Could someone explain allowing and releasing please

[sean83]

People who seem to be good at manifesting always seem to say they visualise, allow, release and expect there intentions to happen. What does allowing and releasing exactly mean, are there certain ways to do this?

[dave marshall]

Hi,

could you explain the conext of your question. Where did hear the terms?

for me it is:

allowing could be seen in context of either giving yourself permission to experience that you visualise or relaxing to let the process happen, which takes time.

Releasing could mean consciously letting go of the idea once you have stated what you wanti.e not thinking about it.

For me it is easier to understand that my experience follows/reflects my beliefs and deisres, so personally I do not think about allowing or releasing. I focus on getting my beliefs in order, then relax and allowmy broader self to produce them. The allowing i do would be relaxing then. after that, given the nature of reality, I expect something to happen and mostly it does. if it doesn,t I go back to my own belief system and ask yself what is getting in the way of this event occuring. I usually get a sense of another belief in the way that i need to alter or that i need to relax more and let the process unfold.

Maybe if you thought in terms of law of reflection rather than loa. Your reality refelcts your beliefs back to you through events in your life. If you don't like the events, alter the beliefs and relax, the new bleiefs will alter your circumsatnces but sometimes it takes a little time for the new beliefs to have enough energy to bring new events into your physical reality, but they will if there are no opposing beliefs stopping them. The law of attraction, to me, is far harder work to get your head and emotions around that the simple idea that your reality refelcts your beliefs: change your beliefs, change your reality!

hope that helps.

Dave

[Calisto]

sean83,

".. visualise, allow, release and expect.."

If I understand you correctly, I suggest you think about what you want and then release it and allow whatever law you believe in to provide your desire and expect it to be fulfilled.

If it is something you no longer want, there was a time when you thought you wanted it, and it might still be necessary in order to fulfil some other desire. But if you have changed your mind and no longer want this 'event' to occur, simply acknowledge to yourself that you have changed your mind. If you are just becoming aware of these things, a beginner, it might help to create an affirmation that re-enforces your change of heart.

[RT Wolf]

Its about detachment. There's a link to Chopra's chapter on detachment in the "Quantum Leap" link in my sig.

[Bruce Achterberg]

Originally Posted by sean83

People who seem to be good at manifesting always seem to say they visualise, allow, release and expect there intentions to happen. What does allowing and releasing exactly mean, are there certain ways to do this?

You may think you'll understand after hearing a simple explanation, but if you're experience is anything like mine, it will only raise further questions. What you really need is a context -- the full picture -- instead of small snap-shots.

To get the full picture, I highly recommend either audio or audio/video material by Abraham Hicks for this. Eckhart Tolle's books, The Power of Now and A New Earth also cover the subject of allowing, but it's rooted in a different context that, while very similar to the Abraham-Hicks model, you won't really understand too well until you have exposure to both models and get to see the truth of what they're saying in your own experience.

I could explain a bit about these concepts to you, but it's probably a case of "you don't even know what you don't know" (it definitely was with me), so even if you think you know what you should be looking for, from your current perspective of limited information, your assumptions probably aren't too accurate.

My suggestion would be to use the strategy of overwhelming force to learn all you can from Abraham Hicks. I've learned everything I know about the LoA, etc, from them, and I've found them to be a damn good, very consistent source of info.

Here are some links to resources I posted in another thread:

Firstly, you can check out the official videos that Abraham-Hicks publications makes available on YouTube. Secondly, there is a non-official source of videos from someone with the username "CAnn". CAnn does some very nice work, and I really enjoy the videos she does (I think CAnn is female, although I'm not sure). Finally, you can do a simple search for Abraham-Hicks material on YouTube and you'll turn up lots of results. Here are some results from a search I did. Enjoy![/I]

It may take a little while before you develop an accurate mental model of what they speak about, but stick with it! It's worth it.

(Again, yes, I mention Abraham-Hicks a lot, but they really do have the best LoA-related material I've come across. Nothing beats the sheer consistency of their message. I haven't had much exposure to other sources, but that's largely because I'm quite happy with periodic content from Abraham. Your millage may vary.)

[Bruce Achterberg]

One more thing -- I'll share pattern I've seen occur a lot in personal development.

When people use certain words such as "allowing" and "releasing", often the words are more-so labels then words, used to label and 'point to' an entire body of knowledge. For example, "consciousness" is such a word. Good luck defining consciousness concisely -- it just has too much it can refer to, as well as a lot of interrelated knowledge associated with it.

I've found that whenever I hear a new term and I think I understand it, it's best to assume that you probably only have a very shallow understanding, and that there are many more layers of depth that you aren't yet aware of.

This makes it easier to increase your knowledge since you won't get frustrated when something seems inconsistent or you can't explain something you've discovered. You can just go along with the assumption, "perhaps there's more I need to learn", and go from there. Whether that is a "lie of sucess" (ie. something that isn't directly true, but helps you succeed if you believe in it for your purposes) is irrelevant; it works for me, and I bet it'll work for you!

[Jennihul]

My fave explaination is this: If you wanted to grow an oak tree and you planted an acorn, NOT allowing and releasing would consist of digging up the acorn everyday just to make sure it was doing something, thereby killing it.

Jennifer

[Paleo]

Originally Posted by Jennihul

My fave explaination is this: If you wanted to grow an oak tree and you planted an acorn, NOT allowing and releasing would consist of digging up the acorn everyday just to make sure it was doing something, thereby killing it.

Jennifer

I absolutely love this explanation! This makes it very clear to me. Thank you so much for sharing.

[Jenny]

Originally Posted by Jennihul

My fave explaination is this: If you wanted to grow an oak tree and you planted an acorn, NOT allowing and releasing would consist of digging up the acorn everyday just to make sure it was doing something, thereby killing it.

Jennifer

That's a great explanation! Thanks for sharing.

[fellowtraveler]

Originally Posted by RT Wolf

Its about detachment. There's a link to Chopra's chapter on detachment in the "Quantum Leap" link in my sig.

Thanks for that link, always looking for more/better info.

I find it easy to detach and stop the wanting; and as it seems to say there, this is a much faster way to make your dreams come true. My studies and experience to date seem to indicate that a lot of wanting will result in...more wanting, since that's what's being concentrated on. The Universe is kind of dumb that way...it takes you quite literally.

[attracta]

Originally Posted by sean83

People who seem to be good at manifesting always seem to say they visualise, allow, release and expect there intentions to happen. What does allowing and releasing exactly mean, are there certain ways to do this?

I always think of Allowing as being in alignment with your desire--or in effect, already "having it." This is important because we do not attract what we "want," we attract more of what we already "have." This sounds like a catch 22, but it is where visualization and imagination come into play. Once you develop the mindset of already having it, that is the vibe you are sending out to the world, and that's what you attract (having it).

Think about a guy desperate to get a date. His vibe is "desperation" so he literally cannot attract a date. But the guy who feels he already has all the girlfriends he needs (and believes this) sends out a very different vibe--one of "having, not "wanting." Guys like this tend to be babe-magnets (like moi)

It works the same in every area of life. Easy Peasy once you get the hang of it.

[cylon]

Originally Posted by Bruce Achterberg

My suggestion would be to use the strategy of overwhelming force to learn all you can from Abraham Hicks. I've learned everything I know about the LoA, etc, from them, and I've found them to be a damn good, very consistent source of info.

That was an interesting blog entry, I enjoyed it but had to ask myself, does applying overwhelming force work with or against LOA? To me they appear to contradict each other. I guess in your context you're saying "just dive in and read" which is cool.

But from the thread title, would overwhelming force be considered allowing?

BTW I like how you mentioned that "we don't know what we don't know", and that as you learn things, you should allow for the fact that your frustration comes from your CURRENT perspective and that once you've changed and grown, you will look back at your current circumstances with a totally different perspective.

[fascinoma]

Originally Posted by sean83

People who seem to be good at manifesting always seem to say they visualise, allow, release and expect there intentions to happen. What does allowing and releasing exactly mean, are there certain ways to do this?

Try ritual. This is one of those ones where ritual worked better for me than meditative techniques alone... I suppose because of the involvement of physical energy and release. At the end of the thing I actually forgot I worked it and went on. When I do meditative forms of IM, I just dwell and dwell and dwell.

Basically,

1) Wear whatever clothes make you feel you're doing something special, whether it's your power suit, spooky mystical robe or Hello Kitty pajamas and bunny slippers. (I say that because pink is MY personal power color)

2) you do some kind of dedication/circle/etc. to make your space dedicated if that's your thing, this varies from tradition to tradition but the point is dedicating your space to allow nothing else in while you're working, everything from visualizing a forcefield around you to simply taking the phone off the hook and turning off your cell phone.

3) visualize/address your higher self or supreme being or Ralph the Cosmic Muffin or what have you,

4) build up your energy somehow (whether it's dancing, beating a drum, or doing the hokey pokey). IMHO practice makes perfect.

5) release your energy somehow (in whatever way you see fit)

6) Say some kind of closing words and thank Ralph the Cosmic Muffin or whoever

7) "Ground" your energy however you've been taught to do it

8) Close your sacred space somehow

9) Eat something, for Ralph's sake, eat something.