Power of Letting Go: How to Manifest an Elephant

Letting Go is Not Giving Up

One of the most frustratingly difficult things to get your head around is the principle of letting go of attachment. Letting go is often misinterpreted as "Going with the flow" when in fact going with the flow is actually akin to resignation and giving up in my opinion, whilst trying and doing without any inspiration is just pushing your intention further away. Rather than going with the flow it is more a case of being the flow. Confused? Frustrated? "SO WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THEN!"

Yes I understand the frustration. Before I continue with this article I would like to share a story that one of my readers sent me in an email the other day which I think helps explain what letting go actually refers to and I found the account she told me to be very inspiring and enlightening in the ways of detachment to how things you want to happen, bringing your intentions closer with tremendous force.

And From Nowhere, an Elephant!

Here is the account, as it was written in the email I received:

‘I’m really making loa [Law of Attraction] a part of my life and I was telling a skeptical friend about it on a journey last week. She said "okay then manifest an elephant if it’s so good" I said that I wouldn’t really believe an elephant would appear so it therefore wouldn’t work. However feeling ridiculed and down-hearted about it I asked that I would see an elephant on the journey…..Well within 5 minutes we spied a lorry in a lay by with a huge pink elephant painted on the side! I was blown away and so was my friend.’

This is a very simple example demonstrating what can happen when you have an intention and you trust that it will manifest. By having no attachment to how it will come about or how people will perceive you depending on the outcome, you are keeping open all possible channels for the realization of your intention. If for example you were focused on your goal being achieved in a certain manner, all your actions will be placed on the dependence of one possible outcome, which greatly restricts the universe to deliver your intention in the most effective way – Case in point, the above account did not stress that the outcome must be a real, live elephant, so there already is the openness to the outcome by expected or unexpected means. Oh and by the universe I mean You. Your awareness and connection; your subconscious that never sleeps and continues to carry out your orders to it – Forever at your service, responding in exact accordance with what you give it to work on.

Get Out Of The Way

In truth I do not know exactly how this all works, but that’s ok because I think if I were to rationalize it I would just be getting in the way of the process. I used to spend great energy trying to get my head around all this stuff and the more I thought I knew intellectually, the more I just confused myself and created doubt about whether I doing things the right way or not, which is a clever trick of the conscious mind to get you back into the habit of attachment and interfering with the process.

There is nothing to say you won’t be successful in the above example, but it could take so long that you may have given up before it is realized. If you wanted to be a millionaire, but believed the only way you could achieve it was by playing the lottery and just spent all your time buying lotto tickets and dreaming about winning the lottery then think of all the other possible opportunities you could have not even noticed that would have given you the chance to become a millionaire. You could eventually win the lottery at the age of 99 after buying a ticket every week for your whole life and then die the next day after having achieved your goal. What was the goal, winning the lottery or experiencing all the things that the money you won could help you experience? Go create your millions, don’t wait for lady luck to give it to you.

The whole energy of attachment is like hope. Hope is a word viewed as a positive for most people, but it is really a way of suspending your creativity and activity, handing the responsibility for the creation of your life over to people and circumstances out of your control and I believe that relying on hope actually keeps you standing still because hope is not a strategy or a plan and it certainly doesn’t contain any intent.

To reference another article at The Neural Recon Report "You Are Success", once you know yourself and by that I mean know what you want, what it is that naturally makes you the flow then you don’t need attachment to how things will happen because every waking moment you are doing "your thang" you will be feeling what it is to have achieved your goal anyway, negating the need to wish it here sooner, in a certain manner or holding it forever in the future and hey presto, before you can say "Manifest me an elephant" you will see the manifestation of your intention in stark reality because it is always created in you first, right now before it appears in your physical reality.

Sound like nonsense? Stop trying to be rational. Do you really think that us humans know everything about our universe? If so we might as well stop everything right now then because there’s nothing left to learn!

Lose Your Head, but Don’t Lose Heart

All the while you try to get this with your head, you are slowing it all down. It really is about trust and faith – faith in your own ability to create your life (I’m not talking about religion) – Because once you know yourself, know that you have everything you require to make it all happen, by LETTING GO then there is no choice but to trust the process. You don’t even need to question the validity of what you are doing. By looking inside yourself and finding the fire there is all the energy you need to do what it takes, to know what to do and when to do it; what to learn, who you are and that it is not going to happen, but is happening all the time. You will be able to achieve any goal you desire with this method because you will be starting from the only point that will guarantee success: What is a desire in your heart and not your head.

I agree that it would be so much easier to have faith in this process once you have a very real experience of a success that shows you in certain terms the unfolding. You’ve probably had an experience like that, whether it was big or small, but you felt a great achievement although it felt like you did nothing. That’s the process and it is available for you to create at all times.

And what if this is all wrong and none of this means anything? Well I can tell you that whatever the reality of this universe and how ever things really work I know that living a life of suffering is a crap deal and all the while we hold onto certain beliefs, wanting to be right, even if being wrong provides a chance to be happier, holding onto how things must happen in our lives for us to be happy etc. then we are creating our own suffering and I choose to live in a manner that creates joy and fulfillment, so even if I reach my last day on Earth without having made my millions I will know that I lived the life of a rich man because I felt the feelings of living an enriched and fulfilled life.

How did I do that? By following my heart, my dreams and doing what I love for as much of the time as I could. I only wish I’d started living like that sooner, but hey I’m doing it now and it works for me. I recommend it!

I would love to hear your comments about success when letting go of the attachment to the outcome.

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