A lot of people who aren’t in the “receptive mode” and aren’t “tunde into Source”, mostly function through the reasoning mind. The reasoning mind uses logic, facts, statistics and past experiences to help you make decisions. The reasoning mind likes to categorize things into boxes to make sense of them, to make pros and cons lists, to tick off things systematically and logically. But when you do that, you often limit yourself by the limitations of the reasoning mind. For example just because something has a 20% chance of happening, the reasoning mind may say “oh, it’s unlikely, so I’ll not do it”, but then you’re limiting yourself because what if you had what it takes to be amongst the 20% of successful people? If you had tuned into your receptive mode, Source would have told you that it’s a sure thing that you have what it takes to be amongst the 20% successful people.

Once you know how to tune into your receptive mode, the receptive mind takes far less effort to know what’s right or wrong; it just feels for what’s in line with Source, so making the decision is easy: the right answer is what *feels* right when you’re in your receptive mode.

How to get into your receptive mode?

It’s a bit like getting into a meditative state. You can lie down or sit; whatever you prefer. Let your body relax and quieten your mind.

Let your own reasoning active mind step back a little bit and let the mind that operates through the receptive mode dominate.

When you successfully tune in to your receptive mode it can be little disorientating at first when you’re not used to it. Sometimes you might even feel a little swoony and disorientated when you’re totally tuned into the receptive mode and operating through the receptive mode. Realise that swoony sensation is just you getting a little bit in the way. You can just breathe away the disorientation until you reach a better-feeling place.

From within the receptive mode, now you can ask the question, then quieten your mind and listen for the answer from Source.

You’ll know when it’s right because you’ll have no doubt.
It won’t be a case of “am I making this up?” it’ll be a case of “wow!”
Sometimes the answers may even be answers that you hadn’t expected, but they feel right!

The idea is that by tuning into times when you already have clarity, and focusing on those times, you will attract more of that “knowing vibration” into your life for all the things in your life.

Here’s the rampage:

• I love the feeling of knowing exactly what I want to do next.
• I love being in a vibrational place where ideas comes easily.
• I love being in a vibrational place where I have a strong desire to take inspired action.
• I love the effortlessness of inspired ideas flowing to you.
• I love the feeling of certainty of “I *SO* want to do that!” that comes with inspired ideas.
• I love the feeling of confidence that comes with knowing what the next step is.
• I love the feeling of stability and surefootedness with knowing what your goal is. What you’re aiming for.
• I love the feeling of clarity that comes with having a clear idea of what you want to do next.
• I love how the inspiration to take action is so natural and just happens with complete ease.
• I love the excitement that comes with the brewing of a new desire.
• I love the feeling of focus that comes with focusing on the task at hand.
• I love the feeling of desire to do a good job on the task at hand.
• I love the feeling of feeling that you ARE doing a good job on the task at hand.
• I love feeling the satisfaction of completing a task.
• I love knowing that there is always another fun task waiting around the corner.
• I love knowing that there will always be SOMETHING I want to do next. Always!
• And I know that it’s just a matter of time before I find it; it’s gonna happen.
• Things are lining up with my desires all the time and fresh opportunities and desires are always popping up.
• I love knowing that I always have desires and dreams, no matter how big or small, and that they are an infinite resource to pull fun, exciting expansion from.
• I love the feeling of flow that comes when one idea or action leads to the next and the next.

I love knowing!
It feels like certainty.
It feels like clarity.
It feels like confidence.
It feels like secureness.
It feels solid.
It feels like stability.
It feels like one thing easily flows to the next and the next.
It feels like ease.
It feels natural.
It feels effortless.
It feels easy.
It feels like it bypasses thought.
It feels like an urge from within.
It feels like motivation.
It feels immediate.
It feels like it’s just there!
It feels like it’s just there all along and I always have access to it.
It feels like knowing. Just knowing.
I love knowing!

Exercise of proving to yourself that you often DO know what you want

By remembering the times when you *do* know what you want to do, it may help reinforce that vibration within you, to attract more of that clarity into your life.

So ask yourself: In what situations do I know what I want?

Here is what I came up with:

I feel this knowing when I know exactly when I want to eat. I can feel it clearly when my body tells me I’m hungry.
I feel this certain knowing when I just know what kind of food I feel like eating. Savoury; Sweet; Crunchy; Soft; Italian; Chinese; Japanese… The knowing is always so strong and clear.

I feel this strong sense of knowing what to do next when my body tells me it wants to go to sleep.
Or when I want to go to the bathroom.

I have a strong sense of certainty when I know that I feel like watching a movie and chilling out in front of the TV.
With that is also a sense of clarity about what I want to watch. Sometimes this clarity comes before even seeing what’s available, and sometimes it comes as soon as I read the description of what the film is about. It’s pretty immediate, strong and clear.

I often have a strong feeling of knowing what I want to do next when I just know that I really feel like curling up with a good book.

When I have an urge to play some music, the urge is a clear feeling of “something I want to do now”.

When I have a strong urge to feel the fresh air on my skin and go for a walk, the urge comes from within me as easily and quickly as a click of the fingers.
When I pass a beautiful flower, the desire to lean in to smell it comes just like that!

When I hang out with someone I love, I often have an urge within me to just go and give them a kiss or a hug. No thinking. Just clear, clear connection to internal desire and acting on it straight away!

When I have news I really want to share with someone, I know straight away that sharing the news is exactly what I want to do next.

I often feel quite strongly when I just know I want to spend time with a specific someone.

I know when I feel like checking my emails or checking facebook.
I know when I feel like taking a break from work.
I know when I feel like playing a game.

In fact in most of these cases, the feeling of knowing is so clear that I don’t even have time to think “what do I want to do now”? I just know before I even get a chance to ask the question! I love that immediate, natural sense of knowing!

We all have times in our lives when we feel like it’s hard to make a certain decision and that feeling of indecisiveness can be frustrating and can make you feel really stuck. The good news is that no matter how indecisive you may be about one subject, there are always other aspects of your life where you can make decisions.

According to the Law of Attraction that’s taught by Abraham Hicks, the more you remember and think about the times when you are decisive, the more decisiveness will infiltrate into your general vibration in other aspects too.

It can be helpful to make a list of things you can easily make decisions about, to help you show yourself that there are times when you can be decisive. The longer you focus on your list, the better your chances are of raising your vibration on this matter.

To help give you an idea of what kind of things may go on your list, here is my own personal list of things you too may find that you are decisive about.

• Decisiveness in food:
  - In restaurants, I find that I am able to make a decision regarding what to order.
  - If I had to decide what my favorite food / dessert was, that’d be an easy decision to make.
  - If I had to decide what to have for breakfast from all the choices I have at home, I’d be able to decide that with ease.
• Decisiveness with relationships:
  - If I had to decide on say, 15 important traits that I’d like a romantic partner to have, I could easily decide on those. (e.g. Kind, compassionate, good listener, frequent use of humor, sensitivity, affectionate, open, intelligent, positive, motivated, ambitious, easy-going, confident, high EQ, considerate)
  - It’s easy for me to decide how I’d like to be treated.
  - If I had to decide on how often I’d like to go out vs stay in, I’d easily decide that.
  - If I had to decide how much time I’d like to spend with someone, that decision comes so naturally I don’t even think about it and already decide, because you guage it by how you feel.
• Decisiveness with other things
  - I can decide what to wear every morning with relative ease.
  - I can decide what movie I want to watch in the cinema.
  - I can decide what show I want to watch on TV.
  - I can decide what books I want to read.
• I have resources available to help me make decisions
  There are always tools available to help me make decisions. For example:
  - I have a gut instinct which sometimes knows what I like (eg with what foods I prefer, or if I am drawn to a certain person or not). My emotions and gut feeling help guide me.
  - Researching your options to find out more about them can help you decide about them. The more you know about them, the more you have to go on regarding whether it’s right for you.
  - Experimenting and just trying certain things (a try before you buy kind of thing!) can help. I’m talking about stuff like taster courses, using demos or samples of things before you commit to it in a bigger scale.
  - Reviews of restaurants/ films / books/ products help decide which to choose.
  - Consulting with family and friends and hearing their perspectives can help.
  - Reading other people’s experiences in forums online, in blogs or elsewhere can help you figure out what you want.
  - If two options are genuinely just as good as one another, there’s always flipping a coin or doing rock paper scissors!

What items would you add to your list? Feel free to share in the comments below because it may help remind others that they have those decisiveness abilities too. Making such lists reminds us that we CAN about certain things. The more we focus on what we can decide upon, the more likely that vibration will be followed through to help us to make decisions in other aspects of our lives too.

Extra end note
Another thing to keep in mind when making decisions is that you can’t really get it wrong because whatever choice you make, you’ll learn from it (even if what you learned is that you don’t want to do that anymore and hence you learn a bit more about what you DO want) and maybe you’ll even have fun along the way. Here’s a great Abraham Hicks audio about this very point.