part0025

This is probably one of the most counter-intuitive money manifestation secrets I’ve stumbled upon, and it took me a long time to realize the truth. Ten years in fact! This was staring at me right in the face and I never perceived it as a money block, when in fact it is going to be a major block in most people’s manifestation journeys. Here is the secret, plain and simple: Do not ask for a huge sum or pile of money!

Let me explain. In the beginning when I was learning about these manifestation principles, I very much wanted to try them out on everything. Since money was one of my primary concerns in life at that time, I started asking for huge sums of money. A sum of money that I thought would make me feel safe and secure if I had it. And so I kept asking over-and-over again, day in and day out for that huge pile of money. I spent every waking moment visualizing it, feeling the emotions of it, practicing various tips and techniques (even some very esoteric ones) to try and get that huge pile of money. Some of you reading this book are probably doing the same too. You are trying to manifest a sum of money which you think will make you feel secure and happy. It may be ten thousand dollars, or fifty thousand dollars. It may even be half a million or one million dollars. As we mentioned earlier, the dollar amount does not matter, but you are probably asking for that huge sum of money in order to feel happy, secure, and free.

Did the sum of money I asked for come to me despite trying so hard and applying every single manifestation technique I learnt? No, it did not. Even after years and years of futile trying, thinking that “perhaps this is the year everything finally will work…”, things never worked out for me. And I am willing to bet that they have not worked out for you too. So why the contradiction? Why is it that I frequently mention that the Universe gives us absolutely everything we ask for and more… with no exceptions, and yet I say here that one should not be asking for a huge pile of cash?

If you can understand the point I make in this chapter, you will shave years off your manifestation journey. In fact, reaching this new place of understanding alone will flip a switch within you, and allow you to manifest effectively at will from this point onwards. But you must first truly understand the message which I’m trying to convey. If you can get this message, everything will be easy and straightforward for you. I wish I had a spiritual teacher who appeared in front of me to make this very point when I was struggling back then. But on hindsight, I’m glad that I did not have that teacher. Experience was my teacher. I was my own teacher. I was showing myself what worked, and what didn’t. As a result of the path I have walked, I am able to share this from a place of even deeper understanding.

Just because I took 10 years to realize this point does not mean you have to take the same amount of time. The good news is that you do not even have to take half that time, or even a year! You can make that realization and shift your thinking this very moment if you allow yourself to . That’s the beauty of having an inner shift in consciousness. The shift can happen at any point in time, and the change happens in an instant. I am so grateful for the opportunity to be sharing these messages with you. In fact, one of my major motivations for putting out these series of books at affordable prices is to ensure that my messages reach as many people as possible. Those who are ready for this message will have access to them, and can shorten their learning curve. The struggle is always optional.

Now let me explain why you should not ask for a huge pile of cash. Back when I was always walking around asking for that huge pile of money, how do you suppose I was feeling on the inside? Was I feeling satisfied with my financial situation at that point in time, or was I feeling extremely worried and fearful about the future? I think the answer is quite obvious. Only an individual who is feeling worried and fearful about his financial future will have a strong desire for a huge sum of money. The reason for wanting that huge sum of money is because the money will make that individual feel safe. Money is therefore seen as a way to feel safe and secure. Conversely, the lack of money is associated with all kinds of risks, dangers and bad things happening to you.

Therefore, while I was going around asking for a huge sum of money in those days… my inner state was actually one strongly filled and driven by fear, negative beliefs and self-doubts. It was those inner worries that caused me to ask for the money on the outside so strongly! But guess what the Universe is always picking up on? The Universe is always picking up on the sum total, the totality of our innermost thoughts and feelings. There is no exception to this rule at all. Therefore, what I was doing on the outside was not authentic. It was not how I really felt on the inside. How I felt on the inside spoke volumes to the Universe, which was the fact that I was really scared and worried about my finances. The Universe hence gave me, in a non-judgmental way, more to be scared and worried about… a perpetuation of my financial situation.

Now let’s suppose that an individual feels abundant and happy on the inside, like how I feel today. Should an individual in this case ask for a huge pile of cash? He can, for the Universe would definitely pick up on those happy secure inner feelings and give him even more reasons to feel happy and secure! In other words, when one comes from a place of deep trust, faith and abundance, the Universe responds with even more outer abundance! But here’s the biggest irony: The individual who feels truly happy and abundant on the inside does not even have the desire to ask for more money. This is a key distinction between an individual who comes from a place of lack and limitation, and someone who comes from a place of true abundance. A person who comes from true abundance will have the Universe delivering all the abundance in the world to him… but he does not even feel the urge or see the need to ask for it, because he feels himself as already abundant. On the other hand, a person who constantly asks for abundance is feeling a sense of lack inside, which is why he has to constantly ask for more.

It all looks very nice and elegant when I present this argument on paper. But examine your own life and you’ll realize it’s not such a straightforward situation. You ask for money when you perceive a lack, and the lack which you perceive strongly inside actually stops the money you want from coming to you. Therefore, you continue to perceive more lack, and you continue to ask even louder… perpetuating the whole lack cycle. On the other hand, if you feel abundant on the inside, you’ll not even have the need to ask for money… and ironically, even though you’re not asking, the money still comes to you easily and effortlessly!

Let’s see how we can break the negative cycle and start moving into the positive cycle. What is the easiest way to get started? The easiest way I’ve found to breakthrough this perpetuating lack cycle is to see your desires for what they really are. If you have been asking for a particular sum of money over and over again, stop and ask yourself WHY you are really asking for that money. At first, the answers will be superficial, like you need money to pay your bills, or to fulfil a particular need. But if you keep asking and be honest with yourself, the answer will be some variation of this: You are afraid. You do not feel secure. Therefore, you believe that when you have the money, when that money is finally in the bank, you will be safe and secure.

Where is the fallacy in this thinking? In fact, I’m so excited that I’m sharing this with you because this is going to produce a leap in your consciousness. And this is the missing piece — You do not need the money to be in the bank to generate those feelings of security, peace or happiness. Once again, let me repeat that: You do not need the physical money to be in your possession to feel secure, peaceful or happy. You can generate these feelings inside of yourself independent of any external circumstances. In fact, you have been born with the special abilities to do so — Those are your faculties of imagination and visualization which you have been entrusted with. Do you see the link now? Why does Napoleon Hill put so much emphasis on our mental and creative faculties? Why does modern day spiritual teacher Bob Proctor go on and on about our mental and creative faculties? The link has never been clearly explicated in my opinion. It is because our creative faculties give us the freedom to focus on anything we want in the moment, by virtue of our thoughts… independent of the external reality. To the degree that you are able to do this, you will be a masterful manifestor.

What does this mean for you? It means this: Stop putting your faith and trust in the sum of money that you are asking for. Understand that whatever money you are asking for, you want it only to be secure and happy. Therefore, you are using that money as an excuse to feel secure and happy when you can, in this very moment, generate those same feelings of security and happiness for yourself! Now I am not going to claim that this is easy. If it were easy for me, I would not have taken ten years. If it were easy for me to ignore physical reality and focus entirely on my inner world… I would have achieved all of these in a matter of hours and days. It is not easy, which is the reason why so few people ever manage to do it and achieve the level of manifestation success they seek. It is why they go back to living their mundane physical reality. But I am writing these words because I want to convince you that it is truly possible to live this way, to have your good flowing to you in all ways, exceeding your wildest imaginations.

You start by turning inward away from physical reality, especially if physical reality at the moment does not please you. I can understand why your mind may object at first. You may say: But I really do not have money in the bank, and do not have money to pay my bills and rent! If I do not pay my rent, I will get evicted, I will have no place to stay! Notice how your mind is coming up with all the negative doomsday scenario in this very moment, even before anything has materialized. Your mind is taking you down a very negative trail. To which you might say, “But it’s real! This is reality! If I do not pay my creditors, THIS is really what will happen! I am not making any of this up!”

But you are making all of this up this very moment . The only question you need to ask yourself is this — In this very moment, is any of it happening? In this very NOW moment, this very second, this very point… is any of what you are saying happening? The answer is no! In this very moment you’re reading this book, you are alright. You are fine now. You are safe and secure now. Therefore by imagining all sorts of scenarios and bringing them from the future into the “now”, you are actually making things up. Whatever you make up can then go on to manifest as future reality.

How can you change things this very moment? Simply withdraw all attention from the existing reality or outside world. Observe it only if it pleases you. Remember you only observe and ponder upon it if it makes you feel good. This is not a childish exercise or a form of escapism as I’ve said so many times before, but rather, a true application of the Laws of the Universe. Something so simple, yet so profound. Imagine that you already have the amount of money that you’re asking for, how secure would you feel? Use that feeling of security as a starting point and ponder upon it. Close your eyes and go deeply into it, immerse yourself in this feeling of security. You may have to be creative to find other ways to conjure up those feelings of security, but just try to get to that place of security and stay there for as long as you can. The longer you stay there, the longer you turn your attention away from physical reality. You are creating an “opening” through which the Universe can work its magic to deliver a more desired reality to you.

But none of this is magic! None of this is anything out of the ordinary. You are simply using the very same Universal Laws which you have used for the past few decades of your life in a directed and positive way. You are simply using these laws deliberately whereas in the past, you may have lived them unknowingly. I know it is difficult to feel secure and safe when you have debts to pay, when you have obligations to meet, when you are struggling with not enough… but… in this moment, aren’t you alright? In this moment, aren’t you not sitting in your comfortable chair reading this book? In this very moment, isn’t everything perfect the way it is supposed to be? If this moment is perfection, then why not the next, and the next, and the next? If you had a way to feel a deep sense of peace and completion in every single moment, focusing on living one moment to the next… you’ll find that your perceived issues and problems will magically straighten themselves out when you reach them in future. They will be gone and you’ll be wondering why you even spent so much time worrying about them in the past!

I look at my financial situation today and honestly remember very little from the past. I don’t even want to remember any of it because any form of remembrance can only stir up the same feelings I had back then. What I’m living now is a direct effect of me focusing on my desired reality often, and turning my attention away from anything that is undesired. Very often, the part that is undesired falls away very quickly and straightens itself out by its own accord. It is the same for your finances as well. Money is just one subject amongst many subjects in your life, and there is no reason why it should be more or less difficult to apply these spiritual techniques to money. But as always, you must take the first step. Only you are in control of your inner state at any moment and therefore if you want things to change, you must first change your perception long enough to create an opening.

Perhaps it is difficult to fully let go of your money worries at once. If that’s the case, then just try to be free of them for 1 minute at a time. Gradually lengthen it to 5 minutes, and then 10 minutes. If you can immerse yourself in a deep state of peace and trust for 15 minutes, 3 times a day… then you would have succeeded. You would turn the tides so much that positive money results will start showing up in your life. This is how I did it as well, just 5 to 10 minutes for 3 times a day. I did not demand that I give up my lifelong worrying habit all at once. After all, my worrying about money was based on a lifelong habit of persistent worrying, and I knew it wouldn’t be so easy to drop it at once. So what I did in the beginning was to sit quietly and ask for just 3 periods a day, where I could be completely free from my money worries, to be in a state where they did not even exist. I succeeded in doing those 3 periods a day and within one week, evidence of my financial good came to me. They can come to you within a day, within an hour, or within minutes! That is not up for you to decide or figure out. The part that is truly up to you is to take the time to immerse yourself in a worry-free state for as long as possible. 15 minutes each time, thrice a day is more than enough for the tide to turn and for things to change.

Eventually, you’ll get to a state where you are in that state of deep peace and trust all the time. And only for very short pockets of the day would you feel negative feelings. By then, the change would be complete and you’ll be living in what I call a truly manifestative inner state.