How To Get What You Want
The ancient secret kept right before your eyes
For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Mark 4:25
What a weird principle of the universe, yet how true. Maybe it’s not opposites that attract. Maybe it’s the exact reverse. Like attracts like. Love attracts more love, happiness attracts more happiness, and money attracts more money.
It does make sense if you consider that that which you are, you expand. The universe is in continuous expansion. You are nothing but the universe, a wiggle on the surface of all there is. You are how the universe is at the place and time you find yourself. It wouldn’t be so hard to understand then that whatever you are, however, you are, whatever you have, however you feel, you expand.
I’m sure that everyone wants to expand happiness, wealth, and love, yet the question that remains is how do you begin? If you expand what you are, what if you are unhappy, depressed and you are struggling with money? What if you want the opposite of what you are?
You have to nudge yourself. The issue is, if you feel unhappy, you must start with feeling happy if happiness is what you want. You must start with what you want to expand. You must start with having money, not with wanting money. You must start with loving if you want love in your life. It’s quite the opposite of common sense, but this has to become your common sense.
[…]whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Mark 11:24
In other words, Jesus illustrates again precisely this principle. If you believe that you have already received what you want, then you no longer want it. To want implies to not have and, if you start from not having, even that which you have will be taken away from you.
Now, how do you come to believe that you already have that which you don’t? Is this lying to yourself? What proof do you have you will receive what you want if you just believe you already have it? Don’t you have to work for whatever it is that you want? Don’t you have to hustle and go for it? Apparently, the universe doesn’t work that way. Like attracts like and opposites create more opposition.
So, how do you get out? How do you break the pattern without opposing it? Trust is the answer. Trust is the starting point. Trusting is not an action, it’s an attitude. Trusting, you don’t oppose the world. You’re not running away and you’re not fighting the way things are. When you trust, you can accept things as they are, even if they’re not ideal. Acceptance is the basic prerequisite to changing anything. You must accept where you are in life before you can change it. You must recognize where you are so that you know in which direction to step in order to get to where you want.
Trust is not a doing, it’s a way of being. It also recognizes that it’s not only you, this limited being, that is solely in charge of making things happen. The whole universe works with you and for you. The simple reason for that is, that you are not limited to your body. Other people you don’t even know can work for you like your heart and liver do, without you ever being aware that it happened. Coincidences are what we call the result of the collaboration inside and outside our bodies.
