Getting What You Want

“Heaven never helps the one who will not act” Sophocles.
(Note, the actual phrase is ‘the man’ but its all of us, so I changed it to ‘the one’, am sure Sophocles wouldn’t mind)

We all may have things that we want in life but some of us may not get what we want. There is a vast field of information out there wherein we hear or see others who are sharing with us different ways and means to get what we want – the art of manifestation. However, this is just a process and to implement a process depends on how you are going to help yourself.

The processes are out there but below I will share some information of which you may reflect upon to maybe assist you in aligning yourself so that you can bring together these processes and may you then move towards what you want.

1. Your Past – Pause for a moment, reflect on why you are asking for something. Could it be because of a past experience that then triggers say, a feeling of lack, a feeling of being insecure etc.
   
   As an example, I grew up with the person who played the role of my father who allowed me to experience the lesson of financial lack. Hence, I always wanted to manifest financial independence. I tried different processes but it never worked because I was wanting something when it was coming from a place of lack. Therefore, the way I could break it was first to act on my mind-set and my emotions. How did I feel about the situation and then having the discipline to not allow my programming of lack to resurface. I was not trying to not have that thought or feeling but rather to manage it as and when it came up.
   
   Remember : Before you want something check your past and deal with that first. You need to clear the soil you are going to plant the seeds of manifestation in.
   
   
2. Desperation – If you desperately want something, you need to be aware of the energy your desperation holds. If this desperation comes from a space of empowerment, then it is fine but truth be told desperation usually comes because of fear, insecurity, sadness etc. Again your soil is that of lack or a negative, so no matter how much you may manifest, you will not reap the result.
   
   
   Remember : Be aware of your emotions or thoughts as you are manifesting.
   
3. Be Patient – You need to be patient and this also requires you to be consistent. Consistent does not mean a continued process of wondering about your request. Consistent here means always being in that space where you feel it will happen. Most of us manifest as if we are holding a kite, we release the kite but hold on to the kite string.
   
   In my example above, due to my lessons of lack, I was never patient about what I wanted and rarely consistent. When we experience a lack, we become that lack and since we never experience abundance, no way are you going to know how to feel abundant, hence you need practice. Be patient as you practice.
   
   You practice being busy, you practice focusing on the positive of what you want, you just focus on yourself. Its not about feeling financially rich cause let’s get real, how would you know what its like being financially rich when you have never even tasted that feeling. Don’t cheat yourself. Even if you wanted a partner and you never experienced a balanced relationship – how would you even know what that feels like. So, keep yourself busy because without being patient and not being in that consistent state of balance you will then get desperate and you then need to keep realigning.
   
   
   Remember – Patience and consistency is to allow you break a cycle of lack that may prevent you from getting what you want.
   
   
4. ACTION – This last point is extremely, extremely important – if you do your manifestation processes but if you do not act on your thoughts, your emotions and if you sit on your bum-bum, nothing is going to happen. Take a moment to reflect on all the coaches or ‘spiritual teachers’ etc. they are taking some form of action and hence you need to take some kind of action. If you want to have more money, do something, do anything -just don’t sit there meditating, manifesting etc. etc. As long as we live in this dimension, we cannot run away from doing external actions.
   
   If I could quote a phrase from the Bible – ‘Ask and you will receive, Seek and you will find, Knock and it shall be open unto you.’ This is the key to manifestation –
   
   Ask : Your manifestation process, your work is to make sure your soil is fertile, no baggage. Ask can also mean literal asking, reaching out to others as well.
   
   Your will Receive : This is surety, if you ask for better health, do you even believe in it. Just use the same knowing that when you order food/product on-line you will in all probability receive what you ordered. You don’t sit there thinking whether you will get it or not. Maybe only once you get/receive the item will you know if its something you wanted or there was something wrong with it. So do the same with what you manifest.
   
   Our challenge- we do the process of manifestation of which is about energy but because we cannot see with out physical eyes, we doubt. We ask for something not even believing we deserve it, so if you ask and you don’t know if you will receive then don’t ask. If you ask, then know you will receive then let that kite go and carry on with your life.
   
   Seek : When you want to get a chair – you will do your research on getting a good chair etc. This is your seeking hence when you ask for something, you then seek for it, again don’t sit on your bum bum.
   
   You want to manifest good health – so you seek the best option , take action to better your health, not some miracle healing. When you seek – you will then find.
   
   When you find -knock, this means reaching out, putting yourself out there. Why do we actually knock? Well it is to announce our arrival, so you knock at what you were seeking for and if you find it then you receive.
   
   This can be for anything. If we look at the process though the phrase will be : ‘Ask so that you will receive, seek and you shall find, and when you find, knock and it will open, and when it opens you will receive.’
   
   Remember if you seek and you do not find, then seek elsewhere, when you knock and it does not open know that it will not be something that you want. And when you receive it and realize it is something you don’t want, that’s ok too because the receiving is only to assist us in knowing what we truly want. What you want to master is the process so that you will be able to experience different things.
   
   Example : Before I started doing this work, creating Inner Navigation Consultancy, I was initially working in a holistic center solely in the operations and managing of the place. One day an opportunity arose to do a reading – hence that started my journey, this wasn’t something I wanted as I would have been more comfortable owning my own business. I however took the opportunity to do readings and after 4 years I was then given an opportunity to purchase this holistic business and this was something I wanted but I was not able to come up with the asking price, I was disappointed. Then I was put in a position where I could start on my own and hence the birth of Inner Navigation Consultancy. So in that way, I finally received what I wanted, did I phantom it to be this way -no, am I glad it turned out this way, definitely.

Therefore, remember, the heavens or the Universe or what ever you want to call it, does provide but we need to do the work. I am constantly doing the work, failing at it and then trying again. So don’t give up, keep working at it. As I write this, I am running my 46th year in this journey and yet there in my soul, there is a feeling that doesn’t want to give up. To those of you especially in my generation or before my generation, just remember, age of physical body is not going to be the measure of doing things.

May you therefore receive what you ask and as you seek may it open for you.

Take care everyone and remember be kind to yourself and be kind to others.