Why feeling good is necessary for manifestation

[cylon]

First off I have to point out I have no way to prove any of this other than this is how reality appears to me, right now, and the experiences I am having right now, have led me to this current understanding. Take it or leave it, all that matters is you find something that works for YOU. Much of this is basic LOA stuff you already know but I feel I am perceiving it in a new way for me.

TIME IS FAKE
Time is an illusion. That means everything is happening right now. That means, 1934? Right now. 2025? Right now. 3500 BC? Right now. Your old apartment? Right now. Your current apartment? Right now. Your future apartment? Right now.

But you look around and you only see your current experience of "right now", you don't see those other times and eras manifested. How can all that stuff be existing at once but you don't experience it that way?

Because of time. For whatever reason we have chosen to have this experience and to enjoy it bit by bit, in a linear fashion, maybe so we could simply experience what it's like to live one day at a time, just for the hell of it. Why not? Why not just be here for the hell of it? Is that the mystery of life? "I'm here just because." Anyway...

ALL THAT IS
Another important point is not only is everything happening right now, but YOU are what is creating that "everything" that happens now. No, not the "you" that has a name and hobbies. Not your ego. Not your brain. That person you see in the mirror is just ONE of the infinite "things" that is happening in this universe you create... RIGHT NOW. A projection of the "REAL you".

The "real you" is the you that sees you looking in the mirror. It's not the you that sits in a chair at a San Francisco coffee shop snapping your fingers at a hipster poetry reading. It's the you that watches you watching yourself snap your fingers. See how you just imagined yourself somewhere else doing something else? The person you imagine right now in this coffee shop IS "you", but it's like an imagined "other you" at the same time, right? This imagined "other you" that you just saw in your mind's eye is kind of how the "real you" sees the you that looks in the mirror.

Maybe you saw yourself sitting at a table, could hear the people in the coffee shop, could smell things, felt the vibe of the room and the vibe of everyone else... but at the same time, it's not "real", is it? And who created this possible scenario--- the "future you" who is in the coffee shop? No, it's the current you that is imagining it, right now. Just like ego doesn't create, the brain doesn't create. The world doesn't exist "inside your head". The awareness that is aware of someone thinking it's all in their heads, is what creates.

And that awareness is consciousness, and there's only one of IT. It is the All that IS. It's the "real you". And it is eternal--it is "right now" and only "right now".

TIME TRAVEL
What also just happened is that in this example you were imagining two different events simultaneously. You experienced your present reality, which was reading the example I wrote. And you also experienced the future reality, which is the San Francisco hipster coffee shop poetry reading. Two different points in time, happening in your awareness simultaneously.

But of course, that future event won't actually happen right? That was just a "possible" thing you could be doing in the future. It's not actually real. Just one of many possible scenarios of what could or couldn't happen in the future.

WRONG! It IS real. It's happening RIGHT NOW. If you are all that is, and something is in your awareness, then it must be real, because all that is in the present moment is all that is.

"No it isn't real!" You say. You can't be in two places at once. We can't be on two sides of the world at the same moment until we enter Star Trek territory. We don't have the technology right now.

WRONG! We do have the technology, right now. It's called "PERCEPTION OF TIME".

If all that exists is happening right now and your goal is to be here and savor each moment, one day at a time, you have to start filtering each possibility that exists right now from the other possibilities that are happening right now. If you want to swim in the ocean, you have to swim in a part of the ocean that you can swim in. You can't swim in the whole ocean at once. You pick a spot to swim and that's your general area. But you look around and you can see the ocean goes on and on forever, all the way to the horizon and beyond. You are "in it" and "not in it", at the same time.

You are in the present moment specifically, and all other points of time "potentially". Time is what allows you to experience these isolated events sequentially when they are really happening all at once.


OOOH I'M SO SMART
Ok so we know THAT we create, and THAT we are time travelers, and THAT everything is existing right now as potential, we just have to "filter" in the stuff we want to see. But how do we go beyond all the intellectualizing? How do we take it from theory and actually experience this crap in our every day lives? How do we make the right choices in order to experience this stuff for real? How do we only take the good, and filter out the bad? How do we prevent taking only the bad, and filtering out the good?


PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS WITH NO IRONY
So what does this have to do with manifestation and "feeling good"? We're getting there. The best way I can describe the awareness of the present moment (all that is) is that it feels like love.

(Awwwwwwwwww, cute!). Being fully in the present moment, free of worry or care, just seems to feel good. WHY it feels good, I don't know. I just know that when you are experiencing the "All that is" in the present moment, love and joy are the result. That probably sounds hokey to some people, the idea of "love" being the answer to life is often looked at as cheesy and not serious and urgent enough. But maybe "love" or "joy" feel that way because that's how they feel? Maybe they feel that way just because they feel that way and if you're in the present moment it feels good because being in the present moment feels good?

The point is that "love/joy" feeling is your indication that you have shifted focus a bit FROM all your unfiltered potential and existing manifestations, and TO the spot of awareness that creates them all. The calm spot in the center of the storm. The feeling is kind of like when you go on a long vacation, you enjoy the fun new experiences, but you might get a bit homesick. I think being in the present moment is just sort of like when you come home after a long journey and you're "back where you belong", you feel comfort and serenity and recognition there because... well because you do. That's "home". And that's what "home" feels like. WHY????? Because it does.


HOMESICK
Now say that "home" is your base of operations. You don't mind traveling a bit but you prefer to work from "home". When you aren't at home, maybe you don't have all the resources you need at your finger tips. Maybe you can't get all the stuff done that you want, even though you try your best when you are away from home. The fact that you can't get what you really want done unless you're at home will eventually frustrate you, and make you sad, and make you determined to "get back home" because that's where all your stuff is and you just would rather be working there. That is feeling BAD.

So you decide to make the journey back home. You start making yourself feel better, and better, and soon you are getting closer to home. Once you are really close to home, and you can see all your familiar landmarks and favorite places coming into view, that feels even better because you are just so close and now you're in the driveway and can't wait and then you park your car and your heart beats and you open up the front door and step inside then you breathe a big sigh of relief. You're home, you know it because you can FEEL it. You got all your stuff there. You are where "you" feel the best.

BUT HOW CAN I BE SURE I'M HOME?
Because last night I could have sworn I was at home. I was thinking about it so clearly in my mind and it felt for a moment that I was there but I looked around and saw that I was actually on the highway, miles away.

That's right. You were thinking ABOUT being home, by intellectualizing the whole process. You intellectualized it so thoroughly that you almost convinced yourself you were actually at home. But then you looked around and maybe felt bad for a minute because you realized, no. I was just faking it. I was thinking ABOUT being home. Best thing to do is just realize you fell asleep at the wheel and look forward to getting home for real.

Feel good=at home. Feel bad=on the highway, trying to make the journey back home.

Now that we're back at home where all our stuff is and where we are the most productive, let's make some money.

[cylon]

I WANNA MILLION DOLLARS RIGHT NOW. GIMME A MILLION DOLLARS.
Well yes you do wanna million dollars and no you don't wanna million dollars. At least, not right NOW. You just came back from a long journey and maybe you want to rest a while and just relax, kick your shoes off, pour some booze and watch Nip/Tuck.

OR... you could do the other way. You could come home after being on the road for several hours and IMMEDIATELY start packing up house to move into another house. Which one sounds more fun, RIGHT NOW? Do you want the mover guys to show up and just start taking your crap out of your house and packing up all your stuff before you've had a chance to recover from your long journey by sitting down and relaxing? That sounds extremely stressful to me.

We are comfortable with our present circumstances because we are comfortable with our present circumstances. Sometimes it feels better to plan ahead. If you want to move house, you might want to think a bit about where you'd like to live. The type of housing you'd like. The right neighborhood. Anything that doesn't follow that sequence of events will feel too soon, too much change all at once. You want to slowly get used to this new way of life you are imagining, so that when it actually happens, it will feel familiar and natural to you. If it just comes out of nowhere, without you preparing for it, the change may be traumatic. And if it's traumatic, it won't be fun. If it's not fun, you won't feel like it's "home". It might be a new home, but it won't be a REAL home until you've given yourself some time to create positive, expectant feelings towards it.

The reason we don't immediately manifest what we want is that rapid change causes rapid discomfort unless you are prepared and ready to live a new way of life. You "think" you want a million dollars. If it came all at once, are you truly ready for it? Will its appearance in your life cause a lot of turmoil and change?

Or, conversely would you feel more comfortable just intending to feel better and better, and to feel more and more abundant, in a nice, gentle rhythm, until having a million dollars seems like the next, logical progression? A progression you have truly prepared yourself to experience?

SUDDEN CHANGE IS FREAKY AND DON'T PRETEND IT ISN'T.
If you study LOA or SR or whatever is behind those things, at some point, you're going to get evidence that you are manifesting your reality. It's inevitable. "Neat!" No! It's not neat. Well, not at first. The moment the twilight zone experience happens, it feels good. It feels right and natural. But soon after, it feels weird. "Is reality really like this? Am I really this powerful? I'm used to feeling separate, frightened, scared. I don't know if I can deal with the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of that right now."

Paradoxically, so much good stuff happening at once might push you out of your comfort zone. Suddenly realizing you can have whatever you want has pushed you into a no-man's land that you may not feel fully equipped to navigate. In this way, sensing your own awareness creating your reality can feel BAD. And feeling bad is not where (good) creation comes from. </END MANIFESTATION>. Try again when you have built up your tolerance.

So, everything exists all at once and even though yes a million dollars may be a bit out of your comfort zone, a part of you feels like you deserve it, and you do feel good when you ponder abundance, so you're going to keep trying, aren't you. Well, we've already established that stuff happening all at once may be too scary and that fear will kill the manifestation. Maybe the best way is for your reality to naturally, gradually progress to the point that abundance is your dominant vibration. Now we're getting close. At this point, the invisible man starts appearing.


THE INVISIBLE MAN.
Remember, all manifestations exist right NOW, but in "invisible" form. How do they go from invisible to visible? How do they get "filtered" from potential into current awareness?

When you watch an old movie with an invisible character, often the only way to show them on screen is to make them pick up something like a hat and put it on, or they pick up an object and move it across the room. In this way, what is fully invisible becomes at least "partially" visible. An isolated hat moving across the room gives you a clue there may be an invisible man wearing it. This is what alpha reflections are.

When something starts manifesting into your awareness (say, regarding abundance) in a way that you just KNOW is the result of your desire, it's like the invisible man wearing that hat and moving across the room. Something invisible starting to make itself known to you.

But, this COULD scare you. It's weird! Don't pretend it's not weird! Your first instinct might be to try to kick the invisible man out of fear. Because hats aren't supposed to float across rooms, invisible men are not supposed to be in YOUR room. Still the hat floating across the room in ITSELF, is pretty harmless, but what it represents-- having your reality potentially shaken to the core--that is NOT necessarily harmless. But if you are not scared, if you are willing to follow this through, then more and more will be revealed over time. Maybe the invisible man will put on a jacket and some old fashioned black rimmed eyeglasses. Now you know there's a man there, even though you can't see "all" of him. More and more things will manifest into your life that are without a doubt the smaller pieces of the bigger intention. If you still don't freak out, if you're still ready for this, you will get the complete manifestation. Then maybe the mysterious potion that made the man invisible will wear off, and you'll see it's just a harmless old grandpa type who is relieved he's not invisible anymore, and he never meant you any harm. He stops being this weird thing you fear and something you can recognize as normal, natural, and you are comfortable with it.

THE VISIBLE MAN
Not getting freaked out by your own manifestations is only possible when you are "home", feeling good, not being scared of what's happening. And this conditioning process where you build up a tolerance for having your reality change can stretch out over years and years (little manifestations, but nothing big) or much sooner (very big manifestations that are wild and wonderful and that you love and are grateful and appreciative to have).

The only thing that stands in the way is FEAR: Fear of the unknown, fear of change, fear of having what you want, fear of success, fear of becoming a different person, fear of living in a weird, trippy reality... but realize that this feeling of fear is ONLY present when your are NOT HOME. When you are home, feeling good and happy, and you are used to that feeling to the point it becomes your dominant vibration, then that million dollars will show up and it won't blow you away and freak you out. It will be like "oh cool! I love it when that happens. Life is good." And yes there are people who actually live like this. They have built up their tolerance to living a completely different way of life than what they grew up living, whether they believe in LOA or NOT.

Where am I, personally? I am at the stage where I allow more and more of the "weird stuff" to happen. I'm at the tolerance building stage. I manifest for abundance, (or just trippy experiences in general) and it starts streaming in immediately. I slow down and say "whoa, whoa.... ok. I can take just THIS MUCH today. I'm fine with this TODAY. Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to handle that much more unexpected, cosmic change."

Sometimes, something will happen that will completely shake my reality and I don't know what to do. It's like the universe just lines up and I realize I'm writing the whole script and I sort of marvel at it and say "wow!" and if feels GOOD. Then, I intellectualize it, my ego fears the change and it slows down again. It's a process, and like I said it can go as slow or as fast as you want.

A BIT MORE ABOUT FEELING GOOD
So, in a nutshell: feeling good is necessary for manifestation because 1-feeling good is an indication you are where you have the most power and 2-feeling good trumps the fear that comes from having your dreams come true and your reality flipped upside down. When the fear is gone and the allowing is at its peak, the manifestation that was always there in invisible form appears fully in the physical world.

So that's my current theory of everything.

[era1213]

Its okay to do what you will need to do as long as you are happy and you don't step on to any ones shoes. As long as you can stand with what you believe and what you fight for.

[cylon]

Originally Posted by era1213

Its okay to do what you will need to do as long as you are happy and you don't step on to any ones shoes. As long as you can stand with what you believe and what you fight for.

Oh yeah.

[Bradshaw]

Fantastic thread Cylon.

I felt drawn to say something to you when I saw this thread, so I asked my intuition to see if they could give you some extra counselling to move you forward.

I got that you're still being too logical about all of this. I confirmed this three times and I got a rock, an ice block and Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory... these all basically tell me that somehow, someway, you're still being too logical about it all.

Consider feeling the LoA with your heart more, instead of your mind.

~ The universe loves you

[cylon]

Lol, thanks Bradshaw.

I gotta say, I feel really fantastic right now. So I think what you did worked.

[Placebo23]

Thank you cyclon.
This was a very interesting read !

sincerely

[Diandra25]

ola Bradshaw =)

Cylon

i can only say that " wowo look where you are right now..! " i still remember when Nic posted something,and Magic and you were still skeptical about many things....

but look at you now:you really have grown tremendously. i loves this post of yours.

in a nutshell i say: living our Life like a child:curious,adventurous and happy-like if in every moment we are eager to experience what comes ahead,with all our heart.
Children are the ones who have most to teach to us.
Manifestation then its natural cause we´wont be expecting for something better to come along ( sending the message we are not enjoying what we have),we will just be living in - the now -

this kind of reminds me the book of Richard Bach where he was having a conversation with the little Bach.

[Diandra25]

it was only when i saw Bashar videos that i understood the illusion oF Time and the explanation of paralell Universes..we are changing from one o another all the time...through our own energetic changes in the "Field".

[kenny r]

Very good, i like this, thanks!

I would say also feeling good is necessary because feeling bad is often accompanied by thinking fearful, angry, sad, frustrated thoughts which for me have seemed to work against manifesting the things I prefer.

[Federer]

Do you want to learn this concept in just one example. I think, this is enough to understand. Just accept this:

If you want to welcome happiness, be happy.

If you want to have experiment with this, be happy only for three months. Enjoy every single moment, spend 20 mins everyday behind positive thinking and reading, meditate, love yourself and your life relationships. And see, what comes out?

[nicbrahms]

Wonderful as always. It all in a nutshell.

If interested there is a site crawford2000 or something that talks about the manifestation being present in fourth dimension and eventually one thought, one trigger can bring it into being in 3rd dimension. Its in the fourth dimension bit, but the whole site is worth reading.

Peace my wonderfully enlightened friend.

[moonrambler]

I love what you wrote, cylon . . . but I disagree. I've had some rather stunning manifestations that occurred when I was feeling very defeated.

[SethWilliams]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

I love what you wrote, cylon . . . but I disagree. I've had some rather stunning manifestations that occurred when I was feeling very defeated.

Maybe thats because you was finally detatched?

But I agree with Cylon. Like I always say (or will always say, or am always saying) You create with feeling, not with thought.

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by SethWilliams

Maybe thats because you was finally detatched?

That may very well be the case.

[SethWilliams]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

That may very well be the case.

For whatever reason, atleast they manifested.

Love Seth

[oasis]

Very good thread, thanks cylon

[Rubns]

Cylon, I loved your post! It made me think about a few things

I've got a question. If we use LoA conscious or unconsciously in our day-to-day life and you say that in order to manifest something "big" (e.g. "a million dollars") we need to be "prepared" for such a change. What happens when someone who doesn't know anything about LoA win a lottery jackpot? Is he/she "prepared" for that? Even if is it unconsciously?

What I mean is that if you think that people must be prepared to manifest certain things. Isn't this a kind of resistance? It's obvious that windfalls and unexpected events happen. So, what's the mechanism behind this? (In terms of LoA/IM).

[cylon]

I think if someone receives an unexpected windfall or a lifestyle change that takes them from one extreme to another overnight, at some level they just believe that stuff can happen to them. But that doesn't mean they are prepared emotionally FOR it.

A lot of people win the lottery and totally blow it and soon they are back to their previous lifestyle, often with even less than they had going in. They may have had the belief it was possible but they didn't give that intention a proper "home" inside so that when it came, it was a natural progression. That lifestyle change, even though they believed it possible (it is) was not a positive experience for them.

So really what I was getting at was how if you have one emotional set point, you are not going to feel comfortable going from that to the entire other end of the spectrum over night.

So many people talk about how "today I'm going to change my life!" or "No more of that! Today it's all different!" not accepting that they've practiced a certain identity for years, and that you can't instantly go from one way of looking at the world to another.

So someone who has as scarcity mentality is probably not emotionally ready to win the lottery, and they probably subconsciously push things like that away because their ego/practiced self will put up barricades when it senses change is on the horizon. If you have a scarcity mentality and come into a windfall, I can only imagine on some level you'd see that windfall as a burden or a threat to your self-image, and perhaps subconsciously find ways to remove it from your experience.

Now winning the lottery and watching the world bend to your intention just because you thought it would be cool to do so, to me, is an even bigger adjustment. Realizing that you are God when you thought you were just a helpless mammal trying to survive is a really big shift. Intellectually, you can play around with it but when stuff starts happening in real life that confirms it, is when you really get tested on if you are open to change or not.

Say you are coming from a scarcity mentality and manifested to find a $5 bill on the street, and a few days later it happened. I think initially, you would feel excited and overjoyed that your intention worked. Because you were in the space for creating, it felt good.

But afterwords, all the other ramifications come to the surface. "If I can create that, what's to stop me from manifesting a million dollars? And what about the new job I just started? I spend lots of money and time and effort getting to where I am now and I've got a good career where I have to work hard, and now I see that money itself just comes by thinking? My whole life is revolved around my job and/or trying to "earn" a living? That's ALL I think about! That's my reality! That's who I am, that's all I know!"

Anytime you have preconceptions of how the world works, and you find it's much different, I personally believe you need a period of adjustment to allow that new belief in.

[jacare]

Cylon,

Great postings, thank you.

My takeaway from the post is more practical than metaphysical. In order to be the person with 1 Million dollars, the spouse, the beach house, the thin body, whatever, first you have to become that person.

If your current state is without the million dollars, without the spouse, etc., then you have to change first what you are thinking, then what you are doing, then your habits to become the person that has that stuff/life.

And that involves changing you habitual patterns of thoughts, which will change your habitual patterns of what you do. The skinny person does not habitually reach for the big bag of cheetohs when they are stressed, for example. And overcoming inertia is not an easy thing to do. So if you are poor, and you pray for 1 Million dollars, and the bag just falls out of the sky, you will squander it away because you never became the million dollar person (or the skinny person, or the attractive person, or whatever).

Perhaps, as you seem to suggest, these changes could be made in an instant, in a single thought, in a single simultaneous firing of brain synapsis. I would tend to agree, but it would be so may degrees away from our practiced habit of thought that we just could not process it.

[cylon]

Yes, exactly. Good post jacare. I think it's very important to "be" that person too. Some would call that being a "vibrational match" but whatever you call it, it's the same thing: preparing yourself in your thoughts and feelings for a new way of life, over time, so that when it happens it feels natural and right.

I think if we don't have what we want (myself included) it's because having those things doesn't feel natural or right. Lots of happy and successful people have known they were going to be happy and successful. Whether they consciously used LOA or not what they did do is become the type of person that was comfortable with the attainment of those things.

And I think you really know if you are ready for that stuff when you feel abundant. Do you think someone who felt poor (felt hopeless, weak, discouraged) could simultaneously create an abundant life of happiness and wealth? They don't seem to go together.

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by cylon

Do you think someone who felt poor (felt hopeless, weak, discouraged) could simultaneously create an abundant life of happiness and wealth? They don't seem to go together.

I think perhaps what I was disagreeing with you about involves moving up the ladder of vibration or whatever they call it. It may be difficult when one is feeling despondent, for instance, about a big financial mess to manifest from a place of happiness, wealth and abundance. But it might take one step up to go from "I'm so stressed I can hardly deal with it" to "I don't care anymore." When I did that, it felt like a step downward, like I gave up. But it was very weird how that very day the universe magically twisted around to do something for me that helped out a lot.

[cylon]

Yeah I think that giving up is releasing all the resistance. That giving up in a way is a relief because it means you've decided to stop trying to figure stuff out. Trying to figure out solutions is what causes all the stress. Accepting that in the present time there might not be a solution and that's ok seems to put you right back into the moment.

And I think at that point you're starting from scratch again, little bits of abundance appear and then its up to you if you want to add to them.

[JeffistheAnswer]

I was thinking about something like this today. I came to the conclusion that if you feel happy and loved and loving and at peace, then you indefinitely attract the environment, the people, the things that match that. A person feeling weak and unhappy probably isn't going to be driving a bugatti veyron.

My theory is, because of this, you don't even need to state your desires or visualize them or whatever. Greater things, things you probably can't even imagine, will come to you based on your mood and attitude of life.

I haven't successfully proven this based on my own experience yet though. For about 2 weeks I was feeling awesome and happy and great and all that ****. Not much changed within those 2 weeks though.

My theory for this? 16 years of neutral-low energy mood versus the occasional high-energy-awesome-sexy-feeling-status spikes that occur for a couple months at most....of course not much is going to change.

My challenge is to persevere and stay at a feel good state. For the rest of my life if possible. But something always seems to knock me down...

[cylon]

I think the reason you may not need to specifically state your desires is because the universe, being "you" already knows intimately what you want. At some point, what you wanted crossed your mind as something you'd really like. Even if you forget about it, it's been "recorded" and as long as you feel good, and the thought of it still makes you feel good (even if you don't consciously think about it) then it will appear without any effort, or intention on your part.

The thing to keep in mind is that you are ALREADY manifesting your reality, without specifically intending to. You are manifesting by default. So I don't see why you can't just be in a state of allowing and then manifest from default that way. Your primary feeling about life is what is going to manifest, whether you are conscious of LOA or not. And all without any specific intentions.

[Andrew Brunelle]

I really enjoyed this piece, cylon. Nice metaphor. Things to ponder for sure. It kind of read like one of Steve's posts, but with your own personality on it. I'll see if I can find any hats floating around my house.

[kenny r]

Originally Posted by JeffistheAnswer

My theory is, because of this, you don't even need to state your desires or visualize them or whatever. Greater things, things you probably can't even imagine, will come to you based on your mood and attitude of life.

I haven't successfully proven this based on my own experience yet though. For about 2 weeks I was feeling awesome and happy and great and all that ****. Not much changed within those 2 weeks though.

My theory for this? 16 years of neutral-low energy mood versus the occasional high-energy-awesome-sexy-feeling-status spikes that occur for a couple months at most....of course not much is going to change.

My challenge is to persevere and stay at a feel good state. For the rest of my life if possible. But something always seems to knock me down...

+1. We share similar theories.

I was in a negative situation for a similar number of years as you mentioned which perpetuated negative thinking and feeling. Luckily, as I focused on vibration-raising thoughts and activities and appreciation, I stopped drowning and later floated out. As I began to maintain a positive attitude, my whole world slowly shifted more positive also! I can't say how excited I still am about that (it was a really low time prior).

With abundance mentality, remaining in a natural, high-vibe state, things to support your intentions seem to automatically pop up. Scheinfeld speaks of this in Busting Loose From The Money Game.

Originally Posted by cylon

the universe, being "you" already knows intimately what you want.

Originally Posted by cylon

Your primary feeling about life is what is going to manifest, whether you are conscious of LOA or not.

Yes. That explains how some people oblivious to LOA seem to live charmed lives...they've always been happy, easy going, and things just seem to "work out" for them, they get lucky breaks, opportunities they weren't even thinking about.

[nicbrahms]

Originally Posted by cylon

Do you think someone who felt poor (felt hopeless, weak, discouraged) could simultaneously create an abundant life of happiness and wealth? They don't seem to go together.

Well......

The Irish woman over here was sat in a pub lamenting her money worries and how would she buy her kids uniforms the wednesday before the friday when she won £79 million.

This is several years ago, sometimes I think things are just unexplicable.

Mind you her behaviour after seemed to show someone who had shifted their consciousness to that of a millionaire, she moved abroad, bought a merc and went shopping, no news after that. And she avoided the publicity.

I would love to get inside the minds of these people.

Like Cynthia stafford who had her $112 million 4 months after intending for it. I guess you gotta think that these people are just happy, high vibration people generally.

Yeh I think what it boils down to is the constant use of neutral of high vibration in life that brings the great stuff, the more you dip into negative or low vibration the more work required to bring you up to speed.

I vow to maintain a high vibration and brush everything off from now on.

[SethWilliams]

I always figured that once you entered a state of high-vibrancy, and then stabilised it, reality alters to reflect that vibration.

If for your high-vibrational state requires a lot of wealth to be reflected in your reality, then it will come. If not, it has no reason to be there.

[Monk]

What if space, not only time, is also an illusion?
This book is very old, but I think you'll like it. (At least starting from Chapter IX, From Thing to Thought). Also here is a scanned version to download for free.
Brilliant post anyway.

Originally Posted by cylon

First off I have to point out I have no way to prove any of this other than this is how reality appears to me, right now, and the experiences I am having right now, have led me to this current understanding. Take it or leave it, all that matters is you find something that works for YOU. Much of this is basic LOA stuff you already know but I feel I am perceiving it in a new way for me.

TIME IS FAKE
Time is an illusion. That means everything is happening right now. That means, 1934? Right now. 2025? Right now. 3500 BC? Right now. Your old apartment? Right now. Your current apartment? Right now. Your future apartment? Right now.

But you look around and you only see your current experience of "right now", you don't see those other times and eras manifested. How can all that stuff be existing at once but you don't experience it that way?

Because of time. For whatever reason we have chosen to have this experience and to enjoy it bit by bit, in a linear fashion, maybe so we could simply experience what it's like to live one day at a time, just for the hell of it. Why not? Why not just be here for the hell of it? Is that the mystery of life? "I'm here just because." Anyway...

ALL THAT IS
Another important point is not only is everything happening right now, but YOU are what is creating that "everything" that happens now. No, not the "you" that has a name and hobbies. Not your ego. Not your brain. That person you see in the mirror is just ONE of the infinite "things" that is happening in this universe you create... RIGHT NOW. A projection of the "REAL you".

The "real you" is the you that sees you looking in the mirror. It's not the you that sits in a chair at a San Francisco coffee shop snapping your fingers at a hipster poetry reading. It's the you that watches you watching yourself snap your fingers. See how you just imagined yourself somewhere else doing something else? The person you imagine right now in this coffee shop IS "you", but it's like an imagined "other you" at the same time, right? This imagined "other you" that you just saw in your mind's eye is kind of how the "real you" sees the you that looks in the mirror.

Maybe you saw yourself sitting at a table, could hear the people in the coffee shop, could smell things, felt the vibe of the room and the vibe of everyone else... but at the same time, it's not "real", is it? And who created this possible scenario--- the "future you" who is in the coffee shop? No, it's the current you that is imagining it, right now. Just like ego doesn't create, the brain doesn't create. The world doesn't exist "inside your head". The awareness that is aware of someone thinking it's all in their heads, is what creates.

And that awareness is consciousness, and there's only one of IT. It is the All that IS. It's the "real you". And it is eternal--it is "right now" and only "right now".

TIME TRAVEL
What also just happened is that in this example you were imagining two different events simultaneously. You experienced your present reality, which was reading the example I wrote. And you also experienced the future reality, which is the San Francisco hipster coffee shop poetry reading. Two different points in time, happening in your awareness simultaneously.

But of course, that future event won't actually happen right? That was just a "possible" thing you could be doing in the future. It's not actually real. Just one of many possible scenarios of what could or couldn't happen in the future.

WRONG! It IS real. It's happening RIGHT NOW. If you are all that is, and something is in your awareness, then it must be real, because all that is in the present moment is all that is.

"No it isn't real!" You say. You can't be in two places at once. We can't be on two sides of the world at the same moment until we enter Star Trek territory. We don't have the technology right now.

WRONG! We do have the technology, right now. It's called "PERCEPTION OF TIME".

If all that exists is happening right now and your goal is to be here and savor each moment, one day at a time, you have to start filtering each possibility that exists right now from the other possibilities that are happening right now. If you want to swim in the ocean, you have to swim in a part of the ocean that you can swim in. You can't swim in the whole ocean at once. You pick a spot to swim and that's your general area. But you look around and you can see the ocean goes on and on forever, all the way to the horizon and beyond. You are "in it" and "not in it", at the same time.

You are in the present moment specifically, and all other points of time "potentially". Time is what allows you to experience these isolated events sequentially when they are really happening all at once.


OOOH I'M SO SMART
Ok so we know THAT we create, and THAT we are time travelers, and THAT everything is existing right now as potential, we just have to "filter" in the stuff we want to see. But how do we go beyond all the intellectualizing? How do we take it from theory and actually experience this crap in our every day lives? How do we make the right choices in order to experience this stuff for real? How do we only take the good, and filter out the bad? How do we prevent taking only the bad, and filtering out the good?


PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS WITH NO IRONY
So what does this have to do with manifestation and "feeling good"? We're getting there. The best way I can describe the awareness of the present moment (all that is) is that it feels like love.

(Awwwwwwwwww, cute!). Being fully in the present moment, free of worry or care, just seems to feel good. WHY it feels good, I don't know. I just know that when you are experiencing the "All that is" in the present moment, love and joy are the result. That probably sounds hokey to some people, the idea of "love" being the answer to life is often looked at as cheesy and not serious and urgent enough. But maybe "love" or "joy" feel that way because that's how they feel? Maybe they feel that way just because they feel that way and if you're in the present moment it feels good because being in the present moment feels good?

The point is that "love/joy" feeling is your indication that you have shifted focus a bit FROM all your unfiltered potential and existing manifestations, and TO the spot of awareness that creates them all. The calm spot in the center of the storm. The feeling is kind of like when you go on a long vacation, you enjoy the fun new experiences, but you might get a bit homesick. I think being in the present moment is just sort of like when you come home after a long journey and you're "back where you belong", you feel comfort and serenity and recognition there because... well because you do. That's "home". And that's what "home" feels like. WHY????? Because it does.


HOMESICK
Now say that "home" is your base of operations. You don't mind traveling a bit but you prefer to work from "home". When you aren't at home, maybe you don't have all the resources you need at your finger tips. Maybe you can't get all the stuff done that you want, even though you try your best when you are away from home. The fact that you can't get what you really want done unless you're at home will eventually frustrate you, and make you sad, and make you determined to "get back home" because that's where all your stuff is and you just would rather be working there. That is feeling BAD.

So you decide to make the journey back home. You start making yourself feel better, and better, and soon you are getting closer to home. Once you are really close to home, and you can see all your familiar landmarks and favorite places coming into view, that feels even better because you are just so close and now you're in the driveway and can't wait and then you park your car and your heart beats and you open up the front door and step inside then you breathe a big sigh of relief. You're home, you know it because you can FEEL it. You got all your stuff there. You are where "you" feel the best.

BUT HOW CAN I BE SURE I'M HOME?
Because last night I could have sworn I was at home. I was thinking about it so clearly in my mind and it felt for a moment that I was there but I looked around and saw that I was actually on the highway, miles away.

That's right. You were thinking ABOUT being home, by intellectualizing the whole process. You intellectualized it so thoroughly that you almost convinced yourself you were actually at home. But then you looked around and maybe felt bad for a minute because you realized, no. I was just faking it. I was thinking ABOUT being home. Best thing to do is just realize you fell asleep at the wheel and look forward to getting home for real.

Feel good=at home. Feel bad=on the highway, trying to make the journey back home.

Now that we're back at home where all our stuff is and where we are the most productive, let's make some money.