I’ve been thinking a lot lately about manifestation and the law of attraction – or more specifically, how to get better at it. I know it works because I’ve seen it happen for myself and others – but mostly with more mundane stuff. Maybe I’d mention wanting something inconsequential in passing, and it would show up unexpectedly within a day or so. Or I’d intentionally try to manifest something like a parking place, just to see if I could, and it would happen. But what about “bigger” things? Why does it seem harder to manifest things we actually need when we’re deliberately intending to?

As soon as I really started focusing on this, I apparently managed to manifest a conversation I needed to have. A friend was telling me about how she had come into a great opportunity – without trying, without intending to, without even feeling all that great at the time that it appeared. At that point I felt like something was trying to tell me something, but the details hadn’t fully translated themselves into English in my brain yet. Shortly after, I was to fly back to the UK. I used the 14+ hour grueling ordeal block of free time to do some reading on the LOA via two books I highly recommend – Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires by Jerry and Esther Hicks, as well as The Writings of Florence Scovel Shinn, which is a compilation of her books The Game of Life and How to Play It, Your Word Is Your Wand, Power of the Spoken Word, and Secret Door to Success. All of these are great books with a lot of powerful insights on the subject, but the one I really needed to see right now was on non-resistance and “the law of detachment.”

The law of detachment states that in order to manifest our desires, we have to remain emotionally detached from the outcome.

Finally the missing piece clicked for me – almost all the best events and opportunities in my life have come when I wasn’t specifically looking for them! Friendships, relationships, ideas, financial blessings and opportunities – have always seemed to come in a way that reflected this same principle. None of my planning, scheming, micromanaging, (and especially) worrying on what I wanted usually had mixed results at best and was completely ineffective at worst. That’s not to say one shouldn’t make plans and then carry them out – this is important too.

But what’s really crucial is the understanding that you aren’t the one responsible for the outcome.

When we ask for something or work toward a goal, worrying all the while about the outcome at the end of our efforts, we are of two minds. We’re simultaneously focused on what we want, and what we don’t want, and so we send out mixed intentions that cancel each other out. The key is that after you set and clearly state your intention, and do whatever practical tasks are needed, or what intuition inspires you to do toward your goal… release it with the understanding that the best possible outcome for you will be taken care of by God, the universe, The Force™ or your higher power of choice. The universe has infinite methods and resources at its disposal; it loves surprises, and we can’t see all ends, so what comes out will probably be even better than anything you could’ve planned – if you can resist the urge to create resistance, and let it.

–Palehorse

Note: right now I’m heavily focused on the issue of how to get rid of anxiety and worry when trying to manifest “big” things; needing a “miracle” to meet a deadline and so forth. My intention is to have a practical method for doing this soon. If you already have a method that works for you, feel free to comment and share, and I’ll feature it in that upcoming post.

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