing on lack, in and of themselves, drive away good things, as is claimed by LoA proponents. I think those negative emotions can have a negative effect on how effective we are at doing well in a job interview, or generating more income, or studying and performing well on a test. But I don't think a person can manifest an A on a test by meditating and not showing up for the test. I do think students can get a better grade by believing in themselves, believing they are an A-level student, calmly studying and taking the test instead of freaking out and being anxious and worried about it. But I know at this moment in time, absolutely know, that if I'm going to take a test for a college course some day in the future, that even if I'm freaked out and anxious to the point of feeling nauseated, I'm still going to do just fine, because I'm a great student. It's who I am. That directly conflicts with what I hear about LoA.
This is like where I was commenting about how I have a hard time believing that most of our great rock musicians, for example, who tend to make it very big very young, sat around at 18 years old doing IM and reading about LoA and meditating and visualizing and all that. What they did was they lived it. They loved it and lived it and dedicated their lives to it.
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