Negative Thinking Creatiing Blockages?

Life is uncharacteristically difficult for many people because of the mismanagement of the economy over the last decade. The wealthy have used their management styles to downsize businesses, leaving many people in the lurch, high and dry. Small businesses have folded because they cannot compete with national chains. In other cases, individuals must dig up all the creative abilities they can muster to form their own businesses and deal with dwindling finances to do the best they can.

We are guided by such movies as The Secret to declare our desires, believe we can receive, visualize our good as happening, and then giving thanks when we achieve our desires. One of the metaphysical mainstays to problem-solving is the use of affirmations: saying what you want in the positive, first person, such as, “I have a shiny, new, red sports car.” In many instances, these methods do work. They create in us the positive frame of mind that draws energy to us because as you put energy out into the Universe, you receive back. But what happens when you repeat those affirmations, visualize, and believe, but nothing happens?

You want to see some results. You feel as if you are trying so hard, but when nothing happens, you create a wall that stands between you and your good. How can this be? This often happens with individuals who are accustomed to getting a tangible result from the effort they put out. They are uncommonly grounded in the physical. So they believe that result should equal effort. They believe that just because they are going through the motions of saying affirmations that the Universe should respond in kind. But it is the pressure of this energy remaining inside them that creates a blockage to receiving their desires. The blockage is the result of not understanding the connection to the Universe, the metaphysical, the unseen, in which the mental process, the visualization, creates the positive energy that says we deserve to have whatever we want, whenever we want it.

How do we remedy this situation? We must go back to square one. Say the affirmations while visualizing ourselves receiving what we want. Cut pictures out of a magazine if you need help, then spend time each day looking at the pictures, so that you have the positive image. Hold the images of a pot of gold in your hand. Look at that shiny, red, sports car. Believe you will get what you want. Don’t just give it lip service and then become jaded after a few days. You have to change your thinking. Truly change it. Then and only then will the boulders be cast away from your path.

May you be richly blessed!