What is your New Year’s Resolution?
I’d say for me it is …“I will do my best to CREATE my DREAMS!”
When I left my work as an Interior Designer, and became a Life coach I realized I am really a Life Designer. Everything I coach others, I learned through application and experiencing the spiritual teachings. I practiced them to change my life, then I realized that I have control over my life.
Now, I love to experiment. My decisions are always based on love and synchronicities. I can feel God is always working with me because I am very happy along the way. I never regretted the choices I made. I may not like the result at times but regardless, I have enjoyed the journey as it is not the achievement the goal but the journey that makes my life colourful. This is my version of short term loss for long term gain. I believe that we cannot live our lives so cautiously, because if we do, we never really LIVED.
So for me this 2013, I am trying many different things but one that I am challenging myself to achieve is the Art of Manifestation. I know that we all can create the things we desire. With the right intention and practice we have the power to create.
In order for me to do this, I have to set the following habits to practice daily.
- Each day I have to make sure I am always in a good mood. I must be aware of my emotions. I have to always raise my energy vibration and I can do this by staying happy, being grateful, loving, and peaceful.
It is very important to stay upbeat in order to manifest our dreams. However, one can’t just be happy. We need to be happy and loving as well, because we have to mirror God. It wouldn’t work if I am just happy but I am always angry with someone, or peaceful but I complain all the time…do you get what I mean? Sometimes, it might be really hard, but here is when my free will comes… do I want to be successful in achieving my desires or should I give in to my short term anger or unhappiness. So for those who wants to try this but saying, “yeah but it’s hard sometimes …my advise is to focus on the dream and do not give in to what you don’t like.
2. Each day I set some time aside to deliberately think of my dream. I use my time before going to bed. As I lay on bed to meditate, I try to visualize the dream. I imagine the dream already existing. I am not very good at visualizing yet but as I think of my dream, I add the feeling. I have to feel joy, excitement, the love as I imagine my dream. I know the more I feel the joy, the more it is effective.
3. As I wake up, I give thanks to everything that I already have.
4. Sometime during the day, I do something for my dream. Let say, I want to travel. I will research everything about the place; find out how much is the fare, even though I may not be financially ready. I will act as though I am ready. I will do this every day, I move towards my dream every day. This was my practice before I went to Abadiania, Brazil to see John of God.
For some this may seem foolish but this is how you show the Universe, that you are committed to your dream. The Spiritual gurus will tell you “fake it till you make it” and I recently heard this from a Franciscan father, teaching Manifestation on a Parish Renewal Mini-Retreat. Sometimes we are so focused on the events that are not making us happy and we say, “ because it exists and it’s the reality.” But the Universe doesn’t sort our thoughts and feelings; it just gives us whatever we produce with our minds and hearts every day. So if this is the case, no wonder we keep getting the same life events. Does it make sense to a lot time to imagine, visualize and focus on our dreams like they are also real…now? Do you believe that you will create the dream just like you keep creating your existing life situation?
5. Before I close my eyes at night, I say thank you for the blessings that are on the way.
I say it like I already received it, for example; “Thank you for the beautiful sunny day here in Rio de Janeiro. or thank you for the success of my new book.”
Again fake it till you achieve it. This becomes your affirmation daily. Affirmations don’t feel real at the beginning but stick with it, soon you will feel it like it’s real. Remember your subconscious mind does not know what is real or not and it is the subconscious mind that creates our reality.
6. I am going to practice Patience and Faith. Expect what I am asking and trying to manifest is already mine. I claim it.
Sometimes, we ask and desire something but we get discouraged. We sometimes doubt ourselves in that what we want to have is too big in our own minds, only because we don’t know how to get there, we get shaky about our expectation of realizing the dream.
We must remember, our intention is sufficient enough. We have to abandon the curse of the “HOW.” Our ego mind will try to find a way to make us do the work to achieve our dreams. We may get it but we didn’t have fun getting there because we worked too hard. In asking the Universe to co-create our dreams all we need is to send out the intention and imagine. The work is in believing that we can make it come true. God is co-creating with us, He will send us people and opportunities to help us realized our dream. We will find ourselves meeting synchronistic events. This is why, whether our situation affords us to act on our dream or not, if we do something towards the dream as suggested in no. 4, we will get to our dream. Do what we can, with what we have and leave the rest to God. While doing this, be open to receive, expect the result and stay happy, loving and patient.
7. At the end of the day, I have to let go. I should not have the need to want it too much, because if I do, it is only a reminder that my dream has not arrived yet.
Practice the Law of Detachment because the more attachment we give our desires the more it goes away, the longer our wait will be. We must not wait or act like it is still missing in our lives. People sometimes think praying is enough, or to think positive is the trick. Praying is effective if we practice detachment, if we surrender our intentions to God and if we have the faith that it’s all taken cared of. I can tell you it isn’t easy. However, if we master this Art of Manifestation, we can bring into being any desires of our heart. We will be able to do the work we love, able to have more time to enjoy; our life will be filled with happiness because we are finally experiencing freedom.
Is it worth a shot? I think so… that is why, I have created my intentions for this year and also my goals for the next 5 years. By the end of the year, I will tell you which of my dreams come true.
PS. Talking about Intentions, I just opened my wish container from last year. Every time I wanted to ask for help, I wrote the intention. Today, I wanted to start a new one for this year so I opened the jar to see what I wrote last year. There were some answered intentions and I wrote thank you at the back of the paper. There were some that are still in progress. There were some that needed revising. I felt really happy for all the wishes that came answered. Ahhh… don’t you just feel good to know that you are not alone and that you don’t always have to work hard to get what you want in life? And YES, God is Good. Try to work with Him, after all we are His Co-Creator. Remember your answered prayers and intentions are His way of showing what a great God He is, so don’t be scarce with your dreams. Begin to Dream Big!
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