Cherished wrote:

I think you'll find that if you look at it from a less literal perspective, you'll see very clearly how your underlying beliefs dictate how things play out. It's not so much about exact events materialising. Like, you didn't visualise or expect an interview. But what happened after the interview? Your beliefs were confirmed when you didn't get the job. So your vibe is one of "yeah I knew I wouldn't get that, I'm surprised I even got an interview." I would hedge a bet that you have other areas in your life where you're also vibing "yeah I knew that wouldn't happen." See how it's not necessarily the event? It's not about the interview, it's about your underlying vibe being highlighted for you. Or confirmed, if you will.

Yeah, I can respect that. But if we really do create our reality, shouldn't we be able to materialize exact events the way we want it?

With this job interview, I was negative about it as I started thinking about the circumstances. At the time, I was starting to practice Abe-Hicks more often. I decided to move on from thoughts about the job since it didn't matter much to me anymore and focus on things that made me feel good.

With Abe-Hicks, I was under the impression that we don't have to work on our beliefs, we just have to let go of subjects that feel bad and find thoughts or subjects that feel good and as we get consistently, genuinely happy - we attract everything that makes us happy.

For over a week, I put that into practice so I was in a positive vibe when the job interview came. When the interview failed, I didn't really care because I realized the hours were bad, I didn't want to take the train at 4 in the morning, plus I had school to focus on too. At the time, I thought I didn't get the job because it simply wasn't a match to feeling positive. Or am I misunderstanding Abe-Hicks? (The reason I gave Abe a chance was because feeling happy seemed like a shortcut and I was sick and bored of shifting limiting beliefs with affirmations and visualization).
 

Colonel Roosevelt wrote:

When the interview failed, I didn't really care because I realized the hours were bad, I didn't want to take the train at 4 in the morning, plus I had school to focus on too.

Just throwing in my 2 cents - it seems like the bad outweighed the good. So LoA got you to the interview that you didn't think you'd get, but after the cons outweighed the pros, you realized that this no longer a desire. So, the universe delivered to you want you wanted: not getting the job.
 

Colonel Roosevelt wrote:

big_blue wrote:

Just throwing in my 2 cents - it seems like the bad outweighed the good. So LoA got you to the interview that you didn't think you'd get, but after the cons outweighed the pros, you realized that this no longer a desire. So, the universe delivered to you want you wanted: not getting the job.
 

Yes, I can see that. Some say you need a strong desire to manifest your goals and when I found out about the hours my desire for that specific job disappeared. Still, if we need strong desire, why are we so good at attracting unwanted things? It could also be that since I was in a positive state, the universe was reflecting different things that were a match to me and the lesson was to focus on what I like about the job and soon I'd get the perfect job with the right hours, the old "focus on what you like and you'll find more to like."


 

 
Yes! Exactly.. Sometimes you screw your own vibe by wondering WHY?!?!?! Instead, u just have to trust that it's all part of the path. You weren't a match to that particular job, and it ended up in your favour anyway because u didn't like the hours. So you got a bit of wanted/bit of unwanted.. And your vibe was a bit happy/ a bit meh about the job. Perfect! See?

Visualisation is POWERFUL but if you go right back to thinking "this is never gonna happen for me" then you've just wasted your time. You have to change the underlying beliefs. And it's not that hard really- because everything can only be 2 things- love or fear. We either love things and feel appreciation, or we fear things. And you can choose to love instead of fear at any time. It's a choice, and a habit.. And it changes your whole vibe when you practice choosing love every moment you can. With the job, simply remaining open and loving yourself, and trusting that great things are coming opens you up to a million possibilities. That is self love. Deciding that not getting the job is bad (as an example) closes you off for any other possibilities to occur. So keeping your energy open with "hmmmm, this means something way better is on its way!" will yield to you what you ACTUALLY want- which is the better job with the better hours.

And it's true, it's as easy as finding something in your immediate vicinity and vibing appreciation for it. The more you do that, the more relaxed you become and the more you allow better experiences into your life. THAT is the difference between manifesting success or not. If you can't think positively about your specific desire, you won't ever manifest it in full. So you're best to think of things that DO make you feel good. If you CAN think of your specific desire with excitement and joy, then it's coming.

I think "beliefs" is tricky for a lot of people.  Beliefs are formed by repeated thoughts.  However, that statement alone kinda doesn't really explain a whole lot.  

As Sanshi uses in her example with the sky - a belief is what you assume to be true - consciously and more importantly, subconsciously - you assume that the sky is blue - this is an ingrained assumption of the existence of something in your world - so ingrained - you're not really conscious of it - you probably don't walk around all day long reaffirming to yourself that the sky is blue - it's so ingrained, you've just accepted it as fact, and you move on with your day/life.

When you think repeated thoughts, you begin to believe/assume/accept that they are true - that those thoughts and that perspective you have is real.  

This goes hand in hand with the phrase "act as if" - it's not so much the physical acting (setting a place for two, making space in the closet, etc.) - it's more the assumption/acceptance that this is just how things are - it's what you "know." 

The assumption and acceptance of things being a certain way are the product of your beliefs (repeated thoughts).  When you repeatedly think something, it becomes ingrained in your subconscious, translating into your conscious world - reflecting back to and in the external world that which you assume to be the truth.....

Sanshi wrote:

You have to become aware that you believe that the sky is blue and the moment you become aware of it, it's no longer a belief, but a choice.

This suggests that if we want to change our underlying beliefs then we have to first be aware of what those beliefs are. Otherwise visualizing, focusing on the end result, or finding the better-feeling story won't work since the underlying belief is still there and we're unaware of it.