The concept of 'The Law of Attraction vs Law of Awareness' applies very strongly to this issue:
"When you expect various negative possibilities, are you merely aware of them, or do you really believe deep down that they are inevitable and therefore dread them in some way?
The difference is between prudence and paranoia, between mental anticipation and emotional investment...
When you become aware of a probable future, you are observing it, but only partially because it is not a certainty. But whereas observing a quantum wave in the present collapses it into a definite state, observing a wave still in the future merely constricts it a little, reducing its fluidity and therefore interfering with its ability to manifest synchronistically in the present.
Synchronicity is how the future becomes the present through an entirely quantum process. The more certain you are that a particular future will happen, the more that future is frozen and kept from manifesting through quantum / synchronistic means. This simply implies that instead of coming to you synchronistically, you would have to go toward it causally...
So this is why awareness blocks, selects, and filters – because it freezes the future. That is good if you want to freeze out negative futures, but not good if eager anticipation shuts out positive futures.
There is also a bit of Timeline Dynamics involved here. If a certain future involves you getting sideswiped by negative forces, then that future has a good probability of happening. That makes it a stronger future, whose feedback effects travel back into the present and attract you toward it.
For instance, you might feel a mental tug to do something, to forget something, commit an error, etc… that results in getting unexpectedly ambushed. But if you become aware of the attack ahead of time, then that prepares you to successfully handle it and utterly demolishes the future where you were hit out of the blue. This cuts off the feedback loop from that future, which then frees you mentally and emotionally from its pressure in the present...
Through awareness, you literally “head off” the negative future. It’s like the saying, “To never have to use a weapon, have one handy.”
[In summary] -- always expect attack... knowledge protects and ignorance endangers... having a happy-go-lucky attitude and practicing non-anticipation of positive things opens the flow for their manifestation."
Taken from, "Law of Attraction vs Law of Awareness"
http://montalk.net/notes/law-of-attr...w-of-awareness