Manifestation... A Practice In Commitment & Consistency

Deciding to change your life and staying consistent on the manifestation journey is HARD yet so completely satisfying and important! The link is in my bio! My dear friend, Pierre Bensusan, has permitted me to use his track called ‘Sentimentales Pyromaniaques’ from the album 'Altiplanos'.
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Transcript

Welcome to In the Flow with Lori Albert,

A brief positivity-inspiring chat and meditation designed to uplift and motivate us to live our best lives.

Let's get in the flow.

I love this journey of manifesting.

I've been doing it a long time,

As I know probably a lot of you have too,

But manifestation is such fun,

But it can also be kind of an intense journey,

You know,

If you think about it,

Right?

We must decide that we really want to make these changes for ourselves.

We must decide that we want to put in the work for it.

And I know I might sound like a broken record by that,

But if you commit to it,

That creates sort of a light switch going off,

Right?

You know,

It's like,

It's so silly to me,

Right?

But we hear so much about the how-tos of manifesting,

Like the visualizing and the journaling and the meditations and the affirmations and all of this stuff.

And those are fantastic ways to manifest,

Obviously,

Right?

But there's a part of this process that I feel like we leave out sometimes,

Okay?

And it's not a pretty part of manifesting,

Right?

We have to commit to the process because it's not all just about,

Like,

Just all of a sudden you sit down and you visualize,

You know,

And that's great to do.

But there's a commitment that needs to be made.

If we don't commit to putting in the work and truly work on changing our thoughts,

Then all of the other fun stuff isn't going to work.

It's not going to happen.

And that's why online or whatever you see all of these people are like,

Manifestation,

Yeah,

Love attraction,

That's BS.

You see that a lot,

Right?

But you know what?

These to me are probably,

Here's me getting judgy,

But you know,

These are probably the people that are like,

I'm going to win the lottery,

You know?

And okay,

So I'm going to win the lottery and you write it out,

You do the 3-6-9 method or you do all of this other stuff,

You visualize what it's like to win the lottery.

But if you don't change your thoughts around money,

And that is a big one,

Changing your thoughts around money,

Right?

If you don't do it in three days and you don't win the lottery in three days,

Then you just give up.

Oh,

This is crap,

Right?

There's a lot of mental work that needs to get done,

Right?

So we commit,

Committing to that process.

And I'm making it sound really dramatic.

I get that.

But I'm kind of saying all of it that way.

I'm saying it all this way because we need to know that there is work that needs to be done.

And yes,

I absolutely cover all of this.

So what I suggest to do is once you commit to making the changes,

Right?

Then what you do is you take a few days,

Okay?

You take just a few days and just simply pay attention to your thoughts,

You know?

And you take those few days,

You pay attention to your good thoughts and your bad thoughts,

Your angry thoughts,

Mad,

You know,

Mad,

You're sad,

Whatever emotion it is.

And in terms of that,

What you can do is start to recognize then what triggers those thoughts.

What triggers the thought,

The negative thought?

Like if I'm getting judgy about somebody,

What triggers that thought?

Like if I see a lady with like a hat on and I'm just like,

That hat looks ridiculous on her.

I don't even know why I'm saying it that way.

But you know,

Why am I really saying that?

It's only like a negative thought for me.

She doesn't know,

Right?

That I'm thinking that,

Hopefully,

You know?

But why do we have that thought?

Because I want to look cute like that,

Maybe.

You know?

So you start to understand what's triggering those thoughts.

Is there a jealousy happening there?

Is there a low self-esteem thing happening there?

Now,

Obviously,

This is never to take the place.

What I'm talking about here is never to take the place of therapy or anything like that.

Whatever you've got going on,

I fully support that,

Right?

This is kind of in addition to that,

Right?

So we start to think about what emotion came over us.

Like,

What is it that made us so judgy?

So,

Like I said,

I invite you to take a few days and really start the process of paying attention to your thoughts and where they come from.

Right?

So then,

After you get a decent handle on what your triggers are,

And they're going to be different for everybody,

Right?

Then you start the work of reframing those thoughts.

Now,

I'm giving all of this information to you really fast,

But there's probably more to it than this,

Right?

And we can find this out in other ways,

Right?

But once you start to reframe those thoughts,

Catching yourself in mid-thought and reframing it and changing it,

Shifting it.

So instead of saying something along the lines of like,

What a jerk for taking over the meeting the way he did today at work.

Like,

Why did he have to take over the meeting?

Why couldn't,

You know,

I had stuff I needed to say.

So there's a thing,

Right?

Right?

There's a thing.

Like your brain goes there and we're not,

It's not wrong.

It's just recognizing it,

Right?

And then you start to reframe that.

So instead of saying,

Hey,

You know,

That was that he was being a real jerk for taking over the meeting.

I had stuff I wanted to say.

So maybe you could reframe that to,

Wow,

That was something.

That was a great display of forwardness and tenacity.

Good for him.

Next time I will speak up more on my,

I will speak up more.

Right?

So reframing it into a place of maybe compassion for yourself or empathy for other people or yourself,

Whatever.

Right?

Another example,

Perfect example,

If you ask me,

Is why do I always get flat tires?

Oh my God,

My tires flat again.

I'm going to be late and the thing and the thing and the thing.

All of that stuff,

Right?

So instead of saying it that way,

Why do I always get flat tires?

Figure out why I'm saying that.

Like,

What is it about that that is sort of bringing me down or making me less than,

Less than?

I'm cursed,

You know,

Or something silly like that,

Right?

We say these things to ourselves.

I do it too.

So we reframe that and this is what you say instead of,

Instead of why do I always get flat tires?

You say I get flat tires,

But I am so grateful that I change them safely every time.

I may get a flat tire.

Look,

I got a flat tire again,

But guess what?

I am safe.

It's crazy.

Yes,

It's crazy,

You know,

To really take the time and make those,

Make those,

You know,

Changing of your thoughts.

So let's meditate just for a few minutes,

Shall we?

Yay.

Okay,

So let's get comfy.

Get comfy and maybe close your eyes.

We've got a fantastic affirmation for today.

Beautiful.

So we relax.

Let's take a deep breath in and release.

Let's take just a minute to consider just a few things that we're grateful for today.

What are you grateful for?

What is something that's positive in your life today?

That you are absolutely grateful for.

Even if it's only one thing.

So as we sit in the stillness for just a minute,

Our affirmation for today is this.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

Fantastic affirmation for today.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

So let's sit in the stillness.

I will keep the time.

And let's start repeating this really powerful affirmation.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

Let's start to bring our awareness back to our bodies and the chair we're sitting in.

Knowing that we will take this affirmation with us for the rest of the day,

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

I powerfully create my life one positive thought at a time.

Namaste.

Reviews

How awesome. You are such a vibe. Thank you for this.