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Living Dynamics of Prayer - Manifesting Your Good

From a Spiritual Message in 2011

What was the Universe abuzz with this week? Conscious creation! Everywhere I went the same topic was being discussed. We are creating all the time whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not. We are creating our life moment by moment, transforming what was into what will be. Isn’t it better to be consciously creating our lives?

The creative process has several names: “The Secret,” the law of cause and effect, co-creation, treasure mapping, or any number of other terms. I prefer the term prayer. It doesn’t matter what name you give it, the principles are the same because they are part of the natural flow of the world, in particular, the natural flow of being human. To create consciously, we must first claim 100% responsibility for our lives. They are of our own creation. If you don’t like where your life is right now, you can do something about it to make it better or take it in a different direction.

When we take full responsibility for our lives, we suddenly awaken to the fact that we can have and do whatever we like. No one or no thing can hold us back, only our beliefs about ourselves and whether we feel worthy to receive it. The $12 million dollar woman awakened to that fact when she set out to win the lottery. She used the principles of the process I call prayer to change her life. She became proactive instead of reactive.

Our friend Bruce Avenell told us that what we are thinking and believing right this moment will appear in our lives in 3 days. What do you want to happen in your life three days from now? If we are really tuned in to our true Self and to God, Spirit, answers can happen in the blink of an eye. I’ve told this story before that illustrates this point. I was driving down the street, saying to myself, “I haven’t seen my friend John in a long time. I sure would like to see him.” Two blocks later, I did see him, standing on the street corner as I drove by with no time to stop.

This brings me to the next point – making decisions. Our part in this process is to use our mind to decide exactly what we want and be clear about it. In my story I really wanted to have time to visit with my friend and catch up on all the news, but I worded my prayer to only see him. Jack Canfield put it nicely in the film we watched last Sunday. He said, “Be clear while you’re here.” It is important to have clarity of purpose, mission and goals. Most of us don’t know how to do it; we keep changing our minds, which the ego habit loves.

To come to clarity we have to have silence. That is one of the reasons meditation is so important. Going to the quiet relaxes and stills the mind, and all the illusions began to drop away so we can see more clearly. Whenever you have a decision to make, go to the silence and just be open to your inner guidance, and your mind will become clear. And remember to include no hurt to anyone else and everything for the highest good of all.

Jack Canfield says, “Every year I make 21 goals, three in each area of my life. I don’t attach them to a timeline. I write them down in detail.” He thinks carefully about what he wants and he doesn’t change his mind. Then he starts looking for pictures or symbols that joyfully and happily represent each goal and makes his Treasure Map for the year. He puts it up where he can see it each day. First thing in the morning and the last thing at night, he reviews his goals. Jack tells of writing out “One Million Dollars” on a big sign and taping it to the ceiling in his bedroom so he and his wife would see it every time they were in bed. And, of course, it wasn’t long before he received that One Million Dollars. You have this list of goals on the insert to the bulletin to take home and fill out.

Your success is in the details of your goals, your prayers. The next step is visualizing. Treasure mapping is one way to do this, to visualize in a multi-dimensional way the ideal of your goals. This means you use all your senses when you picture yourself achieving your goal. Put yourself in the picture for each of your goals. And live as if you already had what you desire. I don’t mean if you are asking for a million dollars, you start charging on your credit card. I am talking about shifting from lack to plenty. Act “as if” you already had your goals. Feel your prosperity.

In this process of creating there are three separate jobs or parts. The mind’s job is to decide clearly what you really want. Take some time with this and write down your final goal. The heart’s job is to have fun visualizing you in the picture. Visualize the same situations every time. (Write them down also to remind you.) Your soul’s job is to see that no hurt occurs from you receiving your dreams and that you are on purpose and God’s job is to take what you have created and manifest it. When you set your goals, you don’t have to also figure out how you are going to achieve them. We spend so much time worrying over how, when our job is only what - what we want. All you have to do is make the clear pattern and stay focused on it. God has a much larger view of possibilities and the power of manifestation. The ego habit loves it when you get sidetracked from making and holding the pattern and go into obsessing about how you will get it.

But there is one other step that people who teach this principle of co-creation don’t make clear enough. That is putting energy into our prayers. The universe is basically energy. The prayer process shifts energy. Bland prayers and energy bring bland answers. Energy comes from being excited about our dreams. Energy comes from breathing into our prayers. You remember that when the missionaries came to Hawaii, the natives realized they didn’t breathe into their prayers and called them “haoles,” those without breath. And ever since that time all foreigners are called haoles, those who don’t know to breathe energy into their prayers. Don’t be a “haole,” breathe energy into your prayers.

Take 100% responsibility for your life. Be clear about your goal or desire. Do your job of creating the pattern or picture of what you want and enlist your heart to join in the vision. Make a treasure map, live your goals as if they were already here. Don’t try to do God’s job. Give that part whole-heartedly to God. Breathe energy into your prayers. Focus, focus, focus on what you want every day. Do something toward your goal every day. If you are not moving, you can’t be guided to your answer. Jack Canfield also reminds us to not give up. Ask, ask, ask. And if we don’t get the answers we want or another challenge comes up, we simply say, “next” and move on. And when your prayer is answered, give thanks. Gratitude is the final step in the prayer process. We are so thankful for all our blessings. We know these steps, now we are to put them into action. As Melchilzedek says, “Go forth then and create all that is good, that is loving, that is peaceful, that is joyful, all that is life enhancing and for the highest good of all.” Consciously create your life. Namaste.<