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?