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Originally Posted by garg  but I want to know what the difference is between gains through law of attraction and gains through hard work? Why are people willing to give credit to a "law of attraction" for their successes that they earned through their own hard work? |
The point is this.
If you analyse the steps towards the successful achievement of a goal, you may see that some steps were within your control. Other steps are (apparently) not.
Then you use LOA. And suddenly the "Apparently Not" steps start happening, very, very fast.
It is like my intention to find my new ideal job. Of course I would eventually have looked in the newspaper, surfed the Internet for job ads etc. However, I decided to start by manifesting.
Very quickly, even before I had actually done anything else or sent out a single application, the job
opportunities started
popping up like crazy all around me.
Where is my hard work? What hard work did I do, to make these opportunities suddenly appear? None. I merely lay down on my yoga mat and visualised.
It is like how I manifested the intention to speak at an international industry conference. Note - I have never spoken at any industry conference before, zero reputation. However, on 22 November, I decided that it would be a good thing for me to do so - see
point 3 in this blog post. I manifested the intention. Eight days later,
31 October, the invitation arrived out of the blue.
2nd November - everything is firmed up.
22 November - I spoke.
Where is my hard work? I didn't even ask anyone to give me the speaking opportunity. I only asked the universe.
I'm not dissing the importance of hard work. I believe that thoughts affect reality, and that I am part of reality. My thoughts may well affect reality and lead me to do hard work. But the effect of my thoughts go far beyond merely influencing my own personal behaviour. That's LOA for you.
In recent months, my life has been full of examples, non-stop. One day, I paused to ask myself, "If LOA is for real, and it's so powerful, what should I be doing with it? I really need to figure this one out."
I pondered but I wasn't sure. I decided to ask LOA to send me some inspiration to find the answers. So I manifested. Guess what happened later.
On that very same day.
Etc etc. I stress that the examples are numerous. I'm just highlighting some, for the purposes of discussion.