When asked if there is anything worse than not being able to see, Helen Keller said, “To be able to see and have no vision.”
Your ideal is the end result. It is not the route there. Do not confuse the two. Grasping this is yet another piece of the knowledge required to get you from here to there. We often make the mistake of focusing on the route. “How to” limits our choices to the confines of our current beliefs and keeps us always en route, never there. Ideals are created through deliberate concentrated effort on the end result. Ideals draw upon the imagination of spontaneous active thought which brew the seeds of new beliefs. Idealizing forces you to be imaginative, to step outside of your beliefs, and to think for a moment about what appeals to you.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~Lao Tzu (600 BC)
You are not to think of impossibilities, limits, practicalities or probabilities. Be unrealistic! Be impossible, improbable and illogical! You are to define only the ideal you! You without limits. You without reservations. Once you have done that, hold the vision. The path will unfold. There are only a couple of rules to follow. First, you cannot express what you do not want. You must define what you do want. Second, you must be crystal clear in defining your ideals. Ambiguity returns more ambiguity. If you are not willing to ask of yourself exactly what you want, why should you be provided with it? If you do not know what you want, then how do you expect to receive it? The Universal Mind rewards the specific concentrated thoughts of the faithful not the wishful thinking of the non-believers.
The hardest task will be defining you. You will be tempted to say: I want this negative situation removed. I want to live debt free. I want to be in better health. I want to lose weight. I want problems to go away. I want my car fixed, a better job, more money, joy, happiness, and abundance. Understand within each of these is the sprout of your current situation. When you try to interpret your ideal through the perspective of your current viewing angle it is always with a restricted vision of you. You are not bound by the limits that you currently perceive. The only way to forge a path through your beliefs is to focus on what you want, not what exists now or what you do not want.
In creating your ideals, be certain you know the reason for the ideal. Reason’s give your feelings a target. For example, what purpose does your dream house fill? What need in you are you intending to fulfill? Do you want a six bedroom house so you can clean more or entertain more? How does entertaining guests make you feel? Get in touch with the feelings associated with the reasons. Feelings guide your thoughts.
You are here. You want to be there. However, being there does not seem possible to you or you would be there. Your current beliefs make your ideal seem unbelievable forcing you to abandon your ideals in disbelief. Any attempts at using the words I want, admits your focus is on what you lack. Forget about your current situation. Forget about what you do not have but want. Define you much like an artist paints a canvas, according to a vision not through the perspective of what you do not have. Never say I want say I am. I am validates you. I want validates the continued desire for something you do not have.
Instead of looking at your future through the eyes of today, examine your future as though it is today! You have to believe and live as though you have arrived. If you are living your ideal right now, what are you doing? Where are you? Who do you know? How are you spending your day? What feelings are you experiencing? What brings those feelings about? What does your house look like? Is your car red? Are you married or single? What is your vision of the ideal mate? How are you using your creativity? Are you writing? Sky diving? Snorkeling in the Bahamas? Focusing on a vision of you puts the attention on the vision. The lack, then, is not noticed. That is how you mold the perception of you into your vision of you.
Once again it is easy to say, “How can I act abundant when I lack so much? I am not wealthy. My car is not a Rolls Royce. It is a rusted out winter beater. How can I act abundant when I feel financial constraints?” Physical labor is easy compared to mental application. That is why so many of us end up laboring physically; because mental work takes much greater effort. Your attention should be focused on feeling grateful for what you have. You should appreciate and find reasons to feel good about your car, your job or your life. If you are not grateful for what you have, how will more help you? Your car is a Rolls Royce to somehow who has no vehicle at all. What is your viewing angle? How do you see what you have? You see what you believe and you believe what you see. Look for your abundance. Practice gratitude. Recall in the beginning I said harmonious thinking is the payment for a harmonious life style.
It does not take money or possessions to change one’s life; it takes flamboyance to act out your ideal vision of you. If you feel mentally blocked, it is because you are creating the path instead of the ideal. You are allowing impossibilities to exist within your thinking. It is only difficult to imagine when you stymie your imagination. We feel stuck when you try to solve the problem. The solution is realized by focusing on the ideal state not present problems.
At first, all you might notice is that the current situation still exists. Your current experience will hold steadfast and true until its power source is zapped. It is solidified in your predominant thoughts and beliefs. It has been built up and now needs to be torn down. It will erode though through the down pour of your consistent thought concentrated on the ideal. In the words of Winston Churchill, “Never, never, never, never give up.”
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