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Originally Posted by tekart  For me it does seem that this is all about faith. Not the religious or spiritual faith we have come to know, rather the faith in yourself and your ability to have what you want. You want something, you 'do things' to get yourself to believe it is possible, this opens up your eyes to opportunities, and you take action. |
This is a correct view of LOA. However, it is also an incomplete view of LOA.
Often, if you manifest an intention concerning your own life, then your physical body and your own actions become the key vehicle to transform that intention into reality. Why?
Simply because a thought will take the path of least resistance to manifest itself into reality. And YOU are the biggest participant in your own life. Therefore the path of least resistance will often be you taking your own actions.
So if you manifest an intention to drink a cup of coffee, the path of least resistance will be for you to stand up, go to the kitchen and get yourself a cup of coffee.
LOA however acts on the whole of reality, not just you (you're part of reality too). For example, I have given an example of how I manifested an intention to speak at a conference, and the opportunity manifested itself within one week.
In this case, I had done nothing except manifest the thought. The rest - the universe took care of. In a neighbouring country, a speaker pulled out at the last minute from a conference, and the organisers scrambled to find a replacement. After a lot of desperate scrambling, they found me.
(Note that they did not know me beforehand; that I have never spoken at any conference before etc etc. I did not even know that this particular conference was being organised).
In my opinion, what happened here is that my intention led to a series of events which made my thought become real.
(1) there had to be a conference close enough for me (eg can't be on the other side of the world in Japan or Brazil)
(2) a scheduled speaker had to pull out last-minute
(3) her topic had to be something that I know enough to speak about
(4) the organisers had to call A
(5) A had to refer them to B
(6) B had to be unable to be the replacement speaker.
(7) B had to know of me
(8) B had to refer the organisers to me
(9) The organisers had to accept B's referral and believe that I know enough to give such a speech
(10) the organisers had to contact me
You'll see that all, or almost all the steps above, have nothing to do with me. doing anything whatsoever. All I did was manifest the thought: "I want to speak at a conference". The rest happened by itself. Or rather, by the power of LOA.
Now, theoretically, I could have manifested my intention through my own actions. For example, I could have organised my conference and organised my own audience and given a speech. Of course, I have never organised a conference in my life and I do not know who would want to be my audience; besides it would cost me a lot of money and effort and time etc.
So the path of least resistance, given the circumstances, turned out to be for the universe to make one of the scheduled speakers at a nearby conference pull out at the last minute, and get the organisers to make me the replacement speaker instead.
There - the thought has manifested into reality.