So during this Covid 19 crisis.. I have been re listening to the LOA books I have on Audio tape. I don't care what anyone says they offer some good advice.

Last night I was faced with a grim prospect. A strong line of thunderstorms coming over the region. There would be no part spared. And they were so strong they had a tornado watch. Something not really heard of here.

I have developed a bit of a phobia about storms after last year I seemingly got stuck under a very damaging storm for hours. The clouds seemed to just get stuck over my house at 1 am to 5 am and it never moved. This is very unusual as most storms die down after dark. My cat also. Last year it was horrible. He cried and shivered and I could do nothing to comfort him. This storm I was not prepared for as I had thought the storms would move on quickly.

So I wasn't looking forward to more storms especially so early in the year.

So I sat down last night and pictured still weather and I asked the universe to make the storms fall apart. I really believed it would happen and acted accordingly. I went into my bedroom and changed into my PJs and started watching tv confident it would be fine.

You know what happened... not only did it totally fall apart, it broke apart over my town.. leaving one storm cloud to the left of my town and one storm cloud to the right. Resulting in only mild rain. Not one lighting strike or thunder clap over me all night long.

Now of course I find it hard to believe that *I* did that, but at the same time I have to believe I was involved in the mix. There was a straight line of strong storms that was coming right at me and for it to break up right over my house... pretty amazing.

[Skeezyks]

However it may have come to pass, I'm glad the storm missed you.

[Have Hope]

So are you saying that the storm was around you except for on your house, or are you saying the storm missed your entire town? I am really skeptical of the LOA myself, but I want to support you if you have newfound belief in it. I thought at one point that I used the LOA to double my salary --- once. However, that being said, it's really hard to believe that you were able to somehow influence an entire storm. I apologize, but that's just too far fetched for me to believe or even fathom. I personally think the LOA has some merit, but I also am very skeptical of it because I think in part people just wanted to make money with a new craze or fad. I tend now to think that I doubled my salary simply because I wanted it to happen and was determined. But a small part of me wonders if it was the LOA in action, because it wasn't likely I would double it, I had thought ahead of time, well, I want a job that matches my favorite skills and will be double my salary.... and one month later, that exact job came along, and I got it.

Originally Posted by Have Hope

So are you saying that the storm was around you except for on your house, or are you saying the storm missed your entire town? I am really skeptical of the LOA myself.

No I have long believed in it. I am an extremely skeptical person by nature but this I believe in. Most of the time, for good or ill, it does seem to work.

Literally there was a line of thunderstorms that was coming for my town which was strong red, no sign it was going to break up at all. It broke up directly before my town. So my town got nothing but rain, but the towns to the left and right of me got thunderstorms. I saw it break up on the radar and you could see yellow surrounding my town and green over my town.

As if my town was protected and also.. not one single lighting strike or boomer. If I didn't have that radar to check I would have been like, what happened?

[mote.of.soul]

@Emily Fox Seaton

Wow, that's amazing. I definitely believe in higher consciousness and higher beings, etc., so, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the LOA responded to you. I had one 'prayer' answered 3 years ago which essentially saved my life.

Shakespeare's Hamlet:

There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy (science)

Absolutely true.

[Have Hope]

Originally Posted by Emily Fox Seaton

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No I have long believed in it. I am an extremely skeptical person by nature but this I believe in. Most of the time, for good or ill, it does seem to work.

Yeah, I hear you. I used to adhere to this belief system and tried to win lots of money, but it never worked because it was too hard to believe that I was already wealthy when I was broke and stressed about money. That's what I have trouble with is the contradiction in what is reality and what you want to have happen.

But if it works for you, then by all means! It's great to have something positive to believe in.

Originally Posted by Have Hope

Yeah, I hear you. I used to adhere to this belief system and tried to win lots of money,

I gave up on the money aspect. I think honestly deep in my heart, I don't want it enough. I feel like when I really need it... it comes for me.

[Have Hope]

Originally Posted by Emily Fox Seaton

I gave up on the money aspect. I think honestly deep in my heart, I don't want it enough. I feel like when I really need it... it comes for me.

I think I held the belief that I didn't deserve it... not millions of dollars like I wanted and asked for. That could have been a strong factor, in addition to being stressed and broke.

Though I am skeptical, I am open to the LOA's principles of energy moving energy into motion within the universe, and I think it's entirely possible that it can truly work.

I really do not know for certain if I doubled my salary because of sheer determination, or because of LOA..... either way, I had the energy in motion because I was super laser focused on it every day, and I was 100% certain that I could achieve the task of doubling my salary. My father told me it was impossible without a second degree, and I said, "oh yeah? Watch me". His negativity gave me the determination and the will to succeed and prove him wrong. lol.

Originally Posted by Have Hope

I really do not know for certain if I doubled my salary because of sheer determination, or because of LOA..... either way, I had the energy in motion because I was super laser focused on it every day, and I was 100% certain that I could achieve the task of doubling my salary. My father told me it was impossible without a second degree, and I said, "oh yeah? Watch me". His negativity gave me the determination and the will to succeed and prove him wrong. lol.

I feel the same. In my 20s I got it into my head I was going to go to grad school, no one thought I could do it but I had a fiery passion and in my heart I knew I could do it.

I seriously over shot my target so much that even I was shocked.

I think it is a little of both. I was going to make it happen but there were little things I couldn't possibly help and I feel like the universe was there for me.

For instance I studied as much as I should but I couldn't control how much other people studied. I feel like the universe pushed them to put the book down or go to the bar while I never did that.

During this time there were a zillion things that could have gone wrong but I feel like I was on a roll and as long as I believed in myself I could accomplish anything. With this idea in my head nothing did stop me for quite a while.

This isn't LOA proper but still I think sign of something out there directing us. On Tuesday I was tooling around ABC and I found "The Astronauts' Wives Club". I started watching and of course, I was very taken with Anne Glenn. So I decided to google her and she literally died on Tuesday just a few hours before i googled. Meaning around the time I got interested in watching that show. Weird. Some say the LOA is part of a universal consciousness that each of us is tapped into and I have to wonder if that consciousness led me to watching that show.

It happened again. MASSIVE line of storms coming at me yesterday. It got so dark. I sat down, asked the universe to make them go away... and started focusing on clear weather and the joy of my cat when he is happy.

The storms didn't go away BUT..there was ZERO lighting or Thunder. TWICE. Two sets of storms came though looking as "red" on the radar as possible .. and it just rained. The later one you could hear the thunder when it was coming... but when it got here.. nothing.

Also, my neighbor likes to light fires in his fire pit late at night and the always makes me nervous. I am sure I had that in the back of my mind. Well the storm demolished that fire... almost like the universe was winking at me and saying -- here is a bonus just for you.

[WastingAsparagus]

Just curious, do you think the LOA has anything to do with just thinking positively? Or is there something else to it?

Originally Posted by WastingAsparagus

Just curious, do you think the LOA has anything to do with just thinking positively? Or is there something else to it?

No. In fact I think the LOA works with negative thoughts...so you do have to be careful.

You have to "mean it" you have to with every aspect of your being focus on something, see it happening, and know it will happen deep down.

I remember when I went to grad school. I had never attempted something like this before... for at least 4 months I had a passion burning in my heart that I was going not to make a fool out of myself. I was going to get good grades, I WAS going to make it happen. Failure was not an option. Of course I studied but I easily could have failed to understand a question. Even after the test I thought about it with a passion.

So the day the exams were posted, I walked up.. put my number up... both numbers had next to them. "A" -- I didn't quite believe that... then one of them had the "A" circled.. when I read down it said I had won the section award for best paper.

I practically fell over. This seemed like something that was going to be soo difficult. I thought back to the nuns, they said, if you have studied god won't let you fail... well I don't believe in god but substitute "universe" and it kind of works.

[WastingAsparagus]

Originally Posted by Emily Fox Seaton

No. In fact I think the LOA works with negative thoughts...so you do have to be careful.

You have to "mean it" you have to with every aspect of your being focus on something, see it happening, and know it will happen deep down.

I remember when I went to grad school. I had never attempted something like this before... for at least 4 months I had a passion burning in my heart that I was going not to make a fool out of myself. I was going to get good grades, I WAS going to make it happen. Failure was not an option. Of course I studied but I easily could have failed to understand a question. Even after the test I thought about it with a passion.

So the day the exams were posted, I walked up.. put my number up... both numbers had next to them. "A" -- I didn't quite believe that... then one of them had the "A" circled.. when I read down it said I had won the section award for best paper.

I practically fell over. This seemed like something that was going to be soo difficult. I thought back to the nuns, they said, if you have studied god won't let you fail... well I don't believe in god but substitute "universe" and it kind of works.

That's cool. I think I tend to think negatively. Maybe I need the LOA.

Originally Posted by WastingAsparagus

That's cool. I think I tend to think negatively. Maybe I need the LOA.

I am definitely a negative thinker. Try to keep in mind now something that makes me be more positive.

What if, what if I live in a universe that is trying to do right by me. To get really trippy some teachers of the LOA suggest that everything -- EVERYTHING- is formed from a universal "substance" and that substance activates to make what the consciousness focuses on. So the universe is me, I am the universe, and there is no reason the universe would want to do bad things to me... I am part of it.

The negative part I think comes from really feeling a strong emotion, generally more than one human. Such as, the Titanic. They literally went around advertising that thing as "unsinkable" and making sure everyone knew only the rich and powerful would be on the maiden voyage. And, do you know that the way it hit the iceberg was a 1 and 1000 shot. It was unlikely to happen but it was the ONLY way to sink that ship... and it happened. My theory was that regular people (the human consciousness) probably was saying in their heads... unsinkable huh, I hope that thing sinks... never really thinking it could come true. But it did.

Here is another one... Apollo 13 was supposed to have a mission running during Friday the 13th of April and people generally didn't want to have that mission during that time during to suspicion. You know what happened. But also, guess what day it happened on? Friday April 13th.

[Travelinglady]

I know this question shows my ignorance, but what is LOA?

Law of Attraction: basically the idea that you (or life) can influence the world with the mind.

I would check out the Secret ( think it is available on you tube in audio format) or think and grow rich by Wallace Wattles.

[Travelinglady]

I agree that postive or negative thinking can affect us personally, but not that we can think a thunderstorm away. I do believe in prayer, though,

You should give it a try or look into it... Personally I already felt like there was something in the universe that was doing things like this but never had a name or explanation. So it resonated with me. And I am the most cynical person in the world.

There is a larger world other than *what you can get* which has some trippy thoughts but interestingly a lot of those thoughts are being backed by quantum physics. In addition the Secret - imho is a pretty positive well made book so I think it teaches a lot of good lessons.

[Have Hope]

I am now ticked off about LOA at this moment in time. If the LOA exists and is true, then I have been magnetically and energetically attracting abusers into. my life for the last many years, which means there is something wrong with my own energy vibration and state of health. I feel it will never change, that I am damaged goods, and that I may as well be single for the rest of my life because of this stupid energetic law of attraction.

Or, I am just a freaking stupid idiot over and over again. I am really angry that this has happened so many times at this stage. Now I married an abuser, and must divorce him. And it's going to be nasty. Fourth abuser in a row for me. WTF.

So last year when I first got the book "the secret" I did all her exercises -- one of which is writing down what you want for all aspects of my life. I mean it is wise... I don't think I have ever really thought about *what I want* -- usually my thinking is... *what I can get*.

So I just was going through this yesterday and I found some of what I wanted for my job:
- more time off.
- more time during the day for myself.
- more indépendance.
- more leave time.

In the section on home life I have
- more home cooked meals
- lose weight.
- A cleaner home.
- More attention to my cat's needs.

Though of course there were some things that haven't come true... I have to say.. all of this stuff has mostly come true due to the corona virus. From a purely objective point of view it is pretty stunning.

And... I was driving and I saw a gym having exercise classes outside in the parking lot. I thought how amazingly sunny it has been here where I live, and though hot, there hasn't been a lot of rain.

You have to think how weird that, at the exact time we need people to be able to be outside... the weather cooperates.

Resturants are having people eating outside in the parking lot... and even the lack of water will assist in not making the mosquito situation dangerous. (with EEE).

[mote.of.soul]

@Emily Fox Seaton

Yes, it's interesting because along the lines of what you're saying - and I'm open to different ideas - I've heard it said, purely from a spiritual or mother nature point of view, that the pandemic is like the earths immunity system attacking and bringing into line the organism causing sickness to itself, the organism bringing sickness to the earth - which is us. Because let's face it, humans collectively are having a very negative impact on the earths biosphere, a negative impact on the earth itself, we're killing the earth. And the earth is our own home!

So, as you pointed out, and others have stated similar things; the pandemic indirectly - or perhaps deliberately(!) - could be having a positive effect on a lot of people and also on the rest of nature, for sure. Nature might very well be trying to bring us into line, to make us more harmonious with the earth. Of course the loss of human life is very tragic, but on the whole, it might be for the best in the long term. I do like that idea.

Originally Posted by mote.of.soul

So, as you pointed out, and others have stated similar things; the pandemic indirectly - or perhaps deliberately(!) - could be having a positive effect on a lot of people and also on the rest of nature, for sure. .

That was not what I was saying. I was saying that the consciousness of humanity is controlling the weather. Humans need nice weather and it appears. In direct response to our needs. The universe is a friendly one to us and we are not some sort of illness to it. We, or consciousness in general, can shape the universe we live in.

One of the reasons I think the "pandemic" hasn't been effected too is about 50% of the people don't really believe it is serious and thus the collective consciousness isn't focused on it.

One of the tenants of LOA is that the universes reshapes itself in response to the collective consciousness. When you look back in history imho you can see evidence of this. For the most part whenever we have an environmental challenge it ends up getting solved. For instance in the 1980s there was the hole in the ozone layer. Well that closed itself right up. In the 1970s there was the gas crisis, but somehow we found other sources and now gas is plentiful. It does really seem like the universe will provide what the collective consciousness needs.

[mote.of.soul]

@Emily Fox Seaton

Yes, very interesting. You're right, I was talking about something a bit different than the LOA, yes. I was talking about the consciousness of the planet, of mother earth, as being the cause for the pandemic and not the collective consciousness of we humans.

I agree the universe ultimately is a friendly one, yes, but human activity isn't always friendly to the planet. That's where nature must take matters into it's own hands. It might well treat us as hostile if our activities are hostile, which they are: hostile to the earth and to the animals, nature, and even to each other in many many instances - very hostile. We are being taught a valuable lesson, perhaps - which is actually coming from a place of love.

Here's something else Emily. In perhaps an LOA kind of way (I admit though, I've obviously not read up on the LOA). In response to a real wish for change, in response to many many prayers for something to happen: the anti-racism protests and riots the world is witnessing currently, particularly in the US, might be an LOA effect where people of all colors and backgrounds have come together with great energy and anger and really cried out to their leaders for change. Not only that but symbolically dismantled (by toppling statues) the racist foundations of societies everywhere. Could that be an LOA? A response to the collective consciousness of a great chunk of people, black, white, brown, everywhere? I think it could be Emily.