Your Wish Is My Command

The fictional story most of us are familiar with had Aladdin’s genie grant three wishes. In “The Secret,” it’s stated the original story has no limit on the number of wishes. It’s easy to accept unlimited wishes; but realizing what the genie’s response means as it applies to the Law of Attraction, may take a bit more thought.

This week I spoke with someone who’s fairly new to this type of information. She accepts it; but as soon as any challenge appears in her life, even a small one, old programs bite her on the bumper sticker…only her bumper sticker doesn’t read, “Shift Happens;” hers is missing a key letter.

She insisted she can’t move forward until she has Every. Last. Detail. Detailed (quoting Mike Litman again, “You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.”). She commented her age is involved (it isn’t), you have to have money (not a lot), have to have flyers (not true); and, her list of have-to-haves went on until I interrupted her.

We discussed how for around $30 she can get business cards printed. Then we discussed the free ways she can advertise her services such as attend networking events, be a guest speaker at local meetings, contact former clients who were highly impressed with her skills and work ethic (all of them), and a few other ideas that came up.

We talked about how every single emotionally-charged thought she has causes her “personal genie,” a.k.a. the quantum field of potential, to respond, “Your wish is my command,” without censoring whatever thought-form she sets into motion. I asked her to write this down and put it where she can easily see it often.

She acknowledged that every time she spins herself into a negative vortex, she gets more of the same. I asked her, if she’s able to do that for experiences she doesn’t desire to have or expand how she would feel about doing it for what she wants to expand more of into her life. And I suggested that instead of focusing on what she feels needs to be changed, she focus on what it feels like to live her dream. It’s interesting that she can accept responsibility for creating negatives in her life, yet assumes responsibility for positives comes from outside her.

When Aladdin tells the genie his wish, he doesn’t ask the genie how it’s going to get accomplished; he knows it will. (If there was anything he needed to do to assist this, I’m pretty sure he’d do it.) It’s the same for us. We muck up the process when we doubt it will happen (nothing good happens to me), doubt how it can happen (I have to control every detail, but I also disclaim my inner power), and doubt we’re worthy to have our wish granted (we place limits on receiving).

When we place limits on what can happen and how it can happen, we simultaneously set limits on allowing it into our lives. It’s a bit like an invited guest arriving, but unable to enter until we grant permission by opening the door.

At one point, the woman said her genie wasn’t doing his job right. “Just remember,” I reminded her, “it’s you who tells your genie what to do.” As you go through the moments of your day, imagine hearing, “Your wish is my command,” after every thought or word from you. Kind of makes you want to pay better attention to this, doesn’t it.

Joyce Shafer is a published author; freelance rewriter, editor, proofreader; and United Press International weekly columnist, also published at various online venues. See the exceptional reviews of her books, “I Don’t Want to be Your Guru, but I Have Something to Say,” at www.lulu.com/content/773467, and “How to Have What You REALLY Want,” at www.lulu.com/content/796351. Contact her at jls1422@yahoo.com.