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Originally Posted by Bitsy  Ok, so this is in direct conflict with what The Secret says to do. Maybe people like me are trying too hard because we are instructed by the experienced people (in The Secret anyway) to keep focusing every day and every moment of every day on the thing we want. I tried to follow The Secret. They tell you you have to focus on it, visualize every day what you want, feel good about it, like you already have it, dwell on it, really want it ok, I have been doing that, because that is what it says on The Secret, which is all I have had to go by at this point and it is here with me, so any time I forget what to do, it is at the tip of my fingers, I can watch it again. Now I am being told, no, don't want it too much, just think the thing on one day and in a month you'll have it, don't take any action, take some action...I can't even well imagine that I could obtain something that I wasn't passionate about having.
At this point, I don't know what is what, LoA just looks like a free-for-all, because all experienced people just say all contradicting things and evidently if you don't intend something in just the perfect way and perfect attitude (whatever that is!!  ), you are going to suffer, even if you get what you intended, in which case, I can just do the suffering, get the usual, usually sick mutation of I really wanted and skip all the wasted energy and time focusing, visualizing and meditating for it, because that is pretty much what I have been doing all my life anyhow  . |
I think that one point to look at here is how do you feel when you already have something you wanted - do you keep thinking about how much you desire to have something you possess? no, of course not.
so I'd say this is one error on the part of the "Secret" people -
In the book "Resurrection" by Neville Goddard he discusses that in the old testament, the meaning of the seventh day - the true meaning of a day of rest is that after the "Work" of desiring & visualizing and assuming the State of Having that which we desire, we must also then rest in the assurance we already possess that which we desire.
This, according to him, is the sabbath - it is that point between the desire and the manifestation, which we rest in our belief that although we do not "See" it with our senses, it is there already. It is a state of allowing, because we cannot continue to desire or want what we already possess, so we are "Resting" from the work of creation.
I don't know if I necessarily prescribe to his trying so hard to make it biblical, but I think he is on point about the resting in the assurance of the manifestation. When we believe it is so, we move from the work of creation into the peace of fulfillment.