Three Potent Steps to Manifestation & Alignment
I always wondered how to make it HAPPEN, y'know?
At the Certified Infinite Possibilities Training last week, I experienced the free and welcoming space to be utterly clueless.
I was able to ask this deceptively simple question: What is manifestation, really?
I was in my little core group of 7 people or so, and I told them about going from hospital and a glucose level of 833, to a glucose level of 126 and a weight loss of 9 pounds in one month. And I asked them, “Is that manifestation?”
My new friend Shawn said to me, “I think you manifested the hell out of that.”
“But it was just physical!” I objected, thinking that something had to come out of the blue for it to be manifestation, or for it to be something amazeballs like, “I want a million dollars!” and actually getting a milion dollars!
But that’s not how it works. Not necessarily, anyway, and not for a lot of us. In fact, it’s a lot more magical than that!
It happens in tiny ways that appear like obvious neon signs in the sky that no one else would notice but you.
Example? Here ya go. I went to a meeting for job seekers this morning and I was so excited to go. I love this event! It is always such a lift! There is always a speaker, and then there is time for seekers to get together to learn about different aspects of the job search in small groups.
First of all, when I got out of the Infinite Possibilities training I knew two things: I want to be writing and speaking and leading workshops right now, and, I need money to be coming in now - a.k.a. I need to find work.
Option 1: Freak out and start looking for work online immediately.
Option 2: Don’t freak out - start visioning every day for 5 minutes and activate knowing what I know, what I have learned over the years and what the training helped me put in the “workable” column: (1) the Universe knows so much better than I do how to get around the jungle thickets I have set up in my life, (2) I have to sit back and allow. Apply for what calls to me - a.k.a. get into the “vortex” and then job search from a place of spaciousness and trust.
This translates to, “I don’t know what to do. I do know that I need money, like anyone does. I know I love going to the weekly meeting. I know that what I am waiting for is: nothing, and what I am anticipating is: everything! I just need to breathe and take a next baby step and enjoy the journey.”
The word “just” deserves a monument unto itself. Right?
The three steps I learned were vision, feel and take action - but not frantic action, not pushy action, not everything-depends-on-this-one-moment action, but 1% action, a next-step/baby step action.
The alignment I learned has to do with where I am standing in relation to what I want: choosing allowing and curiosity and patience over grasping feelings of lack, doubt, or massive fear.
Sure, I have some of these feelings, but I am not giving them what Abraham would call as much “air time” as I used to. Not nearly as much!
So I went to the meeting, and here were my neon signs in the sky: Ms. A gave a talk about the Northern Kentucky Career Center and it was brilliant. She called herself an Operations person. I am a Systems/Operations person as well as a Creative, and I thought, “OOOOOHHHH! Her company connects prospects with businesses, and I will have a conversation with her about Operations and open that door to connections!”
This may sound verrrry obvious and not so neon-in-the-sky. You’re right. But it was a spark that felt very intuitive rather than pushy. Sparks like that gather, so I heed intuitive sparks. Then, as she kept speaking, I got another spark and then another spark, and all of them were about defining myself, which is such an important part of attracting the right job! I wrote down about myself:
Innovative
Visionary
Creative
Lean (Lean Six Sigma)
Communicator
Leader
Learning to be unapologetically myself is “up” right now and I’m all about it. If I can’t own who I am - leader, visionary, speaker, etc. - then I will never vibrationally be able to convince anyone else that I am those things. So my work is, as ever, internal.
Now, I’ve been forever and ever feeling torn apart between a J.O.B. and my vision of a teacher, speaker, writer, workshop leader, thought leader. But I was not pushing ANYTHING this morning so my mind was open to intuitive hits, and the next question that came up she answered by saying that, “Why yes, we are connected with SHRM [the Human Resources professional group],” and by that time I had already asked two questions and we had connected and smiled and made jokes, and I was like…
“BAM!” I need to talk to her about any contacts in SHRM about giving talks! (Which means I have to prepare some, but that was not the first thought.) The first thought was, “OPEN DOOR! OPEN DOOR!” The feeling inside me - which is where all proof resides - was unfettered, clear, come in for a landing! That’s what we’re looking for. That’s what we prep for. That’s what we work towards. Because when we feel it, it is groundedness and bliss, hand-in-hand, steady as a rock and innocent and open as a child!
Bring THAT on, baby!
Okay, Lori. How?
The Three Potent Steps
Gotta feel it. That’s step #1. You gotta feel what you’re going to feel when you are being, doing or having whatever it is you wanna be, do or have. You have to sit down and envision yourself in the scene. And don’t forget to allow yourself to pump your fists if you’re excited, or shout, “WOO HOO!!!” Doing that for 5 minutes a day is getting energy flowing. I know, it can be hard to trust that. Do it anyway.
Step #2 is to take a tiny baby step toward what you are wanting. And I mean SMALL. Here’s mine of this week: I want to be an international speaker and I don’t even have a passport. So I went out and purchased my birth certificate - at a kiosk! Waiting for it to reach my mailbox and then I’ll go and pay for the passport, the photo, etc., etc., etc.
Step #3 is ALLOWING. You have to find a way to ease your foot off of the pedal, to trust that the Universe is right there for you and all you’re going to do is watch the magic happen.
HOO boy…that is simple, right? But not necessarily always easy?
I know. That’s where The 1% Solution comes in. But these are in fact the steps I have found that are making me happy. And happy is what brings great opportunities, sparks, intuitive hits! Curiosity does too. So does allowing!
So, we gotta feel it, we gotta get into a tiny baby step of action, and we have to allow the magic to show up. One bit of advice: If you are feeling like you are the gladiator in the ring, daring the opponent (the magic) to show up, you are in the wrong relationship to it. You have to be the kid whose parent said, “There is magic here! Just watch!” and you sat with eyes big as saucers, waiting for the magic to appear!
I’ll tell you, there were kinks in my thinking that I had to unkink before I could appreciate any of this, and I found the unkinking through listening to one heck of a lot of Abraham Hicks and simultaneously feeling how close or far I was, emotionally and vibrationally, to the truths my mind knew were capital T’s!
Listen, the big-T Truth is that we are being invited into a new paradigm where we stand in a completely different relationship to everything. We no longer wait for permission nor pray for gifts from God, because we know that all goodness is all around us, in us, as us, and that our job is to align, to allow, and to then share our smiles and our truths - even when they are tears - with one another from our hearts.
And in that inclusivity and community, even in our attempts at those lovely states of being, we are ushering in the expansion of our beautiful selves and of our planet.
It’s all vibrational. It’s all heart. It’s all me, and it’s all you.
I do believe that we are ushering in the expansion of our beautiful selves and of our planet. Also that it’s all vibrational and it’s all heart.
Every day, I hike down to the creek crossing to support my own manifestation by saying 3 times - "We are moving to New Mexico." The last time I raised my arms in a "V" and say yay. You better believe my effort is focused toward FEELING all of this is absolutely true and happening.