The problem is that if I tried to answer those questions (based on my own Limited Understanding), the answers would throw up more questions than you had asked in the first place. Very briefly, effects are not the results of single thoughts, nor even similar thoughts, but are the combination of many different thoughts.
Thus you may get something which you didn't expect - and you say, "Hey I never thought of this, why has it come into my life" - and indeed you may not have specifically thought of that, but it has come as a result of the combination of different thoughts.
Eg suppose a person gets cancer. He probably never thought "I wish to get cancer." Howeber, he had many different thoughts and beliefs combining into this effect. Eg he may have:
(a) thought many intense thoughts about his poor old deceased mother, and thereby constantly focused on death;
(b) held the belief that the world is a sad place
(c) wished that he would get more attention from his loved ones
(d) been angry at various apparently "permanent" features in his life, eg his hateful job, his bleak future, his uncaring relatives, and wished that this would all somehow change, in some huge drastic way
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Personally, having done past-life regression hypnosis and explored two past lives, I do believe in past lives (after having also read up on the topic from a number of different perspectives). I believe that each of us has already lived and died many, many times. (Buddha supposedly relived memories of 500 of his past lives, during his famous bodhi tree experience).
What has this got to do with your question? Well, basically, if we can really understand the ....
grandeur .... of that idea - that we have lived and died so many times, then you see, we begin to understand that what seems so horrific or frightening in our lives today, is actually not so horrific/frightening after all.
It's really just a game. You may suffer terribly in this lifetime, but ah well, was it really as bad as your 4th lifetime? Or the 11th one? Or the 72nd lifetime? Still you had a pretty good time in your 68th lifetime, and it was absolutely fabulous in your 52nd, so overall didn't you get a good deal. Etc.
You see. You're eternal. This life is just a game. You'll never really die, because you're eternal. You just keep forgetting, that's all. I know I sound somewhat flippant about this, perhaps sounding like I am trivialising everything. I'm not - I'm just not very good at explaining this in my own words.
There's a very grand concept here, I'm not explaining it very well, but if you really want to explore this - try reading works by Dr Elizabeth Kubler Ross - who, apart from having been a top-notch leader in her medical field, was very much into all this "New Age-ey" stuff and had various intense mystical experiences herself.
Synchronicity led me this very morning, to this person's
blog post, where she quotes something from Abraham-Hick's conversations. This may be helpful. I just reproduce an excerpt here, to read the whole thing, click on link. May help to answer your question
Quote:
Q: I was listening to a tape …and you made a statement that there is no suicide....
Abe: Well, actually what we said is [all deaths are]....
Q: That's right, [all deaths are] suicide. That's right, that's right.
Abe: All death is that because everything is self-created.
Q: Okay. Well, I had a question -*** I recently got married and my brother-in-law, he passed away at 39 years old very unexpectedly and two days after Thanksgiving. And it was just a shock to everybody. That day he was going to a concert with his girlfriend, they were going out to dinner. (Very choked up.) He was very happy, talked to everybody. And then he was gone.
Abe: Well, not really.
Q: Well, yeah. So, you know, I'm part of the family but I'm new to the family, so it's been hard for me to watch everybody else in the family, [and] my wife, deal with it. And I was just wondering, like, I really believe that he is in a better pl-, you know, he chose that, and that he's up there. And actually when I was out running one morning I had a conversation with him (choked up again) and he told me to tell them a few things, and I felt a little resistant at first, but I did tell the parents what he had said, you know, "Don't worry, everything's okay." And it was really some things that he would have said, so I know I was connected to it. And I guess my question is, is there anything I can do to help them with this?
Abe: There are so many things that we're wanting to give you around this subject. We're going to go right to the heart of it because we think you're ready for it, and that is: you still believe that death is a bad thing. It feels like something that shouldn't have happened and something that if there had been any way that we could have prevented it we would have, and something that has gone wrong .......
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