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

by Esther Hicks

the easiest way for you to achieve vibrational harmony with it is to imagine having it, pretend that it is already in your experience, flow your thoughts toward the enjoyment of the experience, and as you practice those thoughts and begin to consistently offer that vibration, you will then be in the place of allowing that into your experience.

Whatever you are thinking about is like planning a future event. When you are appreciating, you are planning. When you are worrying, you are planning. (Worrying is using your imagination to create something you do not want.) Every thought, every idea,

Once you become consciously at one with the Universal Laws, and gain an understanding of why things respond in the way they do, all mystery and confusion will be replaced by clarity and understanding. Doubt and fear will be replaced with knowledge and confidence, uncertainty will be replaced with certainty—and joy will return as the basic premise of your experience.

All-That-Is . . . Is Benefiting from Your Existence

Sometimes our physical friends express their desire for a less diverse Universe. They long for a place where there are not so many unwanted things, a place where more things are exactly as they prefer them to be. And we always explain that you did not come forth into this physical experience wanting to take all of the experiences that exist and whittle them down to a handful of good ideas upon which all of you agree, for that would lead to end-edness, which cannot be. 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.

A scale of your emotions would look something like this: 1. Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation 2. Passion 3. Enthusiasm/Eagerness/Happiness 4. Positive Expectation/Belief 5. Optimism 6. Hopefulness 7. Contentment 8. Boredom 9. Pessimism 10. Frustration/Irritation/Impatience 11. “Overwhelment” 12. Disappointment 13. Doubt 14. Worry 15. Blame 16. Discouragement 17. Anger 18. Revenge 19. Hatred/Rage 20. Jealousy 21. Insecurity/Guilt/Unworthiness 22. Fear/Grief/Depression/Despair/Powerlessness

Process #1 The Rampage of Appreciation When to Use This Process • When you want to parlay a good mood into an even better one • When you want to enhance your relationship with someone or something • When you want to deliberately maintain your current good-feeling set-point • When you want to maintain or even improve your current good feeling • When you want to deliberately focus upon something that is beneficial to your set-point • When you are driving, walking, or standing in line, and you want to do something that is creatively productive • When there is something in your line of sight that could potentially take you to a place of negative emotion, and you want to maintain control of your own vibration • When your own thoughts, or the words of someone you are with, start off in a potentially negative direction, and you want to control the direction of the subject matter • When you are aware that you are experiencing negative emotion and you want to change the way you feel Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Rampage of Appreciation Process will be of the most value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (1) Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation and (5) Optimism (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) So, let us say that you are feeling Positive Expectation. Since Positive Expectation is ranked at (4), and (4) falls betwee...

Process #2 The Magical Creation Box When to Use This Process • When you are in the mood for a pleasing activity that will focus the Energy that creates worlds into specific directions of your personal preferences • When you want to give the Universal Manager even more specific information about the details of things that please you Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Magical Creation Box Process will be of the most value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (1) Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation and (5) Optimism (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) If the way you are feeling falls somewhere between (1) Joy and (5) Optimism, then this Creation Box Process would be a good one for you to utilize right now. To begin the Creation Box process, find a nice-looking box, one that is pleasing to you when you see it. On the lid, in a conspicuous place that you will easily notice, write the words: Whatever is contained in this box—IS! Next, gather magazines, catalogs, and brochures, and leisurely look through them for whatever you would like to include in your experience. Then clip out pictures of anything that exemplifies any desires that you hold: pictures of furniture, clothing, landscaping, buildings, travel destinations, vehicles; images of physical characteristics; photos of people interacting with one another . . . if i...

Process #3 The Creative Workshop When to Use This Process • When you want to focus upon what is most important to you personally • When you want to be in more deliberate control of the primary areas of your own life • When you want to improve your state of allowing so that even more wonderful things can flow into your experience • When you want to practice a positive point of attraction until it becomes a dominant point of attraction Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Creative Workshop Process will be of the most value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (1) Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation and (5) Optimism (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) Like most of the other processes offered here, this one is most effective when you perform the action in writing, but it can also be valuable to play the game in your mind while driving or walking, or anytime you are alone and have a few minutes where it is not likely that you will be disturbed. Begin this Creative Workshop Process with four pieces of paper, and at the top of each sheet write one of the following headings, or categories: My Body. My Home. My Relationships. My Work. Now, focus on the first topic (My Body) and on your first page, write: This is what I desire regarding my body. Do not work hard on this list. If you cannot think of anything, move on to the ne...

Process #4 Virtual Reality When to Use This Process • When you are feeling good, and you want to practice a vibration of allowing • When you find yourself remembering a pleasant experience, and you want to extend the feeling longer and even move it to a better-feeling place • When you have extra time, and you wish to spend it in a pleasant way Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Virtual Reality Process will be of themost value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (1) Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation and (8) Boredom (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) Remember, you live in a Vibrational Universe, and all things are managed by the Law of Attraction. And you get what you think about, whether you want it or not, because whenever you achieve vibrational harmony with something because you are giving it your attention, the vibrational essence of it will, in some way, begin to show up in your life experience. So, you could say that the Universe responds to your vibrational offering, to your point of attraction, to the thoughts you think, and to the way you feel. The Universe is not responding to what has been manifested in your experience, but instead, to the vibration that you are now offering. The Universe makes no distinction between your actually having a million dollars and your giving thought to having a million d...

Process #5 The Prosperity Game When to Use This Process • When you want to expand your ability to imagine • When you want to add more clarity or specificity to your desire • When you want to enhance the flow of money into your experience • When you want to enhance the flow of abundance with respect to a variety of things Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Prosperity Game will be of themost value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (1) Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation and (16) Discouragement (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) In this process, you will begin by establishing an imaginary checking account. In other words, there will be no actual bank involved, but you will make deposit entries and check withdrawals just as if it were an actual account. You could use an old checkbook system that is no longer in use, an accounting program in your computer, or you could even manufacture a complete system by using a notebook as your checkbook register and blank pieces of paper for your deposit slips and checks. It is of value to make this process feel as real to you as possible. On the first day, deposit $1,000. And spend it. In other words, make a $1,000 deposit entry into your checkbook register, then write out checks to spend those dollars. You could spend your money all in one place, using one check, or you could...

Process #8 The Book of Positive Aspects When to Use This Process • When positive emotion floods through you in response to a positive thought you are focusing upon, and you wish to ride the positive, good-feeling wave longer • When you are aware that a subject that requires your consistent attention does not feel good, and you want to improve your vibration on that topic • When most subjects that you focus upon feel good to you, but there are a few uncomfortable holdouts that you want to mold into a better-feeling place Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Book of Positive Aspects will be of the most value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (1) Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation and (10) Frustration/Irritation/Impatience (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the Emotional Guidance Scale.) To begin the process of the Book of Positive Aspects, purchase a notebook that feels good when you hold it in your hands. Choose a pleasing color, with a line width that matches your writing style, with paper that allows your favorite pen to glide along comfortably, and which opens comfortably and lies flat. Because of the action that will be involved in this process, not only is an improved degree of focus certain, but with the focus will come an increase in both your clarity and in your feeling of being alive. Now, on the cover of your notebook write: My Book of Positive Aspects....

Process #9 Scripting When to Use This Process • When you are feeling good and want to add specifics to what you are creating in your life experience • When you want the thrill of identifying and writing down things you would like to experience, and then seeing the Universe deliver to you the details you described • When you want to consciously experience the power of your specifically focused thought Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Scripting Process will be of the most value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (2) Passion and (6) Hopefulness (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) Esther turned on the television one evening and found herself immediately captivated by a movie that was well under way by the time she found it. In this movie, a seemingly unsuccessful scriptwriter was just discovering that his typewriter seemed to be magical. Each day, after he had described the scenes and written the words that the actors would speak, these same things would then come to pass in his own experience. And so, if a situation was not going the way he wanted it to, he went to his typewriter and wrote an improved version, and that scenario would then play out in his life experience. As Esther watched the movie, we said to her, “That is really the way it always works. As you focus clearly upon things you desire, and hold no contradictory vibrat...

Process #10 The Place Mat Process When to Use This Process: • When you want to more effectively utilize your Universal Manager • When you want to create your own reality more through the flowing of Energy • When you want to create your own reality less through the offering of your own action • When you feel you have too much to do • When you want more time to do more things that bring you pleasure Current Emotional Set-Point Range This PlaceMat Process will be of themost value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (2) Passion and (11) Overwhelment (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) As Jerry and Esther’s life evolved, and as their ideas and projects expanded, Esther began carrying a notebook that contained her list of things she needed to do. The list had evolved to several pages, and was comically called “Things to Do Today.” Well, ten people could not have accomplished this list in only one day. With each new entry to her list, Esther felt heavier and less free. Because of her desire to be of value, and because of her willing nature, she had created a huge sense of responsibility, and her feeling of freedom was being crushed by the weight of it. Sitting in a restaurant and waiting for their meal to be delivered to the table, Esther pored through the pages of her list. Occasionally she would cross off something already accomplished, ...

Process #11 Segment Intending When to Use This Process • When you want your influence to dominate during a particular segment of your day • When you recognize the potential of something not going quite right, and you want to make sure it goes the way you want • When time or money is especially important to you, and you want to make the most of it Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Segment Intending Process will be of the most value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (4) Positive Expectation/Belief and (11) Overwhelment (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) It is easier to begin with a fresh, less powerful thought, and then focus upon it and cause it to expand, than to try to change an already expanded powerful thought. In other words, it is easier to create an improved future experience than it is to change a current existing experience. If you are experiencing a physical condition that has your attention, you are, through your attention to your current condition, projecting it on into your future experience. But, by focusing on a different future experience, you are now activating that different experience, and as you project that changed experience into your future, you leave your current experience behind. That is the power of the process of Segment Intending.

Process #12 Wouldn’t It Be Nice If? When to Use This Process • When you find yourself leaning toward the negative, and therefore offering resistance, and you want to turn it around to something more positive • When you are already feeling good, and you want to focus more specifically on certain areas of your life to make them even better • When you want to gently guide a negative, or potentially negative, conversation to a more positive place for your benefit or to gently guide someone else Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Wouldn’t It Be Nice If . . . ? Process will be of the most value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (4) Positive Expectation/Belief and (16) Discouragement (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) When you say, “I want this thing to happen that hasn’t happened yet,” you are not only activating the vibration of your desire, but you are also activating a vibration of the absence of your desire—so nothing changes for you. And often, even when you do not speak the second part of the sentence and you say only, “I want this to happen,” there is an unspoken vibration within you that continues to hold you in a state of not allowing your desire. But when you say, “Wouldn’t it be nice if this desire would come to me?” you achieve a different sort of expectation that is much less resistant in nature. Your question to yours...

Process #14 The Process of Clearing Clutter for Clarity When to Use This Process • When you are feeling stress due to your disorganization • When you feel you are spending too much time looking for items • When you find yourself avoiding your home because you feel better elsewhere • When you feel that there is not enough time to do all you need to do Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Clearing Clutter for Clarity Process will be of the most value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (4) Positive Expectation/Belief and (17) Anger (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, go back to Chapter 22 and the Emotional Guidance Scale.) A cluttered environment can cause a cluttered point of attraction. If you are surrounded by unfinished work, unanswered letters, incomplete projects, unpaid bills, unattended-to tasks; unsorted piles of paperwork; and stray magazines, catalogs, and all manner of miscellaneous items—they can negatively affect your life experience. Because everything carries its own vibration, and because you develop a vibrational relationship with everything in your life, your personal belongings do have an impact on the way you feel and on your point of attraction. There are two major hindrances to clearing away clutter: First, you may remember throwing something away, only to discover, soon after, that you really did need it after all. So now you are reluctant to throw anything away. And second, you realize that ...

Process #16 Pivoting When to Use This Process: • When you are aware that the statement you just made is the opposite of what you want to attract into your experience • When you want to establish an improved point of attraction • When you are feeling fairly good but know that you could feel even better, and you are willing to take the time to make that happen right now. Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Pivoting Process will be of themost value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (8) Boredom and (17) Anger (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) It is possible to be focused in vibrational opposition to what you really desire without knowing you are. It is like the opposite ends of a stick. When you pick up a stick, you pick up both ends. This Pivoting Process will help you be more aware of which end of your stick you are currently activating: the end that is about what you want, or the end that is about the absence of what you want. The contrast of your time-space-reality is extremely useful, for contrast helps you focus your thoughts: Whenever you know what you do not want, you also know even more clearly what you do want; and whenever you know what you do want, you also know even more clearly what you do not want. And so, your exposure to contrast sharpens your focus and gives birth to new preferences and desires. In fact, this va...

Process #17 The Focus Wheel Process When to Use This Process: • When you realize that your current Vibrational Point of Attraction is not where you want it to be • When you are aware that you are feeling negative emotion about something that is important, and you want to find a way of feeling positive emotion instead • When something has just happened that is not to your liking, and you want to think about it while it is on your mind and change your point of attraction so that it does not happen again • When you are reaching for a feeling of relief Current Emotional Set-Point Range This FocusWheel Process will be of the most value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (8) Boredom and (17) Anger (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) Through exposure to life experiences, people often arrive at beliefs that hold them in a vibrational pattern that disallows their receiving of something they desire. And even though those beliefs are not serving them, many people defend their continual return to those unpleasant facts, arguing, “After all, they’re true.” We want to remind you that the only reason anything has manifested into a physical, tangible, definable truth is because someone has given enough attention to it to make that so. But just because someone else has managed to create their truth, it does not mean that it has any relationship to ...

Process #18 Finding the Feeling-Place When to Use This Process: • When you want to improve a situation • When you want more money • When you want a better job • When you want a happier relationship • When you want a better-feeling body Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Finding the Feeling-Place Process will be of the most value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (9) Pessimism and (17) Anger (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) Because you are generally giving much more attention to the aspects of your life that you are living right now, whatever you are living is carrying more vibrational weight, so to speak, than what you are desiring or imagining. In other words, if you have a desire to be slender even though you are considerably overweight at the moment, the aspects of your now experience are probably outweighing the vibrations of your visualizations. Often people will say, “I’m not happy over here. I wish I could be over there.” But when asked what it is about over there that they desire, usually they will just explain to you what is wrong with being over here. Even though they use words such as, “I want to be over there,” or “I want what is over there,” their vibration is much more about over here where they now stand than about where they want to be. As in our earlier “gas gauge” example of how unhelpful it would be for y...

Process #21 Reclaiming One’s Natural State of Health When to Use This Process: • When you do not feel well • When you have been given an unsettling diagnosis • When you are feeling pain • When you want to feel more vital • When you feel a vague fear associated with your body Current Emotional Set-Point Range This Reclaiming One’s Natural State of Health Process will be of the most value to you when your Emotional Set-Point is ranging somewhere between: (10) Frustration/Irritation/Impatience and (22) Fear/Grief/Depression/Despair/Powerlessness (If you are not sure what your current Emotional Set-Point is, turn back to Chapter 22 and scan the 22 categories on the Emotional Guidance Scale.) Do this process while lying in a comfortable place—the more comfortable, the better. Choose a time when you have approximately 15 minutes when you are not likely to be disturbed by anyone. Now, write this short list in a place where it will be easy for you to read, and when you first lie down, read it slowly to yourself. • It is natural for my body to be well. • Even if I don’t know what to do in order to get better, my body does. • I have trillions of cells with individual Consciousness, and they know how to achieve their individual balance. • When this condition began, I didn’t know what I know now. • If I had known then what I know now, this condition couldn’t have gotten started. • I don’t need to understand the cause of this illness. • I don’t need to explain how it is that I’m experi...

Collective Consciousness: All thoughts that have ever been thought still exist. All who perceive have access to all that is, and has been, perceived. This body of thought exists as Collective Consciousness.

Consciousness: Awareness. Creative Energy: The electrical current at the basis of everything that exists. Creative Life Force: The electrical current at the basis of everything that exists. Creative Process: The electrical current at the basis of everything that exists, flowing specifically toward topics or ideas. Creator: One who focuses Creative Energy.

Inner Being: The Eternal part of you that perceives all that you have ever been and all that you currently are. A perspective always available to you if you will “allow” it.

Life Force: Eternal Consciousness specifically focused.

Source (noun): The eternally expanding vibrational stream of Well-Being from which all that is, flows. Source Energy: The eternally expanding vibrational Stream of Well-Being from which all that is, flows.

Universe: A somewhat quantifiable spatial experience.

You: An Eternal Consciousness who perceives from your broader Non-Physical perspective, your physical perspective, and even your cellular perspective.