You Can Never Have What You WANT

as originally posted:  August 14. 2007

Wanting is the state of not having.

When we focus our thoughts upon those things we want, we are acknowledging lack as our reality, and that only manifests more lack into our experience.

To avoid this, focus on the desired experience, the experience you wish to have. If you want money, desire the experience of spending money, of cashing a BIG check, or of looking at a large bank statement. This takes the focus off of lack and fixes it upon the ACTION of receiving.

The doing of anything is an action of your physical body and is the final step in the manifestation process. Your body (perception tool) is what you use to accept or realize your desired state of being. By placing your focus on that final step - you are experiencing the state of completion NOW.

This final step has no creative power in itself, but the imagining of the desire fulfilled places the outcome (or experience) in the now and that process CREATES in the present moment.

You cannot do anything physically to cause this completion, you must be the completion. You cannot do abundance, you must become abundant in thought. You cannot do health, you must become healthy.

Focusing on the experience or goal creates it. Then that energy creates the situations, people, and circumstances to bring about that experience for you.

You can never have what you want. What you are internally is what your external world becomes. Don’t perpetuate a world of lack, experience a world of completion.

Projection Makes Perception, Vision Creates Reality

This is a quote from A Course In Miracles, Chapter 21 - Introduction.

Projection makes perception. The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause. And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. Nothing perceived without it means anything. And where there is no meaning, there is chaos.

Damnation is your judgment on yourself, and this you will project upon the world. See it as damned, and all you see is what you did to hurt the Son of God. If you behold disaster and catastrophe, you tried to crucify him. If you see holiness and hope, you joined the Will of God to set him free. There is no choice that lies between these two decisions. And you will see the witness to the choice you made, and learn from this to recognize which one you chose.

I like this quote for a couple reasons. First, it really lays it on the line regarding the reality we see. Everything we perceive outside of ourselves is a mirror to our inner state of being. Secondly, everything we choose to project outside ourselves is a choice that can be changed.

Now, keeping this in mind - take a minute to just look around you. What do you see in the world you’ve created? Conflict or Love? Blame or forgiveness? Abundance or lack? Joy or suffering? How much joy & abundance have you created for yourself?

If every instance of suffering we observe outside ourselves is in fact an image of our inner state of suffering - WOW, it appears I still have much work to do!!

My first question then is how do I get rid of it and project a state of peace and joy instead? How can I control my thoughts, take dominion over them and release myself from this world of poverty, hunger, sorrow, and suffering? I want to live in a world of fullness, abundance, joy, and love - so what are the steps necessary to get from where I am now to where I desire to be?

According to the text in the next section of this chapter, it is VISION. Vision is our salvation. When we reject our bodily perceptions and turn within the mind to Vision, we stop the cycle of projection and begin to create from our desires.

This is no easy step, it requires control of our thoughts. To see a situation bodily with physical sight is usually persuasive enough to be considered “Truth” and accepted as fact. When we begin to understand the process of Intentional Manifestation we see there is another way. We realize that what we see with our eyes is the past thoughts of the mind, it isn’t happening NOW, it is a past thought made manifest - so the ONLY way to change it is to think different thoughts NOW. If you see a overdrawn bank account now, know it’s cause is a past thought of LACK. Now think abundance. In this moment you have all the power in the universe to change anything and everything in your life. You hold that power in your thoughts.

Vision is the opposite of Sight. While sight relies on your eyes to perceive the past thoughts you’ve manifested, Vision is the process of perceiving what you desire NOW (which will play out as a future manifestation outside yourself). This is you intentionally imagining or envisioning your future as you desire it NOW.

Our thoughts are images, and when held within the mind with belief - they become our reality.

Everyday, decide to EnVision the person you wish to be, the world you want to live in, and the experiences you wish to have and then make it so.

Why Isn’t The Universe Giving Me What I Want?

In my post today I want to address two issues that I keep noticing as I read law of attraction forums and other blogs about the Law of Attraction.

First and foremost is the notion that the Law of Attraction “Isn’t Working” for some reason or another.

Second, the idea that some supreme intelligence OUT THERE in the “Universe” is either giving something to you or holding it away from you.

Both of these ideas are flawed at their core. Primarily they are flawed because there is no POWER OUT THERE, all power comes from within. Nothing nor NOBODY exists in this world, or the entire universe that either gives anything to you nor holds anything away from you.

It is all your doing. YOU, YOU, YOU - Your life situation and experience is entirely dependent upon you. There are many factors which combine to manifest your reality, but the primary factor is your thoughts.

Ego based thoughts project your past experiences and beliefs into the future.

Conscious thought and presence creates.

It is that simple. If what you desire to experience isn’t happening, it isn’t because the “Universe” isn’t making it happen, it is because your thoughts are aligned with Ego and you are blocking the manifestation - or I should say you are not allowing yourself to perceive it, because in truth it is already made manifest.

Come on back tomorrow and I’ll discuss how you block yourself from experiencing your manifestations.

Are You Blocking Your Own Light?

Often during the manifestation process, I rely too heavily upon perception to gauge my progress. This is detrimental to the manifestation process. This reliance also happens to be one of my biggest hurdles to overcome on my path.

The reason relying upon perceptions to gauge the manifestation process is erronous is that most of us cannot see beyond the veil of our physical senses. In order to lift that veil and glimpse Truth, we must believe and have faith that Truth is made manifest even when it lies beyond our current perceptions.

We are locked into our physical senses, and only “See” or KNOW what we allow through our veil of perception. This SEEING of what we define as our REALITY is often even further refined and limited by our belief systems, our past, and our judgements. So, only a tiny fraction of all that is possible (TRUTH) is ever made manifest in our awareness, and we remain blind.

Perception is not Truth. We can believe it is, but this is in itself an erronous perception. Perception is simply that which we allow into our awareness, what we choose to see, to believe, or to experience.

In a very real sense, we block our own light, we block truth.

The truth is always the same. Perceptions change. Often we don’t see TRUTH simply because our attention is so focused upon our perceptions of the situation. When we take our eyes off of the prize, and stop focusing on our desires, we can only see through our filtered perception of TRUTH and we block our manifestations from entering into our physical awareness.

Seeing truth means knowing not only that there is more than one way down a mountain, it means KNOWING that ALL paths lead down the mountain. The truth doesn’t lie in anything you perceive, it lies in your desire, and it lies in your DECISION to be, do, or have that which you desire.

This is YOUR DREAM, fear not - all paths lead to your desires.

How We Block Manifestations

as posted September 23, 2007

We can never truly block a manifestation. We can, however, misperceive the manifestation.

What this means is that we (physical body) are a filtering device. Through our five physical senses, our memories, judgements, and beliefs, we filter the TRUE REALITY (which is always 100% perfect) and only allow ourselves to perceive what aligns with, or can fit through those filters (memory/judgements/beliefs).

So, lets say I desire to earn $10,000. this month to pay my monthly expenses plus pay off a credit debt I have. The moment I desire it, it comes into being. Now $10,000 doesn’t automatically and magically get deposited into my bank account, what happens is that out there in the unseen spaces things are clicking, are working together to bring me the $10,000 - so the moment I desire and set that intention, it is so. It is all worked out, all figured out, all set into motion to come about.

Now, if I doubt it can really happen because I believe there is no possible way for me to earn that much in such a small space of time, it doesn’t stop what has already been created, but those thoughts, feelings, and beliefs I hold which are out of alignment with the manifestation prevent me from experiencing it.

Perhaps there was a person, a situation, an event which was to bring me that money in very short order, but because of my BLOCKS, I didn’t even notice it, didn’t see that path right in front of me.

I missed it, because although it existed as potential, I couldn’t see it. I prevented myself from having that which I desired and created for myself.

Belief is the biggest block to allowing. If what you desire is not made manifest, look to your beliefs and work through them.