The first thing we learn about how to manifest reality is the value of focusing our emotions and the images we hold in our mind. It?s critical, we are told, to focus vividly on exactly what we want and hold this intention both faithfully and joyfully at all times.

This is an accurate explanation of how to get started. But the fact is sometimes manifesting your desires has more to do with letting go and releasing your attachment.

It took me quite a while to figure this out. Looking back I had read about this important part of the process many times, but it hadn?t appealed to my ego and therefore I failed to give it proper attention.

While our starting point in the manifestation process is focusing our whole being on our intentions, too much intensity will actually derail our efforts. Remember the law of attraction works by virtue of the vibrations we are holding in the moment.

If you constantly and with great fervor focus your thoughts, feelings, physical energy, and visual faculties on things you want, it?s likely you will be paying attention to what is missing form your life at this time. For example, thinking about the money you desire 24 hours a day is sure to trigger thoughts of lack and images of yourself currently being without this specific amount of money.

Your acknowledgment of lack, coupled with the intense emotions and projection of deliberate manifestation exercises, can be a recipe for attracting more lack.

This is not easy to accept. In fact it?s a little bit outrageous if we?re being blunt.

But it?s critical to your success that you understand the fine line between intentional manifestation and counterproductive obsession. I won?t pretend to understand every nuance and fine point involved in the process of creation (nor should anyone else!) but experience has taught me that remaining somewhat detached from my desires is the most effective approach.

By living in the present moment, allowing your natural happiness to emerge, and believing in your desires with relaxed confidence, you create the vibration that will attract or manifest the things you seek. Whereas becoming consumed by your desire tends to slow or completely defeat the manifestation process.

The best advice I can give you is to remain relaxed and focus on having fun. Enjoy the process of visualizing, affirming, and believing but do not allow these activities to dominate your life.

Humanity has a long way to travel before we can understand fully all the mysteries of universal intelligence. Perhaps one day we?ll have access to specific metaphysical knowledge that allows us to work with virtual reality models during the process of manifestation; but in the meantime we must trust our intuitive guidance systems.

And if you listen both your intuition and your emotions will tell you that letting go is the true key to realizing your destiny. It?s more than fine to want the things you want, just don?t allow your ego to dominate you and lead you down the path of obsession.

In summary: Know what you want and intend it vividly; then relax and live your life in the present moment, happy with what you have and content in the belief that great things are on the way to you.

It’s great that so many people are now writing about and teaching the concepts of attraction and manifestation. It’s wonderful that so many people worldwide now have a basic understanding of quantum physics and law of attraction. But here’s something a bit radical to consider:

We don’t need all these technical formulas for creating our own reality. By default we are already producing the events and circumstances of our own lives with our innate creative powers.

Long before I heard about the law of attraction I knew I was creating life as I went along. I admit that until I saw The Secret I had never stopped to think about how getting intentionally involved might empower me on greater levels; but I had seen evidence to suggest that my thoughts were becoming things in many areas of life.

For instance I had a way of knowing/deciding where my next job would be, how a particular relationship would work out, and so forth. And I always knew the money to keep surviving would come in at the last minute, which it did.

I didn’t understand that I could really get involved with the process and make BIG changes. And of course once I realized this things changed on all fronts.

But here’s the thing: After all my reading, practicing, studying, and so forth it occurs to me that life, the universe, divinity, whatever actively wants to give me a wonderful experience.

My only job is to feel happy and grateful and to stay out of the way so a great life can flow to and through me!

I believe we can boil all of the “how to manifest” teachings down to this:

1. Know what you desire and feel happy about it.
2. Become aware of your doubts and resistance.
3. Do what you need to do to remove and release these doubts/resistances.

It’s all about finding the blockage and letting go. Right now when you think about something you desire in your life, see if you notice a little voice or a knot come up in your stomach.

If you are aware of this, all you need to do is challenge it. Love it, and let it go.

Once you can see your desires clearly and with legitimate joy (no blockage or resistance) you will be in the real flow of life. From here all things are possible.