Actions Don’t Create, Energy Does | The Law of Reversed Effort

A common question people have during their spiritual journey is: “I’m doing all this work but my manifestation hasn’t come yet, what am I doing wrong?” The answer is that you’re still living as though your manifestation has not come yet. You are still trying to ‘do’ in order to ‘receive’, and this very act is what sets you in a vibration that tells the Universe not to manifest it yet. This is the basic principle of the Law of Reversed Effort (LRE): the more you try to manifest something, the less likely it is to materialize. When you learn how to utilize LRE to let go of control and focus on your vibration instead, your manifestation process will not only speed up on its own but also become painless.

The Law of Reversed Effort, coined by Aldous Huxley, is one of the less talked about universal laws, but pairs seamlessly with the Law of Assumption and the Law of Attraction. It states the more you try to attract something, the farther you end up pushing it away. If you’re waking up every morning and reciting affirmations of “I have my new car. It is in my driveway,” but your emotional state is frustration, impatience, and doubt, then the only thing that’ll pop up are signs that align with frustration, impatience, and doubt. You are effectively delaying your manifestation by trying to attract it faster. This is because the Universe’s language is vibration— that is your energy, not your words or actions.

Your vibration consists of your thoughts, your beliefs, and your feelings. The vibration you’re in emits an energy that the Universe reads as a request. If you’re feeling frustrated then the Universe ‘hears’ you asking for more frustration. But if you were to instead live in the wish fulfilled — choosing to abide in the emotions you’d feel if your desire were already manifested — then the Universe would ‘hear’ you asking for the outcome of your desire fulfilled because you’re emitting the frequency of that outcome.

Your True Nature

“But I can’t control my thoughts…they happen on their own and I can’t make them stop!”

You actually can, and it’s far easier than you think. It’s not about actively battling the mind or the full-time job of trying to shield the mind from opposing thoughts, it’s about not engaging at all. You have to remember that ‘you’, the true You, are separate from the thoughts and emotions that occur in the body . You are Pure Consciousness, aka Pure Awareness, and your power is in where you apply that awareness. The mind only perpetuates thoughts that you pay attention to — the ones that raise your hackles or get any kind of reaction out of you — therefore if you remove attention from opposing thoughts, they will gradually cease to appear. Practicing neutrality is a great way to get out of the habit of responding to worries and reacting to the advertisements of the mind. The overall goal is to remain in the state of having what you want.

Stabilizing Your Energy

“How do I stay in the state of the wish fulfilled?”

Remaining in the wish fulfilled can sound like a job in itself because you imagine you’d have to maintain the feeling of positivity for ions, or continuously imagine a scene of having your desire — but that’s not what the practice of ‘staying in the wish fulfilled’ is calling you to do. It’s only calling you to be okay NOW. To feel just as content, just as confident, and just as assured in the present moment as you would if you already witnessed your manifestation unfold. The main emotions anyone feels when they receive their desire are:

• Satisfaction
• Relief
• Pleasant Surprise
• Contentment
• Gratefulness

So find reasons to relax into these emotional states. Your reasons for being in these states don’t have to be specific to your desire — something as simple as being grateful for receiving a free keychain at work can put you in the exact vibration that ends up manifesting your brand new car. The Universe only cares about what vibration you are in, what your energy reads as.

You don’t have to do the effort of holding onto that emotion either. Think about it: what would happen after you received that new car? After all your problems with your old car are no longer relevant? You’d be content. And when you’re content with something, what happens? You no longer care about it. When you’re content, there’s nothing to think about, nothing to worry about, nothing to press for because everything is fine.

So similarly, after letting the Universe know your desire and feeling the full satisfaction of receiving that desire, let go of it altogether — because it’s done. It worked. You manifested something and got it — on to the next thing. When the Universe reads your energy of satisfaction, of gratefulness, it receives that as a clear instruction for it to manifest more things that result in that outcome.

Conclusion

Let the Universe do the work for you. Don’t try to force your manifestations through external acts or excessive spiritual practices — simply set your goal and indulge in things that produce the same emotions you’d have if your wish were already fulfilled. The less effort you apply, the closer you’ll draw your desires to you.

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With Love, Kiara Hana