Over the years, I have made it a point to constantly tune in and check how I am feeling on the “inside”. As mentioned, this can be difficult to do without any prior spir-itual training since by default, our attention is always placed on something outside of ourselves. Notice how at this very moment, you are focused on the words on this page.
That is something outside of yourself. You may be slightly lulled by the pleasant singing of birds, or the sound of traffic in the back-ground. That again, is our focus on things outside of us. With so many things happen-ing on the outside, we rarely check in to no-tice how we feel on the inside. It turns out that how you feel on the inside, your inner state, makes all the difference to your
manifestation results… but we are all so numb and dull to that feeling! We perceive it as natural and “always there”.
As I check inside of myself right now, I feel a deep inner sense of peace and calm. I feel a sense of assuredness and security. This is the inner state I have come to know as be-ing conducive to manifestations. I also feel a bit of the Magic Feeling in the background (a feeling which I describe in my book of the same name)… and I recognize the feeling as underlying everything, always there. But most people do not feel this way. When they take the time to turn inwards and check how they feel on the inside… first, they will en-counter a sense of active resistance. Their ego will convince them to stop doing it, that it’s silly or weird, and that there is nothing there. But no matter how “weird” or “unnat-ural” it seems, you must push pass these feel-ings and be persistent with this exercise. We
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have been so conditioned to live by what goes on on the outside, and what is happen-ing outside of us that we cannot bear to turn inwards for even a moment! But turning in-wards is the key to being an effective and de-liberate manifestor. Only by always turning inwards can you start cultivating a conducive inner state.
So for the next few moments, I would like you to sit quietly by yourself and turn your conscious awareness inwards. Sure, you will still be aware of the chair you’re sitting on, or the words on this page… but turn your awareness inwards and notice what’s hap-pening on the inside. Notice how you are feeling on the inside. Take a reading of how you feel and just notice what is there. Is there a sense of deep inner calm and peace?
Is there a sense of inner lightness? Or is there a tinge of worry and fear? For most people, there will be a slight tinge of worry or
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fear… one of dis-ease or dis-comfort. But un-derstand that these feelings arise from the negatively conditioned mind, which has been trained to spontaneously bring up these feel-ings over long periods of time. This is not our true nature.
I was lying in bed one night and my thoughts drifted to the time I was a little boy.
I had been born premature and grew up as an extremely shy and timid boy, always afraid of everything. That night, as I lay in my bed and drifted off to sleep, I somehow thought back to the time when I was little Richard. I then began to realize (somewhat surprisingly) as I stepped into my body back then… that I was constantly filled with an overwhelming and profound sense of fear!
Suddenly, all those feelings came rushing back to me and they seemed all too real. I know those were the exact feelings I felt back then when I was a child, and continued to
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carry with me throughout my teenage years.
That feeling of being fearful, worried and scared… of being self-conscious… was actu-ally what I carried around with me all those years with such intensity!
That was a huge revelation for me… In that moment, I received all the answers I needed. I knew why certain things in my life turned out the way they were, and why I lived a certain way as I was growing up. It was a liberating realization that confirmed everything I teach today. While I know today that our inner state influences our outer res-ults and teach this truth passionately, going back to that time as a young boy allowed me to understand why certain things happened the way they did. I had always thought I was the victim of circumstances growing up, that people were somehow unkind or mean to me. I always thought I was the “unlucky”
one, perhaps not vocalizing those words but
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subconsciously feeling them at a very deep level. But being transported back into how I was as a child that night and going back into my previous inner state confirms everything I now know today. How could things have been otherwise when I was always so worried and fearful? How could things have been otherwise when I was always so afraid of everything? I remember the fear as being intense.
The good news is that as adults today, we have the power to change our inner states at will. No longer are we at the mercy of au-thority figures in our lives, who while having our best interests at heart, may themselves not fully comprehend these wonderful Universal laws. Therefore we as adults today have the freedom to choose. In every mo-ment, we can choose how we want to feel…
and hence what we want to create. So check in right now and make a mental note of how
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you feel. I am not asking that you try and change the way you feel, but merely to recog-nize and notice how you feel. Just noticing it is enough. Do you feel 100% light, peaceful and calm? If so, your manifestations will be coming very quickly. Do you feel 80% light, peaceful and calm… with a 20% feeling of worry or uneasiness? If so, do not despair because the moment you drop and reduce that 20% down to zero… things will happen to you in such easy, effortless ways that you will be amazed. Make it your goal to get whatever negative feelings down to zero.
That’s the most important.
I like to devote the next half of this chapter to walking you through the immer-sion technique, which I’ve found to be very useful for letting go of negative worries and living fully in the now. It does not matter what activity you choose for this immersion technique, but it should not be one of the
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active manifestation techniques that you do during the 5% of your time. In other words, it should not be any actions which you do to
“ask” for your manifestations. The immer-sion technique can be used on anything else
— for work, play, or even mundane activities like tidying your closet. Sometimes, I prefer to work on seemingly “mundane” activities just to clear my mind a little and create an opening for the Universe to work its magic.
The way to do the immersion tech-nique is to immerse yourself fully, whole-heartedly, in whatever activity you have at hand. For example, let’s suppose that you have just done the ‘5’ activities in the 95-5 code, and now you’re switching modes and going back to your daily life. You are now liv-ing the 95 part of the 95-5 code. What you should do when living this ‘95’ is to pick whatever activity that you have to do, and then immerse yourself fully in it. Let’s
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suppose that the activity I have to do next is to draft an email to an associate at work. In-stead of just mindlessly typing the email like you would do before, going through the mo-tions of it, be extra aware and conscious of each step as you do it. This is not entirely the same as concentration or being in deep fo-cus. Rather, do it with a sense of purpose.
Let the act of drafting that email and typing it out fill your entire consciousness such that what you have just asked for while you were visualizing is completely out of your mind.
Immerse yourself so wholeheartedly in whatever activity you are doing at hand that you completely forget what you asked for!
The same goes for other activities you may choose to engage in. Suppose that you choose to go shopping for groceries after you engaged in active manifestation. Instead of doing what you’ve always done in the past, which is to shop for groceries mindlessly,
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going through the motions, while letting your thoughts float to your usual worries or desires… make it a point to immerse yourself completely in the shopping for groceries.
Notice the labels, the freshness of the pro-duce, the texture, the sights, the sounds and the colors. Notice things that you haven’t no-ticed before. Develop a genuine interest in everything that goes on around you. Observe people and their emotions. Feel happy for them. When you engage yourself with full awareness, when you are one hundred per-cent present in any moment… you are living to your fullest potential. You are engaged to the maximum.
If you need to be in conversation with someone, then become super aware and present when you’re having the conversa-tion. Don’t pretend to listen and let your mind be somewhere else. No matter how trivial or mundane the conversation may be,
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be fully present and notice everything the other person is saying. Notice the words coming out of your mouth and how you for-mulate the responses in your mind. Notice how much you are enjoying the interaction and the conversation. This is the art of full immersion, and the art of being completely in the present moment.
Why is it important to live in this man-ner? You may think that all this is just a spir-itual exercise, something which has been ex-pounded and espoused by so many new-age writers on “being here now”, or being “fully aware and present”. But it is not just a new-age fad or concept. This practice brings about tangible benefits to your life. First, you’ll notice yourself enjoying life more.
You’ll be fully living and savoring each mo-ment as it goes by… instead of savoring only half of the moment… and spending the other half in some imagined world of your
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problems. You’ll realize what it means to be truly alive!
I’ve always found it interesting that in-dividuals especially in modern times have taken to more and more extreme activities that push the boundaries of excitement or thrill. They have been increasingly willing to go for adrenaline-rushing activities, all in the name of seeking that new “high”. But do you know why they are even seeking that high in the first place? Many of them are looking for sensory stimulation beyond what daily activ-ities can provide. They want something that can deliver them to a higher place of exhilar-ation and good feeling, hence all the almost dangerous, daredevil and sometimes even il-legal activities. Doing so is like trying to in-crease the flow of water when your pipes are clogged by connecting it to larger and larger pumps, when a simpler solution is just to
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unclog the pipes or increase the size of the pipelines.
An individual who is fully engaged in very moment and who is always present feels the full exhilaration and joy of life. That sense of joy and enthusiasm is so intense and overwhelming that it permeates every single cell of your body. It’s like the best feeling in the world, and you can be immersed in it round the clock if you want to. It is the Magic Feeling that produces instant manifesta-tions! It’s the highest high one can possibly get, and there is no limit to how good you can feel. Once you realize this truth and ex-perience this state that can be obtained from turning inwards, you’ll not see the need to engage in any of those outer activities just to get that temporary high, or to make something “happen” on the outside.
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Perhaps the most counter-intuitive realization about living in this manner is that once you fully immerse yourself into each present moment (not caring for either the fu-ture or the past), you don’t even care about whether your desires become manifest or not. You’re too busy living in the now mo-ment and feeling the good feelings of it to care about the past or worry about the fu-ture! You start to find joy in everything that you do, no matter how mundane it seems.
And because of your newfound attitude of hootlessness and divine indifference, things will then start happening for you. When you truly give up caring whether you’ll get everything you’ve asked for and just focus on feeling good in each moment… what you ask for has to come.
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