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Originally Posted by Antiventurecapital  Look, here's my take on LoA.
LoA is a game to be played by fully-functioning adults, not children. To win at it you must be "3 for 3" as James Ray puts it. This means that your thoughts, emotions, and actions (<--Klang-klang-klang!!!) must all be in alignment.
To me it's little more than a New Age variation of the "little train that could":
belief in oneself + positive expectations + action = results |
Let me ask you this then. Lets say that two identical twins decide to build a muscular physique starting with their 18th birthday. Let's assume that they both eat EXACTLY the same things, they sleep EXACTLY the same amount and all things are exactly the same in this experiment, and they both follow the exact same regiment of physical activity. For example lifting 150lbs benchpress x 10 reps x 3 sets, or whatever. So they have the same DNA, same everything and DO the same actions.
Twin A believes in himself, has a positive expectation, and uses LoA to visualize himself being muscular.
Twin B doesn't believe in himself, has a negative expectation, and uses LoA to visualize failing to build muscle.
Do you think after 2 years of following this regiment, that both twins would build the same amount of muscle?
In other words, do you think that the belief and positive expectation part of the equation you posted is simply there to drive us to take action (motivational force), but as long as we take action anyways, the first 2 parts can be taken out of the equation all together?