An interesting thing happened over the past couple of days and I wanted to share my observations about it. My apologies ahead of time if this post is a bunch of ramblings about personal self thoughts but I thought I should share this and perhaps in doing so I might learn something more about it and so might you.
If you've been reading along the last several months I have talked a lot about getting rid of your buts and your P.S's. I've also talked a lot about the power of truly believing that your dreams/desires/aspirations can come true.
I swear I practice all there is to know about the laws of attraction and manifesting abundance and just when I think I have a really good handle on it something pops up to show me that I'm still lacking in certain areas.
So, here's what happened this week: I was scouring the job boards looking for a job or new client in the event that one of my newest job prospects did not pan out as I had hoped. I stumbled across a job posting for an e-Commerce Director and as I read the job description for the ideal candidate I began getting giddy with excitement. This job description nailed me to a "T". It might as well have said, "... and your name must be Darcy Hoag". And, the coolest thing was that the salary it listed said it paid between $90,000-$110,000 a year. Wow! I could certainly live with that!!!
I quickly blasted off my resume and within a few hours I got a response back from the recruiter who wanted to set up an interview with me the very next day. My initial interveiw with her was nothing short of fantastic. She told me that she would be setting up an interview with the HR person of the company for the following day.
An interesting thing happened in those 24 hours in between interveiws. I was glad to see that the but's and P.S's that would have used to come up didn't ...such as (just to give you an example of the old me):
There's no way you'd be hired making that kind of money.
For that kind of money surely you're totally underqualified.
What if you got hired and then couldn't handle the job?
They'll never hire you if they see that you're overweight.
Yadda. Yadda. Yadda.
... well I had a couple of but and P.S's but not the usual sixty zillion that run twenty layers deep... but the best thing that happened was that this job was actually within the realm of possiblity for me. I mean.. lil' ol' me could actually be bankrollin' $100,000 a year. Wow! My brain went into absolute manic visualization mode of what I would/could do with that kind of income.
I sat on the back porch that night for close to 3 hours just visualizing away. I pictured all the things that I would buy for my house, paying my vehicle off and buying a new one paid in cash, I pictured my husband being able to stay at home and pursue his dreams, I pictured how I would carry $100 bucks on me instead of a wad of damp crumpled up dollar bills in my back pocket... and most of all I pictured me and my family being able to take a huge deep breath and just exhaling in relaxing comfort knowing that the struggle was finally over. I imagined and truly felt how incredible the feeling of having such a heavy burden lifted felt. Aaaaaaaaaaaahh... it felt soooooooo great!! I felt the sweet and beautiful freedom of finally being released from years of tight restraints. I felt light and overwhelmed with a feeling of relaxed content and self-pride knowing that... I made it.
The feelings I experienced were so real and so intense... as if I had really and truly already achieved my dream of having a significant income.
Then, I noticed something...
If you're like me then you have probaby read/heard over and over that when you visualize your desires that you must believe/act such that you have already achieved it. As a matter of fact, Edwene Gaines in her book, The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity states it this way:
"Act as if you have already achieved your goals. Belive that you receive. Acting with confidence and faith in yourself and your potential sends a powerful message to the universe. Accept your success right now. Don't wait until you have actually achieved results. Act as if. ...radiating confidence in your ability to achieve them [dreams] will catapult you forward in your journey."
I've heard this over and over again of how important it is to do this but I realized that I don't do this step. Why??? Because until recently I never really honestly believed that I could obtain my biggest and wildest dreams. Sure I could visualize what it would be like to obtain them and entertain fun thoughts about them but they were always accompanied by those sixty zillion but's and P.S's twenty layers deep.
So what made this particular experience of mine so different for me? One is is that I've been really working on removing the but's and P.S's... and having all those but's and P.S's out of the way makes that line between me and my dreams sooooooooooo much shorter.... thus making my dream that much closer... so close that I could actually taste it... so close that it felt for REAL... so close that I could actually feel what it felt like to have already achieved it.
So... what this little lesson reveals for me is the power of truly believing that you can have any dream you desire but on top of that the power of truly acting as if...as if you've already achieved it can have on your vibrational field.
And the secret to be able to do that is removing all (or as many as possible) the but's and P.S's that cause all that interference between you and your desires... so that the distance between you and your desires is short, free and clear. Here's my graphic again illustrating this point just in case you forgot or haven't seen it before:
So..... can you see how if you removed the but's and P.S's how much shorter the line is between you and your desires? See how it makes it so much easier to really FEEL the reality of it having been achieved when it is so much closer to you than sooooo far away.
It's kind of like this analogy:
Imagine if you held your hand 6 feet above the flame of a candle... Even though you can't feel it you believe it's there because you can see it. But, if you were blindfolded and someone told you that you had your hand over a flame you might not believe them because not only could you not see the flame you could also not feel it. But, the closer you get your hand to that flame you begin to feel it ... it's hot, it's hotter, it's burning, it's burning on fire!! There's certainly no denying the fact that you can truly feel it and believe that there is in fact a flame!
Bear with me on this one... I know it's not making sense yet...
What I'm trying to illustrate is that sometimes our dreams seem so far away that as a result we can't actually feel them... sometimes there's so much interference in the way that we can't even hardly see them... which makes believing that they've already happened, much less really possible, absolutely impossible.
This was such a valuable lesson for me. I truly truly see what the power of believing that you have already achieved can have on manifestation. I see even more so the significance of removing the but's and P.S's to give you the ability to be able to feel it and see it to the point of believability.
Bring your dreams close to you so you can feel them.
So.. by this point you may be wondering... did I get the job?
Nope. But look at the invaluable lesson that I learned as a result... and boy what fun my brain had imagining all that great stuff I'd do with my $100,000!!!
