Ok so here’s another example of how emotion fits in with the manifesting process.  Lets say you want a car.  You have your list of qualities for that car and among them you’ve written:

• Mid sized 4-door sedan
• Anti-lock brakes
• New or less than 2 years old

Ok now go back and ask yourself how you feel about each thing you’ve listed.  The key is that if it makes you feel good, excited, or even giddy you have a winner!  Go with that quality.  But if you feel unsure, uncertain, or even yucky then you have some rethinking to do.  Lets look again at our list above:

• Mid sized 4-door sedan – Ok so this isn’t the coolest car out there but it feels really comfortable to me.  In a small car I feel like everyone’s gonna run me over and big cars just take up too much of the road.  But a mid sized car feels right.  Also, since I play mom-taxi a lot I really like the idea of kids having back doors to get in and out of.  I can just pull up to the curve and go :)   And as a bonus some of the models out there look really cool too… so I can be the cool mom!  It just feels right so I know this is a good choice.  I’m going with it.
• Anti-lock brakes – Great brakes are sooo important to me! Once I slid and almost went right over a cliff!  Talk about scary! So the idea of brakes not working freaks me out.  Anti-lock brakes make me feel really safe and I definitely want them!
• New or less than 2 years old – At first this feels exciting and cool but then I get a lump in the pit of my stomach.  Red flag there… I need to think about this some more.

Ok see how each physical quality of that car brought up different emotions?  Getting the brakes will help me feel safe and secure which is an underlying desire of mine.  And having a mid sized sedan also feels safe and satisfies my practical requirements and also my aesthetic desires (looks and feels cool to me).

Now the “new or late model” quality brought up some red flags.  Sure it would be cool to have a brand new car but something doesn’t feel right.  So lets explore this.  Could it be that I feel like a new car is a little out of my budget?  Or maybe the insurance costs would be too high?  Or maybe I wouldn’t want to let anyone drive it, but I don’t feel like I could be that “selfish” having multiple drivers in the house?  Or maybe I had an accident or near miss in the recent past and I’m afraid I’d bang it up?  Once I’ve taken an honest look at the possibilities, I may find that part of me really isn’t sold on a brand new car.  So I may need to do some inner work around that or look for older models I can be more comfortable with.

The key is to get your emotions in sync with your stated desires.  Yeah there’s a bit of give and take here and your final list may not be exactly what you started with.  But once they are in sync I guarantee two things…

1. Your stuff will arrive much faster.
2. You’re going to be much happier with it and that happiness will last.