Personal Development: Allowing the ‘Good Stuff’
Posted By: Shauna // Category: Law of Attraction, Personal Development
Have you ever heard that your job is to ask the Universe for what you want, then sit back and allow?
Part of the theory is that we must ‘get into the feeling place’ of that which we want, and once we do this, we will naturally align with those things which will bring us joy, and inevitably attract them.
Today, in discussion with a Law of Attraction group I belong to, this subject came up, and I added an exercise into the discussion that seemed to be very helpful. Because of this positive response, I am repeating this exercise here, along with a real-life example of how it has worked. Enjoy!
An exercise on getting into the feeling of something we wish to attract:
You know we are always told to focus on the feelings of having what we are wanting, thus aligning with it and attracting it easily. Here is a little something to help you contemplate what those feelings really are.
- First, consider something you feel you lack - you know, the thing or things you are desperately trying to manifest or attract, and that you feel frustration and impatience over. You think that when you finally receive this item or person or whatever the case may be, you will feel immense relief, happiness, freedom, absolute joy. These are the feelings you are going for when you visualize ‘having it.’
- Now, think of something you have in abundance at this time, such as Cheerios, or water. Let’s use water as it illustrates this perfectly. When you turn on your tap, or open a new bottle of water, you may feel grateful, but you are NOT feeling the intense relief of someone who has been without water and who has desperately wanted it. Instead, it feels like an everyday occurence: you are used to it and it’s just a part of your life.
- Now, turning back to that money or man or health or whatever you’ve been desperately longing for, you can see that the relief and excitedness you THINK you’d feel (and you may at first) is actually just the flip-side of the anxiety and desperation you have been emitting - it’s all the same energy, and really it is repelling the thing rather than attracting it. Instead, we need to get to a point where we can feel what it is to have the thing or circumstance we want and have it not be absolutely overwhelming and ‘too good to be true.’
EXAMPLE:
I did this exercise a couple of years ago with my partner, who is a pilot and was flying with a smaller, regional outfit. He desperately wanted to fly for our national airline (Air Canada), and would forever be standing on sidewalks looking longingly up at the jets as they flew overhead, landing and taking off at our international airport a few km’s away (we use metric in Canada!). His thoughts were that he knew he would get there someday, but there was deep longing, combined with (likely unconscious and unrealized) doubt that it would ever happen. I suggested he take the jet off the pedestal he had it on, and just start thinking as if him getting on to an Air Canada jet and flying it was an everyday occurence. It took a little changing, but this is what he did, and lo and behold did not Air Canada call him soon thereafter? He has now been flying with them for over a year, and while he remains extremely grateful and happy, he is no longer pushing the experience away by looking up at it like it’s a glittering, unattainable or barely attainable dream on a pedestal. He gets his uniform on and he foes flying. Period. I honestly believe that he was pushing it away with his longing, and as soon as he allowed it by accepting it as possible and just…normal…it happened for him.
