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Passion and Detachment

Passion is that delicious second-chakra energy that births our ideas, our vision, and our inspiration into the physical world. It is the energy that drives us into action, so that our dreams can become a reality.

Nothing changes in our lives without the driving force of passion – whether that passion be out of love or need. When we are passionately engaged with life, we are constantly in a state of birthing, of creating at the physical level. We create new circumstances, opportunities, results and relationships. If passion is coupled with Divine inspiration, we can create truly remarkable lives.

Many of us are scared of this powerful force, our passion. As we go through life, we discover disappointment, unfulfilled goals, roadblocks to what we want … and we learn not to want. We learn that “you can’t have it all,” or can’t have it all at once. We are taught to put others first, to give rather than to receive, and that desire is the root of all suffering. And so most of us learn to suppress passion, to not let desire rise within us until we are practically incapable of discerning what we truly want for ourselves.

But nothing is created without passion! When we are inspired by our Divine nature to create, we receive a vision, a dream. We engage with that vision out of love – love for Spirit, love for ourselves, and the love of serving others. But it is passion that translates our vision and love into physical reality.

What about detachment? What about the spiritual traditions that teach us to be without desire?

Detachment is as essential to the creation process as passion! The energy of attachment constantly pushes what we desire away from us. Wanting creates more wanting.

Okay … but passion, the energy of desire … that’s necessary to creation also! So is this a cruel joke the Universe plays on us? Passion is necessary, but so is detachment? How can we combine these energies so that creation becomes effortless?

I’ve struggled with this quite a bit over the years.  I’m a very passionate person! When I am inspired with a goal or desire, I’m like an impetuous puppy, joyfully bounding towards what I want … because I want what I want, and I generally want it NOW!

Over the years, I’ve become really, really good at manifesting … even though I go after my goals with passionate desire. I want quite a bit, and unabashedly so. But I’m not attached.

Here’s the secret: Passion is about the process of creating. Passion directed at a result, an outcome, will inevitably turn into attachment … and the result will not show up.

Creating anything in our lives is about the experience of creation … not about a result. It is by creating new circumstances that we can experience ourselves in new ways. It is through creation that we experience ourselves as Divine. Without a vision of what we want, passion cannot spark the creative process. At the same time, the creative process is not about successfully reaching a goal or result. It is simply about the process itself.

So joyfully, passionately engage in creating what you want – for the sake of the process, not the result. When we do this, the result becomes irrelevant and inevitable all at once.

Blessings,
Andrea

Manifesting and Dimensional Rules of Creation

It never ceases to amaze me how accessible and mainstream spiritual development has become in the last decade. People are talking about energy and the Law of Attraction everywhere. Consciousness in our society is expanding rapidly. Many of us are evolving by leaps and bounds!

However, for continually evolving spiritual seekers, a new problem has emerged as higher states of consciousness open up for us. We now have a direct experience of the ease and effortless existence of the spiritual realm!

That should be a good thing, right? Yes … except that we are still HERE, in this clunky, cumbersome third-dimensional experience that is the physical plane. In the third dimension, we have physical matter and “stuff” to deal with – like money, travel arrangements and laundry. We are stuck in the limitation of linear time, of which there never seems to be enough. We have to breathe and eat. And if we’re very tuned in to the effortlessness of the spiritual plane, seeing to our physicality can seem awfully tiresome.

At least in the fourth dimension, where our thoughts and emotions reside, we can time-travel. Energy is less dense here. We can easily visit the past or possible futures at the speed of thought. We can live in our imagination, our goals and plans. This is the realm of perception and belief, where all change first begins.

At the fifth-dimensional level, the perceptions of time and space fall away completely. This is the place from which we receive our intuitive “downloads” and inspiration, where we can connect with each other on the energetic information super-highway that are the Akashic Records. This is an infinite playground where all is available and interconnected, where we begin living in Divine Abundance.

Every dimension has its own rules of creating change. And this is where we, as highly conscious Beings, can get ourselves into a bit of trouble! It’s so very tempting to apply the rules of the fifth-dimension, with its effortlessness and easily created change, to our third-dimensional experience!

Why change our diets when we can go for energy healing work?

Why take action when we could just ask for spiritual assistance in manifesting what we want?

Why reach out to real people when our Spirit Guides are such excellent company?

One of the most important questions to ask ourselves is: At what dimensional level am I trying to create a new result?

If you are trying to create a new state of health, or financial abundance, or a romantic relationship, that’s a third-dimensional result. Action is required.

If you are creating a new belief system or learning something new, or simply wanting to feel better, that’s a fourth-dimensional result. A shift of perception, of thinking, is required.

If you want to tune into your Divine purpose, communicate with your Higher Self, and develop your intuition, that’s a fifth-dimensional result. A shift in consciousness is required.

Each dimension has its own “rules” for creating new results. Have a look at what you are creating in your life, or trying to create. Are you playing by the appropriate rules for the dimensional result you want?

How To Stop Settling for Less in 2010

It’s the end of another year. While most of us look ahead and set intentions for the year ahead, I think it’s equally important to take stock of the year that is coming to a close. Did you accomplish what you wanted this year? Did you create the transformation you intended at the beginning of 2009? Did you even know what you wanted to create?

Most importantly … what did you create or tolerate in 2009 that you are ready to let go, so that you can make 2010 the year of creating what you truly want?

It’s tough to create anything new in our lives when our lives are already full of what we’ve settled for. A lot of us want to hold on to what we have until we know for sure that what we want is definitely on its way. Unfortunately, life doesn’t work that way. Before wonderful, new things can come into our lives, we have to do a little clearing and create a vacuum. Without a temporary vacuum, there’s no space to be filled.

It’s easy to forgo what we truly want in favor of what we can easily have right now.

Let me give you an analogy. Let’s say you want a thousand dollars. You know you are absolutely worth that much. You believe in this value! But now here’s someone who shows up and offers you $650 right now. What do you do?

It’s tempting to just take the $650, isn’t it? After all, it fell right into your lap! And surely that’s a pretty good chunk of money, right? Maybe not a thousand … but getting closer, for sure.

But here’s the problem. If we say “yes” to the $650, we’ve just declared our true self-perceived value to the Universe. We aren’t all that insistent on our “true” value – in fact, we’ve just invalidated our “true” value altogether by accepting less!

When we settle for less than what we want – dissatisfying relationships, careers, financial situations – we are declaring to the Universe that “less than” is our actual value! At all times, WE are the only ones that decide on our worth.

What we have right now, in this very moment, is a perfect reflection of what we think we deserve. If we want to exchange what we have for something more or better, then we first have to label it as “not good enough, sorry!” and take the Universe up on its eternal return policy, so that we can receive something more in alignment with what we want.

What “less than” situation might you be willing to let go of in order to create a reflection of your true value, your true heart’s desires?

Between Intention and Manifestation

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a particularly patient person. I want my intentions to manifest NOW! Of course, we’ve chosen to work within the illusion of time in this dimension, so NOW often takes a bit longer than I’d like. Between intention and manifestation, there’s usually a gap, a period of gestation.

What do we do within this gestation period, while the Universe is busy percolating up results on our behalf? Do we sit and wait? Or do we simply get on with life, hoping and trusting that the results are coming?

I believe in taking a more active role between intention and manifestation. Every seed takes a natural amount of time to sprout and grow. A baby takes nine months before it is ready to be born. That process can’t be rushed … but it can be witnessed, monitored, optimized, and corrected if necessary.

A pregnancy may take nine months, but we are aware of new life taking shape within about two weeks or so.  Similarly, when we set an intention, we can see the beginnings of its manifestation take place fairly quickly, if we are paying attention. Like a brand-new fetus, that manifestation may look nothing like what it will eventually become! But nevertheless, the evidence is there.

Every woman who has ever been pregnant knows how magical it is to discover that our body already knows how to make another person. Similarly, it can be magical to witness the Universe carefully arranging itself, and then arranging itself again to accommodate our intentions.

But do we just watch and witness? No! During a pregnancy, we exercise, we take prenatal vitamins, we cut out certain foods and increase others … all to optimize the natural process already taking place. A gardener that plants a seed makes sure that the ground is fertile, that the seed receives enough water. When we set an intention, our job is to optimize our life for that intention being made manifest. We open doors of opportunity so that the Universe can more easily act on our behalf. We create the energetic state of Being within ourselves that aligns with our intention.

Gestation is a natural part of life. In this dimension, manifestation is a process that unfolds with time. We do, however, have a choice to support and optimize this natural process – or to undermine it. We can nurture the seeds we have carefully planted, or trample them through neglect and unconsciousness.

Is your life a fertile ground for your intentions to sprout, to put down roots, to grow into their full manifestation?

Blessings,
Andrea

Unexpected Packaging

Quite often when we manifest what we ask for, it arrives in unexpected packaging. The result of our requests look like nothing we’d ever imagined. Requests for money show up us business opportunities we would have never in a million years considered. We find ourselves in relationships with people we would have considered unlikely at best. Or what we ask for arrives at the most unexpected times, in the most unexpected places.

Why does the Universe have this stealthy way of delivering what we’ve asked for?

It has to do with attachment. I’ve written about this plenty of times – like the watched kettle that never boils, the active “wanting” energy of attachment actually makes manifesting our intention less likely.

Life finds ways of delivering what we want when we’re not looking. In its infinitely abundant way, the Universe will find the unobserved nook or cranny in our lives, where we’re not really placing our expectations or attachment. Inevitably, that’s the route through which manifesting will occur.

If we’re particularly attached to the packaging – we want what we ask for to look a certain way, to come in through a specific door of opportunity – we might easily miss the miracle that has occurred. We may be so busy looking in the direction of expected results that we disregard what has been created for us right under our noses.

Once we make a request and take appropriate action, it’s important to cultivate an attitude of curiosity. Look at what shows up – does its energy match the energy of your initial request? Can you look beyond the unexpected packaging and witness your own ability to manifest what you want?

Blessings,
Andrea

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