Manifest your future

Have you ever watched the movie called, The Secret? If you haven't watched this film as a family, you should! If you visited our classroom on how to obtain freedom by beginning with the end in mind, then you will recall we talked about the magnets in our head.

You will remember that we talked about how your thoughts are like magnets. What you think can attract what feeling you get. Thoughts can push you into action that manifests your future reality, or thoughts can create doubt and fear. Manifesting involves visualizing your goals & desires to attract them into your reality through focused thoughts & actions. The practice encourages aligning your mindset with desired outcomes while taking proactive steps toward achieving your goals. There are six things you should consider when we talk about manifesting the futures we desire.

1. Understand the lens you are viewing life from.

2. Make personal peace your highest priority.

3. Align your heart, mind, and thoughts with God.

4. Be okay jumping ships while you are navigating the ocean of life.

5. Have gratitude for the entire journey even before any manifestation comes.

6. Recognize that your future goes beyond this time on earth.

Understand the lens you are viewing life from:

Remember, all things are created spiritually before they are created physically. This is a famous line in scripture, and it is true scientifically as we will explain. You create things spritually before you can see them.

Before I share the science that proves it all, I want to share my own personal story. When I was a little girl, I use to dream that I was going to be walking on the beach alot with a tan, handsome, dark-haired man. I don't know why I dreamed this as a little girl alot, but I imagined that I would be doing that someday. I think I wanted it so badly, which is funny and cute when you think about little girls and their imagination. Then I grew up, got married and lived in a state far away from any ocean. I lived a busy, and not always easy life packed with babies, diapers, grocery shopping, and fixing meals. It was rewarding, but challenging. We had alot of cold winters, hard days with toddlers, and we had some wonderful adventures and some dark and hard times. I did marry a handsome man, who would hold my hand, but it wasn't until 20 years after we were married, that I found myself suddenly living on an island, in the Carribbean, holding hands with the tan man I imagined when I was a little girl. It was my same husband I had for 20 years, and we had our four kids, but one day walking along the beach, I realized I had sort of manifested what I dreamed about as a little girl. I was living on a beach, I was married to the man I dreamed about many years before. I couldn't help but wonder if I had manifested this. Maybe I did, or maybe I didn't, but it is funny how we felt led to moving to that little Carribbean Island years after we married. It has not always been easy living on an island, and it is packed full of the messy and rewarding life of homeschool, but that moment on the beach, I realized I was living my future self.

You can attract a beautiful future for yourself if you intentionally try and create it with the power of your own thoughts and feelings. Your thoughts are like the lens that you are viewing life from. Sometimes your future reality may take 40 years to manifest! But we can even just change the way we are feeling a few minutes into the future, or tomorrow, or next week if we change our spiritual lens. Here is an example of what I mean.

Our beliefs create our thoughts which create our feelings which create our actions which create our future reality. Look at the girl who won the gold medal. She worked so hard to win, and she is not happy because of the lens she views life with. Her mindset created a future reality of feeling not enough or not satisified. Your thoughts are crucial to your own happiness and they are usually based upon your beliefs. That is why most of our classrooms here are designed around looking inwards at your thoughts and beliefs. Remember not all of the beliefs that you have are true! You have to try on a new lens sometimes to create a new future reality.

The girl who won the gold medal was never going to be happy, no matter what circumstances she was experiencing, if her beliefs were not true about herself. It really comes down to what lens you view life from. If you don't like how you are feeling, change your lens. Try on a new mindset and it can become your future reality. In our growth mindset classroom we call this "flip the switch." Which brings me to the next important step you should think about when manifesting your future...desire personal peace above all else.

Make personal peace your highest priority:

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. - 2 Tim. 1:7

When you think about creating a life that you dream about, and creating your future, your brain may have some thoughts that go something like this:  “I have prayed for that and it didn’t happen” or “I am just unlucky” or “I am not sure I believe I can create a future of my dreams, I just have to take the cards that have been dealt to me” or “I am not sure it is God’s will for me to have this or that thing…” How do you follow your dreams and follow God's will? When Scripture talks about God’s will, it’s often not about a detailed script for every life event. It’s more about the kind of person you are becoming and the direction of your heart. So God’s will is often less about which exact job, house, or timeline and more about how you live, think, and relate while making real choices. Is it okay to desire wealth? Is it okay to desire a future ranch house and horses and follow God's will at the same time? The answer I have discovered is YES! God does not want us to live in a spirit of fear. God puts in us a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. He also gave us agency to choose our house, choose our job, choose our spouse, choose our friends, and choose our habits. He will warn you if your heart is in the wrong spirit, but he will not warn you that you should choose a different major to graduate in unless you are miserable in the one you choose. He does not force you to do things you hate. He wants you to choose your path and find joy in the journey. But His will is for you to love Him and others as you do so. His will is for you to walk in truth, humility, and wisdom as you follow your dreams. Do you know what a sound mind means? It means personal peace. Of course he wants us to daydream about our future ranch house! But what he really wants you to have as your foundation of your personal dreams is personal peace. You can get specific about what you want to manifest in life, you can have faith for that future ranch house, but if you do not desire personal peace as your foundation, all other things will crumble. You can gain the world, and have no personal peace. You can manifest a new ranch, and still be miserable if you don't live with the lens of charity. Remember when the scriptures say there is no peace for the wicked? Make sure you are desiring things that bring personal peace as you desire to create a future reality.

Align your heart, mind, and thoughts with God:

As we mentioned earlier, all things are created spiritually before they are created physically. This includes your future realities. This is the science behind faith and prayer and meditation. Quantum science will teach you that we don’t need to be touching or even in close proximity to any physical elements in the quantum field to affect or be affected by them.  Once two particles can be initially linked in some way, they will always be bonded together beyond space and time.  As we are also composed of particles, we are inherently connected beyond space and time. What we do unto others, we do unto ourselves.  It also means that the “you” that exists in the probably future is already connected to the “you” now, in a dimension beyond this time and space.

Let's start with how prayer changes reality. Taken from Joe Dispenza’s work, “In July 2000, Israeli doctor Leonard Leibovici conducted a double-blind, randomized controlled trial involving 3,393 hospital patients, divided into a control group and an “intercession” group.  He set out to see whether prayer could have an effect on their condition.  Prayer experiments are great examples of mind affecting matter at a distance.   But stay with me here, because everything is not always what it seems.   Leibovici selected patients who had suffered sepsis (an infection) while hospitalized.  He randomly designated half the patients to have prayers said for them, while the other half were not prayed for.  He compared the results in three categories: how long fever lasted, length of hospital stay, and how many died as a result of the infection.  The prayed-for benefited from an earlier decrease in fever and a shorter hospitalization time; the difference in the number of deaths among the prayed-for and not-prayed for groups was not statistically significant, although better in the prayed-for group.  That’s a powerful demonstration of the benefits of prayer and how we can send an intention out into the quantum field through our thoughts and feelings.  However, there’s one additional element to this story that you should know about.  Did it strike you as slightly odd that in July 2000, a hospital would have more than 3,000 cases of infection at once?…Actually, those who were praying weren’t praying for patients who were infected in 2000.  Instead, unbeknownst to them, they were praying for lists of people who had been in the hospital from 1990 to 1996- four to ten years prior to the experiment!  The prayed-for patients actually got better during the 1990s from the experiment conducted years later…This demonstrates that our intentions, our thoughts and feelings, and our prayers not only affect our present or future, but they can actually affect our past as well.”

Your thoughts and emotions influence every part of life, transcending both space and time.

But it wouldn’t have been fair to generations of people to wait for that science behind prayer to pop up in year 2000.  Which is why God has told people to pray since he started working on this world.  FAITH is how God wants you to live your life.  Faith in His words, faith in his doctrine, and faith that He answers your prayers for your future reality.  But even if you do know this science, you still have to have faith that God is answering your prayers.  Generations of people have lived by faith and seen miracles in their life, before the science ever arrived. But just for fun there is an interesting scientific study that may surprise you:

Cellular biologist Glen Rein, Ph.D., conceived of a series of experiments to test healers' ability to affect biological systems. He decided to have healers hold test tubes containing DNA since it is very stable. This study took place at the HeartMath Research Center in California. In the experiment, he first studied a group of ten individuals who were well practiced in mindfulness with intention that they learned at the Center. They applied the mindfulness techniques to produce strong, elevated feelings such as love and appreciation, then for two minutes, they held vials containing DNA samples suspended in deionized water. Upon analysis of those samples, no statistically significant changes were found. A second group of trained participants did the same thing, but instead of just creating positive emotions (a feeling) of love and appreciation, they simultaneously held an intention (a thought) to either wind or unwind the strands of DNA. This group caused statistically significant alterations in the conformation (shape) of the DNA samples. In some cases the DNA was wound or unwound as much as 25%!

A third group of trained participants aimed to alter the DNA with a clear intent, but they were directed not to adopt a positive emotional state. In other words, they were only using thought to affect matter. The outcome? The DNA samples remained unchanged. Subjects were able to achieve the desired effect only when they experienced strong emotions of love and appreciation alongside clear, aligned objectives.

Joe Dispenza summarized that " an intentional thought needs an energizer, a catalyst, and that energy is an elevated emotion. Heart and mind working together. Feelings and thoughts unified into a state of being. If a state of being can wind and unwind strands of DNA in two minutes, what does this say about our ability to create reality?" Isn't it amazing that Jesus says the top focus of our life should be to love God with all our heart, might, mind and strength. And the second is to love our neighbor as ourself. Faith aligned with love, charity, and hope is the secret! But wait...God already told us that ages ago.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. -1 Cor. 13:13

We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. -1 Thess. 1:3

Let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. -1 Thess. 5:8

I will show unto them that faith, hope and charity bringeth unto me—the fountain of all righteousness. -Ether 12:28 B of M

The scriptures show the formula...science is just the notes to how the formula was created.

You can't just have faithful thoughts, you have to have a matching frequency in your heart. When you want to create something spiritually and enjoy it physically, you should align it with good values and be patient in His timing. You can set intentions, take responsibility for your thoughts and actions, and remain open to God reshaping the outcome. The scriptures teach that anything good comes from God. Help is only a thought away...if it is aligned with vibrations of love. We can have all the faith in the world that an Xbox will show up at our doorstep at 3 p.m. tomorrow, but we cannot treat God like a cosmic vending machine; that is not manifestation. He will answer your dreams in His way, on His time, and according to what is best for you.  He knows you individually, and He knows what you need.  Manifesting is not commanding the universe; it is cooperating with God’s plan for shaping our hearts. We can ask this about our desires:

• Does this move me toward love, truth, and wholeness?

• Does it expand peace over time (even if it’s uncomfortable now)?

• Does it require me to shrink, lie, or live in fear?

Manifesting is not commanding the universe; it is cooperating with God’s design of this universe.

Be okay jumping ships while you are navigating the ocean of life:

We don't have to stay stuck in anything. You don't have to keep your same job forever. You don't have to go to college for ten years if you figure out how to make money after year one. You can go back to college in your forties if you desire that. You can create a business online even if you are a stay-at-home mom. You can be a college athlete even if you homeschool during high school. You can learn to train dogs and become a dog whisperer even if you have never owned a dog in your lifetime. You can write a song even if you have never sung soprano. What God wants you to follow His will in is living with integrity and charity as you develop your gifts and talents and become a light to the world. You have complete freedom in deciding how to bring blessings to those around you. Occasionally, He may hint at you riding a different boat, but He wants you to keep your North Star always in view as you sale the ocean. God's will is that you follow that North Star (of virtuous living with high standards) no matter what ship you are sailing on. But you get to define the vessel you sail on! You may need to change ships sometimes and that is completely normal and part of life. But it is okay to choose the ship you want to sail in as you ride towards your North Star.

Your North Star, although you can not see it, will guide you to more than you could ever even dream of. The joy of the next life, only a few have lived and died and lived again and came back to talk about the magic of the other side. But since we can not fully taste of that, we can trust that God has more amazing things in store than we could ever imagine, and right now he wants you to practice on earth just sailing through the ocean of life. Walk along the dock, envision the ship you want to sail on, design the sails, decide how you want to steer the ship, and create a future that sails towards your true North. You can manifest the ships you sail on. You just have to keep that North Star in view while you sail!

Once you start sailing, often times, God is not directing you to choose between path A or path B, he may be letting you choose.  Sometimes both paths are good, and He just wants you to choose.  Or sometimes, he knows there is a path C, and he knows you will discover it by choosing between A and B and reaching dead ends.  He lets us discover things through experience.  If we were told exactly what to do in life we would not be free agents learning to become like Him.   The ability to create our reality is one of the gifts of agency that God has given us. It may be a little uncomfortable at first to use your agency to create the life of your dreams because as a kid, you were probably told what to do most of the time.   Now you are doing things with out knowing if the path you chose was right. When you get a little older, and you get to use your agency a little more strongly, you get to practice creating your reality. Remember, all things are created spiritually before they are created physically. You can redefine your future reality. You do not need to shrink, or stay stuck.

Have gratitude for the entire journey even before any manifestation comes: