Manifesting - Page Two
Here is a partial list of tools that you can begin working with straightaway. If there are any tools that you find especially helpful and would like to share, please feel free to email me. Remember, you don't have to try and use anything that does not sound like fun or doesn't appeal to you! You cannot get it wrong, there is no one way to work with any tool, so go with what your own inner guidance suggests at all times.
Affirmations
I love working with affirmations! They are easy to do, fun and if you do them consistently they really do work! One way of working with affirmations is to make up silly songs about them that you can sing to yourself throughout the day. I like doing this when I start to feel down or blue or just ragged around the edges from pushing myself too hard. You can also record your affirmations onto audio tape and play that throughout the day or at night with the volume turned down low so you can barely hear them consciously. I have even had the volume turned all the way down and they still seemed to work wonderfully for me.
Affirmations can be as short or as lengthy as feels good to you. Repeating a single word that makes you feel good such as prosperity, joy, love, happiness, peace, success, wholeness, Spirit, Universe, also works wonders and is easy to remember and do. If you need help writing affirmations there are a few really wonderful books that I recommend:
Ordering from the Cosmic Kitchen - Patricia J. Crane
Excellent book and much fun to read! The cover of this book also makes me smile each time I see it which really does pave the way for more good to come to one! Its available in paperback or look for it used.
The second book is Change almost anything in 21 days - Ruth Fishel
Another wonderful book, and she has affirmations for just about everything! She also has a wonderful technique for working with affirmations that I shall include here. Write your chosen affirmation 10 times each day for 21 days. If you miss a day, you have to start over but believe me, it is worth it! I find that when I do this, I often start to see results the very first day, depending on how committed I feel to going the full 21 days. An alternative way of doing this is to write each affirmation 9 times for 27 days. This also works really well for me and I do go back and forth between the two.
There is also a CD that Louise Hay has created that I absolutely love! The title is Atmospheres and Affirmations and the music with this CD is awesome! This CD is available through amazon.com.
Later on I hope to have another page listing different affirmations for folks to try so do check back here in the coming weeks for the link to that page!
A Gratitude/Thankfulness Journal
Every evening I write in my own gratitude journal. I list at least five things and often many more that I feel truly thankful for in my own life. I list everything from having a wonderful, safe home to feeling healthy and vital each day, to all the money that is in my life and the pleasure and joy it brings me and others, to my beloved friends, family and children. Anything you feel grateful for, write it down! Feel this energy moving through your body and soul, sense your heart opening as you write! If you don't want to write things down, think them to yourself before going to bed each night or while relaxing. Find something throughout the day to give thanks for. What you focus on expands and when you focus on and feel grateful for what is good, then that must expand in your life! Try it for 7 days. If you are feeling less than healthy, give thanks for the parts of your body that do feel good or at least okay. If you feel less than prosperous, give thanks for the money you do have. If you feel lonely, give thanks for the people or animals or even the plants that ARE your companions right now. Give Thanks that you know you have Guides and Angels that are always with you and love you. So many people don't know that they exist! Feel grateful that you do and watch what happens! Every now and again, just feel yourself reaching out to Spirit/The Universe and say "Thank You!"
Listing what you Love
On the other side of my gratitude page I began listing some things that I really love. Some are simple such as watching my beloved fish as they swim peacefully in their aquarium while I am listening to music. Others things for me include hearing from someone that something I have said or done has helped them, made their life better in some way. Thats always a wonderful feeling! I think of how much I love listening to the birds sing, they always sound so happy! I think of how much I love it when one of my two sons ( or sometimes even both, one right after the other!) favours me with a hug and an "I love you, Mum!" Hugs abound in our family and I love that too! I think of how much I love being able to pay my bills and being able to feed my family. I love it when I have some extra money that I can share with animal organizations that help to protect wildlife or Heifer International, an organization that helps people to help themselves and their families. I love being able to soak in a hot bubble bath. Or read, I so love to read! How much I love it when I feel the presence of Spirit in my life, when I feel a wave of love coming to me from the Universe, AHHHH, sheer bliss indeed! Or at twilight when the sky is that certain shade of pale violety-blue, that is so hard to describe but what a joy to witness! Sometimes it makes me cry it feels so blissful! What do you love? What brings you a sense of joy and fulfillment? By noticing and remarking to yourself on what you love, again you are attacting more of those things to you. And as your heart opens, it is also opening to many more wonderful experiences and things too!
"Own the power of your thoughts" - Cheryl Richardson
There was some synchronicity with this particular technique and since synchronicity is something I will be covering more as time goes on, I really wanted to share how I was guided to this simple yet fun technique! I was working on this page and found I really needed to take a break. I was asking the Grandfathers what else I might really need to include on this page before uploading it and what I heard was "sit, turn on the telly and relax". Well, I don't watch alot of TV anymore though I do love the beeb in america (BBC America) and the Wisdom Channel. Nothing I wanted to see on the Beeb so I flipped it on to Wisdom channel just in time to see an advert for a program; Stand up for your life workshop by Cheryl Richardson. Well! I have begun to study her work, like it and find it very helpful so needless to say I made sure to reserve the telly for later that evening! I had notebook and pen in hand to take notes and towards the end of the program, she made the following suggestion on how we can all experience first hand the power of our own thoughts. She said that this technique originally came from Richard Bach, the author of Jonathon Livingston Seagull. Choose an image (it can be anything, she used a tomato as her own example) hold it firmly in your mind then let it go. Thats it! Now, see how long it takes for the image to show up in your life. She said after the Tomato appeared in her life later that day, she shrugged it off as "coincidence". She then decided to focus on a beautiful Rolls Royce as surely that would not be so likely to manifest! The next day, she saw not one but TWO! Perhaps the Universe wanted to make sure it got the point across, VBG! Try it, see what happens! As she said, you start with the small stuff like a tomato and then start giving seeing things you would really love to have in your life and then let those thoughts go. Those thoughts will be ever more powerful because of the energy of emotion behind them so the more positive your emotions, the better your results will be! ( more on positive emotions and thinking further on)
I highly recommend that if any of you have the opportunity to see her workshop on the telly, do so and tape it! I wish I had! She has a book by the same title that was published in March of 2003 that I do intend to purchase. If its even just half as good as the workshop is, I think it shall still be money well invested!
Happy Emotions/Happy Thoughts = Happy Life Experiences!
Thank heavens for Lynn Grabhorn and her brilliant book "Excuse me, your life is waiting". Bless the dear friend that not only told me about this book, but went out of her way to purchase and mail a copy to me! Truly, she has my undying gratitude! Lynn explains how our emotions, even more so than our actual thoughts, create our reality and I think she is spot on. Totally. She goes further to suggest ways that people can turn their own emotional energy around when they start the downward slide. I did some experiments in my own life with just seeing what would happen if I could feel more up than down throughout the day. Over a period of time I noticed that everything in my life was flowing much more easily.
I seemed to have developed a real knack for being in the right place at the right time, money was coming in from unexpected sources, my children started getting along better than ever before, even my living expenses decreased though to this day I am not sure how. LA is not the least expensive city to live in after all. Eventually I went on to create PEIP or Postive Energy Immersion Program for myself. I decided to commit to surrounding myself with anything I could get my hands on from books to essences to subliminal tapes to art, you name it, if it felt good, made me smile when I read it, looked at it, tasted it, smelled it, touched it, I was determined to find ways of bringing more of those things into my life. And the Universe responded with sending me even more things to feel good about, many of them free, or on sale at an amazingly low cost! Feeling good = I had more and more things to feel good about. Like attracts like. Its Universal law! And if you really want to feel good, find ways of helping others feel good too! That is the quickest way I know of to attaining a high of Blissful energy that is busily attracting many wonderful things to you! Tell someone how much you love and appreciate them, do it right now! You can always come back to this page later.
Go find your spouse, your child, your pet, and give them a big hug! Stop for a moment and think of someone who could use some cheering up, maybe a friend who has been feeling down. Invite them over for a tea party or suggest lunch somewhere. Tell them you are both going to take some time for fun, not problems or worries! Buy a single flower, that's not terribly expensive, and give it to them. Or select one from your garden. One of the best gifts I ever received was from a friend here in LA who took the time to bring me some flowers from her own garden. I was so touched and they came just at a moment when I really needed them! Bless her, some how she must have known what her gesture of love would mean to me! Compliment someone you work with on their talents and abilities, we all need to hear we are good at different things. Or speak up when you notice someone is wearing a beautiful dress or scarf, share how lovely they look or how they have such a beautiful smile that lights up a room.
Little things that won't cost you a dime, take so little time and energy, yet can mean so very much to the person you are giving them too. Trust me, you will walk away with a heart filled with joy and love, and so will the person that you shared your energy with. And it will spread from there as they take it back out into the world and share your kindness with others. Just think, if we could get say 500 or a 1,000 or 5,000 people or even more! to select one day and each of us doing one small thing as an act of love and kindess towards someone else. I think the repercussions of such a day would be phenominal! In fact, if you would like to participate in such an event, let me know and I shall start another page on my site to let others know about this as well! Spread the word! Let's set a date for this to happen and watch what unfolds!
Synchronicity
(The following is from my July 2003 Newsletter)
'When we are in a state of commitment and surrender, we begin to experience
what is sometimes called synchronicity. This attractiveness, the field that
starts to develop around people who have experienced these shifts of mind,
creates a phenomenon that Joe (Jaworski) calls predictable miracles."
-- From the introduction to _Synchronicity_ by Joseph Jaworski
Have you even been walking or driving down the street and seen a sign with a
person's name on it and then later that day, meet someone whose name is the
same as the one you saw on the sign? Or asked what career you should pursue
and then suddenly begin meeting a number of people who all work in the same
field? Or think a sentence quietly to yourself or ask a silent question and
then have someone near you suddenly voice what you had been thinking? These
are all examples of synchronicity. Many people shrug such occurrences off as
random events that while interesting and somewhat curious, have no real
meaning. I believe that synchronicity is in fact Spirit's way of speaking to
use about everything, from the most trivial and mundane to the most
important aspects of our lives. And yes, even those things that seem the
most trivial can be of great importance to the structure of our lives, for
these are the bedrock on which the major events and manifestations can
occur. A chance meeting or overheard conversation in a queue, while on the
surface appearing to be a very minor event, has been known to change the
course of more than one person's life. Synchronicity occurs when we are
searching for a sign post for our lives, a nudge as to which direction we
need to begin moving in. It also occurs when we are on the right track and
just need a little (or a lot!) validation that we are headed in the right
direction!
Synchronicity can also help us to become clear when we are seeking something
new in our lives. On June 6th, I was preparing to take a parcel to the post
office when I got the nudge to wait until a later time in the day. Having
committed myself to do my level best to follow my intuition from moment to
moment, I busied myself with other things until I felt the nudge that it was
time to go. There was a woman at the counter and so I stood back, and a
queue began to form behind me. Suddenly I overheard a woman saying to her
partner "I don't know if the house is for sale or lease". Since I had been
going back and forth in my own mind as to whether to lease a house or
seriously consider buying a house at this time, my ears really perked up! 2
hours later, my flatmate rings me up and says " I found an ad for a house,
not sure if its for sale or lease, I think it’s a lease though." Needless to
say, I was having more than a few chills running up my spine! While it
wasn't the house we were seeking, it did make it abundantly clear to me that
I needed to make up my mind one way or another, I was giving the Universe
two different directions to move in!
So I sat quietly for a time and asked
the GF's, is this a sign I need to be looking for a house to lease instead
of buy? They replied "It is easier for you to believe that you can find a
house for lease in an expensive housing market that is affordable for you.
You have faith that you can find a house that is ideal for your current
needs at a rent that is acceptable to you. And in fact you have been seeing
more and more ads for houses that are indeed closer and closer to that which
you are seeking at the rent that you have decided is easy for you afford.
When you make the leap to believing that you can find a house to purchase
that not only meets your desires and that of your family, yet also is at a
price that you can easily afford, then you shall find an abundance of houses
to buy. Neither we nor the Universe is "telling" you to lease or buy, we are
"telling" you to become more clear about what you believe and then to begin
acting of those beliefs as you feel guided. If you choose to desire new
beliefs around this situation, all you need to do is ask and we and the
Universe shall respond to help you. Grandfathers, over and out".
I know that when any of us makes a clear decision to be, do or have
something, the Universe does respond. That same day Ken comes home from work
and says I have something to share with you. A house? Nope, a Mattress set!
Well, a few weeks ago I was thinking how I really would fancy a new
mattress/box spring that is of higher quality than what I have now. I have
created a lovely sanctuary in my room, which is where I do much of my
meditations and spiritual "homework" as well as to simply relax. At first I
started off complaining a bit about the condition o my current mattress.
Grandfathers stepping in and saying, "Grasshopper, what are you creating
right now?" Right! Focus off that and onto how grateful I am to have a bed
at all not to mention a home to have it in! Grandfathers - what do you
desire? A high quality mattress and box spring, maybe a queen size actually
as I do so love to spread out and it does make me feel like a Queen! Jump
ahead to June 6th. I am sitting on the bed and thinking how good the linens
feel and how much I enjoy their colour and texture. How good it feels to
simply sit there, listening to music, talking with the Grandfathers, feeling
the flow of the Universe and knowing all is well.
Ken arrives home and
launches into how a co-worker is moving back to Hawaii and needs to be out
of her flat by the following Tuesday. She has for sale an almost brand new
( less than a few months old) Simmons box spring, mattress and frame, a
$700.00 value, she is selling for $250.00 or best offer. She would be
willing to take $200.00. Bed linens included if I want them. That didn't
take long and frankly I hadn’t really realised that I had even placed a
"cosmic order" at the time I became clear about what it was I really
desired. Yet the Universe did receive and act upon what I had requested. It
came easily, effortlessly and at a moment when both her and I would benefit.
I also received the message that by my allowing myself to have a higher
quality mattress, I was also saying to the Universe Yes, I do deserve to
have more good in my life! Yes I do deserve to have wonderful things come to
me easily and quickly that enhance my joy and pleasure in life! It also
helps me to feel more prosperous and abundant (YES, I can afford to purchase
the things I desire!). And of course, this also goes a long ways in helping
me to believe that even greater things are possible, including buying the
ideal home for my family and myself at a price that I can easily afford. No
matter what the housing market is like where I live! Thank you Grandfathers!
Thank you Universe! All is indeed well!
This is the sort of thing that occurs when one becomes more aware of the
synchronicity already present in one's life. The Universe uses any and all
avenues to "reach out and touch someone" as the old ad used to say, yet we
also have to be present enough to pick up the Universal phone when the call
comes through and respond to it. When we begin to understand that all these
events that many would put down to chance, random occurrence are actually
guiding us to the life we dream of living, then we are able to draw upon
this vast network of wisdom and intelligence that will send us validations
when we are moving along the right road or and perhaps even more
importantly, warn us of potential danger when we start to stray off course.
A good example of this is making a decision to pursue the completion of a
business deal, buying a house or embarking on a new relationship. Suddenly
one finds that one is hearing of all sorts of people who are involved in
similar situations and the outcomes have been anything but wonderful. Often
the names and circumstances of the individuals involved are eerily similar.
Two things may be happening here: the first is synchronicity. The Universe
is saying not right time, not right place, not right person, steer clear!
The second possibility is that the Universe is mirroring back to the person
there own doubts and fears about their plan of action. Or both! How to tell
what is really happening? Usually when a person steps back, releases the
need for a given outcome, one does know the truth of what is happening and
even though there may be some regret at having to release what one has been
pursuing, I have also found that this is also most often accompanied by a
great sense of relief! One DID know it wasn't the best option to begin with,
and releasing that option, allows for a better one to make itself known. Yes
some time may need to pass before the right action/place/person becomes
known and yet the Universe also has a way of softening the edges of such a
wait if one will but give it a chance to do so and be grateful for what IS
right and good in one's life.
If someone is unsure if its doubts and fears or actual warning signs that
are wanting to be heeded, asking for clarity and even more synchronicity
will yield good results. The person may start to hear that some folks felt
so fearful that they were creating obstacles that didn't need to be there.
Once they had sorted through their fears and began the process of releasing
them, the obstacles began to dissolve. Or the person may hear that the
situations had they not gone awry, would have caused even greater grief in
the long run or the people involved would have missed a true golden
opportunity (such as the couple that found that had they been able to buy
their "dream house" as planned, they would have missed out on an opportunity
to find not only an even better house, but in a whole new area of the world
that also brought them both brand new and more fulfilling careers!)
Sometimes these new opportunities are so big, so huge in scope, that many
events need to occur and many pieces need to fall into place before one sees
where one was really being led. Synchronicity helps to make this process not
only much more enjoyable, but faster and easier as well.
Synchronicity as long term guidance
Synchronicity I believe is all around us, happening time and again
throughout our days and yet much of the time we miss both the occurrence of
it and its far reaching implications. A good example of this happened to me
several years ago. I had gone absolutely mad over Mariposa Lilies thanks to
an essence another producer had available that I had read about and was
doing substantial research into cultivating them. I wasn't attracted
initially to working with the actual essences that were currently available
which really surprised me as I was becoming so enthralled with the plants
themselves. I even subscribed to a horticultural newsletter dedicated to
these beautiful flowers. Mariposa Lily essence kept popping up repeatedly as
people would request the essence from one producer or another. I started to
see Mariposa Lilies blooming in people's gardens near where I lived in
Portland. (This was unusual as Portland is too wet for the little darlings,
normally they have to be potted up and then after blooming, require strict
water withholding as otherwise the bulbs will rot easily.) I knew that they
were important to me in my life in some way and yet other than creating
essences with the Devas of them, I honestly couldn't see any possible
connection with my life in the future. I learned that Mariposa is Spanish
for Butterfly and as I already had been producing numerous Butterfly
essences, for a long while I assumed that it had something to do with those
essences and eventually it would all make sense. I didn't dream that I would
eventually move to Mariposa Ave in Los Angeles. Nor that in taking a short
break at a café after coming over the Grapevine with all my worldly
possessions and right before heading down into the basin of LA to stay, I
would see a Butterfly flitting about the flowers as I stood waiting outside.
Mind you, this was in November. Not the usual season for Butterflies, VBG!
Synchronicity was operating in my life and actually telling me the name of
the street I would eventually live in, even before I knew I wanted to move
to this part of the country.
Attracting Synchronicity
Synchronicity has most likely played a role in similar ways in your own
life. Stop right now and think, has there been anything that keeps coming up
for you in your own life? A word, phrase, name? Maybe it’s a symbol or a
scent. Maybe a colour. Synchronicity is limitless so don't try to box in
the ways and means it can express itself! What ever this thing or word may
be, write it down and keep it where you will see it often. Buy a journal or
notebook, and write it down there as well. Now, ask the Universe to begin
bringing to you synchronicity involving this word, name, symbol, etc. Pay
attention as you go on throughout your day! Synchronicity can at times be
quite subtle so its important to be awake and aware, no doddling along on
auto pilot! When you wake up in the morning, think of what you have written
and affirm that you are open to receiving guidance as to what it means for
you in your life. Don't worry if the answers come slowly. As I stated
before, sometimes things take many different elements to come together, yet
if this does have importance for you, the synchronicity around it will
continue, I guarantee it!
As you notice synchronicity occurring, write it down in your journal or
notebook. See what the common threads are, where did the synchronicity
spring from, was it from something you overheard while in a café or at the
health club? Was it from a book, the radio, the telly? Were you in a queue
at the post office? (I tend to experience a lot of synchronicity while
standing in a queue, sometimes I think if I need answers on something, I
should go out, find a queue and join it, LOL!) Knowing where you tend to
attract the most synchronicity will also help you to seek it out when you
need it. If it's from books, then randomly opening a book that you feel
drawn to can be helpful. Sometimes I will type or write a passage from a
book into my Synchronicity Journal and see where it leads as time goes on.
Writing it down is so important as it gives you a written record that you
can reflect back on, think of it as different pieces of a jig saw puzzle.
Are there names that are coming up frequently? Areas of the country you live
in or of the world? What are the common threads? If from books, are the
authors primarily male or female? This can indicate whether the people
involved will be primarily male or female, even possibly indicating a new
partner! Don’t try to analyze it all into the ground however, just keep
watching for those common threads and jot them down! Eventually they are
going to make a whole lot of sense!
Synchronicity can also be attracted through meditating on a word or phrase.
For example, you may feel you want to better understand what may be blocking
the flow of love in your life so you begin to meditate on the word love.
Later that day a friend rings you and mentions that the author of some book
you have never heard of is going to be in town to give a lecture on
attracting and keeping love. Then you turn on the radio and hear almost at
once that the first five callers to the station will receive free tickets to
attend this Author's lecture! So feeling a little interested in this weird
series of events, you ring up the station and lo and behold, you win a pair
of tickets! (This actually happened to someone I knew many years ago). But
it doesn't stop there. You attend the lecture with your friend and meet the
love of your life or at least have a jolly good time with someone who turns
out to be a wonderful new friend! The important thing to bear in mind here
is not to attend to the outcome. In other words, you meditate on your chosen
word, you let it go and move on with the rest of your day. Maybe the
synchronicity won't happen today and you need to be okay with that. Maybe it
will happen tomorrow or even next week because at the time you were asking
for guidance, you didn't really want to hear the answer. Hey, we all do it!
Yet when you least expect it, here it comes!
Noticing it when synchronicity occurs is the easiest way to attract more of
it. What you pay attention to in your life expands. This is how your journal
can serve double duty: it allows you to both track it and to become more
aware of it. Also note that how what you focus on during your day, for
better or worse, also tends to attract the sort of synchronicity you
experience. For example, if your thinking is normally fairly upbeat and
positive, you will tend to attract synchronicity that reflects this back to
you. If you are focusing more on problems and worry, that’s what you will
attract via synchronicity. So synchronicity can also serve to alert us to
what we are thinking! What a wonderful Universe that has given us so many
ways of tuning in to what we are really thinking and feeling so that we may
change it if we choose not to go down one path or another or boost it even
more if we do!
Spending time being reflective, allowing the thoughts and energies of the
day to simply flow through you is another wonderful way of attracting more
synchronicity. When we are in a quiet, reflective state of mind, it allows
the Universe to more powerfully communicate with us. Think of a lazy day
when you are simply floating along, not trying to grab onto anything or
being too busy, just float. You get the intuitive hit to pick up a book, go
for a walk, turn on the radio or the telly, ring a friend just to chat. Then
the Universe can move on your behalf by inserting synchronicity in such a
way that you are bound to notice and reflect upon it.
Be grateful! Being grateful for all the good you already have is a powerful
way of attracting synchronicity. Moving into a state of Gratefulness is
moving into a state of Divine Grace. People who are grateful for all the
good in life tend to attract all sorts of wonderful things into their lives,
including very powerful examples of synchronicity. Being grateful means our
hearts and minds are open, and like parachutes, that’s when they both
function best! I keep a gratitude journal and each evening (well, okay,
sometimes I don't, VBG!) I write down between 5 and 20 things that I am most
grateful for. When I do this consistently, everything in my life blooms.
When I don't, well, lets say it doesn't take me too long anymore to realise
that I have forgotten to say "Thank You Universe!"
Reading books on attracting synchronicity can also help one to better
understand the significance of synchronicity and therefore attract more of
it to you. The following are some of the ones I have found most helpful:
Manifesting your Heart's Desire Book 1 - Fred Fengler and Todd Varnum
Synchronicity Signs and Symbols - Patricia Rose Upczak
Synchronicity - Deike Begg (this one for me personally felt as though it had
been written for me!)
And of course our old friend Dr. Jung wrote extensively on Synchronicity:
(In fact, he coined the word to express what he saw as "meaningful
coincidences" that often brought about healing or guidance.) Synchronicity:
An Acausal Connecting Principle is a good place to start.
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