Live Your Destiny Today!

Today’s idea: we are each the creators of our reality and the shapers of our individual destiny.

Play a game with me. Call to mind a current snapshot of your life. Call to mind your job (or business or whatever you do for income), your house, your bank accounts and investment accounts, your relationships, your vehicle, your family. Take a moment and glimpse your current reality. All of it.

There is one thing your world always provides: feedback.

The state of your world mirrors back to you the state of your consciousness.

You live in one big, gigantic house of mirrors. Imagine that.

If you’re like me, you’ve probably taken responsibility for creating the aspects of your house-of-mirrors you’re happy with. After all, we like to take credit and pat ourselves on the back for a job well done. We revel in the sincere praise from others when it’s offered.

For the parts of your house-of-mirrors you don’t like (we’ve all got some), have you taken responsibility for them, or have you tried to shuffle the blame onto someone else?

For instance, if you’ve heard yourself think or say: “she/he gets on my nerves”, “if they would just ________ then I could be/do ____________”, “why can’t they listen and do as they’re told”, “ooooooooh he makes me so upset when he ________”, “she plucks my last nerve”.

You quite possibly have your own variation of the above statements. The exact wording doesn’t matter. The point is: we abdicate our power when we think, believe or state that someone else can make us feel upset, angry, pissed, happy, sad, impatient, unloved or any other feeling. No one outside of you has the power to control how you feel.

I love what Steven Covey says about it: humans are responsible, able to choose a response.

You are responsible. When folks do things you don’t like (which they will), you have a choice as to how you will respond. You could choose to respond with love or you could choose to respond with fear and anger. You are a free agent, with complete free will to use however you’d like. I’ll state this again (for my own sake):

Back to reality creation. How are you wielding your immense power? You are an extraordinary reality creator; you’ve already proven that. You can make stuff appear out of thin air. You use your tools of reality creation with every thought, feeling, statement and action. What you believe comes into existence. You are always shaping reality, molding it to the pattern of your most dominant and recurring thoughts.

The good news is: if you’ve created situations and conditions you don’t like, you always get to choose again. Without judgment, guilt or shame, just choose again. Do it differently next time. Don’t wallow in the negative outcomes of yesterday’s poor choices. Move on. Create again. Go back into your laboratory of thought, feelings, words and actions and whip up a new and improved creation.

Change your beliefs by replacing the faulty ones with a new thought. A belief is simply a thought which has been held for a long time and has been charged with enough emotion to sufficiently lock itself into the cells of your body. The belief resonates, drawing to it all manner of experiences which resonate similarly. Most of your negative beliefs are held unconsciously, so you would never own up to them under normal circumstances.

However, you can tell what your negative beliefs are by looking at your house-of-mirrors. Here are a few common examples:

• Not enough money? There’s a belief in scarcity, lack, limitation, greed and/or poverty that’s lurking in your consciousness.
• Unhappy relationships with high drama (and not the good kind)? You harbor beliefs in your consciousness which are related to conflict, power struggles, dis-harmony, fighting, fear, etc.
• Hate your job? There’s a belief in hardship that’s present in your consciousness, or a belief that you can’t get what you want, or that life is a struggle.

None of these beliefs are true and all of them can be changed.

To turn the tide of negative beliefs (and their negative outcomes in daily living) think a new thought and charge it with happy emotion. Charge your new thoughts with gratitude, joy, prosperity and the knowing that everything in the universe supports you in all ways, always.

A tool that will help you to do this is to spend several minutes each day, with your eyes closed, allowing yourself to daydream about what you love. Most kids are happy partly because they daydream. Daydreaming puts you in a space of seeing mentally what you love and calls up a lofty, dreamy feeling. Some people think it’s a waste of time to daydream. I don’t. I engage in daydreaming every day. I see what I desire to create, then I walk through the daydream having fun, enjoying every aspect of it and soaking it all in. My body’s responses even change when I’m in the daydream state. The consistent daydream, merged with happy feelings, converts itself into the belief that I can experience whatever I imagine. Soon after, the emotionally charged mental pictures and scenes begin to take shape in my world.

This is the essence of reality creation.

Go on and try it–you now have permission to daydream.

Changing your beliefs changes your reality. You’re making this whole thing up anyway, you might as well make it good.

Many blessings,
Valerie Love
P.S. — Good news: my day yesterday was as joyful as I had imagined. I traveled to NYC and all proceeded well. Today, I travel back to Maryland, and have set the same intention this morning as I did yesterday: to be infused with the highest level of joy possible. And this is so!