You devour books on manifesting, repeat affirmations daily, listen to law of attraction meditations. And then … nothing. Not only that, but rather than things going in the supposed ‘right’ direction, the opposite seems to be happening.
This is where I’m at right now.
Perhaps you can relate. Sometimes when you really want something, you end up clinging to it — almost as if you’re micro managing the process. There’s a bunch of things I’ve been trying to manifest for a while — buying a house (ideally outright) creating a high enough passive income so I have the freedom and flexibility to be with my son and have the time for my own projects.
For me, these things feel huge and every time I take action and it feels like I’m moving in the right direction, I then get disheartened when I hit an obstacle.
I wonder when this happens if it’s some sort of a sign that I’m on the wrong track, or something else. I wrote a blog post earlier in the year about The Obstacle Being the Way. It was a bit of advice from a course I was doing at the time. It made sense, but it wasn’t until yesterday after doing the meditation below that I truly understood what this meant.
A friend set over a link to a Youtube channel he’d been watching and was finding really helpful. Here’s the meditation I’ve been listening to.
You often hear how important it is to let go of the outcome, but you’re rarely told how to do it.
When you’re experiencing lots of synchronicities and everything just seems to be in an effortless state of flow, it’s easier to trust the whole process. But, when the process doesn’t unfold in the way you thought it would, that’s when resistance kicks in. I have such a hard time with this.
The whole point is that you have to trust the process. Even as I write this, it sounds like a cliche because I’ve heard it so many times. But I think up until the other day, I’d never quite understood how to actually apply this.
This is where ‘the obstacle is the way’ comes in. Instead of getting frustrated, the idea is to accept that they’re part of the process rather than pushing against them and getting frustrated. Or worse, giving up and thinking this just doesn’t work.
Easier said than done, but it’s worth a try. This is now going to be my focus, as well as being grateful and appreciating what I do have.
