Manifesting Your Desires - Step 1

Know what you don’t want!

The first step to manifesting your desires is knowing what you don’t want because...

From knowing what you don’t want you can better identify what you do want.

Manifestation is the process and practice of transforming your desires into reality.

To do this... You need to know what you really want.

I’ve broken the process down into six steps:

1. Know what you don’t want
2. Know what you do want
3. Believe you will receive it by clearing your blocks to it and opening the flow of abundance
4. Ask for it and activate the Law of Attraction
5. Give thanks for it
6. Follow any intuition or Guidance you receive

Many of us feel stuck circling around the same complaints over and over. We often don’t even get around to identifying our desires in some sort of practical or useful form.

We may say them with wishful longing. For example, “When I win the $30,000,000,000 lottery, I’ll be happy to give you some money, buy my dream home, take a great vacation, and do work that I love. Oh, if only I could win the lottery.”

Sound familiar?

Instead of manifesting our desires, most of us think about...

• How little money we have
• How annoying it is when our partner, friend, boss, or child doesn’t listen to us
• How frustrating it is to not get the business we think we want
• How we think we want to lose weight but we eat the cookies, cake, or brownies anyway.

What I love about the first step to manifestation is that when I use it, my mind shifts from complaint to possibility and my mood goes from hopelessness to excited.

So let me tell you how this step works. Whenever you find yourself complaining or being upset about something, recognize that this is the first step to manifestation.

For example, recently I’ve been feeling annoyed that my schedule is very full and I feel like I don’t have time to relax.

I could easily rationalize the situation and stay in upset. I could think, most, if not all, of the things that I’m doing are wonderful and I should be grateful I have so many great things going on in my life.

While the feeling of gratitude gives me some relief, I still feel too busy, stressed, and annoyed.

IF I notice that in fact I’m feeling upset...

...AND I remember that this is the first step to manifesting my desires...

THEN... I get to ask myself, “If I don’t like feeling too busy and stressed, what do I want?”

When I do this I begin to feel hopeful.

I remember I can create my future to be other than my present because conscious manifestation is the practice and process of transforming my desires into reality.

To do this process I need to have my “Observer” present.

This is the part of ourselves that can notice what we’re doing. Without an Observer, we will continue to behave in our habitual way and not even realize we’re doing it.

This is much like what we do when we’re unconsciously breathing or brushing our teeth – we go through the motions, but we’re not aware of the sensations.

The Observer part of our selves is different from our Judge or Critic part.

Often, when I explain the concept of Observer to my clients they at first confuse it with the self-conscious part of themselves that notices what they’re doing and criticizes themselves for it. For example, if the Judge is activated, it might say, “See, all you do is complain. You’ll never get ahead that way.”

The Observer is neutral. It doesn’t judge either positively or negatively. It just notices. When your Observer is present, you might think, “I notice I just complained that I don’t have enough money.”

The practice of mindfulness helps us develop our observer.

I encourage you to take on this practice...

For the rest of this week observe your thinking and speaking and notice anytime you complain, feel annoyed, or don’t like something that’s happening or a way you’re feeling.

If you're new to this practice, you might want to ask a buddy to partner with you. The two of you could develop a gentle way of reminding each other to notice any time you complain or you talk about something that upsets you.

There is nothing wrong with feeling upset or annoyed or to not like something. In fact, it’s a great thing because it’s the first step to manifesting your desires - if we use it to be that.

It’s what we do with our experience that separates the conscious co-creators from the victims - or non-manifesters.

A person who is a manifester will observe her or himself complaining or feeling bad and then go to the next step… “If I don’t want _______________, what do I want?”

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