Desire.

Esther and Jerry Hick’s book ‘Ask and it is given, learning to manifest your desires’ makes significant points about desires and anticipation.

If you want something they say; “desire and anticipate it with real feelings of joy and make sure you do not come from a feeling of lack.”

As it seemed an important ingredient to manifesting, I took my time to get my head around that one as it sounded pretty contradictory to me.

Most of the time we desire something that is not in our lives right now, right?

Money, time, relationships or having a porsche.

So lack is related to what we want, is it not?

But the book says stop yearning, stop being painfully aware about what you don’t have.

They tell us to get on with our life, and while we live our life be relaxed, accepting that we don’t have what we desire right now and to come from a place that everything is perfect right now.
And from that relaxed place anticipate the manifestation of our desires with the wonderful feelings of joy, excited anticipation.

And that was the clue for me. Now I know why I don’t manifest that easily. It is about desire and anticipation.

I have forgotten what hard out anticipating desires feels like. I hardly anticipate anymore.

I worry, I google, I plan, I organise, get frustrated and I get too tired to feel anything and I end up in a place of yearning.

I had to dig deep to get access to those feelings of excitement again. But I got one.

When I was still confined in a job I anticipated one desire all right; holidays of course.
The last week at work before the holidays was bliss. Nothing mattered as long as the clock ticked on.
In the NOW, my job didn’t change; anticipating my desire was the drug to make me feel wonderful and manifest great times.

Is this what they mean? Grabbing that holiday feeling and transferring that to all my desires?

Any other examples about desires, anticipation and manifesting out there?

The devil we know?!

Sometimes certain expressions all of a sudden hit you. Mine was this one: ‘better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.’

Where does that come from?

Anticipation versus dread, holiday or navy bootcamp again?

My first camping experiences were in France and Italy. Blazing sun, warm seas and lovely foreign food eaten on balmy nights.So, sure I come camping in NZ, who wouldn’t with those memories.Well those memories got well and truly replaced.

Learning

One of the classes on the Leverage & You course touches on learning. I know that there has been a time that I wasn’t that open to learning. My opinion was that I knew it all and I was actually quite resigned and life was not that exciting.