If you are familiar with, and use, the Law of Attraction, you know there are three simple steps.
1. Clarify your desire
2. Believe you have already achieved your desire and feel the emotions of it as if it already exists.
3. Get out of the way and allow the Universe to deliver your desire to you. I say, "Get out of the way" because HOW the Universe delivers if often outside of our ability to understand - hence, when you start to put restrictions on HOW it needs to arrive, you put roadblocks in the Universe's way.

Ok, simple right. Well, not really. On the surface these are three very easy steps. Anyone can do them. Where we tend to fall down is in the gap between step 2 and step 3. This posting is not about getting out of the way (see previous posting on that topic: Let the Universe do it's Work!). This is about TRUST.

When you put your desire out there...when you choose to consciously create your reality, do you really trust that the Universe will deliver. Our relationship with the Universe is unique. We know it is much more powerful than any person we have a relationship with, while we can certainly have full on conversations with the Universe, our conversations are often in our heads. Do we know that the messages we're sending and receiving are truly with the Universe or is it our "little voice" that is leading us to believe that we are truly conversing. Maybe it's just our imagination...Just these questions alone require a level of trust and I haven't even gotten to the heart of the matter yet!

For arguments sake, let's pretend that we do, in fact, trust that we can converse with the Universe. So we clearly put our desires out there, we carefully and consciously craft our new reality and send it out to the Universe to have it delivered. Then what? If the request is relatively small, my experience these days is that it will manifest within hours or days. But what if the request is a bit bigger - a new career path, moving to another part of the world, new and exciting opportunities that you may not even be able to define as yet.

What happens when you put these things out there? Well, there are a lot of machinations that need to take place in order for the Universe to bring that new reality to you. While these shifts are happening, guess what most of us are doing? We're questioning everything!

Yes, you heard me, we're questioning the entire process, and as a result we're questioning the Universe. In our minds we're saying, "Why haven't I heard from anyone yet?", "How long is this supposed to take?", "How much more suffering is necessary?", "What is going on?", or my all time favourite, "What have I done wrong? This isn't what I asked for!"

Let's translate this into a person-to-person relationship. Imagine your relationship with the Universe is actually the relationship with your partner. What does it mean when you start to question him or her? "Why haven't I heard from them?", "Maybe they don't love me.", "Maybe they're with someone else.", "Why aren't they answering the phone?"

Pure and simple, if these questions even enter your headspace, whether it is your relationship to the Universe or your spouse, you are suffering from a lack of trust.

If you've taken the time to put your desires out there, if you've created the emotions around it as if it is already real - just TRUST. Let go of your attachment to how, when, why and where it will show up. The only thing that is causing you stress and angst is your lack of trust. Big changes require change. The Universe is working exceptionally fast these days - it will show up, stop questioning the process and just go with it!

Enjoying the Journey! ~Trish