Law of Attraction and Manifesting Your Desires

Imaginations can get tense during the holidays. Expectations wrestle in our minds and lives. Holiday traditions are jammed into already busy days. Instant gratification turns into regret. Debts are accumulated. Or sometimes, the imagination just shuts down and we slog through the holidays doing what other people are expecting of us. What if this season, a spiritual expectation can improve our experience?

A spiritual expectation is different from a worldly expectation. Spiritual expectations equal a productive developing consciousness. Worldly expectations are analogous to a frenzied or idle consciousness that can’t get out of itself. For example, if we expect a holiday party to give us joy, joy has just been reduced to time/space, excluding joy from many areas of our life. And, where is joy for those who weren’t invited to the party? What happens to joy if we get sick and cannot attend the party? How reliable is joy when we go to the party and have fun, but return home to dirty dishes?

Spiritual expectations are linked to that which is greater. If we expect joy from the sheer fact we radiate joy, we can be joyful whether we are getting ready for a holiday party or not. Aligning our thoughts with the metaphysical fact that joy precedes us—joy is found for others, is found now, at a party, and when we come home to dirty dishes.

Along with joy, spiritual expectations do not depend on any human event, season, or tradition. Admittedly, the holidays can be a grand time however that grandness can extend throughout the year when emanating from unconditional hopes. It is intriguing to improve our holiday season experience and then continue to feel the holiday spirit year round. However, this requires breaking away from the familiar, from the common beliefs of what we have trained ourselves to think about the holidays.

From 21st Century Science and Health the first English revision of Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health, we read, “The human mind is educated into selfish and sensualistic thinking as it constantly repeats the same thoughts to its self. If we are always talking about the body or persistently anticipating bodily pleasures (or even nervously expecting pain), we are being skillfully trained in the unspiritual. This education is at the expense of spiritual development.” Likewise, if we constantly expect temporary enjoyment, or even stress, during the holidays, our spiritual development is neglected.

Many people review their holiday experiences and strive to eliminate worldly expectations by improving their habits and rituals. Less time and money are wasted. More forgiveness and philanthropy is expressed. And, their happiness and security become more stable. A confidence is built up—a confidence that love and joy is found within consciousness, not in a particular holiday or gift or food.

Expectations can be powerful. What we are hoping is generally where our head and heart are being directed. Instead of expecting the holidays to bring good-will, peace, and joy, realize and act on the fact that good-will, peace, and joy will bring a beautiful holiday experience all year round.

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Cheryl Petersen’s book 21st Century Science and Health is the first English revision and update of Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health written in 1875. This book discusses spirituality and healing as found in Scriptures. It is available online at http://www.HealingScienceToday.com

Tags: forgiveness, happiness, healing, imagination, Life, Love, Spirituality

• Abundance is your birth right. You have to believe that you are claiming your birth right in order to manifest abundance through the law of attraction.

• Begin with a thought of what you want. Manifesting with the law of attraction always starts with a seed of thought.

• Construct this object or person in your mind detail by detail.

• Define the object in a material sense by cutting or drawing pictures of it or writing down a detailed description. This will make your mental images more concrete.

• Energize your creation by feeling the emotion of owning it at last. Feel the sensations of touching, hearing, smelling, seeing or tasting it.

• Feelings are valuable indicators that you are well-aligned with your desires. A feeling that you are pushing against something indicate resistance. Before you move on with the process, know first why you are feeling this resistance. Clear negative feelings first because this will lead to manifesting failure. This article on what desires you can manifest through the law of attraction may help you. On the other hand, positive feelings indicate that you are indeed on the right track.

• Give so you may receive. The act of giving produces more of the same through the law of attraction. You will be blessed to receive more so you can give more.

• Hold the vision. Use your power to mentally visualize your image of what you desire. If you need aids, read the fourth bit. According to Abraham, you only need to hold the vision for at least 64 seconds. That is not a lot to ask. If you can hold it for twice or 10 times that duration, so much the better.

• Imagination is a powerful self-empowerment tool. The limited success you have experienced in your life is equivalent to the limits of your imagination of what you can do or have.

• Juice up your creation in your mind. You do this be visualizing it, by affirming it with conviction, by pretending you already have it, by believing that you already have it. If it has a life in there, it will eventually live out here.

• Keep saying it until you believe it. Meaning, you have to affirm it.

• Life goes on. Just because your desire is only true in your mind does not mean you have to put a hold on your life until it materializes. Remember that the essence of life is to flow. Hold it back and you accumulate stale energies of the past.

• Manifesting your desires through the law of attraction is hindered by your attachment to your desires. The seed of your creative thought is meant to be sown and allowed to grow through the natural process of the universe.

• Nature or the universe takes charge of how and when it will happen. Remember the story of the Shoemaker and the Elves? The shoemaker provides the leather (material for the shoes) and the elves uses the leather to make the pair of shoes. With the law of attraction, we provide a mental picture of our desire (material) and the universe or nature, provide the way for its fulfillment.

• Open your self up to miracles.

• Quite minds are receptive minds.

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One of the mistakes that most people commit when applying the law of attraction to manifest what they want is to keep checking if it has produced any result yet. They affirm, they visualize and then expect a result over night. If they don’t see the result, they’d get frustrated. The feeling of frustration itself produces a vibration that indeed your desire is still NOT in the material plane. Remember what the law of attraction says, “You attract into your reality that which matches your thoughts.” So the more you keep checking & then getting frustrated, the more the result will elude you.

Using the law of attraction is kind of like planting a seed. You plant a seed (you send out your intention or what you want), & you water it (you imagine, you affirm). The following day, you dig the seed out to see if it has grown. On seeing that no change has occurred yet, you get frustrated and put it back in the soil again. The following day, you dig it out again to see if there’s any change. If you do that over & over again, no plant will grow out of the seed.

Personally, I find that my desires get manifested if I forget about them. Oh yes, I daydream & I let my imagination go wild about having them already, but after that I take my mind off them and they just materialize in my reality.

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