I think trust and belief are two of the main ingredients to manifesting what we desire. However, remember that the LOA is working whether we trust and believe or don't - we will always manifest something, maybe just not what we want.

Trusting in ourselves means listening to our intuition or higher self and being willing to act from there.

In the early 90's I came upon a wonderful article titled TRUST YOURSELF

This article was essentially a transcript of a channeling session by Andrew Bayuk channeling a source called Elan.

What I have presented below in quotes is essentially how I remember hearing the information. (This is a small, highly condensed, section from a long transcript)

Beginning of transcript

"When we speak of Trust, we like to say to you that you always, always have Trust in something. It is this trust that allows your very reality to exist around you.

Some people say that it is hard to have trust in something, that they find themselves lacking in trust.

Realize that it is impossible to not have trust. you don't have to, somehow, muster up some trust because you are lacking in trust.

It is that you have INCREDIBLE TRUST IN THE THING THAT YOU LACK.

And therefore you will get that "effect", but that's all it is; it's an effect.

So you must find where you have PLACED YOUR TRUST and then once identifying that this is so, you can adjust your placement of that trust."

End of transcript

Trust yourself, Love yourself, Be yourself.

Trust is the same as "what you believe". You are always totally trusting in something. There is never a lack of trust. So the only relevant issue is:  WHERE are you placing your trust? Accordingly, "doubt" is not a lack of trust, but a TOTAL trust in something you do not prefer.

BASHAR

Trusting is a good feeling thought thereby allowing room for more good feeling thoughts & manifestations. Trusting yourself is a facet of happiness & inner peace. So yes!!! Trust yourself!

The technical term is "intent". For LOA to work, you need to make your intent strong. This means you need to truly believe in X, trust yourself on X, have faith in X, you don't just have an idea of X separate from how things are in the world, you actually think that you live in the world that has X the way you want it. This is what intent is. Also check "Reality Transurfing" for more technical info on LOA and intent.

It's a kind of "bootstrapping".

I totally agree that "trust in yourself" is one key.

The fact is that you can not "trust yourself" when you decide to.

That's why (IMHO) you have to start with little things : If you're open and if you are listening to the "World", you will have positive feed-back. This positive feed-back will feed your "trust in you". And then, you will be able, with this a-little-bit-more-powerful" trust, to ask for a little more. And so on. That's the rule of the game.

know yourself may at times need to supplement trust yoursef

The level of trust you live by equals the level of mistrust you live by. But on the contrary, trust is everything in life: you cannot succeed in life if you do not trust yourself! You cannot succeed in a relationship, if you do not trust your partner. You cannot build lasting relationship with your co-workers, friends, and family without trusting them. You cannot establish yourself in the Business World, if you do not trust yourself to do the job properly, and to receive the level of respect you deserves. So, trust is basically the level of what you put into something, you will get back out!

Therefore, trust is an essential element in believing in yourself, and in achieving your goals both spiritually, educationally, and financially. So naturally, you have to trust that the LOA is working for you, and that it will work for you all the time!