Once you begin to access information you then must put it into action. Likely there will be a period of experiential learning where you get practice at using the technique and gradually, through repetition and adjustment, fine tune it to make it your own. From then on it flows with ease and consistent results.

You get better at asking by asking. This starts to break down any old patterns of thought and activity that contributed to your feelings of hesitation to ask for help or support. Previous results, especially if they have been challenging and have left unexpressed energetic debris, can be a mighty deterrent for moving forward. That is, if you allow that. People often lose sight that for the time being we are learning life through practice that includes fumbles and stumbles and mistakes and outright failures (temporary). That energy can be weighty and become enough baggage that you get diverted before you even give it a start. That can all change.

Here is a strategy to consider and apply:

1. Get clear on what asking is. It is seeking assistance and support for something that you do not quite feel strong doing yet. Too often we have been taught that we have to do it ourselves or that we need to know how it is done, even though we have never done it or had any training. Impossible task…potentially…yet, choosing to recognize that you don’t know how is not that difficult. Give it a few attempts and see what happens. What is something you might want to do but have no experience? DO you know someone who does? Consider that in our human diversity, we each have things we are skilled at. It is impossible for anyone to be a master jack of all trades…so, accept that being a beginner is actually a cool place to be.
2. As a side note, it is imperative that you spend some time figuring out what your resistance is. Does it stem from a message given repeatedly, from actual experience, or from some amorphous ambiguous fear that makes no sense really? Address the issue headlong. If it was a message then acknowledge it and then begin to replace it with something that is positively affirming of your capacity to do this. Even if you just say I am open and willing to_____ then you have a starting point to shatter the old resistance. If it was an experience than walk back through it. Notice what hold it has on you. What was the worst thing about it? How true is that for you right now? Write it down and burn it. Cut the cords to the experience and move on. Forgive those involved including yourself. If it is an amorphous fear then go in there and establish the facts, the real parameters of what is holding this thing up. Feed new information to that part of you that is caught in the web.
3. Now go ask. Ask multiple people and see what happens. If they say no then you move to another. If they say yes then, with gratitude, you set up the time and place for the assistance. Again, be willing to be a beginner here. Admit what you don’t quite get yet. Ask questions and get clarification and practice with your help there. DO not walk away until you can do it on your own. Then be grateful.
4. Start to be a devotee of asking for assistance for awhile, just so you can dismantle the resistance. Ask yourself for assistance and then show up.
5. And, of course, the above will not work unless there is some reciprocal receiving. Follow the same track as you did with asking. What does it mean to you? What is your resistance? Experience? Thoughts? Beliefs? Decisions? Clear out the old issues around it. If it is a self worth, personal value issue, then this may require some additional support, even professional. At some point you will get clear enough to get out of your own way and be a willing and grateful receiver. Trust that life is a constant giver to you. Be the constant receiver.
6. Asking/giving and receiving are a beautiful Cosmic circle that rely on one another to stay in the flow. Be a willing participant in both parts and see how life shows up. Be generous with both. Asking and giving may sound different but they are one in the same. In fact, even start to ask to give…check in to see if the receiver is open and willing. Honestly, sometimes random giving is perceived as an invasion that has expectations of them doing something back. That is not fair to blind side someone…especially if you are not clear in your motive. We all are good at feeling energies and know when something is off, even though we may not have the clarity to articulate it yet. It all comes down to being clean and clear in all your dealings. Can that be a challenge…sure…because you are unlearning a way of being that has been supported by the doctrine of limitations for many lifetimes. And…you can undo it it no time at all. Your intentional focus and action are indeed that powerful.
7. Practice and practice and practice. Make a decision and take action. DO what you say you are going to do. Follow up on your word and be one whose commitment can be trusted. Yes, it does all come down to trusting, yourself, others, and life itself. And be not swayed by stumblings and failures as these are all part of a refinement process that delivers you to the arms of the fluid skill in time.
8. Give to life, unwaveringly. Ask of life, without hesitation. Receive from life, with grace and gratitude. Then keep the circle in motion. Giving away what you just received may be sketchy, especially if it is too soon or in the face of the giver. Be gracious in receiving. Know the power of a smile and a thank you. You really do not know what it took for them to do this action. Discounting them by having an attitude may be very damaging to them and invite some comparable activity into your life just so you can feel both sides. Why play that game? Be grateful and generous and be a willing participant in that precious circle of abundance, a great and loving gift of this grand cosmos.