AN OVERVIEW TO UNDERSTANDING WHAT BELEIFS ARE AND HOW THEY WORK: thereby tuning into a magnetic energy field and attracting all we desire….

Abundance, joy, love. And all ours. And all we need to do is make one tiny shift in perception! Whether we are aware, or unaware of doing so, we are each creating our life experiences even now! All we need to do therefore is become aware of this, and create consciously.

Our beliefs, with or without this awareness, are going about doing their work of manifesting the many events and things in our life. We each create our own reality: not some of it or part of it but ALL of it .If we can understand first what beliefs are and how they create we can then look into them and use this awareness in creating the relationships, career, events, things and experiences that we each aspire for!

It all starts with ‘thought’! Every thing in our lives or lack thereof can be traced back to our thoughts! Thought infact is the basis of all creation and it is ‘thought’ in (the energy we call) ‘God’, which created our universe in the first place! We, as humans, are physical extensions of this same non-physical pure energy that is ‘God’ and which creates worlds .We are thus tapped into that same force and in creating a life we want it is pretty simple: our thoughts create our life experience! All that we see as real or physical in our lives, is only this energy, shaped and molded by thought and condensed into what we call matter: things and events in our reality.

Thoughts repetitively held become our ‘BELIEFS’ and indeed the tools used in carving the specifics within our current realities. Beliefs are not unconscious as we sometimes think; it is infact consciously accepting an idea or thought that makes it a belief. Those thoughts that we do not accept or make our own, those which we do not focus on, do not have the same force or strength as beliefs, to impress their shape in molding energy into form! Beliefs are only thoughts sharpened by our constant acceptance of them, and the only reason we remain unaware of many is because of our inattention towards them! One fine distinction here: Our beliefs may differ from our wants. Always wanting a happy marriage I may wonder how I created the opposite? Maybe I saw unhappy marriages around me and instead of rejecting them as an anomaly I ‘bought’ into the belief that marriages are usually tumultuous!! That then is the invisible (but not unconscious) belief operating in my life till I discover and change it! Either way, beliefs are very much the boss, and instruct so to say, that universal energy into creating our realities.

All good bosses understand the persons they are working with, and likewise it will help us if we understand exactly how energy goes about doing its work in manifesting our beliefs! Energy creates through a process of magnetism/attraction. All energy is magnetic to that with a similar vibration. Hence it gravitates or draws into its field all things of a similar nature, which simply means that like draws like!! Similarly, thoughts and beliefs, which are also energy, attract that which is a ‘vibrational match’ or resonates with them. Thoughts gathering momentum and mass through beliefs attract likewise energy, eventually leading to the manifestation of something very real in our experience! Our reality is not God giving us what we deserve, or the universe ‘sending’ us what we seek. Neither is it something we serendipitously ‘find’ along the way. It is something we each create and draw to ourselves through our beliefs using the magnetic nature of energy and its principle of attraction.

Every experience, object, person in our life is because we have drawn them in. There are no exceptions, coincidences, and accidents. There is no divine intervention, no higher authority stopping us or rewarding us! So is there no one or nothing in charge?? There IS a God in charge AND a creator who creates: and that is each of us!! We create our own reality. Yes, there are indeed beings of greater magnitude, those whom we respect and value as Masters and Gods, but they are not separate from us, for it is our individual consciousness’ grouped together forming these larger or more ‘evolved’ US!
Thus our individual worlds and realities unfold according to our thoughts, using the magnetic nature of ‘energy’. We may conjure in our minds eye our thoughts having a counterpart, a vibrational match, so what resonates to them is brought into our life! Imagine now every belief of ours making an alliance with like-minded energy and hey presto: manifesting our reality! It is like that game of matching pairs that we played as children; now we can choose to play it on a larger scale!
Lets open our ‘sets’ of beliefs then…

Part 2-Fine tuning our beliefs to what we want rather than don’t want!!

Our purpose of life, if any, is joy! The hallmark of all spiritual effort is indeed reflected in the ‘joy’ with which one is able to live. With such a wondrous purpose, lets try and create a reality befitting it!
We are (made up of) universal energy and whatever we think of, focus on and pay attention to is created by our thoughts, using the magnetic nature of this energy! The trick is in fine-tuning the many variables involved in aligning our beliefs with our wants instead of, with, our not wants!! If we practice focusing correctly with conscious intent on creating something in our life, it will manifest. Too much of a good thing is possible and can be ours through knowingly using the energy that we are and which creates everything around us.

This universal energy we must remember is completely neutral. It follows the principle of the universe, which is free will, and allows itself to be shaped into whatever our will is creating! Thus beliefs whether they are desires, aim and intent or the contrary doubts, fears and resistance are all manifested. It knows no difference in what we refer to as ‘negative’ attention (what we don’t want) or positive attention (what we want) as in its larger truth there is no good or bad, and it faithfully produces whatever the vibration of the belief draws to it. Our first step thus is to identify the direction in which our attention is placed, especially in those areas in which we want change.

As we are using this magnetic quality of energy to create our reality, we must align our creative visualization with what we want to draw into our life, and not with what we perceive as lack. By shifting our focus from what we don’t have and don’t like to what we do, begins to create that which we do! For example, person X in liking and appreciating the good in people, it is the signal she emits for the universal energy to match, and hence creates friends and companionship into her lives!! Person Y by focusing on feeling cheated and always bemoaning about not having anyone she can trust will only create more of that! The difference if we notice is in the opposing direction of their attention, thoughts and beliefs albeit in the same area of friendship!

Very often when we first understand that we create our own reality, we do try and think positively, and visualize with great yearning whatever we want. Yearning itself however comes from lack! Please I want, comes from a belief of not having, and at the best, hoping to have but doubting it too!! We are the bosses. We do not need to ask or yearn, only create!! We do not yearn for our cook to make us a meal, we only state our desire and even give him the menu!

Our attention usually is alas, more on what we do not have, and unknowingly we create more of the not having! ! If we fear ill health we attract disease, if we resist loneliness, we create bad relationships, if we doubt our success we draw lack of it! We have, even without wanting it, focused on the ill health, loneliness, and failure and accepted these thoughts into our belief systems, allowing them to carve out corresponding aspects into our reality. Lets remember that with universal energy being totally non- judgmental, our beliefs are the boss, even if the belief is of lack!

Positive ‘results’ very often depend on our consistency. By focusing on something and then in the very next moment doubting its possibility or desirability we cancel our own orders!! Our thoughts then emit conflicting vibrations and only draw in confusion, creating mixed results. So if our thoughts are more towards the ‘not having/liking/wanting’ sides of issues, then that is what we are in fact perpetuating! It is now merely a matter of adjusting and tipping the balance more towards the having and liking. Everything in our life reflects this balance of thinking and if we review our lives we can indeed see where we have tipped the scales correctly or through our focus on lack, towards that we don’t want.

Lets go back to our lady X, who has good relationships but is in somewhat of a financial mess. Her beliefs about people and love as we already know, reflect healthy beliefs and even if she does have minor problems with a person or two, the balance is in her favor! However her beliefs in areas of material wealth will reflect a balance in lack! She may believe that success at work is the domain of the lucky few and involves long, hard years of sacrifice. She may further compound this with feelings of struggle filling up her professional life, bemoaning the mess, doubting her ability to come out of it, hating the rotten deal fate has dealt out. She thus finds herself in a career situation that her own focus on hardship has created! Even when she realizes she can change and create abundance, she visualizes of an empty wallet filling up, the debtors who need to be handled, and the struggle receding. Are we more aware now that the attention is always on the lack? The empty wallet, debtors, struggles. Conjure instead images and feelings of abundance, without the images of lack in the mind. Allow the feelings of comfort and relief that this would automatically bring, to flow through us! Tip the balance from thoughts and feelings of lack and discomfort to that important energy attracting feel-good factor!

One tiny suggestion here: sometimes when we are very troubled and doubt ridden we may find it difficult to, for example, think of success, and find that the images and feelings of lack, persist. At that point, it is better to shift the focus completely away from the issue on hand!! If the area of difficulty is for example, a better relationship with a mother in law, and we are unable to conjure these loving images;-)) and feelings, then we can change the flow of our thoughts completely, to another area where we are happy. Lets instead think of, say, our wonderful friends, or even our success in our Spanish class!! The point is to cut off that particular flow of energy, which would only attract more of the same in our relationship with the mother in-law!! Change the focus when these thoughts intrude till we are better equipped to handle the more sensitive beliefs.

Soon an important shift takes place: we find ourselves more and more in the ‘having’ state which magnetically (not magically!) attracts even more of the same. Our belief in lack diminishes and as we move away from the feelings ‘not having’ it cannot draw further lack into our lives!!! This point most surely makes it mark on us, and we begin to feel and believe we are creators, and it is easier from thereon!
So lets start now and examine our beliefs. Imagine for a moment our beliefs to be in that box of pastels, which we are in the habit of pulling out at random just because it happens to be on hand! Some crayons are blunted, others lost their luster, few have mixed with others and become an unusable color! Many are mistakenly there from older boxes and simply don’t fit in anymore!! Lets examine our sets of beliefs with more attention, and learn to use the right shades, in creating exactly what we want.

PART 3-Let’s create consciously…

Think, focus, feel, allow. There is indeed no ‘best’ way to create reality as that is as individual as the germane beings we all are, but simply put these steps may aid us in starting well! We have already seen what beliefs are, how they/we create and how not to align them with lack through wrong attention. Now, in order to successfully manifest, a simple recapitulation maybe in order: 1) we are the creator’s 2) we create through a neutral energy magnetically attracting like 3) all thought is choice, and we can practice to make it consciously creative.So no matter what thoughts we have held in the past, and what we have created, it is what we believe NOW that has the power to change or create our current reality. Past experience, not only that which we have experienced directly, but also that which has been passed down to us by previous generations has been accepted and become ingrained within us. Beliefs are only thoughts that have been thought many many times, and even those of friends, family, religions, culture and others in authority have insidiously become ours without any examination!

THINK
So lets start by ‘knowing our self’ and examine our beliefs: choose areas which are working, so we understand how our beliefs are working, and then areas which are not working so well, to understand what beliefs have led to that and need changing! This is part of the ‘knowing thyself’ that many spiritualists suggest and we may understand it’s significance better now. If we know our self in this reality and create the best we can, it facilitates our growth and knowledge in the larger realities too. One is not disconnected from the other, and both are equally important for a meaningful spiritual growth.
Lets play a game and pull out different beliefs from our jumbled belief bag! What does wealth mean to us? Do we view it as opportunity, freedom, and a way to share and enjoy or perhaps as a selfish endeavor, for the non-spiritual? What is duty? Something we are forced to do? A Sacrifice? Or do we view it as those choices we willfully undertake and cherish? This is only the beginning, so make it fun, make a group maybe! In doing this I have changed a belief of a lifetime that home work is boring;-))!! Beliefs change as we grow in the physical and larger reality, and what might have held valid may need some re-examination. So don’t let what you think of as facts fool you! Beliefs are precisely those thoughts so repetitively held, that they give us the illusion of being permanent and fixed!

Think further then. Do we know what we really want? If we want to manifest something we must think with clarity and define what it is we want. A friend of mine complains that nothing is ‘happening’ in her life. When I asked her what she wants she did not know; so she drew in just that not knowing!! Many of us allow ourselves to be puppets to whom events ‘happen’ instead of being the creative beings we are. How often do we think we have no choice in our life events, and happened to be in the right place by coincidence!? If we instead realize that we created being in that right place, we could do it again and again surely? Creating only right places!! So lets make consistent choices as to where to place our attention, as that is what we manifest. This can be seen when we develop a new interest and suddenly find the appropriate people, books, and opportunities coming our way. All we have done is placed our attention on a certain aspect and that draws to it all that has a similar energy. Moreover as our attention has been withdrawn or diverted from some unwanted aspect; we suddenly find that aspect ‘falling away’ from us. We, as creators, have created both these surely, but instead think of it as serendipity! So by knowing what we want, thoughts that maybe otherwise dissipated are harnessed into intent, which is a powerhouse and will draw into our reality whatever it is focused on.

Thinking includes knowing why we want something? If I want to be a successful author, what is the essence I’m seeking? Am I looking to reach out to people, am I looking for self worth? Fame?? If I then look around my life I may find areas that already have that: maybe I am helping friends understand a book. Maybe I am popular amongst my family? Maybe I respect my skills in art! Seeing why we want what we do, works in two ways: there is a greater clarity in manifesting its essence, and I might open other opportunities to create that in my life; maybe an opening for conducting successful workshops comes my way, as what I really wanted was to reach out to people. Also, in appreciating the areas where we already have this essence, it helps keep our focus on the right track, in the present, facilitating energy to make more easily the appropriate energy match!

Thinking, through consistency and constancy becomes focus and plays a key role in creating our reality. Focus is what makes a passing thought into a belief. In manifestation it is the step most closely based on the neutral magnetic nature of energy; but inherent in it is that we are the creators. The best belief/focus we can move into is in recognizing this, and in recognition of ourselves as part of All That Is, abundance joy and creativity become our natural state of attention. Abundance here does not imply only the financial, though it includes that too. So lets move away from ‘poverty’ consciousness and its focus on lack.

FOCUS
Focus is the ‘spin’ ball in creating. As its subtle nuances are interconnected to all steps of manifestation we can once again go through some of its variables in creating what we want instead of perpetuating the reverse. As we think so we experience: focus on appreciating freedom will create ‘wings’ in our life; focus on hating the restrictions will surely cage us in. The main decoy here, so to say, is resistance, which is infact, is a state of constant attention to things we don’t like or don’t want.

Fear, doubts, dislike all stem from our resistance to an aspect, and whereas we think they are a defense to that which we resist, it is infact a focus which indeed draws in what we so resist. Through these states of resistance we ignore both the above-mentioned aspects of manifestation: we relinquish our role as creators and give power instead to the external; and we also allow the magnetic nature of energy to work against us, attracting that we fear and hate!!
If I have an aversion to say, martyr’s, then I will tune into each and every hint of it, to a point of focus where others would not even see what I do! I will be so much on an inner alert, that, unaware I am constantly focused on it! This will start a vicious circle: the more ‘martyrs’ I create into my life (and think that I just happen to come across them) the more I resist, and draw in!! I am forgetting I am the creator and no martyr can enter my life unless I literally pull one out like the rabbit from the proverbial magicians hat!!

If I fear disease I’m relinquishing my role as creator in thinking I am powerless. I focus on what I think is good health: every time I miss my walk I say to myself “that is bad for my health”. Or if I eat chocolate I go “oh oh that is bad for my health”! When I meet the infirm I say I will not be so weak and depilated! We do not even realize our focus is shifting and suddenly the balance has tipped into being a focus on bad health!

Day to day fears are based more on primal fears of feeling cut off from our source; from what we not only are: love, well-being, creativity and abundance but also (thus) instinctively seek. This sense of separation can lead through our initial ignorance to thoughts of powerlessness and lack of love amongst many others, which then underlie every belief we hold! These, then, form the core beliefs such as unworthiness; deserving, not deserving etc. Thus, fears must be examined through the experiences they are creating. For example, my aversion to martyrs or dread of disease will be pointers, enabling me to then change the focus! If we can begin to see that whatever we resist in others or self is based on this fear, we can perhaps deal with it more constructively. Maybe I believe a martyr is self sacrificing and sacrifice is spiritual! Not being self-sacrificing I fear not being spiritual, quite forgetting I am the same energy as All That Is!!! I judge, condemn those who are, and draw the issues of martyrdom more into my life! Of course this is just one example and the scenario can be played out in its own multifarious ways in individual realities.

These spirals of downward or upward focus can be seen in conversations too. A friend for example called me up to say how late her dentist was, how callous in keeping her waiting in spite of a toothache .It continued to how she hates to wait, and that all doctors are equally bad! I can now step in and change this downward focus for both her and myself, by perhaps pointing out what a good job the dentist did on my root canal. That wasn’t her family doctor always ahead of time? Or I can allow my focus to be pulled down creating similar beliefs and experiences in my life!

However it is not all so cut and dry!! Thoughts evoke feelings and emotions, which are also strong allies in manifestation. They are allies only because thought always precedes feeling, though as the emotion flows through us we may at that point be unaware of the belief beneath. But they emit a powerful vibration…

FEELINGS
Many of us consider feelings as weak or vulnerable or even non-spiritual, forgetting that it is desire that is the driving force of creation, and in our terms too feelings and desire that drive us towards creating our realities! A normally ‘strong’ feeling in human terms has enough energy of its own to send a man to the moon and back!! Thoughts that stimulate great emotion stem from strong beliefs and irrespective of whether the emotion springs from positive or negative beliefs, it has its corresponding surge of power in its very sharpness of focus!

Feelings of love, joy, and fulfillment amongst (many) others come from healthy beliefs but radiate out so firmly that by their very spreading they attract a widespread smooth flow of energy creating more to feel so joyous about! If we can thus focus on these positive feelings, allow them to flow through us, they will indeed boost and stimulate our conscious manifesting. If we are manifesting our self to be thin, then along with the image of a thin me, I must revel in that image; feel the pleasure of being thin: “of oh how good it feels!” That will add an impetus of its own to all creative visualization! Again if we remember and feel we are creators we cannot but help feel a pervading sense of well being on a regular basis! It will underlie our day-to-day activities and we will find ourselves less in states of resistance.

Hate and fear however also stem from deep-rooted beliefs, and are thus equally powerful creators. The stronger the feelings of hate and fear the more arms open are our invitations to energy to match just that we hate and fear! From this perspective, worry, dread and hate all become a process of creating more of that we dread or hate!!! Looking within and discovering our beliefs behind each, will help deal with the hate and fear instead of ignoring or suppressing the emotions and creating exactly what we dread. For example, the more I hate or fear my sense of powerlessness, and the further I keep suppressing it, I attract experiences in which I will feel powerless! Perhaps I become an alcoholic or have bouts of violence I am unable to handle, or find myself unable to resist indiscriminate sex! So lets nip the bud so to say, and handle the beliefs, which result in these negative emotions, as it is our beliefs, always, those sponsor emotions!

Sometimes however we may have our focus in the right place, but not have enough feeling for that which we want to create! So lets tap into that place of passion. It works like magic (and please note it only works like magic; but is not magic) as such a strong feeling works geometrically in its power to attract! It is like a hundred right thoughts! Strong emotions are a very finely honed focus! Sometimes we are scared to feel too much, as deep layers of disappointment and grief are hidden underneath. Lets clear out those dross-attracting feelings, and allow the positive feelings to work their what we perceive as ‘miracle’ attracting force!

Feelings however can play another role altogether: whenever we are confused as to how we have created a particular situation and what are the underlying beliefs, feelings will help in this discovery, as feelings are easier to externalize than the beliefs underneath them. It will help if we ask ourselves how we feel in any given situation. If I am looking forward to a trip, which is then thwarted, what are my feelings? Am I feeling trapped? Bound? This may help me see and thus deal with my beliefs on freedom/money. Or am I feeling a sense of futility? Then maybe I need to examine my self worth. Or am I plain angry and resentful against the sponsor! And the travel agent! Maybe I need to examine my beliefs on trust!

Feelings can also be a good indicator to keep us on the right track! Very often we feel good or not so good about issues and if we learn to discern these pure feelings and act on them we will be acting more in alignment with our higher selves, which can only create a better reality for the good of all! It is through these feel-good feelings that our higher selves inspire us into higher spirals. If we feel good, we are on the right track! If we feel bad, no matter how religious or moral the belief maybe, it will further create a downward spiral. If there is a real conflict between feeling good and not so good, its time to examine our beliefs!! If I feel good about taking a break from visiting my mom in hospital, but get confused by feelings of guilt, maybe I need to understand what are my beliefs on duty? In reverse, if I think I must keep distance from a friend who has “hurt” me, but every time we meet I feel so good, then I must follow that hint and examine the situation!

Any discussion on feelings and emotions would be incomplete without, Ah love! This is not about what we usually call love, or about being kind and affectionate though those would follow from the real meaning of love. So what is love? It is only allowing.Love is allowing all (and self) to BE, without judging, like creation allows us through the principle of free will.

ALLOW
Allow? What does this really mean? Allowing only means accepting what is, as is. It is the principle of free will, and the basis of all creation. We have already seen this complete neutrality of universal energy in it’s ‘allowing’ all belief to be molded into matter without judgment. We being physical extensions of that same energy and using it to create our realities can use it better if we understand this key principle! ‘Allowing’ in our reality is thus a total acceptance of self and others.

This encompasses those very qualities that spiritualists have been encouraging us for years to develop: Self-love, gratitude, non-judgment, and forgiveness. However we may now understand that the validity of these concepts lies not in their being “spiritually correct”, but in they’re being the perfect ways of tapping into universal energy for purposes of manifestation, as they are in complete tandem with the non judging, allowing, free will aspects of energy. The truly spiritual, as always is practical, and based on that which helps us create a better reality in the here and now!

Healthy doses of SELF-APPRECIATION and gratitude go a long way in creating that which we desire. They are both simply focus on the positive, and in the present! That, as we have seen is the most poised focus to attract more of the same! Self –Appreciation is where it all starts, as it is our beliefs that create our reality. To attract love, patience, respect into our lives we must feel that within! If I want to be patient with my students, I must indeed be patient with myself! If I am patient within and with others, I will create others being patient with me! Remember like draws like! If we believe we are unworthy, we will project it onto others and onto external circumstances; we will see it all around us. We will continuously be in states of resistance, through judgment, dislike and fear and create experiences and relationships reflecting that unworthiness instead. Maybe a job that pays very little. Maybe that admission I do not get into a college of my choice. Maybe a husband who is having an affair!

So lets take an appreciative look inside, and make a list of so much that there is to like! Lets pat our backs for the many positive aspects we have each created in our realities .It is not arrogance or false pride as our older beliefs may have led us to believe; we are not putting anyone else down or judging them wanting in comparison. Feel loved and worthy enough; confident enough to say I have a wonderful husband! Or a great career! I am gaining so much knowledge! There is no need to touch wood, as that then is fear cutting off the positive emanations of positive focus!! Feeling good about the self and what we have already created will attract more of the same, so lets not cut off the positive energy with the dead weight of this wood.

While we are at it, lets include appreciating everything and everyone in our lives! That’s all GRATITUDE is; it is not a spiritual obligation! It is a correct focus, on the good we already have!! The perfect way for energy to make that perfect match! No future tenses and yearning to complicate matters!! Think of the essence everything and everyone one in our life has brought to us. Revel in them. Observe the essence, and revel in it. If we are grateful to our teachers and the main essence is their sharing of knowledge, we will draw sharing and knowledge in other areas too. Nothing is too minor to appreciate: if we are enjoying a favorite piece of music and feeling rested, in appreciating the stereo and the relaxation we are further creating rest and peace in our lives! Soon it becomes natural to remain in this feeling of gratitude. It need not be some verbose elaborate process, but perhaps more instinctive feelings of appreciation and gratitude, towards, say my car for the mobility and freedom it brings me, my staff for the comfort and free time, the flowers for their life force offered in my puja..…Soon there is none or little place for the unwanted thoughts to intrude and be the unexpected joker in our game of focus! Even if we feel anger or fear, lets try and appreciate the opportunity to erase a negative belief. Turn events around: if we feel resentful for paying say our electricity bill, appreciate the essence of the opportunity it gave us to read through the night!

Allowing and appreciating thus also means non- judgment; of self or others. Universal energy does not judge, as it is supremely confident of itself. Authentic power is a state of allowing: of remaining unaffected by external circumstances .We allowing our selves to be creators. Once we truly are that, it is easy to allow everything else to be. All judgment from our side is resistance to the fact that we create our own reality, and thus want to control the environment around us. We think others can influence our reality, but the fact is they cannot unless we draw them in! If we realize truly that everything we judge is of our making!! we may find it easier to stop this constant judging! The question often arises: how could I create that alcoholic boyfriend or wife-beating husband? Well he created his reality sure, but I created his presence into my life! Without judging him, and realizing that each creates their reality according to their free will, like I do mine, (and I may never understand the semantics involved for the other,) I can by changing my focus change my reality. This does not always mean that the boyfriend will turn teetotaler or leave me; nor that the husband may die, divorce or diametrically change; but it does mean that depending on my focus and beliefs I will change the circumstances around in some manner that makes my reality better.

All judgment actually is a projection outside, or qualities we resist! Also if carefully observed, all that we disallow or dislike in others is what we disallow/dislike in self and then continue to attract more of the same. In day-to-day life this does not imply we cannot neutrally discriminate: I can decide she is, she does (rather than she should she shouldn’t). For example lady Y can feel lady X is angry, but she does not add to that observation a judgment that lady X should or shouldn’t have been so! Accepting, without condemning that lady X is angry, lady Y can choose to step away, offer help or whatever depending on their relationship! As we grow and create our larger realities, we will begin to do this more easily.

Forgiveness works on the same principles of not giving our power as creator away, plus not focusing on the misdeed, hurt, pain!! No one and nothing can hurt us without our approval or indeed manifestation. The other is only the conduit through whom it comes. Now accepting that lets forgive and move on, because focusing on the pain we ourselves had created will only manifest more of the same! It is like dialing the wrong number again and again instead of realizing we dialed the wrong number and thus got an unwanted person/response. And whom do we need to forgive? For we have created that situation in the first place!! Lets remember, again, we are the creators!Very often we feel here, but my girl friend did deceive me? My manager did steal? My friend does copy my ideas! Well maybe for example, we need to examine our beliefs on trust, and move out of those beliefs through which we ourselves are creating these experiences.

Other than the above mentioned there are many other ways, which help us in creating our reality. Generosity works too! Again not as it is the right thing to do, but look at the underlying principles: generosity (not merely financial) comes from a belief in abundance. That will draw more, but also the more we give and spread this abundance, the more places it has for it to make that energy match in the life of others and self!! It is a win - win situation! So lets each find our own ways of creating our realities, keeping the main principles in mind! Make this a game, for it must be fun!! Struggle has been the corner stone for many a time in spiritual development, but it is not necessary. Perhaps we needed it to learn some beliefs, but if through understanding and transmuting our beliefs we don’t need those experiences, we can opt to create a reality without it! Lets open the doors wide then…for just as we create our own reality we can envision for ourselves a joyous expansion of our consciousness too. If we believe expansion and growth must need come from disaster that will be the ‘price’. Instead lets envision a smooth transition…

CONCLUSION
So lets start consciously creating our reality now, as unaware we are already doing so! Energy only knows NOW and thus works instantly, so no matter how many times we have had a thought, or how long we have held a belief, the moment we change the thoughts, focus and feelings, new circumstances will be drawn to us!! Now that’s as instant as Nescafe can get!! If I have believed a hundred times over all my years that spiritual wisdom is difficult to come by, my very change of belief in the present and placing my focus towards it will start drawing it into my life!

Yes, on our earth plane, matter being dense, and vibrating to a slower pace we experience things in what seems a delayed manner. But lets be fully aware that all belief is instantly creative, and our new beliefs have instantly attracted what corresponds with them It is the fluctuation of our focus that varies the speed of it manifesting physically in our lives, from a day to what seems unending! Conjure for a moment in our minds eye, that new focus on, for example tarot, having created these mysterious tarot teachers, beguiling books and cards, and profound knowledge all popping up in the higher realms, and as they are sailing down to us, our change in focus, our doubts and fears making them go poof! into thin air! The only factor that makes dreams remain ephemeral images or transmutes them into solidarity is our capacity to believe in them. So lets give foundations to those castles in the air, and do the inner ‘work’ it takes to manifest them speedily.

Lets go inside and create all that we appreciate on the outside.

Divya Kumar- 2003