Have you ever wondered why, when you first take on a new challenge, you commit to it fully and totally, but if you don’t see results quickly, you lose interest? Your old thoughts get in your way and can keep you from achieving your goal. As you get lost in old thought patterns, you continue to create the same results, and easily become frustrated. Because you don’t see results, you don’t think that you can have what you have challenged yourself to try to achieve. But you can!
The Importance of Perception
You are what you think. Your body is constantly listening to you with every single one of its cells. Your body vibrates the thoughts, words, intentions and feelings that are deep within you. The energy that you radiate from yourself into the world’s endless fields of energy is continually being reflected back to you. If you don’t like what you see, then you must change yourself. Perception is reality.
Investigative journalist Lynne McTaggert says in her book, The Field, that the human mind and body are not separate from their environment, but rather, are constantly interacting with this vast energy sea, and that consciousness may be central in shaping our world. “At our most elemental,” she writes, “we are not a chemical reaction, but an energy charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalesce of energy in a field of energy connected to every other living thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.”
Defining Your Desire
What do you want? Most people think they want something tangible, such as more money, a flashy car, or a relationship, but the truth is, when we explore this more deeply in our workshops, your true desire is not any of these things. It is an IDEA that is fed to you. Desire is a deep feeling. Once we are clear on what the desire is, we can focus on that desire with clarity. What you truly desire, you embody in a spiritual way.
When you truly desire something because it is right and true for you, then it is yours. The real problem for most of us is that we really don’t know what we want. We think we want something, but we may not believe that we deserve it. We have beliefs surrounding what we want and how we cannot possibly attain it, so we keep this desire outside of ourselves.
The Importance of Commitment
Begin by removing these energy blocks. Begin with commitment. Commitment occurs when you tell yourself, “I’m all in, I do deserve this, I will do what it takes to unblock the things that are keeping me from living the life I love, and attain my desire.” Commitment means that you will do whatever it takes to attain that goal. You won’t give up. You know that a desire is what you really and truly want if you will do anything to attain it.
For example, let’s say that you want to incorporate meditation into each day of your life. This requires commitment. You must set aside time in your daily schedule to look deeply within yourself, to release old feelings and energy blocks, to explore your inner world and the self-talk and feelings that have been holding you back. Most people say they don’t have time to meditate, or they don’t know how. So we can teach you, and give you the tools you need to be able to teach yourself, to trust your own gut. You will find that you will come up on your own resistance. If you feel you don’t have time to meditate, wake up early and spend one hour in the morning meditating and journaling before you start your day. If you really want to meditate, you will forego that extra hour of sleep or extra cup of coffee to spend this time focusing on yourself. You have to break old habits by doing something that makes you feel uncomfortable. You must be willing to dedicate yourself through faith and perseverance. You may come out on the other end wanting something completely different. To want something is to state that you don’t have it. So we have to get to a place of burning desire and passion. There’s a difference between what you want and what you need and what you desire.
In my workshop, I talk about the onion and the lotus flower. First, we begin to peel away the layers of what isn’t real and, as we begin to do so, we get to the very bowl of the onion. A beautiful lotus flower begins to unfold right next to it. The energy and essence of that lotus flower blooming is the person who you truly are and who you want to be based upon your spiritual essence. When we get to the essence of this beautiful flower, you can really begin to understand what you truly desire– not with the ego, not with what society told you, not with what your cultural beliefs told you, but with who you really are.
How to Achieve What You Desire
Commit to spending at least 10 minutes, three times a day, focusing on what you want. This may be done through writing down, or journaling, what you want and your gratitude for the things that you already have. It all starts with this simple commitment. When you do this, meditate on observing your thoughts, your resistance, and what your mind is screaming at you to do. Allow those thoughts to enter your mind as you breathe in. When you exhale, silently tell yourself to quiet your mind. Allow your mind to empty of its constant chatter.
If you want quicker results, get up an hour or two earlier every morning and meditate, then journal. This practice will disrupt your patterns and unbind beliefs you have been holding onto. It will act as a reminder during the day that you’re committed to change. Write about your observations during your meditation. In the silence of the conscious mind, your subconscious mind begins to speak to you and gives you inspiration and talks to you about your purpose. Through that purpose, you will find your burning desire.
When you’re done meditating, set small, achievable goals for each day. If you don’t achieve a goal that you set for yourself for that day, agree with yourself to achieve it the next day, and to make the time to do it. Rearrange your schedule to do whatever it takes to achieve that goal. Recommit yourself!
Having an attitude that says to the world, “I will do whatever it takes,” is a game changer. The energy field around you begins to respond to your intention. What you intend with feeling and your focused thought, you create.
Begin to observe your world without judgement, making an effort to see what is rather than reacting to your world. Awakening yourself to new possibilities means opening your heart and mind. Drop any negativity and don’t judge, criticize or gossip. Those things are useless in this journey.
The same mind that created your present circumstances cannot create what you desire. You must dissolve your old thinking. Remove from yourself old ideas and habits that created your old thinking and patterns. You cannot create something new from your old mind. This is how writing things down helps in our journey. We remind, reprogram, and release.
