"There is a vitality, a life force,
a quickening that translates through you as action,
and because there is only one of you in all time,
this expression is unique.
If you block it,
it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost.
The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is,
nor how valuable,
nor how it compares with other expressions.
It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly...
to keep the channel open."

Martha Graham, to Agnes de Mille

Thought, Languaging and Manifestation

THE HUMAN SPECIES BECAME SOCIALIZED as early man began developing communication. Through the symbols of language, communication provides the means for consensual exploration into a perceived reality. Language develops from perception into words with specific meanings and "charges," that are then constructed into thoughts. Translating perception into language can be unreliable and misleading, depending on one's facility with language. Herein often originates the errors that lead to misunderstanding, conflict and many an unfortunate outcome.

Word meanings express a positive, neutral or negative charge or frequency, as discussed in "Say Cheese for the Cosmic Camera". Thus, all thought carries a charge. Positive thought emanates a positive charge that manifests positive results. Negative thought emanates a negative charge that manifests negative results. Neutral, indifferent, vague, confusing or scattered thought emanates and returns in kind - little or nothing, confusion or indifference. It's wonderful that it's that simple, because with this knowledge alone you can far more easily be the person you know you are, and manifest the quality of life you so dearly want.

Your thoughts reflect perceptions gained from your life experience. Your mental, emotional, spiritual and physical states, your relationships, successes and failures all mirror the quality of your thoughts. All great teachers and masters have known this. They became masters because they command their thoughts which likewise affect their frequency and hence, the quality of their relationship with themselves and their world.

Manifestation is the process of transforming your desire into a specific intention or goal, which is transformed into a perceivable reality. It's that simple. First, be clear about your intention. Visualize and affirm it in accurate terms. Determine and follow an effective strategy, ever feeling it as real, and already happening. Most importantly, you must hold your intention and frequency through supportive, positive thoughts to manifest the results you intend. This takes time, so you must stay with it. Positive, focused, and energetically empowered thought promises great reward.

Many people understand and utilize all steps, but do not yet understand that intention must be empowered by vibration. The frequency of the vibration must be the energetic equivalent of the desired outcome. This translates to managing your feelings, emotions, and quite literally, your nervous system. Great masters do this. And you can too!

Manifestation requires no effort really... only that you believe in yourself and desire so you can trust, that you follow your strategy, manage your energy and persevere, and that you allow ample time for your intention to develop. Sometimes things don't develop in the timing you expect. If this happens, and you lose your focus, apprehension and fear can lower your frequency, which weakens your energetic field and your brain's creative capability, and hence, your efforts can fail. Or, failure results if you quit before generating enough energy and action to achieve your desired results. Either way, in essence, you abandoned your own desire so it could not develop into your desired outcome. Does this make sense?

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

Thomas Edison

The fact is, most people consider something briefly, then let doubt, worry and fear lead them astray. Then to escape negative feelings, they turn their attention to something else, which may be equally negative, like worrying, blaming and resenting. Or "beat themselves up" by thinking they are not good enough, or are undeserving. Or fret that their worries will never end. So of course they don't. Does this describe you, if even slightly?

When you worry, you shift your attention from what you want to what you don't want. Since thought is power, negative thinking empowers what you don't want, and what is untrue, rather than what you do want and what is true. By energizing negative thought, you sow the seeds of your future. Repeated thought produces fruit, tasty or otherwise.

Key to successful manifestation is reconditioning yourself to think only in positive terms. You do this by replacing all negative thinking and thoughts about what you don't want and don't value, with thoughts about what you do want and value. Especially important is to remove critical thinking about what is wrong or not good enough, and who is to blame. These actually act as assaults... on yourself and on the life around you. A Course In Miracles calls them "attack thoughts." They influence your life in direct proportion to their content and power. And they impact others. As you generate negative thoughts, you distress and destabilize yourself, and generate energy that manifests discomfort and pain. Negative energy is very powerful... the more charged it is with fear or anger, the more powerful it is. Likewise with positive energy. Which makes sense? Duh...

I once saw an interview with Anthony Hopkins about Hannibal Lector, in which Hopkins said that Hannibal is "trapped alone in the monstrosity of his mind..." In other words, he imprisoned himself in the solitary confinement of his disappointed basic needs, and hence, the wretched anger of an angry mind. Gratefully, few people are as disturbed as he.

Some people choose from the negative, rather than the positive. They choose something because they resist or reject something else. For example, years ago, I would ask people at the beginning of each of my business courses why they were self-employed. Many said it was because they didn't want to work for someone else, rather than because they wanted to work for themselves. Intrinsically, these reasons have extremely different degrees of power. You have much more power when you do something you are totally behind, rather than because you don't want something else. How would you like someone to marry you because they don't want to marry someone else? Yike! Or you now are with someone you don't especially like simply because you long ago made a promise. What energetic power is brought to the relationship? And when confusion and conflict arises, what quality of energy is naturally available to address it?

Whenever your progress is hampered, or your life feels confining, examine your motivation and thinking to see what you are focusing on. Feel your energy, and determine if it is primarily negative, positive or neutral. These are the source of creation, the outer always mirroring the inner. Eliminate what you don't want by no longer giving it energy. Focus only on what you do want, and reformulate all negative thinking into positive. You can even transmute negative energy into positive, as discussed in "Say Cheese for the Cosmic Camera". Your life will flow smoothly and you give strong support to raising your consciousness to the level that supports your dreams, desires and intention. Support yourself to focus on only what is true, empower it with trust and joy, and your creative power will magnify.

When you commit to change, or to manifest something altogether new, negative habits may interfere. If so, you can do a Reflective Questioning process (See How to Do Reflective Questioning) or use Transforming Limiting Coping Strategies to remove all limitation.

The bottom line is: Believe in yourself. Be clear about what you want. Think successful thoughts. Feel your intention as realistic. Maintain the frequency - energetic equivalent - of your intention, and it becomes a promise fulfilled. Follow your strategy to its last step, and the new will emerge. This is how to create the Heaven on Earth that is your birthright.

i thank You God for most this amazing day:

for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;

and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.

e.e. cummings

1) How have your ideas, perceptions, or feelings about thought, languaging and manifestation changed since you read this activity? What will you do as a result?

2) Recall and describe the fears, resistances, or limiting perceptions that you experienced while completing this activity. List them in priority order and explain what you are ready to do about them.

3) Reflect on the activity’s important points and describe how you feel empowered.

© Marianne Weidlein, 2004

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marianne Weidlein is an author and transformational facilitator who combines a 35-year background in human potential development, spirituality and self-employment to help groups and individuals achieve success.With expertise in self-mastery, relationships, peak performance and self-employment, for the past two decades, she has facilitated innumerable programs of varying sizes and formats to thousands of individuals, partnerships and groups, using her unique techniques and curriculum.

Marianne holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. Her books are Empowering Vision For Dreamers, Visionaries & Other Entrepreneurs; Warm Liquid Life and theand the soon to be published book The Passage to Freedom from which this article is taken. More information about Marianne’s work can be found at her website http://www.empoweringvision.com.