By: Stephen Grose, Spiritual Teacher at Psychic Awakenings
If
you’re like a lot of people, you may have made some New Year’s resolutions on
January 1st. As we enter the
second month of the year, the question is:
How is it going? If you’ve given up already or noticed that
you aren’t acting consistently on your quest for change, now is a great time to
shift your approach.
A New Year, A New You
A New Year’s
resolution has the connotation of an end result; something to be resolved. In
this we set ourselves up for disappointment if the expected result is not met.
Having a New Year’s Evolution is creating the intent that you will evolve
yourself in some way without pigeonholing yourself into an evolutionary dead
end (a finite goal which you might fall short of or might limit yourself from
going even bigger with your intention).
Learning To Work in Conjunction with
the Universe
Before we create
our New Year’s Evolutions (an Evolutionary Idea) let’s talk about how our lives
are created. We create our lives in conjunction with the Universe. We vibrate
with thoughts and feelings that send out signals to the Universe. The Universe
picks them up and responds back with more of the same, like an echo. “I want to
lose weight.” is a nice thought about losing weight, but the emotional
attachment is probably one of dissatisfaction, or unhappiness. If you are
feeling ‘icky’ about your thought, it would behoove you to change it to
something you can feel a positive emotion about (enthusiasm, joy, excitement,
etc.). An emotional vibration of joy will echo back experiences that give you
more joy, while sending out dissatisfied feelings the same vibration will come
back to give you more of the same. Now that we are familiar with how the
Universe responds to our emotional vibration and that we must be aware of our
emotional reaction to our thoughts, we can start creating our Evolutionary
Ideas.
Creating your New Year’s Evolutions
At first it starts
with a thought similar to a resolution: “I want to lose weight” or “I want a
raise at work.”
Let’s break these down into the most basic thoughts that don’t involve a goal
and induce a positive or neutral emotion: “I want to feel confident with my
body.” or “I want an increase in my monetary abundance.”
You can use these two methods to bring your Evolutionary Idea to fruition:
1)
Phrase the Evolutionary Idea as a
question with the intent of receiving guidance.
Examples: “How can I feel more confident with
my body?” or “How can I increase my monetary abundance?”
When you are thinking about your Evolutionary Idea, put it into the form of a
question with the intent of receiving an answer *but* let go of all attachment
to what the answer ‘should’ be or how long it takes for the answer to come to
you. The more you hold restrictions in your head about time frame and the
“how’s” the more your slow down the speed of your manifestation.
2)
Sit down and center yourself with
whatever techniques work for you (breath work, music, running, meditation, etc.). From
here imagine yourself, in present time, experiencing your Evolutionary Idea.
Really
imagine yourself feeling positive emotions about your Evolutionary Idea for at
least 30 seconds. At the beginning this will be more abstract because the
Universe hasn’t yet provided you with the details on how it will happen.
Example 1: Feeling more confident
with your body. Imagine yourself sitting where you are (easy, right?!) and just
feel confident. Channel the feeling of confidence in relation to your physical
body. Just feel it and then when you have done so for at least 30 seconds just
feel grateful and let it go and continue on with your day.
Example 2: Having more monetary abundance.
This imagining can be a little more detailed. Imagine your life with more
monetary abundance. You don’t have to focus on *how* the abundance of money
will come into your life, just how your life looks with the extra cash flow.
Imagine yourself feeling relief, confidently paying bills ahead of schedule.
Taking vacations and staying at nice hotels, or buying that new gaming console
you have your eye on. Feel the joy and excitement and relief you feel as you
can easily spend your abundance of money. Do this for at least 30 seconds and
then end it with feeling gratitude and continue on your merry way.
Focus on Each New Step and not the
Destination
As you move through
your daily life, alert for signs from the Universe, continue to take breaks in
the day to vibrate emotionally as if you are already experiencing your
Evolutionary Idea. When the signs come, be it articles and posts on your
Newsfeed, or friends offering advice, or inspirations of spontaneity, roll with
them. Test them out and see how you feel about them. If they are in alignment
with your Evolutionary Idea and give you feelings of excitement, joy, relief,
and/or happiness, keep going with it! Add this to your vibrational time outs.
Add the activity into your imagining of your Evolutionary Idea. Keep this in
your vibration and actions unless you stop feeling positive feelings about
it.
Suddenly You’ve Arrived
One day you will
wake up and have your Evolutionary Idea. The path there may not have been clear
at first, but looking back it made so much sense! From here you can start a new
Evolutionary Idea for yourself! Evolve yourself and your life experience
through joy and excitement; avoid negative feelings as much as possible while
not beating yourself up about having negative feelings from time to time.
Reprinted with
permission from Stephen Grose. The original article can be found on his
professional services site: Healing Elements.