#MondayMotivation: How To Get What You Really Want: Nine Principles

Another installment of #MondayMotivation all about the mentality that helps you get what you really want out of life (or at least can get you there much faster than worrying).

The nine principles below illustrate Dr. Wayne W. Dyer's nine principles of manifestation for getting that which our most loving of hearts long for: purpose, direction, love, and happiness and the truest joys of life. They show us how to lift ourselves from the all too common doldrums of "I  have a desire to be something,' to "I am something." As you go through the list, take a few moments to visualize each step as you read it.

As I have written about this topic at previous sites, I come from a more secular humanist angle here so that these nine principles apply to religious and secular readers equally. These techniques are cognitive techniques to train your mind to be more allowing of good things and positive thoughts in your day to day.

 

Nine Principles of Manifestation

 

1. Live from Your Highest Self - "I have an ability to manifest and attract all that I need and desire." 

 

This is not a call to do drugs or to float whimsically out of your body and suddenly obtain that beach house in Miami you've wanted since you and Beach House Barbie dreamed of it when you were seven. It means to know you have a reason for existing and have found meaning in your work. Find meaning in your life's work and you'll find that even working long hours is a joy.

 

2. Learn to Trust Your Inner Wisdom - "I trust in myself and in the wisdom within." 

 

Simply put, know yourself and what works the best for you. We all are different in this regard. Some of us are athletes, some doctors and some of us store clerks. Some of us are funnier, while others more serious. But what truly is paramount to success is knowing your strengths and weakness for your strengths give you confidence and your weaknesses keep you humble. It's all about knowing how you can help, but also recognizing when you need help from others.

 

3. Honor Your Worthiness to Receive - "I deserve to experience good things."

With many of us growing up with traditional Christian concepts of being "unworthy of the grace and love of God," this step can be a tricky bit of business to explain. This step is not saying you don't make mistakes or that you aren't capable of doing wrong. It is to say rather that you are to think of yourself as intended to be in connection with that which made you, (what I call God) like being plugged into electricity moving through existence to serve your specifically gifted purpose.

 

4. Realize that You Are Not Separate from Your Environment - "I am one with my surroundings, aware of the connective energy between me and my world."

 

On a basic level, to realize that each thing that exists is part of and connected to a larger whole allows you see purpose and possibly opportunity for growth in each experience, good or bad. Also where direct human interaction is concerned, in India's ancient traditions there is the philosophy that says when you can see yourself in all others, you're no longer able to have true enemies and your anger turns to pity for the person who wishes you harm because you realize that the harm that you once thought only went one way actually goes all ways. In this mode, you'll now have a greater desire to be helpful, kind and the best you can be on all levels because the good you used to want only for you now extends to everyone and everything in some way.

 

5. Attract What You Desire - Visualize things working out and be solution minded if they don't.

 

In religion, Jesus in The Gospel of Matthew expresses that the Father desires to give good gifts to his children. You must believe you live from a source of giving, not lack. Think, "Good things are possible!" and they will likely show up. Please test this theory and write me back.

 

6. Connect with Unconditional Love - "I express the energy of unconditional love to all people and all things in my life."

 

Love big! Don't return negative actions with more of the same, but less. Always try to see the purpose as I said earlier. Love is the opposite of selfishness and the weird paradox of this love thing is that the less you care about the outcome, the more likely you are to receive great things with loving generosity.

 

7. Detach from the Outcome - "I trust that what need can come. I will take positive action rather than worry."

 

Stop worrying and do your best. Your stress is just a simple test of whether you have the will to succeed. Go forward and believe. If you fail, be adaptive and creative, and you will get through almost anything.

 

8. Acknowledge Your Results with Gratitude and Generosity - "I am deeply thankful for all that I've received, and I enjoy giving to others in the spirit of love and service." 

 

Think of as many things to be thankful for as you can each day. You'll be be surprised how much more you get out of life when you do this. Express love in some way every day as well and be of service to others.

 

9. Meditate to the Sound of Creation - "I meditate each day to increase my awareness of the divine power within me. Through meditation, I am able to realize the beauty, grace, and love that directs my life and fulfills my deepest desires."  

 

This just means notice and become aware of everything more: the sound of a laugh, the look of a bird. Yet, sound specifically takes a deeper concentration to notice and appreciate, and I think that's what Dr. Dyer's point is all about: appreciation.

 

Inspired the words of Dr. Wayne W. Dyer and by his book Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want

Thanks for reading. Leave a comment. :)

 

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I want to take a moment to update you on what's going on at FreelanceMikey. Things are getting busier here, and I have to say that I'm so thankful! Right now, I'm working on some edits and some manuscripts for quite a few clients and the new podcast experiment that is the "Plogcast." Thanks, folks! Stick around and keep on rocking' in the free world!

 

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A New 'Plogcast' to Fuel Your Creative Fire!

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9-11 Tribute (Readapted Prose Poem): "We Are Lower Manhattan"

Today is September 11. Before 2001, It was always just a day like any other:  someone's  birthday, someone's wedding  anniversary, or the day of any number of random occurrences throughout time but has now seemingly forever become the day we all became somber and deeply mournful at once in America and much of the world. There has been so much said about why it happened, how it happened, outside jobs, inside jobs, Yet, on that day, I felt most of us were incontrovertibly unified.  My particular story involves family and friends, but I don't—in any way—wish to make my personal story bigger than the day.

The first draft and iteration of the following prose poem was written in 2006 and re-edited in 2007, and I've finally decided to permanently change the timeline to "so many years since" where it will stay. It is a response to health concerns post 9-11. I wrote it as an advocacy piece in defense of those affected most severely. Since that writing, there has been hope, yet the poem still stand as a worthy testament to those lost and those still dealing with health concerns.

"We Are Lower Manhattan"

It’s been so many years since those towers fell and we still smell the bodies, the ash, the twisted steel, florescent lights and computer screens, the fiberglass, and broken windows turning to broken hearts—and those hearts are heard beating less and less, becoming fewer and fewer—burdened by their having to support collapsing lungs and silenced tongues covered in chemical compounds of asbestos and fingers. Athletic children with asthma just can’t stand the strain of baseball anymore. A formerly happy teenaged girl is now horrified by the smell of the perfume her grandmother gave her at her sweet sixteen. She is green and vomiting from tiny molecules. She lay sick in her bed for days on end. Our pastor can’t speak as vigorously as he used to. He has to leave little pregnant pauses where his fire used to be. The blue collars in town are a little grayish- blue now and the woman next door may have Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

And we want to run away, but some of us don’t have any breath left to run, to scream! I remember they said it was safe, “Go shopping...” and whatnot.” Breathe the air...." We asked for masks but they never came. My daughter is getting sick of her school because she is sick of hearing stories of people being sick. The neighborhood doesn’t feel right and we want to. We want the doctors to have answers to our cancers and failing lungs and ash filled throats as many of us wait to join our bothers and sisters in that ash. We are tired of government assurance. We need insurance to pay bills for the right pills to ease our sorrows. Faith just isn’t enough anymore. Why do we feel this way? Most of us weren’t even there that day! They said it was safe and most of us knew better, but we trusted them. We don’t want the terrorists to win but they are! And here we are living here to die, dying here to live with the aftermath as it keeps calling us everyday.

Author's note: This piece was written as my response to health problems arisen out of the aftermath of the events of 9-11; however,  today some hope and help has come about through both government intervention and legal action through the years and also now has given way to an irrepressible and stirring memorial at its site.

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