Many people experience “ups and downs” in their life. And often when things are on the downstroke individuals begin to feel as if they are not manifesting correctly, or that the laws of attraction just don’t work.

The truth is we manifest our complete reality from behind the layer of ego.

For instance, an entrepreneur might experience periods of extreme profitability but then go through a time of decreased sales and depressed activity. It’s not easy making it through such a fluctuation with a positive frame of mind.

But the moment an individual begins to feel as if the current events of their life are going against them, he or she loses touch with their higher self. When we feel as if the Universe, god, fate, or whatever is somehow not letting us prosper, dealing us a bad hand, etc. we are assuming the role of victim and robbing ourself of our creative powers.

Whatever happens in our life, we have at least some responsibility for it. And at our conscious level we often don’t see how or why we would attract to us a series of negative experiences.

Often when we look more closely and maintain responsibility for whatever is happening, we find that things are in fact no entirely “negative”: after all. When we look for the good, or for the lesson in all things we see that slow period in a business was a good indicator that our hearts were not fully involved with our work and perhaps we should look for new opportunities… for example.

If we seek but truly can’t find the lesson we may need to consider the possibility that we are not loving ourselves, and that we are on some level not comfortable with happiness and thus sabotaging ourselves. I see this every day in people; many individuals like their drama and enjoy being able to point to an unust world where things always go against them.

I suggest that when we find ourselves on the downstroke in whatever area of our life, we do two things:

1. Look for the good and the lesson.

2. Ask if we are trying to avoid happiness because it makes us uncomfortable.

Those who read this article and sincerely try the exercise above will expand their happiness and their wisdom tremendously.