You can be anything you want to be?
Many years ago I, like a lot of people, jumped on the manifestation bandwagon and proceeded like most to try and create a different and shiny new life for myself. For those that haven't heard about manifestation it is essentially a magical practice. The idea is that you can be anything you want to be and do anything you want to do, all you have to do is believe it, take inspired action and apply things like visualisation, meditation and gratitude to your daily practice. Once you have done this and followed any inner guidance that shows up the Universe around you will converge upon your present moment and deliver to you what you're asking for. Unfortunately it took me a small while to really understand the massive missing chunks that were in the teachings I was reading. Don't get me wrong, manifestation works. If you want a new car, some more money, a partner, anything physical really it seems to work almost flawlessly but manifestation can not create joy. Manifestation creates FROM Joy.
You can not be anything you want to be. You can not do anything you want to do. We have co created a world with boundaries and limits for a reason. If right in this moment I decided I wanted to be an astronaut there would be plenty of things in place to ensure that wouldn't happen ( my fitness level being just one of them! ). The reason there are limits to what we can achieve is because we came to the planet with purpose. We came for a reason. Even though that reason is universally “for fun” the way in which we all achieve that is unique. Your spirit, your life, is the momentum of balance, an act of incredible collaboration. If you want to create a better life for yourself then by all means do so just try to do is based on what Joy is to you. For me I learned that it's not a case of creating whatever you choose, it was more about being the best version of who you are. I could spend a life time trying to be something that clearly isn't for me, and some things aren't for you and no amount of manifesting will allow it, or I could really figure out my feeling place of Joy on the planet and allow that to take it's natural shape.
There is an intelligence in you that is greater and more wise than the person reading these words. There is an order to the Universe more magnificent than anything we can conceive. Instead of creating your life from the outside in, create from the inside out. Find out what Joy is to you, right now in this moment. That will be the difference between learning a magical practice and participating in a miracle!
Big Love
Ryan James