Acting Like Acting Like Godot...

[Bliss Sage]

...I wish!

I have begun "studying" ALG by going back over many of his posts, particularly in his trial threads, to try to understand and learn how he is working this so well.

I haven't gone through even close to half of all of his posts, but I have picked up some information.

I have learned:

1. ALG indisputably has some intimate knowledge about the LoA and how the universe functions that I and most people don't have. He regularly uses intuitive "tricks" or ideas he just gets "out of the blue," because he has the understanding he has, to manifest. I don't know if there is a rhyme or reason to his choice of method at any given time or not. He goes through his life just knowing how to work the LoA, the same way that someone who is good at cooking knows intuitively how to make up recipes, combine colors and flavors successfully. It comes naturally to him, for whatever reason.

I'm sorry, but I don't have that understanding of the universe that he has, and I think that understanding is the reason it is so hard for people on this forum to benefit from his guidance. That knowledge and intuition does not just appear in us over night.

2. Meditation is a critical tool in his success in using the LoA. I definitely will have to practice up on my meditation and "going deep" now.

3. Based on my observance of ALG, it is outright misguidance that you should visualize and sit back and wait for what you want to come to you. ALG is up and out there, he is active. He doesn't sit in his home visualizing or meditating and waiting for everything to come to him on a platter - he doesn't even just sit and wait for "inspired action". I don't know him so well or how he is in his routine life, but reading what I read, he seems to be leaning towards workaholic, and is otherwise extremely active in life. Way more active than I am.

So the next time you ask yourself "Do I take action or not?" YESSSSSSS. ALG is overwhelmingly active!! He works a lot, his job is important to him and doing his job well is important to him. The things he has achieved, in my opinion, have not just fallen into his lap - he works for them - he deserves them. Yes, it's his job, but he puts himself out there in his job, then gets a phone call here, a new job offer there, a bonus here, a raise or promotion there - but he puts himself into what he is doing, no matter what it is.

With his level of activity and his active use of the LoA, he seems to manifest many things he wants within 2 days of when he first focused on the intention.

(So time for me to forget Steve's "Creative Abundance" videos and Abraham-Hicks, which had me lying on my couch for an hour every day visualizing just one thing I wanted, every single day.)

4. These are some of the many and, I am guessing, infinite tools at his creative disposal for manifesting (again, at his disposal because from somewhere he has a fundamental understanding of how manifestation and working manifestation works that other people don't have):

a) He goes into a meditative state and "talks mentally" to people who have control over aspects of his intention.

- I wish I knew more about this process. I found some instruction on subjective communication, but it says you have to get up in the middle of the night to do it, so the person at the receiving end is in the alpha state to receive your thoughts. So, I wonder if ALG gets up in the middle of the night to do this...or if he manages to do it at any time of day. It was my impression that he just does it at any time of day, and that works for him.

b) I-M while jogging. ALG says he thinks about his intentions while he's jogging and that constitutes a manifestation activity. I wish I knew more about how he did that, exactly how is he thinking about his intentions, what sort of thoughts, because really everybody thinks about stuff they want at any given time, yet he does it and somehow it works out that he gets it.

c) Lying in bed, counting down from 50 to 1, staying still, to get into a meditative state, in which he could repeat affirmations to himself. He did this to manifest $20,000, and 2 days later, a bank where he was thinking of taking out a mortgage offered to absorb roughly $23,000 of his interest on the potential mortgage. It took just 2 days.

Then I tried counting from 50 to 1 to go deep and nearly fell asleep! Needless to say, what I tried forcing myself to think at that time was probably not affected at all by that attempt.

d) Self-hypnosis on your intentions - not entirely sure what this is or exactly how it differs from some of the other methods.

e) Manifesting while swimming - I wish I understood this one much better too. ALG mentioned floating and manifesting at the same time. I wonder how that works. I take baths a lot and I'm sure I could use every one of those opportunities to manifest, if I knew what or how to think.

f) Manifesting while swimming part 2 - this one I can understand. When you are swimming laps, ALG says you can repeat affirmations to your self in rhythm with your strokes. This tells me that all I have to do is find a hobby with a repetitive rhythm (ditto with jogging I think) and repeat affirmations of what I want while I'm doing it.

g) On a few occasions, I read that ALG asks the universe for guidance. I wonder if he just asks outright, or does he go into a meditative state for that as well. It's clear that he gets answers.

h) Walking meditation - I have not a clue what that is.

g) I totally forgot this one - "the old sleep trick" - whatever that is lol.

So far, these are all the notes I have on what I've read of ALG's posts. I overwhelmed myself with just this much, so I don't think I'll be looking up more in the near future.

I think, of all that I read, this is the most telling excerpt:

Going back to the famous blue feather LOA experiment - when you visualise a blue feather, you are creating it on the astral form. The creation is instantaneous. Supply enough power, and the blue feather must pop into your physical reality. It will find its way to manifest, and it will manifest in a manner consistent with the rules of your physical reality - but it must manifest, if it has enough power.

For those of us having manifesting difficulties, certainly for myself, I can see that I am having difficulty giving my blue feather enough power to manifest in my physical reality. And what I am doing is trying to figure out how to give it power (by reading about how ALG does it) to make it manifest.

[SethWilliams]

I think ALG just knows the LOA will work for him.

Whatever he does, he believes in. And it gets results.

Theres no doubt, or resistance on his part. The universe sees this, and goes " Oh ok" and re-arranges him and everything around him.

Your not suppose to wait anyway, life isnt about waiting. If you wait, your going to create more waiting. Believe, know and you will receive. Rather simple.

[blissmaster]

Yes ALG rocks He is one of the most prolific and the most successful IM user on this forum.Its generous on his part to share all his techniques and experiences on this lovely forum.I am also reading his past posts and I am learning a lot.I hope ALG replies on this post and shares the most basics of IM techniques and nuts and bolts of LOA. :-)

[Minerva]

So I was talking to a friend about this Intention-Manifestation stuff since I barely go into this forum and I enjoyed reading this topic as well, but I am confused on this stuff. Doesn't it seem to be just really:

"If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything??"

I am just going to speak from experience and I just learned this Intention-Manifestation last night per se.
When I was in college, I wanted to do good. I guess that is setting the intention part as you guys mention. So I just focused on doing good. I studied my butt off through calculus, physics, tons of chemistry classes and graduated as summa cum lada-- top of my class. But all I did was just put my mind to it. If I wanted it, go for it!! Be positive about things. Hence LOA (another thing I didn't learn till yesterday).

I am a chemistry teacher now and I made it a goal to make sure all my students pass the NY state Regents exam. Well this year, all 61 students passed the chemistry exam (which has a negative curve by the way) and my principal gave a quick speech of it. I did not know about Intention-Manifestation. All I knew was it was a goal, I set my mind to it, applied myself, and be positive.

I believe everyone here has that capability. I believe everyone here can ask the universe-- talk directly to the universe if you want even-- and put your intention out there. And as long as you put your mind to it and apply yourself and be positive, you can achieve anything. I tell this to my students all the time and they see the results!

I think this is what Intention-Manifestation is cause I still don't 100% get it since there seems to be a lot of work with it with affirmations and limiting beliefs and such. I just don't get that. So maybe I need to learn a lot more with it. And I thank for this subforum. But I am concerned when I see people so frustrated with what they want to achieve such as you Bliss Sage with this topic and I just had to say something cause I am confused and I don't think desiring what you want in life should be so difficult and involved.

Another example with me is losing weight. I just focus on it and work on it and I achieve the goal. I am positive that if you put that intention out there to the universe and go after your dreams then ~anything~ positive will come your way. Just keep your chin up!

[Bliss Sage]

Originally Posted by blissmaster

Yes ALG rocks He is one of the most prolific and the most successful IM user on this forum.Its generous on his part to share all his techniques and experiences on this lovely forum.I am also reading his past posts and I am learning a lot.I hope ALG replies on this post and shares the most basics of IM techniques and nuts and bolts of LOA. :-)

Great minds think alike We have even both used "bliss" in our names .

I hope he'll write here too. I was hoping for that, because I got some questions when I was reading his posts, most of which I included in my original post.

@Minerva
Not everyone is born into this world into situations which enable them to be healthy enough to think like that, or to even begin to think about thinking like that.

It's a question of how to use the LoA deliberately for your benefit and not for your suffering. If you are born into ****, like an abusive family from the start, no one ever tells you how your feelings and thoughts are affecting what happens to you or that you even have the slightest means to control it, how are you going to reason your way to someone who has been abused all their life and bears the scars of that abuse?

It's not like I haven't achieved anything I wanted to, I did - some really crazy and impossible stuff. But the thing that was most important to me in life was the biggest source of pain and suffering all my life, until now, when I finally found out about the LoA. Moreover, those things I did, in the way you describe - with a lot of work - were not fun to do, because they were a lot of work and they were all engulfed in great overwhelming waves of pain relating to that one important, ever-elusive thing I was trying to get in life.

I like my life better now and the effects of my past seem to be subsiding significantly now - by a lot of determined healing work by me - so I have the best chances ever now of deliberately using the LoA to my benefit, for the first time ever.

[Bliss Sage]

Oops, I forgot to post what I was originally going to post when I just posted my last post...

So, I think that maybe I will sit home and do the kind of manifestation exercises for my intentions that ALG does, and then I will ask what can I do in the real world to make the intention happen (if I can't think of what to do immediately).

It looks like ALG has his intentions and he meditates on them and spiritually spends time to manifest them, and then he goes out into the world, which serves as a stage on which his intentions are played out. The latter part would probably be the "power" part. If you have a play you have written, but no stage to perform it on, your play will never be acted out.

If anyone ever tells me again that no action is required, I'll clobber him Every time I can think of that I manifested something I wanted, I took action - I didn't get lost in the "feeling place" of it or in the "vortex," I didn't visualize it, I took action and found and got what I wanted.

[OptimistPrime]

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

If anyone ever tells me again that no action is required, I'll clobber him Every time I can think of that I manifested something I wanted, I took action - I didn't get lost in the "feeling place" of it or in the "vortex," I didn't visualize it, I took action and found and got what I wanted.

Hmmm. I've never heard anyone say that action wasn't required to manifest things, merely that it's a question of how one approaches the action component of the process. At any rate, isn't it possible that it's a case of different strokes for different folks?

For instance, I've always had an experience opposite to yours: that is, whenever I try to make something manifest through my actions, it never works out. Whereas when I wait for "inspired action", as you put it earlier, things always show up serendipitously for me. So I'm inclined to think that there are multiple valid ways of handling action in manifesting, as opposed to just one.

[Bliss Sage]

Originally Posted by OptimistPrime

Hmmm. I've never heard anyone say that action wasn't required to manifest things, merely that it's a question of how one approaches the action component of the process. At any rate, isn't it possible that it's a case of different strokes for different folks?

People don't as much say you don't need to do anything as they tell you all you need to do is visualize what you want every day and get into the "feeling place" of it and become a vibrational match and then it will just show up in your life - just like magic. Abraham-Hicks, Steve Pavlina (his Creative Abundance videos) are the two I've been following for this.

Originally Posted by OptimistPrime

For instance, I've always had an experience opposite to yours: that is, whenever I try to make something manifest through my actions, it never works out. Whereas when I wait for "inspired action", as you put it earlier, things always show up serendipitously for me. So I'm inclined to think that there are multiple valid ways of handling action in manifesting, as opposed to just one.

You see, that's what I wanted. But I tried manifesting an apartment for myself that way. I visualized and visualized. Then I signed up with all the apartment rental companies here and got email alerts about apartments meeting my requirements, but there was never anything suitable, and months went by like that during which I had to live in a youth hostel.

I only finally found an apartment after getting fed up of living months in a youth hostel full of the most repulsive male pigs anyone could ever imagine. After one night where one drunken idiot guy threw up in his bed, I decided there was no way in hell I was staying there anymore. So I went online, joined Couchsurfers and found people in the town I wanted to have my apartment in and I stayed with them for a week for free. Just to look for an apartment. The first day I went out looking, I found one.

I went out to look at 2 apartments that day. Neither one of them made much of an impression. Mind you, I was absolutely desperate to get out of that awful youth hostel! (By all rights, according to popular belief, I never should have found what I was looking for, because by that time, I was both desperate to get out of that youth hostel and disgusted by the experiences I had had there - desperation and disgust, I am guessing, do not make me a vibrational match to what I wanted)

After looking at the 2nd apartment, the woman asked me if I had time, because she remembered another apartment in the same building that hadn't gone public yet. I had time, so I went. DING! That was it! When I walked in this apartment, I knew instantaneously it was mine! I had to have it. Essentially, it was nothing like what I had been visualizing [Two individual rooms were almost identical to what I had been visualizing, but it turns out I didn't really care how those two rooms were, as long as the bathroom had a bathtub.]

So what got me the apartment I had been wanting for months was a dose of desperation and disgust powerful enough to physically propel me right out of that youth hostel. This is pretty much the opposite of the LoA instruction given by A-H and many others (especially on the Secret).

Nobody came to me and offered me the apartment I was dreaming of, no apartment even close to what I wanted showed up in my email from all of the rental agencies I had signed up with. Nope, I had to get up and go, and find an apartment that hadn't even gone public yet.

[Sbonn]

One thing you missed in your research.. Is ALG and Mrs. ALG also took the Silva Mind Control Course in 2007.. which happens to encompass LOA via techniques of visualization and meditation and a host of exercises/tools to help with the LOA process.

[Bliss Sage]

Originally Posted by Sbonn

One thing you missed in your research.. Is ALG and Mrs. ALG also took the Silva Mind Control Course in 2007.. which happens to encompass LOA via techniques of visualization and meditation and a host of exercises/tools to help with the LOA process.

I didn't miss that, but I didn't really know what that was.
I looked into it far enough to learn that they don't have courses like that over in Europe.

[OptimistPrime]

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

People don't as much say you don't need to do anything as they tell you all you need to do is visualize what you want every day and get into the "feeling place" of it and become a vibrational match and then it will just show up in your life - just like magic. Abraham-Hicks, Steve Pavlina (his Creative Abundance videos) are the two I've been following for this.

Oh, okay. The only thing I've ever read in that vein was a blog entry by Erin Pavlina, and the method she described didn't feel like it resonated with me. Although, like I said, I'm inclined to think that it's probably just the method that works for her, Steve, Abraham-Hicks, and others.

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

I only finally found an apartment after getting fed up of living months in a youth hostel full of the most repulsive male pigs anyone could ever imagine. After one night where one drunken idiot guy threw up in his bed, I decided there was no way in hell I was staying there anymore. So I went online, joined Couchsurfers and found people in the town I wanted to have my apartment in and I stayed with them for a week for free. Just to look for an apartment. The first day I went out looking, I found one.

Okay, this is a case where different people could interpret what happened to you according to their particular views regarding how manifestation works. For example, in my view, this was "inspired action". An unforeseen incident (some guy puking) showed up in your life and inspired you to take action. Then you easily found an apartment. In other words, waiting for something to come to you worked: you waited for an apartment to show up in your life, and then an incident came to you that inspired you to take action, and then in the process of taking that action an apartment came to you. It just didn't come to you as quickly as you expected it to.

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

Mind you, I was absolutely desperate to get out of that awful youth hostel! (By all rights, according to popular belief, I never should have found what I was looking for, because by that time, I was both desperate to get out of that youth hostel and disgusted by the experiences I had had there - desperation and disgust, I am guessing, do not make me a vibrational match to what I wanted)

It depends on whether you consider your desperation and disgust to be the Intention that led to the Manifestation of the apartment, or if you regard them as the Means by which your Intention for an apartment led you to the Manifestation of the apartment. Personally, I'm inclined to look at it as the latter.

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

Nobody came to me and offered me the apartment I was dreaming of, no apartment even close to what I wanted showed up in my email from all of the rental agencies I had signed up with. Nope, I had to get up and go, and find an apartment that hadn't even gone public yet.

You just said that the woman offered you another apartment in the same building that hadn't gone public yet. It didn't come to you as soon as you expected, or via the means that you expected, or in the exact form that you expected, but it did come to you.

[VinceG]

This might be hard to hear but also realize that there's great deal of luck involved. ALG lives in one of the richest countries in the world, with the greatest percentage of millionaires.

[SethWilliams]

Originally Posted by VinceG

This might be hard to hear but also realize that there's great deal of luck involved. ALG lives in one of the richest countries in the world, with the greatest percentage of millionaires.

Well that suggests lucks an actual thing.

[Bliss Sage]

Originally Posted by OptimistPrime

Oh, okay. The only thing I've ever read in that vein was a blog entry by Erin Pavlina, and the method she described didn't feel like it resonated with me. Although, like I said, I'm inclined to think that it's probably just the method that works for her, Steve, Abraham-Hicks, and others.

Yeah, cuz Abraham needs to manifest stuff, what with living in the ether and all

Originally Posted by OptimistPrime

Okay, this is a case where different people could interpret what happened to you according to their particular views regarding how manifestation works. For example, in my view, this was "inspired action". An unforeseen incident (some guy puking) showed up in your life and inspired you to take action. Then you easily found an apartment. In other words, waiting for something to come to you worked: you waited for an apartment to show up in your life, and then an incident came to you that inspired you to take action, and then in the process of taking that action an apartment came to you. It just didn't come to you as quickly as you expected it to.

Lol. Ok, I guess I'm not sure what inspired action is. I felt anything but what I would call "inspired." Motivated, absolutely.

Originally Posted by OptimistPrime

It depends on whether you consider your desperation and disgust to be the Intention that led to the Manifestation of the apartment, or if you regard them as the Means by which your Intention for an apartment led you to the Manifestation of the apartment. Personally, I'm inclined to look at it as the latter.

I would call them the catalyst for the implementation of the intention.

Originally Posted by OptimistPrime

You just said that the woman offered you another apartment in the same building that hadn't gone public yet. It didn't come to you as soon as you expected, or via the means that you expected, or in the exact form that you expected, but it did come to you.

Yes, but, as an example, the guy who vomited in his bed had some friend outright offer him a huge basement apartment for dirt-cheap, just like that. I don't even think he looked for one. Me, I had to actually go through the usual process of finding an apartment - it didn't fall into my lap with no effort like his did, or even come in my email inbox. But I know the bit about it not having gone public yet was lucky and special and I appreciated it.

[Sbonn]

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Originally Posted by Bliss Sage
People don't as much say you don't need to do anything as they tell you all you need to do is visualize what you want every day and get into the "feeling place" of it and become a vibrational match and then it will just show up in your life - just like magic. Abraham-Hicks, Steve Pavlina (his Creative Abundance videos) are the two I've been following for this.

Oh, okay. The only thing I've ever read in that vein was a blog entry by Erin Pavlina, and the method she described didn't feel like it resonated with me. Although, like I said, I'm inclined to think that it's probably just the method that works for her, Steve, Abraham-Hicks, and others.

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Originally Posted by Bliss Sage
I only finally found an apartment after getting fed up of living months in a youth hostel full of the most repulsive male pigs anyone could ever imagine. After one night where one drunken idiot guy threw up in his bed, I decided there was no way in hell I was staying there anymore. So I went online, joined Couchsurfers and found people in the town I wanted to have my apartment in and I stayed with them for a week for free. Just to look for an apartment. The first day I went out looking, I found one.

Okay, this is a case where different people could interpret what happened to you according to their particular views regarding how manifestation works. For example, in my view, this was "inspired action". An unforeseen incident (some guy puking) showed up in your life and inspired you to take action. Then you easily found an apartment. In other words, waiting for something to come to you worked: you waited for an apartment to show up in your life, and then an incident came to you that inspired you to take action, and then in the process of taking that action an apartment came to you. It just didn't come to you as quickly as you expected it to.

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Originally Posted by Bliss Sage
Mind you, I was absolutely desperate to get out of that awful youth hostel! (By all rights, according to popular belief, I never should have found what I was looking for, because by that time, I was both desperate to get out of that youth hostel and disgusted by the experiences I had had there - desperation and disgust, I am guessing, do not make me a vibrational match to what I wanted)

It depends on whether you consider your desperation and disgust to be the Intention that led to the Manifestation of the apartment, or if you regard them as the Means by which your Intention for an apartment led you to the Manifestation of the apartment. Personally, I'm inclined to look at it as the latter.

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Originally Posted by Bliss Sage
Nobody came to me and offered me the apartment I was dreaming of, no apartment even close to what I wanted showed up in my email from all of the rental agencies I had signed up with. Nope, I had to get up and go, and find an apartment that hadn't even gone public yet.

You just said that the woman offered you another apartment in the same building that hadn't gone public yet. It didn't come to you as soon as you expected, or via the means that you expected, or in the exact form that you expected, but it did come to you.

I am going to agree with OptimistPrime with the above.

It appears some people do misinterpret what AH and others say about being a vibrational match.. I know someone else who is sitting at home on their couch.. trying to vibrate things coming to them.. You have to get out in the world. I was then told that would be taking an action journey.. no it wouldn't be .. it would be taking inspired action to give room for the universe to figure out the hows of lining up opportunities for you.

BEING POSITIVE IS A MUST.. and not faking it.. really finding that spot of being truly grateful for all that you have.. in your hostel example.. were you grateful to have a place to sleep under a roof? Were you grateful for other people being around you? were you grateful for the showers? .. being grateful for what you have now is important, it keeps you in a positive mode while you manifest those things you want.

LEARNING TO DETACH FROM THE OUTCOME... there are so many ways we can attach to the outcome of a manifestation.. trying to put time frames, constantly thinking about what you want, dwelling... its best to set your intention and let it go.. get busy with other things to help you be happy..

RESISTANCE... clearing out limiting beliefs, prime example.. money.. do you believe that you have to work hard for money? if so then telling yourself money will come quick and easily will not work.. till you diffuse the I have to work hard for money, telling yourself it will come quick and easy wont do anything. I try to suggest do a get real q & a with yourself about the subject you are trying to manifest.. do you really believe you deserve it? do you really believe it will come into your experience? if NOT then start asking yourself why you dont think it will or why you dont deserve it.. thats how you identify and clear limiting beliefs..

DONT USE LOGIC WITH LOA. .it doesnt work! the mind wants to latch on and over analyze stuff constantly.. this hampers what you are trying to do!. logic wants to control how what when where

I feel the frustration in your posts, and I understand where you are at but I would also like share it's not serving your trying to understand LOA..

Silva Mind Control Course I believe you can take online.. not 100% sure but I believe I read that somewhere.. they also offer cds of the classes to, which you can also work with.. there are a host of different people and techniques.

Some I know who I have been following elsewhere.. managed to turn her life around financially in 1.5 years she was using both AH and bob doyle's methods.

There is more I would like to share but at this point, its not the right time.

HUGS!

[VinceG]

Originally Posted by SethWilliams

Well that suggests lucks an actual thing.

Well, it certainly is. But working with luck isn't the same as working with the LoA. If a guy wanted lots of sex, he could use the LoA, or he could take a vacation to Thailand. Different ways of producing the same outcome. If you use both, you can amplify the returns. You guys are looking at ALG seeing everything he's accomplished, thinking it's all LoA. If you just look at and duplicate ALG's use of the LoA, then you'll get slightly better returns from your efforts. But if you want the amplified effect, you'll have to find a way to duplicate his particular circumstances.

[garentee]

I will pass on acting like ALG... I would rather just be me.

[aelle]

Bliss Sage, great analysis. I'd love for ALG himself to comment, but I think you have outlined some important aspects of the reasons for his success.

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

h) Walking meditation - I have not a clue what that is.

That's a thing! Even in traditional meditation you don't have to sit in the lotus position ; meditating while moving can be just as effective. Tai-chi is often used as a form of meditation. As for walking/running meditation, it's called Lung Gom Pa. My boyfriend used to practice it as a teen.

[masteredfate]

Once upon a time, my ego would have been really insulted by this post. I would think, "OMG- what are the rest of us- chopped liver???" or "Wow-that's really insulting to all the other posters in the forum who are so helpful."

But I'm past that. Which is really freakin' huge.

Godot is pretty darn awesome at what he does and his willingness to share.

*hip hip...hooray!* (confetti splashes down on his keyboard)

You are making it too hard. Techniques, reading, meditation, relaxation, chanting, mental focus- all of these things can work. But what works above and beyond that is absolute belief. An understanding that you can not not have what you are asking for.


I have this brother-in-law. He's a good man, but a strange fellow. I don't want to describe him, because I have a feeling he is here and I don't know it. But here is the deal with him- he's angry. Angry that his loved ones have passed on, angry that he was never a stud..all these things from his youth. Yet, he's rich. He loooves money.

My former stepfather. Complete *******. Really angry person. Angry he's a small man. Angry he doesn't have love. All these things. Yet, he's rich. Loves money.

Have you ever wondered how people who in our minds eye are not 'nice' people or 'good' people seem to be so wealthy? Focus. Intent. Belief in one thing- themselves.

I am not telling you to go get mad to change your life, I'm just making a point. There are numerous ways to be successful with the LOA, but in the end it all comes down to you believing it's happening and allowing it to happen.

[Acting Like Godot]

A thread about me! How fun.

First thing I want to talk about is action.

If you understand the theory of magick, you'll see that it's telling you that the entire universe runs on magick. Furthermore, magick runs on thought. This implies that thoughts create reality. Wait, did I go one big round to tell you something you already knew?

The point is this. Every thought is magickal. And every action you take has some thought behind it (an intention, a motivation, a belief). Therefore every action you take is also magickal.

To put it another way, as you go about your daily routine doing things, your actions have two kinds of effects - the conventionally predictable effects (i.e the effects that your mother or your dentist can foresee / would expect) , and the magickal effects.

How strong are the magickal effects? It depends on the thought behind the action. The clearer the intent, the deeper the belief, the stronger the focus, the greater the commitment - the stronger the magickal effect. Because all these things I've mentioned (intent, belief, focus etc) are aspects of thought, and thought drives the magick.

Here are two examples of magickal effects behind everyday action.

1. You pop a Vitamin C into your mouth in the morning. How much benefit will it do for you? More, if you strongly believe that Vitamin C helps your health. Less, if you are somewhat doubtful about it. This is, of course, what the doctors call the placebo effect. The belief leads to a very real difference in the physical world, even if you don't understand WHY or HOW the belief creates that difference.

2. You are a teacher. Do you believe that your students are bright and intelligent? Or dumb and stupid? Either way, your belief leads to corresponding effects in reality, even if you try your best to do your best for all types of kids. This is known as the Rosenthal effect, named after the Harvard professor who studied this phenomenon in experiments involving actual classroom settings.

So when you go about your everyday life and take action - whether you're going for an interview; watering your plants; sending an email; reading a book to your child; talking to a friend; playing the piano ...

It's helpful to take a moment to examine your thoughts around the action. Why are you doing this? What is your intention? Are you giving it your attention and focus? Because these factors determine the strength of the magickal effect behind your action. The magickal effect will organize the "random" opportunities, send the relevant resources to you etc.

From this perspective, you can see that it is quite possible to work miracles and achieve great things in your life, through your actions. What is helping behind the scenes is the thought behind the action. The clearer your intent, the sharper the focus, the deeper the belief, the more powerful the magickal effect of your actions.

[OptimistPrime]

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

Yeah, cuz Abraham needs to manifest stuff, what with living in the ether and all

*checks Wikipedia* Oh, is that what "Abraham" is? I thought Abraham-Hicks was the hyphenated surname of whomever wrote The Secret. (Like I said, I've never read it.)

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

Lol. Ok, I guess I'm not sure what inspired action is. I felt anything but what I would call "inspired." Motivated, absolutely.

I see the two as being closely related when it comes to these matters.

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

Yes, but, as an example, the guy who vomited in his bed had some friend outright offer him a huge basement apartment for dirt-cheap, just like that. I don't even think he looked for one. Me, I had to actually go through the usual process of finding an apartment - it didn't fall into my lap with no effort like his did, or even come in my email inbox. But I know the bit about it not having gone public yet was lucky and special and I appreciated it.

Maybe the reason it "fell into the lap" of that guy and not you was because no amount of desperation or disgust would have gotten him to get off his butt and leave that hostel to go apartment-hunting. Maybe you wouldn't have been able to appreciate the apartment you ended up finding as much as you did if you hadn't gone through all of the intervening experiences between intention and manifestation. Who knows? From our limited perspectives, we can't know the reason why everything happens the way it does.

[Acting Like Godot]

On the range and diversity of LOA techniques, this is what I have to say. Going back to first principles, thought creates reality. Therefore anything that helps you to think more positively, constructively, happily, clearly, usefully, deeply, powerfully etc etc can potentially be used as a LOA tool or technique.

Here's another simple tool.

In the course of a single day, plenty of thoughts pass through my head. For example, they may be triggered by something I saw or heard or read, or someone I met, or they may have just randomly popped up.

Some of these thoughts are trivial, useless, negative or repetitious. So I discard them. In a single day, however, many of these thoughts are going to be useful, interesting, positive, helpful etc. So, when they happen, I quickly jot them down in a notebook or type them into my handphone (before I forget them).

So eventually I get long lists, which I read and review from time to time. There are ideas to explore; useful or fun things to do; thoughts that help me to see problems in a better light; uplifting thoughts; amusing thoughts; also, "to-do" thoughts etc. I take whatever value I can, from these thoughts, and when I'm done, I delete them from the list, just to keep the list manageable in length.

One of the fascinating things I've discovered is that if you give a positive thought this kind of attention, it will often grow and expand into a greater version of itself. Two or three different types of positive thoughts can also combine to lead to a new form of positive thought. It's like cross-breeding.

And of course the more attention you give to your positive thoughts, the greater the number of useful synchronicities will pop up in your reality.

[elucidate]

Originally Posted by aelle

Bliss Sage, great analysis. I'd love for ALG himself to comment, but I think you have outlined some important aspects of the reasons for his success.




That's a thing! Even in traditional meditation you don't have to sit in the lotus position ; meditating while moving can be just as effective. Tai-chi is often used as a form of meditation. As for walking/running meditation, it's called Lung Gom Pa. My boyfriend used to practice it as a teen.

You can even meditate while doing mundane housework, like the laundry. I've been in meditative states whilst riding my bike before, so don't believe anyone who says there is just one way to meditate. You can find your own way to do it, that works just as well.

[aelle]

ALG, I remember you describing how you practice thought plannng and thought control (I think your example was that during "free thought time" like your commute, instead of letting your mind wander, you plan what you will think about for an hour, like your holiday or the gifts you will get your kids for Christmas) At the time I found the concept mindblowing because it was so novel. But it makes sense: if thoughts create reality you want to train your mind to banish random thoughts and think constructive ones instead.

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

So eventually I get long lists, which I read and review from time to time. There are ideas to explore; useful or fun things to do; thoughts that help me to see problems in a better light; uplifting thoughts; amusing thoughts; also, "to-do" thoughts etc. I take whatever value I can, from these thoughts, and when I'm done, I delete them from the list, just to keep the list manageable in length.

What about things like daydreaming (playing a hypothetical scenario in your head), or thinking about a melody? I swear that at least 50% of my awake time (and during my dreams too, for that matter) there's a song or a piece of music playing in my head. Can they be "useful" thoughts? Or do you avoid them?

[JeffistheAnswer]

That recording thoughts idea is pretty interesting. I'll have to try it! By the way ALG, you are awesome and I am very grateful for your presence here in the forums.

[cacheborn]

Great thread and discussion. Thanks everyone and thank you ALG.

[blissmaster]

A thread about me! How fun.

you deserve all the praise ALG

It's helpful to take a moment to examine your thoughts around the action. Why are you doing this? What is your intention? Are you giving it your attention and focus? Because these factors determine the strength of the magickal effect behind your action. The magickal effect will organize the "random" opportunities, send the relevant resources to you etc.

So ALG you mean to say that we should check every thought behind our actions.You said to check if we are giving attention and focus to our thoughts.How to do it by going into alpha?Or some other way?
ALG whats the role of all the magickal spells? So those spells influence the working of the universe which further brings the opportunities our way?

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by VinceG

You guys are looking at ALG seeing everything he's accomplished, thinking it's all LoA.

The first question is whether you believe in LOA theory, in the form explained by, say, Abraham Hicks. If you do, then indeed everything I've accomplished is LOA, just as everything you've accomplished is also LOA.

And actually, every wart in your life and mine, every blemish, unpleasantness, failure or disappointment is also LOA. For the theory goes as follows: you attract and create your own reality, entirely with your own thoughts.

Of course, a lot of creation is by default. By this, we mean the vast amount of stuff that goes on in your consciousness without your being aware of it. Increase the degree of your awareness of your mind, and you then increase the proportion of things in your life which you deliberately and consciously create.

And of course, these will be things that please you, delight you, satisfy you, things that you enjoy, things that you find meaningful. For if you were consciously creating, you will only want to create such things.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by blissmaster

ALG whats the role of all the magickal spells? So those spells influence the working of the universe which further brings the opportunities our way?

I would define a spell as a specific packet of thought-energy which you have shaped with an intention.

For example, if you wish a friend all the best for his exams, the energy is the energy you supply to that thought, and the intention is the intention that he should do well in his exams. This spell then goes forth into the universe to fulfill itself.

Whether the spell works depends on a number of factors such as the intensity of the thought, the clarity of the intention etc. In many magickal rituals, a variety of steps may be taken, but the general purpose is just to improve the quality of the focus, the belief, the clarity of the thought etc and thereby strengthen the spell.

Then there is the "correspondence" aspect of magickal practice. The general notion is that certain types of things naturally correspond well with certain types of intentions, therefore you incorporate these things appropriately into your spellcrafting.

For example, the colour red may be associated with primary life functions; water may be associated with love or cleansing; the earth element is associated with work and career; the sun is associated with masculine energies, and you may have read that certain types of crystals are associated with certain meanings etc. And depending on what school of magick you subscribe to, there are further associations to be drawn with different types of animals, or plants, or gods etc.

To me, these are add-on's, they are nice to have, and they can be useful. But the raw energy is still your own thought.

[VinceG]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

The first question is whether you believe in LOA theory, in the form explained by, say, Abraham Hicks. If you do, then indeed everything I've accomplished is LOA, just as everything you've accomplished is also LOA.

And actually, every wart in your life and mine, every blemish, unpleasantness, failure or disappointment is also LOA. For the theory goes as follows: you attract and create your own reality, entirely with your own thoughts.

Of course, a lot of creation is by default. By this, we mean the vast amount of stuff that goes on in your consciousness without your being aware of it. Increase the degree of your awareness of your mind, and you then increase the proportion of things in your life which you deliberately and consciously create.

And of course, these will be things that please you, delight you, satisfy you, things that you enjoy, things that you find meaningful. For if you were consciously creating, you will only want to create such things.

We are but leaves floating on a river. Some of these leaves want to be where other leaves are, perhaps the sun is better over there. If a leaf wants hard enough to change his position on the river, he tries really really hard, and transforms himself into a fish.