Tips for Manifesting Your Goals

By Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Copyright Visionary Living, Inc. 2011

Year’s end is a time for reflecting upon events and accomplishments, successes and failures, and for setting a course for the coming year.  Resolutions are made for change.  Intentions are high – how well will you manifest those goals?

The art of manifestation is a combination of resources: spiritual, mental, emotional and physical.  All four must be employed to bring about desired changes.  It takes discipline, but in a few minutes every day, you can train yourself to have powerful forces in motion at all times.  Let’s take a look at the building blocks:

Spiritual. First, we need an inspired vision.  Circumstances in the world motivate us to change, but even more important are the impulses from the spiritual realms that reach us through the Higher Self, our dreams, and inner promptings.  Spiritual inspiration directs us to the unfoldment of our life’s journey, the unique path that each of us follows.  Prayer, meditation and knowing one’s heart open the way for inspired vision.  We are in harmony with the cosmos.  We see a desired outcome, a desired change, and we are inspired to reach for it.

Mental.  Our thoughts, intention, and will provide the raw power for manifestation.  Thought creates reality.  Think failure and you will get failure.  Think success and you will have it.  Maintaining positive thought is a challenge under most circumstances, and in a global news community mired in chaos, disasters, and doomsday predictions, it is even more challenging.  What you think, you become.  Few people truly understand the tremendous creative power of thought.  Instead, we are taught to dismiss thought as fantasy.

Emotional.  Those who succeed best at manifesting their goals feel them – and feed them — on every level of their being.  Not only is the goal envisioned mentally, but it engages all of the senses until it become real.  Feel it, see it, hear it, touch it, taste it.

Physical.  Action is the final step that puts the previous elements into motion.  We have to apply ourselves in the physical world – look for opportunities, take risks, make decisions, stop procrastinating.  Nothing is handed to us on a platter.  Sometimes manifestation takes a long time to work out.  Our own forces in motion are working alongside other forces in motion.  There may be course corrections along the way.  Manifestation, like any art, is a work in progress, subject to refinement and change as our vision and sense of purpose grow and change.  Sometimes we realize that what we set out to achieve isn’t what we really want, so we must alter course.  We also have to learn when to push and when to hold back and be patient.

Here is a visualization that I find effective for focusing thought and intention:

Sit in a comfortable position with both feet on the floor.  Focus on the breath.  On the inhale, visualize a stream of golden white light entering the body through the head, and circulating through every body part and cell.  On the exhale the breath flows down the body, out through the feet and into the earth.  This opens the crown chakra to the spiritual plane and grounds the energy into the physical plane.

The light comes from the Divine Source of All Being, the eternal cycle of creation.  When the light has filled your body, channel some of into your hands.  The hands are symbols of manifestation, power and work in the world.  Visualize your goal while you fill your hands with light.  When your hands feel hot, heavy and full, hold the palms outward and send the light, along with your goal, into the Divine Source of All Being.  Consider it done.

Do not become discouraged if you do not get quick results.  Instant access on the internet has conditioned us to expect instant results for whatever we want, but in real life this is not the case.  Some results do happen quickly, but others take time – even a long time – to work out.  Sometimes there are intermediate steps that must be accomplished first.  The art of manifestation is fluid and cannot be forced.

If you practice focusing your thought and intention for a few minutes a day, the energy will build and become part of the backdrop of how you engage in daily life.  It will help you have a clearer head about all sorts of decisions, big and small.

Let’s make 2011 a year of positive transformation!

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