The Power of Stepping Stones
(03.02.2008)
The Law of Attraction feels very natural, and can bring fantastic rewards with great ease. But it can also take quite an effort to implement it. Why may that be? One reason could be found in a refusal to think in terms of stepping stones. These can be useful and beneficial in enjoying the ride.
If we want to manifest something most effectively, then we need to live a lot of our life from the feeling-state of already having it. That feeling-state varies from person to person, as it is dependant on the individual's sense of reality. To one person a specific event may be exciting, while to someone else it would be relaxing. Whichever feeling is the most appropriate for you depends on your own preferences. What I would suggest is a help regardless of preferences though, are stepping stones.
What is meant with those is to manifest in a specific pattern which makes it most easy to adjust your energy to being in resonance with what you want. If something is very prevalent in our experience, then it can be a lot harder to deliberately direct our energy towards what we would prefer in its place. If you want a new watch, and you spend a great amount of time every day looking at your old one, then that may not help the process. Put another way, it may be said that manifestations are aided by deliberately expressing your intentions in ways which aren't too greatly contradicted by your presently manifest physical circumstances. These stepping stones aren't necessary, but they can certainly be a help.
The key is to essentially go for those intentions which can truly be felt as being already manifest. Thinking of colossal achievements is fine, but if these intended accomplishments are so great that it's hard to even imagine what it would feel like to have them, then it may be time to consider stepping stones.
Feeling is the key, and that, to a great extent, is what this is all about. Stepping stones are only useful in conjunction with the Law of Attraction because they allow us to easily get into a new feeling-state. If, for example, you wanted to collect 20 beautiful paintings for your home, and you haven't got any yet, then it would be a lot easier to get into the feeling of having a few at first. Then, when there are some 2 or 3, it takes a lot lesser of an effort to shift towards the feeling of having 10, because you already have some 'external' evidence of the 10 paintings in your world. Once you had 10, you would probably find it noticeably easier to get into the state of being of possessing 20, and before you knew it, you'd be having your collection. But if you had attempted to get into the feeling-state of having all 20 immediately, when your physical circumstances said '0', then it would probably have been a lot harder to do so. It's possible, but harder to do.
It's similar with many kinds of manifestations which involve evidence to the contrary in our physical circumstances. It can make sense to reach for the best possible circumstances which we can really feel ourselves as experiencing. In this way, stepping stones often help to improve our lives via conscious creation, and maybe they will do so for you too.
-Thomas
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