@Stingray I have moments where all I want is relief, then I have moments where I'm thinking "What the hell is going on? I want more money, I want my car! I want to start living the life I am imagining" And I attract so much knowledge and information that it's honestly starting to fustrate me again. I'm constantly looking for what am I doing wrong OR how am I holding myself away from the things I desire. There is no turning back after gaining this knowledge but it pisses me off. It's like a emotional roller coaster. And you might noticed that from my other comments and questions.

I'm wanting so much to interalize this information because I've read it so much put some things in to practice and things are slowly changing but it still feels like something isn't clicking or i'm missing something. I think sometimes "when will all of this become joyous like I know it should be" I'm honestly trying my best but I will read the link you posted in the beginning of the answer and see what I can get out of it.

Ok I just read the other answer you posted and I must admit everytime I do any of these processes MOST of the time I am secretly thinking about getting my "Stuff" It seems the best rememdy for me is to simply focus on getting into the vortex and stop trying to manifest things for now. Because that's ALL I think about. It getting the "Stuff" or situations I desire. Any additioal thoughts after reading my rant? PS: I think you can see I'm very passionate about getting a handle on this. Is that holding me back?

If you are really so hung up on your 'stuff' , just take some time off all these and think to yourself, what would happen if you really got your 'stuff'? Would it really change anything in your life? If you are already living an ok life and not desperate you would find that actually .. they would be something that would be 'nice' to have, but not necessary. Thats how you can stop focusing on the outcome and just enjoy the process!

And it's a good thing that it's an emotional roller coaster because I totally understand how you feel as I am also starting out on this knowledge.. at first I was frustrated and all too but now I am enjoying most parts of it even though I haven't technically really manifested anything I wanted yet.. because you can't find this type of emotional coaster ride anywhere else I bet :D.. So far I think I have only managed to find myself once in the vortex(it was a very different feeling of excitement(tho its not on the emotional scale?) which I can't describe) but it didn't last long lol

@Chris - Yes, the best remedy is to just clean up the vibrations on the subjects you want, and then just tune yourself into the Vortex from time to time and leave all the details to the Universe. I know you want your stuff but, as Kakaboo says, you'll only want more different stuff after you get this batch, so you may as well start enjoying the incompleteness of your life...because it will always be like that :)

@Chris - And if all of these manifesting ideas are frustrating you then just giving up for now on even trying to manifest anything at all is actually an excellent idea...because you can never give up a desire that has been launched, you can only give up your resistance to it. http://www.inwardquest.com/questions/8406/what-happens-to-the-things-we-originally-desired-if-we-suddenly-decided-not-to-wa/8417#8417

Very interested in the concept of cleaing up the past and present negative thoughts.Happy with the theory about this,could you give practical pointers on the methods you used to achieve this.

@Graham - These days, I don't use much more than the method explained in Manifesting Experiment 2 - "Focus Blocks"

http://www.inwardquest.com/questions/5901/manifesting-experiment-2-the-focus-blocks-method-manifest-what-you-want-by

Ive just been reading thru a few of your links and i have most of what i need from them. The NEUTRAL point is very interesting,as is the feeling being an indicator of a manifestaions proximity. I will study thru a few more of your links. They do seem to answer most of my queries.

if it weren't for stingray i'd have a pretty sad life. I like the surfing method the best of all awesome!!! Gnarly!!

@Nikulas, yeah the surfing method is a way to have a pretty extreme life to say the least - if you want it :) It's like throwing yourself off a cliff and then trying to figure out how you're going to land safely on the way down before you hit the ground. I seem to have the kind of personality that is naturally drawn to "surfing" :) ... http://www.inwardquest.com/questions/1779/are-we-all-extreme-attractors

hey stingray, im thinking of doing this. I believe that i can have, do, or be anything in compliance with universal powers. But i can witness my thoughts of resistance, impatience and doubt. If all i did was use the sedona method with those feelings, so i feel normal, i'd get the things exactly as i want right?

@Stingray "brave and foolish" approach, love it :)

Oh thankyou Stingray for this - such a clear explanation.

@stingray wow i am amazed. this really worked with a online auction of mine. but now i understand why you say that it is more difficult to manifest something that you need and want desperately. because i had to soothe many many thoughts to completely let go...

...and they came back again and again in the same or in another form. besides in the last 15 minutes of the auction i meditated to stop all thoughts and let go. it really worked! i sold something for even more than it is worth. and it was nearly the sum i wished to get. thank you!

@releaser99 - I like your application of the process here. Something like an online auction is a great way to practice this approach. I've probably learned more about manifesting (in a practical day-to-day sense) from using this deadline-driven method than anything else. And, as you've already discovered, sometimes there's simply no other option but to simply find a way to take your attention completely off the subject :)

@Stingray It's me again :). "even if physical reality has to perform some vibrational somersaults to make it happen" This effect is really fascinating. I'm wondering how one can increase desire when there is no actual deadline. Do you remember that Stuart Lichtman talks about the "inner anchor point"? You basically anchor the feeling of a deadline (in the true sense of the word) in your heart chakra . But I can't make this work somehow. Any ideas and experiences regarding that approach?

@releaser99 - "how one can increase desire when there is no actual deadline" - Find ways to focus on the thing you want more so that it matters more to you in your life. Alternatively, and my preferred approach, make more decisions in every day so you start pulling more life energy through every part of your life, and then start focusing on things you want once you are running at "full throttle" :) I didn't really get on with Lichtman's Inner Anchor Point approach. For me, it all feels a...

@releaser99 - ...little vague and wishy-washy i.e. you are surrounding almost everything you do with white light and placing it there. I found I needed something a little more quantifiable than that to buy into it, like spreadsheets and Focus Blocks :) I personally can't really fake the feeling of a deadline because, at some level, I know I'm faking and hence it doesn't really matter. However, if you do get immersed in life to the extent where you are constantly forced to make decisions then...

@releaser99 - ...that kind of lifestyle naturally seems to generate real deadlines on a regular basis so you can get plenty of practice that way :) It's a bit like the "Boldly Go" idea in Star Trek where you just explore what's out there in life for the sake of exploring. You maybe get into a scrape or two along the way but you discover so much that you wouldn't have otherwise...and your life hardly ever gets the chance to be dull or uneventful :) http://www.inwardquest.com/questions/4836#4837

@Stingray- Wen you refer to "decisions" you are actually referring to decisions that, for most of the time, are accompained by physical action? Eg: if I decide to wash my car, it's really a decision once I'm actually in the process of washing it, correct?

You see, in my mind, when you say decisions it's coming from my source in a more tough love way as "stop being lazy, get up off the coach and do something productive." Would you say that's equally what you're getting across here?

@Nikulas - "if I decide to wash my car, it's really a decision once I'm actually in the process of washing it, correct?" - If you want to link decisions and immediate physical actions, that's up to you, but I mostly don't. I might have (and do have) a long list of things I want to achieve. Just going through that list and thinking about what to do next regarding each item, without doing any of them now (or even ever), is just as much decision-making...that's basically the Placemat Process.

@Stingray "It's a bit like the 'Boldly Go' idea in Star Trek" made me laugh out loud :). And I feel excited to go "where no man has gone before" (but Stingray).. So you say making decisions increases the overall desire for many things in life. This sounds like a good approach. Lately I feel really inspired to figure this "manifesting on demand" thing out to become a master in it eventually. I see it's tricky and much about identifying limiting beliefs.

"little vague and wishy-washy" Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking. He has some good ideas but some of them are quite challenging permission slips for me to buy into :).

"Find ways to focus on the thing you want more so that it matters more to you in your life" So Lichtman's "prioritizing tool" of reading/writing your metastory 100 times daily should do the trick, right? And it also seems to uncover limiting beliefs at the same time. Do you feel inspired to share any other tips regarding your "surfing the desire" approach? Pitfalls? Helpful beliefs? Tools? Thanks.

@releaser99 - The "100 times daily" does not particularly appeal. I tried it for about 2 days before giving up. IMO if one is resorting to brute force then one is overlooking a more elegant solution. With the repeated affirmations, you won't be focusing with the same effectiveness on repetition 100 as for repetition 1. Better IMO to employ the "vibration stays where you last left it" effect. Shift your vibration, live some life to stabilize the vibrational setpoint, then shift it some more.

@releaser99 - The "Metastories" idea generally, however, I find to be brilliant. I've mentioned it before on IQ in various forms. If you focus on a subject and think of every memory (or even anything at all) that comes up when you think about it, and then clean it all up, then wonderful things happen that were not happening before. That idea is well-embedded into the ME-4 approach and, really, it lies underneath the Faster EFT "whole-life" clean-ups.

@Stingray "you won't be focusing with the same effectiveness on repetition 100 as for repetition 1" Yes, that's right. I feel my focus diffusing when I do so much repetitions. But just a few (like 5-10 reps) seem to unveil some limiting beliefs. "If you focus on a subject and think of every memory..." I have a challenge with stacking up memories. So I uncover beliefs and corresponding body sensations and I write them down like in ME4.

And when I have a long list, I just remember the last limiting belief and body sensation as soon as I start to use a cleaning tool. I kinda lose the feeling of all the other beliefs in the list and can't go back to them immediately just by reading through the list. So ultimately I have to clean up one belief at a time. Maybe I've misinterpreted this concept?

@releaser99 - The intention to stack is sufficient for the effect to work...you don't have to remember a consolidated version of all the limiting beliefs...in fact, that would be an almost impossible feat to pull off anyway :) Robert Smith (of Faster EFT) additionally quotes the tree metaphor once to each new client at the beginning to signal what's required of the unconscious part of them i.e. "what happens if you pull the roots out from a tree/plant?"

@Stingray Excellent!! Thank you!

This is a fascinating discussion. I know I'm late to this party, but @Stingray's words Shift your vibration, live some life to stabilize the vibrational setpoint, then shift it some more. jumped out at me. I think that without realizing it, I've been trying an all-or-nothing approach to shifting vibration that was not serving me. Incrementally shifting vibration feels so much easier and more logical. Thanks guys. :)

@Grace - "Incrementally shifting vibration feels so much easier and more logical" - I've found time and time again in my life that gentle incremental changes stick while quantum jumps rarely do...a concept that is currently in fashion in management circles and labelled with the Japanese term Kaizen.

An analogy would be that if you are accelerating your car gently from 10mph...20mph...30mph...etc you can take your family along. If you going 0-100mph instantly, get astronaut training :)

@Stingray - Great analogy, and it feels right. :) I woke this morning and started doing my Focus Blocks and wondering how could I have said I don't shift vibration incrementally? Of course I do, every day in my Focus Blocks. But in my comment I'd been referring to shifting setpoint vibration on an intended manifestation, not something bothering me. So now I'm thinking I'd like to keep track of that and see my progress - do you have a process you use to do that? Am I forgetting something?

@Grace - "referring to shifting setpoint vibration on an intended manifestation, not something bothering me" - It's the same thing in my view. Only use a process to feel better about what you want, not to try to manifest it. Why is my manifestation taking so long? Treating our emotion about the thing as the real manifestation of the thing makes the lagging physical accompaniment of it come quicker and easier (as a by-product)

@Stingray - Thanks for that, it helped a lot! Subtle but important, I agree. It made me laugh, how fast that cleared up my quandary. Even as I was reading your comments I asked myself well, why don't I have what I want yet? Almost before I could frame the question the answer came loud and clear. Because I believed that it was a decision in someone else's hands. Nope. All up to me. Cool! I didn't even know I was thinking that! :)

@Grace - You're welcome :)

@Grace - ...and I forgot to add that if you want to use the Why Don't I Have What I Want Yet? idea more systematically, you might want to take a look at Manifesting Experiment 5 ...a neglected experiment that I should probably simplify/clarify and give more prominence to because it's the closest one so far to the idea of deliberate manifesting, without drowning in the usual resistance that accompanies that deliberateness.