Have you ever felt like you are banging your head against the wall, trying to achieve your goals? Setting very large goals and attempting to accomplish everything yourself is one sure way to get overwhelmed fast. No matter how confident you are at the outset, you will lose steam quickly when you begin encountering obstacles at every turn.

One good way to turn this around is to ask the universe to work in partnership with you. By asking for help and believing that help will be provided, you ease the sense of pressure you would otherwise feel by knowing everything is resting on your shoulders. If you turn every endeavor into a joint effort, you truly can’t fail. The universe helps by sending lucrative opportunities, shortcuts and more in your direction. You do your part by taking care of what comes most naturally or easily to you.

In their popular book, “Ask and It is Given” Jerry and Esther Hicks describe an exercise called a “Placemat Process.” This process was named such because the Hicks’ were travelling a lot for business and Esther found herself feeling overwhelmed by everything she needed to do on a daily basis. She devised a simple way to divide up her duties by asking the universe for help. While sitting in a restaurant, she took a paper placemat and flipped it to the blank back side. With a pen, she drew a single line down the center of the mat. At the top of one column, she wrote, “The Universe,” and at the top of the other, “Me.” She then proceeded to list everything she wanted the universe to take care of in the proper column, and in her own column she listed the things she would be able to handle on her own. According to Esther, this process works incredibly well for her. The universe does indeed seem to take care of the things she lists on that side of the paper, and her focus is freed up to take care of her own duties. Talk about a brilliant partnership! I

f you want to perform a similar activity for yourself, simply use a sheet of plain paper and follow the same format. Which tasks seem too overwhelming to you? Which of them seem confusing or burdensome in some way? Which do you feel you can handle without a problem? Place these tasks in their proper columns, then fold the sheet and put it away somewhere, trusting fully that it will be taken care of. If list-making isn’t your favorite activity, you might try verbalizing this process in prayer, or simply making a mental list during a visualization session. In the end, the process you use doesn’t matter. The whole point of this exercise is to move you from a position of overwhelm to more balanced and productive place so you don’t feel like it’s all up to you. When you do this on a regular basis, everything automatically seems easier. Not only do you look forward to holding up your own end of the bargain, you just never know who or what you might attract into your life by asking for help.

On Sunday 14th December 2008, I was fortunate enough to be an audience participant at The Law of Attraction seminar facilitated by Jerry & Esther Hicks.

I have been an avid reader of Jerry & Esther’s books since early 2007 when I first came across their first book, The Law of Attraction.  It was one of those moments where I was looking for answers in my life and set off to the local spiritual book store to ask “what is it that I need to read to help me?” – my eyes went straight to “The Law of Attraction”.  That book and the many Jerry & Esther books that I have read since then have had a profound affect on my life and the direction it has taken since that day.  I have experienced the law of attraction first hand and I am blown away by the power of it.  It’s all very well and good to read a book and learn from the teachings however the power is in the application and experience of what is learnt that makes all the difference.

So today I feel inspired to share today with you what I learnt on Sunday with Jerry, Esther and Abraham : )

It is natural to feel good and when we are not feeling good, that is our indicator, our signal, that we are not in alignment with who we really are – source energy!

Source energy is like a vortex of good feelings, of liquid love (as Abraham so deliciously puts it) of peace and wellbeing, joy - everything that we naturally are.  It’s when we are in alignment with those wonderful feelings that we are able to stay in that vortex and where we attract more and more good feeling situations into our lives.

However, when we stay in the feelings of negativity, doubt, fear, anxiety, hatred, anger, resentment and we could go on, when we stay in those feelings, we move away from source energy, from who we really are, from that good feeling energy vortex that feels so good when we are in it.  When we see through the eyes of source the world will become what we are wanting it to be – full of pure, positive, energy.

So how do we get to that good feeling vortex, how do we stay connected to source energy?  We stayed tuned in, tapped in and turned on!  And we do that by the powerful gift we were all given at birth – the power to FOCUS.

When we focus on things we are not wanting, we attract more of what we are not wanting.  When we focus on things we do want, we attract more of what we are wanting.

It’s that simple!  It’s not rocket science!

And how do we know when we are focusing on things we are not wanting?  Any time we feel negative emotion.  Our emotions are our most powerful indicators on showing us where we are in relation to source energy.  So when we catch ourselves feeling bad, sad, negative etc, that is our indicator that what we are thinking about is not in alignment with who we really are – that loving, wonderful, creative, liquid love source part of us.  However, we should be grateful that whatever it was that made us feel bad came along, because it gave us the opportunity to recognise what it is that we are not wanting – and so now we can choose a thought about what we ARE wanting.  And now you know!

There were many people gathered at this event, I would say around 1,000 and they all had many questions they needed answered.  For example, “Why did my daughter who was so positive die at the age of 21?” “What about all those animals who are slaughtered and killed for their meat?”, “How do I balance my life when there is so much going on?”,  “Why is it so bad to use drugs to get to higher levels of consciousness?”,  “Why do I feel so guilty that I’m not doing it right?”, ”Since I had my first child I don’t know what I’m meant to do when I grow up?”, “My friend has cancer and I don’t know how else I can help her?” and so many many more.

The answers of course varied depending on the topic however the underlying theme was this…

That we are powerful creators.  Everything that we are living is a manifestation of what we are thinking – no exception.  When we ask, it is given – everytime.  Change the thought you have about something and you change the situation.  Is death a bad thing? NO!  Because there is no such thing as death.  Life is eternal.  Death, or the experience of death is like being in the vortex all the time.  Those who are dead are not unhappy, they KNOW what it is like to be connected to source.  But why not be connected and have that experience of light and love and joy and happiness whilst we are here in our physical body?

When we are asking for things that we want, the only reason they won’t be showing up for us is because we are not moving over there to where what we are wanting is.  We are resisting it for whatever reason.  That is the only reason.  We are remember, powerful creators, we can have ANYTHING we desire, but unless we “believe” and feel that yes, we can have what we want, we will be throwing up vibrations of resistance and pushing against what we are wanting and then we wonder why it hasn’t shown up in our lives yet.

Law of Attraction responds to our requests EVERYTIME!

We are so busy looking at ‘what is’ all the time, instead of creating and thinking about what we would like to see instead.

I loved when Abraham talked about marriage and in particular “till death do us part”.  So many of us go into marriage (me included) expecting that the other person is there to make us feel good and when they disappoint us and don’t live up to that expectation, well that’s where the wheels start to fall off.  How about a new version of that vow, something like, “I like you very much, let’s see how this plays out”. My happiness is not based on what my partner does or doesn’t do.  I am responsible for my own happiness as are they for theirs.  This is the case in ANY relationship with ANYBODY in our lives.  What another does is really none of our business.  What matters most of all is how we FEEL in relation to what is happening around us.  I am responsible for how I FEEL about EVERYTHING.

I love the idea that when we are connected to source and we are in that vortex of liquid love, joy and bliss, when we are in this state and we are being who we really are – whatever is happening around us will never set us off balance.  We are in a stream of positivity and nothing anyone does or says can throw us off course.

I could go on and on and on about this wonderful subject and what I learned today but this would end up a novel and you can buy Jerry & Esther’s books for yourself.  I highly recommend it!

In closing I just want to say this – when you keep beating the drum of what is, all you will ever get is what is.  When you move to that place where the story that you are telling yourself FEELS better and it’s what you are wanting to create in your life and you are happy and full of love, you will start floating to things and lining yourself up with people and events and situations that will blow your mind…suddenly all of things that you have been wanting for years will show up in your life quicker than you can imagine and people around you will be amazed – and all you have to do is one simple thing….

FEEL GOOD ALL THE TIME

Light, love and happy manifesting to you all!

I have recently been drawn to the topic of belief after a conversation I had with my brother.  We were discussing the results we were getting in our lives and wondered what we would have to believe to get those results.

The things that we believe are so powerful in creating whatever happens around us.  Have you ever heard of the saying “If you think you can or you can’t, you’re right!”?  We tend to make generalisations about life because of what we believe. Our belief systems begin from when we are a child.

Here’s an example.  Some people believe that they are not very lovable, so they go through life attracting people to themselves who also hold the same belief, that they are unlovable.  So they go out and lock eyes with somebody across a crowded room they feel this attraction toward.  They think that feeling means “I should get to know this person” or “I have a connection with that person”.  They then get to know them and realise that who they have attracted will be incapable of loving them and then they get to be right about their belief….”see, I knew I was right, I’m not lovable”.  Seems like every person they meet doesn’t love them.  All the people that could love them they are not attracted to.  Even if someone is loving them, they will interpret it as it not being loving and they find ways of seeing other people doing things as being negative, even if it isn’t.  Finally, if they do have someone who is really loving them, they will find ways of treating them in such a way that finally the other person says “ok, forget it, I don’t love you”.

This is why it is not valuable to base what you believe on whether they are true or not because you will make whatever belief you have appear to be true.

What beliefs would give you the results you want?

Write down all the beliefs you have about who you are, and who you think people are and about how you believe the world is, or authority figures, money etc.  What you are looking for are the negative beliefs and usually when you express these, something bad is happening in your life.

Look at your results in life. They will tell you what you believe.

If you looked at someone who was really struggling financially for example, what would they have to believe in order to be really struggling financially?

What are the outcomes that I want?  How do I want to feel?  What external results do I want to create?  Happy, peaceful, successful?  Ok….what would you have to believe in order to BE that???

Go on, ask yourselves.  This will give you an incredible insight into why you are where you are.