Ive noticed another common reason for failure

[seirwyn]

All the stories of failure even though the person totally believed in in all have one common theme-they either put a specific time frame on it or wanted it to manifest in a particular way. I.e. there is a thread about wanting to win a specific basket, a specific competition, to get a hot nurse at a particular appointment, to be with their family at Christmas 2006, to get a particular job etc. To me it seems that it doesnt work when you try to alter a specific situation and /or within a specific timeframe. So what if you didnt get the job? That doesnt mean that you failed. There will be other jobs. It seems that every time the outcome is tied to a specific timeframe or event, it dosnt really work.
Someone said that they wanted to manifest a blue feather in 7 days but it didnt show up. it did however show up 3 days later.

[Wax Frog]

Is there a technique to reliably manifest something that would be abstract by comparison, such as, "My life has improved vastly for the better"?

[Eisho]

Originally Posted by seirwyn

All the stories of failure even though the person totally believed in in all have one common theme-they either put a specific time frame on it or wanted it to manifest in a particular way. I.e. there is a thread about wanting to win a specific basket, a specific competition, to get a hot nurse at a particular appointment, to be with their family at Christmas 2006, to get a particular job etc. To me it seems that it doesnt work when you try to alter a specific situation and /or within a specific timeframe. So what if you didnt get the job? That doesnt mean that you failed. There will be other jobs. It seems that every time the outcome is tied to a specific timeframe or event, it dosnt really work.
Someone said that they wanted to manifest a blue feather in 7 days but it didnt show up. it did however show up 3 days later.

The problem I have with this type of thinking is that it is just a retreat from the empirical evidence that your ego takes to protect itself from the apparent fact that it has been deluding itself and that your world view is also perhaps delusional.

The LoA argues that you can have whatever you think about. That is a basic premise. So if you think about a getting a specific job by next week, in theory, that is what you should manifest. The idea of being vague means that more or less whatever turns up can be understood as LoA, rather than a coincidence. This allows the ego to continue to believe and trust and no damage is done. Kind of like a Christian arguing that just because God doesn't answer each prayer it doesn't mean God doesn't exist. It is taken as evidence that he does exist and that he has better plans for you.

Cheers,

Eisho

[seirwyn]

you may be right -maybe setting a timespan merely makes it easier for doubts to arise. its very hard to know what a failed persons true mindset was. i am new to this so am am still figuring out this stuff and looking for answers and what to avoid etc.
But I just wonder if setting a timespan is limiting the God and the universe? Surely things take time to grow?

[Bradshaw]

In my experience, setting timespans does work. The only two times it has failed me is when i try to manifest either A: a person performing an action as i want it, when i want it and B: something that is simply not aligned with what i really want, just something i *think* i should want, on a specific moment.

And EVEN then, in those cases, there are still plenty of alpha reflections, so i don't even know if i'm failing because of my own ability with LoA, or because the above intentions just have a lot of natural resistence to them, or because you just can't influence someone's behaviour directly with LoA(yet it still works to some extent... i do wonder what the real truth is about this.)

That being said, i no longer use timespans. Why? They put pressure. Pressure and resistance go hand-in-hand. Thus they delay/cancel your intention, so i don't use them.

[seirwyn]

yeah thats probably it about the timespans and pressure. Whats an alpha reflection though?