The reason why I am asking for clarification on this point is that sometimes feelings don't seem to be connected to anything I am consciously thinking at that point <

That's because your feelings are greatly inter-related with perceptions.

Most people when they start learning about LOA strongly think that LOA just brings you circumstances, situations, selected behaviours of people and is the explanation of luck and chance. And to that, I'd say, yes, well done! Whilst that is absolutely true, a special point to consider is that LOA also applies to your thinking. This is such a huge thing the hit film 'The Secret' totally missed out on and hence why I feel it may let people down alot. People cannot manifest a parking spot and they immediatly think, "Right, this stuff doesn't work. Ok, back to Dr Phil..." If only these people could just analyse how flawless LOA works, we as a society would be so much more evolved.

First off, feeling is always preceeded by thinking. Tattoo that info in your magnificent brain.

If I'm feeling bad, and I think of something I appreciate in real life (a girl I'm in love with, for example), it won't make me feel any better. The reason is emotional jumping happens on a small level, involving 'hopping' from slightly better feelings to slightly even better feelings, opposed to just depressed to euphoric in an instant from a correction or reselection of thoughts. Hense, you'll read in many metaphysical books saying that "appreciation is the key." When, really, being in a state of appreciation is the key, and appreciating things to try and get to that desired state will defiantly let you down. You're just too out of sync with any authentic emotional play to be able to appreciate something when your pessimistic (example negative feeling).

However, if I'm feeling great, and in the vortex, and I think of this girl then, it is guarunteed to keep me in the vortex for a decent, solid few hours. Or, if I'm close to this vortex, and I think of this girl, it will gain me entry into the vortex, and I can use her as my object of appreciation to maintain my happiness flow.

There are a few, time and time again tricks that work when you're feeling bad, and don't know what to think of, or don't have much of a metaphysical 'toolbox' to use.

One such thing is to be fully in the present moment of NOW. Unless I am in dire emergency (which I have been for a period of about 4 days flat, when I was super depressed), I don't tend to use this method. It's too boring for me, but perhaps it will work better with others.

These days, I'm more inclined to use an Abraham suggestion, which is thinking of something neutral and unrelated which you know won't spike your emotional point either up or down (the trick is, in the long run, it can). Let's say your boss yells at you at work, here are some things to focus on for a few minutes:

• Blue glass (ripped from an Abraham example)
• Clouds
• Wheels on a bus
• The fabric of a shirt a spectator is wearing at the Olympics
• Donuts

You'll notice these listed items don't generally relate to what just made your upset in the angry boss example, (unless you're at the Olympics working at a donut shop) and they aren't really too personal either, so they cannot stir up anything else that may trigger emotional distrubance in your life at the time.

I use this trick all the time. If I'm feeling flat, I think of something which I found mega funny. It was a time where I was working in retail with a best friend of mine, and I was serving a customer whilst they were so serious and confused about some faulty product. Whilst the customer was facing me, telling me their problems, and I had to be emerged in their concentration, out of the helpless corner of my eye was my friend, sneakily directly behind the customer, pulling the funniest most silliest of faces, as if to say to the customer, "Yeah, well haha I don't care!" Funny because I even crashed and lost it laughing one day when he did this and a customer just started laughing, thinking I was laughing at their boring jokes. Oh how red my face would get....

In my experience, humour is a distraction method, helping get one to a neutral emotional point, and not necessarily something vortex entry valid. The idea is, get neutral, then get happy.

But back to your question: LOA will grant you several perceptions when you're in a certain feeling. LOA 'manifests' perceptions, 'manifests' thoughts (inspirations), 'manifests' ideas....It doesn't concretely apply on a physical level.

Think of LOA as an audience, and you are a play/film/piece of music. Your thoughts are individual things like the writers, directors, producers, whilst your feeling is the final 'performance' and merely the result of all the previous works. So you're actually arguably more on the dot saying LOA solely applies to thoughts.

It's emotions, not feelings, that you mix with thoughts.

Law of attraction does is not triggered by empty thoughts. But by thoughts mixed with emotions. For this mixture allows the thought to enter subconscious mind, with which Higher self is connected and as it Higher self sends down to subconscious mind the plan for its execution, you receive a suggestion of an INSPIRED action, which is in the same vibrational plane as the desire, thus you undertake it with no resistance.

So THOUGHT + EMOTION = submitted to HIGHER SELF through SUBCONSCIOUS MIND -> plan received for the desire's manifestation -> SUBCONSCIOUS MIND suggest INSPIRED ACTION to CONSCIOUS MIND -> and since it's INSPIRED -> you take that action -> perhaps FAIL and receive feedback -> which you SEND back to SUBCONSCIOUS MIND where HIGHER SELF based on that feedback UPDATES the plan -> and SUBCONSCIOUS MIND provides you with another INSPIRED ACTION you take it -> success.

Mixing thought and emotion triggers an event of consequent actions, which bring your closer to vibrational state of your desire a.k.a. manifesting.

It should be also noted that it as you FAIL over and over again on your attempts, you should keep on feeding that thought with emotions (best are emotions of love, faith, sex) over and over again.

And thoughts can create emotions, just as emotions can create thoughts.