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SOUND FAMILIAR ?
So that ’ s what I focused my energies and efforts on – finding the one . After several years of being committed to what I thought was a logical approach of seek and find , I never “ found ” him and all the things I most desired to feel and experience still eluded me .
Yes , in my mind my prince in shining armor was going to swoop in and life would be as perfect as I could possibly fantasize it to be . The reality I discovered was as magical as the Law of Attraction is , finding your soulmate is not a fairytale where the princess doesn ’ t have to do anything but play the damsel in distress to manifest her prince . wrong ?” It wasn ’ t until I dove deeper into the Universal laws and practices that I fully understood that like energy attracts like energy and we attract what we are .
I realized if this was true , I had some work to do to be ready for my soulmate .
Before I did the needed work on myself , everything I was doing to manifest my soulmate was coming from a woman who was unfulfilled with who SHE WAS … poised to attract exactly what she didn ’ t want .
She wasn ’ t taking responsibility or being accountable for her own life and what she wanted out of it . She thought it was ok to dump that responsibility onto her soulmate .
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In fact , it ’ s quite the opposite .
Which brings me back to explaining why , when magnetizing your soulmate , you must do it from the inside out . After years of empty searching , I was frustrated and devastated that the Law of Attraction and Manifestation “ worked for other people , but not for me .”
HAVE YOU EVER FELT THIS WAY ?
You see others happily in relationships , doing things together , having fun , holding hands , and experiencing all that you desire for a relationship too , yet it has not happened for you yet .
You might wonder , like I did , “ why has this not happened for me yet ? What am I doing
If we examine the principle that like energy attracts like energy , and we attract what we are … who do you think that version of me was going to be attracting into my life ? It makes me shudder just thinking about it .
I began to do the inside work to shift my limiting beliefs about myself and what I was capable of by becoming the person I wanted to attract as my soulmate .
The decisions I was making and the actions I was taking that were necessary to embody the values , characteristics and traits of my soulmate allowed me to heal , trust myself , open my heart and begin to love myself which all led to a new self-confidence .
What my current soulmate received after I had done the inside work was a confident

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