“Uh-oh, you have ‘but-face‘…You look like you’re gonna say ‘but.’” – Buffy
When people talk about why Cosmic Ordering (or the Law of Attraction) isn’t working for them, you can pick up a lot of clues about why that is if you listen to the words they use.
One of the most important clue words is “but.”
For instance,here’s Fred: “I want a new Jaguar, and I do affirmations and visualizations of me in the car every day, but I worry abiut whether I’m doing it right. I know the Universe will provide if I really believe, but I don’t know where I’m going to get that kind of money!”
Do you think Fred’s going to be tooling down the highway in his shiny new red Jaguar any time soon? Probably not.
Why not? Easy – he has a ‘but’ problem.
The word ‘but’ used this way tells the listener (and the Universe) “ignore everything I just said in this sentence; the stuff after the ‘but’ is what I really think!”
We think of the “but” part of a sentence as an afterthought, just something you added on to your main thought; but it’s anything but!
Really, the part of the sentence that comes after the ‘but’ holds the main meaning of the sentence. The tail is wagging the dog, semantically.
In terms of the law of Attraction, it’s even more important, because your words shape and reinforce your thoughts and your thoughts attract your reality.With that one word, you block whatever was in the first part of the sentence out of your life, and open the door to whatever came after the but.
The good news is, now you know this. You can look for buts (your own and other peoples’) and see what you (and they) really think.
Do you have a ‘but’ problem?
Write a few sentences about the things you’d like to manifest, or talk to someone about them (your cat or the wall will do – you just want to pay attention to what you say.) If you talk a lot and tend to not pay attention, talk into a tape recorder (or your computer, if it’s capable of recording.)
Then play it back and look for buts (you can also do this with a friend or a manifesting group.)
See what you’ve been blocking, and what you’ve been letting in. It will be illuminating, to say the least!
The next step is to watch your buts. If you feel a but coming on, see if you can just stop the sentence right there. How does it feel?
If you have friends you want to share this idea with, you can watch each others’ buts. Once you get into the habit, you’re going to find your life moving along a lot more smoothly.
