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Re: Steps toward manifesting abundance daily

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:06:08 GMT

Thanks 's so much Crow. I often need to be re-mind-ed, reset my mind to the truth, that my attitude is what determines my feelings. And that practicing gratitude no matter what makes me feel good, no matter what.

The other basic tools of happy and healthy living I have been learning about I would like to list and ask everyone to help expand this list, so that eventually we come up with a glossary of Life skills that need to be taught in schools:

Gratitude
Gratitude puts me into a humble place of appreciation which is a prerequisite for feeling good about life and the world.

Expect positve outcomes
Who ever said we have to look for negative outcomes? Expecting negatives is what we call worry, fear, stress, etc. Definitely recognized as a major cause in all diseases and emotional problems.

Let go of all judgments
Judgments are self damnations. If I think someone is a thief because he's rich, I forbid myself to ever become rich. If I judge baldness to be ugly, I will hate myself when i turn bald.
Only free from judgments I can percieve reality as it is.

Forgive
Forgiving ios the tol to free myself from the past, especially from traumas. A trauma will persist until i forgive it. and a mistake as well. Forgiving serves my liberation, not the one i had to forgive. And forgiving myself for my part in the story is usualluy more important than everything else.

Activate the Knower
We all need to learn to discover the point of witness consciousness, observer or knower, our higher self as open minded awareness, the "aware will" as Psychosynthesis founder Roberto Assagioli called it, from which we know that we are not our emotions, thoughts, and feelings, but centers and directors of intuition and attention by which we create, allow or disallow our experiences. To find that spot of spirit, from which we direct our thoughts, try mindfulness meditation as introduced in my guided meditation "Awareness in the Now" (see my blog, can't find the link now).

Focusing
Focusing is our main tool to determine what we choose to experience and can be used consciously to determine life direction and outcomes. For further insights into the pactice check www.focusing.org.

Please, all: add to this list.

Mikael

Re: Steps toward manifesting abundance daily

http://laughingcrow.gaia.com — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:43:19 GMT

I would add that emotional state is also key. Mental discipline itself is insufficient. I find that consciously choosing gratitude for what I already have is a primary force in generating further improvements. When I get disappointed by what I haven't accomplished, upset about what I don't yet have, then my emotional energy feeds the negative, and I continue to create false scarcity. To live in abundance, I only have to realize that it is already true. This article helps me remember~

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following- There would be: 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south, and 8 Africans. 52 would be female, and 48 would be male. 70 would be non-white, 30 would be white. 70 would be non-Christian, and 30 would be Christian. 89 would be heterosexual, and 11 would be homosexual.

6 people would possess 59% of the and all 6 would be from the United States. 80 people would live in substandard housing; 70 would be unable to read, and 50 would suffer from malnutrition. 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth. 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education, and only 1 would own a computer.

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding, and education becomes glaringly apparent. The following is also something to ponder...

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world. If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world. If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada. If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful...you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not. If you can hold someone's hand, hug them, or even touch them on the shoulder...you are blessed because you can offer healing touch. If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

Namaste,
Crow

Re: Steps toward manifesting abundance daily

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:59:43 GMT

Thanks so much for claryfying this process a little, freewil.

I am often aware that I create my reality, or at least try to rremember that I am living primarily in my mind, but how often do I catch myself as I question exactly what I just affrimed I want. Actually I seem to spend most of my time worrying if what I want is really the right thing to want etc.......

I also know that focusing is the most important mechanism by which I direct the development of my mind and experiences, but I am far from staying focused and creating what i really want.

So thanks again for the reminder.

Mikael

Steps toward manifesting abundance daily

http://freewil.gaia.com — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:14:21 GMT

Steps toward manifesting abundance daily

What is the most important factor in Conscious Creation?

The concept of Conscious Creation is now a well-accepted buzzword in
a variety of metaphysical circles; however, despite the
proliferation of this material, it seems many are still unable to
achieve the success they would like to use these principles. Why is
this so, and is there a missing component that is largely being
overlooked? What is the most important factor in Conscious Creation?

Answer:

The main missing ingredient is focus and consistency of effort. In
your modern lives, you are constantly surrounded by many, many
choices. Choices about what to eat, where to eat, what to wear, how
to wear it, different career and job opportunities, many, many
different ways of expressing yourselves and filling your lives than
in earlier periods of human history. Your abundance of choice leads
many of you to be distracted by other possibilities, therefore
lessening the amount of focussed energy being placed on the things
that you say that you want. This is one of the reasons. Another
reason is that for the most part, you simply allow life to happen to
you. You turn on your radios and TV's, you listen to the news, you
react to it in one way or another and you go about your day. Very
few of you start your day with any other purpose in mind than 'go to
work', 'take children to school', 'pick up laundry', 'go
running', 'pay my bills'. In addition to these general 'to do' lists
that you have, you simply go about your day allowing life and the
day to happen to you. However, each part of your life is a result of
thought. If you think you have a hectic, unstable, disorganised
life - take a look at your thoughts.

The most important aspect of learning to manifest is focus. What many
do who first learn of their inherent ability to attract to themselves
what they are wanting through thought, is to instantly think of the
biggest, best, largest, most courageous dream or thing they could
imagine, they instantly say " I want a large sum of money" or "I want
to become a movie star" or "I want that luxurious home in the
mountains". For those of you who are unaccustomed to focussing your
thoughts, these items will present great challenges. It is not that
they are difficult, for it takes exactly the same amount of focus and
decision to manifest a thimble as it does a castle. The difference in
the manifesting of the thimble and the castle, are the beliefs you
have about having and owning such things. So many of you are burdened
with feelings of lack of self worth, the conflicts that arise out of
manifesting your largest dreams, sabotage the manifestation of them
in the initial stages. When you think of such grand things, such
grand dreams, most of you immediately begin an inner dialogue in
which you tell yourself of all the reasons why you may not have the
thing you have dreamt of. You cite examples, you remember all the
other 'failures' from the past, the 'failures' of friends and
perhaps even try to convince yourself that the higher path, or the
spiritual path, is to go without and to learn how to be satisfied
with what you have. Although we would agree that being satisfied
with where you are is a beneficial quality to develop, but
satisfaction is not the same as stagnation!

It is not that we are offering to you that you should not think big,
that is the last idea we would want you to gain from our answer.
However, what we are saying is, you need to practice deliberate
creation, and we suggest that you start this with the creation of
your day. As we have already said, for the most part, you simply
allow your day to happen to you. In order to prepare yourself for
creating your life's dream, start with creating a day, and do it
consciously. For example, as you awaken each morning you can say to
yourself "today I wish to learn more about what I love and more
about what excites me" or "today I wish to discover more of my
talents". The list of possibilities is endless. Note this, the
MOMENT that you make this statement; you have launched a new
creation. As you say these words and INTEND to experience 'more of
what you love', your soul then sets about brining you those
opportunities. As you shift your focus on life away from being
reactive beings, in other words, simply responding to
what occurs in a day, and you become a creative being, setting forth
your intention for the day, you ability and confidence increases.

You may want to increase abundance in your life, as you make the
statement as you awaken "today I wish to experience more abundance",
your perspective will begin to shift. As it shifts, you will first
see the abundance that has always been there, as this happens, your
focus shifts onto the positive side of having, instead of being
focused on lack. As your focus shifts on having, you invite more
abundance to come into your life, you start manifesting new things.
The first stage of all manifesting is to shift your perspective so
that you can see that the thing you want is already there, perhaps
in a different form, but the essence already exists. For example,
for many of you, money represents freedom. As you shift your focus,
you will see more aspects of the freedom already present in your
life. You will begin to see other riches, abundance in the form of
love, friendship and other gifts.

Successful manifesting takes two ingredients, focus and self worth.
It is also important to remember that in your world of opposites,
each subject has two sides, giving each thing you want to manifest a
lack side. In other words, there is money, and the lack of it, there
is success and failure, there is health and there is a lack of
health. What we observe, is that the majority of you are focused a
great deal of your time upon the lack side of every important
subject in your life. You remember the criticism of one, but you
forget the praise of one hundred. We give you this promise, if you
can focus on what you want, and hold that focus intensely over a
period of 21 days, reviewing and updating you vision each 7 days,
you will be well on your way to creating what you want, it will be
yours! Remember, the key is to hold your focus!

What stops you from holding this focus are a couple of things.
Firstly, there is the fear of disappointment, the thought that
perhaps holding all this desire and focus may just simply lead to a
greater sense of disappointment than before. When this comes up,
most simply stop wanting the thing they say that they want to have.
The other great saboteur of conscious creation is allowing your mind
to wander off into all the 'logical' reasons why you can't have what
you want. You start saying to yourself: I am too old, too fat, too
uneducated, too young, not talented enough etc, etc. You then begin
to shift your focus onto the not having.

For those of you who have been aware of the universal laws of
creation, having a deeper sense that you are creator, your greatest
challenge is to live this knowledge fully. The belief that you create
your own reality is relatively new to this generation; therefore, it
has yet to gain wider acceptance. Until the population as a whole
gains this understanding, those of you who are aware of your ability
to manifest, are constantly challenged by the popular view that you
are a victim of random events and that life, like the universe, in
unpredictable and has a much greater power than you do. So many of
you are still believing that the Universe can exert itself against
you, even believing that misfortune and 'bad luck' is perhaps
a 'karmic debt' that needs to be paid off as recompense for some
nefarious deed in the distant past of a past life. It is not that
that you are not creating consciously, for indeed you are. So many
of you habitually choose to deny yourself, deny your divinity and to
deny your ability. This is conscious, it is a choice. When you do
not get what you want, you often go to great lengths to justify why
you cannot have the things that you want. Even those who love you
will support you in these beliefs concerning what you can and cannot
have. They will tell you that there is a lot of 'competition' or
that the 'market' is slow, or that your chosen path is
always 'difficult' and a 'challenge'. What you then consciously
choose to do is to agree with them.

It is not so that you are not consciously creating, much of your
self-deprecation and diminution is done regularly and consciously. Do
you dare to be different? Be not afraid of your light, of your
greatness, you are a child of God, you can create what you want!

Wishing all joyous creation;;;freewil