A natural characteristic of being human is to wish for things, for happiness, fulfilment, for possessions and even status, yet to do so brings us so much unnecessary suffering. Why? It has to do with how we wish and pray: we expect it or hope for it “someday”, yet we fail to prepare ourselves to receive, to ‘allow’ our wishes into reality.
It is born of a desire to have, fuelled by a myriad different inauthentic beliefs about ourselves and life. Once we make a wish, we risk disappointment through a whole series of potential pitfalls that befall us all at some time: impatience, self doubt, lack of belief, frustration, ingratitude and even annoyance at the lack of fruition.
If you want something for yourself or your life, better to prepare yourself properly, first by clearly imagining your choice of desire, then feeling it vividly as if it were already real. Once this is done, write it down and ‘park it’: leave it alone, perhaps just revisiting it from time to time (with equal vividness of imagination and feeling) to reinforce your desire, but leave it at that.
Don’t lament it still not being real or curse the time it is taking; trust it will be real in time and let go of your desire. This way it will eventually be real, without doubt. Fall into a trap, a pitfall, and your dream will be delayed or may even vanish into a pit of foiled desires. The choice is yours.
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