Book / CD Review - Secrets of Manifesting (Wayne Dyer)

I recently listened to the 5 part CD collection of Secrets of Manifesting and these were the points I jotted down whilst on the train:

• If you really wish to accomplish something, you first have to expect if of yourself
• Pam McDonald – APOE Gene
• Friends are God’s way of apologising for our family
• Self-actualisers are independent of the good opinion of others
• When you are god, you don’t ask for things to happen you insist that they do
• I am god in action
• By simply saying “I am NOT”, “I can NOT”, “I have NOT”, you are knowingly or unknowingly throttling the great presence within you.
• You need to stop judging; once you forgive then your manifestations will work
• The power of awareness - book
• Use your imagination to help manifest and say to God today “I AM THAT”
• I AM GOD
• An intention without conviction is a waste of energy
• Conviction is another word for faith
• You can be a host to God or a hostage to your EGO.

The last point was the biggest take from this whole CD collection.  I am sure that if I were to listen to it again then I would get a whole different list.

Morning Pause

Picture this:

It is 6:55 on a cold autumn morning and you finally got the kids out of the house and you are rushing to drop them off, first at before school care and then kinder/child care.

The kids in the back of the care are bickering, whining and screeching. Your oldest child in the front in sighing and you can feel the tension radiating from him.  If that wasn’t enough to grate on your nerves, your ego mind is running a commentary “You are going to miss the train”, “Why can’t you leave the house on time?”, “Why is every morning the same rush?”, “What is wrong with you?”, “This is all your fault for dawdling and pulling Oracle cards and playing with your crystals instead of getting ready” and then finally “You are worthless”.

To add to all this stress for some reason there is a lot of traffic, so rushing and driving fast won’t help you today!

So here you are sitting in traffic, feeling really crap about yourself and your kids and grating on your nerves, and you can just feel the frustration and anger building.  You are trying to not lash out at the kids but you feel that the anger is just about to burst out of you. 

Then you notice the grass at the side of the road.

BANG!!!

The whole world stops, as you notice the small patch of frost on the grass.  So instead of yelling at the kids you say “Look at the grass, Jack frost was busy last night”.

Your outburst was meant with a pause of complete silence. 

Happy twittering and chattering occurs while the kids explore the beauty of your surroundings. You then notice the different coloured leaves on the trees, you look at the wondering autumn flowers blooming. 

This is what happened to me a week ago and since then our mornings are filled with wonder as we watch “the tress that look like they are on fire” change colour and enjoy pointing out to each other our other discoveries. This morning it was the fog from the lake down the road and seeing fog on a field of grass.

Do I miss the train?  Sometimes but I know that there will be another one soon.

Was I late? No

What I have learnt was to take a morning pause and enjoy the beautiful world that we live in, instead of worrying that I would miss this or be late for that.  As soon as my focus shifted away from where I was going and what time was going to get there, everything flowed. The traffic lifted, the kids were dropped off with little fuss.  I had a perfect car park at the station and as I got to the platform the train was pulling into the station.

So anytime you feel yourself getting frustrated and ready to burst, take a pause and look for something beautiful in that moment and it can be anything, a sticker on car, tree, and bird, anything that will give you that pause.