When talking about the law of attraction many questions are coming to the surface, many advices asked. How to manifest, how to overcome resistance, the right way to visualize. The most important and recurrent question, though, is the most logical and practical one: How long will it take for my wishes to manifest?
The time gap
It appears more than legitimate. The ultimate goal is to manifest something, and when learned how to apply the right procedure you really wait for something to show up. There is this time gap between wish and manifestation and honestly you have to leave any hope: it cannot be instantaneous. We live in a world where matter dominates, and with it the laws of physics. We constantly coexist with three large dimensions plus time. Time cannot be overridden, you must be practical. In theory, manifestations should happen in real time, you wish, you get. I surmise this is possible only attaining levels of vibrations –and energy extremely far from our reach. These states of consciousness need superhuman qualities, and you are clearly human with limits and boundaries. You have to wait. We must wait.
There are a different lengths of time
Let’s talk about the worst case scenario, when manifesting will take an infinite time. This happens when everything is going in the wrong way. You are full of doubts, worries, resistance. You cannot visualize properly, or you do it in the wrong way, projecting blurred undefined images. In this case you will never obtain what you want.
Fortunately most part of people is more balanced than those unfortunate ones. They make mistakes, they have problems unsolved, they resist. But they are good enough to leave the door open. This is when ultimately they manifest all or part of their desires. The amount of time is variable, according how much they are doing good. It can be years, months or weeks, depending on the scale of what they wished for. There is a scale that we can compare to the mass of a body. Bigger is the wish, longer it will take to manifest, and the opposite, as you had to convey energy to create matter, more molecules you have to assemble, more you have to wait.
Time is subtle. When you are in love and you spend an hour with your partner, you will feel as just ten minutes have gone. Try now, if you can, to sit an hour on a hot stove. You will perceive that hour amplified by many magnitudes, it will seem days. The way time is perceived is astonishing, and it looks like it can be expanded or imploded at will, and you can take advantage of this unusual property.
Stretch the universe
As Einstein beautifully showed, space - time can be stretched. This means you can make time shorter, or at least its perception. When you make your wish, if you then start to wonder when it will appear, not only there is an high probability that it won’t materialize, you will also feel every hour as an eternity. More you think about time, more it will settle in your life. There are a few things you can do, however.
Being detached
Detaching from your outcome will not make you think about your goal in terms of time. Erase temporal and conditional thoughts like “when”, “if”, “only if”. Do not use chronological lines and situations. It’s not your business when or how what you wished will happen. The events will flow, they always do. The only way you can influence your outcome is not thinking about it in term of a problem to solve.
Positive dynamics
Many authors use the expression “let it go” to be paired with detachment. This can be wrong, though. I don’t think you have to let it go and accepting the things you have right now. I would rather say that you must apply a positive dynamics. This means that you firmly believe you will obtain what you want and that you will improve your condition because of your wishes. You do not accept what you have now, and you know you will change the rules. The only difference is you will not strive for things to appear overnight. Your vibrations will be positive, because you are certain. It’s a sort of positive thought always with you, as a reminder that whatever is happening it’s caused by your wishes. I applied many times the “let it go” principle, but recently appeared to me too much accepting-like, as just waiting for something not depending on my will. Everything depends on us, we make the world. If you trust my experience do not “let it go”, but positively and dynamically project yourself in a spiral of success. Dynamism is motion, gather energy from your surroundings and empower your thoughts. Stretch time, make it closer and closer. Don’t be passive whilst you wait your deliver. Keep yourself busy, instead, you won’t feel time. If you think you can manifest something lying on your couch burning incense, forget it. Every technique must be applied, but massive action must follow. This because we live in a physical world and we can have what we want by physical meanings. More doors you open, easier will be the delivery. Stretch the universe, bend time in your favour and find new routes, new dimensions. Notice any signal, coincidence, idea, your parcel is coming 
I visited a young friend of mine this afternoon with stage IV cancer: initially wrong diagnosis, then treated for the wrong type of cancer, this morning was seen on her scan to have spread to kidneys, liver, intestines, organs and both lungs (nobody talks about brain or spine). She has constant pain from 3 operations since it started last year. BUT she looks like almost nothing is wrong or has happened since I met her two year ago for the first time. She is proud of that and a great support for other cancer patients. Her two biggest questions to me this afternoon was: “Why me who has a 5-year old child, did not get involved with drugs like my brothers and had a good profession (clinical engineer)?” And secondly, why is the scan suddenly so negative when her blood markers were falling for months now? I am scared of guilt arising if she cannot convince herself and get healthy as a result of that. She’ll be going to somebody to help tomorrow and I want to believe this person is good with the right assistance. I could not cry this afternoon, but now I do!
Elio, are we ultimately in control of our lives, or are we not part of a big picture with more love than anybody can imagine, but an extention beyond death, or birth for that matter? I need your wisdom now! This is a good article like your others and still too much on the Topic!
PS. I like your picture of a black hole. I once read a lot about neutron stars: my favourite astrophysics if you can leave the maths out.
Brilliant, well said Elio. Time is usually one of the most misunderstood and misused part of manifestation. Noticing when your desire does not appear is the easiest way of making sure your desire does not appear. I try set my intentions and then store them in one corner of my mind, not completely forgotten, but not in the for-front either.
Another excellent post Elio.
Elio this post explains the perception of time perfectly. In addition, I like the explication of gathering energy from our surroundings.
Great interpretation of the law of attraction.
Sorry Elio I meant explanation of …
Today I discovered your site from stumble and I have to say that I really enjoy it.
This attraction law works but we need a special ingredient and that is “patience”.
A few years ago my wife and me went to live to Israel and the first word we learn from hebrew was “sablanut” (patience), the people told us if you have sablanut you can get anything and that was truth.
So as you said “Erase temporal and conditional thoughts” and the rest comes alone.
@ Antoinette
A sad story, very sad. Your question asks for a difficult if not impossible answer. We create our life, but there is an intangible design we cannot perceive at lower spiritual levels. Positive thinking can be used to keep ourselves clean, always. We don’t really know at any time whether we are immune from “negative thoughts” or not, that’s why we must always focus on the right things, with the word “right” I mean what makes us vibrant and full of joy. Positivism boosts the immune system, this has been proven…
Regarding black holes, they are the most fascinating objects of astrophysics, and their mathematical derivation is a piece of beauty
@ Carol
Exactly, as you say…never forgotten. I would put them a bit more on the foreground,though, that’s my theory. When you want something, think about it…focus on it like a laser beam.
@Mckay
Thank you:) Yes we gather energy all the time, what we call the void if full of energy.
@Dan
Thank you for joining us:)
Yes, patience, intended as balanced virtue is fundamental, a “platonic virtue”