I recently had a profound experience that provided me with a deeper understanding of what it means to 'let go of attachment' to what you're in the process of manifesting.  And the bottom line is faith.

The basic process of creating your reality is that you focus on what you are providing to serve the broader universe, on what you want and then you 'let it go', freeing yourself from all attachments to what you're asking for to live in the moment, having faith that what you need is already coming. 

In a previous post I explained the Law of Uncertainty, and of how it applies to manifestation.  Simply put, you can focus on the now, your goal, or on the path to get there, but not all at once.  The problem is, most people want to know not only their goal, but how they're going to get there and when.  And the Law of Uncertainty in manifesting says that you simply can't know all of that.  Things change too fast, and there's so much beyond your control that you could never chart the course ahead of time.

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It's the old adage of the farmer going out to pull his shoots up to see how fast they were growing.  In doing so, he killed the shoots.  Instead of doing that, a good farmer has absolute faith that the shoots will grow into his/her crop, and does what (s)he needs to do and can control right now to make that happen, whether that's fertilizing or watering  the crop, weeding, getting a good night's sleep or whatever.  The effective farmer knows that there's a great deal that is outside of his/her control, and focuses on what (s)he can do right now, trusting that whatever else needs to happen will happen and the plants will grow.

If you set a goal and are constantly trying to figure out how it's going to happen, you're pulling up the shoots – you don't trust that you'll realize your goal, and so you take yourself away from doing the things that you can and need to do right now to make that goal happen – and kill your chances of realizing the goal.

In our control-hungry world, it's a challenge to trust, have faith, let go and do what you can right now, and yet that is exactly what is needed to make miracles happen.

Do you have faith that what you want is already happening, or do you need to know how?

That's my 2 cents.  What do you think?