From a client...

One of my clients once asked me, "When you want to manifest some objective, could you describe a typical breakdown, a step-by-step procedure of how you go about it so that I can model some kind of routine?"

Well, my manifesting rituals change on occasion (I experiment a lot), but here's the outline I gave him...

1. Decide upon something you want.
2. See it clearly in your mind, around the area of your third eye (use photos from magazines or someplace to help you form a clear, vivid image). Slow your breathing, and deepen it.
3. Tell yourself it's yours, own it. Argue with yourself , if you have to. Affirm, deny, affirm, deny until only the affirmation remains.
4. Thank God/Spirit/Universe, and thank yourself.
5. Feel yourself release it to God/...and forget about it. If/when it resurfaces, say, "Oh, that's taken care of already."
6. Listen for any hunches/intuitions from your subconscious to do something specific.

I'd appreciate feedback on how this works for some of you.

It's Important How You Say Things...

My friend Alan Tutt, of PowerKeysPub.com, shared some of his thoughts about my blog, and in doing so, reminded me of how important it is for us to be precise in our use of language.

For example, take the phrase "subconscious mind". People use this terminology as if it is in reference to only one thing when, in reality, it is a catch-all for multiple processes (regulation of respiration, repository of memory, acquisition of goals, etc...).

So, where I said in one of last month's posts, "They don't so much *program* the subconscious mind as much as they *reveal* the existing programs of the subconscious mind", I should have said, "They don't only *program* the subconscious..."; and then should've gone on to explain what I meant by *program*. :-)

One of the definitions of *program* is *a set of instructions*. So, when I use this word, I mean things that are written in order to get the attention of that faculty of mind that is responsible for showing us the paths and methods to achieve our goals.

Thanks Alan.

Finding The Root Of An Issue

I was recently asked, "How do you identify the root problem? How do you know when
you've found it?"

You just keep asking yourself, I said, "Is there anything else? What's underneath this?"
At some point, you'll come to a place where there won't be any need to ask further.

As for how you'll know, well, without trying to sound all mystical here, you'll just know.
Either you will get a *feeling*, or something will just *click*, or you'll suddenly *see* an
issue much more clearly.