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I know I have posted on this board a couple of times before and I am very grateful for all the help each of you have provided. Right now I just need some help getting myself to a better feeling state.
My ex and I have been apart for almost ( years now. He has gotten into religion and believes he has to do “what’s right with God” which means he is currently with his previous wife. Deep down I feel like our relationship can’t be over because I can’t let him go. I feel like he still cares about me but his beliefs are telling him that it’s wrong for us to be together. I know everything I’m seeing is just a projection of my own beliefs but I’m still having so much trouble looking past what I am currently seeing a believing we can be together.
I’ve tried not thinking about him so much, I’ve tried doing things I enjoy, etc etc but I still have this negative cloud hanging over me. I’m just so sad and depressed most of the time. I honestly don’t know what to do.
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Let me ask you a question Do you believe in LoA? And I mean really believing, not only intellectual knowing or seeing that it works over and over again. Do you feel with all your heart that this is the way reality works?
I ask, because I had (and still have - work in progress) similar problems in many areas of my life. I was still worried, I still tried to figure things out, lost myself in the details of a circumstance and couldn't get myself to apply what I knew properly in many areas without understanding why. Then one day I asked myself the question I just asked you. I didn't want to admit it at first, because I saw it work so often and I couldn't find any example in my life where the outcome of something was the opposite of what I felt about it. So reason told me that I "should" believe it. It was "logical" to believe it. But the honest answer was "no". I did believe that there was something to it, but I didn't believe that it was always working.. That was why I still worried about stuff. Why should I ever worry, if I absolutely knew that this is real and works every single time no matter in what situation? If I truly knew that, I would go about my day in absolute joy knowing that everything is provided for me in every single moment.
I feel that's something many people fight with. And instead of solving the root issue, they struggle with every single subject they want change. What I started to do since I figured this out is actively working on trusting. I had my first big success story with it today and I believe it had ended in a big mess, if I hadn't worked at this.
The affirmation "Everything is always working out for me" came to my mind. But if you are able to not just use it as affirmation, but know that it is true, then you are free and you don't have any reason to worry about details or feel bad, because you know that the happy end is already there and you are completely calm inside regardless of the storm that's going on around you, because you know the end and it's a pretty good one.
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Sanshi - I think you have totally hit the nail right on the head. I do believe in LoA and I have seen it work so I know it is true, but at the same time there is that part of me that maybe doesn’t always believe it 100%. This makes it difficult for me to let go of “control” when it relates to something near and dear to my heart, and just trust that everything will work out.
Thank you so much for your response. I think it eloquently sums up where I am right now.
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You are welcome.
I know exactly what you mean by feeling the need to control things. Same for me. But when I look back at what I manifested, there was no control involved. Often, it was just one thought like "that would be nice" and then forgetting about it. That's when it came the fastest. So I decided to give it a try with the "bigger" things. And it's really scary to let go of control. But having control is an illusion to begin with. You weren't able to achieve much with trying to control stuff. So it's worth a try. It's really paradoxical, but I think you need to give up all control to gain full control.
Trusting takes a lot more courage and strength than asking for evidence and doubting things until one sees it. But it also centers you and gives you a constant sense of peace. And it does bring you your stuff eventually.
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How do you overcome the feeling that you won’t get your desires by letting go? In some part of my mind I feel like if I let go and don’t really focus on my desire then that’s the same as just doing nothing and never learning about LoA. I know that is definitely the wrong way to think about it, I guess I have just been so conditioned to expect to have to work hard for what I want!
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LotsOfLove wrote:
How do you overcome the feeling that you won’t get your desires by letting go? In some part of my mind I feel like if I let go and don’t really focus on my desire then that’s the same as just doing nothing and never learning about LoA. I know that is definitely the wrong way to think about it, I guess I have just been so conditioned to expect to have to work hard for what I want!
Letting go means letting go of all the negativity that you might have surrounding your goal - fears, doubts, worries, that sort of thing. It doesn't mean stopping focussing on your desire as though you already have it.
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cynthia,
hi sorry for jumping it just like this., but I am struggling to push away negative feelings, anxiety or fear.
what works for your the best in order to let go of the negative emotions like doubt or even jealousy.
I am doing my best to forget of the time. Though I am having a hard time not stalking again.
I believe, I truly believe. I think I am still getting rid off my beliefs of not being worthy enough or not being this or that for him, so thats when I obviosuly doubt.
I see a like to a couple or to an ex lover and I feel angry. but I can recognise it goes back to, I feel he is not approving of me, or I wish he thought of me when he liked that couple. I know it is me who has to aprove of myself. I think Istill have resenment too.
again, I am aware I have to work on loads of things.
some others I trust and everythign I see or know of him I read into ir positively. For instance, he liked a picture of a family with his baby, or a couple and I think it is obviously because the thought of a family (of our family) is growing in him as we had talked about that before he blocked me from all social media ... lol... it is obviously because he misses me. and so on.
I really want to stay in the wish fulfilment, i am making plans for myself to go to another continent and I still know it will happen, but the resenment and fear comes once in a while to visit. I am busy, already living abroad. so with quiet a few things to do but this happens, and sometimes I freeze and I cant function after I see something or now after I see he has not answered but he does post in social media as he recently unblocked me from one form of social media. though it was only for financial purposes, well on the surface it appears that way, but I really did not ask him to do so, and he did. we were communicating through email. and well we could have talked through facebook messenger, but i think he just did not think of that. lol like me thinking of these irrelevant details.
at the end is progress, and I must say soemthing he still does do for me, is to pay my student loan every month and he says he wants to provide for me (some help with wjat he can)
now, I did see a post where he says he sometimes sees himself as a fallen hero, as righteous even when he has been wronged, as chivalrous when it is hard to find, and others., but he was saying it was his ego.
so at first I was like no one does that for you and wants to provide for you just because they are chivalrous when they are a bit tight in money right? ...
anyway... ,those are just rambling details of what I am going through, but what I really want advice on letting go of the negative.
thank you!!