Practicing the Law of Assumption by Manifesting Small Things
The other day I was browsing an online shop for a brand I really enjoy. I found myself looking at keychains in their collection, and imagining them on my key ring. I even put one in my shopping cart, intent on purchasing it.
Something made me hold off, however. I just left it in the shopping cart to finalize my order at a later time. I was content knowing that soon I would have the keychain anyway, so it didn’t really matter if I ordered it right this minute or a day or two from now.
The next day, my friend came by with a box of gifts for my birthday, which had passed long enough ago that I’d forgotten all about it. In the box was a small haul from the brand I liked, including the keychain.
As I was putting it on my key ring, I smiled knowingly to myself, never letting on to my friend that I had manifested the gift she’d brought me.
Neville Goddard always said to practice the law, to test it for yourself at every opportunity for things great and small. These “small” manifestations are an important part of my practice and my craft.
The thing about small manifestations is that, really, there’s no such thing as a “small” manifestation. All creation is the same in the eyes of the universe. A free cup of coffee, a keychain, a specific person, or a million dollars. It’s all the same in terms of the law.
The way we decide if a manifestation is “big” or “small” is how it feels to us, the conscious creator.
Consider manifesting a sum of $10,000, for example. The person who has always been poor will naturally thing of this as a “big” manifestation. The person who has been rich for years might thing that this is very simple and easy. Yet it is the same amount of money, and the same manifestation.
The difference is the perception of the manifestor; nothing else is changed.
A lot of times, you’ll see the word “resistance” thrown around, which is kind of just a simple way of putting the idea that something is difficult for you to accept as truth based on your limiting beliefs or current patterns.
We tend to build resistance to things we have a long history of disbelieving, and especially towards the manifestations we are particularly attached to.
You might be “low resistance” to the idea of a free cup of coffee because it seems possible enough to happen, and you aren’t attached to having to receive the coffee at all. In contrast, you might be incredibly resistant to manifesting getting into your dream university, because it feels like everything is hanging on getting the desired outcome, and it seems difficult to attain.
In reality though, the two are mechanically the same in the eyes of the law of attraction.
That is why getting into a habit of practice is so important when we decide to become the manifestors of our own reality.
A lot of new conscious creators agonize over the things they have the most built-up resistance to. Things like specific people, money, appearance, grades, and more. These are all things that are totally under your control by the law of assumption or law of attraction. But if you are new, and you feel that there’s a lot riding on the outcome, you are in for an uphill battle of personal growth.
The thing about this uphill battle is that, while the desired outcome is still achievable, new manifestors tend to get disheartened by “failed” manifestations and manifestations that take a long time to come to fruition.
And it’s easy to come to the conclusion that “the law of attraction doesn’t work,” because you went straight for the most “difficult” thing and didn’t see the results you wanted in the time you wanted.
Practicing on small things is the answer to this problem.
Like a muscle, your mind needs to be worked and get practice. Testing the law on these things gives you a chance to use your conscious creation muscles without being horribly attached. It gives you a chance to succeed, and to experience what the different feelings are leading up to a manifestation.
Giving myself a chance to succeed over and over again is what built my faith in the law of assumption early on. It’s what lead me to manifesting houses, appearance/physical changes, money, SPs, successful businesses, pets, and so much more of the “big stuff.”
The keychain I manifested, perceptually, is a small manifestation. It’s something I wanted, was excited about in a confident way, and was in no way clinging to. It felt like a no-brainer, like there were no mental obstacles in my way of receiving it. It came to me in a day, less that 24 hours, because of my readiness.
It’s these small things that I continue to practice as I work on the things that feel “bigger” to me, because they constantly renew faith, keep me engaged in my craft, and help reinforce my identity as the powerful conscious creator I am.
