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Series introduction

I remember the moment like it was yesterday. I had awakened softly with my eyes welling for joy and a dawning awareness that my lifelong pain ritual had disappeared. This pain I'm speaking of wasn't physical but psychic—dread, frustration, and doubt so sharp that I would scream silently to myself many times every day.

In that same moment I was also making a surprising internal connection: It was through my growing awareness of my body that my mind had discovered this pathway of release and renewal. The feedback I was receiveing through my body was showing me how to silence my mind and hear things I'd never heard before.

What does body awareness and mental silence have to do with manifestation and attraction? Everything. Absolutely everything. That’s what these articles are about.

What you’ll learn

In the upcoming series of four articles, we’ll take a look at the amazing connection between body awareness and creation. We'll also examine in very practical terms:

• a new view of creation that is so simple and clear that you can use it to speed manifestation in every area of your life.

• how to place attention upon your body in a way that releases resistance (mind chatter) and produces a vastly deeper connection with your inner guidance/higher power.

• how to use this freedom to attract more of what you want in your life and less of what you don't want.

• how to create consciously, deliberately, spontaneously, and continuously.

Further, we’ll look at why your special interest in massage may have more to do with an inner desire to create as consciously and effectively as possible than you may have suspected. The role of body awareness is so profound and fundamental to the process of creation that your interest in the body may actually be the manifestation of a previous intention to create more powerfully.

A look ahead

In the interest of helping you organize all that we’ll cover in this series of articles, here's a summary of what we’ll be discussing:

1. We attract into our lives what we focus upon.

2. If we are experiencing resistance/"negative" emotion, then we are pushing away what we want and are simultaneously attracting more of what we don't want.

3. Learning to focus on the sensations of the body is the most powerful way known to eliminate resistance.

4. Therefore, listen to your body and feel—feel all of it.

There, that’s it. The Beyond Your Wildest Dreams series in a nutshell. If you've got it, no need to read further. If you want more, I’ve got one question for you: “Ready for another rabbit hole, Alice?”

ARTICLE 1:

WHAT WORKS: THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF MANIFESTATION

This is article #1 in a four-part series. In today’s article, we’ll create a context for understanding why body awareness is so important to the process of deliberate creation. We’ll begin by looking briefly at how manifestation works and what makes it work fastest. Then we’ll examine the two main obstacles to creation and why it’s so helpful to learn to consciously manage our thoughts and feelings.

The three elements of manifestation

The model I am about to show you is the result of three years of detailed research and study into the subject. I believe it to be the most simple yet comprehensive model in existence. You will find that it underlies everything you do and experience. Here’s the essence of the process of creation:

Thought + emotion + time > manifestation

Thoughts give birth to emotions. These energized thoughts become desires, which manifest in reality over time. Put slightly differently, we manifest what we focus our thoughts/feelings upon. Simple enough? Don’t be concerned if this seems too abstract; examples of this model are forthcoming later in this series of articles.

What works fastest: the three elements in action

What you’re about to read may be the most valuable thing I will ever communicate to you or anyone else in my lifetime. When you bring the three elements of manifestation above to the forefront of your attention with clarity, intensity, certainty, and eager anticipation, you can rest assured that the objects of your desires are speeding your way. Here again is the manifestation equation, this time modified for speed:

Clear thought + intense emotion + eager anticipation (over time) > speedy creation

This description may not appear on the surface to be too earthshaking. In fact, you may have heard thoughts like this before. However, if you consciously intend to put these principles into operation, your life will never be the same. Put forth a desire to understand how this information relates to your life. As you do, a new world will emerge for you. More on these concepts lies ahead as well.

Becoming more conscious

One of the main objections that people have to the idea of creation goes something like this: “I couldn’t have possibly attracted that _____________ (problem) into my life. That’s not at all what I wanted!”

Of course it’s not what you wanted. You didn’t attract it intentionally. You attracted it unconsciously. You had repeated “negative” thoughts and feelings that you weren’t awake to, and voilà—you got what you focused upon.

I’ve read estimates by scientists that we humans have between 12,000 and 65,000 thoughts a day and that 50-95% of those are repeated negative thoughts. That’s a lot of negative thought impulses! How many of those thoughts are you conscious of?

Most of the time, none of us is aware of what we’re thinking and feeling. We’re continually and unconsciously focusing upon what we don't want and launching new creations asking for that. We're producing in our world more of what we don’t want because we're thinking about that.

Is there a solution? Of course, and deep down you know what it is. Simply allow yourself to desire to become conscious of what you are thinking/feeling and to focus upon who you love and what you're grateful for. It's so easy. But then you already knew that, didn't you?

Becoming more certain and expectant

Another primary reason that you may not be creating what you want more quickly could be that you are still learning to master how to remain in emotional alignment (“certainty/eager anticipation [over time]”) with the desires you launch.

Many conscious creators live under the mistaken assumption that if they just think “harder” or “more” about what they want, it will come faster. The reality is just the opposite.

The impetus for thinking “harder” or “more” about a desire typically emerges from the negative thought, “There’s something wrong here.” That’s resistance, and resistance slows the manifestation of what you are wanting. What you resist, persists.

In other words, if you find yourself saying, “What did I do wrong? Why hasn’t this shown up yet?” you’re living in a space of resistance. Conversely, if you say to yourself, “I’m savoring the anticipation. It’s going to be even better than I expected,” that lives in the world of certainty and eager anticipation. And it’s thoughts like that, with their accompanying positive emotions, that speed to you what you want.

Managing dominant thoughts/feelings

What’s somewhat tricky here is that if you’re not consciously managing your thoughts/feelings when things don’t show up for you, it can be very easy to experience emotional resistance (“negative feelings”) and therefore attract yet more thoughts of resistance—and really slow the manifestation of what you want.

Let’s look at an example. Say I have a strong desire to lose weight. Yet despite this desire, every day I look in the mirror and unconsciously entertain a limiting thought like, “I’m fat.” Because thoughts and emotions are inextricably woven, this thought is likely then followed by a “negative” emotion, such as embarrassment or shame. In this case, “I’m fat” is more my dominant thought, and shame my dominant feeling.

Because all our thoughts and feelings are all being emitted (like a radio transmitter) and responded to (like a radio receiver), what can I expect these thoughts/feelings will attract more of in my life? For the answer, let’s look back at the manifestation model above. What have I just done according to this model?

Thought (“I’m fat”) + Emotion (“embarrassment”) > More “fatness” + “embarrassment”

Based on this model, as much as I want to be thinner, I’m still creating “fat,” because I’m focusing on my “fatness” rather than eagerly anticipating or imagining my desired future, “thinness.” You cannot create being “thin” if your predominant thoughts and feelings are ones of “fat.” The attraction process is perfectly consistent and will always give you what you focus upon. It is the most consistent aspect of your life, whether you notice it or not.

The game therefore is to create a condition in your mind/body where
• “thinness” is more real for you than the “fatness” and
• being “thin” isn’t seen as an attempt to fix you (fixing implies there’s something wrong with you, and that’s just more resistance) or
• being “thin” isn’t an attempt to fulfill or complete you (you’re already complete and nothing in the future will make you more complete or bring you joy—that is a choice you make in the present moment, not the future). We’ll cover how to do this in later articles.

Summary

To review, here’s manifestation in a nutshell: thought + emotion + time > manifestation. If you want to speed manifestation, create clarity of thought and intensity of emotion, and learn to relax into the certainty and eager anticipation of your desires fulfilled.

Want to know how to be more effective at the game of creation? Simply intend to become more conscious of your “negative” thought/feelings. They are signals that you’re creating more of what you don’t want and resisting the arrival of what you do want.

Finally, consider that our thoughts and feelings are attraction magnets. They bring to us what we focus upon, whether we are conscious of it or not. If you choose to place your attention upon what you’re grateful for in life, you will attract more thoughts and experiences for which you can be grateful. If you choose to find what’s wrong in others or yourself, you will find more evidence why people are wrong…and people will show up in that way for you—“wrong.”

Therefore, choose this very moment to live your life consciously—awake to your thoughts and feelings and grateful for the abundance and well-being of life. I’ll say it again (this is so important): Afford yourself this moment the intention to live your life as a grateful and conscious creator!

Next time

The question we have yet to address is, “How do I become as conscious a creator as possible?” If you’ve already thought about and felt a desire to be a conscious creator, that’s a powerful start. Learning to be aware of your body’s sensations is another potent step. I’ll save that for our next article. And if you’re interested in learning more, “intend” to notice and read that article in our upcoming newsletter!