Lesson 20

Lesson 5: Closing the Vibrational Gap

The point of becoming the energy of the thing you want to attract is also important because it helps you to connect The Law of Attraction with The Law of Vibration.

In Module 2, we introduced the Law of Vibration, and talked about how it is bringing you everything according to the energy that you hold. Whatever it is that you want exists at some other state of vibration. This means that all you have to do is match that level of vibration in order to experience it.

There’s a great iChing quote that emphasizes this:

“To have anything we want, we need only raise our level of consciousness to the level of consciousness where what we want exists.” – Wu Wei, I Ching

I call this process closing the vibrational gap, because every desire simply reflects the distance that you have to move vibrationally. It represents the change in frequency that you, as an individual, need to experience in order to have the experience of the desire.

You Are Abundant In Orange Juice

To make this concept of closing the vibration gap a little more tangible, I want to put it in the context of a stupid-simple example: running out of orange juice.

The last time you ran out of orange juice, what did you do? You probably didn’t fret about it. You didn’t worry you would never have orange juice again, that there was a global orange juice shortage, or that you would never have your favorite thing (your one true passion) ever again.

You probably didn’t even notice. You probably just naturally bought groceries and got more orange juice. It’s simple. You didn’t go sit and meditate on it. You didn’t reflect on it all day thinking: “I don’t have orange juice. i don’t have orange juice. I don’t have orange juice.”

This is something that’s really small — it’s a stupid-simple example — but it reflects the idea of how closing the gap from not having orange juice to having orange juice is so tiny you don’t even notice how you make the step. You’re naturally abundant in orange juice; you’ve had it your whole life, and you always expect it will be there for you.

Now, contrast that example with something that feels like a bigger issue in your life. Notice how your thoughts and beliefs are formed around that issue. Chances are, if you’re trying to get out of desperate financial straights, or you’re trying to get over a health issue or a relationship issue or whatever it is, that you worry about the issue. You see it as being a big deal, and you spend a lot of time fretting about it, thinking about it in a negative way, and creating resistance about it. It’s not as easy as going to the grocery store to get more orange juice. It feels less natural.

The point to realize is that you are the one who determines whether it is easy or hard, small or big, and whether or not you can have it.

Combining The Laws of Vibration and Attraction

When you understand how these two laws work together, you gain the ability to consciously manage your vibration.

You have to understand that The Law of Attraction is constantly dictating your circumstances, and The Law of Vibration is a reflection of your current perspective. When you understand this connection you can realize that every second of every day, you have the ability to shape your perspective.

You have the ability to leverage The Law of Attraction — by paying attention to the direction and momentum of your thoughts — into a better feeling state, a higher vibrational perspective. That, over time, will allow you to change your experience and change your circumstances.

This is why it is so fundamentally important to take the time to step back — the practice we’ve been emphasizing throughout the course. Take the time to flow with the energy, to practice paying attention to your thoughts, and connecting how you think to how you feel. That’s what’s going to make the difference in how you live your life.

Module Recap

We’ve covered a ton of material in this module, and I know that these concepts can be somewhat abstract, so I want you to take the time to go back and re-watch every single video from this module, making sure you understand every point that’s made.

There are three key points I want you to takeaway that arc throughout the module.

The first, is that The Law of Attraction operates according to the energy you become. It’s not about what you think, it’s about the energy, the vibration, that you hold behind each thought. When you pay attention to your emotions, you begin to pay attention to how The law of Attraction manifests in your life.

The second is that the Law of Attraction is impartial. it will bring you your energy, regardless of whether that energy is good or bad. It does not know what you want; it knows how you feel.

The third is that the process you want to focus on is a process of closing the vibrational gap, of moving from where you are to the state of energy — the state of consciousness — in which your desire exists. You do this by leveraging The Law of Attraction and the momentum of thought. Train yourself to pay attention to the direction and momentum of thought and you can gain control over that momentum, thereby gaining control over your entire vibration and your entire experience.

                 

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Lesson 19

Lesson 4: The Momentum of Thought

Understanding The Law of Attraction in terms of becoming the energy, also helps you to understand the mechanics of attraction in terms of the momentum of thought. It’s important to understand that every thought has momentum, even the briefest, most fleeting thought there is.

When you hold onto a thought for any length of time, it begins to attract related thoughts — it begins to build momentum. This means that whenever you hold onto the energy of a thought, it will very quickly influence your mood. If you do this over time, it influences your beliefs, your actions, and everything that’s around you.

Thus, in order to understand and apply The Law of Attraction, it’s essential for you to gain control over the direction and momentum of your thoughts. I think the easiest way to see this is to think about any time you’ve been in a neutral or positive mood, and for whatever reason saw or heard something that triggered a negative thought.

Even though that thought was fleeting, and even though you were in a good mood, you might’ve found that your mind returned to the same doubt or negative thought. If you allow it to continue to do that; if you allow it to continue to rest in that doubt or fear, it can very quickly take over your vibration (and your mood), and it can turn what might’ve been a good day into a bad day…very quickly.

It’s essential that you learn to catch the direction and the momentum of negative thoughts early, before they begin to spin out of control. That’s exactly what many of the exercises we’re working with are designed to do.

Becoming Aware of Momentum

Working with The Law of Attraction, then, isn’t just about envisioning big-picture aims that you hold for your life and drawing your attention to them. It’s also about becoming acutely aware of how thought works in your day to day environment.

You want to train yourself to become aware of how every single thought impacts your vibration. Train yourself to become aware of the direction and the momentum of each thought.

That might sound like a lot of work, but you can develop it as a habit, so it becomes second nature. You can develop it to the point where you don’t really “think” about what you’re doing, it just becomes part of your way of being.

When you can start to realize that every single negative thought impacts you negatively, then you can catch those thoughts sooner, and redirect them into a positive spiral and a positive vibration.

This is what I mean when I talk about following your highest joy. It means following that train of thought that feels a little bit better, and a little bit better, and a little bit better. That’s all there is to it.

Finding The Best-Feeling Thought

Exercise: Hold a Thought for 10 Seconds Every Minute

                   

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Lesson 18

Lesson 3: Attracting Your Desires

When you put the information from this module in the context of everything else we’ve already talked about, you can start to see how this entire process stacks up.

Remember: most people go through their life focused on the physical, which means they’re looking at the things that are or are not present in front of them. More often than not, this means they’re looking at the absence of their desire, which keeps them stuck. So long as you continue to focus on the fact that the thing that you want is not yet present to you, you keep your energy (your vibration) down.

This keeps you away from experiencing the desire you want, and you reinforce lack. You reinforce the absence of everything you want.

This is why the shift in perspective to energy is so fundamental, because when you can shift your energy to the feeling of the desire, the desire has to show itself to you. You have to experience it, because you hold the energy of it.

An Impartial Law

As you begin to put these different puzzle pieces together, you can start to realize that The Law of Attraction is impartial. It is a mechanical force that operates however you use, both for the good and the bad.

It doesn’t know the difference between what you want and what you don’t want. It only knows the energy that you hold. It can only bring you corresponding energy for your dominant state of being.

The way this often plays out for a lot of people is that when they start to play with LOA and start to apply it to their lives they don’t see the results they expect. Then they think The Law of Attraction doesn’t work. They don’t realize that the law is working, it just isn’t working the way they think it’s working.

For example, someone might try to relieve financial pressure by attempting to manifest a million dollars in a week, or they might try to cure a chronic health issue in the span of a couple of weeks. Even though they direct their thought to it and begin to focus on it and try to improve their vibration about it, they don’t realize they have decades of negative energy and resistance going up against them, and that it’s unlikely they’d be able to clear that resistance in such a short span of time. Thus they see The Law of Attraction “not working,” but in actuality it’s bringing them exactly the energy that they hold, they’re just not fully aware of how to control their energy quite yet.

No Big or Small Aims

Once you realize that The Law of Attraction is impartial and operates consistently as a mechanical force, you can also begin to understand that there are no big or small aims. The Law of Attraction does not know whether something that you want is “realistic” or not, whether it’s “hard” or not. It only knows the energy that you hold about it.

If you believe that something is a big deal, that it’s going to be hard, challenging, and take a long time, that is the energy you hold, and thus it’s the energy that you’ll see reflected in your physical circumstances. Thus the thing you want to achieve will be hard, it’ll be challenging, and it’ll take a long time. On the other hand, if you believe it’ll be easy, it will come really easily for you.

You can leverage this fact by beginning to pay attention to the things that you want in relation to how you feel they might come about. Do you feel like they’re going to come easily, or do you feel like they’re going to be difficult? Whatever belief you hold about it, that’s the experience that you’ll have as you go about trying to manifest it.

Exercise: Easy and Hard are Self-Reinforcing

In order to drive this point home I want you to take a few minutes to reflect ton how this concept applies to your own skills and abilities.

I want you to create a list of a couple of things that you’re really good at and that you believe and know you’re really good at, along with a couple of things you’re really bad at, with which you always struggle and have to try really hard to do.

Then, I want you to look over the list and think back on how every example in your life follows the belief you hold about each item on the list. The things you believe will come easy for you, always come easily for you. The things you believe will be challenging or that you’re not good at, always take that form.

I think that this is easy to see when you compare it to a close friend. I think probably everyone has had an experience where they’re good at one thing and bad at another, while a friend is exactly the opposite. If not a friend, maybe a coworker or the way a team has been put together.

It isn’t that one person is intrinsically smarter or better than the other, it’s just that they hold different beliefs about the way in which they operate. They have different understandings about how those beliefs will come into play.

As you reflect on this, you can start to realize that there are no realistic or unrealistic aims, just as there are no fixed abilities or inabilities. You can start to see how your beliefs then shape what is or is not possible for you in your life.

                   

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Lesson 17

Lesson 2: From Thinking to Becoming

In this lesson I want to continue the process of stepping back from the physical world to focus more clearly on the energetic one.

I want you to think of The Law of Attraction as a law of momentum and corresponding energy.

This is where a lot of people go wrong when they first start to apply these concepts. They focus almost entirely on the physical, believing that if they think thoughts about the physical item they want, that the object will magically appear before them. I want to get you out of that mindset, and into the mindset of focusing on energy.

The Law of Attraction only works to the extent that you can become the energy of the thought that you think. SImply thinking something will not help if you hold a more fundamental belief that it isn’t possible. The Law of Attraction becomes powerful when you can learn how to step into the feeling of energy, the emotional state, that is the essence of your desire, that is the essence your physical object symbolizes. We’ve already talked about this in the module on desires, so now it’s time to learn to apply it to things that are important to you.

Thinking, Feeling, and Becoming

In order to make this point a little more clear, I want to draw your attention to the distinction between thinking, feeling, and becoming the energy of an idea or desire.

The first step is always to think the thought you want. This is where most people stop when learning to work with The law of Attraction. They think about their desire and begin to focus their attention more consistently on it. This is an excellent first step and I do not mean to disparage it any way. It’s absolutely fundamental, but it is only the first step.

The next step is to actually feel into the desire. Start to feel the emotion, the passion, the excitement, behind the desire. This si what we talked about when we talked about recognizing the fact that physicality is a symbol and the fact that every desire has energy behind it. You need to tap into that energy, and tap into that emotion, in order to have it start to manifest for you.

But, it’s really the third step where things start to take off, as you become that energy more consistently. You step into that feeling all day, every day. You allow yourself to become the idea you want to uphold, to become the energy of the thing that you want. That’s when you gain control over your physical reality.

Become Consistently The Energy You Want

As you’re beginning to gain control over this process, there are two points that can really help you to put these ideas into practice.

The first is that thoughts have their own momentum. This is what I mean when I say that The Law of Attraction is a law of momentum. Every thought tends to bring forth more similar, closely related thoughts. This applies to both good and bad thoughts.

The first time that you think something, it seem whimsical, or crazy, or radically out there, but as you continue to focus on that thought it gradually starts to seem more realistic and gradually becomes more and more a part of you.

This is the process of moving from thinking to feeling to becoming, as you continue to repeat those thoughts and feel into the energy of them.

The second point is to realize that in order for The Law of Attraction to work, you need to become the energy of your desire more consistently than you are the energy of the lack of your desire.

This can feel challenging, because the very fact that you have the desire often means you’re starting off from a position of lack. You need to train yourself to be able to feel into that energy. You can do this through affirmations and creating beliefs about the thing you want, but I want to point out that the realize some people have success with this process and others fail has to do with connecting their thoughts and words with their energy and their emotions.

Two people can use the exact same affirmation and it might appear to work for one and not for the other. For example, if you say, “I am abundant,” it will only work for you if you already believe you’re abundant. When you say that phrase it will trigger abundant thoughts. If you don’t fundamentally believe that, saying the affirmation is just paying lip-service, and could make you have the energy of not being abundant. It will trigger fears and thoughts of lack that you already hold.

As you’re working with this process, it’s important that you find statements you believe. Find statements you can feel the energy, not statements that seem like they “sound correct.”

Meditation

Exercise: Practicing Becoming a Thought

For today’s exercise, I want you to practice becoming the energy of your desire more consistently. This is easier than it sounds, and we’ve already been leading up to it with the 30-second breath exercises you bring with you throughout the day.

Start with your breath. Take the time to step back consistently, at least once an hour, but better two or three times an hour. Take the time to breathe, relax, and destress from whatever circumstance is in front of you.

Then, take an additional 20-30 seconds to feel into your desire. Feel into the excitement of it, the passion of it, and why you want it in the first place. If this is difficult for you, play with using the meditation included in this lesson or one of the rampages we’ve already seen.

When you’re first getting started with this practice, it might take you a couple of minutes in order to relax enough to feel into your desire. But, as you feel into it more consistently, it will become more approachable and accessible, and you’ll be able to tap into that energy in just a few seconds.

Consistently, throughout the day, take the time to do this. Step back, and feel into the emotion of your desire. If you can’t feel into the idea of “success” with whatever desire you hold, feel into the idea of “motion towards,” of rapidly progressing along the path of your desire.

                   

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Lesson 16

Lesson 1: The World You Attract

In this week’s module we’re going to continue our discussion of the laws of vibration and attraction in order to see how to apply them to our day to day lives. You’ll remember we already looked at the fundamental mechanics of these laws in Module 2, so I encourage you to go back and review any of the concepts presented there if they remain unfamiliar to you.

Before we go further, I want to quickly review a few of the main principles from that module.

The first is that your entire experience is a vibration, including yourself. You are constantly emitting a vibration and whenever you perceive a situation you do not like, the process of changing that situation is one of moving from the frequency where you currently are to the one in which you would prefer to be. You do this by changing your energy and changing your emotional state.

The second key point to realize is that your thoughts are powerful creators. They hold an incredible impact over your individual experience of the world around you and how that world responds to the actions that you take.

Finally, I want to emphasize that the key to changing your frequency — to moving from one state of vibration to another — is to leverage the thought-belief-emotional spectrum. These three areas, when taken together, form the seat of your power and the seat of your influence over your attitude, your vibration, your frequency, and how the world responds to you. We’ll be looking at each of these areas in more detail over the next few modules as well.

Again, if any of these topics sounds unfamiliar, I encourage you to go back to Module 2 and revisit any of the videos you need in order to get a quick refresher before continuing on.

No New Skill

When you’re first learning how to apply the law of attraction, one of the most important points to keep in mind is that you are already using this law.

Everything you have ever done, every experience or circumstance you have ever faced, has been the results of the concepts we’re talking about in this course. You simply weren’t aware that you were using this law naturally. I think that’s important because it takes a lot of the effort out of the equation. You don’t have to struggle in order to try to use this law, all you have to do is to become conscious — to become aware — of how it’s being applied in your life, and thus how you can use it to work with it, rather than against it.

To think about this, I like to think about the analogy of gravity. Gravity has always been present in your life, even from when you were a little toddler and first struggling to walk (and struggling against gravity) for the first time. At that point, you didn’t know that there was this thing called gravity. Later on, someone taught you that, and if you continued in the study of science, you learned formulas about it and eventually how to apply it to real-world constructs. Thus we can fly around the world and send satellites into orbit.

The point is that The Law of Attraction exists in much the same way. Everyone uses it. Some people are aware that they use it, while others are not aware they use it. Very few people are able to consciously take the steps that they need in order to control it and gain mastery over it in a practical way throughout their everyday life.

That’s the point I hope to get you to throughout the rest of this course.

You Are Already Attracting

I want to take a moment to harp on this same point a little further: you are already creating every single experience that happens to you in your life.

You can realize this intellectually, academically, before you actually realize it experientially, but it’s important to take that experiential step, to start to become aware of the fact that you are already attracting everything that you experience to you. This is a major step that you will take. A lot of people, when they first start to hear about The Law of Attraction and become familiar with the concept, still think of the idea in terms of: “Oh, I need to work to attract the things that I want.”

They don’t make the connection that even when they have the things they don’t want, that they are still attracting them. This means they don’t take responsibility in the way that they could were they to more fully recognize that concept.

This is really important because as you start to experience — not just to know, but to experience — The Law of Attraction in your day to day life, you will begin to feel responsible for every single thing that happens to you. This is a major milestone in your journey from victim to creator consciousness, which is something we’ll talk about more in the next module on beliefs.

For now, simply begin to reflect on ways in which The Law of Attraction is already active in your life, both the good and the bad.

Exercise: Are You A Victim?

In order to really drive this point home experientially, I want you to take some time to create a list of three to five experiences that, when they happened to you, felt out of your control. I want you to take the time to reflect on these experiences, beginning to take responsibility for them.

I don’t mean this in the traditional sense. I don’t mean taking responsibility for your actions (though that may certainly be a part of it), but rather taking responsibility for your vibration. I want you to reflect on how every detail of the circumstance was your own creation. Reflect on how your thought, belief, and emotional patterns led you into that situation and led to whatever consequence or result came out of it.

I know this can be difficult if you’ve never been through this process before. If you find this exercise challenging, there are two tips you can use to help with it.

The first is to try to look at events that were further in the past. Sometimes it helps to have a long timespan between the event and the recognition of all of these forces that came into play with it. Sometimes when something happened just last week or last month, you don’t necessarily have the perspective you need to see how all of the different factors played out, so look further into the past to see if that helps you to gain responsibility.

The second is to look not just at the big things, but at the little things. Sometimes we’re so involved in the major dillemas and major life dramas that we experience, that we can’t view them objectively. If that’s the case, try looking for an example of a more minor situation, perhaps one that doesn’t really matter, so that you can play with it.

Remember, the idea is always to have fun with these exercises. The idea is not to give yourself a complete psychological evaluation and see how you’ve created everything bad in your life. The point is to start to play with looking at how this energy is already at work, and to start to become more consciously aware of it. That’s a major first step in order to then be able to control it in the future.

Exercise: Identifying Patterns of Thought

Once you can start to see how this energy has applied to your past, it’s time to start playing with how it applies to your present and your future.

For this exercise, I want you to play with the thought of something that you want. It can be something you’ve wanted for a while, or something whimsical you come up with right now just for the purpose of the exercise.

I want you to play with looking at what attitudes you hold, what thoughts, beliefs, and emotions do you hold about that subject, that might be keeping you from experiencing the desire you want? What is it that’s holding you back?

You can think about this in terms of your personal action, but I strongly encourage you to think about it in terms of the energy behind that action. For example, there might be a specific step you need to take in order to achieve something — you might need to go work on a project — but rather than thinking about the action, think about why you haven’t yet done the work. What thought do you have that holds you back from it? What emotion do you have in relation to that step that you know you need to take?

Try to do this exercise playfully. Try to make it fun. If it helps, pick a desire that isn’t the be all and end all for you, but is a secondary whim you want. That will help you to play with it a little more easily, without stressing that you need to master everything in your life in one day.

                   

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Lesson 15

Lesson 5: Prosperity Is The Feeling of Abundance

Talking about desires and goals in terms of experiencing the energy of them is a strange concept for a lot of people, and it can take some practice before you become comfortable looking at the world in this way.

It helps to understand that prosperity is the feeling of abundance. When you focus on the feeling of abundance, you experience prosperity in any form you can imagine.

As we’ve already talked about, abundance isn’t about achieving health, wealth, or love, or any other specific form, but these states are often the natural result.

Recognize that when you feel abundant, in that moment you are abundant. Prosperity, then, is simply the consistent experience of abundance, the consistent act of focusing onto the things you already have , onto the motion towards your desire, rather than the lack of it. When you consistently experience this idea, this feeling of abundance, prosperity will emerge.

Every Moment’s Focus

When you start to think about prosperity and abundance in this way, you realize that every moment of every day you are either experiencing the feeling of abundance or the feeling of lack in relation to a desire.

In every moment, you either feel abundant or you don’t. you either feel the incredible rush of the motion towards your desire, or the stress and frustration of feeling blocked from it.

It is this balance, this choice, that either propels you forward towards everything you want or keeps you forever trapped in a state of your desire being just out o reach.

If you can focus on abundance and the feeling of prosperity, you can enter into the state of your desire and therefore experience it in this moment.

Exercise: Correlating Feelings and Desires

In order to make this idea a little more tangible, let’s do a short exercise to see how it plays out in your normal life.

The first step is to begin noticing how you feel in relation to the desires that you hold. Noticing that whenever you feel like you’re on-track and making progress towards your goals, you feel good. You feel abundant, prosperous, and know everything is working out for you.

Contrast that state with the correlation of how you feel when you feel stress or anger in relation to a goal. You often feel blocked from it. When you’re stressed, you feel like things aren’t working out and that there’s always going to be another challenge or obstacle in your way.

As you contrast these two states, notice how in most cases your physical circumstances probably haven’t changed very much. You’re probably experiencing more or less the same conditions, but in one example you feel incredible, and in the other example you feel terrible.

Don’t try to force yourself into one state of being or another, just start to notice the correlation between them. Notice the correlation of feeling good and making progress towards a goal versus feeling bad and feeling blocked from a goal. Starting to notice this can help you to feel into the energy of your desire as you move through normal life.

Meditation

Key Success Habits

For the last video of this module I want to take a moment to back up from the nitty-gritty of what we’ve been talking about and look once again at the big picture.

I want to remind you that the students who make the most progress are those who consistently remember to apply these exercises to their lives. This occurs in two ways:

1. Develop a consistent meditation practice. I strongly encourage you to take just 10-20 minutes either every morning or every evening to set aside for yourself. You don’t have to go through any fancy ritual, just take some quiet time (you can listen to soft music or use one of the guided recordings from this course) and take that time to relax, attempt to quiet your mind, and focus on your breath.
2. Take the time consistently, throughout every single day, to step back from your current circumstances. Remember to breathe. Remember to start to notice how energy flows — how emotion flows — as you move throughout your day. Begin to apply all of these short 30-60 second exercises to your daily life. Incorporate them as a habit.

That’s how you’re going to see the most progress and make the most out of this course.

                   

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Lesson 14

Lesson 4: Desire and the Now

In the first lesson of this module we talked about the tendency to equate abundance with specific ideas of form: of having more money, a better body, or a specific type of relationship. We talked about how when we do this, we associate ourselves with the idea of lack and the idea that the form we desire is not apparent to us in the current environment.

In this lesson I want to get into the relationship of how that desire — and our attitudes about desire — impacts our position on the Now-moment.

It’s important to understand that desire is a form of energy, and in this Now-moment you are always experiencing energy. When you connect the two, and associate desire with desire being present right now, you gain control over the ability to experience anything you want.

Perhaps the most important side effect of focusing on the lack of things in your environment is that it forces your energy outside of the current moment, when instead you want to focus more completely in the current moment.

When we focus on lack — seeing things that aren’t there that we wish were there, or vice versa — we decide we need to take certain actions that we don’t really want to take. We abandon our joy. We abandon the natural abundance that is already within us, in order to try to achieve some future state.

In other words, we abandon joy for the promise of it in the future. We abandon control over our own energy because we think it will be available to us later.

Contingent Happiness

In Western culture we have a very deeply engrained habit of making happiness contingent on certain outcomes or certain goals. We decide that until we have that better house or better car or better body, we can’t be happy. We don’t allow ourselves to experience real joy.

Even worse, is that often once we achieve the thing we set out for, we immediately set another goal beyond it, and push our happiness back further. Our happiness is always behind the achievement or attainment of that “next best thing.”

This approach is completely backwards. There is lots of data that when we prioritize happiness first, the goal sought is achieved more easily.

Furthermore, over time this approach of delaying happiness creates a negative psychological association with the act of desire, because we start to associate the things that we want only with the absence of them and the struggle it takes to get there.

The pure, natural state of exuberant, joyful desire yields to feelings of expectation and disappointment and we unconsciously begin to associate the act of wanting things with the disappointment and the unhappiness that we have when we focus on lack. Thus, by focusing on lack, we block ourselves from abundance and we block ourselves from joy.

Stepping into Pure Desire

Fortunately, there’s a really easy way to fix this problem, because the problem is just a matter of focus.

All that you whenever you feel negative associations with your desire — whenever you are focused on the apparent lack of a desire that you want — is shift your focus back towards the desire itself. Whenever you feel yourself in a negative statement, try to remember to take a step back and refocus on what you want. Focus on why you want the desire, on how incredible it is, how joyful you are as you move towards that desire, etc.

The more you can bring your focus in this moment to the act of attaining that desire, to the motion towards the desire, the more easily you can associate that desire with joy, and the more quickly it’ll move into your current experience.

Exercise: Remembering True Desire

The good news is that when we focus on our perspective it becomes really easy to turn these abstract concepts into a practical exercises. The next time you feel triggered or stressed, or are focused on the absence of your desire rather than moving towards your desire, the first step is always just to take a step back. Take a moment to notice your breath. Get out of being involved in that situation and reset your energy. Many of the techniques we’ve looked at thus far can help you with this step.

The second step is to notice what’s frustrating you. Draw your attention to whatever desire you hold in relation to that circumstance. Try to notice if what’s really frustrating you is the apparent lack of your desire in that moment.

Then, remind yourself that every desire has at its essence a state of being, an emotion. Remember the feeling that is associated with the desire that you want in that circumstance, and take the time to try to feel into that emotional state.

As you begin to focus more and more on that feeling, remind yourself that it is always the motion towards that you’re after. The physical circumstance is a symbol. Bring your attention back to the energy. Focus on the movement, the process, of moving in to that state of emotion that you’d prefer to feel in that circumstance.

Finally, recognize that you are already experiencing this desire. As you bring your focus towards the motion, the movement of your energy from one state to another — moving from a state that you don’t prefer to a state that you do prefer — you are experiencing the energy of the desire. So long as you keep yourself in that state of experiencing the energy of the desire, it will come about in the physical world.

Rampage: The Motion Towards

 

                   

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