Law of Attraction Success story

[Laurend0603]

Hi all
dont do LOA constantly but it has worked a few times.
We have been trying for a baby for 4 months and this I wrote it in my notepad I will have a baby in Jan 2021 after finding out I am pregnant the end of April...yesterday the 30th April I got positive test! And they are getting stronger today. We only had sex twice this month just shows! I also made a mind movie on my phone of preg ladies and babies and watched it everyday for visulisation the universe has listened!!

It's just postmodern religion, isn't it? For people who are too right on to actually believe in a God. We are apparently too anthro-centric to come to terms with the fact that we are not special, there is no overarching conscience of God or the Universe especially invested in our wellbeing. There are some things which we can work towards and change but this requires actual ACTION, not just positivity. And there are some things we cannot change. And the universe doesn't care.

LuluBellaBlue i live, breathe, eat, sleep, spend time with friends, do things that make me happy, enjoy the little things, try and be kind, appreciate what I have.

Yes, I have goals - some of them are largely in my control (ie: if I choose not to study for my exam and fail that is on me) others are not. Life does not have to fall in line and I accept it may through me a curveball - infertility, cancer, assault, Covid-19(!) - but those curveballs are not my fault. My business has currently decreased because there is a global pandemic not because I wasn't positive enough about imagining my business... I also accept that it is ok to be negative sometimes, I don't have to be positive and visualising all the time, and that is fine.

@MouthBreathingRage, tell you what, let’s all gratefully embody BoJo sitting on a cactus. Surely the universe will ‘play ball’, as @LuluBellaBlue so sagaciously tells us?

Or do we need a pin board covered with Maseratis and country cottages?

Happy to help embody cacti. Can we embody other politicians sitting on them too?

LOA really doesn't promote an understanding of luck or privilege does it? And it's all great while you are getting what you visualise, as soon as you are unlucky or come against circumstances out of your control, it can be so very psychologically damaging.

Can we embody other politicians sitting on them too?

Of course. Rees-Mogg can spread-eagle on one in his usual fashion! Gosh, all this positive thinking is making me feel better already!

Fuck sake, OP. I've tried to be generous in thought, but you really don't get it, do you. Life does not have to play ball with you. Life very often doesn't play ball with you.

And it's not because you haven't done a good enough job visualizing or a good enough job hoping, but it's because there are structures, practicalities, and realities outside of your control.

Saying that is the fault of the person because they haven't given enough gratitude or tried hard enough is insulting. It's the corollary of laws of attraction.

Btw, thanks to the thread for the incredibly vivid mental image of Jacob Rees-Mogg spreadeagled on a cactus, which I suspect may be indelible.

the incredibly vivid mental image of Jacob Rees-Mogg spreadeagled on a cactus

I already had that image...mmmm Jacob.

Wow! Not sure if I should laugh like OP or be at the massive overreaction of clearly miserable people who get off by clicking on a post about a topic they obviously detest and instead of clicking away in disgust, they take the time to write condescending, self-righteous b.s, practically shoving their beliefs or lack thereof down OP's throat.

Fine, you don't believe. Some do. Your high and mighty views don't count here. Stuff it and let OP have her fucking moment.

And you say: "But muh Scientists, muh google searches, muh teachers said this instead. So I'll force you to abandon your belief because I think it's nonsense and I'll send you on a massive guilt trip too by saying you intended to make me feel bad. There! I feel so much better now for actively trying to make a stranger online feel like a fool. I love my life".

Disgusting, you lot for piling on OP

Congrats OP @Laurend0603. Keep up your positivity if it helps you. You seem to be holding your own amongst naysayers and know-it-alls. Well done

laurend0603
I hear you OP!
There's not many of us! 😂😂

they take the time to write condescending, self-righteous b.s, practically shoving their beliefs or lack thereof down OP's throat.

Isn't that pretty much exactly what the op did that caused the replies you're so offended by? This is AIBU, posters felt the op was being unreasonable.

When they build the #BeKind forum then everyone who just want lovely, fluffy replies to whatever beliefs they hold (sane or otherwise), then I'm sure you'll be moderator-in-chief and ban all the miserable meanies. In the meantime, we'll all respond accordingly to being told that a biological function will more likely happen if you will it though your 'Live, Love, Laugh' notepad.

Just in case @1555CC is the new Messiah, I shall pray to a tree and also to a bicycle.

I can't cut and paste but you can google if interested ... the Guardian 'my life in sex' piece today is about a woman who achieves her goals by combining visualisation with masturbation.

Something to do with the energy release, apparently. I'm too tired already.

If you ask if you're being unreasonable, be prepared to be told you are.

Why do only views that agree with the OP count @GiantBitchWolf? (Appropriate name btw).

I don't see where OP shoved her belief down your throat. I see OP happily sharing her belief on this thread and PP shutting her down because they apparently know all there is to know about everything in life and saying OP is stupid for her beliefs.

I haven't seen OP saying others are stupid for not believing.

But "it's aibu" so my mistake. #Dontbekind As you were...Boots on.

@GiantBitchWolf u OK Hun?

Why do only views that agree with the OP count @GiantBitchWolf? (Appropriate name btw).

Thanks @Theeighthelephant , same for you too

It's not so much the difference in opinion as the condescending, all-knowing manner in which the differing opinions are stated.

But as said above already, I agree it's aibu so do carry on.

@YouokHun Yes hun xxxx

Surely the Law of Attraction is merely the Law of Probability... like horoscopes?
That being said, I’m now picturing a large ‘rural’ farmhouse replete with donkeys , an Aga, an en-suite in every room, a housekeeper and Tom Hardy!

After my fourth miscarriage in 12 months I read this and my eyes rolled so hard they hit the back of my head.

Credulousness should be condescended to.

People are trying to explain as clearly as possible why they find LOA insensitive. Personally I find it offensive that no-one who believes in LOA acknowledged the pp who explained her own difficulties with conceiving and said that if she had believed in LOA at the time it would have broken her.

A poster who comes on and says 'I've just found out I'm pregnant after 2 months of trying. I am soo exciting and happy. We've been dreaming of having a family for years and now it's going to happen' would get a different response. Everyone is happy for the OP they are just trying to explain why the emphasis on LOA is upsetting and insensitive to others.

I don't see where OP shoved her belief down your throat.

The op talks about writing down wanting to be pregnant by April, and it happening, so it goes to show. All it shows it that she had unprotected sex in April, but she is alluding that it's her positive belief that caused it to happen.

I see OP happily sharing her belief on this thread and PP shutting her down because they apparently know all there is to know about everything in life and saying OP is stupid for her beliefs.

No, she is being shut down because what she wrote is insensitive at best. If she was talking about a job interview she had barely any hope of getting, or achieving a weight loss goal that was near impossible, something that a positive mind frame could truly help towards giving an extra boost, then fair enough. However, she speaks about getting pregnant like adding in good thoughts helps in any way whatsoever, you really can't see why others could be offended by that? Some beliefs are stupid, and offensive. It's ok to say so when you come across it.

It's not so much the difference in opinion as the condescending, all-knowing manner in which the differing opinions are stated.

But why would anyone hedge their opinion over such a firmly known issue?

If someone tells you the sky is pink with green spots do you diffidently suggest that all opinions are equally valid? If a burly, bearded truck driver tells you he is a 6YO girl do you let him play with your little daughter because it's his truth?

To add to what the last couple of posters have said, if LOA was a thing, that would mean that my four babies died inside me because I didn't believe hard enough, and that it's pointless me having the painful HSG I've got scheduled for Wednesday or the endometrial biopsy I've got coming up in a few weeks, because the only way I will get my baby is through the power of positive thinking, and the more losses I have the harder that becomes.

Most people with normal fertility will get pregnant within four months of having unprotected sex.

I envy the OP her certainty that a positive pregnancy test equals a baby in 9 months' time. I wish her well, but could do without this woo woo shit. If I believed in it, it would just be one more thing to beat myself up about.