Manifesting Skills & Techniques Articles
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
please feel free to visit the school website)
Written by Carolyn Hoppe, MA
Law Of Attraction
Creating
Thoughts & Emotions
Negative Vibration
Beliefs
Gratitude
Detaching From The Outcome
Relationships
Illness
Money
Manifesting Skills Do's And Don'ts
Magnetizing Steps
Universal Connection
Conclusion
Bibliography
Manifesting Simplified
You can have a magical life where all your wishes come true. You have the magic wand already. It's a simple matter of harnessing the power of your mind and your feelings to bring your desires to you. Think it, feel it, believe it and be open to receive it. You are a creator! You can reach out anywhere in the universe and pluck out just what you want. You have the power to bring all the beautiful things and feelings into your reality.
Manifesting is the ability to create what you want in your life. Like a magnet, the energy of your thoughts and emotions draw things, people, and experiences to you. Whatever you focus on, negative or positive, will, by the "Law of Attraction," come into your life. Manifesting is a deliberate creative process of creating consciously. Things come to us through our creativity.
The essential key to manifesting is to focus on the results and not the problem. If you focus on what you do not want, the energy of your thoughts and emotions will bring it to you. You are constantly creating whether you realize it or not. Robert Anthony, in Know How To Be Rich (2005) says, "What you think equals what you feel and what you feel equals how you vibrate and how you vibrate equals what you attract. Your life will not change because you know what to do. It will change when you do what you know."
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Law Of Attraction
The Law of Attraction is the Law of Cause and Effect. What you put out is what you get back. The more you focus on what you don't like, the more of it you attract to you. What you are presently feeling at this moment is the message you are sending that says, "Give me more of what I think and feel." The same energy that creates the infinite cosmos flows through us and gives birth to where we direct that energy. As we see, observe, ponder, imagine, envision, focus upon, or pay attention, we put into motion the magnetic energy that draws to us that which we desire. The Law of Attraction states that you can have whatever you want, but you must give it to yourself first. What we would love to have in our experience is connected to who we think we are. This law shows us how powerful we are. We have the power to change the world, but first must be willing to change ourselves.
When your thoughts are a vibrational match to your desires, you feel good. As you become consciously aware of your emotions, you will always know how you are doing with the allowing part of your creative process, and you'll never again misunderstand why things are turning out the way they are. Your emotions are a guidance system, and if you will pay attention to them, you'll be able to guide yourself to find a vibrational match to your true desire.
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Creating
Creating is your birthright. It is what you do; you can't help but create. You create without even knowing that you are creating simply through your thoughts and feelings. It is impossible not to create something, since you are always thinking and feeling, you are always creating. If you can be conscious of what you are creating, perhaps better choices can be made.
Esther and Jerry Hicks write in Ask And It Is Given (2004), "You often create by default, for you are getting what you are giving your attention to... In the same way that sculptors mold clay into the creation that pleases them, you created by the holding of energy. You mold it through your power of focus by thinking about things, remembering things, and imagining things. You focus the energy when you speak, when you write, when you listen, when you are silent, when you remember and when you imagine, you focus it through the projection of thought...There is never a reason for you to be without something that you desire. Nor is there ever a reason for you to experience something that you do not desire for you hold absolute control of your experiences."
The Hicks go on to say, "Deliberate creation is not about the condition changing and then you're finding a better feeling in response to the changed condition. Deliberate creation is about choosing a thought that feels good when you choose it, which then causes the condition to change." The goal is to remain in the vibration of love and deliberately choose thoughts of love and gratitude no matter what is happening around you. This keeps you connected to the source of love. The Law states that when you choose these higher thoughts, the conditions around you must change. The process is about the awareness of how you are feeling, for feelings can be an indicator to let you know exactly what you are attracting; your desire or the absence of it.
We possess the sacred ability to create our passions with simple intent. Sanaya Roman says in Spiritual Growth (1989), "You can change your reality by rewriting the past... Each time you make an important decision, you determine what future you create for yourself... As you change your past in your mind, you change your vibration and begin to draw to yourself a new future. If you want to be smarter, more creative, or more loved, imagine a past in which you were. It doesn't matter if this was your real past; your subconscious mind doesn't know the difference. It will draw circumstances to you that match your imagined past... Choose what information and situations you agree with and want as your truth. What you accept as your truth will create your reality... Instead of accepting others' opinions of reality, say, 'I choose my reality.'"
Manifesting is a co-creative venture in aligning your intention with Divine intelligence. It is not about making demands of God. There is no separation between you and what you want; the intelligence is in you and in all things. It is you, you are it. There is only one power in the universe, and you are connected to the power. Demanding your desires according to your design and timetable reinforces the belief that God is a separate energy. When we realize that we are the source of everything we want, we are self realized. We find that God is not separate from ourselves, but rather, God is inside us. We are this God that we have prayed to, believing it to be outside of ourselves. However, if we really think about it, we should pray to ourselves for what we want, for it comes from within, rather than from somewhere outside of us. We are expressions of God itself, and there is no separation. Again, the parameters of this experiment are unclear, but the concept is intriguing!
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Thoughts & Emotions
We are electromagnetic beings pulling in everything at the same frequency or wavelength that we are feeling. We are constantly magnetizing into our lives what we focus on, positive or negative, whether we know it consciously or not. The trick is to control the feelings that come from our thoughts. The manifesting process starts with the thought and then the emotion. Thoughts and emotions work together to manifest reality. Thoughts act like a magnet, attracting that which matches the same vibration. Your emotions and intent determine how fast you get what you are thinking about. The emotions energize the thoughts and propel them from an inner to outer world. An important part of this process is to feel worthy and deserving of what you desire. Next is the intent, which is a steady focus on what you are creating. Third is to trust and believe that it is already on its way and simply allow it to come with gratitude.
There was a study done in China in the thirties that explored the theory that thoughts are real things and different thoughts have different vibrations. They took photographs of thoughts and found that it worked right through steel walls. It is unclear what technology they used for this. They were able to prove that the more emotion the thinker charged his thoughts with, the clearer the picture of the vibration turned out to be. This experiment showed that there is magnetic energy attached to our thoughts, and that thought is propelled by our emotions. This implies that we are human magnets attracting everything on the same frequency wavelength we are feeling.
The magic genie to attraction is the feeling that flows from the thought of your desire. Lyn Grabhorn gives an example in her book Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting (2000) of how we get the opposite of what we want by focusing on the feeling of not having what we want. She states, "Imagine you have been wanting a new sports car and you see someone driving the very car you desire and you feel jealous because you don't have it and you can't afford it. Instead of feeling excited you are feeling discouraged for the lack of not having it. This negative feeling you are having is exactly the reason the car is not in your driveway! Congratulations, you have been successful at attracting the lack of your desire. When you come from a place of discouragement, hoping or longing, you are repelling your desire because your focus is on the negative feeling of lack.
Instead, get jazzed up and feel yourself driving your new sports car and how exciting it is to be behind the wheel with others admiring your car. Really get into the feeling place of imaging with all your senses the new car smell, the shiny chrome etc. Focus on the joy of having your new car and really feel it in your body as if it was already here. You don't have to worry about how you will afford it; that is not your problem. The universe creates in response to our vibration and the magnetic force will bring it to you in marvelous and miraculous ways that you could never fathom."
You are the creator of your life; your tools are your thoughts, emotions, intent and belief. From this flows your vibration that brings people, objects, circumstances, and events into your reality. Your thinking is planning your future. Stop worrying, for worry is planning more of what you don't want.
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Negative Vibration
Negative vibrations come from focusing on what you don't want. When you are not thinking about what makes you happy, you are in the frequency of attracting the opposite of what you want. Need comes from fear, and desire comes from excitement. When you are worried or fearful, you send out that vibration that brings more of the same to match what you are feeling and thinking. "Happy vibrations attract happy circumstances, and yucky vibrations attract yucky circumstances," according to Grabhorn. The real challenge is to overcome the habit of looking at what's wrong. Negative thinking projects into the future and limits what you want to create. Learn to replace the negative beliefs with positive ones, because beliefs are just practiced vibrations. When you hold a thought long enough, the law of attraction takes you easily into that vibration. It becomes a point that is set, thus matching your vibration.
When you think of what you don't want, you are going to attract it, or it's going to attract you. The key to receiving your heart's desire is to find a way to feel good about it. When you know what you want, begin to feel what it feels like to already have it, and stay out of the place of not having it. Take note that whatever is currently happening in your life is a result of the past and how you have flowed your energy. You can change that now by your focused intent of what you want to create.
Take charge of your life by dreaming of everything that would give you pleasure. Your desires are creating your reality. Grabhorn says that, "Wanting and manifesting those wants into reality is fulfilling your reason for being and therein lies the true richness of life. Never, ever accept reality as something to which you must resign yourself... When you are in a place of needing something to change that energy holds it to you, for it is in the negative energy flow." The goal is to bring in the energy of excitement about what it will be changing into. This is flowing in the positive and gets the results you really want to create.
Focus on the feeling of already having your desires, open yourself up to create the belief that you can have it, and then notice when answers and opportunities come. Knowing what you don't want is valuable for it will help you to know what you do want instead. See what can be rather than what is. Jump into the wonderful feelings of how fantastic it will be when you are there. When you are stuck in the negative, just fake the positive feeling of your desire. Soon it will become your real feeling and it will attract a more positive reality.
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Beliefs
Your biology is created by your biography. If your image of yourself is misaligned you inhibit the attraction of bliss and love into your life. To effectively manifest, you must first examine your beliefs. If you are trying to manifest money and you have the belief that you don't deserve to have abundance then the belief will be your truth and the affirmations will not work because they can not override that belief. The belief will continue to manifest lack of abundance until it is neutralized.
The good news is that you have the power to change this belief. The power lies in the ability to simply change your mind about your worthiness to receive all of God's blessings. Forgiveness of yourself, as well as your past, is a way to increase your feelings of worthiness. Forgiveness is a spiritual act of love, and when you can love yourself, you can feel worthy to receive all good things into your life.
Part of attracting your desire is to feel worthy of receiving it. Feeling worthy to receive abundance in any form seems to be a very common block in manifesting for many people. There may be a little voice from childhood that is programmed in the subconscious that whispers, "You are not good enough, you don't deserve good things" or "It is not okay to have more or be better than others." Your inner life is a reflection of your outer life.
The first step is to examine the core beliefs that come from childhood programming. There are ways to release this old belief and replace it with the new belief that you are worthy to receive abundance. A helpful method could be to trace back where this belief originated: a negative experience or messages from your parents. Next, is to come to an understanding that it is not true and decide to let it go. Then you can replace it with the positive new belief you desire such as, "I am worthy to receive abundance." You must neutralize before you can magnetize. When all your beliefs are in alignment, your manifesting efforts will be successful. This allows your mental body and your physical body to be in agreement to realize your intention.
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Gratitude
Gratitude is the fastest way to having what you want. If you are appreciating, then you are causing your heart's desire to manifest quickly. Feel the intense energy of appreciation for just one minute. That cancels out thousands of hours spent in victim mode. When you are grateful, the universe dutifully creates more things for you to be grateful for, since that is the vibration with which you are resonating. If you are ungrateful, the universe will provide more reasons to be ungrateful. Remember, physical reality is a "machine" of sorts that responds to your consciousness. It doesn't care what you create. It is simply a "reflection machine." Gratitude has been proven time and time again to be a most effective method for creating a beautiful life. The following quotes elaborate on the power of gratitude.
Wayne Dyer says in Manifest Your Destiny (1997), "Gratitude is your expression of acknowledging the oneness of the universal energy working in cooperation with your desires... It is an absence of feeling alienated or separate. It represents our full acknowledgement and appreciation of the energy flowing through all things, and brings gifts to us in the form of the fulfillment of our desires... The nature of gratitude is the complete and full response of the human heart to everything in the universe... When your heart is filled with gratitude, it is grateful for everything and cannot focus on what is missing."
Esther & Jerry Hicks in Ask And It Is Given (2004) purport, "Appreciation and self-love are the most important aspects you could ever nurture. Appreciation of others and the appreciation of yourself are the closest vibrational matches to source energy of anything we have ever witnessed anywhere in this Universe... The more you practice appreciation, the less resistance you will have in your own vibrational frequencies and the less resistance you have, the better your life will be."
Lynn Grabhorn Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting (2000) reiterates, "The vibration of appreciation is the most profoundly important frequency we can hold, for it is the closest thing to cosmic love that exists. When we're appreciating we're in perfect vibrational harmony with our source energy or God energy... Appreciation is the fastest and highest vibration we can use for attraction. If we would shoot appreciation at anything and everything all day long we'd be guaranteed to have heaven on earth in no time, living happily ever after with more friends, more money, more beautiful relationships in total safety and closer to the God of our Being than it's possible to fathom."
Wayne Dyer goes on to explain, "When your attention is on your scarcity, you are telling the universal spirit that you need more and are not grateful for all that you have... Gratitude is a way of experiencing the world with love rather than judgment. Taking things for granted means going through life unaware of the multitude of gifts that are here in each and every moment. Change an attitude of ingratitude by imagining, just for a moment, how empty your life would be without those blessings."
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Detaching From The Outcome
One of the most difficult blocks to overcome is expectations and impatience. This kind of energy can prevent change in your life. One way to overcome this kind of energy flow is to detach from the form of how it shows up in your experience and then letting go of time constraints that limit manifesting. You can accomplish this simply by going about your life with the confidence of feeling and knowing the outcome. That is the secret to patience. Having the patience brings this confidence in a way that allows for detachment.
Trusting this process allows you to turn thoughts away from focusing on the lack of having what you want. Impatience devalues our connection to the divine Holy Spirit. Wayne Dyer illuminates this in Manifest Your Destiny (1997), "Infinite patience produces almost immediate results in your life... You become free when you relax your insistence to having it now, and you increase your awareness that you actually do have it now, already, even though it may not have shown up as you would like it in your immediate surroundings." Being aware and grateful for the cues of your desires will free you to feel the essence of your desire and banish the doubts. The expectations that limits one's understanding of the possibilities will help you to see obstacles as lessons, not failures. Now you can use positive affirmations to keep the energy flowing, as you have let go of judgment and can relax into a peaceful knowing.
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Relationships
In creating meaningful relationships you have to look at what you are vibrating by how you are feeling. If you are feeling anything other than peace with yourself and appreciation of your partner, then your vibrations will be chipping away at your union. You are attracting negatively if you are disapproving, accusing, or blaming. If you feel misunderstood, neglected, or trapped you are attracting more of the same. If you try to rescue, please, or placate you are also attracting negatively. When you focus on what is not working in your relationship you are holding your partner in that vibration. The energy of blame is the culprit and always makes a bad situation worse.
When you are concerned about someone else and feel sorry for his or her predicament, you join in the lack he or she feels. You have matched the vibration that holds other people there. The following story, from Grabhorn's Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting (2000), is an example of this concept. A woman was worried about her depressed father and wanted to send him healing thoughts. In her own sadness about him she was seeing him in a pathetic way. He continued to decline. She learned that she was doing the opposite of her intention when she learned about the law of attraction. She began to visualize him filled with vitality and fun, playing sports. She melted into the joy of feeling his wholeness. The miracle part of the story is that her father called her three days later telling her that he felt better than he had in years! She had offered the new vibration and he chose to accept it.
If you see people letting you down, you will vibrate to that reality as it happens. When you actively look for ways to truly appreciate, you will be a catalyst for attracting the higher vibrations that you seek. The vibrations come from how you are feeling. This doesn't mean that others will act the way you want them to, but by holding the picture of their higher self you invite the possibility for them as to how they might act if they expressed their potential.
Seeing the other person's divinity enables him or her to be the divine person he or she really is. A beautiful way to relate to others is by connecting to your higher self and their higher self and asking for a greater good to come to both of you. You can empower your friends by taking opportunities to draw their higher vision out of them. You can accomplish this by helping them to describe their vision and encouraging them to create it. In this way, you can help others to perceive what their problems are offering, and the gift of what they are experiencing.
The process described above takes unconditional love. This is experienced when you are able to keep open no matter what the other person has done. All you have to do is stop focusing on your disappointments; you don't have to like it or change it. It is a freeing feeling when you can begin to experience life despite the actions of others. You no longer have a need to blame others for the way you feel. You no longer need others to behave in a certain way in order to be happy. You realize that you don't need everything to be perfect for your love to flow.
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Illness
Illness is a negative energy choking off the flow of life. Ill people have closed off to their source, and have allowed worry, blame and guilt to fester within their body. Physical, mental, and emotional health are intertwined. The vibrations of thoughts go through the body. The combination of negative thoughts and emotions weaken the cells, putting the body out of balance, opening it up to disease, illness and injury.
Every illness is reversible. Cancer is not the cause of death, it is the blocking of life force that comes through blame, fear, or anger that breeds the disease. Instead of talking about your illness, start talking about how your body is healing. Norman Cousins knew he had to change the frequencies in his body in order to heal. He read funny books, watched funny movies, and cured himself completely of cancer.
The body's wisdom sends you messages, and when you have an illness or an accident, it is an indicator of how you have ignored these messages. If you listen to your body, you will be able to explore the thoughts, concerns, or issues that led to up the accident. Notice the negative thoughts, but then change it to a positive one. Hold yourself and your loved ones in a healing space, focusing on how fantastic it feels to be vibrant and whole.
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Money
The word with the highest negative vibration in every language is "money!" It is highly charged with beliefs of struggle. These beliefs are learned even before we are born. The vibrations are absorbed from our parents, even in the womb. We may feel the anxiety around this word and develop a limiting belief that keeps us in the pattern of not attracting abundance.
When you hear the word money, if your first thought is "not enough," then you are vibrating lack and you will get even more of not enough. Statements like, "money is hard to come by," "you have to work hard," "money is the root of all evil," "I won't be happy until I have more" are common beliefs that prevent abundance from coming into our lives. The energy of money needs outlets. Instead of focusing on the paper stuff, feel the excitement of what you will do with the money. Use your imagination to feel, taste, smell and touch the things you would do with the energy of money. When you are ready to create abundance, focus on the essence of what you will be doing and what the abundance will give you. Bring this feeling of freedom and security that the abundance will give to you into your body. Live the essence of already having it for that is what magnetizes it to you. Let go of the form that it comes in. Radiate the energy of success all the way down to your cells. Flow into the attitude of gratitude. Be open to receive!
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Steps To Manifesting What You Want
The first step to sharpening your manifesting skills is to become aware of the energy of your thoughts and feelings. This will provide an indication to you whether or not you are on target for your manifesting intent. Then you can either go with it, or redirect any negativity that you feel by just breathing it out and asking for inner guidance around any negativity and/or blocks.
The next step is to focus on what you love, then amplify those positive feelings. Tune into and feel those positive feelings. Surrounding yourself with people and things that you love will allow you to trust that everything is unfolding as it is meant to.
The best time to work on creating your new reality is right before you fall asleep. Visualize the next day as the perfect day and imagine waking up full of energy. These thoughts go forward into the future and connect with you the next day. Close your eyes and see the things that bring you tremendous joy. Trust your process. Follow through on what you get from the inside, and the universe will impart it.
Grabhorn, gives this formula to getting your dream." First identify what you don't want. Then identify what you do want. After that, feel what you want. Then allow it to happen, pay attention to signs in reality that it is coming, and listen and expect it to be so. Start appreciating this new life instead of yearning for it."
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Manifesting Skills Do's And Don'ts
The following list by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer from their book Creating Money: Keys To Abundance (1988) is an excellent way to remind yourself to keep in the positive flow of attracting the qualities you desire, and what you might be doing that is repelling them.
| Attracting Qualities | Repelling Qualities |
| 1. honoring your worth and time | not honoring your worth and time |
| 2. giving and receiving freely | not giving or being open to receive |
| 3. opening your heart | closing your heart |
| 4. expecting the best to happen | expecting the worst will happen |
| 5. coming from your heart | getting into power struggles |
| 6. doing your best | cutting corners |
| 7. wanting everyone to succeed, cooperating | competing |
| 8. focusing on how you can serve others | thinking only of what others will give you |
| 9. telling yourself why you can succeed | telling yourself why you can't succeed |
| 10. coming from your integrity | compromising your values and ideals |
| 11. being aware and paying attention | operating on automatic |
| 12. applauding others' success | feeling threatened by others' success |
| 13. embracing your challenges | choosing comfort over growth |
| 14. releasing things easily | hanging onto things |
| 15. believing it's never too late, taking action | thinking it's too late, giving up |
| 16. giving yourself permission to be and do what you want | waiting for others to give you permission |
| 17. believing your path is important | not believing in your path |
| 18. doing what you love for your livelihood | working only for the money |
| 19. surrendering to your higher good | feeling needy or that you must have something |
| 20. giving to others' prosperity | giving to others' need |
| 21. doing your higher purpose activities first | putting off higher purpose activities until you have more time |
| 22. seeing yourself as the source of your abundance | viewing others as the source of your abundance |
| 23. believing in abundance | believing in scarcity |
| 24. believing in yourself, self confidence, self love | worrying, fears, doubts, self criticism |
| 25. clear intent and directed will | vague or undefined goals |
| 26. following your joy | forcing yourself, creating "have tos" and "shoulds" |
| 27. surrounding yourself with objects that reflect your aliveness | keeping objects that aren't tools to express your aliveness |
| 28. expressing gratitude & thanks | feeling the world owes you |
| 29. trusting in your ability to create abundance | worrying over finances |
| 30. following your inner guidance | ignoring inner guidance |
| 31. looking for a winning solution for everyone | not caring if the other person wins |
| 32. becoming your own authority | not believing in your inner wisdom |
| 33. measuring abundance as fulfilling your purpose and happiness | measuring abundance only by how much money you have |
| 34. enjoying the process as much as the goal | doing things only for the goal |
| 35. clear agreements | unspoken or vague expectations |
| 36. thinking how far you have come | focusing on how far you have to go |
| 37. speaking of abundance | talking about problems |
| 38. remembering past successes | remembering past failures |
| 39. thinking in expanded unlimited ways | thinking in limited ways |
| 40. thinking of how you will create $ | focusing on how you need $ |
| 41. focusing on what you love and want | focusing on what you don't want |
| 42. allowing yourself to have | feeling that you don't deserve to have what you want |
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Magnetizing Steps
- Go into a trance by meditating.
- Think of the quality you want to radiate in order to attract what you want. Then resonate with the essence of what you want.
- Visualize yourself already having it. What does it look like, smell like, sound like, feel like?
- Energize the feeling of having your desire.
- Become the magnet and imagine the power source within you, spin your magnetic core, generate that magnetic feeling around you.
- Intend success at getting what you want. Call it to you, send out a message to the physical and etheric world.
- Believe it is possible for you to have it.
- Let go of attachment of having it. Don't be in a state of need. Allow it to come in the form it does without judgment.
- Relax and let the magic do its work. Know that there is creation in progress.
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Universal Connection
- Relax, take deep breaths and tune into your Higher Self.
- See your aura as a gridwork of light. Link to the place of All That Is, or God.
- Go to the place of the energy of our desire that already is created here.
- See the light around it and breathe in the subatomic particles.
- See it becoming even more beautiful.
- Allow the light to harmonize with your energy and bring it into your heart space.
- Bring it into your cells in your mind.
- Allow your frequency to vibrate higher now.
- Feel the gratitude of receiving, you already have it in the spirit dimension.
- See your future self enjoying your creation.
- You can ask your future self to send the energy you need to be open to receive your desire.
- Then send your future self the energy of gratitude for helping you manifest it.
- Bring back the excitement with you into your body and into the room.
Imagine your ideal life.
- See all your relationships, your job, your health and home bringing great enjoyment to you.
- See yourself doing all the things you love in this perfect life.
- Feel your world as peaceful and happy.
- Feel what your emotional tone is like and wear this tone throughout the day as much as possible.
- Now vibrate with that reality knowing that you are powerful enough to create this and worthy to receive this.
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Conclusion
The recipe for manifesting your reality is to collect all the good feelings, then bake them with varying degrees of emotion to increase magnetism. Sprinkle liberally with gratitude. It only takes sixteen seconds of focused, pure thought to link up vibrationally, and voila, it's baked and ready to enjoy.
You attract as you vibrate, as intentions are electromagnetically drawn to you by your feelings. If you want to change your life, change the way you think about it. Nothing, absolutely nothing, comes to you by accident. Placing your attention on anything will deliver conditions, experiences, circumstances and other people to match your vibration.
Hicks writes in Ask And It Is Given (2004), "The greatest gift that you could ever give to another is your own happiness, for when you are in a state of joy, happiness, or appreciation, you are fully connected to the stream of pure, positive source energy that is truly who you are. When you are in that state of connection, anything or anyone that you are holding as your object of attention benefits from your attention... It is the act of flowing your energy and how you are feeling in that moment that is most important. It is not about the gratification of manifesting the object of your desire. It is about the expansion, freedom, and the feeling of joy in connecting with the energy that creates worlds."
You can help others change by getting them to talk about what is right rather than what is wrong. You have the power to create utopia and an extraordinary life filled with joyful living. It is important to remember that things do not have to change before you can be happy. Take time to dream, imagine, desire, and then flow your energy to it. State your intention every day and get excited about it. You no longer need to accept your current circumstances as the best you can have. You can refuse to accept the beliefs of others that something is impossible to create!
There is unlimited abundance waiting to be received. All you have to do is ask, be open and believe you are worthy to accept all the blessings that are waiting for you. Our vibration affects everyone else's vibrations. So, it is time to think big and model this new thought of abundance. Stay in the place of trusting that everything happening is preparing you to receive. Free yourself of limiting beliefs, unleash your creative genius and dream the desires of your new reality. Use your imagination to transcend to the dimension where all things are possible. You now know how to create with light and energy. Believe in the possibility of the impossible. You have the power to create miracles!
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Bibliography
Dyer, Wayne 1997
Manifest Your Destiny. Harper Collins Publishers, Inc.; New York, NY
Grabhorn Lynn, 2000
Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting. Hampton Roads Publishers; Charlottesville, VA
Hicks Esther & Jerry 2004
Ask And It Is Given. Hay House; San Francisco, CA
Roman, Sanaya and Duane Packer 1988
Creating Money: Keys To Abundance. HJ Kramer; Tiburon, CA
Roman, Sanaya 1989
Spiritual Growth. HJ Kramer; Tiburon, CA
Internet Resources
Anthony, Robert, How To Be Rich 2005. www.RobertAnthony-secrets.com
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Manifesting Simplified
Additional Notes By Christine Breese, D.D., Ph.D.
Affirming and visualizing are mind powers. It is important to learn how mind powers work and observe the effects of how you consciously create in co-operation with physical reality. Learning to be in control of the mind is the first step to letting go of attachment to our desires. This then allows you to open and tune into the divine mind, the eternal self that knows what is in your highest and best interest.
The highest form of manifesting is to let go of all your desires and ask to know what the divine plan asks of you. The highest sacrifice is giving up all desire, all needs and wants, all of one's life plans. This sacrifice is necessary before one can truly be a vessel for the divine within, the eternal self. Imagine, just for a moment, letting go of all your dreams, including the dream of having all the money you have always wanted. Everything you ever wanted to own, everything you have ever wanted to be-let it all go. Now it is just an empty space to be filled by the plans of the divine within, the eternal self. It is not your life anymore. You are giving it over to the One Self to do with as it wishes.
At first this may seem like standing on a terrible precipice, a kind of death, and it is. It is the death of the human ego, the human condition. You may have had plans for quite some time, and you have struggled to reach them. Perhaps you have attained the level of material success you wanted, perhaps you attained the perfect relationship, perhaps you have even created the level of enlightenment you had hoped to achieve. All of these pale in comparison to what is actually available to you. The One Self, the eternal identity within you, can create a life that is beyond the human ego's imagination. If you can make the leap over that terrible precipice of giving up your plans and desires of the human self, if you can brave the leap into the unknown, a life you never imagined can unfold.
Even though this may seem unfathomable to give up your dreams and plans, if you can get past the fear of it for a moment, you will see how freeing it all is. Suddenly there is no more pressure, no more struggle. There is peace, finally. You'll notice a relaxation in your energy and you can breathe easy. The battle has finally ended. (The battle was against the negative human programming of consciousness that was creating the reality you didn't like.)
You cannot be suffering if you are in the present moment. You only suffer when you move into the past or the future, or wish to change the things you can't change about others. If you realize yourself as eternal being that never dies, can never be harmed, lives multitudes of lives, and is the Godself dreaming, your life will reflect this rather than the human ego identity with its smaller dreams and imaginings. If your reality is a reflection of who you are, then just exactly what would eternal self look like in that reflection? By giving up your life to God, so to speak, and letting God do whatever is best for you, instead of you directing life the way you want it to go, you will venture into a different way of living. But how does one do this, exactly?
You have heard much about being in the now, staying in the present, and you might wonder how to do that exactly. It sounds simple enough, but over and over again we find ourselves anywhere besides the now. The key to being in the now is to stop. Stop everything. Stop the fantasies or fretting about the future, stop regretting the past or being nostalgic for the past, just stop. Stop the mind from going anywhere but here in this moment. No matter what, don't let the mind move. If you find yourself moving even slightly into the past or future for a moment, just stop. Don't even finish the thought or the cycle. Just stop. The mind is always moving. It is always strategizing, forming opinions about reality and other people, regretting mistakes in the past, and worrying about the future. The mind never stops moving. Even through your daily tasks, the mind is moving.
There is one way that you can know when God, eternal self, is shining through you. If you are in the present moment, fully engaged, without being affected by your future or your history, this is when you are being your true self, the larger identity you are, rather than the human condition. Being in the now is always where the eternal self is. That is what is eternal, for it lives in the ever-unfolding now. Eternity is not just a "long time." It is the ever unfolding now.
It may be difficult for a beginner to stop the mind during meditation. Start by simply going about your daily tasks without moving the mind. While you are washing your dishes, weeding your garden, or driving your car, do it with a still mind. This is a great way to begin to learn what it is like to be in the present moment, the ever-unfolding now. While your mind is still, you will realize that you are quite alert and your consciousness is able to take in whatever is in the moment without forming opinions about it, coloring it with past experience, or strategizing about the future. Then you are free to be eternal self, witnessing a reality created by consciousness. As soon as you are aware that your mind has moved into the past or the future, or anywhere that is not in the present that is right in front of you, reel it back in and be here now. This is a habit that must be created, and the habit of moving out of the present must be broken.
Your awareness and awakeness will be quite heightened. You will be surprised to find how much you have been missing by thinking about so many things and being absent during the many wonderful moments that have happened in your life. While you are washing your dishes, notice the glint of light coming off the dishes, the warm, soft sensations of the soapy water, the rhythm of the task... While weeding your garden notice the warm smell of the earth, the beauty of the flowers, the connection with nature... When you are driving, notice the landscape, the environment, the sunset, the other cars, the sensation of moving so quickly through the air... There is so much to observe. When you realize you are actually becoming lucid in a dream, you will be amazed at the magical phenomena that reality is.
Try to be especially aware of the nature of your eternal identity while having conversations with people. If you are aware that you are dreaming, and you become lucid in that dream, you will notice much deeper levels of communication than just the words being said. You will notice a vibrancy to your reality that you never noticed before. Colors become more vibrant, you might notice the life-force within everything, and you will find that your heart is wide open and wise while your mind sits silent. True listening to another person can only happen if you are not moving in your own mind. Don't form opinions about what the other person is saying. Don't plan what you are going to say next. Just be awake and pay attention to what is happening in this phenomena called the Now. This is where you will find self-realization, happiness and fulfillment. Suddenly your life becomes more about how awake you can be in every moment than what level of material success is achieved.
Ironically, material success does come with being a fully awakened being. This does not mean great wealth for everyone, for not everyone wants to deal with the responsibilities of great wealth. However, the basic needs and the lifestyle that is comfortable to you will be a natural result of living in the now. The eternal self provides just the right amount that is right for each person. Some people are happy to be quiet Buddhists with a Spartan lifestyle while others have nice cars and houses. The individual version of the perfect reality is different for every person.
If you work with the mind this way for at least a month, you will see changes in your reality. You don't have to visualize anything. Just be open to allowing the divine to flow through you by staying in the present moment, and you will be telling the "reflection machine" that reality is to reflect something other than what the monkey mind has created. A still mind creates something quite different. What will happen is that "ah-ha!" moments will come with completed thoughts and plans already in motion rather than you formulating them. The next step to take into your future will always be quite evident in your ever-unfolding now. You will know just what to do in every moment, and it will always be the right thing. Even if you don't know what steps come next, just take the ones that present themselves to you. You will be living your life in the "magic zone" and you will always be walking the right path. Sometimes you do get glimpses of the future and what your eternal self is bringing to you (itself). However, be aware that these may morph and change as they develop. Don't hold on to those visions. Just allow them to move back into the background and know that they are coming. Stay open to whatever presents itself to you in the present.
If you do this exercise seriously, you may have a sudden "set change." Be ready for this if you are consistent about keeping your mind still everyday. The old reality may suddenly disintegrate and disappear. Your job may suddenly be over, your place where you live may suddenly change, or multitudes of other sudden changes can happen. This is a good sign that what you are doing is working!
Sometimes the set change takes place slowly. Be patient with this as well. It may take some time to stop the momentum of the reality you were previously creating. It may take even more diligence, perhaps even a year, of holding the mind still before the big things change. In the meantime, look for the little things that do change. You will find signs in your reality that your eternal self is becoming more present as the director of your life, rather than the human ego.
I must say, I did not imagine all that I am doing now. Somehow, the skills I have learned and the preferences I have about what I like to do have all come into play, as if they are taken into consideration in what the eternal self creates, but life is more rewarding than I had hoped it would be. I do like to imagine a wonderful day in service to the eternal self coming the next day before I go to sleep, and I like to fall asleep with warm, cozy emotions. I do feel that helps, but I don't spend time visualizing anymore, or affirming what it is I want. As the eternal self, it is just a natural occurrence that a pleasant life results. Rather, I affirm that I am in service to the divine and give myself to whatever the divine has planned for me, no matter what it is.
If this happens, just know that your new "reflection" is on its way to you. Don't become afraid while reality dismantles itself and re-coagulates. Be patient with the process and continue your practice of keeping the mind still, no matter what, and staying in the joy of the present moment. Joy is the surest sign of the presence of the Godself.
Of course this can never be perfected in a single lifetime. I find that it is a process of ever-deepening the ability to remain present in the moment. It goes deeper and deeper. The more one becomes aware, the more that is observable in the present moment. You will notice things other people simply don't have awareness of. You will see deeper layers of reality than you did before. It is lucid dreaming, lucid living.
Simplify your manifesting process down to desiring one thing and one thing only: being the awake, wise, loving truth of who you really are in every moment. If this is your true desire and your focus, you will have an effortless life of wonder and beauty. Keep your mind still and stay out of the past and the future. Be here now and witness all the beautiful moments that are available to you that you may have been missing. Live each day as if it might be your last, and absorb all the beauty that your life already has. After all, you are luckier than many people on the planet who have less opportunities than you do, especially the opportunity to think about the higher things in life, the spiritual path, and the nature of reality. This is a truly lucky lifetime indeed! Enjoy it, even if you can only start with the small things. You will have greater beauties and joys to celebrate as you learn to hold the joy and peace of being in the present moment. This is manifesting made easy!