Alright, let me begin by saying that this is ultimately not an attack on these views. Lately I have been reading that "the universe gives you what you ask for," and that "going with the flow" can help you get what you want out of life. Frankly, I take all of this with a grain of salt at first, but I try to keep an open mind to the stuff that strikes my intuitive side as possible. These were some of those things that I didn't want to rule out offhand, partly because I have read that keeping a positive mindset about the whole thing is the best way to "make it work." I have had three events happen within the last 2 days that have increased my open-mindedness toward this whole phenomenon.


1.) The first thing I tried was a simple request: there was a plastic water bottle cap on my table that was unlikely to go anywhere, so I basically wished that it would "disappear," and I tried to forget about it (since you aren't supposed to obsess over it). Unfortunately, being that this was one of my first few times trying this, I couldn't quite forget about it. At one point when I came back into my room, the cap was inexplicably on its side, leaned up against a glass jar, but I figured I might have bumped it by accident. I tried recreating possible ways I could have accidentally put it in this position (placing a drink on it by accident for example), but was unable to recreate it easily. Never-the-less I still was disappointed that it didn't disappear, and I forgot about it. The next day, it was gone.

2.) Today, I tried to will that me and my friend would have a smooth trip to chemistry in the morning, and I had a much easier time "forgetting it," which mostly just consists of focusing on something else and letting the need to think about it dissolve away; it means literally convincing yourself that you no longer need/want to think about it. Unfortunately, I kept myself from thinking about it long after the trip actually happened, so my memory was blurry, but I do not recall catching any red-lights on the way to school. I still was not convinced.

3.) Finally came the thing that made me think this may have something to it. Best buy was having a grand opening today at 6:00 p.m. where the first 100 people would get a free $25 gift card. The news was there, as well as a band, and a massive group of employees. Once the place opened, the sheer number of people in the place was overwhelming: you literally could move anywhere in the store without having someone in a 2 foot radius of you.

So me and my friend split up to look for ways to spend our $20 gift card, and I spend what was probably an hour walking around that store looking at things without seeing him, occasionally looking around for him. Finally, I couldn't find anything to buy, so I decided to look for him. I must have walked around entire store 2-3 times over and could not find him. Finally, I decided to test the principles. I put in the request to find him, and I decided to try to "go with the flow" of where I was being led. For the first 1-2 seconds, I was trying to force my own way just like before, but I recognized that a group of 2-3 people were positioned in front of me such that I could not move in that direction, and they weren't getting out of the way. I decided to go to my left instead, and then straight, although I had no real reason to go in that direction over any other. At that point, I immediately saw him as clear as day directly in front of me about 20 feet away, but then he slipped behind a shelf and I could not see him.

He was moving to my right when I saw him, so I attempted to go that way but saw that it was blocked. I felt the unexplainable urge to go left, even though I was sure he would be going to my right. I went left and within 1 second saw him. This whole process of requesting > finding first time > finding second time happened rapidly, all in less than 30 seconds. Since I had been in there an hour without seeing him, this happening so quickly was astonishing. I could not help but feeling that something amazing was happening.

I don't know what to make of it all, but I'm certainly as open-minded as ever.

very good!

keep trying that sort of process out

Yeah, once you know about the law of attraction and start using it consciously, all sorts of neat stuff starts to happen.

In a larger sense, having lots of syncronicity happen in your life is, IMHO, the universe's way of telling you that you are on the right rrack.

Forgetting it once I request it is hard. I did something today that I plan on having manifested within the week, and I tried to forget but it keeps popping up...

Sorry if this is off topic but, ArmsMerchant that is an epic fucking signature.

I'll post more when I'm not drinking.