Sophia, I’m sure many will relate to your perspective. Thanks for pitching in.

And Mark, I’ve seen that happen many times – fiesty paying off. It’s not one I practice myself much, but I’m tempted to experiment with it more!

Thanks for reading, and especially for writing, everyone!

Intention: feels better to me. I feel motivation when I intend something, the intention allows me to be aware that it is my responsible to take inspired actions and allow the universe to do the rest. Whereas, Demanding sounds so negative, so angry, I hear lack and anxiety within that word.

I think demanding may work for some people b/c at the end of the process of their demand they release all their negative energy which brings them relief and in turn allows the universe to take over and deliver in the moment of the relief/peaceful vibration.

That’s my take on it. =0)

I was driving back from the store and had just–essentially–used up my money.

I thought about ‘demanding’ again, and it just kind of came naturally (an ‘aha’ moment in itself!). I found myself saying ‘alright look, we deserve $1,000 to make things flow around here…get it together already because I’m getting pissed and it’s time this showed up’.

Thirty seconds later, I had an envelope from a friend with a check containing $200 and a note that said ‘hang in there!’

I know I was, even in this thread, a proponent of ‘well that demanding stuff just doesn’t seem to work for me’…but I think my present take on demanding is that if you really KNOW YOU DESERVE great stuff, then you will just naturally demand it.

It’s what my little kid does…why not me??

Just wanted to post that good news, so that you could see even the guy who thought it wouldn’t work suddenly had good luck with it!

Now…about the additional $800 I’m expecting…

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1. I know EXACTLY what I want, right then and there.
2. I feel a billion times better and get right back into the vortex. Because I stopped covering up those feelings and just let them GO.

I posted on this when it first appeared on FB a day or two ago and now I find this amazing conversation going on! Woo Hoo!

I’ve also had time to think about what I posted — how sometimes talking out loud to the Universe and getting down and dirty about it (demanding, in other words) works and how sometimes passing thoughts and surrender works.

What I’ve come to understand is that what doesn’t work is to be half-hearted about anything.

In the first instance, I’m clearly aligned with what I want and it has to come. And, as others have said above, it comes very quickly. It may not be polite (there are usually a number of f-bombs in these rants) or look pretty but it does get results.

In the second instance, I obviously don’t really care on way or another. If it comes, it comes; if it doesn’t; it doesn’t. But I don’t worry about it or even give it a second thought.

Bottom line — in neither instance is there any resistance to what I’m wanting. Being half-hearted or wishy-washy has resistance built in to it.

The thing I’m wanting (situation, experience, object, feeling) was delivered to me vibrationally the moment I had the idea. The rest of the question is how quickly I can either line up with it and allow it or forget about it and allow it. Either one works.

Thanks Jeannette for a great Q — and I’m just in love with all the amazing As that have come down the pike as a result!

You also consider the way you pursued your husband very Pam-like. Tell us that story, because as a single woman in her early 30s, I find it inspirational, and yet, as someone who’s slightly excitable, I’m curious… I mean, it wasn’t stalking, but…
[Laughs] “I don’t wanna say you’re a stalker!”

Well, you could have been if you weren’t gorgeous and on a hit show. But how did you know it wasn’t a crush, you would actually connect with him?

I didn’t. My husband says, “When I heard your voice on the phone, I knew.” I say, “Yeah, I did not know. I knew you were hot, and I knew it had been a long time. I did not know that you were my soul mate.” I was just in this fed-up place with so many first dates over four years, and being the only single adult at Christmas with my family in Wisconsin every year. I was headed into the Christmas vacation [last year], and I really announced to the universe, in my house, “I’ve had it! Is this thing on? I mean, is anybody paying attention? Is there anyone on duty when I’m talking?” I was just pissed off. I’m like, that’s it. I’m taking it into my own hands. I had tried everything — The Secret method, sacrificed the chicken, followed the full moon, lit the love candle and pictured what I wanted, wrote down everything I wanted then got mad and burned it because it didn’t work. And for some reason, on the day I say this, I go to the nutritionist, and there’s his CD sitting on the only chair open. I’m like, “He’s cute. I’m callin’ it…I’m goin’ a freakin’ date!” The woman I was talking to backed out of the room slowly, like you do when you’re afraid for your life. I went online, and wrote an email: “Hey, is this dude in LA? Because I want to have coffee.” I wanted him to be excited to get this email and not like [weary groan] so I wrote, “I’m Kristin Bauer. I’m on True Blood, and here’s my website” shamelessly. I was embarrassed about it, but I had to get the job done. He doesn’t check email, so three weeks later, I wrote again: “I haven’t heard back. Still thirsty! Still need caffeine!” Someone wrote back saying he doesn’t do email. I said, “Well, then send a pigeon with my phone number.” [Laughs] I had HAD IT. I was passed being embarrassed or having some normal sense of decorum. We met and just talked and talked and talked and talked. For three weeks, we just talked all day. Within a few months, we were engaged, and within about six and a half months, married. I joked for years, “Where is he? Uganda? Where is my guy?” And the answer was, yes, close. South freakin’ Africa. And he didn’t even want to be in LA. He didn’t want to come to America to tour, he was perfectly happy to tour South Africa, but his record label and band forced him. So maybe all the séances and chicken sacrifices worked, there’s just a delay in this universe.

:)