Ask and you will receive, but what do you truly want?

I am a student of the law of attraction as well as A Course in Miracles.

I love observing and playing with the law of attraction and recognising that I really do create my own reality, for better or for worse. It gives a sense of personal power.

A Course in Miracles expands this principle and at the same time simplifies it by saying that we do choose our reality, but there are only two alternatives to choose from: fear or love, love being the only 'real' world and fear being an illusion. Fear puts us in a state of mind where we do not feel enough and need to compensate for it by ego manifestations. Love being the state of mind where we trust in our highest becoming, however that path will unfold, and trust that we will have enough material things to support us along the way.

If you limit yourself to only what your mind can conceive (which is still a lot) you are partially blocking off the possibilities of attracting the highest possible expression of your life experience, your highest possible becoming. Our source (Goddess, God, universe, Spirit, you name it) without exception has a plan that is beyond what our limited perception can begin to imagine and conceive.

I appreciate the nicer material things in life as much as the next person but I don't usually bank my happyness on it. If I ever do, I am in trouble because it will never be enough. We always want to experience more, have more, be more. This is not a bad thing if we can move through these experiences while having an underlying feeling of joy as the basis, not the product, of the experiences. At the same time, when things are not going well we do not identify too much with the adversity. It's not that we should not have these things, but true value should not be applied to it by us. As it reads in A Course in Miracles: "You do not ask too much of life, but far too little. When you let your mind be drawn to bodily concerns, to things you buy, to eminence as valued by the world, you ask for sorrow, not for happiness".

This is not some moralistic sermon about materialism and its traps and how people are lost in consumerism. That is a different, although important, conversation but it can too easily turn into judgment and arguments on how we 'should' live, who acts 'right' and who doesn't. The ego (small separated self) revels in this. We have not come into this world to agree to one way of living and tell each other off when we break the rules. We have come for collective and individual expansion and to live our highest potential. This means vastly different things to different people.

So by all means manifest those material possessions, career and life that you dream of. There is nothing inherently bad about this. After all, if it's attained through questionable means I am convinced the wealth will either not last or it will cause you more problems than joy. Greed is one thing, joyous manifestation is another. The former feels restricting (after the initial rush) and the latter feels expansive. Either way you will get back the type of energy that you put into it within this lifetime. There is no need to wait for a fearful afterlife judgement since I am convinced we come from unconditional love and will return to it, as well as experience it in this life if we choose to.

Remember the only two choices are fear and love, although these can have many expressions. So next time you want to manifest something into your life and you are not sure if it's the right choice, ask yourself if you are doing it out of fear of not being or having enough (restriction), or out of true inspiration and love for life (expansion). The clue is in the feeling.