I ask you,” What do you want?” And maybe you say to me.” Oh, that’s so easy. I want enough money to pay my bills, take care of the kids, have a lovely house to live in, a luxurious car, a job I like, a loving partner with whom to share it all, and perfect health. Most in this world, having all those beautiful things would seem like living in heaven. But if we are to release that power we call passion, where we can finally live closer to the frequency of our natural selves in profound joy, we have got to go beyond the obvious, way beyond. So, what else? What else do you want?
Wants change over the years. What are your smallest, your most prominent, your oldest, your newest, your most deeply hidden desires, ambitions, and aspirations? The ones that are so far-out, so impossible, so unobtainable that never have you so much as supposed them aloud, to anyone, not even to God? What have you stopped allowing yourself to want?
We see all the things we would like to have but don’t, all the places we would like to be but aren’t all, the ladders we would like to have climbed but didn’t. When very little has gone the way, we would have deliberately chosen, why start wanting now? It’s the old ” The more I want, the less I get” scenario, along with the other side of the same coin, which says. “Sure, I have lots of desires and wants, but I don’t ever expect to get them anyhow.” Sad to say. We have been brainwashed into believing most Wants are not only self-serving, egotistical no-no’s but absurdly impossible. There are three types of Wants, each with its purpose in our dream life:
Real Wants: Real wants that come from the Don’t Wants. “I don’t want to live here with my partner anymore; instead of I want…?” Those are the easiest. Just turn the Don’t Want page, and there is your Real Want on the other side.
Negative Wants: Negative Wants are always Don’t Wants and can be tough to spot unless you tune in to your feelings. ”I want to be well” has a clear focus on the apparent fact that you are not. That’s a Negative Want. Naturally, you wouldn’t want something if you had it, but if your only focus is on the fact that you don’t have it, it will never come. It can’t, for your focus is on its absence. If what you want and the way you are stating it is not making you feel good, it’s Negative Wanting and needs to be flipped over to become a positive intent, an exciting desire.
Rightful Wants: Rightful Wants says that we have a right to our desires, no matter what our religion may say to the contrary, or our parents, or friends, or coworkers. By our existence, we have a right to test our creative skills in any manner we choose. We have a right to displace any Don’t Want in our lives with a want, at any time. With Rightful Wants, we accept the authentic fact that it is not only appropriate and proper but critical for us to want; anything, anywhere, in any amount, of any kind, in any shape, to any degree, at any time we so desire. This is the only reason we have Wants: to make us feel good when we have them.
We came here for the contrast. We came here to learn how to manifest our desires, and we came to learn discernment and cultivate this strange art of wanting that equates to manifesting. Instead, we got ourselves caught in the pointless skill of diligently collecting Don’t Wants. We came to learn how to create our desires, fulfill our dreams, prosper, and take this exquisite experience called ”being physical” to its highpoint. We came to experience the good with the bad, that we might learn how to choose likes over dislikes. So have them. Forget that they’re too far out, Forget that they’re hopeless or too unthinkable, Forget that someone will think you have lost it, Forget that you might be called selfish, Forget that those things which make you uncomfortable. Wanting is not only your right; it is an absolute prerequisite for a happy Life.
(Reference Book: LYNN GRABHORN, Excuse me, your life is waiting. The Astonishing Power of feelings.)
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