Radiate & stretch your mind to receive

Have you ever thought that if you desired something, you could make it happen? You may not realize the Universe can produce whatever you desire, so long as you don't undermine it with doubt.  No need to grasp complex math or formulas.  This is the magic of positive thinking.  It works whether or not you think you understand it.  You radiate your energy and stretch your mind to receive what will be coming:  

1) Build your experience and expand with every accomplishment.  That's right.  As you build your confidence, you widen a sense of possibility in different areas of your life.  You come to expect good things and they take shape to enrich you.  You get what you ask for, whether its a conscious or unconscious request.

2) Align yourself with what makes you feel good.  Summon the power of desire.  Your level of contentment or satisfaction reveal whether you're behaviours are on track.  Permit yourself to visualize and experience the benefits of those things you ask for.  Feel excitement, anticipation, joy, and bliss.  Its all shaping your future. 

3) Discover you can achieve any desire.  None of this, "but, I don't know..." or, "he won't let me or, she won't let me!"  Its impossible to receive what you desire and to resist at the same time.  As you take steps to recognize how you're blessed, to express gratitude, you uncover all the evidence in your favor.  Will you listen?

4) Take responsibility to experience your desire.  Decide you will live in a state of pure joy, that there is no dream you will not accomplish.  Remind yourself of your abilities and your potential.  Guide yourself to environments that enable you to focus on your truest inner power.  Remove all mental and emotional blocks to feeling health, well-being and harmony.  Eliminate all negative thoughts.  Connect the physical life force to the deepest desires of your soul.  Believe in yourself 150%.

4 Points to get your bearings

Romance is a subject of frequent inquiry. People ask themselves whether they 'feel right' or sense they may be making a big mistake. Rather than quickly succomb to your worst fears, I invite you to ask yourself four questions:

1) Would you rate this relationship as a positive or negative experience? If  this question seems to oversimplify your situation, then take out a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle. Write (+) at the top of one column and (-) at the top of the other. Now make your list. Based on the side with the most comments, you can figure it out for yourself. Recognize whether your initial view was overly-impulsive.

2) Which lessons are you learning through this relationship?  This might seem like another way to say, 'what am I getting out of this?' The point of this is not to bolster your ego.  Its meant to prompt you to assess yoru situation honestly. You invite people into your life to help you learn about yourself. How is your partner like you? How does he or she 'act to 'press your buttons?'

3) What do you sense you are teaching or sharing with each other?  As you learn about trust, faith, communication, commitment, understanding, unconditional love and other types of sharing, you may discover incentive to rethink, reframe or revise your view of your relationship. Reflect on the qualities you would like to see and experience. How does this compare with your life?  What can you do to change you?

4) Which life lessons you have learned or continue to learn?  Every situation has a bright side.  Yes, you can detect benefits in every choice you make.  Even if you decide that you aren't exactly in your ideal relationship, its important to realize it takes two people to make it work.  If your relationship isn't working, then you have something to do with that.  Change yourself.  Set an example.  Evolve into the person you would like to to share yoru life with.  You will attract compatible people. 

3 Reminders to shape your thoughts

Many people underestimate the value of having experiences they don't think they want.  Not only do they help you get-to-know yourself better, but they also bring you closer to understanding precisely what you do want.  Consider how success-oriented you are based on these reflections:

1) When you desire something, do you react by assuming it isn't possible? or, do you have the attitude, "where there's a will, a way can be found"?

2) When you discern an experience you want, do you start to feel unhappy that you haven't had it? or, do you begin brainstorming different ways to 'make it happen?'

3) When you admire someone for their career path or charisma, do you instinctively compare what you're not and put yourself down? or, do you choose to detect similar, budding qualities in yourself worthy of attention and mentoring?

The key is to contemplate your choices. Recognize that reflecting on your options results in a natural preference for a certain kind of thinking.  As you choose the more positive directions, they will become positive thoughts.  Creating a trend leads to consistent, self-directed efforts and meaningful results.  Ask and ye shall find.

Intimidated by the door

Analysis of the week on dream submitted by I.S. of Melbourne, Australia.

Dream: This particular experience emerged during a meditation, but the theme comes up again  and again in my dreams.  I am walking through a peaceful valley and approach a castle. As I get to the door, I begin to feel the build-up of anxiety.  Part of me would like to find a way to open it or go through, but something always holds me back.  I freeze and can never go any further.  I feel stuck where I am.

Predominant Emotions: doubtful, distrustful, paralyzed, distressed and hesitant.

Interpretation: Doors often represent opportunities. Its useful to recognize "where you stand."  A sense of discomfort reveals you aren't allowing yourself to fulfill your deepest desires.  These natural desires resist being suppressed yet, you choose to hold yourself back.  What is the underlying reason for your fear? Negative feelings are signs deeper issues would likely benefit from attention. Why not listen to yourself? What do you gain from creating your own roadblocks? Does this numb pain?

Remind yourself that your emotions don't create the life you lead.  Rather, they indicate the experiences you're currently attracting based on your conscious or ego-based choices.  As your emotions assist you to realize that your choice of thoughts isn't taking you in the direction you truly desire to go, this is a wake-up call to behave differently.  You have the power to direct your own thoughts.

Some people are drawn to re-examine past experiences, such as betrayal or abandonment, which caused them to distrust other people. Just because someone may have let you down before, this doesn't mean everyone will. It could be helpful to reflect on your own behaviour and treatment. We attract everything for a reason.

3 Tips to see underneath your beliefs

If you genuinely desire to improve yourself, then you need to be open to learning.  That's a given.  In which ways you will learn, well. that's up to you.  Now, if you step back and realize that what you see and experience is always a choice, then you can also consciously change your desires.  You may ask, "how it could be so simple?"

Now, if you decide you don't like something about yourself, you have at least two options: you can decide to love yourself as you are and stay that way or, you can decide to change.  Its all a matter of attitude.  How you perceive yourself is a product of your mind.  Its useful to reflect on three points to see under your beliefs:

1) Realize what you are can't be threatened.  You experience your physical body based on perception, based on conditioning, and based on what other people would like you to believe.  As you deduce that nothing can threaten or intimidate you unless you choose to be effected as such, then you discover fear and anxiety are also products of your mind. Choose instead to know you're safe.  This is the truth.

2) Make choices about what you are.  Consider words you would use to describe yourself. Are you an individual? Are you living in a body? Are you a misplaced soul?  Are you living in the world you perceive or visiting? Are you mortal? changeless or ever-changing? immortal and invulnerable? What you sense or ignore is always a choice.  Does your ego control you? Your view may emerge from insecurities, self-criticism or judgment. Discern reasons behind your self-image and 'ways of seeing.'

3) Engage in mind training.  How many people do you know who will go lengths to support their views and interpretations?  This includes perceived reasons why people are conviced they're right and other people are wrong.  Practising forgiveness of yourselves and others is a leson to learn on the road to self-growth. Remove blocks you put in the way.  Increase awareness of the presence of love all around you.