The Science of Success

I’m going to ask you a simple, almost naive, question.

How is it that some people succeed in almost everything they do and some people fail in almost everything they do?

Our first impression when we come across a loaded question like this is to launch a whole spiel about nature, nurture, and the perplexing nature of individual destiny and cosmic conundrums.

Yet, the answer is as simple as the question.

It’s the way people think.

What brought about that level of thinking is a whole other issue…and this is when we can justifiably move into cross-examining the human condition and musing over the bewildering nature of personal reality.

But, let’s keep it simple. The reason why people are the way that they are and do what they do is because of the way they think. This defines their feelings and behaviors and shapes their experience of the world.

Successful people think in three specific ways to succeed:

1. They have a clear intention. They know how they feel and they know what they want.

2. They stay focused on their intention. They avoid distraction and stay true to their desire.

3. They persevere in making that intention into an actuality. They only stop trying after they have achieved their goal. Then they usually set a new intention to rise to the next level of self-actualization.

Conversely, unsuccessful people: don’t know what they want, get easily distracted or discouraged by something else , and don’t persist long enough to learn how to overcome the obstacles that inevitably arise.

Imagine you’re an archer. How much easier is it to hit your target if you decide to (a) choose to point your bow and arrow at it, (b) see it in your sights, and (c) let your arrow fly to the bull’s eye? Moreover, you stay with it until you hit the bull’s eye. If you fail the first day, you do it again the second day, and so on. One day, your eye and hand coordination will be perfect. One day, you’ll hit your target.

But what about…?

Every obstacle, arising from within or emerging from the environment, is a question of strategy. If you don’t know how, you can learn it. If you don’t know who, what, where, and when, you can find out. All you need is to start with a strong enough why.

Despite all the books about self-development and the well-developed field of psychology can it really be that simple?

Yes!

The social science of personal achievement is a discussion of strategy.

Success, on the other hand, is about choosing a goal, keeping your eye on it, and staying with it until you achieve it.

You can be, do, and have anything you really, really want if you’re willing to take these three simple steps.

We are not here to make a living. We are here to make a life. Let the beauty of your love for life be expressed in what you do.

If you try this path, a path with a heart, you’ll see the light breaking through the clouds.

Nothing will give you peace but the triumph of your principles.

How, then, do you connect with your heart-energy to discover a path that illuminates your joy?

Here are five questions to open up your awareness of what is in your heart and align with its purpose.

When you answer them honestly, really taking your time to think through them, by the time you get to the fifth question, you’ll have your answer.

First, if your heart led the way, where would your life go?

Second, if you listened to your heart instead of the opinions of others, what would be possible for you?

Third, if you trusted your passion and persisted in it, what abundance could emerge?

Fourth, if you chose spiritual principles over practicality, what miracles would be revealed?

And fifth, if you lived with a childlike heart, who would you become?

These questions of your heart will express your abundance. The heart is your guide to your greater good.

Regardless of your answer, remember this one thing: the universe pays you to be yourself.

The alternative to living from your heart is living a life of self-betrayal, a life of quiet desperation, a life where the assumptions of the masses have compromised your dream.

Confused by the limiting falsehoods of their ego most people live in a narrow scope of possibilities.

It takes courage to follow your heart. It takes courage to become aware of your heart-felt intuitions. But if you do seize the courage, you’ll find that it’s never too late to live the life that you came here for.

When you live from your essence, you tap into your passion. When you open up to your passion, you open up to Spirit, the universal field of intention that supports expansion of life.

As you decide to become receptive to your innermost longing, you’ll percolate your highest energy into what you need to do. You’re saying yes to life. You’re saying yes to living on purpose. You’re saying yes to a mission that will mold you and lift you to be all that you can be, to do all that you can do, and to have all that makes your life resonate with grace.

When you make choices based on love, on hope, on purpose, you’ll find that time brings change.

I celebrate you this day because your clear intention to open up your heart will bring, like the rolling thunder of a wave breaking against the shore, your amazing unfolding.

Thinking about thinking is called meta-thinking. It’s value is that it can make you a better thinker because you realize how many more options you have to innovate new ideas and birth new experiences.

Thinking accurately is the process of organizing knowledge.  It has many dimensions.

These dimensions are general thinking and special thinking.  In these dimensions are sub-dimensions.

In addition, knowledge, too, is something that has many dimensions.

Knowledge is something that we think of as one dimensional. I think it’s because we record it through written symbols, but when you think about it, it is multi-dimensional.

Any unit of knowledge, any perception, from a word, number or line to an object or a living creature has multi-dimensions.

Here, for example, are some dimensions:

internal/external, sight/sound/texture, light/sound, time/space, vertical/horizontal.

So, to understand something more deeply, it pays to look at what dimensions it has and observe each one and how it interacts with the other dimensions.

This would give more of a holistic perspective.

General Thinking

This is where most people spend most of their mental lives. This is the usual type of thinking: daydreaming, fretting, and mulling over things.

It’s unsystematic, disorganized, distracting, and almost completely useless.

Even if a good idea does show up here, either self-conceived or other-received, it does not mature and soon fades into oblivion.

This type of thinking is mainly what conventional schools, political systems, corporations, religious traditions, and advertisers prey on to fulfill their own vested interests. This is the state of elementary cognition where beliefs are accepted without analysis and orders are taken without question.

The emotion that accompanies this type of thinking is mild unease to major restlessness. It’s the place where people live lives of quiet desperation.

Special Thinking

This is where the minority of people, the few who make a difference, spend a portion of their time. It’s because this level of thinking is so intense that even those who do spend time here can’t sustain it for a long time.

There are four main classes, with each class splintering into numerous subclasses.

Non-Thinking

This is the domain of seasoned meditaters and the spiritually enlightened. At this level anything is possible from instant manifestation to brilliant ideas without precedence. It’s where ideas that change the world show up.

It is very hard to get into this place of complete detachment and mindfulness, awareness without constructs.

In this mental state, all inquiry ceases and an overwhelming appreciation begins for even the smallest things.

Here, in this place, the ordinary appears miraculous.

The thinking that happens here is almost completely intuitive. It is not mindlessness but mindfulness. It is the emptiness that accepts everything without attachment or aversion, without resistance.

The emotion that accompanies this state is either bliss or ineffable peace.

Inspired Thinking

This is the state that happens to someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about something then gives up thinking about it. Usually, the conscious mind, after a burst of intense inquiry, gives up trying to understand something. Later, when a person is not thinking about anything in particular, the answer appears, seemingly out of nowhere.

Scientists, artists, inventors enjoy this type of thinking often.

The emotion that accompanies this type of thinking is usually frustration followed by exaltation.

Creative Thinking

This is the state that follows from doing creative work, writing, painting, sculpting. The right hemisphere, activated by these sensory-enriching activities and almost sensual experiences, comes up with original permutations.

The emotion that accompanies this type of thinking is that of a subtle but intense excitement.

Strategic Thinking

This is the state that follows from using a specific thinking style. It’s a pragmatic approach to resolving problems by following a linear sequence of preselected, open-ended questions. Most think tanks use specific filters to organize information. As information is processed through these filters, it rearranges itself into new permutations.

Thinking can be fun if you can learn to step out of general thinking. It can even change your life beyond belief.

Law of Attraction Thinking

Now, I’d like to talk about thinking styles that relate to the Law of Attraction

General Thinking

This is reactive thinking. It’s thinking about what you see, hear, and touch. This is relying on your external senses to tell you about the world. If you’re living in a good reality, this can be a pleasant experience. If you’re stuck in a reality that you dislike, this can be a challenging experience. Most people stay stuck in thinking this way. This is the mental state where necessity molds outcomes.

Special Thinking

This is procreative thinking. It’s thinking about what you want to see, hear, and touch. This is using the mind’s eye, ear, and touch to revise the reality you’re living in. If you’re living in a good reality, you can imagine how it can be even better. If you’re stuck in a reality that you dislike, this can challenge you to new heights of imagination. This is the mental state where possibility shapes outcomes.

Most people on this website fluctuate between both these mental states. Those who persist in special thinking find that things are manifesting quickly for them. Those who feel resistance to special thinking, find themselves stuck in general thinking; they struggle to believe “in the evidence of things not seen.”

In the last part of this topic, we will look at two highly sophisticated ways to bring even more of your intelligence “online” so that you can consciously create major breakthroughs in your life.

Two Powerful Techniques

There are two powerful techniques that have evolved in world history to create unforgettable and innovative thinkers. In cultures where a preponderance of thinkers appeared, like Ancient Greece and Renaissance Italy, these ideas created artistic and scientific revolutions.

One technique is using the mind’s eye to envision new patterns.

The other technique is using language to evolve a whole new perspective.

The Visual School

Most discoveries in the past couple of centuries appear to have been due to right hemisphere processing of information after the left hemisphere had given up in bewilderment.

Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz , aka August Kekulé, who lived from 7 September 1829 to 13 July 1896, was a German organic chemist. The principle founder of the theory of chemical structure, he was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe.

After exhausting his analytical thinking about a problem in chemistry, his breakthrough occurred while dozing in front of a fireplace and dreaming about entangled snakes swallowing their own tails. This revealed the structure of the benzene ring. His discovery became the basis of organic chemistry.

Elias Howe, who lived from July 9 1819 to October 3 1867, was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer. Puzzled over where to place the eye of the needle in his machine, he went to bed one night and dreamed of cannibals. As he was being boiled alive in a giant pot, he noticed that the spears appeared to have holes near the heads. This was how he designed his needles, with holes near the heads.

Nikola Tesla, who lived from 10 July 1856 to 7 January 1943, was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Some argue that he was the greatest electrical scientist that ever lived. The SI unit measuring magnetic flux density or magnetic induction was named in his honor. He pioneered wireless energy transfer to wireless power electronic devices and aspired to use this for the intercontinental transmission of industrial energy levels. Many electrical breakthroughs can be traced back to him. He also contributed to robotics, remote control, radar and computer science, and to ballistics, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics. His electrical genius far exceeded that of Thomas Edison, who worked through the process of painful trial and error. He would literally see machines in his mind’s eye and perfect them before he duplicated them in his laboratories. Again, his discoveries relate to accessing the visual aspect of thinking.

Albert Einstein, who lived from 14 March 1879 to 18 April 1955 is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.” His illustrious career began as a daydream when he was a boy. He imagined a “train ride on a beam of light” It taught him theories of relativity. This remade the whole of physics. It also remade the whole of science.

The techniques used by all these people were similar. They researched, got stuck, and either had a night dream or a day dream that revealed how things worked. In other words, they started out with an intensive left brain inquiry, gave up, and found their answer revealed through the images of the right hemisphere.

The Dialogue School

How could a a few thousand citizens, mostly soldiers, olive farmers, or political mavericks have created the phenomena we now record in history as Classical Greece? How could this paltry number produce more culture and genius than all earth’s 6 billion people during the past 50 years?

Similarly, how could Renaissance Europe radically repeat the same creative outburst?.

The answer is that our educational system across the world is not even close to what they used.

Education today is didactic. Someone speaks, an authority figure, and everyone else listens. The result is passive learning, poor retention, and a silent hatred for learning, with all its associated pain of punishment for not meeting selected standards of approval.

Following the Industrial Revolution schools focused on creating factory workers, passive people who take orders without question. Factories have thinned but the same mentality persists to feed the labor needs of corporations.

The revolution in those two outbreaks of cultural giants was due to the use of dialogue.

Dialogue can be broken up into two techniques:

Passionate discussion about ideas. These discussions were aimed at finding truth as opposed to winning approval for outwitting your rival. When two or more people engage in a rich, open-ended, non-intimidating discussion about something, ideas evolve at a tremendous rate.

Description into detail. By describing more and more of what comes to mind more and more can come to mind, until a whole new perspective breaks through and something original is created. William Blake, who lived from 28 November 1757 to 12 August 1827, was an English poet and painter who may have tried this method because he said that in even an ordinary grain of sand you will discover the universe. Since modern physics now describes the universe as holographic, he may have been more literal than poetic.

By training your ability to envision, spending time with people whom you can talk to on a deeply satisfying level, and by describing something in detail, you force your brain out of its habitual patterns into something new and revolutionary.

Over time, these simple skills can change your life for the better. When you think differently, think more extensively and think more deeply, you can’t help but evolve a whole new perspective on everything.

Before I use the metaphor of a quantum leap for self-development, I’ll briefly describe what the term actually means in quantum mechanics. (And no, quantum mechanics, are not the guys who work at Mr. Quantum’s garage.)

In physics, a quantum leap or jump is a change of an electron from one orbit to another within an atom. It is discontinuous. The electron jumps from one energy level to another in a flash. No time has elapsed between its position in one orbit and its appearance in another. No space has been traveled. It goes from here to there without moving and without a loss of time.

This behavior appears nonsense to us. But it is literally none sense. It is beyond the senses to comprehend.

The phenomenon contradicts classical theories, which have been taught since the time of Newton. We are educated to expect energy levels to be continuous.

Quantum leaps cause the emission of electromagnetic radiation. This occurs in the form of quantized units called photons.

In the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom, the observed energy shifts associated with shifts of different quantum states is actually small when compared to the energy required to completely free an electron.

In the popular use of this phrase, a quantum leap is both continuous and a large or significant change.

Basically, the 45 day challenge is a way to challenge all your presuppositions about who you are and what you can do and have. Being here and participating means making a quantum leap to a new relationship to life.

A quantum leap, then, is both a revolutionary change and an evolutionary one. It’s revolutionary because you have become discontinuous with your old patterns. It’s evolutionary because your new pattern is astonishing.

At one time, you’re barely able to pay the rent; at another time, you’re living in a mansion.

At one time, you’re struggling to overcome loneliness; at another time, you’re surrounded by adoring friends.

These are quantum leaps: a shift from foolishness to wisdom, from chaos to order, from calamity to grace, from scarcity to abundance.

What makes these changes fascinating and bewildering is their magnitude.

How, then, do you make a quantum leap?

You do three things:

1. You create an intention that is clear and unequivocal.

2. You clear your resistance to it using an emotional healing technique.

3. You do manifestation exercises and take inspired action as you step into synchronicity.

Once you can create a resonance that aligns with where you want to be, then you will make a quantum leap.

If your doing something and you want to improve your effects, here are 4 strategies to do it. These are well-known strategies used by think-tanks to boost productivity in corporations. However, these ideas can work with equally amazing results for self-development projects.

For the sake of illustration, we will call your project by the name X. I’m also making the assumption that X is the challenge you’re working on and that it has a quantitative element to it. The multipliers, except for the last one, do not work well with qualitative challenges. But since X is an unknown variable, there are exceptions.

While, for the sake of clarity, I’ll keep this idea-based rather than anecdotal, you can develop the idea based on how it will apply to X. Of course, dependent on the nature of X, one or more strategies can apply.

Chain Reaction Strategy

If X has a process of steps, then apply a 10 percent improvement to each step. The result will be 10% times 10% times 10% etc.

Multiplier Effect

Assume that you have 100% of X. Keep 20% in reserve and allocate 80% out. This 80% will then generate a return. Again, apply the 20/80 rule to the new return. In this way, you’ll create a cycle of increasing resources.

Domino Effect

Project X will fuel Project Y, which, in turn, will fuel Project Z.

Kai Zen

As you work on X, it will improve. It will become X+1. Now apply improvements to X+1. It will create X+2. Over time, your results will be exponential with each generation of X increasing in value.

I apologize if this post appears dry and abstract. But once you apply it to X, you’ll see the juice. I’ve kept it brief, cut the math down to nothing, and spared you the agony I used to feel as I read through psychological abstracts.

How do we break through to a new reality?

We do it by learning new ideas and owning them through study and practice. We persist in our experimentation, until we have created a new paradigm. When we can permeate and inhabit this paradigm, then we have successfully transformed. Transformation is moving from a lower state of being to a higher state of being; it is upgrading our form; it is becoming increasingly more powerful, efficient, and expressive.

But the old paradigm that keeps us locked in lower orders of functioning and experiencing will not easily yield. It will resist dissolution. It will fight for its artificial life. It’s not enough to pummel it with new knowledge, reinforce this knowledge through lived experience, associate with new friends, and begin penetrating more enriched environments.

Something else has to happen before the old paradigm gives way. This something is release work.

Release work of old energetics is necessary for you to pour out the old wine. You will not have new wine until all the old wine is poured out.

In Matthew 9:17, we hear “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.”

Our language has changed but the same riddle of the human condition persists.

How do you discover a new reality generated from your dreams rather than one imposed upon you by your agreement with consensus reality?

There is something that needs to be unearthed and dissolved. There is something that has to be released from your psyche.

What is it that needs to be released from old paradigms, what is it that needs to be poured out from old wineskins, before you can live in a new reality?

It is core reluctance.

A core reluctance is an archaic subconscious program that keeps you doing, feeling, experiencing what you’re experiencing; it is the old paradigm that keeps you stagnant, the old wine that is now bitter.

A core reluctance initially stays in place because it hides from view. You only discover it by inference because you notice what is not working in your life. When it is exposed to the light of awareness, it then fights to survive by insisting that if offers a valuable payoff that keeps you safe. This last gambit has to be answered before the core reluctance is dissolved.

Here is an example.

You find your body is stiff with aches and pains, tense muscles, tight joints and ligaments. As you stretch, emotions arise: fear, sorrow, loneliness. As you introspect on these emotions you discover the payoff. As a child you felt safe because your fear kept you away from menacing adults, your sorrow won you sympathy, and your loneliness kept you isolated and away from dangerous situations. As a child these responses may have served their purpose in keeping you safe. Yet as an adult, these inner games keep you locked into poverty, bad relationships, and success reluctance.

This is your core reluctance.

You can overlay it with new ideas, actions, and resources, but the energy is still active and it will arise and sabotage your splendid new paradigm when you run out of enthusiasm, when you fatigue, when you experience a loss that makes you feel vulnerable. This core reluctance will sabotage your new paradigm. It is an emotional landmine waiting for you to accidentally step on it.

The core reluctance is the hidden menace that makes self-sabotage possible.

If you wish to progress in creating your dream life, you have to clear the ground before you plant new seeds; otherwise, they will mysteriously rot the root of your new tree of life just when it is attaining a certain impressive stature.

Only when you break down a core reluctance can you truly break through to the person you want to be and live the life that makes your heart sing and puts a smile on your face. The journey to heaven is made through a journey through hell. Only when you first visit your core reluctance can you visit your expanded self.

Greatness is not easy, yet everything in evolution calls us to rise beyond everything we have ever known. If you wish to cross the Rubicon, you must first burn your ships. Crossing the Rubicon is a metaphor for deliberately proceeding past a point of no return. The phrase originated with Julius Caesar’s invasion of Ancient Rome when, on January 10, 49 BC, he led his army across the Rubicon River in violation of law, hence making conflict inevitable. Therefore the term “the Rubicon” is used as a synonym to the “point of no return”.

You can only breakthrough to an empowered transformation after you have broken down and dissolved your core reluctance. Resistance to what can be arises from an unconscious defense of a memory of what used to be. When you dissolve resistance, you can be, do, and have anything you dare dream.

Transformation means to move away from the form of something.

During meditation, I came up with this idea on how to move away from the form of things you don’t like to the form of things that you do like. It’s simple to do and if you try it, you’ll find it a powerful method.

Here is my list on how to make lists that will engage you in a process of transformation:

First, write a list of everything that is not working in your life and that you would like to change.

Second, rewrite this first list but flip everything to its opposite.

Third, rewrite this second list as a series of affirmations as if the thing you desired has already happened.

Fourth, write a list based on this third list of all the small things you can do daily to make your affirmations come true.

Allow me to ground this method with an example. I’ll keep this simple by illustrating only one item.

On my first list, I note that I am short on money.

On my second list, I write that I have plenty of money.

On my third list, I write that “money comes easily and frequently to me.”

On my fourth list, I decide to do a small daily task list around money. For example, I will keep track of my expenses and spending. I will organize a schedule. I will make time to learn more about my field. And so on.

This list method provides the following benefits:

–You will get out of the fog of vague ideas about what you need to be doing with your time.

–You will remove the discomfort of a sense of frustration and confusion.

–You will quit wasting time doing things that add no value to your life.

–You will gradually but incrementally build up a positive routine that moves your life forward.

I’ll illustrate the value of this List Method of Transformation with an analogy. Suppose you put $5 in your bank account every day. You put it in a separate account and do not spend it. Over time, you will have a substantial amount. This will then give you the power to make a major change in your life when you finally decide you need to spend it.

Now, doing positive things every day that align with your major definite purpose will give you tremendous leverage in the future to do more and have more.

While I’ve used money as an example throughout this blog, you can do this with anything. In a relationship, for example, your daily deposits might be an act of kindness. For health, your daily deposit might be a half-hour of yoga.

Resistance is the only reason why you can’t manifest rapidly.

Here are some core questions you can use to identify your resistance.

1. When you get qualifying events related to your manifestation what is your emotional response?

2. What is the benefit of not getting what you want?

3. How compelling is your vision?

4. Do you interpret your qualifying events through the filter of past events?

5. What do you believe is possible for you once you have cleared your resistance?

When you answer these questions, you’ll identify what is holding you back from thinking, feeling, and acting in a way that will attract your desires.

While your conscious mind, the part of you that you identify as you, is responsible for creating your world through will and idea, it is really your subconscious mind that supplies the power for things to show up. The effortless way is best. Easy does it.

Effort shows up in resistance to making your dreams come true. If you’re making a tremendous amount of effort, you’re pushing through a lot of resistance. Once you let the resistance go, your work will flow spontaneously, even joyfully.

Resistance is not logical. It is, in fact, the essence of irrationality. People resist money, love, health, positive change, learning new things, and spiritual evolution. They do it unconsciously, for the most part.

Somewhere in childhood, in a forgotten place and time, you made a decision that money, love, well-being, curiosity, and yearning for divine union were not safe. This decision was made by the child you once used to be. It has the logic and impulsive decisiveness of a child. It suited a childish strategy to get along with parents, siblings, and peers.

Yet, as an adult, it does not serve you. Since you can’t remember the event, you just feel the tug of reluctance. You feel reluctant to improve your life. You feel reluctant to escape your self-imposed restrictions. You feel reluctant to end cyclical dysfunctional patterns.

The best way to clear resistance is the following:

1. Notice what is showing up and not showing up in relation to your challenge.

2. Use the five power questions to identify your blocks.

3. Use the Sedona Method or E.F.T. to clear the resistance.

You serve neither yourself nor the world by playing small and pushing your ideal life far away. Reach for a life of beauty, intelligence, compassion, love, and wealth. You deserve it. If you drop your resistance, you’ll live in the fullness of your dreams. Drop your resistance to expressing your magnificence.

I’ve been experimenting with various manifestation techniques.

Here is a list of my favorites.

1. The Ah Method.

Sit in a meditation posture. Bring the procreative energy up your spine and into your third eye. Hold an image of what you desire before projecting it out through your third eye. You can even think of your third eye as a movie projector and the universe as the screen you want your movie to feature on.

2. Entering the Gap.

Sit in a meditation posture. Make your mind go blank. Then drop an image into the pool of emptiness. Stay in the state of emptiness for a while. In this meditation, you need to have prior meditation experience, as this is how you can train your thoughts to stop. Once, you enter the silence, you transcend mind, which is locked into time. In this timeless place beyond mind, in the gap between thoughts, a manifestation happens rapidly.

3. Borrowing Feelings

Sit in a meditation posture. Think of a time when you felt really good. Project that feeling rapidly into your present moment through a tunnel and send it out into your future. You should feel the tingle of excitement as you rapidly swish the feeling into the future time.

In all three methods, I find that doing them as a meditation works best because you are in alpha or theta consciousness, which is much more focused and powerful.

In addition, you can add even more power to them through these affirmations which I got from the Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy.

AFFIRMATION (repeat slowly, quietly, and lovingly several times a day)

Infinite intelligence leads and guides me in all my ways. Perfect health is mine and the Law of Harmony operates in my mind and body. Beauty, love, peace, and abundance are mine. The principle of right action and divine order govern my entire life. I know my major premise is based on the eternal truths of life, and I know, feel and believe that my subconscious mind responds according to the nature of my conscious mind thinking.

BEFORE MEDITATION (repeat prior to going into a manifestation meditation)

The infinite intelligence which gave me this desire leads, guides, and reveals to me the perfect plan for the unfolding of my desire. I know the deeper wisdom of my subconscious mind is now responding, and what I feel and claim within is expressed in the without. There is balance, equilibrium, and equanimity.

AFTER MEDITATION (repeat immediately after a manifestation meditation)

My subconscious knows the answer. It is responding to me now. I give thanks because I know the infinite intelligence of my subconscious mind knows all things and is revealing the perfect answer to me now. My real conviction is now setting free the majesty and glory of my subconscious mind. I rejoice that it is so.

I’m beginning to think of the subconscious mind as a magical inner child.

It’s magical because it has unimaginable powers: ranging from its enormous computing power to process trillions of biological events each minute to its psychic power and ability to attract anything you need in your life.

It may be argued that the subconscious mind accesses much of its superpowers through the super-conscious mind, which is also called the Universal Mind, the mind of all that is known. Yet, whether or not this is true remains a philosophical question because it is something we cannot trace. While science has made huge progress in exploring the phenomenal, including things that are very small, very large, or very far away, it becomes helpless when exploring the noumenal.

Practically speaking, we can say that we know consciousness exists although we can’t measure its location or quantity or quality with any known instrument. Similarly, practically speaking, our conscious request must first be sent to the subconscious mind before we can manifest anything, whether it is an answer, a healing, or a resource we need from the environment.

We request what we need from the subconscious mind by using its particular language: this is the language of images and feelings. The subconscious mind is the dreaming mind. It is often assumed to be entirely a right brain phenomena and to function optimally at alpha and theta brainwaves.

Thus, to use the subconscious mind to create something, to make an intention into an actuality, you need to visualize and feel it. Of course, this can lead to another discussion on what is the best way to visualize and
feel and techniques abound on how to do it.

We’ve spoken about the magical element of the subconscious mind: its enormous intellectual, psychic, and manifesting powers. The subconscious mind is what creates all the breakthroughs of scientific discoveries, all the phenomena we call psi, and all the marvelous manifestations that you and I discuss about in our blogs and forum posts.

Yet the subconscious mind is also like a child. It is innocent, undisciplined, and can be equally constructive or destructive.

The inner parent, in this analogy, would be our conscious mind. It is that aspect of us that we use to experience the world and make decisions on what things mean and the best way to do things.

When the inner parent is confused, with a conflicted sense of will and direction, a person experiences a life that is rife with failure and frustration. This person has low self-esteem and disturbed relationships with others, has financial and health problems, and appears to consistently experience bad luck in everything they do. All this chaos, reflected in a dysfunctional relationship with life itself, arises because the subconscious mind is out of control. This subconscious mind is using the reversal of intelligence, psychic power, and manifestation. It is intently mis-creating.

Yet the reverse is also true. When the inner parent is clear in its intentions, a person experiences a life that reflects astonishing success in health, wealth, and relationships. This person is congruent in everything they say, think, and do. They are trusted by others and contribute greatly to humanity.

What makes the difference between a highly-functional person and a dysfunctional person? Yes, it has a great deal to do with genetics and social conditioning, but there is something else as well, something even more essential to understand: the relationship between the inner parent and inner child.

Before we talk more about the inner parent and inner child relationship, the relationship between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind, let us pause briefly to look at real parents and real children.

There are parents who raise their children well, giving them structure, boundaries, and encouragement. These children grow up to lead successful, even outstanding lives. Similarly, there are parents who are “children raising children.” These immature parents allow their children to figure things out for themselves and these children generally grow up to be confused adults.

Similarly, we can see how an inner parent can raise their inner child well or poorly.

A ‘good’ inner parent will be gentle but firm with their inner child. They will give it directions on what is expected. They make decisions based on values. They decree what needs to be done or not done.

Thus, a good inner parent would say something like: “I exercise daily to increase my health and vitality.” This then trains the subconscious mind to be alert to the value of health and makes the person automatically disciplined in pursuing a healthy lifestyle.

By contrast, a bad inner parent would say something like: “I don’t feel like exercising; I know it’s good for me, but I’m feeling tired and lazy.” The subconscious mind is then trained to associate lying on the couch, eating salty potato chips and watching violent or childish movies fun and exciting.

One event may not make or break a life, but a series of disciplined or undisciplined behaviors extended over time can have a huge impact.

The root causation of quality of life is the inner parent. The quality of the inner parent creates the quality of the inner child; this, in turn, creates the quality of life the person lives.

Most people do not realize that they, rather than anyone or anything else, are responsible for their lives. Life appears to happen to them. They are not at cause. They are not on purpose. And generally when things are allowed to run their course, they lean more towards entropy then negentropy.

Really, it does not matter how educated you are in metaphysics, psychology, or any other discipline that promotes self awareness and our relationship to the whole, what matters most is the relationship between the inner parent and the inner child.

Since most real parents and most real children have neither great nor terrible relationships, most real children grow up to have lives with equally mixed results. Similarly, most people have the same mixed results arising from a combination of both good and bad inner parenting.

This ambiguity of results is what creates confusion.

Yet when you look at parenting from a more stark and idealistic perspective, the idea that good parenting results in successful and happy children becomes more apparent.

Yet there is one point where the idea of parenting as an analogy for the inner relationship with the conscious and subconscious mind breaks down. It is not a small point. The subconscious mind is no ordinary child. It is a magical child, whose powers far exceed that of the inner parent. It is also a naive child and will misuse its powers based on what directions it gets from its inner parent.

The enormous discrepancy between the inner parent and inner child makes the situation much more volatile. Most neurosis is a result of poor inner parenting. When this neurosis is pushed to an extreme, it can become psychosis. The enormous power of the subconscious mind is something that can make the difference between a Nobel-winning scientist and an unintelligent person, between a saint and a psychopath.

The conventional, reductionist worldview holds that the universe is an intelligently organized flux of infinite matter. It is functional form that never ends.

Yet the view of ancient mystics and leading edge physicists is that the universe is permeated with consciousness and that the intelligence of its design and intricate functionality and organization is intentional.

What is marvelous and almost unbelievable is that we are shareholders of this intentionality. By manipulating our own thoughts, feelings, and sensations we can align and draw to us experiences and things that will make our lives fuller and more enjoyable.

We call this participation as co-creation and using the Law of Attraction. We have delved into the various experiences people have had with it and created techniques and schools of thought on how to be decent magicians.

Yet the real secret to becoming an enlightened magician is not in mastering occult philosophy or quantum physics, learning the language of co-creation, or adopting subtle mind technologies. The secret to transforming ourselves and our environment is tuning into vibrations.

Everything that exists vibrates. The electron whirls vibrationally, as does the particle and wave. The sun whirls vibrationally, as do the planets and moons. The music of the spheres and the song of creation can be heard subliminally on all levels, microscopic and macroscopic.

If you step away from the marching band of collective consciousness because you hear the beat of a different drummer it is because, vibrationally, you’re attuned to something else that is going on within and around you.

As an apprentice magician, you may have both success and failure in manifestation. Does this mean that the Law of Attraction works sometimes but not at other times, for some people and not for others?

No, this only means that your results are entirely due to your ability to tune in and turn on. Tune in to the vibrations of what it is that you want and turn on that energy to flow toward you.

Everything has a vibration and by the use of your imagination, you can attune to the vibration of what it is that you want to have show up in your experience. When you get the resonance down, you will have your desire. When you miss the beat, your desire eludes you like a mirage.

Think of yourself as a tuning-fork. Dedicate adjusting your thoughts, feelings, and sensations to vibrating at the same frequency of your desire and it will show up for you.

Get the tune right and you’ll be singing your way to the bank or humming your way to your lover’s arms.

As our world around us collapses, our institutions run out of money to uphold their structures, our economic and political systems scramble for stability, and our social, religious, and personal agendas run contrary to our hopes and expectations, we are forced to take a long, hard look at what we have been doing both individually and collectively.

One thing that emerges is we have failed to align with an essential principle of nature: the principle of circulation. Nature is about circulation, the ebb and flow of giving and receiving, the expenditure and renewal of resources, the cycle of the seasons, of biorhythms, of ecology.

It all comes down to a single spiritual principle: sharing.

Nature is abundant and it creates this abundance by freely sharing its bounty.

Human beings and civilizations run contrary to this idea of circulation. Instead hoarding, separation, alienation and a mad scramble for power has resulted in a world of scarcity and deprivation. Most of the world’s resources belong to a few countries and even in those countries most of the wealth is distributed amongst only a small population. There is something wrong in a world where the bulk of the 6 billion people want for clean drinking water, food, and shelter.

If things are falling apart at a rapid rate it is because of this violation of natural law.

When I speak about sharing, I’m not talking about enabling and I’m not denying that those who prosper did so because they expressed more will and talent than others around them.

I’m talking about cooperation of resources, empowerment of people, teaching what works to those who are willing to learn how to improve their lives.

As each of us changes, we send out a ripple effect, a wave of influence that is contagious. Social studies have shown that a single person who is happy creates a positive influence on those he or she associates with and this in turn causes them to spread the happiness. Happiness can have a viral effect.

An idea that has a wide social impact is called a meme. This, as defined by Wikipedia, is a postulated unit or element of cultural ideas, symbols or practices that gets transmitted from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena.

Now consider the meme of sharing with abandon.

As we give of our time, money, attention, and joy, we precipitate multiple returns for ourselves and we spread loving-kindness because of our decision to share with abandon.

The more you spread your light, the more the quality of your life expands. You can even say that your rate of personal growth is directly related to the rate of your generosity.

Again, I’m not talking about codependency, martyrdom, or reckless giving until it hurts. I’m talking about giving resources from a place of plenty, of sharing knowledge from a place of wisdom, of giving love from a place of genuine compassion. If you steal from yourself to give to another, then both you and the receiver collapse into a neurotic cycle of resentment and guilt. This is not a healthy expression of the natural law of abundance. It is not circulation. It is merely redistribution of scarcity.

There is a place for you on this planet to be creative and express your dreams. The way you do this is by sharing more of who you are as a person. When you share your gifts with life, it shares its gifts with you. Everyone prospers. Circulation! This is a key solution to how we as a species can survive the current economic meltdown. As Mohandas Gandhi is often quoted as saying, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

There is a subtle technique used by yogis to manifest anything fast. Those who are highly-skilled in this technique have been reported to manifest something instantly.

But before I explain this technique, there are a few things you need to understand about consciousness. In particular, how consciousness expresses itself as you.

You are a soul, a seed consciousness of divine consciousness, possibly even a hologram
of divine consciousness, and you are in neither time nor space.

(Of course, time and space do not exist separately. Einstein showed that nothing can happen in space without time. Similarly, nothing can happen in time without a place it happens in. So space-time is more accurate. However, since language is linear and sequential, I discuss them here as if they were two separate variables.)

As mentioned in earlier blog posts, consciousness penetrates matter but is itself independent of it. You yourself transcend matter, although, as far as you or anyone else can tell, all that expresses you arises in form.

In time, you are in the eternal now, so past and future dissolve as fictions of the mind. Hence, you are not in linear time.

In space, you are between the two “on” aspects of quantum reality. You are the “off” aspect. Hence, you, the essential you, are not in space.

In mind, you are that awareness of everything between two thoughts. Hence, you are not in mind.

Something not mentioned in most teachings about manifestation is the role of time and mind.

If you want to manifest fast, you have to do it beyond mind.

This is a very subtle thought: you are not your mind. Since mind is enmeshed in time-space, your fastest manifestation is when you transcend your mind.

You do this by finding the space between thoughts.

Once you find that space, that interval between two thoughts, hold up an image of what you desire. Then let it all go and it will show up for you fast.

Basically, then, there are two ways to manifest.

One, is with the mind. A thought charged with feeling and released will show up as an event. This is the slow way.

Two, is beyond mind. Here an image held in the space between two thoughts will show up as an event. This is the instant to fast way.

The way to acquire the skill to even notice when you are between two thoughts is learning and applying meditation. (By the way, your noticing is done with awareness, not thinking.)

Meditation is the art of learning to be silent of mental chatter and being supremely focused on the moment.

It is the skill of meditation that creates the skill of being able to notice the space between two thoughts.

Manifestation is very difficult if you have a neurotic mind: one that flips between anxiety and depression. This reactive mind keeps canceling the offer wave that you put out. So, cultivating a calm mind, and beyond that cultivating awareness of your own thinking, is one of the essential ways to become a superb manifester.

We’ve all heard about Attention Deficit Disorder.

But have you heard about Intention Deficit Disorder?

Most people live hazy, vague lives. They don’t fall in love with the mystery of life. They suffer from Intention Deficit Disorder.

When you set your intentions, you create an open channel for plenitude. You step away from shifting sands and onto a rock of salvation.

Intention is a force-field that links everything everywhere together to help you become your best self. It is the field of limitless ideas. When we tune in to our own authentic intuitions, we birth a world we can delight in, a world that expresses our highest calling, our most noble endeavor, our most cherished ideal.

Acknowledging the flow of creative ideas within you is the first step to mastering your life. When you call upon the creative urge within you, you enter the field of intentionality. You start to live a life of purpose. You resign from your identification with collective consciousness and align yourself with the thrust of cosmic consciousness.

When you step out of the ordinary, you can feel your soul ascending; you start to do things that make you feel alive; you’re on your way to something bigger than you can now imagine. It’s never too late to set a clear intention and choose a new and different direction for you life, one that brings peace, joy, fulfillment.

An intention is planting your precious dream seed. It’s your heart-connection with the ground of being, with the purpose of life, with the promise of the Universe.

You are an incredible spiritual being, loaded with talent. The day you set a clear intention for your life will be a day of great meaning. It is a day you step forward and begin a new story. It’s a day you will have taken control of your life and paved your own path. It’s an inspiring journey of faith, vision, affirmations, prayer, and ever-expanding awareness.

If you have not done so already, set your intention. You’ll begin an adventure in prosperity, tapping into those streams of abundance that mean the most for you.

Although your intention is your own personal beacon, you’ll become an enduring light for everyone. You will, by your example, bring hope to the eyes of the hopeless. You will, by your example, be the single thread that connects us all.

A powerful way to rise above the prevailing conversation about lack, limitation, and loss as we watch spiritually and ecologically maladaptive organizations crumble is to set intentions for prosperity.

We don’t have to buy into the media-induced trance, mistaking its biased message for the greater life. While it is working hard to complicate our quest, we can choose contrariety. We can choose to free ourselves from scarcity-thinking.

When we have perceptions of limitations we lock ourselves in a box and create separation from our own infinite possibilities. It’s only a choice away to make ourselves available to the plenitude of the natural cosmic order.

We can, in fact, think of the recession as an invitation to renew our resourcefulness. We can call upon our creative urge to acknowledge the flow of new ideas. This entire process of breaking free from cultural chaos and breaking through to personal progress begins with setting our intention.

Intentions can be broken up into four main pillars.

One, our overarching intention. We can choose prosperity consciousness, enacting and embodying a consciousness of congruency and positive expression.

Two, our moment-by-moment intention. We can choose to stand on spiritual principles and recognize source as our supply rather than mistaking our collapsing channels of income as our only hope. When we do this we become immune to prevailing chaos. The things we need to happen show up for us.

Three, our intention to share with abandon. When we consistently and joyously give, we step into the ever-flowing circulation of universal supply and demand. We align with the flow of cosmic well-being. When we give of our time, money, involvement, and happiness all that we give returns to us multiplied. When we spend our life-force, it expands at the rate of our generosity.

Four, our intention of gratitude. When we adopt an attitude of gratitude, we open a channel of plenitude. We stand on a rock, rather than on shifting sands. It is done unto us as we appreciate what we have already received.

In a recession, or at any other time, intentions grounded in principle means we’re never bound by precedent. When we choose the Universal force-field as our source, we are gifted with an instant, constant, and eternal supply.

Intentions allow us to collapse the wave frequency of our fondest dream and moves it from potentiality into actuality.

Most people wander the world asleep and the people who are awake live in a state of constant and never-ending amazement.~Joe Vs. Volcano

As we stretch ourselves beyond our previous definitions, our egoic mind feels threatened and attacks us with relentless angst.

The ego has a job. It wants to keep us safe. It does this by forcing us to stay within our comfort zones. It does this even when our comfort zone is killing us softly.

The soul, too, has a job. It’s mission is to explore new dimensions of thoughts, feelings, and sensations through the human body. It intuits new possibilities. It loves novel permutations of ancient themes. It seeks expansion and growth. It seeks contribution. It seeks to know itself through love. It seeks to become fully itself through wisdom.

As these two forces of consciousness battle within, the world displays contradictory manifestations. Sometimes are desires are met. At other times, they are dashed to the ground.

Personal growth, ultimately, is about courage; and courage is about perseverance through turmoil, patience with resistance, and passion for our quest.

The battle is one of power vs force. The battle is for the old ways vs the new ways. The battle is for the old self in a familiar and predictable world vs the new self in a more dynamic and alive world.

The soul uses power. This is the power of its own divine nature. Ghandi called this soul-power satygraha. It means the force of truth. This power is subtle. It’s as subtle as the wind shaping a desert landscape. It’s as subtle as waves eroding a cliff.

Ultimately, power wins because it never wavers, it never dissipates. Power presses on relentlessly, even past the life span of the human form if necessary.

The egoic mind uses force. Initially, this is much more impressive. It is the force of emotions, of form in motion, of inner storms and outer conflicts. It’s dramatic. It’s even violent. But, over time, like the armies of a dictator, it collapses within its own chaotic energy field.

Eventually, the soul always wins. It has eternity on its side. It has truth. It has the support of the entire universe. It is, in essence, invincible.

In the battle, the inner battle, between the irresistible soul and the immovable ego, the immovable ego, subject to time, space, destiny finally collapses into oblivion. Then the story of incarnation is over and a new adventure in the expansion of consciousness begins on another plane of existence.

When the soul wins you become filled with amazement at the beauty of life.

I find it fascinating that the universe described by mystics and scientists appears to have very little relationship to how we experience the world from the point of view of a personality in the world.

The world of objects breaks down into energy and information. These objects are not consistently whole but are made up of subatomic particles that appear and disappear. At a fundamental level, far too small and quick for the human eye or brain, the universe is blinking on and off. This fluctuation between absence and presence is at the speed of light. It also happens at the quantum level. Everything is in a state of discontinuity. The fundamental nature of reality is one of discontinuity. At a fundamental level, the universe appears and disappears.

The reason we do not experience any of this, of course, is because of the nature of our senses. We see everything as both solid and stable. We see continuity.

In the old reductionist model, the universe was an evolution of matter and consciousness was an epiphenomena. This Newtonian world-view was predictable. It made sense to our senses. Yet after the Special and General Theory of Relativity, after Quantum Mechanics, after String Theory, the universe has become a very strange place indeed.

Consciousness, itself, may be the spookiest part of the whole equation. The current speculation is that consciousness resides in the “off” phase of the universe. Consciousness has its home in the interval between the two “on” spaces. The implication of this is staggering. It means that the entire universe is a construct of consciousness because an observer is what collapses the probability waves. If there was no observer, objects would not exist other than in potentiality. An observer is necessary to make a time-space event. It also means that consciousness is not in the physical universe itself.

Let’s look at this even closer:

You are not any of the phenomena by which you have come to know and identify yourself. You are not your personality; it is only a conditioned response to the environment. You are not your body; it is something you use to experience the world. You are not your brain; it is something you use to organize your experiences. The consciousness that you are is indescribable and untraceable. You cannot be found in your physiology. Even your thoughts, electrochemical fluctuations, do not explain how you can have cognizance of internal and external events.

Consciousness is not only beaming through you but it is also permeating all of phenomena. It makes everything real but is itself untraceable. No one knows what or where it is but it’s existence is irrefutable. What we consider the common ground of both the person and the world cannot itself be found anywhere. It may, in fact, be outside of the universe in the gap between reality.

Now here is where things get even stranger: Time itself does not exist. There is only an eternal now. Past and future are not real events. They are both imaginary. One is a memory of an event. The other is a projected memory.

Again, the implications, when you consider them are staggering: Historical events and past lives and dimensional lives are all happening simultaneously!

Consider how strange, then, the world we live in.

At a subatomic realm, there is no thing, only energy in flux, probability patterns. No solid substance at all. These energetic patterns blink on and off at the speed of light.

Yet for all these patterns to be considered patterns there has to be an observer, who translates the energy into information through observation. This consciousness does not reside in the energy fluxes but between them. In essence, consciousness does not exist in matter but outside of it.

This consciousness is fundamental to everything but it itself is untraceable and unknowable. It is invisible, intangible, and inaudible.

And, on top of all this, everything that ever was, is, or will be is happening simultaneously.

I’ve been trying this meditation with some good success.

I thought you might like to try it.

It’s one I accidentally made up while meditating.

Afterward, I noticed some wonderful displays of abundance showing up almost immediately.

I started to succeed instantaneously in whatever I was doing. Moreover, more things started to show up. For example, the neighbor unexpectedly showed up with a bag full of groceries! He has never done anything like this before.

Get into your meditation posture, however you like to sit.

Drop down into a deeply relaxed, almost drowsy state, by noticing your breath or counting down.

Notice what you’re feeling.

Now hone in on your feeling, whether it is a good feeling or a bad feeling, and re-interpret it.

Imagine this is a cue for you to start feeling fulfilled!

Dive deeper and deeper into the sense of fulfillment.

Describe to yourself what fulfillment feels like. Focus on what you would like to find fulfilling. If a recent memory was frustrating, think of how it would feel if it had been fulfilling. Imagine many past desires and needs instantly getting fulfilled.

Keep expanding your sense of fulfillment until you feel awesome.

Gradually come down, get in touch with your breathing, open your eyes and go about your day. Notice what happens and feel free to enjoy things spontaneously.

Here’s the secret: once you feel good about money, you’ll have it. The better you feel about it, the more you’ll have of it. Money, like a pet, loves being around people who love and appreciate it.

Be friendly to money and it will be friendly to you.

If it’s running away from you right now, it’s because you don’t make it feel welcome. Clear that feeling and you’ll have much more of it.

Here’s an affirmation you can use: “Money comes frequently and easily to me.”

Now I know money is not an animal, but it sometimes behaves like it has a naive and sensitive personality.

Money, in truth, is neutral. It neither ennobles nor corrupts.

However, it does magnify who you are as a person. It makes bad people worse and good people better. So, if money has had a bad rap, it’s because of media hype of its use as a tool for power and abuse. Yet a lot of wonderful things have been done with money, too. You just don’t get to hear much about it. Good news is not usually popular news.

Forget about all the money myths. They’ll only hurt you.

Start afresh: Make friends with money. Use it to be a good friend to yourself and others. Money likes good company, too.

Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and being the person you want to be.

If you can’t imagine it, you can’t be it. Moreover, you can’t have the things this person has. And, you can’t do the things that this person does.

What would you have to believe to be that person?

If you’re not clear about that ideal person, when would now be a good time to think that person into creation?

See, if you want to have more in your life, or do more with your life, you first need to be the kind of person who makes that reality happen.

The way you become that person in the world is to consciously dream that person into existence.

First, of course, you have to notice where you are now. What are you now believing to be the person you are right now? Specifically, what are you believing about wealth, health, relationships, intelligence, and spirituality?

While it is not easy to simply snap into a new identity, complete with a whole new set of empowering beliefs, it is possible to make a series of new decisions about yourself.

If you are open to the idea of your life being one or two notches better, you have to imagine a future self who is living your dream. It starts with being, then doing, and, finally, having.

Once you understand your true value and deeply accept it, you can then start to project your ideal self.

I first heard of this exercise when reading a book about Tibetan mysticism. Monks would project an ideal image of how their enlightened self would behave.

Similarly, you can project an ideal image of how your successful (and enlightened) self would be in the world.

While you may not have any references on exactly what this person would do, you can always imagine yourself to be someone you admire, then ad lib the details as you move through the day.

Over time, acting on the stage of your life as your future version, you’ll invent and practice enough positive behaviors to become that person. You’ll start to think, feel, and act as that person.

If you’re fed up with all your limiting thoughts, feelings, and actions and if you’re done with creating a frustrating and dysfunctional reality, convert all the things that are not working for you into their imagined opposite, then begin molding your new version of yourself around those parameters.

Let me know what you think of this idea. I’m especially interested in knowing what results you got if you’ve tried it.

If your challenge is to earn more money than you ever have before, then…you’ve got to do what you’ve never done before.

I don’t know what it is for you to do what you’ve never done before, but you’re getting the results you’re getting because of what you’re doing.

If you want to start earning more, even a lot more, you have to start doing new things, things that you’ve never done before, perhaps a lot more things.

Maybe you need to meet more people.

Maybe you need to think more, imagine more, dream bigger.

Maybe you need to feel more deeply about money and connect with the amazing power of total self-sufficiency when it comes to money.

Whatever it is for you, you need to take a look at what you’re now doing and figure how you can do more of what works, or perhaps you just need to start a whole new money game.

Whatever it is you need to do, do more of it.

And here’s another promise…you’ll get the money you need, want, and deserve simply by following this drop dead simple idea.

Makes sense?

Awaken to feeling more alive, vibrant, and passionate.

Awaken to your possibilities.

Awaken to this marvelous adventure of reinventing your life, clearing away the debris of the past and rebuilding anew all the things that make life rich for you.

Allow yourself to connect…

With the peace inside of you.

With the gifts waiting to be expressed.

With the power of your dreams.

Everything you need is right here where you are right now. All the people and events, all the inspiration and resources that you need, can be summoned to you.

There is no need to exhaust yourself seeking, going here and there, pleading for an opportunity to prove yourself, working hard to provide for basic needs, hoping for a break.

You have a friend, a powerful friend. It’s called your imagination. When you use it in a special way, you can become the magician of your own life.

Here is one way to understand it.

You, the one reading this right now, are your conscious mind. This is you as Alladin.

You, the one who creates images and feelings, are your subconscious mind. This is you as the magical lamp.

You, the one who is behind this magnificent creation called the Universe, are your super-conscious mind. This is you as the Genie.

Once you align all these very different parts of you, you step out of the ordinary and embody magic. You can transform one thing into another. Once you rub your lamp and make your wish, your genie will create your miracle.

Behind the ancient tale of Alladin and his Magic Lamp is the secret of the mystics, only now confirmed through the wild and crazy discoveries of Quantum Mechanics.

The world is an even stranger place than you have been led to imagine. It is a place where consciousness is the only reality and everything that appears real is only a projection of consciousness.

Dream big dreams because with your new awareness you have the power to make them come true.

It’s time to retire your old story of a life of hardship, struggle, and insufficiency. That only existed because you bought into the cultural myth that you were inept, powerless, and a fool. Yet, the truth of your being is just the opposite. You are wise, powerful beyond measure, and capable of incredible feats of wonder.

When you awaken to who you really are inside, as a being naturally and always linked to the force field of pure consciousness, you have no more excuses to stop expressing your greatness.

Who you are is magnificent.

It’s your turn now to be awake, alive, vital, and ridiculously happy.

I amness is the root of all reality.

It is the seed of no-form that creates all forms.

It’s center is nowhere; it’s circumference everywhere. It’s here now; it’s never been anywhere else at any time.

Your core identity, the identity before your parents were born, the identity before the earth was created, the identity before the creation of the universe, is, fundamentally, I amness.

The world itself is nothing but an object. Everything in the world is an object. Everything beyond the world is an object. Yet what is that fundamental realness behind the unreal?

An object is something that passes. It changes form. It is unstable. At a subatomic level, it is only an energetic flux of probability.

You, as you understand yourself, are an object. Your name, your body, your social role–all are objects. Even your thoughts and your feelings are objects. They all change, appear and disappear. Thus, this you that you think to be you is not you. You are the fundamental realness that observes, experiences, participates in the unrealness. You are the I amness.

All the mis-identifications, then, are the cause of suffering.

Identification with all embodied expressions of yourself cause suffering. The beauty of your body fades, it’s vitality ebbs and flows; eventually, it will disappear entirely, returning back to the earth from which it derives all its elements. Similarly, your name identification fluctuates. Sometimes, it is praised; at other times, blamed. More flux, more instability, more suffering. Thoughts and emotions, similarly, come and go, like seasons, like tides, like a passing breeze. Clinging to these ephemeral phenomena creates suffering.

Beyond yourself is a world of objects: other people, things, places. It’s an infinite, dizzying, vertiginous sea of ever-changing objects.

Where, then, is peace?

It is not in objects. They change.

It is not in your image of yourself. This changes, too.

With everything consigned to oblivion at some time, it seems that suffering is inevitable.

Yet something remains. It’s invisible. It’s silent. It’s intangible. Fire cannot burn it. Water cannot wet it. A sword cannot harm it. This some-thing is no-thing. Yet, strangely enough, it is the only reality.

The language of the world is distorted. It calls the unreal, real, and the real, unreal. The truth is inverse. The tree of truth is growing upside down. As the Course of Miracles puts it, “What is real cannot be threatened, what is unreal does not exist.”

Objects are not real. They fluctuate. Atomically, they are mainly empty space. They are literally not real.

What is real is the observer of this temporary scene. The observer is not ego, not mind, not body. The observer is you but not as you have to come to define yourself. This observer cannot be defined because it is not related to an object. It is a no-thing.

I amness is real. You can find it at anytime you choose. Stay present and it appears. Divorce yourself from identification with all objects and it appears. Identify with anything and it disappears. Lose track of the moment and become distracted by a passing event, a momentary ripple in space-time, and it disappears.

The more you invite the observer to show up for you, the greater your power of detachment, and the swifter your manifestations.

Why manifest at all? It’s a game consciousness plays with form. It’s a fine game, but it remains only a game, because nothing is real except you, the you of you, the I amness.

Before sentient life, before worlds, before empty space, was an ever-present I amness. After sentient life, after worlds, after empty space, will be an ever-present I amness. Before time, during time, and after time, it is, always is, never wavering.

Peace is possible at any point in your life. All you have to do is choose it. When you embrace I amness, you cannot know anything else. For it is only over-identification with passing phenomena that causes suffering.

Resting in pure awareness, re-cognizing only the I am, observing what comes and goes, you will find peace, the peace that passeth understanding.

“Be still and know that I am God,” said the Bible. Stillness invites I AM.

You are the root of all reality.

You are the creative force that shapes all phenomena.

Can manifestation, then, be really hard? It’s easy to create. You are the creator.

It’s a difficult concept to embrace. We prefer illusion. We prefer identification with the unreal. We have become accustomed to suffering. Yet, from time to time, when you do choose to remember your original face, you’ll find that life is easy.

I’ve been to two self-improvement seminars, and I’ve become much more aware of the dynamics of power vs force. I believe that understanding these two aspects of energy can create a quantum leap in your results.

Dr. David Hawkins described power as grace and force as effort.

Power is the transformation of one thing into another through minimal effort. Power never fades or loses potency after its transforms. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. The ocean, for example, does not exhaust itself despite constantly smashing waves against beaches and cliffs. It has been able to sustain its power of making and smashing waves for eons.

Force, in contrast, is the transformation of one thing into another through maximum effort. Force dissipates itself after creating a transformation. The Roman Empire, for example, despite conquering the entire world and dominating every aspect of civilization, finally collapsed. The centurions exchanged swords for ploughs and married the local farm girls and the colossal architecture and engineering marvels of Rome became tourist attractions.

Now back to the seminars.

In the first seminar, the speaker used force to convince his audience to change their lives for the better. Using powerful, alpha male energy, he challenged their comfort zones and pressed them into transformation. After his seminar, most of his audience fled, abandoning the back table, where he had his products for sale.

In the second seminar, the speaker used power to convince her audience to change their lives for the better. Using nurturing female energy, she honored where people were at and offered the promise of change. After her seminar, most of the audience lingered, flocked to the back table and quickly purchased all her products.

Now, both speakers were on top of their game. Both were authors of international bestsellers and highly paid for their workshops and speaking engagements.

Yet one failed dismally and the other succeeded admirably.

How can this be?

Did one have better ideas than the other, offer more value, make a better promise, invite more transformation? No. In terms of quality of information, reputation, charisma, or any other criteria, they were on par.

You may think that it’s natural for men to use force and women to use power and that the whole issue of who had the more successful seminar was due to the difference in gender.

Yet when you consider that all men and women have anima and animus, male and female qualities, I think we have to look deeper for an answer as to how they got such dramatically different results.

The huge difference in results was that one used force and the other used power.

In many Western cultures, force is admired, even venerated. The strong personality who shows unflinching courage and an unbending will is what enamors public affection. We love movies where the hero is heroic and we love politicians who fight for honor and a better way. Western culture, by and large, has always upheld yang as of supreme value.

In many Eastern cultures, power is admired, even venerated. The humble sage, wise and kind, shrouded in mystery, and able, when pressed, of bestowing miracles is what enamors public affection. Heroism is not an action, but a position. Eastern culture, by and large, has always upheld yin as of supreme value.

The question is not which culture is right, but which culture aligns better with universal laws of creation.

Based on my observation of both speakers, I would lean toward yin, toward power. If it is results you seek, what may be outwardly impressive may not necessarily be what creates desired results.

While, of course, the ideal is balance between yin and yang, for creative work, especially in relation to manifestation, yin appears to be the best fit.

Does yang, then, have no role?

It does, but only after yin has attracted the desired opportunity and resources.

Another way to express it is to say that you should invite your dream in through spirit and bring it to completion through human effort.

Understanding when to use power and when to use force can make all the difference in creating the results that you desire.

Force applied first, prevents power from showing up.

Power alone, without force to sustain it, only works if one is a realized being. Otherwise, opportunity must be followed by effort.

In summary, use power first, then force. Bear in mind, though, that sometimes, if the stars are aligned right, power may carry you through to completion without having to bring in force at all. As we evolve, power penetrates and permeates more, and force becomes less and less necessary. The woman speaker, for example, hardly used any force at all to create a fabulously successful seminar both for herself and her audience.

When you set your intentions, your soul can heal.

When you set your intentions, your soul can express its life purpose.

Without an intention, nothing happens. You stay conflicted and stuck. You drift. Your dreams are as remote as passing clouds.

Without an intention, your gifts lie on the ground like rotting fruit. You slip into anonymity; everything is consigned to oblivion.

Out of your many intentions, an important, even crucial one, is to have a money intention.

Yesterday, I went to a Wealth Seminar. The facilitator, Karen Russo, an international author and speaker has had rave reviews from Bob Proctor, T. Harv Ecker, Michael Bernard Beckwith, and Loral Langeimeir. She spoke of healing our money wounds and getting clear on our intentions for wealth.

I’ll summarize her presentation in this post as her ideas may help you.

Core Ideas

1. Money is an idea in the mind of people. It is a convenient form of exchange. Like any idea it can be manifested easily into physical form. It is as easy to manifest money as it is to manifest hair braids. She illustrated her point by talking about how she ran out of hair braids and casually set an intention to get some more. Then–she found them on the ground when she stepped out of her car, she found them in the gym, she found them in an elevator, and she found them on a nature hike. They were all in mint condition. In fact, she found so many that she had a slide show about them wrapping around her fingers. She manifested hair braids because that was her intention. Since she had little emotional charge attached to getting them, she also had low resistance to them. Hence, they showed up quickly, frequently, and easily. Money can be like that for us, too. It can show up easily.

2. The best way to attract money is to follow spiritual principles. People tend to think of money and spirituality as separate. They think of them as separate as oil and water. Yet it is the lack of money that makes people feel separate from God. It is the lack of money that keeps them locked into a state of grief, fear, and sorrow. Since God is abundance, money is not separate, and to feel lack of abundance is to entertain the idea of separation.

3. Spiritual people who have money embrace their roles as conscious wealth creators. They find their ethical projects are funded, and they consider themselves as stewards of wealth.

4. It is our visions that make our money experience.

5. It is we who choose what paper, coins, and computer digits mean to us. Money itself is a neutral substance.

6. Money itself is about circulation. All of life is about giving and receiving, and money is about giving and receiving time, energy, intelligence, and substance. When we get stuck on either giving or receiving, we interrupt the circulation and suffer scarcity and deprivation.

Money Traps

1. Getting into survival mode. When you get into the mindset of trying to survive, you’ve interrupted the circulation. You stop thinking inventive thoughts. You stop doing productive things. And you’re exhausted all the time. As you get into survival mode, you actually reduce your chances of survival. As you brace yourself to weather lack, you attract more lack. Things get worse. You have to interrupt the pattern. (The opposite of the survival mode is embracing spiritual truths and aligning with them. The divine provides everything for everyone all the time. You just have to be open-minded enough to receive it.)

2. Financial superstition. Since we all have negative emotional charge around our mishaps with money, we create stories about money that keep us locked in guilt and shame. The more we speak, feel, or think about these stories, the greater our superstitious and irrational beliefs around money. (The way to heal this is through financial forgiveness. We need to forgive ourselves and others if we hope to get unstuck.)

3. Fear of imagined future disasters keep us in lack. (The opposite is faith, trusting in God as our source and our work in the world as a channel, and not mistaking the channel for the source, as most people tend to do.)

Money Keys

1. Consciousness creates experiences and if we wish to have good experiences around money, we have to interrupt our superstitions around it.

2. When we appreciate what we have instead of focusing on what we had, we will improve our cash flow.

3. We must remember ourselves as internal and infinite, rather than get upset over our temporary personality and life situation.

4. Ask yourself empowering questions. What reality am I creating? How am I using my time, energy, and attention?

6. Integrate money consciousness in your spiritual practice. As we serve God, money serves us.

Money Healing

1. Take an inventory of your money beliefs and heal them.

2. Write a money journal to get clear on your money beliefs and actions.

3. Write self-forgiveness letters to heal your money mistakes.

4. Write affirmations of possibilities.

5. When you pray for emotional healing, focus on both the male and female aspects of divine blessing. The male energy you want is to be active, creative, and bold. The female energy you want is to be nurturing, comforting, and safe.

Money Habits

1. Create order around money. Organize your home and office. Keep your financial records filed properly. Don’t commingle your personal funds with your business funds.

2. Bless your money as it circulates in and out of your life.

3. Release superstition and negative feelings around money.

4. Affirm your inner peace and connection with God.

Success Stories

(There were quite a few success stories, but I’ll outline one which perfectly embodies her core system of healing money wounds and creating prosperity.)

A woman, Mrs. Browman, had lost weight using the spiritual principles of surrender and trusting in divine guidance. Prior to using this method, she had failed on every diet she had tried out. Thrilled with her transformation, she wrote a book and self-published it.

When Karen Russo met her, this woman had her books in her garage and treated her business as a hobby. She squeezed in time for it between her roles as a mother and a wife. She also commingled her personal and business funds.

She experienced financial success after she adopted the following habits:

1. She developed a schedule around marketing her book, treating it as a business and not a hobby.

2. She developed a physical portfolio to present her marketing ideas.

3. She blessed her marketing portfolio and the money that went in and out of her business.

4. She organized her finances with Quickbooks.

5. As she received income, she redistributed a portion of it toward contributing to places of spiritual inspiration, to things that were fun, and for future projects.

With the success of her first book, she is now planning on writing and marketing another book for women.

Conclusion

When you heal your painful beliefs around money that have created unpleasant money facts, when you replace your bad money habits with good ones, and when you create a vision (money intention) of what is possible for you, you can heal your money wounds and prosper instead of suffering.

Adopt the following affirmation: “I love and respect myself enough to live a financially prosperous and responsible life.”

The idea of setting your intention to make stuff that you need show up is only part of the equation of manifestation.

When you understand how the whole process of creation happens, your chances of success increase exponentially.

There are actually four elements that go into the manifestation process.

Attunement

Creation happens at the sublime level and is set into motion with an intention.

By sitting in silence, by clearing defining your intent, by connecting emotionally with your final outcome, and by remembering your Real Self, you synchronize all the elements of mind: conscious, subconscious, and super-conscious. Your intention is actually an attunement to a higher vibration; you are connecting your personal consciousness with cosmic consciousness. As you do, you coordinate meeting your personal needs with the collective needs of all other sentient beings everywhere.

Openness

For your intention to be successful, you need to be open-minded and open-hearted, both wise and loving. This places you in a receptive place for serendipity and synchronicity. This openness works on both ends: when you open an inner door to receive, you also open an outer door of opportunity designed specially for you.

Belief

For your intention to be successful, you need to have a belief in the process of manifestation and a belief in your worthiness to receive blessings, magic, miracles.

Unfolding

Finally, for your intention to be successful, you need to avoid meddling with its unfolding.

Sometimes, if your intention is modest enough, it shows up all in one piece.

Most of the time, when your intention is huge, it comes to you in manageable pieces.

But you can only glimpse one piece at a time. And you can only receive the next piece once you have done the necessary work.

You are fed clues, hints, suggestions. They emerge as both inner urges and outer phenomena.

You are also led to unexpected resources, discover unlikely allies, and find yourself in strange places.

While your egoic mind craves a complete map, your higher consciousness only gives you information on what to do, where to go, and how to do things on a “need to know” basis.

The code of manifestation is set into motion by intention, which then travels and permeates the structures of attunement, openness, belief, and unfolding. The final reckoning is a delivery of your desire and the discovery of a new version of yourself.

If you’re not changing at the rate you’d like, or, worse still, you’re not changing at all, then you have resistance to change.

Since you’ve set your goals and drawn up your plans and you’re taking action, then this resistance to change can be bewildering.

The part of you that is resisting is not the part of you that is initiating change.

Your conscious mind is aware that if you don’t change, your life is going to get worse. You’ve decided to change for a good reason. You’re fed up with doing things the way you did before. You can’t put up with the lack, limitation, and loneliness any more. You, on a conscious level, are determined to change.

But, on the subconscious level, your logic is not getting through at all. Your subconscious mind, operating from an old decision, feels safe with your low self-esteem, your lack, limitation, loneliness, or whatever else in your life you just do not like anymore. You, on a subconscious level, are determined not to change.

Well, who has the power?

Your conscious mind that can only process some 5 to 7 bits of information per second or your subconscious mind that can run 3 trillion autonomic bodily processes per second?

It’s like comparing your home computer with the supercomputers used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems involving quantum mechanical physics.

You have to make friends with you subconscious mind if you hope to succeed in your challenge.

There are three things your subconscious mind thinks about your doing the challenge.

1. It does not get it.

2. It does not like it.

3. It does not like you.

Therefore, it will not change.

The solution: forget trying to talk yourself into changing, forget about complaining to other people how you can’t change, and forget about making a massive effort to change.

Instead, tap, tap, tap your way to change. Yes, it’s time for E.F.T. (Emotional Freedom Technique).  You can find out how to do it on youtube.com.  Just type in “EFT” or “emotional freedom technique.”

n Vedantic Science, as well as other mystical traditions, like Buddhism and Taoism, the world is considered an illusion and the self is considered fictitious.

This blog post is an attempt to support this absurd argument with scientific evidence.

The nature of reality is almost completely empty. It is because this emptiness is interconnected that the illusion of the world in a universe arises. Really, it’s all interconnected emptiness.

What connects the emptiness together is the quantum field. This is the web that holds the atoms in the universe together. Yet both the web and the atom are quintessentially empty.

The web of causality, consciousness, is a field of infinite potentiality. This quantum field is alive. It is not an inanimate and unintelligent ocean of fluctuating peaks and troughs. It is because it weaves all things together that it is itself no one thing. For it to encompass everything, it has to be nothing.

And because the universe itself is a highly-organized and adaptive hierarchy of systems, we have to assume that the quantum field is alive and intelligent. Furthermore, since we are alive and intelligent, we have to assume that we are expressions of this quantum field.

The stuff of matter, atoms, is a fluctuation of potentiality. Since the atom is 99.999999999999 (12 nines after the decimal) empty space, to call it stuff is more a question of semantics than a description of a thing.

It appears that you are a person in the world. You are certain of it. Yet how does this impression arise? It arises because the atoms of something repel against the atoms of your body. Hence touch is a sensation of atomic repulsion similar to two opposite poles of a magnet pushing against each other. Yet, both your body’s atoms and the atoms of what you are holding or touching are mainly empty space. In truth, everything is just hovering around everything else.

Your certainty that you are a person in the world is because your mind creates reality. As Max Planck, the German physicist describes it, “This mind is the matrix of all matter.”

Reality, in other words, is defined by the mind that is observing it. Again, this is not just a provocative statement. In double slit experiments, a particle is seen by an observing instrument as a particle, but if there is no observer it registers as a wave on a photographic plate. So, the reality of the thing depends on if it is observed or not. Similarly, Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle holds that a particle can be either measured by its speed or its location, but not both. If the speed is being measured, the location becomes vague. If the location is known, the speed is fuzzy. The observer, in other words, influences what is observed. The observer is the participant!

After centuries accustomed to Newtonian thinking, we like to think that there is an out-there and an in-here. Yet since everything is a result of mind, it’s really hard to pinpoint the dividing line between subjectivity and objectivity. In fact, the world that you experience is a result of your thinking; it is an out-picturing of it.

One last outrageous idea before I go: quantum entanglement. This is actually a discovery by Einstein in his attempt to refute the absurdity of quantum physics. Two atomic particles, if entangled, will always behave like each other regardless of how close or how far they may be. Hence, they will spin identically whether they are a foot apart or a light year apart.

Here is a metaphor. Suppose, you were playing basketball with a friend and you both bumped into each other while both dribbling basketballs. Now, whenever you played basketball, however far away from your friend, in the next court or the next country, his ball would spin and move identically to your basketball. It is because the two basketballs had become entangled they would reflect instantaneously regardless of distance. This is how two entangled particles behave.

Now, let’s take this a step farther. Since the universe started as a big bang, an explosion of a tiny portion of stuff into a huge portion of stuff, this means that all particles in the universe must be entangled. This means that it is all interconnected.

Here is another way to understand how both the self and the world are Maya, an illusion created by the mind. When you are asleep, you have dreams about interaction with other people in different places and creating events. When you wake up, you discover that all that diversity was just a projection of your own consciousness. You were alone. You did not go anywhere. You did not do anything.

What has all of this crazy science and mystic mumbo-jumbo got to do with what we are studying here: the Law of Attraction? Pretty much everything! The only reason your reality exists the way that you think it does is because you are thinking of it in that way. If you stopped being mesmerized by the effects that you are now living in, then you could create a whole new stream of effects, designing something much more pleasing for yourself.

The idea that you create your own reality is not just a feel-good idea, it is the only fundamental fact about life. All that exists is empty, yet the apparent fullness of it all is due to the way consciousness is dreaming everything into form. Since consciousness is not something outside of you or alien to you, since you, in fact, are consciousness in a localized form, you can dream a world into being.

If life is all one great big picture show, you, as a persona, are literally the filmmaker of your portion of it, the places your body has occupied, is occupying, and will occupy. Of course, the larger you, the incomprehensible you, is making up the whole movie across all time in all space. You’re a star in your own total immersion movie!

We are creators who have arrived on this scene in this particular world from a different dimension. We have come to resolve the unresolved patterns of our past lives. We have come to act in a three-dimensional, total immersion, cosmic-scale movie production.

The energy we emit now creates our experience for all futures. It creates our present life future and will continue to duplicate our pattern until we interrupt it. If left uninterrupted, it will proceed to create all possible futures in all possible bodies.

Whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, we are always creating and have always been creating. We, whether we acknowledge it or not, are divine energy expressing itself.

The idea of who we really are is so enormous and so threatening to all societal powers throughout the history of the earth that for incarnation after incarnation we have been hoodwinked through all available influences into thinking of ourselves as temporary people with limited choices belonging to a specific group.

If we could know, even for a moment, who we really are, we would be so astonished that we would be perpetually awake and look on everything through the eyes of wonder. In fact, we would not be able to play our roles here any longer. A god is quickly bored with childish games.

The big question in our life, then, is not who we are but what are we creating? For us to know who we are, we would have to have total recall of all our journeys in all our various life-forms in all dimensions. Since we have conspired on a higher level of awareness to assume amnesia, we cannot access this information. Thus, the only legitimate question left is what our we creating?

Our task now is to consciously open up our creative energy to all that we dream and to receive the abundance that is ours for the asking. Suffering the delusions that arise from ignorance of the spatio-temporal conspiracy is no longer an option.

I’ve been reading some interesting books on wealth creation lately, and I’ve created a profile of how an enlightened millionaire thinks, feels, and acts. This is, of course, an idealization, but it should point you in the right direction if your challenge is to bring more money into your life.

I’ve broken this down into steps to make this blog post a quick read.

1. Create wealth from the inside out. When you think and feel wealthy, you will start to express wealthy ideas, and you will then have wealthy experiences.

2. When you have ideas, you have to process them into maturity. Seed ideas are exciting, but if you want to use them for growth, you need to grow them. You have to think ideas through to completion.

3. You need a clear intention. You have to know why you want to be wealthy. Once you know why, the how will start to show up.

4. You need to use the Law of Attraction. You should see exactly what you want in your mind’s eye, feel how real it is for you now, and let go, passing it over to the Universe for manifestation.

5. You have to be integruous with yourself. If you say you’re going to do something, do it. Be true to your word–even if no one else knows about it. Self-trust leads to self-fulfillment.

6. You have to have a resonance of confidence. I got this from Dov Baron. We all, he says, emanate a Quantum Resonance Field. This is made strong when we are intent on our purpose and committed enough to our dream to make it come true. When you walk into a room, you have already won the negotiation.

7. You have to hang out with like-minded, like-hearted people. When people hang out together, their brain waves start to mirror each other. If you hang out with negative, cynical people, you can’t expect to have the can-do mindset to create results. Ideally, you should hang out with people who can make you accountable to fulfill your goals. This is why most highly successful people have mentors. Besides the transmission of knowledge and skills, they are pressed into accountability. A peer group that makes you accountable is the next best thing.

8. You have to take action. This action has to be intelligent, efficient, measurable. In other words, purposeful and accountable. Nothing happens until somebody moves. Staring at your vision board may make things show up, but you can’t get away with doing nothing and expect to receive everything.

9. You have to get into marketing. You can’t succeed without marketing. All businesses are relationship businesses. When you have positive relationships and provide great value, you will have a business.

10. Never ever give up. This is almost an axiom. Persistence is how successful people become successful.

How you feel about your desire is everything!

Your success in this 45 day challenge depends on it.

Although, you can affirm and visualize with crystal clarity, and you can connect with your dream with surprising eloquence…unless you can feel it, really get into the feel of having it now, living in it, experiencing it fully, your image is ossified, without life-force, an empty idea.

It’s simply not going to happen…unless you feel good, really good about it.

The better you feel, the faster it will show up for you.

It is that easy. Honestly.

Yes, feelings are it. They juice up the image. They bring it to life. They put vibration into the idea.

Feelings transform the image from a passive idea into a direct command to the Universe. Energetically, you’re saying: “This is what I want. I feel good about it. Make it happen.”

When you feel it, you can believe it.

When you feel it, you animate it, you imbue it with our life-force, you charge it up. You literally make it happen.

The image alone is not enough. The words to describe it are not enough. But add feeling to it, and it is yours. You’re golden. You’ve tuned in to the alchemy of change.

The subconscious mind does not know the difference between an actual fact and an imagined fact. It stores the information in the same way. An image of a Siamese cat and the image of a unicorn are of equal value to it.

Yes, an image is only an image–until you breathe life into it. You do this by feeling it. Your feeling is a charge; it is a command; it is an invitation to step up the image from a mental formation into a physical experience.

While your thoughts define your desire and your actions move you in the general direction of it, it is your feelings that create your reality.

A visualization without a feeling will not go anywhere. It is as useless as a car with a dead battery.

If you cannot get into the feeling, then you have emotional resistance to connecting with your dream. You can clear it out with E.F.T. Then, charge your desired image up with feeling how good it will be to live with it.

When you feel it, you can hold it in your hand.