To second what ALG said earlier.
LoA is always active. You don't turn it off and on like a cheat code. It is one of the things that makes your life the way it is.
You aren't applying the cheat mode to a game. You are picking up and using the tools and clues that are
part of the game design.
You might as well start a computer game, than say 'no I cannot use any of the guns here to kill the monsters, that would be cheating. Nor will I look at the screen to see where I am going. I will walk blindly forward and let the game take me where it will....'
As I said in another thread :
Our lives are
meant to be a quest for fullment after fullfillment. To constantly set bigger and bigger goals, to make more and more of a difference to the world. To reach
as much of our god/energy/allah given potential as possible.
To do anything less is to completely disrespect the source of life. If you made a computer game with 500 levels, and nobody wanted to get past the first level because 'they wanted to take what the game gave them without striving for more' Would you be a happy developer or dissapointed?
Dissapointed! I
AM a program developer, and few things please me more than to see someone use the full benefits of what I give them, to utilise the full potential of my creation. Few things frustrate me more than someone who has a computer with the processing, and video capabilites of a small nation, but only uses it for playing solitare and word processing.
It's a complete and utter waste of potential! Why exist if not to fulfill your potential? It's a spit in the face of your creator, whoever or whatever it is, that you don't think their gifts are worth using!
It is a common misconception that you can't appreciate something without having it's opposite.
This is only because attention is brought to that thing
automatically when you don't have it. You can appreciate what you have if you take the time to look at it and
conciously appreciate it.
You also should
never be completely satisfied with your life. Everything in the universe is in one of two states, growth or disintegration.
As soon as you stop growing, you are disintegrating. Satisfaction is great for an achievement, but then you set the next goal and get to work,
because that is where the fun and joy of life lays,
in creation and achievement.
What most people call 'being satisfied with your life' is actually
complacency and a fear of change. Those people are
slowly disintegrating. Their world is crumbling piece by piece around them because they are not adding anything to it.
Use LoA conciously to grow, and fulfill your potential, thereby showing your gratitude for recieving it.
Or use it subconciously to disintegrate, and waste your potential never realizing a hundredth of a percent of it, being ungrateful that you had these gifts.
Or to put it in simple terms:
You buy a friend a very expensive gift which you put many weeks of thought into, and then give it to them. They look at it, tell you its trash and toss it. How do you feel?
Well that's very likely to be how the creator feels when you don't use your potential.