When the process of thinking begins, your mind wants something. It could be that sexy pair of new red shoes you saw in the store. It could be some hot new car. Your mind always wants something. Its intrinsic nature is to desire. So, it desires something.
The very next thing your wonderful, causative mind does is to begin to think about what it desires. If it’s those shoes, you begin to think about which outfits they’d look great with; whether you have the right stockings to wear with them; if your legs will get tired because the heels are so high, if your husband will notice them. Like that. And if it’s that hot car, you begin to picture the trips you’ll take in it; you can see your friends driving with you; you can feel the sun on your face on a trip; you picture yourself waxing it on the weekends; you can feel the looks of admiration when you pull up to the pump to get gasoline.
The second thing your mind does is begin to think about what it desires. This thinking is also called reasoning. You provide reasons why you can or should have what you desire. If you have a negative tendency going, you might provide reasons why you should not have what you desire. You might be thinking “My husband would be furious with me if I bought those shoes. I better not stir him up.” Or those of you who are car buffs might negatively think “I’ll be so strapped trying to pay for that sweet car. Better not.”
Picture the thinking/reasoning process like a tree.
You start out with your head (like the branches) up in the clouds. You see all the possibilities. They look good from up here.
As you continue in the thinking process, you move down the length of the tree providing all the good (or bad) reasons why you can (or cannot) have your desire.
Way down at the bottom of the thinking process is an event that plops you right into the lap of the third step of the process. Down near the roots of that thought process tree, you make a decision. You decide “Yes I can” or “No I can’t” have what I desired.
We have now arrived at the spot I promised you at the beginning of this article: feelings. That conscious decision you made at the roots of your thought-process tree is actually a feeling of conviction. You are absolutely convinced, due to the thought process you indulged, that you could or could not have your own desire. Your feeling of conviction is the period at the end of the sentence I mentioned before. You might feel joy-filled, exhilarated. Or you might feel sick, or disappointed.
More importantly than how you feel is the fact that you are the one who created the three-part process and filled in the blanks and arrived at that conclusive feeling! And if you don’t like what you concluded, you can go back and re-think it until you get a feeling of conviction that you do like!
Then something wonderful happens. Somehow, someway the thing you desired will appear in your life experience. When you begin to observe this process, the appearance looks like a mere coincidence. Eventually, you come to trust that it is you creating your own desires. Your mind is a Cause Machine.
These words are Truth. They are the Truth that sets you free. Let me summarize the above paragraphs so that you might see this graphically and thus, find it more useful for yourself to create whatever you want in your lives.
FIRST A desire comes up from inside yourself
SECOND You begin to think about the desire and eventually reach a conclusion about whether you can have it or not in your life experience
THIRD A feeling or absolute conviction will actually manifest the desire “physically in your life.
So what is a feeling? It’s the frosting on the cake. It’s the period at the end of the sentence. It’s the result of what you thought to a conclusive state, and it is the only way things can manifest in your life.
Here’s a secret. You control the feelings you experience by controlling what happens in the second position of your mental processing. If you won’t address your mind to thinking about all the necessary details, you cannot come to a conclusion about what you desire. This is why meditation is so highly praised. It’s during the quiet, reflective moments of meditation that you can do the thinking so necessary to manifest a feeling of conclusion, Be the Change, and thus, enjoy your heart’s desire.
