Deliberate Creation: Creating Your Life As YOU Want It To Be

Deliberate Creation; what a concept. Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?

Ah, but how to achieve this, that is the question. I know it can feel sometimes like life has got hold of you, rather than you having a hold of it. Like you are caught up in a rushing current that seems to send you this way and that without your consent, and especially without your enjoyment, maybe even dashing you against the occasional rocky shore or sending you crashing over a gorging waterfall.

We've all been there. We've probably all had our share of rocky, joyless rides and come through on the other side to that smooth ride where we can breathe deeply again, emit sighs of gratitude and take in all the beautiful scenery once more. So how can we get to this better-feeling result without the extremes of the journey? There is no secret, just a simple action.

Pay attention to every time you slip into negative thinking and gently (without any self-reprimand) move yourself into positive thought and action.

That’s right … action. You can’t just think your way through life. Whether you realize it or not, your negative thoughts are actually creating negative action. Inaction is an action. It is a choice to sit still, and sitting is an action (remember that action verbs end in ‘ing’ … even be-ing is do-ing something). And to make things even more interesting, remember that you can either create your life deliberately, or you can create it by default (by leaving it to the "fates").

I know a number of people, myself included, who have chosen to cut television viewing and newspaper reading out of our daily activities altogether. These choices don’t keep all the bad news out of our lives by any means, but they go a long way in moving and aligning us with what we are desiring. By choosing less to take in negative views of the world around us, we open (choose) to take in more positive views of our world. This type of choice of action can be done with any subject matter to start making the shift to a new, better-feeling place.

But there IS more that can be done. We can create mechanisms that will help pivot us from holding negativity and which can and will generate a stream of positivity into our lives! We can use these tools and games to remind us in light-hearted ways of our goals and to feel joy in moving toward them.

So if you are going to bring the lesson of deliberate creation firmly into your bones, into your experience, and create the joyful life you desire, it's time to get in motion in the direction of what you are wanting! It could be as simple as monitoring yourself so that you stay in line with positive thinking. It could be writing down what you want. It could be talking to a friend about your dreams for your life. It could be taking a small step in your wealth-building activities: buying a new wealth book, giving money away (tithing, gifts, donations), or investing in a new business, to name a few.

There is only one way to shift away from something we do not want, and that is to SHIFT, and in particular, to shift to what we are wanting. Get clear. Line up our thoughts and emotions for what we want and never look right or left, but only firmly at our desire and walk toward it. We must not just hope for what we want. We must not start moving toward it and then allow ourselves to be diverted by less important distractions. We must not begin to doubt it is there in our lives already. We must move toward our desires with confidence and joy, seeing their full glory before us and knowing they are ours even before we hold them in our hands. Like Yoda told Luke in one of the most famous movies of our time, "There is no try, only do." Walk towards what you want. It is yours.

Most everyone have heard the famous quote: “If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always gotten.” Well, do you like what your life has been offering you so far? Or are you ready for a change?

Make the adjustments in your life that will move you closer to what you are wanting. Why wait? Start now! The only thing that is at stake is your happiness, so if you are willing to compromise your joy another minute or so, I understand, but if it were me … well … gotta go! More shifting to be done!

Until next time,
Affectionately,
CJ

Rockets of Desire

There are three steps to manifesting what you want: ask, believe, receive. Most people think that we have to ask in clear, conscious ways in order to get what we want: prayer, meditation, affirmation, petition, list-making. In truth, our beings are emitting signals all the time asking the universe for what we want. It helps to be more conscious and deliberate (one of my favorite pieces of the LOA puzzle; more on that another time), but it is not necessary. Our inner beings shoot of Rockets of Desire all the time and I want to share two recent rockets of my own.

Two months ago I went on a cruise with some friends (you KNOW who you ARE). One of our excursions found us being driven down a L O N G S T R E T C H of beach in an open-air "limo" (a covered "wagon" on wheels being pulled by a noisy tractor). Someone spotted a sand dollar and our tour guide retrieved it and gave it to a child in our group. A friend of mine spotted another sand dollar a bit further down the beach and got it. As she showed me her new treasure, I felt a rocket of desire shoot through me ... I want one of those! To make a longer story short, today one is sitting on top of the bookcase in my living room.

A similar experience occurred this past week. I was at my office complex and saw flowers being delivered for someone. Often the bouquets I see are unoriginal and very commercial-feeling. This one was beautiful and huge. I felt a rocket launch and felt myself desiring to be on the receiving end of flowers.

Last night I had a friend over for dinner. I knew she had a passion for gardening, but I never would have thought that would be a boon to me. She arrived with a GORGEOUS bouquet of flowers, fresh from her gardens!

As I was thinking today about these rockets our souls shoot off and how quickly our desires can manifest, I remembered the first time I recognized this happening within me. I lived with my 2 younger sons in Chicago and a neighbor boy knocked on my door out of breath and told me some kids were trying to fight with my sons at the park a block away. I grabbed my cell phone and started out for the park. It was the longest block I ever walked ... ran. As I made my way to meet whatever was happening there, I felt a "prayer" float from my solar plexus area, up through my heart and throat and head like a bubble and burst out of my being in the clear thought, "Send someone to protect my sons until I can get there!"

When I arrived, there was a young woman wearing a Parks Division shirt speaking to some boys as my sons looked on calmly. The unknown boys were in the process of shifting from anger to a state of embarrassed regret as I approached. They looked at me, then my sons, then back to her again and muttered an apology and left. My sons were safe and I was left standing there with their guardian angel. I thanked her and then turned to my sons to ask them if they were alright and when I turned back to thank her again, she was gone. I mean GONE. I could see quite a distance in all directions and she was nowhere to be seen!

While our encounter with an angel was indeed miraculous and seared that day in my memory for all time, it is also firmly fixed there as the day I discovered the tangibleness -- something I could really wrap my brain around -- of Rockets of Desire. That day I learned viscerally how they feel and how they work. You will probably have to have your own visceral experience to truly grok this, but I will tell you one thing I've witnessed over the years of my own personal research on rockets: the more passionate your emotional center is on a subject, the more swiftly come the results ... and this works for both the positive and the negative stuff of life.

Just to underscore this with the examples I've shared here, you will notice that I had an instant manifestation of a guardian angel for the sons I dearly love and for whose safety I was desparate; I manifested the sand dollar during our land excursion, probably because I knew the time span of that excursion would most likely be my best or only opportunity for it; and it took a week for the flowers to show up in my reality, a delight for sure, but there was no sense of urgency wrapped up in this one. See what I mean about the level of passion playing a role in the speed of the manifestation?

I would strongly encourage you to do some experimenting of your own with Rockets of Desire. Exploring this phenomenal innate event can lead you to a multitude of discoveries that will enhance your ability to create your life deliberately. It worked for me and has led to a rich and exciting journey of deliberate creation and a life filled with joy!

What have you got to lose?