Manifesting what you don't know you want

[Bliss Sage]

I am still so confused about the LoA. I have manifested some good things these past months, for the first time in my whole life, literally. But I don't know how I manifested them.

Most notably, my apartment and the town I'm living in. I was consciously trying to manifest quite a detailed 2-bedroom apartment in Sweden while in NYC last fall. What I ended up with was a large studio apartment - basically one big awesome room, exactly like a dance studio full of windows, plus good-sized kitchen and a tiny bathroom (with bathtub - absolutely mandatory).

The apartment I manifested is NOTHING like the one I visualized. With the one exception that the bathroom is literally IDENTICAL to the one I visualized, which was the same bathroom I had had in my previous apartment - right down to the hideous navy blue floor (how is that possible??). I just lacked creativity regarding the bathroom and mostly just craved a bathtub and hot running water, which I got plus a little better than my previous bathroom.

I found this apartment on the first day I seriously went out looking. It had not been listed publicly yet, but the lady showed me an apartment in the same building, and remembered this apartment and asked if I had time to look at it. I did. The second I walked in here, it was mine. My heart leapt up in my chest when I saw all of the windows and how awesomely spacious it was. This was NOTHING like what I had been visualizing and NOTHING like what I thought I wanted. So how did I attract it?

Secondly, and more perplexing, is this town I found to live in. Now, I had been living in NYC and I was quite fed up with the hordes of people, noise, filth, metal, cement etc. etc. But I was not visualizing any specific type of town - only a small one on the sea. Yet now that I'm in this place, I can say, "Wow, if I had KNOWN such a place existed, I would have intended it." (The same applies to the apartment I think.) But for as much as I can't describe why I love this place, I certainly could not have visualized it. To me this place is totally surreal.

This town is so sweet and absolutely charming. Really everything is within walking distance. Everything is close to the town center, and my apartment is smack-dab in the center along a pedestrian street across from the library with two really great views.

There are birdies everywhere - ducks, beautiful and majestic swans, doves, seagulls...And this spring, little fluff ball duck babies and even a little family of swans; the cuteness you can see in this town when you go out for a walk is unbearable. It seriously just fills up your heart. And they are my neighbors <3.

Many of the small summer homes along the canal running through the town look like something out of a fairytale. The canal runs into the sea, which is just as close to me as everything else. The sea water is so warm, because it is so shallow for a long distance out. There are swings near my apartment, and I love to swing - it was quite difficult to find swings in NYC.

The place I go for technological purchases is literally around the corner, so if I have a problem with my internet connection, I just unplug my laptop, take it downstairs and walk around the corner to the store and the guys there are so happy to help me. The bank is just around the corner, the health center, the grocery store, the employment center, schools, swings...Downstairs and around the corner. And it's such a small intimate town...I just love it!

The town feels like an extension of my home, quite literally, which is a new experience. I used to feel I had to build my home into a cocoon of safety and peace, because the outside world was so ugly, mean and horrible and nearly every time I went out, I got hurt either by some friend or by some random stranger. However, this place is amazing, beautiful. I absolutely love it.

How did I manifest this town? How can you manifest something you can't even imagine or realize exists? And given that fact, how can you successfully consciously manifest like I tried to?

[OptimistPrime]

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

This was NOTHING like what I had been visualizing and NOTHING like what I thought I wanted. So how did I attract it?

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How did I manifest this town? How can you manifest something you can't even imagine or realize exists? And given that fact, how can you successfully consciously manifest like I tried to?

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

No, but seriously, my view is that "what we think we want" is not the totality of what we manifest for ourselves over the course of our lives. I believe that there is a higher (or perhaps a better word would be "more omniscient") intelligence within each of us that is able to foresee what one apartment would feel like vs. another.

You put it out there that you were attracting an apartment that really resonated with you, and you made the most of what you had at your conscious disposal by visualizing what, at the time, felt like the best thing you could think of. Your higher intelligence took that baton and ran with it, bringing you something even more in resonance with you than what you were able to consciously imagine at the time. Et voilà!

As for the town, I also believe that our higher intelligence can manifest things without us even going through the process of visualizing them in a lot of detail. Just "a small town by the sea", plus your inner desire for qualities different from the things that you disliked about NYC, were enough of an initial grain of sand from which to make a pearl, so to speak.

And as for how one can use conscious manifestation when you have to account for these other (let's call them "superconscious") levels of manifesting, I would say that it actually makes things much easier than it would be otherwise. You can consciously manifest the best things you can think of when you feel moved to do so, while at the same time knowing that you have something working "behind the scenes" to improve upon what you're visualizing (if/when what you're visualizing isn't the most benevolent thing possible).

[Anagogy]

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

How did I manifest this town? How can you manifest something you can't even imagine or realize exists? And given that fact, how can you successfully consciously manifest like I tried to?

First of all, realize that you are constantly sifting through contrasting experiences which are highlighting new preferences within you. This can occur consciously, but even if you weren't aware of it consciously, it would still always occur subconsciously, or under the radar we might say. Basically, whenever you run into something you don't particularly like, a preference for the opposite of that is born within you, whether you realize it or not. This is happening constantly. You are always asking for improved conditions, automatically and unconsciously and, occasionally, consciously. These preferences become part of your soul pattern, and become signals that radiate from you at all times.

Second of all, realize that you cannot consciously recall each one of these preference that are born within you. There are so many of them that it would take some kind of supercomputer to be aware of it all. Luckily, you *DO* have a supercomputer within your consciousness profile, which some refer to as your Higher Self or inner being. It remembers ALL of these details that you have amassed, and it has become the vibrational equivalent of all these desires that have been incrementally born within you. This means that when a preference is born within you, your Higher Self moves into the reality of that preference.

Therefore, in that instant, outside of time as you know it, your inner being is already enjoying the reality you are desiring to experience. It then calls to you from that improved state of existence. And if you listen to your emotions, which is it communicating with you, and tune your thoughts accordingly, you will also achieve that improved state of existence. You just have to become a vibrational match to it. This is true for all points of consciousness be they great or small. They all have the ability and right to ask for an improved state of being.

What does this have to do with your experience?

When you tune yourself to what feels good, you will get more of what feels good. Feeling good means you are beginning to vibrate in sympathy with your Higher Self. You perceive that state of connection as positive emotion. It doesn't matter if you couldn't imagine it, the Source inside you has amassed the preferences you have incrementally placed within it over time and has synthesized it into into one awesome state of Being. The sum of all those desires is more than the parts, and thus, when you line up with that signal, you get wondrous gems you didn't even realize you wanted...

[Bliss Sage]

Thanks for the great replies

Originally Posted by Anagogy

When you tune yourself to what feels good, you will get more of what feels good. Feeling good means you are beginning to vibrate in sympathy with your Higher Self. You perceive that state of connection as positive emotion. It doesn't matter if you couldn't imagine it, the Source inside you has amassed the preferences you have incrementally placed within it over time and has synthesized it into into one awesome state of Being. The sum of all those desires is more than the parts, and thus, when you line up with that signal, you get wondrous gems you didn't even realize you wanted...

So, do you mean that merely by virtue of generally feeling better in life (than I have done in the rest of my life when I manifested a waking nightmare) I manifested these things, even though elements of what I was consciously visualizing were in great contrast to what I manifested?

I mean, if I pinpoint a difference between now and all the previous years of my life which were so awful, the difference could simply be an improved feeling of well-being? And based on that, I am able to manifest what I want instead of the living hell I was used to? (This is separate from the initial question btw)

Does this mean, technically, that if you are just feeling good, the things you want will come, without needing to visualize, articulate them or consciously make an effort (mentally) to bring them?

[Bliss Sage]

Originally Posted by OptimistPrime

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

I love that quote, by the way, and have been thinking about it a lot recently .

[Anagogy]

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

Thanks for the great replies

So, do you mean that merely by virtue of generally feeling better in life (than I have done in the rest of my life when I manifested a waking nightmare) I manifested these things, even though elements of what I was consciously visualizing were in great contrast to what I manifested?

The important thing to understand is that you've already asked, whether you realize it or not. The visualization is just a way to cease the contradiction within you which prevents the unfolding of your desires. We often don't consciously realize what we truly want. So, when that resistance is gone, what shows up can sometimes be a surprise, albeit a pleasant one.

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

I mean, if I pinpoint a difference between now and all the previous years of my life which were so awful, the difference could simply be an improved feeling of well-being? And based on that, I am able to manifest what I want instead of the living hell I was used to? (This is separate from the initial question btw)

Your emotions are your perception of the vibrational variance between your desires and your beliefs. When you feel a sense of well-being, joy, love, acceptance or some other equivalent emotion, this means that in this moment, the variance is not large and thus, you are allowing the unfoldment of your true desires.

If you feel strong negative emotion, this would indicate a large variance between your desires and your beliefs, and all action taken from that state of disharmony are going to negate the unfoldment of your desires. Thus, it pays to line up thought before taking action.

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

Does this mean, technically, that if you are just feeling good, the things you want will come, without needing to visualize, articulate them or consciously make an effort (mentally) to bring them?

Correct. As I said before, feeling good means that in this moment, your focus or thought is not significantly different from the thoughts your inner being is offering. You are a vibrational match to your higher aspirations in that moment, and are allowing the manifestation of that pure positive energy aspect of yourself. The visualization is often helpful in lining up our energy with the energy of our higher self, but is not necessary.

In a sense though, you are always visualizing. And here, when I say "visualizing" I mean you are thinking about stuff all the time. When you are predominately focused on what you want, and not contradicting that with focus on what you don't want, you are allowing the manifestation of your desires. The law of attraction will then, given a bit of time, match you up with what you want.

[Bliss Sage]

@Anagogy: Wow, you are so articulate on this. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Anagogy

Correct. As I said before, feeling good means that in this moment, your focus or thought is not significantly different from the thoughts your inner being is offering. You are a vibrational match to your higher aspirations in that moment, and are allowing the manifestation of that pure positive energy aspect of yourself. The visualization is often helpful in lining up our energy with the energy of our higher self, but is not necessary.

In a sense though, you are always visualizing. And here, when I say "visualizing" I mean you are thinking about stuff all the time. When you are predominately focused on what you want, and not contradicting that with focus on what you don't want, you are allowing the manifestation of your desires. The law of attraction will then, given a bit of time, match you up with what you want.

So I am expecting to get a job I am really good at and that I really love any day now then ...though I haven't a clue what it could be, or even what field it could be in

And to get married...however, if I am visualizing a specific man, then (who I'm involved with at a distance due to bureaucratic and political obstacles) for marriage, I wonder how that effects the mix then...?

[Anagogy]

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

@Anagogy: Wow, you are so articulate on this. Thanks.

No problem.

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

So I am expecting to get a job I am really good at and that I really love any day now then ...though I haven't a clue what it could be, or even what field it could be in

And to get married...however, if I am visualizing a specific man, then (who I'm involved with at a distance due to bureaucratic and political obstacles) for marriage, I wonder how that effects the mix then...?

You can have what you want. Don't concentrate on obstacles, just keep thinking about what you want, and why you want it. Don't worry about the "how" -- that will light up for you automatically when you are in vibrational proximity to what you desire.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

@Anagogy: Wow, you are so articulate on this.

As I said before, Anagogy is actually a non-physical entity with Internet access.

[Anagogy]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

As I said before, Anagogy is actually a non-physical entity with Internet access.

Thanks for outing me.

J/k

Actual response: LOL

[VinceG]

Anagogy is actually Skynet.

[Anagogy]

Originally Posted by VinceG

Anagogy is actually Skynet.

Speaking of which, I've been meaning to ask you:

Have you seen John Connor? Been looking for him.

[VinceG]

Originally Posted by Anagogy

Have you seen John Connor? Been looking for him.

Manifest him.

[Bliss Sage]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

As I said before, Anagogy is actually a non-physical entity with Internet access.

Lol. You're just as articulate ALG; I guess it takes one non-physical entity with internet access to know one