My name is Ashley Ann Marie and I wanted to spend a couple minutes talking about the importance of not thinking negatively.
And if we are falling into that trap that we all fall into of negative thought patterns,
Unhealthy thought patterns,
We notice it and we get out of that trap.
For so many years,
I was a very negative person.
I had very negative thoughts.
Not because I wanted bad things to happen,
Of course not,
That was the last thing I wanted,
But because I was so anxious and so worried that bad things would happen that I accidentally brought them on myself.
This is why it is so important that we correct these negative thoughts.
We don't realize it at the time,
But when we are anxious and sad or depressed and we're thinking,
Oh,
I don't want this,
I don't want that,
This shouldn't be happening,
All those negative terms,
Not,
Shouldn't,
Wouldn't,
Don't,
We don't realize that we are accidentally projecting that out into the universe.
The universe and God hears us.
It hears us and it wants to make us happy.
It wants to bring things to us that we're attracting.
When we use negative terminology and we have negative thoughts,
We are accidentally manifesting the very thing that we want to avoid.
Now I firmly believe that we are all manifesting things all of the time,
Even if you don't realize it.
It's important to realize what you're thinking because it will affect how you're feeling.
It will have a subtle effect on your behavior.
And before you know it,
Those small steps add up and you could accidentally be attracting the negative things that you're worried will happen.
There was a time in my life where everything was going really well and I don't know,
But the anxiety got the better of me and I started having negative thoughts,
Being worried of all these things that would happen and I had no reason to believe they would happen,
But I just kept worrying about it and thinking,
Don't want that to happen.
This shouldn't happen.
What if it does?
Very negative thinking.
And before you know it,
All of those things ended up happening.
Whereas before there was no reason to believe they would.
And I realized that I got so in my head,
So worried about it that I accidentally brought the outcome on.
Now this is the thing with manifesting.
People don't realize that when you set a thought,
An intention,
Negative or not,
It will in subtle ways affect your line of thinking.
It'll affect your perception,
Your moods,
Your attitude and your behaviors,
Your actions and all those things add up.
The little things add up to big things and before you know,
You're acting in a way that brings about the outcome you didn't want to happen.
It is so important that we stop our negative thinking and we don't fall into that trap.
The universe has a language,
Okay?
The universe wants to bring things to us that make us happy.
It wants to bring things to us that we are attracted.
God cares very much,
In my opinion,
What's on our hearts and he wants to bring us what we want,
If it's in alignment.
When we manifest,
We want to think in terms of,
I want this to happen.
I desire for this to happen.
Those are the positive terminology.
That way we don't have it accidentally backfire.
I would say the most important step,
Other than setting that intention,
Saying that prayer,
Perhaps even more important,
Is the aspect of letting it go.
And I think many people get hung up on that.
For me manifesting,
That was the hardest thing I had to learn was,
It's okay to want something so bad.
It's okay to set that intention,
To say that to the universe,
To say to God,
I pray this happens for me.
It's okay.
God wants to hear the desires on your heart,
But ultimately,
No matter how bad you want that thing,
You do have to surrender it for manifestation to work properly.
You do have to surrender the outcome.
You don't want to fall into the trap of making demands.
You don't want to fall into the trap of being so latched onto something that you bring it in your life when it wasn't for you,
Or you kept it in your life when it wasn't for you.
We all have a divine plan.
God has a divine plan for each and every one of us.
And when we set an intention or a prayer,
And it's for something that is in alignment with what's on our path for us,
A beautiful thing happens and it comes to us.
It's a treasure,
Truly.
But we also need to accept when we're asking for something that isn't in alignment for us,
That isn't in our path.
And we need to accept that that needs to be released and surrendered.
That sometimes what we had in mind,
The universe has something far grander and better in mind.
With manifestation,
It's so important to recognize your thoughts,
To switch those positive thoughts from negative to positive,
To switch from,
I don't want this,
To I want that,
Right?
Instead of saying,
Oh,
I don't want to be unemployed.
I don't want to be careerless.
I don't want to be,
You know,
Without something to do.
That's all negative.
No,
Switch it to,
I want a career.
I want a passion.
I want to do something with my talent and contribute.
You shift the narrative and that's where you get power back.
That's where you get power back.
And that's where the universe brings good things in for you.
I like to also finish every single manifestation,
Every prayer with,
No matter how much I want this,
No matter how much this is on my heart,
I give it to you,
God.
I give it up to the universe,
Trusting fully that you will only bring to me what's meant for me.
And you can also ask for help or for peace with accepting,
Accepting the outcome of the decision if you know it's going to be hard for you and that's okay.
So the importance of switching negative terminology to positive,
Realizing that sometimes we worry so much we accidentally attract what we're trying to avoid and the importance of never turning this into a demand,
Right?
We're not writing a list of demands to the universe.
We're offering up an intention,
We're offering up a prayer,
Trusting fully that we're going to release it over,
We're going to surrender it over,
And only what is for us,
What's in alignment with our divine plan will come to us.
Thank you for listening to my thoughts today,
Sending you love and light.
