by Kenneth MacLean
Faith is often associated with irrational belief in something that has no basis in fact. However, the idea of faith has been with us for millennia. There must be something valuable about it, otherwise the concept couldn’t have survived for so long.
Faith gets a bad name because it is theoretical, not based on experience or experiment. Faith is also pejoritavely associated with fundamentalism or fanaticism, because those who practice it refuse to acknowledge reality, but hold to their intent nonetheless. But faith can also be meliorative (to make better).
A rational definition of faith might be, ‘holding to what is desired purely, with no counter-thought or intention.’ In other words, faith does not allow observation of the current reality to influence intent. In that sense, it is completely a priori (belief without factual proof).
You might say, “having faith is easy to say but impossible to do. I can”t even meditate for 5 minutes without my mind wandering.” Well, yeah, but what”s the alternative? If you want to improve, you can”t operate on the same frequencies or nothing will change. So you have to get some new thoughts, and an understanding of faith can help you to do that. An understanding of universal principles makes having faith much easier. Even if your dream is completely divorced from your current reality, you can get started with confidence, knowing that the Law of Attraction will back you up. The Law of Attraction states that ‘like attracts like,’ so whatever you pay attention to, you will get more of!
The Law of Attraction tells us that having faith is not delusional! Delusion is looking at black and calling it white. Faith is simply holding to your dream despite all reasons not to. It can be the engine of your personal creative process, for the subtle energy phenomenon of vibrational matching will bring to you, sometimes in ways that would never occur to you, opportunities, synchronicities, ‘luck’, people and resources to assist you. You just have to begin to apply this idea and watch what happens. Once you begin to see your life change, you will never doubt it, and having faith will become easier and easier. Having faith should be a fun process, because your thoughts are all geared toward those things that bring you joy.
This is the opposite of what I learned in religion classes. I learned that faith is very difficult, achieved only through great diligence. And it IS difficult, if what you are attempting to achieve doesn”t line up with what YOU want. If you”re trying to achieve the goals others have set for you, instead of the one”s you”ve set for yourself, faith can indeed be arduous!
Faith is a powerful concept in any creative endeavor, for it keeps you aligned to the goal. In order to make faith work however, you have to do a little sales job on yourself at the beginning, and get yourself in the right frame of mind to start the ball rolling. In other words, if you”ve been creating negatively in an area for years, you first have to overcome your negative inertia. But this inertia is within the scope of your control, for you have control your thoughts and intentions. The universe”s responses are entirely dependent upon what you give your attention to. You also have to overcome the fatalistic tendency to regard the solid stuff around you as immovable and unchanging. The unfulfilling relationship, job, or lifestyle seems stuck in place, but it is there only as a consequence of your unchanging, habitual patterns of thought and belief. Change that, and your life will change as well.
Having faith simply means allowing the law of “like attracts like” to work in your favor. It turns out that the more attention you pay to something, the more of it actually arrives in your experience. You have to find this out for yourself however, by experimentation in the laboratory of life. Remember also that an unchanging vibration will always generate similar actions. I don”t advise quitting your job and trying to think your way to success. It”s certainly possible, but unless you are a true master of thought, you”re not going tomake any Great Leaps Forward. When you truly change your vibe, you”ll feel excited, and you”ll want to get into action. You may be working very hard indeed, but it won”t seem like work at all, it”ll be fun!
Faith will never fail to get you where you want to go, because having faith creates a vibration unsullied and unhindered by contradictory thoughts and feelings. Faith is purely holding your vision so that you may come together in time and space with the people and resources you need in your creative process. That is what “synchronicity,” or coincidence, is all about. What passes for coincidence is simply the lining up of your thoughts and intentions with your goal. You didn’t just get that new job offer by chance! You create every one of your opportunities.
Holding the Vision
The most crucial aspect of “having faith” is continuing to hold the vision through every stage of the creative process, even though the goal has not yet been attained. When you are absolutely clear about what you want, when you have a goal and a vision AND you are filled with positive emotion, you are unstoppable, and what you desire is as inevitable as turning on a garden hose. Even if the hose is very long and you have to wait a while, you KNOW the water will eventually find it’s way to your nozzle.
You are not a failure because your desires have not yet manifested. You are simply involved in an ongoing creative process of lining yourself up with what you want. If you don”t believe you can be, do or have something, you can”t, because you never get your vibrational stone in position to roll downhill.
So have fun. Keep the faith. Which just means, never let go of your desires, your dreams.
Popular writer Kenneth James Michael MacLean has written 6 books and dozens of essays.
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