Limitations and risks on Choices - Focus just on the best Possible?

[kismet]

There are some situations with the outer circumstances the way they are and the odds stacked against you, that it leaves you with very difficult and limited external decisions to make.

In these circumstances, it feels like it would be almost naive and foolish from a calculated risk / probable odds perspective to wage all your bets on LOA.

It's one thing when you have nothing to lose and start from where you are, start being positive and imagining what you want and moving towards it. It doesn't matter how long it takes or there is not much risk if it doesn't work for you at first or how long it takes to manifest it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Yet when it comes to circumstances that are a huge gamble and you have hard decisions to make. Say the odds in your favor are only 15%. Would you really take that kind of risk all gambling on LOA to win and bring on a miracle? I don't mean where the odds are low but there is nothing to lose so you might as well try it anyways and see what happens. But where there is a risk of making things a lot worse and you have to make the decision to fold and cut your losses or take the gamble and hope that you will attract your desired outcome? Of course the gamble also has the side of the possibility of the best possible outcome.

I don't want to get into my personal life too much. So lets say for an unrelated example, you had some medical condition and you were going to have to live with it for the rest of your life and suffer through all the side effects and symptoms of it and the drugs for it or whatever. And yet you had the choice to take the gamble on an operation that would get rid of it completely, yet the operation would risk your life and only had low odds of succeeding (like 15% or something). Yet if it were successful you would get your life back and be free of it forever. On the other hand you could lose your life. You believe in LOA and that you can attract the best outcome of the operation against the odds, but is it worth the risk?

That's kind of a dramatic example, but I think you get what I mean.

Sometimes what we want is not even in the realm of external choices available to us. Do we just lower our standards and desires to fit within our available choices to us? Are we irresponsibly deluding ourselves if we wish for desires outside of our choices presented to us, or don't choose based on rational calculated risks?

It's so hard when I keep reading about being able to have anything we want and to just visualize it, when what I really really WANT is not an external option to me. I know that I can make a better future and move towards many of the things I want in life. That I can make better choices and think better thoughts. I just don't know how much I can effect the outcomes and effects of things that are happening from past choices/thinking and mistakes. How do you stop or change the effect of something that is already in motion from setting it in motion a long time ago? It's like some effects are not reversible even though they haven't even happened yet, because the cause is already done and you can't go back and change the cause, so how can you really change the effect of that past cause to what you want it to be, to what you desire? Even if you change your thinking 100% and are positive, can you really stop a train wreck or a falling plane while it is still falling? Or can all you do is hope and visualize that you survive it, without too many injuries or having too long of a recovery. You certainly couldn't even visualize or imagine getting not a scratch and that being reality, as much as you want it to. Do you focus on the least worst possible outcome instead of the wishful thinking real desire that is completely unrealistic?

[Acting Like Godot]

There are four factors:

(1) Probability of success/failure
(2) The costs of trying
(3) The consequences of not trying
(4) The potential benefits (if you succeed)
(5) The potential losses (if you fail)

From your post, I gather you have already assessed (2) to (5). Your query is only about (1). In other words, you wonder about whether you can or cannot successfully apply the LOA to alter the odds of success in your favour. I would say that you are the best judge of that, for yourself.

"Whether you think that you can or you think you can't, you're usually right." - Henry Ford.

Also, you may wish to consider (5) again, regarding what you perceive to be the worst potential losses. You may want to see whether you can alter that perception.

[Rockchick26]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

There are four factors:

(1) Probability of success/failure
(2) The costs of trying
(3) The consequences of not trying
(4) The potential benefits (if you succeed)
(5) The potential losses (if you fail)

LOL Four factors huh? Joking aside...i agree that you can't stop a plane from falling or anything like that,but the law of attraction does not trump any other laws. It only works within the boundaries of other laws,such as gravity. Actually come to think of it,i think gravity is really the only law that would come first. I really dont think anything is out of the realm of possibility. Unprobable,but not impossible.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Rockchick26

the law of attraction does not trump any other laws. It only works within the boundaries of other laws,such as gravity.

Maybe. Maybe not.



You can read more about Yogi Pullavar here: Yogi Pullavar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A rather compelling example, since (1) there was a big crowd of witnesses, and (2) he allowed the press to inspect and walk around him and take photos, and (3) it was done in broad daylight and in an open area, not on a stage or anything like that.

But Yogi Pullavar is hardly the first. There've been many reported in history - for example, Jesus walking on water. Another chap was Daniel Dunglas Home, who levitated a few hundred times, across a period of 40 years, in all sorts of different places, in front of all sorts of people, including all the most famous and respectable people of those days (Napoleon III; Queen Sophia; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle etc.

A much less impressive, but much more recent example is Nina Kulagina, a Russian psychic whose various psychic powers led the KGB to try to use psychics for espionage purposes, and probably led to the CIA deciding to do the same as well.

Nina had a very wide range of psychic powers, just like Matthew Manning once did, but as she grew older, the range of powers shrunk, just as it has for Matthew Manning (Matthew uses his powers only for healing now). Amng other things she could levitate small objects but never on Mathew's scale (Matthre as a young man generated poltergeistic activity - cupboards slamming etc).

Anyway, here is a video of Nina in action, in her younger days (she's dead now):

YouTube - Nina Kulagina

[Rockchick26]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Maybe. Maybe not.



You can read more about Yogi Pullavar here: Yogi Pullavar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A rather compelling example, since (1) there was a big crowd of witnesses, and (2) he allowed the press to inspect and walk around him and take photos, and (3) it was done in broad daylight and in an open area, not on a stage or anything like that.

But Yogi Pullavar is hardly the first. There've been many reported in history - for example, Jesus walking on water. Another chap was Daniel Dunglas Home, who levitated a few hundred times, across a period of 40 years, in all sorts of different places, in front of all sorts of people, including all the most famous and respectable people of those days (Napoleon III; Queen Sophia; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle etc.

A much less impressive, but much more recent example is Nina Kulagina, a Russian psychic whose various psychic powers led the KGB to try to use psychics for espionage purposes, and probably led to the CIA deciding to do the same as well.

Nina had a very wide range of psychic powers, just like Matthew Manning once did, but as she grew older, the range of powers shrunk, just as it has for Matthew Manning (Matthew uses his powers only for healing now). Amng other things she could levitate small objects but never on Mathew's scale (Matthre as a young man generated poltergeistic activity - cupboards slamming etc).

Anyway, here is a video of Nina in action, in her younger days (she's dead now):

YouTube - Nina Kulagina

But these people couldn't stop a plane from falling out of the sky. So what if they can levitate their bodies...that is just showing off,not helping humanity in any way. Like psychics, I don't like when they can supposedly tell you when you will get married or win money,but they "can't" predict and stop bad things from happening. I still don't believe anyone could prevent an airplane from crashing or a building to stop burning. Thats all my point was.