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Raise Your Expectations

Do you expect 100% of your intentions to become manifest? Check in with yourself for a moment. Think about your goals, plans and visions of the future. What is your level of certainty that your vision for your life will be made manifest? With how much conviction do you believe in your ability to create exactly what you want?

Sometimes we leave ourselves some wriggle room. We set our intentions, we make our visions boards, we write down our goals. But instead of deciding, with complete certainty, on our intentions, we may create them more within the energy of “Wouldn’t it be nice if …” We look at our vision board and think: “Gosh, I hope this will happen!” Wishful thinking, hope, and certainty are three very different qualities we can bring to our intentions.

If we set our intentions with certainty, they have to manifest. We are the powerful, Divine Creators of our experience, after all! At least, we can be … if we embrace certainty. Our intentions will manifest, because we decided. They have to manifest simply because we said so! If we bring certainty to the table, the Universe must conspire with us to create what we want. There is no alternative. And that makes certainty rather scary.

Manifesting exactly what we want is, for most of us, a great deal more frightening than the struggle of falling short. We’re familiar with disempowerment, with making our circumstances dependent on external factors. We’re comfortable with at least a slight level of dissatisfaction. Hopes and dreams are a much safer place than certainty. Hopes and dreams allow us the option of letting life happen “to” us. Certainty, however, declares our Divine potential to the world and forces us to step forward into our role as Creator.

What if we insisted on our intentions with uncompromising conviction and clarity? What if we expected them all to manifest, simply because we decided?

We truly are that powerful … if we allow ourselves to be.

What is the biggest, scariest vision that you could manifest for yourself?  What could you manifest that would convince you completely of your own Divinity? Leave your comment and share!

Blessings,
Andrea

Creating Positive Money Beliefs

It’s impossible to avoid money. Whether we love our money or consider it the root of all evil, we all engage with money, every single day. We buy groceries, pay our mortgage and our bills, we pay for movies and dinner out. We spend most of our lives working to make money.

I have a great many clients who crave “financial independence” or that holy grail of possible revenue streams, “passive income.” Don’t get me wrong, financial independence and creating passive streams of income are wonderful intentions! Unless we create these intentions because, really, we just don’t want to deal with money, ever again.

Who hasn’t had a fantasy of winning the lottery? It’s enticing to imagine never worrying about money again – to have money be a “non-issue.” But the fantasy doesn’t hold up. No matter how much money we have, we still have bills to pay. We still have to decide what to do with our money, especially if we have a lot of it! Money is unavoidable.

Still, many of us secretly wish that all money issues would just go away, that we could stop dealing with money altogether. And this secret wish ensures that we’ll never attract too much of it!

Evelyn Lim over at Attraction Mind Map recently wrote a fantastic article about releasing negative money beliefs. Money is a fact of life. Why not embrace money, make friends with it, and allow it to play an uplifting role in our lives? Why not choose positive beliefs about money?

Here are some examples:

Money is love.

When was the last time you pampered yourself, whether that was with a massage, a yoga class or just a new magazine? You paid for all of those things – and these were acts of self-love. What about the last time you brought home flowers for your wife? Or bought your child a new DVD? You did these things out of love. Love doesn’t have to be expressed through money, of course. But money can be a vehicle for the expression of love.

Money is joy.

When was the last time you went out and had a good time? Whether your good time was a night out on the town or a nature hike … money played a role, even if that role was just to put gas in your car. Even if you enjoyed yourself sitting at home with your kids playing cards, you still paid your rent or mortgage so that you have a home! Joy is, of course, possible without money. But money can support us in experiencing joy.

Money is growth.

You probably paid for the last book you read, the last workshop you took, the last class you attended. When you had your most recent enlightening conversation with your best friend, it maybe took place over the phone, which you paid for. Maybe you’ve downloaded my free reports from my website … chances are, you pay for your Internet connection. Growth can happen without us paying for it, of course. But money can serve as an instrument of personal and spiritual growth.

Money is empowerment.

When was the last time you were able to make a choice … because you could afford to? Empowerment is about having choices available to us. Money creates options. We can choose to go on vacation, or to a business conference, or to visit our parents – but only if we can afford to go. Money allows us to choose organic over conventional products, or energy-efficient light bulbs over traditional models. Of course, not all of our choices involve money. But money can make more choices available to us.

Energetically speaking, money is a completely neutral substance. As conscious creators of our experience, we can assign any meaning to money that serves us. Money can stand for fear, limitation, and obligation. Or we can choose money as love, joy, growth or empowerment.

One thing is for sure – money is inevitable. What beliefs will you choose for your money? What do you think you will manifest if you choose uplifting money beliefs?

Blessings,
Andrea

Manifesting the Drop of the Other Shoe

Have you ever manifested a financial windfall, only to have your car break down, your air conditioner explode and your child’s school trip to pay for? Or manifested a relationship, only to have circumstances arise that make it difficult to spend time together?

Creating what we want – magically, inexplicably, powerfully – can be scary business. We’ve all made prayer requests or stated our intentions to the Universe. We’ve created our vision boards. And when our intentions become manifest in a very real, third-dimensional way, we are awestruck at our own magnificence. We truly experience ourselves as the powerful Creators that we are.

Almost immediately, there’s that little nagging voice that gets very loud, very fast. “This is too good to be true. Things like this don’t really happen. This can’t last.” There’s a part of us that quakes with fear when we create what we want. That part of us doesn’t want to believe that we truly manifested our intentions. That part of us is petrified of our own Divinity.

And so we also manifest the other shoe, dropping. We manifest our intention, and also the fear that our intention might manifest. We manifest what we want, and also manifest something that tells us that we can’t really have it all. We satisfy the part of us that would rather “just” be human than Divine … as if the two could ever be separated.

How do we stop the “two steps forward, one-and-a-half steps back” cycle of manifesting our intentions AND our fear?

  1. Acknowledge that being Divine scares our poor little ego to death. Along with the elation of having created what we intended, we acknowledge the fear that it might all evaporate, that we cannot hang on to all this abundance. It’s okay to have this fear. Fear in no way diminishes us. It has no power, unless we stuff it into our subconsciousness to fester and grow.
  2. Stay centered in gratitude. Be grateful to Creator, to Spirit, the Universe, your Guides, your own Higher Self … wherever you feel assistance comes from. Gratitude helps us stay open to receiving the abundance that we have created.

The other shoe doesn’t have to drop. We are allowed to be Divine Beings within this human experience.

What “shoe” are you worried about dropping? Leave your comment and share!

Blessings,
Andrea

The Alchemy of Conscious Creation

I had a miserable cold all week last week. I sniffled and croaked my way through my client sessions and business calls and fell into bed exhausted every night. By Friday, I was still feeling terrible and getting mighty resentful. There was lots I wanted to do, I just didn’t have the energy to get anything accomplished.

The thought “I just don’t have the energy” made me stop dead in my mental tracks. How could I not have energy? After all, not only are we connected to Source, we ARE Source. Therefore, each of us has access to infinite amounts of energy. Why would the kind of depletion I was feeling ever need to be part of our experience?

The immediate answer that leapt into my head was, of course, separation. Separation from Self and Source, which is really the same thing. Which was probably why I’d been dragging myself around and gotten sick in the first place.

How had I gotten myself into a state of separation, to the point where my body was obviously suffering? Well, I’ve been working hard on my businesses – overhauling one website, creating a new one, planning out new classes and projects … there’s been a lot “to do.” Somewhere along the way, I feel into the error and illusion that “I” had to “do” and “create” all the stuff that was on my plate. Silly me. I was tapping into my own energetic resources to try and get it accomplished. No wonder I was exhausted.

Here is the truth about being conscious creators. We’re not really creators. We don’t create anything from scratch. We are alchemists. We transmute. We take what already exists, and turn it into something else. Our energetic contribution is action and intent. But our contribution is merely a catalyst, the magical ingredient that transforms energy or matter from one state to another.

At the physical level, our bodies transform breath and food and liquid into the energy that moves us through life. That transformation – the actions of breathing and digestion – take a good portion of the energy that they themselves provide. Overall, however, there is a surplus of energy that we use to move, to exercise, and enjoy life.

We’ve heard the expression “There’s nothing new under the sun.” The energy or vibrational frequency of every idea, thought, concept, emotion, belief and action already exists. We don’t create anything out of nothing. Our intent and actions bind the infinite raw materials that are at our disposal into something else. Intent and action take a certain amount of energy, certainly. But what we create as a result of our transmutations gives us back far more than the process of alchemy takes.

When we’re reaching for new ideas, solutions, or results, let’s remember that they already exist. We merely tune into their vibrational frequency and, through intent, transmute them into third-dimensional form. We are like the chef of a gourmet kitchen, endlessly taking mother nature’s raw materials and transforming them, through heat and ingenuity, into something delicious – or at least, hopefully, edible. We don’t have to reinvent the carrot, or figure out how to create an onion. We just cook with what already exists.

The next time we find ourselves tired or depleted, let’s remember that we don’t have to do so much. We are alchemists, merely providing the catalysts of intent and action so that transmutation can take place. Everything we need or want already exists, infinitely available to us as long as we are willing to practice Oneness, instead of separation.

Blessings,
Andrea Hess

The Key to Detachment

Attachment arises out of a single flawed assumption of the egoic mind. The ego assumes that when a goal is attained, when something happens that we want, then we will be happy, or fulfilled, or joyful. It also assumes that if something undesirable happens, then we will be sad, or angry, or hurt.

In truth, however, our state of Being is completely independent of any events that take place in our lives.

As you sit reading this right now, can you summon a feeling of joy? Go ahead and summon up a happy memory or a joyful expectation. Allow a bubble of joy to grow in the pit of your stomach and rise up to fill your heart. Smile until the smile becomes genuine. Take a few breaths, and inhale joy. Let the energy travel outward from your heart until it fills your Being. Go ahead and close your eyes. Sit with the energy of joy for a while.

Nothing happened in your life to create this joy. You generated joy all by yourself, through simple intention. You were both the cause and the result of joy. And you could create joy at absolutely any time, just by deciding to do so. This is true no matter what events are happening in your life.

We can create a state of abundance without having a dime to our name. We can summon the state of being in love without being in a relationship. We can create a state of peace, even while watching the evening news.

The egoic mind will have us believe that all of these things – abundance, love, peace – are dependent on what is happening in our lives. The ego thinks that a state of abundance depends on our bank balance. The ego will have us believe that love comes into our lives from someone else.

The truth is that we alone are Source.

So why aren’t we all constantly in a joyful, abundant, peaceful state of Being? Go ahead and once again summon that energy of joy for a minute or two. If you remain in that state of being for a while, you will notice your mind getting …. bored. That’s right, joy gets boring after a while! There are no problems to solve, nothing to get worked up over. There are no worries to entertain the mind. That’s why the mind creates attachment.

If we are to stay out of attachment, we need to give the mind something to do. Left to its own devices, the mind is reactive. The mind reacts to everything – every event, what other people say to us – and so creates our state of Being. If the reaction is negative, the mind will come up with a goal that would create a positive reaction instead. And so we begin believing the illusion that a certain monthly income will give us abundance, or a romantic relationship will bring us love.

Or we can become conscious creators.

We can deliberately generate the state of being that we desire for ourselves. We can then give the mind the task of expressing that state of being creatively, through action. The outcome simply wouldn’t matter. We are already in the state that we want to create. We are simply taking action to give the mind something to do. The mind will think and solve problems and make plans. That is its job, and we can’t change that. But we can make our mind’s activity about creatively expressing joy, or abundance, or love – rather than about creating a specific result.

For example, we could call our partner because we want him or her to tell us how special we are, and that will make us feel loved.

Or we could be in a state of love, and the creative expression of that love is making a phone call. We don’t want anything out of that phone call – it’s just our state of being, authentically expressing itself.

While the action is still making a phone call to our partner, the first comes from a place of attachment. We want something out of that phone call – to feel loved. The other has no agenda. It is just an expression of what we already have and are.

What if every action we took was only a creative expression of our state of Being? What if every business venture, every project, every conversation were simply an extension of our Being, with no agenda attached?

Our state of Being is completely independent of any event, outcome, goal, or person. Nothing that happens in our lives determines whether we are happy, or loved, or fulfilled – unless we allow it. This is the key to detachment. We can at any time decide to be peaceful, or in love, or joyful. This is the true gift of free will and free choice.

What are your thoughts? Please add your comment below!

Blessings,
Andrea

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