Welcome to week two. Oprah says “Manifesting desires is about being awake to life.” In this second week, Deepak Chopra teaches us about mastering the art of desire. Even though everyone is born with desire, making it come true takes art and skill. Deepak Chopra states “conscious intention holds the key. By becoming more conscious, we make the creative process more efficient and more aligned to our highest purpose. It’s all about expanded awareness. With expanded awareness, you automatically see more possibilities. You are not constrained by past conditioning, traumas and painful memories. You rise above the level of the problem to the level of the solution. Above all, you activate more of the energy of attraction.”
Day 8 – The Royal Road to Manifestation
“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.” — Brian Tracy
Message of the Day
Welcome to the second week of our 21-Day Meditation Experience. In the first week we learned the role of desire in our spiritual fulfillment. This week we will focus on mastering the art of desire to manifest the quality of life we want. We are always creating our world through our desires, but not always as successfully as we would like. That is why we need to master the art of desire. The reason most intentions do not manifest easily and quickly is because our mind cannot remain alert and attentive with the emerging intention, and see it all the way through to its manifestation. To have conscious intention we need expansive, focused, and flexible awareness. Today’s meditation will help awaken this alert consciousness within our desires.
CENTERING THOUGHT
My intention holds the key to fulfillment.
SANSKRIT MANTRA
Chit Sankalpa
My unbounded awareness holds my pure intention.
(As you repeat the mantra, feel your light of awareness grow brighter and stronger in your thoughts.)
Journal Questions
We are always manifesting our desires from one moment to the next. Simple acts of eating or shopping show us how a desire leads to action, achievement, and fulfillment. But when it comes to bigger desires, we are often less efficient because the action and achievement are outside our territory of influence and understanding. List three major desires that feel difficult to attain, and because of this you don’t know the intermediary steps to fulfillment.
As we go deeper into our awareness in meditation, we are moving into more expanded, universal values. So as we go within, our territory of influence and knowledge is also expanding, connecting us to those unfamiliar resources and sources of knowledge that fulfill our desires. Write about an experience in which you had a situation that seemed hard to resolve, but after meditation or a period of prayer or reflection, suddenly came together easily after your awareness opened up.
Write about someone you know who has a sense of quiet calm about him or her, and somehow events just seem to naturally unfold for that person even if it isn’t his or her area of expertise. That is the power of expanded awareness organizing life and fulfilling desires from an unseen place.
Reflect further on today’s experience.