Your Desires Are Clear. Your Vibe Is Side-Eyeing Them.
Chandra Eden, The True Me Yogi
The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent
Author: Esther and Jerry Hicks
"The variety, or contrast, that surrounds you is of tremendous value, for it is the data from which your personal preferences and desires are born. You are a creator, and you create through the power of your focus. In every moment that you live, and with every experience you live, the variety of your life inspires the launching of new desires and the amending of previous desires. And so, focused desire never ceases to flow forth from you.
The expansion of the Universe is dependent upon this process: Contrast causes a focusing of desire, and then, through the Law of Attraction, that desire is answered by Source Energy. In other words, when you ask, it is always given.
Many argue that they have been asking, but they are not getting what they have been asking for. And we explain that anytime anyone, from any perspecitve, asks for anything, it is always given. But the asking that we are referring to is not the formulating of words or sentences, but the emanation of vibrations that exude naturally from you as you explore the contrast. For you cannot cease asking; asking is the most natural and most important result of the contrasting environment in which you are focused.
The reason (the only reason) that people ever find themselves in a position where they have been asking for something that they are not receiving is because they are holding themselves vibrationally apart from their own desire - the vibrational frequencies of what they want, and what is dominantly active within them, must balance."
Your Desires Are Clear. Your Vibe Is Side-Eyeing Them.
Most people think contrast is the enemy. The obstacle. The thing to tolerate until life finally smooths out and starts cooperating. Discomfort, disappointment, irritation, longing. These are treated like design flaws in the human experience.
But contrast is not a mistake. It’s raw material.
You don’t discover what you want in moments of ease. You discover it in moments of friction. The job that drains you clarifies the work you crave. The relationship that constricts you sharpens your desire for connection that breathes. The season that feels heavy quietly teaches you what lightness actually means to you.
Contrast gives data. And desire is born from data.
You are always creating, whether you mean to or not. Not through grand declarations, but through focus. Through what you linger on. Through what you react to. Through what you repeatedly notice and mentally underline. Every experience you have refines your preferences. Old desires get edited. New ones emerge. The stream never stops flowing.
This is where people get confused. They believe desire is something you consciously manufacture, like a vision board or a carefully worded request. But desire doesn’t require language. It requires attention. It forms naturally as you move through life responding to what fits and what doesn’t.
You are always asking.
Not with words, but with resonance. With the emotional tone you carry. With the expectations you rehearse. With the way your nervous system leans toward or away from possibility. Asking is not a task you perform. It’s a byproduct of being alive in a world full of contrast.
And according to this framework, when you ask, it is always answered.
That’s where the argument usually starts.
People insist they’ve been asking for years. For love, ease, money, clarity, healing. And yet, nothing seems to arrive. The assumption is that something outside them isn’t listening. That the system is broken. That the rules don’t apply to their situation.
But the gap isn’t between desire and delivery. It’s between desire and alignment.
You don’t miss out because you asked incorrectly. You miss out because you’re holding yourself at a different frequency than what you want. You may long for abundance while rehearsing scarcity. You may crave connection while bracing for disappointment. You may want expansion while staying loyal to familiar limitations.
The system isn’t denying you. It’s responding precisely.
What you experience reflects not what you occasionally wish for, but what is dominantly active within you. The beliefs you return to when no one is watching. The emotional baseline you normalize. The stories you keep telling yourself about how things usually go.
This doesn’t mean you need to police every thought or maintain constant positivity. That approach backfires quickly. It means noticing where you’re subtly arguing with your own desires. Wanting change while rehearsing why it’s unlikely. Asking for more while preparing for less.
Balance is the key word here.
When the frequency of what you want and the frequency of what you expect come into harmony, movement happens. Not because you forced it, but because resistance softened. You stopped pulling against your own momentum.
Contrast doesn’t stop once you get what you want. It continues, because expansion continues. Each fulfilled desire becomes the new baseline from which new preferences emerge. This isn’t a failure of satisfaction. It’s the nature of growth.
Life keeps asking you to refine, to focus, to choose again.
The real work isn’t eliminating contrast. It’s using it. Letting it inform you without hardening you. Allowing desire to rise without immediately doubting its legitimacy. Paying attention to the emotional signals you emit as you move through your days.
You are always broadcasting something. The question isn’t whether you’re asking. It’s whether you’re aligned with the answer that’s already on its way.