If you look at your current life, how hard do you feel you have to work to ensure the good and prevent the bad?
Are you constantly running away from what you don’t want? Are you perpetually trying to manifest your biggest desires, believing they will make you happy?
This very attitude is the central reason why lasting happiness seems to be so illusive.
What if the Universal Flow actually supported you in every area of life? What if it led you directly to the greatest joy imaginable? What if, when you simply surrendered to the Universal Flow, you had nothing to fear?
I know that if this concept is new to you, you might be skeptical. After all, the ego believes above all else that if it doesn’t remain in control, life will simply fall apart.
But, let’s put that theory to the test.
The Only Reason You Haven’t Found Lasting Happiness
Firstly, when I say happiness, I don’t mean mere pleasure at something nice happening in life. There are myriad reasons why you might be happy in this moment: you just got paid, you received a compliment, you bought something nice for yourself, etc.
But, often within hours, if not minutes, the happiness has left. It was just a temporary state.
And, we spend our entire lives seeking ways of being in that state longer and longer. We want to make it last not just for a few minutes, but for a lifetime.
And so, you might start by believing that if you had X desire, then you would be happy. Sooner or later, X desire comes, and you’re happy for a bit, but it’s just like every other time: soon, you’re back to where you were before.
So, X desire gets replaced by Y desire, and the cycle starts all over again.
But, there is one reason, and one reason alone, that your state right in this moment isn’t unalloyed happiness.
Do you want to know what it is?
It is because of your incessant need to seek pleasure and avoid pain. It is your need to separate yourself from the Universal Flow, and only accept certain parts of reality.
In last week’s post on radical acceptance, I described how attachments and aversions come packaged together. You can’t have one without the other.
For instance, you might have an attachment to financial security, but an aversion to financial lack. You might have an attachment to a happy relationship, and an aversion to being alone.
That might sound obvious. “Of course I have an aversion to financial lack,” you might say. “Who would want that?”
The truth is, putting these requirements on reality is incredibly stressful. We’re constantly judging each experience as either good (pleasurable), or bad (painful). And, we seek out certain ways to reduce the bad and augment the good.
That’s a fool’s errand, though, primarily because it’s coming from this place of a deep distrust of reality itself.
Any time you separate yourself from reality in any way, you suffer. Any time you need reality to be a particular way in order for you to be happy, you suffer.
It’s turning life inside out and the wrong way around. It’s putting the burden of happiness upon outer reality, when the purpose of outer reality was only ever to point the way to freedom.
Happiness Is Here Already
Playing this game of judging each experience as it comes also robs you from witnessing the perfection of the moment.
Try this exercise:
Simply notice what is here in the moment right now. Take each sense and just notice what is there.
For me, I notice the sound of my screen reader speaking in my ear through my earphones. I notice the sound of the air conditioner. I notice the sound of Christine’s phone reading out some sort of story. I notice the feel of the couch I’m sitting on, and the laptop on my lap. I notice the soft sensation of air brushing my skin.
What did you notice?
Also notice the thoughts that arise in awareness, along with any emotions they bring with them.
But notice that if there is any sense of suffering, of anything less than happiness here in the moment, it is only because of a thought. There is some thought saying that either this present moment, or some feared future, is wrong and to be resisted.
If you just let this moment be as it is, it is sheer perfection. There is no other choice.
Anything that says otherwise is just a thought—a story of ego.
See if, just for a moment, you can drop those thoughts about the future, or about how things “should” be. What is left here in the moment, when you drop those stories?
Nothing but perfection. Nothing but pure happiness. Nothing but deep peace.
That’s life. That’s who you are, underneath all the stories. And it’s always been here, waiting for you to notice it.
Surrendering to the Universal Flow
I will reiterate, to the extent that you try to change what is, it is to that extent that you block out this underlying perfection, and therefore you suffer.
Of course, as you do this, outer reality responds. It can’t help but respond to what’s within you. If resistance is within you, then resistance is without, too.
What is resistance? It is simply pushing against the Universal Flow.
You do not exist as a separate being. You are part of the Universal Flow. This flow is in all things. It is that out of which the world arose. It is that to which it will return. In the Tao Te Ching, it is called the Tao. In Hinduism, it is called Brahman.
Actually, there’s a slight differentiation, but it’s far beyond the scope of this post. Perhaps at a future date. 🙂
Anyway, you are intimately connected to this Universal Flow, call it what you will. But every time you look to some part of reality and say “no”, you are resisting that flow.
This is why I’ve been emphasizing the importance of saying “yes” to reality as it is.
Saying “yes” does not mean you’re telling the Universe you want more of that thing. You’re not saying, “Hey Universe, I want more financial lack!” No, not at all.
Actually, when you say “no” to it, you are in fact saying, “Hey Universe, I don’t like this thing. Keep bringing it back to me in bigger and bigger ways to remind me of how much I don’t like it, please.”
But when you say “yes” to all of life, you are saying, “Hey Universe, I’m okay with wherever you take me. I am detached, which means you can swiftly take me to better and better places. I don’t need to pay attention to parts that don’t feel good to me, because they are just part of the flow, and I will accept them. And because I can accept them, I can let them go and move on.”
As hard as this might be to believe, the Universe is not out to hurt you. It is not out to crush you with resistance. It is just your own “no” to life that does that.
Last week, I set a challenge for myself. For one day, I made a commitment to not setting a single intention.
That’s pretty significant, because I am always setting intentions throughout my day. But, for this one day, I committed myself to not intending anything at all, and just giving in to the Universal Flow, letting it unfold through me as it will.
And, it was a wonderful day, truly. Any time a judgment arose in my mind, I simply allowed it, and let it go, like all other thoughts.
My reality did not fall apart. In fact, everything went incredibly well.
Here’s the thing: you don’t need to do anything to be in the Universal Flow. You already are an intricate part of that flow. All you need to do is to simply let go of any and all resistance that arises.
Resistance is just showing you where you’re not allowing the Universal Flow. That’s its sole objective. Once you let go, there is no need for that resistance to arise again.
Where Will the Flow Lead You?
The fear of letting go I think is because people fear where the Universe will take them.
I remember when I was younger, I was afraid of trusting in God, because I thought God would make me do something in life I didn’t want to do.
But the thing is, the desires, preferences, and interests you have are exactly part of that flow. They bring you joy, which means that they are part of the Universal Flow.
It is true, sometimes we have false desires, that arise solely out of our egoic insecurity. For instance, someone might want to be a millionaire, simply because they are insecure about not having enough money. But once they surrender to the Universal Flow, they might find that they are actually more comfortable with some lesser amount, but which still means abundance to them. They don’t necessarily need a million dollars in the bank to prove their abundance to themselves or others.
However, your true, inspired desires will only get stronger, not weaker. The Universal Flow will naturally carry you towards these desires.
But in order for that to happen, you have to let go of the need of them. You have to just rest in the Universal Flow, perfectly happy with what is, noticing the perfection in the moment.
When you surrender to the Universal Flow, magic will happen, without you even intending it. On Tuesday’s Spiritual Freedom Support Call, I told the story of a synchronicity that happened to Christine and me last week.
We were about to leave on our getaway to celebrate our 5th year anniversary. Now, our pharmacy delivers our medication, because we can’t get up there to get them ourselves. We thought they might deliver this day, and we forgot to call them to tell them not to, in case we left before they arrived.
Well, the delivery guy came 2 minutes before we were about to walk out the door. If he had come a bit later, or we left a bit earlier, we would have missed him.
This is divine timing at its best! And this is the type of thing that just naturally happens all the time when we live in the Universal Flow.
I know that might seem trivial. But, when life is a series of these beautiful synchronicities, it adds up. When money shows up just as its needed, or the perfect book makes itself known to you to help you on the next part of your journey, or any number of other signs enter your life just as you need them, you soon realize that life is magic.
When we were on our getaway, a random woman, who did not know us in the least, decided to pay for our breakfast. To me, just another manifestation of magic.
Several months ago, when I wanted to learn the organ, Christine just happened to be attending a new church, and that organist agreed to let me practice. To this day, he picks me up and takes me to the church for an hour and a half, two or three times a week, to let me play the organ. Again, just another manifestation of magic.
I have tons of examples, but they really aren’t all that important. They are important to me, but you will find your own examples of magic in your life, if you look for them.
So where will the flow lead you? It’ll lead you to greater and greater manifestations of magic in your life. Imagine every day being filled with incredibly personal, meaningful demonstrations of magic—of synchronicities that didn’t need to happen the way they did. Imagine being wowed every day that the Universe came through in just the perfect way. That is life in the Universal Flow. It is never-ending joy, and brand new delights every day.
But, these delights are not necessary. They are not needed, nor are you attached to them. But, from the Universe flows this kind of magic, which is līlā, the divine sport. It happens because it can, and no other reason is necessary. It is child’s play.
You Can Still Have Anything You Desire
I can hear some people asking, “Does this mean I shouldn’t intend?”
No, not at all. This is why I call it co-creation.
The experiment I did last week was just to see what my experience would be. Now, I am back to intending regularly.
There is nothing wrong with deliberate intention. In fact, it is a natural part of who you are.
But, people coming to the law of attraction mistaken intention for attachment. They do this sort of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, and they call it law of attraction.
But law of attraction, it is not. It is egoic striving. It is perpetuation of suffering. It is not co-creation, unless you mean the co-creation of resistance.
The law of attraction truly starts to give you magnificent results only when you let go and surrender to the natural unfolding of the Universal Flow.
This does not mean you cannot intend. It merely means that your intention is just a slight activation of vibration in pure awareness. It is effortless. It is a mere suggestion.
And, the thing is, it only takes this very light touch to get the Universal Flow moving towards this new desire. If effort is felt at all, ego is getting involved.
When driving a car, your job is to operate the controls of the car. Steer the steering wheel, hold down the pedal, etc. You don’t need to simultaneously climb under the hood and fire the pistons, or any of the other thousands of operations a car performs while you are driving. In fact, that would prohibit you from being a very effective driver.
It’s even simpler than that. Imagine you had one of those self-driving cars. You just set your destination, and sit back until you’re there. That’s more of the level of effortlessness this requires.
When you’re putting in effort with your manifestation, it’s like getting in under the hood and trying to do the Universe’s job for it. Your part is to hold the vibrational signature of the intention. The Universe’s job is, well, all the rest.
Your intentions are the driving force behind the Universal Flow, but it doesn’t need much of a force, at all. In fact, if you just sat back and didn’t intend at all, like I did for a day, it’d still bring you to greater things than you could even fathom. But, like my description of līlā above, we intend, for the fun of it. It’s all for fun. And then, when we let go, magic happens.
This Saturday, September 10, I’m holding a teleclass that will give a lot more information on how to let go of ego and surrender to the Universal Flow. If you know me, you know I’m all about practical steps. I’ll show you exactly what you need to do to truly start seeing magic in your own life.
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I guess that even without intending, we unconsciously intend anyway. Even if it’s just a thought for a second, which we might not be aware of, because it passes so quickly, it’s still that gentle push in a direction we want. So, as you said, by intending consciously, we dredge up the resistance faster, right?
I am really interested what would happen if we could take an experiment like this: we take 3 people with approximately same settings, same age, same gender, same amount of resistance, etc. On the same day, person A, person B and person C would start this experiment. Let’s say the experiment would last for 6 months. During this period, each day, person A would just allow everything, without consciously intending at all, and without actively digging through his past. Person B would spend almost every moment of each day like Lester Levenson, actively digging up his past, and actively releasing everything, without intending anything. Person C would intend every day, with several areas of his life, together with allowing, but not actively digging through his past.
After 6 months, whose life would be the most satisfying? Which one of them would have the least resistance left in him? I’d really like to hear your opinion on this.
My guess is that person A would be happy and at peace, but outer reality wouldn’t have brought him many of his earthly desires. I think that all 3 persons could be equally happy and peaceful, but without actively intending, we don’t expand much, we don’t experience much. Well, I imagine it like this. Just allowing without intentions is like living in a small town, and growing to like it, and be perfectly happy and peaceful in it. There isn’t much expansion, or new opportunities, but one can be perfectly happy and satisfied. With intending, the more we intend (I don’t mean desperately, I mean like, the bigger we dream), the more new experiences we seek out, for the pure fun, the richer the life can get. It’s like living in huge city, with both city elements and beautiful parks, nature, hills, rivers, pools, sea, coasts, valleys, etc. Like a super duper dream city (or magic land). Both the person living in the small town, and the person living in this almost magical big city/area can be equally happy, satisfied, and at peace, but the latter one has so much more to play with.
Like, there are monks who meditate so much, and are probably deeply at peace and happy, but they don’t have access to so many of the world’s possibilities. They certainly don’t need it, so there’s no problem for them. But someone who dreams so big could be equally happy and satisfied inside, yet enjoy luxury cruising, climbing mountains, driving cool cars, eating awesome food from all around the world, enjoy speaking many languages, and so, so much more.
So, I guess what I am trying to say is, we can all be equally happy and at peace, no matter what our “scope” of life is, right? Melody mentioned somewhere a man named Viktor Frankl, a holocaust survivor. He found happiness and peace while in a concentration camp. I guess this would be an example of someone with very limited scope. Yet, there is also someone with equally deep peace and happiness, with a veeeery large scope, who explores the world and enjoy everything the Earth has to offer, right? I have a feeling that intending, or dreaming big, is what decides the scope of one’s life experiences. Surely, without allowing, no matter what the scope, true happiness and peace can’t be achieved. Conversely, with allowing, no matter what the scope, true happiness and peace can be achieved.
Okay, I wrote too much lol. I really want to hear your opinion on this.
I just thought of an example of dreaming big, and constantly expanding experiences, Melody. Even though she is very happy and peaceful (at least she says so), every end of the year, she sets new big intentions, and she even takes part at an Ayahuasca ceremony. I’m pretty sure she is totally allowing, at peace, and happy. She doesn’t need all this new expansion every year, but she does it for the fun, to explore life more, right? She keeps extending her scope, even though she’s already at the goal of deep peace and happiness.
Hi Z,
Thanks for your comments. 🙂
I’m not sure I totally agree that person A would not expand much. I do think that their life would be just as magical as the other two.
I think life would naturally unfold through them in such a way that would be absolutely perfect. They would always be at the right place at the right time. Things would just work out, as I said above.
I suspect the difference would be very small, actually, but the reasons are a bit involved to go into here. But I think from the outside, it would look much the same.
I do agree about dreaming big. But I think person A would in fact begin dreaming big, because there would be no resistance holding them back from that. Big dreams would naturally start to unfold through them, anyway.
It just depends on the path you prefer, really.
The self-driving car analogy is brilliant! So, that’s what it’s like?
I think we get fixated on our desires and then bummed when they don’t manifest, two things we shouldn’t do. I do remember things actually going well when I was not fixated or bummed. I know, it is paradoxical, but the Universe does not fixate, get depressed, nor does it judge, so it makes sense to me. I’m looking forward to the upcoming call!
Hey Kat,
Thanks for your comment. 🙂
Yes, that’s exactly how it is. I’m glad you appreciated the analogy. 🙂
And indeed, fixation is not good for the law of attraction, at all. It requires letting go and just letting the Universal flow take us where it will.
You mean this Saturday’s call? I hope to see you there. 🙂 It’ll be a good one.
I guess that even without intending, we unconsciously intend anyway. Even if it’s just a thought for a second, which we might not be aware of, because it passes so quickly, it’s still that gentle push in a direction we want. So, as you said, by intending consciously, we dredge up the resistance faster, right?
I am really interested what would happen if we could take an experiment like this: we take 3 people with approximately same settings, same age, same gender, same amount of resistance, etc. On the same day, person A, person B and person C would start this experiment. Let’s say the experiment would last for 6 months. During this period, each day, person A would just allow everything, without consciously intending at all, and without actively digging through his past. Person B would spend almost every moment of each day like Lester Levenson, actively digging up his past, and actively releasing everything, without intending anything. Person C would intend every day, with several areas of his life, together with allowing, but not actively digging through his past.
After 6 months, whose life would be the most satisfying? Which one of them would have the least resistance left in him? I’d really like to hear your opinion on this.
My guess is that person A would be happy and at peace, but outer reality wouldn’t have brought him many of his earthly desires. I think that all 3 persons could be equally happy and peaceful, but without actively intending, we don’t expand much, we don’t experience much. Well, I imagine it like this. Just allowing without intentions is like living in a small town, and growing to like it, and be perfectly happy and peaceful in it. There isn’t much expansion, or new opportunities, but one can be perfectly happy and satisfied. With intending, the more we intend (I don’t mean desperately, I mean like, the bigger we dream), the more new experiences we seek out, for the pure fun, the richer the life can get. It’s like living in huge city, with both city elements and beautiful parks, nature, hills, rivers, pools, sea, coasts, valleys, etc. Like a super duper dream city (or magic land). Both the person living in the small town, and the person living in this almost magical big city/area can be equally happy, satisfied, and at peace, but the latter one has so much more to play with.
Like, there are monks who meditate so much, and are probably deeply at peace and happy, but they don’t have access to so many of the world’s possibilities. They certainly don’t need it, so there’s no problem for them. But someone who dreams so big could be equally happy and satisfied inside, yet enjoy luxury cruising, climbing mountains, driving cool cars, eating awesome food from all around the world, enjoy speaking many languages, and so, so much more.
So, I guess what I am trying to say is, we can all be equally happy and at peace, no matter what our “scope” of life is, right? Melody mentioned somewhere a man named Viktor Frankl, a holocaust survivor. He found happiness and peace while in a concentration camp. I guess this would be an example of someone with very limited scope. Yet, there is also someone with equally deep peace and happiness, with a veeeery large scope, who explores the world and enjoy everything the Earth has to offer, right? I have a feeling that intending, or dreaming big, is what decides the scope of one’s life experiences. Surely, without allowing, no matter what the scope, true happiness and peace can’t be achieved. Conversely, with allowing, no matter what the scope, true happiness and peace can be achieved.
Okay, I wrote too much lol. I really want to hear your opinion on this.
I just thought of an example of dreaming big, and constantly expanding experiences, Melody. Even though she is very happy and peaceful (at least she says so), every end of the year, she sets new big intentions, and she even takes part at an Ayahuasca ceremony. I’m pretty sure she is totally allowing, at peace, and happy. She doesn’t need all this new expansion every year, but she does it for the fun, to explore life more, right? She keeps extending her scope, even though she’s already at the goal of deep peace and happiness.
Hi Z,
Thanks for your comments. 🙂
I’m not sure I totally agree that person A would not expand much. I do think that their life would be just as magical as the other two.
I think life would naturally unfold through them in such a way that would be absolutely perfect. They would always be at the right place at the right time. Things would just work out, as I said above.
I suspect the difference would be very small, actually, but the reasons are a bit involved to go into here. But I think from the outside, it would look much the same.
I do agree about dreaming big. But I think person A would in fact begin dreaming big, because there would be no resistance holding them back from that. Big dreams would naturally start to unfold through them, anyway.
It just depends on the path you prefer, really.
The self-driving car analogy is brilliant! So, that’s what it’s like?
I think we get fixated on our desires and then bummed when they don’t manifest, two things we shouldn’t do. I do remember things actually going well when I was not fixated or bummed. I know, it is paradoxical, but the Universe does not fixate, get depressed, nor does it judge, so it makes sense to me. I’m looking forward to the upcoming call!
Hey Kat,
Thanks for your comment. 🙂
Yes, that’s exactly how it is. I’m glad you appreciated the analogy. 🙂
And indeed, fixation is not good for the law of attraction, at all. It requires letting go and just letting the Universal flow take us where it will.
You mean this Saturday’s call? I hope to see you there. 🙂 It’ll be a good one.
Hi Brandon,
I stumbled across your blog yesterday and after reading a couple of your posts, had a serious AHA moment! I’ve been trying to manifest more financial abundance in the last few months and although I’ve had some small signs that what I want is manifesting, no major shift has occurred. I’ve been doing all the usual visualising, thinking positive thoughts, trying to do things that make me feel happy etc. and thought I was doing quite well, which is why I couldn’t understand why what I wanted wasn’t manifesting. However, after reading your posts, I’ve come to realise that all I’ve been doing is suppressing my ‘negative’ feelings and trying to force a happy, positive mindset.
I’ve had a really ‘heavy’ feeling in my chest for some time now and I’ve finally realised that this must be due to some pretty hectic resistance, which I’ve built up due to the suppression of any thoughts and feelings I perceived to be ‘negative’ and which would prevent me from receiving my desired manifestation. I’ve been trying to release this resistance by doing as you suggest and just sitting with the feelings and allowing whatever comes up. When doing this, I experience strong ‘spasms’ (don’t know how else to describe it) in my solar plexus and chest. Have you experienced anything like this before and does this mean that I am releasing the resistance I have built up? After the spasms pass, I feel slight relief for a few seconds and then the heavy feeling returns. I’m not sure if this means that I am releasing the resistance, but still have a lot more to release, or if I’m not releasing it at all.
Your thoughts on this would be very much appreciated. 🙂
Hey Amy,
I’m so happy that you’ve found my posts of use. 🙂
Yes, I do think you are releasing it, but there are often several layers of resistance.
But, don’t try to get rid of it. You could ask yourself, “Could I allow myself to welcome this feeling as much as it is here right now?”
Remember that any time we judge a certain part of reality as “bad”, we resist it, and therefore create more of it.
So don’t make a huge deal out of this resistance. Sit with it for a few minutes, see if you can welcome it, and let it do whatever it wants to do. Often you’ll notice it at least diminishes, but don’t have any expectations right now.
I highly recommend listening to this past Tuesday’s Spiritual Freedom Support Call. I discussed a technique that might help to cut through this resistance as well.
I’d also recommend registering for tomorrow’s free teleclass. I’ll be sharing a lot more information about how to do all of this.
I hope this helps. 🙂
Thanks so much for the reply Brandon, this definitely helps. I think I’ve been trying too hard to get rid of the resistance. Makes sense that if you try too hard to get rid of the resistance, you are judging the resistance as ‘bad”, which could then create more resistance.
Your posts have helped clear a lot up for me, which I haven’t been quite getting before, thank you so much!! 🙂
Hey Amy,
I’m so glad. It sounds like you have it.
Yes, you don’t want to resist your resistance. 😛 You want to welcome it the best you can, and then turn your focus towards what you want to create.
Hi Brandon,
I stumbled across your blog yesterday and after reading a couple of your posts, had a serious AHA moment! I’ve been trying to manifest more financial abundance in the last few months and although I’ve had some small signs that what I want is manifesting, no major shift has occurred. I’ve been doing all the usual visualising, thinking positive thoughts, trying to do things that make me feel happy etc. and thought I was doing quite well, which is why I couldn’t understand why what I wanted wasn’t manifesting. However, after reading your posts, I’ve come to realise that all I’ve been doing is suppressing my ‘negative’ feelings and trying to force a happy, positive mindset.
I’ve had a really ‘heavy’ feeling in my chest for some time now and I’ve finally realised that this must be due to some pretty hectic resistance, which I’ve built up due to the suppression of any thoughts and feelings I perceived to be ‘negative’ and which would prevent me from receiving my desired manifestation. I’ve been trying to release this resistance by doing as you suggest and just sitting with the feelings and allowing whatever comes up. When doing this, I experience strong ‘spasms’ (don’t know how else to describe it) in my solar plexus and chest. Have you experienced anything like this before and does this mean that I am releasing the resistance I have built up? After the spasms pass, I feel slight relief for a few seconds and then the heavy feeling returns. I’m not sure if this means that I am releasing the resistance, but still have a lot more to release, or if I’m not releasing it at all.
Your thoughts on this would be very much appreciated. 🙂
Hey Amy,
I’m so happy that you’ve found my posts of use. 🙂
Yes, I do think you are releasing it, but there are often several layers of resistance.
But, don’t try to get rid of it. You could ask yourself, “Could I allow myself to welcome this feeling as much as it is here right now?”
Remember that any time we judge a certain part of reality as “bad”, we resist it, and therefore create more of it.
So don’t make a huge deal out of this resistance. Sit with it for a few minutes, see if you can welcome it, and let it do whatever it wants to do. Often you’ll notice it at least diminishes, but don’t have any expectations right now.
I highly recommend listening to this past Tuesday’s Spiritual Freedom Support Call. I discussed a technique that might help to cut through this resistance as well.
I’d also recommend registering for tomorrow’s free teleclass. I’ll be sharing a lot more information about how to do all of this.
I hope this helps. 🙂
Thanks so much for the reply Brandon, this definitely helps. I think I’ve been trying too hard to get rid of the resistance. Makes sense that if you try too hard to get rid of the resistance, you are judging the resistance as ‘bad”, which could then create more resistance.
Your posts have helped clear a lot up for me, which I haven’t been quite getting before, thank you so much!! 🙂
Hey Amy,
I’m so glad. It sounds like you have it.
Yes, you don’t want to resist your resistance. 😛 You want to welcome it the best you can, and then turn your focus towards what you want to create.
“If resistance is within you, then resistance is without, too”. Hats off to you. This is the billion dollar statement. I don’t think I need any other Mantra anymore. It’s all in our one and only head. It has created it so it can destroy it. You are simple great. Thank you so much for making it so simple to understand and easy to digest ;). And very big thank you for giving your time.
Thanks so much, Rhea. 🙂
Yes, it is simple. It’s just that we are so conditioned to respond in certain ways, that we allow that conditioning to take over. If we remember the simple equation inner = outer, then we have complete control over our reality.
Brandon, I just had an “Aha” moment as well! Inner=outer, that is how gurus do it! That is how we can do it! So, peace within, so without? Flow within, flow without?
Yes, precisely. Whatever’s on the inside, is on the outside, too. I like to compare it to an algebraic equation.
x = y
x is your outer reality
y is the inner reality
add (positive feelings) to y (inner state) and you add to x (outer reality). Subtract from y, and you subtract from x.
I’d write a post in this vein, but I think I’m probably one of the only math geeks around here lol.
I am a math geek, too! Is the Universe composed of numbers or emotions or both? Or, are the numbers interpreted emotions and we just do not know that yet?
IMO, numbers are our interpretation of an apparently dualistic universe.
The Universe itself is non-dual, and made up of energy. That energy responds to, and is sensed by, emotion. As I said in the class today, it’s only when you react emotionally that creative force is sent out to manifest.
Numbers are just an overlay, I believe, of this underlying reality.
Yup, I am listening to the class now. Emotional investments and reactions can be detrimental can’t they? They are indicators of attachment and can trigger the subconscious to be aware of something to latch on to.
I still think the best place to be is still. The stillness as you put it. This is the core of the Universe, as I see it. The limbs are playing a symphony of which we are a part, I would think, but ego gets in the way of this and trips us up. At least this is m understanding.
Oh, also, when connected to Source, it is true that one does not need to rest so much, right? They can go on without the recharging of sleep? I have known mystics who have done this, but then again they also do not bathe and that can be a problem.
Yes, emotional investments are detrimental. That’s what I said in the class. Perhaps my meaning wasn’t understood?
The higher the investment, the higher the attachment, and so the more the resistance.
Being in stillness, as you say, is the best, and simply having a slight movement towards the desired goal.
Sleep: Yes, that is true, too. Once resistance is very low, and Universal energy is allowed to flow freely, very little sleep is needed.
It’s clear. You even say to “remove the investment”. Thank you!
“If resistance is within you, then resistance is without, too”. Hats off to you. This is the billion dollar statement. I don’t think I need any other Mantra anymore. It’s all in our one and only head. It has created it so it can destroy it. You are simple great. Thank you so much for making it so simple to understand and easy to digest ;). And very big thank you for giving your time.
Thanks so much, Rhea. 🙂
Yes, it is simple. It’s just that we are so conditioned to respond in certain ways, that we allow that conditioning to take over. If we remember the simple equation inner = outer, then we have complete control over our reality.
Brandon, I just had an “Aha” moment as well! Inner=outer, that is how gurus do it! That is how we can do it! So, peace within, so without? Flow within, flow without?
Yes, precisely. Whatever’s on the inside, is on the outside, too. I like to compare it to an algebraic equation.
x = y
x is your outer reality
y is the inner reality
add (positive feelings) to y (inner state) and you add to x (outer reality). Subtract from y, and you subtract from x.
I’d write a post in this vein, but I think I’m probably one of the only math geeks around here lol.
I am a math geek, too! Is the Universe composed of numbers or emotions or both? Or, are the numbers interpreted emotions and we just do not know that yet?
IMO, numbers are our interpretation of an apparently dualistic universe.
The Universe itself is non-dual, and made up of energy. That energy responds to, and is sensed by, emotion. As I said in the class today, it’s only when you react emotionally that creative force is sent out to manifest.
Numbers are just an overlay, I believe, of this underlying reality.
Yup, I am listening to the class now. Emotional investments and reactions can be detrimental can’t they? They are indicators of attachment and can trigger the subconscious to be aware of something to latch on to.
I still think the best place to be is still. The stillness as you put it. This is the core of the Universe, as I see it. The limbs are playing a symphony of which we are a part, I would think, but ego gets in the way of this and trips us up. At least this is m understanding.
Oh, also, when connected to Source, it is true that one does not need to rest so much, right? They can go on without the recharging of sleep? I have known mystics who have done this, but then again they also do not bathe and that can be a problem.
Yes, emotional investments are detrimental. That’s what I said in the class. Perhaps my meaning wasn’t understood?
The higher the investment, the higher the attachment, and so the more the resistance.
Being in stillness, as you say, is the best, and simply having a slight movement towards the desired goal.
Sleep: Yes, that is true, too. Once resistance is very low, and Universal energy is allowed to flow freely, very little sleep is needed.
It’s clear. You even say to “remove the investment”. Thank you!
Hey Brandon, I’d appreciate a bit of clarification on this: when we have an intending session (10 or more minutes), resistance arises. Do we first stop focusing on the goal, and fully allow the resistance until it dissipates (might take several minutes, maybe even 15 minutes or so), and only then we redirect our focus to the goal again? Or do we accept it, and still focus on the goal simultaneously? I’m asking because if it’s the former, than the intending session might take half an hour, or even more sometimes.
Hi Z,
This one is always hard to explain, but I will try, as your question is a good one.
I find that when you’re constantly switching between the goal’s answer state, and some piece of resistance, you’re actually training your subconscious mind to associate resistance with the goal, which you definitely don’t want to do.
It’s not really an either-or. What I do is allow the resistance, while simultaneously tuning in to the signal of the goal’s vibration.
It’s like when you’re tuning a radio. You don’t need to remove the static, and then find the signal of your station. You turn the dial to get a clearer and clearer signal, which will make the static go on its own.
This is totally effortless, though. You’ll notice you don’t have to try to wrench your focus away from the resistance. You just have to move beyond the resistance, to the answer state itself.
Does this make sense?
Yeap, thanks a lot!
Hey Brandon, I’d appreciate a bit of clarification on this: when we have an intending session (10 or more minutes), resistance arises. Do we first stop focusing on the goal, and fully allow the resistance until it dissipates (might take several minutes, maybe even 15 minutes or so), and only then we redirect our focus to the goal again? Or do we accept it, and still focus on the goal simultaneously? I’m asking because if it’s the former, than the intending session might take half an hour, or even more sometimes.
Hi Z,
This one is always hard to explain, but I will try, as your question is a good one.
I find that when you’re constantly switching between the goal’s answer state, and some piece of resistance, you’re actually training your subconscious mind to associate resistance with the goal, which you definitely don’t want to do.
It’s not really an either-or. What I do is allow the resistance, while simultaneously tuning in to the signal of the goal’s vibration.
It’s like when you’re tuning a radio. You don’t need to remove the static, and then find the signal of your station. You turn the dial to get a clearer and clearer signal, which will make the static go on its own.
This is totally effortless, though. You’ll notice you don’t have to try to wrench your focus away from the resistance. You just have to move beyond the resistance, to the answer state itself.
Does this make sense?
Yeap, thanks a lot!
“You turn the dial to get a clearer and clearer signal, which will make the static go on its own”. So, when Abe say to distract yourself and feel better, which, in essence, helps this process of getting a clearer signal, and eventually the static goes on its own?
Hey Kat,
I hate the word distract in this context. Because, when most people distract, they are just repressing the resistance.
This is more acknowledging the resistance, but nevertheless, choosing to move in the direction of your manifestation.
It’s noticing your resistance, letting it have its voice, but maintaining mastery over yourself and choosing what you’d like to experience.
It’s nothing at all like distraction. Distraction is fingers in your ears saying “La la la la la!”
This is courageously turning towards your resistance, but moving past it.
Does that make sense?
“This is more acknowledging the resistance, but nevertheless, choosing to move in the direction of your manifestation.
It’s noticing your resistance, letting it have its voice, but maintaining mastery over yourself and choosing what you’d like to experience”.
Yes, exactly! This makes sense and thank you for explaining this. Indeed, people totally misinterpret this with closing your ears and singing “la-la-la”!
“You turn the dial to get a clearer and clearer signal, which will make the static go on its own”. So, when Abe say to distract yourself and feel better, which, in essence, helps this process of getting a clearer signal, and eventually the static goes on its own?
Hey Kat,
I hate the word distract in this context. Because, when most people distract, they are just repressing the resistance.
This is more acknowledging the resistance, but nevertheless, choosing to move in the direction of your manifestation.
It’s noticing your resistance, letting it have its voice, but maintaining mastery over yourself and choosing what you’d like to experience.
It’s nothing at all like distraction. Distraction is fingers in your ears saying “La la la la la!”
This is courageously turning towards your resistance, but moving past it.
Does that make sense?
“This is more acknowledging the resistance, but nevertheless, choosing to move in the direction of your manifestation.
It’s noticing your resistance, letting it have its voice, but maintaining mastery over yourself and choosing what you’d like to experience”.
Yes, exactly! This makes sense and thank you for explaining this. Indeed, people totally misinterpret this with closing your ears and singing “la-la-la”!
“Now, our pharmacy delivers our medication”.
Brandon, I don’t mean to harp on about this, but again I am jarred by a comment relating to your own personal use of LoA. May I ask why you need medications when the LoA can take care of all health issues? Please don’t tell me it’s like the vision problems and you have no desire to alter it.
CJ,
The medication is related to my blindness. I went blind at the age of 4 due to a brain tumor. The brain tumor also damaged the pituitary gland, and the pituitary gland had to be removed completely. So, I’m on several hormone replacements, to replace the hormones the pituitary gland would otherwise produce.
Excuse my frankness, but I think you’re being a bit too nitpicky with that one. Many people are on medications. Science is at a place today where someone can live completely without a pituitary gland, and still live a normal life. I think that’s pretty awesome, and a huge collective manifestation overall. If I had been born, say, a century ago, my life would have been very different.
Same goes for the blindness, actually. There are countless technologies today that make blindness almost a non-issue. I can use the computer like anyone else, I have an iPhone, which is a touch screen obviously and yet can use that, I can cook, and many other things.
Do you see it a personal failure when you have a headache and can’t just “LOA” it away, but have to take medicine for it? I see it as a success, because you have the option to take a pill for it, thanks to science being as it is today.
One day, you will also die. Will you see this as a failure of the LOA?
Having the law of attraction doesn’t mean that doctors are superfluous. They are part of the Universal flow, too, as are the medicines that are available to us.
CJ,
Are you upsat about something? You seem stuck on finding fault with Brandon.
He is human, like the redt of us. He is subject to physical limitations you don’t or can’t understand, nor, it seems, do you want to.
The Universe and LOA are tools to live by and with. They aren’t a cure all. Again, something that works for you may not work for Brandon or anyone else. Your Universal resonance is different.
“To each his own” applies here. Please ne honest with yourself and look to why this upsets you so much.
Brenda, you say “They aren’t a cure all”.
Well that’s what I’m here to find out. It’s extremely unlikely that universal LoA decides when to operate and when not to. It’s just as unlikely that it switches on for some and not for others. Possible, but unlikely. Everything I’ve read indicates that it is mechanical and non-judgmental.
Am I upset about something? Yes – inconsistent blogging! It makes me very uneasy to read “it works for everything” in one breath and then “no cure all” in the next.
Either it’s real or it’s not. Either it’s powerful or it’s not. It can’t be “a tiny bit powerful” or “sometimes powerful”. That’s like saying there’s a God in the sky who decides whom he likes and whom he doesn’t and grants boons. That style of thinking went out centuries ago.
CJ,
But it seems to me you are looking for proof. Like someone wanting to see God physically to prove He exists. Inconsistent blogging. I don’t understand that.
Again, your Universal path is different than Brandon’s or mine. But, it seems you want Brandon to admit something he doesn’t feel. LOA is working for him at his level.
Who’s to say, at the end of his journey, they don’t find a “cure” for his physical body.
You are forgetting one great truth: We are a soul with a body, not a body with a soul. It is our SOUL journey that’s important, not necessarily our body’s journey. That’s just a “bonus” that we are healed physically.
I promise I’m not trolling – let’s make this about me instead. This is important.
You ask “Do you see it a personal failure when you have a headache and can’t just “LOA” it away, but have to take medicine for it?”
Two possibilities:
1– LoA is real and applies to everything. So its a personal failure if I have not applied the technique correctly.
2– LoA is not real and/or cannot be applied to everything. LoA is wishful thinking. I’ve not failed at anything. The universe does not respond to our vibration.
1 and 2 cannot both be true. It’s one or the other. It’s powerful or it’s not. I’m a scientist and as already explained I’m very careful to investigate what’s true (beyond my own personal wishes and biases).
CJ,
But, you’re missing what the LOA actually is.
LOA is not the ability to make everything happen by your mind alone.
If you’re writing a book, and LOA exists, then you should be able to generate the completed book out of thin air, with the power of your mind alone, right?
Or if you want to make money, then you should be able to sit at home and just let the balance in your bank account increase magically, right?
Or if you want dinner, then all the food should be prepared, cooked, and in front of you with no effort, correct?
The LOA isn’t a magic wand to create things out of thin air.
It is the principle that outer reality is a reflection of inner reality.
If you have abundance on the inside, you’ll have it on the outside.
But, it’ll come through some means. Work, self-employment, lottery wins, inheritances, whatever. It won’t just rain out of the sky.
If you want to manifest a relationship, you can’t just sit at home and expect your partner to show up at your door.
This site is called Co-Creation Coaching, because it is a partnership between you and the Universe.
so is it less magical that you have a pill that can get rid of a headache, than if you can just say an affirmation and make it go away?
No, it’s not.
It’s like that classic story of the guy on the roof during a flood. He thought, “I’ll just pray to God, and God will save me from the flood.”
So pretty soon, a boat comes by. And the person in the boat tries to save this guy. But he says, “No, God will save me.”
Pretty soon, another boat comes along, and he responds the same way.
Eventually a helicopter comes, and they try to rescue him from the roof. But, one last time, he says, “No, God will save me.”
Well finally he dies, and asks God, “I prayed to you. Why didn’t you save me?”
And God says, “I sent you two boats and a helicopter. What else did you want?”
The story is paraphrased, but hopefully you get the point.
LOA not being a cure all were Brenda’s words, not mine. I would not use these words. LOA is always in operation.
But, that doesn’t mean that you live inside your head all day and manipulate reality indirectly. You want $10,000, so $10,000 just appears in your bank account. That’s not how it works.
You want $10,000, so you intend for that goal, and the Universe brings you opportunities that would bring you to that end. Promotions at work, gifts, lottery wins, other windfalls, etc. The Universe organized all the details to make that happen.
I manifested an Apple TV. Well, it’s nearly a complete manifestation, anyway. Now, because someone is buying that Apple TV for me, does that mean it wasn’t the Universe? Should the Apple TV have just appeared in my living room?
I hope you see the point I am making.
Medicine is just another tool of the Universe. It’s not a failure of the LOA if someone takes medicine. It’s not possible for the LOA to fail, anyway.
If this still has not clarified things, feel free to let me know and I’m happy to clarify further.
Thanks again for the explanations.
I struggle with the exact nature of this law and why my actions are required. Maybe I’m that ‘guy on the roof’. Or maybe my struggle is in trust versus self-deception. I’ll give it all another read tonight. Cheers.
No problem at all.
I understand how it is. I was skeptical of the law of attraction, or really anything spiritual, for a long time.
But as I’ve said, I proved it to myself to my own satisfaction. I’ve manifested countless things in my life. I know that there’s more to the Universe than meets the eye.
The blog post tomorrow is going to go a lot deeper into your initial question, about healing and such.
I’ll say this, though. Can you imagine the boredom of living in a universe where no action was taken? Why even have a physical body, then? Why even eat food if I can just give my body all the nutrients it needs by desiring it?
We’re in this world to experience. I believe the Universe, God, Brahman, or whatever you want to call it, divided itself into these billions of parts in order to experience itself.
Right now, action might seem like a bad thing to you. But imagine if your relationship was great, you had a job you loved, all the money you needed to buy the things you wanted, and great health on top of it all.
You wouldn’t mind taking the actions to keep those things up. In fact, those actions would be highly enjoyable.
So, I’m just suggesting that there’s a lot more to the law of attraction than you are imagining.
You missed the teleclass yesterday, but in it, I said there are basically two stages of the law of attraction.
In the first one, people just want to fix their problems.
Soon, they realize the LOA isn’t about fixing problems, and then they actually get into the true LOA.
It sounds like you’re in stage 1 now. You’re trying to fix problems, and wondering why all the problems of the world aren’t fixed.
The LOA isn’t about fixing problems. The Universe doesn’t even believe in problems.
To the Universe, my blindness is perfect. To the Universe, a person without legs is perfect. To the Universe, a poor person is perfect.
It’s our intentions that drive the Universal flow. If the “poor” person wants more money, that intention will be respected, as long as it is done from the level of true Self, not from the level of ego.
If the blind person wants to see, that intention will be respected, as long as it is from Self, not ego.
I’ve even heard about limbs growing back, I believe, but don’t recall the source at this moment. Truly, anything is possible.
But the Universe doesn’t push these things on us. Not everyone wants to be a billionaire. Not every blind person cares if they see.
To follow up on this as well, Jerry Hicks died of cancer. While I’m not a huge fan of Abraham, I do think Esther knows how to use the law of attraction. I remember reading a book of theirs from back in 2006 or so, and Jerry said how healthy they both were, and barely ever had to see doctors.
Obviously that didn’t last, and he ended up dying of cancer. Yet, this is not a failure. It was simply the next step on his journey.
I think Kat could give more info on this one, but I know of several awakened masters who also died of cancer.
Oh, very interesting topic! Health and the LOA. I actually wanted to ask about this because I read that getting sick often with, for example, upper respiratory infections, is a sign of resistance.
I have read of masters who took on the cancers of others and cured them of it, simply from the sheer higher vibration they had, and it was their pleasure to do so. They expressed it in terms of being close to God and this made them even closer to Him. These masters were in Greece, where I lived for a while and I am translating what they said from Greek. They were praising God for all His grandness and infinity and these experiences brought them further along from where they were before.
Indeed, masters can go from heart failure and the like. My understanding is that it is simply their time to go and they transition. I have also mentioned before that I read about an Asian man who passed at the age of 175, when he was done with all he came to do here.
Very interesting, Kat. Yes, I’ve heard of masters transmuting the sicknesses of others. I think that’s really cool. 🙂
I believe that Ramana Maharshi died of cancer, and I believe there are some other examples as well.
Regarding respiration being a sign of resistance, I think that any time one develops some chronic malady, it is sign of resistance. There is a book I think I’ve mentioned before that describes each bodily issue and what underlying imbalance could have caused it.
Was that Louise Hays’ book? Someone gave me a copy. I’ll check it out.
It is all a matter of how we view things, isn’t it? If we see life as a thorn, that is what we’ll get. If we see life as a dewdrop on a rose petal, that is what we’ll get. Sandguru gave this example in one of his talks. He also said that, although he learned nothing in college, he always managed to have money in his pocket from various projects he would take on, originally not knowing how, but learning along the way. Don’t they say, “take on the work and work through the details later”? Well, here’s the example to that. I guess what he is saying is that he always had faith and never cared about the how, and he was always taken care of.
Maybe we are way too focused, even obsessed with the “how” and we shouldn’t be?
Yep, that’s the one. 🙂
And yeah it’s all in how you see it. I was talking about NLP metaphors last Tuesday, and that’s where it comes in. How you see life, is how life will treat you.
And also, that’s exactly how I was in college. I always had more than enough money, and the Universe always took care of me (still does, obviously). So I can relate wonderfully to that. As I keep saying, only the ego asks how. The Self just knows to trust and flow with the Universe. 🙂
“Now, our pharmacy delivers our medication”.
Brandon, I don’t mean to harp on about this, but again I am jarred by a comment relating to your own personal use of LoA. May I ask why you need medications when the LoA can take care of all health issues? Please don’t tell me it’s like the vision problems and you have no desire to alter it.
CJ,
The medication is related to my blindness. I went blind at the age of 4 due to a brain tumor. The brain tumor also damaged the pituitary gland, and the pituitary gland had to be removed completely. So, I’m on several hormone replacements, to replace the hormones the pituitary gland would otherwise produce.
Excuse my frankness, but I think you’re being a bit too nitpicky with that one. Many people are on medications. Science is at a place today where someone can live completely without a pituitary gland, and still live a normal life. I think that’s pretty awesome, and a huge collective manifestation overall. If I had been born, say, a century ago, my life would have been very different.
Same goes for the blindness, actually. There are countless technologies today that make blindness almost a non-issue. I can use the computer like anyone else, I have an iPhone, which is a touch screen obviously and yet can use that, I can cook, and many other things.
Do you see it a personal failure when you have a headache and can’t just “LOA” it away, but have to take medicine for it? I see it as a success, because you have the option to take a pill for it, thanks to science being as it is today.
One day, you will also die. Will you see this as a failure of the LOA?
Having the law of attraction doesn’t mean that doctors are superfluous. They are part of the Universal flow, too, as are the medicines that are available to us.
CJ,
Are you upsat about something? You seem stuck on finding fault with Brandon.
He is human, like the redt of us. He is subject to physical limitations you don’t or can’t understand, nor, it seems, do you want to.
The Universe and LOA are tools to live by and with. They aren’t a cure all. Again, something that works for you may not work for Brandon or anyone else. Your Universal resonance is different.
“To each his own” applies here. Please ne honest with yourself and look to why this upsets you so much.
Brenda, you say “They aren’t a cure all”.
Well that’s what I’m here to find out. It’s extremely unlikely that universal LoA decides when to operate and when not to. It’s just as unlikely that it switches on for some and not for others. Possible, but unlikely. Everything I’ve read indicates that it is mechanical and non-judgmental.
Am I upset about something? Yes – inconsistent blogging! It makes me very uneasy to read “it works for everything” in one breath and then “no cure all” in the next.
Either it’s real or it’s not. Either it’s powerful or it’s not. It can’t be “a tiny bit powerful” or “sometimes powerful”. That’s like saying there’s a God in the sky who decides whom he likes and whom he doesn’t and grants boons. That style of thinking went out centuries ago.
CJ,
But it seems to me you are looking for proof. Like someone wanting to see God physically to prove He exists. Inconsistent blogging. I don’t understand that.
Again, your Universal path is different than Brandon’s or mine. But, it seems you want Brandon to admit something he doesn’t feel. LOA is working for him at his level.
Who’s to say, at the end of his journey, they don’t find a “cure” for his physical body.
You are forgetting one great truth: We are a soul with a body, not a body with a soul. It is our SOUL journey that’s important, not necessarily our body’s journey. That’s just a “bonus” that we are healed physically.
I promise I’m not trolling – let’s make this about me instead. This is important.
You ask “Do you see it a personal failure when you have a headache and can’t just “LOA” it away, but have to take medicine for it?”
Two possibilities:
1– LoA is real and applies to everything. So its a personal failure if I have not applied the technique correctly.
2– LoA is not real and/or cannot be applied to everything. LoA is wishful thinking. I’ve not failed at anything. The universe does not respond to our vibration.
1 and 2 cannot both be true. It’s one or the other. It’s powerful or it’s not. I’m a scientist and as already explained I’m very careful to investigate what’s true (beyond my own personal wishes and biases).
CJ,
But, you’re missing what the LOA actually is.
LOA is not the ability to make everything happen by your mind alone.
If you’re writing a book, and LOA exists, then you should be able to generate the completed book out of thin air, with the power of your mind alone, right?
Or if you want to make money, then you should be able to sit at home and just let the balance in your bank account increase magically, right?
Or if you want dinner, then all the food should be prepared, cooked, and in front of you with no effort, correct?
The LOA isn’t a magic wand to create things out of thin air.
It is the principle that outer reality is a reflection of inner reality.
If you have abundance on the inside, you’ll have it on the outside.
But, it’ll come through some means. Work, self-employment, lottery wins, inheritances, whatever. It won’t just rain out of the sky.
If you want to manifest a relationship, you can’t just sit at home and expect your partner to show up at your door.
This site is called Co-Creation Coaching, because it is a partnership between you and the Universe.
so is it less magical that you have a pill that can get rid of a headache, than if you can just say an affirmation and make it go away?
No, it’s not.
It’s like that classic story of the guy on the roof during a flood. He thought, “I’ll just pray to God, and God will save me from the flood.”
So pretty soon, a boat comes by. And the person in the boat tries to save this guy. But he says, “No, God will save me.”
Pretty soon, another boat comes along, and he responds the same way.
Eventually a helicopter comes, and they try to rescue him from the roof. But, one last time, he says, “No, God will save me.”
Well finally he dies, and asks God, “I prayed to you. Why didn’t you save me?”
And God says, “I sent you two boats and a helicopter. What else did you want?”
The story is paraphrased, but hopefully you get the point.
LOA not being a cure all were Brenda’s words, not mine. I would not use these words. LOA is always in operation.
But, that doesn’t mean that you live inside your head all day and manipulate reality indirectly. You want $10,000, so $10,000 just appears in your bank account. That’s not how it works.
You want $10,000, so you intend for that goal, and the Universe brings you opportunities that would bring you to that end. Promotions at work, gifts, lottery wins, other windfalls, etc. The Universe organized all the details to make that happen.
I manifested an Apple TV. Well, it’s nearly a complete manifestation, anyway. Now, because someone is buying that Apple TV for me, does that mean it wasn’t the Universe? Should the Apple TV have just appeared in my living room?
I hope you see the point I am making.
Medicine is just another tool of the Universe. It’s not a failure of the LOA if someone takes medicine. It’s not possible for the LOA to fail, anyway.
If this still has not clarified things, feel free to let me know and I’m happy to clarify further.
Thanks again for the explanations.
I struggle with the exact nature of this law and why my actions are required. Maybe I’m that ‘guy on the roof’. Or maybe my struggle is in trust versus self-deception. I’ll give it all another read tonight. Cheers.
No problem at all.
I understand how it is. I was skeptical of the law of attraction, or really anything spiritual, for a long time.
But as I’ve said, I proved it to myself to my own satisfaction. I’ve manifested countless things in my life. I know that there’s more to the Universe than meets the eye.
The blog post tomorrow is going to go a lot deeper into your initial question, about healing and such.
I’ll say this, though. Can you imagine the boredom of living in a universe where no action was taken? Why even have a physical body, then? Why even eat food if I can just give my body all the nutrients it needs by desiring it?
We’re in this world to experience. I believe the Universe, God, Brahman, or whatever you want to call it, divided itself into these billions of parts in order to experience itself.
Right now, action might seem like a bad thing to you. But imagine if your relationship was great, you had a job you loved, all the money you needed to buy the things you wanted, and great health on top of it all.
You wouldn’t mind taking the actions to keep those things up. In fact, those actions would be highly enjoyable.
So, I’m just suggesting that there’s a lot more to the law of attraction than you are imagining.
You missed the teleclass yesterday, but in it, I said there are basically two stages of the law of attraction.
In the first one, people just want to fix their problems.
Soon, they realize the LOA isn’t about fixing problems, and then they actually get into the true LOA.
It sounds like you’re in stage 1 now. You’re trying to fix problems, and wondering why all the problems of the world aren’t fixed.
The LOA isn’t about fixing problems. The Universe doesn’t even believe in problems.
To the Universe, my blindness is perfect. To the Universe, a person without legs is perfect. To the Universe, a poor person is perfect.
It’s our intentions that drive the Universal flow. If the “poor” person wants more money, that intention will be respected, as long as it is done from the level of true Self, not from the level of ego.
If the blind person wants to see, that intention will be respected, as long as it is from Self, not ego.
I’ve even heard about limbs growing back, I believe, but don’t recall the source at this moment. Truly, anything is possible.
But the Universe doesn’t push these things on us. Not everyone wants to be a billionaire. Not every blind person cares if they see.
To follow up on this as well, Jerry Hicks died of cancer. While I’m not a huge fan of Abraham, I do think Esther knows how to use the law of attraction. I remember reading a book of theirs from back in 2006 or so, and Jerry said how healthy they both were, and barely ever had to see doctors.
Obviously that didn’t last, and he ended up dying of cancer. Yet, this is not a failure. It was simply the next step on his journey.
I think Kat could give more info on this one, but I know of several awakened masters who also died of cancer.
Oh, very interesting topic! Health and the LOA. I actually wanted to ask about this because I read that getting sick often with, for example, upper respiratory infections, is a sign of resistance.
I have read of masters who took on the cancers of others and cured them of it, simply from the sheer higher vibration they had, and it was their pleasure to do so. They expressed it in terms of being close to God and this made them even closer to Him. These masters were in Greece, where I lived for a while and I am translating what they said from Greek. They were praising God for all His grandness and infinity and these experiences brought them further along from where they were before.
Indeed, masters can go from heart failure and the like. My understanding is that it is simply their time to go and they transition. I have also mentioned before that I read about an Asian man who passed at the age of 175, when he was done with all he came to do here.
Very interesting, Kat. Yes, I’ve heard of masters transmuting the sicknesses of others. I think that’s really cool. 🙂
I believe that Ramana Maharshi died of cancer, and I believe there are some other examples as well.
Regarding respiration being a sign of resistance, I think that any time one develops some chronic malady, it is sign of resistance. There is a book I think I’ve mentioned before that describes each bodily issue and what underlying imbalance could have caused it.
Was that Louise Hays’ book? Someone gave me a copy. I’ll check it out.
It is all a matter of how we view things, isn’t it? If we see life as a thorn, that is what we’ll get. If we see life as a dewdrop on a rose petal, that is what we’ll get. Sandguru gave this example in one of his talks. He also said that, although he learned nothing in college, he always managed to have money in his pocket from various projects he would take on, originally not knowing how, but learning along the way. Don’t they say, “take on the work and work through the details later”? Well, here’s the example to that. I guess what he is saying is that he always had faith and never cared about the how, and he was always taken care of.
Maybe we are way too focused, even obsessed with the “how” and we shouldn’t be?
Yep, that’s the one. 🙂
And yeah it’s all in how you see it. I was talking about NLP metaphors last Tuesday, and that’s where it comes in. How you see life, is how life will treat you.
And also, that’s exactly how I was in college. I always had more than enough money, and the Universe always took care of me (still does, obviously). So I can relate wonderfully to that. As I keep saying, only the ego asks how. The Self just knows to trust and flow with the Universe. 🙂
Brandon,
Doesn’t Source energy create out of thin air? We’re the elements all there before the creation of the Universe or were they made to appear after the process was begun?
To me, there is abundance. I don’t believe in lack of anything. Of course we must respect our home planet and not damage it but the fact is the earth has been around longer than we have and will continue to do so way after. It can totally sustain us, you know? But people seem to think that things will run out. As long as the sun shines, this may not be true.
Also, people do manifest miracles all the time. A friend of ours just had a baby at 48 years of age naturally. She doesn’t look 48, mind you. She gave birth 4 years ago but it passed away in crib death. And then it came back! Yes, I believe it’s the same soul and they are meant to be together. Anyway, she did not do ivf because she doesn’t believe in that, which is fine. Ivf also does not work most of the time. So, medicine does not have all the answers, but does help a lot, obviously. What I’m saying is that, if the intention is pure and clear, then it whatever it is will appear. It may have been an intention from a long time ago and not yesterday. Source energy never forgets, after all. The timing is up to it and us, as it’s a co- creation, as you’ve said.
I think in the higher yugas, as I understand it, not only is there telepathy and speech is not even necessary, but when something is needed, it manifests quickly, there is not time period to wait. Maybe in this yuga, right after Kali, we are still dealing with the time lag.
I can continue this in the forums section if need be.
Hey Kat,
Great comment. 🙂
Does the Universe create out of nothing?
That’s a complicated one, and as you say, may be better for the forums. I’ll give a “brief” (I’m never brief, but relatively so anyway) explanation here, and we’ll go on from there.
This world rests in consciousness. It is all Universal energy. It was never really created, because it’s just a perception of mind. This body, this computer, this house I’m in, etc, is all really resting in consciousness.
It is the ego that shapes the world into a consistent whole. But, the world is just in our own awareness.
So “creation” is a misnomer. It’s more reflection. It’s reflected energy, as a hologram.
In truth, it’s driven by nothing at all. There are no little “I”’s driving this thing. But that’s a higher truth I do not refer to often.
The world is prakṛti, or māyā. It is illusory. It has no material, physical existence, only the appearance of such. It’s a wonderful holographic reality, though. 🙂 A great program.
Yes, there are definitely miracles. Miraculous healings happen, things have appeared out of thin air, etc.
But the point is, these things aren’t necessarily the way it must happen. As I said to CJ above, it’d get quite boring if you never took action. You’re in a physical body for a reason.
As I’ve said before, I withhold my opinion on the yugas. I have no proof for or against them either way, and I don’t like to take the word of others.
But I will tell you this much at least:
Manifestation gets much faster the more you open up to the Universal flow. In the beginning, it might take a while, because you have so much resistance to release.
But eventually, it can happen near instantly. That buffer of time gets smaller and smaller, until it is negligible.
It’s as slow as it needs to be. For the average person, if every thought manifested on the spot, things would be quite overwhelming.
Once you have a quieter, more controlled mind, things can get faster without it feeling so overwhelming. The Universe knows perfectly how long that buffer needs to be.
God bless you Brandon. You are great.
Thanks, Rhea. 🙂 I appreciate your comments.
God bless you Brandon. You are great.
Thanks, Rhea. 🙂 I appreciate your comments.
I think I know where CJ is coming from. On some level, medication seems like something we use because we are not aware of LOA and can’t use it consciously. However, once we learn about LOA, we should be able to cure the symptoms exclusively by releasing resistance, and not taking medication. Medication seems disconnected from LOA power. Getting financial help through a well established channel, like from parents, seems disconnected from LOA power. After all, with LOA, we should be able to get abundance in some unexpected way, right?
I mean, I guess these are the thoughts that newcomers to LOA believe. I was there. Thanks to you and other teachers, I’ve realized that medication is in the same spectrum as releasing resistance and getting cured. I’ve realized that getting money in an unexpected and cool way is in the same spectrum as getting it from parents, or paycheck. With this realization, at first there is disappointment, and LOA can seem like scam. Like, hey first you told me everything’s possible, and now you’re telling me to accept the already established, conventional ways as part of conscious creation, too? It’s kind of in range with wanting to witness miracles, yet miracles are happening all the time around us, like with technology being explosively fast-developing, or the example that Kat mentioned above. These examples don’t seem like to much of a stretch to what we are used to, so they don’t seem all that LOA miraculous. However if were show a person from 100 years ago the today’s world, they would certainly be able to perceive it as miraculous.
Hi Z,
Yeah I agree. I know where he’s coming from, too. But, LOA isn’t about miracles. Actually, a lot of times when your manifestation comes, the ego will be tempted to believe it was nothing at all, and would have happened anyway. It usually happens in such a simple, predictable way.
The reason is that the Universe has to bring it in a way that is in alignment with your own subconscious expectations. If you really had a subconscious belief that money could materialize out of thin air, then it likely could. But, you place certain restrictions on it, like it has to come through a job, or through your parents, or some other means. So, it takes the path of least resistance to bring that money to you.
Same with headaches. Most people find it hard to believe they can just set an intention and their headache goes away. It’s much more within the realm of belief to take a pill and it goes away.
Ever notice that sometimes, the headache seems to go almost immediately after taking the pill? Scientifically, the pill couldn’t have possibly taken effect yet, but just the action of taking the medicine seems to convince our mind that our headache can now go away. This is magic at work, but we ignore it.
So, nothing can ever happen that you don’t on some level expect to happen. Miracles can only occur when you expect miracles, but then when that happens, they don’t seem quite so miraculous, do they?
Everyone needs to understand that the law of attraction is part of life. You aren’t just starting to use it now, but you’ve been using it your whole life. It’s not a law of miracles, but simply a law of creation through the easiest means possible.
Yeah, this thing you mentioned about ego is very true. In the past several days there have been certain smaller manifestations for me, and the ego definitely wanted to pronounce it as nothing special, or as a coincidence. However I acknowledged it for what it were and felt grateful.
A good example of that is this: Several days ago I was wearing long shirt and pants because it was cold outside. It was also raining. The days had been of characteristic autumn flavor. I love rain and colder weather because it can feel peaceful and mysterious. So, I had no real resistance to it. Since the idea of parallel realities seems interesting, I decided to try something. I got into the feeling of the weather being hot like summer, me wearing short shirt and short pants, without socks. I didn’t care much about whether it actually happened, because I wasn’t really resistant to the weather at the time. And now, several days later, it’s hot, and I’m wearing summer clothes. I wasn’t checking the weather forecast, so I didn’t know what weather to expect, but the ego is saying that this is nothing special, the weather was probably gonna change like this anyway. However, I choose to believe that I have deliberately shifted into another reality, with hotter weather. 😛
That manifestation sounds awesome, and fun. 🙂 Yeah the ego will try to say it’s nothing, but you have to just ignore that and claim it as the success it is. 🙂
I think I know where CJ is coming from. On some level, medication seems like something we use because we are not aware of LOA and can’t use it consciously. However, once we learn about LOA, we should be able to cure the symptoms exclusively by releasing resistance, and not taking medication. Medication seems disconnected from LOA power. Getting financial help through a well established channel, like from parents, seems disconnected from LOA power. After all, with LOA, we should be able to get abundance in some unexpected way, right?
I mean, I guess these are the thoughts that newcomers to LOA believe. I was there. Thanks to you and other teachers, I’ve realized that medication is in the same spectrum as releasing resistance and getting cured. I’ve realized that getting money in an unexpected and cool way is in the same spectrum as getting it from parents, or paycheck. With this realization, at first there is disappointment, and LOA can seem like scam. Like, hey first you told me everything’s possible, and now you’re telling me to accept the already established, conventional ways as part of conscious creation, too? It’s kind of in range with wanting to witness miracles, yet miracles are happening all the time around us, like with technology being explosively fast-developing, or the example that Kat mentioned above. These examples don’t seem like to much of a stretch to what we are used to, so they don’t seem all that LOA miraculous. However if were show a person from 100 years ago the today’s world, they would certainly be able to perceive it as miraculous.
Hi Z,
Yeah I agree. I know where he’s coming from, too. But, LOA isn’t about miracles. Actually, a lot of times when your manifestation comes, the ego will be tempted to believe it was nothing at all, and would have happened anyway. It usually happens in such a simple, predictable way.
The reason is that the Universe has to bring it in a way that is in alignment with your own subconscious expectations. If you really had a subconscious belief that money could materialize out of thin air, then it likely could. But, you place certain restrictions on it, like it has to come through a job, or through your parents, or some other means. So, it takes the path of least resistance to bring that money to you.
Same with headaches. Most people find it hard to believe they can just set an intention and their headache goes away. It’s much more within the realm of belief to take a pill and it goes away.
Ever notice that sometimes, the headache seems to go almost immediately after taking the pill? Scientifically, the pill couldn’t have possibly taken effect yet, but just the action of taking the medicine seems to convince our mind that our headache can now go away. This is magic at work, but we ignore it.
So, nothing can ever happen that you don’t on some level expect to happen. Miracles can only occur when you expect miracles, but then when that happens, they don’t seem quite so miraculous, do they?
Everyone needs to understand that the law of attraction is part of life. You aren’t just starting to use it now, but you’ve been using it your whole life. It’s not a law of miracles, but simply a law of creation through the easiest means possible.
Yeah, this thing you mentioned about ego is very true. In the past several days there have been certain smaller manifestations for me, and the ego definitely wanted to pronounce it as nothing special, or as a coincidence. However I acknowledged it for what it were and felt grateful.
A good example of that is this: Several days ago I was wearing long shirt and pants because it was cold outside. It was also raining. The days had been of characteristic autumn flavor. I love rain and colder weather because it can feel peaceful and mysterious. So, I had no real resistance to it. Since the idea of parallel realities seems interesting, I decided to try something. I got into the feeling of the weather being hot like summer, me wearing short shirt and short pants, without socks. I didn’t care much about whether it actually happened, because I wasn’t really resistant to the weather at the time. And now, several days later, it’s hot, and I’m wearing summer clothes. I wasn’t checking the weather forecast, so I didn’t know what weather to expect, but the ego is saying that this is nothing special, the weather was probably gonna change like this anyway. However, I choose to believe that I have deliberately shifted into another reality, with hotter weather. 😛
That manifestation sounds awesome, and fun. 🙂 Yeah the ego will try to say it’s nothing, but you have to just ignore that and claim it as the success it is. 🙂
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Hi there! This is my first visit to your blog! We are
a team of volunteers and starting a new initiative in a community in the same niche.
Your blog provided us valuable information to work on. You have done
a wonderful job!
Thank you. I appreciate that. 🙂