 Don't
Limit Your Demands
by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters)
from Money
Magnetism, Copyright Hansa Trust
Most books I know that teach people how
to actualize their ideas stress the importance of visualizing
clearly the exact description. But it isn't possible to anticipate
all the opportunities life holds. By demanding one specific
opening, we may inadvertently fail to notice another.
I've often had to put this principle to
use. Rarely have I found it helpful to have too specifically
in mind some physical thing I wanted. What I visualized, rather,
was the direction I needed to move in. Clarity was necessary,
but not to bind clarity in bonds that were too material.
Had I wanted a car, then, what I would have
done is visualize clearly the service a car would give me,
rather than the specific vehicle.
For the principles we're discussing are
non-material. They are predicated on the fact that matter
is only energy, and on the further concept that energy itself
is only a manifestation of consciousness.
There have been a few times I needed specific
sums of money. Naturally, I visualized the particular sum
needed. However, I didn't visualize the money. Rather, I visualized
the particular purpose this money was meant to serve. I concentrated
on the energy-flow of which the money was a part, rather than
the money as a separate reality.
The community where I live once held a rally
during which everyone was asked to pledge varying amounts
to beautify the "downtown" area. They were asked
to donate to specific projects. One of the donations requested
was $2,000 to improve the road. I thought, "No one will
pledge such a large sum." I myself didn't have any money.
But I thought, "The roads need improvement. So let me
pledge that amount." I had no idea where the money would
come from.
I said nothing to anyone. Payment was due
in two weeks. A week later I awoke to find a letter from a
friend I hadn't seen in a long time, who wrote, "My mother
died, and I've been wanting to give you something in her name,
in gratitude for help you've given me through the years."
With his letter was a check for $2,000.
If this sort of thing happened only once,
you'd chalk it up to coincidence. But I've seen it happen
again and again. Some definite principle is at work.
Be flexible in your expectations. Otherwise
you may find what you attract isn’t really what you
needed, or else turns out to be much less than what you could
have had.
Don't think of fixed goals, but in terms
of directional development.
Then put energy into your creative visualization.
Energy flows more forcefully when you think of it as a flow,
without fixed and definite goals.
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