This Principle may very well push a lot of buttons and open up a lot of intellectual arguments in your head.  So be it.  Intellectual arguments, however, can’t change the fact of the Principle: You have exactly what you asked for... and were willing to receive.

We have learned thus far that thoughts are like ‘things’ which will manifest in kind.  So, it would serve you to pay attention to what you ask for because this Infinite Intelligence, that knows all things and created all things; Omniscient Wisdom, that knows how to manage all things; and the Unconditional Omnipotent Love which can do all things, is very precise.  I highlighted unconditional because It is truly that.  It will move in whichever direction you ask It to.  We’ll go into greater detail in upcoming lessons.

For now, in this part of your journey, it is time to take a look at what you are asking for. 

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard people say (once they get beyond their initial flood of objections), “I only want ___(fill in the blank)___”.  Okay.  That’s what they get.  Then, they lament that life hasn’t given them more.  Well, they didn’t ask for it. 

Or they say, “I would like this, but....(and then come up with a reason as to why it can’t happen)”  Okay.  The use of the word ‘but’ automatically negates the request and... what do you get?  You get confusion.

Or they “...don’t want to bother God because He is busy helping people worse of than I am.”  He/SHe/It is infinite!  Why put human limitations on something that goes way beyond our capacity to understand in its fullness?

Or, they want to do something, but they say, “I don’t have the money.”  First of all, they’re affirming poverty for themselves.  But, more importantly, they are forgetting that the fountain of Divine Light is infinite.  It isn’t restricted to moving only in the form of money.  (Please note I couldn’t make the word ‘infinite’ stand out any more than I just did).

There was a woman I know whose marriage had fallen apart so she decided to leave.  The only place she could find to stay was in a tiny borrowed apartment and that had a limited time frame attached to it since the owner was letting her stay there while he was away.  She had been saving money, but never seemed to get to the point of having enough for a down payment on her own house. 

    “I don’t want much,” she said, trying to be humble.  “I just want a roof over my head.”

    “How much do you have in the bank?”  I asked.

    She told me and I thought for a minute before saying, “Yep, that’s about right.  You have exactly enough for a roof over your head.  The only problem is you forgot to ask for the four walls, windows, doors and pavements.”  She laughed because she realized that was exactly what had happened.  “You might as well ask for some furniture while you’re at it,” I added.

    At first, she couldn’t fathom how it was going to come about because, from her current perspective, her earnings potential was rather limited.  We did the Light work, using the technique as outlined in the Basic Activation of the Divine Light Vibration section of this website and she asked for a house to live in, as well as furniture, or something better.”  She figured she’d go all out, no limits.  Then, she let it go to allow the Divine Light to do the work.  In the meantime, she set about appreciating her temporary living space the way it was and planning what colors she was going to have in her new home.

    Interestingly enough, within a fairly short period of time, new contracts started coming in as well as one with a house builder who didn’t want to pay her in cash.  He preferred to pay her in labor and his costs of building materials since his business was off and he wanted to keep his workers busy.  Then, right about the same time, her recalcitrant husband who had vowed to bury her in lawyers fees if she didn’t come back to him, had a change of mind and decided to help her financially in the building of her new home.   I haven’t seen her house yet, but she moved in six months ago and sounded ecstatic on the phone.  It had been built exactly to her specifications.  As a side note, she shared this Principle with the builder and his business is back on track.

So, the first thing you really need to do to apply this Principle to your liking (since you’ve already been applying it on a subconscious level anyway), is take a look at how you’ve been asking for what you have and why you were willing to settle for less.

Oh, and just as an FYI, in case the photo above touched some pre-prejudices you might have about that image, the gypsies in Italy have a good thing going. They live in deluxe campers on land donated to them by the Italian government.  Their electricity bills are paid by the Italian government.  As if that weren’t enough, they are also exempt from paying taxes.  After all, it’s hard to put a number on the amount of cash they take in from their street activities.  All of this is in an effort on the part of the Italian government to ‘contain’ their activities. 

I will never forget the day I was parked outside a store waiting for a friend to finish his shopping.  I was in the car when I saw a gypsy walking through the parking lot as they will do, offering to read your palm for money.  If you don’t accept their ‘service’, they will send you a torrential rain of what Italians call “maledizioni”.  Loosely translated, this means the worst kind of luck imaginable.  Italians are traditionally superstitious so this is usually a very effective technique to induce gracious wallets on the part of the people the gypsy women approach.  This tendency in the Italian culture towards superstition is changing so it will be interesting to see how the gypsy women’s approach changes as a result.

I was studying her in the rear view and side mirrors as I watched her make her way towards my car.  I braced myself for the inevitable knock on the window when, to my surprise, she went up to the car next to me instead.  It was a brand new, high end deluxe navy blue Mercedes coupe with 18K gold trimmings.  I mean, that one car could feed five Italian families of four for a year, plus pay for their vacations. 

There was no one in the car so I watched with curiosity to see what she was going to do.

Imagine my surprise, when she actually opened the door and got in!  Just as I was trying to shut my mouth, which was frozen in a state of open astonishment, the rest of her family came out of the store, got into the car with her and they drove away.

When my friend came out of the store, I told him about what I had seen.  He was very nonchalant and told me about the sweet deal they had with the Italian government.  Think about it: no rent, no mortgage payment, no electricity bills, no taxes and, for their ‘work’, they wear other people’s old cast off clothes.  That is one very low overhead which makes it possible to have some very high end toys.

Driving home that afternoon, he showed me where their trailer camp was.  We were on the overpass so we could look right down over the camp.  It looked like a luxury car dealership with all the Mercedes’, BMW’s, Saab’s and even a Lamborghini.  According to one friend who sells cars, the gypsies are good clients because they pay in cash.

I have since made acquaintances with the gypsies because I always take the time to say hello and send them Divine Light.... as I am saying ‘no’ to their service of reading my palm.  It is a whole other world they live in, built on a very different logic than the societies I have lived in, but they have exactly what they ask for... and have been willing to receive.  The Principle knows no cultural boundaries.

One thing I learned for sure: what I thought I was seeing that day in the parking lot was a far cry from the reality of their lifestyle.  That’s true for a lot of things in life.

EXERCISE:

1. 1. Just contemplate this concept that you have whatever you were willing to have, no more, no less.  Feel any resistance you have to the concept and give that resistance to the Divine Light vibration for transformation into illumination.  If you haven’t already done so, you might want to look at Basic Activation of the Divine Light Vibration on how to go about it.  There is also the section on Guided Podcast Meditations that can walk you through the release.   Let your Divine Soul guide you.
   

2. 2.If you are able to, write down what it was that you asked for.  I can assure you that, if you find the courage to really dig down into your psyche, you’ll discover the misguided belief system in place that  brought you to limiting your fountain of possibility.  It’s like going to an ATM machine with a card that says, “You can have however much as you’d like, no limits,” and you decide that you only want $100.00, when to put a roof over your head will cost more than that.
   

The upcoming lessons will help you take a look and how you created some of the ‘stuff’ that’s going on in your life and how to move yourself into other directions. I encourage you to keep going... this is the point where it is easy to bog yourself down into intellectual comings and goings in an effort to hang on to what you have known up to this point.  Don’t let your fear of unknown freedoms imprison you into hanging on to your past belief systems.  Let go of what you think you know so you can move into levels of real knowing from within.  It is when we are willing to let go our our intellectual reasoning, and current interpretation of the world, that we are able to move onto the next level of enlightenment of living in the conscious awareness of the presence of Divine Love and Light.  Jump on in; the water is really nice....