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Originally Posted by Frans  I couldn't understand why people who said they were working on their personal development were cultivating their desires by applying I-M. |
You see, when working on "personal development", many people begin by working on a piecemeal basis, focusing on very specific areas that bug them, eg "How to Lose Weight in 30 Days" or "How to Deal with Difficult Bosses" or "How to Use Microsoft Excel".
Then later they have addressed these matters and they are feeling mildly pleased with their own little achievements. They get more ambitious and then they develop a deeper interest in the underlying principles that can have wider, more general application. They move on to "How to Achieve All Your Goals" and "How to Achieve Success in Every Area of Your Life".
They will discover information like, how to define specific goals, break down them into smaller chunks, develop a plan of action, set deadlines, take action, track progress etc etc. They will apply these methods and they will achieve success. After that stage, they feel even more pleased, perhaps even a little amazed at themselves. And they get curious, and wonder if they can do even more.
Upon further investigations, they will discover little oddities like "visualisation", perhaps "self-hypnosis", and something strange called the "Recticular Activating System", or "neurolinguistic programming", perhaps "synchronicity".
By this time, their thoughts will have grown enough to attract the biggie into their lives. They have become ready. Suddenly, a synchronicity will occur. The right book will jump off the shelf, or they will stumble onto Steve Pavlina's forum, or they will hear something on the radio about Esther Hicks or "The Secret".
They will have attracted into their lives, info about the Law of Attraction.
Go and ask Steve himself. I bet this is his own path to discovering LOA.
