Shall I do everyone a big favour and propose a very neat summary?
1. For practical purposes, it is unnecessary to form any opinion about the deep underpinnings of what the LOA exactly is. In other words, you need not have an opinion:
(a) whether non-physical entities exist;
(b) whether EVERYTHING in the universe is formed by your thoughts;
(c) whether the starving African child also attracted her own circumstances;
(d) whether God exists;
(e) whether psychic powers or levitation really exist. Etc etc.
As a matter of fact, having an opinion about any of the above matters does not in itself help to improve your life in any concrete way.
2. For practical purposes, all you need to do is think positively, hold positive emotions, visualise and do a few quirky little tricks like going to alpha to meditate on your goals & intentions.
3. Then all sorts of events and circumstances WILL occur to help make those goals and intentions come true.
4. Some of these events and circumstances will be quite mundane (eg a little coincidence here, a little coincidence there, or something evidently the result of your own effort). Some of these events and circumstances will be quite bizarre (eg a REALLY striking coincidence here, and a VERY bizarre coincidence there, or something clearly very difficult to explain in conventional terms).
Either way, the point is - those events & circumstances
will occur. And your goals and intentions will come true. 383 examples, from a great number of different people, available
here.
5. Again it is unnecessary to label and classify those events & circumstances. You may call them:
"coincidence"
"reticular activating cortex"
"God"
"quantum physics"
"my cognitive bias in seeing a pattern that isn't really there"
"mind-body connection"
"synchronicity"
"magick"
"positive thinking"
"Law of Attraction"
"superstitition"
"my good luck"
"an event for which a scientific, down-to-earth explanation must surely exist, but hasn't been found yet"
Whatever you please. The labels are unimportant (except to John Freestone, who has a powerful tendency to miss the forest for the trees. Or the trees for the wood. Or wood for the carbon, hydrogen and oxygen molecules. Whatever).
The point is, whatever you wish to label or describe call these events and circumstances, they will occur - as long as you think positively, hold positive emotions, visualise, go to alpha etc. And that's all that really matters, for practical purposes.
6. Since you already have all the necessary equipment to try this out for yourself, it is unnecessary to take John Freestone's or ALG's word for it. Simply try it out for yourself. It costs you nothing to try, except perhaps 15 minutes a day. Anyway, reading John Freestone's or ALG's average post will take you just as long.
7. It is not necessary to attend any seminars or buy any books or DVDs. (You could just borrow two or three books from the library - that would get you off to a very good start).
8. It is unnecessary for you to do anything which may conventionally be regarded as risky, foolish or dangerous (for example, jumping off a tall building to see if you can fly; or putting your life savings into lottery tickets).
All you need to do is systematically arrange your thoughts in a positive way for 15 minutes a day, every day, and just carry on with life as normal. The 15-minute daily exercise will be more than sufficient to bring a stream of steady positive results in your life.
9. Remember - it works like a tennis serve or a golf swing. You don't get it right all the time - but you do get better and better, with practice!
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Remember, there is only so much that yakking on an Internet forum can do for you.
Two years ago, when I first joined this forum and had not started using LOA yet, I was earning $8,000 a month. This month, I earn $18,500. Starting next month, I'll be earing $23,000 per month. (And those of you who have been around here know that I'm quite happy to post documentary evidence.).
$8,000 to $23,000 is almost tripling my monthly salary, in the space of two years. How did I do it? Plenty of LOA/IM. You can do it too - and it's not just money, it could be your health, hobbies, family, home, work, relationships, community work, whatever. Anything in your reality.
Bear in mind - I gain nothing, telling you this. I'm not selling you any LOA seminars or books. You already have all the equipment you need - it's all in your head.
(P.S Technically, the last sentence above is untrue, because Dr Peter Fenwick has done research indicating that consciousness can operate independently of the physical brain and is not localised in the body. This point will severely upset John Freestone, who believes in the mind-body connection but would really prefer that the mind stick strictly to the body and not go off on its own jaunts around the rest of reality. But let's not get too pedantic).