This is first of two posts on the topic on making wishes, following desire, and manifesting our lives. The second post will be up tommorrow. Hope you enjoy.
Make a wish! That phrase has been one of my mantras my whole life. The idea that a mere man (or woman) need only state their desire to whatever being: Djinnis, Faery Folk, Stars, or even God and then see that very thing we wanted more than anything else in life come forth in our lives in such a way as to transform us completely from the person that we were (whether that person was happy and filled with Loving-Kindness or miserable and desperate for a miracle) into someone fulfilled and ready to be present in their lives; has been a big part of my life.
Every child has wished on birthday candles and the first star they see in the night sky, and some go even further and wish on eyelashes and four-leaf clovers (if they can find one). Whether it was for survival in a troublesome home, a need to create peace, prosperity, and joy in the family, or even to fulfill an impossible childhood dream, every child has done so. It is the mindset of the young to believe that their desires can be fulfilled merely by asking for them. Their hearts and minds have not yet been tainted by the troubles of stress and adulthood.
Well allow me to let you in on a little secret. We all should believe in the power of our wishes and desires. Just because we have to work for a living, deal with difficult people, and experience stress in our lives does not mean we should give up on what we want.
On a popular humour website called: The Onion, an article was written making fun of the idea of a man expecting to be happy in life, since (of course) life is the opposite of Happy and never will be anything contrary to that. (Sadly, it has been a while since i have seen that article, so sadly, I won't be able to post a link on it.) While such a thought may be funny to the cynical, (being such a mortifying idealist) I do not believe it describes what is truly possible in life; and it bothered me to see such pessimism towards our numinous lives on the Earth.
Christ stated: "Ask and Ye Shall Receive." Just a simple five letter sentence, yes? No! All of our lives here in this sacred physical world can be explained in this statement. It is simple. If you have a difficult situation in life you need help in, a problem needing to be solved, or even a desire that you believe would lead to greater fulfillment in your life, all you need to do is ask for it to be granted and it shall happen. In other words: Make a Wish! And yet, so few people (from zealous christians and atheists to people of the more magical persuasion) take advantage of this. We can have it all. The life of our dreams is in our reach, we need only claim it.
In fact, why not take it a step further and say that our dreams are already existing in our lives and that we have yet to realize them? That is what many teachers of both the physical and astral variety have taught me, and while I have rejected such a saying in the past, thinking it ludicrous, sice I was still miserable at the time, I have come to accept it as a reality. The thing is that, at least in my own life, I have wished for some big life changing events to give me a life filled with great power, unconstrained freedom, and divine grace, and it wasn't until years later that I realized that I had already received those things in my life, despite my own pessimism that I would never get them.
But why even stop at the idea that we make a wish to a distant figure to solve our problems or that God has already granted them? My personal theology is that all things in creation are the expression of God experiencing itself as to create a cosmic dance of bright and shadow, life and death, and joy and misery revolvling around itself, fulfilling itself, and loving itself. And with such an idea comes to the stand point that we ourselves are Gods. I tell my mentees constantly that our energy creates our lives and that all people have the potential to manipulate reality. I say this out of my own experiences in my thinking and wishing creating either more chaos or more harmony in my life.
As God, what I focus on becomes true in my own life. My energy simply acts as the catalyst for that change. As a teenager in Middle and High School, I suffered much bullying and discrimination being a gay student who obsessed over things like magic and astral beings. It came to the point that I did not see myself as beautiful or deserving of love. I believed that I was a "Fugly Fag" as a girl once called me. And as such, I focused on my own alienation while at the same time the idea of trying to prove myself to the people who mocked me, and as consequence, I attracted more and more situations into my life bringing me more misery and shame.
It wasn't until after High School and after a personal low in life that I rose up from my feelings of inadequacy and self loathing and then away from not noticing the blessings already in my life and being undeserving of any future boons for me, that i came out of my shell and truly saw that I was a very happy and funny person. As such, I stopped bringing into life the situations that made me feel like crap, and have begun living in a flow where my needs are met and life has become much simpler for me, yet more involved.
The same works for everyone. As Gods ourselves, our worlds are formed by what we wish them to be. But going further, specific acts of wishing can create miracles in our lives. It is truly a beautiful thing. And the best part? By focusing on a desire, stating it and trusting in our God Souls, we can manifest ANYTHING into our lives. It really is that simple.
LVX Amor!
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