There’s a number of deliberate creation exercises which anyone can use to become more purposeful about what you consistently hold in your mind. The “fluffy” answer to deliberate creation suggests thinking positively instead of negatively. While this may be true, this doesn’t tell you how to do this, and we will often default back to our habitual ways of thinking and doing things, once our exercise period is over.
To deliberately manifest the life of your dreams takes some work. Don’t expect massive results from small actions. The key to deliberate manifestation is to do small things regularly. Over time they become your habits. With your habits you can create more and more and as you do so, you’ll realise the real power you have over your circumstances.
Deliberate Creation Exercises – Getting Clear
If you sit and “deliberately create” in one instance, while simultaneously running old programs of worry and fear the next, it’s like driving with your brakes on. The key to deliberate manifestation is to become more conscious about the things you do on a daily basis. Over time, you’ll discover the many ways in which you’re manifesting things you don’t want. Once you realise this, you’ll adjust and change your habits and align more and more with what you really want.
Meditation
Getting clear is the first step towards deliberate creation. If your mind like is a stormy sea, it will be difficult to put an intention into the waters to bring forth a result. Without clarity, you can’t see beneath the surface of the waters. Sitting quietly and learning to be the silent watcher of your thoughts is a powerful exercise which can serve you for years to come. Meditation doesn’t need to been some far out esoteric practice which is out of reach. Anyone can just sit quietly and become the silent observer.
Sit somewhere comfortably where you won’t be disturbed. Notice your breathing and just watch it go in and out. Notice your thoughts but don’t enter into them or engage with them. If you get caught up in your thinking, just bring your awareness back to your in and out breath.
Deliberate Creation Exercises – Stalking
Here’s another exercise which is great for observing what is already going on inside you. Before you start putting ideas and intentions into your mind, it’s a good idea to notice what is already there! Stalking is a strategy discussed in Carlos Castaneda’s books about his training in shamanism. In his book “The Teachings Of Don Carlos” Victor Sanchez explains how to stalk yourself and notice where your energies are going.
Stalking
You’ll need a timer and a notepad for this exercise. Your timer should be set to go off at intervals throughout the day. Ideally a repeat timer is what you want. The intervals shouldn’t be predictable though. So an hourly timer won’t do. Set a repeat timer for 1.5 to 2.5 hourly intervals throughout the day. When the timer goes off write down three things:
- What you were thinking
- What you were doing
- Do you want this?
Stalking is a fantastic exercise which shows you whether your thoughts and actions are lined up and where you mind is going throughout the day.
Visualisation
Now you’ve done the work on clearing and realising what’s already going on inside your mind, you can start introducing ideas and visions that you’d like to create. Creating from a busy active mind which has many conflicting influences is much more difficult than creating from a space of peace and calm.
Visualisation is a great exercise which should be enjoyable and relaxing. If you find yourself not enjoying a visualisation, stop doing it! You shouldn’t have to force your visualisations, it should be an enjoyable process.
Get somewhere quiet where you won’t be disturbed and relax your mind with some breathing exercises of meditation. Imagine you a living your new life just how you want it. Use colours, sounds and feelings to vividly imagine how your perfect life is, who will be with you and what you will be doing.
The more emotion you can bring into your fantasy, the better. Visualisation is like day dreaming a pleasant fantasy. Spend as long as is enjoyable creating a visual interpretation of what you want to create in your minds eye.
This can be about any aspect of your life: money flowing into your life, a new relationship, a new career or anything you desire to manifest into your life.
Deliberate Creation Exercise – The Storm Of Appreciation/Gratitude Journal
The storm of appreciation is a great exercise for deliberate creation. Take a notebook and write down something which you’re grateful for. This can be anything you currently appreciate in your life. Go into detail about why you’re grateful for this thing or situation. As you do this exercise daily, you should find new things you’re grateful for.
As you write, your awareness expands and you find new things you love about your life. This is a powerful exercise which trains your mind to focus on gratitude and thankfulness for what you already have. Most people are focused on the things which they don’t have and as they give more attention to what they don’t have, it grows in their awareness.
You can read more exercises like this in Esther and Jerry Hick’s Ask and It Is Given.
See also the science of deliberate creation.
Deliberate Creation Exercises – Unblocking Yourself
Another useful tool for deliberate creation is the Ho’oponopono technique. See what is ho’oponopono process.
Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian forgiveness practice where the practitioner uses four phrases to return themselves to the “zero state” of pure creativity. Most of us are running old programs which don’t serve us. We re-live old personal history in the form of memories and difficulties which become our present day stories. Ho’oponopono is a strategy for clearing our old baggage and becoming free to live from creativity without this heavy baggage from the past.
Ho’oponopono and Money
You can use ho’oponopono in a number of areas of your life. Whatever area you want to improve, look at your early experiences which relate to these subjects. For example if you want to create more money, look at your early experiences which relate to money.
Think back to experiences which may have had an impact on your current story. As you do, use ho’oponopono to clear and negativity around those stories.
Deliberate Creation Exercises – Clearing Your Personal Space From Clutter
To create you need a clear canvas. If our personal space is cluttered, our minds become cluttered too. Have a look around you right now. How much clutter is in your personal space? How about your home and your car? Does this reflect how you currently feel about your life.
Our inner world is reflecting our outer world, without exception. So to clear out our current experience, we need to change the way we cling to the old. Unless we let go of the old, there is never any space for the new. Start by clearing your personal work space, car and home. Get rid of things you don’t use anymore. Make space for the new which you want to bring into your life.
Strong Emotional Attachment – Clearing
Your strong emotional attachments have a powerful influence in your life. Most of us are attached to emotive subjects in some way or another. Unless we can release these, they can stop us from living a more enjoyable and fruitful life. Money is typically an emotive subject for many people. Unless we can allow money to flow, we can cut ourselves off from it. This can often be due to an old story around money, or emotional attachment to some powerful emotive relationship to money in our life.
To start a new relationship with money, you need to uncover the old stories and emotions which you are attached to. Start by noticing what comes up regarding money and go back through the Ho’oponopono exercises with these old stories. See also money and the law of attraction.
