Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires (Law of Attraction Book 7)

by Esther Hicks

• Variety causes contemplation. • Contemplation produces preference. • Preference is asking. • Asking is always answered.

Regarding your creation of your own life experience, there really is only one important question for you to ask: How can I bring myself into vibrational alignment with the desires that my experience has produced? And the answer is simple: Pay attention to the way you feel, and deliberately choose thoughts—about everything—that feel good to you when you think them.

It is helpful to remember that you are creators who have come into this Leading-Edge time-space-reality to experience the joy of directing Source Energy into the specifics of your physical life experience.

• By always reaching for the feeling of joy, or Well-Being, you would always be moving toward that which you desire. • In the process of moving toward your desires, you would experience joy. • In this Earth-plane environment, you would have sufficient leeway to mold your vibration into a pleasing position for the attraction of a wonderful life experience. • Since Well-Being is the basis of this wonderful Universe, you would have sufficient opportunity—through a continual offering of thought—to mold your own thoughts into pleasing life experiences. • Well-Being abounds, so you felt no risk or concern about the contrasting environment into which you were moving. • Variety would help you choose your specific life. • Your work was to direct your thoughts, and that in doing so, your life would unfold. • You are an eternal extension of Source Energy, and that the basis of that which you are is good. • You would be able to easily allow the Well-Being of your origin, and of your Source, to steadily flow through you. • You could never get far from your Source, and that you could never completely pinch yourself off from it. • You would experience immediate emotions to help you understand the direction of your thought, and that your emotions would instantly tell you if you were, in any moment, moving toward or away from what you desired. • You would know, by the way you were feeling, moment by moment, how much you were allowing your connection to your Stream of Well-Being. And so, yo...

There is never a reason for you to be without something that you desire. Nor is there ever a reason for you to experience something that you do not desire—for you hold absolute control of your experiences.

The only reason that you could ever experience something other than what you desire is because you are giving the majority of your attention to something other than what you desire.

And in time, with practice, you will come to remember that the Law of Attraction is always consistent. It never tricks you. It never deceives you. It never confuses you, for the Law of Attraction responds precisely to the vibration that you are offering. But the confusion, for many, comes because they are offering vibrations that they do not realize they are offering.

Once you understand your own Emotional Guidance System, you will never again offer your vibrations in ignorance.

Once you understand the clarity that your emotions provide, you will never again not know what you are doing with your current thought. You will always be aware of whether you are, in this moment, moving toward or away from your intended goal or desire.

It is important that you know these things: • You are a physical extension of Source Energy. • The physical world you live in provides a perfect environment in which to create. • The variety that exists helps you focus your own personal desires or preferences. • When a desire is focused within you, the summoning of Creative Life Force immediately begins to flow toward your desire—and the Universe expands. And that is good. • Your conscious realization of the Creative Process is not necessary in order for it to continue. • The Leading-Edge environment that you are physically focused in will continue to stimulate new desires in all who participate. • Every desire or preference, no matter how large or small it may seem to you, is understood and answered by All-That-Is. • As every desire from every perceiver is answered, the Universe expands. • As the Universe expands, the variety expands. • As the variety expands, your experience expands. • As your experience expands, your desire expands. • As your desire expands, the answering of your desire expands. • And the Universe expands—and that is good. In fact, it is perfect. • You live in an eternally expanding environment, which constantly causes newly focused desires within you, which Source immediately and always answers. • With each receiving of that which you are asking for, you achieve a new vantage point from which you spontaneously ask again. • And so, the expansion of the Universe and your personal expansion will always be...

If you do not have the ability to know what you do want, you will not have the ability to know what you do not want. And without the ability to know what you do not want, you could not know what you do want.

This is an expanding Universe, and all things must be allowed. In other words, for you to understand and experience what you desire, you must understand that which you do not desire, for, in order to be able to choose and focus, both must be present and understood.

As you enthusiastically made the decision to come into this physical body and create in this way, you understood, from your Non-Physical vantage point, that this physical world was not broken and in need of repair—and you did not come forth to fix it.

So from the variety or contrast, your own preferences or desires are born. And in the moment that your preference begins to exist, it begins to draw to itself, through the Law of Attraction, the essence of that which matches it—and it then begins an immediate expansion.

And as you pay attention to the way you feel and continue to choose good-feeling thoughts regarding your newly born preference, you stay aligned with it, and now it gently and easily appears in your experience—and you have now created your desire.

And in the moment that this new desire exists, it too begins to vibrationally draw unto itself, and it too expands. So now, as you continue to pay attention to the way you feel, and you choose good-feeling thoughts regarding this newly born preference, you remain vibrationally aligned with it.

Once you consciously observe, from your own creative perspective, how each new achievement leads to another new desire, you will begin to personally understand your part in this expansive Universe. And, in time, you will come to remember that you never get it done because you never cease your awareness of the contrast out of which is always born a new idea or desire.

And as you begin to relax into the idea that you are an eternal Being, that your desires will never cease to flow, and that any desire that is born has the power within it to attract (by Law of Attraction) all that is necessary for the expansion and fulfillment of itself, then you may remember the immense Well-Being upon which this Universe is established, and, you may then relax into the eternal nature of your own Being. It is then that you will begin to enjoy your journey.

You cannot ever get it done because you cannot ever cease to be, and neither can you ever halt your awareness. Yet, out of your awareness will always be born another asking, and each asking always summons another answering. Your eternal nature is one of expansion—and in that expansion is the potential for unspeakable joy.

Each point of view matters; every request is granted; and as this amazing Universe unerringly expands, there is no end to the Universal resources that fulfill these requests.

It is not possible for someone else to receive the resources that were meant for you, and you cannot selfishly squander resources that were intended for someone else.

It is extremely important that you know where you are in relationship to where you want to be in order to effectively move closer to where you want to be.

You are deluged with laws, rules, and expectations that are imposed by others, and almost everyone seems to have an opinion about how you should behave. But it is not possible for you to stay on track between where you are and where you want to be if you are using those kinds of outside influences to guide you.

Often, others (who do not understand that they have access to the Stream) suffer in their inability to hold themselves in a place of feeling good, and ask you to behave in a way that they believe will make them feel better. But not only do they hold you in a place of discomfort as they try to make you responsible for their joy, they hold themselves in a place of bondage as well. For they cannot control the way any other behaves, and if that control is necessary for their happiness, then they truly are in trouble.

Once you understand your own Emotional Guidance System, you will never again be confused about where you are in relationship to where you want to be. Also, you will feel, with each thought that you offer, whether you are moving closer to, or further from, your desired outcome.

When you give your attention to something that you desire and you say yes to it, you are including it in your vibration.

But when you look at something you do not want and you say no to it, you are including it in your vibration.

When you give no attention to it, you do not include it, but you cannot exclude anything that you are giving your attention to, because your attention to it includes it in...

Just because you make the decision to find a different thought, it does not necessarily mean that you can go directly to that thought right now, for the Law of Attraction has something to say about the thoughts you have access to from where you are.

but you cannot instantly jump to a thought that has a vibrational frequency very different from the thoughts you are usually thinking.

for the Law of Attraction will not allow you to find a vibrational frequency that is far from the frequency that you usually sustain.

Choosing a different thought will always produce a different emotional response. So you could say, “I will deliberately choose my thoughts so that I can feel better.” That would be a good decision for you to make.

An even better decision, and really, an easier one to make is: “I want to feel good, so I will try to feel good by choosing a thought that does feel good.”

If it is your decision to “follow your bliss,” and you have been focusing on a life situation that is nowhere near bliss, your decision to follow your bliss would be unsuccessful because the Law of Attraction cannot deliver ...

But if your decision is to reach for the best-feeling thought that you have access to, that deci...

The key to moving up the vibrational emotional scale is to be consciously aware of, even sensitive to, the way you feel, for if you are not aware of how you feel, you cannot u...

But if you take the time to consciously determine the emotion that you are currently experiencing, then any improvement in your feeling means that you are making progress toward your goal, while any intensifying of the negative emotion means that you are going in the wrong direction.

So, a good way to feel your way up this vibrational emotional scale is to always be reaching for the feeling of relief that comes when you release a more resistant thought and replace it with a more allowing thought.

Your attitude or mood is always pointing toward what is coming, but you are never stuck with your current point of attraction. Just because you have picked up these thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and moods along your physical trail does not mean that you have to continue attracting in response to them.

There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts. However, choosing different thoughts requires focus and practice. If you continue to focus as you have been, to think as you have been, and to believe as you have been, then nothing in your experience will change.

But the reason it may feel to you as if you are stuck is because, while you are continuing to think the same thoughts, things are changing—but they are changing to the same thing over and over.

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If you want things to change to different things, you must think different thoughts. And that simply requires finding unfamiliar ways of approaching familiar subjects.

Others cannot understand the vibrational content of your desires, and they cannot understand the vibrational content of where you are, so they are not in any way equipped to guide you.

You always know in the moment what is best for you.

Yes, when you ask, it is always given, but you must be in vibrational harmony with what you are asking for before you can let it in to your experience.

The reason why so many people do not remember or believe that all that they are asking for is being answered is because they are not consciously aware of what they are doing, vibrationally.

And without that conscious connection, you cannot know where you are in relationship to that which you desire.

Once you are aware of the power of your thoughts, and of your ability to allow in the things that you desire, you then have creative control of your experience.

But if you are predominantly focused upon the results of your focused thoughts rather than feeling your way within your thoughts, it is easy to lose your way.

All those statistics that are gathered about your own experiences and about others—are only about how somebody has already flowed Energy. They are not about any hard-and-fast now reality.