Your emotional overtones, your essence feeling, your general patterns and outlook, all of these are involved in attracting to you what you experience. If you have a general emotional tone of depression, you will attract what matches it. If you have a general emotional tone of peacefulness, you will attract this in turn. If you learn to control your emotional body along with your mental body, you can become a deliberate creator. You are a transmitter and a receiver of vibrational patterns. The patterns that you transmit are the patterns that you receive. It is as simple as that. If you are focused on what you lack, and "feeling despair because of lack", this is what you are transmitting, and thus what you receive. If you focus on what you want, and feel the energy of having it, this is the vibration that will come back to you.

It is not that you do not desire it enough, or that you are not intelligent enough to achieve what you want, but you most likely learned emotional patterns that keep you immersed in a reality that you do not like. Esther Hicks says in Ask And It Is Given (2004), "The reason you have not already gotten what you desire is because you are holding yourself in a vibrational holding pattern that does not match the vibration of your desire… And an important thing for you to now understand is that if you will stop and think about it, or, more important, stop and feel about it, you can identify your very discord." She continues by saying, "Your attitude or mood is always pointing toward what is coming, but you are never stuck with your current point of attraction. Just because you have picked up these thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and moods along your physical trail does not mean that you have to continue attracting in response to them. You have creative control of your own experience. And, by paying attention to your own Emotional Guidance System, you can change your point of attraction." She also says, "Your emotions indicate the degree of your alignment with Source." This, in essence, is saying, the closer you are to who you really are, the happier you feel. The further you are from who you really are, the worse you feel. If you constantly feel depressed, then you're constantly separate from who you really are. For instance, when you think a thought that is in alignment with who you really are, you feel harmony and joy. When you think a thought about lack, this is more distant from who you really are, and thus you feel depression.