5 Pillars of Deliberate Creation

In today’s busy, information-packed world, “manifestation” has become something of a catchphrase. It feels like magic when we read about it yet reality hits it just becomes another task on our ever-growing to-do list that we kinda-need-to-sort-of figure out.

Over the last few years this concept of “Deliberate Creation” i.e. creating your life deliberately and consciously has been a topic many of my clients have been extremely interested in.

No surprises here. Why wouldn’t someone want to create their life as they deeply want it to be? From feeling trapped, in a rut, with a lack of creative control to liberated, free and alive.

In today’s issue I will share the 5 core principles that have consistently helped me, and countless others, harness the power of a greater intelligence to create life as you want it to be.

We are always manifesting our experience

Here’s something to consider: what if manifestation isn’t something you need to do but something that is?

We are always manifesting our experience of life. Just like how gravity isn’t something we need to do. It’s always there, ensuring our feet are touching the ground when we walk.

We are always creating our experience of life. We create the reality we experience in our own mind via our thoughts.

If you were to reflect back to your 10 year younger self and think about what you wanted back then for your future, are many of those desires your now physical reality? Did you map out the whole path to get you here and every bit of detail along the way?

Abraham Hicks says, “words don’t teach, life experience teaches.” I’m not here to preach something novel; you intrinsically know these truths through your lived experience. Honour and trust what you’ve learned through your own experience of life.

My Experience

Even before I was familiar with the term “manifestation”, I was subconsciously practising it. For each subject during my GCSEs and A-levels, I hung an A4 sheet on my wall. These were study plans, outlining my aspirations and somewhat of a vision board. By the time I was done with my A-levels, the grades I manifested, ‘A’s across the board, were a physical reality.

Then came my vision of becoming an “industrial pharmacist”. And less than a decade later, that vision materialised. I wrote more about this in my article here on scripting.

Manifestation is an art and a science, a dance with the Universe, and more intricate than just a 5 step process.

Through extensive reading, research, and guidance from some of the brightest minds in the realm of manifestation like Abraham Hicks, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and Neville Goddard, I’ve pinpointed some fundamental principles that I believe are most important in being a deliberate creator of your life.

1. Understand Your Emotional Guidance System

When you touch a hot stove, your sensory receptors from your skin tell your brain that it’s hot and to immediately back off the stove. Just like these sensory receptors, our emotions are like a guidance system that gives us feedback on our own alignment.

When we are aligned with our Higher Self, we feel alive.
When we are misaligned with our Higher Self, we feel “off”.

This innate system can act as our compass if we allow it to do so. It’s the intelligence flowing within us, guiding us towards or away from things, much like our instinctual withdrawal from a hot stove. You have experienced those times when something hasn’t felt quite right, it feels off, you have a feeling in your body telling you to back off – this is your guidance system.

That time you’ve been in an environment that evokes feelings of anger or unworthiness, these emotions could be your guidance telling you that the environment you’re in isn’t connecting you with your true power.

When you’re doing work that’s exciting, that makes you feel alive, that brings you energy rather than drains you, you know you are doing something that is aligned with you.

Rather than identify as your emotions, it’s important to be aware of them so you can then see it as feedback on your alignment and make conscious choices.

There’s a difference between “I am angry” vs “I am experiencing feelings of anger”.

In our hectic and busy lives we often ignore the signs our body is giving us and search for answers from others.

Practical tip: Slow down and ask yourself daily or throughout the day: how am I feeling?

2. You Are Always Creating Your Reality

While we may not have complete control over every thought that comes through our minds, we do have a say on what we focus on. We can have conscious control on what thoughts we decide to focus on, and what we focus on becomes the reality we experience in the moment.

These thoughts then create a feeling and the thought feeling response you create has an electromagnetic field of energy which brings more of that into your experience.

Regardless of what’s happening externally, the way you see the situation dictates your reality. Your experience is purely created by you. This is the reason why, when you’re feeling good and aligned and in a powerful state, and then something negative happens externally, you’re able to let it go easily and see the positive.

When you’re in a more negative state of being, and feeling less aligned, the same negative situation could be 10x worse in your mind. You end up with more worry, doubt, fear and anger. You end up attracting more of this and it becomes a negative spiral.

The only difference here is the ability to control your attention.

This is why it’s important to spend time daily, ideally in the morning, to practise some form of mindfulness so you can harness greater creative control of your attention and paint the picture you want.

Practical tip: Spend time daily (minimum of 15 minutes) practising some form of mindfulness to practise the art of concentrating your attention

3. You Attract Who You Are

We don’t attract what we want or what we say, but rather who we are energetically. It’s a sequence of being, doing, and then having. The Universe doesn’t heed your words but resonates with your vibrational energy. You can want and desire all you want. But if you’re not being the type of person you need to be to receive that, it’s all wishful thinking.

The good news is that you can be in full control of your state of being i.e. your energetic state. The thoughts you think continue to create your state of being. So wouldn’t it be helpful to consciously and consistently create the state of being of your future self, now? If you can use your imagination to see life through the lens of your future self – how would that feel? Would this version of you be and feel more confident, radiant, and alive?

If it feels good to you, it’s in alignment to the greater version within you.

It’s important to take charge of your energetic and emotional state. Dr Joe Dispenza in a recent interview with Lewis Howes said “We only accept, believe and surrender to the thoughts that are equal to our emotional state. We will never accept, believe or surrender to thoughts that are not equal to our emotional state.”

I practise a 3 step process for energetic calibration to help me with this most mornings and you can learn about that here in this podcast episode.

4. Take The Path of Least Resistance

A lot of people talk about getting rid of negative beliefs. The truth is we all have beliefs that don’t serve what we want to consciously create in the future. Beliefs are thoughts we keep on thinking and alot of our thinking is subconscious and programmed in our early years.

Trying to identify negative beliefs and “get rid of them” just gives it all more energy, and so it becomes bigger in our reality. I remember, one of my mentors and coaches, Dominic Scaffidi, shared with me, the Universe always ushers us along the path of least resistance or the path of most allowance. 

Meaning, the Universe will work around your beliefs. Taking the path of least resistance means we go on the path that makes most sense to us. What is the easiest path to create what I want will not be the same as you. Because we both have different belief systems. Either way, we can both get there. Just not in the same way. Because the Universe knows our blocks and will work around it.

Look back on your life, you’ve achieved things that you didn’t believe were once possible. Imagine where you’d be if you tried to identify such beliefs and worked hard to get rid of them? You’d probably be stuck giving it a lot of attention.

You will always have beliefs because you will always have thought. Many you are blind to. There’s no point faffing around trying to work on them, instead, focus on what you want and the path that feels easiest to get there.

Reflection point: Where are you taking the path in life that has a lot of resistance? What would be an easier route for you? 

5. Flow With Life vs Force Life

The path of least resistance means more flow and less force. Flow is using the power of the Universal energy flowing through us vs forcing things to happen.

Think back at the time when you’ve tried to force things to happen. Maybe it was a relationship, or maybe it was part of your business you wanted to grow. It took a lot of effort, a lot of energy, maybe everything you were trying kept on failing. You ignored the signal because you were busy thinking this was the only way.

And then you take a step back. You take some rest. You go for a walk. You look at it from a bigger picture. And receive an insight and try one little thing that felt effortless, but had the maximum leverage and it all came together.

It’s pivotal to distinguish between the two modalities. While one is aggressive and draining, the other is organic and rejuvenating.

Less forcing. More flowing.

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