Are You Careful of What You Are Wishing For? | VictorSchueller.com

My daughters and I were watching an episode of “Goosebumps” on Netflix together, and the title of the episode was “Be Careful What you Wish For.”  The story was about a young girl who was continually teased by some of her classmates, and found herself in a position to make three wishes.  As you can imagine, no matter how well intentioned this young girl was when making her wishes to improve her life and eliminate her problems, she soon discovered that her careless wishing ended up causing her more problems than she had expected.

While this story was obviously based in fantasy, we constantly are making “wishes” on a daily basis, fully planted in a world of reality.  We never stop reaching for something that lies beyond our current state.  We may be wishing for better health, more prosperity and abundance, better friendships, less hardship, or better luck.

It’s not a bad thing to wish for something that we’d like.  There is no shame in asking for more money, more happiness, or better health.  Money is not evil, nor is being happy or healthy.  They are actually all representations of the flow of energy from one entity to another.  They represent the ever flowing current of abundance that the universe is just waiting to hand over to us.

You may be saying at this point, “Victor, I do wish for lots of things, but that’s not the problem.  The problem is that no matter how much I wish for something, it isn’t being granted.”

I hear you.  I’ve had my share of “wishes,” large and small, that went ungranted, much to my disappointment and frustration.  Because of this, I’d become disillusioned and doubtful.  I’d become discouraged and cynical.  “Why bother?” I’d ask.  I’d start to think things like, “It’s unrealistic and way too ambitious to ask for that,” or “These aren’t they types of things that I can just wish into my life,” and I’d just give up even wishing.  Have you found yourself there too?

Be careful what you wish for.  Okay, the poor grammar is getting under my skin now.  I know you’re not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition.  “Be careful for that which you wish.”  Is that better?  Nope.  Not really…

I’ll just stick to my original statement — “Be careful what you wish for.”

Just like the young lady in the story I watched with my girls, we may think we’re asking for something that will bring us better outcomes, but because we aren’t mindful of the way we are wishing for something, we end up frustrated or disillusioned because we’re not getting what we wanted.

There is no “bad” to go with the “good.”  There is simply “good,” and “resistance to good.”  There is polarity.  There is “something,” and then the “resistance to that something.”  When you make a wish, are you really desiring something, or are you just yearning for it, thus resisting the flow of that which you desire from coming to you?

Let me put it another way: If you are asking for more happiness in your life, are you really focusing on the happiness, or are you focusing on the fact that you are currently lacking in happiness?  If you are asking for more wealth in your life, are you really focusing on wealth, or are you focusing on the fact that you are currently lacking in wealth?

If you are focusing on feeling those good, warm feelings that come with happiness and wealth, and if you can maintain those warm, positive feelings that are focused entirely on how you’d feel if you were enjoying happiness and prosperity, you’ll place yourself right in line to allow the universe to bestow in its own way exactly what you’re looking for in due time.  However, if you are offering “resistance” to the “good” because you aren’t really thinking about what you want, but rather what or how you are lacking, you are placing yourself right in line for “more of the same.”  You’ll continue to experience what you don’t want, which is a perpetuation of what you are lacking.

What do you wish for?  How are you asking for it?  Be careful what you wish for and how you ask for it.  It can make all the difference in the world between staying right where you are and having your dreams come true!

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