The Significant Difference Between Desire and Yearning
If you have been practicing an intentional manifestation practice, you have likely been told that your desires are your guides. While it is true that your desires are, in fact your guides, there is much confusion within the collective pertaining to desire and confusing it with yearning.
This short blog post is here to help clear up any confusion.
What is a Desire?
Desire is, most fundamentally, a vibrational state. The content of this vibrational state is founded in you being in state in which you are happy with that whom you are and in which you are happy with that which you have while also being eager for more.
Desire is that which propels us forward in our creative journey of life. Without desire, we would be stagnant while nevertheless content, happy, and even joyful.
From a more zoomed out perspective, desire is that which makes our Universe expand.
What is Yearning?
Yearning is, like desire, most fundamentally a vibrational state. While yearning is what many people are doing and mistakenly calling it desire when trying to manifest with intention, yearning is a completely different vibrational state from that of desire. Unlike desire, yearning tends to come from a place of scarcity and lack.
Yearning is when you long for something which you lack. Hence, yearning is difference from desire in that yearning fails to come from a state of happiness and contentment with that which you already have and which whom you currently are. Usually, in the yearning, you are either consciously or subconsciously thinking that having this thing will somehow fix your life or make you and/or your life better in some meaningful way.
From a more zoomed out perspective, yearning is that which lowers our vibration as a collective and is that which takes appreciation away from that which we have and works to degrade and dehumanize failing to see the inherent Divinity within All that Is.
How Does Desire Arise?
Desires arise from the contrasting life experiences which you are living. The experiences which we have in life provide us with contrast or with variety so that we may form our own personal preferences in response to that which we experience.
The Law of Polarity declares that although we are all one thing, consider more about the Universal Law of Divine Oneness for more on this point, there are, nevertheless, opposites or contrasts which create difference. Much like all that is manifest is an interplay between masculine and feminine energies, which are polar opposites, you learn that which you are, whether this be merely human-level egoically or soul-level egoically, through how you feel in response to what you experience. Hence, the differences or variety in your experience is how you determine what is a polar opposite to you.
Of course, it is always possible to change that to which you are a polar opposite. Furthermore, it is not always necessary to be a polar opposite to establish enough difference to spark a desire. Nevertheless, when we experience that which we decide we are NOT like and/or experience that which we do NOT want, we are given the gift of desire to help us to navigate our own creative life experience so that we create and attract that which we do like and that which we would like to be.
