I clearly remember the desire that filled my heart, knowing that – Yes, I can make my dreams come true – FINALLY!

But how many of you soon saw that hope dwindle into frustration? How many of you (and be honest now) started muttering things like:

• “It seems to work for other people, but I just can’t get it right.”

• “I’m frustrated that sometimes I can get it to work, but sometimes I can’t. What’s the trick?”

• “Why am I having so much trouble?”

• “I think the universe is against me.”

• “I’m trying very, VERY hard but still nothing is happening!”

Don’t worry, you’re not alone. About 97% of people also couldn’t make the Law of Attraction work for them the first time round. Think about it, just like anything else, you have to practice many times before you see success. A child doesn’t learn to walk without falling over a couple of times, right?

But in practice, everything is easier said and done.

When you’re frustrated, it’s hard to stay positive. And it’s especially harder to stay positive when the evidence all around you is screams negativity like the unstable economy or senseless acts of violence such as those you see constantly on the news.

And do you know what happens when you fail to stay positive? That’s right – you start attracting negative things in to your life.

So how can you make the Law of Attraction work for you – without getting frustrated? How do those who successfully implement the Law of Attraction do it with such confidence and finesse?

Well, here’s three quick tips so you will never feel frustrated or tired of begging from the universe, because you know how to start manifesting like a pro.

1. Allow Yourself To Receive

Just like a lost child who approaches a police officer and asks, “Excuse me Sir, can you tell me how to go to the post office? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you?” Well, if the child goes on and on asking, the police officer can’t even give an answer, right?

Well, it’s the same thing with your mind. If the only thing your mind is doing is transmit, transmit, transmit, the universe — which is trying to respond — can’t give you a single thing because you’re not allowing yourself to receive!

So, have the confidence in yourself and stop exhausting yourself by running around person to person begging for riches, and then wondering why nobody is dropping a penny in your cup (Hint: It’s because you’re running away too fast for them before they can even reach for their wallets).

Just think of your desires and leave it out there, go away, and trust that your cup will be filled with gold coins (or whatever it is you asked for) when the time is right.

2. Be Patient With Yourself

Receiving takes time.

Sadly, many people give up just a couple of steps before the finish line because they’ve decided that if it’s not working by now, it’s never going to work at all. Worse still are those who throw in more and more energy because they think that with more resources, the results will come faster.

This is like expecting 9 mothers to conceive and deliver a baby in 1 month. You also can’t bake cookies in half the time by doubling the temperature. You’ll incinerate those cookies to ashes!

In simple terms: Everything in this world has a natural development time, and this fact will not change no matter what resources you throw at it.

So relax and be patient. Remember that you too, as part of the universe, are also governed by the laws of the universe, and you cannot change the natural development time.

If you remember this, you will less likely work yourself up into frustration, or worse, push yourself into a downward spiral of negativity.

3. Support and Educate Yourself

Like the child who is learning how to walk, you need support. You also need to guidance on how to do it, and also the role models to look up to.

Many people give up because they think that “The Secret” is the “be all and end all” solution. Well, it’s NOT. “The Secret” is just a small portion. It was never intended, and has never been, the whole answer.

Coming to the conclusion that the Law of Attraction doesn’t work when all you ever did to educate yourself was watch “The Secret” 19 times (without looking at changing the habits of other areas of your life) is like coming to the conclusion that exercising is not an effective way to lose weight because all you did is run on the treadmill for 2 hours a day (but you’re still stuffing yourself with fried foods and cheesecakes).

So seek and be hungry for new knowledge. Also, make an effort to be amongst people or communities where you can support each other, learn from each other and also share new knowledge that you have found.

While the Law of Attraction is not an overnight delivery service, it will indeed deliver, if you do your part too!

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If this is indeed true, how come we can’t see it?  Why do we appear to be separate beings?  The answer lies in our perception of who we are.

On a physical level, we do indeed appear to be individuals.  Our bodies are not tied to other bodies; we can move around freely by ourselves.  However, that’s not the end of us, is it?  Besides having physical bodies, we are also spiritual beings; we are composed of the same energy that makes up the universe and everything else in it.

The good news is that you can strengthen your sense of interconnectedness by simply shifting your focus!  Click below to find a few quick and easy tips for doing so:

1)    Emphasize your similarities.  Most of us are used to focusing on the ways we’re different from others, but we are usually much more alike than we think!  Get into the habit of noticing and emphasizing the similarities you share with others.  This is especially helpful when you feel intimidated or offended by someone that seems very different than you.

2)    Appreciate your differences.  Even though we’re similar in a lot of ways, we definitely do have our differences.  We’ve all been raised in different cultures, ethnic groups, regions and with differing belief systems.  Does that mean we can’t connect?  Absolutely not!  Start appreciating the unique qualities of others, and don’t be afraid to share your own.

3)    Put yourself in their shoes.  Empathy is a powerful way to feel connected with other people.  With every person you encounter, ask yourself what it must be like to be that person.  What unique challenges do they face?  What are their hopes and dreams?  Who are they really?  The more you focus on these things, you more you’ll find yourself feeling connected on a deeper level.

4)    Strengthen your compassion.  Too often we make snap judgments about people without taking the time to consider what’s happening in their lives.  We see a homeless person begging for money and we assume, “lazy, dysfunctional, dangerous, freeloading,” and probably even less flattering terms.  But we really don’t know that person’s unique circumstances, whether he/she has a mental illness or severe emotional trauma – we just don’t know.  Judgments will always keep you feeling distanced from others, so make a point of feeling compassionate for those you don’t understand.  Remind yourself that they are worthy of love and compassion no matter how they appear on the outside.

5)    Remember the looking glass.  Many people believe that everything we see or experience is actually a reflection of some facet of ourselves.  When we encounter rude people, we are being shown how we can also be rude at times.  When we witness intolerance, the universe is reflecting our own intolerant attitude back to us.  Use this insight to better understand yourself and others you meet.  When you encounter someone that makes you feel angry or disgusted, explore that feeling and see if you can find the little piece of you that isn’t so different from them.

More law of attraction tips

Two (or more) events that coincide in a meaningful way but are unrelated in terms of causality are considered synchronous.

What distinguishes synchronicity from coincidence is meaning. Synchronicity is the experience of meaningful coincidences.

The term was coined by the famous analytical psychologist Carl Jung who used it to explain occurrences like a beetle flying into his studio just as a patient was discussing a scarab beetle in his dream.

Since the “coincidence” made Jung consider how the beetle symbolizes rebirth to the Egyptians, he concluded that its appearance in his studio at that very moment in time was significant in that it indicated the same lesson of rebirth be transposed upon the patient’s dream.

Carl Jung also believed in clairvoyance, telepathy, ESP, telekinesis, and astrology; he also believed in what he called a “collective unconscious”, a sea of consciousness in which we all swim, a strikingly familiar concept to those acquainted with the Source Energy, or Life Force, underlying All That Is.

Synchronicity is happening all the time. Learning how to use the law of attraction will ensures this.

Just like consciousness is ever-present, so is synchronicity. Consciousness and the physical world of situations and circumstances are both extensions of the same Source Energy.

So it’s only natural that when consciousness is in tune with that source, in clear and unfettered alignment, the depth of meaning behind each and every coinciding event is apparent.

There is no un-meaningful coincidences.

There are only synchronous events not consciously experienced. Missed synchronicities saturate our lives, dominating our life experiences. This is an unfortunate condition for humanity, as it perpetuates and reinforces the horrible illusion that life is a meaningless string of random experiences that happen to us and over which we have absolutely no control.

Experiencing a moment of synchronicity is like touching the Source of All-That-Is with every cell in your body.

Realizing the occurrence of a synchronicity is realizing yourself at your eternal, all-powerful essence. It’s a signal that you are in line with your center, on the right path, doing what you’re supposed to be doing, fully connected to that wellspring of well-being that is your natural state.

If you could always be in unfettered connection with the Source Energy underlying everything, you would experience synchronicity all the time.

To experience more synchronicity in your life, whenever you experience a coincidence start asking yourself, not Is this a synchronicity, but rather What does this synchronicity mean?

Then act upon the realization you have or the conclusion you draw; doing so will bring your vibrations more in line with the vibrations of synchronicity, thus inviting more synchronicity into your life.

Here's an interesting resource I came across that you might find useful, it has a an interesting diagram picturing Synchronicity.

http://www.esmhome.org/library/synchronicity.html

But it isn’t. In fact stagnancy, is the anthesis to the very nature of the Universe and All-That-Is; which is contstantly evolving and expanding.

Even people already acquainted with certain elements of this “You-Create-Your-Own-Reality” consciousness can find themselves paralyzed by the realization that their uncontrolled thoughts, complaints, and urges are the determinants of the shape of their future circumstances yet to come.

It can be terribly frightening to realize that what you put your intention on is what will be.

Who has the discipline to completely erase all negative thoughts, compulsions, etc. from their minds?

None of us, as far as we know. So what are we to do? Are we doomed to play the roles of victims to our own uncontrolled fantasies and darkest nightmares; that go on rambling incessantly in our heads?

You may have heard it said somewhere before that the only thing that ever stays the same is that nothing ever stays the same. The only universal constant is change. The Universe is always in motion.

So if your experiences, the life that you lead and the life situations that you face, are all based on your thoughts, your expectations, and your beliefs, then the way to change your life situations, your experiences, the way to change your life, is to change your thoughts, expectations, and beliefs.

You are always free to change your mind, to replace a negative, undesirable thought with a positive, desirable one. Nothing is ever written in stone. Nothing.

Here's a simple metaphor that helps illustrate this.

If you’re climbing a ladder and suddenly you picture yourself falling, you’re not automatically doomed to fall. Not unless you continue to feed that anxiety with more pictures like it. But saving yourself from such a fall is as simple as thinking a new thought. One that involves you confidently remaining safely on the ladder. And if your undisciplined mind keeps flitting back to pictures of you falling, you just keep replacing them in the next moment with pictures of you staying right where you are.

In every moment you have absolute freedom to harness the power of change, to think a new thought and, in doing so, reverse a whole lifetime of negativity.

So whether you feel like you’re stuck in a rut, under a spell of bad luck, trapped in a vicious pattern, or simply doomed to suffer an awful fate you’ve suddenly allowed to enter your undisciplined mind, just change it, and if it comes back, change it again (rinse and repeat) as often as needed.

To change your life forever just change your mind, one thought, one moment at a time.

But Law of Attraction wouldn’t work at all if it didn’t also have a firm and inexorable footing in the physical.

When we say that emotions and thoughts and desires are vibrations we are not speaking rhetorically or metaphorically…

Learning how to use The Law of Attraction is a science every bit as much as it a spiritual art. And the scientific roots of the Law of Attraction are in quantum physics.

The spiritual implications of quantum mechanics was made abundantly clear to the scientific, spiritual, and secular communities alike in Gary Zukav’s groundbreaking book “The Dancing Wu Li Master”.

In it, he explains that the Chinese term for physics is Wu Li which  translates literally to “patterns of organic energy”. He then goes on to illustrate how all that we perceive as the physical world and all things in it, including us, are actually these ever-dancing patterns of energy.

Here is the scientific iteration of what ancient theological tomes like the Tao Te Ching and the Bhagavad Gita have been saying all along, that all matter is but the ever-shifting, ever-changing interrelationships between these nonphysical patterns of possibility. That nothing is “real” in terms of its solidity and permanence. That everything is immaterial and in constant motion.

Humanity’s gift of consciousness, then, imbues us with the means to engage in the flow of that dance with intention: to guide and direct those energetic relationships to create those possibilities most preferable to us.

Quantum physics even finds evidence of this inexorable effect of consciousness on the physical world in the theory that “consciousness causes collapse”, what’s been deemed “the spiritual interpretation”, for explaining the mysterious waveform collapse responsible for the evolution of quantum systems. It seemed the waveform collapse only occurred when being observed by a conscious energy (ie. a person).

Other theories and experiments have broached this same phenomenon from other angles, including the Schroedinger’s Cat experiment (that the condition of an isolated cat could not be determined without the observer’s interference affecting the outcome) and the Uncertainty Principle (that the act of observing a phenomenon changes it). All these discoveries of quantum physicists validate that consciousness affects outcome, mind affects matter.

Quantum theory can give us the keys to travel through deep space and time, to teleportation and telekinesis, the manipulation of matter, and even to immortality itself. Are these “super powers” and “supernatural phenomena” not merely different terms for the same sorts of energies we awaken within ourselves when we awaken to our own inextricable relationship with the Source? Is not the power to effect radical transformation on a physical level with our minds alone just another way of looking at the power to create our own realities through our connection to Spirit?

Quantum physicists like Stephen Hawking continue to strive in their effort to come up with a unified Theory of Everything (ToE), a concise and comprehensive model for explaining and understanding everything that ever was, is , and will be. Proving the validity of the Law of Attraction on the purely physical, scientific level is an exceptionally promising stride.

There is no separation, never was, never will be, and there is nothing you can do to ever cause it to be otherwise.

Yes, that means everyone, even murderers. And rapists and child molesters too…

The worst of the worst in the world right alongside the best of the best and all of the rest of us; we are all extensions of that Source – like fingers of a hand; it is our very essence. We are but the physical extensions of the non-physical Source Energy of the Universe.

What then causes that feeling of separateness, that overwhelming sense of isolation? What causes fear, doubt, worry, and pain? What’s the source of all our problems, then? What causes evil in the world? It is, in a word: resistance.

We, with our egos and our sense of individuality, have the gift of our own unique perspective on this Time-Space existence we call Life. It is a gift bestowed upon us at birth, our nature, our birthright, while at the same time being the gift we have to give the Universe and All-That-Is itself (more on this in a moment).

We have the absolute freedom thought, to think what we want about what we perceive. Though we are all extensions of the same singular Source Energy, we each offer a unique perspective on the experience of being. And with this freedom, this gift, our birthright, comes its consequences (notice, incidentally, if you judge that word – Consequences – as positive or negative, then ask yourself why).

Whether or not we feel our connection to the fundamental force of all creation, whether our life experience is of having our fondest desires fulfilled or an unbroken string of disappointment, heartache, and pain, depends on whether we resist our inextricable oneness with All-That-Is or accept it and embrace it and allow it to be.

Think of it this way for a moment: Our physical bodies are immersed in air. Air is all around us and, more, it runs through every part of our bodies. We can agree that air is an inseparable part of us. So when we hold our breath, do we make that any less so? Are we any less immersed in air, is air any less a part of physical beings just because we decided to hold our breath? Of course not!

All we do when we hold our breath is cut off the free flow of air in and out of our bodies. If we hold it too long, we may feel discomfort, disorientation, and even pain. If we hold it long enough, we may simply pass out. And then what happens? We start breathing again.

Similarly, we can refuse to acknowledge our oneness with the Source, we can deny it, reject it, loathe it, resent it, rail against it, ignore it, and forget about it. We can do that so much for so long that we eventually experience the spiritual equivalent of total unconsciousness. What we CANNOT do, however, is separate ourselves from it. We can temporarily cut off the free flow of Source Energy that runs through us, but we can never make it any less a fundamental part of us.

The people we attract to ourselves in life match up vibrationally with some energy we’re projecting. Attracting the right kinds of matches into your life then requires first and foremost accepting responsibility for the people you do attract.

And taking responsibility for the kinds of people who show up in your life entails taking responsibility for how you “show up” in your life, inside and out. Change you vibrations, change what (and who) they attract.

Love in an energy – one we foster from within. When we access that energy of love from within, we project its vibrations outside of us; in our actions and in our being, we come from a place of love. This invariably attracts that same energy of love into our lives, for example in the form of other people to love who also loving us.

One of the problems people have in getting the love they want is that so much of what people call ‘love’ isn’t love at all. Often it’s attachment: to the other person, to the relationship looking the way you think it should look, or even an attachment to “drama”. Other times it’s fear: fear of loss, fear of not being worthy of love, or one we hear a lot, fear of being happy, which really just amounts to more fear of not being worthy of love and fear of loss.

Some sages say that people ‘crush’ love like a bird in the hand when you hold onto it too hard, and while the image may be apt we prefer to say that when you cling to love you detach from it. If that sounds like a paradox, you’re catching on. Clinging to love out of attachment and fear disengages you from the love itself and grips you to your attachment and fear. As does clinging to your ideas of what love should look like when and if it ever does “come”.

Love is an energy. It cannot be gripped any more than you can grip light; you can only be bathed in it, or shut yourself away in the dark. But the light is there nonetheless, and right outside the door. Love flows, and to have the relationship of your fondest desires, let the love flow through you and from within you.

Rather than focusing on fixing the problems in your relationship (or your utter lack of one), engage in the flow of love and watch the problems (or lack) dissolve. Change the circumstances, situations, and conditions you find yourself in by allowing yourself to feel here and now the love you aim to feel for the new circumstances, situations, and conditions.

The perfect relationship with another person comes from nurturing a perfect relationship with yourself; in other words: loving  yourself fully and unconditionally as you are, and appreciating yourself fully for all the love you have inside to give.

I recently came across a magnificent message from Story Waters and asked for permission to reprint the text version for you here. This is a great reminder to us, to remember our true spiritual nature and the vast possibilities of life.

There are a lot more of these goodies where it came from so I urge you to visit his website where you can download mp3s, videos and free gifts.

The Meaning Of Life by Story Waters
(c) Limitlessness. www.limitlessness.com

You are amazing. You are the creation of yourself. You are that which creates. You are the choice to experience existence – beingness. The only limit to what you can be is your self-belief and your imagination. To be born into this reality is to enter a wonderful, shared illusion that grants you complete free-will in the creation of your own personal reality; this is your creatorship. Within the illusion we believe that we are looking at a separate, objective world where we experience self and other; beneath this apparent separation we are unified; we are one.

Reality is a mirror of your being. You are creation exploring itself in a space-time mirror. Through what you choose to believe you create your reality. You change your reality by changing your beliefs about both it and yourself. The eyes with which you look actually shape what you see (this is now shown in quantum physics). Perception is not passive; it is an act of creation. Your choice of perception forms not only how you experience yourself, but your entire reality. Awakening to your creatorship leads your experience of reality to become more fluid and direct. This is to enter conscious creatorship where what you desire is quickly manifest.

The key to conscious creatorship is the allowance of change; the birthing of the unknown into the known. The basis of allowance is acceptance. To change your reality you must first accept it. As long as you reject what you do not like about your reality you are in denial of your creatorship, leaving you feeling stuck. To accept that you are choosing your reality, release attachment to any preconception of how life should be and instead love what is. This comes through the taking of complete responsibility for every element of your reality. This is to love your choice. It is to love yourself. You are the choice of yourself.

Release your fear. Fear is fear of the unknown, fear of being limitless. Fear creates limitation. There is a natural, beautiful unfolding to life that can only arise when you let go of the control that arises through fear. To face your fear is to allow yourself to be vulnerable and put down the shields you have used to protect yourself. All shields are a representation of a belief in danger and therefore lead you to the very danger you want them to protect you from. Whilst you are barricaded behind shields (fear) you will never truly feel safe. All that blocks you in life is the manifestation of your fear. The discovery of freedom is the realization that the only force pushing against you is you. You hold the key to any cage you may be in. To cease to judge and control your own being is to release struggle and enter joyful, effortless creation.

You are awakening to your creatorship and the nature of the illusion. This is a natural process and requires no more than fearlessly being yourself. This means opening and following your heart. This is your freedom: believe whatever your heart feels to believe. This is to live in the Now. It is to awaken to the equality of all beingness and release judgment of both yourself and the world. Ever changing truth is the reflection of the ever unfolding birth of beingness that is life. In this state there is no such thing as ‘The Truth’. There is no need of an answer for there is no problem. Just be. There are no limits to what you can be; you are infinite. The joy of this life arises through completely allowing your own being.

Within your heart is a dream. The meaning of life is to live that dream. You can only live that dream if you believe you can. Believe in your dream. You are free to be whatever it is you wish to be. You are an embodiment of all creation. The answer to every question you can conceive is within you, for you are both the creator and perceiver of all you experience. Allow your beingness to blossom without limitation or control and you will experience the limitless love and freedom that you are.

For more information please visit: http://www.limitlessness.com/

Learn more about the universal laws of attraction

The thoughts we think give rise to the physical reality we experience.

Once we know this, we can start to take conscious steps towards creating a reality that we like much better than our present one - 3 steps, to be precise. In this post, we will explore Step 1: Asking for What You Want.

In order to get what you want you have to know what you want. If you don't know what you want then you get, by default, whatever you think about. And more specifically, whatever you keep thinking about, over and over again.

The more we think the same thoughts, "Life stinks" or "I hate my job" or "Same stuff, different day", the more we reinforce and perpetuate the realities we create, in the cases of the previous examples: a stinky life, a job worth hating, and a day like any other.

But if you want something different and you know what that is, you can think about that instead of what you've been thinking about, and start to attract that new, desirable stuff into your life. This is what Goal Setting is all about. And it's another word for the first step in the process of implementing the Law of Attraction.

Changing what you think about can really be as easy as changing the station on the TV. Every time something comes on it that you don't like, change the station. The Universe instantly changes then too, bringing you the physical manifestation of your new thought rather than your old one. Changing what you think about it as easy as switching TV stations. But the physical shift in your reality does not change immediately.

There is a time delay in the process of creation, which means you don't get what you think about the instant you think it, but sometimes later. I rather like the word "attraction" because it implies a coming together rather than some instantaneous transformation. The benefit of this to you is that you have time to change what you think about, time to change what you've attracted/created in your life. Time to change your mind.

This means that you are not "stuck" with any state you've brought upon yourself. Knowing that your thoughts create your reality doesn't damn you to face a dreaded future cursed with all the horrible things you've thought so far. You don't curse yourself to any self-designated fate unless you don't do anything to change it.

If you start thinking about what you do want in life instead of what you don't, you'll start to get more of what you do want and not what you don't. To get what you want out of life, you have to be at least bold enough to put forth the request. Whether this comes forth in the form of a Wish, a Goal, a Dream, a Daydream, a Fantasy, a Desire, or a Prayer matters not, so long as it's there.

Law of Attraction, Step 2 of 3: Receive

The Law of Attraction is the Cosmic Law governing all creation. If you want to learn how to use the The Law of Attraction you need to understand that we attract that which we think about. Our thoughts give rise to our reality. Knowing this, it becomes clear that we can choose to consciously create realities more suitable to our tastes, if we only make the necessary shift. Step 1 of this shift is to Ask for what you want - change what you think about from things you don't want to things you do. Step 2, the subject of this article, is to sit back and Receive.

For some, this may be the trickiest step of all, as it requires you do nothing, and for some, nothing is the hardest thing of all to do.

We spend far too much time trying to figure out how to get what we want and not enough time getting it. We expend way too much energy working hard to chase a goal rather than having the goal. Having it come to us.

This is the message of Step 2 of the Law of Attraction - what you have asked for (in Step 1) is already on its way. It's the nature of the Universe - inherent in the process of "asking" for anything is the manifestation of that which was "asked for".

By thinking about something, we automatically bring it into being. By giving something the energy of our attention, we literally call it into being.

'Ask and ye shall receive' the timeless message holds. Ye need not worry how, nor need you do a darned thing to "make it happen". It's already coming. A done deal. Our every wish has been granted. The only thing we can do now is mess it up. How? For starters, by not getting out of the way.

Step 2 is taken care of as an automatically result of Step 1. It's not your job; it's the job of the Universe. You ask, it gives. Step 1, step 2. Simple.

The problem for so many of us in getting what we want in life is that we skip Step 1 and jump straight to Step 2. We avoid our job altogether (choosing what we want) and try to do the Universe's job instead (working, trying, figuring out how to get it). No wonder it doesn't work!

Our plotting, planning, working, figuring, straining, stressing, worrying, doubting, bemoaning, dreading, resenting - all get in the way of the "package", the Universe is trying to deliver to us.

Expending a ton of energy to try and get what you've already asked the Universe for is a major display of distrust in the Universe. It's like saying "I know I've asked you for this, but I don't believe you're really going to give it to me, so I'm going to go ahead and figure out how to get it myself then, thanks anyway." What's the Universe to say then? "Fine, go do it yourself then. And good luck with that."

Imagine if you asked your partner to pick something up for you on the way home from work and then you went ahead and picked it up yourself anyway. How do you think your partner would feel? How inclined is your partner going to be to honor your next request without first giving you a hard time? Why should the Universe be any different?

Step 2 of the Law of Attraction requires that you trust. Trust the Universe, trust the process of creation, trust the Law of Attraction to work, and to work for you. Put your attention on the end result, the goal, the desire. You be the master visionary dictating how your creation should look and feel. Let the Universe be your workers, bringing your vision into being.

Law of Attraction, Step 3 of 3: Allow

The Universal Law of attraction that governs the process of creation is known as the Law of Attraction. According to the Law of Attraction, we create what we think about. The thoughts in our heads produce the things in our world. Knowing this, we can begin to take steps towards conscious creating a desirable reality rather than continue unconsciously creating undesirable ones. The first 2 steps of this 3 step process are to Ask for what you want and then trust that the Universe heeded your call and you're on your way already to receiving it. In this article, we cover the critical final step, the one so many people overlook. In Step 3: Allowing, we make sure that we are present to receive what we've asked for when it comes.

As soon as you ask for anything, the Universe is instantly in action working to bring that to you. Whether or not you ever get it, depends on whether you are "there" to receive it. This is concept of "allowing" - the crucial final step of the Law of Attraction.

You are always given what you ask for, but do you take it? Do you allow it in? Anything the Universe offers us (or "throws at" us), we either accept it or we reject, refuse, or deny it. It's that way with the things we don't want, and it's that way with the things we do want.

The opposite of allowing is resistance. The reason for so many "unanswered prayers" is resistance, which is to say: the reason we don't get so much of what we ask for is because we resist having it.

It's like if you have a hang-up about your appearance. Implied in that insecurity is the desire to look good, and to feel good about the way you look. Now imagine if someone gave you a compliment about your appearance, "Oh, you look great today," and all you can say is, "No, don't be ridiculous. Oh stop. You're lying. Don't poke fun." This is a perfect dramatization of the resistance to allowing something we desire in.

Impatience is a from of resistance. Expecting a goal to be reached or a desire to be fulfilled faster than it seems to be happening is a way of not allowing it to happen in its own natural way. In noticing that your desire has still not been fulfilled yet, you're actually that desire's fulfillment further and further away.

Observing that you don't have the resources you need to get what you want (i.e. "But I don't have enough money and I have no idea where I'm going to get it"), only succeeds in perpetuating that lack of resources. You're given just what you've "asked for" and "allowed" - a severe absence of funds and a corresponding absence of opportunities for producing funds. Congratulations!

Being unhappy about your current state in life and bemoaning that if only X, Y, and Z would happen already, you could finally get on with being happy is just as bad. As is feeling jealous of someone else having it first.

Omitting this all-important step of allowing cancels out the previous two steps of asking and receiving. It's like being given a gift of something you asked for and then returning it. You're certainly entitled to do that. Just stop complaining that you don't have that thing you've been wanting.

If you choose to trust that what you have asked for - everything you have ever and will ever ask for - is on its way to you, then you can experience the joy now of its impending arrival. That's how allowing feels - as eager anticipation of that which you know for sure is yours.

The esoteric description of it is to say that, in allowing you're getting "in energetic alignment" with the fulfillment of your desire. In plain English what you're doing is getting "out of the way".

Ask and ye shall receive. Allow and ye shall have.