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I bet you think I’m talking about creating a vision board. I’m not. Yes, it’s one visual tool to keep your dreams and intentions in plain site, but I’m talking about something fundamentally more powerful and that is YOU and your all-powerful, limitless, all-creative IMAGINATION.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

The beauty of your imagination is that it’s unlimited and completely free to use. The problem is that most people don’t use it to their benefit. We’re all using our imaginations… some intentionally and others by reacting to what they see around them. Let me give you an example. When you’re blowing out your birthday candles, you are intentionally using your imagination to make a wish for something positive. When you watch the evening news and witness violence and despair, you worry for your safety. Worry is using your imagination upside down or in the negative. Either way, you’re creating your reality.

Sound harsh? I don’t mean to. Instead, I intend to demonstrate why using your imagination with purpose and intention is paramount and necessary to manifesting well. Your imagination is broadcasting your innermost thoughts, dreams, desires, hopes, and fears out into the receptive universe that, like a magnet or boomerang, returns them to you, the sender. We live under the law of attraction or the law of vibration. There’s no escape, so you might as well learn to leverage it in your favor so you can create your world your way.

You’re human, so of course you’re going to have negative or worrisome thoughts that conjure images of doom and gloom in your imagination. Not to worry, there is a buffer of time between your imaginings and manifestations. The secret sauce here is to redirect your imagination simply by noticing what you don’t want and then imagining what you prefer instead.

“Determined imagination, thinking from the end, is the beginning of all miracles.”

Neville Goddard

I practice what I call “Imagitation” which is simply a meditation where I sit quietly with my eyes closed and imagine my preferred outcome in great detail. I allow myself to get into the feeling state of having accomplished whatever it is I’m imagining. It’s my best medicine for anxiety when I’m worried and by far the best tool I’ve ever leveraged for manifesting anything!

Redirection takes intention and practice but each time you repeat an automatic negative thought you’ll catch yourself sooner and establish new, healthier mental habits that empower you to your ability to change and improve your reality. You will amaze yourself once you get the hang of this!

This is the best question to ask yourself. As you do, allow the dreams, desires, hopes, and visions to rise! This is not the time for rational thought. That will kill your manifestation in its tracks. Instead, be childlike and play in your mind’s eye (like you used to)! Have fun imagining a life you only once or twice dared to dream. Try it on. Take it for a ride. What does it look like? How do you feel? Who’s there with you?

When your rational mind reminds you that you can’t do that for whatever reason, it’s time to redirect and remember that you live in an entirely responsive universe that is always yielding to YOU. You are only limited by your imagination and what you believe is possible for you. Is it time to expand your view of what’s possible?

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The new year is traditionally the time to set new intentions and goals. Winter gives us the time to reflect and rest while the longer days increase our appetites. It’s the perfect time to unlock the magic within and begin manifesting miracles.

During our time together, we won’t necessarily be setting new year resolutions, rather we’ll explore universal laws and spiritual principles for sustainable manifestations. This is an exercise of energy management… staying aligned with our dreams and desires so that we attract with intention and vision.

Let’s talk about miracles. According to Webster’s Dictionary, “A miracle is an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause. Such an effect or event manifesting or considered as a work of God.”

What if I told you that you are God? You are what I call a God droplet. God or Source is everywhere in everything, including you. Imagine Source or God being the vast ocean and you are a water droplet in that ocean. You and your source are the same stuff. Where is God not? And why would you be separate from that Divine Intelligence?

You’re not. It’s the stuff that beats your heart, grows your fingernails, regenerates your internal organs… rotates the planets, grows the grass, and brings forth all life. It’s the stuff the animals are plugged into so they know what to eat, where to migrate, when to mate, etc.

The only difference between the animals, insects and us is our free will and imagination. We are creators by design. The question is, how are you using your unique ability to create?

The phrase “Know thyself and thou shall know all the mysteries of the gods and the universe” is attributed to ancient Greek philosophy, particularly to the Oracle of Delphi.

Once you remember your inner brilliance, who you really are, and what you’re made of, you will be able to manifest miracles with purpose and intention. Miracles will become your norm. Then you’ll just call them “manifestations.”

Today’s principle is DESIRE. It’s the first step in asking.

Desire is essential and natural, yet I see so many people squash their desires. I’m not talking about short-term dopamine-hit desires, I’m talking about the nudges and hair pulls from your higher self or your inner being.

Anais Nin wrote, “My hair is being pulled by the stars again.” It’s a soul calling… leading you to your life purpose and life lessons.

Your spirit or spirit helpers first begin with a whisper, then a hair pull, then maybe a gut punch… remember they are responding to your higher broadcast not necessarily your lip service.

So let’s dig deep… what do want? Who do you want to be? What is trying to emerge in you?

One thing I know for sure is that we live in a responsive Universe. Everything is energy and your desires are units of energy broadcasting from you into the field (Source Energy). You are like an antenna broadcasting and receiving constantly.

Most people manifest by default. It can be reckless and repetitive since no real intention exists. Let me give you an example…

In your journal ask yourself, What do I want? Why do I want that? Where in my life have I quit or settled for the status quo? How does that make me feel now? Do I want to change anything?

One of the things that trip people up is getting fixated on the details about HOW this can happen.

Release the HOWs and only focus on your desires.

You can have more than one… you can have as many as you want! You are a limitless being after all. Don’t limit yourself to your desires. Write everything and censor nothing. Treat this list as a work in progress.

That’s it for today. Bask in your desires and see yourself being, doing, or having those things as if they are already here.

And if you have a hard time doing that, don’t worry because tomorrow we’re talking about your #1 manifesting power tool… you’re amazing imagination.

For today, add your dreams and desires to your journal as they come to you. Have fun with it. And I’ll see you tomorrow!

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If all healing at the levels of mind, body, and spirit is self-healing, how come some people heal while others don’t? Are you blocking the inner wisdom of your body to heal itself? Are you taking responsibility for your own healing or are you giving your power away?

If you look to nature, you can see for yourself that well-being permeates the planet. It’s apparent in plants, animals, the cosmos… and people. There’s an intelligence flowing through everything that causes its growth and expansion. It’s protective and beautiful

Healing cannot take place without your consent, collaboration, or at the very least, your cooperation. At some level, there must be a buy-in to your healing or it won’t happen.

Why’s that? Because all healing is self-healing. Healing comes from within. It’s not an external thing that happens to you. It’s an internal thing that happens because of you. Somewhere deep inside, you have a belief that healing is possible – and so it is.

On the contrary, if you believe that healing is impossible then it is and healing won’t happen. Are you starting to see where the healing power stems from?

Just because all healing is self-healing doesn’t mean that you can or must heal everything that goes wrong. Some things are out of your control. We have environmental toxins, contagious viruses, trauma, and the law of momentum.

For the sake of this conversation, I’m focusing on the things you can control – or manage to a great degree. And believe me when I say there are many variables that are within your control.

Some of you will hate what I have to say, but I’m going to say it anyway. I’m not here to placate illness and disease. I’m here to promote your natural state of health and wellbeing.

I’m not about avoiding death, that’s inevitable for all of us. What I am advocating for is Quality of Life. And it’s available to all of us.

This article covers the larger ways we block ourselves from healing – and solutions, so we can turn the momentum around and affect our own healing processes.

Thoughts are things. Whatever you believe, it is. If you believe you have an incurable disease, you will not heal. Your brain is listening. If you believe your illness is a blip in the matrix and can be healed, your healing increases.

The placebo effect has been tested over decades and is defined as “a beneficial effect produced by a placebo drug or treatment, which cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient’s belief in that treatment.”

Being passive in your healing is giving your power away. Doctors are the first people to tell you that they don’t know everything and they have an experimental approach to much of healing. And that’s as it should be. No two people are alike so there is no one-size-fits-all type of healing.

This is one big experiment and there is no one answer. Get curious about yourself. Get curious about a cure or discover something that works for you because it could help someone else too.

When you’re sick, your amazing and efficient body is sending you signals that something is out of whack. What’s the first thing we typically do when we have one? Kill it. Cover it up. Take a pill to stop the symptom.

What if instead we listened to the signal and got curious about what might be causing it. If we asked and listened, tap into our intuitions, we would receive information that could alleviate the problem at its core.

It’s clear that we can’t control everything, but it is our responsibility to manage our wellbeing. Tap into the belief that everything is happening for you… not to you. Your body is your greatest ally but many people treat it like it’s working against them. That is so far from the truth. Tap into the kindness, allowances, and breaks it gives you despite how you treat it, what you feed it, and how you speak to your body.

Good health is your birthright. Claim it.

Is it possible that having a victim mentality keeps a person sick? You bet your wellbeing it does!

I know you know someone whose identity is all knotted up in their suffering. Who would they be without their aches and pains? What would they talk about?

Thoughts are things and we are constantly in the creation process of our lives. If you find yourself attached to your illness, ask yourself “How does this serve me? What am I getting out of this?”

Get curious about what drives your suffering. You have needs that need to be met. Are there healthier ways to meet them?

The majority of illnesses and diseases are transitory. However, our culture insists on adopting labels and becoming our illnesses. Why is that? Why are we so quick to assume that an illness is forever and something we’ll have to “learn to live with?”

We’re starting to understand the power of labels and using them more wisely. Instead of saying, “I am depressed”, for example, it’s recommended by mental health professionals to say, “I feel depressed.” This gives you room to not feel depressed eventually, instead of assuming you are depressed forever.

Labels are helpful to understand situations and conditions, but they are not a life sentence. Lose the labels and see them as passing waves.

Stop telling the stories about your illness. Check how you start a conversation. Your energy is palpable and contagious. Please be responsible for the energy you bring to situations.

If you start telling new stories of your health and wellbeing, you’ll soon embody it. Remember, your brain and body are listening to your inner monologue. Change the story and change your life.

This goes back to the placebo effect. If you insist on your illness and claim it as yours, you form an unhealthy attachment to it. Remember how your cuts and scrapes healed like magic when you were a kid? That’s because you had zero resistance about it. If you simply believe that illnesses are diagnostic symptoms of a system that needs attention – and that it’s healable or fixable – you’ll open yourself up and allow the wellbeing of the universe to flow through you and heal you.

You can do mindfulness work to rewrite your story and change up the energy around you. It can be an overnight process, but most folks need to ease into it, see proof that things are improving, and then they can continue on with less and less resistance. Go at your own pace and do what feels best for you.

Your words are blessings or curses. Your brain and body are listening to what you say and responding to how you think.

Use affirmations about your health. This may seem strange or like you’re faking it, but it can literally change your life. Affirm, “Thank you for my amazing health” or “My body gets stronger every day.”

Bless yourself with words of kindness, healing, and wisdom.

Instead of asking, “Why me?” ask empowering questions like, “What’s the message here for me? What’s the lesson wanting to emerge?”

One thing I know for sure is that we live in a responsive Universe. It is always answering our questions without prejudice. So, it’s just good medicine to ask questions that lead us to proactive answers instead of more evidence that supports our “why me?” stance.

When your car has an issue, most of us immediately ask, “What’s happening here? What needs to be fixed?” We don’t label it with a forever condition. No, we take it to the mechanic and expect it to be repaired.

Our bodies are just as repairable – if not more!

We all know that processed foods are making us fat and terribly sick. There are countless studies to confirm this. Choose healthy and whole foods that nourish your body temple. We are so abundantly blessed with natural foods that fuel our bodies for optimal health.

Whole, organic, plant-based foods might cost more but think of the money you’ll save by cutting out processed foods and beverages that contribute to death and disease. Plus, you’ll look and feel great.

Raise your vibration. Everything is energy and you are a magnet to the thoughts and feelings you’re broadcasting. Gratitude is love and it’s the highest frequency there is. Emit that and attract more of it back to you making you a clear channel for wellbeing and healing.

Your body is listening to your thoughts and thoughts are things. See yourself healthy. See yourself free of all this cumbersome attachment that keeps your world small. Play in the Disneyland of your mind and visualize you at your best, most healthy self.

The imagination is the portal to all things manifested. It all starts there!

It knows everything. It’s your hardwire connection to Source energy where all the answers exist.

When you’re not sure about something give it the Heart Test. Place your hands on your heart and ask what it thinks about any given situation. Don’t rush to your head to “figure it out.” Rest in this space and know with confidence that the best answer will come to you – either immediately or later when you’re not expecting it.

Your intuition is subtle and the guidance comes when you are in a state of non-resistance. It takes a little practice and patience, but soon enough you’ll be entrained with your intuition and the answers come easily.

All healing is self-healing. Be easy, open, and gentle with this. You’re already wired for it. Now you just have to let your brain catch up to what your higher self has always known.

Once something has gained enough momentum in your body, a flu virus, for example, you feel sick – meaning your body has already begun the healing process. Healing requires a certain amount of energy, so your body’s symptoms take over as a means to reserve the energy necessary for healing. This is why you’re tired.

The intelligence of your body needs you down and out of the way so it can do its job and heal or regain alignment. Follow your natural impulses to sleep, rest and hydrate. When you have a fever, and as long as your body’s temperature is within a safe range, the heat is necessary for healing and your sweat will cool your skin.

We have a tendency to view symptoms as something terrible when in fact they are the outward signs of our bodies working to heal us. Many people fight symptoms or try to eliminate them altogether. This only thwarts their own healing. They have introduced resistance to the equation. The best thing to do is to surrender to the illness, unless it’s life-threatening, and ride the wave.

Do your part by listening to your symptoms and flowing with them. Seek medical attention if that’s what you feel. Get a Reiki treatment to accelerate your healing if that’s what you feel. Only you know your body, so tune in and do what feels best to be in the flow of your own healing process.

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Absolutely, it does! And get this… you’re manifesting right now! The question is, “What are you manifesting, and are you happy with it?” If not, change it! Neglecting your environment in the manifestation process is a big problem! I’ll show you how to use Feng Shui for manifesting anything!

Leveraging feng shui is an absolute must for conscious creation. Your space is a reflection of you and what’s going on inside of you. And it’s the inside that is doing the broadcasting to the Universe. That is the stuff that is magnetizing similar situations and things back to you.

So how do you help your insides? How do you quiet those fears and anxieties? How do you find peace and calm inside your body and brain?

You cultivate it! Yes, you have to create peace… it’s not coming to find you – you have to find it. There are a thousand and one ways to do this, but for now, we’ll focus on creating clarity and peace by leveraging the art and science of feng shui. In other words, you can literally become a clear and peaceful channel for all the things that you desire simply by moving the stuff in your house around!

“You could pray for 1,000 nights, visualize for 1,000 days, and give thanks for 1,000 things, but it’s when you physically prepare the way that 1,000 miracles will find you.”

mike dooley – notes from the universe

Preparing the way is always the first step in manifesting anything and everything. This is why feng shui is a big part of my manifesting toolbox and should be a part of yours too.

Feng shui is an ancient Chinese system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy or “qi” (pronounced chee). It literally translates to “wind & water.”

I see feng shui as the art of manifesting on the physical plane by clearing energy and creating space or channels for energy to flow at its optimum, healthy level. This flow makes manifesting easier and more graceful.

When your physical space is cleared and open for energy to travel, so are YOU. Conversely, when your physical space is cluttered, messy, and disorganized so are YOU and there is no room for energy or manifestations to flow. You become blocked to your dreams and desires.

In feng shui, the solutions to blocked or disorganized energy are called “cures” and there is a cure for everything, so don’t worry! It’s all fixable.

Cures consist of creating energetic balance by incorporating elements of the earth in your living spaces. Those elements include wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. When you are in harmony with the earth, you’re grounded, and being grounded leads to calm, peaceful energy.

There are traditional feng shui cures and more modern ones – and they all include simple fixes using light, sound, living things, weighted objects color, things that move, electricity, symbolic objects, and empty space.

A traditional feng shui cure would be incorporating a red front door on your home to attract good luck and monetary fortune. Another example would be installing a mirror in your business across from your cash register to double the money and call in even more cash.

Modern feng shui cures include anything that speaks to your soul and raises your vibration to make you an inspired attractor to the things you want to manifest. For example, you want to attract a new romantic partner. You could move your bed so that it’s accessible to two people, include two pillows, two nightstands – keeping one empty for their stuff – and keeping two candles lit in the kitchen to inspire coupling.

Modern feng shui cures are dependent upon how you see the world. What lights you up? What sparks love, money or health to YOU? You can decorate your spaces to inspire those desires and whenever you sense them, you are calibrated to your desires again – making you a magnet to all that you want.

Traditional feng shui emphasizes the placement of objects responsible for changing the chi and creating luck and good fortune, while I believe that changing energy certainly matters, I believe that the magic maker in feng shui is YOU.

Think about it. While you are “feng shui-ing” your bedroom for partnership, for example, you are setting strong intentions simply by moving things, dreaming about the outcome, and feeling what it will be like to be in partnership. You are believing the manifestation into form and Universal energy is responding to YOU – your vibe- your energy. Are you picking up what I’m putting down?

Go ahead and feng shui your place with traditional and non-traditional cures. Whatever rocks your boat is going to be the most powerful cure you can implement.

The Bagua (translates to 8 areas) is the map used in feng shui to organize the areas of your home or any space, really. When you concentrate your efforts on feng-shui-ing one space at a time, you are double-downing your manifesting mojo! Feng shui really is brilliant.

The areas of the Bagua include:

The way to navigate the map is to position yourself at your front door (main door of home) and hold the map in front of you. You’ll be standing in either the Knowledge, Career or Helpful People section, as you line the bottom of the map as the starting point.

You can feng shui your entire house and concentrate on certain areas where you’re wanting improvements. You can also use the map to section off one room at a time, your garage, front porch, backyard, your desk or even your car. You’re only limited by your imagination.

As you jump up to do your feng shui research, you’re going to discover lots of rules and superstitions that might invoke feelings of insecurity or fear. This is where I draw the line and call on my own power – recalling that I’m the manifestor here. I urge you to do the same and put some of those ancient superstitions to the intellectual test. They don’t hold much weight and it’s important to remember their historical significance. As brilliant as feng shui is, many of the cures are nonsensical.

Remember that nothing has meaning except the meaning we give it, so keep the feng shui cures that spark your soul and ditch the ones that cause any type of resistance in your body or brain.

And most importantly, have FUN with this! Get busy manifesting your deepest dreams and desires!

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I’m sure you can relate to this: It’s a new year and you have new inspired dreams, desires, and goals! You feel big changes bubbling up inside and think to yourself, “This is MY year! I’m gonna rock it this time.”

Three weeks later, your dreams are dashed and the wind is knocked from your sails. Nothing happened and you’re back to square one! History is bound to repeat itself. Oh, no!

In this article, we’ll explore what is messing up your manifestations and what to do about it!

I’m sure you know of people who manifest amazing things in their lives and you wonder just what is their secret sauce. You doubt your own abilities and ask the debilitating question, “Why can’t I do that?”

Well, I’m here to tell you that you can do that! You are equipped with the same resources to manifest as everybody else. You literally can be, do and have whatever your heart desires.

But first, you have to understand a few things, like the principles of manifesting and certain Universal Laws… but most of all, you have to get out of your own way!

Let’s back up a bit and cover the 4 Steps to Manifest Anything:

From what I’ve observed over the years is that most people get tripped up on Step #2: Align. It’s the step that throws most people off course and consequently messes up their manifestations.

Energetic Alignment is Step 2 in the Manifestation Process. It’s not a one-and-done step! Alignment takes self-awareness and daily practice. Let’s explore what Alignment is and how to maintain it.

Alignment means becoming a vibrational match to the things you’re wanting. Since everything is energy, including you – your body, mind, and spirit are constantly broadcasting certain frequencies or vibrations out into the atmosphere. Your vibration or “vibe” is attracting back to you people, places, and situations that match your vibe much like a magnet – 100% of the time whether you are aware of it or not.

Let’s use an example. Let’s say you tell your spouse, your couples counselor, and anyone interested that you want your marriage to work and that you’re willing to do what it takes to improve it. But in your heart, you feel depleted, lost, and resentful towards your husband and in the deep spaces of your mind, you equate marriage to prison and yearn for a change.

Well, you cannot fake alignment! Your inner broadcast always overrides lip service. Energy never lies and the Universe is always responding to your inner broadcast.

So, you might as well come clean and own your deep desires instead of squashing them and manifesting even more misery – which often leads to illness and disease, which is the ultimate misalignment and assault to your very spirit. (Another topic altogether. I digress.)

Getting into alignment and maintaining alignment requires self-awareness and daily practice. It doesn’t have to be a difficult task and should be treated with a gentle and compassionate approach. Once you gain momentum with this, it becomes easier and easier as you replace old habits with new ones that truly serve you.

The first part of getting into alignment is to clear your energy. Think, “Out with the old and in with the new!”

Now that you’ve made some room, it’s time to align your energy to the things you’re wanting to manifest.

Manifesting is not hard work, but it does take awareness and practice. “Efforting” will only further block your progress, so be easy with this. Once you understand and buy into the manifesting process, it will become so much easier! And then it becomes a lifestyle of wash, rinse, repeat!

Remember your inner brilliance!

Manifesting anything requires receptivity or allowing on your part. How can a manifestation come through if you don’t allow it? You may think you’re receptive, but are you really? There’s a high probability that you’re unconsciously blocking the very things you want.

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Receptivity is also necessary for Step 4, Aligned Action, to happen. Aligned Action is rooted in intuition. Intuition is impossible without receptivity. Are you starting to see the importance of Allowing and how all of the steps are connected? (By the way, I use the terms allowing and receiving interchangeably.)

Let’s take a minute to explore the things that block manifestations before diving into the solutions.

Personal baggage. This is the #1 manifestation block, bar none. Baggage is bondage, and it can include but is not limited to holding onto blame, judgment, resentment, and looking for occasions to be offended. This type of baggage keeps a person in the victim cycle where not much good can enter. This is where I lovingly coach my students to check themselves. We are evolutionary beings – works in progress – that require constant maintenance and lots of love.

Micromanaging the manifestations. Control freaks beware! Manifesting is a collaboration with the laws of the Universe not an exercise of personal will and ego. Just as if you are planting a new wildflower garden, you don’t dig up the seeds every day to see how the plants are growing – disrupting their process – or stand over them yelling at them to hurry up. No, you prepare the soil, fertilize it, plant the seeds, water, and occasionally weed the area to allow space for the flowers to grow. Manifesting follows the same process!

Impatience. The art of manifesting includes working with the many laws of the Universe, not just the law of attraction. When manifesting, it’s helpful to keep the law of gestation or divine timing in mind. Everything has a process and most of the moving parts are unseen. It takes patience and faith when it comes to manifesting. Let’s revisit the wildflowers. We plant the seeds in faith that flowers will be the end result. We don’t know for sure, but we know enough to proceed. That’s huge in manifesting and takes a degree of humility. And then we experience the unfoldment in due time!

Unclear ask. You may have gone too general in your desire. Perhaps you want to manifest more money. How much more? Will a dollar do? To help the process along, get specific in your desires. They don’t have to be perfect so don’t sabotage yourself with paralysis. You can always pivot, go back to the drawing board and fill in the details as you experience contrast that redirects your desires. Flexibility is your friend in the manifesting process. The more you know, the more details you can include in your ask to make them more specific. But at the same time, don’t pigeonhole yourself. Here’s how. Let’s take the more money example and tweak it: I am so grateful now that I receive a monthly income of $10,000 or more! It’s specific and there’s room to be gifted with more.

There’s no room. This is when we leverage what I call the vacuum law. The Universe abhors a vacuum and will always fill it. But if it’s already full, there is no room for the manifestation to land. It’s as if you don’t really believe that it will manifest, so you hold on to what you’ve got. This is a double block! The simple solution to this is to make room for the things you want. Make room for the new lover. Clear out your old clothes to make room for your new ones. Create the vacuum so the Universe can fill it up. It wants to. Otherwise, you’ll get passed over just because you don’t have the capacity.

Limiting beliefs. The lack of faith will stop you in your tracks. You probably won’t even get the plane off the ground without an initial belief that you can. This one is tricky because many of these limiting beliefs stem from childhood, which means they have a long history and deep neuropathways carved in the brain. All is not lost, though! With self-awareness, curiosity, and practice, we can unravel the stories that bind us and repave our processors. We are adaptable like that. With loving kindness and patience, we can heal the past and clean up our wounds. As we feel better, we believe better. Self-care is mandatory for manifesting.

Stuck on WHOs and HOWs. When you attach yourself to a certain WHO or HOW you’re literally stepping on the toes of the Universe and blocking your manifestations. Mike Dooley so brilliantly reminds us, “The HOWs are the domain of the Universe.” Your job in manifesting is to state the WHAT. For example, you want to get married in 2022. Currently, you’re not in a relationship, but you’re set on marrying your crush. You become a bit obsessed and focus on calling in the crush – and that’s perfectly fine and your choice! But what if there is someone more suitable for you that you don’t know yet? What if you simply focused on your WHAT and WHY? For example, I want to be married in 2022 to my ideal partner who appreciates self-growth, adventure, and fun as much as I do so I can play more, love and be loved, and continue this journey always exploring and growing together. That opens the space for unlimited opportunity and reveling in the mysterious domain of the Universe.

There is an art to allowing. It begins with getting out of one’s way and being in a receptive mode more than not. There are many ways to activate your receptivity, but for this conversation, I’m going to limit it to the easiest, most effective way to flip your receptivity on and that is to practice GRATITUDE.

Being in a state of gratitude is to be in a constant state of receptivity. Try to be worried and grateful at the same time. You can’t. Activating a sense of gratitude is the best medicine to shift your energy and start allowing the good stuff to flow.

For your homework today, complete this sentence: I’m so grateful for these people, places, circumstances, and physical things in my life now! As you are making your list, you are remembering or imagining the pleasure and joy these things bring to your life. And as you do that, you are in a receptive place calling in more things to be grateful for.

12 Days of Abundance with James Wedmore – 5 Levels of Gratitude – Podcast

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Alignment is everything when it comes to manifesting. In Step 1 of the Manifesting Process, you asked for what you wanted. You wrote down your dreams, desires, and goals for 2022. You got clear on your WHYs and started to imagine or visualize how your life will be once your desires become realized.

Now the real adventure begins! Your journey moving forward is about managing your energy with awareness, intention, and focus so that you become an energetic match to the things you’re wanting to bring into form.

We’ve already clarified that everything is energy, right? You are an energetic being always transmitting certain frequencies by way of your mood, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings. In other words, you are always broadcasting an energetic vibration or “vibe.”

That vibe that you’re broadcasting, whether you’re conscious of it or not, is like a magnet drawing back to you much of the same vibe. So, if you’re in a foul, grumpy mood, for example, you’re going to attract more situations that match and feed your current energy. Like attracts like. If you’re in a kind and generous mood, you’ll attract more of that. So doesn’t it make good sense to manage your energy more consciously?

When you are manifesting deliberately, managing your energy isn’t just good sense, it’s absolutely necessary! You must be energetically aligned or a vibrational match to the things you want to manifest. It’s the only way they will.

Alignment is not a one-and-done task to be checked off your list. Energetic alignment takes awareness and daily practice – not efforting, but practice. I liken energetic hygiene to personal hygiene or physical fitness. It’s something you address daily and make choices that support or sabotage it throughout the day. The choice is always yours.

Energetic Alignment for the sensitives and empaths can be challenging for the unpracticed. Most empaths, including myself, tend to take things personally and can become emotionally reactive to external circumstances. We feel emotionally hijacked because we have lost our alignment and have given our power away. As a result, we manifest poorly from a place of powerlessness.

The good news is, we can flip this script and become powerful manifestors as we leverage our sensitivity proactively. When we realize our power and train ourselves to take nothing personally, to become observers of other people’s energy (OPE), we can sit firmly in the director chair of our lives and manage our energy beautifully and align ourselves with our deepest desires. It just takes practice like anything else.

This is why awareness and daily practice are essential in manifesting – simply because you’re human and life throws curveballs. Practicing energetic alignment keeps us flexible and adaptable so we can pivot when necessary and not break.

How do you keep your vibe healthy and high? How do you clean up those occasional messy vibes? How do you align your energy to match your manifestations? Here are a few ideas that you probably already do. Now you can do them deliberately as part of your energy management system.

The world and all its trappings will challenge you, affect your energy and occasionally knock you off your center. Get ahead of it. Practice daily energetic hygiene. Manage your energy well and become the director and starring role in this movie called your life. Manifest like a boss. You’ve got this!

Let’s get you energetically aligned with the things you want to manifest. Take your one big intention for 2022 and in your journal, you’re going to re-write it. Write this down: I am so happy and grateful now that ____ because now I feel ____ and I can ____.

Act as if this is happening now, so keep your verbs in the present tense (I am living in, I am at my ideal weight, I am married, etc)

Fill in the blanks, add more! Imagine your outcome. Imagine all the ways your life has changed. Capture the details, the environment, how you feel, what you look like… have fun with this journal activity!

Next, create a simple affirmation or mantra that easily shifts your mood, energy, and focus (I’m a money-making machine, All of my needs are met, and then some, Be here now, for example.)

Last, energetically align a physical space in your home where you most hang out. Start small. Clear the clutter, make it nice. Hang a picture. Add a plant. Notice your mood as you complete the task!

That’s it for today! I’ll see you tomorrow for Step 3: ALLOW.

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

One thing I know for sure is this: We live in a Responsive Universe. The Universe is always listening and responding to our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs by delivering to us people, places, and situations that match them. Your thoughts and feelings are like magnets drawing back to you (the sender) energetic matches – 24/7. So, if you don’t like what you see in your environment you can change it by first changing your own energy, and then you can attract something better.

Most people are not aware of their magnetism and end up manifesting by default. They attract more of ‘what is’ – not comprehending their amazing ability to co-create with the Universe. This kind of complacency and unawareness leads to depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and feelings of powerlessness.

But not you. You know better. You sense there’s something bigger and more magical going on, or you wouldn’t be here reading this. You are wired for success. You are wired to manifest or bring into physical form all of your dreams, desires, and goals. It all starts in your imagination. You are the only creature on the planet with an imagination which signifies you are here to create. Why else would you have one?

Your imagination is the incubator for all things manifested. You have an inspired thought that sparks a desire and your imagination keeps it alive. Every time you dream or allow the inspired thought to play itself out, you are in the creation process. Isn’t that amazing when you stop to think about it?! No other creature on the planet has this ability.

So imagine if you used your imagination intentionally to manifest your dreams, desires, and goals? What if you become a deliberate creator of your reality?

Today’s training covers the ASK. We’ve already determined that we live in a Responsive Universe and that we’re always asking by our desires and through our contrasting situations, but for the Manifest 2022 Challenge, we are going to ask with intention and purpose.

Get out your journal and thoughtfully answer the following questions. Don’t edit your responses or stop writing because you don’t know HOW you’ll manifest the things you want. This is a light, easy exercise! Let yourself dream and imagine with child-like wonder!

As you write about your dreams, goals, and desires, feel about them too! Remember to write down your WHYs for each of them. How will having your dreams manifest make you feel? What will change? How will you change?

Download this handly Printable Vision Board to map out your 2022 top dreams, goals and desires.

And that’s it for today! Dare to dream big, think unlimited, and have fun with this! I’ll see you tomorrow for Step 2: ALIGN.

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The new year traditionally symbolizes a new chapter opening in the book that is your life. And after the last two years, some of us may want to simply write an entirely new book instead! But while so many people aspire to achieve ambitious goals, only 12% of you will ever experience the taste of victory. Sound discouraging? It is. 156 million people (that’s 156,000,000) will probably give up on their resolution before you can say “pop the cork.”

Creating or manifesting anything new or worthwhile takes time. Creation is a process, not a race. Our insta society wants everything NOW. It’s imperative to slow your roll and allow the Law of Gestation to happen. There are moving parts behind the scenes that are setting the stage for you. Get a longer, wider perspective and practice a little patience.

Many of you are letting the past dictate your future – either consciously or unconsciously. Old thoughts and habits are choreographing your next steps. See your old thoughts, beliefs, and habits as mutable. You can change them! This starts with awareness of self and putting yourself in check. Question everything – especially your own thinking. Where did those thoughts and beliefs come from? Are they true or relevant?

I love a good intellect, don’t get me wrong. The mind is a beautiful thing, but if it’s your only processor you’re missing out on experiencing grace and ease. Trying to figure everything out and how you will achieve your goals and dreams can be exhausting when you don’t have to. Most times it’s better to get out of your head and into your heart. This is where you can relinquish control, trust the manifesting process, paddle downstream instead of upstream, and allow all the goodness you desire to come your way. Take it easy.

Likely because you’re trying somebody else’s process. This means your directions are not coming from an intuitive place. Perhaps you’re doing what you think you “should” do, according to popular opinion. When you operate at this level inspiration is hard to come by. Your process is going to be different from everyone elses’ because one size does not fit all! It’s important to leverage your intuition to receive guidance from a higher source and not the average, boring information out there.

Efforting = Resistance. This ties in with #3. You are trying to control the outcome and not allowing the benevolence of the Universe to unfold organically in its own time. Nobody likes a micromanager so it would benefit you to stop doing it and trust the process. Yes, you are a powerful creator and that’s awesome! But that’s only part of the equation. Your desire is being responded to energetically by the magic of the Universe too! This is a collaboration, not a one-man show.

Keep a journal to track your progress, your successes, and hiccups. When you do, you’ll see patterns emerge and then you can pivot when necessary. When you see your successes on paper, it lifts your energy, creates momentum for more success, and feeds your confidence to continue. When you take the time to read your past journal entries, you’ll more than likely impress yourself! You’ll see how you rose above certain situations, survived a few others and how you’ve beautifully evolved. It’s quite insightful.

John Donne reminds us that “No man is an island.” In other words, no one is truly self-sufficient. Everyone must rely on the company and comfort of others in order to thrive. Isolation is a killer and we’ve all experienced what isolation feels like over the last couple of years. Working on a goal or dream within a group of supportive people is a game-changer. Having a community to support you on your path is just good medicine for you and for the community!

When you make a resolution you intellectually know the what or the thing you want to achieve. But what is your WHY? Your WHY is your emotional drive that creates lasting inspiration. The WHAT can keep you motivated, but that’s fleeting. Inspiration speaks to your whole self – mind, body, and spirit. For example, your goal is to purchase a home in 2022. That’s the WHAT. But what’s your WHY? Oh, so you can start a family, become a parent and experience unconditional love, provide a loving space for yourself, feel grounded, start a garden, have amazing dinners with friends, and be part of a community? Those WHYs will keep you going.

The reason New Year resolutions fail is that you’re out of alignment with what you say you want. Your words, energy, and actions are not aligning.

Get ALIGNED. Energetic alignment takes self-awareness and daily practice. Your energetic hygiene determines the outcomes in all areas of your life. That’s a pretty heavy statement and I stand behind it 100%. Managing your energy is everything and the key to manifesting anything! It’s a simple concept but we humans make it entirely too complicated and difficult to do. It doesn’t have to be like this. Once you learn how to manage your energetic alignment, you become an unstoppable and amazing manifestor.

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There’s a lot to love about smartphones. Smartphone technology makes life super easy and convenient, no doubt! But there’s a dark side to cell phones that empaths truly hate.

Let’s face it. Phones can be loud, invasive, and disruptive. Getting calls, robocalls, emails, notifications of every kind, and text messages all day long can be maddening to the empath. Typically, empaths are quiet and independent. We rely more on intuition for guidance, so we need quiet to tune in, and process our thoughts and emotions. Phone stimulation can be overwhelming for the empath, especially one who does not enjoy multitasking.

Cell phones have dominated our attention and we’ve become addicted to them. According to a global tech company, Asurion, “Americans check their phones 96 times a day – that’s once every 10 minutes on average.” That number is up 20% from two years ago, indicating the problem is only growing.

As a culture, we have become dopamine addicts. We want a quick hit of pleasure and smartphones fit the bill – for 10 minutes or so, and then we need another hit. Dopamine is a slippery neurotransmitter that feeds the brain gratification and leaves it wanting more – and more, creating anxiety and FOMO (Fear of Missing Out).

Serotonin on the other hand is also a pleasure-producing neurotransmitter that creates lasting satisfaction and even joy. We create serotonin when we’re in nature, in love, and experiencing the beauty of the world. An easy way to remember the difference between dopamine and serotonin is this: Dopamine will cost you. You have to pay for the high and it won’t last long, whereas, serotonin is free and readily available, but it takes a little effort on your part to activate it.

I’ve never met an empath who wasn’t naturally rebellious. Empaths are hypersensitive to the controlling energy of others and don’t tolerate it well. That’s why most of us avoid crowds and have a strong dislike for herd marketing and dodge places like Disneyland and Las Vegas.

Having a smartphone is like having Vegas in your pocket. It can be sensory overload leaving the empath feeling like their brain, mind, money, and attention are being hijacked.

The good news is we can mitigate that!

Ferris Bueller said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Skip the selfie and get serotonin-wasted instead.

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