Choices Are Waiting To Be Made ...
Here is Part 1 excerpt from Chapter 15 of my eBook, MasterMinding for a Rich Life, about the power of asking and what you will decide to put your faith in:
God Doesn't Say, "Not You Again!"
Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find;
knock, and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks will receive, and anyone who seeks will find,
and the door will be opened to him who knocks.
Matthew 7:7-8 and Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
ASKING IS AN EMOTIONAL RISK
If you want to get emotional, just start thinking about what you really want and then think about asking for it! Asking stirs up emotion. To let ourselves even acknowledge what we want, will undoubtedly bring up all of the emotions of child-like powerlessness, disbelief and past disappointment.
We think that if we don't ask, we won't be disappointed, that we won't want so much. We think we are somehow asking something of a mean-spirited, authoritarian figure who's only desire is that we suffer and pay a big price. We often equate God with however the human authority figures in our lives treated us, and this is not correct.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, he should pray to God, who will give it to him:
because God gives generously and graciously to all. - James 1:5
Without Reproach
God gives generously and graciously to all: not just some and not just those who "behave" and "mind" or those who appear to be doing it all the "right" way. There is no reproach with God for asking. No matter how many times we by pass on our intuition, no matter how many times we come crying about "ain't it awful" we have an immediate available source, just awaiting our invitation and request for help. It's a most incredible and amazing concept that the presence and the power that created the Universe is simply waiting on us to be invited in to our experience in order to provide a way to resolve or heal it.
In MasterMinding, if we are even to get to the business of asking, we must have high regard for each individual's way of exploring, at their own pace and their own level of understanding, what it is that they really want, desire, feel and choose to decide upon. We must be accepting of each individual's process, unique to their own wiring system. MasterMinding must be understood and practiced as a gentle, accommodating and merciful process.
Ask and you shall receive.
For most of us, after all of the reproach from our childhoods, we are too afraid to ask. How often do you hope someone will just give you want you want, without having to ask? Or better yet, read your mind and know your every want, before you want it! We have come to believe, from our childhood experiences, that it just hasn't been safe to ask without getting knocked down, shamed, humiliated, teased or made wrong for wanting what we want.
We are afraid to decide.
We are afraid to want something so much that we are immobilized by the mere wanting of it.
We are afraid that if we give ourselves to wanting what we want, we will be annihilated and disappointed beyond repair.
We are afraid that we will be refused, and yes, to make things even more crazy, we are afraid that we may in fact receive exactly what we've asked for, then be ridiculed for wanting it.
We are so afraid to let our wishes be known, because it is, absolutely, a most vulnerable state. Is it any wonder we are tormented!
James goes on to say, But when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all.
Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven and blown about by the wind.
A person like that, unable to make up his mind and undecided in all he does,
must not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
So let's face it, most of us have a miserable time asking for what we want. We are even resistive to letting ourselves know what we want. We are indecisive. We flip-flop back and forth. MasterMinding allows us to feel the importance of our desires and that they will be accepted by our partners ... believing without doubt! Whether it's financial independence, climbing the corporate ladder, restoring a marriage, healing a health condition, taking a business to new levels, easing the affects of problematic behaviors in a child, partner, or co-worker we must simply make up our minds.
Understand that, with any condition that is miserable for you, this kind of "asking" comes from having flipped over the coin of "what is," and looked for the result you want, which is usually the opposite. The art of asking is then putting what you want into a request, using language that expresses your truest desire thus, putting significant energy in motion toward the thing decided upon.
When you've figured out what you really want, have been able to allow yourself to surrender and relax into it, and have ask through formulating your request, you will feel a click. When you feel that click, it is done.
Make a World of Difference ... live a Rich Life!

Mary Robinson Reynolds
Founder of Heart Productions & Publishing
MakeADifference.com/Movies
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