There are two basic forms of meditation.  There is meditation where you clear your mind, and there is meditation in which you incubate the desires that you want to manifest.  Today I want to talk about the latter; I want to talk about meditating on your desires as a way of manifesting them into reality.

Meditation, I believe, is the secret to success.  When I refer to meditation, I mean to ponder on a subject with expectation, or faith.  It’s very similar to worrying, except when you meditate, you’re pondering on things that you actually want to occur.  When you worry, you, of course, are pondering on ”bad” things; you see them in vivid detail, you experience those situations in your mind; you literally feel the stress. 

Meditation is the opposite of worry, instead of imagining the negative, you imagine the positive.

Meditation is used to harbor the vision of what you want, it is the process by which you see what you desire in your imagination and experience it as a “reality” in your mind.

Through meditation you can incubate the vision that you are destined to accomplish.  Through meditation you receive ideas, and the faith that will cause you to accomplish that vision.

Nothing is more important than daily meditation when it comes to manifesting your desires.  In what spare time you have, I suggest you spend it meditating, spend it seeing yourself the way you want to be.  Instead of watching television, dedicate that time to meditation.  Go in a quiet room and just take some time to see yourself as a success.   Do this everyday and you will begin to change.

To Mutter or to Speak

Another word for meditation is to “mutter,” or to “speak.”  Begin to mutter, as well as to speak about how you want your life to be.  If you are supposed to be a singer, say “I’m an excellent singer and I will get an excellent singing contract” – you must say it and see it.  That’s the beauty of being a human, that is our difference; we have the ability to speak our lives into existence. 

What are you saying? 

Are you saying that you don’t have any money, are you saying that you can’t afford that, are you saying that the economy is the reason you’re not succeeding, what are you saying!  You will have what you say; I suggest you start saying what you want to have.

Go into a quiet room and talk yourself into a “frenzy.”  Eventually you will start believing what you are saying. Once you get to a point that you believe it, you will begin to attract it.  If you keep on saying “I’m rich,” something inside of you is going to believe it, eventually you will begin to act rich; your actions will then cause you to manifest what you said you already are.

The problem isn’t that people don’t believe this; the problem is that most people are too lazy to do it.  They are not committed to the cause; they want success, but lack the requisite discipline.  They are too lazy.  They want to give birth to something that they are unwilling to be pregnant with.  They are unwilling to harbor the baby, to incubate it; instead, they want a miracle, they want it to happen overnight, but nothing worth having ever does.

You have to say it until you see it; blab it and grab it; name it and claim it.

Why am I saying all this, where did this come from?  I was in the gym today (even though I have a gym in my home, I also have a gym membership elsewhere) and I noticed something incredible.

What did I notice?

I’ve been a member of this particular gym for about 18 months and here’s what I noticed: 

“I noticed that no one has changed!” 

At the gym, the place where you go to change, I looked around and I reflected over the last year and a half, and I could hardily believe that “no one had changed.”  The people who were slightly overweight, were still slightly overweight, the people who were quite overweight were still quite overweight, after a year and a half.  The only individuals who showed some progress were the individuals who were already in amazing shape.  The ones who needed to progress the least had progressed the most.  I couldn’t help but think of the Scripture that says, “Unto him that has more, more shall be given, and unto him that has not, more shall be taken, even that which he hath”.

What’s the problem?

People are unable to see themselves differently because they are not meditating daily, they may read about meditating, they may even talk to their friends about meditating, but they are not actually meditating.  In other words, they’re not changing.  Nothing changes until you change.  Meditation changes you!

You have to reprogram your mind from the inside-out by talking to yourself.  You have to put in the programming; you can’t leave it to the television, the media, society or your friends.   You have to tell yourself where you are going, and you have to do it daily.  Say it, then see it, your imagination pre-plays your future.  Through meditation you can create your future.

What are you imagining? 

Are you imagining that your life will be the same this year as it was last year?  Are you imagining only a slight improvement?  What are you imagining?  Notice I didn’t say what are you hoping for, or what are you wishing for?  The real question is, what are you imagining?  Because what you imagine when you’re going through your day, those thoughts that you have, the ones that you “believe” accurately reflect your future – those  are the ones you will act on, and those are the ones that will impact your life, positively or negatively.

Do you believe?

As an example, if you really believe that your income is going to increase from month to month, if you really believe that, then your actions will be different from month to month.  You will take actions that are sure to increase your income over the previous month.  However, if you believe your income will remain the same, then your actions will remain the same.  Put in another way, if your actions do not change from month to month, then you don’t believe your income will change from month to month.  Your actions are a measure of your faith!

In Closing

You have to talk to yourself; you must meditate on what you want to have.  You don’t need a “list of affirmations,” just begin to affirm what you want in your life, and do it everyday. If you do, you will begin to believe, you will begin to take action, you will begin to change.

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