TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE        

          Think of yourself as a "Co-Creator" with Life, an actor on the stage of life, rather than a re-actor.  You tell Life what you want by thinking, speaking and imagining with feeling.  It's as simple as that.  Probably ninety percent of the difficult situations in our lives have been drawn to us because we focused on negative imaginings and feelings intensely, repeatedly, or for long periods of time.  For example, self-pity tends to prolong the resolution of situations because in that state of mind, one tends to review and re-review how "awful" it is, without taking positive action and without feeling an uplifting sense of hope.

          Our habitual state of mind tends to draw to us events and situations that reflect our state of mind.  In other words, we are mentally "praying" for whatever is in our emotions and mental pictures.

          Most people don't send singular, laser-precise messages.  Their minds are constantly scattered, jumping from one thing to the next.  They don't think about what they really want, because they're too busy reacting to current situations.  One minute, your mind might be focused on a project, thinking nothing in particular about the future.  The few minutes after completing the project might be spent experiencing a sense of well-being and a feeling of security about the future.  Then you may unearth a forgotten bill on your desk, and your sense of security may be obliterated by a dense fog of depression.

          Reacting to every event that happens to us in a day is like dangling from a puppeteer's string or riding a roller coaster for hours on end.  You get whiplash.  You get tired.  You also become so distracted that you forget to create, plan and map out your life.

          When we take time to become calm and centered, we can set about to create our lives, defining and imagining the future we want.  As you carefully define your future, you get clear about what you desire.  You resolve to minimize fears, doubts and conflicting desires.  At that point, you begin to send out clear messages, in mental pictures and emotions, defining your desired future.  Life, or the creative forces of the universe, then work with you to produce those images in your reality.  This is called manifesting.

          Manifesting is bringing into reality your focused thoughts.  We do it on smaller scales all the time, as our thoughts, attitudes and imaginings produce our emotions and reactions in others.  We can learn to manifest progressively larger desires and dreams as events and even objects through understanding and using a specific process. 

          This process has many variations that are effective.  This Course will present one version that has been proven to be highly effective.  One must constantly guard against dogmatism in all of its forms.  If other techniques that you have learned previously or will learn in the future are different from the technique outlined below, simply experiment to discover which process is better for you.  However, the basic elements will rarely vary.  Variation arises in using the techniques, and refining and tailoring them for yourself.