Manifest Your Dream

37: REACTIVE AND INTENTIONAL THINKING

2011-09-08T20:52:00.004-04:00

While many people talk about creating positive energy in their lives, few know much about what it takes to intentionally make it reality. Most of what they manage to get will be hap-hazard at best. Both terms, positive energy and positive awareness, are grossly misunderstood by the general public and are only used for specific situations, rather than as methodology by which to live. It isn't rocket science, but yet it eludes almost anyone who is trying to create it. When it does happen, it's usually by accident.

Wouldn't it be awesome if you could create positive energy and positive awareness with purpose and intent, rather than by wishing and hoping for them? Well, you can, but you have to understand some basic concepts, such as controlling your thoughts and speech in such a way that the energy which is created by them is only positive. Unfortunately, many would rather not have to do any extra work to get real results and there is some work involved to accomplish this. It isn't hard work, but nevertheless, it will take some focus and time to get the results that you are looking for.

If we break down thought and speech into their most basic form, what we discover is that thought is where it all begins and this is where people make huge mistakes, by simply not thinking before they speak. And it matters not whether speech is preceded by thought, because everything a person says creates energy. Therefore, you should always think about what is about to come out of your mouth before it creates the wrong kind of energy.

Not only is there positive and negative energy, but there is also a reaction or an intent of some kind. Something happens in your life and you react to it with thought and/or speech. If you are the type of person who vocalizes an event that has just occurred, then you are using reactive thought and speech. On the other hand, if you accept the event as a history lesson and then carefully construct words which take you beyond the event, then you are using intentional thought and speech.

It may not seem all that important to you right now whether you are reactive or intentional with your energy, but this is a key element which will determine the kind of energy that you create and will either cause you to focus on the past or on the future. Regardless of which way you go at this point, the energy you've created is moving forward with time and therefore it is helping to create your future.

If your thought and speech are reactive, you are focusing on the past and by doing so, you are bringing it forward into your future, because energy is always moving forward with time, no matter what kind of energy it is. People who are reactive with thought and speech are always finding themselves repeating their mistakes and are not able to move past them.

When your thought and speech are intentional, rather than reactive, you are focusing on the present, which is exactly where you are right now. You aren't bringing the past into the future, so you don't have to worry about repeating your mistakes and your failed efforts.

In manifesting, it is said that you get what you focus on, and reactive versus intentional thought and speech is a perfect example of this.

36: WHAT IS POSITIVE AWARENESS AND WHY DO YOU NEED TO HAVE IT?

2011-05-10T16:13:00.000-04:00

When most folks hear the term positive awareness, they'll call it positive thinking or they'll think of some specific topic to raise more awareness for, such as AIDS or diabetes or even subjects like the environment. Positive Awareness is becoming a new stand alone term which suggests that we are aware of the effects that our positive energy has on our own world, as well as on all of life.

Most people create positive energy sporadically rather than continuously, so its effects are very short term. The energy that's created can be very strong at its introduction, but as soon as it goes out into the world, it may dissipate or be diluted by all of the negative energy that exists in that space.

If you were to create a constant stream of positive energy, not only in every moment of your day, but even when you dream, you would eventually become a very positive force in your space. Your space would also expand as the energy within it expands, making your world grow larger with it. In time, your field of positive energy will become so huge that it won't allow any negative energy to enter.

Negative energy is created in different forms by negative people and also perpetuated by them. Examples of this are the things you think, the things you say, what you believe in or put your faith or trust in, and your emotional state. As this negative energy grows in a person's space, it attracts more of the same energy to it. No amount of positive affirmations will destroy that negative energy, because the positive energy that's created is immediately eliminated by the negative energy that already exists in you.

Most people are constantly going from one end of the energy scale to the other, creating a random mix of positive and negative energies that cancel each other out and leaving only a small dividend behind, either positive or negative, but certainly not enough of either one make much difference.

The most potent positive energy that you can create is by having only positive thoughts, by speaking in only positive terms, by putting your trust in only the things that serve you well and by maintaining a happy emotional state. While that's great in theory, let's be honest. How many people can say that they think only positive thoughts, speak only in positive terms, put their faith in only positive things and maintain a happy emotional state 99.9% of the time? Probably not very many, but the great thing about the technique I use is that it allows room for mistakes and gives you the opportunity to fix them.

So, in other words, if you have a negative thought or make a negative statement, you have the opportunity to change it, rethink or restate it in a positive way, using only positive words. Any and all words which are negative on their own should be avoided. This ensures that all negativity is eliminated and you only create positive energy. Putting your faith, trust and beliefs into only positive things may be more of a challenge for you and maintaining a happy emotional state may also. But as long as you are consciously changing as much of your negativity to positive as you can, you will make a difference in your energy field.

Now that you know how to make it happen, why should it matter anyway? If you are sharp, you already found the answer to that question. When you are negative, then you attract negativity. It's really that simple. Like-energies attract each other and unlike energies cancel out.

Everything is made of energy, vibrating at different rates and those different rates determine positive or negative, especially with thoughts. Your thoughts are where your creative process begins to develop. A tree vibrates a great deal more slowly than our thoughts do, but that doesn't mean that the tree is negative. Everything is relative to something else. It would be much the same as comparing apples to baseballs. While they are both a sphere, that's about the only thing they have in common, other than that they are also both made of energy.

When it comes to getting the things you want from life, having only positive energy means you get only positive things coming to you. It means that negative things in life are no longer attracted to you. It also means that this process of eliminating negativity is eventually going to cause your brain to rewire itself because of the reprogramming you will have taken it through. You will be amazed at what happens if you perceive a negative outcome to a coming situation. Your brain now knows that negativity is to be avoided, so IT changes the situation to something positive for you. This is what has been happening for me and it makes me smile every time.

There is one more part to this that I would like to suggest to you. Weather systems are either positive or negative energy, for example, high pressure or low pressure. A bright sunny day with low humidity is high pressure or positive energy. A line of severe thunderstorms with tornadoes is a very strong negative energy field. Your own negativity can attract these storms right to your front door OR your own positivity can dissolve them or make them go elsewhere. I have experienced this again and again and continue to find it to be true.

Of course there are lots of little tips that can be of tremendous help while you are on this path to get you seeing real results. And the process isn't going to happen overnight, because every negative thought and every negative statement that you have had or said has become a habit with you and your brain is wired that way. The only way that you are going to change it is by constantly creating only positive energy. And as that positive energy grows larger and larger, it will rewire your brain to create only positive energy for you automatically by changing any perceived negative outcome to something positive.

So there you have it. I hope you will take yourself through this process and not just discover so many new and amazing positive possibilities presenting themselves to you, but as you change, the world changes with you in positive ways. Eventually, you will be able to manifest your dream. Please visit my blogs at Blogger, “Journey to Positive Awareness” and “The Power of Positive Awareness” to get lots of great tips on making this process easier, as well as more benefits of having Positive Awareness.

35: YOUR BELIEFS CREATE YOUR WORLD AND YOUR WEATHER

2011-04-28T11:05:00.003-04:00

If you have spent much time on my blogs, you know that your beliefs create the boundaries of your world and whatever you trust or put your faith in is where much of your energy goes on a daily basis. The result of this is that you are feeding and strengthening the objects of your beliefs. Many times, fear can be a product of your belief system and when this happens to you, it should be a sign that this particular belief doesn't serve you, because fear is a negative emotion. When an entity uses such tactics, you can be sure that this is an intentional means to change your beliefs and take control of your thoughts.

Most recently, the weather media have been using these methods to make you create the weather that they predict by using permission phrases and by saying what will occur, usually in reference to severe weather, which is something that the USA has had quite a lot of lately, instead of simply reporting current conditions. Your mind picks up on this and takes it to the destination that they want it to go to if you allow it to happen that way. Being aware of what they are doing will help you to understand that you really do have much more control over your environment, and even over your weather, than you think you do.

Even if you have just discovered my blogs and haven't intentionally started the cleansing process yet, you can still do your part in not allowing news and weather media to take control of what you create, simply by being aware of what they are trying to do. It's possible that they have no idea that they are causing the general public to create severe weather, but after examining the facts, it's also possible that this is intentional. Your emotions, particularly the negative ones, can take your logic and toss it out the window in the blink of an eye if you don't learn how to control them.

We have so many factors at work within ourselves that affect how we think and what happens in our world. Your thoughts and words create energy that create your future. Your beliefs control what you think and say. Your emotions challenge your belief system and either strengthen it or tear it down. The good news is that all of these aspects of yourself are made by your own choices and even though the actions and energies of others can have an effect on them, you still have the option to choose the ones that serve you well or ignore the ones that don't.

When you have a positive awareness of yourself and use the techniques of cleansing yourself of negativity, many of the factors at work in your life on a daily basis will take care of themselves. And remember to give more energy to the positive thoughts, words, beliefs and emotions that you will have, because these all add to your positive energy field. The larger your positive energy field becomes, the less that negativity can have any effect on you.

34: HAVING POSITIVE AWARENESS CHANGES YOU

2011-03-22T13:35:00.004-04:00

When you have achieved a useful level of Positive Awareness, you'll have a significant amount of positive energy in yourself that will continue to expand on its own and you will also continue to feed it a stream of positive reinforcement which is going to start to change you and your perception of reality to some extent.

The first thing you're going to notice is that you start having more and more tiny personal miracles that make you smile and you realize that you really are making noticeable progress with all of this. As you venture out into the world each day, you may also find that you can instantly manifest something that you would really like to have just by having a passing thought, with no real intent to create anything.

The very best thing to do at this point is just continue doing what you're doing and let things happen on their own, without any intentional attempts to manifest something specific. If you go too fast with trying to force an outcome using your newly developed Positive Energy Field (PEF), you may be very disappointed when you find that you still aren't able to make those things happen. It's human nature to want everything right now, so just give it the time that it will take and watch it happen step by step right before your eyes.

It's also human nature to try too hard, attempting to force a specific outcome. Once you have made your thought statement a few times, you can just let go of it, because you have created enough energy to set the process in motion. Continuing to make the same thought statement repeatedly, perhaps thinking that you need to program this idea into your subconscious to make it happen, will have the same effect as starting the creative energy to make it happen back from the beginning each time. Not only is this what is stopping it from happening, but instead of programming the idea, you are programming a repeating sequence that has no real conclusion like a closed loop, sabotaging your intended results.

Also, in this stage of your development, the programming you used to cleanse yourself of negativity has served its purpose and you are cleansed. That was the sole purpose of using programming. Your PEF is becoming a consciousness on its own, so all you need to do now is have a thought and let it go. In other words, forget about doing any intentional manifesting and just live your life with an open mind, realizing that anything truly is possible, especially now that you have achieved Positive Awareness.

I'm sure that you are quite aware now that achieving Positive Awareness is the life changing path that I told you it would be. There's no turning back, because everyday brings with it the potential of something new and wonderful coming into your life. You have made great progress, achieving Self-Awareness and now Positive Self-Awareness or maybe it's the other way around. Maybe we are still working towards achieving full Self-Awareness, with Positive Awareness being a stepping stone in between.

And from here, as you continue to attract more positive energy to your PEF, the frequency at which your conscious mind vibrates continues to speed up, raising your awareness with it, transforming you, raising and expanding your consciousness, bringing you to Spiritual Awareness.

Perhaps you now realize that the path you have chosen to follow really is the answer you have been looking for. By voluntarily cleansing your conscious mind of negativity, you are changing and your world is changing. You are able to affect it in ways you never thought were possible. It is much more obvious now where to put your energy and where to focus your beliefs, because you can only go up to better and greater things from here. Your dream, whatever it may be, is on its way to you.

33: EXAMINING EXPECTATIONS

2010-07-26T13:17:00.008-04:00

Almost everyone has goals they want to achieve in life and the question is, are you meeting your expectations of those goals. It seems reasonable to assume that most people would at least come close to meeting their expectations. Otherwise, they wouldn't bother to make any new goals. We are inspired by our ability to go beyond where we are now and the process of actually making it happen is what gives us that inspiration to continue to try.

During the manifesting process, things seem to be working backwards from what we are used to. This makes everything more challenging, especially if you don't realize what's going on. Manifesting, itself, is backwards anyway if you really think about it, because you aren't taking action to make situations happen. Instead, situations find you. The situation is the action. This is also why manifesting is so exciting. Think it, say it, and watch it happen.

The watching, or observing, is what sparks it into reality. You aren't really doing anything at all, but instead, the universe is doing all the work for you. This is one of the basic rules of quantum physics and quantum physics is changing many of Newton's laws. Everything that exists starts out as a wave of potential and it stays that way until it is observed. At that point, the wave suddenly becomes an object of some kind. And it becomes what we expect it to be in the normal sense. That is, unless we are intentionally using manifesting to create the object. Then, everything is backwards, because of how we are presented with situations to observe. The consciousness of the universe is doing the observing to create the object and presenting us with its result.

This brings about some interesting complications of what takes place that have a direct bearing on what is happening. The first thing to consider is that our physical world is a reflection of the higher planes, or a mirror image. This is why when we see numbers in a dream, they are backwards from how they would be when we are fully conscious. The energy we create by our thoughts, words and statements exists as waves of potential on a higher level, which may explain why we often get the opposite of what we hope for.

I need to stop and back up here, because I've kind of jumped ahead of myself a bit. I think that most people are getting backwards results when they do manifesting and this makes them think that it isn't working at all, when in fact, it is working, but working backwards. And here's the reason why: It is because of your expectations.

Remember when I said that when we do goal setting and take action ourselves, we get predictable results? We meet our expectations for the most part. But when we are manifesting, the universe is taking the action, doing the observing, creating the object and presenting us with the result. The expectation is meeting us. It's backwards from goal setting, so expectations turn out to be backwards too.

If that is the case, then how do you deal with this? I actually discovered the answer by accident. And then there is also another variable in the equation that I didn't mention, because I am expecting all of you to be up to the same level where I am when you try this, that level being having achieved positive awareness. By the way, I'm doing some pretty amazing things just from having positive awareness and by having reverse expectations. And that is the answer to making manifesting work for you.

You achieve positive awareness first, and then you visualize what you don't want, because of your expectations. There is a difference between what you ask for and what you expect. You always ask for exactly what you want and then you visualize not getting it. Is that whacked out or what? You may be right, I might be crazy, as Billy Joel says, but this is what works and this is why you aren't getting the results you want with manifesting. Or in actuality, you are getting results, but they are backwards. So ask first and then expect the opposite and see the amazing results.

Then this morning, the answer to all of this craziness finally came to me. There is one more step you must take after you achieve positive awareness, and before you visualize not getting your desired results. But I'm not going to reveal the answer just yet, because you need to understand and become aware of how everything works first. All things in life take time and we learn by doing them. If you don't take all the proper steps, you might miss out on something important and perhaps not ever accomplish what you set out to.

32: LET'S SAVE THE PLANET!

2010-07-25T15:34:00.009-04:00

The time has come for all of us to start taking action towards achieving total positive awareness. The fate of our entire planet is at stake. For those of you who aren't aware of this, on December 21st, 2012, our solar system will be passing through the center of the galactic plane and we will begin the process of entering this area sometime in 2011. The galactic plane is where the gravitational pull of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way is the greatest. There are numerous effects that will take place, including gamma rays hitting our sun, causing tremendous solar flares, the galactic wind will surpass the solar wind, the intense gravity of the black hole could initiate catastrophic events on our planet and other effects which you can read about or visit YouTube and search for 2012 galactic plane.

I can't over-emphasize how important each of our own contributions to creating a huge bubble of positive energy will be, because as each of our positive energy bubbles begin to overlap each other, we can quite easily encompass the earth with our energy. This could protect our planet against a significant bombardment of gamma rays, solar flare activity and catastrophic events if enough of us are doing this. We all need to get our friends and families involved in this project too.

I know that most of you don't really understand what positive awareness is all about and I feel that you may only believe it is having a positive attitude or outlook on life. While this is very beneficial in itself, it doesn't fully describe positive awareness. The reason for this is that having a positive attitude or outlook won't create pure positive energy and that's because most of you are still occasionally having negative thoughts, using negative words and making negative statements. Achieving total positive awareness will mean that many negative statements which seem harmless and which are used casually must be avoided, because they create negative energy.

If you think about positives and negatives in the mathematical sense, it's easy to understand how even the occasional casual negative statement is going to subtract from your positive energy, decreasing its value and making your bubble grow more slowly, if at all. Just maintaining the status quo is not going to be good enough.

It is unfortunate how we have all been taught that competition is a good thing, because in reality, it is what has caused us to separate from the whole, instead of contributing to the whole. I have had some personal experiences recently that have shown me just how powerful positive awareness can be. When you don't have that complete awareness, it can be difficult to fully understand how it can make significant changes in your daily lives.

My local weather is one way I have noticed how beneficial having positive awareness has been. When you look at air masses and realize that low pressure is negative energy and high pressure is positive energy, your positive energy can begin to have a real effect on weather that is approaching you. I have seen storms dissipate right as they were approaching my neighborhood or change direction and go elsewhere. You might say it's only a coincidence, but after so many coincidences, you start to pay attention to what is really happening.

I would like to assist any of you who feel you would like tips on acquiring positive awareness or using your positive energy to your benefit. But we must begin to take action now, because making this change in yourselves can easily take a year before you start to see something significant happening in your lives after starting this process. Browse all the topics on this blog and if you need more advanced information, please visit The Power of Positive Awareness to get ideas on how you can start to make this change.

You can ignore all of this and say that it can't really do any good, but that would be just going back to doing things the way you have always done them before and that won't bring any positive changes. Or you can start believing that anything really is possible and that your own individual processes of turning things around, not only for yourselves, but for the sake of our planet, can really make a difference. And personally, I believe that it is our generation who will save us from ourselves, because we have always been the ones that thought we could change the world. I still believe we can.

I hope all of you will start now and let's save the planet, because I know we can.

31: MORE BENEFITS OF POSITIVE AWARENESS

2010-07-20T23:45:00.002-04:00

It's amazing how having Positive Awareness has changed my life for the better. And while I might not see things happening on a daily basis, it's usually because I'm at home quite a lot. But when I venture out into the world, that's when new possibilities take shape and present themselves to me. I've found that when I'm doing something I truly love, it's much easier for my positive energy bubble to automatically manifest new aspects of it, based on my desires and my dreams.

Quite offten, life can seem limiting by others, even when it's obvious you are in the world that you created, but the limitations are really just an illusion. You can be subjected to a new set of circumstances that don't seem to fit your needs, only to discover at a later time that you can mold it into whatever you want it to be, even when it seems like nobody is even listening to you. But it's not really so important that others listen to what you are saying anyway, because the universe is always listening to you and reacting based on what you say to it.

These new circumstances and situations find you because of the energy you have created and use by being who you are. All you really have to do is have a desire and express it to yourself. If it fits into your life path and closely matches your vibration, then it will manifest seemingly when you least expect it, and quite often that will be when you are about to give up on it.

The more you use this wonderful gift that you have attracted into your life, and the more that you put yourself into situations where good things can happen for you, the more positive energy you will have access to. And as more positive energy starts to flow from you, to you, and around you, you can start moving into a new direction with it, not just telling the universe what you want, but also intentionally being able to tap into your subconscious mind where there is a record of everything you have done, seen, heard, felt, tasted and even the knowledge of that which has yet to take place is stored.

This is really where things start to get exciting and also where you will start to use some older knowledge that you might have cast aside when you set out to develop Positive Awareness in the first place. This older knowledge will take you back to simply having a positive attitude, as opposed to trying to create positive energy. You'll still be using the positive energy you have created and developed already, but the new or old element you're adding to the mix will be a leap of faith, so to speak. It's a matter of having the faith that you will accomplish what you tell yourself that you will accomplish.

Since the subconscious mind is where much older knowledge and even new knowledge resides, you can simply tell yourself that you can access it and that you will access it. Both aspects of access must be employed here, stating your ability to do it and saying that you will do it. Simply saying you can, or even just saying you will, isn't enough to make it happen. You must do both in conjunction with the other. And as with all new things, it will take some time practicing it to perfect it.

I recently used this newly discovered technique to remember 3 hours of music that I had written out on paper, songs that I hadn't even ever heard before, to play them with a band. They were all completely new to me and I had read the songs from the paper I wrote them on to play about 5 shows. On the 6th show, I decided and told myself that I can remember them and that I will remember them and I accomplished my goal with very few mistakes, proving that when you have created plenty of positive energy, you can use it for all sorts of things. Prior to putting the music score sheets away, I actually made more mistakes in my playing while reading them than I did when I decided not to use them anymore. Everything is stored into your subconscious mind and you can have access to it by using this new method. Try it out and see what happens for you. I plan on using it as often as needed, and I also plan to use it to discover new things that I never knew that I could do.

30: WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF POSITIVE AWARENESS?

2010-06-28T11:33:00.003-04:00

For most people, Positive Awareness is simply a descriptor for another subject. But it can also be a stand-alone term which feeds itself, such as in the same way that the term Internet Marketing feeds itself. Internet marketers often promote courses on how to market an internet product of some kind. Positive Awareness is much the same in that it can mean an awareness of developing positive energy on a broad scope, encompassing everything. In fact, when you use it in this way, it becomes very powerful on its own.

Positive Awareness is simply an awareness of positive energy which is created by positive thoughts, positive words and positive statements. When a person focuses on eliminating negatives in every aspect of their life, they automatically achieve Positive Awareness of everything.

It eludes me as to why people are so self-limiting. Perhaps they don't even realize that this is happening. People only seem to focus on immediate issues instead of doing preventative maintenance and true Positive Awareness is a perfect example of that. You eliminate negativity in all forms before it can affect you in any way.

Maybe I could be biased for Positive Awareness, but I don't understand why others fail to see how awesome it is to have it. I suppose it could be that people don't think it's possible for them to achieve it. If that is really so, then it could be that it's time to change their beliefs and time to recognize that anything really is possible if you want it to be.

It all comes back to your perceptions and if they are limited, then so will your beliefs be. Your perception is also one of those things that feeds back on itself almost immediately. It is strongly tied to your beliefs and they feed on each other. And as I have stated in previous posts, you have this awesome capacity to change your beliefs or to add new beliefs very simply, by just wanting to and then by telling yourself that you want to believe in something. And while it might not happen immediately, it will happen eventually. The very best way to help make this change is to take a fairly common statement you hear a lot and make it yours. "Anything is possible." Take it and use it often and when you use it, think about all the things that you wish were possible and apply the statement to those things.

This is also a great way to begin your journey to achieving Positive Awareness because if you can believe that anything truly is possible, then you are well on your way to eliminating all the negative aspects in your life.

29: POSITIVE AWARENESS DISSOLVES FEAR, YOUR BIGGEST ENEMY

2010-06-28T10:47:00.005-04:00

There are many reasons that I could give you as to why you need to have Positive Awareness. For one thing, it makes most situations in your life easier. It allows you to instantly manifest circumstances that work for you, instead of against you. It can actually keep you safe from accidents and even from intense weather situations. And it is contagious. It affects those around you in a positive way.

And while all of these reasons make your life better and easier, there is still one major reason why you need positive awareness which I have not mentioned before. And it has to do with the negative energy that you have allowed to build up for your entire life in yourself, which will dissolve as you increase the amount of positive energy you have. This reason alone is worth its weight in gold if it could be measured and it has to do with your biggest enemy, fear.

Fear creates an abundance of negative energy inside you. It can wipe out everything positive that you have managed to build up in an instant. That's because it snowballs quickly, creating paranoia, which not only feeds off of fear but creates even more negative energy by itself. Fear can quickly attract the worst possible situations to you before you even realize what's happening.

Positive Awareness is a condition in yourself that doesn't allow negative forms of any kind to influence you or affect you. It deflects worry, doubt, anxiety, depression and most of all, fear and replaces them with confidence and strength automatically. Another awesome benefit of Positive Awareness is your ability to usher unwanted things out of your consciousness immediately. And often, these unwanted things are suggestions that other people around you make, because they have not developed a state of Positive Awareness in themselves.

Quite often you'll find yourself in a situation where you're told that you need to do this or have that or believe this, in order to find peace or be saved or to get yourself out of an uncomfortable place, but you don't even need to concern yourself with that when you are in a constant state of Positive Awareness. This is the reason why religion has flourished in the world for so long.

Religion doesn't want you to have any power of your own, when the truth is that you can have an enormous amount of personal power simply by developing Positive Awareness. There are Bible verses, such as the 23rd Psalm, that tell you to fear no evil by knowing that the Lord is with you. Or in other words, you are supposed to just be weak and feeble, only allowing a supreme being having a rod and a staff to protect you with. (The rod and the staff, themselves, raise even more questions such as how does a supreme being use them to comfort you?)

Why would you want to just give up and be negative and weak when you have the ability to replace all of that with something better, something that doesn't make false promises or excuses or lead you down paths that make you fearful. Fear simply cannot exist in the presence of Positive Awareness. And fear is a perfect example of the Law of Attraction working against you. You end up with the worst of the worst in a case like this because fear is negative and you are negative, attracting a double dose of negative effects. With no fear and Positive Awareness, you only attract the positive things that you focus on.

When you have Positive Awareness within yourself at all times, fear, doubt, worry, depression or anxiety don't even enter into the picture at all, because they are no longer a part of you. To me, it just seems logical that if you can develop and use something as powerful and as empowering as Positive Awareness, why would you ignore that and instead just give up and be weak and fearful

This leads to a final point concerning fear and the future or of 2012. There are so many different forces at work, all targeting December 21, 2012 and into a period of time after that date and a multitude of disturbing predictions. Just imagine what we would create and attract if negativity didn't exist in anyone by that date. Fear wouldn't even exist and therefore it wouldn't attract more fear and more negative energy. Negative energy attracts negative things and by not fearing the events of predictions that come to pass, they simply cannot materialize in a negative way.

We were created to be happy, joyous and spiritual beings, instead of being competitive, aggressive, destructive and hateful creatures. Much of mankind has forgotten who they are and because of this, they have destroyed or poisoned much of the beauty and many natural resouces of our beautiful planet. Our mother Earth is simply restoring and cleansing herself because of our destructive ways. Everything that exists is life in different forms.

The time has come for us all to wake up before it is too late. Many refer to this process as spiritual awakening, when really it is just common sense. There are consequences to every action because of the energy vibration that is created by that action. The result is determined by the action. Our thoughts are very powerful, creating very powerful energy.

Positive Awareness can begin a very positive change for our poisoned planet. It can replace greed with love and destruction with creation. It may already be too late to fix everything even if we could all start right at this very moment by changing how we think. Positive Awareness can teach you the right way to think. And just maybe we can turn it all around in the time we have left.

If you are interested in learning how to achieve Positive Awareness, please email me at contactus@journeytoselfawareness.com.

28: YOUR PERCEPTION IS YOUR REALITY

2010-06-27T00:59:00.004-04:00

When you open your eyes in the morning, everything you see is your perception, which is based on your beliefs. Wise men say that our future is set in motion by the deeds of mankind and that it can't be changed, but what if your perception of reality is different? What if you perceive that the world you are seeing is your own little heaven? When your level of Positive Awareness is high enough, you can have it that way.

It is my belief that I can create my world to be anything that I would like it to be. The main problem that occurs while you are taking care of all the details is that when you let others into your world and allow them to get close to you emotionally, they may have different beliefs and therefore a different perception than you do. And of course it will also depend on how far you have progressed on your journey to achieving Positive Awareness.

Sometimes it's better to just go it alone until you have gotten to a very high level and at that point you can create or attract the personalities that you would like to have join you. And even though it's probably better that way, it is also much more difficult to completely isolate yourself.

The majority of the population is brainwashed by religion and they will use their limited beliefs to attempt to draw you into their circle, exposing you to a continuous onslaught of negative energy. Breaking free of this and overriding the negative bubble of energy that they have created is much more challenging than it seems like it should be, especially if you have grown fond of them. They will do their best to try to change you into what they need you to be and if you give in to it, you'll be swept back into negativity and you may even have to start over again.

The best way to stay on your path is to be engulfed by activities that bring you the most joy and especially when you make them become your career as well. The more of the default world that you can ignore and cast aside, the more your perception will include the things you love and become what you want.

Forgiveness is a key factor to keeping your focus on the things you want instead of what you don't want. Harboring pain and resentment will not serve your purpose and instead will drag you back down. If you are truly a being of love, even if you have thoughts which don't serve you, your words should help you resolve those thoughts and usually it will happen automatically if you are headed in the right direction.

Many times, when negative deeds of others affect me in a bad way, my thoughts can turn to anger and make me wonder where I am headed and if maybe I am going backwards, but I also believe that this is how forgiveness is produced. Situations must be analyzed and worked through mentally so that when it's time to express your feelings, you can express forgiveness instead of condemnation. Everything goes through a process and this is normal and natural.

The way that you form your desired perception of reality is to make your beliefs encompass everything you want and then for the things you don't want or want to be separate from, you must first acknowledge the existence of those things and then give no more attention to them. When you do this, you are keeping wanted things in your world and pushing unwanted things out of your world. To simply try to ignore unwanted things without first acknowledging them is the same as denying their existence and this just doesn't work. Another way to look at it is that you have to face your challenges so that you can step past them. Otherwise they are still in front of you blocking your path. When you have stepped past them, they are no longer in your forward view and it's also easy to see how if you focus on unwanted things at this point, you would have to turn around and go in the wrong direction.

Positive Awareness really is the answer to every question you might ask, because it answers with only good things for your life and because of this, it is worthy of continuous pursuit. At some point, your efforts will level out because you are as positive and as forgiving and as loving as you can possibly be, but even when that happens, you are still adding to your bubble of positive energy and you are affecting more and more of the world outside your bubble. It is said that the only way a person can make real change in their life is when they decide to and you can help those people using your own Positive Awareness, being the example for them to follow.

27: IT'S TIME TO MAKE LIFE ABUNDANT FOR EVERYONE

2010-06-25T12:58:00.005-04:00

This post can be summed up in one simple statement. Abundance can't exist for one unless it exists for everyone, because that's the nature of abundance. So when you make life abundant for everyone, you make life abundant for yourself too. Abundance for one is greed. Abundance for everyone means sharing and generosity and giving. Even when you give to receive, you are still sharing and creating abundance for everyone. When one person has more than everyone else, they should feel a need to give to others even if they are only doing it to receive more back. And this isn't me telling you what to do. It's you showing concern for others because we aren't separate or individuals, but instead we are one. Everything you do affects everyone else.

Many will say this is socialist thinking and while that may be true, our competitive society has caused all the problems we face today by not caring about our neighbor. Even sports don't teach us anything more than how to cripple someone else so that we may survive.

This is the same as when you have Positive Awareness, because how you vibrate affects others and eventually the whole universe. If we were individuals, this simply could not occur. We would be alone and could not affect others in any way. When a person is what we consider to be rich and they hoard their money and things, they affect others by pushing them away and their greed turns into a negative energy source, which taints the whole pot of soup. We can no longer think like this if we are to evolve to the next level.

As 2012 approaches, most people believe that something of great magnitude is going to occur, something that will completely change our society, perhaps disconnecting us from the rest of the world. Governments may collapse and public services will no longer function, including electricity and phone service, cell phones, water, etc. When this happens, we will not have adequately prepared for the worst case scenario, just like the oil companies never expected a well of oil a mile under the ocean surface to be spewing so much oil into the oceans, ruining the ocean and peoples' livelihoods, destroying the lives of birds, fish and other living things, because they didn't adequately prepare for the very worst case scenario.

There have been so many talented and smart people who have invented new technologies, such as cars that run on water and free energy generators made with magnets. And there are those of you who refuse to believe that such things can even exist because you have forgotten that anything is possible or have just simply ignored this fact. We can't create anything if we don't believe that we can. And just because Einstein and Newton were smart enough to give us theories that couldn't be disproved at the time, does not by any stretch of truth or imagination mean that someone else smarter won't come along and prove them wrong. Such people have come along to prove them wrong, but because of ignorance and closed mindedness of those that believe they already have all the answers, nobody has been allowed to come forth and save us from ourselves.

Companies and corporations, such as electric power, oil, money, government are the most negative sources of universal energy that exist and they are the ones who will cause everything to fail when their networks are destroyed, leaving the people with no help, no solutions, and no answers, simply because of their own selfish greed. They believe they have created abundance for themselves, but it simply isn't so. Money won't fix the damages caused by catastrophic changes, but if those in power had allowed us to be totally free, abundance would flourish for everyone and we would survive these changing times and be able to help others at the same time.

26: WHO IS YOUR SPIRITUAL MASTER?

2010-06-22T10:31:00.002-04:00

It is ironic how many people cling to a religion, but don't practice its ways or learn to live their lives the way they know that they should. After all, most church ministers try to teach their own flocks practical day-to-day ways of living the right way and mostly about how we should treat each other. The sad truth is that many who go to church every Sunday don't even try to live that way and the only time they even think about that is while they are sitting in the pew and the minister is reminding them through stories and Bible verses.

Praise and worship are key elements of religion, even though many of us know that we have great individual power and that religion has nothing to do with that. In fact, religion attempts to strip away our power and it even tells us that we have no power without a supreme being, such as the one who created us. Well that's pretty obvious if you really sit down and think about it. Compare that to building a car which has an engine in it and say that without us, its creator, it has no power to go anywhere or do anything. We created the car with a means to produce power when we feed it fuel so that we may get to where we're going. Its power is a built-in deliberate function of its design, for without it, we would still be sitting in the driveway.

The very same thing is true of each of us. We were designed and created to have the means and the power to create what we need and want in our lives. God didn't give us food and clothing, but instead he gave us the resources to produce them. He gave us materials from which to build houses and businesses. He didn't just give us houses and buildings.

We weren't created to follow any specific religion, especially one which lays out very exact principles and rules that we are supposed to live by. That's why we were created with a brain and reasoning functions. While it was true in the early days before the birth of Christ that many people were like animals, living solely on instinct, taking that which they needed from others who were weaker and couldn't defend themselves, but we have evolved naturally to the point that, even if there were no police to enforce laws, if we keep taking from each other, soon there would be nothing but chaos, no love, no harmony and no peace at all.

And also God certainly did not create governments to tell us what to do or to make laws to keep us from hurting each other. I think that most of us realize that God created us to have free will and freedom of choice, but those are things that government and even religions try to take away from us, especially when those of financial influence want something changed. Our laws are no longer being made by the people, for the people, like our constitution was written to guarantee. Because gradually, over time, government has managed to write new laws which have led itself out onto a new path, one which allows them to do away with laws that do not serve government, when it's supposed to be the other way around. Governments have become the reason for people to live instead of people being the reason for governments to exist at all.

Even though we have evolved enough to understand that working with each other and for each other is much more beneficial than competing with and taking from each other, it hasn't really transported us in the right direction spiritually. We don't seem to be trying to move beyond religion to higher spiritual ground. Instead, those who reject religion just side-step the whole process altogether and deny that God even exists. Is this what religion has done to us? I think it's fair to say that it has. Religion has managed to convince everyone that it is the only path to God and to Heaven, so if you don't follow their teachings, the only alternative that remains is something in the complete opposite direction, such as believing that there really is no God at all.

This is a perfect example of how religion and government have taken away our freedom of choice and have also tried to remove our free will, both of which are gifts from our Creator. Everything and every aspect of us are those same gifts and they can't be taken away from us, no matter how hard someone else tries to do so.

It just seems obvious to me that, by now, most of us would have found a spiritual master to take us to higher levels of spirituality and that this would be important to everyone, but what is the reason that this hasn't happened? In this author's opinion, it is because of the very same factors that have attempted to remove our free will and freedom of choice. Both religion and government have made our lives so complicated and difficult that we have become completely distracted from the truth and from our reasons to seek out something better.

There have been numerous spiritual masters throughout time and the majority of them are no longer living on this earth plane. They have passed on and are available only through non-physical means. If we weren't so distracted by and caught up in our physical lives, our dreams might start to provide us with some of the answers that we need and want, instead of being replays of our soap opera lives here on earth.

Many hold the belief that the life we are living now is all there is and that when we die, we will either go to Heaven or instead of death, we will witness a personal transformation of some kind. And while all of this may indeed be true, I have come to realize that this life is just the first step in a plan for us to evolve to the very highest level. And with a spiritual awakening movement taking place now and which seems to be the newest buzz as 2012 approaches, it is probably just a wake up call to those of us who are ready to take the next step and continue our journey.

In order to do that, we must have a teacher to show us the way. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience in a place called Earth. The physical universe is like a sandbox, a place for us to discover who we really are as we are only just in our infancy. Positive Awareness is a wonderful tool to learn while we are here, but it still isn't anything more than something to distract us from our true destiny. And even though my goal and purpose has been to teach it to others in an attempt to help make this life here more enjoyable and rewarding, not many have even given it much attention. It could be that there are certain limits put in place here that prevent us from taking this reality too far or to keep us from creating the Heaven on Earth that many would give almost anything to have, simply so that we will eventually want to leave this place and move on to something different and better, to the next level of our incredible journey, and to eventually and ultimately become ONE with our creator.

25: YOU ARE YOUR OWN SAVIOUR

2010-06-17T11:15:00.006-04:00

It is sad how religion has twisted the meanings of words and of statements in an attempt to control us. A person can blindly follow a philosophy or he can use the brain that his creator gave him to analyze events and situations to discover the real truth. If you examine what was written in the Bible and replace the word "for" with "because" or "because of", you will begin to see exactly what was going on.

Near the end of Jesus Christ's life, everyone was against him. Even his followers and best friend betrayed him to the authorities. He had no choice but to give up and be sacrificed. He was basically a fugitive, running from the law, man's law, not GOD's. Herein lies one of the most ominous contradictions that we have all faced since the beginning: GOD's law versus the laws of man.

There are so many obvious truths that man has ignored for (because of) his own greed and for (because of) society's need to control us. Land, for instance, was a gift from our creator. It was here long before we got here and it will be here long after we are gone. We did not create it and man cannot own it, for (because) it is priceless and not his to claim. Our governments are to blame for claiming it and then selling it back to us. It does not belong to any single man or government. It was created for us and perhaps even because of us. And everything that we create, from technology to basic necessities such as food, clothing and shelter, are made out of free elements that were created for and given freely to us.

Religion states that Christ died for us and for our sins. Restated appropriately, it means that Jesus died because of us and because of our sins against him. This is a plain and simple fact that religion has misstated and misinterpreted to use in an attempt to control us, for (because) we are obviously too stupid to get the real message. We are too ignorant to formulate our own set of beliefs to live life the way we should. Jesus tried to change peoples' lives by living the right way, but nobody changed, for (because) they were too narrow minded. They saw him perform miracles, for (because) he was a source of pure positive energy.

Who you are and what you have become is a very exact science, based on how you vibrate. And how you vibrate is based on who you are and what you've become. It's a vicious circle that continues until you consciously step in and stop it by changing your thinking. No one, not even Jesus Christ, can change how you vibrate, nor can he save you from what you are. You are what you are because of your thoughts, words and deeds. You are the only one who can change those things and you are the only one who can change your own vibration.

The time has come for you to wake up, embrace your power and realize that the power to create your share of Heaven is completely in your own hands. You are smarter than you believe you are and for (because of) that, scare tactics used by religions shouldn't have any real effect on you any longer. And the only Hell that exists is created by your own thoughts and beliefs which have been tainted by your religion, the place that you have entrusted to guide you and keep you safe. God is inside you and is such a huge part of you that you don't need a specific religion to show you the way to go, for (because) you already know what is right and what is wrong. You already know how to live your life the right way instead of the wrong way.

When you accept this truth, you will begin to answer only to yourself and you can keep adding positive energy to your life by living the right way and by treating your neighbor with the same love, kindness and respect that you would like to have returned to you. It's very simple. And as you do this, your positive energy bubble will expand and will also attract more of the same energy to you.

GOD, as well as HEAVEN, can be thought of as PURE POSITIVE ENERGY. As you create more of that kind of energy, you attract yourself to GOD and to HEAVEN, as well as attracting them to you. Put your faith into yourself and into your ability to achieve your new beliefs. When you reach your goal, you will become part of that which created you and all that you see around you. You will save yourself by thinking the right way instead of the wrong way.

If you choose to think the right way, giving up greed and power over others, creating a huge positive energy bubble around yourself and your loved ones, you will become the same as the one who created you. If you choose greed and power over others as your way of life, nothing can save you from your ultimate demise. In reality, nothing will change for you from what it is now. Your life will continue as you battle the environment, the economy and world crisis. However, if you choose to live your life with love, forgiveness, kindness and respect for others and change your thoughts, words and statements into nothing but pure positive energy, you will inherit the kingdom of Heaven, the Promised Land. You don't need religion of any kind to do this. In fact, you need to get as far away from religion as you possibly can.

Listen to the voice inside yourself, for (because) it always speaks the truth. You have the power and creativity to change your thoughts, words and deeds, for (because) you know it really is the right thing to do. And in doing so, you will do your part to expand the universe by creating an abundance of pure positive energy.

24: CAN ENERGY BE CREATED?

2010-06-10T23:27:00.005-04:00

Here is a topic that most people would say they already know the answer to and that answer would be simply a "no". The problem with that lies in the fact that our universe is expanding which would seem to indicate that energy can be created. And recent discoveries, such as a zero point magnetic generator that creates more energy than it takes to make it run,also indicating that energy can actually be created. Each of these examples might prove some of Newton's laws to be invalid.

The reason why this topic has become interesting, at least to me, is that I have always stated that thoughts and words create energy. But then it dawned on me that perhaps all they really do is refocus and magnify the energy that's already here. On the other hand, if you magnify something other than what you see, it usually means you are multiplying it which would create more of it.

And so as your words and thoughts create more and more new energy that wasn't here before, you are causing the universe to expand! What an amazing idea that is all by itself. You and I are the cause of the universe expanding. So if there was no creative thought, then there might not be any expansion of the universe at all.

Since we are discussing the art of creating new energy, it would seem to be appropriate to talk about another way that words and thought, as well as actions, can create new energy and that would be by doing energy healing. One of my other articles discussed how when you have Positive Awareness that you can make your own rules. Here is a perfect example of how that works by doing energy healing, but first I'll explain how energy healing works.

Energy healing is similar to an ancient eastern healing technique known as Reiki. In Reiki, the practitioner places his or her hands on the patient near the area where healing needs to take place. The Reiki practitioner has been atuned, usually by a Reiki master, to channel energy into the patient's body through the hands. The idea is that the location where the injury or illness exists has a lower frequency or vibration of energy which can be balanced with the healthy areas by the Reiki practitioner bringing the lower areas of vibration up to the same frequency as those healthy areas and consequently allowing healing to occur. A 30 minute session is often all it takes to make this happen, while areas of greater illness or injury may take up to 3 days to heal by giving one 30 to 60 minute session per day. It's very real and it works very well.

Basic energy healing does almost the same thing, except that the energy practitioner doesn't really worry much about balancing energy in the body, but instead focuses energy strictly on the weak, injured or sick areas of the body. There are several methods that can be used, including no touch (placing one or both hands above, but close to the area), a light touch of the area with one or both hands, the sending hand on the affected area and the receiving hand on a place on the opposite side of the body, one or both hands massaging the area and one or both hands lightly stimulating the area by moving them in a circular motion over the area. Energy can basically soak into, be sent through and received like a beam of energy passing through, be massaged into or resonated (pushed into by light stimulation in a circular motion or the discomfort drawn out by using the opposite direction of circular motion).

All of these methods work very well, and if the practitioner talks to the patient while performing them, specific parameters can be set, or rules made, as to how each of these techniques is going to work. The very same thing can be done while a person is meditating to set up rules and parameters about how positive and negative energy will affect them. And there are other healing techniques that can be performed using strictly meditation and visualization from a distance, and even from the other side of the world, further proving just how powerful your thoughts and words can be to create energy and manipulate it to fit your needs.

23: WHAT IS POSITIVE AWARENESS?

2010-06-07T22:33:00.012-04:00

Positive Awareness has nothing to do with meditation, channeling, hypnosis, subliminal messages or mind control of any kind. It is all about mind freedom. The individual who possesses Positive Awareness is protected by his or her own bubble of positive energy that deflects or repels negativity in all forms. It becomes your safe zone and helps you to maintain your perfect state of health and well-being.

If you live your life dwelling on your failed past experiences, Positive Awareness is fairly impossible to achieve. Or as they say in business, if you do (or think) what you have always done (or thought), you will always get what you always got. Forget the past and forgive the ones who have done you wrong and move forward, focusing on the things you want instead of the things you don't want. You can turn it all around. Besides, continuing to harbor ill feelings (negativity), brings the same thing (more negativity) back to you.

If someone has hurt you, forgive them in your heart, creating positive energy for you. By making this change in yourself, you are initiating a positive change that will also affect the person who hurt you. Conversely, if you continue to punish those who have done you wrong, you will only create more negative energy which will affect both of you and subtract from your own energy scale. If you continue to subtract from your energy scale, your Positive Awareness will cease to exist.

Something as small and seemingly insignificant as one negative word in your thoughts and speech can subtract from the vibration of your positive energy, so choose your words wisely in both thought and speech.

The more positive your thoughts are, the more positive energy is in you and around you. As your bubble of positive energy grows, it attracts more of the same. Your positive changes cause your positive energy bubble to change you into a more positive person.

Positive Awareness is the real secret to making the law of attraction work for you. In fact, it's the real secret to making all good things happen in your life. There's more to it than just having a positive attitude and outlook. Having Positive Awareness changes who you are in all the best possible ways.

22: CREATE YOUR WORLD

2010-06-07T22:25:00.006-04:00

It is mostly monks and spiritual masters with ancient knowledge who are able to create the world that they want to live in, but you can do this too as your bubble of positive energy grows around you. And as it continues to expand, drawing more positive energy to itself like a snowball, the bigger it gets, the more it attracts this same energy because its surface area continues to increase. So the longer you have Positive Awareness, the more you can create.

Eliminate unwanted parts of your world by first acknowledging them and secondly by making a mental note that you want them to leave you. Then simply move your focus and attention back to those things that you want to have, ignoring the unwanted parts. These unwanted parts are the negative aspects of you which dissolve as you give no more attention to them.

As your Positive Awareness continues to expand and increase, and you only give your focus to the things you truly desire, those are the only things that survive this huge onslaught of positive energy. It gets easier to do and happens faster as you continue this ongoing process.

The universe is designed for your happiness and is your playground when you have Positive Awareness. You will create your world exactly the way you want it to be.

Try this easy exercise: Make your own rules for your life by either typing on the computer or by writing a list of the things you want to see happen for you. The outcome relies upon how much positive energy you have created thus far. But also there is an element of making your rules a definite pocket of energy simply because you wrote them down. Just thinking them, when you are just beginning the process of achieving Positive Awareness, will only allow them to fade back out of your reach. Writing them down or saving the list on your computer is a somewhat permanent creative process. Sure, you can still throw the paper away or delete the list, but as long as it is in your possession, it is positive intentional manifesting.

21: WEATHER SYSTEMS ARE POCKETS OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ENERGY

2010-06-07T22:15:00.012-04:00

High pressure systems are positive and low pressure are negative. Visualize attracting mostly high pressure with positive energy and dissolving low pressure systems as they approach. This is a very real possibility worth considering.

The fact is that you have much more control over the supposed impending doom of storm predictions than you might think. It won't happen overnight, but if you persist in your efforts to create only positive energy with your thoughts, eventually you will be a formidable positive force against negative low pressure systems that might have previously been something to fear.

I have an interesting idea for you to ponder. Have you ever noticed how most tornadoes seem to target people in areas where we might consider those residents to be a negative force themselves? Negatives attract more negatives, just as positives attract more positives. And since weather systems with extremely low pressure can turn into potentially powerful destructive storms, those in the path of them might easily be attracting what's coming to them.

Then take into account how some of our weather forecasters seem to take great pleasure in what I call "over-predicting" by telling you that these storms are going destroy lives and structures, when the only way that can happen is either by putting our energy into that by believing it or by being so completely negative that we attract this outcome.

As you continue to develop your Positive Awareness, it becomes much less likely that negative weather systems can affect you at all. While we do need rain, we don't need the often accompanying destructive forces of Mother Nature.

Another factor to keep in mind is that clouds bring us the most precious substance we have...water. So that means that a cloudy day with rain is just as much a positive thing as a sunny day without it. So if you still get rain after building your bubble of positive energy, don't be dismayed or annoyed, or think that you are still attracting negative things.

Also be mindful of which things are really positive or negative and that your own perception of your world will help to determine this. As you change your perception of reality, your world changes to accommodate your perceptions.

20: WE ARE BORN WITH POSITIVE AWARENESS

2010-06-07T22:06:00.006-04:00

When we pop out of the womb, all of our memories and experiences are of where we were before coming back here again. Our awareness is that of pure love and innocence. During the first 5 years of life, we are creating our world exactly the way we want it to be because we have no reason not to.

But as society and the physical world impact us, we are taught to have doubt, to worry, to be sad or mad and to question why our lives are not as we wish them to be. We are not taught that Positive Awareness is the one most important asset we can possess. With Positive Awareness, all things are possible by simply living and having passing thoughts.

As we grow and learn to serve society, we forget who we truly are. We learn that money is more important than the natural gifts we have all been given. Life wears us down and eventually brings us back to the point of wondering how we have gotten to where we are now.

When we were young, life was easier and more care-free, but as we have aged, stress, worry and anxiety have overcome us as we have taken on more responsibility, because this is what society expects of us. We find ourselves searching and seeking something more or a better place to live, when the only destiny we need lies inside each of us within the distant memory of who we truly are. Our natural-born Positive Awareness has slipped away.

Many never regain Positive Awareness and live out their lives in sadness and dismay, because they have forgotten who they are and die with debilitating diseases and in misery, engulfed in a huge bubble of negative energy.

It doesn't have to be this way, even though society does its best to keep us trapped in its never ending hold on us. And it's not too late to change back into who we truly are. Make the choice for happiness and recapture your positive self by using the simple techniques. Remember, create only positive energy and never give up and you will find your Positive Awareness again.

19: WHAT IS YOUR ENERGY VALUE?

2010-06-07T22:03:00.006-04:00

Imagine you have a scale which has a zero in the center, with graduating positive numbers going up and negative ones going down. Now every thought that you have is either positive or negative and carries with it a certain degree that's worth a particular value on your energy scale. The object of this exercise, of course, is to keep your energy value on the plus end.

With every thought you have, rate it as positive or negative and write it down on a piece of paper. Rank each thought from 1 to 3 or from -1 to -3, depending on whether it's positive or negative and to what degree, 1 being a small positive thought, 2, a normal positive thought and 3, a very positive thought. Do the same with the negative thoughts you have except using minuses.

Make a scale for each day and then at the end of that day, plot the energy value on your scale. This will give you a good idea of how you're doing with your positive awareness goals. And when you do this, you will most likely be much more aware of actually creating good positive thoughts instead of the opposite.

Keeping a record of accomplishing a specific goal can quite often help you achieve that goal much more quickly than if you don't, because you are adding an element to the goal that helps you stay focused.

18: HOW TO HAVE AN OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE

2010-05-17T11:57:00.006-04:00

Here is an exercise that anyone can do very easily and with minimal effort. It will most likely take about 30 minutes of focus and should be done in a room where you are alone and nothing is moving, such as pets or having a television on. And while most of these types of exercises may require you to have a quiet place as well, this can be done while music is playing or even while others may be talking in another room.

You may find through experimentation that the best time to do this is after dark while sitting in a room with a light on, at least until you get comfortable with the technique. You'll need to find a stationary point of light to focus on and that could be a door knob reflecting the light that you have on. You might think a candle would provide a point of light but you want this point to be completely still for maximum effect and the flicker of a candle will subtract from the experience.

The first part of this exercise may be difficult at first, but with practice it will become easier. Find a comfortable place to sit where you can see the point of light and focus your eyes on it. Do your best not to blink for the entire exercise. If you need to blink and can't stop that from occurring, let it happen but only at the times when you can no longer hold your eyelids up and do not continue to blink. Instead, you must continue to hold your eyes open and focus on the point of light without letting them wander elsewhere.

As you do this for 10 minutes or so, you'll find it is much easier not to blink and also much easier not to let your eyes wander from the point of light. You'll also begin to notice that the rest of what is normally in your field of vision is starting to disappear like you are entering a void or vortex and you will know that you are on your way to getting out of your body.

Continue to focus on the point of light and it becomes your destination. In a few more minutes, you may experience a strong energy pulling at you or you may just feel as if you are floating. You will know you have succeeded when you find yourself floating above, looking down and seeing your physical body still sitting in the chair focusing on the door knob.

At this point, you are free to go anywhere you can think of. Go to your friend's house and see what he or she is up to. Go to your favorite vacation spot and enjoy the views or go to another planet and explore your universe. And there are also many other places you can go which are not part of the physical world, but are within the astral plane, which is where you are when your soul has left your body.

17: DO YOU REALLY WANT TO CHANGE?

2010-05-03T12:20:00.004-04:00

Many of you who have read the articles on my site and on my blog are undoubtedly looking for something. Some have accidentally stumbled on them, while others intentionally searched for them. Manifesting your reality and future is a conscious choice to make a change, but in order to make it happen, you must first want to change.

Change is a necessary part of life and it happens whether you want it or not. Not all change is good, just like not all activities are good. But simply wanting change won't necessarily bring you good things. Having the right thoughts and making the right statements will bring good, positive change, but having the wrong thoughts and making the wrong statements will bring negative change. And even having no specific thoughts or words about change won't keep it from occurring. This would be like standing on the sidewalk and watching someone getting ready to cross the street as a truck approaches and doing nothing to stop the person who is about to step into the path of the truck. Doing nothing is going to result in something very bad happening.

The very same thing is true for your life. You can think and say the right things and make wonderful change, think and say the wrong things and make bad changes happen, or simply think and say nothing that's different from what you have thought and said in the past and watch your life continue on the very same path it's been on, either good or bad depending on which way you have been headed.

Wanting to change means that you are tired of going in the direction you've always gone in. It is said that history repeats itself if we do not learn from it and this is completely true. Most people use the laws of the universe exactly the opposite from how they really are. When something bad happens, the lesson seems to be that instead of changing what caused this bad thing to happen, you react to it by avoiding it altogether. This changes nothing and history is bound to repeat itself. Another thing that happens from a negative event is that people fear that it might happen again, so their focus is on the fear factor of the event and not on the desired outcome.

I think you would have to agree that it's logical that if there was a bad result of something that was done, then to give a good result the next time around, you have to change how you did it. Your new result might still not be what you wanted, but you are learning what not to do, if you've learned nothing else. Sooner or later you will discover the right way to do something to give the results you were looking for.

This very principle must be applied to your life. You must carefully analyze what you did wrong to correct it the next time. If you focus on the fear of it happening again, you are wasting your energy. Not only that, but the energy of giving so much attention to the failure is going to contribute to another failure. All this time you could have, instead, been focusing on doing it better or in a better or different way.

What you consider to be failure is really a lesson in life. It's a history lesson, even though it is your own history. It's in the past and should be left in the past. If you make a mistake, instead of focusing on it, put your attention towards forgiveness and change, positive change. Forgive yourself, because until you learn the right way of doing something, you are bound to make many mistakes. This is what life is for and the outcome of doing it again and again until you get it right is happiness. Focusing on the mistakes of the past will only serve to make them keep happening and you will never find happiness until you focus on what you want instead of what you don't want.

16: GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION - Part 2

2010-04-28T19:09:00.003-04:00

This is a very short post, but I felt it was necessary since I promised to give you the secret answer for giving yourself permission. However, I'm not going to give it here in this post, but instead I'll direct you to another blog of mine where I do give the secret answer.

Just go here. Happy reading and it is my hope that you realize all your dreams!

15: MORE ABOUT POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES

2010-04-28T18:17:00.004-04:00

It's disturbing that many people are compelled to leave themselves a way to get out of something, instead of just going ahead and making a commitment to it. You either do it or you don't, and you can just as easily change your mind after you get into it. When someone says that they will try to do something, there isn't any guarantee that they will. In fact, it's kind of like saying that it doesn't matter enough for a commitment, because when things matter, you commit to them, you don't just try and perhaps give up. Saying that you will try is just like having an excuse why you won't or can't, without actually giving an excuse. It alleviates you from giving reasons. It's an excuse without a reason.

Maybe this sounds a bit harsh to you, but sometimes we need to be a little bit harsh to get through all of the garbage that is covering up the real truth. And truth is universal. It's not just something that someone thinks is good for themselves and not good for everyone else. And the worst part about saying you'll try is that you can't even make a commitment to yourself.

I really don't want to bring religion into this discussion, but saying you'll try is similar to a Christian's belief that they will be forgiven for all their sins. And while this may be true, (I say that because there's no real proof of this...it's all built on faith, which I am not disputing), it's just like saying you'll try to do the right thing and then give up and not do it. But it's okay from the standpoint that you'll be forgiven, and what most fail to realize is that regardless of whether you're forgiven or not, there are still consequences for your actions.

This all goes back to positives and negatives. Good things are positive and bad are negative and everything you do determines the vibration of energy you're made of and what kind of energy you send out to the universe by your words, thoughts, and actions. I personally believe that our vibration is going to be the test on judgment day. It is what it is and we are what we have become. Our vibration is either going to be high enough to attract us to a higher place, what you might call Heaven, or it's going to be too low. And if it's too low, then you won't make it there. Forgiveness cannot magically change who you are and what you've become into a higher vibration. You vibrate according to how positive or negative you are.

I also believe that Christians have been either misled or have simply interpreted the Bible inaccurately, because there are so many different meanings for words, especially the simpler words like "for" which can mean because or instead of. To give an example, the phrase "you can only enter the kingdom of Heaven through Me (Jesus)" could simply mean that you must live your life like Jesus lived his. Following him doesn't necessarily mean that you should worship him, but rather you should follow what he does and then do it. And nobody has been able to do that, but you are all forgiven anyway, because you tried. This still does not change who and what you are and the only person who can change who and what you are is YOU. Saying that you'll try is simply not good enough if you want to be the best that you can be and that's something important to consider if you are going to have a vibration that's high enough to be attracted into the next level of existence. And again, this goes back to universal truth. It is either true for everyone or it isn't true at all.

Then you'll say that you are only human and humans make mistakes. Yes, but we also have the opportunity to learn from them and correct them. This change from a mistake to a correction takes you in a more positive direction. It raises your vibration until you do something negative that brings it back down and this is what most people do. They don't think about pluses and minuses like our classes in mathematics have taught us. Again, this is universal truth. If you do good, then you can add to your positives. If you do bad, then you subtract from the positives and end up with a smaller number, or in this case, a lower frequency of vibration. Everywhere in the universe, adding to positives increases your frequency rate or number and subtracting from positives by being negative decreases your number.

Being positive as much as possible is a choice and not a result of things that happen to you. It's actually the other way around. Things happen to you according to your rate of vibration. If your rate is positive, then good things happen, but if it's negative, then bad things happen. You have to be the initiator of your life and your world. You do that by making choices instead of by just standing by and letting others make choices for you or choices that affect you in a bad way. Usually, others only make the choices that benefit themselves and if you happen to be in the way, then you are either pushed aside or run over. You must instigate and initiate, becoming proactive in every part of your life. Merely trying is not acceptable. You must commit to making yourself positive in every way and in every moment of your life.

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14: WHERE WILL YOU PUT YOUR ENERGY?

2010-04-25T00:24:00.004-04:00

Everyone creates energy with their thoughts and words. It's usually a random mix of positive and negative vibrations depending on the intent of the person thinking and speaking. Most people seem to have little control over what kind of energy they create, although more and more people nowadays are trying to stay positive and therefore create more positive than negative energies.

The media, such as news and weather people, try to draw a great deal of negative energy out of those of us who listen to them and their jobs depend on our reactions to that. For instance, when bad weather is approaching your area, meteorologists put a lot of emphasis on and emotion into warning us of potentially dangerous situations and many of them go over the line telling people to expect the worst.

This over-reporting and over-predicting creates anxiety and stress in those who may be in the path of a storm and causes them to attract that storm to them. Not only that, but with a lot of people listening to it, the potential for storms to develop into even worse situations is very possible just because of the negative energy we are creating by our fears. We all create our own reality by our thoughts and emotions. And the weather and news people play on that because that's what they are paid to do. They don't really care what they are making us create by what they are predicting. In fact, it would seem that they are hoping for the worst so that we will give even more attention to their forecasts.

Have you ever considered what would happen if we turned off the radio and television so that we couldn't hear any weather forecasts, and instead we chose to visualize a pleasant sunny beautiful day? With enough people having those thoughts and feelings, we would all create an abundance of positive energy that would manifest perfect weather, instead of impending doom like weather forecasters would have us believe and create.

Another area of life that needs our attention is predictions that are made on a much larger scale, such as world catastrophe and even Armageddon. The only way that predictions such as these can actually manifest is if we give our energy to them by believing them. Why is it that people want to believe everything that someone famous predicts? Oh, well they have always been right before supposedly. And it makes you wonder what the reason for that is. People who have gained the trust of the populations of the world by their important discoveries are the ones we put our faith into for being right. What if we chose not to believe them? What if we chose to believe that the things they predicted don't matter at all? Because in fact they don't matter and the only way that their predictions can materialize is if enough people give their energy to them. Take all that energy of belief out of the equation and nothing happens, I guarantee it.

Do you believe Nostradamus and all the others who have predicted the end of the world or do you have faith that we will have finally learned how to ignore those people and create a really beautiful future instead? Because it really is a choice, our choice. Imagine what would happen if we couldn't have access to world news. What if we only knew about our local area, our local businesses and our local events? All of our energy would go into making our own little local part of the world the best it can be and that would be all that mattered. Everyone everywhere could have their own little piece of Heaven, instead of worrying about what everyone else is doing and how it's going to affect them.

Now imagine what it would be like if nobody heard about a prediction of economic collapse. We would all just go about our normal business and everything would be fine, and I can guarantee that as well, simply because we create our world by our thoughts and our words. Abundance is everywhere and it doesn't rely on what the folks in Washington are predicting.

So you have a choice. Choose to create good things and put your energy into good things or choose to create bad things and put your energy into that. To me it seems obvious where our energy should go. I hope it's also obvious to you.

13: GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION - Part 1 - The Secret to Manifesting Your Dream

2010-03-23T16:51:00.005-04:00

We have all lived many past lives and may have placed self-imposed restrictions on our own creative abilities. You might be asking why you would do anything like that, but special talents such as psychic abilities can produce such mind blowing results that they can deeply scare you back to reality. At those times, you might have decided not to allow yourself to use your psychic abilities ever again.

This is very likely to have caused a permanent barrier that you have carried with you from lifetime to lifetime and the only way to remove it is to give yourself permission to remove it, since you are the one who decided that it should be there in the first place. Simply asking to have something that you have previously perhaps vowed that you never ever wanted to have again, not realizing the dramatic impact this decision might have on your future lives too, isn't going to dissolve your vow or make it just go away. It's similar to wishing for something instead of using the proper words and sentence structure to manifest your requests. Wishing doesn't produce anything but frustration and disappointment, but manifesting brings you what you focus on.

So in this case, you might need to give yourself permission to remove this barrier and open the doors you once closed before you can journey into that space again. And how do you go about giving yourself permission, you might ask. The answer can be discovered by taking a word you might already be using as a manifesting tool and breaking it down into its simplest form. Doing so makes it crystal clear that you are giving permission and watching it unfold before your eyes when you use this simple phrase to begin any manifesting statement. The terms can also be placed into the middle of some sentences to clarify the intent of the request.

Before I give you the keys to the gate of enlightenment, you really have to show me that you are worthy of receiving them. While all other information on my blog and website are freely given to anyone seeking self-awareness, this final tidbit is being safe-guarded for the moment. In order to receive it, you must be ready for it. Otherwise, it won't work for you.

The truest and best keys to manifesting everything you desire lie in your imagination, your creativity and your beliefs. If you can imagine it, you can produce the energy to create it if you believe that you can.

Imagine that you may have already put yourself through the programming process by having only positive thoughts and by making only positive statements and when you slip up and make a negative statement you immediately restate it in a positive way. And when your friends make negative statements, you correct those too, turning them into something positive. Practicing this constantly in your life for a year or so will program the universe to understand your intentions. Continue practicing this method for the rest of your life, spread the word, influence others to speak and think in positive ways and watch what starts to happen in the world around you.

You will begin to transform from the inside out and as this happens to you, it also happens to your world. You very soon discover that you can make your world into anything you want it to be, just simply by thinking and speaking the right way. Your entire world is a product of your beliefs and as your world starts to transform, you will discover your role as creator of it. Try this and be amazed and awed!

Next post might be the answer I've been keeping from you. Stay tuned!

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12: EXPECT WHAT YOU PROJECT

2010-03-23T11:25:00.005-04:00

Project positively and your expectation is the support for your positive energy stream. Add elements of acceptance of who you are and gratitude for all that you have now and discover that love, abundance, goodness in all its forms, joy and happiness are all the results of unconditional acceptance and never ending gratitude.

You must set the stage for the outcome you expect by doing what's necessary to make it happen. Many coaches and therapists might tell you to simply visualize the end results and this will make it materialize for you. But I have found that visualizing an end result which has not yet happened can be challenging. Instead try to set up a scenario in your mind by which the intended outcome could be produced.

During times of doubt or anxiety, stay in control of the situation by projecting a positive outcome. If it is a health issue, then project perfect health with no worries. If it is financial, then project abundant finances with no worries. Thought phrases such as these which will help to keep you focused on a positive outcome which helps to keep you in control of the situation. Project positively and expect only the best!

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11: INTRODUCTION TO "BECOMING SELF-AWARE"

2009-10-27T17:41:00.030-04:00

Accept yourself.

Allow.

Be grateful.

Believe all things are possible.

Connect to your higher self.

Discover your inner child.

Focus.

Forgive yourself.

Give to others.

Listen to your intuition.

Love yourself.

Meditate.

Practice the Golden Rule.

Smile.

Stay positive.

Project what you want to create.
Make it happen.
You can learn to focus your thoughts to bring good things to you.
You will eventually bring only the good things, no matter what you say or think, simply because you can program your brain to exclude anything that does not create positive energies.
Anyone can do this with the proper guidance and discipline.

Every conscious thought is the Universal Energy of Love and Creation.

When the power of love is greater than the love of power, we will know peace.

Become the change you wish to see in the world.

As awareness of self has increased throughout all of our incarnations, we have started to realize its importance and potential. It has especially become a necessity in this current lifetime, not only to learn how to bring ourselves closer to that goal, but also to strive for that constant perfect state of being that already exists deep inside our souls, which is where our true inner self resides and is what truly inspires us, continuously pushing us to become more.

When you are born, you experience true freedom, freedom from society’s domination, at least until you start going to school. Then at that time, you are forced to begin conforming to a predetermined set of circumstances called life. If you stay within its boundaries and do what they tell you and study hard, you can achieve any position in life that you want. That’s what they tell us anyway.

When you accept this condition, you are putting yourself into a world of unpredictable changes which can adversely affect who you are and what you do. Consequently, most of us are fairly far along in life by the time we really know what’s going on and many never even figure it out.

This is society’s world, the one they have created for you and me to live in and do things that benefit all the rest of society. And until recently, that has worked fairly well for us, but we are experiencing many difficult, if not impossible, situations that are beyond our control with the collapse of our economy, rising unemployment and of course skyrocketing energy costs.

This world that society made for us is what I like to call the “default” world. If you do nothing but just live, you are living in the default world. You must abide by its rules and do what it deems necessary for your survival and continued contribution to everyone else. You aren’t really allowed to think freely especially if it means that you are only taking care of yourself and not contributing to society.

But there really is another way. You can learn how to create your own world of which you are in complete control and you even determine who and what is contained within it. There are 2 types of vehicles you use to do this. You create situations and you attract the things you want to fulfill them. That’s all there is to it. It’s pretty simple in theory, but more difficult to apply, although not impossible.

You are about to discover a new way to create thought and you will learn to change what you believe to accommodate what you desire. You will be incorporating new ways of communicating with others, as well as forming statements to make specific requests. It isn’t hard, but it will require you to make changes inside, and you will be guided on your journey so that you succeed with your new goals. I won’t abandon you after you have received my book and I am always as close as an instant message when you need help. I pledge to help you work through this until you get it, no matter what it takes.

Many people who have no real inner drive or will power to succeed will tell you that it is impossible to keep a positive attitude 100% of the time, and while this may be true to an extent, YOU have the power to choose your attitudes and your moods. The real key to achieving what you desire is never give up. If you fall off the ladder, get up, brush yourself off, and get back on it.

You can listen to all the losers in life and follow them or you can listen to winners and do as they do, WIN! I have pursued this course of action persistently for many years and I am starting to be able to make real and amazing changes in my life. It didn’t happen overnight or in a few months because I had nobody to teach me. You, on the other hand, have me to show you exactly what you need to do to make it happen for you also. So you may see significant changes within months and perhaps even sooner. Don’t give up because you can be a success with this, just as I have!

I am finalizing my guide, "Becoming Self-Aware", which has been 10 years in the making and it will be available to the public as I complete each section and currently, lesson 1 is nearing completion. Most every lesson will give you concepts that build on each other, so you will be adding to your knowledge continuously. There are many other self-improvement courses on the internet and I have purchased some of them and also bought printed books on these subjects. While many new concepts are presented, nobody seems to know for certain exactly what you must do to incorporate them into your life so that you can achieve real results. Consequently, if you are like me, you end up feeling that you wasted your precious time and hard earned money on material that leaves you asking more questions instead of getting any real answers. And those internet courses are rather expensive, costing hundreds and even thousands of dollars, so I know that what I'm offering to you is a bargain at any price, since you are given specific instructions on what to do and how to do it. I want to make successes out of everyone that uses my free guide and so if you register for access, I am also going to give a lifetime of assistance via email or private messaging in real time. If you need more assistance than from email or messaging, I have premium services offering more personalized help over the phone as your self-awareness guide and certified spiritual life coach. If you want to know more or would like to have access to my free self-awareness guide, "Becoming Self-Aware", please visit my website:

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This link takes you directly to my free report with more information about what I'm offering. Since I first wrote this blog post, I have decided to give away my guide for free because the information is so incredibly awe-inspiring and that those who have tried it are amazed with its results. And I am finding out how wonderfully gratifying it is to know that I have helped to change another person's life in a positive way. In fact, this feeling is addicting. I know there is great value in what you will get and eventually I may charge money for it, but for now, I'm enjoying gathering lots of positive energy from all of you, my readers, which will undoubted make its value grow. So you need to get your hands on it now and give it a try. I look forward to hearing from you and wish you success in your life and in all your endeavors!

10: I AM THE CREATOR OF MY WORLD

2009-02-02T00:52:00.007-05:00

As I continue to progress on my journey, I realize that I have created everything, both the good and the bad. Focus and the law of attraction are significant points, but the true reality of my world is really subject to only 2 different perceptions, one as a victim and the other as creator. As a victim, which is if I don’t deliberately decide to take control of something in my world, then it defaults to a variation of my expectations for that character. In contrast, when I change my focus to creator, then that piece of my life performs exactly the way I desire it to.

I can only compare what I am experiencing to living in a dream, but being in control of it as I so choose, every situation, every experience, every detail and even every person. This is a very extreme concept and it puts total responsibility on me to make everything in my world to my exact specifications. I still haven’t discovered all the answers, but I have found enough of them to begin reshaping some parts of my life to my own standards. The true challenge in this is that if I fail to be aware of any part of my current situations, then it evolves on its own, perhaps in some unwanted way. This means that I have to be very aware of what’s going on around me at all times. And my brain is like a computer, in that it can only process one idea at a time.

As time passes and I begin to discover exactly what I want to create in my life, the unimportant pieces that I’ve brought into my existence thus far should fade and eventually disappear if no focus is brought to them. Some of my realizations have evolved out of my creative writing, taking all the content that I’ve typed into my computer as fact. Everyone creates their world or their reality, but the concept is vague and hard to visualize, especially when it contradicts everything that I was taught growing up.

I’m seeing now that there are as many different methods of manifesting as there are people. I’ve been reading a book entitled, “Ask and It Is Given”, which explains that we ask for what we want and then we allow the energy to return to us and that creates what we have requested. But even the ideas presented in the book seem too limiting, although I haven’t finished reading it, so I’m sure there is much more to understand. But it does bring into view another idea, which is that it was written by a human being who is relating experiences to other human beings with lesser knowledge of creating.

A revelation of sorts occurred to me, that my creations might not live up to my expectations, because I created them and if I wasn’t specific enough in their makeup, then the fault lies with me, not with them. Compare manifesting my life with writing a play and then being the director of it. If I don’t instruct my actors to do the scenes the way I want them to go, then I get something less than what I intended. This same idea can be applied to how our society perceives God. Christians think we’ll be punished for not living up to God’s expectations, but I believe that’s not our purpose. If we don’t live up to our creator’s expectations, then God can create something else that does, just like we can. If we can do that and God can’t, then everything is backwards and logic will no longer make any sense.

The book, “Ask and It Is Given”, states that when we ask for something, the universe responds by sending us Source energy. But since we are the source, that would seem to contradict itself. Perhaps this could be a lot simpler than I am making it out to be, since Source energy is not only running out of me, but also back through me. My perceptions of this reality have changed tremendously over just the past few days. What if we each have our own planet and we each are the only souls who have this creative ability, with everyone and everything else being the result of what we have created? I am led to this question because it seems that as I learn or discover something significant about manifesting, the rules seem to change and information that was previously important, now no longer applies to my situation. I’m being given just enough education to push me beyond a boundary or a threshold and once I’m there, my awareness has changed.

The one big question that has me perplexed so far is, how aware are the living beings who are creations of my thoughts and who are part of the scenario that I am creating for myself? Are they as real as I am and therefore are they also creating their own realities on purpose and I just happen to be a part of theirs as well? It’s amazing that as a person learns more about a given subject, he realizes how little he really does know about it. This is what’s happening to me now. I have only reached the tip of the iceberg and I am very happy to be where I am, but I have so many more questions than I had before I started to become aware of the effect that my thoughts are having on what I’ve created.

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9: WHAT DOES THE YEAR 2012 HOLD?

2009-01-10T02:53:00.008-05:00

As the year 2012 approaches, much is being broadcast about predictions described in Revelations and in text written by Nostradamus depicting Armageddon, catastrophe, devastation and chaos to take place for the whole planet. The History Channel has hosted many programs on this topic and as each show points out, we are definitely headed for a huge change of massive proportions of some kind here on Earth.

Many have suggested that we, ourselves, are responsible for what is currently going on with Earth changes, stemming just from global warming, which is having large scale impact on our climate, causing polar ice caps to melt, oceans to rise and species to become extinct. Statistical figures on the number of record low temperatures versus double the number of record high temps also seem to support this fact. Global warming is definitely occurring. We can speculate who is to blame or we can observe it with an open mind and see what other possibilities exist. For example, astronomers have noticed that the planet Mars is also warming, so it would seem to indicate that something other than the human race is causing our planet to heat up, even though we may be contributing to it to some degree.

In December of 2012, we will experience a galactic alignment where our sun will appear to rise through the center of the black hole of the Milky Way. Some believe that this alignment will somehow cause havoc on our world perhaps by some kind of gravitational magnification. It should be noted that we have already experienced a planetary alignment in our own solar system in the very recent past which some people believed would trigger massive earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, leading to the same sort of chaos and devastation. Of course, none of these events happened during this alignment. I remember the day it happened and it progressed just like any normal day. From my own perspective, a planetary alignment would seem much more likely to have adverse effects on us than a galactic one, since the planets are so much closer to us. Admittedly, I am neither an expert on this subject nor an astronomer.

Astronomers have also noticed that our solar system is being bombarded with waves of energy of some kind. Some say it is from the Blue Star of Hopi which went supernova about 140 years ago, but there is also another phenomenon known as the photon belt whose orbit around the Milky Way intersects with our solar system’s orbit every 26,000 years and this belt of energy is about 2,000 years wide. The last time this occurred, mankind reported to have experienced 24 hours of daylight, physical lifetimes lasting many hundreds of years void of illnesses and with heightened psychic abilities. We are already feeling some effects of this belt of photon radiation and will be fully within its influence by the year 2012.

While this may sound like something far from catastrophe or chaos, heightened psychic abilities will magnify who we really are inside and will make us transparent to other people. If we haven’t learned how to live a loving, forgiving, happy and positive life by then, all the worst qualities in us will also be magnified and our thoughts will instantly create all those negative things in our lives. In contrast, those of us who are positive and loving in our thoughts and ideas will create more of the same for ourselves.

Most Christians believe that we are either approaching or have already begun what’s known as the end times or end of days, which lead up to the return of Christ when we will be judged. All of these beliefs and events seem to be coming to a focal point where what previously seemed to have no connection to each other, are going to occur simultaneously or may in fact be the exact same thing only with different names. Some refer to the photon belt as the Christ Consciousness which won’t judge us, but will show the world who and what we have become.

Along with the characteristics that these events will bring, come more changes in us as physical beings. It is believed that the photon belt will propel us into the 4^th dimension where psychic abilities and awareness reside and then into the 5^th, which may be where heaven is located. If you are reading this, then most likely you are headed in the right direction with your life and you will experience these marvelous transformations instead of walking down the road to destruction. While all human life will be brought into the 4^th dimension, it is only a stepping stone or perhaps better described as a weeding out process to determine what happens to you next.

This being the case, judgment day won’t really be a situation where God decides where you should go, but rather your transparent self will either take you forward or backward, depending on who you have become during all of your lives and incarnations. You need not worry whether you are Christian or not, but instead be confident that you are moving forward and not backward. If your life is based on greed, hatred, spite, revenge or anything else negative in nature, you may be fairly certain that you will not be propelled into the higher worlds of the 5^th dimension, but instead, plunged back into the 3^rd where you may experience a living hell, which may be nothing more than having to reincarnate many hundreds or thousands of times until this magnificent event takes place again after the next 26,000 year cycle has been completed.

Your life is based on choices, since free will is the most basic law of the universe in our lives. What this means is that you can choose the right path or the wrong one. There is either a bright light at the end of the tunnel for you or there is darkness. Your individual beliefs determine what the future holds for you. If you continue to repeat the mistakes of the past, refusing to forgive those who have done you wrong, or placing the importance of others below yourself, based on prejudice, spite, revenge or hatred, or living your life solely to gather monetary or material possessions with little regard for those you step on or push out of the way to do so, or perhaps just forgetting that we are all brothers and sisters here on this planet and ignoring the Golden Rule, then you have already been so judged, and the coming events will clearly show this.

It’s your choice as to what happens to you next, both now and in the future. Have faith and believe that you are a good person and that you have lived your life in such a way that the world and the universe will perceive you favorably so that when that special day arrives, all your dreams will come true.

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8: HOW REAL IS YOUR REALITY?

2008-09-23T02:13:00.009-04:00

Are you living in a dream world? In a sense, you are. The words ‘real’ and ‘reality’ are alike in that they both are forms of one word or the other. But at the same time, what do they mean? Reality is subjective and unique to each individual. What’s real for me might not be real for you and vice versa. My reality, whether manifested while fully awake or while sleeping, is still just as real as can be.

For most, dreams while we are asleep are seemingly out of our control. We observe everything that is happening and participate just as we would normally. Some people are able to manipulate their sleeping dreams by using anchors which are usually established by making a conscious suggestion to self before falling asleep, such as making an effort to see one’s own foot or hand within the dream. An action such as this establishes an anchor point that you can use to take control of the dream, since our hands do things and our feet take us to places.

Unconsciously expecting an event to follow another event, simply because it’s logical, can manifest that occurrence in a dream. How many times have you been dreaming and were able to realize that it is a dream and that you are sleeping? This has happened to me many times and when it does happen, sometimes I’m able to direct the dream just as if I were the director of a movie or a play. One night I had a dream that I was entering a large crowded room while at the same time most everyone else was leaving. As all of the people were passing me, heading in the opposite direction, I realized that I was dreaming and had an urge to see how far I could get by attempting to put my hand up a girl’s dress, just for kicks. Before I could even touch her, I felt a hand grab my wrist to stop me. The dream ended at that point and I either woke up or drifted into another dream.

The interesting thing about this is that if I were to do the same thing while awake that I tried to while sleeping and dreaming, I would most likely be met with the same defense, which is logical, right? My inner most expectations would be that of resistance to my actions. And my expectations were fulfilled.

There are many people, probably a majority, who believe in dream interpretation. I am, however, one of those who do not. I believe that a dream is a life or an awareness of a co-existing reality on either another plane or in a parallel dimension. And when the eyes are closed and our awareness of our current life is shut off, consciousness goes off to explore these other worlds. I see things in these other worlds that feel natural to me and seem to be correct. But after waking up and remembering the dreams, many times what seemed comfortable and natural in my dream make no sense whatsoever in my waking state of consciousness.

I read an article today, which seemed to take my view, that we not only create or manifest our life here in the current waking physical reality that we see everyday, but also we create everything in it, based on what we expect to see. So then, how real is everyone around you? They are as real as you want them to be. Our ability to create everything goes far beyond what most people perceive as manifesting our lives.

So then how real is your reality? Your thoughts, your words, your desires, your actions, they all create something in this current physical awareness. While you may not be able to fully visualize a new environment, you still are expecting to see a variety normal things around you no matter where you go. Therefore, those things materialize based on your own expectations.

What if we were able to just be open to anything and not have any preconceived ideas about what the world should be like? I don’t have the answer to that question, but it intrigues me. However I do believe that when we are able to reach that level of awareness, the “anything is possible” phrase would truly come to life.

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7: HOW DO I MANIFEST?

2008-08-26T17:25:00.007-04:00

The process of getting what you want from life is fairly simple. It takes focus and determination and above all, you must decide that you aren’t going to give up, no matter what happens. As soon as you’ve made that decision, you have already taken a huge step towards receiving even more than you asked for because of the positive energy you created and the attitude you’re promoting.

Please remember that any negative thoughts, feelings and actions that you have or that others around you have can easily destroy many of your positive efforts, forcing you to either have to start over, or just quit and give up altogether. You might not think that just being positive all the time can begin to change things for you in very positive ways and might even seem silly or stupid to try, but you’ll be amazed what happens if you can stick with this one goal.

Now that you’ve decided to remain positive and not to give up no matter what, you’ve begun to lay the foundation for your endeavors. Everything you do in life that’s new to you must be accomplished by taking baby steps. Each step builds on the previous one, creating a strong base that will support the next one.

You are like a computer in so many ways and in order for you to learn how to do something new, you must take steps just like how a computer is programmed. And also in this same way, each instruction can only be executed one at a time in sequence. The main difference between yourself and a computer is that the computer always goes back to this same set of instructions each time that it needs to perform the specific task, making it seem as if it learned how to do it without them. You, however, do actually learn through executing each step many times over and your magnificent brain eventually performs the task automatically without going through that list of instructions each and every time.

Let’s recap what we have talked about so far. To manifest, you’ll need to focus and you’ll need to decide not give up. You’ll need to stay positive no matter what happens. You’ve learned that repetition is key to programming yourself to take basic steps automatically. So far you have the basic tools and guidelines to start the process.

Now the procedure is simple as stated in the beginning. Ask, receive and accept, show gratitude. See, it’s easy just like I said it would be. Through my own experiences I’ve learned that I have to ask in some form to put the energy into motion. Asking can be interpreted in many ways. It could be just a simple thought of something you want to achieve or it could be a question to yourself such as, “how do I get…to come to me” or “please bring…to me” or “I’d like to have…in my life now.”

The next step is what might seem to be the fun part where you start to receive what you asked for or some part of what you wanted. It’s already beginning to sound gloomy because you didn’t get everything yet. If you’ll notice, ‘accept’ was added to the ‘receive’ part. Acceptance is also part of the package of remaining in a positive state at all times. Being accepting of what’s given transmits feelings of contentment and joy, which by themselves attract more of the same.

Gratitude expresses permission to keep receiving more things on the same level or frequency as those you are seeking. And actually when all 3 steps of this process are used together at the time of the request, your faith is created by the energy of the words of your thought since you can foresee having received in your mind and accepted what is given and been thankful for it. You have completed the transaction with your energy, which will in turn make it happen.

However, don’t be surprised, shocked or dismayed when you don’t receive as quickly as you’d like to, especially the first times you use this to bring yourself the perfect life. Remember that to make it work it must be repeated many many times. Practice really does make perfect eventually when you are creating your life, but it’s going to take time, a lot of time and a lot of practice. You have to keep trying and you can’t ever give up.

This is going to be the path to all your destinies for the rest of your life. I say that because once you learn how to manifest effectively, you’ll never want to go back to being a victim when you are the creator instead.

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6: THE FIRST STEPS TO MANIFESTING

2008-07-10T14:40:00.005-04:00

Since this blog’s purpose is to learn how to create what you want from life, I thought it would be a good idea to elaborate on it a bit. This may sound odd, but the hardest part of getting what you want from your life may well be just deciding what that is, because it will take a lot of focus and perseverance to make it become reality. I have found this to be my greatest challenge. After you decide what you want, you do the focus, you visualize the end result, you formulate the proper sentence structure to initiate the thought processes and so on.

A lot of consideration may go into your choices and that’s perfectly normal. You might make a choice that seems right at the time and then later decide that it isn’t. Manifesting becomes a process of changing your mind quite a bit because you must comfortably be able to incorporate these new thoughts and ideas into your daily life. They must become a natural part of your being and that can be difficult. You’ll decide on a path to take and then you’ll decide if it’s the right one or not. You have to embark on that path before you’ll know whether it actually is right or not.

It’s not only perfectly acceptable to change your mind quite a lot during the process, but it’s expected. I’ve often thought, once I’ve made up my mind to pursue a specific goal, that I have to see it through to the end just to find out if it’s right for me. And sometimes that’s true. We all get these wild ideas that at first seem to be a revelation of sorts, only to discover later that it was only a passing thought.

In the beginning, if you are new to manifesting your life, the first step a person might take is to find something you’re passionate about and make that your focus, no matter how impossible or difficult it might seem to get it accomplished. Everyone has a talent and sometimes it’s hidden from our view, just waiting to be sparked enough to make the light bulb burn and allow you to see it. Or it may be a dream you’ve always had that you may believe is completely out of reach. The most important part is to believe that anything is possible. Open up your mind to yourself and allow it to work for you.

Perhaps in the most basic sense, manifesting what you want could begin with having a dream and never letting go of it, no matter what. All of your thoughts create energy, so when you make a certain thought repeat day after day, week after week, month after month, and maybe even year after year, the only thing keeping you from becoming that dream is you and your beliefs. If you don’t believe that you can do it or have it, then you can’t. It’s very simple.

So if you don’t believe that you can do it or have it, how do you change that? The answer is easy. You change your beliefs. This in itself might become your next challenge but once you prove to yourself that you are capable of this, then the world is your playground. But wait a minute. If you don’t believe, how do you just change your beliefs?

Here’s a technique you can try. You would start by making simple statements in your mind to yourself. The first one you would want to make is to tell yourself that anything is possible. This is a statement that you hear a lot. People say it often, but in truth, how many really believe that literally ANYTHING is possible? Lots of times it is just said in casual conversation, but for you to incorporate it into your goals, it must be taken seriously. Say it to yourself often, several times a day everyday with conscious intent.

The second statement you could make to yourself is a choice to change your current belief if it’s a barrier that stands between you and your goals. Instead of saying, “I don’t really believe I can do that because it seems impossible” say “I can change my belief as easily as I can change my mind”, because that’s really all there is to it. And I can change my mind whenever I choose to.

If you can’t bring yourself to believe anything else from this article, here’s an important point that most people fail to realize. Your brain is a very sophisticated computer and because of that, it has to be reprogrammed at times. You can let your environment program it or you can take control and do it intentionally.

Programming your brain is exactly the same as programming a computer. It’s a process of making deliberate statements in a logical sequence. But because your brain is also a living organ, the statements must be repeated over and over one at a time. Each one must be carefully structured and executed individually, and must also be perfected before moving on to the next one. The programming will take hold if you are persistent. Dedication, focus, persistence and perseverance are all important ingredients to allow changes to be made in your self. Each statement of the programming cycle is a step to the next one, so it must be stated over and over until it becomes natural before moving on.

Practice manifesting by opening your mind to any and all possibilities. There is no limit to receiving any goal or dream you have if you are open to it. You will become more and more open to new possibilities the more you practice your focus and changing your mind to accept the things that you once thought were impossible to even conceive of.

Sometimes you’re taught that changing your mind often is a bad thing, but it’s only confusing to others when they are directly affected by your change of heart or mind. In most cases, when you change your mind to reflect the things you want from life, it only affects you, because these are personal individual choices you are making.

If you take in and practice the things I’ve talked about here and get comfortable with changing your mind a lot, you’ll change your beliefs more easily and you’ll come to realize that it’s a good thing because you’ll eventually learn to adapt to all change in life. Adapting leads to accepting and when you accept what is given and show gratitude to the universe for what you’ve received, you’ll receive more and more of those good things.

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5: PROGRAMMING YOURSELF FOR HAPPINESS

2008-06-10T13:16:00.010-04:00

Today's post is about examining how and what you think to help discover where changes need to be made. Everyone has been bombarded with all sorts of misleading and dangerous ideas all their lives by our friends and loved ones. These false truths will eventually change your own personal beliefs and lead you down the wrong path.

The reason I'm on this topic today is because I just saw an ad with the words, "When Will You Die?". You might think I'm crazy (most people do...haha) but you will choose when you die and you may have already made that choice.

Well, now that you think I've gone off the deep end, let me add another (crazy?) thought to that idea. Not only have you chosen or will choose WHEN you die, you are also going to choose or have already chosen IF you are going to die.

It would be my guess that even though I haven't yet posted this at the very moment that it's being written, I can still see and hear the future. See, I'm psychic, and I envision hoards of crazy laughter coming from all my readers right now as you are taking in all of this nonsense.

Part of what I'm saying is based on a movie that I highly recommend you watch called, "What the Bleep!? - Down the Rabbit Hole", but also I truly believe it personally. For some reason, I've had this belief that I'm going to live forever. And it has nothing to do with religion or even anything I've been told. It's just what I feel inside. Rent or buy the movie and you will most likely be amazed to discover that everything I'm telling you is true. I don't want to insult anyone, but how can you debate scientific facts?

The movie is more a documentary than anything else, even though there is a bit of a story line to help illustrate the ideas that are taught. It's both informative and entertaining and if you can grasp the ideas which are presented, it will change how you think and what you believe in the best possible ways.

If you haven't already read my post on how your beliefs change everything, please take some time to read it. You can probably tell by what you've read already on this blog that I am not one to follow the crowd. After all, I am Pisces, the dreamer, and I totally live up to that description. Dreams are what inspire our creativity. And I have had some truly awe-inspiring dreams, both while awake and asleep.

And while I'm not a follower, I don't consider myself to really be a leader either. I make my own path because I'm an individual and if I were to follow someone else's path, I wouldn't find anything new that hasn't already been discovered. Even though we are all individuals, we are still all connected and just like the Borg, we are part of the collective. Each of our separate thoughts and ideas contributes to everything and everyone, so from that perspective, why should I go down the same path that others have taken?

Having said all of that, it doesn't matter to me if you believe what I'm saying or not, because I know that someone will benefit from my ideas in a positive way that will help change their life for the better. If just one person makes a positive change, then I have done what I set out to do.

And whether you choose to believe it or not, every soul is a link in a chain of life, with all the thoughts, ideas and energies passing through them like bulbs on a Christmas tree. Even if your soul isn't lit up by the current, the chain of energy still continues to each and every bulb, giving every one the opportunity to use it.

Life is a series of choices. Just like a song by the band "Rush" states, even if you decide not to choose, you've still made a choice. You can choose to believe in anything you want and your beliefs will allow the proper doors to open for you so that you can make them reality. There is a door to every possible path you can take because we are infinite limitless beings.

Programming yourself for happiness simply means that you choose to believe that anything is possible and then make that your focus. Programming your brain to have the thoughts you want is an easy process, but it does take time and determination. The only failures in life are if you stop trying to achieve your goals. You must keep your focus and your determination. Decide what you want and pursue it.

Disallow any negative thoughts you might have or any negativity from outside sources, such as friends or relatives. Be proactive in this by informing anyone who attempts to tell you that you're crazy or that you can't do it that you are not allowing any form of negativity to enter into your being. You might shock some people by saying that, but eventually you will become known as being the most positive person they know. Also, you can help others become positive by making positive suggestions when they make negative statements about themselves, events or situations.

Create your thoughts in the present tense instead of in the future. Use statements in your thoughts such as "I am....." or "I am now....". If you are the type of person that has a difficult time saying that you are something that you haven't yet become, then use an alternative statement like "I am becoming...." or "I am..... and I know it's on its way to me now."

Choose what you want to believe and it can be yours. Stay positive and focused and don't give up, even if it seems like it's taking forever to get what you want. Just like anything else that's new to you, it takes practice and time to make it happen. And the more you practice, the easier it gets, the faster it happens and eventually all this practice and repetition of ideas will program your brain so that it will become automatic.

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4: ME, MYSELF & I - THE 3 COMPONENTS OF HUMAN LIFE

2008-06-02T01:24:00.007-04:00

While the phrase, "me, myself and I" might seem to be a thing that people say just to make themselves sound like a congregation instead of one person, I've actually given this quite a lot of thought. A human life is really made up of more than just a physical body, as I'm sure most people are aware.

We do possess a spirit or soul body which is carried through the material world in a body of flesh, bones and blood. So that would account for 2 of the components of which we are made. But what about the 3rd part?

It is said that animals, like dogs and cats and other domestic pets, don't have a soul, and yet they seem to have something more than just a body driven by instinct. Pets have personalities just like people do. Dogs appear to be smiling many times. A cat loves to get physical attention and purrs when it is rubbed and caressed.

So how do we define that remaining part that is aware of the world and its environment? It is another separate entity known as consciousness.

Consciousness can exist all by itself as yet another means of exploring and experiencing life. So our pets are here in a body as consciousness, aware of stimulus and reacting to their surroundings in much the same way as people do.

That brings us back to how we label our 3 parts. This is really the place where it's a matter of interpretation.

I tend to think of my soul or spirit as my higher self, so perhaps it would be appropriate to call soul, "myself." But then again, I feel that soul is what drives us and the part of us that allows us to have a "will" or desire to do what we do. And from that perspective, "I" would seem to fit the description of soul since "I" is the subject of everything you think and do.

I guess it seems rather silly to even be discussing this issue, because it really doesn't matter what label you apply to which part of you. But when I think about it, it's comical and seems to need to be defined.

Maybe the way to do this is to just assign the words that seem to best fit the circumstance. Let's start with "me" since that's the 1st word in the phrase.

When you see me, you see the physical body, so I'm going to call "me" the obvious, the human body. "Myself" can very well be my higher self or soul or spirit, and "I" is the trouble maker. It's the part of you that never sleeps and is always out there somewhere finding the oddest of situations to experience, knowing it can only do these things when "me" has the switch turned off to the outside world.

So the next time someone looks at you, they will see the "me", but it is "myself" that you wish they would see instead, and "I" is just waiting for the right time to catch them off-guard and throw something totally unexpected into the mix that not only surprises them, but also myself.

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3: NEEDS, WANTS AND LIFE'S REALITIES

2008-02-12T01:12:00.007-05:00

Manifesting your reality is really very simple. Anyone can get what they want by letting the universe know what it is. Usually there are a couple of problems that arise and become obstacles in the process. The main obstacle is deciding what it is that you want. And if you put too many conditions on your wants and desires, your possibilities become fewer and fewer. In essence, the wanting turns into needing when you are too specific about your goals.

The universe is very responsive and flexible if you learn how to state your desires, but it can't always give you all the minor details that you might ask for if you are too specific. It's best if your request is casual, instead of demanding. Casual requests indicate that you don't really need it, but being demanding conveys that you really do need it. When the desire becomes a need, you put yourself into a state of desperation.

We all know that a desperate person is usually not rational, reasonable or calm. Even when dealing with other people in that kind of situation, the desperate person is very unlikely to be able to express their request in a manner that inspires confidence. You are most likely to push away those around you instead of drawing them in. The same is true when you make requests of the universe.

If you are extremely specific about your wants and place many conditions on the desired results, you limit what the universe can bring to you. It's exactly the same as if you were shopping for a car. For example, if your requirements are great gas mileage, fun to drive, plenty of room for the wife and kids and plenty of cargo space, your chances of finding the right vehicle are very good. On the other hand, if your requirements are something like, it must get 40 mpg, it must be able to beat any car in a slalom, it must go from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, it must be able to pull a 6,000 pound trailer and it must cost under $15,000, your chances of finding that particular car are probably very slim, if not impossible.

Also the way that you state your request is just as important as how specific you are about it. Again, you can't place demands on the universe. A casual request works much better. For example, instead of starting your request with, "I really need this...", try saying, "I wouldn't mind having this..."

When you speak to the universe about manifesting your reality, imagine that you are talking to someone very special and that you don't want to sound too demanding. Instead what you would do is impress on it that you are open to whatever it believes might best suit your needs. It would be fair to say that 99% of the time, your requirements will not only be met, but will be exceeded, depending on how you voice your requests. In other words, if you are casual, polite and open minded, you will most likely receive something far greater than your wildest dreams could ever create.

Another mistake that is often made is putting time limitations on the desired results. This would be considered to be yet another act of desperation. Remember that anything that's worth having is worth waiting for.

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2: MANIFESTING YOUR FUTURE

2007-10-27T20:40:00.005-04:00

Manifesting your future is a simple, logical process that uses common sense and can be done by anyone who has the desire to create their life to be the way they want it. Recently, several methods for creating your future have come into public focus. A couple of them that come to mind are The Law of Attraction and a movie and book entitled, "The Secret."

Ever since man has walked the Earth, he has thought of new ways to improve his life. When an idea came to mind, he would use his imagination and thoughts to make a plan and then build something to manifest his idea.

The Law of Attraction as it's stated is simply that you get what you focus on. The movie and book, "The Secret," go into great detail about this process, even to the extent that we can create anything and everything that we desire, no matter how unrealistic or impossible it seems. If we can think it, then we can do it or make it happen. The key to taking this method to unrealistic or impossible levels is to believe that it is realistic and possible.

One of the problems with creating what seems to be impossible is because of what we have been taught all our lives. Society seems to have a specific plan for us, which is based on all sorts of myths. Some of the myths are associated with family genetics and some are based on religion. Others are simply medically proven facts. That seems to be a contradiction all by itself, considering that doctors are still practicing. To me that means that they haven't perfected anything. That's why we are called "patients," because we are still patiently waiting for them to figure it out.

What about the fact that we have also been taught that there is an exception to every rule? In order for an exception to occur, someone must have been thinking outside the box and believed that a miracle could happen and that there could be something more to it than what meets the eye.

Another part of this equation is the power of creative thought. Have you ever been injured and even cut yourself but didn't realize it until you saw blood? At that instant, you felt pain and maybe even felt sickened by it. But before seeing it, you might not have felt anything at all. This shows us how powerful our thoughts can be. Unfortunately, most people notice only negative effects from thought. Instead, you can use the energy of thought to create something positive.

People are so busy that a normal everyday routine fills up every waking moment they have. Most of you wake up dreading your jobs and the tasks that have to be done. Most people use their creative power to focus on the things that don't really satisfy them. Consequently, they continue to have those very same experiences over and over again, day after day. They are getting exactly what they are focusing on. It doesn't even matter if you focus on thoughts that try to get rid of those negative tasks and chores, because the ideas that are represented in the mental statements are basically the same as the original thoughts.

The only way to change the path a person is taking is to completely change the thoughts. This would qualify as an exception to the rule. The rule is that if you think about something long enough, you will eventually make it reality for you. The changing of those thoughts to something different would be that exception, but continuing to make that change to something positive and mentally pleasurable, can again become the rule. In other words, rules are made to help to keep you on a chosen path, but rules can always be broken or changed, because you are the master of your thoughts.

Life can challenge your thinking by throwing unforeseen events into your path. Even the strongest of beliefs can be broken down by an unfortunate illness or injury. You may no longer believe things that you were taught or have accepted through your previous experiences. It's important to note that life is all about change and how you deal with change directly affects your beliefs.

There are many processes at work, not only within you, but in your world, that shape and mold your life. Two of them that are noteworthy are acceptance and gratitude. These tools can make your journey here not only much easier, but also more pleasurable. Fighting against a challenge that presents itself makes your life very difficult because challenges happen for a reason, just as everything else in your life. A challenge usually preludes a necessary change you need to make. Changes allow your personal growth, becoming more than you were. Ultimately, change should be your goal so that you learn and grow as you make your way through life. Therefore, accepting a challenge as a necessary step helps to facilitate change and allows it to pass through you more easily. As it does this, some of that energy becomes part of your existence. Being grateful for life's challenges shows that you are not only willing to accept what is given, but that you desire to become stronger and better. Also using gratitude for the things you enjoy and love attracts more of the good things that you enjoy and love into your life.

Everything, including you, is made up of Universal Energy, all vibrating at different frequencies. Like energies, or energies of the same frequency or vibration, attract each other. Attraction to people happens because you see or sense something in someone that appeals to you. Thoughts, words, and action carry power and create energy. Negative energies vibrate more slowly than positive ones; therefore, they are denser and heavier. Thinking about energies in this way shows how negative thoughts, words and actions create slower, more dense energies that may cause bad feelings, both physically and mentally. Positive thoughts, words and actions create faster, lighter energies that make you feel high and invincible. A rock, for instance, has a vibrational rate which is very slow and very dense, but the rate at which a thought vibrates is much faster and has no mass, unlike a rock.

The evolution of our species dictates that as we learn and grow, our vibrations become higher and lighter. The rock has virtually no effect on anything, not even on the ground or space it occupies, unless it is picked up and propelled by some other force. It can't create any energy by itself. The thoughts that people have create all sorts of different energies of different vibrational rates that affect themselves, events and even other people. You have choices that you make everyday including how you feel, how you react to stimulus and what kinds of actions you will take.

People often believe that their mood determines the decisions they make about their thoughts and actions. Mood is also a choice. Everything you do is by choice. That's the beauty of life. You are in control of everything by your thoughts and choices. Your thoughts create energy that attracts other like energy. Your words further amplify the energy that your thought created. This is the very reason that you get what you focus on. What I have just described is The Law of Attraction.

Simply stated, you can change everything in your life by using 4 simple steps. For the sake of reference, I will refer to these steps as Life Creation Steps. They are 1) Thoughts and Ideas, 2) Words and Planning, 3) Taking Action or following your plan and 4) Expressing Gratitude. Thought creates energy of a high vibrational rate. The words you use in your mind to put a plan together amplify and focus the original energy. Often, these two steps alone can propel your ideas into reality, but usually you need to follow your plan by taking some kind of action. The 4th step, Expressing Gratitude, should be used plentifully and in conjunction with all of the other steps. You can never be too grateful for your life and for the things you receive in life, especially for the things you perceive as bad or negative, since you benefit the most from these lessons and they are the truest, most precious gifts from God that you can receive.

This is the big 'secret' that everyone has been keeping from you. Unfortunately, it's just another way for someone to attempt to profit from us unsuspecting souls who are looking for a miracle or a shortcut to get the things we want from life, because really it's just common sense. But there are some additional good things to be gained from reading everything you can find out about attracting like energies. Even the book about "The Secret" states that we are creators or even Gods. You have a choice to make, to take this knowledge as far as your beliefs will allow you to take it, or to disregard it as being unrealistic and impossible.

Remember that everything is a choice, even your beliefs are choices. Your choices could lead you to discovering that miracles are not only possible, but likely with the energy you can create by your thoughts, your words and your actions. There are several methods that I have used to manifest my life and I will guide you through them so that you can choose the one that appeals to you the most.

METHOD 1
GOAL SETTING LIST

Get a piece of paper and a pencil and just write down specific things you would like to have in your life. You can also do this on a computer if you have fulltime access to one. For most people, using a computer simplifies the task of editing your list if and when it's needed. Number the items and put them in order of preference. The most important things would be first and things of lesser importance will be further down the list. Also you may wish to divide your list into two sections, one section for short term goals and the other, long term goals. Another way to do this would be to use just one list and add to each item a deadline for completion, i.e. "Move into my new house by February of 2009." Everyday, get your list out and review it, and if necessary, modify it to keep it up to date as your ideas and desires change.

Making a list of goals like this satisfies the first two of your Life Creation Steps: 1) Thoughts and Ideas, and 2) Words and Planning, and as previously stated, sometimes just these two steps can create what you want. And always, always, ALWAYS! express gratitude for everything you ask for, even before receiving it. Gratitude is recognized by the Universe as your desire to receive more of the same good things and is also an act of Positive Thinking. Composing a list of goals like this is one of the easiest and most effective ways of getting what you want in life. You are telling the Universe exactly what you want by writing everything down and keeping it handy.

METHOD 2
DAILY MANIFEST

This is based on the first method but goes into greater detail and intent. Again you compose a list of what you want. But this time, the preferred method would be to do it on a computer, because there is going to be a lot of editing and tweaking to match it to your goals.

The main difference between the original goal setting list and the second method is that instead of simply listing goals, they will be written using complete sentences to state what the goal is and they will also be accompanied by the feelings that having the goals would give us and the expression of gratitude for having received them.

For instance, "Moving into my new house by February of 2009" would change to "I am so pleased and so grateful that I live in the huge mansion on the hill, situated on 100 acres of land." This statement has been placed into the present tense or into the now, because now is really all there is and it's specific, rather than general. It also expresses the feeling of being happy to be there because you can imagine what it looks like and even visualize yourself walking through it and around your property. Then express the gratitude for having received it.

You might be saying to yourself, "But wait, I don't have this so how can I say things that aren't true or even believe them?" You actually have just created your mansion on the hill in a higher dimension just by your thoughts. As you continue to focus on this statement and see it in your mind's eye, you are attracting it closer to your physical reality until one day it is really here. Practice makes perfect, or in this case, practice makes it easier and faster, so it's extremely important to review what you have composed on a daily basis.

Another very important factor when making statements for your Daily Manifest is to create ideas that make you smile and happy when you think about them. Happiness, laughter, smiling and just overall joy and good feelings promote positive outcomes for anything you are trying to create in your life. If you are happy, you will attract and bring more happiness into your life. You will even begin to see small changes in your personality and in how you interact with others that reflect your newfound happiness.

If you find it difficult to be happy now, you can create that happiness using your Daily Manifest by making it one of your goals. Your statement might be, "I am so grateful and pleased that I am happy and confident everyday and that I am in control of my thoughts and feelings." Even if you aren't happy or in control of your thoughts and feelings now, using this method will create happiness and confidence inside you. It's so simple that anyone from any lifestyle or environment can compose these life changing statements and eventually see and feel the changes occurring.

The point must be made here that what you have now is a result of your past thoughts, words and actions. Therefore you must change how you think and also what you believe to bring to yourself what you seek and desire. Additionally, when you are reviewing your Daily Manifest, it can be incorporated into a meditation exercise to strengthen and focus it on a deeper level. (Read my post on "Connecting to Your Higher Self Using Meditation" for additional ideas on how to incorporate your daily manifest into your daily meditation.)

METHOD 3
MENTAL FOCUS AND VISUALIZATION

This method will work for those of you who have already achieved a good deal of mental power and focus, whether it be from meditation, subliminal training, hypnosis or other personal self-improvement techniques. If you have a life's dream that you want to achieve, daily focus and positive self-statements can bring it about. You must be specific about what you are trying to accomplish and you must not allow negative thoughts or doubt to cancel out your positive energy.

People often fail when using any of the techniques described here because of other peoples' opinions about your dreams and goals. Most of us want to share our ideas with those we love and who we are close to, but this can lead to failure and disappointment when everyone around you feels that you are being unrealistic. Afterall, they really only have your best interests at heart and hate to see you fall back to the bottom of the pit. Somehow, letting go of a seemingly impossible dream or goal will keep you from getting hurt in the end.

You must learn to avoid negativity from others and disallow it to enter your conscious thoughts. Negativity may also come from within yourself when it seems that you just aren't getting what you want or that it's just taking too long. Oftentimes when you feel like giving up or giving in, a breakthrough is right around the corner. Patience and love for yourself and all of life will bring all of your goals to you. Being or becoming happy and content sends a positive signal to the Universe that you are grateful for all that you are and that you are ready to receive more of those good things.

It is my sincere hope that, after reading this article, you will give this a real try. I have used all 3 methods and currently I am focusing on using a Daily Manifest. Prior to trying this, I have had periods of depression, feelings of a loss of self worth and self love. After composing and reviewing a Daily Manifest for about a month, I am beginning to see real changes in the person I am. I start everyday opening my manifest, reading each statement I've written and expressing gratitude for every one. I go to work feeling happy and I greet everyone I meet with a smile and pleasant words. I love myself for the beautiful person I'm becoming and you can do it too if you will give it the chance it deserves.

Another point to be made is that real changes in your life take time and you must be willing to give that time to yourself because most things don't happen overnight. Some of the small things such as personality changes could happen in a day or 2, while larger goals can take months to manifest. Seeing the smaller things take place can give you confidence that you are on the right track to getting what you want in life.

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1: THE IMPORTANCE OF STAYING POSITIVE

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Keeping a positive attitude is very important. Most people have been conditioned since early childhood by parents, other family members, teachers, fellow classmates at school, church members, the news media, and a host of others in your surroundings, to believe everything that you're told, because it's a fact. The repetition of all this information is what programs you to make it part of your being. A lot of what you are told over and over is simply not true. It's just that this same information has been passed down from generation to generation with the assumption that it must be true because everyone says it is.

For example, certain family members might have had some kind of disease that was said to be of genetic origin, and people from the same family will undoubtedly have the disease from one generation to the next. You hear this over and over in your life. You can't help but hear it and you can't help but believe that it must be true, so you accept it, and then when you reach a certain age, you have the very same disease.

The point is that if you repeat a phrase or a statement enough times in your life, it will program your brain and it will become your reality. Another way of looking at this is that anything that is your point of focus for long enough will happen. What this means in one respect is that you can have anything in life that you want if you focus on it long enough or if you make a statement about it being your reality enough times. The statement must be made in the present tense as if it is already happening. And if you follow the statement with gratitude, you are assured of it becoming your reality eventually.

Unfortunately for many, negative statements are used instead of positive ones. The negative ones will come to pass just as easily as positive ones. You should always avoid negative statements in your life and also in meditation exercises. It's also important to disallow people around you to influence you in a negative way.

All too often you will have a brilliant idea about something and want to share it with someone close to you. Perhaps it might be best not to share some of those things, just to prevent the onslaught of negative feedback. But is it in your nature to want to share good feelings with those whom you care about. If your friends and family are always supportive of your ideas and your dreams, then you are fortunate. But on the other hand, if you are hit with a lot of negative feedback when expressing yourself, you should tell that person that you are not going to allow them to affect you in a negative way. If this is something that you can't do with the ones you love, then you are best not sharing all your ideas with them.

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