“Expectation leads to disappointment”

What this is saying is that you can expect to be disappointed by your expectations. Or to make it even shorter, expect disappointment. I believe that this is where we are as a society. We have adopted this saying as a cultural truth. We gaze out of our collective eyes and what do we see, disappointment all around us.

Like good creators we have aligned ourselves with disappointment and we continue to “beat the drum” of it’s existence. You expect it and so it is! If you expect disappointment then you will be disappointed.

Don’t you believe it! Not for one moment longer. Aligning with a different vibration of expectation turns it into a magical practice or a point of focus. Expectation is at the heart of the Law of Attraction.

Expectation is a very powerful Art. The Art of Expectation accepts as law that what we have come to think or to believe would happen under certain circumstances or conditions is exactly what will happen. Without fail.

The power behind expectation is the certainty that it carries. Free from doubt or reservation. Destined. Inevitable. Established as true or sure.

This is so where we want to be as we manifest our wants, desires and a magnificent life of Well-Being. This is where it’s at, my Friends. If you expect it it will come about. You can expect that. If you are expecting to fail then so shall it be just as if you are expecting to see Love then Love you shall see.

I have spent the past year or so delving into this understanding of the power of Expectation. Aspects of my life that have been blindly handed over to Expectation are finally starting to reveal themselves.

For most of my life I have been expressing symptoms that are constantly being diagnosed as a person that is afraid of failure. That has just never felt right to me. I am not “afraid” to fail. I welcome it actually. Well, actually even more to the point, I expect failure. If I but myself in certain situations or act out in a particular manner or if I attempt to manifest a specific desire; failure is inevitable. So I simply stopped doing those things.

The realization now is that there are things in my life that I want that I do not pursue due to my expectation to fail at them. This is just one of many expectations that get in the way of attracting that magnificent life. Expectation has the potential to stand as guards or resistance along the path of manifestation.

However, just as powerfully as Expectation can stand in resistance it can plow through the densest of barriers to bring into light your power of manifestation. Every time that you effectively use the Law of Attraction in manifesting what you want you come to believe and accept that when you use the Law of Attraction that indeed your want will be manifested into reality. Before long, you expect it with the same certainty that you have in the force of gravity or that the Sun shall rise tomorrow.

Effective use of the Law of Attraction for the purpose of Deliberate Creation requires some practice. Some more so than others. Like most things, the more you implement the Laws of Attraction in your everyday reality the more effective it is for you. Start off small and don’t push beyond what you can believe or expect.

Mastering the Manifestation Process

Inspired Action is the result of what happens when Creative Source Energy, Spirit, is in alignment with our thoughts, feelings and actions. It is through our actions that we actualize our thoughts and feelings into reality. The manifesting process is always active. Our thoughts, feelings and actions are manifesting reality in every moment of our daily lives. When Spirit is the guiding force of these creative powers our daily lives become an experience of Inspired Action.

The Law of Attraction teaches us that part of the manifestation process is that you attract into your life whatever you think about. Simply put, your dominant thoughts will find a way to manifest into the physical reality of your daily life. So, we called upon the creative powers of the mind, our thoughts and feelings, to focus attention on the highest vision it could possibly conceive. Thereby we attract into our lives the vibrational energy needed to manifest that highest vision.

However, thought alone does not actualize into reality although it does effectively participate in the manifestation process. Along with the creative powers of our mind we must also call upon the creative powers of our physical body, our labors and efforts. It is through labor and effort that we manifest in this reality as our thoughts and feelings align us with Source Energy.

We are in action all the time. Our labors and efforts are manifesting our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and feelings to reality whether we are aware of it or not. As the LOA encourages us to align our minds with the desire for a higher vision for our lives so to must we align our action with that same desire. When this alignment happens we are now living our lives through Inspired Action.

Often we find ourselves doubting our actions as they have proven to be untrustworthy in the past. Inspired Action is cultivated through the art of allowing. One must learn to allow their actions to be guided by the inspirations of Source Energy, or Spirit. This can be a tricky process.

The physical body is generally pre-occupied with using its creative powers to manifest survival. Might I say here that it is very good at it. It can also be very challenging to get its attention or to get it to lift its head up. The physical body knows what it needs in order to survive and it has the creative power to manifest it.

If that is not challenging enough for you, your mind is processing through a myriad of thoughts and feelings in every moment.  Metaphysical manifesting brings our thoughts and feelings together and channels them as the Source Energy that fuels the manifestation process. Cultivating the power of the mind focuses our thoughts and opens us up to the Divine communication between Ego and Spirit.

So, how does one know if the action they are about to take has been inspired by Spirit and will result in the desired manifestation?  Sometimes what we thought was a gentle “nudge” from Spirit turned out to be a hard shove down a flight of stairs. Knowing, or trusting, that you are taking inspired action comes with practice over time. It requires being aware of the Source Energy behind the actions that worked and the ones that failed to produce the desired result.

As we align ourselves with Spirit, through trial and error the Universe guides us, although at times not so gently, down the path necessary to manifest of our deepest desires and highest vision. At first, as we set out to master the manifestation process, like infants we stumble and fall. Here, patience and perseverance are our allies; never letting go of the vision until ultimate manifestation. Each failure inspiring a deeper alignment with Spirit.

Allowing one’s actions to be inspired by Spirit or Divine inspiration is a result of a deep cultivation of the Ego-Spirit relationship and a blending of the Physical and Metaphysical manifesting processes. This is where it all comes together; now our conscious thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and feelings are manifesting themselves into reality through our actions. These Inspired Actions are happening as the result of a clear and steady communication with Spirit as it freely manifests through us ~ “Spirit In Action”.

As Inspired Action brings a harmony to the manifestation process a conscious partnership develops between the creative power of our minds and the creative power of our bodies. After a period of time the two begin to work as one and there is no longer any separation between the Spiritual world and the Physical world. Your life has now become an expression of spirit in action as your highest vision manifests itself right before your very eyes.

It is through Inspired Action that we actualize the union of opposites, the Divine marriage of masculine and feminine, the Yin and the Yang, the Above and the Below and Spirit becoming flesh. Spirit has integrated itself into our physical lives.

Let us remember for the moment that wars are not just country against country but also governments against its very own people. There are wars against drugs, wars against poverty, wars against hunger, wars against terrorism and even wars against wars. Fights break out between brothers, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters and employers and employees. Hatred and anger is expressed on the road, in the grocery store and even shopping at Christmas time.

This begs the question, how can we stop fighting across borders when we are unable to stop fighting in our own living rooms? It is important to understand that peace, world peace or the “peace movement” is not just about ending war and global conflicts even though this has been the peace movement’s main “battle” for years.

The “peace movement” has been going on since I can remember. I was born in late 1963; some of my most vivid memories of childhood are from the late sixties during the Vietnam War. My Aunts and Uncles participated in marches, sit-ins and even peace prayers at that time. And still today this goes on as we trade in one conflict for another. None of these tactics seem to work in the long term. Forty years later we are still at war, anger still rages in the streets, parents discipline their children for fighting and shoppers are killing for the best price.

Although it has been scientifically proven that peace prayers do have some affect on the global community, lowered crime rates and unexplained ceasefires, this is yet only a bandage not a cure. Temporary moments of peace are encouraging but we need a longer term plan not short term fixes.

Friends, we have a choice to make. We can ask or petition God to bestow peace upon the Earth and simply continue to wait until He/She gets around to it. Or we the can take the matter into our own hands. Every one of us can adopt the personal responsibility of consciously and deliberately creating for ourselves, each other and our children a world where peace is the way. The only way! Right here, right now and within our lifetime.

This task is not as daunting as it might sound. We do not have to create the peace we are looking for as it already exists. Where is it you ask? Take a look inside and there you will find it nestled safely within each and every one of our very own hearts. The peace movement is truly not about making things change outside of ourselves; it is about moving ourselves into that place of peace that already exists within each one of us.

If we stop screaming and fighting so much, take a pause from the chaos of life for a moment, sit down and take in a big resounding breath we will remember that place of love and peace we were all born from. Believe it or not it is still within us all. All of us!

Now that we are all here remembering and standing before this palace of blissful calm and peace, let’s move in. Move yourself into the peace palace with all of your belongings. There is plenty of room for All. This is the peace movement or the moving into peace. We are all now surrounded by peace, it is all around us. We have moved in, taken up house. We are all sharing space in the palace of peace.

Next, take in another one of those resounding breaths and breathe it in. Let us all take in a few more deep breaths and fill ourselves with the peace that surrounds us. Breathe here for a while as we replace, or exchange, our inner air with the breath of peace. Fill yourself up! Now, peace is within us all. The palace of peace dwells with us as we dwell within it.

The peace movement is complete because we have moved into peace as peace has moved into us. Welcome my friends to the New World. Remember to be kind and gentle with yourselves and others fore the path we are now on is as a razors edge. We shall lift each other up as we slip and fall fore we will surely slip and fall.

To adopt a few words from our Beloved President Obama, we must all be vigilant in upholding the values we believe in. Living in this state of peace does not make us weaker it makes us stronger. Go in peace not just in words but in deeds and be an example to all of those who would dare to thwart you from this path.

My Friends, these are extraordinary times we live in. Change is all around us. Vibrational energies are waiting for us to simply align ourselves with them. Peace IS at hand. With our very next breath peace will be realized. Our children’s children will live in world where there will only be memories of hatred and war, silly stories talked about on the playground. As one by one we move into the palace of peace we change the world.

Peace Be With You!

The question that I have, is that the way you want your life to be? Is your story of “the way of the world” the way you want the world to be? Simply put, is the story you tell the way you want your “reality” to be or is it the about the “reality” you are in?

I hear from people, in regards to their current daily lives, stories that seem to be mostly about lack. I don’t have enough time. I don’t have enough money. My job or my wife doesn’t appreciate me. I can’t afford this or I can’t afford that. Then, these stories of lack move into their world view. There isn’t enough food. The price of gas is too high. We are always at war and there is no peace. We are in a financial crisis. There are no jobs. There is a global threat of nuclear war. Our children are not safe, we are not safe.

I have a few friends that say to me, “Well Jonathan, I just tell it the way it is.” Or even yet they say, “I’m a realist.” My Dad says, “That is just not how the world is“. Parents tell their children, generation after generation, that they need to live in the “real world”. The “real world” you say. Well I, for one, am done living in the real world.

The world we all live in together is a culmination of the collective stories that we are all telling and believing in. Our individual personal lives are a direct manifestation of what we believe is true about ourselves and our situations. The question comes back around for me again and again, is this the world of which we want to live in, that we want to raise our children in? Isn’t it time to start telling a different story?

Fantasy does become reality!

It is not important, or even relevant, if the story you tell is the truth of reality or not. What is important is that it is about the reality you want. If the reality in your life is what you want then keep on telling that story, but if not, it is time for a change. As you go throughout your daily routines, take time to notice the story you are telling and believing in, for that is the reality you are creating. It has not been created for you, you have conjured it up all on your own through the stories you have been telling.

Here’s the kicker, the story comes before manifestation not after. 99 percent of all creation takes place in the vibration which we align ourselves with before we see any piece of physical manifestation. We do not align ourselves with the vibration of the manifestation; manifestation aligns itself to our vibration. Vibration comes before manifestation. We must first align ourselves to the vibration of the reality we want.

Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world”. You must first “be the change” before the world will change. If you do not first align yourself with the vibration of the way you want the world to be, there will be no change.

How do you know if you are aligned with the vibration of what it is you want? Be mindful. Ask yourself if the stories you are telling make you feel good. Your feelings are your inner guidance system. Follow your feelings. As Joseph Campbell said, “Follow your bliss”. Wouldn’t you rather live in a world where everyone was following their bliss, where you were following your bliss? Ask yourself over and over again; “how do I feel” and “how does this make me feel”. Then, follow your bliss!

Set out in each moment of your lives to conjure up a new vibration. Summon up, as if by magickal or supernatural powers, a new reality. Evoke, call or bring to mind a new story that will influence or as if by magick effect the change of how you want your world to be. You have the power to change your life simply by telling a different story.