How To Create Your Own Reality - A Talk And Exercise

The talk first explains how our thoughts when charged with passion and repeated over some time will draw to ourselves places, people, experiences, and things that mirror these thoughts. This will happen if we want it or not. The exercise will show you how to create something you want. The audio concludes with a second law of creation or manifestation which does not concern itself with getting specifics but by living in accord with love you automatically draw to yourself all that you need.

* All quotes are from the Third Edition of A Course in Miracles, copyright © 2007 by the Foundation for Inner Peace, USA, used with permission.

Transcript

How to create your own reality,

A talk and exercise.

In this session I will firstly introduce what I call the first law of creation or manifestation,

Which deals with the creation of specific things like health,

Money,

A loving partner.

I will then use an exercise for you to manifest something specific.

I have witnessed at times instantaneous manifestations using this exercise,

For myself and others.

Lastly,

I will introduce the second law of creation,

Which does not deal with specifics,

But will draw to you all that you really need.

The first law of creation or manifestation.

This law emphasises that we live in a reflective universe.

The life we experience here is a reflection of our thinking.

This does not mean that it reflects our short,

Random thoughts,

Which could easily be contradicting each other.

What it means is that the thoughts that we tend to dwell on each day,

We bring them up day after day,

Week after week,

Month after month,

And we energise with our passion,

With our emotions,

Which dramatically increases their power.

Then these energised thoughts will start to draw to us their outcomes,

Whether we desire them or not.

This will be in the form of experiences,

Places,

People and things.

The more we dwell on the thinking,

And the more passion we put into the thinking,

The quicker these thoughts will manifest in front of us.

The universe is neutral.

Whether the outcome of this thinking makes us happy or sad,

Poor or abundant,

Or sick or healthy,

Is irrelevant to the universe.

It is just listening to us.

The universe is like a photocopier,

Or better,

A 3D printer.

It listens to what you are always thinking about,

Energises with passion,

And gives it to you whether you like it or not.

Here are some quotes from the book A Course in Miracles,

On Manifestation.

I will pause between quotes so you can contemplate what has been said.

The text states,

Few appreciate the real power of the mind,

And no one remains fully aware of it all the time.

However,

If you hope to spare yourself from fear,

There are some things you must realise,

And realise fully.

The mind is very powerful,

And never loses its creative force.

It never sleeps,

Every instant it is creating.

The workbook states in Lesson 16,

I have no neutral thoughts.

The idea for today is a beginning step into dispelling the belief that your thoughts have no effect.

Everything you see is the result of your thoughts.

There is no exception to this fact.

Thoughts are not big or little,

Powerful or weak,

They are merely true or false.

Those that are true create their own likeness.

Those that are false make theirs.

The Course states,

It is hard to recognise that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains.

No accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God created it.

Sickness is not an accident.

That's the end of the Course in Miracle quotes.

We are already creating our own reality,

But mostly from the unconscious.

Look at your life now.

This is what you have created.

In 1984,

I became a member of the Findhorn Foundation community in Scotland.

The founding members had little money and relied on manifesting their more expensive needs,

For example,

A greenhouse.

They were gathered together after the morning meditation and visualised the greenhouse they wanted.

They fully expected they would be given the greenhouse.

This is summarised in the Bible as,

Believe in what you pray for and it will come to pass.

They did not repeat the exercise as they knew it was already on its way to them.

They acted as if it was already theirs.

If you spend your time worrying you will never have enough money,

Which causes strong fear,

Then poverty will be your reality.

Instead,

Believe you deserve abundance,

That it is natural to have your material needs met.

Beware of programming that says to have a lot of money is not spiritual.

Money is neutral,

It is neither good or bad.

If you always think about avoiding sickness,

You will get sick.

Instead,

Focus on health,

Expect health.

If you fear a particular sickness and your mind keeps dwelling on it,

You are drawing it to you.

It takes time to manifest,

So you can always reverse your thinking and it will not appear.

To manifest cancer takes years of negative thinking and fear before it manifests in the body.

When psychics predict your future,

They pick up on a timeline you are creating with thought and passion.

If you stay with these thoughts,

The prediction will come true.

But if you drop these thoughts and think the opposite,

The prediction will not materialise.

Psychic predictions are only probabilities.

I would like to give you two personal examples of the first law.

One day,

My wife had come down with a cold,

The usual symptoms of sore throat,

Runny nose and headache.

I was rather concerned,

Living in proximity with her,

That I was going to catch it.

So I started piling in the vitamin C and other pills.

That evening,

I asked her not to sit next to me as we watched the television,

But across the room.

When I got time to bed,

I faced in the opposite direction to her and pulled the sheet over my head to prevent any germs coming my way.

In the morning,

I woke up with a cold.

Now I had a sore throat,

Runny nose and headache.

I had succeeded in successfully manifesting a cold.

I kept thinking about it previously and I had a fear that I was going to get it.

I also had rather low energy,

But I thought at least I should go out for a short walk.

It was a nice day and I walked to my favourite seat.

Then it dawned on me I could try a manifestation exercise,

Which is the one we'll be doing in a moment.

In this exercise,

I visualised and energised a future Michael,

One without a cold.

In a short while,

The future Michael was dialoguing with me and saying,

What do you want this cold for?

You don't need it.

I listened for a while and then it suddenly felt true.

Why am I having this cold?

I looked at the future Michael,

Had no cold at all.

Suddenly I realised things had changed.

I opened my eyes.

I had no sore throat.

I had no runny nose.

I had no headache.

I felt energised and I continued on with a 20-minute walk back home.

All symptoms had disappeared.

A second story.

Actually on the same walk,

There was a lot of steps.

Another day I was on this walk and I began to feel some problems with my knees recently.

As I was going up these steps,

I felt pain in both knees.

Spontaneously,

I focused on both knees and sent them my love and my gratitude.

I thanked them that these knees had carried me all these years through my life and I was convinced they would carry me to the end of my days.

I just knew that my knees were fine.

The next step,

There was no pain.

To check it out,

I went down 10 steps and came up and there was no pain.

This is also an example of love heals.

Two or three days later,

A little pain returned and I repeated the exercise,

Though it did take longer this time.

But the pain went away and I haven't suffered since.

I introduced this exercise on a workshop I was given once.

At the end of it,

I asked for any feedback.

One of the women said I have two chronic knee problems and I can't bend my legs hardly at all.

So,

I decided to take one of the legs into the exercise and I imagined the future me having that leg,

But with no pain and bendable.

At the end of the exercise,

It happened.

I tested it.

That leg I took in,

I could bend it easily,

But the other leg was still stiff and I couldn't bend it much.

She said I only wished I had taken both legs into that exercise.

It is important to act as if you created your new reality.

This becomes the vibration and frequency the universe hears and proceeds to give you what you ask.

I once met a woman who saw a house for sale that others also wanted.

However,

She put the address of this house in a contact list and telephone number in a telephone book,

Told friends of the new house she was about to buy,

Even bought a mailbox with her name for the new house painted on.

She was emitting a frequency,

A vibration,

A radiation that said I have a beautiful new house.

And in time,

She was able to buy that house.

People often complain their manifestations are not working.

They visualise,

For example,

The new sports car they want and believe if they keep fixating on that car,

It will come to them.

You have to act as if you have the sports car.

Go out and buy an accessory for the car.

Imagine yourself driving around in it.

This was the approach of the woman who wanted the house.

She acted as if she had the house already.

She held that vibration,

That frequency.

However,

If you also have a frequency of poverty,

If it lacks scarcity in your mind,

The object of desire will not come to you.

And that is your creation as well,

No car.

This is what we'll practice in the following exercise.

What I'd like you to do now is to lead you through a guided manifestation exercise based on the first laws of creation or manifestation.

So find a comfortable position and close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.

Think of something you'd like to manifest in your life,

Perhaps a healing,

Perhaps more money or a loving relationship.

And now I would like you to feel or see a clone,

A duplicate of yourself some distance away in front of you,

A few feet away.

This will become the future you who has manifested what you desire.

Imagine there is a cord linking your solar plexus to the solar plexus of this copy of you,

The future you.

The aim of the exercise is that you will literally become that future you who has manifested your desires.

And this at times can actually be immediate,

Especially with regard to health issues.

However,

We will leave the timing up to the universe.

If you're not sure what you want to manifest,

Ask your guides.

You're surrounded by helpers.

You may want to imagine your guide as a beam of light coming down into your head,

Into your body,

Into your heart,

Making their presence known.

You can turn to your guide and say,

What is it that I really need to manifest that would be in my highest good at this stage in my life?

And then just see what's shown to you,

Perhaps a word,

Perhaps a picture,

Perhaps a feeling will come to you.

And now we need to energise the future you.

Ask for light,

Ask for power to stream down into your head and down into your solar plexus.

Will that power to leave along the cord that links you to the future you.

At the same time,

Ask for power from the earth to come up through your feet into the solar plexus.

So now there's two streams of energy joined together that flow and pulsate along the cord to the future you.

When the energy arrives at the future you,

The person lights up and becomes energised.

There in front of you is the future you with the creation,

With the manifestation you've actually asked for.

See this future you happy at peace,

Actually showing in some way the desired manifestation.

Perhaps the body is now healed.

And the future you moves the body to show you it's so.

Or perhaps you've asked for money.

See the future you sitting there surrounded by money,

Picking it up,

Smiling at it.

Perhaps you've asked for a loving partner.

There the future you is with that partner,

Smiling at each other,

Loving each other's company,

Holding each other.

It's quite likely the future you may want to talk to you.

So be open to hearing what he has to say.

For example,

It may speak out about your health,

That you no longer need this illness.

Or you no longer need that poverty.

You no longer need that lesson.

Or you don't need to be lonely and alone.

You have a partner now.

Feel into it.

Try and feel that you are the future you.

Put out that frequency that you actually have what you want to manifest,

And continue any dialogue with the future you.

You keep the exercise going until it feels quite real.

You can say then to yourself,

Yes,

Of course I deserve what I want to manifest.

I am a powerful creator,

And I accept that I've manifested it.

I give thanks for that.

I have gratitude for what I have received.

I vow that when this exercise finishes,

I'll make some gesture that indicates that I have what I want to manifest.

You will act in life as if the manifestation has come true.

If it was connected with poverty,

Go out,

Spend some money on something you normally wouldn't.

If it was for a car,

Go and buy something you can attach to the car,

Some accessory.

If it was a new loving partner,

Start planning things that you're going to do together.

Perhaps go on holiday together.

Send out the vibration,

The frequency that you've achieved the manifestation you desire.

I will leave you in a quiet space for a minute,

And then bring you back and finish by talking about the second laws of creation and manifestation.

Let's turn our attention now to the second law of creation.

The first law dealt with specifics.

For example,

You wanted better health,

More money,

A loving partner,

Et cetera.

The second law does not deal with specifics at all.

I call it the higher law of the two laws.

With this law,

You align with the power of love.

We are made by love for love.

If we align our lives with this power,

If we practice forgiveness,

Kindness,

Honesty,

Gentleness,

We automatically draw to ourselves all that we need,

Prosperity,

Health,

Loving relationships,

Et cetera.

Prosperity may or may not involve a lot of money,

But your material needs will be supplied.

It's summarized in the Bible as,

Seek you first the kingdom of heaven,

And all else will be added unto you.

At the foundation of our universe is love,

The unconditional creative love of our creator.

That's where all power lies.

So if we are to align with that love,

Then we're working with the most powerful energy in the universe,

And we will draw to us the things that are related to love.

This is why we will experience health,

Peace,

Loving relationships,

And prosperity.

As you begin to understand this and experience it,

Then you will find that you start to relax,

Move more into the present moment,

And develop a faith that will draw to you what you need.

You don't have to put in effort to manifest things you think you need.

You have a quiet faith that your loving approach to life will just draw what you need to you.

Similarly,

If your life moves out of alignment to love,

Then you move out of this power stream,

And you won't manifest the things you're talking about.

Instead,

Negative experiences start to come to you.

These are not punishments.

They're just a function of the law.

It's a reflective universe.

These negative experiences,

For example,

Could be an illness,

A puncture,

Twisted ankle,

And could be used to show you that you're out of accord with love.

So they could be very helpful if viewed in this way.

The world is actually showing you where you're out of accord with love.

Another way of looking at it is to use the term frequency.

Loving people have a high frequency.

Hateful people have a low frequency.

Organic,

Fresh,

Locally produced food has a high frequency.

Processed food has a low frequency.

Reading a violent novel or watching murder films has a low frequency.

Spiritual books,

Like A Course in Miracles,

Have a high frequency.

If you establish yourself in a high frequency,

Then you draw high frequency things to you,

Like the ones we've already mentioned.

But when you're in a low frequency,

Then the reverse happens.

Negative experiences appear as mirrors to that negative frequency.

So with creation,

There's nothing right or wrong going on,

Or good or bad.

You simply draw to yourself in accordance with the frequency you are radiating.

Like attracts like.

The universe is a reflective universe,

Showing what your frequency is.

And so instead of judging anything negative that's happened in your life,

You can say,

Well,

This is interesting.

I need to raise my frequency.

Thanks for the feedback.

No matter what horrors you see in the world,

If you judge and condemn them,

Your frequency goes down.

You now become part of the problem instead of being part of the solution.

What happens on this planet is the projection of the contents of the minds of 8 billion people.

If the dominant thoughts of those 8 billion people is judgment,

Condemnation,

Attack,

Vengeance,

War must continue,

Despite the efforts of politicians and peace treaties.

However,

If the dominant thoughts change to forgiveness and compassion,

War will be impossible,

Even if aggressors try to stop them.

I hope you have found this session on the two laws of creation helpful.

People usually start with the first law,

And there's nothing wrong with that.

Eventually,

We are drawn to the second law,

Which will transform your life and lead you to inner peace and a quiet joy,

Which the world can't give or take away.