It is helpful to understand the sometimes obvious difficulty to change certain conditions and circumstances in your life. In addition to non-resistance and acceptance this understanding brings us to our next key point:

You can't create on the "outside" what you are not on the inside.

This realization confronts us with a seemingly unsolvable dilemma: the sense of lack or the feeling of needing something that is seemingly non-existent in our life. Whether it be a fulfilling relationship, the necessary financial means or a job that gives us joy and fulfilment. Most people seek improvement in one or more of these areas. But the sense of lack or the feeling of needing something that is missing, sends out the matching vibration which the universe faithfully confirms, again and again. 

Anyone who has worked with positive affirmations knows that they only seem to work to a certain point and eventually the original state returns. "Cosmic ordering services" or magical wish lists work to an extent but, as I have already explained, the knowing of "not having" is always sent out along side with it and therefore returns as an echo, sooner or later. So what is the solution?

The solution is to embrace your divine essence and understand what "the universe" really is. This is a process that can take a lifetime or even many lifetimes. It is not enough to cognitively acknowledge the concept of being eternal consciousness and an image of Source itself. It has to be an inner knowing. Not a "maybe", not a "hopefully", but an understanding that everything that exists is also part of this greater existence, just like yourself. And the ultimate realization is that there is NOTHING that isn't already a part of you. There is nothing that cannot show itself in your own life, once the obstacles have been cleared out of the way. So no matter what seems to be missing - there is a reason for it, which either lies in programming and beliefs or in an important growth process that your soul wants to complete. In most cases, this involves overcoming fears, primal fears that lie dormant in past traumas and which hinder further development.

One of the biggest obstacles to manifestation is the discord between the personality and the soul. It's the personality's fear of wanting something different than the things the "higher powers", the universe, "God" or even the own soul hold in store. The fear of painful experiences, which result in attempts to avoid them altogether.

Our personality is not a separate entity, but more like a program or an imprint that helps our soul experience this life through a very particular "lens". Every human being is an immortal soul. Happiness, peace and joy are the goals that both the soul and the universe as a whole constantly strive for - the harmonizing of disharmonious states. What stands between us and our fulfilment is mostly a lack of trust in that very universe. We tend to experience ourselves as a separate part of it that is either being "rewarded" or "punished". There is, however, no such thing as reward or punishment. There is only the physics of resonance. So how do I manifest something that I don't already seem to have?

Fake it until you feel it, or the pre-experiencing of manifestations

A key to manifestation is to understand how we go about it and which "ingredients" are the most powerful. In short: which vibrations create the greatest resonance in the universe? The most powerful tools we have are our divine emotions, which originate in our heart: joy, love, excitement and gratitude.

Visualization, exact picturing and inner vision rank far behind and are highly overrated. And this also is one of the secrets of manifestation: find out what you REALLY want. Is it really the house, the car, the big bank account? Or are these the things that you think will give you something you are missing? A fulfilled life full of joy? The secret of manifestation lies primarily in not thinking about things or circumstances that you want to create, but in thinking about which feelings you want to have as the dominant feelings in your life. The circumstances then magically form around the expression of these feelings. Since we are images of Source, we are like musical instruments that can create any "sound" from within ourselves. We do not need an external trigger to feel joy. Our imagination, our fantasy and our heart are completely sufficient for creating it. So letting yourself sink deep down into the space of your heart through meditation and evoking those feelings, is the surest way to create the experiences that actually fulfil you.

At the very least, it's an excellent preparation for conscious manifestation, for which these emotions are absolutely essential.