Ask And It Is Given: Learning To Manifest Your Desires

This process involves expressing appreciation for every positive thing that one encounters, no matter how small. The aim of this process is to help people to align with positive energy in a general sense. By focusing on how much there is to appreciate in life, people will naturally attract more things to appreciate. At the same time, finding things to appreciate even in undesirable settings aids in shifting emotional focus from negative emotions to positive ones. In general, this process is meant to be used when someone is already on the positive end of the emotional set point scale. If a person tries to use this tactic when their general emotional state is too negative, their efforts will feel forced and will therefore be ineffective.

Like the first process, the “Magical Creation Box” technique is meant to be used when a person is in a generally good mood (e.g., points 1-5 on the emotional set-point scale). The person is asked to gather a literal box and fill it with things that reflect their desires (e.g., magazine clippings of dream vacations, pictures of furniture they hope to own, etc.). Whenever a symbolic desire is dropped in the box, the person is told to say, “Whatever is contained in this box—IS!”