To ask for your experiences of cosmic ordering?

[BlackVelvetIfYouPlease]

If you don't believe, that's fine.

But every time I've tried cosmic ordering, it has worked - from specific garden wishes as a child to marriage proposals as an adult.

Now I'm at a cross roads, don't know which direction to take my life and not dabbled with cosmic ordering for years. I suppose I've grown old and cynical.

So this morning, im sat bored at home and decided to give it a go. I have placed a cosmic order for the first time in years.

Anyone done it? And stories? I realise a lot of people will think it's shite which is fine, but be nice :-)

Don't know whether you'd call it cosmic ordering but one of my sisters says she always gets what she asks for. However there's always a price to pay. She is the least woo person you're likely to meet.

She was having a hard time in a job, had been recruited to make big changes in a failing department but then had no support when implementing what she'd been hired for. Sat on a plane home from holiday and thought ' I'd do anything to not have to go back there'. Pulled herself up mentally because she didn't want to have a plane crash!
Got into work next day to be told there was an allegation of bullying and she had been suspended pending an investigation, sent home. Allegations crumbled under scrutiny and they admitted they were malicious but it made her return untenable. Company paid her off to avoid lawsuit and she is now happy in her dream job.

Blimey. Is your sister a witch married?

I don't think so! She's always been this way though, that's just one example. Has always said be careful what you wish for...

The problem with this kind of thing is that, to believers, it (the cosmic ordering 'system') can never be wrong.

If the order isn't fulfilled it's the individuals's fault for not believing enough/feeling deserving enough/wanting it too much or whatever.

It's never that the cosmic ordering theory itself is wrong.

I used to believe in it when I was quite messed up in my younger years, but despite doing all the affirmations I still ended up a mess, if anything I got messier as I couldn't work out what I was doing wrong to not be able to manifest all these things I wanted (and specifically, a relationship)

It wasn't until I changed tack and had some proper therapy to sort myself out that I began to find my life changing for the better.

I do think affirmations and the like can focus you on your goals, but they can also make you fixate on things you can't have - eg someone who has fertility problems or cancer, and they can end up blaming themselves on top of the original problem they have.

In fairness, you'd have to be pretty egocentric to think the universe was interested enough in you to crash a whole plane load of blameless bystanders simply because you didn't want to go back to work after your holiday.

I thought I would give it a try and ask for something that should be achievable. I asked for six hours of uninterrupted sleep I even wrote it down and convinced myself it would work, thanked the universe profusely. I am physically disabled and can't remember the last time I haven't woken up several times in the night, stiff and in pain, can't get back to sleep, end up slumped in my desk chair where I often doze off until morning.

Which is where I found myself this morning so nope, didn't work - maybe it was too big an ask - maybe it works better for material things, maybe it doesn't work at all? I'm going to try for some cash next - will let you know how I get on

To be honest I think it's really about personal goal setting which is usually pretty egocentric. It's not rocket science. You are more likely to achieve things you set out to achieve. I believe a psychosocial study found that objectively people who consider themselves to be unlucky, had a roughly equal number of difficult life events to those who considered themselves lucky.

In terms of parking spaces, I believe that I am better at spotting a space when I am less anxious (having trusted that the universe will find one for me). Thus I don't believe it is magic, but I do find it helpful.

Sat on a plane home from holiday and thought ' I'd do anything to not have to go back there'. Pulled herself up mentally because she didn't want to have a plane crash!

Do you, and she, actually believe that she could have made the plane crash, with her thoughts?
If you do then you need serious treatment, not a book on cosmic ordering.