Am I Not Believing Hard Enough

Read this note, that I received recently from a dear friend asking me about how the Mind functions, and how "belief" works, in the creation of one's experience. What's all this about the Law of Attraction?

I realized when I read that note that a lot of people have that question. So I wrote to my friend that one must be very careful not to fall into self-blame or self-criticism when one earnestly believes in something and it does not occur. People in the so-called New Age Community sometimes get into self-recrimination at this point, saying things like, "What's the matter with me?!! I'm just not believing hard enough! I've got to believe more. We've got to have more faith, dammit!"

If we're not careful, we'll start making ourselves and each other 'wrong' for not thinking "positively enough," etc. So watch out for that trap.

When things are not happening the way you have envisioned them, it is often simply the Law of Opposites playing its effect. This is to be welcomed, not rejected. (What you resist, persists. What you look at, disappears. That it, is ceases to have its illusory form.) The Law of Opposites offers a Sure and Certain Sign that your good is on its way.

Now, however, if you don't believe that, if you start seeing the Law of Opposites as evidence that your good is NOT on the way, then it will not be, because you have "switched tracks" and are now experiencing that reality.

A track is nothing but a Belief System. Whatever track you are on takes you to exactly the Reality to which it is headed! Then you get to the station and wonder how in the heck you got there!

So welcome ALL experience---including the experience of NOT getting what you want. My friend said in her note to me that as hard as she tried not to, she struggled with worry (fear) at times over financial matters. I told her that there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Fear will eventually produce exactly what we are afraid of. It has no choice. That is simply how energy works.

All energy produces LIKE ENERGY. It has no choice. This is simply the mechanism. This is simply how the doggone machine works. You can't change it, you can only know that and work with it.

This is why Jesus' said over and over to his disciples, "Fear not, for I am with you, even unto the end of time." He also said, "Even before you ask, I will have answered."

Other masters of other faith traditions have offered the same wisdom, each in their own words. That is why my favorite prayer is: "Thank you, God, for helping me to understand that this problem has already been solved for me."

Whenever I catch myself worrying (which is not very often, to be honest. I'm a pretty happy-go-lucky guy....yes, even in so-called 'bad' times...), I immediately jump to that prayer. It is absolutely my favorite prayer of all time...

But now, the REAL question is: what if the money never comes? What if you went stone cold broke, had to sell the house, the car, everything...? Then what? What would happen then?

This drives to the largest questions of life: Who am I? Where am I? Why am I where I am? What am I doing here? And we are not so far "off topic" here after all, because you can only find those answers by going to the Soul.

There we will be told that we can fool around with children's toys if we wish...or we can move up to the next level of mastery, where our income and our holdings and our lifestyle become irrelevant to us.

Bring people a Vision.
From this Vision will emerge a Desire.
From this Desire will emerge a Mission.
From this Mission will emerge a Purpose.
From this Purpose will emerge a Function.
From this Function will emerge an Outcome.
From this Outcome will emerge an Experience.
From this Experience will emerge a Reality.
From this Reality will emerge an Awareness.
From this Awareness will emerge a Way of Being.
From this Way of Being will emerge an Expression of the Divinity that You Are.
From this Expression will emerge a new Vision.
And the Circle will be Complete.
And Life will go on, Everlasting.

I've lived on the street. For an entire year. Walking from corner to corner, asking people for whatever coins they may have in their pocket. I understand the Fear that drives us to Worry about things financial. Yet I tell you this: Who You Are has nothing to do with any of that. When this is something you real-ize (that is, "make real"), then you will be truly free.

And here is the irony. When you are truly free, all good things will flow to you easier than ever, ever before. Precisely because you have stopped struggling for them, stopped reaching for then, stopped worrying about them, stopped even needing them.

What we "don't need" comes to us freely exactly because we "don't need" them. That is, we live firmly in the conviction that we are "not in NEED" of them...and that conviction sends us to the Time Track where that REALITY exists!

From: Weekly Bulletin #376 * * NOTE: If you would like to send a comment or a question to Neale here at the Weekly Bulletin, you may do so by addressing an email to: weeklybulletinresponse@CwG.org *

Neale Donald Walsch (http://www.cwg.org) Neale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. With an early interest in religion and a deeply felt connection to spirituality, Neale spent the majority of his life thriving professionally, yet searching for spiritual meaning before beginning his now famous conversation with God. His With God series of books has been translated into 34 languages, touching millions of lives and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives. *