LoA & Scavenger Hunt

[moonrambler]

Let's say you're a master of LoA. And now there's a scavenger hunt. You're given a map with 200 locations, and you need to find 20 objects. You have eight hours to do it, and the more objects you have gathered by the end of the game, the more points you get. If you go to locations that are close together, you probably can get to about 60 of them. If you go to locations that are further apart, you probably can get to about 40.

Are there LoA or psychic techniques that can be used for success in the scavenger hunt?

[Angela]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

Are there LoA or psychic techniques that can be used for success in the scavenger hunt?

If you're a master of LoA, you recognize that "success" in a human game is not determined by the number of tchotchkes you acquire.

[moonrambler]

Does this mean that if a person becomes a master of LoA, they can't play Monopoly to win, or chess, or Scrabble, or poker, or go on an Easter Egg hunt, or anything else anymore?

[Angela]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

Does this mean that if a person becomes a master of LoA, they can't play Monopoly to win, or chess, or Scrabble, or poker, or go on an Easter Egg hunt, or anything else anymore?

I would think a master of LoA would have more fun than anyone playing these or bigger games. But her definition of "success" in the game might not match yours.

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Angela

I would think a master of LoA would have more fun than anyone playing these or bigger games. But her definition of "success" in the game might not match yours.

You don't think Tiger Woods is a master of LoA then?

Honestly, I don't know how this veered off into a discussion about definitions of success. I'm looking for techniques of how to find a bunch of stuff in a scavenger hunt. It isn't about anyone winning or losing or competition against anyone else or anything or racking up more widgets than anyone else in the neighborhood. Everybody can win, everybody can get the same amount of points. It's a game to play. People want to have fun and play the game and find these objects. They want to know if there are LoA techniques to know which locations are best when the locations all look the same.

Let's say we are assigned to find:
A) Lady Stetson cologne
B) a Living Bible
C) an Eagles vinyl album
D) a John Deere t-shirt

And we have 100 locations on the map and two hours to find these objects.

[Angela]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

You don't think Tiger Woods is a master of LoA then?

I don't know, but he seems like a person with a lot of personal power.

Honestly, I don't know how this veered off into a discussion about definitions of success.

It didn't veer off -- the concept of what success is in playing games, big or small, is inherent to the Law of Attraction. It's like when someone asks, "why am I having no success in winning the lottery? How can I be successful in getting Brunhilda to love me? How do I get the LoA to make me successful?"

So why do you think you're not attracting what you desire?

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Angela

It didn't veer off -- the concept of what success is in playing games, big or small, is inherent to the Law of Attraction. It's like when someone asks, "why am I having no success in winning the lottery? How can I be successful in getting Brunhilda to love me? How do I get the LoA to make me successful?"

So why do you think you're not attracting what you desire?

I am, more and more.

I had a lot of gunk to clear out.

[Angela]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

I had a lot of gunk to clear out.

Me, too -- clearing gunk out is a constant process. That's one of the reasons why, for me, a scavenger hunt is exactly the opposite of success.

So my question for you is: in this scavenger hunt scenario, what would success be for you? What way of being -- what would you really have if you "won"? Would it be Fun? or Triumph? or Excitement? Underneath the obvious object of the game, what do you really desire?

The master of the Law of Attraction boldly distinguishes his heart's desire -- that way he can recognize it when it manifests.

[Wax Frog]

Angie, Angie, when will my blockages disappear? [serious question in spoof-y guise]

[Angela]

Originally Posted by Wax Frog

Angie, Angie, when will my blockages disappear? [serious question in spoof-y guise]

Are you talkin' to me? It's like my name, only different!

A. When you're ready.

[Wax Frog]

Originally Posted by Angela

It's like my name, only different!

One must make sacrifices in the pursuit of parody

I guess I'm just eager to discard the remnants of my "life stinks" belief system and get to the "fun" place where so many here seem to be.

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Angela

Me, too -- clearing gunk out is a constant process. That's one of the reasons why, for me, a scavenger hunt is exactly the opposite of success.

So my question for you is: in this scavenger hunt scenario, what would success be for you? What way of being -- what would you really have if you "won"? Would it be Fun? or Triumph? or Excitement? Underneath the obvious object of the game, what do you really desire?

The master of the Law of Attraction boldly distinguishes his heart's desire -- that way he can recognize it when it manifests.

Is it similar to this --

A person who is marginally good at Scrabble comes and asks me how she can use LoA to be more successful at the game, because she knows I'm really good at it.

But it's not the easiest thing for me to tell her how to be really good at it herself, because the reasons I'm good at it (attracting success) are all things that come naturally for me. I love language, I love the written word, reading, tutoring people in reading and use of English, I've always been really good at spelling, I love dictionaries and learning new words, I love writing, etc.

Winning at Scrabble is fun, but that's not all that important, but actually it's more fun if you trade off winning, because otherwise the other person just gets frustrated and doesn't want to play with you anymore. But admittedly it might lose some sense of fun for me if I was always losing. If I never won the game, eventually I might want to quit playing.

With this scavenger hunt, it isn't a competition that way. It's a personal or a team challenge. It isn't like one team wins and one loses, because they easily can all win. They just have to know how to find the stuff.

So yes, it would be fun. And a bit of excitement. And camaraderie. It's kind of like playing a detective game, or a Treasure Hunt, or Clue, or hide-and-seek. And yes, indeed, you do want to "win," even though it's not a competition. It's more like yes, indeed, you do want to get your golf game as close to par as possible, for your own personal improvement and thrill of playing. It's like yes, you do want to get so good at chess that you qualify to play in some tournaments where you can meet people who are even better at it and can teach you. 'Cause it's fun.

[Angela]

That's a great analogy! I'm a very high scoring Scrabble player, and when I play with Danger Man, we will often work on words together out of his or my letter bank. I would rather play that way with him than to get a very high-scoring game with anyone else. I would say that the values for me in this game are delight and cooperation. (When I go for a high-scoring game, the value is triumph.) So, it depends on your desired way of being to determine what success is in a game, whether it's a human game or a board game.

Interestingly, it sounds like the very values you're after in the game: fun, excitement, and camraderie -- are values you'll have the most success in achieving with the teamwork itself. The "finding things" part of it is not really that important. And more interestingly, the LoA distinguishes the fun, excitement and camraderie as what would have you having the most traditional success: the finding stuff -- because you would be aligning yourself with your desire (both the values and the stuff) and also relaxed, happy, connected teams are much more likely to successfully exploit their mental and intuitive resources.

So you can't help but have success, if you distinguish your heart's desire.

[moonrambler]

The finding things part of it is important though, because that's the game. And it's a lot different than Scrabble. I'm mystified how to look at a map and have any intuition about where a certain object might be.

[Acting Like Godot]

Since the topic is scavenger hunt, I thought I'd mention an old blog post by Scott Adams, the creator Dilbert.

Scott is a long-time user of the LOA. One of his earliest successes was when he was a kid. He won an Easter egg hunt with something like a few hundred children participating. The success was reported in the town newspapers the next day.

[moonrambler]

It's been a very long time since I was involved in anything like an Easter egg hunt, but I had results like Scott Adams. They actually made me give some of the eggs to the other kids.

P.S. The instant, I posted that, the woman on National Public Radio read from an e-mail that said "your guest keeps egging him on." ACK! lol

[Acting Like Godot]

If I recall correctly, in Scott's Easter egg hunt, there were Easter eggs hidden everywhere for the kids. However, there was only ONE special golden egg, and whoever found it would win cash + all sorts of other prizes.

A few hundred kids were then let loose on a farm, and yes, many of them found a couple of eggs. However Scott focused on only finding the goden egg, and that was the one he found.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

Does this mean that if a person becomes a master of LoA, they can't play Monopoly to win, or chess, or Scrabble, or poker, or go on an Easter Egg hunt, or anything else anymore?

Nope. However, if a person becomes a master of LOA, he can play Remote Viewing; Strike the Lottery; Chat with Non-Physical Entities; Get That Parking Lot and Make A Blue Feather.

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

If I recall correctly, in Scott's Easter egg hunt, there were Easter eggs hidden everywhere for the kids. However, there was only ONE special golden egg, and whoever found it would win cash + all sorts of other prizes.

A few hundred kids were then let loose on a farm, and yes, many of them found a couple of eggs. However Scott focused on only finding the goden egg, and that was the one he found.

Ahhhh . . . there's a message there!