Let’s talk about “Trust”

Knowing for me implies that all doubts have been overcome and that I am standing in a space of total certainty and conviction. Having experienced this incredible shift for myself, I definitely have a preference for which end of the scale I want to operate from! Thanks for this incredible opportunity again to play and share with each other.

Much love,

Nicola

I’ve known about the principles of manifestation for many years, and have had many many experiences of their effectiveness, yet I still am carrying and often acting upon old beliefs that get in the way of attracting what I consciously choose. On the first page of the initial survey I made a commitment to participate, yet I’m finding myself not fully aligned, not trusting that I can and will get clear about and stick with my intentions. At the moment I’m “hoping” that the universe will show me what I need to see about this.

I believe, yet, I have problems sustaining that belief when things around me are trying to shake me from believing. I’m looking forward to learning more and applying what I learn so that I will become more grounded in what I do believe. Thanks for the opportunity.

Cydny

When I review my life, I see that have a routine…I put myself into awful situations and then have a miracle show up to help me move on. I seem to do this over and over and over. So, I know that the principles of manifestation work…however it seems I have also dialed in angst, hard hard work, self-deprecation and punishment.
I look forward to learning how to create in a “CLEAN” fashion, leaving those messy beliefs behind. I am not even clear what these beliefs are…..I just want them to leave.
My life has definitely improved since I began this journey 30 years ago……and I seem to keep the pleasure of creating just out of reach. I am so tired of being ALMOST THERE, with most things I am inviting in.
I am excited to do this as quickly as you did Elyse!

I know in my head to trust the universe, but it isn’t part of my core. Inside there is a cord that vibrates doubt, fear, mistrust and lack. I want to believe, but still feel in my heart that good things are for others, not for me. I proved this belief to myself just this month as I lost my job and am flat broke. Deep inside I believe that this is all I can ever be. My head knows about manifesting, but I want my heart, my core, my soul to feel it to be true! So why is it so hard to trust for good things in my life? I can certainly trust for the bad!

From a young age I have, for some unknown reason, had this sense that life should not be a struggle – despite all the evidence that was around me to the contrary.
When, after many years (I am 51 now) of searching for answers I learned about the law of attraction I felt vindicated in feeling that way.
When I saw The Secret my heart soared and I felt absolutely ecstatic.

But, apart from a few short good experiences (which in all honesty life will give most people anyway) it feels like not much has changed.
In my heart I feel it is the truth but, even after some periods when I believe I have experienced the LOA in action, I still don’t feel like I truly know and trust it is the truth.
In fact I have started to worry that I have been conning myself all these years and that I was just using it as an excuse not to take more action.
I really hope this experiment will change that

That sounds so much like me that it is scary to read.

As I read the comments above I am struck by the similar thinking. How did we come to such disbelief in ourselves and life to support us when so many of us know that this is not how life is meant to be? I am ready for this experiment to see if I can shift my ego beyond another level of mindless debilitating chatter. I look forward to turning the corner.

I was always taught the idea of “trust, but keep your eyes open”. I’m not sure how well that has served me. At this point I feel as if the “keep your eyes open” was focused on looking for reasons to NOT trust. I think a step to knowing, for me, is to begin to keep my eyes open for reasons to trust. I’m looking forward to putting this into practice.

I am becoming practised in manifesting things like money, places to live and good work, but I still have blind spots. Namely, relationship. I’m going to take this opportunity to focus on this area, and reveal what is holding me back. Thanks for the structure, Elyse!

I am deeply grateful for this opportunity to play. Thank you Elyse for showering your gifts.
To be in such a wonderful nurturing environment for the next 30 days, makes me feel safe and supported to experiment. It’s so much easier to ride the wave of expansion together with like-minded people.
I love the manifestations which are always following my intentions, but I love even more the creation process. That’s when I feel most alive and vibrant.
It’s that rush of new fresh energies… That alone is so rewarding. Trust for me is unconditional, a holistic energy in itself. I’ve noticed throughout my life, that I can’t learn how to trust, but I certainly can allow myself to trust. When I play with the energy of trust, “knowingness” is a natural consequence. I can BE trust.

Knowing for me is the connection to my core vibration that, if I listen to it, always tells me what feels right/good and what doesn’t. Trust seems to come from my head more, an intellectual thought about something that I should follow, not that I feel in my body. I often fall short on following my knowing because the immediate outcome does not always look inviting–like being alone, or without work (I’m self-employed).

I think at no point in my life have I been the least able to feel internally where I want to go or what I want to do. In past 25 years, I have been able to see internally my next step and enjoy getting there before I get there. I can name so many ways that I have pictured my reality before it happens.

It seems I have run out of dreams or I have a string of dreams that have been stunted or possibly I am not paying attention to evidence that I should be paying attention to.

Last night, I went for a long walk (4 miles) in the dark simply to see if I can visualize anything that is brewing internally. All I felt was fear and despair. To say the last, I wish to change this.

Hello! I am so excited to say that my future self, myself one month from now, has stepped in to write this blog! 9/18/08 OH MY GOD! This last month has been so incredibly powerful! Large sums of money have arrived! I am debt free! I am writing more and more songs and beginning to record my CD! My friends are so incredibly excited that my music is finally going to be available in their living room, WHENEVER THEY WANT! Each morning of the last month I have been awakened by my excitement about the wonderful events happening that day! I am spending time every morning and evening ramping up my vibration, and FEELING and SEEING the happy dance as each moment unfolded in ways I could not have anticipated! I also have been “sharing” this joyful vibration with all of my loved ones in my meditation time. I am most often moved to tears of joy and appreciation during my meditations! Onward and Upward! p.s. If any of you would like to get on my mailing list for my upcoming CD, let me know! I am also planning a tour in warm climates this winter, if you would like to host a house concert, and/or know of a fabulous venue in your area let me know! Much love and light! Susan from Minneapolis

Thank you Elyse for doing this free experiemnt — what a wonderful idea! I’ve known a little bit about LOA since I was 28 and first read Napolean Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich.” I was able to manifest to me what seemed like a lot of money through a job for a 28 year-old. Needless to say, I did not stick with the principles in the book — but it was the beginning of learning about LOA.

Over the years I have been able to manifest some really great things/relationships etc., but I have also have had great resistance at times to going downstream. Recently I rediscovered Abraham Hicks teachings and they very much resonate for me.

There is a part of me that knows and trusts that LOA works — I have exprerienced it in my own life over the past 20 years. However, I am trying to move this to the next level for me and to see bigger miracles and shifts to show up in my life. I want to believe this in every cell of my body and to not forget it or for me to walk away from it as I have in the past.
I want to feel my connection to Source as often as possible!

I read the books, blogs and websites all pertaining to this law of attraction and prosperity. I am apparently doing something wrong as I am behind in my rent, am without a job, and income is nearly zip. I ‘think” I’m projecting thoughts of abundance and prosperity but the prood is in the pudding as I sit with bills stacked high, and wonder what I’m doing wrong.

Starting the Prosperity Experiment Game today will be a good kick in the pants as I clear my head and thoughts of past notions and experiences. Although I have played the game prior to the experiment I am setting new goals.. along with a better attitude.

I’ve set the Game as my home page so I can commit and follow through with these desires of mine in full force and to definitely change my current course which has only led me to poverty.

On an intellectual level, I Know that conscious co-creation is the way the Universe operates, and that I am in helping to create my life experience. For me the challenge comes when I need to Feel that something is manifest before I posess is physically. Due to past experience, I am holding onto inner doubt, and disbelief that I can actually create what I choose. I understand that this stems from me sitting in judgment (of myself, of others, of situations) and I need to override past programming to be able to create on a soul level, and not let my head get in the way!

Thank you Elyse. This is a great blog knowing we are not alone on this path! I work in a coporate envirnoment that is goal and results orientated. Core objectives and procedures must be followed. My inner being just dreads going into the office sometimes,my dream is to be creative, expressing the glory that I have within me – “do something you love and the money will follow”, but I have no idea what this is. I want to make the money doing fun, easy and creative stuff and not having to worry about ‘money’ just knowing that its there whenever I need it. I hope that my creative side will show itself during this experiment with prosperity.

Prosperity to me is to have more free time to spend with my family and friends, traveling, having fun, taking classes in things I’ve always wanted to learn. Prosperity means that I have plenty of money to do these things and not worry about the expense or what I’m giving up to do what I want. Prosperity is being able to do what I want when I want. It’s being able to provide anything my baby wants now and in the future. It’s being able to take care of any needs my mother has. It’s being able to share wealth with my family and friends. It’s being able to give to my community at a greater level financially and with my time.

Since most if not all of us are wanting abundance of dollars it would stand to reason that Aber’s will become some of the wealthy incumbents of our economic tomorrow’s. Money and the Law of Attraction is now available to us as a concentrate. The teachings have been in loose format for almost 8 years for me now.

Loose format meaning in bits and pieces, scattered throughout the vast archives of writings and recordings and now all combined in such a very pronounced abundant concentrated form in one book. This should be a huge helpmate for attracting what we need to be doing in our deliberate creating processes. Did we attract this perfect timing?

With Playing Your Way to Prosperity, we now have a double whammy at opening up our vibrational Universal vaults.

I choose to wake up feeling safe and trusting, spend each day in this way, and fall asleep trusting that all is well and I am safe. SO grateful for all of you and this process to take me there!

Trust is to trust myself, to be a active particpant in my spiritual practice knowing all is well and there is more than enough abundance. To just let go of the branch on the tree and say and so it is.

Over the past week, I have committed myself to caring about how I feel and being conscious of what is going on in my body. I have also taken the time to partake in daily morn meditations. I am now at the stage where I want to trust that there is validity in the process. I know it and I want to feel it in every fibre of my being.

Trust has seemed to be a huge issue for me all my life. I discovered in the recent past that I could believe in the trustworthiness of Source, but didn’t trust in myself. Oops! Finally, finally really getting down to gut level with the realization that Source is Who-I-Really-Am is such an amazingly, freeing, glorious feeling. I want it imbedded in every fiber of my being, as Abe would say! Remembering to trust every day that playing is the way is my intention for this experiment. Thanks for the opportunity and the playground.

I’ve had a sense of knowing for as long as I can remember. It is only now, in my forties, that I am coming into a sense of knowing of what it means for me, and my connection to everything in the universe. In knowing that, the world is a more peaceful, beautiful, safe place for me to be. And that I am grateful for.

‘Trust’ and ‘knowing’ … hmmm.

For the last couple of years I’ve been developing the practice of learning to ‘trust the process’. Often it’s not possible to see where the future leads and I have to allow the process, and simply trust that all is as it should be. And yet my life doesn’t seem to be more of what I would prefer!

More recently I am learning the practice of ‘releasing control’ and accepting that I am powerless to change the face of things. I know that I Am powerful beyond my imagination, and yet I live trapped in a tendency to doubt my worth.

At present I’m working with the technique given by Abraham: reach for the feeling of relief. This is proving to be valuable in releasing me from the grip of emotional paralysis.

So, I’ve learned to ‘trust’, but the level of ‘knowing’ is presently at an intellectual level. I have yet to embed ‘knowing’ into my ‘being’.

It occurred to me that knowing is trusting … for when you experience that incredible moment; when you feel yourself elevated above the din of noise, and you KNOW without DOUBT, you are trusting … in yourself, in the universe … and you see the infinite link … you cannot trust without knowing and you cannot know without trusting.

I want to learn how to sustain that infinite link of trusting to know

I am with Maury – I keep putting myself in dire situations, then expecting, and I may add, getting miracles. zit is not that I don’t trust the Universe – my issue is that I don’t trust my own deservingness and I have to keep testing it over and over again. And I am working on that – as Abraham says, “The Universe is not my mother.” It does not judge my worthiness, only my vibration.

My work is to trust that I worthy and deserving and put that out to the Universe.

Ah, trust. Sure is easy with the things that have less intensity. I have complete faith and trust in so many aspects of my daily creating. I’m great at finding the positive aspects and changing my thought to something that feels better. I seem to hover in the happier vibrations, except when it comes to money. Yes, that’s the one I’ve practiced the negative vibrations about longer. A few years back I did recognize that my resistence was causing my woes and after allowing myself to feel better, everything started moving and changing for the better! Now I’m kinda stuck again….feeling the influence of someone close to me who is directly connected through money. He is very negative and I’m “putting him in my PIE!” Yikes!! So I’ve been starting each morning with the intentions that no matter WHAT, I want to feel good, I want to laugh, I want to learn something new that will serve me in my future and I want to be around only beings with great positive energy. Well, it was a good day and now I’m going home to my sweet pure positive animal family and Mr. Negative has not called all day, thank you Universe! Tonight I will intend before I sleep, that my inner Being will assist me to let go of beliefs that do not serve me regarding money and tomorrow I will be REBORN into the abundance that I have always known!!
Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou……Love ~

In order to ‘trust’ something one has to ‘know’ it. The words Wisdom, Understanding and Knowledge appear many many times together in the Bible. What is the difference in them? Which one would be the highest to attain? The majority of people feel ‘Wisdom’ is the highest since that is what Solomon asked for. But is it? After meditating on it, I was given the answer. ‘Wisdom’ is like the little voice inside us that tells us something. ‘Understanding’ is when we actually ‘try it out’…we experiment with it. That gives us the understanding of it. Once we have experimented several times…then we ‘know’. Knowing is ‘Knowledge’. With that ‘Knowledge’ comes trust. When you Know something, you trust it.
I have the ‘Wisdom’ so now I will begin to experiment.

A few years ago I believed enough to jump off toward a dream without a parachute.

Having studied the Law of Attraction for longer than any of the present-day gurus making gazillions from the current fashion, and having attempted to manifest for about that long … I can’t say my belief upon deciding to take real action was all-knowing and complete. But it was enough that I took what would be considered an incredible risk, trusting enough that the Universe would grant my wish and provide for me in the process.

It didn’t happen. I ended up far worse off than before.

So I have certainly “tried it out.” I did more than that. I trusted. And was let down.

Trust

- Fear
- Discouragement
- Worry
- Pessimism
- Neutrality
- Hopefulness
- Positive Expectation/Belief
- Trust/Faith
- Knowing/Conviction

Where do I rest on this scale?
I know I have lived in fear and it is beneath a trap door I trip into on a regular basis – although I am happy to say less frequently than I used to.
This door sits somewhere between pessimism and worry and the tunnel down have very slippery sides. I find EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) the only reliable stepladder out.
I am rarely neutral, although perhaps more ambivalent.
I am afraid of hope and practice daily affirmations for positive expectation /belief, trust/faith and knowing/conviction.
As a child, teen even young adult I lived in knowing/conviction which resulted in some serious manifestation, moving to USA from UK alone to live, a VW bug, world travel, 2 computers. Then people started to tell me that I needed to EARN not just manifest and I believed them. Up to now EARNING hasn’t been a strength – what with ADD and brain injury, I’m just a little to unconventional for most employers. Really I wouldn’t want me working for me!!!
This is what I think of who I am – the question is can I circumvent this and trust who I know I am?