The Ultimate Manifestation

Top 10 Ways to Raise Your Vibration

Here are my Top 10 Ways to Raise Your Emotional State/Vibration/Mood. I’ve listed several other options at the end. Check out the Scale of Emotions to read more about raising vibration: http://theultimatemanifestation.com/2009/12/05/finding-a-true-perspective-that-feels-good/

1. Just Follow Your Nose

I have found some essential oils that can shift my emotional state very quickly just by getting a good whiff. You can find these in health food stores and spirituality shops. Do some test sniffing and select some fragrances that really light you up.

2.  Gratitude & Appreciation

Gratitude is an automatic mood changer. Just focus on anything you are sincerely grateful for in your life and you will rise up to a level 2 on the scale.  Appreciating can be even easier. Walk around your home and look at things and feel appreciation for them. Even when you’re driving around town, look at things and people and appreciate them.

3.  Listen to the Music

Music like scent, can provide an instant lift. Make sure you are choosing music that truly lifts you into high states. There is a lot of music out there that actually lowers your vibration.

4.  Find Something That Makes You LOL

I love Youtube for this one. There are so many funny clips available online from tv shows and comedians. I recommend you make a folder in your web browser  that is dedicated to “Funny Stuff” and whenever you want to lighten up, you can do some viewing. One of my favorites: “America’s Funniest Videos.”

5.   Reach Out & Touch Someone (Call a Friend or Family Member)

It’s amazing how much better you can feel when you just take your attention off of yourself and put it on someone else. So, give someone a call and feel the connection!

6.  Play With Your Pet

The more cute and cuddly the pet, the better. Cats can provide several minutes of high quality entertainment — we use a children’s fishing pole with a plastic bug tied to the end. True “cat fishing.” Dogs can be fun too, of course. Take your dog for a walk or play just play fetch for a few minutes.

7.  Go for a Walk in Nature

Get outside and enjoy a little piece of paradise. Really take in the scenery without labeling things with your mind. You can see nature in ways you’ve never seen it before. Fresh air, sunshine, exercise… All good vibration raisers.

8.  Do Something You Really Enjoy

For me, it’s playing guitar. I can get lost in that pretty fast, and I always feel better when I’m lost in something I love doing.

9.  Tune Into the Spiritual Level

Make contact with your spiritual guides, angels, Jesus or whomever you feel a high vibrational connection with in the spiritual realm.

10.  Read an Inspiring Passage from One of Your Favorite Books (or Listen to Some Uplifting Audio)

Again, redirecting your mind toward something positive and uplifting is a game-changer when it comes to moods. Have a few favorite books in your workspace and on your nightstand for easy access.

Now for some very honorable mentions:

- Sing

- Smile

- Play with a child

- Remember some fond memories

- Visualize/fantasize about some area of your life you’d like to be better

- Remember a scene from a movie that you love

- Look at pictures that inspire you

- Meditate, chant or pray

- Do some breathing exercises

- Eat some healthy foods

- Imagine you just won the lottery and think about all the ways you’d spend your millions

- Stop watching/reading the news

New Evidence for Why Visualization Works

I was in a session with Alice and one of my clients earlier this week and toward the end of the session we had some very interesting information shown to us.

We’ve all heard that visualizing your goals and desired outcomes is a powerful tool and can help a great deal in speeding up the manifestation process. I’ve personally learned this from several teachers and books. There have even been many scientific studies conducted which have proven that visualizing works.

Part of my understanding for why this works comes from the idea that our subconscious mind cannot distinguish between what is actually seen with our physical eyes and what we imagine with our mind’s eye. So, when we visualize we are creating a visual experience that is perhaps just as real to our subconscious mind as it would be if we actually had the experience we are envisioning.

The subconscious mind, by the way, is the bridge between the conscious mind (physical plane level) and the super-conscious mind (universe, God level). It is a very common concept that our reality is most created from the thoughts and beliefs we hold in our subconscious mind. So, the subconscious is the key to making changes in your physical reality. Changes made in just your conscious mind don’t have nearly the effect compared to changes made in your subconscious mind.

So, everything I’ve said so far was known to me. Here is the new understanding around why visualizing is so important and why it works.

It seems that the folks on the non-physical plane (guides, angels, people who’ve crossed over: basically “the universe”) sometimes just don’t get what we’re asking for when we only speak in words.

Think about when you ask/pray for something you’d like to see happen. Let’s say you have a loved one who is ill and you are asking for them to be better. I think that most people speak the words, asking God to please heal the loved one. It’s all very conceptual and word-based.

But, what if you were talking to someone who didn’t understand the language you were using? That would make it a lot harder for them to hear and understand you.

The universe (and God) has its own language. That language is made up of pictures and symbols. Emotion is also a very important component when conveying what you are asking for.

So, in the example of asking for a desired outcome for a loved one, what would be most effective is for you to picture the loved one at the desired outcome endpoint. If you are asking for a child to be healed, picture the child happy, running and playing. See them in your mind’s eye the way you’d like them to be in your reality.

Then, you can include some words and speaking, and ask God or angels or whomever you are most connected to on the spiritual level, for this picture you are holding in mind to be what is “mirrored” in your reality.

Since I became aware of this understanding, I have started envisioning and then engaging in a dialogue with spirit. I get the image in mind that I want to see in the physical reality, and then I speak to spirit directly saying, “This image in my mind right now is what I’m asking for.” Then, I go right to feeling grateful and thanking God/spirit for helping with this. I go to the emotional state that I would feel if this imagined reality were to show up in my physical reality. I feel as though it is already done. I then act as much as possible from a place of “this is already done.”

I let it go and trust that the universe/God/spirit will do what is best. I give up all attachment to my “needing” this outcome to show up as I am asking.

Whenever I think about this situation, I make sure I am holding in mind the image of how I want it to be, not the picture of how it is now. This way I am consistently sending the same message and asking for the same thing over and over whenever I think about it.

I encourage you to play with this and notice what shows up as a result. It takes practice. I’m not a master of it yet, but it does get easier the more you practice it.

Income Shift

So, here’s the background on this recent shift. My wife is a very successful voiceover actor. You can check out her talents at www.debbiegrattan.com. Prior to my getting back into coaching in 2006, I had been working full time in her business doing accounting, marketing, sound editing and just about anything else that needed to get done. We built up a very nice income stream, with it peaking in 2005.

I say peaking, because it was in 2006 that I started shifting my attention toward coaching and away from her business. I was spending more and more time on my own training process and starting to do practice sessions. Over the following 3 years up through 2009, I spent less and less time working in her business and more time working in my business. Her income suffered as a result. I had hoped that the income I was making in coaching would offset what she was losing in her voiceover business, but that wasn’t playing out. By the end of 2009, our annual income was less than half what it had been in 2005. Ouch!

I finally had to get real about all of this in the beginning of 2010. It was clear to me that I needed to devote more time to her business and help her get things moving again. At this point, she was making about 25% of what she had been making in 2005. So we had our work cut out for us.

Given all the things I’ve learned about manifesting, attracting and creating, I applied everything I knew to get the momentum back to where it had been during our best year. It was a struggle for awhile. We redesigned her website and made some other marketing moves to create some new energy and a fresh look. I started doing more support work for her, helping to take some things off her plate so she could feel more relaxed.

About 8 weeks ago (mid March of 2010), we started having a daily meeting with our spiritual guides, angels and helpers. Basically it is like a daily team meeting. We tune into the high vibration and I recite an invocation, which goes something like this…

“Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Guides, Masters, Angels, Higher Self and Loved Ones in Heaven who are working on our behalf, we are asking for your help, assistance, guidance, support and interaction today, all from Light and Love for our highest and best good. We are open, receptive and grateful for all that you have been doing and are doing to help us to experience the outcomes we desire.” Then we share some specifics about what we’d like help with. We focus a lot on feeling gratitude, and after doing this for several weeks, it’s very easy to feel gratitude because we now have some very tangible results showing up that are clearly coming from the spiritual level.

Over the past several weeks, an increase in our income level has been on the top of the list. My focus for what we will do with the additional income is firmly on paying off our home mortgage. I’ve learned it’s important to be clear on what you will spend money on, rather than just asking for money. So, we’re very focused on receiving the resources to allow us to pay off our mortgage and become totally debt free. From there we’ll move into building more wealth, with the initial goal to have a net worth of over one million dollars and an end outcome of having a net worth of over six million dollars.

We ask for other things as well, but this blog post is about the income shift so I’ll stay on topic.

I’m not going to give specific numbers here, although I’m tempted just to make the point. But, here is what has happened in the past 4-6 weeks. Our weekly income has gone up about 300%. Over the past 3 weeks, we are now back to averaging the level we were at in our peak year. It’s a pretty significant weekly income. And, it feels like this change is going to stick.

Debbie has picked up a few new clients who have dropped some huge fairly long term projects into her lap, keeping her busy and providing a solid foundation of workflow. On top of that she is getting many daily requests for other jobs from many different clients.

In addition to the daily meetings with our spiritual support team, I’ve also been using my Quantum Reality Shifting technique every day. Basically this involves being fully resonant with our intention, having a positive vibe about it and being fully aligned with living in the reality where this intention already exists. There is a whole category on this blog on this topic so be sure to check that out if you want to learn more. It seems to be working really well and helping us to greatly accelerate our manifestations.

This has been such a dramatic shift in such a short time period that it’s almost unbelievable, yet I feel I understand what is happening and what we have done to set these wheels in motion. Mostly, it’s consistently asking for help,making sure that we are staying aligned and not getting in the way, and taking action on our end to keep moving in the direction of what we want.

I’m very excited to see where things will go from here. Debbie just landed a leading role in “The Miracle Worker” at the local South Bend Civic Theater. Initially I was concerned that the added time and effort would have a negative impact on our income situation. But, I was able to get a spiritual reality check on this and learned that it would actually have an overall positive impact, and it would be a wonderful creative outlet for Debbie, since she hasn’t been on stage in over 10 years. So, she’s doing the play and the work is still pouring in, now 2 weeks into the rehearsal process.

It feels like there is some very real momentum happening, and I intend to keep that wheel spinning and continue to feel immense gratitude for what is showing up. Thank you, God!

About the Spiritual Reality Category

This is a new category, and I’m very excited to write articles that relate to this topic. Since about June of 2008 when I took my first Matrix Energetics training, I have been becoming more and more aware of the Non-Physical or Spiritual dimension of reality. It’s often ignored by people because we can’t sense it with our five physical senses, however, we do have what I call “non-physical senses” which can indeed sense this level of reality, and even allow us to interact with it.

Many people are afraid of it or feel it is not something that should be explored. I understand the reasoning behind this, and it is important to know what you are doing when interacting with this dimension. Mainly because, just like in the physical world, there are good guys and not so good guys out there. In my evolution of working with Spiritual Reality, I’ve learned how to make sure I’m only engaging and inviting in the positive good energies and beings. This is important to understand. And, if more people actually understood this, they would not be so afraid of interacting with things they can’t see.

So, over the past couple years, I’ve had literally hundreds (meaning easily over two hundred) actual experiences of interacting with the spiritual reality. I’ll be sharing many of those experiences on this blog. Some of these stories are going to blow your mind, and were it not for the fact that I have actually experienced this stuff, I’d probably have a hard time believing some of it myself. But, everything I share here will be based in my actual experience.

A key part of having this experience has been my ability to use self muscle testing and most importantly, my partnership with Alice Brewer, who is able to see, hear, feel and interact with the non-physical realm with extraordinary clarity and detail. It has been through working with Alice that the reality of the spiritual dimension has become so solid for me.

A neat detail about Alice, she worked as a corporate attorney for almost 25 years. She has a very logical, scientific, even skeptical nature about how she thinks. Because of this, she brings a level of credibility and a “down to earth” quality that is unlike anything I’ve found in people who are able to do this type of work.

So, get ready for some amazing stories. And if you ever feel interested in experiencing this level of reality for yourself, you can contact me to schedule an appointment. I find that even one session can be a life-changing experience for people, because it can completely change your paradigm of reality.

Unbelievable Spiritual Healer

I just learned of this person, a Croatian healer named Braco, from a post in Wendy Down’s Consciousness Playground. Boy, has that membership opened my eyes to some new things over the past few weeks!

So, this person is reportedly able to heal people simply by gazing at them. He doesn’t speak or touch anyone. He has “sessions” with what looks like hundreds of people at a time. He does not accept money for this. There are many many video testimonials and stories of people whose lives have changed, healings that have occurred as a result of just being in Braco’s presence and having him gaze at them.

It’s pretty extraordinary, hard to believe, yet I have seen and heard about other powerful healers in the world so I am open to the possibility of this being totally real and verifiable.

He seems to be extremely humble in all of this, calling himself a normal person. There is definitely something going on here, it seems there are just too many witnesses who confirm similar results for it to be a mass delusion. I have heard some comments of people who can see auras and energy, and they describe things in a way that may explain Braco’s healing power. He is channeling a LOT of energy, apparently. Probably pure consciousness/awareness which has immense transformational properties.

As I have read some of the comments posted on Youtube, there are some postings from people who think this is all BS.

What occurs to me about that is… In order to “know” whether this is real or not, you would have to experience it firsthand for yourself. That is true of anything. My mind often wants to convince me that it knows things, but often whatever it is saying is just based on my belief system, which acts as a limiting box that I think inside of.

You know the phrase, “think outside the box?” That is referring to thinking outside the box of your belief system, or if what your mind feels is possible.

In order to even consider this is possibly real, you would have to have a belief system that could allow for that possibility to exist. Many people will look at this and say it’s a hoax or scam or something of that nature. Other people will see it as potentially the real deal.

It would be hard to know for sure without some personal experience, even by way of a trusted friend who had a powerful experience. Until you “know” (on a level beyond just the mind) you just don’t know for sure. Usually some form of direct experience is what provides the true knowing.

But, without an ability to at least believe it is possible, you’ll never be able to know. Your mind will shut the whole thing down pretty quickly. Mostly out of the fear of what it would mean if this was real. It may mean you would have to rethink a lot of things, and our minds/egos don’t generally like to go down that path. Our minds like to have certainty which feels much more comfortable that uncertainty. But, the reality is that there is much that is uncertain in the world we live in. Things are changing all the time, all out of our direct control. So being able to live with that uncertainty and still be comfortable, happy and at peace is the key.

In the Core Dynamics Model, we call that “living in the wonder and delight of uncertainty.” It’s where all the magic and miracles live.

I guess I find it interesting to explore how our minds work when presented with something as “out there” as this. It definitely could be used as a test to see how open-minded you are.

Where do you stand on this? Could it be possible or does your mind squash it as a sham? And if your mind squashes this, what else is your mind squashing that may be real yet outside your box?

Ok, enjoy the video and notice what your mind says as you go.