Seeing The Unseen
How strong is your faith muscle?
Because just like the muscles of the body, faith can be strengthened. Sustained faith and gratitude are necessary to your becoming the highest version of yourself, and co-creating with the universe. The formula of successful manifestation is very simple. The tricky part is that simple is not synonymous with easy. What’s more, is that something not being easy doesn’t necessarily mean it has to be hard.
The verbiage to describe the manifestation process will vary depending on who you ask, but the basic principles remain at their core, the same. Ask for what you want, and get a clear mental picture of the desired outcome. Act, in faith, towards the direction of the goal with zero attachment to how it will manifest. Know that it, or something better, is on the way, and feel gratitude for already having it. This is very simple, but in practice, some of the hardest work you can do.
The difficulty comes in sustained thought. Just like telling your mind not to think about an elephant, and you will immediately think of an elephant. Successful manifestation depends on your ability to think what you want to think; that the desired end result is already on its way, regardless of what present circumstances might suggest. For example, if you desire more money, but are constantly thinking about how little there is in your bank account, it will be very difficult to manifest the desired change.
Being able to see, and feel, and know that you already have the thing you want, for an extended period of time (often long past the point you think you should have seen it already) takes a type of mental training and fortitude that most people don’t bother to cultivate. Why is it so torturous to sit in peaceful meditation for only a few minutes? The mind does not want to be trained. It wants to wander from thing to thing, like a monkey in the trees. Training to stay focused on something that, at least physically, is not perceivable from your current vantage point, is laborious.
But it is the ability to maintain sustained and unshakable faith at all times, that separates the men from the boys. But this unshakable faith must flow from a deep sense of joy and gratitude. You cant muscle your way to faith. You have to be unattached to the process with a lighthearted spirit of trust in it. In this way, it becomes the simplest task in the world. When you project your thought into universal intelligence, everything begins to move in accordance with delivering to you that vision, end of the story. What could be more simple?
How do we train the mind? There are an infinite number of ways. Affirmations, mantras, meditation, yoga, etc. Here’s a practical tool I use often. Find a trigger, something you know you’ll do or see often throughout your day, like: “every time I unlock my phone”. and apply the discipline: “I will say my faith-based affirmation 7 times”
Try this practice for 40 days and see what happens. Here are some faith building affirmations to try:
“I am the kind of person that trusts in the universe”
“I am excited for today because it is perfect”
“Everything around me is conspiring for my highest good”
“I enjoy not knowing how my dream will unfold”
“I am excited to see how my goal finds me”
“I am in exactly the right place at exactly the right time to see my desire manifest”