“If Wishes Were Fishes…” or The Nature of Desire

Posted on November 29, 2007 in Laws Of Attraction by byronb

“If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets in the sea.” Eric Bogle,Scottish Folk Singer

It is the Universe’s nature to grant all our wishes. More,it is its greatest joy to give us all that we desire. As a matter of fact, theUniverse is already giving you everything you want - or at least what itbelieves you want. For wishes are fishes and we are alwayscasting nets into the sea. Truly, you’re never NOTdoing it.

So manifesting all your heart’s desires becomes but a matterof clearly communicating them to the Source of their fulfillment, andfortunately it’s incredibly easy.

When you imagine something you desire - something you wantto have or an outcome to a situation, for example - the essence of that desireis emitted to the Universe in the form of vibrations. Every desire has its ownunique vibration (or vibrational field). It is this field the Universe reads.What you must understand though, is that it’s the same when you imaginesomething undesirable, like a worry or a fear.

And when the Universe receives these vibrations, good orbad, it interprets them not only as information but as a flat out request or,if you prefer, a wish. That’s right: the act of desiring something is the sameas the act of asking for it. In fact, once the Universe knows what you want theprocess of bringing it to you has already begun.

You need waste not a moment more worrying about how to askfor what you want. There are no magic words. You need no words at all. Theasking is inherent in the wanting, or rather in the focus of your attention.

That means - and this is as liberating as it is foreboding -whatever you focus on is what the Universe interprets as a desire you wish tohave granted. Clear communicating your true desires to the Universe, then, isno more than a matter of focusing on the desire itself, as opposed to its lackor absence.

Have you ever had the experience of knowing exactly what youdidn’t want only to find that that was exactly what you got? Or you were veryclear about what you didn’t want to happen and that’s just what did? It’s acommon phenomenon, and easily avoidable.

So many desires are thwarted by a simple and fundamentalmisunderstanding of this one key element of the Law of Attraction: that it doesnot function in negatives, which is to say that it can’t NOTdo something. It cannot NOT attract something to you.

In other words, it doesn’t understand you when you say you don’t want to be in a dysfunctionalrelationship. It only understands the vibrational energy of a dysfunctionalrelationship. It doesn’t know what you mean when you say you don’t want to be drowning in debtanymore. It only receives the vibrational image of you drowning in debt. It”thinks” these things that you know you don’twant are actually things you do want,because you’re focusing on them.

Fortunately, solving this problem is easy as making it: takeout the negative. Focus on what you do want,not what you don’t. Instead offocusing on the dysfunctional relationship you don’t want, focus instead on therelationship you do want: loving,trusting, empowering, fulfilling. And instead of focus on how sick and tiredyou are of being poor, focus on the alternative: what it would feel like tofinally have your finances under control.

The more you focus on the things, situations, and feelingsyou desire rather than those problems, circumstances and emotions you wantchanged, the more your life will start taking the shape you’ve always wanted itto.