Do things get worse before they get better?

[Apple]

Whenever I am trying to work on something or start affirming anything, I always feel so positive about it and boom, the opposite of what I want happens. For example, I start affirming for health and I get sicker. I start affirming for money and then I am broke. It could be a simple statement too, like, wow my kids are behaving very well, and then a few minutes later they start acting up. I could go on and on as I have many examples and countless times that things like this have happened. I almost feel like whatever I think the opposite usually happens so maybe I should think negative, but I don't want to walk around all the time feeling negative about anything. I want LOA to be a positive thing for me.

Louise Hay talks about this in one of her books and so does Neale Donald Walsh. Neale calls it the Law of Opposites. In other words, if you declare something about yourself you will be given the opportunity to prove it. I guess for instance, say you declare you are patient. The Universe will then give you a situation where you need need to prove that you are a patient person.

I have never heard anyone else mention that things get worse but this always happens to me. It makes me afraid to think things sometimes and be positve because I feel like the opposite is going to happen and then I get stuck and go back to my old way of thinking and it becomes a cycle. Does this happen to anyone else?

[irishgirl69]

It sounds like you must have some limiting beliefs that are affecting your intentions from manifesting.  The emotion we feel when we put an intention out is what is critical - not the words.  So, ask yourself honestly, when you affirmed for health, how did you feel emotionally?  Did you believe that you would get healthy or were you afraid you would get sicker?

There are many tools that help with limiting beliefs and getting rid of them.  It really sounds like that's what's happening here.  I know that when I look at things that manifested NOT how I wanted them to, when I thought about how I was feeling, it was right in line with what happened.

[Apple]

That is a very good point. I guess I never thought of it that way before.

I do know that up until about six months ago I would be thinking about what I wanted and I realized that I actually had a knot in my stomach while I was thinking about what I wanted. I no longer feel that way, and I am definatley feeling more positive than I used to. I guess I still have some work to do though.

[Firefly2000]

I had this happen a year and a half ago. I couldnt help but look around me and think, "Wow, how did I get so lucky to have such a wonderful life? Sometimes I wonder if I am overdue to have something happen to build my character." About a week later, boom, Jim announced that he was having an affair and my life ti date has been one character building nightmare.

[Apple]

Exactly.....I just told someone last week that I was happily married and then my husband and I got into a big fight. We have made up now, but still, it's so frustrating.