To get what we want, we have to know what we want. To know what we want, we have to think about it, feel about it, make determinations about it (okay, this is what I want), and then, once we know what we want, we have to focus on it. Focusing, then, takes on a twofold meaning: focusing in terms of honing in on your desires (determining what they are) and focusing in terms of concentrating joyously on what you’ve determined your desires to be`.
This is how we ask the Universe to manifest our desires, and this is how we align ourselves with receiving them. Below you’ll find 5 tips, processes, exercises, games (call them what you will), for focusing your desire and thereby drawing what you want into your life.
Note: all the processes below are taught by Abraham-Hicks in their manual for blissful living, “Ask And It Is Given”.
1. The Magical Creation Box – Find a box, the more appealing to you the better, and start putting into it magazine and newspaper clippings and other images you find (or make) about what you want. Continue adding to the box as time goes on, knowing that anything you place into it is already yours.
2. The Creative Workshop – Take four pieces of paper and label one ‘My Body’, one ‘My Home’, one ‘My Relationship’, and one ‘My Work’. Then start adding to each list those things you want in each of those areas. Focusing on these four key areas of life will help you more clearly identify those desires that matter to you most.
3. Virtual Reality – You may say this next one is no different from ‘fantasizing’ and to that we say, “So it is”. A visualization exercise, in Virtual Reality you allow your mind to focus on a particular scene you desire experiencing, and imagining yourself in it.
Paint a scene with your mind that makes you feel good. Is it indoors or outdoors? Day or night? What are you doing it? What’s happening around you? If there’s any difference between this process and your fantasies is that these Virtual Reality visualizations is intentional, directed by your conscious desire and - most notably distinct from fantasies – honored and appreciated for the future reality they represent.
4. The Prosperity – Everyone wants money: cold hard cash; and there’s nothing wrong with it. So why wait? Start thinking wealthy now; align yourself with how you’ll feel when the wealth you already possess actualizes itself in your bank account. Creative an imaginary checking account. Use an actual checkbook register or a personal finance program on your computer if you wish, but somewhere, somehow, keep a record for this account. On the first day you play this game, deposit $1,000 into your account.
Then start spending it: writing checks (or entries in your record tracking your imaginary expenses) for everything you want to buy or spend money on. And spend it all – in one sitting (or one day). Don’t leave money around to build-up in your account; this is a checking account, not a savings .
The next time you do this, deposit $2,000 and again, spending it all. Each time you play this game increase your initial deposit by $1,000. See how it feels to spend $20,000 knowing you’ll get equal that plus more as soon as that runs out. How does it feel when you get to spending $100,000 at the time. What do you have? How does it feel?
5. The Book of Positive Aspects – Gratitude and appreciation is our way of attracting more of those things into our lives. So start a notebook where, one at a time, you dedicate an entire page to one person, animal, place, situation, or thing that is already in your life: a restaurant, a car, your spouse, your job, etc. Write down in as much detail as you can what you like/love/appreciate/are grateful for about each person, animal, place, situation, or thing.
In doing so, you not only create more positive experiences with that restaurant, car, spouse, job, etc., but you attract more of those qualities you listed appreciating into all areas of your life. Once you’ve done this a few times, try listing the positive aspects of something you’re not so thrilled with in your life. By focusing on the positive aspects of a negative thing or situation, you transform it, perpetuating and reinforcing the positive elements while the negative elements slip away.
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Visualization
“If you build it, they will come.” Field of Dreams
Instead of observing a problem that you want changed, imagine the situation or condition as you want it to be. The concept is simple and, fortunately, so is the method.
Anyone can do it, anywhere, at any time, and for any duration – with incredible results. Visualization is one of the most powerful methods there are for effecting the changes you desire.
In a very real way your fantasies are your realities – good ones and bad ones, for better and worse. What you imagine is what will be. If you build it, they will come. Fortunately, it’s never too late to imagine something new, even if presently embroiled in circumstances previously imagined.
The process of visualization is simple, and it doesn’t require any esoteric knowledge or complicated accoutrements. If you can find a quiet place to do it, all the better; if you can’t don’t worry about it.
Do it on the bus, if you want. If you can arrange to be uninterrupted while you do it, great; if not, it isn’t a problem. You can do it with your eyes closed or open. You can do it sitting, standing, laying down, or out jogging.
All you do is create a visual picture of what you want (NOT what you don’t want). Create a visual picture of the condition, circumstance, or situation as you desire it to be (NOT how it currently, undesirably, is).
For best results, once you have a clear mental picture of the ideal you’re creating, be sure to place yourself in the image (if you’re not already). Interact with the elements of this ideal reality you’re visualization into existence.
And that brings us to a trick for boosting the impact of your efforts: Visualization is made exponentially more effective when coupled with positive emotions.
That is to say, once you’ve begun visualizing the way you want something to be – whether it’s your physical condition or your life situations – next allow yourself to start feeling the emotions associated with these desired states.
Feel what it’s like to have what you want as though you already had it now – perfect health, that relationship you’ve always wanted, that new car or Tahitian holiday, that better job, the return of something lost or missing, the resolution of a squabble – whatever it is, feel the emotions you know you’ll have when that possibility, whatever it is, becomes your reality.
The visualization is the way to make your request for a particular reality to unfold; the positive emotions you feel about that reality are the way you get yourself in alignment with it occurring for you, the way you allow what you’ve visualized into your present reality.
It’s a three-step process:
Abraham-Hicks, co-authors of “Ask And It Is Given”, and facilitators of the “Art of Allowing” workshop affirm that if you can focus on a single visual image for 17 seconds straight, you’ve effectively put your request out into the Universe – like giving your lunch order to the waitress at the diner.
They further affirm that all it takes is 68 seconds of uninterrupted focus on your desire to get yourself into vibrational alignment with allowing it to happen.
Instead of observing a problem that you want changed, imagine the situation or condition as you want it to be. The concept is simple and, fortunately, so is the method.
Anyone can do it, anywhere, at any time, and for any duration – with incredible results. Visualization is one of the most powerful methods there are for effecting the changes you desire.
In a very real way your fantasies are your realities – good ones and bad ones, for better and worse. What you imagine is what will be. If you build it, they will come. Fortunately, it’s never too late to imagine something new, even if presently embroiled in circumstances previously imagined.
The process of visualization is simple, and it doesn’t require any esoteric knowledge or complicated accoutrements. If you can find a quiet place to do it, all the better; if you can’t don’t worry about it.
Do it on the bus, if you want. If you can arrange to be uninterrupted while you do it, great; if not, it isn’t a problem. You can do it with your eyes closed or open. You can do it sitting, standing, laying down, or out jogging.
All you do is create a visual picture of what you want (NOT what you don’t want). Create a visual picture of the condition, circumstance, or situation as you desire it to be (NOT how it currently, undesirably, is).
For best results, once you have a clear mental picture of the ideal you’re creating, be sure to place yourself in the image (if you’re not already). Interact with the elements of this ideal reality you’re visualization into existence.
And that brings us to a trick for boosting the impact of your efforts: Visualization is made exponentially more effective when coupled with positive emotions.
That is to say, once you’ve begun visualizing the way you want something to be – whether it’s your physical condition or your life situations – next allow yourself to start feeling the emotions associated with these desired states.
Feel what it’s like to have what you want as though you already had it now – perfect health, that relationship you’ve always wanted, that new car or Tahitian holiday, that better job, the return of something lost or missing, the resolution of a squabble – whatever it is, feel the emotions you know you’ll have when that possibility, whatever it is, becomes your reality.
The visualization is the way to make your request for a particular reality to unfold; the positive emotions you feel about that reality are the way you get yourself in alignment with it occurring for you, the way you allow what you’ve visualized into your present reality.
It’s a three-step process:
- Visualize your desire, and be sure to include yourself in it;
- Feel how it feels to have that desired reality here and now;
- Repeat as desired.
Abraham-Hicks, co-authors of “Ask And It Is Given”, and facilitators of the “Art of Allowing” workshop affirm that if you can focus on a single visual image for 17 seconds straight, you’ve effectively put your request out into the Universe – like giving your lunch order to the waitress at the diner.
They further affirm that all it takes is 68 seconds of uninterrupted focus on your desire to get yourself into vibrational alignment with allowing it to happen.
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