YOUR MIND is the most powerful tool you possess, and the power of your focused intention creates an energetic pathway that allows you to draw what you desire directly to you. By finding a variety of ways to focus your intention you can use the laws of attraction to manifest wealth and abundance, and improve your life in many ways. Carol Holaday, author of Crafting a Magical Life, shares how she uses the laws of attraction through intention-focusing craft ideas that get results, and that can help you use the laws of attraction to achieve your goals,
It's been a while since I posted about my manifesting projects. Tickets for the kids to come for Christmas and the money to get us through the holidays became reality and I have been putting my energy towards my biggest plan, which is, in a nutshell, to use my talents to earn money doing something I love. I'm still putting my energy towards this bigger project and am excited when I see hints that I am moving forward.
Manifesting abundance and prosperity is great, and there are so many more wonderful ways to use your manifesting skills. Have you ever considered manifesting food for the hungry, help for the homeless, or good old fashioned peace? If not then this is a great time to start. The best part is that when you focus on these goals you help draw them to those in need and to the planet at large.
Can you imagine what could happen if everyone made the decision to manifest goodwill and peace?
The holiday season is fast approaching. I can feel it in the coolness of the air, see it in the changing light of autumn and smell it in the baking of gingerbread and pumpkin pies.
It's time for holiday crafting!
Tonight, November 17th, at Tree of Life Metaphysical Books and Gifts I am holding a Yuletide crafting night. We are making awesome book thongs, really cute yule log ornaments and cool gift boxes that will hang on the tree. Come have fun and make as many as you have time for. There are also instructions and patterns so you can keep up the good craft-work at home! We start at 7PM and the investment is $20.
Tree of Life Metaphysical Books and Gifts
4870 Santa Monica Ave. Suite 1A
San Diego (Ocean Beach) CA 92107
Just checking in to let you know I haven't forgotten you. I have been busy working on my manifesting projects, however, and my efforts are paying off. Tickets for my son and daughter to come to San Diego for Christmas have been paid for, so one of my projects is complete!
I have some news to report about the other two as well. My project to have an extra $2K for Christmas presents and to cover shortfalls in work hours has gotten a start. So far $2K hasn't fallen out of the sky, though my husband came back from a work trip with a raise in travel pay. This means it will be a little easier to set some extra cash aside, which is definitely a start. And since I know that little trickles turn into streams that can become a great flowing river I am encouraged.
My work project is blossoming as well. Every morning I spend a few minutes with my manifesting beads and make my gratitude statement about what kind of work I choose to have and how much I make. In the last two weeks I have had a number of referrals for work that is writing or writing related. While I haven't actually signed any contracts yet I'm encouraged. I see the interest and contacts with others as a sure sign the universe is working things out perfectly.
I hope that you all are spending just a few moments each day focusing on what it is you desire to bring into your lives, saying thank you and using gratitude as ways to attract what you want to you. Imagine it is yours, say it is yours, believe it is yours and make it so!
It is the beginning of Week 3 of the Make it So Project Challenge and I have some great news to report. I had a small technical issue this week that prevented me from posting video but I’m not letting that stop me from posting my first results. My project #2, airline tickets for my son and daughter to come to San Diego for Christmas has now been realized!
Mission accomplished!
I posted earlier this week that I had one ticket by Thursday, and I was still short one ticket. Now here’s where the universe does things in ways I might not of thought of or chosen. There was a check that my husband and I had been waiting for that should have turned up at about the same time we started this project, but it didn’t turn up, and it’s always on time. We simply worked around it and conserved our dollars and did just fine without it. The check finally turned up on Saturday and it was exactly enough to cover the ticket we were still waiting on. I see this as an example of how the universe knows what we need and desire even before we ask for it.
How are your manifestations going this week? Did you actually plan what you are going to do to bring your desires into reality? Are you doing those things regularly? If not, don’t beat yourself up. Instead simply redouble your efforts and keep at it. It takes a while to get into the habit of anything new and using your positive intention and attention to manifest your desires takes a bit of practice as well.
I think the reason my tickets appeared as quick as they did was because they felt the most important to me in the moment. I still have two projects I am currently working on, the right work for me and extra money for Christmas. I am sure I will come up with something to replace project #2. There’s no limit to what I can accomplish when I put my mind to it, and that statement applies to all of you as well!
This week I am going to start putting more attention into my manifesting prayer beads and project #1
Don’t forget to share your plans and your stories through comments.
My Make it So Project #2 - Tickets for my son and daughter to fly to San Diego for Christmas
It is only Thursday of Week 2 in the Make it So Project Challenge and I just wanted to let you guys know that I now have one of the two plane tickets I have chosen to manifest. Only one more ticket to go!
During the previous week we were all supposed to be making a list of the things we desire to bring into our lives and be ready to start working on them this week, so I made a list of three things I desire to bring into my reality and decided on a different method I could use to work with each one.
The three things I desire to create in my life right now are the right work for me, tickets for my son and daughter to come to San Diego for Christmas and extra Christmas spending money.
In considering the biggest project, which is my work, I decided that I would work with prayer beads over time, and I made a list of my current career goals:
Writing or writing related Part time at home Engaging and fun Suited to my personality A consistent income of $3000 or more per month, or more
In making my list I also remembered to avoid negative statements that point to anything I might NOT want because the universe doesn’t discriminate between want and not want. It sends you what you focus on, so if you worry about something you are focusing energy on it and will likely attract the very thing you don’t want. In my list I stuck to the positives.
Then I composed sentences containing my desires until I found a structure that sounded and felt right to me. This is what I ended up with:
“I call to myself work that I can do from home part time that is fun and engaging, suits my personality, involves writing, and consistently pays me $3000 per month or more, OR SOMETHING EVEN BETTER!”
I always add “or something even better” because that allows the universe to step in and provide me with something even more wonderful and perfect than what I had envisioned.
Working with prayer beads on a major long-term goal like this is pretty simple and involves creating a daily routine where you make the statement a number of times using beads as counters. You can make your own set of beads with colors or crystals that have meaning to you or you can use a rosary or other strand of beads for this. You could even knot cord or rope to make prayer knots.
In using the beads you generally start with the statement on a main bead. Then on the next bead another statement like, “I am worthy of having good things come into my life.” On the next bead maybe you would say something like, “I am ready to receive all the best the universe has to offer.” And then you move on to the most important statement, which is, “Thank you.” I like to say thank you’s in threes, “Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU!”
There is an old saying, “The third time’s the charm,” and I believe there is power in doing something at least three times to send a clear message to the universe. So I recommend you make the statements and thank you’s at least three times each time you sit down with your beads. You can make the statements as many times as you want in one sitting, though it makes sense to keep it fairly short so you will be more willing to keep doing it over time.
My second manifesting project is airline tickets for my son and daughter to come to San Diego for Christmas. Without cash flow to buy airline tickets I could have given up and planned to spend Christmas alone, but I know that the universe will give me what I attract so I decided to go for it and use visual cues to attract the plane tickets we require. So I found an image of an airplane, copied it several times into a word document, printed the page and then cut the airplanes out.
I wrote my son and daughter’s names on the plane and printed underneath their names, “Destination San Diego, Christmas Holidays 2010, OR SOMETHING EVEN BETTER.” Then I taped the airplanes around the house in places where I will see them often. Each time I see one I stop and say out loud (or in my head if people are around), “Thank you that my children have round trip tickets to San Diego to spend the Christmas Holidays with me, OR SOMETHING EVEN BETTER (What if the universe wanted to send all of us to Hawaii for Christmas? You never know . . .).
By placing the images in locations where I will see them often I am frequently reminded to be grateful for what is coming and to say thank you, to send the message to the universe that my children have tickets to come out for the Christmas holidays, or something even better, of course.
And the third thing I am choosing to attract is money for Christmas, for gifts, for going places and doing things, and to cover any financial shortfall related to my husband’s job, as in the past we have had occasional gaps in income right at Christmas time due to work slowdowns.
For this I decided to use a technique taught to me by Katie Gallanti that involves accessing possibility and creating a symbol to which you feed your light and love.
The way this works is you grab a pencil and a piece of paper and then close your eyes and imagine that you are sending a ray of light from your heart center up into the heavens into a plane of light that where everything is possible. Once there you state what it is you desire to create and ask for a symbol to represent your creation. The symbol that comes to mind may be very practical and descriptive or it may appear to be totally unrelated. Leave aside your judgment of whatever comes. Just study it in your mind, say thank you, and bring the symbol back into your heart center. Then take a moment to draw what you saw, to the best of your ability.
From there you can use the technique I described above, with the airplanes, or you can place the symbol, using your imagination, in the area appropriate to your creation. For example if you were seeking $500 for a project you could imagine placing the symbol inside your purse or wallet, and every time you open it you imagine the symbol floating inside it and imagine sending it a beam of love and light. You might even say thank you for whatever the symbol represents.
I used this technique when we wanted to move into a bigger store space but didn’t have the money to move. I imagined my symbol hanging in the middle of the empty store space I wanted and every time I passed it I fed it love and light and imagined myself in the space putting out my crystals and stones on glass shelves. Within two weeks the property manager called me to ask if I wanted to move into the space and offered to spread the extra costs involved over several months to make it possible.
Now you have three ways you can attract the things you desire into your life. You can also use your imagination to create your own technique. The important things to remember are positive wording, regular positive attention and gratitude. And always remember to add, “or something even better.”
Have a great week manifesting. You may find that you attract some things very quickly, which is great and I would love to hear about them through your posts to this blog or on my Facebook fan page, Carol Holaday Online.
10/10/10 seems like a great time to start the Make it So Project Challenge because it is a special day with special numerology, for me at least. The ones add up to three, the number of creation, and that is what we will be doing in the Make it So Project Challenge—creating the things we wish to bring into our lives. For the first time ever I risked making a mini video to help us get started. This is good because taking risks is part of the creative process. For me, being on camera has always felt scary because I have always gotten a little tongue tied. This is something I want to change in my life so what better way to start the Make it So Project Challenge than to challenge myself to do something that is outside my comfort zone.
Over the coming weeks we will be working together to manifest something important in our lives. Of course in order to do that we have to have picked one or more things to work on, and that is what I hope you will do during the week this week. Think about what it is you want very much to have happen in your life and sit down with pencil and paper and map it out. Add in the details like an artist would do on a canvas, so that you develop a very clear picture in your mind of what it is you want. Write out all of the aspects of your creation.
For example, when I wanted to move our family from El Cajon, California to Point Loma, near the beach, I made a list of everything I wanted. I wanted, in Point Loma, 2 bedrooms (or more), 2 baths, a garage, yard for the dogs, washer and dryer hookups, a specified rental price (or less), and a landlord or landlady who was great and who really liked us. Actually I got all those things, with two hitches. There was a yard for the dogs but it wasn’t fenced so I had to take them out on a leash, and there was a washer/dryer hookup but my washer and dryer wouldn’t fit into the space. Everything else was perfect. Our landlady is a gem, and in fact SHE CALLED ME to look at the townhouse we now live in. The only thing is that I wish I had been a bit more specific about the yard and the washer and dryer, that there would be a fenced private yard for us and the dogs to use and washer and dryer hookups that I was able to install my own washer and dryer in.
Hopefully this example helps you see how specific you need to be when you prepare to manifest something big. The next part is to be really sure that what you are choosing to manifest is what you REALLY want. I have in the past manifested things I thought I wanted until I got them. Since then I always end my manifesting activities with, “or something even better,” which frees up the universe to give you the best possible outcome.
So, make your lists, spend time looking them over and adjusting them throughout the week, and then meet me back here next Sunday when we will start working towards achieving our goals through the Make it So Project Challenge.
