“Ask for 100% of what you want, and then let existence decide… because it will!” writes Subhan
Over many years, one of my priorities has been to discover how to live a creative and fulfilling life. This has led me to discover how to watch and learn from the life energy within me; and to learn how to express it!
Along the way, I was amazed to discover how the mind unconsciously used some of that energy to repress the life energy within, rather than allowing it to be expressed! I asked myself how that was possible! Could I actually be using this alive, creative energy to stifle the aliveness and creativity?
I experienced how many times I wanted to do something, but didn’t! How many times I wanted to say something, but didn’t! How many times thoughts and fears stifled my doing and saying what I wanted – for fear of disappointing others and not being accepted by them, or fear of making myself too vulnerable. I recognized that I didn’t do many things because of fear or worry or anxiety; and as a result, I suffered…
If this sounds familiar to you, then I can share a way to begin re-owning that energy. It is this: “Ask for what you want!”
That’s right! Ask for it! Of course it sounds too simple, or too scary. But, if you look at what you’ve done in the past when you didn’t ask, recognize that, obviously, you didn’t get what you wanted. What you did get was frustration, and a contractive feeling of being a victim.
The worst that can happen by asking for something will be a “no.” But that is the same result you’d get if you hadn’t asked for it!
To really make your asking work, there are two more things to understand. The first is: Why not ask for 100% of what you want? Trying to compromise your life energy by asking for less often produces the same sinking, frustrating feeling – even if you get it! So, if you’re going to be bold enough to ask, why not ask for what you really, truly want?
The second thing to remember is that existence is not obligated to support what you want. So, you will need to accompany any asking with this important understanding: Ask for what you want, and remember to let existence decide, because it will!
Your asking puts your energy “out there.” And existence will respond to it in various forms. It always does. But not necessarily the way you would like it to. That’s where you need to understand that while you are a vital part of this eternal dance of life, existence is flowing on its own – the way existence flows! What it does may support what you ask for. And, it may not!
It’s possible to recognize that no amount of pushing or pulling what is happening will change the course of the nature of existence. Of course fighting with existence will create resentment and sadness and anger in you.
So existence will either confirm what you want, modify it, or not support it. But it will give you an indication of where the universal energy is going. And what’s important is for you to learn from that and begin to flow where existence is going.
So: Ask for 100% of what you want, and then let existence decide… because it will!
I have been remembering this for a number of years now, and I recognize that getting or not getting what I ask for, is not the real issue. The real issue is to act with the life energy within, and then learn from whatever answer existence offers.
If you haven’t already started this adventure for yourself, won’t you join me now, and ask for what you want? And if you have, keep on asking. Who knows? Maybe we’ll all eventually learn to trust where life is going, and what it provides – so that even asking will fade into the flow.
This article was first posted on Facebook – reproduced here with the author’s permission
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