Creating the Life You Want

How have you been doing with your New Year's resolutions? About two months have passed and few are still committed to making the goals a reality. It's one thing to have a splendid idea about what you want to change change in your life and it's another thing to stick to the plan.

You probably made New Year's resolutions and put them away for safekeeping, and haven't looked at them since.

This is what usually happens when goals are set. People wait for something to happen from the outside. They wait for a person, a sign, or the universe to bring what they want.

Is this how it has been for you? Are you waiting for things to change and wishing the changes would happen sooner? You will never get the results you want when you leave it up to the Universe. This is playing the waiting game, like a princess waiting for her prince to show up. There just isn't any power in wishing and hoping and waiting for the right circumstances to show up in order to achieve your goals. To wait upon the universe, other people, or just to think it will take longer to get what you want is not an empowered way to live.

You are at the point in your evolution where you probably believe you have the Power to create your life just the way you want it to be. You believe God, the Creator, put the God essence in each person and that you create your own life circumstances based on your beliefs.

Although you believe life is a result of your beliefs, you are probably on autopilot and your beliefs run you and your life. You continue to give power to beliefs that came about long ago, most of them in childhood.

I've noticed when doing readings that when someone comes to me with a challenge, the challenge is generally nothing new. They've had a similar challenge repeatedly and for many years..

For example, I often talk to women who express difficulties in relationships with their husband or significant other. If they go back over previous romantic relationships with the opposite sex, they speak of similar circumstances. It could be that once again their partner is very controlling and they cannot get that person to stop controlling them. They feel powerless and unable to effect change in their relationships.

Clients most frequently express difficulty with health, finances, or their job. Over and over again the client has had the same type of problem. It surely isn't a coincidence that a woman repeatedly attracts married or other wise unavailable men. Nor is it a coincidence that an individual has a lifetime of financial struggle or problems with their boss.

To become aware of the limiting beliefs or core issues is a huge first step. If you want wonderful changes this year waiting and hoping won't do it. It is important to be aware of the old beliefs/core issues that cause us you remain where you are in life but no longer wish to be.

These beliefs lie deep within you. You are a powerful Being who can find out what is stopping you from achieving your goals and then change your life. The way to get your New Year's resolutions or any other goals to manifest quickly is to work on making the change happen right now. You. Not the Universe or other beings or circumstances.

Let's say a core issue or challenge that prevents you from having the relationship you desire is low self-esteem. If you start with a statement or affirmation of what you really want-- a wonderful, loving, happy relationship--and focus on that for a few moments, you will start to get thoughts that remind you of what is in the way. What is that boulder in the road to your success?

As you are sitting happily focusing on a great relationship,the opposite thoughts will come up, “proving” you cannot have it. You'll have thoughts such as “I need to lose weight to have a great relationship, or I'm too old, or too busy.” You might say you don't really want that relationship because you won't be able to do what you want to any longer or you're tired of doing all the giving or a man never help around the house---the list of reasons could be long.

The next step is to feel these opposing feelings deeply, taking them in to every part of the body and heart. Bring those feelings up to conscious awareness rather than repressing them. Feel the anger and frustration you have because you haven't been able to create what you want.

Ask yourself where you were in your life when you absorbed the limiting belief that still keeps you stuck. What was going on and how old were you? Remember you are not that same person today. You have grown spiritually and you are stronger, wiser and more powerful. You have more tools to create what you want now than you've ever had.

Now go back and envision what you desire. Feel passionately that you desire it, even though you aren't so sure of how to get it.

See yourself as having immense God Power to create whatever you desire and shine your own Light on the limited belief. It will often feel old, old, old and tired because it has been there so long.

Shining your Light on the old negative feelings means really bringing up your own Power, to get what you want. It means bringing up the awesome and unstoppable Power that lies within you like a sleeping giant.

This is an Inside Job. It is a recognition that you and only you can cause the change you desire. “If it is to be, it is up to me,” as the saying goes.

When you shine your powerful God Light on the limiting thoughts and beliefs they dissipate quickly because they are based on fear, not on Truth. Fears hide in darkness and cannot survive in the Light. When you examine your fearful belief using the Light from within, what was dark is exposed and dissipates.

It may be necessary to go through these steps more than one time. Each time the fear or limited belief is exposed to your Light, it will diminish.

A void will be created where that belief once resided. Where there is a void, it is important to fill it with what you want in its place. Something is going to fill the void and you don't want it filled with something similar to what you've experienced in the past. Fill the void with your goal and speak it with Power and authority.

Visualize your goal as having already manifested. Live as though you have what you want. Feel the joy, peace, comfort, love, abundance, perfect health, wisdom---whatever it is you would feel if you had achieved your goal. It is the feeling you will have when you achieve your goal that magnetizes what you want into your reality.

Feel the profound gratitude you would have with the new desire fulfilled. Gratitude is a huge step in the process of bringing what you desire to yourself.

Creating change in your life can happen right now if you choose it and work on it.

Once you know what you want to achieve, ask God to assist you in getting it. Call upon your guides, teachers, angels, and the masters. When you set the process in motion, all the Light Realms will assist. They respond when you ask, but they do not interfere with your free will and make things happen that you haven't decided upon.

If you aren't experiencing a manifestation of your desire, if your resolution for the new circumstance hasn't appeared, there is a limiting belief that remains in your thinking. Merely repeat the process described above and go even deeper to discover what else is stopping you from having what you want.

This is a formula for success. This new year will be like no other and it will be good. By adding your own Power to your goals and desires, you will have a year that is more magnificent than you can now imagine.

Blessings of love,
Shala