The Hunt for Someone

Been a while since my last post. I have been doing a lot of growing in the way of my spirituality and things have been getting clearer for me.

It is funny what twists and turns happen in your life when you least expect them. It's like that person, you or me, who constantly try to find the person of their dreams. Their search is never over and they are always sifting through all of the people they meet or putting themselves out there with dating services and other things like that. I have known a few people who have done that and it is always at that moment when they completely give up, when they're so sick and tired of going through the same motions with nothing to show for it, that they find that special someone.

It happens with smaller stuff too, like when you can't remember some important bit of information you were going to tell a friend. As soon as you let go of trying to remember what it is, you remember what it is.

This is what the Law of Allowing is about. It is about letting go and allowing the Universe to work and provide for you what you want. Giving up can be looked at as 'giving it up to your higher self". Another way of looking it is through EWOP (everything works out perfectly). You take a problem and give it up to your higher self to deal with. Trusting in that part of you to take care of it swiftly and easily. Tell yourself that everything works out perfectly and then release the worry.

A friend of mine has told me that she goes through life expecting nothing and is always pleasantly surprised when things pop up for her. She has also told me that she believes that there is more than one soul mate for each person out there. I believe she's right on both counts.

Merry Christmas everyone!

God Is Everyone

We have been created in God's own image.

If this is so, why would we not be able to create as God creates?

If the theory that we are all One is true, then wouldn't the universe and the God who created it as well as everything else in the universe be One as well?

God is the creator. We are built in his image. We are all One. Hence, we are all God. We are all creators. We are all One.

Imagine what would happen if everyone in the world woke up one day and understood just how powerful we are as humans; if everyone understood how our minds and thoughts are capable of creating our own realities. What would that be like? How different would the world be? Or would it be the same?

Ask and It Is Given

When I first began to notice my manifestations, I wondered how I did it. Later on, when I realized how I manifest things I questioned what my state of mind was like when I was asking the universe for something. Where was I, what was I thinking about? How did I know that I was going to get what I wanted?

There are many people who liken manifesting with ordering something from a catalog; for me it's essentially the same in mind. Meaning, the state of mind that we are in when ordering something. We simply ask, we expect to be given something and then we get what we asked form. It's that simple. When we order something we really desire, there's that excitement at knowing that in a couple of days we'll have it. It's the same thing when we order from the universe.

For me, there's a certain clarity that comes when I know I am in a true state of manifesting. My mind is calm, I have no worries or doubts about what I'm asking for and those worries and doubts do no enter my mind after I have stated my desire. It's like being in the zone. I ask something from the universe and the universe says, "So be it." It's not like it's hard for the universe to create something for us. Everything is made of the same stuff, and it happens to be a very malleable medium.

Things happen quickly when you let them happen. When I have manifested in the past, for instance, I asked for "a man in my bed". It took the universe about 3 days before I found that man to be in my bed. Though, he was only a man in my bed in a very literal sense, I still got exactly what I asked for and in that time in my life it was exactly what I needed.

After I asked for that man, I didn't wonder when it would happen, I didn't worry about it and I didn't wonder how it would happen. In fact, I didn't bother thinking of it again until I received it.

It was that sort of confidence where I didn't have to worry or wonder about what I was getting because I knew I was going to have it. After I asked, I didn't have to think about it anymore. It was a done deal.

If you force yourself to believe that you're going to get what you desire because you're thinking that you're not going to receive it, you're blocking that desire from fruition. Any sense of doubt will attract the doubt of it happening.

A really easy way to think about it would be to just think about the answer that the universe gives you for each thing you desire.

So Be It.

We Are All One

A chess board is a place where strategies come into play. Each move that a player makes affects the move that his opponent will take, as well as affecting all of the other pieces on the chessboard. These moves will affect the next set of available moves, and so on.

Life can be compared to a game of chess and I suppose that there are probably a lot of people out there that have made the same comparison. In fact, someone wrote a book on it. Who knew? Anyway, I was doing some thinking the other day and came to the conclusion that chess and life have a lot of similarities.

Every choice we make in life will affect our choices in the future. It will affect the people that are involved in our lives, whether we realize it or not. Some of these effects will be good, and some of them will be not good. All of these choices that are made - from the little things like hitting the snooze button to what shoes to wear to the big stuff like getting married - have effects that ripple outward from the time the choice is made to affect an infinite number of things which in turn affect other people and other things. It goes on and on. It's comparable to the Butterfly Effect where the tiny wings of a butterfly perhaps making minute changes in the atmosphere that can cause a tornado to form somewhere else in the world.

The cause and effect of everything that we do is what shapes the universe that we live in. Just as our thoughts and feelings help to bring forth new things for us, our actions also affect everything in the world around us. Who knows? What if sneezing in the right direction can set off a hurricane in the Pacific? These with so many variables for everything, just about anything is possible.

We have been given an all -knowing guidance systems that will always lead us in the right direction. What we call a soul, or higher self, or spirit is always with us. It is connected to the source of energy that all things are connected to. In this way, we are all one. This is why it is so important for us to know the difference between the inner voice that is our ego talking, just a refection of our minds and our higher self, which is a much softer voice. Some people can call it intuition, or a gut feeling. This is when our higher selves are trying to guide us to make the right decisions. It could be because we are on a crossroads of choices and a wrong move could set off catastrophes either in our own lives or in the lives of others, or it could be because one choice will lead us easily to the things that we desire and the other will lead us further away. In any case, whenever stuck at a crossroads where there are numerous choices before you, pause to check your intuition. What choice feels right?

Deliberate Creation - Want vs. Desire

Due to a recent break up in my life, I have been battling with my inner wants and what I think are desires. I constantly go back and forth between wanting this person back in my life as he used to be and counting it as a real blessing that he stepped out of it. I know in my heart that it is probably more of a blessing and that all of the things that I miss about him are the things that can be found with any other relationship, but I still want him. Or, at least I think that I want him. I probably just want what he gave me in the relationship which means that I need to just let him go.

*big sigh*

The spiritual journey that I am on is directly affected by the challenges and transformations that the ends of each relationship brings. One of the main reasons for this blog is to share this spiritual journey with everyone in the hope that readers will learn something from it, or at least be amused by my mishaps. Either way, I want to share my experiences with the world.

On my quest for knowledge I ran across a website that really sparked my interest. It is always amazing to me to suddenly want to know something about something and then find the exact thing that you needed to hear without even searching for it. I found this site searching for Deliberate Creation and I found it quite easily, but what I also found was this:

Desire can be seen as a "positive" feeling. When we desire something, we are exuberant, enthusiastic about getting and having it.

Want can be seen as a "negative" feeling. It equates with lack. It says to the Universe, "I need this particular thing, it's missing in my life and, without it, all is not well." This sets up a vibration of desperation, of tension and difficulty, and closes down our ability to notice and receive anything that is made available to us.
-- Don Beckett

That was when the hammer hit the nail on the head. I hadn't thought too much about wanting things because I thought that's what deliberate creation was all about. I thought it was about saying "I want this" and then putting some good thoughts out about it and ping there it was. I knew it was about the content of the thoughts that you have when you want something but actually defining the difference between desire and want made it all click for me. I believe that the article is true for the most part. We tend to want things that we don't have, therefore want them because the lack of them. Going back to the Law of Attraction, if like attracts like, then wanting something because of the lack of it will attract the lack of it.

The next paragraph of the article really hit home for me.

The classic example of wanting is unrequited love. When we desire a person who does not reciprocate the feeling, we tend to become obsessed with thoughts of them. Negative kinds of thoughts: longing, pining, self-pity, depression, neediness, sadness, desperation, hopelessness. Which not only kill any possibility of attracting the person, they squelch our ability to attract any sort of desirable people and experiences. We start to become a magnet for all kinds of negative things: sickness, accidents, and other people who are vibrating on the wavelengths of woe and self-pity and hopelessness.
-- Don Beckett

I have been pegged! All of the things that I had been thinking towards my ex in a nice little list. Oops. It is so easy for me to fall into the state of thinking about all nasty little things that I would like to say to him because they would make me feel better. It's usually at that point where I try to completely cast him out of my mind and think of happier things. I know that deep down, he believes he did the right thing that is all that should matter. I should not waste any energy on being mad at him because it won't do anyone any good.

There is no such thing as coincidence; the universe knows what it's doing. If we weren't meant to be together, then we were meant to be with someone better for us. It should be seen as a blessing even though it's sometimes hard to see past the gloom.

It seems as though the whole universe is waiting for me to pull myself together and make myself ready for the next person who will come into my life. When the time is right, after I have sorted through all of the emotions and have gotten completely over this one, the universe will let me stumble upon the next one. I have no doubt that he will be even better than the last. I can hardly wait!

Life is But a Dream

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.

Isn't it wonderful how a simple childhood nursery rhyme could describe life so perfectly? Our bodies can be thought of as a boat for our non-physical selves in the physical world. Each of us learn how to move through life on a daily basis and guide our bodies from here to there to create unique experiences.

The idea is to let the river take us to where we need to be. Yet there are so many people out there who try to row upstream. Fighting against the flow for something that they think is right, or true, or real. They choose to go the hard way and work themselves to the bone because they think it's the only way to do things. They constantly fight against the current and end up a lot further upstream then they would have if they just trusted the river to guide them. The river knows where it is going. It may seem like it is winding and twisting in ways that aren't necessary, but to the river, it is the easiest course to take.

Merrily. Merrily. Merrily. Merrily. Life should be lived with as much joy as possible. Like the cork floating on the top of the water, our natural state of being is happy. We have been created from a stream of pure positive energy, therefore when we feel positive about life and everything in life, we are closest to our truest form. It takes a lot of energy to have negative feelings about anything. This is because it isn't true to what we were made from. It is easy for us to hold onto that negative emotion because it seems a lot easier than letting go of it. For some of us, we have been holding onto it for so long that it becomes really hard to even think about letting go because it feels as if it has almost become a part of us.

The lives that we lead are ones that are shaped by the choices we make. All of our choices up to this point have created our worlds that we live in. Our own dreams are ours and we can change them to suit the mood when we are dreaming them. Life can be changed in much the same way. We are each at the helm of our own boats. Through the choices we make we can change our lives to be anything that we want it to be.

We are all powerful creatures - each and every one of us. When looking at it from the point of view from people who practice the Universal Laws, it makes sense. Here is this universe and all it does is create. The things that it creates are all through what we think. That is how powerful each and every human being is on this planet. We have the power to create anything that we want to create. It is ours. We are all made from the same 'stuff'.

If we are all these powerful creators, then why are we where we are at right now and not any further? The only thing that is holding us back is ourselves. It is because we don't realize how powerful we are. It seems as though many of us are content with letting the leaders lead while we sit there and follow. It's like tying up our boats to someone else's in a long line and letting them decide where we go. We have forgotten that it's our lives, our choice, our creation, our reality. That is why so many of us are stuck in a job with a pile of bills with what looks like no out, because we can't believe that there is one. We think to ourselves that this is the way it works and this is the way it will be. End of story.

If only we had the courage to cut those lines that tie us to the boat in the lead and make our own way down the river. It seems as though the lines that bind us are filled with fear and hopelessness. It's the "I can't" attitude that can so easily catch us and fill us with despair.

Now is the time to take all of the things that you don't like about your life, all of the things that are holding you back from your dreams and change them. It is in your power to do it. The only thing that you actually have to do is believe. The only thing that is stopping you is you.