Do you know what you want?
Rifling through some old writings, I found this one on ‘attainment’ written in 2008. What I find almost comical is how some things never go out of style. So, I returned seven years ago, polished these old words, and let the light gleam through.
When we reunite with old friends, clothes, books, and more, viewing them from a fresh perspective, we renew them. It’s as if we connect them to the cosmos and revitalize their energy.
As it is practically a washed-up subject, we all know that just saying we want something means we lack it, so the best manifestation principle is to believe we already have it. Have it and give thanks that you’ve received it or know it is coming to you. That was worth saying one more time, but I will never use the word “again.” Remember not to give away all your power, meaning do not force the issue.
So what do we want? When asking for something, the universe doesn’t recognize the difference between a ranch house and a beach house, an exotic vacation from a camping trip in the middle of the forest. Being so specific is challenging but important; I cannot stress that enough.
We turn the pictures and images over in our minds; some feel right, and some we discard until we get the perfect life story we wish to create. Fantastic! Now you know what you want, but you have limited yourself to just this version. What if it could have been ten times greater?
Most of us don’t know what we want besides a nice car, home, and lots of money in the bank. We never think about it because we believe it is out of reach and unrealistic. But whose reality are we speaking of?
With this belief system passed down through the generations, it is no wonder many of us die without ever living for ourselves; instead, we have lived for someone else or lived half-heartedly, half in fear.
In reading more of the ‘Happy Book,’ I learned about sponsoring thoughts related to our belief system. For instance, the belief that you feel hungry acts as a sponsoring thought, while the idea that you should probably eat something emerges as a sponsored thought stemming from that belief.
Now consider wealth or health: Your sponsoring belief—particularly if your elders taught, told, or showed you through example that you were never destined to be wealthy and that it’s reserved for certain others—serves as your sponsoring thought. From this, the sponsored thought arises, declaring, “I am not wealthy,” a notion sparked by your belief or sponsoring thought.
This makes sense, and we must examine our belief system(s)to determine what we believe and whether those beliefs are hurting us without us even knowing it.
We are so used to living the life we do that we constantly speak of the things we want or will do when the time is right or when we have the money, but this is not the way to go about it. We must continually communicate with our hearts and what this part of us longs for. You must ask your spirit for direction if you don’t know how to do that.
You see, the problem lies not with not having the means, the time, or the knowledge; the problem usually lies with not knowing who we are, not remembering why, and not attaining what our heart compels us to do. Wanting anything less will never make us happy.
Visualize our life as our heart requests, smiling and believing wholeheartedly that it will, BY LAW, bring it forth. Do not forever change your mind; keep your mind out of the equation.
We must understand that the wrong beliefs could undermine our potential (and the right ones could also be limiting). This belief system conflicts very well with what your heart knows to be accurate or your desires, so it can cause a lot of discomfort and suffering. Why else would we continue seeking out happiness?
If I think back now, everything I ever needed as a child I had, maybe not everything I wanted, though. Our family’s beliefs taught me that I would always have what I needed, but according to the definition I had learned, I’d probably never be wealthy. So, I carried that belief system everywhere, learned some skills, and made enough to fulfill that belief.
Then I realized that those who have what they need and some are no better than me. They have a different belief system and mindset. They are in tune with a different energy frequency, that’s all.
I have matured significantly since writing this article, and now I feel almost ashamed for not fully appreciating much of that growth. Imagine.
And my pitiful ego says, “How funny, finally, now that you are aware of your heart’s desire, you are not in the position to attain it.”
How absurd. I have always been in a position to attain anything, especially in this moment and in the future.
Never believe you are not in the right time, place, or position. We currently align more energetically with the frequency of attainment than ever before. Could you say it is so and it is?
Return to those thoughts that calm, nourish, and warm your heart.
It’s like Thoreau so eloquently put it:
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not as bad as you are. It looks the poorest when you are the richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
Do not trouble yourself much to get new clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. You can sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.
Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. The shadows of poverty and meanness gather around us, “and lo! Creation widens our view.
It is life near the bone where it is the sweetest. You are defended from being a trifler. No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.”
