Step 1 and step 3 are different

[asjairok]

It is important that you realize that Steps 1 and 3 of the creative process are different. When you are focused upon, or praying for, something you really want and need, often you're not a vibrational match to the thing you want. Instead, you are a match to the absence of the thing you want.

[cigi]

I guess Simon would be the best 1 to weigh in on this - he heard it strait from Abe-Esther's mouth.

Makes total sense to me. Allowing (step 3) is simply ALLOWING!!!! We can all ask & ask & ask until we're just blue in the face (hope ya'll speak Southern), but it doesn't matter if we're coming from a place of lack.

The big thing about Step 3 is just to BE. Right here, right now.

Love the ride kids! AND get what you want out of it!!!!!

:simple:
cigi

[asjairok]

* exactly *

[cigi]

Thank you for this thread. you beautiful, awesome girl!!!!
:kiss:

[River]

IMO it is a like this, or so it feels like it. Appreciation = Enjoyment which is a state of being. It is like you are saying with your enjoyment that what you have given me Universe I am loving so much. I am taking pleasure in it, I am appreciating it.

Example: It is like a dog who shows you joy when you pet it. The dog is in such a state of appreciation saying thank you by how he is being while you pet it. You in turn are appreciating the dog's appreciating of you petting him.

The Universe/source is like that...seeing you having so much pleasure that it wants to keep petting you and give you what you want. This is step 3, or recieving.

Conversely, if you are in a state of complaining or non-enjoyment you are not going to notice what the Universe tries to do to please you . Because of your vibrational state you won't like anything given to you anyway-you are not allowing.

Shannon