Hi Angelika,
I have a question. I’m wondering how we know or manage our life around God’s plan for us or God’s divine timing. We can do all of this work to align our desires and subconscious beliefs but what if what we desire is not part of God’s plan now or ever? I think the answer may have something to do with living in the moment and accepting where we are now. If we do that each day then I guess we never really need to be so concerned about the future?
Beth
Dear Beth,
Personally I believe the separation between us and God is an artificial one; it is an illusion. God or Life Force flows through us, expresses itself through us and as us. We are God.
So really you are asking, what if we have cleared out all subconscious blocks and limiting beliefs, we have really visualized and felt the future we are moving towards but our desires don’t manifest in the time or way our conscious Ego is expecting?
I believe there is a higher plan and a perfect time and way for everything. Part of creating consciously is to let go of all expectations. We need to set clear intentions, send out clear signals about what we want and then let go of how our desires are supposed to manifest.
In the Science of Mind tradition* praying and manifesting through affirmative prayer has five parts:
- RECOGNITION that God/Life Force/the Universe/Spirit is all there is
- UNIFICATION with God; acknowledging that we are not separate from God but part of God/Life Force/the Universe/Spirit
- DECLARATION (not begging for but stating the desire clearly) or REALIZATION (feeling what it feels like to have it)
- GRATITUDE (already feeling the gratitude for everything that you will receive as if you have already received it)
- RELEASE (truly letting it go and surrendering to the how and when of the manifestation)
It is not enough to visualize, we also often need to come up with actions step to manifest our dreams. The perfect partner, the perfect job or perfect health will not just fall from the sky right into our lap. However, if we cannot really feel what we want, our creations will be less successful. Step 3 as well as 4 require us to go into the feeling space of what it is we desire. How does it feel to have love in your life, or abundance or success?
Take the time to line up the Energy first,
and action becomes inconsequential.
If you don’t take the time to line up the Energy,
if you don’t find the feeling place of what you’re looking for,
not enough action in the world will make any difference.
– Abraham
The letting go part (step 5) is an important element of manifesting as well. When you send off a letter, you put it in the mail box and trust that it will get delivered and it will be answered, don’t you? Not trusting that God or the Universe will hear you or respond, is as if you are opening the mail box to check over and over again if the letter has really been sent.
You are also absolutely right that “living in the moment and accepting where we are now” is part of the process. I would add to “accepting” “and loving what is”. We need to start living in this moment in time what we want to create. If we want respect, we need to make sure we are respecting ourselves and others. If we want more abundance, the fastest way to get it is to focus on all the abundance we already have. If we want love, we need to love ourselves and be loving with others. Be love and you can’t help but attract it. Feel abundant, happy, healthy and so on and you will create more of it.
Sometimes we want something but our higher self has a different plan for us. A typical and a bit overused example is when we want to win the lottery. Is it really the million dollar win which we want, or is it rather the feeling such an abundance of money would give us? Maybe it’s a feeling of freedom or opportunities? Maybe we want to stop worrying about money or be able to help others?
Is there another way besides winning a million dollars to give us what we really want? Maybe the learning is to stop worrying about money and to help others with the time and talents we have? Can we start feeling abundant and free and create opportunities independent of money?
Life is not about how things happen but about living to our fullest potential. I do believe the benevolent force we call God wants the best for us now and always. So the trick is to relax into knowing that life just wants to be lived and that we will get what is best in the time and in the way which is best for us. We need to just continue creating as consciously as possible.
Angelika
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*Science of Mind was established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) and is a spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical religious movement within the New Thought movement.
I agree with the answer, we still have freedom to choose our paths.
thank you..
you give me a little console..