It’s amazing to me how quickly and easily I can create or attract something into my life when I hold a feeling of indifference.
For example, I might wonder how a friend is doing – perhaps someone I haven’t heard from in a while.
It’s just a thought, a wondering – like picking up a card about them and then dropping it and letting it go.
Usually within 24 hours I will receive an email or phone call from that person.
Or, I might wonder about a new store and within 24 hours, I’ll receive coupons in the mail or in an email or I’ll read about a sale they are having.
Or, I might wonder about a new meditation technique and within a few days a friend will talk about a new meditation class, video or book.
And when that quick response to my wondering happens, I’ll then wonder about how easily some of the things that I’m indifferent about are manifesting so quickly.
Why is it that when we are indifferent – in a take it or leave it way — it can come to us with speed and ease; but when we really truly yearn for something, it seems to be withheld from our grasp?
And as I recently pondered this I realized, it’s all about feeling.
When I am indifferent towards something, when I “Ask and Let Go” I create without resistance.
But when I am wanting or wishing I am in effect pushing it away, because the very feeling of “wanting” is saying, “it’s not here.” And that feeling of “I don’t have this” fuels the feeling of its lack.
It can be quite difficult to receive when our vibration is not in alignment with what we desire. We are quite magnetic beings. Like attracts like, and energy pulls to us what we are thinking about with e-motion.
So if we are thinking of how we are wanting a new car – perhaps right down to its color, make and model – that wanting feeling only further fuels a feeling of lack.
Wanting and needing is in effect the polar opposite of feeling grateful.
Writing in a gratitude journal at night before bed, can help us shift our emotions.
We might write something like:
- I am grateful for my comfortable bed.
- I am grateful for the walk I took with my dog today.
- I am grateful for the quality time I spent with my family today.
It is good to acknowledge our good and give thanks, but what if we took the journal a step further.
What if we used the gratitude journal in a different way and then combined that with affirmations to further release our resistance to that which we desire?
Affirmations can help tweak our vibrational state and shift us out of the emotion of resistance and into an emotional state that aligns us with what we desire to be, do or have.
Affirmations can also help us tweak and define what it is we truly desire.
By creating a daily gratitude list combined with a feeling of receiving our desires now, combined with powerful affirmations we can shift our emotions.
So in addition to what we are grateful for today:
- I am grateful for my comfortable bed.
- I am grateful for the walk I took with my dog today.
- I am grateful for the quality time I spent with my family today.
Let’s then add to our list our desires – as if already here – not in a wanting or pleading way, but with gratitude and thanks:
- I am grateful for my new Nissan Altima that is paid for easily.
- I am grateful that my credit card balance is paid in full this month.
- I am grateful that I am enjoying the holidays with my family.
- I am grateful that everyday and in every way life is better and better.
- I am grateful that I am at my ideal weight now.
- I am grateful that I am receiving intuition.
By feeling grateful for already receiving, we fall away from the wanting. The affirmations help us define more clearly what it is we desire. By stating our desires with gratitude in the present moment – we shift our energetic state.
It is in an attitude of letting go and allowing – feeling somewhat similar to indifference – in which we just know, we accept and we receive. Thank you.
Wanting creates resistance – like a wall between us and our desires. Letting go of wanting and needing by being grateful can align us with our desires.
It can be so powerful to move into the feeling of our desires by feeling and acknowledging them as being here now.
Feel how wonderful it is to (already) have that which you desire as here now. Be grateful for its being in and occurring in your life now.
Ask, Be Grateful, then Let Go and Trust.
