Shaking the Feeling of Lack

[lycan]

How do I shake the feeling of lack when I'm constantly getting the impulse to do things that I have no means to do?

[I edited this to make it more positive, but since two people managed to reply to the old post, I edited it back.]

[geniegal]

I assume from what you say that you see money as theonly means to achieve your goals . I have manifested Some great stuff without money

Example: a few months ago I realised I really needed some business coaching. Soon after I manifested a loa coach for free whohelped me manifest a business coach for free (we are doing a swap) I have already made money from this

Don't worry how intentions manifest...put the right mix of emotion and detachment behind the intention - then I find ideas and opportunities showup that you then use to manifest the intention. I have had some fab windfalls but the indirect route is generally more frequent, more empowering and a lot more fun

Keep going, intention manifesting is a skill you develop over time... Or is that a limiting belief??!!

Just asking the question you didputsyou wayaheadof most people in their loa efforts . Good luck

[Balbrae]

Originally Posted by lycan

How do I shake the feeling of lack when I'm constantly getting the impulse to do things that I have no means to do?

Hi, Lycan:

You state that you are focusing on a lack of monetary abundance to satisfy your impulses. The antidote to focusing on a lack of abundance is suspending your disbelief of abundance by any means available to you: affirmations, visualization, meditation, vision boards, reading inspiring LoA books, listening to audio books of LoA materials, attending LoA Workshops, and performing acts of demonstrated faith (i.e., acting as if your intended manifestation has already occurred). Think about why: when you focus on lack, you are telling your subconscious mind, "Hey, down there in the Fabrication Room, we need more of this stuff called 'lack'." Your non-conscious mind does not know the difference between "reality" and "intended reality." It just goes about giving you what you ask for, merrily whistling a tune. And under the LoA, you will manifest more "lack."

For me, the best ways to prevent a mentality of "lack" are: (1) performing visualization exercises; and (2) listening to audio affirmations (including during sleep) via headphones (headphones are more intimate than using open-air speakers, and sound through headphones creates a more hypnotic effect, which is intended for re-seeding the unconscious mind with positive beliefs and instructions). I will address only the first method here, performing visualizations, and if you'd like to hear more on audio affirmations, we can get into that in another post.

SOLUTION TO FOCUSING ON LACK: PERFORM VISUALIZATION EXERCISES, WHICH WILL GRATIFY YOUR IMPULSES TO PARTAKE IN YOUR INTENDED MANIFESTATION BEFORE THE INTENDED MANIFESTATION APPEARS IN PHYSICAL REALITY. THIS WILL ALSO "SPEED UP" THE MANIFESTATION OF YOUR INTENTIONS BY MEANS OF THE EMOTIONS, WHICH ACT AS INTENSIFIERS AND ACCELERANTS.

You state that you lack money to gratify your impulses, and this feeds a vicious cycle, whereby, in not gratifying those impulses, you then feel more lack. However, you do not lack the means to satisfy your craving for the manifestations of your intentions.

Your gratification is not limited by any temporary shortfall of funds. Consider this: your mind has an infinite capacity to gratify you. You do not lack the resources to achieve the feeling you would feel in doing the things that your impulses crave. I have not yet manifested Willis Island, which is a veritable jungle-beach paradise that I own in the South Pacific, in a different dimension. Rather than focus on lack or the dimensionality of "not owning it yet," I focus on the feeling of already having it. You may think this is idle or silly day-dreaming, but it is not. The LoA is a scientific law, which responds to precise states of mind, whereby like mental vibrations attract like physical-world counterparts. My unconscious mind does not know the difference between Willis Island in physical reality and Willis Island in my mental visualization. Accordingly, the "yahoo!" feelings I get from visualizing Willis Island are of the same general character as the feelings I would experience from actually being on Willis Island in the physical world. This is the answer to your question: By visualizing that I am having fun on Willis Island, I gratify my impulses to be on Willis Island without "currently" having manifested the "means" to be on Willis Island in this physical dimension. As well, not only are my feelings gratified, but those feelings, in turn, serve as fuel to make the manifestation of my owning Willis Island a "reality" in this dimension, in the future.

Never underestimate the power of your imagination to gratify your impulses to experience the joy of your intended manifestations before they "arrive." First of all, all manifestations are first born in the mind--before they "materialize." So it is natural that your imagination would "feel" the thrill of your intended manifestation before it manifests in this physical reality. Second, I speak from personal knowledge. I have witnessed many, many sittings where I visualize fun-ass crap happening on Willis Island--vividly, as if I am there. I visualize repelling, hiking through the forest on the island, bathing in a stream beneath a waterfall, scuba diving off the shore, setting up crab pots and catching crabs and then steaming them at a bonfire party on my shores, playing the guitar on a dock over the sea, having lots of friends enjoy the scenery, and on and on and on and on! Trust me! Those feelings of being "high" off of all the fun I have on Willis Island are real feelings. It can take hours in the physical world to "come down" off that high. So you tell me, did I satisfy those impulses without having actually purchased Willis Island? You bet!

Recall that Abraham said that, once you intend to manifest an outcome, it instantly manifests in the non-physical world, and then beats a path to your door--to materialize in this physical reality. Willis Island is on its way, knocking down dimensions to reach me right now! In the meantime, I'm already there! How's that for holding up my end of the bargain with the Universe under the LoA?

Seth (Jane Roberts) used to say, if there were ten commandments for humans to abide by in forming the reality of their intentions, his First Commandment would be "Not To Worry," as Seth found worrying to be extremely counter-productive and ubiquitous among humans. In this regard, I add: If there were The Ten Commandments of Intentional Manifestation, right up there at the top would be the commandment: "Thou Shalt Not Focus on Lack."

Try any method possible to divert your focus from lack. You'll do great!

[lycan]

Originally Posted by geniegal

I assume from what you say that you see money as theonly means to achieve your goals.

Not really. It sure would make things simpler but that is not the issue. One of the things that I still struggle with is the overwhelming feeling of lacking time. I will look around my life and see that it's not what I want it to be and then I will think of something that would make it better, or try to focus on how I do want it to be, or focus on the things that I like in it, but I have this sense of urgency, that I will waste my life waiting/working/intending for a better life. I try all sorts of stuff but the feeling that I'm wasting time creeps in and I end up in a state of despair where I don't know what to do. I can't do regular work, I can't study, I can't sit around and daydream, I can't even listen to music because I can't shake the feeling that this is not the life I want and nothing I am doing is actually moving me towards the one I do.

[lycan]

Originally Posted by Balbrae

SOLUTION TO FOCUSING ON LACK: PERFORM VISUALIZATION EXERCISES, WHICH WILL GRATIFY YOUR IMPULSES TO PARTAKE IN YOUR INTENDED MANIFESTATION BEFORE THE INTENDED MANIFESTATION APPEARS IN PHYSICAL REALITY. THIS WILL ALSO "SPEED UP" THE MANIFESTATION OF YOUR INTENTIONS BY MEANS OF THE EMOTIONS, WHICH ACT AS INTENSIFIERS AND ACCELERANTS.

What do I do when I have to open up my eyes?

[Balbrae]

Originally Posted by lycan

Not really. It sure would make things simpler but that is not the issue. One of the things that I still struggle with is the overwhelming feeling of lacking time. I will look around my life and see that it's not what I want it to be and then I will think of something that would make it better, or try to focus on how I do want it to be, or focus on the things that I like in it, but I have this sense of urgency, that I will waste my life waiting/working/intending for a better life.

What exactly do you mean here? For example, you say, "I will look around my life and see that it's not what I want it to be and then I will think of something that would make it better, or try to focus on how I do want it to be...." Does this mean that you feel like you are drifting in life, trying all sorts of new avenues, careers, or life-paths? Do you mean that once you try these news avenues, you change your mind or feel like one lane is closing, then you try to open another?

And when you say, "or focus on the things that I like in it, I like in it, but I have this sense of urgency, that I will waste my life waiting/working/intending for a better life," do you mean that when you try to manifest a preferred life going forward, using the LoA and Intentional Manifestation, that you suddenly feel like it is too late to start or would amount to a waste of time, which you are already running short on, with such "fanciful notions," of dreams and intentions?

If so, then I feel compelled to ask a few questions. First, how old are you, or if you don't feel comfortable answering that question, maybe you could say in what age-range group are you. I don't ask this from an ageist perspective, but from knowing from my own experience in believing a lot of false, hyped-up, age-related fears I used to have in the past. I ask this because your concerns might be related to false perceptions of time and aging. Second, have you considered that you don't really believe in the LoA or Intentional Manifestation? I say this because it sounds like you believe that you are being asked to sit on a rock at the edge of the sea in a loin cloth and chant, "ommm" for twenty years, to no good end. That has nothing to do with the LoA or manifesting your dreams under the LoA.

I labored under many delusions about "time" and "wasting time" for much of my twenties and thirties. I know all about that angst! Now my concern for not having enough time deal with a completely different application: I have a newborn and my job as an attorney loves to keep me at the office for long nights and weekends. I have discovered that deep relaxation in my time away from the office actually alters my perception of time! I created a panic that I didn't have enough time to satisfy all my clients' demands, and this just fueled the panic even more. Then one day, I started doing deep-relaxation techniques at night--even with only 4-6 hours of sleep on a given occasion. I found that upon arising the next day, I had more "space" in my mind to get things done. More space in the mind to get things done = more time to get things done. So I would go to work, feeling a great expanse of mental space, from the relaxation exercises from the night before, and I got more work done in much less "time" than I could have with more "time" and a more stressed mind.

Time is not what we think it is. A lot of literature speaks to the issue of the illusory nature of time--the Seth's books and also the Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Reynard come first to mind here. In these books, the matter of "psychological time" is discussed, where people actually manipulate time to achieve things more quickly--as if there were "missing time." As well, even the belief system known as "Remote Viewing" posits that mind exists out of time.

So there are many ways to respond to your concerns, my friend! We just need to know more clearly what it is you mean, when you say that you feel like you don't have enough time.



" does that mean that when you think you have found the best plan forward, you
but then worry that you don't have enough available "time" to achieve that task because you "wasted" "time" on the other goal, which you now have changed?




I try all sorts of stuff but the feeling that I'm wasting time creeps in and I end up in a state of despair where I don't know what to do. I can't do regular work, I can't study, I can't sit around and daydream, I can't even listen to music because I can't shake the feeling that this is not the life I want.[/QUOTE]

[Balbrae]

Originally Posted by lycan

What do I do when I have to open up my eyes?

When you open up your eyes from a "successful" visualization exercise, you feel psyched and optimistic. So what you do then is simply "take basic action in the general direction of your intended manifestation." For example, I take basic action in the general direction of obtaining Willis Island by learning more about islands, how to buy them, and finding a way to withdraw from the practice of law and move into the area of my first and greatest passion: writing and producing entertainment (musical plays and movies). Another "basic action" I take in the general direction of obtaining Willis Island is by continuing to better my manifestation skills, including by getting better at meditation and my visualization exercises, making and listening to more affirmations, and continuing to build knowledge of how others have achieved and maintained their high state of vibration. For example, I love reading and listening to audio books on the LoA and Intentional Manifestation. Staying pumped up is important! Staying pumped up = maintaining a high state of vibration. You must continue to feed your pumped-up state! That qualifies for "taking basic action, in the general direction," as well.

However, I need not worry about "how" Willis Island will come to me--it might come to me from a completely different direction, like winning a lottery, going out into private practice of law and winning a huge case, the giving away of an island by a donation from a charitable organization--it could be anything! Taking care of the "how" of it is the Universe's job. My jobs are to intend the manifestation and to take "basic" action in a general direction, to greet that manifestation on the shores!

Please note: There is some dispute about the necessity of having to "take action" after you form the manifestation. So let's leave that debate aside for now. For me, I try to take "basic" action, when doing so fits the intention-manifestation. For example, I had a friend who had a doctor's appointment to see if her tumor were of a dangerous variety. I visualized her smiling at the results, diving off a "high-dive," diving board into a pool of shimmering, white water (the white water was a rich, healing, milky liquid), while she was bombarded with healing, white laser beams from outer space to points all over her body. She was magnificently acrobatic in her dive and was smiling with a gleaming effervescence, as she dove into the pool and surfaced. I took no further "action" than visualizing that for two weeks before her appointment, and also I took "action" in telling her friend to join me in such positive visualization. I also took "action" by "talking" about it with her friend and reassuring her friend that all would be well. But other than that, I did not take other "action." The intended manifestation arrived just as imagined: she got a clean bill of health, when the doctor pronounced her tumor was benign! (The point is that healings may not require physical, overt action, like one might need to take when authoring a screenplay, which implies action, in that it has to get written.)

I recommend listening to a really fun and insightful audio book that you can download in seconds from Audible.Com. The book is by Mike Dooley (you have to get the audio book because his delivery in reading the book makes it much more inspiring than merely reading his words on the page--his story-telling is masterful in the audio book), entitled: Manifesting Change It Couldn't Be Easier. I've listened to it many times, and I simply love that audio book! Here is a link to get this book. Manifesting Change: It Couldn't Be Easier Audio Book | Mike Dooley | Download Manifesting Change: It Couldn't Be Easier. It might change your life! At the very least, the book will answer many, many of your questions and keep you feeling psyched up, which is critically important. Your mental state of optimism is paramount!

You're doing great by simply asking the questions you are asking!

[lycan]

Originally Posted by Balbrae

Does this mean that you feel like you are drifting in life, trying all sorts of new avenues, careers, or life-paths? Do you mean that once you try these news avenues, you change your mind or feel like one lane is closing, then you try to open another?

I do fell like I'm drifting in life, but no, I'm not trying all sorts of new avenues, careers or life-paths. What I desire today is pretty much the same thing I wanted 10 years ago, with only very slight clarifications (but the same feeling). The only difference between me now and 10 years ago is that I used to think I could make enough money to fix things, but now I feel I wasted my time running after money. I don't want to wake up 10 years from now and feel I wasted my time with visualizations too.

And when you say, "or focus on the things that I like in it, I like in it, but I have this sense of urgency, that I will waste my life waiting/working/intending for a better life," do you mean that when you try to manifest a preferred life going forward, using the LoA and Intentional Manifestation, that you suddenly feel like it is too late to start or would amount to a waste of time, which you are already running short on, with such "fanciful notions," of dreams and intentions?

Yes, sort of.

If so, then I feel compelled to ask a few questions. First, how old are you, or if you don't feel comfortable answering that question, maybe you could say in what age-range group are you.

I'm in my mid 20s.

So there are many ways to respond to your concerns, my friend! We just need to know more clearly what it is you mean, when you say that you feel like you don't have enough time.

I feel that I am using my time with things I dislike or distractions instead of with the things I actually want to experience and that I will not get to experience the things I actually want because I'm not using my time in a way that will lead to them. That I'm moving further and further away from what I want and one day, I'll have moved too far. That I will lose all the hope I have of living the life I want to live.

"does that mean that when you think you have found the best plan forward, you but then worry that you don't have enough available "time" to achieve that task because you "wasted" "time" on the other goal, which you now have changed?

I have not found the best plan forward. I have not found any plan forward. All plans feel futile, like a waste of my time. I don't know what to do with my day.

[Balbrae]

Originally Posted by lycan

I do fell like I'm drifting in life, but no, I'm not trying all sorts of new avenues, careers or life-paths. What I desire today is pretty much the same thing I wanted 10 years ago, with only very slight clarifications (but the same feeling). The only difference between me now and 10 years ago is that I used to think I could make enough money to fix things, but now I feel I wasted my time running after money.

Making enough money to fix things means many different things to many different people. For me, I desired enough money to "fix the thing of not having groceries in my refrigerator." I was a starving artist who did not know where in the world to begin to sell my writings, and I never tried. I was too scared to try because I feared that rejection would blow out the candle of my hope. So I became a paralegal, earning me $30K per year in 1993. That isn't a lot of money, but back then I thought it was all the money in the world. After that time, I suffered immense poverty again, during law school. After that I have made a more comfortable lifestyle, and consider the money I make paltry in consideration of where I intend to be!

So my first question before I tackle the other portions of your post is this: how much is "enough money" to you? What are the "things" you seek to fix? And what else, besides "money," would fix those things?

[geniegal]

Originally Posted by lycan

I have this sense of urgency, that I will waste my life waiting/working/intending for a better life.

I think the key is to detach - I'm still working on that. People like Steve pavlina did it by using a subjective reality perspective, saying "whatever discomfort I feel, I created. I am now going to focus on my power to create something different. " and look beyond the immediate situation

others like robert scheinfeld say "nothing outside my consciousness exists. everything is a game and matters very little"

I try to think like steve and struggle with that. Instead I always think "well I'm not working in an ER and look at my house, my kids, all the books I love, my friends, how lucky am I?" also I think that I may as well focus on LOA rather than worry as LOA gives vastly better results. My mum is a master worryer and generally I try to think the opposite to her.

The more you hang round forums like this, the more you can absorb these helpful ideas. Avoid the media and energy vampires, that's what I say!

[Zenn]

Originally Posted by lycan

How do I shake the feeling of lack when I'm constantly getting the impulse to do things that I have no means to do?

Enjoy and be grateful for what you do have means to do. Be conscious of them.

To detach, you first make peace with what is. Gratitude is the way to do that. Think of your current situation as what many, including yourself if you don't have what you have, wish to manifest for themselves. There are countless ways things could be worse which means in countless ways you are blessed and have already successfully manifested such wealth, including all your senses, your functioning mind and body, your shelter, food, relationships, your ability to walk and to see beauty, to appreciate humour and laugh, etc.

I remember even way before I knew of LOA,when I was struggling financially, I felt so blessed and said that I didn't have any problem money couldn't solve whereas the moneyed people I know had all kinds of problems money could not solve. Once I went with a friend to see how we could help a client of hers who had trouble keeping up with the Registered Education Saving Plan she had signed up for her son. There was a friend, an older man, who was there when the plan was presented to her and he encouraged her to take it and he would help her with the monthly deposits. Turned out he wasn't just being a friend and when she fell in love with another man and married him, he withdrew his help. Her husband then lost his job and the couple were in financial hardship. I remember telling her how she was a millionaire without realizing it. She had youth, beauty, health, and love, any of which some wealthy people would love to buy with a million dollars but couldn't.

Back to your situation, so you desire not from lack but from abundance for which you are grateful. Instead of feeling anxious that you lack what you want, you think, as Abraham suggests, "Wouldn't it be nice......." Whatever you desire is icing on the cake, to come when the Universe sees best. Before its manifestion in your reality, you enjoy what you do have and focus on what you are grateful for and wish for more. Time you enjoy is never a waste. So don't waste time. Enjoy it.

[Balbrae]

Originally Posted by geniegal

I think the key is to detach - I'm still working on that. People like Steve pavlina did it by using a subjective reality perspective, saying "whatever discomfort I feel, I created. I am now going to focus on my power to create something different. " and look beyond the immediate situation

others like robert scheinfeld say "nothing outside my consciousness exists. everything is a game and matters very little"

I try to think like steve and struggle with that. Instead I always think "well I'm not working in an ER and look at my house, my kids, all the books I love, my friends, how lucky am I?" also I think that I may as well focus on LOA rather than worry as LOA gives vastly better results. My mum is a master worryer and generally I try to think the opposite to her.

The more you hang round forums like this, the more you can absorb these helpful ideas. Avoid the media and energy vampires, that's what I say!

GenieGal: those are great points, indeed! Accepting subjective-power responsiblity for one's state of reality is very empowerig and it harmonizes with the LoA at the most fundamental level. Also great advice is taking the the "everything-is-a-game" approach, which not only obliterates stress, doubt, and worry, but it also puts one in a high state of vibration for manifestations! Fantastic!

[Balbrae]

Originally Posted by Zenn

Enjoy and be grateful for what you do have means to do. Be conscious of them.

To detach, you first make peace with what is. Gratitude is the way to do that. Think of your current situation as what many, including yourself if you don't have what you have, wish to manifest for themselves. There are countless ways things could be worse which means in countless ways you are blessed and have already successfully manifested such wealth, including all your senses, your functioning mind and body, your shelter, food, relationships, your ability to walk and to see beauty, to appreciate humour and laugh, etc.

I remember even way before I knew of LOA,when I was struggling financially, I felt so blessed and said that I didn't have any problem money couldn't solve whereas the moneyed people I know had all kinds of problems money could not solve. Once I went with a friend to see how we could help a client of hers who had trouble keeping up with the Registered Education Saving Plan she had signed up for her son. There was a friend, an older man, who was there when the plan was presented to her and he encouraged her to take it and he would help her with the monthly deposits. Turned out he wasn't just being a friend and when she fell in love with another man and married him, he withdrew his help. Her husband then lost his job and the couple were in financial hardship. I remember telling her how she was a millionaire without realizing it. She had youth, beauty, health, and love, any of which some wealthy people would love to buy with a million dollars but couldn't.

Back to your situation, so you desire not from lack but from abundance for which you are grateful. Instead of feeling anxious that you lack what you want, you think, as Abraham suggests, "Wouldn't it be nice......." Whatever you desire is icing on the cake, to come when the Universe sees best. Before its manifestion in your reality, you enjoy what you do have and focus on what you are grateful for and wish for more. Time you enjoy is never a waste. So don't waste time. Enjoy it.

Hi, Zenn: I think your gratefuleness approach works very well. Charles Hannel claimed that before one could receive more power and abundance, one had to make use of what one had now--that the conduit must be kept flowing. Gratefuless is a key way to keep that flow going. In fact, I will go a step further here: expressing thanks and gratefulness is the closest thing to working "magic" I have ever seen. There is something eerie and spooky about the changes that have come to me when expressing gratefulness--on many levels. So impressed am I by my affirmation MP3s that say "thank you" in them that I am busy making more! Good points you make!

[lycan]

Originally Posted by Balbrae

So my first question before I tackle the other portions of your post is this: how much is "enough money" to you?

Maybe I wasn't clear. I no longer believe money can heal my life. It would help, depending on the price I have to pay for it. There is no "enough" amount because money is not that important by itself.

What are the "things" you seek to fix?

I'll tell you the dream that makes me feel peaceful and enthusiastic. I want to be a successful, international male model. If I imagine that, with faith, it is like a weight lifts off me and I can breathe again. But the faith thing is hard for me to sustain. I don't know how to spend my day without sinking into the feeling of lack again.

And what else, besides "money," would fix those things?

Money would give me a more abundant life. Meaning, it would allow me to make choices. Maybe having lots of friends?