Manifesting Love 7: The Law of Attraction and Receiving a Lover

By Joshua Howard 

In this seventh installment of the series on manifesting a lover, we're going to cover the last major step of the law of attraction process: receiving. This is the step you take after you have clarified what you want in a lover, removed blocks (the ways you make yourself feel unworthy of love), imagined yourself in this love, and let go of your desperation to make it happen and accepted that you must work with the world in order to obtain your love. Please refer to the others in this series for more information on those steps. Without further ado, let's discuss receiving.

Receiving is best thought of as the corollary of asking. If you ask, you will receive. But in order to receive you have to keep the same state of mind from the asking stage, which is to say faith, determination, and persistence toward your goal.

Faith is key. But please ignore the baggage of religion on the term: faith here means "a feeling of certitude". And in that regard, faith is key to everything-you feel certain that the ground won't fall out from underneath you as you walk down the street. You're so certain of it, that it'll probably never become a concern to you (i.e. you'll likely never question this faith) unless something horrible happens like a deck collapses beneath you or you fall into a sinkhole. So, in order to receive the person (or people) of your dreams, you must have faith that they're out there and that you can meet them (or that your family dynamics can change, whatever your situation is).

Determination is also very important. You must stay determined to meet this person, and most certainly to not give up and get into a relationship out of desperation or want to make a situation into something it's not (e.g. by getting into a relationship with a "fixer upper"-that attitude is all wrong for finding the person of your dreams because they, nor anyone else, needs to change for you). Accepting that you're working with the universe in the last step is accepting that though the universe will bring you the things you ask for, each time you meet someone (and even get bothered by creepers) is an opportunity for calibration. It's a chance to say, "okay, I don't want traits x, y, and z, but I like traits p and q." Then, step back to the clarifying portion of asking stage of the law of attraction, clarify again, and repeat the rest of the process with this new information.

Finally, you must stay persistent. There's not a lot to say about this because determination without persistence is an empty promise. Using the law of attraction is all about making promises: in this case, you're spending time considering what you want in a lover to make a promise to yourself that you're going to have that love. And through using the law, you're working with the universe and making a promise that you really do want the universe to do the work to align you with this amazing love. After making those promises and investing the time and effort to do the work, there's no reason not to stay persistent. After all, why would you want to quit on the cusp of victory? Or settle? Aren't you better than that? (Or maybe, deep down, at least part of you is still resisting, still thinking and feeling badly about yourself and whom you can love and the people in the world... ).

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Joshua Howard is life coach who specializes in law of attraction, NLP, and DHE.

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