Escrow!
Just yesterday evening while spring cleaning, I came across a beautiful golden book of affirmations and intentions I had written down many years ago. What sur-prised me as I flipped through the pages was the number of intentions that manifested ex-actly the way I had written them. Reading through what I had written brought back many fond memories. Those desires came true even though I had forgotten about the notebook shortly after writing those inten-tions down over a period of several months in my life, never to pick it up again until a few years later. As Abraham-Hicks always teach, our desires are held in “escrow” for us
until we are ready to receive them. We be-come ready by aligning with the vibrational essence of what we are asking for. And so in the moment we ask for something, it is done!
This example beautifully illustrates that we only have to ask for our intentions and desires only once. As long as we do so and not contradict them through our own manifestation stuck points, limiting beliefs and counter-intentions, what we have asked for is held in escrow for us until we are ready for it. It is all lined up, waiting to be de-livered. I would not have realized this point so strongly had I not found this old notebook of mine. Some of the intentions and desires were long forgotten by me. I had forgotten about the specifics and details of those inten-tions, and yet they were delivered to me in perfect harmony and order! Truly, the Uni-verse does not forget and always remembers every little minute detail about what we have
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asked for. We only have to be open to the whole experience and trust. So don’t worry about keeping a book of your highest inten-tions and desires. If anything, those are for your reference only. The Universe needs no reminders.
After reading through the handwritten notebook of beautiful intentions, I did something which, a few short years ago, would have been absolutely unthinkable! I threw the book in the wastebasket, letting it go from my life. A few years ago, I would have held onto the notebook like it was a precious treasure… but I know today that the lesson is complete. I truly understand the life lessons and principles contained within this experience that has come full circle. I noticed that I peppered the front of the book with proclamations to the Universe, on how I hoped the Universe would deliver everything
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written in the book to me in “divine timing and order”.
But I need not have written those words. I realize today that those words were ultimately for my own understanding only.
They served only as a reminder to myself, and not as a message to the Universe. The Universe would have delivered whatever I wanted in perfect divine timing and order whether I made those statements or other-wise. How can it be done in any other way?
And hence, I made the decision to let the book go from my life, because I know today that the Universe always delivers whatever we want to us in the most harmonious way possible. There is no need to engage in any outer actions such as repeatedly writing our intentions down, reading them or keeping the book close at hand.
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There are many readers who ascribe the magic to a particular notebook of inten-tions, or to certain words and phrases writ-ten down. There is value in all of those prac-tices, but that is not where the “magic” truly is. The magic resides in our own inner state, and it is our non-resistive, light inner state that makes things magnetically happen on the outside. The power does not lie in a note-book of intentions which we write and keep around. It does not lie in the repeated read-ing of what we have written down. As men-tioned, all these repeated actions serve as re-minders for ourselves only… and for many, they can be a source of comfort and motiva-tion. However, if the repeated writing and reading of affirmations stirs up feelings of discomfort or discouragement for you… then you would certainly be better off without the practice! Tailor your daily practice such that it suits you, and makes you feel best. You can live the rest of your life without engaging in
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any of these outer-directed activities and still have everything you want come true for you in your life. These outer-directed actions are always optional but the inner work is mandatory.
When you first start living in this man-ner, by being fully present and immersed in all of life… and by eliminating any feelings of worry or fear from your life… you’ll start to see changes quickly. At first (and actually in-stantly), the results you observe will be a drastic change to the way you feel inside.
You’ll feel emotionally freer and lighter, as if that huge rock that has been weighing you down in the past is now gone. You would feel less self-conscious… and you would also be able to see the humor in a lot more situ-ations. That is the immediate benefit of put-ting the 95-5 code in practice.
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The second thing that will happen is that manifestations will occur that seem to be unrelated to the major things which you are asking for. These smaller manifestations will start popping up for you all over the place… and they’ll keep happening over and over again for you! For example, you may have a thought of “Wouldn’t it be nice to dine at this restaurant and have this experience”…
and the very next day, a friend invites you out for dinner at this exact same restaurant!
None of this has to be forced. It all happens naturally and spontaneously.
I hardly find myself in situations where I have to queue. Everything is just smooth-sailing and fast for me. I will go to a restaur-ant and there is a perfect spot ready for me, with the perfect food on the menu. I’ve also noticed that after I sit down and order my food that the restaurant fills up really fast!
These are the spontaneous “little things”, the
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little miracles that give you an indication that things are truly lining up. Another fun experience I’ve had was to feel like not going for an appointment, and then have the other person tell me he can’t make it, without me having to cancel the appointment. In other words, the Universe precedes your desires and delivers everything that is just right for you, whether in physical objects or physical experiences!
I am spending some time describing what it feels like here because some of you may be wondering when the “big” stuff is go-ing to come. After so many years, I’ve under-stood that when all the seemingly “small”
stuff starts lining up… that is when a whole lot of energy (and momentum) is moving all that “big” stuff into place as well. Remember that the size of our requests is only relative, and the Universe does not discern between any of those. So focus on your inner state
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and what you do during 95% of your time, and the Universe will take care of the rest. If you find it difficult to keep your mind away from your intentions and desires (or from worrying about them), then use the full im-mersion technique that I shared in the previ-ous chapter.
Immerse yourself completely in living your life, and become extremely aware of every single small detail and “now” moment as you are going through the experience. Do this for the next task, and then the next, and the next… and so on throughout the day. If you’ll remind yourself to be fully engaged for your normal waking activities, you will be turning away so completely from what you have asked for that the Universe is free to do its planning and magic. The full immersion technique focuses your attention on what you can do. It focuses your attention on the part of the equation which you can change,
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which is living life the best you can, and tak-ing care of whatever that comes up for you, as it comes up. Resist the urge to check real-ity for signs of your manifestation. It is hard for reality to change if you keep checking it.
Before using the full immersion tech-nique, I was constantly sitting around wait-ing for the Universe to “deliver” the thwait-ings I’ve asked for. I was constantly checking to see if things have changed on the outside, and if my stuff has arrived. Hence I would engage in those active manifestation tech-niques, sit around and wait… and then en-gage in those manifestation techniques some more! You would think that my constant
“asking for” things would cause them to come faster into my life… but I can tell you today that my life was at a complete stand-still! Nothing creative or productive was hap-pening! I can now see that an individual who lives this way is not living his highest good as
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intended, but is living a life completely devoid of any creation. He thinks he is creat-ing, when all he is doing is in fact creating the same reality over and over again.
Therefore, do not dismiss any aspect of your life as less important. Do your best and take care of what needs to be done at hand.
Most individuals who start doing spiritual manifestation work tend to see the rest of their activities (their daily activities) as com-paratively “useless”, and start focusing ex-clusively on the practice of whatever mani-festation techniques. They start spending in-ordinate amounts of time on the ‘5’ in the 95-5 code, thinking it is what makes all the difference! That cannot be further from the truth! Life is for your joyful moment-to-mo-ment living, not to apply one manifestation technique after another! Live the best you can, with whatever you have on hand… and soon the Universe will deliver some surprises
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to you in the most amazing way possible.
This quote by spiritual mystic Osho sums its up perfectly: “If you cannot be a creator, if you cannot love work, if you cannot love life, then the only possibility for you is just to be a beggar.”
Like everyone else, I have errands to run, work to do, some activities arguably more enjoyable than others. I have a life to live. But I do all of them fully immersed and engaged. Don’t make the mistake of only do-ing thdo-ings that you foresee can “lead” to a manifestation. Don’t discern between activit-ies that “make things happen”, and those that do not. Because at the end of the day, how would you know? The Universe works in mysterious ways and I’ve been led on the path by having things turn out completely different from what was expected. So always listen to your inner impulse and not base your actions on whether they would
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“achieve” something on the outside. Even the mundane tasks are enjoyable because they allow me to take my mind off things and be-come fully focused on whatever is at hand.
When I am so deeply immersed in the now moment, I am alive. Immersing yourself fully into the task at hand while you go about your daily activities turns out to be an extremely effective manifestation “technique”, as counter-intuitive as it seems! It stops your wandering mind from questioning when and how something is going to come to you. It is the best way to take care of the intervening buffer time. If you will spend this “buffer time” living life comfortably, you wouldn’t even mind the existence of it! It is only when you sit around and wait that it becomes ex-tremely glaring and sticks out like a sore thumb. Have you ever sat around waiting for a package to arrive in the mail? You know, the “why is it not here yet” feeling and it does drive us nuts! The simplest solution is just to
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go do something distractingly fun in the meantime!
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