Key ingredients of fast manifestation

Sometimes, a thought I have manifests really fast. So fast that I realized I need to watch my thoughts carefully because their results show up quite soon.
I have wondered about the key ingredients for fast manifestation and have come up with the following list:

1. A Copernican shift in worldview
   The usual assumption is that consciousness arises from the brain. But that is not true.
   Rather, consciousness is what we are and the brain and everything else in the 3D reality arise from consciousness.
   Consciousness is one. There are not many soul-bubbles bouncing around randomly like molecules in a gas. It’s more like many branches of the same tree, or many arms of the same octopus. All is connected in consciousness. The illusion of the 3D world is the separateness of things.
   Why is that a key ingredient?
   Because the outside world shows up according to our belief systems. If we believe we are just a body-mind and all things out there are separate, then the universe will do us the favor and show up like this – as a hostile place. However, if we believe that everything is connected via consciousness, then the universe mirrors that belief system and shows up in a different way.
2. Unconditional inner peace
   I found the peace that does not depend on anything outside by doing a 180 degree inward looking meditation. That is awareness looking directly back at itself.
   (https://karinfinger.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/inner-peace-our-real-being/)
3. An unconflicted mind
   If  I have a deep wish, then I should not have a conflicting belief that says that I don’t deserve the fulfillment of the wish.
4. Desire
   If a desire arises on top of that, then manifestation usually works fast. It can be a desire for the most mundane things (like french fries) or more complicated stuff.
   Since there is unconditional peace, the desire does not come from a needy ego place. There is no attitude like , “I insist that I must have this in order to be happy.”

Example:
I have written about a manifestation here:
(https://karinfinger.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/the-magic-wand-of-inner-peace/)

A word of caution:
At some point in the spiritual journey, this manifestation business seems to break down. Then we are asked to surrender the reins and turn inside and ask Source, “What do you want me to do?”

Many forms of divine guidance

How can we figure out what Source wants us to do, especially if we cannot hear the inner voice yet?

I was surprised to find out that divine guidance can come in many forms.
All we need to do is ask.
The following list contains examples  (and is by no means exhaustive).

Inner guidance:

1. Visions
2. Dreams with literal or metaphorical meaning
3. Songs that are stuck in the head which have meaningful lyrics
   (example: https://karinfinger.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/thou-shalt-not-blame/)
4. Inner voice (voiceless or audible)
5. Blocks of thought (i.e. sudden mental insight without any formulated sentences)
6. Inner knowing (wordless gut level feeling)
7. Inner urge to do something (for example, the urge to turn to the alarm clock in the morning and switch it off just one minute before it would go off by itself)
8. Physical sensations (like a tingling feeling, muscle twitching, or seeing a tiny visible spark of light)
9. Emotions (for example, feeling guilty or discontent when we are disobeying divine guidance vs. joy when we are on track)
10. Sickness (example: back pain in https://karinfinger.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/coming-out-of-hiding/)
    (Certain body parts can point to different underlying emotional causes.  For more information, see Louise Hay’s book Heal Your Body)

Outer guidance:

1. Words or pictures showing up on the outside world
2. Patterns of events with literal or metaphorical meaning, sometimes mirroring us (example: the clogged drain in https://karinfinger.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/the-power-of-forgiveness/)
3. Opening a book at a random page or drawing a Tarot card
4. Numbers  (like 11:11 ), pennies and dimes, feathers or anything else that we have assigned a meaning to  (like a certain type of car)
   (see Doreen Virtue’s book Signs from Above)
5. Animals can have a meaning according to the shamanic tradition
6. Spirit guides who show up in the flesh in the living room (as described by Gary Renard in The Disappearance of the Universe, or by Pamela Wilson to whom Ramana Maharshi appeared in her bedroom, see http://conscious.tv/text/12.htm ). But these are rather rare cases.
7. Psychic mediums or an insightful friend

Anything can become our teacher. The whole universe is moved by the single invisible hand of Source. We just need to ask.

Stories:

1. The book recommendation
   The same book (by Ramana Maharshi) was recommended twice to Renate McNay by different people. But she wasn’t interested.
   Then, she was in a bookstore and the book fell on her head out of nowhere.
   Finally, she got the message and read the book. (http://conscious.tv/text/12.htm )
2. Customizing the inner voice 
   I insisted that I wanted to hear an audible inner voice. Somehow, I had the idea that in order to be real guidance the voice must be audible.
   So, one morning, I heard an audible voice into my head.
   It said „Freedom” in a very low bass.
   Next week on another morning, I got an audible voice in my head saying something in a high pitch Mickey Mouse voice.
   That seemed like a humorous suggestion for customizing the voice of my internal satellite navigation system. Apparently, Source was making fun of me.
   I felt humbled. But I admired the universe’s teaching methods, patience, and humor.
   And I stayed with the voiceless voice setting.

I’d love to read your stories of guidance, if you feel like sharing them in the comments.

***

Edit (April 2016): Since more than one year the universe tries to push me to put this post into a workshop format. Here you can read with what humorous and humbling methods my guides were trying to conquer my resistance to this endeavor: The universe’s bag of tricks.

Edit (Jan 2018): The link to the free script  of the divine guidance workshop (downloadable pdf) can be found here .

 

Finding the inner teacher

Wouldn’t it be nice to always have access to higher guidance?

Ever since I read Conversations with God, by N.D. Walsch, I desired to be able to hear my wise inner voice, too.

The process is simple (but not easy):

1. Ask
2. Listen
3. Learn to trust

The asking part is important. It is about a heartfelt urgent desire that I really want to know an answer to particular issue. And it is about posing a specific question. Like ‘How can I see the trouble with that person in another light?’

The listening part is important as well. Empty the mind and wait for an answer to arrive. The listening is like waiting for the thunder after one has seen the lightning. Full of attention and waiting. And, of course, full of expectation that the thunder will eventually be heard.

Learning to trust the inner teacher takes time. For me, it was crucial to have experiences where the inner voice told me things I could not have known by myself.

In the beginning, I found it most helpful to do this process with pen and paper. Somehow, typing at the computer did not work too well for me.

I would sit down, alone in a quiet room, and write down a question. Then I would close my eyes, let my mind go blank and wait for an answer to emerge as blocks of thought or as a voiceless voice. I wrote down whatever came up as an answer. Of course, I never knew whether this was my ego talking or the wise inner voice. But I would write it down anyway and then look at it later and see whether it makes any sense.

Sometimes, the answer would not come as an inner voiceless voice. Instead, I would get a dream or a song in my head. Guidance can come in many different forms.

Barriers to listening:

1. Emotional turmoil
   It can be difficult to hear the inner voice if we are in a state of emotional turmoil. Therefore, it is important to learn to reach inner peace.
2. Emptying the mind too much.
   Esther Hicks did that in the beginning before she began to channel Abraham. She let go of her thoughts the moment they emerged. However, Abraham wanted to communicate with her. Luckily, he found a way. He made her spell the answers with her nose by moving her head.
3. Expecting a certain answer or fearing a certain answer.
   That point is important. Because the inner voice will often say things that are contrary to my normal understanding. Therefore, I want to stress that it is helpful be in a state of mind that accepts – or even invites – to have one’s world view shaken.

One word of caution:
Hearing this voice is one thing. Obeying it is a different matter.

And sometimes the voice can get pushy (for example, when it tells me how often I should write a blog post even though I have ‘more important’ things to do – like organizing my children’s birthdays ) .

Oh well, surrender seems to be an integral part of the journey.

Throat chakra blockage

Did you ever feel afraid of speaking up because of what others might think of you? I know that feeling all too well.

End of 2012,  I wrote a post for an internet forum about my spiritual journey. About anger and burned out light bulbs and the importance of inner peace. I even diligently corrected all the typos and the punctuation.

But after that, I didn’t feel like posting it anymore. I saved the draft in a folder and felt perfectly felt at peace with the decision to keep my mouth shut.

Don’t they always tell us in the spiritual literature, “All is well. Nothing needs to be done. All happens is awareness. No need to change the world outside”?

Afterwards, I got some dreams that were designed to nudge me to share. But I shrugged them off. In spring 2013, I developed breathing trouble due to an inflammation in the throat. Some nights, I could hardly sleep.

I didn’t connect the illness to the refusal to post my writing. I thought it was due to residual anger attacks.

After some unsuccessful attempts to cure the breathing trouble with an alternative healing method which had served me well in the past, I was referred to a spiritual healer. I didn’t actually go there. I just had a remote treatment.

And that worked. I was able to sleep again through the night without fear of suffocating.

But about two weeks after the healing, something unusual happened.

I turned inside and asked, ‘Father, what would you have me do?’

Immediately, the answer came, as a voiceless voice in my head,

‘Write that book! You are late.’

***

Note to self: Make sure to include a chapter on ‘Risks and Side Effects When Talking to Your Inner Voice’.

Here, my spirit guide gently corrects me,
‘No, you must include a chapter on the risk of not listening to your inner voice.’

Power of forgiveness and lost emails

Some years ago, our mail server was restructured. After that upgrade, my emails of the last 30 days were lost.

Fortunately, I had already read all of them and there were no action items left. But still, I wanted to keep them just for the record.

My initial reaction was self-righteous upset. “Oh boy, they messed it up!”

Of course, I asked whether the emails could be restored. But somehow that wasn’t  possible without unwanted side effects.

Then I became quiet.

A Course In Miracles (ACIM) teaches to turn within and ask, ‘How can I see this differently?’

Lately, that translates for me into, ‘How the heck have I manifested that one?’

Suddenly, it dawned on me.

This happened during a phase when I was decluttering my home. It was like a compulsive decluttering diarrhea where I thought about nothing else than getting rid of old stuff. For ten weeks in a row, I threw away stuff from all categories. Clothing, books, CDs, pots and pans, etc. .

The universe merely seemed to say, “You like to throw things away? Let me see how I can help you.”

And with a mischievous grin it cleaned away my emails, too.

I became quiet and didn’t get upset, knowing that I had called this issue into my experience.

Four weeks later and without any further action from my side, the lost emails suddenly reappeared.

***

Usual disclaimer:
ACIM style forgiveness is not about creating a better dream. Instead, it is about waking up to the fact that we have all created this ourselves. As a byproduct, the manifestation of the outer world can change.

Thou shalt not blame

Yesterday, I turned within and asked what the topic for the next post should be. Instead of straightforward answer, a German children’s song kept playing in my mind:
‘Auf de Schwäb’sche Eisebahne’  (On the Swabian Railway).

I had to google the lyrics. Apparently, as a child I never got past the third verse of the song. I was completely unaware of its story.

It is about a farmer who wants to take the Swabian train. He takes his goat to the train and binds it to the rear end of it. Probably, he assumes that the train won’t be faster than one of those oxcarts which he is used to. The he gets on the train.

At the next station, he gets off and wants to untie the goat from the train, but he finds only its head and the leash dangling there.

The farmer gets very upset. He grabs the head of the goat, throws it against the porter and yells,
“For the damage you must pay, you drove much too fast today.”

(There is even an English translation on the web http://germanrail.fr.yuku.com/topic/832/Auf-de-schwbsche-Eisebahne-On-the-Swabian-Railway#.VKl0nmd0zuo )

That could mean two things:

Either, I should not complain when the metaphorical train I have boarded is going much faster than expected.

Or I should write another post about forgiveness. ACIM style, of course.

Looking for love in all the wrong places

Late at night, a drunk man is searching for something under a street light.
A policeman arrives and asks, “What did you lose?”

“I lost my keys.”

The policeman helps searching. After a while, he asks where the keys were lost.

“I lost them in the park.”

“But why do you look for them under the street lamp?”

“Because here is the light.”

 

Waking up from the virtual reality

Do you like computer games? Apparently, they can become quite addictive.

Some years ago, I read a story by a woman who liked to play World of Warcraft a lot. With much dedication, she brought her avatar, a night elf, to level 80. It had grown dear to her heart.

After five years, she decided that it was time to let go of her immersion in the virtual reality. But how could she end the relationship to her night elf into which she had invested so much?

Eventually, she comforted herself with the thought that she could pass the avatar on to her children, (strongly hoping  they would be able to properly appreciate it).
(German link:  http://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2010-07/fuenf-jahre-wow )

Waking up is very much like that process. It is like remembering that we are not the avatar at all. But that we have been sitting in the chair in front of the computer all the time, watching the screen.

Eventually, we find out that we have not only been watching. We have also programmed the whole play.

Waking up is not about staying identified with the avatar and leveling it up from 80 to 100.

The trajectory of awakening is about the shift of identity from the grip of entrancement with the character on the screen towards the witness. And then further on to all that is (witness plus screenplay).