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Manifesting Your Dreams

With EFT, SK, and More

AT LAST, A COMPLETE PROGRAM FOR CREATING A FABULOUSLY JOYFUL AND FULFILLING LIFE

Dr. Phillip Mountrose and Dr. Jane Mountrose

MANIFESTING YOUR DREAMS with EFT, SK, and More

Dr. Phillip Mountrose and Dr. Jane Mountrose

Holistic Communications Arroyo Grande, California

What People are Saying About

Manifesting Your Dreams with EFT, SK, and More “The Mountroses’ Manifestation Program gives you the pieces that have been missing from everything else you’ve ever tried. It has the ‘missing links’ that will help you climb to new heights in your finances, relationships, career, personal development – or anything else you really want.” -Craig Santini-G, International Success Coach www.hollywoodcoach.com “Manifesting Your Dreams with EF, SK and More” is a powerful and complete program for anyone interested in allowing greater levels of abundance, joy, and soul connection into their lives. The emphasis on aligning with one’s soul purpose will bring great joy, and the techniques for releasing blockages provide a powerful way of moving beyond resistance.” --Stephen Chroniak Yoga Teacher “This is the best, cleanest, down-to-earth material manifestation I’ve ever read!” --Mikaya Heart Author of A Different Rhythm “A very helpful program, as for many years I have been told to ‘focus’ and ‘manifest,’ but no one told me how to go about it. This is clear and concise information on how to manifest one’s life.” --Samuel Turner Holistic Therapist “I recommend this program to help people know how to attain what makes them happy and what they want out of life. It helps in achieving long-term and short-term goals; knowing how you start and get the ball rolling; and having enough patience, when you need it, to wait to get there.” --Tak Matsuda Optician “This material is very helpful to focus your goals into reality. It gives us the tools to use over and over.” --Ginny Matsuda Office Manager

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“The healing work that I did helped me release the lifelong resentment I held towards my mother. I now can understand that she did the best that she could. I was also able to manifest my ‘dream job.’ Thank you for all your help and support.” --Martha Jiminez Nurse. “I discovered hidden blockages and old beliefs about my self image and real estate sales people. This is useful because I now know I can have a career and still be a spiritual person. I’m now clear that I can give myself permission to prosper as a real estate agent or other career and continue on my spiritual journey. --Tonia Neumann Small Business Administrator “I value these techniques for manifesting, and seeing how easy it is. I also reaffirmed that we are co-creators with the universe. These are wonderful tools to share with people, too, and they are lots of fun.” --Nikki Wood Hypnotherapist “The Manifestation Process is amazing! Also, much to my surprise, I discovered that my concept of having a relationship was sabotaging me from having a successful practice. I was able to resolve that problem and cut that cord. This information empowers the individual to create their dreams.” --Sharon Williamson Registered Nurse “These techniques helped clear my worries about money. Seeing the principles of manifestation in print as reminders of what to focus on is also very helpful.” --Anna Easter Artist “The concept of manifestation is not new to me, or to most people. I have endeavored to apply principals of manifestation for several years, without much success. However, it all finally clicked for me with this program. The new concepts I learned at the Manifestation Program … clicked better than they ever could have trying them by myself. I cannot begin to illustrate for you the opportunities that have presented themselves to me in the last 18 months, and I now try to share what I have learned with others at every opportunity. My life will never be the same. Thank you!” --Matthew Davis Architect “Now I know the miracle of manifestation and that it works! I used to manifest too many of my worries and anger. Now I know how to manifest through hope and confidence. I no longer feel alone and know the universe is helping me.” --Martie Johnson Spiritual Intuitive

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Publisher’s Disclaimer

EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), Spiritual Kinesiology (SK), the guided visualizations, and the other healing methods described in this book have helped many people to make positive changes in their lives, but there is no guarantee they will work for you. We do not recommend substituting these techniques for the professional services of a doctor, psychologist or psychiatrist. Please consult your medical health professionals regarding their use. These are self-help and self-healing techniques, and you are in control of their use. As such, you have sole responsibility when you use them. If you do not wish to be bound by this disclaimer, you may return this book with proof of purchase to the publisher for a full refund.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD ..................................................................................................................................ix

OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................... 1 Having a Fabulous Life........................................................................................................................... 1 The Field of Infinite Possibilities............................................................................................................. 2 Love Versus Fear................................................................................................................................... 3 Key Steps for Manifestation.................................................................................................................... 4 Adding EFT and SK ................................................................................................................................ 7 Accessing Higher Vibrations with a Pendulum .......................................................................................... 9 The Manifestation Roadmap ................................................................................................................... 9 Committing to Your Dreams .................................................................................................................. 11 Awakenings’ Master Spirit Community ................................................................................................... 12

CHAPTER ONE: SETTING YOUR COURSE......................................................................................... 13 Propelling Yourself Forward ................................................................................................................. 13 Getting Out of the Crowd and Taking Command ...................................................................................... 14 Aligning Yourself with High Vibrations................................................................................................... 17 The Healing Journey ............................................................................................................................ 17 Raising Your Vibrations with EFT........................................................................................................... 19 Bringing Alignment Fully into Your Body ............................................................................................... 21 Releasing Entanglements with EFT........................................................................................................ 23 Taking the Driver’s Seat ....................................................................................................................... 26

CHAPTER TWO: OPENING TO THE SOUL'S REALITY ................................................................................ 27 Understanding Your Purpose ................................................................................................................ 28

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Accessing Your Universal Home with Soul Centering............................................................................... 29 Staying Connected............................................................................................................................... 33 The Twelve Principles of Manifestation.................................................................................................. 35 Beware the Empty Façade of Cheerfulness ............................................................................................ 38 Enhancing the Manifestation Principles with Soul Awareness and EFT..................................................... 38 Developing a Soulful Homing Thought .................................................................................................. 41 Deeper Issues..................................................................................................................................... 42

CHAPTER THREE: BRINGING THE SOUL'S REALITY DOWN TO EARTH ..................................................... 43 Our Experience ................................................................................................................................... 44 The Anatomy of Setting Goals .............................................................................................................. 45 The Spiritual Path Process ................................................................................................................... 49 Opening to Your Soul’s True Longings .................................................................................................. 51 The Four Levels for Goal Setting........................................................................................................... 53 Creating a Focus List ........................................................................................................................... 57 What to Expect.................................................................................................................................... 59

CHAPTER FOUR: TRANFORMING INTERFERENCE.................................................................................... 61 Overcoming Fears and Limiting Beliefs.................................................................................................. 61 The Importance of Healing, the Missing Ingredient ................................................................................ 62 Clearing, Integrating, and Activating ..................................................................................................... 64 Getting to Know Your Limitations .......................................................................................................... 65 Clearing the Fast and Easy Way............................................................................................................ 66 Body Awareness and Clearing............................................................................................................... 67 Using the Manifestation Checklist – a Powerful Resource........................................................................ 69 Examples of Clearing Interference......................................................................................................... 70 What Money Represents ...................................................................................................................... 72 Listening to the Whispers .................................................................................................................... 75

CHAPTER FIVE: LEAVING THE PAST BEHIND .......................................................................................... 77 Leaving the Past Behind with the Reframing Process.............................................................................. 78 Delving Deeper into the Past................................................................................................................ 82 Creating a Bright Future by Changing History with EFT ........................................................................... 82 The Bigger Picture of the Past.............................................................................................................. 87

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CHAPTER SIX: ENLISTING THE SUPPORT OF THE UNIVERSE .................................................................. 89 Asking for What you Want .................................................................................................................... 90 Your Menu of Possibilities.................................................................................................................... 90 Cosmic Ordering .................................................................................................................................. 91 Creating Your Celestial Communication System....................................................................................... 92 Hiring the Heavens .............................................................................................................................. 99 The Manifestation Process ................................................................................................................. 100 Creating the Manifestation Map........................................................................................................... 103 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 104

CHAPTER SEVEN: OPENING TO NEW OPPORTUNITIES.......................................................................... 107 Taking Action .................................................................................................................................... 109 Making Your Dreams a Reality ............................................................................................................ 110 Appreciating the Journey.................................................................................................................... 115 The Success Expansion Process.......................................................................................................... 117 Awakenings’ Master Spirit Community ................................................................................................. 119 Concluding Thoughts ......................................................................................................................... 121

APPENDIX A: USING EFT............................................................................................................ 123 How EFT Works.................................................................................................................................. 123 Steps in the EFT Short Sequence ........................................................................................................ 123

APPENDIX B: USING KINESIOLOGY .............................................................................................. 125 Preparation....................................................................................................................................... 125 Arm Testing with Two People.............................................................................................................. 126 Self-Testing ...................................................................................................................................... 127 Interpreting Your Results ................................................................................................................... 128

APPENDIX C: SK REFRAMING AND ANCHORING .................................................................................... 129 What is SK?....................................................................................................................................... 129 Steps in the Reframing and Anchoring Process .................................................................................... 130

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APPENDIX D: USING A PENDULUM...............................................................................................131 Measuring Positive Vibrations and Negative Vibrations......................................................................... 131 Answering Yes-No Questions.............................................................................................................. 132

APPENDIX E: RESOURCES...........................................................................................................133 References ....................................................................................................................................... 133 EFT Resources from Holistic Communications ...................................................................................... 134 Websites .......................................................................................................................................... 135 More From Holistic Communications.................................................................................................... 135 E-Books............................................................................................................................................ 136 Other Books...................................................................................................................................... 137 Free Soul News and Awakenings E-News Email newsletters .................................................................. 137

ABOUT THE AUTHORS................................................................................................................139 Certification Courses.......................................................................................................................... 139 Classes and Courses .......................................................................................................................... 141 Personal Consultations ...................................................................................................................... 141 Awakenings Institute and the Worldiwde Master Spirit community ......................................................... 141

ORDER FORM............................................................................................................................143

Foreword

Dreams are magical. The very essence of individual experience begins with dreaming about something beyond what we have; something beyond our immediate reach. We all have dreams. It starts at a very young age, maybe even before we are conscious about it, but eventually we know there are dreams. I can remember daydreaming often as a child. I had a favorite big rock in our pasture where I would lay and watch the clouds go by as the delicious warm summer rays of sun tickled my face. I would spend hours lost in daydreaming. Dreaming of the man I would someday meet to sweep me off my feet. Dreaming of the life I would lead of travel and adventure. Dreaming of the home I would create. Dreaming is second nature to all of us. It’s deep within our soul and is ever-present. We would not have created anything without dreaming of it first. Sometimes as we grow older we mistakenly fall into the trap of feeling guilty about dreaming as if there is something immature or selfish about it. We are told to put aside our childhood fantasies. We may even believe that it is better not to dream lest we be disappointed. To the contrary if we set aside our dreaming we stop growing. Any accomplishment of mankind, big or small, began with dreaming. We can call them something more mature; goals, aspirations, desires, visions. Regardless of the name, they are still all dreams inspired by our need to reach beyond ourselves. How do dreams become reality versus fantasy? Every one of us has indulged in dreaming that we know will turn out to be nothing more than wishful thinking. But even though we are aware it is fantasy it is still fun to think of the what if’s. What if I found a million dollars? What if I was given the keys to that big mansion? What if I became the president of the company? It’s great entertainment to explore daydreams in your head. Likewise we have all had the experience of believing in a goal so firmly that nothing would stand in the way. We knew that fulfillment was only a matter of time. Whatever dreams we have they either turn into fantasy or turn into reality. What determines this? How can we get what we want? I remember going through a phase in my thirty’s of adopting the dreams that would create a certain social status and being mesmerized by how things were “supposed” to look. The big house, the nice car, the clothes were all part of the program. The movement at that time was to replace your dreams with a pre-formulated template and approach. I noticed an interesting shift in my attitude at that time. Everything became goal oriented and routine activities were under scrutiny to remove any frivolous aspect. You scheduled parties with friends for the goal of unwinding. You scheduled evenings with your mate for the goal of spending quality time. Exercise was only done on a schedule for the precise goal of getting your heart rate up to eighty percent of maximum. Measurable goals, that’s what we wanted and it was fun for a Copyright © 2007 Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose. Do not copy without permission.

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while but at some point I realized we can become so distracted by programmed aspirations that we can get caught in the proverbial rat race and lose touch with our dreams, frivolous or not. Another shift occurred as I entered my forties and my dreams took on a deeper origination, that of the soul. It became clear to me that we are on a journey with an express purpose, a meaning, that begs to be explored and that many of our dreams are actually a calling from our soul. We long to find purpose but purpose can only be found deep within ourselves. At various times throughout our lives we hear the inner stirring urging us to go within and find out what our soul is asking for. It may be at mundane moments such as washing dishes or commuting to work, or during profound life-changing experiences but inevitably the calling of our soul comes forth. Whether we are merely entertaining ourselves with wishful thinking or answering a call from our soul it all begins with dreaming. Through our imagination there is no boundary that can’t be explored. The book you are holding in your hands gently persuades you to lift off any dream restrictions you may have and to take the time to ask yourself some very important questions. What do you long for? What makes you happy? What makes your heart sing? What will it take to make your life more joyful? The Mountroses have taken an incredibly complex topic and boiled it down to the essentials and laid out a step by step plan to manifest your dreams. They encourage the reader to dust off their dreams big and small, frivolous or not and dare to explore their soul desires at the deepest level. Fulfillment of your dreams is a natural process. Understanding this process and making it part of your everyday life is easier than you think. This book presents the manifestation process in a simple, straightforward approach. You’ll be amazed as your dreams come into focus with laser-like precision and life takes on a whole new perspective. You may find that dreaming will once again be a favorite pastime and in fact, essential to your growth. Is there magic in dreaming? Just wait and see!

Jean Slatter Naturopath, Senior Minister of Holistic Healing, and Founder of the Creative Mystic Certification Program Loomis, California www.jeanslatter.com, www.creativemystic.com

Copyright © 2007 Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose. Do not copy without permission.

Overview Climb high. Climb far. Your goal the sky; your aim the star. - INSCRIPTION AT WILLIAMS COLLEGE

Do you want to create a healthy, abundant, and joyful life? Do you want to know why you’re here and what your unique gifts are? Do you want to have the opportunity for these gifts to blossom in amazing ways? If so, ask yourself this: “Are you willing to do what it takes to make this happen?” If your answer is “yes,” this book is for you. It provides a concise roadmap that you can follow to manifest your dreams and create genuine fulfillment in every way.

HAVING A FABULOUS LIFE We all dream of having a fabulously wonderful life. It’s an exciting and creative part of being human. Unfortunately, most people lack an effective plan. They dream of becoming rich and living happily ever after, and for many, winning the lottery is their only strategy. With the odds being overwhelmingly against them, this is clearly not an effective approach. For those who do win, studies show that lottery winners frequently lose their fortunes within a few years, or wish they hadn’t won. We would submit that this is because they are unaware of the principles of manifestation we present here. Their goals are not aligned with their life purpose and their approach relies on nothing more than wishful thinking. You may have read about the law of attraction, “The Secret,” and other approaches to manifesting your dreams. Even these approaches may have left you with more questions than answers. What makes this book different? We have found some critical missing pieces and practical applications for the manifestation roadmap through extensive research, our own experiences over two decades, and the life-changing experiences of hundreds of our clients and students who have followed this approach. This roadmap is comprehensive, with the potential of taking you light years beyond where you have gone before … into the most profound recesses of your awareness and the highest reaches of the cosmos. It transcends normal ways of being, focusing on helping your to claim your rightful place within the synchronous flow of the universe, where you can discover your


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true purpose and connect with your infinite potential to bring it fully into your reality. This manifestation roadmap recognizes that we create our reality in each moment and, in this moment, we are the result of our creation so far. Wherever this puts you on the map, if you haven’t produced the life of your dreams thus far, you have the opportunity to open to doing something decidedly different from what you have done in the past, something that will produce dramatically different results, and create a fabulously fulfilling life. Knowing that you have already been trying to create a better life, this may sound discouraging at first. Actually, the opposite is true. If the state of your life was just the result of a series of random events that have brought you to this moment, you would be powerless to change course. Recognizing that the universe is synchronous and that you are responsible for what you create is empowering. What you have created, you can change. Taking responsibility means taking command of your life. It provides an opportunity for you to realize your purpose, evolve spiritually, create something that is truly magnificent, and appreciate the many blessings life brings. Once you take command, even the most challenging and seemingly impossible situations start to shift as you open to realms of infinite possibilities. If you are feeling overwhelmed by your situation, take heart. This book is for you.

THE FIELD OF INFINITE POSSIBILITIES The version of reality we present here may stretch your thinking and we hope that it will do so in an illuminating, magical, and joyful way. Considering the transformational nature of the subject, we would find it difficult to address it without acknowledging the existence of the vast realms of spirit. The terminology we use is spiritual, but if you don’t relate to your reality in exactly the same way, don’t get hung up on words. The universe will interact with you in whatever way you understand it. Whether you believe that God and angels are guiding and assisting you from the higher realms or if you take a more scientific perspective following quantum physics, believing that everything is energy and that you can shift energy, you can manifest the life of your dreams. You can use this program even if you are not sure. You just have to be open and allow yourself to explore what works for you. For our purposes, we call the eternal part of the self that has a plan for our life the soul. Some people relate to different terminology, like innate intelligence, true self or inner executive. If you relate more to business terms, by all means, use them. We encourage you to translate our words into whatever terminology works for you to create a clear picture of reality as you understand it. The true power of this approach transcends the words we use to describe it. It lies in the followings elements: • Accessing the level of reality where your infinite potential exists • Connecting with your soul, your true divine self, as your guide, and learning the nature of your life purpose


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• Drawing upon the full support of the universe in realizing this purpose in unimaginably wonderful ways • Clearing blockages like stuck emotions, limiting beliefs, and judgments of yourself that interfere with fully aligning with the wonderful life you long to create • Allowing your life to flow with ease and joy We start with the recognition that we are more than our physical bodies. The French mystic Teilhard de Chardin described us as spiritual beings having a human experience. If this is true, there must be more to this physical reality than meets the eye. Beyond the physical dimension, we are, in fact, multi-dimensional beings flowing in a sea of universal life force energy. It is from this sea of energy that our reality and our creations emerge. When our feelings, thoughts, and actions are in alignment with the truth of who we are spiritually, we are in the synchronous flow. When they are not, we meet resistance. As Deepak Chopra said in his book Creating Affluence, “The universe is truly a symphony of the stars. And when our bodymind is in synch with this symphony, everything is spontaneous and effortless, and the exuberance of the universe flows through us in joyful ecstasy.” The life force energy around us can be likened to the spiritual air we breathe. When we are in synch with the universe, we are aligned with high vibrations, or good vibes, which are positive. When we are out of synch, we connect with low vibrations or bad vibes, which are negative. The higher the resonance of your vibrational field, the more you are aligned with the synchronous flow of the universe and the field of infinite possibilities. With this crucial understanding, you want to aim for the highest possible vibrations to propel yourself forward toward the life of your dreams.

LOVE VERSUS FEAR Stated simply, there are two basic energies: love and fear. High vibrations stem from love and low vibrations stem from fear. The high, loving vibrations are directly related to being on the path to fulfilling your true purpose in life. Each of us is here for a reason, to realize the soul’s true purpose. Though a soulful focus may sound esoteric, it is actually quite simple and exceedingly important. The soul’s calling can be found in your greatest heartfelt joy and excitement. Key points: • When you pursue the inner joy and excitement of the soul, you feel loving, open, and alive. You are following your true calling. You feel happy and energized by the high vibrations you are generating. Love allows you to feel good about yourself and seek inner fulfillment. You are a free spirit who can step out of the crowd to follow your own path and create an extraordinary life. • When you ignore the calling of the soul, you feel fearful, stuck, and depressed. You are following the limited perspective of the wounded ego and your soul’s calling is repressed by the low vibrations you are generating. You feel unsure of yourself and


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seek others’ approval as a way to feel better. Fear prevents you from trying something different, so you follow the norm, and lead an ordinary life. With this in mind, it makes sense to set a course that aligns you with your soul’s greatest joys and the highest vibrations you can muster. In his book A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle describes joy as the sense of aliveness that emerges when the creative power of the universe becomes conscious of itself. “Through enjoyment, you link into that universal creative power itself.” The phenomenon of suffering and waiting for a better time or whatever the excuse is to follow our true joy and excitement is a trap we fall into when we are not consciously in command of our lives. Wherever you are now, you can open to the infinite. You have the opportunity today, right this minute, to set your course and create an extraordinarily magical and joyful life.

KEY STEPS FOR MANIFESTATION As mentioned, this book provides a complete and concise roadmap that will take you where you want to go, so you need to become intimately familiar with the territory. We start with an overview of the elements of this roadmap for realizing your dreams. 1. Set your course. 2. Open to the heartfelt reality of the soul. 3. Bring the soul’s reality down to earth. 4. Transform interference. 5. Leave the past behind. 6. Enlist the full support of the universe. 7. Open to new opportunities. You will explore these steps in detail in the chapters that follow this overview. Together, they produce a powerful synergy that can draw amazingly wonderful changes into your life.

The Manifestation Roadmap As a roadmap, it is critically important that you follow all of these steps systematically to produce the best results. The steps in the manifestation roadmap are defined by the chapters of this book. • Chapter One, Setting Your Course: Map in hand, the journey begins in Chapter One with placing your hands firmly on the wheel and taking control of the direction in which your life is going. While most people are reacting to the events of their lives


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rather than taking charge of them, you need to be firmly in command. The simple act of stepping out of the crowd and taking control will change your life forever. • Chapter Two, Opening to the Heartfelt Reality of the Soul: Choose love over fear and explore your soul’s universal home, where you can discover your divine purpose and life’s most profound mysteries. Focus frequently on the higher, soulful levels of your awareness where anything is possible, and create a firm foundation for realizing your dreams with the Twelve Principles of Manifestation. These principles include illuminating qualities such as expectancy, honor, love, and gratitude. You cannot know exactly where the evolutionary journey will take you. As you connect with your soul and the synchronous flow of the universe, you will realize that this is part of the magic. You cannot possibly know all of the forces that are at play in your life and around the world, but the synchronous flow of the universe will know how to best connect your dreams and purposes with the full range of possibilities that exist for you. From our experience, the results are generally better and more amazing than we could have imagined from our limited perspectives. • Chapter Three, Bringing the Soul’s Reality Down to Earth: Now you translate your soul’s callings into goals for the creation of your dreams. The focus here is on making the process joyful, so you will learn the secrets to creating a reality that supports you in manifesting with joy and ease. We all know that simply having more of the trappings of success doesn’t produce fulfillment. The soul’s elevated awareness understands what is genuinely fulfilling for you and you can access this awareness as you set your goals. With an understanding of where you want to go, you can determine precisely what you want to create, with a focus on aligning your goals with your soul’s true purpose and genuine fulfillment. An important key here is to put your goals in writing to make them concrete. Goals clarify your desires, provide direction, and strengthen your commitment. And to create the greatest joy, you can include items related to all aspects of your life: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. • Chapter Four, Transforming Interference: This is one of the often overlooked elements for creating the life of your dreams. Energetic interference in the form of painful emotions, limiting beliefs and judgments about yourself can create substantial roadblocks in your path. Rather than spinning your wheels or running into a brick wall, many of these obstacles can be easily removed with EFT and the other healing tools in this book. This includes clearing limitations like insecurity, fear of failure, feelings of not deserving the best, feeling that your situation is impossible, and more. This chapter provides a checklist for pinpointing such issues, along with several powerful processes for clearing them. To some, clearing may seem like a deviation when you want to focus your attention on manifesting your dreams. It is important to realize that addressing the roadblocks along the way is how we learn about ourselves and advance on the spiritual journey. It is also the fastest way forward. Clearing interference accelerates the process, reducing the limiting impact of the wounded ego and increasing the expansive


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presence of the soul. Without clearing, progress can easily come to a standstill, and we want you to succeed. In addition to helping with manifestation, clearing blockages is an integral part of life’s evolutionary journey, and we cannot shortcut this process. Releasing fears and perceived limitations opens us to more love, joy and other positive qualities discussed throughout this program. •

Chapter Five, Leaving the Past Behind: In his book Being in Balance, Wayne Dyer recommends letting go of one’s personal history, which is precisely what this chapter is about. Freeing ourselves from the limitations of the past is critical, because many of us gauge our potential in the future on perceived limitations from the past. Here we explore the space-time continuum and provide ways to transcend any perceived limitations that could restrict your possibilities moving forward. This essential element is both freeing and enlightening, as you explore how your past, present, and future are all connected and clear the path to a bright future. Along with clearing internal blockages, you can also focus on eliminating old stuff out from your closets, file cabinets, and drawers. Holding onto old stuff that no longer serves you is like lugging around old ways of being. Leave the old stuff behind and bring in the new. This releases stuck energy that you can use to manifest your dreams.

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Chapter Six, Enlisting the Support of the Universe: This is where you engage the invisible realms in the creation of your dreams. What could be more powerful? Now you can truly align your goals with the power of the universe and make them concrete. The methods presented in this chapter exponentially increase your effectiveness by matching each of your activities here in this reality with requests for assistance from above. These methods connect you even more strongly with your power to create, so you can clearly sense, see, and feel your manifestations coming into being. You can learn about the Manifestation Map here. By delineating your desires and using all the components of this energetic map, you infuse your creations with even more clarity, conviction, and energetic support.

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Chapter Seven, Opening to New Opportunities: Once you have taken all the steps to set your dreams into action, it’s time to open to the different opportunities that may emerge. Expect that your manifestations are happening in a perfect way and let go of any specific notions of how this will occur. Open to the infinite. Your dreams may come to pass in surprising ways that even exceed your expectations. In our instant gratification society, it is also important to recognize that results will come in their own time, which may not be yours. It is critical at this stage to take appropriate action. Watch for new opportunities to make your goals a reality. This may include taking specific steps, learning lessons, receiving information that can lead you in new directions, and looking at your situation in new ways.

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2. Your desired timing needs to be adjusted 3. The desired manifestation is not in alignment with your purpose. Focus on the wonders of the journey. Ultimately, the most important thing is being connected with the synchronous flow of life and appreciating the deeper significance of each moment. You will find transformational processes throughout this book that will help you to deepen your awareness, clarify your direction, and release limitations. The key is to be open to learning more about your true identity, to reach below the surface of your awareness to bring into focus the larger picture of who you really are and why you are here.

ADDING EFT AND SK Ask yourself this: “Do I want the greatest success with manifestation in the shortest amount of time?” “Do I want to have more joy and excitement in my life now rather than at some time in the distant future?” If you answer “yes” to these questions, the key is in clearing the blockages that stand between you and your goals. Some people wait a lifetime for painful feelings and self-imposed limitations to clear so they can be free to realize their dreams. Even people who meditate regularly find that old stuck emotions and limiting beliefs hang on for years and years. This is because these blockages are so deeply buried in the recesses of the mind that even the most positive intentions won’t shift them.

Why wait when you can clear the limitations that are holding you back now and move forward with more joy and ease? It makes sense to quickly release anything that is limiting you, to propel you forward and create the life of your dreams. EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and SK (Spiritual Kinesiology) are two methods we use regularly with our clients, our students, and ourselves. Both are so quick and easy that it can be hard to believe that they could work, but they do in most cases. There are, of course, no absolute guarantees that they will work for you, but both can most likely supercharge your results by quickly clearing the energetic blockages that may be holding you back.

About EFT You may already know how to use EFT and this book provides a number of opportunities to use it to make amazing changes in your life. For those who are not familiar with EFT, we offer this introduction drawn from our book Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT: You are about to explore some emotional clearing techniques that many consider a modern miracle. They are based on a series of discoveries that some psychologists consider to be among the most important breakthroughs in their field in the twentieth century. EFT is a group of techniques that just about anyone can learn


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to use to release the stuck emotions that prevent them from experiencing happiness and moving forward toward their goals in life. These techniques were developed in and introduced in 1995 by Gary Craig and Adrienne Fowlie, based on the work of psychologist Dr. Roger Callahan. In its short history, EFT has already helped thousands of people with a vast array of common emotions, including stress and anxiety, anger and frustration, depression, all kinds of fears and phobias, negative memories and inner child issues, self-doubt, guilt, grief, confusion, and just about any other emotion imaginable. … There are almost countless examples of people who have recovered with ease from emotions that have disturbed them for years using EFT. EFT is one of a number of meridian-based techniques that are now being developed worldwide. It works by simply tapping on a series of points on the body that correspond to acupuncture points in the energy meridian system. Fortunately, you don’t have to know anything about the meridian system to use EFT; you just have to remember where to tap and we present the EFT Short Sequence in Appendix A for new users. If EFT is new to you, you may want to experiment with it as you continue to read this book. You will find lots of case histories and opportunities to explore this wonderful method. We compare it to being like superman; when we have something that is disturbing us, wherever we are, just as Clark Kent steps into a phone booth and comes out as a completely different person, we can go into any restroom and come out transformed. Imagine how empowering a technique that does this can be in your life. This book also provides opportunities for experienced EFT users to add more tools to their repertoires. You will also find a number of processes using EFT and SK, which is described next, that are amazingly effective for practitioners to use with clients who want to create the lives of their dreams.

About SK Spiritual Kinesiology (SK) is another wonderful set of healing tools that we have developed based on the fine work of Carl Carpenter. You can use these tools to transcend the unresolved emotions, limiting beliefs, and judgments that we all encounter on the journey through life, and specifically in the realization of your dreams and goals. Kinesiology, commonly called muscle testing, can detect energetic blockages that you are ready to release and locate imbalances that are completely unconscious, so you can release them and move forward with ease. Once you know what you want to clear, SK also includes a healing process we call R&A (Reframing and Anchoring), which, like the EFT Short Sequence, can quickly and easily clear a number of blockages. We use R&A and EFT interchangeably. If you are unfamiliar with SK, you can find a description of how to muscle test in Appendix B and how to do R&A in Appendix C. We will refer to ways that you can use these methods throughout this book.


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Guided Visualizations You will notice that this book goes beyond the basic use of EFT and SK with visualizations that help you to access information from your deeper awareness and connect with the higher realms. In addition to providing these visualizations in written form here, we have created audios of guided versions with background music that allow you to relax and experience the processes. These audios are designed for people who find listening to the guided visualizations easier than reading through them in the book. They can help you to benefit even more from the information presented here.

Seeking Assistance It is worth mentioning here that there are times in all of our lives when we need to have help from others to address challenges that are holding us back. Over the years, while we have both become effective at clearing many of our own blockages, there are times when we need to go deeper with the assistance of each other or another skilled practitioner. This is not a sign of failure; it simply means that we all sometimes need support and the insight others can offer. You can find information about personal consultations at the end of this book.

ACCESSING HIGHER VIBRATIONS WITH A PENDULUM The pendulum is a dowsing tool that can be used for measuring vibrations, receiving answers to questions, and even clearing blockages. With this wonderful tool, you can witness subtle energy at play and determine how different thoughts and feelings affect your vibrations. We have had the good fortune of meeting Sheila Hollingshead, who has taken the use of the pendulum as a tool for creating the life of your dreams to amazing heights. Throughout this book, we share tidbits of wisdom from her book Energy Therapy, Healing Your Life and Body, along with ideas for ways that people who use pendulums can measure vibrations, clear blockages, and more. Though teaching you how to use a pendulum is beyond the scope of this book, we provide information on the system we have learned from Hollingshead and her book in Appendix D. Learning to use a pendulum effectively takes practice, and it is well worth the effort.

THE MANIFESTATION ROADMAP As you prepare to get into the nuts and bolts of creating the life of your dreams, know that you alone hold the keys to your success. We provide the map, which works well if you follow it. We have been using and developing these methods for nearly twenty years. In the process, we have achieved the goals we initially set out with in 1988 and more. Our lives have blossomed in amazing ways that we could not have imagined. Many others have likewise produced extraordinary results with this program. Your future is in your hands. Methodically following the stages itemized here will definitely transform your life. They will help you to maximize your efforts by enlisting the highest


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octane of vibrational fuel to propel you forward into a bright future. We recommend devoting a period of time to each stage, so you have a good grasp of it, then move on to the next one. You may, for instance, decide to spend a week on setting your course, creating time each day to focus on getting yourself firmly on track for moving to the next stage. If you can’t spend time each day, you may decide to spend a couple of weeks on each stage, still creating time at regular intervals to get on track. As you focus on the whole picture, you may be sensing that this journey is more of a way of life than a one-time process. It is a way of life, and it is an exciting one. When you joyfully follow your heart’s desire, knowing that you are on track to fulfill your true purpose, life becomes an exciting journey into the mystical unknown, where you look forward to what each day may bring, knowing that magical things can happen and your creations can take unexpectedly wonderful forms. This is the ultimate experience of being alive, being in the moment, and riding the wave of the synchronicities that actively creating your dreams set in motion.

Suspending Judgment and Staying Positive One of the most important parts of this journey is appreciating yourself and the steps that have led you to this moment. People sometimes tell us that they feel like they have wasted years of their lives being off track, believing they should have learned a lot of things sooner. Or they may feel that their situation is impossible, that their lives are spinning so wildly out of control that they don’t stand a chance of getting back in balance. Or they may have invested so many years pursuing a specific direction that they are reluctant to change course, even though their current approach is not producing results. It’s kind of like holding on to a bad investment hoping that someday it will turn around and pay off. As avid investors ourselves, we know this strategy doesn’t work. Sometimes you just have to take a loss and move on. At the same time, realize that from a higher perspective, no time is wasted on the journey to wholeness.

Everything is happening in perfect time, and if you choose to make this your time for change, you can soulfully create the life of your dreams. The past is behind you: the only choice is to go forward. Whatever your specific challenges, this book offers an opportunity to progress wisely and joyfully. You have the opportunity to invest your energy in an approach that will start to pay off as soon as you set your course, and continue to pay off more and more as you follow it. When we are connected with the synchronous flow of life, we understand that each of us is precisely where we should be. Judging and blaming ourselves or staying fixed on an old way of being that doesn’t support us only lowers our vibrations, and limits our possibilities. We need to align ourselves with vibrations that release limitation, not hold on to it.

On this journey, there is no failure, only increasing degrees of success. We need to get into the positive flow and stay in it. Copyright © 2007 Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose. Do not copy without permission.

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We also need to realize that our limited minds can’t see the big picture. The wounded ego, which is disconnected from the wholeness of the soul, does not understand the synchronous flow of the universe. It might believe that it can figure things out, but it lacks overview. Something that could seem like a setback to the wounded ego may, from a more soulful perspective, actually be an opportunity to view things differently and adjust one’s course. What we see as a failure may actually be a learning experience. Or it may be that our desired timing is not in alignment with the flow. We would be the first to admit that on many occasions our goals have not happened when we wanted or in the ways our limited thinking would have wished. Yet, in retrospect, we can see that the timing and the ways they have come into being have been perfect, even better than we could have expected. For example, we can see now that the release of many of our offerings had to be timed with the emergence of the internet, which has allowed us to connect with likeminded people all around the world. While we would have liked some things to happen sooner, we can see now that the timing was perfect and the results have magically exceeded our expectations. Having developed and incorporated this approach over several decades, we feel intimately connected with the synchronous flow of life and our souls’ true purposes. We revisit each of the steps discussed in this book regularly, refining our goals, reaching higher, and realizing more of our dreams. By opening to synchronicity, we now realize that we could not have planned our lives as well as they have turned out so far. We just keep setting out to take our next steps and allow our manifestations to evolve according to the divine plan. Our examples, along with others who have used this approach, validate its effectiveness. What will be the most meaningful to you, of course, is applying this roadmap to your life.

COMMITTING TO YOUR DREAMS Now that you have an overview of the approach, it is essential to enlist the full resources of your heart and soul to make your dreams a reality. The following pages provide the keys to unlocking the doors to the realization of your true desires and the tools you need to accelerate your spiritual development. They can connect you fully with the joyous, loving essence of your being and put you on the path to genuine fulfillment. Only you can do it, so your full commitment to your journey is required. In our society, which promotes taking the right pills to instantaneously solve all of life’s problems, we are not trained to commit. We are programmed to follow authority. We all have been influenced by this programming, which can be quite subtle and unconscious. As you move forward, bargaining with the price severely limits your possibilities.

Rather than asking yourself what is the least amount you can do to make this work for you, ask yourself this: “What is the most I can do to realize my dreams?” You have to be fully committed, even in the times when your dreams haven’t yet emerged, and stay engaged to reap the rewards. Tony Robbins, perhaps the world’s most re-


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nowned self-improvement coach, believes that life tests our level of commitment to our dreams and that the most magnificent rewards go to those who stay focused until their dreams come true. To start off on the right track, ask yourself this question and take a few minutes to really think about it, because it could change your life.

Between one and ten, with ten being the highest possible degree of commitment to your dreams, how committed are you to doing what it takes to transform your life? Are you ready and willing to step out of your habitual ways of thinking, doing, and being, and take the chance that this program could actually work? Will you commit to staying with it after the novelty wears off? Can you see yourself doing something truly magnificent with your life as a result? It is important that you think about this, because your commitment forms the foundation upon which you will build the life of your dreams. If you are not very committed, ask yourself why? This will provide food for further exploration as you progress with the program.

Keep in mind that the greater your commitment, the smoother the path ahead will be. The future extends out before you and the decision of which path to follow is yours. Just remember, you need to do something different if you want to be someone different – someone with more of life’s most fulfilling rewards, more abundance, more vibrant health, more excitement, and more joy.

AWAKENINGS’ MASTER SPIRIT COMMUNITY We encourage you to follow through with the tools you will find in this book and we are so committed to this program that we are creating a worldwide Master Spirit Manifestation Community to provide support in the realization of your dreams. You can find out more about it and how you can become involved at the end of this book.


CHAPTER ONE

Setting Your Course It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - SENECA

The journey begins. The first step is to set your course for the road ahead. Just as a race driver gets into the best possible shape and gets the car in its optimal condition for a race, you first want to get yourself into the best possible condition to take full control of your life and move optimally forward toward manifesting your dreams. This chapter provides three important keys: 1. Getting out of the crowd and taking command of your life 2. Propelling yourself forward with higher vibrations 3. Removing roadblocks by releasing entanglements with people, organizations, and ideas that could hold you back

PROPELLING YOURSELF FORWARD The high octane fuel you need for manifesting your dreams is being your personal best, which energetically is the highest vibration you can enlist in every moment. We all intuitively know what good vibes and bad vibes are, but we rarely think of them as fuel for the journey through life. High vibrations are fueled by positive thoughts and feelings about our lives and ourselves. These uplifting thoughts and feelings create a sense that we have infinite possibilities. Low vibrations are fueled by negative thoughts and feelings about our lives and ourselves. These low vibrations create a sense that we have limited possibilities. We like to compare being in these low vibrations to being stuck in the mud, where all you can do is wallow around endlessly. As Albert Einstein once said, “You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.” When you are stuck in the mud, you can’t see your way out and you have few inner resources to guide you. You could likewise compare lifting yourself out of these low vibes to rising above the fray to a higher place, like a lofty mountaintop. Here you


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have a broad overview of your whole life and a clear connection with the synchronous flow of the universe, along with access to the vast inner resources you need to guide you. Imagery speaks more loudly than words, and we will be using it throughout this book, both in the text and in the healing processes. Images that emerge from the deeper levels of our awareness are holograms for our experience of this reality, so we will use them to help you to receive insight. For a moment, imagine yourself wallowing around, stuck in the mud, devoid of resources, and notice how you feel. Now imagine rising out of it, drifting gently and safely upward to a beautiful mountaintop where you are completely free and the air is clear and crisp. Notice how you feel here. You can probably connect with the feelings of being in the mud and the feelings of being on the mountaintop even if you don’t think you can visualize. If exploring symbolic imagery is new for you, just be open and playful like a child. Within you is a whole world waiting to be explored. If you don’t usually see images, when we introduce imagery, focus on feelings, sounds, and maybe even smells and tastes. Involving more of your senses strengthens imagery. Also, asking yourself how the image would look if you could see it often works.

GETTING OUT OF THE CROWD AND TAKING COMMAND Rather than being in the driver’s seat, fully in control of their lives, most people are simply reacting to the events of their lives. This is a red flag that one is operating out of limitation, rather than being an active creator of one’s life. To lead an extraordinary life, you want to get out of the crowd and do something different from what most people are doing. This requires an independent, adventurous spirit.

A Journey Through Your Life with the Car Metaphor We will start our exploration of imagery with the metaphorical image of a car that is taking you on your journey through life. We suggest spending a few moments exploring this metaphor now or sometime soon when you are in a quiet place where you can reflect. This metaphor is rich with imagery that can show you both areas of strength that you can build on and areas of limitation that you can release. In an example from one of Phillip’s sessions, Michelle found herself in a car that was very comfortable and luxurious, with a big interior that was nicer than the cars she normally drove. She was in the driver’s seat, with her cat and dog in the passenger’s seat. There was plenty of gas, extra big tires that gripped the road well, and an engine that purred. She felt quite safe. From these images, it initially looked like Michelle was ready to manifest the life of her dreams. Everything seemed to be in order. One problem, though, was that Michelle couldn’t see outside very well. When exploring this fuzziness, Michelle felt the scenery was boring, with flat, monotonous buildings and uninteresting scenery. She wanted to travel along scenic routes, but had the notion that this boring road was where she had to go.


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“Where do I really need to go?” she asked. “To a place where I can manifest the gifts I brought into this world.” MIchelle realized that the fuzzy scenery had to do with a belief that “life is a struggle.” She chose to let go of this belief, doing some EFT tapping on the struggle, and asked for more fun in her life, so the route could be more enjoyable. She also realized that there was a split between her enjoying her cat and dog inside the car, while feeling isolated from the people and places outside the car. That was a deep issue that she planned to address further with EFT and other energy healing tools. You will probably find this metaphor rich with meaning, especially if you don’t take yourself too seriously.

Your vehicle and your journey are uniquely interesting and insightful. Have fun with them. As mentioned earlier, you may recognize areas of strength you can build on, and if you don’t take your foibles seriously, it will be much easier to simply acknowledge shortcomings and let them go. This is where EFT shines. It can release limitations quickly and easily, without having to wallow in them. Our limitations are just imaginary, after all, and we have the innate ability to transcend them. Bringing childlike wonder to this image and any image you explore in this book will help you to open to the deeper levels of your awareness. With the car image, as with any image, you want to bypass your rational mind, slow down a bit with a few deep breaths, and open to allowing messages to emerge. Before continuing, have a paper and pen handy to jot down what you notice with this image. Writing itself can help you to access information from your unconscious, and it will also come in handy for review. Just let the words flow out on paper and see what happens. It can be quite illuminating. • Close your eyes and imagine yourself inside a vehicle that is driving through life. Notice what the car is like and what the roadway is like. Just be open to whatever you might perceive, accepting whatever that comes into your mind, without doubting it, analyzing it, or trying to change it. You may see an image in your mind’s eye, hear a voice that describes the scene, feel feelings, and/or notice smells that relate to the image. If you cannot see the scene, ask yourself what it would look like if you could see it. Take a moment to jot down everything you notice with all of your senses. • Now ask yourself who is in the driver’s seat and notice what comes to mind. Often, someone else is driving or no one at all is at the wheel. If you are not the driver, it may be someone close to you, a group of people, or an organization that is setting your course. The goal is to take charge. Again, jot down whatever you notice here and in each of the following steps. • If you are in the driver’s seat, how well can you maneuver the car? You need to be fully in command with both hands on the wheel, able to freely maneuver where you need to go. • Is the car moving at a fast pace, slowly, or moderately? The car may be moving steadily down the road or completely out of control. How does it feel to you?


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• What kind of vehicle do you have? For now, just notice what you perceive, with the awareness that you want one that has a lot of pep, so you can move freely on the road. Also focus on the details. You want to have a nice, shiny clean finish and a positive color that will support you on your journey. • Is there plenty of gas? If not, why? Are you low on gas? Whatever the reason, you want to be fully fueled for the journey. • What is the condition of the tires? Is there plenty of air or are any of them flat? • How is the engine? Turn it on and listen to it. Does it hum confidently, sputter like it is about to quit, or does it sing a tune? • How does the car look? Is it shiny and clean inside and out, or is it rusty from lack of maintenance with a dusty, cluttered interior? • Is the interior comfortable? • Is there any excess baggage, trash, or litter in the back seat or in the trunk that is going to slow you down? In most cases, as the imagery emerges, it speaks for itself. You will probably know what it means if you are out of gas, if your car is running completely out of control, if it is rusty from lack of maintenance, or if you have excess baggage in your trunk. Review what you have written for each item and ask yourself how it relates to your life. Remember to have fun with it and not take it too seriously. After all, if you have a flat tire, it’s not the end of the world. Whatever you create in your mind, you can change, and this is your opportunity to have the best possible start. When you have finished creating and reviewing the Car Metaphor, you should have a clearer sense of where you need balance in your life. It is important to know this, so you can be fully in control and move freely down the road. For now, you will use this information for some or all of the following: • Further reflection from a higher perspective, which we will explore in the next chapter. • Limitations to clear with EFT and the SK Reframing and Anchoring Process. In the example above, Phillip and Michelle used EFT to clear a blockage involving struggle. If you know EFT or want to experiment with it using the instructions in Appendix A, you can do this now. It can be interesting to do this and notice how the image changes as any blockages are cleared. We will also discuss more about clearing later in this chapter and in the ones that follow. • Determining goals for different ways of being in the future, which you will do in Chapter Three. You can also return to the Car Metaphor again in Chapter Five with the Reframing Process. With this powerful clearing process, you can transform your image of riding through life into one that puts you firmly into the driver’s seat of a clean, shiny, powerful vehicle that can take you on the most exciting, joyful, and rewarding journey of your life.


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ALIGNING YOURSELF WITH HIGH VIBRATIONS The Car Metaphor may have exposed some limitations in your current life, which you will want to change as you progress. Aligning yourself to hold high, positive vibrations places you on course to create the life of your dreams. One way of understanding this is that certain possibilities exist within different ranges of vibrations, which you can often identify by the beliefs that go along with them. For the person who believes “Life is a bowl of cherries and I got all the pits,” you can imagine the range of possibilities that exist. For the person who believes “life is a bowl of cherries and I enjoy them every day,” a totally different range of possibilities exists. As another example, the belief that “It’s a dog eat dog world” draws continuous conflict into one’s life, while the belief that “People are kind to me” draws support. With each thought and feeling you have about yourself and your life, you are creating a range of possibilities. If you improve your thoughts and feelings for the better, a new, improved range of possibilities emerges. Figure 1.1 describes characteristics of being aligned with high vibrations versus being aligned with low vibrations. Fully embracing the characteristics listed with the high vibrations is a journey in itself, with opportunities to reach higher day-by-day and continue to rise as you progress. This book offers a roadmap on how to keep your vibrations up. If you use a pendulum, you can measure how well you currently resonate with the items on this list. We describe how to do this in Appendix D. This tool can be quite illuminating in identifying strengths and areas for improvement, which you can explore further with the healing processes in this book. As you focus on this list, the goal is not to be perfect; it is to uncover positive opportunities to create the life of your dreams.

You must commit fully to taking command of your energies and embracing the higher vibrations that lift you upward toward your infinite potential. This includes releasing more of the low vibrations that heap on limitation, and keep you wallowing more deeply in the mud. With this commitment to creating a positive field of energy around you, your journey will be more uplifting and joyful, with the higher vibrations providing extra leverage that accelerates your progress and opens new worlds to you. Also be sure to acknowledge your strengths and build upon these assets as you progress. These are gifts you bring to share in this lifetime. They can elevate you and all of those who come into contact with you.

THE HEALING JOURNEY We all experience some low vibrations to greater or lesser degrees. We are all learning and evolving spiritually. Aligning ourselves more with the higher vibrations and recovering more quickly when we succumb to lower vibrations is the essence of the evolutionary journey. As you review the qualities associated with high vibrations and low vibrations, we strongly recommend that you take an honest look at the low vibration categories that pull at you the most. Honest self-examination is an important key to your success, as is loving and honoring Copyright © 2007 Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose. Do not copy without permission.

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Characteristics of High and Low Vibrations HIGH VIBRATIONS – POSITIVE ENERGY

LOW VIBRATIONS – NEGATIVE ENERGY

Primarily living in a state characterized by love

Primarily living in a state characterized by fear

Life feels light and exciting

Life feels heavy and burdensome

Feels positive connection with soul’s higher guidance and wisdom for overview of reality

Feels disconnected from the wisdom of the soul, Instead connected with the wounded ego, lacking higher guidance and wisdom for overview of reality

Experiences joyful positive emotions

Experiences painful negative emotions

Experiences positive thinking aligned with the field of infinite possibilities

Experiences negative thinking associated with limiting beliefs about possibilities

Enthusiastic about the future

Wary of the future

Free spirit, clear of entanglements that could drag energy down

Co-dependent, dragged down by entanglements with other people or situations

Free flow of inner resources (poised on a mountaintop)

Lacking inner resources (wallowing in the mud)

Sense of inner strength and sovereignty, seeking to realize true purpose

Feelings of inner weakness, seeking the approval of others, with no understanding or limited understanding of one’s true purpose

Feels stabile and aligned, knowing one is in the flow, in the right place at the right time

Sense of instability and being out of sorts, uncertain about one’s place in life

In command, fully prepared to do what it takes to pursue one’s dreams

Reacting to the events of one’s life, uncertain about making efforts to pursue one’s dreams

Feels relaxed, clear, and in control of obligations, can and will make time to realize one’s dreams

Feels overwhelmed with life spinning out of control, having too many obligations to create time for one’s dreams

Can leave the past behind and open to things being dramatically different in the future

Plagued by limitations from the past, seeing them weighing one down in the future

Readily clears stuck emotions and limiting beliefs to maintain high vibes

Avoids clearing suppressed emotions and limiting beliefs and stays stuck

Loves and honors oneself and others

Judges oneself and others


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yourself. It can help to realize that the wounded ego, which experiences the low vibrations, is not. The soul is your true identity, and the wounded ego is comprised of the parts of you that are disconnected from this wholeness. The wholeness we all seek is the soul, and the healing journey involves healing the wounded ego so it can reunite with the soul. By releasing our perceived limitations of ourselves, we open to our uniqueness and true magnificence. The processes in this book are all designed to help you to release limitation and connect more and more with your soul’s wholeness. As mentioned, the high vibrations are directly linked with following the soul’s heartfelt joy and excitement. When you pursue this excitement, you are aligning yourself with your life purpose, and you feel alive, loving, happy, and fulfilled. Aligning yourself with this calling also frees you of limiting influences of those around you. This is important, as the goal is to design your life as a free spirit, relaxed and in control of obligations and entanglements that could drag you down.

RAISING YOUR VIBRATIONS WITH EFT It is essential to recognize the tremendous benefit of clearing the blockages that limit you. Each of the wounded ego’s blockages drains essential energy or life force. This is energy that you could be using more productively to realize your dreams. The blockages are like lead weights that hold your energy down. With a lot of weights, rising in vibration into the realms of infinite possibilities is more difficult, and a sustained effort is needed to stay there. Each blockage you release frees you of more weight, moves you more into the infinite realms, and allows you to stay there more effortlessly, so your life becomes lighter and more joyful. You can take a positive step now to boost your vibrations and keep them up with the help of Figure 1.2, the Commitment Checklist. This checklist can help you to identify strengths that will help to fuel you forward, as well as general alignment issues that could reduce your commitment and hold your vibrations down. As discussed in the Overview, it is important that you think about this, because your commitment forms the foundation upon which you will build the life of your dreams. In the overview, we asked how committed you are between one and ten to doing what it takes to create the life of your dreams. If your commitment was low, this checklist may help you to identify the reasons why this is the case. Review the checklist and identify any areas where your commitment is wavering. Where this is occurring, ask yourself why and write down all of the doubts and/or objections that come to mind. These are your roadblocks, as you will see, there are many ways to overcome them. As with the Car Metaphor, you can use this information for some or all of the following: • Further reflection from a higher perspective, which we will explore in the next chapter. • Limitations to clear with EFT and the SK Reframing and Anchoring Process. If you know EFT or want to experiment with it using the instructions in Appendix A, you can do this now. Notice how your sense of commitment changes as any blockages are cleared by measuring it before and after you use EFT. We will also discuss more about clearing later in this chapter and in the ones that follow. • Determining goals for different ways of being in the future, which you will do in Chapter Three.


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FIGURE 1.2

Commitment Checklist

I believe I am capable of succeeding.

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If not, why? I believe I deserve to succeed. If not, why? I believe this approach can work for me. If not, why? I am able to receive fine things in life. If not, why? I am willing to have reasonable expectations of this approach. If not, why? I am committed to shifting limiting beliefs and attitudes. If not, why? I am committed to fostering positive emotions. If not, why? I am committed to setting aside time to progress and create the life of my dreams. If not, why? I am committed to taking the necessary action to succeed. If not, why? I am committed to detaching from those who may want to hold me down. If not, why? I am committed to doing what it takes to make this happen. If not, why? Other doubts or objections:


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BRINGING ALIGNMENT FULLY INTO YOUR BODY A simple process you can do right now is to bring a positive alignment with your life purpose fully into your body. You can also enhance this experience with EFT. Dr. John Diamond, a pioneer in the field of energy therapies, considers straight posture to be one of the very best energy boosters available, and you can straighten up any time. As Dr. Diamond mentions in his book Your Body Doesn’t Lie, when you sit or stand in an erect position, life energy flows freely through your body and we would add, your positive vibrations rise. When you slouch, the energy flow in your body is compromised and your vibrations drop. You can measure this with kinesiology or a pendulum. If you can use a pendulum with the method we present for measuring vibrations in Appendix D, measure your vibrations when you are sitting or standing erect. Then slouch over and measure again. You will most likely notice a substantial drop in your vibrations. This should be a good motivation for maintaining a positive alignment in your body. The Dalai Lama also discusses posture in his book How to See Yourself as You Really Are. The way he describes it is that straightening your body straightens the energy channels that flow through it, which brings the energy flowing through the body into balance. This is such a simple thing; you can straighten up any time you become aware of your posture to give yourself an energy boost. We would note that breathing in a bit of joy and excitement will further lift your vibrations. We also have a simple process you can do to receive even more benefits.

Body Alignment Process The following exercise can help you bring more awareness to your posture and to create a way that you can lift your vibrations any time you think of it. As a note, this process includes the optional use of the EFT Short Sequence. If EFT is new to you and you want to use it with this process, you can find an overview of the steps in the EFT Short Sequence in Appendix A. 1. Sit or preferably stand as you normally do, noticing how your body feels. Breathe the way you normally breathe. Say a few words about your potential for creating the life of your dreams as you normally perceive yourself (silently or preferably aloud, as is appropriate). 2. Now imagine being fully committed to and aligned with your life purpose, breathing more and more positive, enthusiastic, joyful energy in with each breath, and notice if your posture wants to change. 3. Allow your body to take on the posture you feel as you imagine yourself being fully aligned with your purpose and potential for greatness. 4. Breathe the way you would breathe if you were fully aligned with your purpose. 5. Say a few enthusiastic words about yourself, preferably aloud, from the perspective of being successfully aligned with your purpose.


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Note: As a variation, you can think of a person who epitomizes success and purpose to you. Now, assume his or her vibration and stand the way that he or she would stand, breathe as he or she would breathe, and speak with enthusiasm of yourself the way he or she would speak of him- or herself. 6. Feeling the positive energies of being fully aligned with your purpose, note the positive emotions you feel. You may feel joy, love, peace, harmony, genuine power, and more. 7. If you want to strengthen any of these positive feelings with EFT, pick one positive feeling and complete the following process. •

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It is amazing how this simple process can boost positive vibrations. When you are done, you can repeat the process with any other positive emotions you want to strengthen. To follow up, be aware of your posture throughout the day and align yourself physically with the positive vibrations as often as possible. This doesn’t take extra time, and, if practiced regularly, it will raise your energies. You will definitely feel better; and you will open easily to new possibilities. The alignment of your body naturally follows your inner alignment. As you align with positive energies, feeling successful, joyful and alive, your body should want to straighten, lining up perfectly from your feet up your legs to the base of your spine, and from the base of your spine to your neck, aligning the way your head rests comfortably on your shoulders. You may also notice a shift in the way your arms rest at the sides of your body. Your entire body should feel straight, strong, and relaxed. This alignment should also reach upward like a line pulling you towards the sky. This is actually aligning you with your higher self, your spiritual source, which we will discuss in depth later. As a practice, you can fully occupy your body and raise your vibrations any time with these three simple steps: 1. Focus your attention on your belly, just below the navel and feel yourself fully occupying your body. This grounding makes you sturdy and strong. 2. Breathe in pure light and energy with each inhale, sending the light throughout your body, releasing tension and negative energy with each exhale, and straightening your body so the energy can flow freely. 3. Breathe love, joy, and excitement into your heart, opening to fully embracing your true purpose in a world where you are completely surrounded with love.


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According to Dr. Diamond, fully occupying your body is excellent for your physical health as well, because bringing more life energy into your body boosts your physical vitality.

RELEASING ENTANGLEMENTS WITH EFT Ideally those around us would support us in reaching our goals, but this is not always the case. In fact, those of us who choose to step out of the crowd often have one or more people around us who want to control our lives. Energetically, we are like telephone switchboards, with wires connecting us to a multitude of other people. Sometimes these connections can be positive and supportive; other times they can be constricting, holding us back from pursuing the life of our dreams. Having people around you who want to run your life can prevent you from following your heart’s desires and experiencing genuine fulfillment. Simply feeling the need for the approval of others will limit you. Having input from others is valuable on the journey to wholeness, but it should help you to determine your direction rather than control your life. The things that bring you the greatest joy and excitement might be meaningless to everyone around you. In such cases, you need to be able to value yourself and claim your right to pursue your dreams regardless of what anyone else thinks.

Creating Time for Yourself You may also feel that your current obligations are running your life. To be firmly at the wheel, you may need to look at how you are spending your time and find ways to free up enough time to change your direction. Here are some key questions to ask yourself related to creating time to realize your dreams: • Do you do things because other people expect you to rather than because you have a heartfelt desire to do them? • Do you have a hard time saying no when people ask you to do things? • Do you feel that your time is not your own? If not, whose is it? • Are there things you have wanted to do for a long time that just sit on the sidelines waiting for that elusive time when things will be different? If you answered “yes” to any or all of these questions, you might want to look at releasing time entanglements to make room for creating a positive future. You can’t be at the wheel of your vehicle if you don’t have control over your time. Waiting until time magically presents itself is not a good plan. Years ago, Jane waited for this to happen until she became too sick to continue on her then current course. Once she became ill, she had plenty of time. This scenario is common. We’ve heard similar stories where people continued on paths that were not feeding their spirits until they became too sick to continue or an accident stopped them. Continuing on the path of low vibrations is detrimental to the body, emotions, mind, and spirit, and it can take a long time to get the vibra-


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tions back up again. We don’t recommend it. Though it is challenging at times, it’s easier to create time before the universe does it for you. The path of high vibrations is also much more pleasant and faster. To succeed with this plan, we recommend setting aside as many obligations as possible to make room for creating and fully living your life. After all, what could be more important?

Reaching Energetic Sovereignty We view reaching a state of energetic sovereignty where we are free of limiting entanglements as an important step on the spiritual journey. As mentioned earlier, while the input of others can be valuable, each of us ultimately has to decide what is right for us and follow our own path without entanglements. As we advance spiritually, some of these entanglements just naturally fall away. Old friends or relatives may play less important roles as we fully embrace our true selves and follow our callings. Fortunately, if you feel restrained, you can speed this process along by consciously releasing entanglements with the help of EFT. The first step is to identify the entanglements, which may be painful. Often the people who want to control us are close to us, and it can be difficult to imagine reclaiming control. There may also be a church, business, or other organization you are associated with that is exerting unnecessary control. The important thing here is to identify when these controls are blocking your path and to be willing to release them so you can move freely forward. If you have someone or something like this in your life, as many people do, you want to be ready to detach yourself. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the relationship has to dissolve, but it does require change, which the other party or parties may or may not be wiling to accept. We recommend reflecting on the entanglements in your life as soon as possible. Once you feel that you are ready, you can follow this process using EFT to free yourself.

The Entanglement Release Process This process for freeing yourself of entanglements with EFT should be done in a quiet place, with an open mind, allowing some time for reflection. As mentioned, the EFT Short Sequence can provide amazingly fast and easy clearing. If EFT is new to you, refer to the overview of the steps in the EFT Short Sequence in Appendix A. 1. Identify a single entanglement that you are ready to release. It can be a relationship with a person (alive or dead), an organization or business, or any energy you sense that drains you and interferes with your well-being. 2. Scan your body to identify where this entanglement is located. These entanglements often resemble cords or chains that connect you with another person, organization, or thing. You may see it or sense it being lodged in a specific part of your body or to one of the energy centers or chakras. If you are familiar with the chakras, you can explore the entanglement’s location from this perspective. If not, just notice where it is and how it feels physically and emotionally. If you aren’t sure where it is, ask where it would be if you could perceive it and trust that you are getting the right answer.


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3. Notice also what the attachment looks like, how big it is, what color, and so on. 4. If desired, you can dialog with the person, organization, or source of the entanglement to explain why you need to disconnect, and wish them well. 5. When you are ready to let go, ask yourself how strong this attachment feels from 1 to 10, with 10 being the strongest. 6. Use the EFT set-up affirmation to address releasing the unwanted presence. Possible statements can include any of the following or you can come up with your own description: •

I’m now releasing this entanglement with _______________ and I completely accept myself.

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7. Do one or two rounds of EFT tapping while you imagine sending the entanglement back to its source, using the reminder phrase “this entanglement.” 8. When you are done, take a nice deep breath. Scan your body again to insure the detachment is complete. If not, continue with another round or more of the tapping until the process is complete. You may also identify specific emotions you need to address to complete the release and use EFT to clear these emotions before continuing further. Look particularly for the need to forgive the other person or yourself. 9. Afterward, visualize healing light filling your body, especially in the area where the entanglement used to be. You can also visualize going into a cleansing waterfall and putting on fresh clothing. Releasing entanglements in this way can be quite powerful and freeing. In a session with a client we will call Robert, Jane helped him to release a cord to limitation and struggle, which were a way of life for him. When asked where he sensed this cord in his body, Robert identified the heart area. Connecting more with the feelings in this area, he mentioned that he felt like he was not good enough, that it seemed that it was easier for other people to live with ease. To him, the cord to struggle was attached with a grayish violet and black-colored claw into his heart. Since they were dealing with a cord to a way of being rather than a person, Robert wasn’t sure where the cord went, and that was fine. The important thing was to release it and send it back where it came from. At this point, Robert also mentioned that his parents grew up during the depression and he was raised with the belief that he would have to work hard. The deep sense of limitation felt like a black hole. Robert knew that he no longer had to accept these old ways of thinking. He was ready to let go of the belief that struggle was necessary, so he and Jane simply removed the cord without the need for tapping. In many instances, this may be possible. When it is not, when there is emotional intensity to release, EFT can speed the process along. Afterwards, Robert felt ready to stand on his own and move forward. As healing light filled his body, the message came to him to be open for new opportunities, situations, and


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thoughts about his possibilities. He now saw himself flowing through life, riding on a magic carpet. Life felt easy now. In a case like Robert’s, this process produced a huge shift in his awareness and a new range of opportunities. It is important to take advantage of these opportunities to make the shift a part of one’s daily life. Over coming days and weeks, Jane encouraged Robert to reinforce the image of flowing through life on a magic carpet, where life was easy. We particularly recommend focusing on the messages and images, if any, that come from a process like this as many times as possible during the first couple of days following the process. Also, taking any action that reflects this new way of being will help to make it a reality. These are critical steps that will help to avoid recreating the conditions that attracted the unwanted entanglement in the first place.

TAKING THE DRIVER’S SEAT This chapter provides plenty of food for thought and self-exploration. We suggest taking time to reflect on each of the areas covered, including: • Taking command of your life • Raising your vibrations • Releasing entanglements Exploring these areas will allow you to free yourself to create the life of your dreams. While there may be a tendency to reflect primarily on the areas that need improvement, remember to also focus your awareness on your strengths. These strengths will help you to identify your life purpose and resources you have available to build on moving forward.


CHAPTER TWO

Opening to the Soul’s Reality Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - SUN TZU

This program teaches us that our limitations are generally figments of our imaginations. As mentioned earlier, the goal in releasing them is not to achieve perfection. Rather, it is to open to a higher reality and align ourselves with the lofty vibrations of our soul’s true purpose. We all know that different people live in different realities. Some live in worlds where violence and hatred rule their lives or where enslavement to a job rules. Others live in a world where peace is a way of life, or where the simple joy of being alive becomes the guiding force. We recommend taking the high road, where you can create increasing amounts of inner peace, joy, love, and freedom, and connect with the realms of infinite possibilities. This chapter focuses on three important and interconnected areas: • Your life purpose • Connecting with the truth and wisdom of the soul • Twelve important principles for manifestation. The information presented here complements our book Getting Thru to Your Soul, and we recommend that book as an enhancement for manifesting your dreams. The Soul Book describes how each of us learns to manifest in alignment with our true purpose as an integral part of the spiritual journey. First, we realize that we are unconsciously creating all the time with our limiting beliefs and attitudes. Then we can learn to create consciously with our infinite potential. As we continue to evolve and clear out more limitations, we learn to co-create with the divine plan, so our creations also serve a higher purpose. The further we progress, the more powerful these creations become. And as we are better able to support the wellbeing of all people, life forms, and the planet itself, our creations synchronously receive more support from the universe around us. As we evolve, co-creation provides a form for the expression of the soul in our everyday lives. We move more into the present moment, focusing mainly on the next step on the journey, allowing the more distant future to come into focus over time. Co-creating with your soul


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builds trust that you are in the right place at the right time and that the universe supports you in all you choose to manifest.

UNDERSTANDING YOUR PURPOSE The most essential part of this program is developing a strong sense of your true identity and your life purpose. We do this by connecting with the wholeness of the soul, the eternal part of the self that understands our true identity and purpose, along with many higher truths of the universe. While many people consider a soulful presence to be an elusive state that only happens accidentally on rare occasions, we have found the heightened energy and wisdom of the soul to be readily available at any time, every day of our lives. Thousands of people have used the version of the process that we present in our book Getting Thru to Your Soul. When used on a regular basis, this process is life changing; we will never forget the impact it has had on us. The day we learned to consciously connect with the higher wisdom and vibrations of the soul marked the beginning of an amazingly empowering and enlightening stage on our journeys that has transformed our lives.

The soul is where our dreams and visions are born. It understands our mission (our life purpose) and it is this purpose that drives everything else. Without the guidance of the soul, we are virtually in the dark, following the wounded ego. When this is the case, we may be confused, not knowing what we want or thinking that we want something that will only provide a fleeting moment of happiness, leaving us back where we started in the next moment. It’s critical to understand how the soul guides us, because it can save a lot of time and wheel spinning. What we think we want and what the soul wants may be different things. The most common question clients and students ask is “Why am I here?” We all know at some level that we’re here for a reason. By consciously connecting with the soul, you can recognize why you are here, the nature of your life purpose, and much, much more. The soul’s light and wisdom resonates at wonderfully high vibrations that open you to new possibilities. The terms “mission” and “purpose” may feel a bit overwhelming, suggesting that you have to do something earthshaking. This is not the case. And it is worth noting that, being multidimensional, you are probably here to do more than one thing. You don’t have to have a mission to save the world or find a cure for cancer. Your mission may be much simpler, like being a chef in a restaurant that serves wonderful food, owning a flower shop, caring for your family, or being a poet living in the woods. Joyful soulfulness can lift any environment and the universe benefits when you allow your soul’s gifts to blossom in whatever way most suits you. What does your heart wish to create to bring more light to the world? Whatever it is, only you can know. The answer comes from within you. To create in ways that will bring true joy and fulfillment, you want to be able to connect easily with the part of you that understands your deepest desires, and make daily use of its higher wisdom as your guide. You may have ways you do this now. We nonetheless recom-




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mend experiencing the Soul Centering Process we present here. It is an integral part of this program that aligns you with your true purpose and manifesting wonderful things in your life. We follow it with a simple process for connecting with the soul through the experience of oneness with nature.

ACCESSING YOUR UNIVERSAL HOME WITH SOUL CENTERING Just as each of us has a physical home that makes us a citizen of planet earth, on an energetic level, the soul has a spiritual home in the higher dimensions as a citizen of the universe. As creators of our reality, we want to align ourselves with the synchronous flow of the universe, which directly supports us in fulfilling our life purpose. To accomplish this, we provide a special version of the Soul Centering Process we have used ourselves for nearly two decades with amazing results.

Connecting with the soul will align you with your true joy, unconditional love, and a deep sense of your purpose. This joy, love, and purpose become your guides on the journey of manifesting your dreams. It is worth noting, as an alternative, that some of our students and clients prefer the option of connecting with the soul through the experience of oneness with nature and a process for connecting with the soul in this way follows. Nature is always with us, inviting us to experience our wholeness through it. You can read the process to yourself, closing your eyes at any time to visualize and taking a few breaths to deepen your experience, as needed. As you prepare to start, we recommend being in a quiet, comfortable place with a paper and pen handy to jot down some of your observations. Also, allow a bit of time; as this type of experience cannot be rushed. It requires being in a receptive, relaxed state where you can connect with the deeper levels of your awareness. Open to experiencing the process with all of your senses, accepting the images, feelings, and messages that come into your mind, and avoid allowing your rational mind to analyze. Find a comfortable position, as you take a nice deep breath and begin to relax. As you continue to breathe, focus on breathing in more relaxing energy, feeling the tension melt from you body, and making any adjustments to relax further. Now breathe some relaxing energy into your brain, allowing your mind to relax … and allowing your thoughts and concerns to drift off into the air, where they can just float away for now. Opening to the energy of the soul is a receptive process. Allow your focus to shift from the active, rational part of the mind to the more intuitive, creative part, noticing also what you are sensing in your body. As you make this shift, notice your forehead, jaw and face muscles relaxing as the relaxation drifts gently down over your body, flowing down your neck and shoulders. Now take another clarifying breath as a wave of relaxation flows down your arms to the tips of your fingers, allowing your shoulders and arms to relax completely. Now, focusing on your shoulders again, allow the relaxation to drift down your torso, so all




of your internal organs can relax from your chest down to your hips, then, as you take another nice breath, feel the relaxation flowing down your legs to the knees, ankles, and all the way to the tips of the toes. As you continue to breathe and relax, shift your awareness to the area around your heart, where the soul connects most deeply with the body. As you focus on the heart, notice the love you hold and open to the energy of the soul there. You may sense the soul’s energy as a feeling of expansiveness or a light in the area of the heart that becomes brighter as you continue to breathe into it. Now allow this energy and light to lift you, so you feel like you are rising up into the sky. As you continue to breathe in more of this beautiful light, imagine that you are going to a higher place, in a higher dimension that is above our planet, to your soul’s universal home. As it comes into view, notice that it is a magnificent structure with many levels, where you can freely explore your divine nature and purpose. Upon arrival, you are surrounded by your celestial support team, the guides and angels who are assisting you from behind the scenes in your current life. From the entry, they gently guide you to a comfortable place inside where you can relax and reflect. As you settle in, notice that you are surrounded with unconditional love, which embraces you now like a nurturing blanket of energy. Breathe this loving energy into your heart now, allowing it to radiate out, so it fills your whole body and surrounds you completely with the higher frequency of your soul’s energy. Allow these high vibrations to touch you with an awareness of yourself as a magnificent, unique being with wonderful gifts to share. In your universal home, you are deeply appreciated, highly valued and fully supported in the mission you have come into this life to fulfill. From this soulful place, you can also connect with a higher frequency, accessing your higher self or oversoul, a higher aspect of the soul that is connected more directly to the source of all that is. You may sense or see your higher self as a bright light high above you, and, as you do, allow this light to begin to shine down on you, flowing into the top of your head and flowing down so it can touch every cell of your body, all the way to the tips of your fingers and the tips of your toes, then radiating out around you, so you are completely surrounded with this higher frequency, sensing the perfect peace, love, and uplifting energy you need. Enjoy this connection, knowing that you can access it at any time. From this quieter place now, you may sense that you are more aligned with your inner wisdom, your greatest joy and your soul’s true divine purpose. The soul is where your dreams and visions are born, and in this place of peace, you can open to its wisdom to guide you with your manifestations. Now put your hand on your heart for a moment, anchoring the soul’s energy there, and ask the following questions: •

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Without analyzing them, jot down the thoughts that enter your mind in response to each of these questions. They may include big things or little things, things related to your work, play, relationships, enlightenment, well-being, and more. Take a few moments and allow yourself to open to your greatest gifts and highest possibilities. When you are done, still holding your hand on your heart, notice what you are feeling emotionally and notice any colors and/or images that you associate with being in this peaceful, resourceful place. Know that whenever you put your hand on your heart in this way, you can connect again with the feelings, colors and images, so you can easily access your soul’s true joy to guide you throughout the day. Also know that this connection strengthens the more you practice it and, if you want to bring more of its light into your life, the best way is to return to this internal place of peace regularly. Now, look around again at your universal home and notice all the work that is going on behind the scenes. Your guides may be able to show you how they watch over you, send hints into your reality to help you to grow and move more into alignment with your purpose. Just make note of what you notice and we will return to this place later to enlist direct support for your manifestations. As your guides lead you back to the entrance of your universal home, you may want to take a moment to thank them for all they do to help you and say goodbye. Now you can begin the journey back to planet earth, gradually drifting downward gently back into your seat. Now prepare to come back to your normal waking state on the count of five, breathing in more active energy and feeling yourself firmly resting in your seat. One starting to come back, two, knowing you can use this process however you choose, three, moving around a little, four, ready to open your eyes, and five, opening your eyes, feeling awake, alert, and confident about creating the life of your dreams. Having completed the process, we recommend devoting just a few minutes each morning to returning to this place, to bring more of your soul’s light, love, and wisdom into your life. Note that if you experience pain or resistance in your heart when you connect with the energy there, this means a blockage is preventing you from connecting with the soul’s joy in your heart. We explore how to address interference in Chapter Four and refer you to Figure 4.1, which can help you to identify the nature of the interference. Clearing the way to experiencing the soul is essential to recognizing your purpose and creating a joyful and fulfilling life, so it is well worth the effort.

Connecting with the Oneness of Nature Connecting with your wholeness through the experience of oneness with nature is similar to the Soul Centering Process. As you prepare to do this process, we recommend being in a quiet, comfortable place with a paper and pen handy to jot down some of your observations. Also, allow a bit of time, as this type of experience cannot be rushed. It requires being in a receptive, relaxed state where you can connect with the deeper levels of your awareness. Find a comfortable position, as you take a nice deep breath and begin to relax. As you continue to breathe, focus on breathing in more relaxing energy, feeling the ten-




sion melt from you body, and making any adjustments to relax further. Now breathe some relaxing energy into your brain, allowing your mind to relax … and allowing your thoughts and concerns to drift off into the air, where they can just float away for now. As you continue to breathe, allow your focus to shift from the active, rational part of the mind to the more intuitive, creative part, noticing also what you are sensing in your body. As you make this shift, notice your forehead, jaw and face muscles relaxing as the relaxation down over your body, flowing down your neck and shoulders. Now take another clarifying breath as a wave of relaxation flows down your arms to the tips of your fingers, allowing your shoulders and arms to relax completely. Now, focusing on your shoulders again, allow the relaxation to drift down your torso, so all of your internal organs can relax from your chest down to your hips, then, as you take another nice breath, feel the relaxation flowing down your legs to the knees, ankles, and all the way to the tips of the toes. Now allow yourself to recall a time when you had the experience of the oneness of nature. It may have been a breathtaking sunset, standing on an expansive view point or mountaintop, or by a clear, calm lake. You will know the time when you experienced this sweet sense of being in perfect harmony with all that is. As you connect with the memory, allow yourself to focus on all of the sights, sounds, and feelings you felt then, breathing the fresh air of nature into your body and allowing yourself to feel now just as you felt then. Notice the details of the experience and allow yourself to feel total peace. From this peaceful place of wholeness, you may sense that you are more aligned with your inner wisdom, your greatest joy and your true divine purpose. Your connection with this soulful wholeness is where your dreams and visions are born, and in this place of peace, you can open to its wisdom to guide you with your manifestations. Now put your hand on your heart for a moment, anchoring the soul’s energy there, and ask yourself where your soul wants to take you. What are the most joyful and fulfilling things you can bring into your life? Without analyzing them, just jot down any thoughts that enter your mind. They may include big things or little things, things related to your work, play, relationships, enlightenment, well-being, and more. Take a few moments and allow yourself to open to your highest potential. When you are done, still holding your hand on your heart, notice what you are feeling emotionally and notice any colors and/or images that you associate with being in this peaceful, resourceful place. Know that whenever you put your hand on your heart in this way, you can connect again with the feelings, colors and images, so you can easily access your soul’s true joy as a guide for your manifestations. Also know that this connection strengthens the more you practice it and, if you want to bring more of its light into your life, the best way is to return to this place of peace within regularly. Now prepare to come back to your normal waking state on the count of five. Breathe in some active energy and feel yourself firmly resting in your seat. One starting to come back, two, knowing you can use this meditation however you choose, three, moving around a little, four, ready to open your eyes, and five, open your eyes, feeling awake, alert, and confident about creating the life of your dreams.


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As with the Soul Centering Process, you can use this process on a regular basis to anchor more of the soul’s light, love, and wisdom into your life. It is worth noting, nonetheless, that the Soul Centering Process makes a direct connection with the ideas and images that you will access later in this book, so it is more complete.

STAYING CONNECTED If you connect with the soul each morning, your life will change dramatically for the better. We guarantee it. This practice will provide a vibrational boost for your day, and with repeated use, it will help you to hold a higher vibration throughout the day. It will also align you with your life purpose and the synchronous flow of the universe. With practice, you will also find it easier to return to this place in your awareness. Any time during the day, you can put your hand on your heart or imagine putting your hand on your heart, take a few deep breaths, and reconnect with the love and joy you hold in your heart. This will again boost your vibrations, so you can feel more positive and resourceful, and expand your possibilities.

A soulful state is a resourceful state that holds the answers to your questions about life and the keys to creating the life of your dreams. Your sense of being connected with the wholeness of the soul and your rightful place in the universe deepens over time, so you gradually feel more and more aligned with its loving, infinite perspective in each moment. By contrast, being in contact with the fearful, limited perspective of the wounded ego is not a resourceful state. When the ego is at the wheel, your vibrations are low and your possibilities are understandably limited. Fortunately, in each moment, you have the opportunity to consciously choose the light and wisdom of the soul. As a note, if you feel resistance to connecting with your soul regularly, we recommend exploring the reason for this resistance and clearing it with EFT. After all, if you want to evolve in a positive way, the state you are aiming for is one where you are aligned with the wholeness of the soul much of the time. The best way we know to accomplish this is to practice it and make it an intentional part of your reality. Over time, you and your soul will become one.

Opening to Your True Identity and Purpose with Journaling Daily journaling is a wonderful way to learn more about your true purpose and your possibilities. Connect with the oneness of the soul, and ask any question you have about yourself, your possibilities, or the nature of reality. Then use a process of automatic writing to log responses to your questions by simply writing the responses as they come into your mind without allowing your rational mind to analyze them. You will be amazed at the results. Here are some suggested questions for daily journaling: • What positive qualities have I brought into this life to fulfill my purpose here? • What are my next steps on the path to wholeness?




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• What burdens can I leave behind as I take command of my life and reach for my dreams? • How would the world be different if everyone was connected with the love and joy in their hearts? • How can I help to change the world for the better? We cannot overemphasize the importance of connecting with the soul, your eternal spark of divinity. Almost twenty years after we first learned it, we still use it regularly to learn more about ourselves and the journey to wholeness. The following excerpt from our book Getting Thru to Your Soul provides some examples of how our clients and students experience this simple process. • “It’s a stillness, stopping activity and busyness; a quiet, centered place, not for or against, neutral without controlling.” • “I experience an expansive unconditionally loving energy that transforms conflicts.” • “A bright, sparkly, energetic feeling comes over my whole being, a knowingness and expansive feeling.” • “I feel totally open, with a large expanse above me. It is very uplifting, connecting to my higher power. There is so much more than I ever realized.” • “Warmth flows like a river from my head through my body.” • “Being centered in my soul creates a serene and peaceful view of life. Everything is as it is meant to be.” • “It is an absolute knowing that all is well. I am at peace with myself in the world.” • “I feel deep peace and tranquility. With that comes a heightened sense of knowingness free of fear, negativity, and uncertainty. I’m a different person, the person I am meant to be, with all of the fragmented aspects blended into one.” • “It’s realizing that the small plane I’ve been having so much trouble flying has actually been on auto pilot, and is in reality the Starship Enterprise. Not only do I have intergalactic access and multidimensional capabilities, but there’s an on-board computer system that tells me anything I need to know. And all is joy and all is love. Of course, this only happens for a few minutes at a time, but it’s enough to let me know that it’s my natural state.” There is a common sense of peace, acceptance, and expansiveness in these experiences. You may also notice that the messages from your soul become clearer as you progress on the spiritual journey. In the early stages, fear can interfere with the divine truth that your soul wants to share. It is much like the effect a storm has on radio transmission. As the storm subsides, the transmission becomes clearer. Simi-




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larly, your soul’s transmissions become clearer as you attain higher levels of truth and connect with your soul more deeply. To further anchor the light and wisdom of the soul into your life and to build a firm foundation for your manifestations, we will next explore the principle ingredients that are needed to manifest your dreams.

THE TWELVE PRINCIPLES OF MANIFESTATION Like building a structure on a firm concrete foundation, we all want to construct a solid, lasting high vibrational foundation for our manifestations. We know that we cannot build a solid structure on insubstantial substances like mud, straw, or shifting sand; similarly, we cannot build the life of our dreams on negative emotions like fear, greed, and resentment, which are characteristics of the wounded ego. Manifestation ideally springs from higher, positive vibrations that fuel the emerging strength of the soul. This approach creates more joy, love, and genuine freedom. Here are twelve elements that provide a firm foundation for manifestation: 1. Desire: First, you have to want something that relates to your soul’s heartfelt desire and joy. Again, you can recognize the soul’s desires because they are motivated by your greatest joy, excitement, and inner fulfillment whereas desires of the wounded ego are motivated by fear and impressing others. If you take an attitude of not caring what happens to you, you are not aligning with the soul’s joy and it is unlikely that you are going to make positive changes. Having desire and envisioning what you want helps to bring your creations into reality. Some people are afraid to have desires for fear of being disappointed. This fear exists at the low vibration of the wounded ego. From this muddy place, not much is possible. To manifest we need to open ourselves to the higher vibrations of unlimited potential and our heartfelt desires. On a scale of one to ten, how strong is your heartfelt desire for what you want to create? 2. Expectancy: To manifest freely, you have to expect it joyfully and unconditionally. Doubt and limiting beliefs about whether or not this could work lowers your vibrations and cancels out whatever you want to create. If you invite in limiting thoughts about what you can expect, it is like throwing your dreams into the trash. Joyful expectancy replaces the limiting beliefs that tell us that we have to make due with an ordinary life. We actually have the potential to create an extraordinary life and even exceed our expectations. This expectancy needs to come from a sincere, soulful, joyful place in oneself to carry a high vibration. In contrast, if it is coming from a fearful place, hoping to be saved from imminent doom, or from a sense of being entitled as repayment for all of one’s suffering, this is the ego, which carries a low vibration. Out of ten, how strong is your joyous expectation for what you want to manifest? 3. Honor: Appreciation of others and the desire to manifest our creations in a way that honors everyone and everything allows us to co-create in harmony with the highest




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good. Honor creates a reality that benefits everyone. By honoring yourself and others, you optimize the manifestation process. As you manifest your dreams, everything and everyone you touch can likewise be affected in a positive way. 4. Gratitude: Deep, heartfelt gratitude for the many blessings you have now is another vital ingredient. If you cannot be thankful for the blessings you have now, how can you expect to appreciate having more blessings in the future? Appreciating what you already have raises your vibrations and draws more abundance to you. By contrast, taking what you have for granted or mourning your fate stops you from attracting more. This negative attitude just brings more negativity. What you focus on grows. 5. Love: We all know the phrase “Love conquers all.” Here we refer both to loving others and loving oneself. Self-love builds a sense of worthiness. You have to know that you deserve joy and abundance to create it for yourself. You also have to love yourself enough not to be affected by what others might think or say about what you are doing. EFT is very effective for clearing judgments toward oneself and we will explore how you can do this later in this chapter. 6. Trust: Here we refer to trust in the divine order to provide for us in accordance with our highest good. With trust, we can count on ourselves and the universe to attract what we seek. With this trust comes the realization that our dreams may not come to pass exactly as we might imagine. From our experience, our dreams have come together in ways that have far exceeded our expectations. The timing may not always have been what we desired, but in retrospect, we can see that it was perfect. Our creations may not have looked exactly like we expected, but they have manifested in wonderful and surprising ways. 7. Joy and Lightheartedness: Don’t take things seriously. Buying into turmoil and suffering creates low vibrations and limitation; you want to reach for the infinite. Aim high, and do so in good spirits. Laughter is commonly recognized as being therapeutic. Studies have shown that it reduces stress, boosts the immune system, and releases endorphins. Energetically, lightheartedness frees you from that heaviness of wallowing in the mud. It lifts you to the freedom of being on the mountaintop we mentioned earlier, where anything is possible. It shifts the heaviness of a perspective that views the density of what you can perceive with your five normal senses to the lightness of what you can dream of creating. Returning to the realization that we are what we create, we have to recognize that much of our suffering is our own creation. Just as we create difficulties, we can also let them go. As you progress on the evolutionary journey, with conscious awareness of the soul, you can release your suffering more quickly and simply exist joyfully in the present moment. You can also realize that however engrossing the material world may be, it is ultimately an illusion that is molded by your perceptions. Why not have a good sense of humor about it? 8. Flow: Manifestation occurs in a frequency of free flow, where nothing is stuck to create limitation. Being in the flow creates more freedom to just be and to allow




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wonderful things to enter your life. The free flow of resources is part of this equation, releasing that which you no longer want or need, and reaching for your soul’s desires. Being in the flow means that you let things be synchronous in your life instead of spending time worrying about what is or isn’t happening. This is a big idea. James Redfield, author of The Celestine Prophecy, has said that the most important message of his book is to allow the mysterious “coincidences” that occur as we follow our true purpose to guide us toward our destinies, along with believing that each of us can help to create a better world. If you are in the flow and accept things as they are, you can focus on the positive and attract more of what you want rather than resisting what you don’t want. You can let go of the old stuff you no longer need. It takes energy to support all of this old stuff and this is energy that could be better used to bring in the new. 9. Openness: We would all like to think that our manifestations will just immediately drop into our laps. In some cases, they do. Other times, they cannot, because something within us is blocking them, the timing is not right, we need to take more steps to bring them into reality, or they are not in alignment with our purpose. You need to be open and allowing, so the synchronous flow of the universe can provide the lessons or new information you need to to progress toward your dreams. As Saint Basil says, “Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.” 10. Transcendence: Allow your dreams to transcend the limitations of your reality by focusing on what you want to experience rather than on how it will come to pass. Focus on ways to create joy, peace, creativity, freedom, balance, and wholeness. Through the systems and institutions we have created, we as a society often hold ourselves in limitation in different areas of our lives. Transcending these limitations provides freedom for us to be ourselves and fully realize our purpose. It also allows us to co-create in accordance with the divine plan. Consider the monetary system. People generally view money as the key to happiness. Accumulating money may not help; the key is to create a life filled with joy and love that fulfills your higher purpose. Studies have shown that although poverty can make people unhappy (not having one’s basic needs met), wealth does not correlate to happiness. Wealthy people are not necessarily joyful and fulfilled. Abundance provides resources for realizing one’s purpose rather than an end in itself, and it can manifest in different ways. Opening to different possibilities, living in the house of your dreams may or may not mean that you need to own it. Maybe it will. On the other hand, it may be more in alignment with your purpose for you not to own a house that would tie you to a single location. Maybe your soul is planning to take you somewhere else in the future that will be more suitable. 11. Power: It is vitally important to recognize that we can command the power to create our heartfelt desires. This connects with the need to love ourselves and realize that we deserve to have our soul’s joy come to fruition. You can claim abundance and prosperity in the name of your highest good, your purpose, the universe, or whatever inspires you to higher and better creations. Copyright © 2007 Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose. Do not copy without permission.



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12. Will: Finally, we have to have the will to follow through on bringing our desires into reality. You have to be willing to do what it takes to manifest. This may involve taking action or just waiting and being patient. Will requires having the discipline to take whatever steps are needed to realize your dreams. As you progress on the path to manifesting your dreams, you may think of other uplifting qualities that are relevant for you and unique ways of applying these ideas. While being in a higher state of awareness that is conducive to the presence of these qualities may seem like a lofty goal, each of us can start successfully on the road to manifesting our dreams now, wherever we are on the journey. You may feel that you have already manifested many wonderful things and are ready to take your abilities to a higher level, or you may be a complete beginner. Wherever you are is perfect. As you step forward in a positive direction, raising your vibrations, wonderful things can happen. Continuing on the path, the changes will build exponentially over time, until you can look at your life in awe of all of the blessings that have come your way.

BEWARE THE EMPTY FAÇADE OF CHEERFULNESS It is important to note that a cheerful façade is not necessarily the same as a genuinely joyous and soulful state. Thousands of people use a smile and a cheerful demeanor to hide the fear, emptiness, and depression that lie below the surface. Depression is generally just the absence of the soul’s energy and none of the external trappings of success can change it. This is why having everything you could possibly want and finding genuine happiness are different things.

External rewards are not the source of fulfillment. True happiness radiates from within, from the life-giving light and simple wisdom of the soul. This isn’t what the media tells us; advertisers want us to believe that houses, cars, and the latest fashions create fulfillment. They work for a fleeting moment, but then we are left again with ourselves and we long for peace within. Developing an ongoing relationship with the soul, our greatest ally, is the solution. It’s free and anyone can do it with a bit of practice. All you have to do is take the time to get to know each other. In her book Cosmic Ordering, Barbel Mohr says, “The more open you are, the more you trust, and the more you are who you are, the easier it will be for you to access and listen to your inner voice and to disregard what others may think of you.” Connecting with the soul and integrating the Twelve Principles of Manifestation allow you to truly learn who you are.

ENHANCING THE MANIFESTATION PRINCIPLES WITH SOUL AWARENESS AND EFT Making contact with the high vibrations and wisdom of the soul opens you rapidly to your infinite potential. You can make conscious use of this resource to enhance any positive vibra-




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tions you want to bring fully into your life. Reviewing the Twelve Principles of Manifestation, you can use the Manifestation Principles Evaluation in Figure 2.1 to make note of how strong each one is for you now on a scale of one to ten. Then, with the light of the soul and EFT, you can align yourself more with each of these positive qualities. As mentioned previously, the goal here is not perfection. Wherever you are on your evolutionary journey, you can take steps that will bring you closer to the life of your dreams. To manifest easily, you want each quality to be as high as possible, leaving minimal resistance to success. When Olivia reviewed the Manifestation Checklist, the areas where she identified blockages were honoring everyone concerned, loving herself, and being open to how her creation might occur. Focusing in on one area, she knew that she felt limited by her age, being in her late 50’s, and that she was concerned about what other people might think and say about her. Being accepted was very important to her. She measured her concern about what others might think or say at about an eight out of ten.

As mentioned earlier, being free to create your dreams requires stepping out of the crowd and taking charge regardless what anyone might think or say. Olivia next did Soul Centering with Jane’s guidance to gain a higher perspective. From this place, she knew that people could think and say just about anything, and ultimately, none of it matters. If she can detach from their opinions, she can be truly free. To do this more often, Olivia saw that she needed to let go of her expectations of herself and others expectations of her. She needed to be able to express herself and detach from the outcome. With a bit of EFT, using the method that follows, she strengthened her ability to simply express herself and detach from the outcome. She felt much better being aligned with this elevated perspective and her concern about what others might think or say was completely gone. As you can see from this example, this approach requires a few moments of reflection, connecting again with the wisdom of the soul and opening to its insights.

The Process for Enhancing the Manifestation Principles With the need for reflection in mind, find a quiet place for this process and have a paper and pen handy to record your observations. 1. Evaluate the strength of each of the qualities in Figure 2.1 and select one that needs boosting. Make note of its strength between one and ten before you start this process. Also ask yourself what is stopping you from fully embracing the positive energies of this quality and jot your feelings down for future reference. If there is a specific negative emotion you are sensing, like fear of failure, resentment, or doubt, write that down, too. 2. Use the Soul Centering Process in this chapter to connect with the light and wisdom of the soul, feeling its energy throughout your body and all around you.




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3. From this soulful place, ask yourself what the truth is about the quality you are focusing on. Without allowing your rational mind to come in and evaluate the message, just write down whatever comes into your mind. Reviewing the notes you made as you started this process, is there really any reason you can’t embrace it fully? Again, jot the response down without evaluating it. 4. The soul’s truth is generally quite different from your normal consciousness, as shown in the example above. In most cases, it can fully embrace the quality you seek to strengthen. You can use EFT to tap in this strength, using the affirmation: I choose _________________ and I completely accept myself.

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If there is a specific limiting emotion you want to release, use the affirmation: I release_________________ and choose _____________ and I completely accept myself. 5. When you have completed the tapping, measure the strength of the positive quality again between one and ten. If desired, you can do another round or so to bring it up to full strength. 6. Once you have the positive quality up close to ten, ask yourself for an affirmation that you can use to remind you of it and write it down for future reference. This way you can jot the affirmation down on a small piece of paper and have it some place where you will be reminded of your soul’s wisdom and to reinforce the high vibration. Whenever you receive insight from the soul, it is essential to follow through on it to strengthen its positive presence in your life. Remember, heaviness and darkness are associated with being disconnected from the soul; joy and lightness are associated with being connected with the wholeness of the soul. Ultimately, the goal is to be connected with the soul’s light as much as possible throughout the day. You can also shout out the affirmation when you are driving alone. If you spend alone time in your car each day, as many people do, you have a wonderful opportunity to affirm all the qualities you want to fully embrace. Vocalizing the affirmation with tremendous volume and enthusiasm is much more effective than just whispering it softly or tentatively. This opens your throat and your self-expression. It generally takes this kind of energy to shift your vibrations. Try it; it’s freeing. You should be able to feel the uplifting power of the energy you put behind your affirmations.

DEVELOPING A SOULFUL HOMING THOUGHT For easy reference, you may want to develop a statement you can repeat regularly that reminds you of your soul’s heartfelt joy. John Diamond calls this message a “homing thought” in his book Life Energy, and he recounts numerous stories of how it can powerfully balance and heal. You could also call it a purposeful thought, because it reminds you of your purpose, which raises your vibrations and makes you feel joyful and alive. If you use muscle testing or a pendulum, you can use either of them to help you to identify a thought that quickly raises your vibrations and keeps your dreams alive. If you don’t use these tools, just find a thought that consistently connects you with your heartfelt joy. Your soulful homing thought may include some or all of the following: • The role you want to play in your career or other aspect of life • Where you want to live, if it is different from where you are now • How you want to experience your life, i.e. joyfully, in the flow, and so on • Any other aspect of your heartfelt joy that you want to connect with now




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A thought that soulfully aligns you with your purpose in this way is more powerful than you might imagine. We have experimented with using muscle testing to measure how it affects one’s vibrations Our Getting Thru to Your Soul DVD 1 shows a compelling example of this approach. On the DVD, Juanita tests weak when muscle tested while the audience thinks negative thoughts about her. Then she focuses on a soulful homing thought that connects her with her higher purpose. Now she tests strong while the audience again projects negative thoughts toward her. The thought may be as simple as “Be yourself” or “I am light and filled with joy.” It may also be more inclusive of your purpose, as with “I am becoming a holistic therapist helping people to connect with their joy in a thriving practice in Hawaii.” Have fun and experiment with it to find a phrase that works for you.

DEEPER ISSUES If you are finding it difficult to align yourself with your soul’s energies or to boost the energies of the twelve qualities, you may need to focus more on clearing the exact issues related to the blockages. We will explore this in depth in Chapter Four. First, we want to help you to bring the soul’s reality down to earth.


CHAPTER THREE

Bringing the Soul’s Reality Down to Earth A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - CHINESE PROVERB

Having connected with the soul, you are now ready to begin to make your heartfelt desires a reality. We start with goal setting, the practical, nuts-and-bolts part of manifesting. Your goals create your vision of the life you are creating. Trying to manifest your dreams without having a vision and specific goals is like traveling into unknown territory without a map. Your course is not clear, so you are leaving your success up to chance. You may get where you want to go and, then again, you may not. Even if you do, it could take a long time, with the frustration of making a lot of wrong turns. Our goal is to take the most direct and joyful path possible. When done from a spiritual perspective, goal setting brings spirit into form, to clearly define your heart’s desires and establish your commitment to a course of action. You could see goal setting as your way of telling the universe where you intend to go with your life. In our polarized world, most people focus on physical form without spirit, following the limited perspective of the ego. Many spiritual people focus on the higher realms, without form, and find themselves ungrounded. Our approach acknowledges that both are necessary parts of our development, to integrate the vast realms of spirit fully into our daily lives. Uniting spirit and matter provides much-needed balance and synergy. Everything takes on new meaning, as this union brings more fulfillment and joy of being alive. It also opens the door for all of humanity to rise to a new way of being where love and joy can become the norm. The Bible foretells of a new heaven and a new earth. In his book A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle explains that heaven is a state of consciousness rather than a place, and that earth is the outward manifestation of this inner awareness. A new heaven is the emergence of a new way of being that emanates from the transcendence of our limited consciousness and the new earth is the place of love and joy that we envision. It is the place where your outer purpose and your inner purpose unite and align with the synchronous flow of the universe.


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With specific goals in mind, you open the door to a new elevated reality where your course comes clearly into focus. You now have a map of the territory. Studies have shown that people who write down their goals achieve far greater success than those who just think about them. We have confirmed this many times in our own lives. Just thinking about what you want can be vague and it can lack commitment. Writing goals down on paper defines and grounds them. It also opens you to mystical and transformational experiences that may easily exceed your expectations. We recently moved to a new home. Before moving, we wrote down a complete list of what we were looking for physically, emotionally, and spiritually, enlisted the support of the heavens (which we describe in Chapter Six), and took action. Our guidance told us when we would find it and that we would be surprised and delighted. Lo and behold, we found the perfect place, just when we were told we would. We were and continue to be delighted with it.

OUR EXPERIENCE Over the years, designing our lives and realizing our dreams has become a daily experience for us. In this book, we share insights on how magical and fulfilling it can be. During the last several decades, we have had many wondrous experiences with manifesting, using the elements in this program. Over the years, nearly every goal we have put in writing has come into our lives. And, as often happens to people who use this approach, the results have exceeded the expectations we had along the way. At the time we set many of our goals, we could not have foreseen the amazing ways they could manifest themselves. When we first set goals to merge our occupations with our spiritual callings, we could not have imagined that we would become writers, teachers, and speakers known around the world. One step led to the next and here we are. Similarly, when we dreamed of moving away from the city, which we found stressful, we could not have imagined living in a place as wonderful as where we live now. It would not have been believable to us. As suggested, it has not all happened when we wanted it to happen, but we stayed on course, continued to follow our hearts’ desires, and stayed connected with our souls for guidance along the way. In retrospect, we can see that the timing was synchronously perfect, and now we simply trust that our lives will continue in this synchronous flow. This approach has supported us in creating the life of our dreams. We dream big, but still not as big as many results have turned out over time. We share examples throughout this book. Our insights and research about manifestation, combined with our successes and those of students and clients, led us to share this information on a broader scale. As shown at the front of this book, many people have had fabulous results.

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structures of society and create a new, joyful and loving way of being for everyone. So set your course and open to having extraordinary things enter your life as you follow this program. Also note that it is not the “size” of the manifestations that counts, though they may be grand. Success will be felt by the quality of your creations.

THE ANATOMY OF SETTING GOALS In its most basic sense, goal setting is just a matter of pursuing your heartfelt joy, which we described in the last chapter. In his book The Divine Blueprint, Robert Perala describes our lives as novels we are writing each day. From this perspective, you can choose, through goal setting, what kinds of roles you want to play and what you want to experience. Consider these choices. Do you want to be a conqueror of life’s challenges standing confidently on a lofty mountaintop or a forgotten prisoner languishing in a dark, dingy cell, or does life have other plans for you? Your goals can outline the novel of your future. They can tell the story of how you choose to live and realize your true purpose. If you are in a situation that seems impossible or so challenging that you don’t know where to start, take one step at a time. Look closely at how you perceive yourself and your possibilities. Set aside any perceived limitations and set goals to help you to find easier and more joyful ways of being. We do this ourselves, and we know the universe will respond.

Setting Your Ground Rules With the question above, you can see that there is a full range of possibilities of ways that you can experience life and we recommend experiencing it in a magnificent way. To optimize success, we set Ground Rules that we apply to all of our goals. Let some magic enter your thinking. Visualize for a moment the reality you want to create. Do you, for example, want to live in a reality where you are in the right place at the right time to live joyfully and realize your mission in perfect time or would you prefer a reality where you seem to just miss opportunities? Is your world one where you can foster positive, loving, and stimulating relationships or would you prefer to be alone with your dreams? Do you want your goals to manifest with the highest possible ease and effortlessness or would you prefer to have to struggle every day to make things happen? We set Ground Rules in two categories: 1. Expectations related to the creation of our reality in general 2. Expectations related specifically to the creation of our goals This way, we don’t have to constantly add a statement saying that we expect the people around us to be friendly, helpful, and supportive. And we don’t have to add the statement that we want the realization of each of our goals to manifest in alignment with our missions and with the highest good of all concerned. Both are in our Ground Rules. We share how we inform the universe of these intentions in Chapter Six.




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You can find an example of the kinds of things we include in our Ground Rules in Figure 3.1. Taking some of the examples provided there, you can, for instance, choose to produce the results you seek with a lot of work and effort, or easily and effortlessly. Letting the universe know how you want to live and create your dreams can save a lot of wear and tear. We also have to note that once you set your Ground Rules, it is important that you live in a way that aligns with the reality you are outlining. If, for example, you have a mean temper, treat others poorly, and expect at the same time that the people around will be consistently friendly, helpful, and supportive, you will be disappointed. Since your reality mirrors your inner world, you have to be friendly, helpful, and supportive to attract the same to you. If you want your goals to be aligned with your mission, you need to have a connection with your soul, so you know what your mission is. Life is, of course, a journey, and none of us is perfect. At the same time, as you set your Ground Rules, we also suggest aligning yourself with your soul and clearing areas where you might attract a reality that is different from the one you outline in your rules.

As you write your Ground Rules and your goals, we need to make an important point. Always state what you want in a positive way. Remember, what you focus on, you create. If you set a ground rule to experience less anger from others, your focus on anger will attract more of it to you. Instead, you could set a ground rule to experience the good will of others or, as we have done, state that people around you are friendly, helpful, and supportive. Figure 3.2 provides some tips for wording your Ground Rules and your goals.

The Nuts and Bolts of Setting Goals With your Ground Rules in place, you are ready to get into specifics. Much of the information you will find here on goal setting is an edited excerpt from our Awaken to Your True Purpose Program, updated with our most recent discoveries. Joyfully following your purpose adds life energy and excitement, while stifling your purpose drains life energy and creates depression. If we could all be abundantly joyful, we would have little need for guidelines or for a program to help us. Suffice it to say that your joy tells you what to aim for. Your soul’s purpose involves joyously filling your needs, which includes the full range of your multi-dimensional experience: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Some people limit their focus to the mental level, excluding the emotional world. Others focus on the spiritual, ignoring the physical. To be complete and whole, you need to include all four aspects. You can also focus on having a balance between joyful work, study, relaxation, and play, to include all four of these fundamental elements in your goals. Both approaches highlight the fact that we humans are multi-faceted. In reality, each of us most likely has a number of purposes related to different aspects of ourselves and our lives. In any event, we all need balance in our lives with a variety of experiences that feed the many facets or our souls.

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FIGURE 3.1

Sample Ground Rules GROUND RULES FOR MY CREATIONS In the creation of my reality, I expect the following: 1. I am synchronously in the right place at the right time to live joyfully and realize my mission in perfect time. This includes: •

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2. People around me are consistently friendly, helpful, and supportive. 3. All of my needs are met easily and effortlessly. 4. Joy, health, abundance, and friendship fill my life. My creations come to me in ways that synchronously support the following: •

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In the realization of my goals, I expect the following: 1. My goals manifest in alignment with my mission and with the highest good of all concerned. 2. The creation of my goals synchronously affects the people, places, and situations around me in the most magically positive ways possible. 3. I attain my goals with the greatest possible ease and effortlessness. 4. When I offer services, and/or products, I consistently attract people who are ready to receive them, who are in harmony with me, delighted with results, happy to pay my fees, and delighted to recommend my offerings to others. 5. When I place a timeframe on a goal, I expect it to be fulfilled within this timeframe or sooner. 6. When I place a quantity on a goal, I expect to create this quantity or more. 7. When I claim an achievement, I intend to achieve what I expect or something better that is in alignment with my mission. 8. When the universe has a message for me related to my goals, I expect it to come in a way that is obvious and clear to me.




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With your goals, focus on what would bring the most heartfelt joy, excitement, and true fulfillment if you had no limits on time, money, or location. This will open you to your full potential. This focus is critically important. You need to override any limiting beliefs about what is and what is not possible. In her delightful book Hiring the Heavens, Jean Slatter tells us, “On the physical plane, we always seem to be dealing with limited resources, not enough money, not enough time, not enough people or experts. If we switch our perception to the universe, those restrictions don’t apply, so just imagine that you have all the money, time, and resources in the world…” We will explore Slater’s insightful approach more in Chapter Six. If limiting thoughts enter your mind, don’t add fuel to the fire by entertaining them; let them keep going. Another perspective that can bring relativity to the experience is to ask yourself what will be most important at the time of your death. What will you most want to have achieved and experienced in your life? How will you have wanted to touch those around you? As you prepare to set your goals, we also recommend that you reflect on what you have gained from the Soul Centering Process in Chapter Two and experience the Spiritual Path Process below. This profound process allows you to put your entire life into the perspective of your evolutionary journey and life purpose, which will help you to recognize the areas where you want to focus your attention going forward. Returning to this process over time can also provide an update to fine tune your direction.

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State goals in positive. “I am finding it easier and easier to make house payments.”

State goals in negative, such as “I don’t want to worry about my house payments.” Remember: what you focus on, you create.

Use present tense to describe goals that are true now, as with the Ground Rules in Figure 3.1.

Exaggerate or distort your descriptions of what is possible for you now.

Use present progressive to describe goals that are in the process of coming into being, as with the goal: “I am attracting my perfect job to me in so many ways.” Examples of this are in Figure 3.4.

State goals in future tense: “I will have my perfect job.” Since the future is always out before you, this goal will never be within reach.

Use confident, assertive language. “I enjoy becoming a growing success in my field.”

Words like “try” or “should,” such as “I should try to be a success in this field.”




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We again suggest connecting with the wisdom of your soul as you set your goals, remembering that this resourceful part knows how to realize your divine purpose and experience fulfillment. The ego, which is disconnected from this wisdom, does not. It is fixed on materialism and personal gain as ways to relieve its pain. Rather than cultivate the ego’s misguided desires, the goal is to transform and neutralize them, so the ego can become a positive supporter, functioning in harmony with the soul. When this happens, one’s desires, which very likely include abundance and more of the wonders of the physical plane, serve both oneself and the higher good.

THE SPIRITUAL PATH PROCESS To get an overview of the journey, you can connect with your purpose and establish a positive direction with the Spiritual Path Process. We first introduced this process in our Awaken to Your True Purpose program and provide a guided version here. This simple guided visualization can help you to sense the big picture of where you are on your spiritual journey and on the path to manifesting your dreams. As you prepare to do this process, we recommend being in a quiet, comfortable place with a paper and pen handy to jot down your observations and insights gained during the process. Also, allow a bit of time; as this type of experience cannot be rushed. It requires being in a receptive, relaxed state where you can connect with the deeper levels of your awareness. To get the most from the written version, just read each word intentionally to yourself, close your eyes at intervals to deepen the experience, and visualize the different aspects of the spiritual path. Open yourself to experiencing the process with all of your senses, accepting the images, feelings, and messages that come into your mind, and avoid allowing your rational mind to analyze. Start by taking a few nice, relaxing breaths of fresh air and allowing yourself to begin to relax. As you do, notice where there is tension in your body and invite it to release, breathing some beautiful clear air into the tension and feeling it melting away as you shift your attention inward.

Notice how good it feels just to take time for yourself and take a moment to just be with yourself in your body as you open to learning more about the magnificent spiritual journey you are on. As you continue to breathe, allow the breath to bring in lighter energy now, preparing you to go through a beautiful mist that transcends time and space, on an adventure to a place where there is a path that represents your spiritual journey. See and feel yourself in the mist now and allow it to take you to your spiritual path. As you arrive, notice what you are experiencing with all of your senses. Notice what you feel emotionally, what you see around you, if there are any sounds in this place, and if there are any scents in the air. Take it all in as you focus your attention on your path and jot down the details of what you perceive throughout this experience. The act of writing in itself will most likely bring out more details about the experience.




As the image comes more into focus, look down and notice what the path is made of and how wide it is. Also take a moment to look around the path, noticing the environment, foliage, and any specific details of the scene. This is a special path that can tell you anything you want to know about your journey. Behind you lies your past, which brought you to this place, and ahead of you lies the next phase of your journey. Now turn around to look behind you, noticing how the path has led you to this point. Has it been straight or winding? Has it gone uphill, downhill, stayed on level ground, or has it been a combination of all three? Was the path wide or narrow? Notice the quality of your journey and reflect for a moment on its significance in your life. Ask yourself what events have been most instrumental in bringing you to the exact place where you find yourself today. You may have overcome obstacles to reach the present moment; you may also have learned things that are particularly important for you and for your purpose. Jot the important points about your past down on paper, so you can review them as you prepare to create a bright, joyful future. When you are done, turn back around facing forward and notice again where you are on the path now. Ask yourself what special opportunities are opening to you now and what, if anything, is blocking your way. Is the path immediately ahead of you straight or windy? Is it level or is there a slope in the path? Is it smooth or are any obstacles blocking the way? As you focus on the details, you may see an image, receive a message, or just sense your next steps. As the process unfolds, you may again want to record your experience for future reference. Make special note of any obstacles in the path, as present opportunities for clearing blockages and moving freely forward. If you wish, you can also take a few moments to use EFT to clear any blockages that come to mind now. Focus now on the road ahead and where your heartfelt joy wants to take you. Put your hand on your heart and connect clearly with this energy. Now look around again. You may notice something new from this perspective. Maybe your direction will come more into focus. Maybe there are resources available that can help you on your way that you didn’t notice before. Just ask to see these resources now. They may include people, situations, and useful items. Note what they are. Since following your unique path also involves recognizing the special qualities you have to share in this life, you will also notice that there is a treasure chest along the side of the path that has within it a piece of treasure that represents a gift you are here to share. As you focus in on this chest, notice what it looks like. You may want to touch it and feel its surface as you prepare to open it and discover the treasure within. Now open the treasure chest and see what is inside. If you wish, you can pick up the treasure and feel it in your hands. Notice also if the treasure has any noteworthy details. As you focus on the treasure, its significance may immediately be clear to you. If not, ask if there is a message about its purpose. Also ask if it is something you may want to carry with you when you return from this journey. Before leaving this magical place, reflect for a moment on your goals for the future. Looking forward again on the path, open to your infinite potential and allow it to


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light the way before you. Notice if anything stands out as being most important as you set your goals and fully commit to making them a reality. When you are ready to begin the return trip, know that you can return to this path any time to see how things are going and to make note of where your journey is taking you. As you again enter the beautiful mist that will bring you back, take some more nice breaths, breathing in active energy as you return to your normal waking state. As the mist clears, feel yourself firmly grounded in your seat, in the present moment. People who have used this simple process have discovered unique and fascinating paths with a variety of obstacles and opportunities, including pathways through jungles, the countryside, deep forests, and more. Obstacles on these paths may appear in the form of huge boulders, walls, trees, loose gravel that makes it hard to gain traction, quick-sand, and more. Each person’s path is unique and everything you experience is a message from the soul. You may immediately know what the images mean or you may also use the Soul Centering Process again to take you to a resourceful state where you can understand more. In a soulful state, you can ask what any image means and write down whatever comes to mind. You can also ask for guidance to find the specific areas and attitudes that need adjustment. As mentioned, we recommend revisiting this process over time. You can also follow up on it by creating a list of the strengths you bring to realizing your dreams.

Creating a list of your strengths can help you to recognize your full potential. These are the qualities your soul chose for you in this life to realize your true purpose. This process may also reveal blockages in your path that you want to clear to move freely forward. We will explore releasing blockages more in Chapter Four.

An Example of the Spiritual Path Process In one of Phillip’s sessions, Larry’s spiritual path was straight in front of him, made of crushed granite. It felt comfortable and familiar. It was bright, well-tended and maintained. It was also getting narrower, with some plants encroaching on the path restricting the way. Larry realized how too many activities can get in the way of his spiritual growth. He used a hedge trimmer to cut back the overgrowth of vegetation. He realized it’s fine to give up some activities that slow down his spiritual growth. Yet he can still maintain his many tasks in life. With Phillip’s guidance, Larry did some EFT on his sense of struggling and the burden of too many responsibilities. Afterward, the spiritual path widened, stretching out ahead to a wonderful horizon. Larry felt confident and enthusiastic about his future.

OPENING TO YOUR SOUL’S TRUE LONGINGS Reflecting on the Soul Centering Process, since the soul connects in the heart, you might experience your deepest desires as heartfelt joy. You can put your hand on your heart, as you did in the Soul Centering Process, to reawaken a soulful perspective. It is from this place that




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you can confirm how your goals align with your higher purpose. You might want to try this now, placing your hand on your heart and opening to the love you hold there. As you notice how this feels, allow a goal you want to attain to come to mind and focus on the energy of this goal. Does this goal feel like it is in harmony with the truth of who you are? Does it align with your heartfelt joy? If it doesn’t, you can select a more harmonious goal to focus on. You may also find it helpful to ask yourself one or more of the following soulful questions to connect with the things that have real value in your life. • What you would want to do if you had only a few months to live? • Would this goal (whatever it is) bring you more of a sense of wholeness and unity with all that is or would it create division? For instance, do you want a huge diamond ring to impress others or to feel the delight in marveling at its beauty? • Would this goal (whatever it is) bring you more in touch with the truth of who you are or create camouflage that masks separation from this truth? For instance, do you want a million dollars to feel more secure, to mask your fear of being harmed, or to further your joyful purpose in life? • Will this goal make you genuinely happy or will it simply produce momentary relief from the unhappiness you feel now? Is it more of an impulse or craving, or it is a true longing and heartfelt desire?

The desires that hold the highest vibrations for you are the ones that focus your true identity and reasons for being. As Susann Shier writes in her book Soul Mastery, “One of the deepest concerns of our heart and soul is that we do not wish to die with our song unsung, with our gifts unwrapped, and, really, we do not wish to live in any moment that our spirit is not free to shine!” We all deeply want to freely express our divinity, to allow our souls to blossom and feel vibrantly alive in each moment. Heartfelt, soulful goals bring ever more love, joy, and freedom to simply be yourself in each moment. These are the goals that will create true fulfillment and an existence that is richly rewarding on all levels. They set you on a course for a life where being on the journey becomes its own source of fulfillment, and you can do this now, whatever your circumstances are. Heartfelt goals connect you more consciously with the non-local realm, the domain quantum physicists have noted transcends time and space. Also remember that you are multi-faceted, and you can express your divinity in a variety of ways. Your soul may want to help change the world in some innovative way, express itself through poetry, take dance lessons, and much, much more. You may also want to play tennis or ride horses in your spare time. However you do it, whatever fuels your soul’s heartfelt joy, write down several goals for each level. This is a brainstorming process and you will refine your goals further as you go along, so be free with it. Be sure to include all you genuinely want to do with your life. By writing everything down, you avoid letting your fears and life’s distractions get in the way, as putting things off into the future means that your goals might be forgotten and never manifest.




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THE FOUR LEVELS FOR GOAL SETTING You can find a format to use for goal setting in Figure 3.3. To set goals, you can use this format, taking as much space as you need for each level. Here is a description of each of the four holistic levels in this format: 1. Physical Level: Include ways to create physical well-being: your health and vitality, exercise, where you want to live, what your ideal home is like, how much money you want to have, things that would make life easier, more joyful, fulfilling, and more. The universe is abundant and there is plenty for all, so it is fine to aim to have anything you desire on the physical level. At the same time, there is a difference between feeding the ego’s desires for outward recognition and the soul’s desires for genuine inner fulfillment. When you consider a goal for having a new BMW, take an honest look at what you are really seeking. Are you looking for the joyful experience of driving a fine car or for the admiration of those who see you in it? As spiritual teacher and author Eckart Tolle asks, are you looking for yourself when you seek for more? In essence, the spiritual journey involves seeking ourselves, wholeness, and oneness with all that is. As we progress, we realize that we are more magnificent than we could have imagined and our perceived limits are imaginary. If you are seeking the admiration of others to fill feelings of emptiness within, no amount of money or physical trappings of success will fill that hole. Using others to create one’s sense of self simply doesn’t work. The search for recognition has to come from within, from truly loving and appreciating oneself as a spiritual being. The goal, then, might actually be entered in the spiritual category: to discover more of your magnificence. You can still have a goal to have a wonderful car that you would truly enjoy driving or a beautiful ring that you would enjoy wearing. If you want a million dollars to feel secure, why not clear your fears and feel more secure now? As long as you have inner insecurity, money probably won’t help anyhow. With your fears cleared, you can feel more at ease while you attract abundance for more meaningful reasons and really enjoy it. We will also discuss the subject of money in detail in the next chapter.

Remember that your goals can touch any aspect of your experience that you want to change. You may not initially think to have goals that relate to more abstract subjects. One such area that relates to the physical level is time, a subject that is challenging for most people in our busy society. If you constantly have thoughts going through your head telling yourself that you don’t have enough time, this is the reality you are creating and you will always feel rushed. This kind of thinking runs rampant in our culture, where people rush from one activity to the next, wondering when they will have a few moments of rest. You have to create these moments yourself; no one else will. You can have the goal to experience having plenty of time every day to accomplish everything you need and want to do, to relax, to explore new ideas, and to enjoy life. Copyright © 2007 Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose. Do not copy without permission.



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Goal Setting Format Date: ________________ PHYSICAL LEVEL: ways to create physical well-being, where you want to live, what your ideal home is like, how much money you want to have, things that would make life easier, and more …

EMOTIONAL LEVEL: Include emotions you want to foster, filling your needs for friends and family, ways you can have fun, ways to express yourself creatively, ways to nurture yourself, and more ...

MENTAL LEVEL: Include ways to manifest what you want in the world, your occupation(s), how you can create abundance, educational goals, clarity on your next step, new information, and more ...

SPIRITUAL LEVEL: Include ways you can further your spiritual growth, spiritual retreats, meditation/Soul Centering, filling your need for meaningful relationships, contributions you want to make to society, and more ...




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Emotional Level: Include positive emotions you want to experience, ways to fill your needs for supportive friends and family, ways to have fun, ways to express yourself creatively, ways to nurture yourself, and more. Nurturing yourself is a way to demonstrate in your daily experience that you care for yourself. Everyone deserves to be treated well and this needs to start with treating ourselves well. If we treat ourselves with respect and honor, others will, too. If you are feeling frustrated by the direction your life is taking, you can set the goal to find more joy in your life. You can likewise set a goal to bring more lightheartedness into your professional life or more peace and quiet into your home life. Setting a goal to create a positive emotional state starts to shift your experience to make more room for it to become your reality. 2. Mental Level: Include ways to manifest what you want in the world: your occupation, hobbies, how you can create success and abundance (which expands more resources), and more. This is also where you can place goals to gain clarity on how to achieve a career change, find new information about the meaning of life, and more. People often have large goals, like wanting to change their careers, but they don’t know how to take even the first step.

Asking for clarity to give you direction as part of a larger goal is a valuable goal in itself. Or maybe you need more information. Whatever you want, you can set a goal to have it happening quickly and easily. With Awakenings Institute, we are pursuing the possibility of obtaining a grant to help us to build our worldwide spiritual community. We set a goal to effortlessly find an organization that might offer this type of grant and enlisted the support of the heavens (which we discuss in Chapter Six). Within 24 hours a friend contacted us with the name of an organization that looks like it is a perfect match. This may have completely cut out the research time we would have had to put in if we had taken a strictly conventional approach. 3. Spiritual Level: This is where it all comes together, where the big picture of our true identities and the evolution of humanity comes into focus. Understanding ourselves and the nature of the spiritual journey provides a backdrop for everything we seek to create. On this level, you can set goals for finding ways to further your spiritual growth, fill your need for meaningful relationships, and bring likeminded souls into yoiur life. You can focus on contributions you want to make to society, insights into your spiritual journey, expansive ways of viewing things, meditative activities like daily Soul Centering, and more. Your spiritual goals might include being at one with all that is, being in the synchronous flow of the universe, experiencing true joy, and taking more delight in each moment. Each one can help you to bring focus to a specific area of your development and your ability to manifest. If you set these kinds of goals, you also have to realize that the universe may bring up the blockages that prevent you from living fully, so you can release their hold. We will address clearing blockages in the next chapter.




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If possible, we recommend entering your goals in a computer. This way, you can review and edit them, along with creating future updates with ease. Once you complete your list of goals, review it with others who are involved in bringing these items into your reality. For example, if you are in a relationship, you will probably both want to live in the same place. Aim to reach agreements on the items that include others and edit your list accordingly.

Clarifying Your Mind One essential thing to consider with subjects like money and relationships is the need to clearly understand what they represent to you. In these areas, find the deeper desire that underlies what you want. Millions of people want to win the lottery, because they equate wealth with living happily ever after, without any challenges or issues. Likewise, a relationship might represent unconditional love or a sense of security. We need to find these qualities of love and security within ourselves as we evolve and grow. We take our blockages with us, and more money or a new relationship will not free us from the need to learn about ourselves, grow spiritually, and address our blockages. If you are not clear about what money represents, you can set a goal to receive more clarity on any of your financial goals to set a positive course. As noted earlier, we discuss money and ways to transform interference in Chapter Four.

Expanding Your Thoughts on Goal Setting Connecting with your soul's purpose and manifesting your heartfelt dreams involves joyfully filling your needs over the full range of your multi-dimensional experience. As mentioned, this includes the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. To be balanced, you need to place equal focus on all four. As you review each level on the Goal Setting Format in Figure 3.2, it is essential that you avoid imposing any limits on yourself related to money, time, or place. Dream BIG. This is a brainstorming process; be sure to include all of the things you have been wanting to do with your life. An example that relates to many people is all of the things they keep putting off until next year, and next year never comes. In addition to including exciting things like wanting to connect with your soul more, express yourself artistically, write a book, open to your intuition, or whatever brings you joy, be sure to include the things that would make your life easier. This might include things like creating enough abundance to have your house cleaned weekly, to have a gardener, to be able to eat in a restaurant more often, or whatever you would like. Also, note that some things may relate to more than one level. For example, you would ideally want the place you live to support you on all levels. It is listed under the physical level, because it is a physical place.

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lieving that results have to come slowly, as the result of lengthy suffering, or through exhaustive searching. Remember the magic. The following chapters of this book will help you to enlist the full power of the universe to support you in making your dreams come true.

CREATING A FOCUS LIST By writing down your goals, you have clarified your intent. Reviewing the list, you most likely have dozens of items and we don’t recommend focusing on all of them at once. As you move forward, the next important step is to pick out around three to five goals to start with that can have the biggest impact on your life. You will begin by focusing on this handful of goals, adding more as you progress. You can identify where to start by categorizing each of your goals as immediate, mediumterm, and long-term. This can also help where a staged transition applies to a specific goal. For example, if you want to change jobs, possibly to a new location, but have no idea where your soul will lead you, you may want to set a goal to explore different places and possibilities in the short term, with the ultimate goal of making a transition within a year. The first step may be to find clarity to establish a direction or to create time in your busy schedule to make a transition. On the Goal Setting Format in figure 3.2, you can use the small column at the left to identify (1) immediate, (2) medium-term, and (3) long-term goals. This will help you to organize and prioritize your manifestations, so you can take the appropriate steps to progress. Before continuing further, select the handful of your immediate goals you want to prioritize now and create your Focus List. We will refer to this list through the rest of the book. Once you have identified goals for this list, there is one more important step. For each goal on your Focus List, identify the following: • Precisely what the goal is now • Why you want it • Your action plan • An image that represents successful achievement of this goal In Chapter Six, you will be enlisting the full support of the universe in the realization of these goals and, beforehand, you want to confirm in your heart that “the why” is aligned with your true heartfelt joy and excitement. Figure 3.4 is an example of a Focus List of goals. This will become your roadmap, which you can review and update regularly as you progress. It is also your primary tool for enlisting the support of the universe in the realization of your dreams. We will bring all of this together in Chapter Six. Your updates will allow you to define what you regard as your next step in the realization of a goal. If, for instance, you have the goal to change from your current occupation to a new business venture that is more aligned with your joy and purpose, you will update this goal regularly as you progress to address what is needed next. Starting a new business is a large venture, and it may take months or years to bring this goal to fruition. The goal of creating a successful and profitable business involves a number of




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Sample Focus List 1. The completion of my new holistic healing website is proceeding smoothly heading toward my goal of being online by July 1. I ask to receive any guidance needed to create the best communication I can to reach as many people as possible through this website. Why: This website reaches to the heart of my mission, excitement, and heartfelt joy. I believe that it will help many people to transform their lives. Action Plan: I continue to prioritize the completion of this website in my daily activities. Image: I see myself sitting at my computer bringing up the website on the internet for the first time, knowing that it is now available for the world to see. 2. I choose to live in the flow with plenty of time in each day for everything I want and need to be and do. I also ask for any guidance that would help me with having so many things to do and wanting to do them all at once. •

Why: I can see that I have limiting beliefs related to having too much to do, and this lowers my vibrations. I now claim my right to create from a perspective where life is easy and joyful.

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Image: I am flowing through life, perfectly balanced between the stars above me and the earth below. A little bird is coming with a message.

3. My health is consistently strong, having overcome my recurring backaches. Why: To create from a place of joy, I choose to release any limitations that drag me and my health down. Action Plan: I am actively clearing whatever blockages I find related to my back, and I am open to any input the universe can provide. Image: I am on the top of Health Mountain, feeling vibrantly wonderful and alive, breathing the fresh mountain air. My entire family is with me, and each of us has staked flags. 4. My business income is doubling year, and each month of this year, as more and more people benefit from my services. •

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stages. Using this example, the goal may include the following sub-goals on your Focus List: • Seeking clarity on how to start the transition from one’s current occupation • Building confidence in one’s ability to venture out and do something that is truly exciting with one’s life • Seeking resources for advertising the business • Finding appropriate facilities with positive energy to house the business • Seeking likeminded, compatible, trustworthy people to employ or for consultants • And more…

Precisely defining each “sub-goal” along the way is an essential key to your success. It will allow you to recognize and complete each of the essential stages in the realization of your goals. You can probably think of more possibilities of sub-goals that could be needed to successfully create a new business. On your Focus List, you have an opportunity to define precisely what you need next for the realization of your goal.

WHAT TO EXPECT You may notice some changes immediately after putting your goals in writing, as you open to new possibilities, and set a clear course for your life. This may even apply to goals that are not on your short list, as focusing on consciously creating your life adds power. Other things may shift gradually over time, as you hone in on them a few at a time. We recommend reviewing your list of goals every few months, to make adjustments and reinforce your resolve to create an exciting and joyful life. Setting goals may also bring up your reservations, meaning any fears or misgivings about manifesting your dreams. Rather than going into denial, just observe these reactions and take steps to transcend your limitations by clearing with EFT, SK, or any other method you have available to you. We discuss ways to transform interference next.





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Transforming Interference “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON

With your goals in writing, you next want to set your intention. Intent is focused energy that operates in the present moment. By contrast, goals are future-oriented. Your intent in this moment sets into motion the creation of your heart’s desires. It boosts your commitment, which helps your goals to manifest. Your intention may be a feeling, a knowingness, a brief statement, or an image like the ones we discussed adding to your Focus List. It attracts your goals to you.

OVERCOMING FEARS AND LIMITING BELIEFS As you set your intent, you don’t want anything to interfere with your success. Nonetheless, if you are like most people, focusing on your intention to manifest your goals most likely will bring up your objections, your limiting beliefs and fears about why it’s not going to happen. Gary Craig, the originator of EFT, calls these stumbling blocks the “yes, but’s.” As you read through this list, note which ones tug at your heart. This may help you to identify a starting point for clearing. Common stumbling blocks include the following: • I have too many real problems for something like this to work. • It hasn’t ever happened before and it won’t be any different now. • I’m afraid of failing if I try something new. • I’m afraid of public exposure (as with public speaking or stepping out in a direction that is unconventional). • Nobody appreciates all the things I do for them, and, with all the time I spend helping others, I simply don’t have the time for anything else.


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• I don’t deserve to have the things I desire, because ___________ (fill in the blank). • My family never created much success and I haven’t been very successful in the past. Why should it will be any different this time? • I don’t have any money, so I can’t afford to invest in the resources I need to succeed. • I can’t wait for this to happen (subtext: I want instant gratification and I’m too impatient to follow this approach). I need to change my life today. • I don’t have time for this. The last two examples, which are common, raise an important point. Wherever you are now, the only way to go is forward. You can only start from where you are now. As the Chinese proverb says, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” If you are waiting for the magic bullet to bring instantaneous transformation, your life may pass you by. Your best choice is to start now. You will feel much better about yourself if you don’t put off taking action to be your personal best. Ultimately, being on course, feeling excited about your life, and enjoying the journey become their own rewards. Your joy and excitement raise your vibration to connect with the synchronous flow of the universe, where anything is possible. On the other hand, if you don’t choose to change now, next month or next year is not likely to be a better time to start than this one is.

The moment is now. If you don’t devote some time for your dreams today, nothing is going to be different tomorrow. If you take just a little time every day to create the life of your dreams, you will get results. Positive vibrations are much more powerful than negative ones, so you don’t have to be perfect for this to work. When we first set goals and started taking seemingly infinitesimal steps to achieve them, we were skeptical, but we soon realized that we had started on a wondrous journey. If you choose to take control of your life and move forward, you will feel like a new person. That’s what happened to us and we haven’t ever looked back.

THE IMPORTANCE OF HEALING, THE MISSING INGREDIENT Many people hope to move forward without taking time to clear the blockages that are in the way. However real they are to you, and most of our problems seem very real to each of us, every problem is actually an energy block that can be released. It is a question of optimizing your time and your energy. Do you want to take the fast lane or slog it out until the fears and limitations disappear on their own volition, which may or may not happen in this lifetime? We like to show people how to get into the fast lane and enjoy the view along the way. We want to be sure that you understand the importance of healing, since this essential element is generally missing from manifestation programs. The energetic blockages that accompany painful emotions and limiting beliefs that need to be cleared drain your energy. Emotionally, they create fear and self-doubt. For every area where you are holding on to limitations, part of the life energy you could be using to make any kind of positive change in your




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life is being siphoned off. When this is the case, you will have to constantly work to raise your vibrations, because this energy is constantly pulling you down. As you clear these blockages, your vibrations rise, and life becomes more effortless and joyful. The clearer you are, the easier it is to hold the high vibrations that support you in manifesting your dreams. You naturally feel more comfortable with who you are, appreciate your unique gifts, and experience higher states like love, peace, and genuine freedom.

Ultimately, releasing limitations and learning to manifest freely is the essence of the spiritual journey, which could also be referred to as the healing journey. We have devoted much of our lives to exploring the nature of this journey and the importance of realizing one’s true divine purpose. Many people agree that the goal is to achieve higher consciousness, oneness, and wholeness. We also relate it to creating a more joyful, loving, fulfilling life that aligns with one’s reason for being. The question, then, becomes, what is the easiest, fastest, and most effective way to reach these desired states? You could view the spiritual path as a spiral that lifts you gradually upward through a combination of clearing blockages to your wholeness, integrating the changes into your reality, and activating new levels of awareness. It’s curious that many expect to achieve their goals without placing any emphasis on being more conscious of who they are and why they do the things they do. In our exploration of the mind, we learned that in many people as little as 5% of their awareness is conscious. This means that they are largely unconscious and the vast majority of the time, they have no idea why they do the things they do.

Accelerated Spiritual Development There are many paths to wholeness and some take much longer than others. We have watched many well-intended people who pursue spiritual practices over periods of years and even decades without clearing the blockages that prevent them from embracing their divinity and realizing their purposes in life. Many have been told and fully expect that seeking higher states of consciousness through regular meditation or other spiritual practices will eventually heal the wounds that hold them in limitation. Meanwhile, the years pass while they wait, still grieving old losses, resenting wrongs done to them ten or twenty years ago, holding wounds from childhood, and on and on. If you don’t clear your limiting beliefs (like the ones listed earlier), it will be much more difficult to hold high vibrations and move freely forward. And, ironically, many can be cleared in minutes, rather than hoping for years and years. Reviewing Figure 1.1 from a spiritual perspective, heaviness, darkness, and low vibrations are all associated with being disconnected from the soul, while joy, excitement, light, and high vibrations are all associated with being connected with the soul. On a holistic scale, viewing the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels of our awareness, the spiritual level is the deepest. Accessing energy at this level also provides the deepest level of healing. Over many years of helping thousands of people, we have consistently found that healing is simply a process of reconnecting parts of ourselves that have become disconnected from the wholeness of the soul. Without the light of the soul, these parts of the self are in the dark, Copyright © 2007 Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose. Do not copy without permission.



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or in the mud mentioned earlier, and lack the resources they need to find their way out. By reconnecting these parts with the wholeness of the soul, they regain their resourcefulness, so any related issues can diminish and disappear. The Reframing and Anchoring Process described in Appendix C draws its power from the fact that this is exactly what it does. It simply and directly reconnects disconnected part of ourselves with the wholeness of the soul.

Taking Action Now Why wait for that elusive time somewhere out in the future when the blockages to your wholeness will hopefully melt away? We prefer making immediate changes over minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months rather than theoretical changes over years and decades. We have found highly effective methods that allow people to clear blockages, in many cases with astounding speed and ease. In the process, they learn more about their true identities and reasons for being, and create the potential to move freely forward on the soul’s true path. Interestingly, we have found that many people are reluctant to explore the unconscious aspects of the self for fear of discovering bad things about themselves. Actually, it is quite the opposite. It is the false, wounded parts of the self that live in limitation, feeling badly about themselves. These parts judge us as being inadequate, undeserving, or flawed. They do this because they lack resources, since they are disconnected from our spiritual source, the soul’s truth and wholeness. We simply need to reconnect them. The soul understands our true identity and magnificence.

As we clear blockages, the soul’s presence becomes a more and more powerful force in our lives, as we become more aware of the wonder and magnificence of who we are. In the process, we experience more and more joy, love and genuine freedom. We are more able to be in the moment, because we are not being unconsciously pulled away by our wounded parts. We can simply be ourselves, here and now, and connect with the synchronous flow of life. To us, this is the essence of the spiritual journey and the key to creating the life of our dreams.

CLEARING, INTEGRATING, AND ACTIVATING The following excerpt from our book Getting Thru to Your Soul describes the role healing plays in the evolutionary journey: As we explore our inner worlds and develop a more unified understanding of ourselves and our souls, we grow personally and spiritually. Gradually we return to a sense of wholeness. There is a cycle comprised of three basic steps in any of the healing processes we experience on the journey: clearing, integrating, and activating. 1. Clearing: We start any healing process with the awareness that something is wrong. This may be physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual.




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The clearing process releases the blockages, preparing us to embrace more light and soul awareness. 2. Integrating: Once clearing has occurred, there is a period of restructuring or integrating. With the clearing, a blockage has been released. Now our energetic makeup shifts to accommodate more spiritual light and conscious awareness. This integration process may take hours, days, weeks, maybe even months, depending on the nature of the blockage. It is largely a process of experiencing the soul in a more expanded way, and allowing the limiting patterns to release. 3. Activating: The last step is activating a greater awareness of oneself. In each of our lives, the soul determines when we are ready to let in more light and to activate a more expanded level of consciousness. As we have seen, there are seven major activations, which are like milestones on the spiritual path. There are also a many minor activations that correspond with each of the individual healing processes we undertake. Once these three steps are complete, the process begins again, like a spiral. The light from the activation shines on other dark areas and new issues come up to be cleared. Gradually, we notice that life is different; it becomes richer as we spiral upward and integrate more of the soul’s light. The healing journey provides opportunities for us to expand our awareness of ourselves and our possibilities every day. With a willingness to confront our perceived limitations and rise above them, our awareness expands. We connect with the synchronous flow, and recover more and more quickly when old stuck emotions and limiting ideas of ourselves surface. The essence of our approach involves moving fully forward on our paths, rising to a new way of being. In the process we are also helping to lift all of humanity. With this in mind, we encourage you to include healing processes to speed you on your way.

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS Returning to the stumbling blocks described earlier, to progress most easily, you want to lighten up and realize that your limitations are not you. They are misunderstandings created by the wounded ego. Each of us has our own special “brand” of fears and doubts that are particularly convincing. to us. To reduce their impact on our lives, we need to become intimately familiar with our specific resistances and expose them for what they are: imaginary limitations that are waiting to be released. It may be easier to see how others are convinced by imaginary limits than it is to recognize them in yourself, and you may wonder why they take their limitations so seriously. If you can see yourself in the same way, as others see you, the picture can become clearer. You have the same possibilities that everyone else has. The main thing that will separate the people who succeed with this approach from those who don’t is that those who succeed will stay with the program until they reach their goals. The information and processes in this book can help you to understand yourself better, re-




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lease your limitations, and manifest with joy and ease. Take a few moments now or at your earliest convenience to jot down the reasons why this approach might not work for you. Refer back to the list of “yes, but’s” at the beginning of this chapter. This will provide a focus for you to clear your path to move forward with ease. Instead of butting your head against a brick wall every day, facing the same worn out thoughts and fears, you can just step into the synchronous flow of the universe and move on to freely create a magnificent life. On a spiritual level, you could see your self-imposed limitations as challenges your soul has arranged for you to overcome, so you can learn more about yourself and evolve. These limiting thoughts and fears, which spring from the wounded ego, are blockages to your success that you can clear with the wisdom of the soul. As mentioned earlier, we have come to understand that such blockages are related to wounded parts of ourselves that are disconnected from the soul. Once reconnected, the issues diminish and disappear. And by releasing these blockages, we develop the gifts the soul has to offer. As mentioned, clearing such blockages is a missing component of many people’s manifestation efforts that prevents them from freely moving forward. This is much like trying to renovate a room without clearing out the old debris before bringing in new furnishings. You end up with a confused mess. Just as you need to remove the debris to renovate a room, you need to clear out cluttered areas of your consciousness that hold fears, limiting beliefs, and judgments to create the life of your dreams.

CLEARING THE FAST AND EASY WAY The processes you found in earlier chapters have already provided opportunities for you to start to target and eliminate any blockages that could hold you back and interfere with your success. For clearing blockages for ourselves, our students, and our clients, we focus primarily on the two healing processes we have already mentioned: EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and SK (Spiritual Kinesiology). The case histories throughout this book demonstrate their speed and effectiveness. Both can quickly and easily identify and eliminate clutter in just about anyone’s life. You may already know these methods or others that you can use. If not, we refer again to overviews of how to do EFT in Appendix A and the SK Reframing and Anchoring Process (R&A) in Appendix C for you to explore. Once you learn the basic methods, you can use any of the visualization processes you can find throughout this book, which are specifically targeted at clearing issues related to manifesting your dreams and goals. These visualizations allow you to reach into the deeper recesses of the mind and gain new awareness of yourself. We generally start clearing any issue with the EFT Short Sequence or the SK Reframing and Anchoring Process. We use them interchangeably. Both produce positive results in the majority of cases. You can use either of them with any blockage to manifesting your dreams that you identify as you read this book and use the tools for manifestation.

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This is true in the vast majority of cases. Some people fear what might lurk below the threshold of their awareness. To put your mind at ease, remember that the limitations you encounter are not real. What you discover with clearing is that you are more unique and magnificent than you imagined and that everything is indeed in divine order. The deeper methods, like the Change History Process or Reframing Process presented in Chapter Five can help you to access the information you need to complete the clearing. Then you can use EFT or SK to clear the blockages and feel wonderfully free.

BODY AWARENESS AND CLEARING Holistically, the body could be viewed as a barometer that records everything that is happening below the surface of your awareness. Wherever you have aches, tension, or discomfort of any kind, your body is trying to tell you something. This is a study in itself that goes beyond the scope of this book, but you can benefit greatly by increasing your body awareness.

Body Awareness Process A simple way to start is to take your Focus List and check each item to identify any resistance. You may be able to easily identify something from the list of stumbling blocks at the beginning of this chapter. If you encounter resistance, the best thing to do is to clear it. Also, using your Focus List, check each one and identify any resistance, following these steps: 1. Read the goal to yourself. As you do, all of the reasons it won’t happen may immediately come into your mind. This provides some good material for clearing. 2. If no specific objections surfaced, you can look deeper. The body knows the truth. As you continue to focus on the goal, close your eyes for a moment and check in with your body. Notice if you feel tightness or any kind of physical discomfort anywhere in your body. If your body feels wonderful and your thoughts remain positive, you may be free of interference that could slow you down. 3. If you felt any discomfort, focus on the sensations and ask what emotions are behind them. Close your eyes again to connect with them and accept whatever surfaces without allowing your rational mind to evaluate it. 4. You can also ask the part of the body that is tense or stuck if it has something that it wants to say to you. How does it feel about its potential for realizing the goal? What are its specific objections, if any? 5. When a limitation surfaces, you can clear it with EFT or R&A. Since we have mainly focused on EFT thus far, we will discuss how to clear the blockage with R&A now. To use this process, you first need to know how to do the Soul Centering Process in Chapter Two, as this is the state that you anchor to clear the blockage. A. Begin by measuring the intensity of the issue or physical sensations between one and ten, with ten being the highest intensity, just as you would with EFT.




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B. Now you are ready to clear. When you are dealing with physical sensations as we are here, first anchor the area of the body where you feel discomfort by placing one hand on it. Count to ten as you hold it and focus on the physical sensations and feelings. Then release the hand. C. Next, focus on the area around your heart, breathing energy into it and opening to the soul’s energy there, allowing it to radiate around you so you feel completely surrounded by it. Also ask the light of your source above you to send down the perfect energy to clear this issue, and feel it coming down through your head, down your arms to the tips of your fingers, down your torso, and down your legs, to the tips of the toes, so you are completely filled with this higher frequency, then allow it to flow out around you so you are completely surrounded by this higher frequency. Now anchor this energy by placing your other hand on your knee, your heart, or another convenient place. Remember, with R&A, you can anchor the energy anywhere. While continuing to focus on the soul’s energy, count from one to ten, then release your hand. D. Allow your mind to clear for a moment while you put both hands on the anchors. Count to ten, then release the first one, which was associated with the blockage. After another count of five, release the other hand. E. Take a nice, deep breath and allow the energy to respacialize for a moment. Then ask yourself how strong the issue is now between one and ten. F. Re-evaluate the intensity of the issue or physical sensations. Note if the feelings have changed. If you need to do more clearing, repeat the process. G. When the intensity is close to zero, ask yourself how the goal appears to you now and note the differences. Your body is sending you messages all day that can help you to identify the emotions and limiting beliefs that need to be cleared. Once you become aware of sensations anywhere in your body, you can also use any of the processes in this book to find out more about what is going on, if you are curious, and to clear it.

An Example of Increasing Body Awareness A student in one of our manifestation classes reported having a lower back problem. Aaron linked it to a fall he took while he was in high school. On the day of the class, he was in noticeable pain and mentioned that it felt tight on the left side around his sacroiliac. He also mentioned that he found it challenging to trust that everything is in perfect order, and we all became curious to find out if there was a connection between the two. As Aaron connected with the pain, Jane asked him to allow any emotions that were related to surface. The emotions just poured out; he felt overwhelmed, hopeless, powerless, angry, alone, and unsupported. Reaching deeper, he reported feeling crippled and helpless. When asked which emotion stood out the most, it was being unsupported, which Aaron reported at a nine or ten out of ten.




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The class could see that there was a clear connection with trust, which is built on feeling supported. Without support, Aaron became subjected to a whole series of painful feelings that were dragging his energy down and causing extreme pain in his body. With the high intensity of the emotion, Jane led Aaron through two continuous rounds of EFT. This can improve results when starting with an intensity that is close to ten. Afterwards, taking a nice, deep breath and allowing the energy to reconfigure, Aaron reported that the intensity was down to a four, which was an excellent change. With just one more round, the intensity was down to a one and Aaron’s back was no longer hurting. He also reported feeling more trust that everything is in perfect order. This powerful example clearly demonstrates the connection between the mind and body. As we mention in our book Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT, there is no definitive connection between pain and physical abnormalities like slipped disks and other back problems. Our beliefs themselves can produce the pain, particularly when it is also linked with other emotions and beliefs that drag our energy down. This simple, powerful process can produce amazing changes and we highly recommend being open to the thought that anything is possible, even in relation to pain and physical discomfort. From here, we will provide more ways to identify and clear blockages. In addition to being effective in areas where the EFT Short Sequence or R&A alone are not working, they provide more information about the blockage, which can be insightful on the journey to wholeness.

USING THE MANIFESTATION CHECKLIST – A POWERFUL RESOURCE As you open to the infinite, you may want to review the Manifestation Checklist in Figure 4.1. This versatile and comprehensive list identifies qualities you will want to have in alignment to raise your vibrations and make positive changes with ease. We suggest a variety of ways to use The Manifestation Checklist: • Questionnaire: You can use the Manifestation Checklist as a questionnaire and reflect on how strongly you feel aligned with each statement between zero and ten, with zero being not at all and ten being the highest possible alignment. When you identify an area that is weak, ask yourself what is holding you back in that area to identify the blockage. Using EFT or SK, you can eliminate or reduce it. • Muscle Testing: If you know how to use kinesiology (muscle testing), you can muscle test and identify any areas that are weak. This will allow you to probe more deeply into the unconscious recesses of the mind. If mucsle testing is new to you and you want to experiment with it, you can find a description of how to do it in Appendix B. When you test the items in Figure 4.1, the test muscle should test strong for all of the qualities that are balanced. Any that are imbalanced will normally test weak. This is a simple way to identify areas that need attention. • Pendulum: If you use a pendulum, you can measure how well you are aligned with each of the qualities on this checklist using the method described in Appendix D. As with muscle testing, this can help you to identify blockages that are below your normal




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level of awareness. We use pendulums regularly for ourselves, our students, and our clients to measure frequencies and alignments with frequencies using the approach described in this appendix. The pendulum can identify your current strengths, along with areas that need boosting. Since it measures in a full range, from low to high, you can also identify how far off you are in a specific area, as well as how quickly energy shifts when you do clearing. In addition to being insightful, it is fun to do. For instance, take the statement “Think of your manifestations in relation to your age.” Reflecting on it, John immediately realized that he felt too old to be able to realize his dreams. We would call this a limiting belief, which can and ideally would be changed to open the way for him to freely manifest. As long as John believes that his age is a barrier, it will be. Similarly, take the statement “Think of your manifestations in relation to your safety.” Reading the statement, Irene realized that she was afraid of criticism when she thought about stepping out into her desired occupation as a spiritual counselor. She felt a joyful inner calling to go in this direction, but her fear was preventing her from taking action. If left unchecked, the fear would undoubtedly prevent her from realizing her dream.

EXAMPLES OF CLEARING INTERFERENCE Lilly’s goal was to create the right job for herself. Currently, she was studying for her real estate license. Using kinesiology, Phillip muscle tested her on the Manifestation Checklist, where she tested weak for both “what others would say and think about her,” as well as her “power to create.” The power to create was the weakenest element, so this is where they started the clearing process. Also they kept in mind that sometimes clearing the greatest weakness will generalize and clear the other areas as well. Emotionally, Lilly felt trapped, measuring her weakened feelings at ten out of ten in intensity. She had difficulty breathing as she thought about her power to create the right job. Her limiting belief was that she would give up control of her life by pursuing a real estate career. Deep down, she admitted that she judged herself as “not good enough,” a common judgment that underlies many people’s problems. By doing a combination of EFT and Reframing and Anchoring with Phillip’s guidance, Lilly released the blockage. Once it was gone, she received a soulful message that she was safe and supported. Looking for an inner resource, she saw a picture of a pink lotus that symbolized her support. Then another doubt surfaced. Lilly remembered how ten years ago she started to pursue a nursing career, which was halted by family financial matters that prevented her from completing her training. Suddenly, Lilly realized that this seeming detour in her career was not such a bad thing after all. It had enriched her ability to tend to family matters. In the process, she had become a better caregiver and learned valuable lessons that she could apply to her current situation. Lilly had spontaneously reframed her problem (the earlier aborted career attempt) into a resource for her care giving abilities while increasing her life learning. Lilly breathed a sigh of relief. She felt supported and empowered. She no longer had a block about her real estate career, knowing that she would find a way for it to align with her




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“… being lighthearted and not taking things too seriously.” “… heartfelt desire.” “… gratitude.” “… loving yourself and beng worthy.” “… your age.” “… your gender.” “… your appearance.” “… your size.” “… your intelligence.” “… your potential.” “… your health.” “… your past accomplishments.” “… your family heritage.” “… your ________.” “… what other people might think about you.” “… what other people might say about you.” “… being able to receive.” “…having expectancy.” “… honoring everyone concerned.” “… your safety.” “… your wellbeing.” “… the wellbeing of others.” “… being open to the way it may occur.” “… trusting that everything is in perfect order.” “… the free flow of resources.” “… being open to learning lessons and clearing blockages.” “… being open to receiving new information.” “… being open to its timing, whatever that may be.” “… being unattached to the outcome, even if it does not occur.” “… appreciating the journey to wholeness, however it comes out.” “… having the power to create.” “… having the will to follow through.” “… doing everything necessary.”

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deeper purpose. Now she muscle tested strong for the power to create as well as what people would say and think. One year later, Phillip received an e-mail from Lilly. She happily reported that she had found a rewarding position in healthcare, which was more aligned with her than real estate. Her finances were good, and she had lost a lot of excess weight in the process. In another example, Jay wanted to manifest a second home in two months. The Manifestation Checklist revealed that Jay was weak on being lighthearted about his goal. He felt frustrated and impatient. Using EFT, he eliminated the blockages. His soul offered the message “to trust and everything will work out.” Jay realized that he “can be patient to wait things out and allow the flow to happen. The outcome will be positive.”

WHAT MONEY REPRESENTS Creating abundance is a worthwhile goal. We all deserve to have an abundant life. It opens us to new possibilities and provides resources that help us to realize our true purpose. However, abundance and money are different. We regard being abundant as having the ability to manifest the resources we need to realize our dreams and goals. It resonates with the frequency of flow discussed earlier. In the flow, money comes and goes freely as needed. Having great wealth may or may not equate with being abundant. Pendulum users can measure the difference in the vibrations of these two words (wealth and abundance) with a pendulum. The word “abundance” carries a much higher vibration than the word “wealth.” One of our good friends, whom we will call Gary, is a holistic therapist who specializes in coaching celebrities, CEO’s and other high profile people. As you might imagine, these are typically people who have more money than they know what to do with, and they seek Gary’s help because they are miserable. The story he tells is of lives spiraling out of control. His clients are often idolized, but their celebrity status is a façade. Behind the scenes, they lead empty lives and long to find genuine fulfillment, just like the rest of us. The roadmap in this book for joyful, fulfilling life applies equally to people with little money and a lot of money. Money is just paper and metal. Yet, people do all kinds of things to get more of it and to hold on to it at all costs. Fights over wills commonly tear families apart. Lottery winners are plagued by having so many people begging them for a piece of their wealth that they may wish they could go back to life before winning. The reason why money is so powerful is because it is an archetype, a collective pattern that imprints each individual consciousness. Your experiences and beliefs influence your understanding of money. To manifest freely, it is important to understand what money means to you. Here are some common connections people make with money: • security

• freedom

• success

• self worth

• choices

• ability to invest

• power

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All of these aspects come into play as you manifest things that require money, including money itself. Returning to body awareness, notice what you feel in your body when you think about money. If there is tension or discomfort, you have accessed an area that needs clearing. As mentioned earlier, when you want money, it is important to ask “what for?” The answer may be found in the list above, and the solution may or may not require money. A common example is security. In many cases, no amount of money will help a person to feel more secure, and feeling secure may not require any money at all. It is much faster and easier just to release the fears connected with feeling insecure. For example, if you have a belief like “I need to be financially independent to be a success,” you may never have enough money to feel like a success. Regardless how much you have, it may never feel like it is enough to represent success. On the other hand, with a simple clearing process, you may realize that you can feel successful now, just as you are, without having any more money, or that you can feel completely secure with no money at all. For another example, a person who wants to travel may think it has to cost a lot of money. Maybe the money will appear. It is also worth considering the possibility that there may be ways to receive some of the joys of travel that don’t cost as much money as he or she would imagine. Traveling often fills a need for new experiences, culture, and variety. As you open to your immediate possibilities, there may be relatively inexpensive ways to bring these joys into your life, like taking a weekend trip, finding cultural opportunities nearby, and/or going to an exotic restaurant. This doesn’t mean that you can’t set the goal to have more resources available to travel; it just means that by being creative, you can have more joy now. Maybe you will just manifest a large amount of money to travel the world. You can put your heartfelt desires out there, following this program, and start incorporating some of the things you desire from travel into your life now. The universe with all its resources will be there for you. By learning how to manifest, you also become a good steward of the resources you attract. Part of manifesting as you co-create with the universe includes valuing what you seek and putting things in perspective.

Common Money Traps Reviewing the connections with money listed above, you might notice that it can serve many positive purposes, bringing joy and happiness into our lives. So why is it one of the biggest sources of unhappiness on the planet? Most crimes and divorces are connected with money. The answer, we know, is rather apparent. Factors that make money a problem are corruption, greed, disparity of resources between rich and poor, and over-identification with money itself By following the Twelve Principles of Manifestation in Chapter Two, you can steer clear of these pitfalls. And in the occasional event that you get off track, you will know how to find your way back to where you really want to go.

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These include beliefs that: • Abundance is outside of my comfort zone. If I earn more than my parents or friends, I may feel guilty. • Money is not spiritual. People are starving, and the rich will never enter the kingdom of heaven. • I am undeserving. Something is wrong with me, so I can’t have it. • Life is difficult and it’s hard to succeed. The system is rigged; it doesn’t matter what I do; very few people really “make it.” One of our clients had a belief from childhood that only the chosen few, the elite, had money. This belief wrapped all three themes into one. Your childhood experiences with money can create limitations that stay with you for life unless you intervene and clear them. These experiences can include: •

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Whatever the blockages, clearing them is worthwhile. Releasing your fear of not having enough money is essential, because your attitude toward money is so basic to your well-being and so directly related to manifestation. If you can’t write a check without feeling negative about letting your money go, something is blocking the free flow of resources. There are also many other limiting beliefs that can prevent you from attracting money into your life. With the Manifestation Checklist in Figure 4.1, you can find yours. Limiting beliefs can then be transformed using EFT or Reframing and Anchoring, which are described in Appendixes A and C.

What You Can Afford Along with understanding more about what money represents to you, be sure to explore your ideas of what you can and cannot afford. We are often fascinated with the ways people spend their money. As with many areas, concepts of what we can and cannot afford are often largely unconscious. There have been many instances where people have told us they really want to accelerate their spiritual development or clear core issues but cannot afford to invest in themselves. Then, the very next month, we learn that they are taking vacations to the tropics or buying brand new cars. Something is missing in this picture, and it often seems to relate to one’s early programming about money. Ideally, we would want to spend our money in areas that we value, but, without paying attention and clearing blockages, this may not be what is happening. As with time, awareness is often needed to bring one’s spending habits into alignment with one’s goals and priorities.




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LISTENING TO THE WHISPERS We want to close this chapter on transforming interference with one more important thought. Through the synchronous flow of the universe, the challenges you encounter in your daily life are sending you messages. If you become angry driving in rush hour traffic every morning, your reality is telling you something. Similarly, if you are afraid to step out of the crowd and follow your own path, there is a message. These messages are not about being good or bad, better or worse. Rather they are about disconnection and wholeness. You could see them as whispers from beyond that are offering opportunities to release limitations and open to more of the truth of who you are. Clearing the blockages brings you closer and closer to wholeness. There is a saying that goes like this: if you don’t listen to the whispers, you get the shouts. Ignoring opportunities to release limitation and allowing yourself to fall into more and more suffering takes you further from your mission and purpose. From there, the messages inevitably become louder and more dramatic. Listen to these whispers. They can guide you to an experience of more joy and excitement as you discover and realize your purpose. To this end, let’s examine leaving the past behind and creating a wonderful future.





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CHAPTER FIVE

Leaving the Past Behind “The seed of perfection is within all that happens. All we have to do is see it." - SHEILA HOLLINGSHEAD

“Learn to let go of the past so you can move ahead more easily. YOUR HISTORY IS NOT YOUR DESTINY.” This statement from Sheila Hollingshead’s book Energy Therapy goes directly to the heart of the challenges that most of us face when we do something that is dramatically different with our lives. Transcending the limitations of the past is a critical part of transforming interference that merits its own chapter. We have done a lot of thinking about the idea that time is an illusion and that the past, present, and future all exist together. With NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), there is a process called Change History that illustrates this phenomenon. This process shows how one’s present is on a continuum from the past that extends into the future. The whole continuum is linked by an energetic resonance related to our thoughts and feelings about the various aspects of our lives, meaning that the past, present, and future all exist together.

When we view our possibilities as being limited because of something that happened in the past, the future will reflect this limitation. If we clear the past and embrace our infinite potential, the future will be correspondingly bright. We have come to understand time as a continuum that includes the past, present, and future that you can view in reference to specific areas of life. In each area, including your financial success, relationships, health, creative expression, and so on, your energetic resonance creates a vibrational field, which attracts what is commonly known as your probable future. An energetic blockage is created when a difficult or traumatic experience somewhere in one’s past caused a part of the soul to disconnect from one’s wholeness. This “disowned part” has been cut off from the light and wisdom of the soul, leaving it in the dark, at a low vibration, with limited resources. This darkness and limitation extends forward into the individual’s present experience, again lowering his or her vibration and limiting his or her resources. Following the continuum out into the future, the darkness and limitation again extend forward,


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along with the low vibration and limited resources. The chances of succeeding in this area of life are severely limited by this pattern. What if the part that was cut off from the light is healed? The whole space-time continuum changes. The part of the soul in the past is now surrounded by light and equipped with resources. This light extends forward into an equally bright present, with a correspondingly high vibration and the abundant resources of the soul. This high vibration makes life easier and extends outward into the future, which also looks bright. In every case, the past, present and future are all connected. If you are burdened by a blockage from the past, your present and your probable future are limited in that area. It’s generally difficult and sometimes impossible to connect with the high vibrations that will permit you to easily realize your dreams when you have a heavy ball and chain around your ankles or the weight of the world on your shoulders. Understanding the space-time continuum and the phenomenon of probable futures, it makes sense to set yourself up for a bright future by releasing the heavy burdens from your past and carrying a lighter, more joyful vibration into your probable future. While many blockages can be cleared with EFT or R&A without having to examine where they came from, some of the most deeply held limitations may require closer examination and the Change History Process can help. It may completely transform your life. Clearing the limitations of the past and aligning it with your desired future brings you fully into your body in the present moment. Here are some examples of common limitations that you may want to explore to enlist your infinite potential for manifestation: • Seeing yourself failing because of who you perceive yourself to be • Not believing in yourself because no one else does • Seeing yourself as a victim of some kind of injustice • Perceiving yourself as inept, not being able to do things right • Being limited because you are overburdened • Not feeling that you deserve to take time for yourself, including time to create the life of your dreams • Feeling that you have limited potential because of your gender, age, racial heritage, grades in school, economic background, or any other measurement of who you are • Feeling helpless in a society that seems to be headed in the wrong direction You can use either of the processes presented in this chapter to release any of these limitations and much, much more. We will start with Reframing.

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create in the future. To leave the past behind, we frequently use Reframing. Reframing is way of viewing the space-time continuum we just explored. With this process, you have an opportunity to explore the pictures you have in your mind. We all know the phrase “what you see is what you get.” This is literally true. If you see yourself as being fearful or undeserving, this is what you will create. In such cases, you are unconsciously settling for the low vibrations and limited perspective of the wounded ego. You can consciously change this and connect more with your wholeness. Reframing provides an opportunity to return to the car image you explored in Chapter One. Whatever your car looked like then, you can change the picture now and, as mentioned, go on the most exciting, joyful, and rewarding journey of your life. Amazing changes can happen with Reframing. The version provided here is a variation on techniques that are commonly used with Hypnotherapy and NLP. It is also similar to the process in our book Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT. If you are already familiar with this earlier book, Reframing is well worth revisiting. In fact, we use it regularly for ourselves, in our classes, and with clients. With this deceptively simple and effective process, you can quickly and easily re-program yourself from a soulful viewpoint that will help you to align your perspective with the wholeness and wisdom of the soul.

In essence, all healing is reframing, or shifting your perspective on something. You can use this powerful and insightful process with any image, emotion, or perceived limitation that comes to mind. As a note, Reframing is also the basis for the R&A Process You can read the Reframing Process to yourself, closing your eyes at any time to visualize and taking a few breaths to deepen your experience, as needed. To do this process, you first need to learn the Soul Centering Process in Chapter Two and feel comfortable about being in a soulful state, because it is from this centered place that you will clear the limitation. Before starting, you also need to have a specific limitation in mind to address, the more specific the better. For example, if you want to address fear, start with a specific fear, like the fear of speaking in public, which prevents many people from achieving the things they want. Attempting to address all of one’s fear in a single process is not generally effective, because it actually includes a number of different fears. To make the most of this process, find a quiet, comfortable place with a paper and pen handy to jot down your observations and insights gained during the process. Also, allow ample time, as this type of experience cannot be rushed. It requires being in a receptive, relaxed state where you can connect with the deeper levels of your awareness. To get the most from the written version, just read each word intentionally to yourself, close your eyes at intervals to deepen the experience, and visualize the different aspects of the process. Open yourself to experiencing the process with all of your senses, accepting the images, feelings, and messages that come into your mind, and avoid allowing your rational mind to analyze. Start by taking a few deep breaths and allowing any tension you feel in your body to begin to melt away. Fill your lungs completely with pure, clear air with each inhale, and allow more tension to release with each exhale, so you feel more relaxed with each breath, and your body becomes lighter and lighter. Just allow any tension you are releasing to melt down through your body, legs, and feet, into the earth. As you Copyright © 2007 Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose. Do not copy without permission.



continue to breathe, allow the breath to be loving and nurturing, embracing yourself with relaxation. Focus on sending this relaxation to every part of your body, starting at the tip of your head and working your way down to the tips of your toes. When you feel relaxed, allow the limitation you want to address to come into your awareness. If it is disturbingly uncomfortable, imagine that you are moving away from it as if you are viewing it from a distance or on a movie screen. This should make you feel better. While you continue to focus your awareness on the limitation, allow an image of it to emerge in your mind, such as a time when you experienced it. As the image emerges, make note of each of the following: •

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You may want to jot each of these things down before you go further. Focus particularly on how you feel emotionally and on how strong the emotion feels. You can measure the strength of the emotion from one to ten, with one being barely measurable and ten being the most intense. This will give you a measurement to compare to when you are done with the process. Also notice how this blockage limits your ability to create what you truly desire in your life. When you have a complete picture in your mind, imagine that you can rise gently above it to a higher place where you can view the situation from an elevated perspective, the perspective of your soul. You may want to imagine going to a mountaintop, onto a billowy cloud, up onto a star, or back to your universal home described earlier. You will know the right place for you. As you imagine yourself rising, take a few deep breaths to clear your mind. Breathe clear, loving energy into your heart, recalling how it feels to be connected with your soul. Then, when you arrive at your higher destination, allow the soul’s loving energy to radiate out through your body and all around you, so you are completely embraced by this energy. Just breathe and feel the connection with your soul. When you feel connected, place a hand on your heart and focus all of your senses on this experience of being aligned with your soul in this higher place, making note of what you see, how you feel, and what you hear. Jot down what you notice from this perspective. Focus particularly on how you feel emotionally and how you feel about your possibilities. Now bring in the joy and excitement of creating your heartfelt dreams. When the image is clear, ask yourself what color(s) you would associate with this soulful state, and imagine surrounding yourself with this color. The color(s), sounds, and positive energy you associate with your soul create an energetic hologram that you can overlay onto the limitation you left below you to transform it. Focus again on surrounding yourself with the soulful color, allowing it to permeate every cell of your body and surrounding yourself completely with it. When this feels complete, look down and notice the original image of limitation below you.


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Now imagine that you can send the positive energy and the soulful color down and completely cover the limiting image below you, filling everything in the image with the new energy and color. Focus again on the positive feelings and imagine gently following the color back down into the original scene. Notice yourself there surrounded by the soulful color and notice how you feel in this situation now compared with how you felt when you connected with this scene earlier, jotting down any changes you perceive. Also, return again to the emotion you measured earlier and measure its intensity again between one and ten, making note of any difference. Now, from this soulful place, reflect for a moment on the limitation you perceived initially. Notice what your possibilities are now for manifesting your dreams. It should be quite different. If it feels positive now, imagine that the future is extended out before you, and send the soulful color and energies into your future to enrich your entire life. As you gaze out into this future, remind yourself that you will be able to recall this soulful state and all that you have gained any time you wish in the future. To complete the process, take a few final breaths, breathing in active energy, feeling you are ready to return to your normal state of awareness. When you are done, you should feel quite different. It is worth spending a few moments of reflection to allow more insights to emerge and integrate the changes that have occurred. Also remember that any time you are in a situation similar to the one you just transformed, you can intensify the positive experience again by imagining yourself surrounded by the color and energies from this process. We have been using reframing with our clients and ourselves for years with remarkable results. Here is an example with Jane and a client we will call Judith, who reported having difficulty connecting with high vibrations like joy and lightness. When they started the Reframing Process, Jane asked Judith what she experienced physically and emotionally as she focused her awareness on this difficulty. Judith immediately said “I’m just average, not a person who will ever do something that is truly great.” In her mind’s eye, Judith saw herself as a wallflower in a dull looking room, where she blended into her surroundings, not standing out in any way. Physically, she saw herself slumped over and emotionally she felt a dullness that matched her surroundings. Judith reported the dull feeling to be at around a five out of ten. As their focus shifted to a higher place where Judith could benefit from an elevated perspective, she connected with the love in her heart and allowed this energy to radiate out, so she was completely surrounded by it. As she did, she immediately felt giggly as the feelings of dullness were replaced by utter joy. Judith then saw the image of herself brighten up, leaving the dull room for the open air, where she raised her arms high up into the air and heard herself declaring, “I am bubbling with joy. I am unique and I can create an extraordinary life, not just for me, but for everyone I touch. The world can be a brighter place because I am in it. This is my reason for being and I want the universe to know that it will be hearing a lot from me. My bright future is happening now and I stake my claim to greatness.” Judith now reported her feelings of bubbliness and joy to be around nine out of ten. All this happened in about ten minutes and it completely transformed Judith’s perspective on life. It brings up the point that each of us has a choice. We can settle for feelings of dullness and emptiness or we can choose to step out of the crowd and actively transform our lives.




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DELVING DEEPER INTO THE PAST In viewing the past, we include earlier stages of this life and even past lives as part of this continuum. If you don’t believe in past lives, don’t worry. To benefit from this approach, it is not necessary to believe anything in particular. The main point is as follows.

In any area of life, your responses to events in the past influence your perspective in the present, which produces a probable future. Take the example of a woman we will call Mary who believed that she was burned at the stake as a witch in a past life, as many free-spirited women who reached out of the norm were. The experience terrified Mary, and left her with a deep-seated fear that she could be killed and a belief that expressing herself is dangerous. Not surprisingly, Mary became an unusually quiet, shy person who was extremely reluctant to share any ideas that could be subject to criticism. As a child, she had extreme difficulty speaking in class and doing any kind of public speaking caused her to freeze up completely. All of these failures at expressing herself have left Mary in a low vibration in relation to self-expression. Regardless, Mary found new ideas exciting and she learned a lot about healing and spiritual development over many years of exploration. She had a lot to offer and felt guided to teach what she had learned. With her extreme shyness, this thought was challenging. Viewing the continuum from the past of being burned at the stake into her current state of believing that she could not express herself well, coupled with unconscious terror that she could actually be killed for saying something that was out of the norm, her probable future as a teacher looked challenging. Spiritually, the experience of being burned at the stake caused a part of Mary connected with her self-expression to disconnect from the light and wisdom of her soul. This “disowned part” was in the dark, resonating at a low vibration, and Mary was completely unaware of what has happened. Extending this darkness and low vibration out into the future, you can imagine the prospects. This continuum stayed in place until it was intentionally cleared. Mary changed her past by releasing the energetic blockage and disconnection with the soul. The darkness was bathed with the light and high vibration of her soul’s presence. Extending this light into the present, she could now learn to express herself more easily as her awareness of herself and her abilities shifts. Her future had also changed, so she would be able to express herself easily and attract success in whatever her heartfelt joy and excitement would guide her to do.

CREATING A BRIGHT FUTURE BY CHANGING HISTORY WITH EFT Change History is an NLP process that is especially helpful with blockages that seem to have always been with you, indicating that they are firmly rooted somewhere in the past. It is a more complex and advanced process, which we recommend using once you have a good understanding of EFT, R&A, and accessing unconscious information. It is also well worth the




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time to master Change History, because it can provide deep healing in areas where core issues are blocking the way. One of the reasons core issues are so intense is because they have been with us for a long time, representing issues that we have played out over and over, often over a period of many lifetimes. This process traces this history back to its origin and, when the original or causal event is healed, this healing changes your entire history, as well as your present and future.

An Example of Changing History Jane was helping a client we will call Sonia, who was actively participating in manifesting her dreams. Sonia knew that there were still issues from her upbringing that were limiting her and wanted to move through them once and for all, so she could freely pursue her heart’s desires. Considering the hold these issues had on Sonia, Jane felt that they were deeply rooted in her unconscious and that Change History could locate and resolve the causal event. Sonia started talking about her childhood and areas where she had picked up her parent’s limiting beliefs about life. Her mother constantly undermined her with criticism, finding the one thing she did wrong in every situation. She also saw her parents argue a lot about money, even though there was plenty for them to enjoy. The message Sonia got from her mother’s attitude about money and possessions was that things were more important than she was. As Sonia began the process, she closed her eyes and started to relax. Her thoughts about things being more important than she was took her mind back to a time when, at around 8 or 9 years old, she spilled fingernail polish on her mother’s dresser. She was too afraid to tell her mother what had happened, and felt even guiltier about disappointing her mother by not being able to tell her. She felt bad about herself, like she was not worth much. Following the feelings of not being worth much and disappointing her mother, Sonia then reflected further, going back to a time when she was about three years old and she had somehow gotten hold of a wallet. She knew she wasn’t supposed to have it and felt the same need to hide it that characterized the dresser experience. With the wallet, she felt like a thief and she was afraid of her father yelling at her. She recalled thinking that it wasn’t possible to have the things she wanted in a situation where she needed to sneak around. Several steps back further finally took Sonia to the causal event, which was in a past life in a native culture in South America, around the year 500 AD. In this life, she was a young male, who was the favorite son of the chief of the tribe. The son wanted to marry someone who was not acceptable according to the way things were done in this culture. Nonetheless, the son hoped to persuade his father somehow to allow the marriage. Instead, when confronted, the father killed the son, which surprised and shocked him (her). This left Sonia with an extremely traumatic memory and deep wound linked to feelings that it is not safe to want what you want and that being honest doesn’t work. These beliefs had stayed with her since that time, all the way up to the present, with limitations that projected into her future. As mentioned, you don’t have to believe in past lives for this process to work. You could just interpret the tribal image as a metaphor. In relation to the therapeutic value of the experience, it doesn’t matter. The important thing is to identify the blockage and clear it, which Jane and Sonia did. Jane guided Sonia to clear the issue, which essentially boiled down to




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the belief that she would be destroyed for pursuing what she wants. This limiting perspective would make it difficult to pursue her heartfelt desires. Clearing the strongest feelings connected with the native lifetime, Sonia began with the feelings of being unsafe in having what she wants. Starting at an intensity of nine or ten, one round brought up feelings of paralysis and inability to act, which they then cleared. Afterwards, Sonia felt neutral about being effective creating what she wants, but not particularly positive. Doubt had surfaced, which she rated at about an eight. If you’re thinking that Sonia hadn’t made much progress since the intensity was still at an eight, be aware that she was going through layers of different feelings, and each clearing was bringing her closer to wholeness. The fact that the feelings were changing with each round indicated that the clearing was proceeding well. They were able to bring the doubt all the way down to zero in one round, which allowed Sonia to understand the situation in a new way, from the perspective of the soul. Connecting in the heart, she felt optimistic now, loving and supported. Looking forward to every day, Sonia felt safe and secure, trusting in the unfolding, surrounded by synchronicities, and glowingly happy. Her entire history had been transformed. She identified these high vibrations with a combination of yellows, teals, and pinks. Sending this color and the high vibrations down over the scene in the native life, Sonia now felt better about what had happened. She realized that as the chief’s son, she had been happy much of the time and drew now from this happiness. Bringing the color up through time into her childhood experience with the wallet, Sonia now felt shielded from her former feelings. Coming back further to the nail polish experience, Sonia now felt like she could tell her mother about the spill and wouldn’t need to take what her mother said about her seriously. In the present, she realized that she could let her mother have her feelings without being limited in her ability to create. Her future looked bright, with sunshine, freedom, happiness, and loving supportive people around her. This profound process could easily transform Sonia’s ability to create the life of her dreams. Change History can be equally effective with any area that feels blocked in your life, using EFT or R&A to clear the blockage. As with any process, the more specific you can be about what you want to clear, the better your results will be. Tracking the blockage back through time requires that you have something quite specific in mind. This creates a clear link, and when it is cleared, your past-present-future continuum is completely different.

The Change History Process As mentioned earlier, before you start, remember that Change History is a more complex and advanced process, which we recommend using once you have a good understanding of EFT, R&A, Soul Centering, and accessing unconscious information. Again, we recommend being in a quiet, comfortable place with a paper and pen handy to jot down your observations and insights gained during the process. Also, allow ample time, as this type of experience cannot be rushed. It requires being in a receptive, relaxed state where you can connect with the deeper levels of your awareness. To get the most from the written version, just read each word intentionally to yourself, close your eyes at intervals to deepen the experience, and visualize the different aspects of the process. Open yourself to experiencing the process with all of your




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senses, accepting the images, feelings, and messages that come into your mind, and avoid allowing your rational mind to analyze. Find a comfortable position as you take a couple of nice deep breaths and begin to relax. As you continue to breathe, focus on breathing in more relaxing energy, feeling the tension melt from your body, and making any adjustments to relax further. As you continue to breathe, ask any energy that is not your own to leave your field now, sending it back where it came from. Like a tabletop picks up dust, we all pick up energy from those around us and the places we go. Sending this energy back clears energetic debris and allows us to feel clearer. We similarly leave bits of our own energy in different places – now ask to have all of your energy brought back to you, so you can feel whole and complete. As you continue to relax, focus on the issue you want to address, remembering to make it as specific as possible. As you continue to focus on it, measure its intensity on a scale of one to ten, with one being the least intense and ten being the most intense. Write down this number and any associated feelings. Also ask yourself what your future looks like in this area of your life, from this wounded perspective and briefly write your feelings down. Now ask your mind to take you back to a time earlier in your life when you experienced similar feelings, allowing whatever comes into your mind to surface, so you can look at it. You may become aware of a scene you are familiar with or something that is coming up from the unconscious mind. Whatever it is, take your pen and paper and write down what was happening that caused those familiar feelings. When you are through writing, close your eyes again, take a couple of nice, deep breaths, and ask your mind to take you back to an even earlier time when you had similar feelings, if this was not the first time. Again, accept whatever comes to mind and write down what was happening that caused those familiar feelings. When you are through, close your eyes again, take a couple of nice deep breaths again, and this time ask your mind if this was not the first time you had these feelings, to take you all the way back to the very first time, to the time when the blockage occurred. Again, write down what was happening that caused the feelings. Recognizing that the part of you that was experiencing this pain was doing the best it could in the situation, make note of the precise emotion(s) involved. Then imagine rising above the scene, so you can see it becoming smaller and smaller below you. Let yourself float gently up to a higher place like a mountaintop, a nice billowy cloud, or your universal home, where you can access a higher perspective. When you arrive, find a place where you can relax, allowing the fresh air to clear your head a bit. In this higher place, you can eliminate the blockage and you have three choices on how to do it. 1. You can use EFT to clear the blockage. 2. You can use the R&A process to clear.




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3. You can connect with your soul and ask it for the truth about the situation, writing down your thoughts about it as they enter your mind. Take some time and use the clearing method you choose now. When you are done, the blockage should be close to zero. When it is, place your hand on your heart and connect with the soul’s energy. Ask yourself what the message is in this situation for you and notice how you feel energetically. From this clear perspective, what quality can you use to replace the old feelings that will provide a high vibration and connect you with your infinite potential to create a bright future? Your soul should know, as it aligns with elevating qualities like peace, love, lightheartedness, confidence, inner security, and more. Again, jot down your perceptions for future reference. This is also your opportunity to shout your new perspective out to the universe. If you wish, you can use a round or two of EFT to enhance the strength of the new, positive feelings, to bring the intensity up close to a ten. Once you have finished, ask yourself what color or colors you would associate with these positive feelings. Now, imagine sending these new high vibrations and the color or colors down over the scene you left below you and follow them back down. When you arrive, notice how different the scene is now that your energy has shifted. From this place, imagine sending these positive vibrations and colors forward to the present time, filling all of the time in between with this positive energy and feel yourself gradually progressing forward through all of your past experiences with this new perspective, with the vibrations clearing everything in their path. When you arrive back at present time, note how you feel now about the issue compared with the way your felt when you started this process. Reinforce the new positive feelings again, feeling the positive vibrations all around you. Write down your feelings about the issue from this new perspective. To complete the continuum, send the positive vibrations and colors out to the future, filling every moment with them as far out as you can see. When the future is filled, imagine going out into the future and note what it looks and feels like now. Write down the opportunities you see in your future from this new perspective. When the process feels complete, you are ready to come back to your normal waking state, bringing all of the positive vibrations with you. Just breathe in a few nice, deep breaths of active energy now as your awareness returns fully to being in your seat in the present moment. Your success with this process will be enhanced if you focus frequently on the new feelings you are now carrying into your future, particularly over the next week or so.

You can never overdo reinforcing positive feelings. You can also use the colors you associated with the positive feelings to enhance the experience. Imagining yourself surrounded with both the colors and feelings will instantaneously bring back the positive state you created with this process. If you didn’t feel completely clear at the end of the process, this just means that there is more to explore. Notice what you are experiencing now and return to this process again soon to explore it further.




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THE BIGGER PICTURE OF THE PAST The Reframing and Change History Processes you have explored in this chapter can take you well down the road on the healing journey. On a larger scale, if there are any places in the past where you cannot see the value in your experiences, there is still something that needs to be healed. Sometimes this is difficult to understand. We are often asked questions like this: “How can you possibly see having an accident and breaking your leg as positive experiences?” or “How could you possibly think that this disease is a blessing?” Interestingly, cancer survivors often report that their disease is the best thing that has ever happened to them. To see the blessings, you have to look at your life in relation to learning, growing, and being a stronger, wiser, more complete person.

From the perspective of the evolutionary journey, all of our experiences have messages for us. These messages are not telling us that we are bad or failures; rather that our lives are guided in ways that help us to learn about ourselves and our reality. Fortunately, we also have choices. When we respond to subtle signs by clearing blockages and changing course, we can avoid many of the dramatic upheavals. Remember, “If you don’t hear the whispers, you will get the shouts.” Listen for the whispers. Realizing at the same time that healing is the essence of the spiritual path, it may take some time to heal enough wounds to fully recognize that everything is indeed in divine order and all of your experiences have served a positive purpose. If this idea is challenging to you, keep an open mind and realize that the soul’s perspective on the events of our lives is vastly different than the way we normally perceive them. We also remind you that there are times when we all need help from a skilled practitioner to explore and clear core issues. Receiving assistance can save a lot of suffering, when help is needed. The opportunity ahead is to listen to the whispers and move forward into the realms of our infinite potential. We will explore these realms more in the next chapter.





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CHAPTER SIX

Enlisting the Support of the Universe Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem. Expect abundance on every level. - EILEEN CADDY

Once you have written down your goals and taken steps to clear the blockages that stand in your way, you are well on the way to making your dreams a reality. To take it a big step further, this chapter will allow you to enlist the amazing power of the creative forces of the universe for the realization of your goals. We have had the good fortune of coming across a variety of ways of doing this over the years, and we present our current assimilation of them here. From a spiritual perspective, we understand that we are all being guided on our spiritual paths and the universe is supporting us in creating our dreams. The beings in the higher dimensions who watch over us are aware of everything we say and do, along with our thoughts and feelings. Through our vibrations, thoughts, words, and deeds, we are broadcasting our desires out to the universe. Considering all of the thoughts that go through our heads and all of the things we say and do, most of us probably send out a lot of mixed messages and produce a lot of static. One minute we are planning the wonderful life we want to create, the next, we decide we want something else, and the next we are telling ourselves all of the reasons why it won’t happen. What is the universe to make of it? And how can we create a finer focus and enlist the full power of the universe to support us? The simple answer is that we need to create a clear form of communication that will cut through all of the static. Before we go further with this exploration, we want to repeat what we said at the beginning of this program. Some of the ideas presented here may stretch your beliefs and we again hope that this will happen in positive ways. We are presenting our version of our spiritual reality here and it is fine for you to substitute terms and approaches that align with your orientation. In fact, we encourage it. This part of the program is where the


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true power comes in and semantics need not get in the way. We recommend approaching the information in this chapter in the way that makes the most sense to you.

ASKING FOR WHAT YOU WANT At this stage in the program, you need to have prepared your Focus List, as described in Chapter Three. Again, somewhere in the area of three to five goals is probably a realistic number to start with. Now you are ready to enlist some support. The way we see it, divine guidance and assistance is ours for the asking, but we do have to ask for it. The guides and angels who surround us in the higher realms help us as much as they can while honoring our free will. The synchronous flow of the universe likewise aligns itself with our intent. If we request specific assistance with our goals, the invisible forces of the universe will respond and our reality will align itself with our intent.

Creating a continuous connection with the higher realms can help you to realize that you are not alone. Vast unseen forces are available to support you every day of your life. We have already discussed the importance of connecting with your soul’s wholeness in the creation of your goals, so they correspond with your life purpose. Now we will align them with the power of the universe. The approaches described in this chapter are all time-tested ways to combine the power of the universe with your intent. This can be a creative experience and we suggest having fun with it.

YOUR MENU OF POSSIBILITIES As mentioned earlier, the resources provided in this chapter allow you to turbocharge the realization of your goals. Always match the efforts you make to realize your goals in your normal life with the requests for support from the universe. This is where the magic comes in. The amazing forces available to you in these higher realms have access to everything that is happening on the planet and knowledge of everyone who could help you, so they can find the most direct way for you to realize your dreams. The menu of possibilities that we draw from in our own lives includes the following: • Cosmic Ordering: This approach focuses on placing orders with the universe to create whatever your heart desires. • The Celestial Communication System: This approach, which we have developed based on Bob Scheinfeld’s The 11th Element audio program, provides a complete systematic approach for enlisting the power of the universe in the realization of your goals. It involves placing requests to your celestial support team and the synchronous flow of the universe to support you with your goals. This approach is comprehensive and it can easily include cosmic ordering and hiring the heavens, which is next.




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• Hiring the Heavens: This simple and fun approach comes from Jean Slatter’s book Hiring the Heavens. It focuses on engaging the assistance of vast spiritual resources to help you with anything you are doing. • The Manifestation Process: The process we use was inspired by Vianna Stibal’s book Go Up and Work with God and Lazaris’ audio Engaging the Mysterious Magic of Claiming and Demanding. It takes you to a higher level of reality, the cosmic level, where you can access the energetic blueprint for the structure of things and change it. • The Manifestation Map: This is a physical representation that you can create for your manifestations, within the supportive frequency of a heart. It energetically attracts your goals to you. We provide a format for creating this map here. The power of the universe is available for the asking, whoever you are, wherever you are. As a note, for those interested in scientific evidence of the power of intention and focused thought, we refer you to Lynn McTaggart’s book The Intention Experiment. The awardwinning science journalist carefully complies dozens of studies, experiments, and cases of how human intention has tangibly influenced plants, animals, human cells, and people. McTaggert discusses people who are pioneers in intention science and subtitles her book, “Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World.”

COSMIC ORDERING We begin with the approach Barbel Mohr describes in her insightful book Cosmic Ordering. Mohr’s book provides tools that allow you to directly enlist the power of the universe to help you with your creations. With this approach, you simply put out your request to the universe in whatever way feels convincing to you. Mohr mentions that if you believe the process needs to be complex, then it does. And if you believe that if you don’t do it right it won’t work, you’ll be right again. This means it can also be simple and it can be fine if you don’t do it perfectly. The universe will understand you. After all, it’s the spirit that counts. The important point is to make the process you use intentional, so you feel certain that the request has been delivered. Examples that Mohr provides include placing your order in the darkness of night through an open window or placing a call on an imaginary phone with a direct line to the universe. To make the phone call approach intentional, you could use a specific object to place the call.

Be joyful and creative. Approach this type of process playfully, like a child. A five year old whose rational mind hasn’t developed enough to get in the way may just take off one of his shoes and speak into it as if it was a telephone. Have fun with this idea. You may prefer to use a large seashell that you can hold up to your ear, speak into a ring you usually wear, or use a stick as a microphone. Placing your request aloud also makes it more real, so you can just speak up into the microphone, saying something like “Hello Universe, I am creating a new product that can help people to value themselves and I need your help to find the right customers for it. Please let me know in some obvious way how to best market




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my product. Thanks a lot. I look forward to hearing from you soon.” Or “Dear Universe, I have been trying unsuccessfully to find a ring I lost yesterday and I think I need some help. Please guide me to its location. Thank you so much.” If you are open, you may even be able to carry on a two-way conversation, allowing the universe to respond; you may receive some insightful messages this way. Once you place your request, Mohr recommends simply forgetting about the whole thing as the best follow-up. Wondering if the universe heard you or going back and placing your order again and again just creates doubt and you want to assume that the universe is in the process of responding. Continued doubt, fear, and worry drag your vibrations down, which may cancel your order all together. With this in mind, Mohr also suggests starting with something you are not identified with, something where it is fine if it occurs and it is fine if it doesn’t. This way, you can easily let go of the outcome, focus on staying positive, and simply allow your order to unfold in the most appropriate way. We have developed a very specific form of cosmic ordering that we use to enlist the power of the universe in realizing our goals. We call it the Celestial Communication System.

CREATING YOUR CELESTIAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM To clear up the static in the communication between ourselves and the beings who support us in the higher dimensions, we have each created a Celestial Communication System, which includes a Celestial Message Center and a Celestial Bulletin Board. These two simple items have become our links between ourselves and the power of the universe. We use the Celestial Message Center to send messages to our Celestial Support Team, which we understand to be our higher selves, guides, and angels who are always with us. We address them as a collaborative group and allow them to help us directly or, if necessary, to forward our requests for assistance out to the creative flow of the entire universe to help us to realize our goals. We first learned of this approach in an audio program for creating wealth and success called The 11th Element, which was created and narrated by Bob Scheinfeld. Scheinfeld’s audience is the business community. He calls his support team “The Invisible Network” and directs messages to his “Inner CEO.” As mentioned earlier, this approach will probably work best for you if you find terms for connecting yourself with the invisible forces of the universe that align best with your orientation. You could have a Universal Message System, an Angelic Message System or something similar of your own creation. Just make sure that the vibrations of the terms you use are high, with the intent of connecting with the most positive forces available to you in the higher realms.

The Celestial Message Center The Celestial Message Center is the main hub of activity in your Celestial Communication System. This is the place where you can send messages requesting the assistance of your Celestial Support Team in the realization of your goals. Again, as you set out, you will target in on your Focus List of goals, the ones that will create the greatest positive impact on your life.




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It’s important not to confuse things by trying to change everything at once. Your efforts would be too diluted if you attempted to realize 50 life-changing goals this week, this month, or maybe even this year. Focus on quality over quantity, honing in on a few specific things and updating these goals as you progress, as discussed in Chapter Three. We have found a positive change in even just one seemingly small area tends to broaden out into a number of areas and this change can transform one’s entire life. As a simple example, Phillip once helped a woman we will call Carol who was going through a difficult period in her life. Carol mentioned that she kept everything, so her closets were packed full of stuff and she knew that she needed to let go of the old to bring in the new. Phillip did a simple process with her to help her to let go. It worked. Not only did Carol go home and clean out her closets, within a short period of time, she got a divorce, leaving a relationship that was no longer serving either partner. By clearing the blockage and cleaning out her closets, Carol opened to a whole new life. The first thing to do is to create a special place for your Message Center. It can be a file tray, like an out box, a nicely decorated box with a lid for more privacy, or anything that seems right and magical to you. Just make it something special, with a high vibration, and find a nice place to keep it. This will become your doorway to the higher dimensions.

The Celestial Transmittal With your message box in place, you are ready to open the lines of communication. We use what we call a Celestial Transmittal and we have included a sample of something that you could use for your first message to your support team in Figure 6.1. Your communications could be in the form of a letter, a work order, or something similar. Whatever you choose, type them on your computer, if possible, to make them clean and clear. This also allows for easy updating, when needed. Your first message informs your support team that you are creating this system to clarify your intent and streamline communication with them. In your first message, include the following elements: • Create a name that you can address your messages to. Though you are addressing a collective of beings, you may imagine addressing the leader of the group, or a name that represents the collective, which is what we do. One way to receive the name is to do the Soul Centering Process in Chapter Two and ask for the name of your Celestial Support Team. • Claim your right to become the creator of your reality. This is important, because the universe needs to know that you are serious about taking charge and moving forward with your life. •

Identify an alternate form of communication that you can use if you need help right away and cannot write a message. As mentioned in the sample in Figure 6.1, we tap on our forehead three times and say “Hello _______ (use the name you have created




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Sample of Initial Transmittal to Support Team CELESTIAL TRANSMITTAL Date: ___________ To:

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Creating the Life of My Dreams, Opening Communication Through the Celestial Message Center

Message: I am writing to let you know that I have created this new form of communication with you and, through you, to the creative forces of the cosmos. I joyfully and enthusiastically claim my right to intentionally co-create the life of my dreams with the universe. I request your assistance with making my dreams a reality in alignment with my mission and purpose. For clarity, I will provide you with Celestial Transmittals stating my goals from now on. Whenever possible, I will place these transmittals in the Celestial Message Center I have created in my office. In the event that I need immediate help and cannot write out a transmittal, I will provide the following signal: I will tap on my forehead three times and say “Hello _________” either aloud or, if necessary, silently, and tell you what assistance I am seeking. In response to these requests, I ask that you help me yourselves or through the creative forces of the universe. In either case, please guide me to take the steps necessary to create what I request or something better. I am open to exploring ways to change the way I perceive things or do things, areas where I am limiting myself that I need to clear, new information, new contacts, events that will guide me to my next steps, and alternate possibilities. With this in mind, I request that you guide me with clear messages and signs that I can easily understand. To open communication, I invite you to use the following signs to communicate with me: coming across a penny with the head up is a sign that I am on the right track, and coming across a penny with the tail up is a sign that I need to adjust my direction in some way that will be made clear to me. I am also open to any other clear ways that I can receive messages from you and the universe. With my highest regards and heartfelt appreciation, _________________________ (your signature)




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for your support team)” either aloud or, if necessary, silently, and tell them what assistance you are seeking. • Create a way for the universe to communicate with you. In the sample in Figure 6.1, the sign is a penny. Heads up means you are on the right track and tails up means that you need to adjust your direction in some way that will be made clear to you. You can choose any sign you want. Just keep it simple. Expecting the universe to put an orchid in your path on a regular basis may not make as much sense as a penny. • Make it official. When you have finished your communication, print it out and sign it. Once you open communication, there is nothing that is too large or too small to request assistance with in the creation of your reality. One time we were going to a holistic expo and we had an extra ticket. While riding there in the car, Jane informed her Celestial Support Team that she wanted to make the extra ticket available for someone who needed one, and that she would look around when she arrived at the entrance to the expo for the person who was to receive the ticket. When we arrived, Jane looked around, perplexed that no one was there, when along came a friend who we were planning to meet later inside. Jane was still perplexed, because she thought that our friend already had a ticket, but she found out that the friend actually needed a ticket. We were delighted that our support team was able to connect us with the intended recipient for the extra ticket. This may sound like an insignificant matter, and it is, but it is an example of being in the synchronous flow of the universe. It was joyful to be of assistance to the woman who needed a ticket. Small requests like this can provide verification that your system is working. We find that it works like a charm, and it allows us to actively participate in the creation of our reality.

Setting Your Ground Rules Once you have sent the initial message to your Celestial Support Team establishing your new communication system, we next recommend sending a message to set the Ground Rules you want to apply to all of your goals, as discussed in Chapter Three. This will greatly simplify the requests that follow. We are providing a sample for this message, as well, in Figure 6.2. Before you send this message, take some time to reflect on it, remembering that your actions have to align with your Ground Rules. If you have a problem with your temper and are not able to be friendly and helpful to others, we would recommend clearing and, if needed, setting a goal to enlist the power of your support team to help you to bring this area of your life into balance. Once you feel aligned with a reality where people are friendly and helpful, you can add this to your Ground Rules, if desired.

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FIGURE 6.2

Sample of Transmittal for Setting Ground Rules CELESTIAL TRANSMITTAL Date: ___________ To:


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Message: I am writing to let you know that I have developed a list that I call “Ground Rules,” which I want to apply to my life and my creations. THESE ARE MY CURRENT GROUND RULES: In the creation of my reality, I expect the following: 1. I am synchronously in the right place at the right time to live joyfully and realize my mission in perfect time. This includes: •

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more about becoming part of the Master Spirit Community at the back of this book.) We also post our Manifestation Maps described later in this chapter, pictures, inspirational quotes, key words, and anything else that inspires us in the creation of our dreams. Figure 6.3 provides a sample transmittal that you can adapt to get started. In addition to enhancing our communication with our support team, this bulletin board provides us with a continuously present reminder that we are the creators of our reality. It is alive with the joy and excitement with which we approach our creations that we can easily build upon and draw energy from as we progress.

Notifying Your Support Team of Your Goals With the Celestial Bulletin Board, you can easily notify your support team of the goals you are currently focusing on (your Focus List). We write the list out and post it on the Celestial Bulletin Board. In this regard, when you write out your goals, remember to identify what you want, when and why you want it, and what your current action plan is. Take your time and make sure that your request feels complete before you deliver it to your support team and enlist their assistance. If you can type your Focus List into a computer, this is ideal, because you can make adjustments over time, add goals, and remove goals, as desired. You can also create a transmittal notifying your support team of a new goal or goals, and deliver it in the Celestial Message Center. Again, be sure to include that you want, why, when, etc. As a note, we occasionally write other thoughts for our Celestial Support Teams. When you notice their presence in your life, you may want to just let them know that you appreciate them. You may have other messages and this system provides a way for you to communicate. As a recap, here are the main elements in the Celestial Communication System: 1. Develop a Focus List of goals in alignment with your soul’s heartfelt desires. 2. Set up your version of the Celestial Message Center. 3. Create an initial Celestial Transmittal informing your Support Team that you are going to communicate with them in this way, along with how you will communicate when you are away. Select a sign they can use to communicate with you. 4. Set your Ground Rules and transmit them to your Celestial Support Team. 5. Create your Celestial Bulletin Board and notify your Support Team about it and how you plan to use it. 6. Post your goals on your bulletin board and/or notify your support team of your goals using transmittals. 7. Keep in touch with your support team and update your goals as is appropriate. Connect with your soul’s wisdom for guidance as you progress.




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Sample of Transmittal Describing the Bulletin Board CELESTIAL TRANSMITTAL Date: ___________ To:


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Message: I am writing to let you know that I have created this new form of communication with you and through you, to the creative forces of the cosmos. In addition to using the Celestial Message Center to deliver messages to you, I have set up a Celestial Bulletin board where I am posting the goals that my Master Spirit Community partners and I have set and are envisioning for each other. In response to these postings, I ask that you help us to realize our posted goals yourselves, through collaboration with their celestial support teams, or through the creative forces of the universe. In any case, please guide us to take the steps necessary to create what we request or something better. We are open to exploring ways to change the way we perceive things or do things, areas where we are limiting ourselves that we need to clear, new information, new contacts, events that will guide us to our next steps, and alternate possibilities. As with the Celestial Message Center, I request that you guide me personally with clear messages and signs that I can easily understand. To open communication, I invite you to use the following signs to communicate with me: coming across a penny with the head up is a sign that I am on the right track, and coming across a penny with the tail up is a sign that I need to adjust my direction in some way that will be made clear to me. I am also open to any other clear ways that I can receive messages from you and the universe regarding my postings on the Celestial Message Board. With my highest regards and heartfelt appreciation, _________________________ (your signature)




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HIRING THE HEAVENS Jean Slatter’s engaging book Hiring the Heavens is a wonderful resource for anyone who is actively involved in creating the life of his or her dreams. It opens you to another approach to creating a direct connection with the higher realms for support in any area of your life. This approach is so simple that you would have to work to complicate it. The idea is that you can hire a spiritual consultant to help you in any area of your life. If you want to expand it further, you can hire a whole team of consultants to help you in a variety of different areas of your life. As you drive into a crowded parking lot, you can hire a spiritual parking attendant to create a parking space for you close to the shop where you are heading. Then just drive up toward the shop and allow the parking space to appear. This may seem like a silly example, but doing this is a simple way to confirm that your intent can influence your reality. Expanding it to a whole team, here is an example of Jane’s current team of spiritual consultants. They include the Spiritual Grant Advisor mentioned earlier, a Spiritual Manifestation Advisor to assist us with writing this book, a Spiritual Veterinarian to help our dog to achieve vibrant health, a Spiritual Travel Agent to secure reservations we need for our travels, a Spiritual Holistic Health Expert to help Jane to maintain consistently vibrant health, a Spiritual Investment Consultant, and a Spiritual Marketing Specialist. You can have as many or as few spiritual consultants a you wish, requesting spiritual consultants with the exact skills you need to achieve your goals. In her book, Slatter suggests that you can view these consultants as angels. You could hire a Spiritual Health Angel to help you to achieve vibrant health and a Spiritual Efficiency Angel to help you to make your life easier and more enjoyable. If you relate more to a business orientation, you could view them as a Spiritual Executive Committee. You could even sit down and hold meetings with this committee to review your progress and update them on your current needs in different areas of your life. As with cosmic ordering and the Celestial Communication System, we recommend that you make your process of hiring the heavens intentional, so you feel completely clear that you have made the request for a specific spiritual consultant, along with the specifics of what you need from this consultant now.

Remember to word all of your goals and requests in positive terms, stating what you want, not what you don’t want. We generally hire the heavens in combination with our Celestial Communication System by tapping ourselves three times on the forehead, saying hello to our support team, then requesting the spiritual consultant we need. As a follow-up, you can also keep a current list of your spiritual consultants on your Celestial Bulletin Board. This way, you can simply refer to the list when you want to request further support. A Hiring the Heavens request may go something like this: “Hello __________, I request the immediate assistance of a Spiritual Development Advisor to provide clarity on the direction I need to take in my career to align it with my spiritual purpose. Thank you for your assis-




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tance.” As with cosmic ordering, assume that your order has been received and that it is occurring. Trust in the divine. As Slatter mentions in her book, “Know that it will happen. It will not serve any purpose to use this process as a testing ground for the Universe. An ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’ attitude will keep success just outside your reach,” and you don’t want that. Quite the contrary: why not open to a reality where miracles are a regular event? Slatter’s approach in Hiring the Heavens can help you to bring magic and miracles into your daily life.

THE MANIFESTATION PROCESS We have been using this process for years with great results. The version we provide here is specifically intended to allow you to consciously claim your right to take on the role of creator of your reality. When you step forward and claim your right to create the life of your dreams, you step into the driver’s seat. As Jean Slatter put it, “By divine design, we are creators with God, literally in the director’s chair of our life. God and the entire spiritual realm are part of our support system, the wellspring of all our resources. … We are being asked to consciously create our own world, fully confident in our seat of authority – and in our knowledge that the entire universe stands joyfully ready to assist us.” The Manifestation Process places you firmly in your director’s chair at the top of creation, where you can view the entire universe and stir up your reality to create your dreams. It provides an ideal setting for you to proclaim to the universe your position as the creator of your reality. This process works equally well to enlist the support of the universe in the creation of a specific goal. For the realization of a goal, have something specific in mind to manifest. To focus the energy, this process works best when used for a single manifestation or limited to a few things at a time rather than for manifesting a large number of things all at once. You can repeat it over time to include more manifestations, giving each one the individual attention it deserves to bring it into being. The process provided here focuses on a single manifestation. You can adapt it to add more, if desired. As you feel your energy aligning with the creation of your manifestation, realize that this is a visualization you might want to return to in coming days, so make particular note of how the energy is being drawn to you and your manifestation. As you prepare to do this process, we recommend being in a quiet, comfortable place with a paper and pen handy. We also recommend allowing a bit of time; as this type of experience cannot be rushed. It requires being in a receptive, relaxed state where you can connect with the deeper levels of your awareness. To get the most from the written version, just read each word intentionally to yourself and close your eyes at intervals to deepen the experience and visualize the different aspects of the higher realms in which you are traveling. Open yourself to experiencing the process with all of your senses, accepting the images, feelings, and messages that come into your mind, and avoid allowing your rational mind to analyze. As you prepare to begin, focus on breathing pure energy into your heart, and open to the light of your soul. Continue to inhale this pure energy, allowing each breath to bring in more light, clearing any tension you feel in your body, until you feel so light that you can imagine yourself rising out of your seat and moving upward into the sky, Copyright © 2007 Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose. Do not copy without permission.



heading once again to your soul’s universal home. As you read this visualization, take your time and stop to close your eyes and explore the scenery along the way. Notice as you float through the air, how you’re an integral part of everything you see below you on the planet and that you are also an integral part of the sky above. Now allow this energy and light to lift you, taking you to your place of peace in your soul’s universal home. As this higher dimensional home comes into view, notice again that it is a magnificent structure with many levels, where you can freely explore your divine nature and purpose. Upon arrival, you are surrounded again by the guides and angels who are supporting you from behind the scenes. If you have created your Celestial Communication System, you may notice that your Celestial Message Center and your Celestial Bulletin Board synchronously exist here in your universal home, just as they do in your physical home. When you put a message or posting into your communication system, it is instantaneously received here in the higher dimensions, where your support team can take immediate action on it. Once you have had an opportunity to take a look at this communication center, your support team guides you to a elevator with a panoramic view of the heavens around you, that will transport you upward through the different levels of your universal home. As the elevator rises now, feel yourself lifting up further into space now, so you can see the entire solar system. From this perspective, you can look back down to the earth and notice how our dense perspective holds us in limitation here. Also imagine the earth we are evolving into as we open to the wisdom of our souls, and rise in awareness, so that we can co-create with the oneness that is all around us. This journey will take humanity through the fourth dimension, which provides flow to clear the density of the third dimension into the fifth dimension, where we can connect with the divine structure that allows us all to co-create in each moment. While we can cocreate as individuals in the third dimension, when humanity as a whole is able to shift to a fifth dimensional perspective, we will be able to literally create our reality in each moment. Focus also on the sun, the source of life for the entire solar system. As you can connect with the energetic frequency of the earth, you can likewise connect with the energy of the sun for healing and wisdom. From here, as the elevator lifts you higher, you embrace an even higher perspective that includes other planetary systems. Breathing even lighter energy now, allow yourself to rise in frequency to the universal level of awareness. As you gaze over the vastness of the entire universe, with its many galaxies and solar systems, notice how incredibly small our earth is and how miniscule our problems are in relation to the wonders that surround us. Feel yourself connected with the universe and its level of awareness, which transcends the limits of time, where every moment is experienced in a single instance and where reality shifts as we shift our consciousness. It can be challenging to grasp the experience of existence beyond the limits of time, but you


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can return to the universal level any time you wish to expand your awareness of this possibility. From the universal level, the elevator lifts you all the way up to a viewing area at the top of our creation, the cosmic level. From this perspective, you have access to many different universes, along with a viewing level of the different forms of existence that make up our creation.

The cosmic level of reality is where all of creation begins. At this level, you will also find a viewing platform where you can look down upon your entire reality. You can come to this viewing platform at the top of your universal home at any time to view or sense your reality from this elevated perspective and make the changes you desire. It may be a platform with a telescope and guardrails that overlooks your normal reality down on the physical plane or you may perceive another form that is right for you to use for viewing and reaching into your reality. When you arrive in the viewing area, take a look down upon your life on the physical plane noticing yourself going about your normal activities there. Now, take a nice, deep breath and shift your focus to the subject of manifestation. Here, you can adapt the approach to what feels right to you. You want to address God, the Creator, the Creative Power of the Universe, the oneness of all that is, or something similar that makes sense to you, and claim your right to be the creator of your reality. Say something like the following, aloud if possible: “Dear Creative Power: I come to claim my rightful place as the creator of my reality in alignment with my highest purpose.” If you have been here before and return to request the support of the universe in creating a specific goal, say something like the following: “Dear Creative Power: I claim this manifestation of ____________ in alignment with my highest purpose.” Now look down again into your reality, and imagining that you have an arm that can reach a longggggggg distance, stir your reality up a bit to shift the energy around, so your manifestation can take form. Then imagine the energy of the cosmos, of God, or whatever resonates with you reaching out into your reality to magnetize your manifestation to you. Take your time with this, imagining the different directions from which your manifestation may be drawn to you. If carrying on a conversation with the creative forces of the cosmos feels comfortable to you, you can also ask questions from this elevated perspective and allow the universe to respond. Finish with sensing/seeing yourself taking action to bring your manifestation into reality and visualize the manifestation taking place in your future. Imagine your creation coming fully into form in alignment with your purpose. You may also want to create a symbol or visualize a color that represents your manifestation and send it down into your reality and into your future.


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When the manifestation feels complete and its realization is clear in your mind, you are ready to close the process. With clear intent, say something like: “Thank you Creative Power. It is done.” Say this confidently, aloud if possible, and visualize your manifestation(s) taking form. Now, looking down again upon your creation, ask if your soul has a message as you prepare to realize your dream and return to your current level of reality. You may also want to jot down any message that comes to you for future reference. When you feel complete, you can begin to drift gently back down in the elevator to the entrance of your universal home, then back down again to the physical plane. Notice the planet, landscape, buildings and trees coming into focus, as you return to the place where you started, returning gently back into your seat. As you feel your body resting in your seat, breathe in some active energy to bring yourself back to your normal state of awareness, feeling enlightened, grounded securely to the earth, and wonderfully alive. When you complete the process, draw your symbol, if you received one, and keep it in a prominent place, such as on your Celestial Bulletin Board. It can also become a part of the Manifestation Map, which we describe next.

Regular Use of the Manifestation Process With practice, you should be able to do this process quickly and easily by simply finding a quiet place where you can sit down and relax. Just close your eyes, imagine rising to your viewing area at the top of your universal home on the cosmic level of creation, claim your manifestation, stir your reality up a bit to help things to shift around, and come back down, knowing that your reality is reconfiguring to conform to your request. As mentioned earlier with Cosmic Ordering and Hiring the Heavens, once you have completed this process, know that your request has been received and that it is occurring. Let it take its course. You can revisit your cosmic viewing area for new requests, and to update your earlier ones. Enjoy the process and trust the universe to provide for you.

CREATING THE MANIFESTATION MAP Most people have a limited perspective on reality, so we are all surrounded energetically with frequencies of limitation rather than the joy, flow, and transcendence discussed in this program. While this need not necessarily limit you, it also doesn’t provide any energetic support for your creations. To counteract these low frequencies, we have developed a way to provide energetic support for the flow of your manifestations with the Manifestation Map. Using a photo of yourself or a lock of your hair, either of which connect with your energetic signature, this map literally surrounds you and your manifestations with love and support in a way that helps to draw your dreams to you. The Manifestation Map has some similarities to treasure maps and vision boards, which we describe briefly in this chapter. This map also is a distinctive tool in itself. Within its Copyright © 2007 Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose. Do not copy without permission.



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framework, you can place specific words, pictures, and symbols to make what you are manifesting clear and easy. You can find a guide for creating this map in Figure 6.4. Here are the key aspects of the Manifestation Map: • Photo: Your photo on the map identifies your energetic signature as the receiver of the manifestations. As an alternative, you can use a lock of your hair, which also carries your energetic signature. • List: Around the photo are the desired creations. We suggest listing just a few things on each map, like on your Focus List, so you can keep track of what you wish to create and watch for the synchronous signs that your reality is responding to your request. • Heart: The heart surrounding the photo and the list energetically surrounds you and your creations with unconditional love. This archetypal vibration helps you to attract your heartfelt desires. • Four Cornerstones: This provides a structure for your creations. Include four qualities that resonate with you, such as the manifestation principles discussed in Chapter Two. • Statement of Intent: Here you are enlisting your power by claiming your creation, so it can come into being, as you also do in the Manifestation Process. • Your Signature: With your signature, you acknowledge your commitment to your creations and to all that is required to make them a reality. Once the map is complete, put it in a special place, like on your Celestial Bulletin Board, and check back with it regularly as a reminder of your goals. You also may want to change it over time, as your reality shifts.

Dream Boards, Treasure Maps, and Vision Boards Another activity you can do along similar lines to the Celestial Bulletin Board and the Manifestation Map is to create a dream board (also known as a Treasure Map or Vision Board). This is generally a collage of magazine pictures, key words, and whatever you want to add that are mounted on a cardboard backing, so you can hang it up as a representation of your intentions. Creating a Dream Board can be fun, create expectation, and make your dreams feel more real.

CONCLUSION Enlisting the support of the universe takes the realization of your goals to a much higher level. We offer a variety of approaches, so you can find the ones that work best for you and enlist the power of the universe in the realization of your dreams. To review, they include




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FIGURE 6.4

Format for the Manifestation Map MY MANIFESTATIONS Cornerstone

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The four cornerstones are the primary qualities with which you wish to manifest. The four chosen here are suggestions. Others may come from the Principles of Manifestation described in Chapter Two or from your intuitive knowing of how you can best create. In this lower area, place a statement that describes your intent, like

“I claim that these creations come into being with love, in perfect time, and in accordance with my highest good.” Your Signature




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Cosmic Ordering, the Celestial Communication System, Hiring the Heavens, the Manifestation Process, Manifestation Maps, and Dream Boards – an extraordinary wealth of opportunities. We again recommend pairing each of your goals with requests for the support of the universe. Whichever approach or approaches you choose, once you place your order with the universe, it is important to trust that your wishes have been understood and that your request is in the process of being fulfilled. Imagine calling your local bookstore to order a book, then calling the next morning to make sure they got your order, then calling again later in the day to make sure that they still were planning to send it out, then calling again the next morning to make sure that they were actually processing your order, and so on. If you place a request with the universe, assume that it is occurring, let it go, and watch for new opportunities to emerge. A round or two of EFT can also work wonders here and remove your worries. Clearing blockages is much more effective than trying to ignore them, pretending they don’t exist. If these types of approaches are new to you, just be flexible and have fun with them. As you continue, you will notice that they become easier and more natural. Your sense of reality will expand to include the unseen forces that are at work beyond your normal awareness. You will feel more and more aligned with the synchronous flow over time. You have come a long way on your journey and there is still a bit more to explore. So what’s next? Chapter Seven tells you what to expect once you have completed all of the steps described so far and it is time to enjoy some wonderful results.


CHAPTER SEVEN

Opening to New Opportunities There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - ALBERT EINSTEIN

Once you have created your Focus List and enlisted the powerful resources of the universe to help you to bring them into being, what can you expect? The outcome may not be what you think, so it is critically important to open to different possibilities and unexpected opportunities. In The 11th Element, Bob Scheinfeld recommends separating completely from your ideas about the outcome. This can be challenging, but if you are open, magic can happen. You can also synchronously expect change and growth to enter your life. Here are some possible outcomes: • Sometimes your manifestation simply arrives, as desired. • You may be given opportunities to change the way you perceive things or do things to accommodate change. • You may come across new information that will guide you in the desired direction. • You may recognize synchronous events that will lead you to the next step on the journey of self-discovery. • You may receive messages from your soul through journaling or from the universe in some way that will help you understand more of your divine nature and the magical path you are on. • Your manifestation may arrive in a different way than you imagined it. • You may negate the whole process by doubting it and succumbing to fear. We don’t recommend this; doubt can stop your manifestations dead in their tracks. Over time, your creations and your purposes will synchronously come into alignment if


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you pay attention to the feedback your reality provides. Open your mind and heart to new ways of experiencing reality.

To the Chinese, uncertainty represents opportunity, when hidden possibilities can emerge. We suggest adopting what could be called a “wow” attitude; after all, anything could happen. You are on a treasure hunt to discover opportunities. To progress and avoid negating the process, you need to be flexible, recognizing that something wonderful is happening now, not sometime out in the future. Your goals are in the process of coming into form at this very moment. The universe is realigning itself to accommodate your goals. Nonetheless, you may need to surrender to a period of uncertainty as your goals prepare to emerge. Here are some ways to deal with uncertainty: • Keep your vibrations up with a positive focus to connect you with the realms of infinite possibilities. This is your number one goal for whatever you want to create. The ultimate goal is to experience each moment connected with the joy and excitement of being you. • Focus on being grateful for the blessings you have in your life and avoid complaining or whining. These bad habits carry tremendously low vibrations that completely block the synchronous flow of the universe. This will give you even more to complain about. • Assume that your dream is in the process of coming into form. • Take action, however small, to start incorporating your goals into your life. Be actively engaged in your creations to expand the opportunities available to you. If you just sit in a closet, it may be difficult for the universe to interact with you. • Watch for synchronicity. If you are paying attention, your reality will provide messages and new awareness as you progress. • Joyfully open yourself to the new ways of thinking, doing, and being that will allow you to shift from your current ways of creating to more effective ones. If you avoid change, cultivate doubt, and stay as you are, your reality will stay as it is. Your doubt will prove itself to be right. If you joyfully connect with the flow, the mysteries of the universe will be revealed and your life will never be the same again. Take the example of seeking vibrant health. With the storybook approach, you might expect the good fairy to come along and wave a wand that removes all of your ailments. Or you may go to bed one night as an unhealthy person only to miraculously wake up as a healthy person. Miracles do happen and you want to be open to this as a possibility. At the same time, you also want to be open for it to occur in another way. Rather than a miracle, you might be given an opportunity to make changes in your lifestyle that will bring vibrant health. It is important to be open to learning new things along the way. Expect to succeed, but don’t limit yourself in relation to the many possible ways that this may happen and how the final outcome will appear.




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Scheinfeld also mentions that you may not even recognize it when your goal comes into being in a surprising way. This almost happened to us recently. We had set the goal to have more joy in our lives. When we set the goal, we didn’t have anything specifically in mind, other than being watchful of our vibrations. So we didn’t realize there could be a connection when, shortly thereafter, several people offered dogs to us. It seemed odd to us that this was occurring, although we had been considering getting a new dog. We hadn’t set a specific goal or taken much action on it, but we were intrigued. We went to see the first dog and he turned out to be so irresistibly cute, loving, playful, and sweet that we took him home right away. We named him “Mr. Sunshine,” or Sunny for short, because he is a light gold color and he has a sunny disposition. Several weeks later, we noticed how joyful it was to have Sunny in our family. It was then that we realized that synchronicity had been at play and that we had received more joy in a completely unexpected way. We were surprised, delighted, and grateful for the many blessings in our lives.

TAKING ACTION To make your dream a reality, it is essential at this stage for your behavior to match your expectations. If you are looking for a job, you need to go out and search, not just wait for a job offer to miraculously appear. You may find one or your outcome may occur in a completely unexpected way. Regardless, you want to engage joyfully with your reality to create opportunities. As Mohandas Gandhi stated, “Action expresses priorities.” Act with confidence, knowing that your dreams are in the making. As writers, we are often reminded of people who tell us they want to publish books, but expect the universe to market them without taking any action, or the client who wants a perfectly toned body but will not exercise, and wonders why doesn’t happen. You can hire the heavens, make a request through your Celestial Message Center, or place an order with the cosmos, and we highly recommend that you ask for your goals to occur easily and effortlessly. At the same time, you need to take steps in the direction you want to go. Taking action is where the principles of power and will come in. Only you can make your dreams a reality. This doesn’t mean that you need to struggle, spending endless hours each day at the gym or exhaustively looking for a publisher for your books. The idea is to joyfully experiment. If you want to tone your body, experiment to find a form of exercise that is healthy and fun; then the journey becomes its own reward. Try different approaches and watch for signs that the synchronous flow is guiding you forward. The signs are there if you are open to seeing them. As mentioned earlier, we have also found that we have to be open to having our dreams manifest even better than expected. The universe often tells us that we will be surprised and delighted with the results, and we are. Remember the story of Lily in Chapter Four. When she came to see Phillip, Lily wanted to start a real estate career, but she had many doubts. A year later, after using this manifestation approach, she reported that she had started a new career in the healthcare field instead, and this is what she really wanted. The key here is to be ac-




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tively involved in bringing your dreams to fruition and to be open to how this might happen. Setting goals and acting on them magically draws synchronicity into your life. Opportunities suddenly appear. Resources become available. Being in the moment gives you an unerring sense of timing. You develop your intuition and trust your inner guidance. As your possibilities expand and your life becomes fuller and richer, you stay grounded and yet flexible. You realize that there is no need to be attached to any outcome and you trust that the universe will bring you into alignment with your mission and heartfelt joy. This process of evolution is living your true divine purpose, fueled by your creations.

MAKING YOUR DREAMS A REALITY There’s the old saying “you can’t teach old dogs new tricks.” This isn’t actually true for dogs and it certainly isn’t true for people. You can make positive changes in your life at any age. You just have to pay attention to what you’re doing to replace old habits that haven’t been producing the results you want with new ones that can take you where you want to go. Wherever you are in relation to reaching your goals, you can take some positive steps every day and you will need to do this to succeed. This is especially true for those in the most challenging situations. When things seem the most hopeless, taking positive steps can be more difficult, because one’s vibrations are so low. Here are some suggestions for making your dreams a reality: 1. Focus on following your heartfelt joy and excitement. These heightened soulful states are the true sources of fulfillment. Daily Soul Centering works wonders for aligning with your heartfelt joy and excitement. Also find ways to remind yourself to connect to this joy and excitement each morning as you wake up and as you drift off to sleep each night. Or let your joy speak to you through journaling or a simple conversation. During challenging times when it is difficult to connect with this joy, do something to lighten up. Go for a walk in nature or watch some funny movies. After a good laugh, notice how your perspective changes and how you recognize more possibilities. 2. Keep your vibrations up. Release negative emotions and limiting beliefs using EFT and R&A as soon as you recognize them and connect often with the love you hold in your heart. When the doubts and “what if’s” start to bring you down, have a prepared response to take yourself back up toward the realms of the infinite. Eastern faiths use a mantra in meditation to hold focus. A mantra is defined as “a sacred verbal formula repeated in prayer, meditation or incantation, such as an invocation to God or a syllable or portion of scripture containing mystical potentialities.” You can similarly choose a phrase that helps you to raise your vibrations. Developing and repeating the soulful homing thought described in Chapter Two can work wonders. Then you will have it ready to repeat to yourself any time you need a lift. Two phrases Jane uses are “I feel whole and complete and everything is in divine order” and “I am in the synchronous flow, surrounded with love and bubbling with joy.” Repeating one of these phrases and breathing love into her heart always lifts her spirits.




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You can find your own mantra or homing thought to raise your vibrations any time. It can be as simple as “Joy to the world” or “Love is all around me.” The key is to find something uplifting and to use it often. Remember, focusing on positive vibrations is a continuous process that builds momentum over time. You may find yourself “bubbling with joy” every day. 3. Visualize Success Every Day: This is vital. Seeing is believing. In his book Awaken the Giant Within, Tony Robbins suggests doing a mental rehearsal each day by visualizing and emotionally enjoying the experience of seeing yourself realizing your goals. We discussed having an image that represents success with each goal on your Focus List. To do this, ask yourself how you will know when you have reached your goal. If you want a new house, will it be when you excitedly put the key in the door for the first time? If you want a vacation to Fiji, will it be when you are peacefully relaxing on the beach sipping a tropical drink with an umbrella in it? If you just want more peace and quiet, will it be when you take a few minutes to walk in the park on the way to work? However big or small, with each goal, know what success will look and feel like for you and see it in your mind’s eye. Then set aside a few minutes each morning as you rise and/or each evening as you retire to imagine yourself in the future successfully achieving your goals and feeling the joy and fulfillment. The essential thing here is to align with the positive vibrations of realizing your heartfelt dreams. Jane does this each morning before she rises by envisioning herself in the flow, surrounded with love, bubbling with joy, with her images of each of her dreams flowing with her. This starts her day on a positive track where she feels fully connected with the divine. 4. Take steps, however small, toward realizing your goals. Tony Robbins also notes that even small steps help. He suggests creating a list of things you can do to create some positive movement and doing something on the list each day. We have found that any action taken toward reaching a goal helps to create positive momentum. If you want to travel more, get some brochures and travel guides. You can also create a collage of pictures that relate to the achievement of a goal. If you want to have a new home, create a collage with pictures of elements of a home that you would like, such as a swimming pool, a roomy kitchen, a craft room, and so on. If you want to live in a nicer house and can’t afford it yet, you can start by visiting areas where you would want to live. Enthusiastically voicing positive affirmations also aligns your energy with your goals and helps to create momentum. A seemingly miniscule shift in focus today expands over time, and before long, it can become a major change in your life. The direction in which you are heading is the most important thing. 5. Clean out your closets and get rid of anything that no longer serves you. As mentioned earlier, “old stuff” takes energy that you could be using in a more positive way. 6. Incorporate more of the things that you want into your daily life. If there are things that are relatively easy to add, be sure that you find a way to fit them into your schedule right away, even if it is just a little bit. If there is something creative you have been




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putting off like painting, writing poetry, or singing, or something recreational like hiking or swimming, you may be able to start now, even if it is just in small ways. 7. Consider creative approaches to reaching your goals. If you want a new home, for example, you may be able to live in a nicer place by renting instead of owning. Maybe house sitting would be a way to be in nicer quarters as well. Don’t be fixed on a specific result; open your mind to different ways of realizing your goals. 8. Watch for synchronicity at play. When you are open in the moment, the synchronous flow of the universe will provide confirmation and direction. Pay close attention to insights that come to you from nowhere, books that drop on your head or into your path, insights people share, and more. One time Jane was walking our dog in the neighborhood, enjoying a sunny spring day. For fun, she asked the universe to provide a sign that all was in divine order. Within seconds, a large peacock flew across the road right in front of her, landed alongside and stood looking at her. Jane views birds as bridges between heaven and earth, so the message was clear and the beautiful sight lifted her spirits. Being aware that synchronicity is at play is a good way to confirm that our physical world is not as concrete as we think it is. Much is occurring just beyond the reach of our normal awareness that can bring deeper meaning to the events of our lives. 9. Always be open to having your results exceed your expectations and occur in unexpected ways. When we set goals and connect with our soul’s guidance for validation, we frequently receive the message that everything is in divine order and we will be surprised and delighted with the results. We still wonder how this will be possible, but we have come to trust this message, because it somehow comes true. Our recent move to our new home is an example where we received everything we aimed for and more. The location was not one that we had considered initially, but it is even better than we expected, with many advantages we had not considered. One of our early goals was to travel more and to have it become an integral part of our work. We started taking weekend trips and collecting travel brochures. After awhile, we began writing books and traveling to different cities to introduce our work. Without noticing the transition, we eventually realized that we had achieved our goal and now we travel regularly. Expand your possibilities and allow for more choices. Even small steps you take in the direction of your goals can become gigantic shifts over time. You are telling your reality that you are following your heart’s desires. You are setting priorities for what you really want to manifest and doing what it takes to make it happen. Prepare to be surprised and delighted with what happens.

Being Persistent – A Movement and a Rest We all begin new endeavors with a lot of enthusiasm and energy. But, we also all know that this initial enthusiasm, or honeymoon period, is going to wane somewhere along the way.




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Always remember that failure is a state of mind and you have to be fully committed to your goals. As Sheila Hollingshead reminds us “There is no failure, just stopping too soon.” If something doesn’t happen immediately or if something that looks like an impenetrable roadblock suddenly appears on your path, take steps to clear the obstacle and continue on. You’re never going to reach your goals if you give up. An idea that we have found helpful in this area is to realize that in life there are times of movement and times of rest. When our attention starts to wane in relation to a goal, or when a roadblock appears, we have found it most helpful to take a break from it and go on to something else temporarily, with the commitment of returning to the goal in the near future. Herbert Benson calls this “the Breakout Principle” in his book by the same name. He reports that research has shown that trying to will your way through a obstacle is ineffective. Rather, he suggests changing your focus by taking a walk, sleeping on a challenge, or doing something pleasurable. When you return to the goal, you can easily overcome the obstacle. This approach will help you to stay connected with the synchronous flow of life. A little distance and variety is generally refreshing and you then return to your goal with renewed enthusiasm. In the interim, you may realize that you need to change your approach, release some internal blocks to your success, or simply allow more time. The key here is not to give up the first time something goes wrong or if your goal doesn’t come to pass right away. This is where most people lose sight of their goal, when the initial enthusiasm wears off and they face the long road ahead. If you refresh yourself and keep going after reaching the first bump in the road, you will feel better about yourself and open to new possibilities. Tony Robbins suggests that our commitment is continuously tested by life and the rewards come to those who unwaveringly persevere until they reach their goals. If you’re heading in the direction of your dreams, this is what really matters. Realistically, what other path could you take? Giving up definitely won’t get you where you want to go, while following your joy and excitement will transform your life.

Time Management As mentioned in Chapter One, most people need to look at time management to create space in their lives for something new to emerge. Being free to follow one’s purpose doesn’t generally leave time for obligatory activities that are devoid of the soul’s heartfelt joy. Some people need to learn to say “no” without feeling guilty to free up time to focus on the things that are truly meaningful. Connecting with your soul and understanding your true identity can make the difference here, along with clearing blockages to speaking up for yourself, if needed. If time management is an area that you need to focus on, it can help to plan what you will say ahead of time. You could simply say that you appreciate that they thought of you, but your time is already committed. As you open to new possibilities and establish a positive direction, your life should feel different immediately. If you start in little ways, you can add more over time. You can make adjustments as you proceed by reviewing your goals, updating them with your Celestial Sup-




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port Team, repeating the Manifestation Process, and creating new Manifestation Maps as you proceed. You can add new goals, fine tune them, and reinforce your resolve. In the process, you will become more awake, joyful, and alive, and everyone around you will benefit.

Letting Go As you open to the new, remember to take some time to release old energy that might interfere with the flow. Cleaning closets, file drawers, and so on to get rid of old stuff can help you to free up the flow. Taking an opportunity to share with those in need by making donations of useful items you no longer need can also be a rewarding experience. But what if your manifestation doesn’t happen in what you consider a reasonable amount of time? Jane used to think that this meant that she had failed, that this was an indication that these types of approaches wouldn’t work for her. Then she realized that there may be another explanation. There are several considerations when you are not noticing any results. • Perhaps you are in an expansion mode and your sense of self is currently in the process of reconfiguring to be able to freely receive your manifestation. This is a positive step and sometimes growth takes time. We also include a visualization process in this chapter to help you with this kind of expansion. As you expand and grow, it is important to stay focused on your goal regardless. After all, if you are following your greatest joy, the journey itself should be a wonderful adventure. Also consider the possibility that some part of you might not be in alignment with your manifestation. Consider the following points. • Ask yourself if you are really being guided by your soul, and not your wounded ego. A man we will call Bob, who attended one of our weekend seminars, comes to mind. Bob wanted to be a Unity minister and he was quite determined. This may sound positive, but Bob also admitted that he didn’t like to be around people very much. He said that he had attended a Unity retreat and drew a lot of negative feedback from the ministers there, but this only made him more determined to prove them wrong. When we asked him why he still wanted to pursue this goal, he said that he wanted the respect a minister receives from the congregation. Note that he was seeking external adulation rather than internal fulfillment. This was a sure sign that his wounded ego’s stubborn desire for respect was in control. The most likely result was bound to be continued misery until he recognized the need to listen to the feedback his reality was continuously providing. In this case, persevering is not the right approach. • Take another look at what might need clearing. With the example above, Bob would benefit most from clearing his need for respect. Ideally, he would realize that he simply has to connect with his heartfelt joy and respect himself, rather than looking to others to define him. • Timing and patience are factors. Your timing may not be the same as the universe. While some goals may occur quickly, others may take years to come fully into being.




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At one time in our lives, it took us three years to sell our house and move to our desired location. Deep down, we knew it was not the right time for the move, but we were anxious and continued to push to make it happen, without success. When the time was right, we knew it. The house sold quickly and the move went amazingly smoothly. While this could have been viewed as a setback, we understood in retrospect that the timing was perfect. If your path is joyful, it won’t matter. You will still be following your dreams. Whatever the experience, avoid blaming yourself or anything that you tried so far. Remain optimistic and know that things are working out in ways that you might not currently understand. In retrospect, it will probably make perfect sense. It has for us.

Feeling Overwhelmed Sometimes, life can just seem so complex that taking any action becomes confusing. As a personal example, writing a book like this one can be overwhelming if you think of the entire process and the desire to remember everything you want to say.

Feeling overwhelmed can stop everything. As such times, simplify. Come back to the present moment. It’s usually pretty simple. Then just decide on one step you can take. With writing a book, it may be as simple as starting to put your first few thoughts on paper without analyzing them. This can be your first goal. Then you can read your thoughts and add some more or put them into the order in which you will want to present them. Taking just one step at a time, then deciding what the next step will be is much easier than looking at everything at once. By staying in touch with your soul’s guidance and taking the next step, you will be grounded and inspired at the same time. Remember to stage the goals on your Focus List to define the next step and to be realistic. You can experience success and update your goals frequently as you progress. Having a goal to put your thoughts on paper is a much simpler goal than writing a whole book. Find ways to make the next step in each of your goals attainable. As the Chinese proverb states, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Make your life easy and experience the success of taking comfortable steps regularly.

APPRECIATING THE JOURNEY In all areas of our lives, we ultimately need to come to the understanding that what we do and what we create are actually just props on the journey to wholeness. It is the journey that is truly important, not what we have or how far we have traveled compared to others. Manifesting our dreams is an integral part of the journey that allows us to learn more about ourselves, our reality, and the evolutionary path. In the process, we have the opportunity to travel in alignment with the flow of being alive, rather than going against the tide.




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Being in the World Being in the flow with one’s life creates a way of being in the world that is joyful, exciting and free. You can resonate with high vibrations that are conducive to realizing your dreams. In his book A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle aptly describes three ways of being that align your energies with the creative flow of the universe. Focus on these three ways of being: 1. Enjoyment: When your activities are aligned with your soul’s heartfelt desires, they are largely joyful and fulfilling. You feel alive and connected with the creative flow of the universe. You don’t have to reach your goals to lead a largely joyful life. As noted earlier, being connected with the soul and your true purpose creates joy. 2. Enthusiasm: Nothing is more exciting than being in the process of realizing your purpose. Tolle links enthusiasm with being aligned with your visions and goals. The enthusiasm that springs from being in the process of making your dreams a reality aligns with the joy of being alive to create a powerful synergy, linked with the synchronous flow of all that is. You are in the right place at the right time. This is your moment. 3. Acceptance: Acceptance is an important element to remember when it’s time to wash the dishes or go to work, and the enthusiasm wanes. We all have to do some things that are not that exciting, like house cleaning, brushing our teeth, pumping gas, or working at the job that provides financial support until we are able to transition to something new. Such activities may not create feelings of deep joy or enthusiasm, but you can accept them as necessary aspects of life that will lead you toward your dreams. After all, it is also hard to be joyful and enthusiastic in a dirty house, if the car runs out of gas, or if there is no money to pay the bills. When engaged in the necessities of life, focus on being grateful for your many blessings, and accept these activities as an integral part of bringing your dreams into being. Focusing on being in one or a combination of these states will help you to maintain high vibrational fuel to propel you forward toward your goals. Manifestation thrives in state of enjoyment, enthusiasm, and acceptance.

Knowing that You Matter Recognize that what you do matters. Your values express themselves through your actions. With each action and with the vibrations you radiate out into the world, you are voting for the reality you want to create. Unfortunately, most people create unconsciously and the result generally includes a lot of limitation. Regardless, you can draw on the infinite, which lifts you higher and provides more energetic support for others to follow in creating a joyful life.




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THE SUCCESS EXPANSION PROCESS Before we close, we want to share a final visualization to give form to your manifestations and appreciate the journey. This process was inspired by the Lazaris audio program Expanding Success Exponentially. It is designed to stretch your ability to manifest by envisioning a symbol that can resonate expanding success with your manifestations into your future. As with earlier processes, have a paper and pen handy. To get the most from the written version, just read each word intentionally to yourself, and close your eyes at intervals to deepen the experience and visualize the different aspects of your success. Open yourself to experiencing the process with all of your senses, accepting the images, feelings, and messages that come into your mind. Again, avoid allowing your rational mind to analyze. As you relax, take a few nice, deep breaths, focusing on breath as life. Inhaling fully signifies fully embracing life and its many facets, so as you breathe in, focus on fully embracing life. Exhaling fully signifies fully releasing all that does not serve you and relaxing now in the present moment, so as you inhale, connect with the richness of life, and as you exhale, focus on releasing and relaxing more with each breath. Take a few breaths focusing on life in this way, feeling more clarity with each breath. In this process, you will give form to a three dimensional symbol that represents your ability to manifest. The width of this symbol represents how widely you are able to manifest, meaning in how many areas of your life you are able to freely realize your dreams. Its height represents how highly your manifestations reach into the elevated realms of the soul, allowing you to integrate your soul’s true purpose into your life. Its depth represents the spiritual depth and richness that you bring to your creations, how much you feel fulfilled and connected with the synchronous flow of the universe. First, focus on the width of your symbol, on how much you have integrated your ability to manifest into the different areas of your life. Take a moment or two to focus on each of the following areas: •

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the infinite resources of the universe, integrating more of this elevated perspective into your manifestations. Last, focus on the depth and richness of your creations and how much you feel each of the following: •

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Now measure this depth between zero and ten, with zero being not at all and ten being deeply fulfilling and synchronous. Again, if you notice anything specific that is blocking your expansion, you can also take a moment now to clear it with EFT or R&A. Then connect with this flow and allow it to touch your awareness more deeply. Now allow your mind to synchronously put all of your observations together to form a three dimensional symbol for your manifestation. Just open your mind to accessing the perfect image for you, and, as it comes into focus, notice how it looks, its color and texture, and how it feels emotionally. Imagine touching it with your hands, if desired, noticing how it feels physically, and how it feels energetically. Connect with this resonant energy and ask the symbol to expand to increase the width, height, and depth of your manifestations. Imagine your creations reaching into all aspects of your life, to the full heights of spirit, and to deep levels of fulfillment. Ask the symbol to bring you more awareness of the synchronous flow of the universe, so that you may feel intimately connected with the deeper significance of your life. Now, imagine your future expanding out before you and see yourself moving forward, carrying your symbol into your future, allowing its energy to radiate out into your reality and draw more of your heartfelt desires into your life. Look all around you, noting the details of what you see and experience. Allow yourself to appreciate the journey and see your manifestations gradually taking form as you progress on the path. Continuing on, as the process concludes, feel joy and gratitude for the many blessings life is in the process of bringing to you and know that all is in divine order. As with the other visualizations in this program, you can return to this one again and again, exploring the unfolding of your creations and the enrichment of your symbol. Phillip explored success expansion with a client we will call Georgia. In her process, Georgia experienced the width of her symbol, which represents the range of areas in which she was able to manifest, as being cramped. It felt like there were walls on either side of her so close that she couldn’t spread her arms fully. Focusing on these walls brought up thoughts that money is limited. A little voice inside her said, “After all, there is only so much money in the world for so many people.”




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Georgia then did R&A and received the following message.

“The universe is infinitely abundant. See yourself as a citizen of the universe, not a small town, and you will know there is as much money available to you as you desire.” With this thought, the walls softened and spread out, allowing her plenty of room. Next, focusing on the height of her symbol, which represents the spiritual heights of her manifestations, Georgia saw herself hunched over. This time, the barrier was above her, preventing her from standing fully upright. She sensed this time that the restriction involved doubt about being able to have full access to the resources of the universe. Asking for a message from her soul, she heard a voice telling her that all she needed to do was stand up and lift herself above the barrier. The barrier above her instantaneously opened up, so she could stand upright. With the doubt gone, she realized, “Now I have access to everything.” Next, examining the depth of her symbol, representing the depth and richness of her creations, Georgia realized that her life was indeed rich and that she had learned many wonderful things along the way. Putting all of her observations together, she saw a bright formless light resting in her hands. The light floated toward her, finding its place inside of her forehead. The message then came, “Success is all in your head.” Feeling filled with light, Georgia laughed. Georgia knew that her possibilities had no limits and felt fully connected with the synchronous flow of the universe. Looking into the future, she noticed that her feet were still in the little box where she had started. She easily stepped out of it and floated up into the universe, as her head and body were bathed with light. This example shows how easy it can be to step out of the limitations that constrict us into the infinite, where anything is possible. For Georgia, as she moves into her brightly lit future, she can focus on the light within and again feel herself freely floating into a future where anything is possible. Moving forward, we have yet another opportunity for you to explore, one that offers some powerful possibilities for you to expand your success even more.

AWAKENINGS’ MASTER SPIRIT COMMUNITY We offer a final exciting and unique opportunity as you continue forward on your journey. You are invited to join a spiritual community that is devoted to providing mutual support in the realization of your soul’s divine purpose. It focuses on realizing goals and being in the synchronous flow, following the approaches presented in this book. It further magnifies your potential through the combined intent and vibrational support of the community. Exploring the Master Spirit Community can be a natural follow-up to this book on manifesting your dreams.

About Awakenings Institute You can get a larger picture of the Master Spirit Community as part of Awakenings Institute. Awakenings is a non-profit non-denominational religious organization with this dream:




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Imagine a world where love is the guiding force, where the unique gifts that each individual brings receive honor and respect, where all are nurtured in allowing their gifts to blossom, to manifest the joy of living in each moment... Imagine a world where all of nature is also honored, so all may live in harmony and share an increasingly vibrant and beautiful environment... What we imagine we can create, starting in this moment. This vibrant world will come into being as each of us empowers ourselves to live the dream now and share it with others. Playing a part in the creation of this dream is the mission of Awakenings. In this dream, there is no poverty, because everyone is nurtured and loved. This love also eliminates the focus on fear and separation as we bridge the divisions created by race, creed, and national borders to co-exist in harmony. The environment synchronously benefits everyone, as people all over the world shift their focus to a more holistic approach that creates balance rather than congesting our planet with chemicals and toxic fumes. Increasing our connections with our wholeness, which we may experience as God, the creator, the source, or the oneness, brings us closer to making this dream a reality. We have an inherent connection with divine order. As we progress spiritually, we unite more with our inner wisdom, which, in turn, strengthens our connection with all-that-is. This evolutionary quest is an upward spiral, taking us to higher levels of consciousness and wholeness. Awakenings views the Master Spirit Community as an integral part of an emerging movement that is building momentum all around the world to lift humanity out of the fear and limitation that create the problems we face as a civilization. The change is happening one person at a time, by choosing love, joy, and fulfillment, and becoming a part of a vibrational resonance that can support a transformational shift for the planet. Remember, as vibrations rise, we have more possibilities individually and as a whole. The solutions to our problems and unimagined new inventions are already present in higher vibrations. By connecting with these higher vibrations, we can change the world.

The Master Spirit Concept As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, Albert Einstein once said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Awakenings’ Master Spirit Community embraces the latter. The Master Spirit Community builds on the idea of master minding, as presented by Napoleon Hill more than seventy years ago. In his book Think and Grow Rich, Hill defined the master mind as “coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people for the attainment of a definite purpose.” He considered the power of the master mind as an integral component of achieving success. Many who have followed in his footsteps credit most great achievements in our history with following this principle of drawing on the power of two or more people coming together in a spirit of harmony and cooperation to achieve their goals. We all have had experiences of such power.




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Awakenings takes the master mind concept a step further, adding the spiritual element, or master spirit. With the holistic model – the body, emotions, mind, and spirit – the deepest energetic level through which we create is the spiritual level. In this book, you have witnessed the power of the soul’s joy and excitement.

Connecting with the soul and the synchronous flow of the universe in the creation of one’s dreams is the purest and most joyful way of being. In addition to claiming our birthright through the realization of our personal dreams, changing one’s life to align with this synchronous flow has the potential to change our entire reality as we know it, to make Awakenings’ dream a reality.

The Master Spirit Community Anyone anywhere in the world who can use the English language and has access to the internet can become part of Awakenings’ Master Spirit Community. It offers the opportunity to step out of the crowd of the consensus reality, where most people’s lives are spiraling out of control, and connect with people who are truly creating. The energetic environment we are creating together can lift us all to a higher sense of reality and of our infinite possibilities. As a part of the Master Spirit Community, you will have access to powerful resources, a personal support network, and more. If you are interested in becoming a part of this community, you can find more information at www.awakeningsinstitute.org.

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS You now have a concise and complete program for manifestation that you can apply to any area of life that you wish to develop further. As noted at the beginning of this book, you alone hold the keys to your success. We have provided the map, which works well if you follow it. We leave you with our heartfelt best wishes on your journey. Again, this is a complete and fully integrated program. For the best results, it is essential that you include all of the elements. You can individualize your approach and this is encouraged. Make it creative and fun. To get started, Figure 6.1 provides a checklist of all of the key elements in the program. You can use this checklist to get organized and to monitor your progress with learning and incorporating all of the elements. By systematically following this program, your ability to manifest will blossom. You will clear the blockages standing in your way, lovingly set your course with your soul, give joyous life to your dreams, and align with your true divine purpose. Your life will be transformed as you live in the synchronous flow. We would love to hear about some of your results. Email us at [email protected]. Have fun manifesting and enjoy your journey!




FIGURE 7.1

Key Elements of the Manifestation Program COMPONENT 1. Setting your Course Taking command of your life with the Car Metaphor Fueling yourself forward with high vibrations Exploring the Body Alignment Process

2. Opening to the Soul’s Reality Connecting with your Universal Home with Soul Centering Note: Ongoing practice is highly recommended Creating a Foundation with the Twelve Principles of Manifestation

3. Bringing the Soul’s Reality Down to Earth Setting your Ground Rules Exploring the Spiritual Path Process Setting goals in writing Creating a Focus List of your most relevant goals

4. Transforming Interference Overcoming Fears and Limiting Beliefs Exploring body awareness and clearing Clearing with the Manifestation Checklist

5. Leaving the Past Behind Exploring the Reframing Process Exploring the Change History Process

6. Enlisting the Full Support of the Universe Creating your Celestial Communication System Exploring the Manifestation Process Creating the Manifestation Map

7. Opening to New Opportunities Taking action Managing your time and letting go Appreciating the journey Maximizing opportunities with the Success Expansion Process


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APPENDIX A

Using EFT

EFT (the Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a group of powerful processes that can help just about anyone to achieve genuine freedom from the emotions that have created problems in their lives. These techniques have been described as one of the most important recent breakthroughs in the area of psychology and, according to Gary Craig, who developed these techniques have been used by over a million people with a broad range of difficulties. EFT is versatile and has been used confidently by therapists on clients with successes on even the most difficult problems, by relieving imbalances in their clients' energy systems. We have been using it personally and with clients and class participants since 1997 with consistent success. We have written a book, Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT, which describes the EFT techniques in detail, along with different uses of these techniques.

HOW EFT WORKS EFT is based on a revolutionary discovery that contends that the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system. With remarkable consistency, EFT relieves symptoms with a simple process of tapping on a short series of points on the body that correspond to acupuncture points on the energy meridians. Where there is an imbalance, there is a corresponding blockage in the flow of energy through the meridians. The tapping releases the blockages that are created when a person thinks about or becomes involved in an emotionally disturbing circumstance. When this blockage is released, the emotions come into balance. Many energetic imbalances may be partially or completely relieved within a short time using this process. Others may be relieved through repetition of the process. The Short Sequence is the starting point for using EFT. Once you identify the pattern you want to release, it takes less than a minute to complete.

STEPS IN THE EFT SHORT SEQUENCE We will break down the steps in the procedure here, because there are some subtleties that can affect your success. Before starting, you need to have a single, specific issue in mind. 1.• THE SETUP: Focus on bringing an emotion or issue into your awareness in the present


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moment. The key to the success of this process is to feel the emotion and set up the disruption in the meridian system. 2.• THE EVALUATION: When you have brought the emotion up to its full intensity (or what-

ever intensity feels comfortable), measure how strong it feels between one and ten, with one being the least intense and ten being the most intense. 3.• THE AFFIRMATION: While rubbing the “Sore Spot” on the chest, shown below, (see the

diagram in Figure 4.2 for location) in a circular fashion, repeat the following affirmation three times: “Even though I have this ____________, I deeply and completely accept myself,” filling in the blank with the name of the emotion, like fear, anger, and so on. 4.• THE TAPPING SEQUENCE: Using the tips of your index and middle fingers, tap with a

medium pressure about seven times on each of acupuncture points in the order shown on the diagram below while repeating the following reminder phrase once at each point: “This ______________ ,” again naming the emotion.

Note: You can tap on the points on either side. It doesn’t matter which you use. 5.• THE RE-EVALUATION: When you have completed the tapping sequence, take a moment

to focus on the emotion or issue again and notice how it feels. Evaluate it again between one and ten to bring any difference in your experience into your awareness. If some intensity remains, evaluate the emotion again to notice if it has changed (such as from fear to anger, and so on) and repeat the process.


APPENDIX B

Using Kinesiology

Kinesiology (muscle testing) is a powerful way to access information from the unconscious mind and the body’s innate intelligence. It works by testing how the strength of a muscle, such as the arm, is affected by focusing on an external stimulus or a part of the body. With Kinesiology, you can test how the body is affected by the introduction of specific foods, vitamins, scents, music, environmental factors, and verbal statements, like the ones in Figure 4.1, the Manifestation Checklist. You can use Kinesiology alone or with another person. We will describe ways to do both. Receiving accurate results requires focused awareness, some practice, and an ability to be neutral about the results. Both the provider and receiver need to be open to the information that is coming up from the unconscious without drawing any premature conclusions about the results. If you think you already know the outcome, your bias may influence the results. For those who are inexperienced with Kinesiology, we recommend doing EFT to clear any doubts you may have about your ability to use muscle testing successfully. EFT can help to overcome any fear or anxiety you may have related to kinesiology.

PREPARATION Before testing with Kinesiology, we suggest the following: 1. Be sure the environment is neutral with no distracting music, scents, and so on. 2. If possible, have the person receiving the Kinesiology drink some water. This optimizes brain functioning. Also deep, diaphragmatic breathing can help oxygenate the system. 3. Be in a neutral emotional state and centered. If you are working on another person, be sure that he or she is also in a centered state. You may know ways to center. If not, we described the Soul Centering Process we use in Chapter Two. 4. If you are testing another person, only do so with his or her permission and understanding of the importance of being neutral.


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ARM TESTING WITH TWO PEOPLE When you are centered, you are ready to start muscle testing. One of the easiest ways to use Kinesiology is with a partner. We suggest the following arm testing method: 1. Position the Receiver: Have the receiver of the testing stand erect, holding one arm out straight to the side. The elbow and hand should be extended, so they form a straight line that is parallel with the floor, with the palm of the hand facing down. Either arm may be used for the testing, as long as it is in healthy condition. You should not perform this type of muscle testing on an area of the body that’s sore or hurt. 2. Position the Provider: The person who is to perform the testing then stands either in front of or behind the receiver, facing the extended arm. The provider places one hand on the receiver’s shoulder for stability and the other hand on top of the extended arm, at the wrist, so the provider’s hand is touching the wrist lightly, but not exerting any pressure. Placing the hand on the wrist before starting the testing allows the receiver to become accustomed to the touch. 3. Review the Testing Procedure: To test, the provider says a phrase for the receiver to repeat aloud, starting with “My name is ________.” When the receiver has completed the statement, the provider pushes straight down on the extended arm, at the wrist. Here are a few tips. •

Allow the receiver to complete the statement and push on the arm itself, not on the hand. If you push on the hand, you are actually testing the wrist, which is generally not strong enough for this type of test.

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4. Test for accuracy: The first few tests should be designed to determine the strength of the receiver’s arm and the accuracy of the results. Start with the receiver’s name, then test for another name and a few other easy questions, like the date, the location you are in, and so on. A true statement should generate a strong response and a false statement should generate a weak response. In addition to testing the accuracy of the results, the first few questions provide base data on the difference between a positive and negative response. If the receiver does not provide accurate results to the first few tests, do not proceed further until you have corrected the problem. There are a couple of easily correctable things that may be happening: • The receiver may be dehydrated. Have him or her drink at least a full glass of water and try a few deep breaths. Retest and proceed if the results are accurate. • The receiver may not be centered and grounded. Use centering to bring him or her




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into the present moment. Retest and proceed if the results are accurate. • You can ask something similar to the magic question described earlier. In this case Here you want to know if there is any reason why the receiver would not test accurately. Here you are looking for the presence of anxiety, fear of appearing weak, fear of the response, or fear of addressing a traumatic issue. The question might be something like “Do you notice any feelings that might interfere with this process?” If so, you can do EFT on the feelings and return to the muscle testing. • With a holistic approach, we acknowledge that everything is seen as being connected. If fear, anxiety and/or other feelings are affecting your ability to effectively address the issue at hand, clearing them is a positive and necessary step in the healing process. If you are new to muscle testing, we recommend starting with a partner and practicing arm testing until you feel competent. This is one of the easiest forms of muscle testing. Then you can move on to self-testing.

SELF-TESTING If no one else is around, you can test yourself. We offer two methods here.

The One-Hand Method There are several ways to perform self-testing. We prefer the One-Hand Method, because it leaves the other hand free if you want to test a substance. Here is our technique: 1. Hold one hand with the middle finger extended straight out from the hand. We generally recommend using your non-dominant hand, because this leaves your dominant hand free to hold a substance you want to test, if desired. 2. With this method of self-testing, the middle finger serves the same purpose as the extended arm in arm testing, and the index finger corresponds to the hand of the provider who is exerting pressure on the arm. Hold the index finger over the middle finger, touching lightly. 3. Proceed with questions statements just as you would with arm testing, resisting with the middle finger and exerting pressure with the end of the index finger. This may take a bit of practice, but you can confirm the reliability of your results by testing a series of questions to which you know the answers and testing the responses you receive. As a note: some people prefer to use the index finger as the “extended arm” and the middle finger to exert pressure. You can experiment with both and decide if either one feels comfortable to you. If not, you may prefer using two hands.




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The Two-Hand Method This is one of a number of ways to muscle test with two hands. 1. Hold the first hand out and form a loop with your thumb and index finger. This hand will be the equivalent to the extended arm. You can use either hand, but may prefer your non-dominant hand. With this method, you will test your ability to hold the thumb and finger of the first hand together. 2. Hold the thumb and index finger of your second hand together, and extend the fingers so that you can place them inside of the loop you have formed with the thumb and finger of the first hand. You have created two interlocking rings with the thumb and index finger of each hand. 3. Proceed with questions statements just as you would with arm testing, resisting with the thumb and finger loop while you try to pull the loop apart with the thumb and finger of your second hand.

INTERPRETING YOUR RESULTS Once you have completed the testing, you need to interpret the results. You are drawing information from the unconscious mind and the body’s innate intelligence, so the results may not match the receiver’s conscious intent, thoughts, or desires. A strong response to a question indicates that the statement is true to the receiver or that the condition described is understood as beneficial in the mind of the receiver. A weak response indicates that the statement is untrue to the receiver or that the condition described is not understood as beneficial to the receiver. Responses to statements like “I want to be successful in life,” “I want to get over this fear,” or “I want to be my ideal weight” are easy to understand. A strong response means this statement is true, and a weak response means this statement is false. Responses to other statements may be less obvious. The key is to remember that you are testing the response to whatever you are instructing the person to focus on. Once you’ve encountered a blockage using Kinesiology, you need to decide what to do next. In some cases, the response to the muscle test may trigger new understanding in the receiver that will provide a direction for EFT. In other cases, the recipient may not have any conscious understanding of the response. This is fine, too, as it can provide valuable insight that can be evaluated and acted upon when the time is right.


APPENDIX C

SK Reframing and Anchoring

The Spiritual Kinesiology Reframing and Anchoring (R&A) Process is wonderful healing method that we use interchangeably with EFT, which was described in Appendix A. Its power is derived from the fact that it heals at the spiritual level, which we regard as the deepest and most complete level of healing. We describe R&A in detail in our Getting Thru to Your Soul book, along with the other SK (Spiritual Kinesiology) Techniques. The abbreviated description provided here is drawn from that material. The general process for Reframing and Anchoring (R&A) is similar to EFT in that you determine a specific issue to clear, measure its intensity, and perform rounds of the healing process. Each round of R&A takes about as much time as a round of EFT tapping, so it is equally quick and easy. The healing process is slightly different and may even seem to be too simple to work, but based on our experience with thousands of individuals and on extensive feedback from others who use it, we have found it to be just as effective as EFT.

WHAT IS SK? SK (Spiritual Kinesiology) is a set of healing tools developed by Phillip and Jane Mountrose that can help anyone to transcend the unresolved emotions, limiting beliefs, and judgments we all encounter on the journey through life. Kinesiology (muscle testing) can detect the blockages that you are ready to release as you progress. SK adds powerful healing techniques, focusing on the Reframing and Anchoring Technique described here, to clear these imbalances quickly and easily by accessing the power of the soul's energy. In addition to providing deep and lasting healings, this approach also connects you with your soul's wisdom, which can also bring higher understanding of any issue you choose to address. One of the benefits of these techniques is that they are quick and non-invasive. You do not generally have to know the source of a problem or relive a traumatic experience for SK to be effective. Of course, this defies the common belief that progress has to be slow and painful, but aligns with our approach. You need to understand yourself to move forward, but you do not need to dwell on our difficulties. The goal is to transcend them easily, so that you can experience more joy, love, and freedom in all aspects of your life.


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STEPS IN THE REFRAMING AND ANCHORING PROCESS Before starting this process, it is necessary to establish a soul connection, such as with the Soul Centering Process presented in Chapter Two. 1. Setup: Decide on a specific issue to clear. As with EFT, you want to be as specific as possible and stay with one issue at a time. 2. Evaluation: The purpose of this step, which directly corresponds to the Evaluation in EFT, is to measure the intensity of the issue you want to address between one and ten, with one being the least intense and ten being the most intense. 3. Balancing: The Reframing and Anchoring Technique (R&A) shifts an unbalanced energy pattern, which is anchored physically in one place on the body, to a balanced one, which is anchored physically in another place on the body. With a client, we usually use the shoulder and the arm. When doing it on yourself, you can anchor on your left and right knees and this is the way we will describe it here. A. Anchor the Issue: Think of the issue and place your left hand on your left knee for about five to ten seconds to anchor it in the body. Then remove your left hand. B. Anchor Your Soul’s Energy: Shift your focus to your heart and open to the soul’s energy there. As you feel it radiating out, filling your body and surrounding yourself with its radiance, you can also ask the light above you to send down the perfect energy to clear the issue. As you focus on this higher energy, place your right hand on your right knee for about five to ten seconds to anchor it. Then remove your right hand. C. Release the Imbalance: Think of nothing at all for a moment while you place both hands on both knees at the same time. After about five to ten seconds, remove the left hand, releasing the imbalance, and keep your right hand on your right knee for another five seconds. Then remove your right hand. 4. Re-Evaluation: When you have finished balancing, take a deep breath to allow the energy to reconfigure. You may feel the energy shift over a period of a seconds or minutes. Then focus again on the issue and measure its intensity again from one to ten to bring any difference in your experience into your awareness. If some intensity remains, evaluate the emotion again to notice if it has changed (such as from fear to anger, and so on) and repeat the process. With a little practice, R&A is easy to do and amazingly effective. As one client commented, “It is deceptively simple, but profoundly effective in obtaining real shifts with lasting results.”


APPENDIX D

Using a Pendulum

A pendulum is a dowsing tool composed of a chain or string that is attached to a lightly weighted object, like a crystal. One end of the chain is held in the hand, so the weighted object can swing freely. Many objects may be used as pendulums, with the consideration that a pendulum that is aligned with your energy will produce the best results. We also use pendulums with short chains, about 3” long. Pendulums with longer chains are less responsive. Dowsing opens lines of communication with expanded consciousness. The pendulum moves in response to your energy and your intent. You can ask it to respond to a yes-no question, measure frequencies of energy, and more. It can even be used for clearing blockages. To be effective, you need to focus your intent on what you want the pendulum to show you and open to the response. For our purposes here, we want to share how we use a pendulum to measure vibrations. If you know how to use a pendulum or have a desire to learn to use one, it can be a wonderful practical tool for understanding vibrations.

MEASURING POSITIVE VIBRATIONS AND NEGATIVE VIBRATIONS As Sheila Hollingshead mentions in her book Energy Therapy, “Positive thoughts create positive body energy and negative thoughts create negative body energy. With the pendulum you are able to ‘see’ which energy you are expressing because the pendulum makes your energy visible. The direction, height, and speed of the swing of your pendulum can tell you how your energy is.” With the system we use, a clockwise circling movement represents positive vibrations: the more positive the vibrations, the higher the clockwise swing. A counter-clockwise circling movement represents negative energy: the more negative the vibrations, the lower the counter counter-clockwise swing. The pendulum provides a variety of ways to measure positive and negative vibrations, including the following: • Measure your body energy while thinking different thoughts, noting the direction and height of the swing. This is a wonderful way to verify the power of your thoughts and the value of consistently keeping your vibrations as high as possible. Copyright © 2007 Phillip Mountrose and Jane Mountrose. Do not copy without permission.

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• Measure how well you are aligned with high vibrations. Focus on any of the phrases in Figure 1.2, the Commitment Checklist or Figure 2.1, the Manifestation Checklist. The higher the clockwise swing, the more you are aligned with these vibrations. A lower clockwise swing or no swing at all indicates that there is a blockage that needs to be released. Once you clear the blockage, the pendulum should swing more freely. When you get a high, straight out swing, which shows that the blockage is completely cleared. • Measure the vibrations of different words or phrases. Once you have a feel for using the pendulum in this way, you can measure the vibrations in words like love, joy, peace, and gratitude. You can even measure the vibrations in your goals, which can tell you how well they are aligned with your true joy and divine purpose. • Measure the quality of the energy in this book or any book or anything around you by holding the pendulum over it and allowing it to swing.

ANSWERING YES-NO QUESTIONS You can choose swings of the pendulum to represent “yes” and “no.” With the system we use, yes is a vertical, forward and back swing. No is a horizontal, side-to-side swing. If using a pendulum is new to you, we highly recommend Sheila Hollingshead’s book Energy Therapy to learn to measure vibrations, answer yes-no questions, clear blockages, and more. She also sells beautiful pendulums that she can hand pick to align them with your vibrations. To find out more and to obtain a pendulum, you can reach Sheila Hollingshead at [email protected] and order her book at www.energytherapybook.com.


APPENDIX E

Resources

REFERENCES Herbert Benson, The Break Out Principle Deepak Chopra, Creating Affluence Dalai Lama, How to See Yourself as Your Really Are John Diamond. Your Body Doesn’t Lie Wayne Dyer, Being in Balance Sheila Hollingshead, Energy Therapy Lazaris, Expanding Success Exponentially (audio) Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment Barbara Mohr, Cosmic Ordering Robert Perala, The Divine Blueprint James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy Tony Robbins, Awakening the Giant Within Bob Scheinfeld, The 11th Element (audio) Susan Taylor-Shier, Soul Mastery Jeanne Slatter, Hiring the Heavens Vianna Stibal, Go Up and Work with God Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth


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EFT RESOURCES FROM HOLISTIC COMMUNICATIONS Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT Two DVDs with Phillip and Jane Mountrose $21.95 each, DVD 1 & 2 $39.95 These professionally produced DVDs present the processes described in the book through real examples, demonstrations, and commentary. Seeing the techniques in action will help with your timing, precision, and presentation. •

DVD One presents the EFT processes.

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DVD Two presents the GTT (Getting Thru Techniques) processes to address deeper issues.

Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT Two CDs with Phillip and Jane Mountrose, $24.95 This audio program provides guided versions of the deeper GTT Processes presented in the book, with background music. The tapes allow you to relax, while you are guided through each of the processes. Great for self-healing! It also has a section describing how to do EFT and some tips for success. Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT Paperback Book by Phillip and Jane Mountrose, $13.95 The book includes parts of this e-book: the basic EFT information plus some of the information about the impediments to EFT. In addition, the hard-copy book details four other Getting Thru Techniques besides the Holistic Process. The paperback version also describes a variety of ways to apply EFT to common problems. Individual chapters include eliminating stress, overcoming insomnia, relieving pain, creating physical well-being, stopping smoking and other habits, reaching your ideal weight, increasing physical activity and performance, and achieving genuine freedom. As one reviewer said, the book contains “a goldmine of information that I keep handy as a database of information.” The Heart and Soul of EFT and Beyond A Soulful Approach to EFT and Holistic Healing Book and E-Book by Phillip and Jane Mountrose $16.95 downloadable e-book Building on the Mountroses' popular paperback Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT, this book has hundreds of practical and transformational tips and strategies for using EFT and holistic healing for creating the life you truly desire. As Phillip Friedman, PhD states in the Foreword, "It is a kind of encyclopedia of knowledge in EFT and energy and spiritual healing, written in an easy-to-understand manner. Moreover, the tables and diagrams alone convey many




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wonderful ideas, methods, and approaches.” Included are 11 leading EFT Experts' proven tips and strategies for making EFT even easier and more effective in all aspects of your life.

WEBSITES Gettingthru.org: This is the Mountroses’ website, which has a wealth of information on EFT and other healing modalities; EFT, Spiritual Kinesiology (SK), and Spiritual Counseling Certification Courses; BA, MA and PhD Degree Programs offering degrees in EFT and other holistic subjects; free Soul News email newsletters; and ordering for their publications at www.gettingthru.org Emofree.com: Gary Craig, the originator of EFT, has developed this site. It contains extensive information and support for EFT users.

MORE FROM HOLISTIC COMMUNICATIONS Getting Thru to Your Soul Books, Audios, and DVDs Getting Thru to Your Soul Book by Phillip and Jane Mountrose, $14.95 Learn the four keys to living your divine purpose and Spiritual Kinesiology, a healing tool developed by the Mountroses that is as powerful as EFT to clear issues that stand between you and the fulfillment of your true purpose. Getting Thru to Your Soul is a follow-up to Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT and includes effective ways to use both EFT and Spiritual Kinesiology to help with your spiritual development. Getting Thru to Your Soul DVDs with Phillip and Jane Mountrose $21.95 each; $59.95 for a set of all three DVDs These three professionally-produced DVDs present the Spiritual Kinesiology (SK) processes described in the book through real-life examples, many demonstrations, and insightful commentary. Seeing the techniques in action will help with your timing and precision. The clear visual presentation of these tapes will help you master these techniques. •

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Intuitive Techniques for Getting Thru to Your Soul Four CDs with a Workbook, by Phillip and Jane Mountrose, $64.95; also available as a workbook $24.95, which includes scripts of the audios along with the material in the manual. This spiritual development program, which is a companion to the Getting Thru to Your Soul book, will help you open to your intuition as an integral part of your spiritual journey. The material presents a whole toolbox of techniques that allow you to understand yourself and others in a more profound way. Awaken to Your True Purpose: More Pieces to the Puzzle of Getting Thru to Your Soul Five CDs and Study Guide, narrated by Phillip Mountrose, $44.95; also available as a workbook, $24.95 This works draws from the ideas of Gurdjieff and the Michael Teachings, which is invaluable for understanding one’s essential nature. The program describes your personality traits (overleaves) that your soul chose, including your role, goal, attitude, body type, center of gravity, as well as your chief weakness. Also detailed are 10 specific obstacles and opportunities for living your purpose.

E-BOOKS The Heart and Soul of Being Therapeutic: 7 Keys for Getting Thru to Clients in Healing Environments E-Book by Phillip and Jane Mountrose $16.95 downloadable e-book, $24.95 spiral-bound copy Learn the keys to becoming a great healing practitioner. A concise guide for anyone in the helping professions, it is based on extensive research combined with the Mountroses decades of working with clients and teaching healing classes. Receive dozens of tips and tools for fostering therapeutic relationships. A unique resource that you will refer to time and again. The Heart and Soul of Teaching: 5 Keys for Getting Thru to Others in Learning Environments E-Book by Phillip and Jane Mountrose $16.95 downloadable e-book, $24.95 spiral-bound copy Learn the keys to becoming a great teacher, presenter, facilitator, and leader, and have fun teaching the classes you’ve always longed to teach. You will find countless tips and techniques in this unique resource, which comes out of extensive research and the Mountroses’ decades of teaching classes. Take your classes and presentations to the next level.




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OTHER BOOKS The Holistic Approach to Eating by Jane Mountrose, $12.95 booklet Learn the keys to losing extra weight and keeping it off for life. Find out the reasons traditional diets fail and techniques that really work. Make real progress and feel good about yourself. Holistic Healing Training Manual by Phillip and Jane Mountrose, $75 in 3-ring binder This is the manual used in the Mountroses’ Holistic Healing Certification Course, which can serve as a comprehensive model for healers in the development of their holistic practices and training programs. If you are interested in developing a program in your area based on this approach, support materials including course outlines are also available, on request. Getting Thru to Kids: The Five Steps to Problem Solving with Children Ages 6 to 18 Book by Phillip Mountrose In an easy-to-read format, learn the 5 steps to communicating with kids. Empower yourself and kids with more trust, honesty, and improved relationships and school attitude. A Best Book Award by Sacramento Publishers Association and a Parent Council Selection.

FREE SOUL NEWS AND AWAKENINGS E-NEWS EMAIL NEWSLETTERS The Soul News includes practical, leading-edge holistic healing information to help you develop your life purpose and your spiritual well being. Specific tips and techniques for soul development are shared. The types of subjects covered in this newsletter include: • Moving through the stages of the spiritual journey • Experiencing healing on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels • Enhancing and enriching your life through your soul's development • Moving towards manifesting your soul's true purpose in all aspects of your life • Helping in the transformation that all of humanity is experiencing as we move into a new way of being To subscribe or review Soul News archives articles, go to www/gettingthru.org. Awakenings E-News monthly email newsletter is devoted to building a worldwide spiritual community based on holistic healing and soul awareness. Go to www.awakeningsinstitute.org To order any of the materials, call toll-free 866-304-4325 or order online at www.gettingthru.org. You can purchase materials from Awakenings using the order form at the end of this book or by placing a secure internet order at the gettingthru.org website. Your purchase supports Awakenings in its mission of helping people fulfill their true purpose.





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About the Authors

Phillip and Jane Mountrose have studied and developed self-help, personal growth, and spiritual growth techniques for nearly thirty years. Together, they lead the Awakenings Institute, a non-profit religious organization located in California. DR. PHILLIP MOUNTROSE is an author, holistic teacher, Holistic Hypnotherapist, NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) Practitioner, Spiritual Life Coach and Counselor, Reiki Master, and Intuitive Counselor serving others as a Minister of Holistic Healing. In addition to his diverse training in different aspects of holistic healing and spirituality, Phillip has a Masters in Education from University of Massachusetts, a Special Education Certification from Sacramento State College, and a Masters in Fine Arts from UCLA. He is a veteran educator and innovative instructional video creator who has taught children of all ages for over twenty years. His hands-on books Getting Thru To Kids and Tips and Tools for Getting Thru to Kids were developed from his many years experience in teaching regular and special education. The books also incorporate his explorations into NLP and Cognitive Therapy. Phillip's wide range of experience has made him a popular radio and TV guest. Phillip now teaches a certification course in Holistic Healing. He also teaches personal and spiritual growth classes, and works with people individually to help them achieve their goals. Phillip enjoys helping to identify and release their blockages, so they can experience more joy, love and freedom in their lives. He also draws on his teaching experience to help children and families. DR. JANE MOUNTROSE is an author, Holistic Therapist, Spiritual Counselor, Reiki Master, and Intuitive Counselor, serving others as a Minister of Holistic Healing. In addition to her diversified experience helping people to realize their highest potential, Jane has a Bachelor's Degree from Rhode Island School of Design in Art and more than 25 years of experience as an artist and an architect. She remains actively involved in the arts. Based on her own weight problems, she also wrote the book The Holistic Approach to Eating, which presents a program for reaching your ideal weight and maintaining it for life. You can find more information about the authors at www.gettingthru.org/hpj.htm.

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tion Program includes four transformational courses, or modules, for certification in the following areas: • EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Practitioner • SK (Spiritual Kinesiology) Practitioner • Intuitive Techniques Practitioner • Soul Purpose Advisor Any of the modules may be taken individually or as part of the overall program. Each module qualifies as 36 hours of independent study toward the 150-hour Spiritual Counselor Certification.

The Life Learning Experience Awakenings regards education as a lifelong experience of growth and expansion that benefits both the learner and those with whom he or she interacts personally and professionally. Independent study programs provide an opportunity for certification candidates to participate actively in the life learning experience as a way to fulfill their full potential on their chosen path of self-development. From this perspective, any learning opportunity has the goal of enhancing one’s life and of offering the skills one develops to others. This spirit of lifelong learning and growth is the essence of this program. Along with studying the materials, emphasis is placed on practicing the techniques in each course. Practice is one of the main keys to your success. It helps you to build confidence, refine your approach and timing, and understand what your client is experiencing under a variety of circumstances.

Benefits of Certification The underlying benefit of these courses is the opportunity for focused study as a part of your life learning process to help you to fulfill your purpose and to likewise help others to fulfill theirs. Certification provides confirmation of your experience, which is beneficial for those seeking your services. Successful completion of any of the four certification courses also provides the following: • A Certificate of Completion, suitable for display. • An opportunity to be listed as a certified practitioner on Awakening’s “gettingthru.org” website. • Hours of credit toward the Spiritual Counselor Certification and/or Ministerial Program. You can find more information on these transformational courses on the Internet at www.gettingthru.org/acertify.htm. Please contact Phillip or Jane Mountrose at the number provided at the end of this appendix if you have questions or to receive a certification package if you do not have internet access.


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CLASSES AND COURSES Phillip and Jane Mountrose teach classes and seminars in Holistic Hypnotherapy, EFT, Spiritual Kinesiology, the Getting Thru Techniques, and spiritual development. They also offer a comprehensive Holistic Healing Certification Program. This course is a powerful and enlightening way to integrate the body, emotions, mind, and spirit for self-healing, for building a holistic practice serving others, or as an addition to your current practice. Find more information about classes at http://www.gettingthru.org/aevents.htm.

PERSONAL CONSULTATIONS Phillip and Jane Mountrose offer in person or phone personal consultations to help people to connect more deeply with their evolutionary journey and true purpose. Many people think that reaching out to others for assistance is a sign of weakness. This is far from the truth. Along with developing a relationship with our true divine selves, we can all benefit from the loving input of others as we progress on the spiritual journey. Phillip and Jane focus on making a life filled with joy, love, and freedom a reality for those who come into contact with them. They also will save you time and energy by helping you to move more directly and easily on your path. Find out more about the consultations at www.gettingthru.org/aconsult.htm.

AWAKENINGS INSTITUTE AND THE WORLDIWDE MASTER SPIRIT COMMUNITY Information about Awakenings, its Worldwide Master Spirit Community and all of its other offerings is available on the internet. To find out more about personal consultations, speaking engagements, courses, seminars, and publications, contact: Phillip and Jane Mountrose P.O. Box 279, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 www.gettingthru.org www.awakeningsinstitute.org E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (805)473-0732 Phillip and Jane also welcome your communication, especially your experiences, insights, challenges, and successes with the interactive tools in this book.


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