Have a desire you’re hoping to manifest? Join us on Twitter for Manifesting Mondays and let your friends out in the twitterverse help you visualize and manifest your dreams!

Here’s what you’ll want to do if you’d like to participate in Twitter Manifesting Mondays (#MaMo):

• Read a little about how manifesting with energy and manifesting circles work so you know what you’re signing up for!
• Tweet your intention using the #MaMo hashtag so others can easily find your goals and send energy toward you manifesting them.
• Search for #MaMo on Twitter and see who is looking for energy to be sent their way. (Tip: Set up an ungoing search in TweetDeck and all #MaMo posts will be neatly filtered into a column for you!)
• Send energy to others intentions and then @ (reply) or DM (direct message) them with any thoughts or words of encouragement you’d like to share. Be sure to use the #MaMo hashtag when tweeting replies so we can easily find your tweets!
• Repeat as needed!

How it all began… On March 14th, 2009 I was tweeting about the value of manifesting circles when the lovely Nancy Barry-Jansson (@AffirmingSpirit) jumped in wondering if we could do a virtual circle on Twitter. After a little back and forth about the hows and the whats, #MaMo was born!

A big thanks to Nancy for brainstorming and creating this with me! Connect with Nancy on Twitter @AffirmingSpirit or through @yourimpact for the initial inspiration through her beautiful intentions! I’m holding that vision of you and Jack Canfield!

Questions or comments? Please feel free to leave a note below, drop me an email, or contact me on Twitter: @wiseways.

In a previous post, I outlined a process for working with energy to manifest your desires. As powerful as it is to magnetize your desires in this way, that magic is magnified exponentially when you do the process as a group. Group manifesting is a wonderful gift we can give to ourselves and each other, as a gathering of people holding a common thought and sending energy toward a manifestation can make that thought a reality even more quickly than an individual.

Following are some things to keep in mind when hosting your manifesting circle.

Explain the process to the group before beginning. Take some time to outline how you will work together and the general process of manifesting energy work before you begin. You might want to share my previous article outlining how to work with energy to manifest your desires as a general guideline of how the process works.

Have everyone choose one point of focus. It can be easy to get caught up in a little of this, and a little of that when we’re thinking about what we’d like to create. And while this might be fine for an individual who has the advantage of personal clarity around their own desires, it can add some confusion in a group setting. Suggesting each person choose one thing cuts back on confusion and time needed for asking/answering questions, and provides an easier avenue to manifestation by having everyone focused on the common goal.

Help people frame their intentions in terms of ‘do wants’. Sometimes people start talking about what they want in terms of what they don’t want. But the Universe doesn’t hear yes or no – it only responds to our focus. It is important to have the group focusing on the positive, not the lack of the positive, unless you want to be manifesting more lack! So if you have someone that is speaking their goal in terms of a don’t want, keep asking them questions until they turn themselves around!

Take turns. Set up an orderly way to move through the group and then facilitate the process so that everyone gets a turn having energy sent to their goal.

Send the energy. Once a person has stated their goal, have everyone take a moment to close their eyes and visualize energy being sent to that goal. Again, take a look at how to work with energy to manifest your desires for some ideas on how that might look or feel for different people.

Let people know when it’s time to move on. As the facilitator of the circle, you will want to tune into the group energy and ‘listen’ for when it’s time to move onto the next person. Sending energy is not a long process, and often a minute or so is more than enough time. But the best approach is to trust your intuition – when you feel it’s time, it’s time.

Share your experiences. One of the best parts of a manifesting circle is having the opportunity to share your experiences of sending energy with the people on the receiving end! You might want to save some time at the end of the circle for this process so as not to break the rhythm of the share. This also saves you from spending a lot of time chatting about a couple of situations and feeling a need to rush, or even abandon, shares for other members of the circle.

Donate your group’s focused energy. After the share is over you’ll be sitting with a lot of high vibrating people, in an environment full of magic and positive energy. Take a moment to offer up this positive, loving energy to the Universe, your community, the ocean… whatever you feel called toward in the moment.

I have used this format to host manifesting circles in person, through online chat rooms and forums and through teleconference calls. It has always been an uplifting and beautiful experience! I hope you find this information helpful when forming a manifesting circle of your own.

If you have your own tips or experiences you’d like to share, I’d love to hear from you! Please leave a comment below or drop me a note.

Manifesting what you want in life is far easier when you take the time to focus your energy around your desires before jumping into action. When you have clear vision (which can be more about the feeling, or essence, than the ‘thing’) and spend time doing the energy work to line up with your desire, pure magic unfolds!

Creating with energy is done by getting into a quiet and relaxed state and then bringing images, symbols and ideas to your mind that are in line with your desire. When you focus your thoughts in this way you create an almost magnetic force that draws your desire to you.

Following are some tips for how to manifest with energy:

Trust. Perhaps most important of all is to hold a space of trust in yourself, and your process. You may feel like you’re pretending, or like something is ‘just a coincidence’, or like you’re ‘not doing it right’. Allow these thoughts to gently wash over you and release them, knowing that everything is unfolding perfectly. There is no right or wrong.

Relax. Find a time and place where you can sit quietly and relax without interruption. You may want to have a drink of water before starting, and keep a glass nearby for afterwards.

Get clear on what you want. Get as specific as you can about the details, especially concerning how it will feel to experience the manifestation. It is important you choose something that you believe is possible, can think positively about, and intend to have. The more you believe and expect it, the easier it is to manifest!

Frame your desire as a do-want. It is absolutely critical that you focus all of your intentions in terms of what you do want, not what you don’t want. The Universe does not hear yes or no – it manifests based on your focused attention. Thinking about the lack of what you want will create more lack in your experience.

Visualize your desire. Start to tell the story in your mind’s eye of what your manifestation will look like. You can bring symbols and images to mind, focus on the scents you might experience, imagine the sounds you will hear, tap into the physical sensations you expect to feel. For me, this experience is like watching a movie unfold – I set up the opening act and then allow my creative self to take over with the story line.

Imagine your body as a magnetic force. Now that you have a visual of what you are attracting, you’ll want to experience yourself as a force that is pulling the desire toward you. How this looks for you is not as important as how it feels, so feel free to use any visual or prompt that allows you to feel the energetic attraction. This might involve seeing yourself as an actual giant magnet pulling the desire towards you through time and space. Or perhaps you will prefer the act of sitting with the energy of your manifestation until it fills you. There are no wrong answers here, so feel free to experiment and go with what feels best.

Stop when you feel done. There will come a point where you feel done with the attraction experience. This might feel like a stop, or like the energy is fading. It might feel like an absolute knowing that the manifestation is coming, almost as if it were already there, which highlights that you’ve reached the peak of your experience. Trust in your internal sign that you’re done and allow yourself to gently come out of the experience.

Pay attention. Over the next few days pay attention to insights or ideas that you get about your intentions around this manifestation. You may find yourself inspired with a new brilliant idea, or someone will present you with an opportunity that will move you forward. Be open and trust in the signs that present themselves to you!

Have fun! Manifesting with energy is supposed to be fun! It’s an uplifting experience, and one that you can’t get wrong. Be easy with yourself, and allow your process to unfold as uniquely yours.

Please feel free to leave a comment below if you have any questions. And do come back and share your experiences with this! I’d love to hear how you’re doing!

Last night I was a guest on Feel It Real! radio, and we talked about my upcoming Magic Hour on creating harmony and flow with our kids.  During the discussion I mentioned a fabulous game my daughter came up with when she was about three and a half years old.  I thought I’d take a moment to share it with you all!

When this all came about, my son was a baby that spent a lot of time crying and protesting - very loudly, and with great persistence.  I was a new mother of two that also spent a fair amount of time crying and protesting – perhaps not quite as loudly, but certainly with a great deal of persistence.  My daughter and I had a discussion about how we could diffuse some of these situations, and she came up with the freeze game. 

The basic rule is anyone in the house can call for a freeze in the moment by saying ‘freeze, hands on your knees…’ and everyone has to follow along.  No questions, no protests – you stop what you’re doing, and put your hands on your knees.  Then we all say ‘wiggle wiggle wiggle’ while we shake our bums, hands still firmly planted on our knees.  Yes, this looks just as funny as it sounds!  And the beauty of it is you would be hard pressed to feel anything other than silly, in the moment, and infused with fun when you are wiggling your bum along with some little people you adore!  Give it a try, and see if you agree!

So this is how my little girl, in all her wisdom, has taught us how to short circuit a bad mood and get back into a feel good place.  She really is the best teacher I’ve ever had!

A lovely gentleman on the Feel It Real! forums asked what I would recommend for releasing negative beliefs around money, and invited me to share whether or not I’ve actually used these techniques in my own life.  Here is my response to that question in the form of a summary of my suggestions, followed by my personal story.

Here’s the summary of what I would suggest for kicking out those old, stale beliefs and getting the new ones anchored in!

Look at the story you’re telling, and choose the pieces that suit you. There is a gift in everything! Find the gift in your own story, and let that be the tape you replay.

Decide that you’ll be ok, even with your worse case scenario. Realize that even if your worse fear comes to pass, you can still choose to be ok and find those gifts! Go ahead and look at the fear, love it, and release it. (Denise Coates talked a lot about this on the first Vibrational Millionaire call. I have used this ‘face your fears’ technique so much in my own life, and can’t express how very helpful it has been!)

Appreciate where you already have money and abundance in your life!  Take the time to recognize what is working, and all that you have to be grateful for.  Appreciation is a vibration of love, and there’s nothing in the world more powerful than that!

Find someone that has the relationship with money that you would like to have, and match their frequency! (There’s a dedicated forum for playing this game in the games area of the Feel It Real! forums.  Check the sticky at the top for details on how to play!)

Tap, tap, tap!!! I didn’t know about EFT and tapping 10 years ago, but I am certainly all over it now! This is such a brilliant way to tap out old beliefs, and tap in new ones! If you have a list of the beliefs you want to clear, start by tapping on them and getting your charge down to zero. Then switch to a positive tap and plug in those opposite, positive beliefs you really want to anchor in.  (Click to find out more about EFT and the Feel It Real! Turbo Tapping process.)

And here is my story:

I grew up in a single parent home, with a mother that worked two and three jobs to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. I remember many times counting coins, or searching through the house for ‘found money’ so that we could buy toilet paper, or some other necessity. My mother was always broke, and always stressed over being broke. Lack of money was a central issue in our lives, and my mother often lamented over the fact that we didn’t have enough. She had a lot of depression around the subject of money, and thought she would never have any money because she had never learned to have money. She constantly reinforced the idea that she was clueless on the subject, and that no matter how much she had, it would still slip through her fingers like water.

When I first left my mother’s home I moved to Toronto with my then boyfriend, and we had nothing but the clothes on our backs and a couple of blankets. We moved into an apartment and paid first and last months rent on our one and only credit card (which was then maxed). We bought two each of forks, knives, spoons, plates and glasses at the dollar store and cooked all of our food in the one cheap frying pan. We slept on an air mattress in the living room in front of our rent-to-own television. We worked minimum wage jobs that we didn’t really like, and struggled to pay our bills.

I defaulted on my student loan and had creditors calling me looking for money. I juggled bills from month to month, never able to pay anything off fully. I avoided spending money on things that should have been considered priorities, and instead spent unwisely and continued to recreate the same issues over and over. The same issues I grew up with. I was spending a whole lot of time in that space of giving up, thinking thoughts like ‘oh well, next life time’.

The turning point for me was awareness, and anger. I remember getting really angry about the relationship I was creating with money, and the value I was assigning to myself and my life. Anger felt so much better than the depressed, ‘there’s no use’ feeling I had been living with. So, so much better! And that feeling mobilized me to take action (much of it emotional), and led to major changes in all areas of my life.

The very biggest change, and the one I think made the most difference then, is I started telling a different story. I started telling the story of how it could be easy. I started looking for examples of other people that were making it look easy. And rather than looking and dismissing my ability to be there too, I looked and activated the parts of myself that already were there, and could be there! And I looked really closely at my own personal history, and started thinking about which version of it I really wanted to be in alignment with.

Because here’s the other side to my childhood story…my mother also gave us such golden nuggets as ‘things always happen for a reason’ and ‘everything always works out’ and ‘God won’t give us more than we can handle’. And that was all so true!! It all did happen for a reason! Things really did work out! We never got more than we could handle! So really, I have very clear examples from my childhood on both sides of the equation – the idea that we can’t be happy without money, and the idea that we can be happy and it can work out no matter what happens around us. The beauty of this is I can see that I get to choose. I get to pick which story serves me better, and replay that one! I get to see the gifts, and recognize the learning opportunities in our struggle. And there were so many!

After I decided to stop telling myself that I would never get what I wanted, I decided to go back to school studying computers. When I finished (I was 23) I got a job making $30k dollars a year. That felt like so much money to me!!! I felt rich beyond description! That was the next logical step for me, at that point. And as I aligned with that feeling of wealth, and told my new story, I saw more and more examples of how I was wealthy.

At 24 I met my husband. I attracted this brilliant man who, among other things, was someone that valued saving money and buying high quality items – both things I really needed to learn. (I love appreciating myself for how amazing I was to manifest that in him!!) Spending so much time with someone that valued and respected money was extremely healing for me. And I can see now where I tuned to his frequency, and that jumped my own money relationship to a whole new level!

When I had my first child at age 28 I gave up a job making almost $60k MORE than that job I had when I came out of school about 5 yrs earlier (people really like to promote me and give me raises!! ) and decided to stay home and start my own business. We moved into our first purchased home – a condominium that we had put a 30% down payment on. I had retirement income and savings in the bank.

Fast forward a few more years, and even though I’ve been home and we’ve technically been a one income family for six years now, we just bought a house. And we’ve kept our condo as a rental property. This felt like a next logical step for us when it happened last year, but I can tell you that a few short years ago I would never have believed it possible. I still remember the day I cried over the fact that I’d never own my own home! Thankfully I released that belief, too!

Last year we had an amazing amount of money flow through our hands (buying the house contributed to that) and on paper, it was our highest income year yet. However, it was the tightest budgeting year we’ve had together, and the first time in a long time I felt financial strain. This was such a great lesson for me! It reminded me of the truth in all of this… there’s no end destination we get to! Just new jumping off points for new desires! My attitude is still the most important thing, and worrying about being able to afford toilet paper is no different vibrationally than worrying about being able to afford a vacation to Mexico! The game pieces might be bigger, but the essence is the same.

I was out with the kids this morning and met a lovely woman with the most adorable children! We got to chatting, and she asked me what I do. I then had to try to explain what I do in terms that someone without any LoA vocabulary would get, and in a succint enough way that I would get through it before one of our combined four children needed our attention!

I basically ended up saying something along the lines of “I help people manifest their dreams by getting them into the feeling place of already having their desires.” This felt like a decent answer for an on-the-fly description, but I definitely went through the ‘what exactly do I do??’ moment that made me remember how important it is to have that elevator speech ready to go!

So… imagine you’re in an elevator, about 60 seconds away from the doors opening for you to step off. Someone turns to you and says “so, what is it that you do?” How do you respond? What’s your awesome, easy answer that’s going to leave you buzzing and have the other person thinking ‘yee haw!’?

Feel free to share your elevator speech in the comments section below! And don’t forget to leave me a link to your site so I can come check you out!

I was recently speaking with someone about manifesting peaceful interaction with children in the home. We were talking about how difficult it can be to sit in the midst of turmoil and fighting, and maintain a calm inner peace ourselves. As the mother of two little ones I have lots of opportunity to practice this very thing!

I have to say that the thing that has helped me most has been switching to thinking about and visualizing what I want, and giving that more attention than what I don’t want. This can be hard to do in the thick of it, so the key is to make it a conscious practice when things are calm. For me, that often means when the kids are sleeping at night, or when they’re watching television.

How do I do that? Here’s an example of my process, including the questions I ask myself and the answers I give.

What do I want?

I want a peaceful existance in our home. I want everyone to get along. I want us all to feel happy and secure. I want everyone to express themselves calmly. I want everyone to feel heard.

Why do I want it?

If things are peaceful we’ll all feel better. If we get along, we’ll be happier and enjoy each other more. We’ll all feel heard and appreciated and safe. Life will be easier and more enjoyable.

So I can pull out of that some of the feelings I’m looking for… feeling better, feeling happy, enjoying my family, feeling heard, feeling appreciated, feeling safe, ease, more enjoyment.

Where do I already have those feelings?

I feel happy when I see my kids play together.
I feel happy watching my husband laughing and horsing around with my kids.
I feel heard when I get to take time for myself, and everyone realizes I need and deserve that time.
I feel appreciated when the kids hug and kiss me.
I feel appreciated when E sings “you’re the best mama in the world!”
I feel safe when I look at my husband and consider how amazing and awesome and present he is.
I enjoy my family when we all go play together.
I enjoy my family when we’re laughing and enjoying family time together.
I enjoy my family when I take some space and think about how wonderful they all are!
… and on it goes.

So now, I am feeling where I already have all those things I think a change in behaviour will give me. I can appreciate where those feelings already exist, which puts me in vibrational range of more experiences that bring me more of those feelings.

From this better feeling place I can also take some time to visualize more of those perfect scenarios that work for me. I can either remember/imagine in my head or on paper. (On paper is nice because you can re-read it whenever you need a boost. In your head is nice because you can do it whenever/wherever and there’s no excuse for not having tools around.) And again, the more time we spend in that space, even if it’s in our heads, the more we’ll manifest that space in our reality.

Take some time to think about what you want, why you want it, and how you’re living it right now!

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine how money might come to us. So rather than attempting to ignore the how, let’s think of all the fun ways we might manifest money in our experience!

Here’s the challenge: You want to manifest $5000 by the end of the month. Write as many examples as you can of how that money might come to you. No idea too crazy! Actually, the crazier the better!

Some of my examples:

I’m out for a walk and discover a beautiful, impeccably groomed dog hiding under a hedge. I take him home and give him some food and water, taking the time to love on him a bit. I call the number on his collar and his very rich and very appreciative mommy comes to pick him up. She is so happy to have her much loved, and prized, show dog back that she writes me a cheque for $5k to say thanks.

I’m at the mall when I see a table selling raffle tickets as a fundraiser for my favourite charity. I take $5 out of my pocket and happily purchase a ticket, feeling great about where my money is going! Three days later I get a call that I won the grand prize – a trip for two to exotic Hawaii, valued at $5000. I have the choice of taking the trip or the cash value.

When I was a little girl I had a lovely neighbour that I visited with regularly. She had no kids of her own and I used to help her in her garden on Saturday afternoons, then stay for a lovely tea and friendly game of rummy. (She loved rummy and taught me to play like a pro!)

Out of the blue, I get a call from her solicitor. She passed away last week (very peacefully in her bed, surrounded by the things she loved and after just finishing her most favourite book) and her estate is now being sorted. She left me her favourite tea set, an old and much loved deck of cards, and $5000.

What are some ways you might magically manifest $5000? Add to the fun and post your magic in the comments section below!!

In computer programming, snippets of code are written to say if this circumstance happens, then do this… I’ve found that using this type of logic is really useful when looking at areas where I’m feeling blocked, so I can uncover the thoughts and beliefs that are holding me back and work through them.

Here’s how it works… You take the issue/action you’re looking at and fill in the blanks “if I do Y, then X will happen.” Then you sort through what you’ve uncovered to release the answers that don’t serve you, and affirm the ones that do.

Here’s a recent example of what came up for me when I was considering taking a class I was interested in.

If I take this class, then I won’t have time for my kids.

If I take this class, then I will learn some new things that I can use in my business.

If I take this class, then I will have a great support network to lean on.

If I take this class, then I’m stuck doing what they say I should do.

If I take this class, then people will think I didn’t know enough before/without it.

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Now I can look through these if/then statements and decide whether or not they serve me, can be dismissed out of hand, or need some help for releasing.

If I take this class, then I won’t have time for my kids. This one is sticky for me. I can see that it’s not true, but it’s deeper than that and has some emotional charge for me. I think I’ll EFT on it to clear around the issue.

If I take this class, then I will learn some new things that I can use in my business. Keeper!

If I take this class, then I will have a great support network to lean on. Keeper!

If I take this class, then I’m stuck doing what they say I should do. Ok, that’s ridiculous! I know this isn’t true, and it actually makes me want to laugh when I consider it. Easily discarded, now that I see it there.

If I take this class, then people will think I didn’t know enough before/without it. Hmm… that’s totally goofy! First, we’re always learning and growing and each day we know more than the day before, which everyone understands and expects. Second, who cares? (But I might want to do some work around this idea of caring what people think of my abilities.)

Have fun with this, and if you find it helpful or have an experience you’d like to share, please leave a comment!

Often times we hold ourselves back when considering what we want to be, do or have because of fear. Fear of failure, fear of what the big idea might mean for us, fear of change, fear of what people will think… So rather than think BIG, we put our dreams in small enough boxes that we can still feel completely comfortable when we consider them. But the fact is, if you’re not a little uncomfortable, you’re probably not growing.

Would could thinking bigger look like for you? Consider this…

It takes as much time to talk to one person as it does to talk to a room full of people.

A book is little more than a series of articles strung together.

It takes as much time to pitch a product to a $1000 client as it does to pitch to a million dollar client.

Delegating to others is not about losing control; it’s about freeing yourself up to do more of what you love.

The person at the top is more than willing to talk to you – if you ask.

Remember, it’s as easy to manifest a castle as a button. Push your comfort level. Think BIG!