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[0:37] Introduction to Episode

Aloha everyone, this is Dr. BethAnne Kapansky Wright, and welcome to Your Heart magic. Today we are doing an Akashic wildcard session episode. And that is where I will randomly choose a topic from the Akashic records and open up the records and bring through whatever information the records had to share with us.

So our topic today is imagination and manifestation. And I think this is a really fun topic. I think that I actually really liked both of these words, I light up saying the word imagination, I light up saying the word manifestation. They're both feel so playful, and so filled with possibilities.

And today I am going to be bringing in information from what the records had to share, about how we can constructively use your imagination in order to manifest things in the material world and manifest our best lives, whatever those might be.

And we're going to be looking at how do our thoughts impact manifestation? Is it actually true that our thoughts create reality? What are the limitations to that, and looking at some, like best practices to do our own manifestation work. So with that, let's go on ahead and dive in.

[2:11] The Akashic Records on Choose Your Own Adventure

And when I open the records today, something I always do, whether I'm doing an individual reading, or a collective reading is I will ask for some sort of image or picture, like something will come up at the beginning of opening the records, that allows me to feel like I've landed in the records themselves and landed in the energy.

So I sometimes might see a word, I might get an image that goes with it. And I kept seeing the word envision today, which made sense, this is about imagination and manifestation, that's not really a reach that we are to envision what we want to manifest.

But then I saw a stack of books that said, choose your own adventure on it. And the Choose Your Own Adventure books are something that I used to read when I was in elementary school as a child, you may or may not be familiar with these, but they were really fun. And in the books, you would start out as a character, and they would be going on some sort of a journey or something would happen. And then you'd get to the end of the chapter. And you were allowed to choose what page you turn to.

So it might be you're going to leave the castle, you are about to go off on a quest, because you're going to go search for this hidden treasure that you need to find in order to come back and I was gonna say free the princess, but we're gonna free the Prince and my Choose Your Own Adventure book, a woman is the hero.

And so she's gonna go get what she needs to free the people. And the book would say, do you go right? And go towards the nearest town? Or like do you go left and choose to go talk to the wise being who lives in the woods, and you get to choose.

And it's really fun, because at every little chunk that you come to you make your choice. And then you know, there's another choice at the end of that. And these books are really playful. Sometimes there's a happy ending, sometimes you choose poorly. And it will be like you fell into a pile of quicksand and two paths you died, wrote it a little bit more nicely than that. In which case, I would probably go start over choose the next one I used to love those books.

And this playful metaphor and is symbolic of the energy behind what the Akashic records have to teach us about using our imagination to manifest because if we can envision something if we can imagine it, then there is a very good possibility that we are able to create it.

Now there are some limitations to that. But when you think about everything around us and think about this world around us all It began with a vision, all of it began with thoughts, the things that have been created, the things that are invented, you know, even the systems that we are in, and even some of the modern-day issues that we are struggling with, as a collective, and many of the beautiful things that we celebrate.

And we've created rituals and traditions and things like that. None of that existed at one point, it all had to come from somewhere. And so when we use our imagination, and we start with the idea of a thought, a thought is a seed we plant it in our mind, the more we focused on it, the more that allows us to pray about it, set intentions about it, that informs our action.

If you have the thought, Oh, I'm really really want ice cream tonight. This is actually me on pretty much any given night. But I really want ice cream, and you have this thought earlier in the day, then that at some point, we'll probably have you like leave the house and go get ice cream, or send a message to somebody who's maybe coming over and say,

Can you grab a pint of ice cream on the way, you know, if ice cream is not available to you, maybe you get creative that evening and you like blend bananas and chocolate powder and you know, coconut milk or something and you know, put some ice in it and make a smoothie, maybe none of that's available to you. And you just keep craving ice cream.

And it eventually causes you when the stores open again to go get ice cream. But all of that began with a thought and began with the idea that I really want this thing and I want to create that in my life.

So our imagination is an incredibly powerful tool, which can be used for good or not so good. But the records empower us to use our imagination to empower manifestation in our lives. Like we are empowered as sovereign souls as spiritual beings as souls on a human journey.

[7:05] Utilizing Our Thoughts as A Creative Resource

We are empowered by spirit to use our intellect and use our thoughts to really creatively think about what do I want to do with my time here? What do I want to create in my life? When I think about what lights me up, what brings me joy? What do I feel called to do? What is my purpose? What is that? What are our answers to those things?

When I think about the kinds of relationships I'd like to create, or the kinds of financial circumstances that I would like to have happened in my life, when I think about the qualities and the energies that I'd like to surround myself, what does that look like, manifestation can apply to anything and everything, the sky is the limit.

The qualifier is that since we are down here on the planet, the you know, the records are say like miracles exist, but you are working within the confines of reality and the confines of the material realm. And like the natural laws and things like that might put some restrictions on having instant gratification was something that we might be trying to envision and hoping to manifest. It does not mean it's impossible. But there is a due process energy order to things.

So if we can envision it, there's a good chance that we can create it. And sometimes we get really tripped up because we have attached ourselves to a certain form that it has to take. But, you know, spirit is abundant, and it's extremely creative. So let's go back to our ice cream example. And let's say that you really want ice cream.

But for some reason, like the stores around you are sold out of ice cream, and you just can't get a hold of it. But you really put it out there and say, Well, I am manifesting ice cream in my life. And please bring ice cream my way. You know very well that could show up or somebody comes over and they happen to grab some ice cream from the town they're in and they brought it over to you or something happens that makes it possible for you to see this manifestation come to fruition, maybe just in a different form than what you expected. So this playfulness of choose your own adventure.

Part of the lesson in this for us is to understand not only do we have a choice, and not only can we envision what we want to create, but there is some fluidity to it. So not everything is set in stone. So the more attached we are that it has to look a certain way.

Sometimes the harder it makes it for that manifestation to happen. And just like in the Choose Your Own Adventure book where if you chose poorly, and you're like okay, I'm going back Clearly I shouldn't have gone right, I should have gone left. And so I'm going to see what happens if I went left. The good news about creating beautiful lives and manifesting beautiful lives is we can always go left if we realize we should have gone that way. Instead, there are always do overs, there's always opportunity to go back to the drawing board.

This is not about doing it perfectly. It's about figuring out what works for us, learning as we go, and then adapting along the way. And this is something that I've learned quite a bit during my time on Hawaii, I have shared very often on this podcast, I used to live in Alaska and made a huge change in my life six years ago to move to this island, and to really work on manifesting a different kind of life for myself.

And something I've learned along the way is the vision of what I want to manifest has changed quite a bit, the conditions that I manifesting under have changed quite a bit, the way some of the things that I have hoped to bring out have changed quite a bit. And sometimes I'll manifest something, and realize it's not quite what I wanted or not what I thought it would be. And it's back to the drawing board again. So we want to take this playful attitude to it. And we want to have that playful sense, or that at least adventurer sense of we are choosing our own adventure here.

And we can come back and say, well, I need to do some adaptation, because I did this. And that is not working out the way that I wanted it to. This is not about right or wrong. It's about feeling empowered to use a tool that is available to us. And that is our imagination, our ability to visualize she make an intention list, to use our thought, to think about how we want to actively be a co-participant and a co-creative in our life with the Universe and the Earth and spirit and you know all of these other bigger energies, it's about using that as a tool and feeling empowered to use that tool.

And just like any tool that we have any tool that you would use, it will be more effective sometimes than others. Because there's not a one size fits all with any tool, we need many, many tools to make it through this life, we need a big toolbox. So this is about empowering ourselves not doing perfectly and it's about having fun with it.

[12:43] Conscious Manifestation in The Kapaa Crawl

So I want to dive into a little bit of kind of flat, the Akashic said about this idea of we are operating within the confines of reality. And what they actually specifically said is like miracles are possible. But there are these structures and patterns that you adhere to, and your day to day life.

And so they actually gave me this great example. And one of the ways that the Akashic records will speak to many people who work with it. And this happens for myself is in images and pictures, I am a highly visual person. And so it's not unusual to receive some sort of image to illustrate or be a metaphor, and sometimes they're really silly. Spirit can be very playful, and their energy of their records. Even if we're talking about something serious or cerebral. There's a lightness to the synergy because it's kept at a very high crystal and frequency.

So the image that I got to illustrate this was kind of comical, and I saw myself sitting in traffic on Kauai- This is called the Kappa crawl if you're not familiar with the island, and if you if you know, you know, and if you don't know you don't want to know, you know, there is a space in this town called GPA where traffic just comes to a standstill.

And it can take 15 minutes, 30 minutes depending on how bad it is to like literally move about a mile. I mean, it is the most ridiculous thing. Then because of the way that the island is set up and the infrastructure is here. There's really no way of getting around it. You can go up in the mountains and try and get around it. But really outside of that, and going like directly through with a couple of shortcuts within that trek through it all spits you out in the same place.

So there's no alternative route. It's highly likely if you're trying to go to Costco on a Friday afternoon, you're gonna get stuck in the cupola crawl if you're coming from the north shore, and I saw myself sitting there and wishing that I was already like at Costco and the records said no matter how much you want to manifest getting there faster, you are working within like this deeply entrenched pattern on the island of traffic and flow and stuff that has a existed for a long time that has made it the mess that it is. This is not just a traffic jam, like this is a daily occurrence, you know, and it's worse on weekends and off hours and all of that when more people are out and about.

And so I wouldn't just blink like I was on Star Trek or something like that and be like, be me to Costco and just kind of beam on over. And then they took it a step further. And they said, if that technology existed, you don't just disappear, like something happens to the physical form, or it goes through some sort of transformational process in order to deliver you there.

And they reminded me of the water cycle where you know, water, it rains, water collects in the earth collects in the puddles clicks in the ocean, and then it evaporates, it goes up into the sky, it is made in a condensation. And eventually, when it rains, again, some of that same water will come back down onto the earth. And so there's this beautiful cycle to it.
 
And the records, we're using this as an illustration to help us understand that we don't just make something out of nothing. We have to manifest something out of something either that already exists, or give it like a landing pad or help build something so that it can take off.

We can't just wish something into being that's not what conscious manifestation is about. Conscious manifestation is thinking about something you want to envision and create in your life, and really putting in consistency of effort. And focus on what you wanted to envision.

So let's go back to the Costco example. And say that like, what I really want to manifest is that I'm not stuck in the cupola crawl. Well, maybe part of how I'm going to manifest that is to not go to Costco on a Friday afternoon.

Maybe part of what I get nudged to do the next time I need to go to Costco is like go before traffic gets bad. Or maybe I'm guided to go on a Monday evening, before it closes, and traffic's a lot lighter, maybe something shifts and the pattern so that I'm actually able to manifest not being stuck in that traffic pattern. And being able to have more efficiency and ease. Now, I might not instantly get there.

But let's say I shave like half of the time off of the drive time because I really focused on I want to change this, I want to manifest an easier way to get this done. Maybe I'm guided to order more online and consolidate trips. Maybe I feel guided to manifest somebody that I pay to run errands, oh my gosh, don't we all want that. Like if you're out there, like raise your hand right now, if you want a personal assistant who will like get you groceries, write your bills, or pay your bills, like stay on top of everything for you and sit in traffic don't have to.

But you see the openness to how this might be manifested, and how from one thought, there's all these different branches of possibility in different reality that could be created if I truly want that. And I truly focus on that. And oftentimes what happens is we get in the way of our own self, because we only see one outcome, we want it a certain way, we limit the possibility of how it can take place. And when we limit the possibility we limit what the energy can do.

[18:32] How to Manifest in Fixed and Rigid Energies

And what I'm getting into a little bit here is the more fixed and focused we are, the more rigid the pattern is, the harder it is for a manifestation to take place. And sometimes the energy in the pattern is rigid, because circumstances have it that way. So let's say in my example, is sitting in traffic.

Like I said, this is a long term problem on the island. And I suspect that 20 years from now, it will still be a problem because of the slowness of change in the infrastructure here. And there's many reasons behind that. And it is not something that popped up overnight. It is not something that came about instantly.

So we've got a road system that is not set up for the amount of people that currently either live here, or come here to vacation. So that's part of the pattern. That's part of the problem. We have a slowness to change to the road system. And some of that has to do with where it's okay to build a road and what's protected land and you know, it kind of lessens the options when you can't punch a road through because something is sacred ground or it's protected.

So that's a long term pattern. Then we have an overabundance of people on the island. There are many, many people who come to visit and there There is not really a cap on that.

So most residents who live here know that especially during the heaviest tourist season, but there's always a lot of people on the island that is going to double, if not more the amount of people using roads. For a population that's growing, that is a deeply entrenched pattern. And it's not going to change anytime soon COVID change that in the pandemic change that and the lack of trouble change that. But we're back to pre pandemic numbers. And so that's a deeply entrenched system.

So if you really break this down, and let's add this in, I am on a part of the island where there are grocery stores, but there's not like a big box store. It's no Costco where I'm at no big Walmart, nothing. If I want something that's bought in bulk, for a lesser price, I'm gonna have to make this drive to go get it.

And that is a pattern. And it's something that's not changing anytime soon, they've talked about building something where I'm at, there's always pushback, and there's a lack of space for where to build it. So if you really break this down, do you hear how stuck some of the energy is around some of these things that I'm pointing out, when I say this is a problem, and it's unlikely to change anytime soon. So if I want to manifest a change, it's probably going to happen with me. And not necessarily with traffic flow.

So if I'm really wanting to manifest getting there more quickly, what I might open myself up to and say is I want to manifest more efficiency of time, I'm tired of wasting my time sitting in traffic, it's hot. This is true. It's boring, it is claustrophobic. And I'm really tired, I'd like to manifest and get more of my time back.

And so I'm opening myself up to alternative solutions for how to get this necessary thing done, but also create more space in my schedule. So I'm not stuck sitting here. Do you hear the openness in that. And so that's really what we want to do. When we talk about how to effectively manifest something, we want that openness, we want that attitude, we want to open ourselves up to new ideas.

Now, let's say when I do this, I have this sense of you know what, I should actually go on a different day, that's not a good day to go, that's the worst day, and you're always going to have a hard time on that day. This is true. If you're going on a Friday, like from 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock beyond and you're coming from where I live, it's probably never going to be easy to get there. You know.

So let's say I decide the most sensible thing for me to do, because I'm working within the confines of the pattern I've been given. I'm going to start manifesting where I've got time on a Monday. So now that's my focal point is I'm going to make it a point that I'm going to go once a month to Costco on a Monday. And let's say that stuff gets in the way sometimes where I can't always do it.

But let's say I really focus my attention there. I know, this is a really silly example. But I hope the illustration lands, because once I start focusing my attention on I want to manifest a trip on a Monday because that's the best day to go. That's actually true to Monday, Tuesday. At a certain time, it's easier to go.

So let's say I want to manifest the time. And really stay mindful of this. Do you hear that once I make my choice, the more that I put my focus on it, the more likely it is that I'm actually going to manifest and create a new pattern where I'm able to go.

And then here's where it's really fun. I can play with the pattern a little bit, and I can kind of say to the universe, Hey, guys, I've done my job. I am working within the confines of how things are in the silent, I am not trying to ask you to do the impossible and like jet speed me over to Costco on a Friday when I know it's going to be crowded. I'm asking you to help me do it on Monday. So I'm going to do this tonight.

And what I'd like to do is get there as quickly as possible. So please help me not be stuck behind anybody slow. There are some factors that you can move a little bit more quickly. At so maybe I asked that. And I play with the pattern. And I say I'd like to manifest going tonight with as much ease as as possible.

And that is where the energy itself can maybe respond to what I'm putting out there. I'm manifesting that I go to Costco on Mondays with as much ease as possible. That is how we take something from a very open way of trying to manifest to consciously making decisions about what we think is best. That's what co creation is all about.

[24:44 ] Finding Balance Between Constriction and Expansion

So what we want to think about here, and this is really what the records have encouraged us to do is to strike this balance between working with and the kind of constrictions and the patterns and the things that might already be in place in your life. While at the same time consciously thinking about, what choices do I have, and we stay open to the choices, and then as one of them starts to feel more sensible or more right for us, we can hone our focus on to that.

That is what Choose Your Own Adventure is all about. I asked the record the question, do our thoughts really create reality? This is a often taught aphorism in spiritual circles. I've heard so many people spit this out, because it's been written a lot in books and different spiritual practitioners, many of them who've had really great contributions to make have written some version of that. I have never liked it.

And here is why I think that it is very unfair, actually actually not the right word. I think it can be racist, I think it can be. I'm not sure what the word is prejudiced. I think that it can be very unfair to somebody who is in the system and a marginalized placed, who is not able to have the luxury of manifesting their best life and thinking their best life into reality, because they're trying to survive. I do not like as a psychologist, this line of thought, because I feel like it puts all the responsibility on the individual. And what happens if you are an immigrant? What happens if you are born into a space where you have disadvantages and marginalization.

And so this whole idea of, well, I manifested this, I don't love it, I thought this into reality. There's some things that don't sit well with me on it. And some of that is just my personal beliefs. And some of it is just being a clinical psychologist all these years and hearing many, many different stories. And if you're born into a family, where you are abused, and abuse is taught to you, and you are trying to manifest joy as an adult, there might be if possible, but there might be trauma that gets in the way.

And if you're looking and saying, Why is it so much easier for everybody else, they're manifesting happiness, I just want to be happy. Why is it eluding me? Sometimes there is stuff, that is not our fault, we didn't think it into reality, it just was it existed in the reality before we stepped into it, and we stepped into the mess. And we are trying to clean up that mess and kind of shrug it off of us the best we know how, so that we can up level into a different way of being.

So I don't love that. Having said that, there are good things about it, we certainly know that if we tell ourselves, everybody hates me, and I'm not going to have any friends, we are less likely to make friends, people are less likely to want to be around us, because we're probably putting off a vibe that says you're gonna reject me anyway. So you might as well stay away, I've got a big chip on my shoulder.

You know, most people don't want to be from nine. If we are putting off a vibe of like, I'm a likable person. If other people can learn to be a friend, I can learn to make friends and be a friend. And you know, I deserve good connections. And I am going to consciously keep creating good connections, we are much more likely to create those friendships and those networks and our life.

So those are my personal beliefs on it. But this is something that I hear all the time still in many spiritual circles. And I asked the Akashic about it. And I actually did not go into like, systemic racism and marginalization. And being in a third world country or those kinds of things, was not quite the focal point for why I open the records today.

[28:57] Our Thoughts Create Our Reality: True and Not True

I just asked them, What do you think about this as a general aphorism that is taught, and they said true and not true. And what the records had to say was just very general wisdom. That was the idea that like, our thoughts will color how we see reality 100% They will create the filter and the lens that we see the world through.

And two people can look at the same thing in front of them. And they can see two different perspectives. This is very much like my glass is half full, like glass is half empty. You know, so there's a little bit here where perspective our thoughts really do create our perspective. And then our perspective starts to create the filter that we experience the world through.

And that filter over time does impact our experience of things like we said, if our filter is nobody's gonna like me anyways, so I might as well not even try. That is certainly going to affect somebody down the line of if they're able to manifest relationships in their life.

So we want to make sure that our filter is as clear as possible. But the records also said there are some pieces that are bigger than us. There is collective karma being worked out, there is soul blueprint stuff that's being worked out. There are cosmic cycles going on, there are things that are part of, they will use the words kind of interchangeably, like the grand design, or sources will creators will, things that are beyond us.

And no matter how much I would love to manifest a different reality, that I didn't lose my brother before he even turned 40 That happened. And I might be able to manifest an ongoing connection with him. And have, you know, that kind of spiritual relationship, which I do, but there are just some things that happen.

I did not think that into reality, somebody who is in a country ravaged by war did not think that into reality, somebody who is terrified and terrified of their survival, you know, is not manifesting situations where they're fighting to survive if they are in a bigger picture situation, where those circumstances are not only taking place, but existed long before they got there.

So true and not true is what the record say. And their guidance was to understand that line of thinking within the context of the bigger patterns that we travel in. And again, remembering that within these patterns, there are limitations and constrictions anything is possible. But we might have to work within the avenues that have been created with us in order to achieve it.

[31:50] How to Work with and Shift Negative Thoughts

So I hope that clears that up some I took this question a step further, and was like, So what happens if we are always really fearful and worrying and thinking negative things? Like does that too, because I hear this a lot. And it's a pretty, I think this is a really important point to make.

Sometimes, our thoughts, imagine the e scenario, sometimes that feels involuntary, if somebody is struggling with anxiety, if they are struggling with flashbacks or trauma, or they had the rug ripped out from underneath them. And so they're really struggling to believe it could be different this time. And their brain goes into that old story, that old neural network stuff of the worst is going to happen. And they get really fearful and really frightful. Sometimes we have some control over that.

And we are able to change the station and our brain. I love telling people, you are not your mental chatter. You are not those old stories, that's a really good time to try and come into your heart and see if you can just get out of your thoughts entirely and come into your body, come into art, come into color come into creativity come into nature. You know, we want to change the channel and our brain.

Sometimes those thoughts are these random thoughts. And we haven't learned to shift our thought yet or control our thoughts are, we're really trying. But if you've got something happening in your brain where you're super stressed out, and your brain is sending, like all sorts of cortisol shooting out, that's telling you that you are in fight flight freeze mode, and something bad is happening.

And it's a threat and you cannot relax and calm your brain down, you might actually have a really hard time not having those thoughts until you have helped your nervous system come back into a window of tolerance, where you are able to make a conscious choice about what you're thinking.

So this is a concern of a lot of people, that they'll have these, or at least people that I've spoken with, you know, in in my work where they might have a, you know, negative thoughts or fearful thoughts, and they're really afraid, like, am I manifesting this reality? And so what do I do about this? So I asked the records about that a little bit.

And what they said is that when we focus on negative outcomes, and we focus on worst case scenario, that the danger of that they didn't use that word, those are my words, but like the I guess what happens with that is it does constrict the flow of energy. And that makes sense. Just think about how you feel in your chest.

When you are worried about something and you think about the worst thing happening you do not feel free and open in your chest. We don't usually breathe easily when we think about worst case scenario. Our heart does not feel light and happy. And when we can envision a better outcome and say I do not know how this is going to resolve itself, but I believe that there is an outcome that is equitable and just and that will support me and continue You're on my path and having growth, it opens us up. I'm always telling people, if you are a chronic worrier, and you think about the worst thing that could happen, start imagining the best.

Our imagination is also a muscle. The more we use it, the more we imagine something, the more likely it is we create a neural pathway in our brain, where we are able to imagine it a little bit more quickly, and fall into that pattern and groove a little bit more quickly, we can teach ourselves how to change the channel on our thoughts.

But what the Akashic said is that overall, what they really want us to know, for this topic today is that it does constrict energy. And when energy is constricted, it constricts possibility.

So if you're really, really worried about money, and you're worried about how you're going to get money, and you're desperate, and you just keep thinking about that, this is a tough one I've been here before, in many ways you are fighting against what you want to do, which is open yourself up and say money flows to me with grace and ease, even if it hasn't been, you know, if you're really stressed about something, the more you it's kind of like the more you try and cling to it, the more you try and solve it, the more you keep pouring your energy into the worry and the lack into the story of I need to get more, how am I going to get more and if you're worrying about it, you're not in a space of gratitude and abundance, you're in a space of luck.

So the more you do that, the more energy can flow. So we want to be mindful when we do that.

[36:38] Dealing with Naysayers and Old Stories

And when I asked the Akashic records, I personally feel like I struggle with this, with many things in my life, not, you know, many different areas I have shared very openly on here that I am actively working on my own process of creating new stories and being in gratitude and being in appreciation. And I see where old stories take me, I don't like the outcome.

So this is an active work in progress for me. And I think many of us are working on not falling into a space of lack. And that's pretty normal to work on. Because most of us are not raised with an abundance mindset. You know, like the media does not encourage an abundance mindset. You know, if you tell somebody, I've got a dream, and I want to go do this thing.

Some people will be like, That's so amazing. I'm so proud of you. I hope it's amazing. A lot of people will say like, oh, have you thought about this? And they'll be like the naysayer, I got that a lot when I moved to Hawaii. And it was like, Well, what's BethAnne gonna do? You know, she closes her brick and mortar practice. And it was like, Well, I really want to write. And it was like, wow, you know how hard it is to actually make a living off of that? Do you know how hard it is to and like, that's what I would get, like sort of this like anti dream energy. I found out a couple of things through this.

One is, is that most of the people who said that, to me, had probably had a dream in their heart at some point in their life to do something and they didn't do it, they chose the safer path, and they chose the more practical path. So like that voice of doubt, was more likely having to do with them than anything to do with me.

The other thing that I found out from this is that if it is in your heart to do it, and you want to create a path to it, the universe will support you and making a way, and it probably won't look the way that you expected it to. And that is that balance between working with some of the constrictions of reality, it is very hard to make a full time living as a writer. I'm not doing that at the moment. And I'm totally okay with that.

A lot of working writers are doing freelance work right now AI is pricing a lot of them out. A lot of working writers are having to write things that they don't particularly want to write. But they're doing it to do like guest blogging and articles and things like that in order to make money so they can support their passion in their art. Anything that we want to do.

That's a big dream in order to kind of arrive at we'll say the top and we'll just define the top as you're able to do it full time. And it generates whatever you need for your needs. Most people have had a long journey to get there.

And so there's many ways that manifestations can take place. It just does not always look the way that we think it's going to and you could see if I fell into a story of no it had to look the way I'd hoped that that's where it's really easy to limit. The fact that you know, I've done a lot of writing i There are many possible He said, that was really what I wanted to manifest the most of being a paid writer.

Right now it's not I have other big dreams in my heart. But do you see where when we play with our adventure, when we choose our own adventure, and what we think like, Well, what do we really want. And you know, I've said it on the podcast before, like speaking and writing and moving the message of love making these episodes, taking this wisdom, sharing it with others having it reach a lot of ears or eyes, and have people read it like, that's what I really want. And so there's many ways that we can get there, there's many paths up to the top of the mountain. And that's what we want to remember with this.

So if you are focusing on the negative, and you're in a space of lack, which, going back to what I was saying, many of us have been taught, because our world is not one of an abundance mindset. Our world has the mindset of fear, there's a lot of wounds and the collective around not having enough fear over doing whatever it is that lights are hard up. We have fears about love, we have fears about money, we have fears about moving forward and embracing life itself.

We have fears about getting hurt in this world if we risk our hearts, and we come from this collective wound of those fears. And the generations before us through their courage and their actions have been challenging some of those wounds. And here we find ourselves and we grow up often in these models where the way we are parented, or the subconscious. And the conscious messages that we get, often are not one that support this level of believing and our ability to imagine and create our best life. You know, we are kind of told the will that's not reality.

[41:52] A Few Thoughts on Not Letting Others Define Your Reality

And I want to be clear that when the Akashic Records talks about you have to work within the confines of reality. I'm talking about things like deeply entrenched patterns and natural laws, and things that have been there for a while, when somebody defines reality for you and says, Well, you can't, you can't be an artist, because it's not realistic, that you're able to support yourself on that work.

That's not necessarily true. You might not go quit your day job right away. But if that was what she really wanted, you might find a way to use your work, it might look differently than what she thought it might take you a while to get to a place where you are really where you wanted. But just because somebody says that's not reality, why is it not reality?

Other people are working artists? If that's what you want, why can't you be it? You know, it might take a while, it might take a different path. So we really want to do a check when somebody says, well, reality hasn't worked that way, does it? Is there anybody out there that you know who's doing the thing? Is there anybody who can inspire you that? Yes, it does. And then we released how it's going to look.

So we want to make sure that when somebody dumps that message on us that we are not buying into their version of what it has to look like when there's a better way available to us. And what the Akashic Records encouraged us to do to deal with this. Like, if we're thinking negative stuff, as to just find one place in our life where we've got that negative expectation of outcome, whatever it is, I'll never find love. I can't, I'm never gonna be able to take my filmmaking abilities and use them it's not practical, like what they encourage us to do is just find one place where we've got the old story in our life. And start right there and start with challenging that.

So let's say that you just have a negative expectation of life, because it's kind of smacked you in the face and you've had a hard time, a nice place to start would be today is going to be a great day, and I'm equipped to handle all that comes my way. That right there, you just shifted your focus. You know, if you wake up in the morning, and you're like, oh, my gosh, I have to do it all over again, that's probably an automatic thought.

And we can change that thought, and we can change the story that we're telling ourselves about that thought and that story changes our focus. And when we change our focus, we are more likely to create things that actually do make it a great day or see the great things that are already happening, that we might not be paying attention to.

[44:40] That Thing Called Gratitude

Something else that we can do to work with that is to practice the art of gratitude and appreciation. It is the number one way to shift the energy. I'm actively working on this for some things in my life. And I keep coming back to this as a lesson because it is so timeless. And it's so easy. See, to fall out of that gratitude is not our natural set point. I think spiritually it might be that on more of a soul level, we always know we're connected to all that is we're connected to abundance, and we're just in that energy of gratitude and appreciation.

But you know, most of us as humans, our setpoint is not gratitude and appreciation. A lot of times, it might be stress, it might be negativity, if you've worked really hard to challenge that it might not be. It might be worry, it most people's emotional setpoint is not necessarily one of gratitude and appreciation, we have to learn how to tune into that. And we have to learn how to make that more automatic in our life and to teach our body and our mind and our emotional memory, that as a new set point.

So if you're standing in the grocery line, and all you want to do is get home and you're really tired out, and you find yourself in that like kind of grumbly gray place, you can do the good old fashion like and it's gonna sound cheesy, I'm gonna say it anyways, just because it's cheesy or corny does not mean it's bad, it doesn't mean that it doesn't work, you can start the I am so glad I can stand in a grocery line. I'm so glad that it's not quarantine anymore.

Like it was however many years ago, and people wanted to go to the grocery store and be around people. I'm so glad that I'm able to get groceries, I'm so glad that food is readily available, and I got these groceries in my cart. You know, I'm so glad that I'm I don't know, feeding myself or whatever it is that you just picked up. There's almost always something that we can find.

Or maybe we find somebody who looks more down in us. And we change our energy and we say, I don't know, maybe say a little prayer for them say a little blessing for them say they look as great as I'm feeling right now. And so I just asked for spirit to lift all of us up right now help us all to leave the store with a little bit more lightness of heart. Like there's always a way to tune into a different frequency, we just have to be mindful of it.

[47:15] Creating a Pathway for Manifestation

So the last few things that the records gave us. And these were kind of the steps for like rocking our manifestation magic. And using our imagination to and form our manifestation is does whatever you're wanting to create. Make sense, given the patterns and systems in your life. And what they meant by that is like if you are I want to be a millionaire someday, and you don't even have a job right now. You wouldn't be able to get there it is possible, but there's no instant manifestation here.

And, again, we want to create new patterns that create a pathway for a manifestation to happen. Or like if I was like, I really want to play basketball and play in the NBA. That's probably not gonna happen. Like, I don't even play basketball.

But let's say that was something that I really wanted to to do, you know. First question to ask is, Is it realistic? And if it's not realistic, and you're taking no steps towards it, you might want to come back to the drawing board and really search your heart on like, why do you want that? Is it truly in your heart to do it, if it's not in your heart, and you just want it because you think it would be cool.

There might be a better manifestation for you to work on or a different way to focus your attention. So we ask ourselves the question, does it make sense. And the way that I apply this is I do have big dreams. But when I am envisioning what I want to create, and what I'd like to manifest, sometimes I'll check in on the bigger vision. And I'll just have this sense of like, here's what it is.

And I'll envision myself having that. But a lot of times what I'll just do is think like maybe a month ahead to six months ahead, you know, and I'll think like, what's the best version of my reality where it currently is like that I know right now that I can imagine. And so I'll work within the pattern of what I have. If you are wanting to make a big change. This is kind of step two.

So let's say like the best version of reality is I'd like my relationship to feel a little bit
more communicative or something like that. I'd like to find the courage to ask my boss for a raise. I really want to break my procrastination pattern and start working out. Maybe you're like, you know what, in six months, I really want to manifest a vacation. So those might all be things that are possible for you to manifest. They are a reasonable timeline, give or take and you would be able to Say yes, those things make sense, given the current patterns in my life.

So then you kind of move on to the envisioning and taking practical steps. If it doesn't make sense within the pattern of your life, and you say, I want better communication and my relationship, but you know, I've never had got, and I don't even know if it's possible to manifest, maybe you think about how could I create that.

So maybe you start with trying to change the pattern, and try and change something where you create, I don't know what it is a talking opportunity, you doing something together, where there's more space for communication to take place, maybe you just say, I don't know how to change this, but I know I'm really unhappy with it. And I want to create relationships where I just have better communication period.

So maybe you take your focus off of whatever partnership it was that you were looking at, and just open up to help me to have the experience of good communication, so I know what it feels like. And I can make better choices within my six existing relationship.

Like we want to take a step that's reasonable, and we want to begin to create the path I will never forget. Back in 2016, I knew I wanted to move to Kauai this was something my husband and I had talked about. And I remember having one of like my first encounters with seeing the psychic, her name is Roz and Sedona. I've mentioned her on here before she's part of Sedona soul sisters.

And I remember saying to her, I really want to make this move happen to Kauai What is this look like energetically.  And she says, Well, if you want it, you're gonna have to manifest it. I don't see a move on the horizon right now. But what she did say was, but like it is within your power to manifest this. And I've talked about this before. But I think how this applies to what we're talking about today is that if I didn't do anything, and I just kept my life the way it was, and I just kept thinking, I really want to make a move to Hawaii.

But in that current pattern in my life, I was living in Alaska, I was running a long term practice. You know, we were in a home, we had a very deeply rooted life. In the town of Anchorage, I had deeply rooted friendships, I'd been there a long time, there were many systems, many patterns in place that were entrenched. So I wasn't going to just like pop myself out of them with effortlessly just because I focused really hard on how much I wanted to make this move. The piece to make the manifestation happen was to take those first steps.

And the first step was setting a move date, this is going to happen in the summer of 2017. The next step was beginning to tell trusted people don't know how we're going to do it. But this is what we're going to do. It was a little bit like taking a chain links in a long chain that felt like they were impenetrable, and slowly opening up space and one, which actually helped began to unlink that change, or chain and began to like make space and the system. So and make space and the patterns in my life.

[53:18] Is it Meaningful to Your Heart?

So let's say like I go back to like my whole I'm going to play in the NBA. That might not happen. But let's say it was really in my heart to like be on a basketball team. And I don't play ball at all. Well, the obvious first step is to like, find a court somewhere, you know, get a basketball, go for like free throw, practice, watch some YouTube videos, and get myself out there and learn what the heck I'm doing on a basketball court. Maybe in the end, if I really, really want this thing, I'm not gonna end up playing on a professional team.

But maybe I end up like on a professional court on some sort of like charity events or something like that. And I'm the one who like gets picked to make the basket. You know, maybe I end up playing on a team of women's team or something like that, or CO Ed team. And I never saw it coming. I had to take the steps and create the thing. It's not impossible. It is opening ourselves up that it might look different than how we expected it is taking a step and making it happen if we need to take that step. And then the last piece is is it meaningful to your heart.

And the record said out of all of these things to do that this is really the most powerful of all and that's not a surprise everything comes back to your heart magic on this show. So it is no surprise that the Akashic records say the best thing for manifestation and imagination is to ask the question, is this meaningful to my heart?

Because if it's meaningful to your heart, then what that means is you're going to keep coming back to the core vision of what you want to create, because it holds meaning for your heart. It's not a passing fancy where you just want to do it because it sounds cool. Are you think it'd be fun to be famous or have a lot of money or something like that, you have to have a reason that it feels meaningful to your heart, in order to like really hold the space for a longer term vision, and really put the consistency in.

And when it's meaningful to our heart, there's also this alchemy that happens, where the electromagnetic field of our heart and the vibration that we're putting out there is more likely to attract into us what we need. That is so cool.

So even though we can't just sit there and visualize, it all comes to us, it is an important part of using our imagination to allow yourself to visualize how you'd like it to look. And then maybe to say, I mindfully draw into me all I need all the ideas, all the resources, all the practical action steps, all the right people, I consciously attract that into me, in order to create the path to make my manifestation happen.

I have been working with this personally for I guess, since I've been on the island, and very, very mindfully, probably over like the last five years or so, I had a very big spiritual experience in the fall, September 2018.

And I think I've talked about that on the show. But I really had this sense of like the Akashic field, the field of energy, and how energy is drawn into us based on our hearts based on our energy based on what we're putting out there based on our focal point. And that marked a real shift for me. And feeling like I had to do it all all the time, and to working with Finding Conscious attraction, conscious allowance, and believing that if I don't see a practical step, and I don't know how to take it, but sure in my heart to do that thing, my heart will bring it into me somehow. I want to be a speaker.

This is the 21st episode of this podcast. I also have a nice handful of different engagements and events that I've had since moving to the island. And I'd like to take this even further and have big dreams around that and being on bigger stages someday. But right now, it is amazing to know that every single week, I get to come and I get to speak. And I get to share these ideas with an audience that is engaged and wants to listen, right.

You don't have to listen to this. If you're listening, you care about this stuff. And so I get to connect with my people, even if we don't get to have a face to face conversation. And I get to connect with light hearted souls. I have been trying to manifest that since I moved to this island. And here it is, in this particular form. And that will continue to evolve as I grow. And whatever you have in your heart will continue to evolve as you grow.

So we want to see where it's already showing up where our manifestation and our imagination is already working for us and have gratitude. And now if it's in our heart to do it and create it, anything is possible. And it might look differently than we expect it to. And that is part of what choosing your own adventure is all about.

[58:21] Coming Up Next Week

Alright, that wraps up our episode for today. Thank you for joining me for your heart magics 21st birthday. What What y'all know I don't drink but I will buy myself a drink for the 21st. It'll just be non alcoholic, and celebrate the fact that your heart magic just turned 21 on his 21st episode next week is the magical number 22. I'm very excited about that. I love numbers. That one sounds super fun. 

And oh my goodness, I just realized that. My topic for next week is aligning with abundance that is tentative. It's aligning with something. Abundance is what came through today. But it is going to be about living aligned. 

And how do we align with the energies we want to create? And I just realized on the 22nd episode, that two two is a number about things being in divine order. And it is a number about alignment. And I didn't even put that together till right now. So how magical is that? 

All right, that wraps up today's episode. I will be back here next week with more your heart magic. 

Have a beautiful week in the meantime, and until then, be well. Be Love, be you and be magic.