The Power of Patience: a necessary step in the creation process.
April 22nd, 2007Chery and Joel’s Law of Attraction Lesson Series #3
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“Patience” is one of the most advanced and critical “nuggets” of technique that must be mastered in order to have the law of attraction work properly for you. Without patience, sooner or later you are doomed to failure.
In fact, this is one of the most devious and common stumbling blocks to the “advanced” students of the Secret and the teachings of Abraham. Most people who really dive into this work and seem to be on the fast track in terms of being very diligent in their processes, their emotions, and their vibrational output often fall into the patience trap. That is because their expectancy is elevated and their focus on their results is intensified. It is very easy to develop a habit of ‘taking score”.
If you are not manifesting your every wish as fast as you would like than you can be in trouble if you lose your patience. Lack of patience means you are observing “what is” and you are vibrating around thoughts of:
“where is it”? or
“why isn’t it hear yet? or
“how come this happened or showed up, I didn’t ask for that? or
“why is it taking so long? “
Any of these thoughts can be fatal to the success of your process and your ultimate goals. They will get you stuck. And then your attention to your stuckness will take you for a ride…straight down! You will find yourself right back on the hamster wheel to no-where and the law of attraction will even help it start spinning for you. This is when you can start to feel like you cant do this work or it is not for you. This is when many people quit.
Patience was the missing and necessary ingredient to success. It is critical. Patience is about acceptance of where you are right now. Patience is about looking for your joy in the now so you can enjoy the journey. Patience is about looking for all the things in your life right now that you are grateful for. Patience is about eagerly anticipating all the wonderful things that are on its way to you without any real concern about how long it will take. But mostly, patience has to do with having “faith”, because if you truly have “faith” that the process will work in time, then you will have no reason to lose your patience.
It is no coincidence that almost all major religious systems have “faith” as a key part of their teachings. Think about it, Christianity, Judiasm, Buddism, Hinduis, Sufi, Muslim…all have a faith component in God or something higher. But what does faith mean? It means TRUST. Trust in God or whatever form of God you choose. The message given is… do not waiver from having faith….…you must trust or you will not receive or experience or access the power of God in your life. Even our founding fathers in our beloved USA thought enough of this concept to embroider “In God We Trust” on every monetary note.
The message of faith further refers to the rules of the religious system. Faith in what God stands for. It is almost universally agreed that God stands for some kind of power or powerful being, or higher consciousness…beyond our human capability. Something that is stronger than us, more powerful than us, older than us, more knowing than us. Of course some teachings understand and preach that the power of God resides within us, but not all get and interpret this message. But there does seem to be some universal agreement that it is about life force and possibly the source of all things.
The great religious teachings tell us that in order to have access to this great power in your life, to be able to manifest miracles in your life, to have an amazing life, you need to have faith. You need to “believe”. Believe what? Believe the rules that you must follow to connect with God or to access the power of God. The great teachers are all talking about what the rules are. Jesus, Mohammed, the teachings in the Talmud, the Koran…they are books of rules. And if you “trust’ the rules and have faith you will access the power of God or whatever form of God in your life.
This concept of faith also comes into play with the teachings of The Secret. Jerry and Ester Hicks with their Abraham teachings also present the rules as clearly as you could ever want it. Simply stated, they just tell us to believe in and follow the science of the law of attraction and use your connection to source (ie. your emotions) as your guide to stay on the path to access a power greater than you have ever known. With this power, you can create any life you want in time.
But you must believe. You must have faith. It is from here that you will have your power of patience. If you are patient, it means you really trust. You trust it is coming. You trust it is working. You don’t lose that trust even if it takes a long time. You allow yourself to be a believer. You give the benefit of the doubt times 100. You don’t question, you don’t worry, you don’t get frustrated. You do your processes, you manage your vibration, you stay positive at all costs and you wait. If you find yourself losing your patience then you step up your processes even more until you feel good again.
On The Secret, they say you Ask, Believe, and Receive. The “believe” step is about being patient while you wait for your wishes to show up. Otherwise you begin injecting negative thoughts, negative questioning, second guessing, negative feelings and negative vibration into your experiences… and down you go, hurtling away vibrationally from everything you are trying to achieve.
And when you hit bottom, you will say, “what just happened?”…Some will climb back on the horse again to give it another try. But not knowing what happened leaves you vulnerable to the same lack of patience mistake again. Each failure takes away your power to succeed if you don’t understand what is causing your failure. This is the common trap for so many. And if you fail a couple of times without truly understanding why it did not work, then you are likely done with this program.
Having patience means you never give up. You never stop believing, not matter how bad things may “seem”. And when you master patience, you have learned to vibrate hope and eager anticipation of what is yet to come. You have learned to make the best of the vibration you are in. You have learned to accept where you are at. You have learned to have gratitude during the wait.
Since you hold this feeling and vibration with you in the midst of not having it yet, the universe is getting a clear signal of what to bring you…so it will come. In the meantime, your life is full of joy, even in the midst of your lack. Why, because you are deliberately choosing thoughts that feel good, no matter what. Abraham (Ester Hicks) refers to this as being in a state of “allowing”. They even call it “The Law of Allowing”. In other words, our work is to do whatever it takes to keep our vibration high while we are waiting for the changes we have been wishing for. In this way we can vibrationally “receive” those wonderful things. If we let our vibration sink too low, we are no longer a match to what we are wanting and it cannot come to us.
If you have mastered the art of thinking about what it will be like to have what you want, then your life is already improved, even without the thing you are asking for. This is because you will be feeling good doing this process. When you feel good your life is improved right now.
Now your work is to master your patience and not worry about how long things take to materialize. It is perfectly OK to take notice of the “signs” of things that show up which indicate your wish is getting closer. If you wished for a red jaguar and they start showing up everywhere including your neighbor’s driveway, then celebrate the fact that the universe has her wheels in motion trying to bring it to you. DO NOT WORRY that it is not here yet.
The best attitude to have comes from the following example: Imagine you have purchased a bottle of vitamins from the same internet catalogue company for 3 years. Every month you place an order, and two weeks later your bottle arrives, like clockwork. They never let you down. So now when you order your product, the two week waiting period for the vitamins to arrive is filled with absolute knowing, absolute trust, that it will arrive. You have no doubt. You still have to go the two weeks without it, but you know it is coming. That is the attitude you have to have when you do this work.
Go to the library or scan the internet and research books and stories of people who turned around a terminal illness. There are tons of stories. You will see that almost all these people had something in common. They had an undying faith in the outcome they wanted. They made a decision! I will beat this! And then they had Patience while holding this belief. They turned their attention from “what is” to “how it will be”. They did not allow the very heavy and negative thoughts of horrible outcomes to enter their experience. They did not keep their focus on how bad things were currently but intead they focused on the future and on what they wanted. And finally, they achieved the outcome they were wanting. The outcome was their very life.
Just remember, great things are worth waiting for. And if you focus on loving your journey while you basque in your waiting, you are already having it all.
