Please visit the Insight Into You Series hub for the complete list of this series, which is based on my interpretation of two books: The Astonishing Power of Emotions by Esther & Jerry Hicks and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. I recommend reading all of the hubs in the series to receive the full benefit. Thank you ~

Dark and light, good and bad, wanted and unwanted - it all has value. Suffice it to say, equal value.

Whenever you experience events or circumstances in your life that you do not want, it only helps you clarify more clearly what you do want. Even if you are so immersed in what you do not want, if you take even a millisecond to look and see if there is an opposite that you do want, you will find it.

For example... if something breaks, you want it to be fixed or working properly. If you find someone treating you badly, you want them to treat you more kindly. If you don't have enough money, you want more of it. If you find the world a very scary, unfair place, you want it to be safe and for all to be treated equal. If you feel bad, you want to feel better.

From this experience of contrast, you are always asking. Always. Even when you're not asking in your thought or actions, you're asking. As we just discussed, even though you see strife and misery, or maybe less than ideal irritations, part of you is seeing the opposite: the good you really want.

So from your human perspective you are always asking for an improved, better condition, situation, or set of circumstances.

Source, God, Higher Self, Soul, Spirit, Buddha, Allah, Creator, All That Is - whatever name you want to label the Energy that you are. Did you read that? "The Energy That You Are". If you question this, re-read You are Your Body and Much More.

You are here, experiencing life, and you are taking in all of the information available to you and you are deciding, from your unique point of view, what you want. Even when most of what you see and experience is what you do not want.

You are literally asking even when you don't think you're asking.

One helpful tidbit: your thoughts are powerful creators, just like you. So for now, just observe how you think and we'll explore how thoughts play into this equation in a subsequent hub.

At the risk of startling readers, I am writing the Insight Into You Series of hubs with the intention of genuine information sharing. Raised Christian, I have always sought more to broaden my spiritual understanding. We all interpret with our own "filter" or point of view. What these books have helped me to do is love myself and others more. To be in harmony with life and enjoy it. Understanding myself from these perspectives has been a life changing experience. I am spreading the word so as many as possible can benefit. Please take what works and leave the rest.

• Abraham-Hicks

• Eckhart Teachings