Because if you’re scripting or visualizing or “acting as if” in order to get what you want so you’ll be happier, you’ve missed the point of deliberate creation.

(And many of us do.)

Deliberate creation is about feeling now how you would feel then.  It’s about managing your energetic frequency by feeling better now.  Not waiting for the thing to manifest before you get happy.

So the measure of whether your manifesting process is effective is whether you feel better for engaging it.

That’s the measure that counts.

If it makes you feel better, it works.

Don’t wait for the weight to drop or the money to appear or the boyfriend to propose before you declare it a success.

It is, however, a sure thing that as you feel better now, more good stuff happens.  That other stuff is a side benefit, though, not the main purpose.

If you need the stuff to happen before you declare your manifesting routine effective, you are doing life the way everyone else does.  Depending on circumstances for how you feel.

That’s not deliberate creation.

(I’m reminding myself this as I play with a new process this month.  I found myself thinking, “Sure, I feel great, but is it working?”  D’oh!)

But when you’re in the mood to pull a different trick out of your law of attraction hat, consider this one:

Make it an Inside Job

Often when we approach a desire, we think of it as something we want, i.e. something we don’t yet have.  Right? 

It’s like we’re on the outside looking in; saying “I want that” -  as if it were separate from us. 

That perspective signals the Powers That Be that we are without it, and since like attracts like that means we only perpetuate the “withoutness” of it.

To create true vibrational alignment (which is the name of the manifesting game), we’ve got to get on the inside of it.  We’ve got to make it a part of us; to feel it as if it’s already a done deal.

(“Feel it real,” as author Denise Coates might say.)

For example, when I was ready for One of the Ones (that’s what I called the new long term boyfriend I was manifesting), I purposely and deliberately felt like a girl who already had a fabulous keeper.  I smiled and walked and shopped like someone would who was in a long term relationship with One of her Ones.  I felt him here.  Not there, in my future or in my dreams, but right here right now.

I didn’t treat it like something outside of me that I wanted.  I got on the inside of that desire.  I brought it to life now, by feeling it as if it were already reality.  (Three weeks later we met; three years later we’re still having fun.)

Yes, it takes imagination along with a willingness to detach from reality.  But that’s what deliberate creation is all about, and once we understand how powerful it is to manage our vibration, we’ve got huge incentive to do so! 

So this is your manifesting tip of the week: get on the inside of your desire and feel it as if it’s already a done deal.  Whether you use your daydream skills, a pray rain journal, script it out with a friend, etc. -  Universe will hear a very different instruction from you when you treat it like an Inside Job.

On this past solstice of June 21, 2009 a major doorway opened and supported a massive leap in consciousness to those who were prepared and aware. It is evidenced that the energy just prior to the Solstice and then fully escorted in on the 21st, is powerful, fast acting and will be staying. As a result we need to know how to play properly in it.

This energy that we are in now, ready or not, is manifesting thought into reality lickity split. Mind control is a must now. This new energy pushes us even deeper into the Mystery. Learning how to live in this new atmosphere is a top priority.

This new in-rush of energy is rapidly making a clean sweep of people, situations and ‘things’ not harmonious with this new cycle of time, while simultaneously and quickly creating magical meetings to bring people into alignment with others who they will be playing with and creating with during this next cycle of time. The serendipity is almost as staggering as the wipe-outs.

Many have shared that they feel like they are losing their memories, and indeed they are. It’s not a mind dis-ease. The memories are simply former stories written and produced by a third dimensional mind. There is no further need for them where we being moved to. They are irrelevant, thus intentionally being cast out. The trick is not trying to remember them or re-tell them. Stay in the moment. That’s where the magic happens.

And still more have shared that they sense pressure inside and around their physical bodies. It’s true. The new energy on this Planet is pushing the Soul deeper into the physical body to ordain our Divine natures. Expect more, not less of this amped up energy as you descend and ascend simultaneously.

Copyright Maureen Moss 2009.
http://www.worldpuja.org
http://www.maureenmoss.com

The lickity split part I am definitely seeing – not just in myself, but with clients as well. 

Which does indeed make it feel top priority to get a good handle on where we point these powerful minds of ours, huh?

I guess that means the good news is our payoffs come faster than ever … and the even more good news (because we’re surely not looking at it any other way) is that we have great inspiration to consistently stay on top of our manifesting game!

Your thoughts?

Last year in a private coaching session with arguably the world’s most loved and well known life coach, Martha Beck asked me this question:

“Are you RETARDED???!”

And with that inquiry from one of my biggest heros, the stigma of the word “retarded” fell away forever for me.

(That might not be a good thing, it turns out.  My neighbors don’t seem to find the word as liberating as I do.  But nonetheless, it is where I am.)

So when I saw a rerun where Kathy Griffin calls Ann Colter a nutbag the other night, I became an instant fan of Kathy and I laugh every time I think about her outlandish use of language in communication.

And am I paying the price for it!  lol

(Hang tight – there is a legitimate question coming up!)

For those of you who aren’t subscribed to comments, you probably didn’t see a couple dozen comments posted from a woman calling herself “victim” on this blog yesterday.  (And THANK YOU to everyone who DID see them and phoned, emailed and tweeted to make sure I was aware!  I’m feelin’ the love!)

For those who didn’t see her comment, here’s an email Kymm Brogan-Senseman in Cordova, Tennessee  would very much appreciate the entire world would read since (she says) she’s contacted the FBI, Better Business Bureau, her local DA, my local police department, Jack Canfield, my alma mater, etc. to warn them about my deceptive practices.

(It’s a direct email received just this morning, which I did ask her permission to share, even though it seemed obvious that would be the case.  It’s edited for brevity, believe it or not):

You are pyscho, I have records of no phone calls and only three emails that keep asking when can we talk. I saved every email I sent telling you when we could meet and then asking for a refund, you never got back to me. And no phone calls after payment. I have already forwarded these records to your PD DEPT along with all email records of our conversations. Knowing now you are a fraud after that whooping lie I am contacting the local DA and then the school you went to, and maybe every paper in every town. Do not underestimate WILL power to turn a WRONG into a RIGHT. YOU NEVER CALLED ME FOR OUR MEETINGS. YOU ARE A FRAUD AND YOU KNOW IT. I am also contacting Jack Canfield to let him know you said you co-authored a book with him. Now I am leary of using him because of his involvement with you. Let see how he feels losing people because of your fraudulent activity. Lets see who else I can dig up. I may have forgotten to mention I was an investigator for a bank and attorneys before I was in medicine. So the normal person you SCAM may not know how or where to find other victims but I DO. I will make sure everyone knows what you did. Hummmm the fraud next door what a concept for your local paper. Make it easy REFUND me. You can tell any story you want to live but that only works when it is for good not for bad.

The obvious question here (since I have phone records verifying an 83 minute session with her on May 14, 2009, emails back from her about how she enjoyed it immensely, and multiple follow up emails with additional coaching & such - kudos to me for being slow to clean out sent mail! and the fact that I let her pay after our session, which isn’t unusual since I operate from a basis of trust instead of contracts) – the obvious question becomes “how did I attract this?”

Not an unfamiliar question – you’ve heard me ask it before (when I got on – and off – the Oprah Show).

And the answer this time is similar: a long term client has a loved one who has been dealing with a “psycho ex” intent on damaging their reputation and lives in every way possible – which means it comes up a lot in our sessions together.  So it’s clear to me where my nutbag (vibe) came from.

But that’s not the question I’m asking the Good Vibe community today.

What I’m wondering about is how we can be of support to someone we love (this is every coach with their client, and also applies to our support of friends and family as well) without activating vibrations we don’t want in our own lives?

Yesterday I shared with a client Martha Beck’s technique (oh my gosh, just realized that’s another client who is dealing with a disreputable person in his life!  Sheesh, I’ve got it activated!) for cloaking or shielding your energy – so only good stuff gets in.

But if I have to cloak from clients, I’m in the wrong business.  I do have a perfect client list that I might do well to revisit since the “healthy and grounded” aspect seems missing in this particular case, but I think the key factor at work in this one was that I activated “unhealthy people attacking us” in the conversations I had with the other client.

When a fellow coach emailed me after seeing her blog comments here yesterday and asked “How do you get this woman out of your life?” I knew the answer instantly: stop focusing on her.  But this morning when I asked myself what I wanted out of today, and the words “It’s DONE” popped up in regards to this situation, my first reaction was “What?!  The fun’s OVER?”  So it’s officially revealed that I’m getting a kick out of this back and forth with crazy Kymm, but … truly, the question stands:

How can we support someone with a challenge we don’t prefer to experience? How do we duck a loved one’s vibe?

Because I don’t want to experience every challenge my clients do.  Nor their wins!  (Hey, I don’t want to be married or pregnant or traveling the world or even apparently a guest on Oprah!)  So …

What’s a good girl who loves coaching folks on all sorts of challenges to do? lol

I always quote Abraham’s wisdom on dealing with negative parents: “Get in, say hi, get out.”  I’m not sure that’s the best answer in this case (although maybe I do let clients entertain less of their story about what they don’t want), and I am starting to feel some other answers coming, but I’m turning this over to you all for the enlightened advice you consistently provide.

PS – can I just say how much I appreciate the love and support I get from all of you?  You show it so many ways: the comments you place here, the emails you send me privately, the votes you cast for Best Coaching Blog, the referrals you send, the reiki you sent!, the trust you place in me to help you with your manifesting, the calls you make late at night to make sure I delete nutbags from the blog (ha!) … I’m in love with you all.   Thank you.

Even you, Kymm, for doing your part to make me more famous than I already was, for giving me fabulous opportunity to explore the ins and outs of real life manifesting with this amazing community, and to discover even more about myself and my energy.  This is what I love most!

For example, that microwaved food is not healthy.  And that deep breathing is.  That sleeping with the tv on is not a good habit, and that giving to charity is.

I mean, there are some things we can always count on, right?  Those things are the “givens” in our world.  It’s what we KNOW.

Sometimes, though, what we KNOW doesn’t serve us.  And when that’s the case, it’s important to remember that nothing’s set in stone.

Lately, it seems, there’s been a lot of evidence that reminds me to question what I “know.”

Including Garrett Gunderson’s Killing Sacred Cows, where he says many things we financial planners were taught as rock solid truths actually don’t serve the average investor. 

Gunderson’s argument was so convincing that I started rethinking investment principles I’ve assumed true for decades.  (Including that regular savings, added up over time, benefiting from the power of compound interest growth, is a super solid investment strategy.

Maybe, maybe not.

My world was turned even more upside down after reading an article outlining several important medical benefits from indoor tanning.  (Health benefits from tanning beds?!  I gotta say I like it!)

Late last year I heard a very credible doctor tell me the best way to lose weight was to get more sleep.  (Which fit perfectly with the “I lose weight while I sleep” mantra I’d just created.) 

Fellow coach Zoe Routh recently introduced me to a resource designed to improve health by correcting the “over oxygenation” most people experience. 

There’s such a thing as too much deep breathing??   

Is nothing sacred?

Apparently not.  Last year I was talking to a highly esteemed scientist (his title too complex to remember right), and he said that there is no real evidence that microwaves are  bad for us.  I’d chalk him up to crazy, if I hadn’t recently heard that 31,000 scientists have signed their name to a petition denying global warming.

What about eating salads, right?  We all know leafy greens are good for us – the more the better!  “A salad a day” was what I was taught to strive for. 

And yet, at the Chopra Center’s “Perfect Health” week retreat, I learned through ayurvedic study of my imbalanced doshas that I needed to stop eating salads and instead eat heavier foods (like sour cream, guacamole, mm!). 

What else do we know for sure?  That terrorists attacked the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?  Don’t be so sure.

Kim Falconer’s explanation of reality served to scramble even more ideas about what’s real and what’s not.  (Thanks for a scientific perspective I can understand, Kim!)

I don’t share these various examples to suggest we stop saving or recycling or exercising or breathing deeply, but rather to just to remind us to question what “realities” we’d change if we could.

Because, indeed, we can.

But then I decided to change that expectation so I could participate and share link love with fellow bloggers! 

So here are 25 random things about me – LOA style. 

1. First book I ever read that introduced me to the law of attraction was How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted by Adrian Calabrese.

2. First manifesting project: getting a foster dog adopted.

3. That first success freaked me out so much I didn’t play with deliberate creation for an entire year.  (READ everything I could get my hands on about it, but didn’t actually practice it again for quite a while.)

4. Most challenging manifestation: involve animals I love dearly (attachment = resistance).

5. Easiest manifestations: new clients.  (I know that vibe better than the back of my hand!)

6. Manifesting skill I am most proud of: being able to change my story on a dime.  (Dismissing reality!)

7. Favorite topic to coach others on: Money!

8. Most unbelievable manifestations: Sadie returning to life.

9. Favorite deliberate creation resource: Ask and It Is Given.

10. Runner up to my favorite deliberate creation resource: Notes From The Universe

11. Three highest profile clients: hee hee – I can’t say, silly!

12. Favorite client ever: stumped on that one.  I love everyone!

13. A favorite LOA resource many might not recognize: Cesar Millan

14. Favorite old school LOA resources: Neville and Florence Scovel Shinn

15. Next manifesting project: my next mentor/guru.

16. What personal development skill I’m learning to stronger enhance manifesting abilities?  Meditation (fairly new to it)

17. What belief I would most like to opt out of: that duality is a fact of life.

18. What belief I would like to embrace even more: that bodies grow younger with time.

19. Most reliable method for allowing: remembering and reconnecting to (my version of) the big picture.

20. Who had the greatest impact on developing conscious creation skills?  Mentor Coach Jeanna Gabellini

21. If I could do anything, what would it be?  Already doing it – with clients, blog posts, ezines, articles, etc: sharing LOA knowledge!

22. Biggest manifesting handicap?  Still wanting love and approval from others.

23. What did I almost name my coaching practice? Lightworks Coaching

24. What would I have done if not vibration management coaching?  Professional dog walker

25. Who gives me my greatest gift of contrast?  People I am closest to.  Thank you, People. 

Next I’m supposed to tag 25 other bloggers to play this game as well: Melody, Tia, Col, Judy, Lyman, Deb, Ross, Pernille, Kevin, Alain, Vicki, Thauna, Tonya, Ann, Alex, Donncha, Ryan, Kate, Dawn, Stephanie, Zoe, Leslie, Carolyn, Jan, Martha and Shauna. 

And if anyone else wants to be tagged to join the game, leave a comment and I’ll add your link to the post!

That’s the question a first date asked in disbelief (years ago) when I explained what law of attraction coaching was.  He’d never heard of the law of attraction, let alone life coaching. 

Suffice it to say, hearing about the power of our thoughts, the effects feelings have on our lives, and that we all have a vibration – it was very strange stuff to white collar MBA graduate business owner.

But it was a first date, and he was polite about expressing his skepticism. 

(Remember, this was before The Secret was out, and before Oprah and Larry King brought the concepts of manifesting to mainstream media.  So I probably sounded pretty “out there.”)

Anyway, I explained that the process of segment intending (aka pre-paving) was an easy way to start building manifesting muscle. 

Simply hold in mind the outcome you want, imagine it happening, feel the feelings you would feel as it’s unfolding, and then relax and go about your activity.  It’s that simple.

Since he was wasn’t talking, I changed the topic as we drove back to my car.  Less than two minutes later his cell phone rang. 

When he saw who it was, his jaw dropped.  He stared at me in disbelief.  Since he was speechless, all he could do was show me his caller ID – as if that would explain everything.

I didn’t understand what the big deal was.  (But I did know if he answered his phone while on a date with me, this would also be our last date.) 

It turns out that while I was explaining segment intending – and talking about our power to create whatever we want in life – he wasn’t wondering what kind of crackpot he was at lunch with.  Rather, he was already starting his first manifesting project: hearing back from his ex-girlfriend. 

Apparently he was still hung up on this fabulous girl, and had tried everything to reconnect with her.  But she wouldn’t answer letters, texts, emails, phone calls, nada. 

Until that day.  Two minutes after he imagined how thrilling it was to be in touch with her again, to hear her voice, to have another chance to talk with her – that’s when she called.  After months of no communication.

Needless to say, he was sold on LOA.  (And he DID answer his phone!  Stinkerhead.  Although we didn’t date again, he did retain me to help turn his business around and we’re friends to this day.)

I marveled at my powers to manifest myself right out of a new date while successfully teaching LOA to a disbeliever, and thought maybe I should practice what I preach and segment intend my first dates a little better than THIS!

That’s one example I share with clients when they ask how long it takes for deliberate creation efforts to pay off, and how much they have to practice it before it works.

It doesn’t take long and you don’t have to be an expert.  (Or even believe in it, for that matter!)

If it’s been a while since you played with segment intending, I invite you to pick it up again and impress yourself with your manifesting prowess. 

(And if you need a professional reminder about how easy all this manifesting stuff really is, you can be sure that working with an LOA expert will greatly increase your own confidence in the LOA process.)

Would love to hear some of your favorite pre-paving experiences!