The Ultimate Manifestation

The Bottom Line… What Everyone is Seeking

What is it that everyone is seeking, whether they fully realize it or not?

Listen to this 2 minute recording and find the answer. Please share your thoughts on this below, do you agree with this assertion?

What Are You Not at Peace With?

When you are not at peace with something, it means you are in resistance to it in some way.

You may have heard the saying, “What you resist, persists.” This does tend to be true.

So, if you are not at peace with a situation or person in your life, it is likely that the situation or person is not going to change much any time soon, especially if you continue to maintain your resistance toward it/them.

However, if you get to a place of peace (which could also be called “neutrality”), you may find that the situation resolves, and it may resolve very quickly. Even if it doesn’t resolve right away or ever, once you’re at peace with it, you don’t really care one way or another. When you are at peace with something, it is no longer and issue for you.

You are released from needing to be resistant to it in any way. You are free.

Getting to a place of peace often involves a shift of your mental perspective to one of peace and acceptance. It may also involve shifting some energy within in you, that is being triggered by the thing/person you are resisting.

Here’s an example:

Let’s say you are not at peace with the way some people drive. When you get behind those “certain” people, you immediately feel irritated, impatient and frustrated. Those feelings are pretty much opposite of the feeling of peace and neutrality.

Notice what your thoughts are about these people. It’s likely you are making them wrong, judging them or blaming them. This is your egoic mind talking. And, in this moment it has hijacked your thought process and is now running the show.

A quick way to shift into a better place is to find some thoughts of acceptance.

“I accept that I’m irritated and feeling impatient.”
“I accept that I’m judging this person in front of me.”
“It’s totally ok that I’m upset right now. I accept that I’m upset and I’m ok with that.”

Once you feel a bit lighter (you’ve shifted your state of being into an accepting state), then you can reach for some other thoughts that will help you to reframe the situation.

“I really have no basis on which to judge them, just because they drive differently than I do.”
“They have just as much of a right to the road as I do.”
“Maybe it’s good that I’m behind this person, it is forcing me to slow down, which is probably a good thing.”
“I’m going to bless this person and wish them well on their journey.”

The point of this exercise is to change the way you think about this driver, and even all future drivers that might trigger you in the same way. Find a new perspective that is more aligned with your higher self (instead of your egoic mind). It will be a perspective that is accepting, forgiving, friendly, non-reactive and peaceful.

Once you align with that new way of seeing other drivers, you’ll have to remember that and use it again, maybe several times when you are driving. Practicing this new mindset will build it into a habit. At some point you won’t have to consciously think it anymore, it will just become the way you naturally think.

The second part of the shift, if necessary, is to shift the energy within you that gets triggered anytime you find yourself behind some who drives in a way your ego doesn’t like. The CORE Technique is one of a few good tools I use. You can listen to a description and demo of this here.

This type of shift is what I do with clients all day long in my coaching business. It’s easier than you might think, especially when the energy side of the equation gets handled thoroughly. Feel free to post a comment or contact me if you’d like more information on how to make this kind of shift in your own life.

Whatever you do, know that everything that you are currently not at peace with can be changed… or rather, you can change yourself so that you are at peace going forward. It’s all shiftable, and it’s a very worthwhile thing to do.

How Do We Create Our Reality?

I see this idea talked about a lot these days in articles and books. How to create your own reality… There are many theories and techniques around this. There has always been something about this idea that has bothered me just a tad. It may be because I question how much power we have to actually create our reality.

Part of my resistance to this idea comes from another belief that I am holding. That is the belief that everything has already been created, it already exists. You could say God created it all in that one big bang, and things have been unfolding accordingly ever since.

So, if everything has already been created, then our job is not so much to create things as it is to “align” with things that have already been created, which may give the illusion that we are creating them.

If I get an idea for some new revolutionary invention that the world has never seen before, there is an extremely high probability that I’m not the only one with that idea. Usually bright new ideas get seeded to several people right around the same time. Whoever manages to turn the idea into a physical manifestation first, wins.

But, what if that invention has been around since the time when everything got created, but it just wasn’t accessible as an idea until now? Or humans just weren’t quite ready for it until right now? This may explain certain visionaries in history who seem to be thinking or inventing things way before their time. They’re somehow picking up on ideas way ahead of the pack, they’re tuning into things that are created on some other dimensional level and they’re sensing out into infinity to find their inspiration of what is coming. It’s like looking into the future and then bringing those ideas back to the present.

Ok, so maybe create isn’t the right word. However, do we have power to align with certain realities or to influence how reality is going to show up? On this, I feel strongly that we do.

Earlier today, we had a huge storm blow through. It came out of nowhere and suddenly there was intense wind, thunder, lighting and rain pouring down. Did I create or align with that storm? Not that I’m aware of. I didn’t wake up this morning and think, “Hmmm, today would be a great day for some sudden severe weather.” Perhaps on some deep unconscious level some part of me had something to do with that storm showing up, but there is no proof of that so let’s not go there right now.

Do I create or align with all of the incidents and events that show up in my life? Many self-help gurus and spiritual teachers say that I do but I’m not convinced. I guess it is totally possible that I’m creating all of it on some unconscious or higher self level. Anything is possible, but what good does it do me to believe this?

Another way of saying this is that we are each “responsible” for everything that shows up in our life. This I can agree with more easily. I do believe our “response-ability” has a lot to do with influencing how reality plays out.

If we define Reality to be “the Experience I am having in this moment,” then things start making even more sense. My reality is actually my Experience Of whatever is in front of me.

Did I create the storm this morning? Not that I am aware of.

Did I create my experience of the storm? Absolutely, yes! I was 100% consciously aware and in control of how I experienced the storm.

Here is what I mean by that…

I was actually on the phone with a client when it hit, and when it began to get my attention (noticing how things were blowing around outside) I commented to the person on the phone. I mentioned how the trees were bending and how it looked pretty intense. My client asked if we should end the call and I said no, it will pass soon. And, worst case scenario, if a tornado suddenly blows in, I’m already in the basement so I don’t have far to go to be in the safest place in the house (my office is in the basement but looks out on the backyard). I actually said, “I’m at peace with the idea of my house being destroyed, so I’m not worried about any of this.” I knew on a deep level that this was just a storm and not something I needed to take any action around.

Then the power went out for a couple seconds and we were disconnected.

So, I called her right back and we continued our session until the power went out briefly again a couple minutes later. All the while the storm is raging outside my window. I called her back again. After about 10 minutes things had calmed down considerably and we finished up our time with no further interruptions.

I was very aware of how I felt during all of this. There was a calm, relaxed neutral feeling present. There was no concern or frustration or anything resistant or negative going on. I’ve learned how to experience life from this place and it makes a huge difference in how my Reality shows up.

In that sense I am creating my Reality, by responding to whatever is present in a way that is peaceful and non-resistant. In addition, as I do this more and more, it really seems that I have fewer and fewer disruptive events in my life. The peace and tranquility has profoundly pervaded my entire life now for quite a long time. Upsets are extremely rare.

So, as you go about your day, take control of the one aspect of your being that you can have full control over. Choose how you will think and feel in response to whatever is happening in the moment. You’re likely going to run into some deep patterns that will try to pull you into reactivity and resistance. But, these can be shifted. Reach for a feeling of peace, joy, ease and freedom and watch your whole reality take a turn for the better.

The Perfection Bug

Today’s Tip is around Perfectionism. I come across this fairly often with clients, it seems we have all been pretty heavily conditioned to shoot for perfection in most areas of our lives.

Our egoic mind loves to grab onto this idea and then use it against us every chance it gets. The idea that we “should” be perfect perpetuates feelings and thoughts of “I’m not good enough, I’m not smart enough, pretty enough, responsible enough, there is something wrong with me,” and so on.

The truth is, while you may achieve perfection in moments of your life, you will not be able to sustain that for very long. If you can be ok with that and not have that mean anything negative about yourself, then that’s fine. But, I find that most people can’t avoid getting caught up in having their day to day imperfections be seen as evidence of their unconscious belief that they are flawed or lacking in some profound way. This leads to other negative and unhealthy thought patterns and emotions. It will put you into a resistant mind/emotional state and that is always counter-productive.

So, here’s my suggestion. Give up trying to be perfect at everything. Focus instead on being the best you can be in the moment. And, even that can get tiring after awhile, so also give yourself permission to not have to always go for even that level of accomplishment. Sometimes “just good enough” is the bar to shoot for.

Look at whatever task you are engaged in and ask yourself, “On a scale of 1 to 10 (0 = barely acceptable, 10 = perfection), what level is sufficient for me for this task?” Notice any resistance you might have to picking a number below 10. Intentionally go for a 6 on certain things you do, just to feel what it’s like to not have to be so darn perfect all the time.

This will free up a lot of energy for you because you’ll stop “needing” to invest so much time and energy into every little thing you do in order to do it perfectly. You can concentrate on the areas that are most important and that might need to have a higher rating, like things related to your work or business.

It’s very possible that your ego is hooked into being Perfect as a way to get a sense of who it is. So, you may encounter resistance on the ego level to letting go of striving for perfection. But, here’s the thing, it’s not healthy to get the sense of who you are from things outside of yourself. Most people do that (even though it’s not a very healthy thing to do) and it’s another area I spend a lot of time working on in sessions.

Ego can get it’s sense of identify from your profession, various personality traits you have, your checking account balance, how smart or pretty you are, etc. All of this feels pretty good when that aspect of your life is going well, but you’re set up for the rollercoaster ride should anything happen to that aspect of your experience. Anything your ego is heavily identified with can potentially “crash you on the rocks” if/when that aspect of your life takes a dive. It can also become an area where your ego gets to beat you up every time you fall a little short of the mark.

The truth is, you are perfect, whole and complete just as you are, no matter what challenges, problems or issues you have in your life. On the deepest level of your being you’re perfect, whole and complete. Get your sense of yourself from that place (it’s internal, not external) and you’ll find you can be much more relaxed and happy in your life even when things aren’t perfect.

The Spirit / Ego Toggle Switch

Here’s a new video created by my friend, Gayle Gang with www.talkreality.net. This is the first in a series that she’ll be posting with clips of conversations we’ve been having on topics that relate directly to how I’m now coaching people. Pretty cool stuff!

Please visit www.talkreality.net to share any comments you have about this video. Also check out Gayle’s TalkReality page on Facebook.

Video Clips of Gary Renard

I came across this person today on an internet radio broadcast at Spiritual Rockstar Radio.

That led me to Amazon to check out his books, and then to Youtube to hear him speak on the topics he often discusses. Pretty interesting, definitely in sync with the path I’m on in my own life. I look forward to exploring some other videos of his. He is a teacher/student of A Course in Miracles, which is something I’ve heard a lot about but never actually studied firsthand.

More info on him at www.GaryRenard.com

This next video is part 2 of a 7 part series you can watch on Youtube.

Mechanisms of Mass Thought and 5th Dimensional Timelines

This is a very interesting article that was forwarded to me by a friend. I work with these concepts quite a bit, however, I use a little different terminology. To download the eBook from which this is excerpted, please see link below. I just bought it myself and am looking forward to checking it out!

Mechanisms of Mass Thought and 5th Dimensional Timelines
Within every moment we are making decisions that will either carry us further along fifth-dimensional timelines or pull us into timelines mired in old ways of thinking and being.

Mechanisms exist all around us that can hook us back into old timelines of suffering and struggle. If we are awake to them, these mechanisms can help us become stronger and more skilled at aligning with the timelines we choose. If we are “asleep at the wheel,” these mechanisms yank us back into old realities where low-vibrational experiences are the norm.

Mechanisms of Mass Thought and Belief Systems
Mechanisms are energy fields created by mass thought. It is easy to become misled by these mechanisms. Every day in one way or another, we feed our life force energy into them. Some mechanisms are rather harmless while others are more destructive.

Relatively benign mechanisms might be getting hooked into buying trendy clothing or becoming obsessed about reading all the novels of a certain writer.

Destructive mechanisms might be joining a vigilante group that is against minority groups, gambling obsessively or becoming addicted to drugs.

Mechanisms hook people in through their belief systems. If we believe we are impoverished, this can hook us into timelines where we experience poverty. If we believe we are unhealthy, they can hook us into timelines where we experience disease. If we believe we are victims, mechanisms hook us into timelines where we are victimized in various ways.

Lightworkers and Mechanisms of Mass Thought
Many lightworkers have learned to see through the more obvious of these mechanisms. They know that our experiences flow according to where we place our energy and focus and they recognize quickly when their thoughts land them into undesired territory. A quick course correction can steer one back to timelines of peace and harmony.

One key is being aware of where we place our focus within every moment.

Consider the realities viewed on television and the nightly news, and those situations discussed with colleagues and friends as a matter of course. Violence, murder, war, terrorism, poverty, natural disasters and homelessness are among these scenarios. There’s nothing wrong with sending love and compassion to all those experiencing struggle and suffering. There’s nothing wrong with taking action to help make the world a better place. But compassion is not the same as investing an inordinate amount of your focus and energy on negative situations others are experiencing.

Being For or Against Something Feeds it your Energy
You can’t change a timeline; you can only energize a new timeline that flows along higher- vibrational frequencies. Investing a great deal of your focus into any lower-vibrational situation energizes it and feeds it energy – and ultimately energizes it to your field of experience.

An example is a person protesting war. This person, because they are against something, is feeding the mechanism of war just the same as those who are in favor of war. In this situation, energizing timelines of peace and understanding help diffuse the energy of war.

Viewed through this lens, it becomes easier to see how energy is just energy. It takes its shape from the focus of our thoughts and emotions. When we allow ourselves to be unconsciously hooked into mechanisms of mass thought we feed our life force into energy fields spinning out replicas of old third-dimensional timelines.

If you have allowed yourself to be hooked into an energy field that is not of your choosing, you can withdraw your focus and attention and place it elsewhere. As we gain awareness, we can extinguish our lifeline to these mechanisms by shifting our focus.

Shifting Focus to Fifth-Dimensional Realities
Shifting to fifth-dimensional timelines is where reality creation comes in. Begin by choosing those areas you wish to energize into your life. These might include a healthy diet, positive and supportive relationships, uplifting books and movies, a new fitness regimen, or reorganizing your home to uplift your energy. You can create a list of new realities you want to build into your life. Whenever you see yourself feeding old realities with your energy and attention, shift your focus to this list of realities you wish to expand into your experience.

Once you begin to energize a new positive reality into your life, further actions will appear to you. As you take the actions downloaded to your consciousness, you anchor new and uplifting experiences into your physical reality.

Creating a List of Preferred Realities
Begin now by making a list of thoughts, images, ideas and perspectives that to you represent the new time on Earth when you’re deeply rooted in fifth-dimensional timelines. When old mechanisms show up to try and hook you into old, third-dimensional realities, refuse to feed them your energy. Instead, shift your attention and focus to fifth-dimensional realities you choose to energize. The new time on planet Earth exists within the hearts and minds of many now who are incubating fifth-dimensional energy fields within their own consciousness.

For more on fifth-dimensional consciousness, see The Future is Here Now: Steps to Accessing Fifth-Dimensional Consciousness by DL Zeta

http://celestialvision.squarespace.com/the-future-is-here-now/

For more information, visit http://www.celestialvision.org/

Bruce Lipton Video – Why Positive Thinking Isn’t Enough

I’ve heard a lot about Bruce Lipton over the past couple years. I haven’t read any of his books yet, and this is the first time I’ve actually heard him speak. He has a very interesting point of view which I resonate with to a very large degree.

My coaching approach integrates much of the concepts he discusses in this video, allowing me to help clients shift issues on the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual levels. I don’t use the Tapping (EFT) modality, and instead use the WaveMaker, muscle-testing and 3 energy shifting techniques to accomplish the desired outcome of being free from conditioned patterns and issues.

5 Reasons Desired Results Don’t Always Show Up Right Away

I recently had a session with my intuitive guide, Alice Brewer. And we were discussing a couple case studies where it’s been more challenging than usual to get the outcome we are looking for with clients.

Alice was shown (by spirit) the 5 biggest causes for outcomes to not appear they way we’d like them to, even after doing very effective work on the issue.

1. The client “wants” the outcome too much. – This can make it very difficult to get it to show up. The solution is to “Let go and let God.” Or, realize what feeling state you are wanting to experience as a result of having this outcome, and learn how to easily “dial” that in now. Then you won’t feel like you need or want the outcome so much since you already have the feeling state, which is what you most want anyway. The less you need or want something to show up, the easier it is to get it to appear. That is practicing the “law of detachment.”

2. There are layers involved. – I’ve hit this on many occasions and we just work through the layers until the outcome shows up. Sometimes there can be almost no movement on the issue after a few sessions as we work deeper and deeper into it, then all of a sudden, it just shifts.

3. The client backslides. – Growth is not a linear progression. Backsliding will sometimes occur, and that’s ok. It’s part of the learning curve. If you fall off the horse, just get back on the horse and start riding again. Eventually, you will stop falling off.

4. It’s part of the Human Condition. – Especially as relates to physical issues, sometimes the physical manifestation of the issue is just part of the normal process of the body. The picture Alice got on this one was of a monk who was ill. Despite the monk’s advanced state of consciousness and connection to divine energy, his body still was going through some process of decay or deterioration. I tend to still believe a lot can be shifted around this area, I’m very reluctant to accept that the body HAS to age and decay, at least not at the rate that people tend to believe. But, to some degree, we are all subject to the laws of this physical plane “where moth and rust consume.”

5. It is not in the client’s highest and best good to have this outcome at this time (or perhaps ever). – Often there is a lesson involved and until the lesson has been learned, the issue will not change. If we are primarily here to grow and learn (which is my belief based on quite a lot of evidence to suggest that is true), then our “thorny” circumstances and bodily issues are the teachers. The quicker we “get it” and move through whatever we need to learn and integrate, the quicker we can be done with the issue. And, sometimes, the thing we need to learn is how to transcend the issue, to be happy and fulfilled even if it doesn’t change.

Feel free to post comments to this article on my Optimalife Facebook page.

Releasing Negativity & Resistance

Originally posted 11/20/2010

I picked up Abraham-Hicks’ latest book over the weekend, “Getting Into the Vortex – Guided Meditations CD & User Guide” and although I’ve only just started reading and listening to the CD, I’m really enjoying what it offers.

A key part of the audio recordings centers around a way of breathing that seems to help the listener to more easily raise their vibration during the meditation. It definitely was working for me — I muscle tested my vibration had actually gone “off the chart” while listening, using the Scale of Emotions as the measuring stick.

I think the most critical aspect of being able to raise your vibration is with the releasing of resistance and negative energy within your body. This has become my coaching area of expertise over the past couple years. Things have evolved quite a bit with my approach and coaching tools and I now find I am able to help people release several types of energies that are low vibration (low end of the scale) and negative. I’ve had the opportunity to witness some pretty amazing transformations during that time.

It can be very challenging to live in this world these days and not pick up some negativity. Some people are more susceptible to it than others — a lot of that has to do with where a person lives “vibrationally” to begin with. A person who is more “pessimistic” is going to attract more negative energy than a person who is “optimistic.”

The most debilitating negative energy patterns are not things we create ourselves but energies that get “stuck” to us as we go though life. This is why a pessimistic person is more likely to draw more negative experiences to them. You become magnetized positively or negatively, just like the magnets on your refrigerator. The Law of Attraction dictates that “like attracts like” which is the opposite of how magnets operate (positive attracts negative). In energetic terms, positive attracts positive and negative attracts negative because there is a resonance match occurring energetically. This is why negative energies that are floating around the planet can get drawn and stuck to negative people very easily.

An optimistic, positive person has the energetic equivalent of a strong immune system. Positive energy can repel negative energy. So a positive person is much less exposed or susceptible to having negative energy drawn to them.

I always like to focus on the good news, and in this case, the good news is that even a very negative and resistant person can change their ways as long as the energetic patterns are released that are holding them in place on the negative side of the fence. The chances of flipping this switch through managing thoughts alone is very remote. But, when the energy component is effectively addressed, a person can make this change in a relatively short amount of time.

If you know anyone who would be interested in making this change, have them check out my website and schedule a Free Jumpstart Your Happiness Coaching Session.