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Abraham Hicks- Impatience Is Standing In The Way Of Your Desire ❤️
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Key takeaways
Key Wellness / Self-Care / Productivity Strategies (from the discussion)
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Practice patience by treating impatience as a sign of resistance
- Impatience with an unfulfilled desire isn’t evidence of failure—it’s a signal that you’re resisting what you want.
- Shift the focus from waiting to finding joy in the process (even if results take time).
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Use “process-focused” attention to accelerate outcomes
- When you desire something but focus on how far away you are, you can fuel:
- frustration
- inferiority
- incompleteness
- This may create a feedback loop where progress feels like it moves you forward while the result stays “the same distance away.”
- Instead: focus on feelings that match the desire—joy, love, gratitude, passion.
- When you desire something but focus on how far away you are, you can fuel:
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Treat negative emotions as an internal alignment indicator
- Negative emotions (disappointment, fear, anger, rage, etc.) are described as indicators that you’ve added resistance to the flow of your request.
- In this framing, “negative emotion” means you hit the brakes—you’re not allowing what you asked for to come through.
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Stop blaming external circumstances for your emotional state
- Avoid the trap of thinking, “I only feel this because of something outside me.”
- The implied guidance:
- recognize that your feelings are influenced by what you focus on
- avoid trying to control or destroy what you don’t want, because resisting it internally blocks well-being.
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Re-learn authenticity by deliberately choosing thoughts/actions that feel good
- “To feel good, you must allow who you really are to freely express yourself.”
- Consciously contemplate and feel what gives pleasant resonance.
- If your environment has distorted your sense of what’s “good” vs “bad,” relearn by using your feelings as the guide.
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Follow the “path of least resistance” (Art of Allowing / Permission)
- Instead of forcing focus on the outcome, find the way to allow the energy to flow right now.
- Key question:
- “What could I think/say/remember/imagine/pay attention to that would feel the best I can right now?”
- If focusing on the topic ramps up frustration, step away from the topic to return to a state of better alignment.
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Use a 3-step request/manifestation framework
- Step 1: Ask (often; contrast helps refine preferences)
- Step 2: Universe responds (described as happening at the moment of the request)
- Step 3: Allow / Acceptance (most important—your job is to enter acceptance)
- “Let it go” by softening resistance.
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Avoid “letting it go” while angry, scared, annoyed, guilty, blaming, or down
- The guidance is explicit: you never let it in from those emotional states.
- Letting it in happens when you feel:
- joy
- love
- gratitude
- generally feeling good
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Replace “please give me” energy with gratitude-based “allowing” energy
- Example shift:
- Step 1 prayer: “Oh, please give me what I really, really need…”
- Step 3 prayer: “I am so grateful for this wonderful thing…”
- Example shift:
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Avoid high-conflict communication as “greatest resistance”
- Talking more about what annoys you can intensify resistance (especially with family, friends, or colleagues).
- A head-on collision is often not the least-resistance path.
Presenters / Sources
- Abraham Hicks (as referenced by the video title)
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