How To Know What You Want

Soren Dreier, Contributing Writer
Waking Times

There are a lot of different angles out there, more or less new age, more or less sober, that bend the law of attraction into a washed-out cliché of a non-working law.

In order to attract or manifest what we want in this life, I think a very good strategy is knowing what we really want in order to manifest it.

Some folks say: We may not get what we want but what we need, in order to dodge a very clear principle: We are the source code to this.

What you want, you have to design, and you have got to tell the universe, or the universe can’t manifest it for you. I very much subscribe to the idea that the Universe will provide, but: With no action there will be no Reaction.

If you are not clear about what you need, and many people are not at the present or too locked in, the universe will go: “Ahh, you like to be confused or miserable,” and it will support that. That’s both a gift and a bugger.

If the state is: “I am on the move and I have a clear vision of where I’m heading and what I need,” then the Universe will enforce that.

That should be a very good argument to dodge the: “The Universe will provide and I really don’t have to do nothing. I´ll just wait”, – new age cliché.


  • A better strategy could be: “I will make a move forward which is in line with the blueprint of what I would like to manifest and then I will focus on the big picture and leave the details to the Universe.”

    So in times of quiet, in times of distress, in times that feel like a “holding pattern”, it might be good to prepare for times ahead, and take the steering wheel and start the engine.

    There is a way to kick off an inner dialog that could make it clear what we really need and want. I have used it in seminars and in coaching sessions, and it has helped people move on.

    The outcome and success of this drill is very much based on not censoring the consciousness when doing it and just going with the flow.

    The drill is based on the idea that we have three lives within. It’s only in theory that they can be separated since the three interact. They should, but sometimes it gets a little messy because they inflate and cloud each other, so it can be a very good idea to look at them separately.

    The three aspects would be:

    The Physical life.

    The Emotional life.

    The Intellectual life.

    These three embodiments are of very different aspects within us. They should come together in a beautiful flow, which would give us the life we would like. If there is harmony in the flow, the more whole we feel, but when the interaction of these three lives is disharmonic, we feel they inflate and become very hard to deal with, since they are not aligned properly.

    The drill is quite simple and yet very powerful. Simple things are often very powerful, since the “simple truth” often strikes like lightning.

    I’m not saying that this exercise is the truth, but it could provide “your” truth according to your needs. We all have our own truth, aligned to our needs and the way we would like our wishes to unfold.

    The Drill:

    Timeframe is 14 days.

    Every night before bed make three lists.

    – First list with your physical needs.

    Put your needs down on paper like a grocery list. As said: Don’t over-think any list and don’t censor. The physical needs could be: Improve the body, money, your home, work, anything physical in your life.

    – Second list with your emotional needs: Friends, relationships, self-relationship, love and so on.

    – Third list with the more intellectual needs: Education, interests to develop or strengthen, philosophical and spiritual passions, exploring and further.

    Next morning read through the lists, tear them apart, and in the evening make new lists. And so on for 14 days.

    Don’t try to memorize the list. Start from scratch.

    As the days go by, you will encounter that the number of topics, wishes on the lists will go drastically down. This is very good because the lists should tell you after 14 days, what you really want. What kept coming up on the list?

    I had a student once who had about 50 wishes on each list. After two weeks of doing this exercise, the numbers were down to four. His emotional list had one wish: Peace. Very cool. He actually found out, even though he worked in children’s care in France, that he really wanted to be was a diving instructor in New Zealand and today he is.

    The exercise will kick start a dialogue between the Ego wanting it all or too little, the subconscious and the higher consciousness and will dodge any toxic internal dialogue of: This I cannot ask for or whatever programming there could be in that.

    It also bends the matrix blueprint of brainwashing us into believing that the Matrix’s very biased standard of living blueprint should cover it all. It doesn’t.

    The law of attraction can’t really work if we don’t know how to tell it what we would like from it.

    About the Author

    Soren Dreier is the author of SorenDreier.com, an excellent blog with mind-blowing perspectives on the modern world.

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